"My lord, this is the festival fund applied for by the three companies in the New Year, please give instructions ......"

"Sir, this is the menu you have for a banquet for Chinese businessmen in the coastal building, please take a look at it......"

"I put the application form for the labor salary of the fence wall of the Special Administrative Region sent by Shopkeeper Fan, I put it here for you......"

On the second floor of Lotte Foreign Bank, Xiao Lotian has been buried by countless official documents, and he needs to make ideas about all kinds of things under the year, and even the menu for banqueting businessmen needs him to decide.

Xiao Lotian rubbed his temples and said to Long Ye, who sent the text, "If the approval of the new army's funds is less than 5,000 silver dollars, let Xiao Hexin and Sima Yun decide for themselves, and you don't need to ask me for everything...... Turning back and telling the old shopkeeper, let him make his own ideas about the allocation of funds for the construction of these ancillary facilities in the special industrial zone......"

At this time, Long Ye suddenly felt like the wind and began to cough violently, "cough, cough, cough...... It's ahem...... I'm going to do it......" Long Ye's face turned red when he coughed.

"The secret injury is not good, didn't you say that it can be slowly resolved with internal strength?" Xiao Lotian quickly stood up and gently patted Long Ye's back.

Long Ye's injury was left a month ago when he fought with the old ancestor of the Forbidden City, this old monster is really powerful, and his domineering palm power made Long Ye's lungs suffer a dark injury, and he has not fully recovered after a month of recuperation.

"Master Long, why don't you let the Western doctor take a look? It's a pity that Dr. Buck has already gone to Beijing, if he is here, he may have some way......

"Ahem, cough, don't bother, no matter how high the medical skills of foreigners are, it is impossible to treat Jianghu diseases, this is an internal injury or you have to see Chinese medicine...... cough cough, I'll grab another pair of medicine in a while and use my internal strength to recuperate...... cough cough cough ......"

This time, Xiao Letian didn't listen to Long Ye's words, his face was purple, and he still had to stiffen up, Xiao Letian shouted downstairs, "Where is Wang Huaiyuan, let him come to see me quickly......"

At this time, Wang Huaiyuan, the person in charge of the torture hall, had just arrived with a secret message, and as soon as he heard the summons of the adult, he hurriedly ran up to the second floor.

"Your Excellency, you called me?"

"Immediately arrange for a competent subordinate to take Long Ye to Beijing and go to Dongjiaomin Lane to find the British doctor Buck...... Long Ye's injury is really haunting, let the Western doctor see if there is a good way......" At this time, Long Ye still shook his head.

"No, no, no...... Ahem, I can't go, I'm gone...... Ahem, who will protect the adults......"

"Less, what are you protecting me like this? I have the new army here to protect me, and there is no big incident, you hurry up..." Wang Huaiyuan looked at Xiao Letian's face and knew that this was a military order, so without saying a word, he walked downstairs with Long Ye.

"Let's go, Master Long, it will only take two or three days to go to the carriage in the capital, and we will come back after seeing the doctor, and we will definitely not delay......, can't we do it?"

After half an hour, Wang Huaiyuan came back and replied, "Don't worry, my lord, more than 20 brothers in the torture hall personally escorted Long Ye back to the capital, and I guarantee that there will be no mistakes or omissions...... And here is the latest information of Thirteen Niang......"

Xiao Letian opened the wax-sealed silk scroll, and after only two or three glances, he was stunned: "The imperial court will send scholars from the Tongwenguan to Europe and the United States to inspect after the New Year? Will a shipyard be built in Mawei? Zuo Zongtang is going to open a shipbuilding school in Fuzhou? Prussian German secret envoy Jonas will meet devil six?"

Xiao Lotian slammed the table, "Wang Huaiyuan, immediately send an order to Chun Thirteen Niang, I want to secretly meet this Jonas... Hurry, hurry, I have to see this German years ago...... No, you secretly invite him to Tanggu, even if it is by coercion, I invite him to spend the New Year here......"

Wang Huaiyuan didn't expect this information to make Xiao Letian so moved, he didn't say a word, he turned his head and ran, and the sound of the soaring stairs was followed by the sound of horses' hooves going all the way.

Xiao Letian rubbed his temples and carefully recalled the memories of his previous life, he knew that in the fifth year of Tongzhi, that is, in 1866, the Qing Dynasty began to try to go abroad to learn advanced Western technology. The Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau was the first school to train new-style naval talents, and more than half of the talents in Beiyang and Nanyang studied here.

Deng Shichang, the famous Zhiyuan pipe belt in modern history, came from here, which is really the cradle of China's modern navy.

"On this day, the world is full of tears, and there is a strong navy" Xiao Lotian recited the famous sentence that once brought tears to his eyes, and his heart was full of emotion. At the same time, he also knows that the reform of the Qing court next year will definitely be much greater than the original in history, because he Xiao Lotian came, because he Xiao Lotian has been in Tongzhi for four years, and the Qing court, which has been tossed, can't help but face up to the power of science and technology, and even those rotten Confucians have been cleaned up by him.

With Xiao Letian's-stirring stick, the scale of Tongwenguan's visit to Europe and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding School will definitely be much larger than the real history, and the pace of exploration by the Qing court will definitely increase, which is a great opportunity for Xiao Letian.

"Hehe, I have finally made up my mind to accept some Western learning? It's a pity that my Xiao Letian's reputation has risen, which of these young people who are willing to explore Western learning should not call me a master? Qing court, you just play slowly, the bigger the better..."

"Old shopkeeper...... Fan Shopkeeper...... What about the second cabinet in charge of printing in our foreign firm? Tell him to come and see me...... "After a while, Fan Yao came up.

"I'm in charge of the printing stuff, your westward journey, your small deposit receipts, these can't be the slightest mistake, I'm in charge of ...... personally."

"Okay, okay, you now urgently transfer a batch of hardcover editions of "Journey to the West" I want to give gifts, one hundred copies to the Tongwen Museum to the students, and prepare another four or five hundred copies together with a private letter from me, find a way to send them to Fujian, to Zuo Zongtang's hands......"

"Zuo Zongtang, we haven't been in touch with him, can't we talk?"

"It's okay, you send a capable second shopkeeper to Shanghai to find the red-capped businessman Hu Xueyan, he has a close relationship with Zuo Zongtang, let him match the ......"

The old shopkeeper nodded and said kindly, "Yes, yes, Zeng Dashuai once said that according to our development momentum, the pattern of the two gods of wealth in North Xiao and South Hu is a sure thing, we should contact him as soon as possible, and I will do it..."

Sending off the old shopkeeper, Xiao Letian set his eyes on the last piece of information on the silk, the Prussian German envoy secretly met with the devil six.

"How can I forget you, O Germany? This year must be the Austro-Prussian War, is it June or July? In any case, victory in history is inevitable. O Iron Chancellor Bismarck, how is your old man doing now, and since this envoy dares to claim to be the envoy of Prussian Germany, he will absolutely obey you directly......

"The Prussian-Danish War, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War, the three classic battles presided over by the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck, made Prussian Germany rise in Central Europe, and the prototype of modern Germany has been successfully shaped. ”

"I will definitely not be involved in the Prussian-Danish War, but if the Austro-Prussian War is not mixed in, it will really be worthy of the nickname of a-stirring stick. This battle with Austria for the leadership of Germany is the best opportunity for Xiao Lotian and Bismarck to establish a good relationship......"

Xiao Letian walked around the room excitedly, now he has established a relatively friendly relationship with the United States, but this is far from enough. The old powers like Britain and France certainly don't look down on a little grasshopper like Xiao Letian, and even if they stick it with a shy face, they don't want to get benefits, but the door of the emerging powers is still open, and now is the best time to establish a cooperative relationship.

"It's done, wealth and wealth are in danger, there is no return if there is no investment, I have played this venture capital..."

Just when Xiao Letian made up his mind, a tall foreigner with a lonely expression was walking silently on the street in Sijiu City.

This is a middle-aged man with typical Nordic characteristics, with golden curls exposed by the edge of a black top hat, and blue eyes as beautiful as the sea. This is Jonas, the Prime Minister of the British Commk for Asia.

Today is the third time that Jonas has gone to the Prime Minister's Yamen to ask for a meeting with Prince Gong, the first two times were all closed-door, although this time he met Prince Gong himself, but the surface enthusiasm could not hide his indifference, he knew that the attempt to establish diplomatic relations was in vain.

Historically, the Qing Dynasty and Germany formally established diplomatic relations after the Franco-Prussian War, that is, after 1870, and the real honeymoon period between the two countries was during the construction of the two ironclad ships Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, when Germany was one of the few countries in Europe that respected the Qing Dynasty.

However, in the fourth year of Tongzhi, the Qing Dynasty did not even have a complete concept of Prussian Germany, and when Yi heard from the mouths of ambassadors of other countries that Germany had not yet been reunified, and the entire German region was still in a loose and divided statehood, the arrogance of the Celestial Empire came up again.

Didn't Xiao Letian say that even within Europe, there were strong and weak divisions, and the powerful Britain and France could not afford to provoke them, but some small countries did not even have an ocean-going fleet, and their national strength was not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty.

Prince Gong directly classified Germany into the sequence of small countries in Central Europe, to be honest, he didn't want to see this so-called secret envoy, if it weren't for the two closed door soups a little unbearable, you still want to see Prince Gong? Not to mention the door, there are no windows.

Prince Gong casually prevaricated a few words about Jonas, turned his head and excused himself to enter the palace with something to do, and then served tea to the guests, making Jonas dumb and unable to say that he was suffering from Coptis chinensis.

Walking out of the Prime Minister's Yamen, Jonas did not sit in the hired sedan chair, but just let the sedan chair driver follow him from a distance, walking alone on the unfamiliar streets, looking at the bizarre oriental style, thinking about how to help the Prime Minister expand his diplomatic space.

Just when he was passing by an alley in a daze, suddenly a noise in the alley alarmed him, Jonas's Chinese is still good, a little listening to it, you know, there was a medical dispute in the alley.

"Surnamed Huang, you brute, get out of here...... A good human life is in your hands, how can you be so frustrated, go to the official, you go with me to see the official......"

"Oh, you guys are so unreasonable, I told you that you were in danger when I used the knife before, and you all agreed, why do you regret it now? You are so rude......"

"Fart... You fart...... We didn't promise, we never promised, it was just a simple colic, how could we agree that you know knives? You're a murderer, you're a demon......"

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