However, since Francisco Clipsi has already mentioned it just now, if Emperor Hua continues to ask at this time, he will be a little anxious, not to mention, this is not a matter of urgency, the more anxious Emperor Hua is, the more calm he will be on the surface. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The magnanimity of the Emperor deeply impressed Francesco Crispi, and the two chatted about some things in the Kingdom of China and Italy, as well as some things in the life of the Emperor Hua, but no longer mentioned diplomacy.

Francisco Crispi actually has an indifferent attitude towards whether to get close to a country like Huaguo, the Kingdom of Italy does not have a big passive situation at the moment, and China is in a major diplomatic event such as whether to withdraw troops from Japan's Kyushu Island, and Francisco Crispi is also very clear that the problem of the Chinese Emperor is not only the problem of Japan's Kyushu Island, but also the large land of Siberia and Central Asia that originally belonged to Tsarist Russia that has just been taken, plus there are competing interests with Britain, so, This is the reason why the emperor is so anxious and wants to go to Europe in person to find allies.

Mr. Francisco Crispi, who had the complete upper hand, did not think that this was a reciprocal negotiation, so naturally there was no hurry.

The two of them talked a lot, but between the dignitaries, they generally talked about easy topics, just the beginning, and only negotiated on very important points, which belonged to the direction level of talking, and specific things must be talked about by their subordinates.

The two-hour meeting seemed to say a lot, but in fact nothing was said.

Francisco Chreyei laughed: "It's a pleasure to be able to chat with the youngest politician of the century. ”

President Meng knew that the other party was sending off guests and was about to end the conversation, and said with a smile: "I am also very happy to be able to chat with such an excellent and experienced politician as Mr. Prime Minister, which has benefited me a lot." ”

Francisco Chris looked at Emperor Hua in surprise, he could see that Emperor Hua must have known that he was going to end the negotiations, he originally thought that Emperor Hua would break the matter of upgrading diplomatic relations between the two sides at the last moment, but he didn't.

He's not in a hurry? How does it look like you're on vacation?

At this time, Francisco Crispie had just contacted and chatted with Emperor Hua, and was already convinced that Emperor Hua was a genius, a very powerful person, and by no means a normal nine-year-old child, which couldn't help but make Francisco Christi admire Emperor Huahuang's city even more.

"How?" Princess Katrina Kafu rarely asked after the emperor came out, and generally the emperor would take the initiative to tell the princess if there was anything, and she didn't need to ask directly, she was also in a hurry today.

Originally, Princess Katrina Cafu could accompany her, but when the Emperor saw that Francisco Cripi was alone, he did not bring the princess to participate in the conversation, thinking that Francisco Cleft liked this one-on-one way.

President Meng smiled: "I chatted casually, but I didn't talk about the substance." ”

"Huh?" Princess Katrina Kaave exhaled softly, much unexpectedly, "Didn't talk about substance? What the hell, is it the same as that Count Andrrashy, who only invited His Majesty to meet out of politeness? ”

President Meng raised his hand and said softly as he walked: "No, he, or he and Umberto I behind him, are by no means the attitude of Count Andrách and Austria-Hungary towards China, the Kingdom of Italy is willing to unite with China, they are a rising country, they are extremely aggressive, but they have no territory, if they want to expand their influence in the Pacific, they must have a good relationship with China, otherwise, they will not even have a place to stay." ”

Princess Katrina Kafu snorted, took His Majesty's arm, and said as she walked: "So, does Your Majesty think that he wants to capture the old and indulge, wants to get more benefits in his dealings with Huaguo, and even wants to take advantage of the fire to rob?" ”

President Meng nodded and said: "It seems that this is the case, Austria-Hungary has no overseas territory, to say that there is, the original concession in Tianjin may be regarded as a relatively large foothold, the concession, get a generous tariff, I guess it should be these two aspects." ”

"Hmph, it's quite beautiful to think about, they want land, and they want money, don't they know that China has been unified and has a strong strength, even if diplomacy is not smooth, the problem of self-protection is not big, how dare they take advantage of the fire to rob?" Princess Katrina Kaf said angrily.

President Meng didn't say anything, walked silently, said not in a hurry, it was all for others to see, in fact, Huahuang was very anxious, but no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't take the initiative to lower his posture, there was no diplomatic relationship to pray, only by strength, the establishment of diplomatic relations, Huahuang deeply understood this simple truth.

After returning to the pavilion, Hua Huang did not come out to eat, and spent the evening alone in the office, and the meal was also spent in the office.

In Huahuang's small circle, he doesn't need to disguise, he can do whatever he wants, and he can freely express his emotions, but he knows that even in the small circle, he still has to behave, and he can't let the surrounding entourage feel depressed, which will reduce everyone's confidence even more.

Even depressed to the extreme, Emperor Hua can't remember how long he hasn't tried this kind of depression, when the Qing court ruled, Emperor Hua's greatest wish was to replace the decaying Qing government to rule the country, but when this wish was achieved, Emperor Hua didn't feel that he was much better than the Qing government?

National strength determines everything, Huaguo, it's really too weak!

The Qing Dynasty was a unified dynasty established by the Manchus in Chinese history, and it was also the last feudal dynasty in China.

In 1616, Nurhachi, the head of the Jurchen tribe of Jianzhou, established Houjin. In 1636, Huang Taiji changed the name of the country to the Great Qing Dynasty. In 1644, Dashun captured Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. After the Battle of Yishi, the Qing army took advantage of the situation to enter the customs, politically implemented the first worship of Manchuria, enclosure and surrender, shaving hair and changing clothes, moving to the sea, literary prison, etc., militarily pacified the Dashun, Daxi, Nanming and other regimes, and massacre the city on a large scale (see Manchu Massacre for details), and then gradually controlled the whole country. The three dynasties of Kang Yongqian reached their peak, the unified multi-ethnic state was consolidated, and the absolute monarchy developed to its peak.

In the middle and later periods, due to factors such as political rigidity, cultural autocracy, isolation from the country, ideological imprisonment, and scientific and technological stagnation, it gradually lagged behind the West.

The main thing is political corruption, ignorance, conservatism, and arrogance.

Before the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty government had no idea about the development of the world, and even in the Qing Dynasty's "History of the Ming Dynasty: Foreign Biography", Portugal, France, Spain and other countries were collectively referred to as "Hongmaofan". It is not clear what the geographical position of some countries in the world, especially the major capitalist countries in Europe, is in. In this regard, foreigners commented that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty at that time did not distinguish between foreigners at all: "One body is regarded by the Chinese as Yiren, and their Asian-style spirit of ignoring everything is so strong that they disdain to divide each other's thickness and thinness." ”

At that time, the officials all believed in "taking the model as the way to know things, the weakness as the good plan, the drill camp as the step to advance, and the reluctance to serve the officials."

From this, all those who have the Tao have their own gains, and they go away as they want, and their mantles are inherited, and they are firmly knotted and cannot be dissolved. As a result, many officials involved in major decisions are completely unaware of how much impact their decisions will have on the future.

Cao Zhenyong, the minister of military aircraft who had held important positions for a long time during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years, said to the protégé who asked for the way of the instructor's luck and prosperity: "There is no it, but there is more scowling and less talking!" ”

This is just as the people of the time revealed that the taxi is shameless and ashamed of the National Congress. The people of modern times, since the day of perfunctory, the year of the beginning, and the shame has survived. If the official is good for a long time, the more noble the hope is, the more solid the sycophancy, and the closer the land is, the more flattering and good the work.

In the aftermath of the Opium Wars, although China was forced to accept the growing power of the West, some officials and the feudal royal family remained conservative and could not keep up with the changing times.

In June 1876, the British Jardine Matheson & Co. disregarded the dissuasion of the Qing court and built a Wusong railway in Shanghai without authorization, and the Qing government felt that foreigners building the railway on the land left by their ancestors would hinder feng shui and face, and finally decided to buy the Wusong railway from Jardine Matheson for 285,000 taels of silver, and sent people to demolish the railway and throw it in the river and sea.

Li Hongzhang, the leader of the Westernist faction who held great power, built a railway with a total length of only 11 kilometers from Tangshan to Xugezhuang in order to solve the problem of transporting coal from Kaiping Coal Mine.

When the railway was first opened, the diehards claimed that the locomotive would shake the imperial tomb, and Li Hongzhang was forced to switch to horse-drawn carriages to walk on the railway, which became a strange story at the time.

Corruption is rampant, and looting is unlimited.

In Kangxi's later years, the wind of luxury and corruption had risen.

Later, it was controlled by reform measures such as strict economy and strict punishment in the Yongzheng period.

By the time of Qianlong, with the economic prosperity and abundant financial resources, the wind of extravagance and corruption had re-emerged and became more and more serious.

Qianlong toured the south of the Yangtze River six times, toured the mountains and rivers, picked up and sent the car along the way, paid tribute, built a large number of buildings, and the luxury and pomp were unprecedented, and the Mi Fei was very special.

Qianlong took the lead, and its demonstration effect was incomparable, and officials of all sizes took advantage of the opportunity to take over and other opportunities to do their best to do extravagant things.

Civil and military officials, big landlords, and big businessmen all live a life of glittering and drunken money, especially the Manchu relatives and nobles, and the habit of contaminating luxury is the most serious.

Manchurian Akdang Aren Huaiguan superintendent for more than ten years, looted countless people's fat and ointment, rich and invincible, known as "A God of Wealth".

The luxury of the Han eunuchs is much the same.

When officials of all sizes took office, they were mostly empty-handed, and when they left office and returned to their hometowns, they were carried by cars and boats.

In the late Qianlong period, the Minister of Military Aircraft He Kun was a well-known corrupt official, and his family was confiscated in Jiaqing, and all his property was listed as No. 109, of which No. 26 was estimated to be worth 22000000 taels.

Later, Mu Zhang'a, the foreman of the military aircraft, was comparable to corrupt officials and Kun, taking power and selling officials, bribing public banks, and the world sarcastically said: "Up and down." ”

In 1841, the university Shi Qishan was raided, and there were 10,912 taels of gold, 18.05 million taels of silver, and 11 boxes of jewelry.

Ugly voice. "Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver." It is a vivid portrayal of the corruption of officials at that time, and almost no officials were not greedy.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a blatant phenomenon of buying and selling officials.

Since official positions were a scarce resource monopolized in feudal society, there were many officials who sold their official positions and accepted bribes by virtue of the power of appointment, dismissal, examination, dethronement, and migration.

In the late Qing Dynasty and the New Deal period, heavy bribery and seeking officials and making money as officials have become quite common and even natural.

However, now that it is Huaguo, the situation is completely different from that of the Qing court, why is Huaguo still so weak?

On the one hand, because of President Meng's policy, he insists on putting people's livelihood first and putting the interests of the people of the whole country first, on the other hand, it is too weak, not that it can be rich and strong, although the development speed of China is now very fast, at least two to three times faster than the countries of the same period, but people have been developing for hundreds of years!

Emperor Hua saw along the way, even the Kingdom of Romania and Bulgaria, as well as the Kingdom of Greece, such a small country is so rich that it is bubbling!

The Ottoman Turkish Empire, a large feudal empire that had been in decline for a long time, was actually on a par with the Chinese state during this period.

There is no card in the hand, there is no strength, for politicians there is no card, the key Huaguo is too big, like a bulky elephant, Huahuang is still in the stage of awakening the elephant, even if it has been awakened, this elephant, there is a process of speeding up.