"Extra! Extra! Sultan Haider Ali of India abdicated due to illness, and his son Tiep took over his father's anti-British banner, refused to negotiate peace with the British East India Company, gathered a large army to continue the battle, routed the British army at Goodlor, and captured his supreme commander, Brigadier General Aum, and 2,000 British and Indian soldiers. The siege of Mangalore, the last stronghold of the British army on the Malabar coast, is now underway. ”

"In February, the British king called on France and the Netherlands to stop the fighting in India, and it is rumored that the three sides are now starting negotiations."

"King Carlos III of Spain formally demands that our country withdraw unconditionally from the occupied Spanish territories, otherwise he will send an elite Praetorian Guard to land in the Americas and strike at our settlement areas."

"The Spanish navy and army suffered successive defeats, and they were completely inferior in the contest with our Korean expeditionary force."

"The British Navy's Channel Fleet has once again made a contribution, escorting more than 140 transport ships to Gibraltar under the command of Rear Admiral House."

"For the first time, Sweden admits to ordering a large number of guns and weapons from our country, in order to improve the armament of the Swedish army! I wonder if there will be a dragon bullet......"

"The Polish minority aristocracy and representatives of the emerging bourgeoisie have launched a patriotic reform movement, and Russia has expressed its unease at its irresponsible and wanton military expansion."

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Shanghai, outside the British East India Company's merchant house in Shanghai, a ten-year-old newsboy walked and shouted while holding a stack of freshly printed newspapers. These are the news of the "Global Times", which was just published this week, "Global Times" belongs to the famous Yangtze River Group, which is the property of Uncle Guo, and has developed rapidly in recent years after the Li family's continuous large investment.

It has become a cultural industry group integrating newspapers, weekly, printing, publishing and other industries. And at the beginning of this year, it was successfully listed, and in just three or four months, the stock price almost doubled, which shows that its future is very optimistic about the market.

Global Times, an international express newspaper launched by the newspaper group late last year, is a truly global news newspaper that is not limited to the Chinese cultural circle, but also spreads to the world, India, Europe, Africa and North America.

The newspaper is published semi-monthly and lists many recent events abroad. As well as the impact of these events, their relevance, and the volatility in China, the newsboy is shouting out some important news from the new issue of the newspaper to attract the attention of passers-by.

With the rapid promotion of the newspaper industry in China, newsboys have become a very common thing in China. Most of the newspaper boys are students of local schools or children of the Shan Tang.

- Not all Boy Scouts are allowed to enter a regular Boy Scout camp.

With the complete establishment of Chen Han's political rule in China, there are fewer children without fathers and mothers on the market, but the boy boy camp that has become completely formalized has truly become a gold-swallowing beast, and the burden is too heavy to shelter the homeless and orphaned children of the whole of China. Moreover, in order to establish the children's sense of competition in the children's camp, there will always be children who are very poor in all aspects and are eliminated.

These eliminated children were transferred to the charity halls set up in various places.

China has had charity since ancient times, and in the era of thousands of years ago, infants, orphans, beggars, and corpses were clearly divided.

Now Chen Han has established a general charity organization on the whole, and the nominal person in charge is the queen mother and queen, and the concubines in the palace and the relatives of the princes and ministers are the same as the nominal members. Just like the Rabbit Charity Federation in the 21st century.

Shan Tang is not only set up in some large cities, but also in some small and medium-sized cities, and the annual operating funds come from the imperial court grants, private donations, and the profits generated by the operation of the venture capital fund under the association.

And most of the 'newsboy' industry was contracted by the city's good hall. Students still have to go to school, and their intermittent newspaper selling career is not so much labor as experiencing life, and it is not at all 'professional' level. But the children of Shantang are different, many children of Shantang are not allowed to go to school, and they do not have that condition, so they can continue to be 'newsboys', which has no future, and practice makes perfect.

Newspaper boys sell more than one-third of the daily sales of newspapers in the city, and the rest is sold at designated kiosks or newsstands. That's a large part of sales, and the level of the newsboy is directly related to the newspaper's revenue.

Robert will not care about Chinese philanthropy, and the 'newsboys'. He had just arrived at the gate of the merchant house in the carriage when he heard the shouts of the newsboy, and heard the news of the damned Haider and Tiep, two names that made his teeth itch when he remembered them.

Of course, Robert also had in mind the rapid development of China's newspaper industry.

God knows that the news that he first learned of the abdication of the Sultan Haider of Mysore, that Tiep had taken over his father's rights, and that he had chosen to continue to be an enemy of Great Britain really came from that little "Global Times".

The British East India Company's merchant ship Tulip, which arrived in Shanghai only yesterday, confirmed the news.

"Global Times" didn't lie, Haider was really seriously ill and couldn't get up. But Tiep took over his father's power once and for all, and the battle of Gudalore won him the support of the forces within the kingdom of Mysore, as well as the support of the Indian princes.

The situation of the British in India, with the fall of Haidel, fluctuated a little, but did not reach a qualitative difference.

Robert was very embarrassed that the East India Company of the Kingdom of Great Britain was not as fast as a newspaper that had only been established for a few years, which made him laugh.

In this critical period, some news arrives a day early, and that is of great value.

"Son, give me a newspaper."

In front of the door of the merchant house, through the window of the carriage, Robert shouted to the newsboy, whose eyes lit up when he heard this, and he jumped over a few steps, took a pennie handed by Robert in one hand, and said, "Sir." Your newspaper. This is the new "Global Times", for just a dime. It is informative, covering the situation in India and Europe, as well as the analysis and prediction of the Anglo-French-Spanish war, and is definitely worth a good read. ”

Robert laughed a few times. The newspaper had been delivered to his desk five days earlier, and every word on it had been broken open and chewed up for taste, and the commentators of the Global Times were not very optimistic about the British situation in North America, believing that even if China defeated Spain and the latter withdrew from the fighting, it would be difficult for the British to turn the tables in North America. The people of the Thirteen States already have the confidence to win, and the successive victories have allowed them to build a strong cohesion.

In India, commentators believe that the British can preserve their interests. Although Tiepu is a fierce tiger cub, as long as London settles the war with France and the Netherlands, Mysore, which has lost the support of France and the Netherlands, will be at the end of the crossbow, and the war can only be suspended. Mysore did not lose, but it did not win either.

In the long run, although the British did not win the war, he bought time.

Three, five, or ten or eight years later, the rejuvenated British were well placed to start a war against Mysore. At that time, Mysore did not have the advantage of the current war at the beginning.

The French will not come to his aid again. Paris, which is heavily indebted, will have to suffer from a financial crisis for the next 10 or 20 years.

The Dutch, by then, may have been expelled from India.

"Little one, come here. Two newspapers. ”

Just as Robert retracted his head, and the carriage had restarted, and drove into the gate of the Merchant House, several people dressed as laborers came across the road in front of the Merchant House, and these people had a towel around their necks, and as they walked, the sweat on their faces flowed down their necks.

Robert knew that the laborers were all from the dock labor company.

It can be said that in the entire Shanghai wharf, these people's work is the hardest, most tiring and most unskilled.

These people can often be seen in this Shangguan Street in Shanghai, who are hired to move goods from the warehouse in the dock area to the Shangmao Street not far from the Shangguan Street, and then they are not even treated as a truck back to the dock area.

If you don't want to spend money on a horse-drawn bus or a railroad, you can only walk on your own feet.

Two of the labourers paid for two copies of the Globe Newsletter, and it was already the sixth day of publication, and the price of the newspaper had dropped from a dime and a half to a dime and two cents, and then to a dime now. If you are willing to wait another five days, you can buy the newspaper for only five cents.

Although Robert couldn't hear clearly what the two laborers with the newspaper said to their companions when they looked at the newspaper, but looking at the appearance of several laborers all laughing, he knew that these Chinese had found some kind of flaw in the country introduced in the newspaper, and were saying something deliberately funny and laughing at something.

This sense of pride in China is really annoying.

They felt that they were the only civilized people, and that all other nations were barbarians. Yes, that's how it feels.

It's like the British look at Indians and Africans.

It's a really bad feeling.

In China, even these poor people, who may not earn as much money as Robert in a year, dare to look down on a wealthy merchant like Robert; Those low-status female branch girls dare to blatantly say that they will not receive them.

Sometimes Robert really wanted to turn into a mighty man and beat up a man named a Chinese child.

He also had a very real dream, and the vivid dream made him think it was real when he woke up. In his dream, Daqingguo has not yet perished, and the China in his dream does not have the current Emperor Chen.

Opium has eroded the whole of China, and cities are lined with smoke houses, and the streets are full of smokers, and there are more smokers in the Manchu army than in the British army.

The East India Company enslaved thousands of Indians to grow opium poppies, and the opium produced was shipped to China by ship.

For more than 100 years, all the silver that the British had flowed into China was earned back by them with opium.

No, it was the silver that had flowed into China throughout Europe for thousands of years that they had earned back opium. It was a jubilant feast for the whole Western world, the French, the Americans, the Dutch, the Portuguese, all shipping opium to China.

The outflow of silver from China is rapid, at a much faster rate than the normal flow of gold and silver in the East-West trade. China has gone from a huge and stable superpower to a huge superpower.

Later, a far-sighted minister advocated a ban on smoking, believing that the opium trade was harming the interests of the Great Qingguo, but his actions were also harming the interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and then a queen declared war against China herself.

This is truly a great monarch comparable to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, whose army easily opened the door to China. The decaying Tatar dynasty had been eroded by opium, and the country had become vulnerable.

The British army captured not only Canton, but also Nanjing, and finally Beijing. plundered China's endless wealth, and also robbed the world's most beautiful royal garden, the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, the Old Summer Palace, and finally Robert was personally honored by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a witness to all this......

Unfortunately, Robert's dream woke up before he could see the medal.

Because a sudden war disrupted everything. The entire Buckingham Palace was in flames, and a Chinese army holding a red flag, the army of Emperor Chen, who had not existed before, descended from the sky and captured the whole of London, and then surrounded the entire Buckingham Palace.

Countless Chinese burned and looted in the city of London, they robbed all the wealth, and wantonly set fire to the buildings, just like the British soldiers he saw looting the Old Summer Palace in his previous dream.

Robert fled in a hurry, and then was hit by a lead bullet that flew from nowhere, and the severe pain and fright woke him up from that sweet and then bitter dream.

It was such an absurd dream that the British robbed the Old Summer Palace and burned the whole of London Chinese......

Haha, Robert, who was awakened by death, smiled himself when he thought back to that dream after settling his mind.

It's ridiculous.

How deeply taboo should I have for the current Chinese emperor to have such a dream?

Although there was no Emperor Chen, it was possible that the Manchus would continue to rule China; Recall that in the Qianlong years, the Manchu rule in China was still very solid. Therefore, the rise of Emperor Chen is an absurd drama in itself.

In the heyday of a dynasty, it was a small landlord family to be overthrown, and the reality was really more miraculous.

Robert is still very superstitious, and there is no way for merchants who run the sea in this era not to be superstitious, and it is very important that he knows that there is a very widely circulated book in China - Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation, which is a book that was born very early.

But Robert did not look for "Zhou Gong's Dream Interpretation", but analyzed the dream with his own understanding.

Because after thinking about it, many things in that absurd dream were his thoughts in reality, or imaginary ideas that he had thought about.

Without Emperor Chen, there would be no current Chen Han, Robert thought so for a long time. Without Chen Han, the current China is of course ruled by the previous Tatar dynasty.

But when it comes to opioids, he's really exaggerating. Even if opiate can really get some money back from China, it will not develop into the scene in the dream, and everything is just my own hope and conjecture.

Direct trade between the West and the East has been going on for centuries, but there has never been a thing like 'opium', which the Chinese are collecting and the sales are growing rapidly. This made Robert never forget it, and then exaggerated it in the dream.

The Manchu army could not be as weak as it had dreamed, the Manchus were still a very strong country, and everything was built on the super-prosperity of the opium trade.

Occupy Guangzhou, occupy Nanjing, occupy Beijing, loot the Old Summer Palace......

Robert felt that he was really going to repent to God, and greed had eaten away at him like a viper.

But he was really afraid of Emperor Chen, and all the glory of himself and Great Britain was shattered with his reappearance, and the red red flag fluttered over London.

Thankfully it was a dream, otherwise Robert would have gone crazy.

……

I thought a lot about it, but it only took a very short time.

The carriage stopped, and Robert awoke from his memories. Then his face was not good-looking, because he remembered one more thing.

How many of those Chinese laborers were there? Is it four, or five?

There were two people in there who could recognize the square words in the newspaper, God, that's a lot of proportion.

The smile on Robert's face froze a little.

In Europe and the New World, where most adults are illiterate today, Prussia may only be compared to China during the reign of King Friedrich Wilhelm I, who has long since died of illness. William I promulgated a regulation on compulsory education: "All minors, male and female, high and low, must be educated. ”

But this law is a thing of the past in Prussia.

It is really difficult to find another country or region in Europe that attaches such importance to national education as China. Adult Chinese citizens, such as those dock workers, regularly attend night classes in the evenings to learn about culture. It's going to earn them points, and the points system is really all over China.

As long as the family conditions permit, all school-age children must receive compulsory primary education, and in the children's camps run by the state, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, every year, receive primary education while receiving military training at an early age, and all teachers and expenses are paid by the state.

Night schools, short-term training courses, vocational high schools, and technical schools are all institutions for adult education for Chinese. Coupled with their already systematic step-by-step education, under a multi-pronged approach, China's literacy rate has really improved a lot in the past few years.

Although Robert does not know what the reason for Chen Ming's insistence on investing in and implementing education is, he may feel that China has increasingly developed the habit of reading and reading newspapers.

Newspapers, impurities, and books were sold a lot more.