In 1845, in Guangzhou, Xu Qing, the son of an ordinary dilapidated small merchant under the Qing court, was waiting for an order from Qi Ying, the governor of Guangdong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Order, Xu Qing will go to Europa England to serve as the director of my Daqing Customs Office, and he will take office immediately, there must be no mistake!"

With this order, Xu Qing's face was a little complicated, but he did not refuse this order. Because he knew that it was useless to refuse, in fact, he might not object, because he had had enough of this environment since he crossed over.

"It's not necessarily good to finally be able to leave this place that makes me feel dead, and it's not necessarily good to leave the country. At least I'm abroad and can get more development, instead of being forced to be stuck here at home. What's more, in China, with my identity, I can't give full play to my abilities at all, which is not good for my future development. Leaving the country can accumulate more capital, which is not necessarily a benefit. Xu Qing thought.

Xu Qing was ready to pack his things, and then he was ready to go to the United Kingdom to take up his post, and he was appointed as the director of the so-called Manchu customs office in London, which may be China's first overseas agency, but Xu Qing did not expect that he would actually cross into this identity.

Just as Xu Qing was about to pack up his things and go to work, someone suddenly walked over outside the door.

"Hahahaha, Xu Qing, you finally got out of here? Hmph, wasn't your Xu family very powerful back then? Competing with our Wu family, haven't you been defeated by our Wu family? Now, you've been assigned to that English barbarian who doesn't, and that's amazing. ”

"Yes! If I had been sent to that barbarian place, I would have just hanged myself! "That's right, you're really unlucky to be sent so far away!" "This time, the English people want us to appoint a customs officer to the English to serve as the director of this office, I don't know how many people shirk it!" "No one wants to go to that barbarian place, everyone spends money to shirk it, everyone makes money go, but they don't want this errand to be spread on their heads." "Isn't it scolded for doing this kind of thing?" ……

Many of those people were laughing at Xu Qing, thinking that Xu Qing had been assigned and belittled when he went abroad to serve as the head of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's overseas offices this time. Even when they heard that they were going to be delegated, they still spent their money hard, not wanting this unlucky errand to fall on their heads.

"......" Xu Qing was speechless in his heart.

"Who is the bad pen, such a good errand, you all spend money to beg not to go? I went, and it seems that the history of Chinese diplomacy that I studied back then was indeed not wrong. During the Qing Dynasty, foreign exchanges were obviously still very backward. Guo Songtao, China's first minister to the United Kingdom, went to the United Kingdom, but was still scolded. Even after returning from a foreign country, he was scolded as a traitor, which is really very sad! Xu Qing was speechless.

Perhaps future generations will not feel anything strange about China sending ambassadors to foreign countries, but it will feel very normal. However, this was not the case at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when China's Celestial Empire was very serious, and it was believed that all barbarians outside of China were people. It is even very humiliating to associate foreign ministers with ancient "protons", and to think that foreign ministers are also going to be hostages to foreign countries.

Due to various reasons, in the late Qing Dynasty, although foreign countries sent personnel to China, almost no Chinese people went abroad to be stationed abroad. Even after Guo Songtao, the first minister to the United Kingdom, returned to China, he was labeled a traitor. As for the excuse, it is still very ridiculous, inexplicably becoming a traitor and traitor.

"Xu Qing, after you go abroad this time, you will be unlucky. You don't know, everyone is avoiding this unlucky errand, and everyone is spending money hard! Those who were born on the right path to the imperial examination were reluctant to go, and finally began to donate classes. However, the donors were reluctant to go, and a large amount of silver was used, so they finally shirked the errand one by one. As for the end, it's your turn to settle down! In the past, your Xu family was also good, and you also donated a seven-grade candidate magistrate to your son. However, now that your Xu family is in ruins, but you are from a donation class, it is your turn to be responsible for the unlucky errand. ”

"If I were you, I'd just hang myself. Now I don't know how many people scold you, I don't know how many people despise you! ”

However, Xu Qing did not have any frustration, he would not feel that anything was wrong. On the contrary, this official position stationed abroad is a rare fat difference in the future generations, who doesn't want to go! What's more, when I went to a foreign country, I could accumulate strength more conveniently.

"In China, almost none of the things I learned before crossing over can be used! This time I can finally go out, and after I go out, it can be regarded as okay, so that is the real sleepy dragon ascending to heaven! In this decadent and backward Manchu Qing Dynasty, I can't use all my skills, which is too much of a loss. It's good to go out, it's good to go out, so I can pave the way for future plans! If in the country, there are too many constraints, so it's not good! Xu Qing thought.

In China, whether it is the domestic political environment or the economic environment, Xu Qing will not have room for development, so this time he can be sent abroad as a Manchu official, which is simply pie in the sky for her, if such a good thing is not caught, then he really jumps into the sea quickly.

There are too many rules to stay in the country, and it is not easy to do business, and it is even easy to be troubled by various problems. As for going abroad, on the one hand, he is also the head of the Manchu court's overseas offices in foreign countries, which is an official status, and on the other hand, he can obtain various benefits in a foreign country in an official capacity. The person in charge of the overseas agency is very cool, not a fart in China, but in a foreign agency, that is a soil emperor!

"You group of ancient writers, if it were the diplomatic department of later generations, how many people would have squeezed their heads and hoped to be ambassadors to those developed countries, but you didn't know the goods, and you still rushed to spend money and didn't go? In the territory of the British, is it comparable to the country in the late Qing Dynasty? If you don't go, I'll go! Such a pie-in-the-sky good thing, I don't go to me, I have to regret it for the rest of my life! Xu Qing thought with a snicker in his heart.

Xu Qing came to the young master of the Wu family and said, "Wu Shao, you may not know a word, your poisonous weed, my immortal grass!" ”

After Xu Qing finished speaking, he took the burden and prepared to leave, but he is for me to leave this rotten country as soon as possible.

"Fairy grass? Go to a place full of barbarians, and you also claim to be a fairy grass? Phew! Many people thought with contempt.