In the seventh year of Tongzhi, Changchun Palace in the Forbidden City, Beijing.

The 33-year-old Empress Dowager Cixi was reviewing the book, and since the first time she read the book with the connivance of her husband, Emperor Xianfeng, she has fallen deeply in love with the job. A woman who loves power more than a mother loves her son, she must be a workaholic. When she was young and widowed, she was in full of energy, so I have to say that the Qing Empire at this time was much better than the Xianfeng period under her hard work, and it was at the beginning of the Tongzhi Zhongxing era that Qing history researchers said.

Four years ago, the long-haired rebellion in the south was pacified, and now she is watching the rebellion that has ravaged the north for four years and was finally pacified, the Qing Empire finally returned to calm, at this moment she is already old in government affairs She began to have a new plan, the Qing Dynasty is the world of the Manchus after all, because of the degradation and corruption of the Manchu army, the war has no choice but to use the Han generals, now today is the Dading, it is time for the sword to be sheathed, and the Han forces must also be properly suppressed, because she knows that the essence of the emperor's way is the word balance.

I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't put pen to paper. The so-called easier said than done, if you want to suppress those heroes who fought in troubled times, if you are not careful, you will rebound. The Qing Empire has been unable to withstand the wind and grass, after more than ten years of war, the source of money, grain, finance and taxes in the south has been beaten to sparsely, and now it has only recovered slightly, and the treasury of the Qing Dynasty is so clean that rats can starve to death, so recuperation is the first priority at present. The young Cixi shook her head, balancing without causing turmoil, it was difficult, and a thin sigh came from the Changchun Palace.

Far away in Qiongzhou, the southernmost tip of the Qing Empire, the young master of Liang, who was as big as the Empress Dowager Cixi's son informing the emperor, was taking designers around to survey and prepare the design of the training base. What's more, if you don't have a strong force in your hands, if you want to strangle the jackal in the east before it grows up, you can only look at the ocean and sigh, under this urgent pressure, Young Master Liang must work hard, and the foreign devils he has come into contact with are working hard for wealth, and he has no reason to be tired with historical responsibility (which he imposed on himself).

At the same time in Japan, under the leadership of the same young but ambitious Meiji Emperor, Japan's so-called Meiji elites: Okubo Toshitsu, Kido Takayoshi, Saigo Takamori, Ito Hirobumi, Yama Prefecture Aritomo and a large number of people are trying their best to help Japan become strong. This top-down reform and the effect of the Westernization Movement, which was only a local experiment, were actually divided from the beginning, and the history of later generations proved this.

Time does not wait for people, the young master Liang who has no ability can only accumulate his strength step by step, in fact, God has already favored him very much, if there is no foundation of the Liang family, if you want to surpass Japan, I don't know what year Ma Yue will have to wait, not to mention that there is a pig teammate by his side: the Qing Empire.

A week later, a large area of mountainous land to the east of the fork of the Changhua River had been leveled, and the construction craftsmen were sweating according to the drawings designed by Master Liang himself. Standing on the bow of the ship and watching all this, Master Liang looked at all this, he seemed to have seen the army barracks, various training grounds, weapons and ammunition warehouses, canteens, baths and other places in his heart, with the Liang family's strong manpower, material and financial resources, I believe that when he comes over next time, all this has become a reality.

In the days when he left Guangzhou, Luo Bin, who had worked hard for the title of Her Majesty the Queen, used 12% of his strength to travel between the various Qing cities with English-language newspapers. In the eyes of the discerning people, he has become the executor of the plan that Young Master Liang has set for him, but he is unaware of it. In his opinion, this oriental boy is closer than his own brother, he Robin has lived for thirty-five years, and he has not met anyone who is better to him than Young Master Liang, and now the competition in Western countries is fierce, family affection is weak, and it is very rare to really help others, and what Young Master Liang did made Luo Bin's arrogant and cold heart have a trace of touch.

And the second plan customized by Young Master Liang for him (Luo Bin thinks so, this is called the benevolent and the wise see the wise, Luo Bin is not benevolent and not wise, he is very tough), has made a detailed and perfect plan under his careful consideration, suffering from the lack of means of communication, can not find the young master Liang himself, and the Liang family is tight-lipped and unknown, so after completing the propaganda task, he can only sit and wait for the young master Liang to come to the door.

After many negotiations, the shrewd and cunning Jew Anderson and the relatively honest Prussian Loew finally decided to jointly invest in the shipyard with Young Master Liang, and were ready to use their respective powers to import advanced equipment from the United States and Prussia, recruit excellent technical personnel from the two countries (they themselves acted as managers), and build this shipyard into the No. 1 shipbuilding enterprise in the Far East. Of course, they still didn't know anything about the plan for the Cheung Chau Island Development Zone, otherwise the shrewd Jews would have taken Loew all over Cheung Chau Island to do field surveys.

Young Master Liang, who returned to Guangzhou, decided to live in the city in the future, after all, it was still not very convenient to go back to Liangjiazhuang, mainly because it was time-consuming, and what he needed to fight for most now was time. The work of the two masters to help him recruit people has already been completed, but the training base has not yet been built, so it is not yet possible to officially recruit the guards. Liang Dayan found that he had done a little ahead of his time, and he could only say to the two masters at the moment: "Master, I haven't arranged this matter, I'm a little anxious, otherwise, you can see which of them are the good seedlings you like, and you will recruit them first, and the two masters will train them in advance, otherwise it will be a pity that they find other jobs and don't want to come over again in a few days, as for the average qualifications, it doesn't matter, anyway, this kind of person can be found at any time." I'll solve the training venue, the Liang family has a vacant house in the city. ”

Huang Qiying smiled slightly: "That's fine, otherwise Master Liang and I will become just taking money and not working."

"Master Huang, you are too kind, do we have less heart to worry about this kid? However, you don't need to find another place to train, the place of Haizhuang Temple is so big, hundreds of people can come, and Master Huang and I will be there to train them when the time comes." Tieqiao said not very politely, but he thought thoughtfully for his apprentice.

"There must be so many people, I am afraid that it will disturb the cleanliness of the temple," Young Master Liang said embarrassedly.

"You kid is stupid, do you think the monk is pure with six roots? Give them some money, and they won't be disgusted with how noisy people are."

"Hahahaha" Huang Qiying and Young Master Liang, who heard this, laughed.