Among the matters concurrently handled by the French Unit, there is an item on "management and protection of the parishion", because the affairs of Catholicism in China are managed by France, so the "management and protection of the parishion" is placed in the French unit. This mission is very important, but it is also very thankless, if the advisory committee is willing to ask for it, the prime minister's national affairs department is willing to give it with both hands, the problem is that people have never meant it.

The Russian Unit is responsible for the negotiation of Russia and Japan, and is also responsible for land trade, diplomatic etiquette, examinations, appointments, dismissals, and expenditures of officials of the Yamen.

The matter of negotiations with Russia has not yet been touched by "relations", but after the fight against Xinjiang, it is difficult to say -- that is, next year. The restoration of Xinjiang and the northwest direction will inevitably lead to contact with Russian forces, and the affairs of the northwest will be completely in the hands of Guan Zhuofan and Zuo Zongtang.

As for Japan, the current situation in which it considers itself a vassal of China is completely single-handedly fought by Prince Xuan and the Xuan Army, and all kinds of negotiations and dispositions regarding Japan, from who to send as minister to Japan to Emperor Sakura's daily supply, no matter how big or small, are completely out of the Xuan Mansion, and there is no room for others to put their beaks in their mouths.

The General Administration can still do miscellaneous things in Britain and Austria, but the General Administration doesn't even have to do "miscellaneous things" in Japan.

Among the matters that the Russian stock handles concurrently, it is not important that you can make the decisions, and you cannot do the important ones. Trade by land is far less important than trade at sea and river ports; Diplomatic etiquette is naturally important, but where is this done by the Russian stock itself? In this era, this is at the highest level of foreign affairs. It must be up to those who have the final say in diplomacy to make the decision. You can even come forward to fold the bottle in person.

The ceremonial turmoil of the envoys of Britain, France, Russia, and the Netherlands. is a good illustration.

The U.S. stock is in charge of negotiations with the United States, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, and Peru, and is also in charge of coastal defense and protection of Chinese workers.

The United States is in charge of a long list of countries, but the only ones that really matter are the United States and Germany, and among the German states, the most important, or the only one that matters. Only Prussia.

What about these two?

Needless to say, the "bloody alliance" with the United States was entirely created by someone else, and there is absolutely no room for others to interfere with US affairs, just like Japan.

Although Prussia and China did not have the "friendship cemented in blood" of China and the United States, they also reached a tacit understanding of alliance in private. On the one hand, it is because of the need to work together against the potential common enemy - France, and on the other hand. It was thanks to China's mediation in the Austro-Prussian War. These two things are all Guan Zhuofan's beginnings and ends. It is inevitable that the weight of the general negotiations will be transferred from "respect" to "relationship".

Wen Xiang was also a secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and he deeply felt that the project of "establishing a coastal defense and setting up a Pu" was huge and involved a wide range of issues, and that the pattern of the Ministry of Industry was really unable to handle this mission, so he separated this part from the Ministry of Industry and included it in the Prime Minister's national affairs yamen, so as to facilitate overall planning.

"Coastal defense" at the military level is placed in the "coastal defense unit".

The Coastal Defence Unit is responsible for the coastal defense of the North and South Seas, including the construction of forts, the establishment of shipyards, the preparation of the navy, etc., and the Yangtze River Naval Division is also within the "scope of business"; He also purchased ships, firearms, manufactured machinery, purchased electric wires, railways, mines, etc.

It can be seen that the so-called "New Deal" is basically placed in the coastal defense stock.

Coastal defense needs a navy, starting with the construction of a new type of navy, opening up the gap, and promoting the prosperity of the entire "New Deal" -- in modern terms, it is to start with the military industry, promote the self-circulation of light and heavy industries, and finally achieve the realization of the entire industrialization.

It is difficult to say that King Gong and Wen Xiang had such a clear idea at the beginning of the establishment of the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen, but there should be similar hazy ideas, at least, in fact, the "New Deal" took this path.

This is the right path, but the question is, who is walking on this path now?

The Qing Navy is almost equivalent to the Xuan Navy; The "new-style navy" and the "Xuanjun navy" are even more equal to each other - where is there room for others to interfere in the navy? The rest, such as the Fujian Shipbuilding Administration, including the shipyard and the academy, as well as the two military ports of Lushun and Weihai, all the important towns related to the navy, have either fallen into the hands of "guanxi", or are simply built for "guanxi". It can be said that China's "coastal defense" at the military level has completely been reduced to a ban on "relations."

The Yangtze River Naval Division is nominally under the management of the General Administration, but this is just a parallel "business relationship", in fact, except for Zeng Disheng and Peng Xueqin, who created the Yangtze River Naval Division, which commanded the group of arrogant soldiers? Later, Guan Zhuofan intervened strongly, in reason, in the situation, and in the situation, Peng Yulin had to agree to reorganize the Yangtze River Water Division, and the Yangtze River Water Division finally reentered the control of the imperial court.

However, since the Yangtze River Naval Division was "taken" by Guan Zhuofan, this piece of land is Guan Zhuofan's, or it is shared by the "relationship" and the "Hunan system", and the Yangtze River Naval Division will either exist or be abolished, and where it will go, the General Administration will not be able to touch it in the future, and the "Coastal Defense Unit" will not be able to get involved in the management of the Yangtze River Naval Division from beginning to end.

What about the rest of the "New Deals"?

China's telegraph, from south to north, the vast majority, was founded by Guan Zhuofan himself or the "guanxi" general, and a small part of the non-"guanxi" hand-created, such as the telegraph in Fujian, which was laid during Zuo Zongtang's tenure as governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, but also had a close relationship with Guan Zhuofan - Fujian's telegraph line was one of the links of the coastal land telegraph line planned by Guan Zhuofan; In addition, the "hosting" of the Fuzhou Telegraph Bureau came from the door of the Shanghai Telegraph Bureau.

Not to mention the railways, all of China's railways are run by the "Railway Unit" of the Advisory Committee.

China's most important machine factories and firearms factories, both "foreign" and "official", are located in the "free trade zone" and "industrial park" of Gaochang Temple in Shanghai. The Shenjiang Arsenal, of which Spencer was General Manager and Chief Engineer, was the best arsenal in China and one of the best in the world.

What else? Well, the mining business, the most important of which is naturally the Kaiping Mining Bureau, this, who founded it, in whose hands, there is no need to be verbose.

After all the calculations, "coastal defense" basically has nothing to do with "respect"; The "New Deal", in the hands of the "Gong Department", at the moment, how many catties and taels are left?

The more carefully this account is checked, the less "family funds" there are, and King Gong, Wenxiang, and Baojun all fell into silence.

*(To be continued......)