The naturalists who traveled with Downing had little feeling about the opening of the Panama Canal, and the honeymoon bride certainly didn't feel either, wasn't it just to make more money? The last thing that Emperor Qian Tuhao is bad about is money. The only scholar interested in the canal was that the canal's tolls were too expensive. Downing explained: "I deliberately made it a little more expensive, so that the merchant ships would voluntarily demand a tax as a percentage of the landed price, and more importantly, on that basis, the goods that passed through the Guò Panama Canal would flow according to my will." In this way, it is possible to manipulate the politics of the trading countries. The manipulation of politics is aimed at achieving a seemingly impossible goal - the protection of nature. Haha, I can't think of it! ”

Naturalists love to hear this, but they don't know how sincere Tangning is. Therefore, Downing explained that one of the important tasks of protecting nature is to protect the ecological environment from destructive exploitation, such as the Amazon rainforest, and that his army will not withdraw from Granada in the future, so as to ensure that the forestry policy implemented by the government there is friendly to the rainforest, and the annual deforestation cannot exceed the capacity of the rainforest to recover.

Rainforests are home to some of the world's most diverse creatures, and protecting them means protecting biodiversity. This task was originally unlikely to be achieved, because human nature is selfish, and after the decline of religious influence, there is a period of moral reconstruction, during which human beings will frantically exploit various resources with commercial interests as the core, and when the whole of human beings realizes the disadvantages of commercial civilization and advocates environmental protection, many things have become irreparable, and a large number of primeval forests have disappeared, accompanied by a large number of biological extinctions.

This process has actually already begun, for example: the dodo. It is a flightless bird found only on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The island of Mauritius is an island of evolution, and just like New Guinea, there are no ferocious carnivorous mammals on the ground, so the dodo lives at a leisurely pace. They were fat and sluggish, and when humans came to the island in 1505 and discovered them, they became a delicacy for man, and as a result, in the 1660s, man had never seen such a cute animal again.

Why should I support the Southern rebellion in order to tear the United States in half? It is precisely because the United States, a purebred commercial civilization that has departed from the traditional way of life, is an extremely powerful civilization, representing the current direction of human development, centered on commercialism and consumerism, and spreading to the world like a plague, with almost no power to stop it. So I'm going to be anti-American. If you look at the crazy scenes of oil extraction in Pennsylvania, you can see how frightening commercialism is, the owners of the little oil wells are crazy, and the local environmental damage is very serious. It strengthened my tendency to curb consumerism.

The only way to curb commercialism is through commercial means. For example, since the invention of the typewriter and typewriter, the number of newspapers, periodicals, and books printed has risen dramatically, and the demand for paper has led to the development of the logging industry, which is a huge threat to forests. What will I do after I take control of the canal? I can levy different tolls on the same type of wood, and I can pay a lower fee for selling to countries that have good recycling policies, and charge high fees for deforestation areas to force governments to implement environmental policies.

That's why I, the Windsor consortium, want to control the canal and tax world trade. Originally, I was just a capitalist who wanted to make a lot of money, but when I made enough money, I thought about what I wanted next. This is the same as the development of the whole human race, and human beings also waited until consumerism was rampant to the point that some people of insight found that the world had become monotonous and not beautiful, and then tried to persuade people to love the earth. I'm one step ahead of humanity as a whole, so I'm always fond of forming organizations like the "Prophet Alliance" and the "Elite House of Lords".

Listening to the big guy who can tax world trade, everyone present suddenly realized that the big guy was fighting this idea. All the scholars gave a thumbs up, saying that the local tyrant emperor was ambitious. Wallace, who was originally dissatisfied with Downing's support for the South, slapped his thigh and said, "Boss, why didn't you say it earlier!" Darwin and I wondered why you would support the rebellion in the southern slave states, and finally understood. ”

Downing smiled: "I didn't plan to say it, this practice is anti-human at first glance, Lincoln came to Rome to question me, I was right, if I said it was for environmental protection, wouldn't it make people spray rice?" But...... When I arrived in Fresh Wind Inner Asia, to this paradise for birds, and for those who love nature, far away from Europe and America, I suddenly want to tell you again, my true friends! I don't want you to see me as a bad guy who interferes in the affairs of other countries for his own selfishness. ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Wallace took out one of his favorite photos of the "Bird of Paradise" taken today, and was full of emotion: "Unbelievably beautiful, you would never imagine that there are birds in the world with flag feathers on their wings, look, its eyes, how proud, how comfortable." When I saw them, I wanted to tell the fools who were still believing in the Bible. Animals can never be playthings created by God to please humans. Beautiful birds, freely roosting in the cloud forests that humans know nothing and have never set foot in, chirping, seeking pleasure, and the beauty of the existence makes humans feel landless...... When I saw them, I felt blood rush up my head, and even if I was facing death, I didn't have such a big reaction, did you make it? After I saw them, the whole person was not good all day, it was just ...... I love it so much. ”

Everyone laughed again, and only a die-hard nature-loving guy would have this reaction.

An ornithologist was not convinced, and he also brought out his favorite: the long-tailed bird of paradise. As the name suggests, this male bird drags two long tail feathers and flies like a fairy with a streamer, but unfortunately he was not able to capture the graceful posture of the long-tailed bird of paradise when it flies, and those who did not witness it can only look at it as it stops on a branch and imagine the spectacle that the photographer witnessed at that time.

In fact, these people have been watching the lowland rainforest for several days, and almost all of them have their own unique experiences, and this one is a scholar who photographed the twelve-line bird of paradise. When this bird of paradise first appeared in the eyes of Europeans, there was no photographic skills, and the painter painted the bird's tail with an imaginative twelve tail feathers, almost making one wonder how it could have been able to fly with twelve line feathers. After actually seeing the living twelve-threaded bird of paradise, the scholar believed in the existence of this creature, and understood the painter's misrepresentation, it turned out that the twelve thread feathers were not so long, nor so beautiful, and the scholar spent a long time thinking about why such an unsightly tail feather attracted girls? Now, he has an answer, and he will take this question to the test.

When everyone thought hard to no avail, he said triumphantly: "I suddenly remembered that when he was with his girlfriend, he always used his tail feathers to sweep his girlfriend's cheeks, haha, it should be the tactile feeling of the tail feathers to represent its competitiveness, the more comfortable the tail feathers are to touch the female, the more chances it has to win the love of the female!" ”

Everyone was impressed!

Sissi reads today's news to everyone: "A piece of news from China. She glanced at Downing, and it seemed that he was the only one here who had been to China, but she didn't know how deep Tangning's ties with China were.

"After the ancient East came into contact with modern European civilization, the ancient East Asian countries led by Japan and China began to vigorously move closer to Western civilization, especially after the Second Sino-British War (the Western name for the Second Opium War), the Qing Dynasty adopted very radical reform measures, which were even more than the forerunner of the Japanese Federation.

Recently, Emperor Xianfeng, who was deeply loved by the people of the Qing Dynasty and abolished the system of ethnic inequality, died in the summer resort of Rehe, and appointed the emperor's eldest son Zaichun to succeed him before his death. Because the emperor's eldest son was only 5 years old, Emperor Xianfeng appointed two auxiliary ministers for the younger emperor. First, Prince Gong, was appointed as the king of parliament and the minister of military aircraft. Second, Guo Songtao, a Han minister who had just returned from Europe, was appointed as the prime minister and minister of state affairs.

Emperor Xianfeng hoped that the two auxiliary ministers would assist the next generation of emperors of the Great Qing Kingdom to establish a new Great Qing State, follow the example of the British royal family, support the constitution, adopt a representative form of government, and make the judicial system ** outside the executive power and legislative power, and practice the separation of powers and mutual checks and balances.

Guo Daren, a former household official who had risen to prominence due to his mission to Europe, even radically adopted the Western A.D. method, and changed the triangular yellow dragon flag, which did not conform to international practice, to a rectangular national flag, and solicited proposals for new national flags from various well-known painters in the Qing Dynasty.

In an interview with Reuters, Guo even revealed his schedule for establishing a parliamentary system, saying that the security of Chinese wireless telegraphy has been confirmed by local officials in military and political practice, and its emergence has made the relationship between the imperial court and the local government closer, so the Qing State should no longer establish the post of governor, and the official officials should be headed by the governor of a province. The parliamentary system will be rolled out one by one, and the first province to implement it will be Jiangsu Province.

Jiangsu Province is the hometown of rice and fish in the Qing Dynasty, and the industries such as silk and tea are all first-class provinces in the Qing Dynasty, especially in Susong Taidao, and Shanghai is the location of Taicang, which is the strategic grain reserve of the Qing Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, Zeng Jize, who had the experience of visiting Europe, was appointed as a Taoist member of Susong Taidao, and after a period of operation by Zeng Daotai, favorable conditions were created for the implementation of the first election.

The election of the first councillor refers to the Shanghai Taxpayers Committee, and only those who have paid taxes in accordance with the local law for one year are eligible to vote and run. (http：/／）。 The bill of parliament drafted by Mr. Guo stipulates that candidates who run for election must disclose their personal assets after they are elected, opening the prelude to the era of democracy and clean government in an open and transparent manner.

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Naturalists have praised the Qing Dynasty for its fast and urgent steps, and China is really lucky to have a good emperor. Older empires such as Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Spanish Empire are far behind, and China may be modernizing faster than Russia and Spain.

When Sissi looked up at a certain local tyrant emperor again, she read the following words: "...... Emperor Xianfeng's edict that the Qing Dynasty issued a 10-year state bond of 6 million pounds to support the war against Russia, with the Old Summer Palace as collateral, underwritten by the Bank of Zurich, and within 10 years, the Bank of Zurich obtained the right to use the Old Summer Palace as a commission. ”

A certain sensitive guy was suspicious: "Your Majesty, you have such an iron relationship with the Great Qing Kingdom?" Is there something greasy in this? ”

Tang Ning laughed, laughed but did not answer.