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The night was already very deep, and the entire Roman Villa was quiet, only the dim light in Zhu Jishi's bedroom was still shining. Madame Durán was already asleep, with a satisfied smile on her bewitching face, a thin blanket covering her naked body, and most of her breasts were exposed, gently undulating and exuding a mature and seductive aura.

Zhu Jishi, who has already enjoyed bright colors, has turned a blind eye to such a stunner, although the twenty-five-year-old is at his most energetic, but he can't use it all on women. He was now meticulously writing his letter to Emperor Daoguang. It has been more than nine months since I came to this era, and I already have some fame, wealth, and color, and I am destined to get more in the future. However, Zhu Jishi thinks that he is still a person who has a sense of responsibility for the country and the nation, and it is time to do something for the country and the nation.

But Zhu Jishi still did not think about overthrowing the Manchu dynasty. It's not because he loves this feudal dynasty, in fact, until now, he has not recognized the Qing Kingdom as his motherland. But rebellion is not as easy as it is said in online novels, at least for a doctor who has passed through the 21st century, there is really a feeling of no way to start. Therefore, Zhu Jishi still decided to use his own methods, to help Chinese understand shijie, and to use the method of modern education to slowly and steadily change the ancient and closed China.

“…… The region where the Qing state was located was called the Far East by the Western powers, meaning the Far East. In fact, the homeland of the two Western powers, England and France, was indeed very far away from the Qing Kingdom, and they had to bypass the African continent and cross the Indian Ocean before they could enter the South China Sea, that is, the sea south of Guangdong, with no less than twenty or thirty thousand miles in between. And such a long distance is the most protective of the security of the Qing State, whether it is England or France, it is currently unable to send more than tens of thousands of troops to the Far East. Even the Russian Empire, a great power bordering the Qing state on land, did not maintain a large army in the Far East. Therefore, in the short term, the Western powers did not have much malice towards the Qing State, which was a rare opportunity period for the Qing State to learn Western military and science, because Westerners also knew the strategy of distant friendship and close attack, and they were still willing to engage in friendly exchanges with the Qing State that was far away and temporarily unable to annex it.

In contrast, the situation in the Ottoman Empire and India, which were closer to Europe, was extremely dangerous. The Ottoman Empire was a large empire established by the Turkic people who migrated westward, embraced Islam, and at its most powerful, it once occupied a large territory in Southeast Europe, and the territory spanned Europe, Asia and Africa, which was a serious threat to European Christian civilization. In 1683, it also besieged Vienna, the capital of Austria, a European power, but because the Western powers changed their laws and tried to become stronger, and the Ottoman Empire blindly followed the old ways, the national strength declined, and it was repeatedly defeated by the European powers Austria and Russia, and the territory of southeastern Europe was lost one after another, but it was still a Western power. Moreover, since more than 100 years ago, the Ottoman Empire has also begun reforms aimed at enriching the country and strengthening the army, and has undergone three reforms so far. The third reform, led by Sultan Mahmud II, is still underway. Although the Ottoman Empire's reforms were not successful, the country was still a barrier to the European powers' expansion into the East, and its country had no ill will towards the Qing state. If the Qing did not have the idea of further deepening relations with the British and French powers, they might as well have equal relations with the Ottoman Empire......

The situation in India was even more dangerous than that of the Ottoman Empire, where the Mughal dynasty, founded by the descendants of Timur the Cripple, had already existed in name only. In the Battle of Buxal in 1764, the 60,000 troops of the Mughal Emperor Alam Shah were defeated by the 7,000 troops of the British East India Company (including 857 Europeans), and the Mughal dynasty became a vassal of the British East India Company. By 1818, the Kingdom of Mysore, a princely state in South India, and the League of Maratha States, which had emerged in North and Central India after the Mughal Empire, fought a decades-long war with the British East India Company, and by 1818 the two countries had been defeated. Much of India fell to the East India Company, leaving only the Sikh Empire in northwestern India to remain independent, and the country was expected to be the next target of the British East India Company's attack. Before the fall of the Sikh Empire, the security of the Qing Kingdom was still quite guaranteed, but the Sikh Empire could not last long......"

Zhu Jishi took a sip of the coffee that had been cold for a short time, and looked intently at this letter that was destined to go down in history, as if he saw the changes that would take place in the closed and backward Qing Empire because of his own efforts. Such a change may be quite slow and small, but the distance between China and the West determines the relationship between the two sides. As long as China has a certain ability to defend itself, the West will not regard China as India's second - although Zhu Jishi does not know much about European history, he still knows the approximate dates of the two Opium Wars, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

In his view, history has left China with a lot of opportunities for reform, with a gap of more than 10 years between the two Opium Wars, another 10 years between the Second Opium War and the Sino-French War, and nearly 20 years between the Sino-French War and the Sino-Japanese War. If China can really conscientiously study the West, even if it follows the line of "learning from the West for the body and learning from the West for use," relying on China's national strength and resources, it will not be difficult at all to build a new-style army of 100,000 or 200,000 people by the time of the First Sino-Japanese War, and to have a heavy industry and military industry that can meet the operational needs of the 200,000-style army, and to cultivate a contingent of bureaucrats who have a basic understanding of the West and a fairly basic foundation in Western studies. This kind of thing can be done by the Ottomans, Japan, and even Egypt, let alone the Great China? Thinking of this, Zhu Jishi seemed to have found a new goal in life, and he settled down and continued to write down his letters.

“…… Because of this, the Qing State should seize its advantageous position and opportunity to carry out some necessary reforms, which can follow the example of the Ottoman Empire, and should study European science and military affairs, establish a European-style army, and open factories that can produce European-style munitions as the goal of reform. The specific steps can be found in the reforms carried out by the Ottomans, Egyptians and the princely states of India. Before these reforms can be carried out, the most important thing is to really understand the West and understand the shijie of the day, so it is especially necessary to send officials to visit European powers such as England, France, Russia, and Germany. At the same time, envoys can also be sent to visit India, Ottomans, Egypt, and other relatively backward countries to inspect their reform experience.

After getting to know the West, they can selectively carry out diplomacy, send ministers to the capitals of the Western powers, send students to the West, hire Western military and scientific and technological talents, and set up new schools in China or Hong Kong to teach Western studies to cultivate talents who are proficient in Western studies.

In short, today's shijie is already a list of powerful countries, England, France, Russia, Germany, Spain, the United States, Ottomans and other countries are not under the Qing State, and the strength of the navy and army is still above the Qing State. Therefore, it is no longer possible to regard itself as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire and regard the great powers as barbarian states...... However, the national situation of the Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the point of no return, and the West should neither be ignored, nor should it be feared like a tiger and a wolf. Rather, they should learn from their strengths, make peace with them and trade with them, and strive to consolidate Qing hegemony in the Far East.

——Member of the Royal Society of England, member of the French Academy of Sciences, Baron Cong, and a relict of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jishi, to the Qing Emperor Aixin Jueluo. Min Ning Bixia. ”

Zhu Jishi put down the pen in his hand, looked at the payment of zuihou in the letter, and took a breath gently. He claimed to be the remnant of the Ming Dynasty, and called Daoguang by his name in the letter. These two points alone will probably make Emperor Daoguang angry enough, right? But even if he shouted in the letter to Emperor Daoguang Long live, he was willing to listen to his own suggestions and carry out reforms? It is impossible for China's reform to be promoted by a letter to the emperor, and he does not intend to be the kowtow worm to the Daoguang Emperor. Running Jishi University well and publishing a few more books to let China know more about the West is enough to be worthy of its own crossing.