In fact, before Bell came, he still planned to take the opportunity to promote his company's products, so he came to China under the criticism of American public opinion, but seeing Li Hui talking like this, he really didn't like it, and subconsciously sneered a few words. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, it is no wonder that Bell was born in England, and Britain was not only defeated in the Yiwei War, but also forced to cede land and pay reparations, and lost its status as the world hegemon; Bell became an American citizen many years ago, and his career and sense of belonging are also in the United States, but the United States is now under tremendous military pressure from China, and anti-China sentiment is rising at home; In addition, Bell is now a capitalist, and his ass has long ceased to sit on the side of scientists, and Li Hui's words belittling capitalists have also aroused his disgust......

The most important thing is that Bell, who thought that he could take this opportunity to open the Chinese market, came to China and found that the telephones used in China were even more advanced than those produced by his own company, which means that not only is there no hope of opening up new markets, but also has to face a terrible competitor in the international market.

Bell's sudden attack made Li Hui's face a little ugly, but he was only slightly stunned, and then smiled again, "For now, China's army and navy strength is indeed the first in the world, but the military expenditure is not as high as Mr. Bell thought, not to mention that compared with your country, even Italy and Austria-Hungary will surpass us." ”

Seeing that the judges didn't believe it one by one, Li Hui shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "Our army officers and soldiers below the platoon level can only get a small allowance, and they have no other income, and the income of middle and senior officers is not high, which is completely different from the Western army." As for the navy, although the salary is much higher than that of the army, it is not comparable to that of the West, and we can only rank eighth in the world in terms of personnel size, so the expenses are also limited. Our Wehrmacht is fighting for the sake of our country and not for aggression and expansion like Western armies, so they can maintain high morale in the face of much lower material conditions than their Western counterparts, as has been proven in the Yiwei War......"

"Therefore, our military spending is not high at all, the proportion of fiscal revenue is the world average, and if it is apportioned according to the population, it is the smallest in the world, how can the burden on the civilian population be high?" Li Hui spread his hands and said with a smile, "And the task of our Chinese army is not only to defend the country, they also have the obligation to participate in emergency rescue and disaster relief and other obligations to protect the safety of people's lives and property, so our people actually hope that the army will be more!" ”

The judges looked at each other, and these words really subverted their cognition, but these situations are all open to the public, and it is not difficult to understand if they have a heart, so everyone did not continue to ask, only Bell sarcastically said that the Chinese army "defended the country to India and Canada, but it is really peace-loving." ”。

Li Hui did not carefully defend this, after all, all the experts and scholars present were experts and scholars rather than dignitaries from various countries, and he only said that those were "debt collections", including the forced relocation of Malays, Javanese and Filipinos (the cleanup was not as thorough as that of Malays and Javanese, about one-third of the population remained, but they all had more or less Chinese ancestry). It is also because of the grave sins he committed against the Chinese in history, as long as it is a country and nation friendly to China, China will definitely be friendly to them. Even in countries that have had deep hatreds in the past, as long as they have a good attitude of admitting their sins, the Momen and the Chinese people are willing to be lenient with others, such as France, Spain, and Portugal, and don't they settle their historical grievances peacefully?

"I wonder how China and Russia can be written off?" When Mendeleev, the discoverer of the periodic law, heard this, he couldn't help but ask Li Hui, although his relationship with the tsarist government was very poor, Mendeleev still didn't want Tsarist Russia to really meet China, it would definitely be a disaster!

"As long as your government agrees to restore the border between the two sides to the state it was at the time of the signing of the Treaty of Nebuchu, then the two countries can immediately establish formal diplomatic relations, and the old enmity will be eradicated." Li Hui replied concisely but with a serious face, "But our patience is limited, and we can't wait forever......"

Mendeleev's face darkened, he knew that the tsarist regime was so greedy for land that it was impossible to expect them to make concessions, and it would be difficult for Russia and China to inevitably have a big war in the future.

Although he had not been in China for a few years, Mendeleev had already been deeply impressed by the incorruptible and efficient government and vibrant people of the Chinese Republic, and compared with the mediocre tsars, incompetent nobles, corrupt officials and numb people in the country, Mendeleev could not see even the slightest hope of victory, which made him secretly determined, even if he was arrested for this, he would make more anti-war propaganda after returning home, hoping to stop this senseless war that would only bleed Russian youth in vain.

Bell originally wanted to ask whether reconciliation between China and the United States was possible, but after listening to this question and answer, he immediately understood that there was no hope at all, although the territory of China forcibly occupied by Tsarist Russia was very large, but from the perspective of the capitalists, Bell caused far less losses than the United States sold opium and excluded China at home, and the benefits that could be obtained by defeating the United States were far from being comparable to those of the bitter and barren Siberia. In this case, it is obviously even more impossible for China, which even Tsarist Russia will not let go, to let go of the United States, so there is no need to ask this question.

However, after completely treating China as an enemy country, Bell was more active in provoking, if it wasn't for the fact that this guy was invited by himself, Li Hui couldn't help but drive people out, and he also remembered the lesson, and never invited people from hostile countries to visit China in the future, or Pasteur was right, although science has no borders, but scientists have their own country!

"It's better to be Nightingale, who opposes our religious policy, and directly refuses my invitation, which is much cuter than this scheming old man." , Li Hui thought with some chagrin, and was about to find an excuse to leave, but suddenly his heart moved, "By the way, it's going to be announced anyway, so it's better to release this big news now, even if Bell continues to find fault, others are not in the mood to listen to him beep, right?" ”

Hearing Li Hui say that after the prime minister took over, he had time to do some scientific research after he relieved most of his government affairs, and the judges suddenly became interested and asked what topic they were studying, although Li Hui's scientific research achievements so far are not very many, but each of them is enough to affect the world, no wonder they are so curious. But even with psychological preparation, Li Hui's words still made everyone present change their faces! (To be continued.) )