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smiled: "The afterlife is terrible, the afterlife is terrifying." ”

Yi Kuang also nodded and smiled without saying a word.

Zaifeng, who was sitting on the dragon chair, and several young nobles beside him, had a flush on their faces, and looked at Yang Chao with longing eyes, as if they had seen a baby, and they were a little impatient.

I want to hear it: "Yang Aiqing, don't sell Guanzi, let's talk about what kind of great power strategy I should have in the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Zaifeng spoke, Yang Chao immediately bowed, and then continued to speak.

"My Great Qing Kingdom has stood in the East for 300 years, until the 20th year of Daoguang, the British came from afar with strong ships and cannons, and my Great Qing Kingdom was invincible.

When these shameful scars were revealed, a group of people looked embarrassed one by one, but it was a fact.

"After that, my country was spared the danger of the destruction of the country and the division of the family. With China's current national strength, it should be followed by the law of razing and razing. However, it should be extended, and the world's razor should be used to push foreign affairs out of the country. ”

Yang Chao raised his head, and then said, "There are three ministers." ”

"First, distinguish between friend and foe; As an adult, what country does my country think is the heart of our country? ”

Some people replied that Russia was the worst offender, some said that Germany was the most vicious, and some said that Britain was the most powerful and the most difficult to deal with.

Yang Chao shook his head: "It's all wrong, it's Japan." ”

Everyone wonders, although Japan defeated our Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War, but Japan is a small country, how can it compare with Britain, Germany and Russia?

Yang Chao said: "Listed as an adult, prince, please see." Britain is still big enough, and there have been few moves to open up the territory in the past hundred years, and British monarchs and ministers have all taken it as a priority. The same is true for France. Although Germany is ambitious, it is thousands of miles away from China, and it is beyond its strength. Only Russia and Japan are close to our Qing Dynasty, and they are a big trouble for their henchmen. Russia has a vast land and resources, but Germany has it in its way. Japan is backed by Britain and surrounded by water without a strong enemy, and is bent on development and seeking to dominate the East. I can control Russia in the Qing Dynasty and Britain in the Qing Dynasty, but who should I control Japan? ”

"The general trend of the world, the strife of the nations, I am strong, he is weak, and he is strong, I am weak. Japan's Meiji Restoration was thriving, and it was the most powerful enemy. If I don't want to forge ahead in the Qing Dynasty, I will be complacent, and in time, whoever destroys my Qing Dynasty will be Japan! ”

As soon as they heard Yang Chao's assertion that the Qing Dynasty would be destroyed by Japan, everyone's faces became gloomy and uncomfortable.

Yang Chao's words changed: "But my emperor succeeded to the throne, swept away Shen Ke, and the trend of decadence waved!" ”

Yang Chao slapped Feng's ass again, and the faces of the group of Eight Banners and Zaifeng were a little better.

Yang Chao continued: "The emperor is enlightened, and he has been listed as a minister to run foreign affairs and develop industry and commerce, which has already achieved a little success. The minister dared to assert that in less than ten years, even the British Empire would not dare to underestimate our country. ”

Zhang Zhidong and other Westernists also had some comfort.

Yang Chao continued: "However, there are many major events in my country, and every time I do things, I am quite restricted. Therefore, unless we adhere to a consistent strategy and do our best to implement it, we can rise to the east and dominate the world, otherwise we may have the disaster of destroying the country and extinction. ”

Everyone was overjoyed and surprised, and many people secretly hated how Yang Chao was surprised, sometimes singing high-profile bullishness, but pessimistic and down.

Yang Chao said again: "The same is true of the European continent. Before Germany, Britain was the hegemon of the sea, France was the hegemon of the land, and Germany was only a small country, and a hundred years ago, it was divided by the French Emperor Bonaparte to occupy most of the country. The legal person was arrogant and did not want to continue to forge ahead, and in less than a hundred years he was defeated and humiliated, and the Bonaparte clan was also held in front of the battle by the Germans. ”

"I should learn from France's past and save it for self-revival. The competition of nations depends on nothing more than a national strength, what is the national strength, the strength of the army and the strength of the horses is the national strength, the prosperity of all industries is the national strength, and the dense population is also the national strength. ”

"There are many drawbacks in the military system of our Great Qing Dynasty, and it is easy to get rid of them. I have withered in the Qing Dynasty, and it is difficult to prosper. People are the foundation of my Qing Dynasty, and I look at the world, and there are no people who have three of the countries of my Qing Dynasty. ”

China has a lot of people, and this is the capital.

"If I use the Qing Dynasty to control the raze, the United Kingdom to control Russia, and the United States to control Japan, we can report ten years of peace. But if you don't prosper industry and commerce, and don't strengthen all industries, what will happen in ten years? ”

After speaking, Yang Chao was silent for a long time, while the others thought and waited for Yang Chao to speak.

"The three articles of the minister: distinguish between the enemy and me, reform the malpractice, and prosper the industry!"

After speaking, Yang Chao bowed to the end: "The minister implores my emperor to set a national policy and prosper all industries!" ”

Zaifeng understood what Yang Chao wanted at this time, he had been tossing for so long, and he was alarmist, he originally wanted him to promulgate a great power strategy, but the state affairs are getting hard, and now in this world, if you want to do this, he wants to do that, what to do first, he is confused, and he can't find a clue.

Zhang Zhidong also understood that Yang Chao wanted Zaifeng to express his position, not to swim between the Westernists and the diehards, and it was time to make a decision, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao and the royalists had returned, this is a group of reformers, so that the balance between the Westernists, the reformers and the diehards has been broken.

The Westernists and the royalists can unite to suppress the diehards, and they can prosper and eliminate the disadvantages.

Zhang Zhidong couldn't help but praise Yang Chao's good timing, as an old courtier with the world in mind, he felt that he had to stand up at this time.

So Zhang Zhidong also stood up: "The old minister also affirmed that the emperor issued an edict to set national policies to encourage the people and encourage the people." ”

Most of the ministers present here are Western-style ministers, and the die-hard ministers are mainly in the local area, so most of the people present support it, but the ones who finally stood up are Yang Chao and Zhang Zhidong, and the others are wavering and will not come out easily.

Zaifeng didn't make a decision so easily, his brother Guangxu was passionate, but the result was not that he died unknowingly, the dignified emperor, and finally died tragically at the head of the bandits, why bother.

Zaifeng waved his hand: "Let's listen to Yang Aiqing first." ”

Yang Chao sighed secretly in his heart, these children of the Eight Banners, they really have no courage, hundreds of years of glory and wealth have long eroded their pioneering and enterprising spirit, and they are not as good as those barbarian predecessors who came out of the deep mountains and old forests and played with Daming with sabers and bows and arrows.

But Yang Chao could only continue: "From the perspective of the ministers, my Qing Dynasty Ding is prosperous and unbeatable in the world, but all industries are not prosperous. It is the first priority to prosper all industries. The European continent and the countries of the day have national strategies and major policies for the development of the industry.

The British had a land enclosure movement, which left the peasants without land to cultivate, and did not allow them to wander around the cities. Heavy taxes forced the Indians to not produce homespun cloth and provided them with a market. The Americans industrialized and oppressed the workers on a large scale, and our Chinese workers are an example. The Japanese prospered, and the emperor forced official women to work in factories, and even sent women of all sizes to Nanyang as prostitutes, so as to get one or two skin and meat money to set up an industry! ”

Take the Japanese as an example, these people feel the most, and what has stimulated them the most over the years is not the fact that Japan defeated the Qing Dynasty with a small land.

At this time, when I heard that the Japanese sent all the official women into the factory in order to develop the industry, and even let the women of their own country be prostitutes, this confirmed that these officials and magnates who were used to fine clothes and food were deeply stimulated.

Zhang Zhidong frowned and asked, "Is what Lord Yang said true?" No exaggeration? ”

If the Japanese strategy was so ruthless, then Zhang Zhidong really underestimated the Japanese before.

Yang Chao smiled bitterly: "Lord Zhang said that he laughed, in front of the emperor, in front of the lords and princes, how dare you talk nonsense." All the true and false adults just go to Nanyang to inquire. Not to mention Nanyang, in the Tianjin Japanese lease, there are also smoke houses everywhere, everywhere hook fences, most of them are Japanese women, why do you come? ”

Zai Zhen whispered a few words in front of Zaifeng at this time, Zaifeng's face has changed, where do they want to get the determination of the Japanese to industrialize, let alone them, all Chinese can't imagine that the Japanese will do so crazy. Chinese people are tired of working overtime, and if their wages are less, they will shout and shout and kill, and they will make a revolution. Don't you know that without revolution after revolution and a few years of hard life in a down-to-earth manner, good days will come. Fight and kill, and in the end, you will only lick your face and go to Japan to buy a rice cooker.

Just when these people were still shocked, Yang Chao spoke again: "In the opinion of the minister, whether it is an elite soldier or a prosperous industry, the most core person should be to run a railway." Running railways was the first priority of the Qing Dynasty. The emperor, listed as an adult, the prince, please see. ”

Yang Chao flipped over the world map at this time, and it was still a world map, but it was not a geographical map, but a railway map, a railway layout map of various countries.

"Railways are the weapons of the world, and the heavy weapons of a great country! Today, among the nations, the United States has the widest railroad. Secondly, the British Empire. Again, Russia. Again, France too. It can be said that if the national strength is strong, the railway will be wide, and if the railway is wide, the national strength will be strong, and they complement each other. And if the land is connected by rail, then the goods are accessible, and all industries are prosperous, so that all countries take railways as the first priority. ”

"This is Japan's railway!"

I turned another page, this time by country, and the first one was Japan.

"Although Japan is a small country, after the Meiji Restoration, the railroad was overhauled, and in just over 30 years, there were more than 10,000 miles of railway. Cities of all sizes in the country are connected by railways, and if there is something happening in one side, all parties will be linked. However, the vast land and large number of people in our country are not as dense and vast as the Japanese railways. The United States runs the railroad, and the President of the United States issued an edict that the hundreds of miles on both sides of the railroad will be owned by the railroad company. ”

Taking the United States and Japan as an example, it is very convincing, everyone nodded yes, especially a few little princes, they went around the outside world, not to mention the railway network in the West, the railway network in Japan has also been completed, and the emperor's ears kept explaining, proving that what Yang Chao said was true.

Then Yang Chao turned another page: "This is the layout map of my Qing Dynasty railway drawn by the minister. Four vertical and four horizontal, with the railway network will be connected to the Qing provincial capital. If there is something going on in Beijing, the whole country will be able to arrive within 10 days. This is the most beneficial way to protect the country and develop the industry. ”

Seeing the land of the Qing Dynasty and the dense railway network on it, which was exactly the same as the railways of various countries that they had just seen, everyone couldn't help but stand up and gather around to watch.