Chen Yucheng has now graduated from the Ming Royal Army Military Academy, but after graduation, he was not sent to serve in the army, but served as an attendant to Emperor Zhu. This errand is not good to say, it is naturally easy to be reused by the emperor's side, but there is no opportunity to establish a meritorious career, and now is wartime! Chen Yucheng felt that he might be a general of the Taiping Army, and because of the capture of Daoguang, he was named a heroic marquis by Zhu Jishi (standing in the position of the Ming Dynasty, capturing Daoguang alive is of course a great merit, like capturing Emperor Hirohito in the War of Resistance against Japan), and there is no room for further promotion, so he was placed next to the emperor as a vase. However, in Zhu Jishi's mind, the role of His Royal Highness the British King, who has received a formal Western-style military education, is not just to be a vase.

"Do you still have contact with Yang Xiuqing?" Zhu Jishi asked lightly.

When Chen Yucheng heard this, he was not very surprised. Yang Xiuqing is already far away in the United States, and there is not much threat to Emperor Zhu's power, so Emperor Zhu probably just asked this casually.

"There is no contact between the minister and Yang Jungong." Chen Yucheng told the truth that his relationship with Yang Xiuqing was not close, but he was appreciated by him because he captured Daoguang alive. After surrendering to Zhu Ming, Chen Yucheng was busy going to school, getting married, giving birth to children, working as a vase, and buying a house in Beijing.

"Oh." Zhu Jishi showed a disappointed expression, "If I send you to the United States, can I gain Yang Xiuqing's trust?" ”

"The emperor means ......" Chen Yucheng was confused.

Zhu Jishi said with a smile: "In the past few years, there have been seventy or eighty thousand Taiping Heavenly Kingdom brothers who have been sent to the United States by me (no less than 150,000 including family members). That's a lot of power, if you use it well. It is possible to establish a career in a foreign land. ”

"What does the emperor mean...... Is it to let Yang Jungong raise troops in the United States!? It can't be ......"

Zhu Jishi smiled and nodded: "Zhilu Dao." I know that it is impossible. That's not what I meant. ”

In fact, it is possible to succeed in raising troops in the western United States! Because the Trans-American Railroad has not yet been built, it is not convenient to cross the desert and climb the mountains from the east to the west of the United States than to take a boat from China. Of course, the premise is to control the Pacific Ocean, but the US Navy is not weak, and this Pacific Ocean is not the inner lake of the Ming Dynasty.

"My goal is Mexico! Mexico is militarily weak and internally unstable, with civil war on the verge of breaking out. This is a great opportunity. ”

"The emperor wants to seize Mexico!?" Chen Yucheng felt incredible. Although it is possible to raise tens of thousands of people in North America to invade Mexico, the occupation is ...... This would lead to international interference!

"It's not that I want Mexico, it's for Princess Mathilde of France to seize the throne of the Empress of Mexico!" Zhu Jishi said seriously.

"Ah......" Chen Yucheng's mouth opened wide, and he could almost stuff his fist into it! To seize the Mexican throne for a mistress, this Mathilde's red face is also too big, right?

Seeing Chen Yucheng's expression, Zhu Jishi snorted: "This matter is not only my participation, France and Spain are likely to join, so there is a great possibility of success." They also had many people in Mexico who wanted to welcome an emperor from the European royal family, and Mathilde was a princess of the Bonaparte dynasty with the support of France. It is believed that Napoleon III also had a way to persuade Spain to join in the support. Coupled with my financial resources and Yang Xiuqing's people, the probability of success is always eighty percent! ”

"Your Majesty. So what benefits can Yang Jungong get? Chen Yucheng asked thoughtfully.

"A Mexican duke always has it, and he can get a lot of land...... I will also give him a payment, how about 1,000,000 silver dollars? ”

Chen Yucheng said with a smile: "You don't have to give so much, Yang Jungong is a person who is unwilling to be lonely, whether there is this 1 million or not, he will do it." However, it is difficult to say whether he will have troops in Mexico. ”

"This is the true character of the East King!" Emperor Da Lu laughed, and then lowered his tone again, "Hero Hou, you go and tell Yang Xiuqing that Mexico is not for him!" I need a strong and united Mexico, not a disintegrated Mexico! If he dares to do anything wrong, I will never support it! ”

"The minister knows it." Of course, Chen Yucheng didn't know the grand strategy of Emperor Zhu, but he knew that he had to act according to the emperor's deployment. Zhu Jishi smiled and nodded, and waved his hand to let His Royal Highness the British King in history retire.

"Your Majesty, do we really need to take care of the affairs of the Americas?"

As soon as Chen Yucheng came out, the military advisor Luo Zenan couldn't help but ask. Emperor Zhu's layout in the Americas was basically carried out bypassing the cabinet through the Jinyiwei and the royal consortium. Luo Zenan is also in charge of some Jinyiwei affairs, so he is involved in the whole process. It's just that he doesn't understand why Emperor Zhu wants to act like this, in his opinion, the Ming should take a long-distance and close-range strategy, first clean up Russia, drive the Russians out of Eastern Siberia and Xinjiang, and then Xu Tu Nanyang. The United States should be the object of distant friendship, but now the emperor wants to put his lover on the throne of the Mexican empress, and Mexico and the United States are mortal enemies (the Mexican people hate the United States to death, because the United States has only annexed half of Mexico, which is too irresponsible)......

Zhu Jishi looked at his military master and sighed in his heart, to be honest, the Chinese politicians in this era are all masters of internal fighting and external fighting! There are a set of methods for engaging in political disputes in the court, and even if they are not blinded to the outside world, they are still half-understood.

"Military advisor, interfering in the affairs of the Americas, I am not a hundred-year plan, but a plan for 20 Chinese New Year's Eve years......" This "American potential theory", Emperor Zhu and his confidants and ministers have said I don't know how many times, but unfortunately everyone still thinks that it is necessary to make friends from afar and attack at close range - the United States is far away, and the South Seas are near. As for the argument that the British and French powers will weaken sooner or later, no one believes it.

He shook his head and didn't bother with Luo Zenan anymore, but turned the topic to propaganda and education: "Military advisor, this is Zhang Zegen's report, take a look." He pointed to the fold on the imperial case, Luo Zenan took the fold and looked at it, and Zhu Jishi continued: "Most of the Chinese in Hawaii are Ding Zhuang, almost all of them are armed with guns, just like an army!" However, when the Russians attacked, few people came forward, and it was not until Zhang Zegen promised a huge profit that less than 10,000 people were mobilized. On the other hand, the British, American, and French expatriates in Hawaii were all armed with guns to help in the war as soon as the embassy gave the order! Such militaristic people, we are not as good as us! ”

Luo Zenan was silent for a long time, and nodded heavily: "What the emperor said is very true, the country of the Westerners is full of tigers and wolves, although there are few people, but the soldiers are brave, although there are more than 40,000 people in China, most of them are people who do not know that there is a country. ”

Zhu Jishi smiled in his heart, Luo Zenan really didn't know anything about the West, most of the people in the West of Hawaii were sailors, the merchant ships and whaling ships of this era were armed, and the sailors often had to participate in battles, no different from soldiers, of course they were not afraid of fighting. The Chinese in Hawaii were all merchants, farmers, or sugar factory workers, and it was normal for them not to dare to fight. But there is no need to talk to Luo Zenan about this.

At that moment, Emperor Zhu nodded: "The militarists and people of the Westerners are all educated, and the education of the people of our country is mostly the doctrine of saints. The so-called easy to know is difficult to do! I think that military drills can be added to the primary schools, colleges, and colleges under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Propaganda and Education (Ministry of Propaganda and Education), with retired soldiers of the army serving as teachers to teach military drills and firearms skills. In the future, military drill classes will be extended to all civilian primary schools, academies, colleges, and universities. ”

The so-called military drill is actually physical education, and the physical education classes in Western countries in this era are also linked to the military, that is, military training is integrated into daily teaching, with the aim of cultivating the military quality of the people and providing the army with enough reserve soldiers. As a result of the large amount of income from the sale of titles in exchange for educational donations, the number of schools opened and managed by the Ministry of Propaganda and Education and the Royal Education Group has increased significantly, with more than 300 new primary schools or more than 100 new colleges, more than 50 education colleges, and 12 universities. Among them, 21 education colleges and 8 universities were located in Beijing, occupying the palaces and public mansions of the former Manchu Qing Dynasty. However, except for the schools run by the royal education group, the other new schools in the Ming Dynasty do not have military physical education classes. (To be continued......)