"Let me think about it again...... Actually, I'm not avoiding this question, I'm just that some details haven't been straightened out! Please believe me, when the Zhiyuan comes back, when the situation in the Far East is stabilized, I will definitely give you an answer!"

To be able to force such a promise from Xiao Letian, even if today's meeting was not in vain, everyone reorganized the focus of the recent work, and soon the time was in the evening.

At the meeting, the fortress plan was refined, the general direction of Ryukyu governance for at least ten years in the future had been set, and the follow-up solution to the Dakar conflict was more and more widely adopted Pierre's suggestion, after all, he was the intelligence officer who was most familiar with France.

According to Pierre's analysis, France is now in a sensitive period between the emperor and the cabinet, and the contradictions between them have begun to appear, and the struggle for power has greatly reduced the administrative efficiency of the government.

Even if the cabinet collectively agrees to retaliate for the Dakar incident, it may not be until next year, and France does not have time to prepare for two wars at the same time, not to mention that the target of this one is still the distant Ryukyus.

Prussia was actively preparing for war, and although Bismarck tried to paralyze the whole of Europe in various ways, it was clear to everyone that the Franco-Prussian conflict was escalating.

Where should France's limited military spending be invested? Is it the army or the navy? The amount of money needed to deploy troops across more than half the world is quite huge. Even if you can win the war reparations in the end, you have to pay the upfront funds in advance.

France is very rich, but a large amount of wealth is stored in the people, France is rich does not mean that the emperor can use it casually, after all, the Second French Empire is a capitalist country, where it believes in the sanctity of private property, and there is absolutely no strong monarchical centralized consciousness of the Qing Dynasty.

It's true that you are the emperor, but you also know who the money is! You can spend the royal money as you like, the cabinet money is the state finance, and if you want to use it, you have to ask the cabinet for approval, and as for the people's money, don't think about it, if you dare to stretch out your hand, the French will dare to make another big revolution and cut off your head.

Pierre's analysis was very thorough, according to his analysis, even if France really wanted to send troops to retaliate against the Ryukyus, then it was destined to collide with the Franco-Prussian War. Compared to the Ryukyus, it is more important to have France itself.

The only thing to worry about is Britain, and France will definitely encourage Britain to encircle and suppress this battleship, which will be more troublesome.

But it is not without a solution, first of all, the night battle in Dakar did not provide more evidence to Britain and France, everything is in the speculation of insufficient evidence, and there is a general mentality of Europeans who despise Asia, and want to admit that Ryukyu can have a warship that exceeds the level of the whole of Europe, which is really not good.

If a war breaks out against Russia in the Far East, then Britain will definitely be happy to see it, even if it is to deal with the tsar together, he has to choose to cooperate with Xiao Lotian for a short time.

"To sum up, the key point for us to break the tie now is actually two wars, one is the Franco-Prussian War, and the other is the Far East War, the more beautiful we fight, the weaker the impact of the Dakar incident on us!"

After listening to Pierre's analysis, there was really a feeling of seeing the clouds, everyone put down their psychological baggage and went to work, and Pierre even got a high-standard treatment sent out of the house by the prime minister himself.

In the evening, the typhoon, which had been raging for three days, finally calmed down, the sky was blue, the fire clouds in the west were faintly connected, and the whole city was suddenly full of people and came alive again.

Xiao Lotian watched Pierre walking through the streets of Naha, and he didn't know how, he suddenly found that Pierre's expression was a little lonely, and it felt like loneliness.

"I really don't know if he and Fang Guan can have a result, but it is said that Fang Guan has no new love in Europe, and the two have always corresponded...... Forget it, other people's love has nothing to do with me, I'd better worry less! As Xiao Hexin said, now the muscles outside the Ryukyus are very strong, but the heart is still a little underpowered......

This is the core factor of cohesion, and we can't ignore people's desires! It seems that we still have to stay up late today!"

Just when Xiao Lotian was having a headache for the system, there was a group of people in Beijing, thousands of miles away, who were discussing the same issue.

Cixi sat behind the bead curtain, the dragon chair in front of her was empty, and the dragon chair sat on the left and right of the eight banners such as Prince Gong and Prince Alcohol.

Kneeling in front of the dragon chair was a cowering man, holding a red-lacquered wooden plate with a wad of brand-new banknotes, the latest printed bonds of the Qing Dynasty.

Today's small meeting appeared to be convened by Cixi on an impromptu basis, but in fact it was a careful arrangement by the conservative forces, that is, taking advantage of the gap when Ci'an went to Tantuo Temple to incense and was not in the Forbidden City, the conservatives wanted to break through and do some things, make it an established fact, and in the end Ci'an was not easy to change.

After An Dehai was beheaded, Li Lianying became a celebrity in front of Cixi, and I saw him walk over and take a few stacks of banknotes from the vermilion lacquer plate and send them to the bead curtain.

"Lafayette, you have an eye! This is the bond printed by the newly debugged machine, and finally the past rough edges, ink is not clear, you can see how clear the dragon pattern is printed on this......

In front of Cixi there were one-yuan, five-yuan, and ten-yuan banknotes, and the faint smell of ink was definitely not as good as incense, but this was the smell of money, and people were happy when they saw it.

Cixi took out a sheet and folded it, and then showed it again, listening to the clicking sound and laughing, "Oh! This banknote is really strong, are you afraid of water?"

"No...... Don't be afraid of water!" the nervous voice of the kneeling one below had changed, sharp and piercing to the ears.

"Be careful!Be careful of losing your honor in front of Lafayette!How do you teach you the rules before entering the palace?" Yi scolded on the side, and then smiled and arched his hand at the bead curtain, "Xiaomin has never seen the majesty of the royal family, and it is inevitable to be a little nervous, I hope the Queen Mother will understand!"

People who see money are always in a very happy mood, Cixi did not care about the rudeness of the comer, but said with interest, "You are Yang Zhi, can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and also printed so many banknotes for the imperial court, which solves the urgent needs of the imperial court, which is a great achievement...... Let's get a seat first!"

"Huh...... Lafayette gives you a seat, don't you kowtow to thank you?"