"Your Majesty, the envoy of the Satsuma Domain has arrived in Beijing." Liu Xiaoyu reported to Lin Hong, and Liu Xiaoyu temporarily became Lin Hong's personal secretary, and Lin Hong was also happy to be idle.

"Got it, let them take them to the Summer Palace."

This is the colonial minister who walked in and said to Lin Hong, "Your Majesty." The Royal Army in North America has expanded to seven divisions, with three more colonial divisions still being recruited. East Africa has now been expanded by three colonial army divisions, with plans to recruit two more divisions. He said that they were all ordinary troops recruited according to the non-systematic recruitment process, and there were no ordinary troops from the homeland in the North American garrison except for a few officers, and the main consideration was to prevent the soldiers from leaving their homes and reducing their combat effectiveness. Including in East Africa, colonial divisions composed of local people have also begun to be formed, although these colonial divisions can only be regarded as B divisions or even worse, but this is enough, there is no strong country in East Africa, and Ethiopia after the Kingdom of Abyssinian is still divided,

From the middle of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century, Ethiopia was in turmoil and fighting, known as the "era of princely strife". By 1889, King Menelik II of Shoa would be emperor and unify the country, building Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and laying the boundaries of modern Ethiopia. However, he estimated that he would not be able to unify in the future, because the empire had officially entered the Kingdom of Abyssinia and occupied the Massawa region, using the old methods to win over one faction and suppress the other, and carry out all-round cultural, political, economic, and military infiltration of Ethiopia.

"In addition, Your Majesty, we have successfully occupied the Maldives and the Andaman Islands. As soon as the ports and fortifications on the island of Male are completed, our shipping routes in the Indian Ocean will be safe, and they will no longer be in the hands of the British. However, we in the Andaman have now established a stronghold near Port Blair, and the extreme xenophobic resistance of the local natives is strong. ”

"Very good job, immediately let the Colonial Department transfer materials for construction."

"Your Majesty."

The Maldives has always been a sovereign country except for a brief occupation by Portugal in the 16th century. Historically, in the mid-50s of the 20th century, it became a British protectorate. But now the Chinese Empire has taken the lead in taking Male. The Maldives was very important to deal with the empire's East African colonies and the shipping routes in the Indian Ocean, where supply ships had to go to the British colonies in India for multiple supplies to reach East Africa, but now the Chinese Empire occupies the Maldives, which can greatly improve the development efficiency of the East African colonies and ensure the trade routes of the empire's merchant ships in the Indian Ocean.

"Wait, go and inform the General Staff Headquarters, you can implement the plan to form an Indian Ocean Admiralty." ――

In the solemn Qinzheng Hall (known as Renshou Hall at the time of Cixi) in the Summer Palace, he dragged his old body and saluted Lin Hong, who was sitting high on the throne, according to the etiquette of Chinese courtiers to meet the king.

In addition to his apprehension at meeting the Chinese emperor, he was also jealous of the wealth of the Chinese. The Summer Palace is said to have been originally built by the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong, and was renamed the Summer Palace after the Chinese Emperor took over Beijing. The Summer Palace is just one of the three mountains and five gardens in Beijing, and the majestic Forbidden City is not known what it looks like.

It's just that when Guangxiang looked up at Lin Hong, he had another thought in his heart - this emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty not only has the bearing of a big country, but also has the appearance of a heavenly man.

It cannot be denied that Lin Hong has basically never seen a man who looks better than himself in this world, even if he is a little handsome, but in terms of bearing and demeanor, compared to the noble Lin Hong, it is far behind.

"The retainers of the Shimazu family of the Shimazu family transferred to Guangxiang to meet the emperor of the mighty Heavenly Empire."

At this time, it is already the era of world civilization, and naturally there will be no absurd words such as the king of the country of the country of the year of the year and the king of the country of After all, he didn't dare.

Lin Hong didn't make any movements, nor did he have any expression, so he said indifferently: "Get up." ”

Guangxiang stood up cautiously and stood respectfully beside him.

"Dispatch, it's been nearly half a year since you came to the Central Plains, and I don't know how you feel about my empire." , Although Lin Hong's words were a little out of order, after all, an emperor of a big country like him asked about the advantages of Junyi like showing off, but with his majestic appearance, it seemed very heartbreaking.

The dispatch office Guangxiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty governs the territory of thousands of miles, and the ministers should not think about the face of the saint, but it is not an exaggeration to look at the rich people of the Heavenly Empire, which is really a paradise on earth, but the more you look at the rich ministers of the Heavenly Empire, the more heartache is felt by the tens of millions of people in this country, so you have to be embarrassed to see you, and I hope that Your Majesty Haihan will tolerate it." Saying that, he learned the way of the Chinese and made a deep gesture.

Lin Hong showed a smile and said, "When did the well-being of tens of millions of people fall on the heads of your Satsuma Domain and Shimazu Qixing, I wonder if the Edo Shogunate knows about this?" ”

Although He Muping could not hear the general meaning of his words, he reproached them for overstepping the system and directly meeting the emperor of the Celestial Empire in the name of local forces, and for the Chinese to write a book, especially the Chinese rituals he now understands, political overstepping is a big mistake, and it was okay a few years ago, but just a month ago, the shogunate's letter of vassal had been sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and China also recognized the status of a vassal state of Riben.

But before he could think of any excuses, Lin Hong waved his hand again and said, "However, your benevolent and filial piety kings have not officially declared themselves to me, by the way, the shogunate has a good attitude but actually refuses to sign a protection treaty with the empire, so I don't care about your bad things." ”

The director Guangxiang was overjoyed, and Lin Hong's statement meant that he was very dissatisfied with the current authorities in front of the stage, and the reason was that the company did not pay tribute to China. He thinks he knows Chinese history and thinks that Chinese has an extraordinary attachment to face, and now that the emperor of Rimoto has brushed the face of the Chinese emperor, then he has a lot to do.

"What Your Majesty said is very true, Riben and the Kingdom are in the same lineage, and they have been friendly for generations. I have benefited from the blessings and rain of the Celestial Empire. Now that the Tokugawa family is perverse, they do not think about cultivating virtue, and they are tyrannical and suppress loyalty, isn't it a move of anger and resentment? The so-called emperor of the Ri is even more noble to the emperor of the Heavenly Dynasty, expelling angels, Tokugawa Iekei children don't know how to respect, and the ministers and the head of the family are very angry in their hearts. However, my Satsuma Domain is only a corner of the Ansaikaido, the country is small and lonely, but the Tokugawa family sits on a land of millions of stones, and there are stubborn people guarding it. My Shimazu family can not do justice, and the starry night sighs and mourns. I implore His Majesty the Emperor of China to have mercy on his kindness, to show the loyalty and justice of the Shimazu family, and to give me the gift of nectar, so that he will sweep away the filth for the Great Emperor, and restore the stability and peace of the country. "The investigation center Guangxiang is impassioned, and has the argumentative power of Su Qin and Zhang Yi.

The corners of Lin Hong's mouth twitched, patted the armrest of his dragon chair, and said, "Why does this sound so familiar?" Oh, I remember, a year ago, an elder of the Choshu Domain, the man named Zhou Bu Masanosuke, also told me the same thing, hehe, it's exactly the same. ”

A cold sweat fell from his head, of course he knew that Zhou Buzheng of the Choshu Domain had come to China and begged Lin Hong for help, and it was the success of Zhou Bu Masanosuke's request for help that caused the Choshu Domain to achieve rapid development in just one year, and also made the Shimazu family firm in their determination to get support from China.

Lin Hong smiled leisurely again, and said: "This Changzhou Domain said that he would be loyal to me, and then he would be a vassal to my court, and now you Satsuma Domain also said the same, I don't know who I should believe?" ”

He stretched out his finger and said, "Actually, not only Choshu and Satsuma, Tosa and Hizen have all come to the Central Plains for help, and what they said basically means the same thing, I am also entangled, you all say that your head of the family has a heroic appearance, but I have never seen it, why should I believe you?" ”

Of course, Lin Hong still has a fierce news that has not been exposed, and the competition for the governor of the Satsuma Domain after the Satsuma Domain has almost revolved around the entire period of the Shogunate Movement, although the Satsuma Domain is considered to be the strongest one in the Shogunate faction, but the long-lasting civil strife makes people doubt that the Satsuma Domain can play the role that Lin Hong wants in the reform of the Riben. And in front of him, Lin Hong has also known him for a long time. This patriarch, who devoted all his efforts to the reform of the Satsuma Domain, stopped himself from all reform policies that violated the shogunate's laws and regulations in order to save Shimazu Saiko, and finally died of seppuku. However, after his death, his descendants were also involved in the decades-long struggle between the Shimazu family, Saibin and Tadakyo.

Actually, Lin Hong doesn't care much about how it is now. The whole country is definitely not able to surpass the strength of a military region in China, and there is still no relatively new army in China, even if the Maori family bought a batch of arms from him, but in terms of organizational form and army training, it still has strong feudal army characteristics. What's more, the economic strength of a country in this country is not even comparable to the economy of a province that has just been incorporated into the rule in the north, and it is unable to support advanced troops and logistics, and Lin Hong is not too interested in this region. Lacking resources, even the food needs of the country's own people are sometimes not satisfied, and as for the special products of the riben, they are nothing more than sugar, rice, and silk. The production of these things in China is larger, and there is no great need for the import of RIBEN, so RIBEN has gloriously become a tasteless and discarded chicken rib area in front of Lin Hong. But in order to guard against the habit of history, what Lin Hong has to do is to prevent the unification of Riben, Lin Hong wants the future Riben to be the emperor of Riben himself, the daimyo continues to be retained, and the newspaper can't be retained Just like Lan Fang, he chooses the prime minister, and the financial regulation empire controls the internal domain of the empire. This is also the reason why Lin Hong asked Emperor Rimoto to go to the Emperor to give him the title of King of the Kingdom of Rimoto. RI himself called the emperor of nearly a thousand years, so let them continue to call, and then they will be loyal to Lin Hong, and Lin Hong, the emperor of the kingdom, will be the sustenance of the Jing God of the people of RI.

It is not a loss that the director of Guangxiang is the number one famous minister in the history of RI, and after wiping the sweat, he introduced the advantages of the Satsuma Domain to Lin Hong.

Satsuma has a geographical advantage that no other country has, it is located in the southernmost part of Rihon, but also the southernmost point of Kyushu Island, on the busy shipping routes, most of the advanced civilization and technology from the West, most of them were imported from this area of Satsuma. And it is located in the southwest corner, so that Satsuma can be regarded as backed by natural danger and will not encounter a situation of being surrounded on all sides.

Because of its geographical superiority, the Satsuma clan was more civilized than the daimyo of the Honkoku provinces, and the previous head of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Shigehiro, was a master of Rangaku (Dutch culture became Rangaku after the spread of Confucianism). The people of the Satsuma clan were even more advanced in their thinking, and they were easy to accept new things, which was conducive to the reform process.

After saying all this, Guangxiang knelt down again and begged: "Your Majesty, the life and death of the Riben are imminent, please Your Majesty, for the sake of the Chinese vassal state in this generation, and do not hesitate to help and save the Riben from the time of decline!" ”

In the end, Guangxiang did not receive official support from the Chinese zhengfu, but received some financial support from the Chinese emperor. This was also a strategy of Hayashi Hong, supporting some daimyo to start challenging the Tokugawa shogunate, and trying to avoid personally intervening in it, that is, engaging in proxy wars.

However, at this time, Lin Hong didn't have much effort to pay attention to the riben that was still a pool of stagnant water. He has now been quiet in the gentle country of the future queen.