Not long after, in the capital, the emperor looked at a few very special gift lists, full of smiles.

The newly sent glass is installed in the warm pavilion, and the light through it makes the emperor more comfortable when he reads a book.

Of the two thousand pieces of glass, a thousand were left in the court, and the rest was to be given to the ministers as a reward.

Liu Yu, who had donated glass, was now inspecting the Beijing camp, and the emperor asked Liu Yu to go to the Beijing camp to inspect the situation of the drill and see the results of the military reform.

Today's inspection is almost over, and it just so happens that all the glass in the forbidden palace will be installed today.

It's not too big a project, and a thousand pieces of glass are a drop in the bucket compared to the seemingly endless rooms in the Forbidden Palace.

When the glass was first delivered, Li Gan also thought that Liu Yu would encourage extravagance. But when I saw the price of glass, I felt that it was too cheap, and as a reward to the minister, it was really a little indelible.

In this glass workshop, there is a stake in the emperor. Liu Yu used technology to buy shares, part of which was presented to the emperor as a tribute, and the most vulgar things were precisely the emperor's favorite.

The feeling of being rich is cool.

Just got the dividends of the Monopoly Chamber of Commerce in Mongolia, and Liu Yu sent the dividends advanced this year, and with a stroke of the pen, he gave a leather hat to each of the 2,000 soldiers stationed in the Western Regions.

When the emperor also likes money, especially the son of heaven, the treasury and the treasury still have to be clearly distinguished. If you have money, you will be happy to do things, and in the past, you must have been reluctant to give a leather hat to the two thousand soldiers stationed in the Western Regions.

But this year, there are more than 200,000 taels of dividends on the Mongolian side, and the dividends advanced by Liu Yu are no longer invested in the navy, and there are also more than 100,000 taels, and there are a lot of stock notes that can be used as silver, and the emperor is also generous.

However, there is still a process to follow. In the reply to Liu Yu's gift list, he still "accused" Liu Yu of sending money, which was really insulting to Sven and told him to study more.

This is an article on the surface, and of course you have to say it in private.

The sunlight streaming in from the glass windows is more comfortable than the gloomy window paper.

Some places are made of glass, but the Forbidden Palace is the most private place in the world, and some places still can't be used.

But where you can see the light, it must be stronger than the window paper.

The eunuch who served saw that the emperor was in a good mood, so he naturally praised Liu Yu at this time.

"Your Majesty, these glasses sent by Uncle Ying are really burned by themselves? In the past, some missionaries thought about trying to burn glass in the official kiln, but the fire was not very good. The one sent by the eagle is very transparent, which is very different. ”

Of course, there was glass in the forbidden palace before, and the emperor did not think about burning glass, and the missionaries also suggested trying to fire glass in order to gain favor and return the emperor, the "lost lamb", to the right path.

However, the effect of burning out is very poor.

Li Gan looked at the glass window of the warm pavilion, and the eunuchs wiped it extremely clean, without the slightest sludge.

A set of glass lamps and matching whale oil sent by Liu Yu made the night of the Forbidden Palace much brighter and more luxurious.

It was when he was in a good mood, and the eunuch also knew the curvy and flattering posture, so Li Gan said: "When Jinshuiqiao asked the right question, Liu Yu said that there is a specialization in the art industry. These missionaries may be able to calculate the calendar, but some of their skills are still far behind. If it weren't for Liu Yu's clever use of the bayonet and the beauty of the new formation, I am afraid that the flintlock pistol they paid tribute would still be shelved. ”

"I'll talk about the missionary's skills. I have a routine, so why should I use a missionary who has no idea what? ”

Speaking of happiness, Li Gan is in a good mood.

Before the hesitation to ban Christianity, he was tempted by the "ability" of the missionary.

Whether it's the calendar or mathematics, these missionaries who have been selected to continue the path left by Matteo Ricci are really capable. A calendar contest has wiped out the astronomy on Dashun's side.

For this reason, when the religion is banned, it is a bit of a rat taboo.

However, after Liu Yu's actions, Li Gan found that the missionaries had completely become a negative existence.

When the Russian mission was intimidated, the topic came up with, even if the missionaries did not understand it at all.

Moreover, the missionaries were cut off, diplomatic channels with Russia and France were opened, and normal exchanges were carried out, and there was no need for missionaries, who were second-hand dealers with ulterior motives, and the efficiency was doubled.

Today's vigorous ban on religion has caused a lot of turmoil in Jiangnan, but it was quickly suppressed.

A large number of missionaries who insisted that Christians were not allowed to worship their ancestors and that Dashun believers must obey the Pope's edict were driven to Macao, and a Catholic jihad in Fujian was purged.

Even so, France, a Catholic country, extended an olive branch, and did not threaten the missionaries with the intention that if Christianity was banned, the European countries would cut off exchanges.

The Taijian looked at the words and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has a discerning eye, discovered the talent of Ying Sabo, and knows how to make good use of people. The book says: Maxima often exists, but Bole does not often have. If it weren't for His Majesty's Shengming, even if Ying Sabo had talent, he would still be a pearl covered with dust, and he would have nothing to show. ”

"Hahahaha......" This sycophant is a bit vulgar, and there are not too many tricks, which is far less innovative than Liu Yu's shooting in the Northeast and Northwest.

But the prelude to that kind of sycophant is too long, and when the emperor also needs a little sycophant from time to time to spice it up, at this time he can't help laughing, and his heart says that this is not bad, if I am the kind of mediocre person, you Liu Shouchang is no matter how capable you are, and it is useless.

Just like this time the French mission is coming, the DPRK and China are arguing again.

The cost of equal diplomacy is enormous.

It is equivalent to Dashun in front of the West, giving up the dignity of the Celestial Empire and the self-system of the whole world.

As for winning or losing, the DPRK and China are already arguing, and in the end there are only three options left.

Or, continue to maintain the Celestial Empire, abandon communication, expel missionaries, and live a door-to-door life.

Or, abandon the dignity of the Celestial Empire, expel the missionaries, normal diplomacy, the East Asian tributary system unchanged, and conduct diplomacy with Western countries.

Or, continue to maintain the dignity of the Celestial Empire, rely on missionary exchanges, allow missionaries to preach, and Confucianism and Yaye converge.

Equalizing the performance of the New Army in World War I is a heavyweight weight.

In the end, the emperor chose to maintain communication with the outside world, expel the missionaries, and abandon the concept of the Celestial Empire in front of the Western powers.

The French legation was about to arrive, and the credentials submitted by the East India Company in advance showed that the French had sent the Minister of the Admiralty, an earl.

According to Li Gan's understanding, this France has a special naval minister, who is in the cabinet, and it can be regarded as a person who has sent a soldier to the level of the government, and this time the reception is not comparable to the Rakshasa Mission, which is a post-war treaty, and this is peaceful diplomacy, which is very different.

In particular, the hospitality etiquette, even with the precedent of the Rakshasa envoys, still caused an uproar in the court.

The Rakshasa Kingdom, which Dashun recognizes as an empire.

France, is the kingdom.

Are the two of them the same level of hospitality? Or was it the treatment of France as a Korean state, and it was treated with pro-kingdom etiquette?

If France and Russia are the same, then it is Dashun who recognizes the Westphalian system.

What if the princes of Switzerland, Hanover, and even the Holy Roman Empire came, and the smaller countries with bigger butts had to be treated the same in terms of etiquette?

If not, which countries can get the same etiquette as the Rakshasa Kingdom? Why?

If it is based on strength, then isn't it contrary to etiquette?

Rites are the core of the world, if the rites are abolished, wouldn't it encourage the weak to eat the strong?

The strong can get higher treatment, instead of looking at their national titles? In this way, wouldn't the Celestial Empire under the tributary system be completely messed up?

It's not good to say directly that the emperor is not, and many people have come up with the ability to accuse Sang and scold Huai, saying that the world's etiquette is broken, and the root cause of this is Liu Yu's promotion of equal diplomacy in the negotiations with the Rakshasa State.

At the beginning, it could be regarded as a special case, but once this was opened, all kinds of follow-up problems became apparent. Today the Rakshasa people are coming, tomorrow the French are coming, and the day after tomorrow if the small countries of Europe are also coming, how can this be said?

There is a bug in the logic of the tributary system of the Celestial Empire, and no one can solve this bug at this time.

Many people in the court who are familiar with the scriptures are not bad, but they really can't accept the fact that the system of the Celestial Empire is gradually collapsing.

Confucianism after Song Confucianism has entered a logical closed loop, and the isomorphism of the family and the state, the tributary system of the Celestial Dynasty, the monarch and the minister, father and son, etc., are all contents in this closed loop.

As long as there is a collapse, it will bring about the collapse of the entire system.

These collapses fell into the interpretation of the slogan put forward by Dashun after the Battle of Jingxiang.

Protect the world.

Now, even the concept of the world has collapsed, what is it that is guaranteed to come and go? Some people in the DPRK and China have already questioned, if you don't study the scriptures and the words of the sages, but you go to learn what Western knowledge, is this still called the world?

The Son of Heaven and the Son of Heaven actually want to have equal diplomacy with Yi Di, and even the Son of Heaven is gone, is there still the world?

Another is that Liu Yu started a practical school, but he didn't teach the words of the sages, and what he learned was Western knowledge in their eyes. Some people asked, if the Westerners went to learn from the Westerners because of their sharp guns, then would they have to learn from the Huns after the siege of Baideng? Is it to learn from the Turks after the Weishui Alliance? Is it that Jingkang wants to learn from the Jin Dynasty after that?

Where is this Dashun to protect the world? It is clearly destroying the world.

This kind of scolding is endless, and many people even compare themselves to Haigang Peak and go up to the emperor, and directly accuse the emperor of doing this to destroy the world.

In the end, Li Gan and some supporters of change in the DPRK and China withstood the pressure.

Every time he thought of this, Li Gan felt that he was really a Bole, thinking that if he changed the emperor, this Liu Yu would have died a long time ago and could not die again.

Sometimes, Li Gan also feels a sense of grievance. It's like building a navy to get that dead knot:

If there is no navy, the Westerners may, as Liu Yu said, attack the southeast and cut off the transportation of Cao Yun one day in the future, which is a danger for China.

If a navy is established, the Westerners will not dare to attack the southeast, nor will they be able to cut off the transportation.

However, if the Westerners do not come to fight, how can this decision to build a navy prove that they are wise and martial? In the end, Li Gan was also afraid that he would leave a stigma in the history books as "wasting money and food and building a useless army", because after making preparations, he didn't know whether Westerners had such thoughts.

Thinking of this, Li Gan was a little depressed, so he ordered the eunuch.

"Take the book of the Japanese people's "National Surname Lord Battle".

After speaking, he laughed at himself and said: "The world is all over the world, and the courtesies of the world are not respected when it is close at hand, so I should send some Qingliu to educate and educate the Japanese people." If you can rely on the education of one mouth, you will be convinced, but it is simple. ”