Chapter Eighty-Seven: Founding the State and Becoming King (3,000 votes plus more)

Since Zhou Ding became the owner of Wanwan, the people of Wanwan have been very cooperative with Zhou Ding's orders.

The reason for this is that Zhou Ding also thanked Japan for its high-pressure policy in Wanwan. Only the people who have been baptized by Japan will understand the pain of being enslaved by Japan.

Therefore, Zhou Ding's leadership of Taiwan not only did not encounter resistance from the people, but was warmly welcomed by the people.

Occupy the territory, naturally to set up a government agency, the so-called name is not right, the words are not good, a group of subordinates have instigated Zhou Ding to build the country and become the emperor.

Zhou Ding agreed to the founding of the country, but refused to be the emperor.

Taiwan is too small, and it is unavoidable to be laughing and generous to be called the emperor, but in order to appease his subordinates, Zhou Ding decided to demote himself to one rank and become king.

Zhou Ding appointed Fang Youde as the secretary of the ministry, Tan Sitong as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Kang Guangren as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Lin Xu as the secretary of the criminal department, and Yang Shenxiu as the secretary of the household department, and promoted five people to be cabinet ministers to discuss and deal with the daily government affairs of the Han Dynasty.

Yes, for the time being, there are only five of them, Yang Rui and Liu Guang, who were left in Qiongzhou by Zhou Ding, and Zhou Ding has put a lot of effort into Qiongzhou, and he does not plan to return the control of this place to the imperial court.

In order to appease Yang Rui and Liu Guang, Zhou Ding left them the titles of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce.

As for the three-year period agreed with the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Ding said: I'm sorry, it was agreed with Emperor Guangxu, if Cixi uses this as an excuse, let Emperor Guangxu come out to govern first!

On October 10, Zhou Ding announced the establishment of the country, the country name was 'Han', the capital was Taipei, and Zhou Ding was the king of Han.

It just so happened that on this day, the envoy of Tsarist Russia came to Wanwan and expressed support for Zhou Ding's actions, and hoped that the two countries could become allies.

Zhou Ding seized Taiwan, and the happiest people, in addition to the Chinese people, also had the Tsarist side.

Why is that?

Answer: The enemy of the enemy is the friend!

Japan lost Taiwan, not only lost a grain supply depot, but also a military supply depot. What has been most affected is the morale of the front-line troops.

As we all know, the members of the Japanese army are not all Japanese, and after Japan conquered Taiwan, it recruited many soldiers from Taiwan.

On weekdays, Japanese soldiers often bully Taiwanese soldiers, and even call Taiwanese soldiers as: China!

The Taiwanese soldiers were very helpless, after all, they were under the roof and had to bow their heads, and they could only accept it on weekdays.

And now, Japan has lost Taiwan, and Taiwanese soldiers can't help but think: The Zhou clan has obtained the right to control Taiwan, and we are no longer the subjects of Japanese rule, what is the point of continuing to stay here and work for Japan?

Although they cannot be seen or touched, they have a direct impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Japan's military morale went wrong, its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and the Tsarist side of Russia gradually changed from the losing side to the side that gained the upper hand.

It also made Tsarist Russia realize that it needed an ally.

As a result, Tsarist Russia sent an envoy to Taiwan, expressing its desire to form an alliance with Zhou Ding.

In the Lushun dispute that year, although Tsarist Russia compromised with Zhou Ding, it was just a means to be afraid of the mystery of the Zhou family, but in fact, Tsarist Russia did not take the Zhou family too seriously.

And now it's different!

Zhou Ding successfully occupied Taiwan, the Japanese were helpless, in the eyes of Tsarist Russia, Zhou Ding's family is no longer a hidden family, but a national family that can talk to each other on an equal footing.

Zhou Ding thought about it again and again, and thought: form an alliance with Tsarist Russia, echo the current interests, and attack from afar!

As a result, the two sides began negotiations on the formation of an alliance.

The demands of the Tsarist side were: Zhou Ding, as an ally of Tsarist Russia, should continue to spread the news and unconditionally accept Taiwanese serving in the Japanese army, so as to disturb the morale of the Japanese army.

Zhou Ding's request was to purchase a production line for Shuilianzhu rifles and ammunition, and to borrow 30 gunsmiths from the Russian side.

Everyone's requirements were not high, and the two sides hit it off and reached an alliance.

The reason why Zhou Ding made such a request was because the water rifles equipped by the army were all bought from Tsarist Russia, and if Tsarist Russia was directly rejected, it would be difficult to continue trading in the future.

Although the production line can be exchanged directly from the system, after the exchange is completed, Zhou Ding does not have engineers who can use it proficiently.

Buying a gun directly from the system?

That's too expensive, even if it's a water bead, a gun costs 3,000 prestige, and 10,000 guns cost 30 million prestige!

And that's not even counting, what about bullets?

The cheapest thing in the system costs four points of prestige, and the price of bullets is not good, one shot only costs ten points of prestige, each gun is equipped with 100 rounds of ammunition, and 10,000 guns need 10 million prestige!

Is 10,000 guns enough? Inadequate!

Is a hundred rounds of ammunition enough for a gun? Still not enough!

Of course, Zhou Ding can buy weapons from the real world, but 3,000 is easy to buy, 5,000 is easy to say, if you buy tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands, it will definitely attract worldwide attention.

Zhou Ding doesn't want to destroy the peaceful life in the real world!

As for the occupation of the three northeastern provinces by Tsarist Russia, Zhou Ding is not qualified to take care of it for the time being, because it belongs to the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

In the past two years, Zhou Ding was ready to recuperate, exploded 100,000 soldiers, and then swallowed the Qing Dynasty.

After swallowing the Qing Dynasty, if Tsarist Russia still occupied the three northeastern provinces, Zhou Ding would tear up the alliance with Tsarist Russia, take back the three northeastern provinces, and demand that Tsarist Russia cede land and pay compensation.

However, it is still unknown whether Tsarist Russia and Japan can survive in the three northeastern provinces until the day when Zhou Ding swallows the world.

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Zhou Ding captured Taiwan this time, and the prestige given by the domestic people was not much, even less than one million!

In the final analysis, it is the people in China who do not agree with Zhou Ding's behavior.

Domestic newspapers did not dare to advocate the matter of Zhou Ding's seizure of Taiwan as king as before, although the Qing Dynasty was rotten, if they wanted to ban them as newspaper publishers, it would be like fun.

Therefore, the newspaper only mentioned a few sentences: Zhou Ding captured Taiwan, declared self-reliance, established a famous country, and proclaimed himself the king of Han.

The people who got the news were a little disappointed.

Most of the people have become accustomed to the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and many have regarded themselves as Qing people.

If it weren't for Zhou Ding's country name 'Han', he would have gained less prestige.

Compared with the people in China, the people of Wanwan gave so much prestige that they almost scared Zhou Ding.

System: "Huo Yuanjia" World Prestige Statistics: Force: Han. Reputation: Friendly 5,250,000/3,300,000.

Yes, Taiwan alone, Zhou Ding's Han Kingdom alone gave Zhou Ding more than 5 million prestige points, and the most important thing is that the prestige of the Han Kingdom has reached friendship.