The embassy and consulate of the Tang Republic in Philadelphia, the minister in the United States, Chu Bai, took over a telegram, since the Tang army participated in the North American War of Independence, the Tang people have completed the radio communication on the east and west coasts, so if the minister in the United States has any information that needs to be reported to the country, he can use this line, and at the same time, Chu Bai can also grasp what is happening in the country in real time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It seems that this Tang and Qing wars still have to be fought." Chu Bai pursed his lips, and the telegram and newspaper wrote that at least five relatively large uprisings had broken out in the Qing State, and the most powerful was the siege of Guangzhou Mansion by Hong Kong pirates.

Hong Kong pirates plus the men and horses of the Heaven and Earth Society, a total of tens of thousands, and Yang Zhen also got a large number of rear-loading rifled guns from China before, and the pirates have also received basic training from Tang Army instructors, so they have a certain combat effectiveness. However, after drifting away from the Datang official, the incense thieves did not continue to replenish firearms, and Yang Zhen did not have much military talent, so the intelligence department believed that the combat effectiveness of the incense thieves was relatively limited. Especially in terms of military organization, because the incense thieves mixed a large number of boat people who originally went abroad as thieves, and did not selectively absorb members of the Tiandihui and other associations, the organizational strength of the army was relatively limited, and only a relatively small number of troops could be called the army, and most of them could only be regarded as a rabble.

However, even so, the strength of the incense thieves still formed a local advantage over the Qing army. The incense thieves sent a fleet of men and horses to try to attack the Guangzhou Mansion, but they were discovered by the garrison Qing army outside the mouth of the Pearl River, and the Humen Fort resisted, and the incense thieves suffered some losses, but soon under the leadership of the martial arts people of the Heaven and Earth Society, the rebels launched an attack on the fort, and the Qing army's lack of combat will was defeated. But when the incense thieves came up to Guangzhou. The city of Guangzhou has been closed in all directions. The governor of Liangguang, Guilin, had already gathered the city defense soldiers and was ready for battle.

The rebels then besieged the city of Guangzhou. Since both sides had artillery, artillery fire was also launched for three days. By the time the telegram was sent from East Asia to North America, the Rebels had not yet conquered the city of Guangzhou, but the walls of the city were already damaged, and under the command of Yang Zhen and Zheng Ji, the Rebels had broken a green battalion that had come to their aid. After all, the rebels have troops with all firearms, and after they set up a formation, the power is not small.

Meantime. In response to the Tiandihui uprising, in Fujian and Guangdong and other prefectures and counties, there were a large number of moves, in recent years, the Tiandihui has achieved remarkable results in operating Fujian and Guangdong, there are many congregations, some uprisings successfully seized the official county government, and some have suffered defeats, which also caused the Qing troops in Fujian and Guangdong provinces to be exhausted and too busy to work.

Although Datang was cut off from trade in Guangzhou, and had substantially disaffiliated with Yang Zhen. However, there is still an intelligence system in Guangdong, and this information is transmitted by the Guangdong intelligence system to the Beijing Division. and then sent back to China by Bai Nan.

As an important diplomat of the Tang Dynasty, Chu Bai naturally also needs to understand what stage the war has progressed to.

"This battle seems to be bigger than originally expected, not only the northern battlefield is the battle between our Tang Army and the Qinwang Army, how many people are coming out at this time to pick peaches." Chu Bai sighed a few times.

Counselor Ling Yun said with a smile: "Rebel armies like the White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society can't be put on the table, maybe they can achieve some results at the beginning, but after all, they will still fall into the cyclical law of Chinese feudal history, and they can still unite when they fight the world, but once they have achieved something, they will begin to compete for power and profit with each other, and they will be more brutal and greedy than the original rulers." ”

Chu Bai nodded and said, "That's a good thing to say, but now the Manchu court is too busy to take care of itself. In fact, there is no central court in this Qing Dynasty now, and it is the governors of various places who do their own thing, if there is a unified central power, I believe that both the White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society will eventually be suppressed, but now there are no such things, and the provinces are almost using their own resources to deal with the rebels. They have no money, no soldiers, no emperor and no court, they are frightened and demoralized, do you still think that no lucky guy will end up making it? ”

Ling Yun shook his head again and said: "Maybe the situation of the final secession may be different, maybe some people from the rebel army will eventually survive, but at that time, they may surrender to the puppet regime of the Qing court that we have set up, at least nominally." Didn't Major General Bai predict that even if we took control of Jiaqing and established a puppet regime, the situation in China would be divided by the heroes at that time? And, in the end, who survives depends on what we mean, right? ”

Chu Bai laughed, put on his formal coat, and said with a smile: "You are very realistic, yes, it is very likely that the final situation will be like this." ”

Ling Yun brought Chu Bai a certain top hat, although the formal wear of the Tang people actually does not wear hats, but everyone wears hats in this era, so Chu Bai also put a high hat for his own formal outfit, which makes his formal wear actually closer to a tuxedo, and the style is relatively long.

The two walked out of the embassy and consulate, and Chu Bai was active today. As a foreign envoy in Philadelphia, Chu Bai's status is undoubtedly the highest. His actions were eye-catching, and he was the guest of many congressmen and wealthy businessmen, and the dinner of the high society of Philadelphia was proud to have the Minister in attendance.

This fashion is in the morning, naturally not the time to attend the dinner, in fact, today Chu Bai is going to participate in a ribbon-cutting event.

Chu Bai boarded a Mercedes-Benz car, the embassy and consulate had just owned the car two months ago, and of course, in order to maintain the operation of the car, Datang had to bypass more than 20,000 kilometers and build an oil storage tank in Philadelphia. Of course, the appearance of this Mercedes-Benz sedan also means that Datang's automobile industry is officially open to the outside world.

The Continental Congress also received a Mercedes-Benz car, which is the same model as Chu Bai's, which belongs to the luxury business type, and the price in Datang is as high as 4,000 Tang Yuan, and it is expected that the price in the East Coast United States will be as high as 10,000 Tang Yuan. Naturally, this kind of luxury car is not affordable for anyone, but the two major automobile groups of Datang will mainly promote relatively cheap family and business cars to the United States. For example, the FAW Besturn Automobile, which costs 500 Tang Yuan in China, will reach 1,600 to 2,000 Tang Yuan in the United States, although it is still a large amount of money, but for relatively wealthy families, this is already an acceptable price.

Of course, the most terrible thing is that the cars purchased by the Tang people must burn the gasoline refined by the Datang Petroleum Company. Now the Americans don't know what oil is for, and there are no oil fields on the east coast now, but there are potential oil and gas fields in the Appalachian Basin, but the Tang people are not so kind to point out to the Americans and let them develop them themselves. It is true that transporting oil from the West Coast to sell will hinder the promotion of Datang automobiles, but in the future, Datang Industry plans to develop oil from the Gulf Coast, and the cost of transporting it to New England will drop significantly, and it is better than giving people to fish.

Painted with paint, shining with metallic luster, no need for people to push horses, cool cars, so that all Americans envy, this Mercedes-Benz luxury car on the road, there will even be naughty children chasing behind, everything is so novel, the United States, as a country of immigrants, has many similarities with Datang, such as the ability to accept new things is stronger than that of European countries. In particular, the United States is still a market that Datang mainly operates, so Philadelphia people are already a little accustomed to seeing something new and strange in Datang.

Chu Bai arrived by car to a place on the outskirts of Philadelphia, which was also his purpose today, a thermal power plant, where there was only one generator set, and the power supply was pitiful. This Philadelphia No. 1 power plant was naturally invested and built by the Tang people. It is worth mentioning that it is also a power plant wholly owned by the Tang people. Of course, the Tang people did not pay much capital, in fact, only two engineers, a few workers, plus a very simple set of power generation equipment. It was one of the industrial goods exported to the United States, which at a time did not have any awareness of infrastructure and did not know how bad it was for electricity to be in the hands of foreign capital.

However, in later generations, it seems that many countries do not care, Chinese capital in Portugal, Greece, the United Kingdom and other crazy acquisition of local water supply, power supply, telecommunications and other enterprises, while the local government is optimistic, because this can provide employment for the local people enough resources, otherwise they may be doomed without Chinese companies.

In fact, the power plant built in Philadelphia will not provide energy for any industrial enterprise, and Datang will never sell any set of electricity machinery, which has been clearly stipulated in the export product restriction regulations promulgated last year, that is, this power plant will mainly provide electricity for civilian consumers in Philadelphia, and so far, the only consumer terminal can be seen is the same as the light bulb.

When Jensen and others visited Datang, they were shocked by the brilliant lights of Datang that never sleeps, and after calculating an account, it was obvious that electric lamps were more cost-effective than using candles and kerosene lamps, so the Continental Congress officials supported bringing electric lights to Philadelphia. As a result, the only users of the plant now are the offices of the Continental Conference and the street lamps on a few nearby streets.

Obviously, if it were just such a user, the Philadelphia No. 1 Power Plant invested by Tang people might not be able to recover any costs. However, with the promotion of electricity, more and more people will want to install a lamp at home, as long as they need it, the power department, that is, Datang's wholly-owned power company, is charged for installing circuits, electricity bills are charged, light bulbs are charged, and finally they will slowly buy a series of electrical appliances such as electric kettles and electric fans.

Datang's export strategy for electrical products is like this, prohibiting the export of productivity-related electric machinery, while civil appliances are vigorously promoted. (To be continued.) )