readx;?12month1day,Zhang Wei didn't have time to check the system score last month,To the morning of the 2nd,Just wake up and open the system panel to view the points,The land area score has not risen much,Mainly the colonial score has risen sharply,A total of more than 22 million,It seems that the Lelang Peninsula is recognized as a colony by the system,And Hokkaido and Jiuzhou Island are not used as colonies,In order to get more system points,You can't just take the occupied territory as your own territory in the future,That's really not cost-effective。 Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now with 38 million points per month, Zhang Wei instantly became the richest man in the world, so Zhang Wei didn't know how to spend it.

After getting up and washing, the palace ladies have prepared breakfast, and when they arrived at their study at 8 o'clock, the palace manager has already arranged the day's itinerary, today is mainly to meet the foreign guests who came to participate in the founding ceremony, in the morning to meet the foreign guests of Italy and the Ottoman Empire, in the afternoon to meet the foreign guests of Brazil and the Qing Dynasty, and to have dinner with Zhao Erxun and others in the evening.

This is the first time Zhang Wei has received foreign guests, and he seems a little excited and a little nervous, but fortunately, he will be accompanied by Hua Guoqiang and others, and he will show up.

Due to the small number of participants, the meeting took place in a small conference room.

The palace maid was already responsible for arranging the refreshments, fruits, national flags, etc.

At half past eight, the participants from the Imperial side arrived at the palace and waited for the arrival of the guests. Hua Guoqiang handed over the outline of the talks to Zhang Wei in advance, Zhang Wei looked at it, there was no substantive content, just greetings to each other, and they all wanted to buy battleships and battlecruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, this is a good thing, as long as Zhang Wei agreed in the talks, they can go to the General Staff to negotiate the price, payment and delivery time with Li Zhaoshui and Yang Yili and others, so many countries want to buy warships, the excited Zhang Wei is not nervous, just recite the courtesy greetings as soon as possible, You can't read it with a manuscript for a while.

At 9 o'clock, the Italian delegates arrived at the palace in two cars from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Hua Guoqiang and others were waiting in the small square, and after greeting each other, Hua Guoqiang led them into the small reception room and introduced the Italian delegates to Zhang Wei, who shook hands with them one by one, and then sat down with the guests.

This time Italy was represented by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Deputy Minister of Naval Armament, as well as a staff officer of a major general of the army.

Zhang Wei first expressed his courtesy thanks to the Italian delegates for attending the founding ceremony and military parade of the Empire, and reaffirmed that the Empire is peace-loving and willing to contribute to world peace.

The Italian delegate first congratulated the Imperial Military Parade on its complete success, praised the Xia Empire's soldiers for their high quality and advanced equipment, and expressed the hope for strengthening military exchanges and cooperation with the Xia Empire.

Zhang Wei said that the Xia Empire is a peace-loving country and is willing to establish good friendship with any formal country, military exchanges and cooperation are normal exchanges between two friendly countries, and the Xia Empire is willing to establish a good friendship with Italy, and welcomes them to participate in the ceremony of handing over battleships to Germany, Britain and the United States tomorrow; If we want to strengthen military exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, we can hold talks with the General Staff Headquarters, and they will talk more professionally and concretely.

The Italian deputy foreign minister said that Italy is willing to establish a good friendship with the Xia Empire, and will definitely attend the handover ceremony of the battleship on time tomorrow and visit the General Staff of the Xia Empire at the right time.

The meeting lasted more than half an hour, and the Italian delegates got the answers they wanted, and they left in time.

The Foreign Ministry car took them back to the hotel.

At 10 o'clock, the representatives of the Ottoman Empire were received into the palace, and Zhang Wei made a similar speech, that is, he went through the motions, and the specific issues were still discussed by the Ministry of Commerce and the General Staff, and the meeting with the representatives of some of these countries was only a matter of etiquette, and did not discuss any substantive content.

Zhang Wei felt that he was very tired and not suitable for this work at all, so he said to Hua Guoqiang: "In the future, I am unwilling to meet these foreign guests, and there is nothing to do, it is a pure waste of time, and I am still very tired, so in the future, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister's Office will be responsible for receiving them." ”

Hua Guoqiang said: "Your Majesty, very little has been arranged, and Premier Zheng will meet with the representatives of Peru, Chile and Australia respectively this morning, and he has already arranged a lot for them. Your Majesty, just busy for the past few days, when these foreign guests are gone, there will be less trouble, and foreign affairs are so cumbersome. ”

"Hey, I still have to stay up for a few days, it seems that I have to arrange a competent assistant for Premier Zheng, don't tire him out."

"Your Majesty, if you want to be equipped with assistants, all of them will be matched, and now each department has 2 deputy positions, and all departments are very busy, not only the Government Affairs Yuan."

"Okay, I'll give you an assistant, and I'll be bothered less if I have something to do in the future."

"Your Majesty, this trouble is worth a lot, if you meet a few foreign guests, they will smoothly buy warships, and the Ottoman Empire will buy our rifles, military rations, etc., this is a long-term big customer."

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he met with the representatives of Brazil, who originally wanted to buy battleships from Britain, but later saw that Britain had purchased battleships, battlecruisers and destroyers from the Xia Empire, so he decided to participate in the founding ceremony and military parade of the Xia Empire, and by the way, he inspected the navy of the Xia Empire, and if he could, he would buy battleships, battlecruisers and destroyers from the Xia Empire.

The three families received by Zhang Wei all expressed their strong purchases to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so they were given the opportunity to be received by the Emperor of the Xia Empire, which was a great honor.

At 4 o'clock, I met with the delegation led by Zhao Erxun, this delegation is relatively large, the personnel are relatively large, after many screenings, there are still 35 people to participate in the talks, there is no way, so I have to meet them in the large conference room.

Through this military parade, Zhao Erxun and others realized that Emperor Xia had a strong military force, the quality of his soldiers was very high, his weapons and equipment were very advanced, and the naval warships were the most advanced battleships, battle cruisers and destroyers in the world, and even destroyers were enough to compare with the cruisers of other countries.

Zhao Erxun was most concerned about the northeast issue, so he came up and asked Zhang Wei: "Your Majesty the Emperor, what arrangements do you have for the three northeastern provinces of the Great Qing Kingdom?" ”

"Elder Zhao Ge, this depends on how your Qing Dynasty moves, I hope to help the Great Qing Kingdom train the army as soon as possible, and then we will withdraw from the Northeast Region, after all, so many troops are stationed there in you, the consumption is very huge, if we don't help you train the army well, we will withdraw the troops, it won't take long for the army of the Russian Empire to come over, can you resist it?" We don't want our hard-earned territory to be cheaper for the Russian Empire. ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, how many troops can be trained to guard the three eastern provinces?"

"Zhao Ge Lao, now is not the problem of the three eastern provinces, it should be the problem of several border provinces to consider together, so the Great Qing State has set up a frontier general and a frontier administrative governor, I feel that in the three northeastern provinces and Xing'an Province there are 8 town infantry plus 4 town cavalry and 4 target heavy artillery is enough, in Outer Mongolia at least 4 town infantry plus 3 town cavalry and 3 target heavy artillery, the total strength of at least 200,000 people, these troops, not only for the defense of the frontier, but also to protect the Qing Dynasty Dinghai Shen Needle."

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Great Qing Kingdom cannot afford such a large military expenditure for the time being."

"It's not like expanding so many troops at one time, it will take at least 2 years or more to build it well, as for the issue of funds, I think about it like this, first take back Japan's right to compensate in the "Xinchou Treaty", use the saved army for the construction of the army, and then the Xia Empire will give you a part of the loan, and after driving the Russian Empire out of the northeast, cancel the Russian Empire's right to compensation in the "Xinchou Treaty", these funds are enough to raise troops."

Zhao Erxun wanted to immigrate the displaced people from the northern part of the Qing Kingdom to the Korean Peninsula, Hokkaido, and Kyushu Island; The relocation of displaced people from the Yangtze River basin and the south to the island of Taiwan or the Xia Empire was also to facilitate immigration and make it easier for immigrants to accept the climate and environment of the new place.

Zhang Wei agreed with Zhao Erxun's opinion and asked the secretary to telegraph Ambassador Wu Wenbin, who would make corresponding arrangements.

Sa Zhenbing, who accompanied him, proposed to Zhang Wei that he hoped that the Xia Empire could sell the Zhenyuan battleship and the Shikishima-class battleship that captured Japan to the Great Qing Kingdom, and now the Great Qing Kingdom did not have a warship that could get it; And wanted to buy battlecruisers and destroyers of the Xia Empire.

Zhang Wei understood the mood of these people and hoped to rebuild the navy of the Great Qing Kingdom, but their system was too backward, even if they were given the best battleships, under that system, they could not exert good combat effectiveness.

Zhang Wei had no choice but to say, "Sell, whatever warship you want to buy, our Xia Empire will support you, as long as you can pay, we will sell, this issue can be attended by the Navy warship handover ceremony tomorrow, and then talk to the General Staff after the handover ceremony is over." ”

Zhao Erxun hoped that the Xia Empire would increase the amount of grain sold to the Qing Dynasty in order to stabilize the soaring grain prices of the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Wei had no choice but to tell him: "Elder Zhao Ge, now we have done our best to transport grain to the Great Qing Kingdom, if you have a ship, you can also come to the Xia Empire to transport grain by yourself, our cargo ships have reached the limit." ”

On the issue of education, Zhang Wei promised to gradually increase his support for the Qing Dynasty in the future, hoping to set up schools in every province and even in larger cities to help the Qing Dynasty train students.

Zhang Wei talked with them about some business things, Zhang Wei meant to welcome the industrial and commercial people of the Qing Dynasty to come to the Xia Empire to start a business and develop, and specific things could be discussed with the Ministry of Commerce.

Because of Zhang Wei's generosity, the talks went very smoothly, and in the evening, Zhang Wei hosted a banquet for the delegates in the palace, so that the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves.

At the end of the day, Zhang Wei was tired, and he was no longer willing to do this kind of work in the future, and the muscles on his face were sore with laughter, which was really uncomfortable, but Zhang Wei was still very happy to let several countries buy warships smoothly; In addition, being able to appease the Qing Dynasty and help Yuan Shikai develop the army in the frontier, when the time comes, he can smoothly seize power and achieve a smooth transition, which makes Zhang Wei feel very fulfilled. (To be continued.) )

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