After enjoying the athletes' competition in the morning, Lin Hong hurried to the National Assembly Building in the afternoon, preparing to observe the "Law on the Protection of Special Groups" that will be voted on in the afternoon.

"Do the lawmakers have anything to think of this law?" The emperor and the prime minister sat on the royal train, Lin Hong asked.

"Your Majesty, at present, most of the parliamentarians still support this law, but the differences among the parliamentarians are also obvious, even the ministers of the Conservative Party have a small number of people who believe that the country, well, these special groups of people should have their relatives or support, and the state does not need to put a lot of financial funds on them, after all, the current national situation shows that the relief funds sent out will not necessarily be used on them." Chen Kejie replied.

"Is that your opinion? It's still everyone's opinion. ”

"The minister thinks that in fact, this law is very perfect, and the rules and regulations are very carefully written, and the parliamentarians may not have carefully understood the law before there will be disagreements, and the speaker is forced to invite you to attend."

"Oh, I'll talk about it myself in the afternoon." Lin Hong is actually quite happy that the political consciousness of the Congress is getting higher and higher, like the laws that Lin Hong got from the system in the past, they are basically all passed in the Congress, and the Congress is like a rubber stamp.

"By the way, what's going on in Japan? Are you done fighting? ”

"Your Majesty, the current situation in Japan is under the control of Okubo and others, Saigo Takamori has cleared the entire territory of Honshu Island, and I believe that he will soon enter Kyushu, and the prime minister (Japan is a designated internal vassal country, and the prime minister of the internal vassal country is generally called the prime minister different from the imperial prime minister) Okubo Toshitsu called to hope that His Majesty will go to Japan to be crowned king of Japan when Japan is unified, so as to boost the hearts of the people."

"Are you sure that everyone in Japan wants me to be crowned now? Is there no objection in Japan? Is there any international perception? ”

"Your Majesty, the propaganda department of the empire has not done nothing in recent years, and now the atmosphere in Japan is afraid that it only agrees with you, and you have set this crown. Internationally, France is just a normal diplomatic protest, which probably means that we think that we are too ugly, and the British are more troublesome, and they insist that there should be Japanese to be the ruler of Japan. ”

"Aren't they also lords of Hanover before, tell them that the king of Japan is only a part-time job, and I myself will not interfere too much in Japan's internal affairs."

"Your Majesty, the biggest demand of Britain and France is that Japan can open up the country after the war, allow British and French goods to enter Japan, and also want Japan's extraterritoriality and so on."

"How's the HSBC in Japan doing?"

"Your Majesty, HSBC now has the right to mint and issue Japanese currency, which can basically be said to be the central bank of Japan."

"Very well, as long as you have a firm grasp of Japan's finances, you don't have to be afraid of the so-called founding of the country in the West. After I was crowned King of Japan, I promised Britain and France to open the three ports of Nagasaki, Edo, and Yokohama. ”

Historically, foreign powers opened banks in China and invaded China with Chinese money, which is the sadness of losing financial autonomy. After a while, the prime minister in the carriage said: "Your Majesty, the Shimazu and Choshu domains are ready to borrow money from Britain to build railways, steel mills, arsenals, and shipyards with customs mortgages. It looks like it's going to work hard. Of course, Okubo and others thought that the British were weasels giving New Year's greetings to the old hens, and that the British were not well-intentioned, but Lin Hong believed that the purpose of the British was likely to be to support a potential opponent for the empire - this seemed impossible! Although Japan's national strength is more than ten times worse than that of the Empire, Japan is an island nation after all, and as long as it has a fleet strong enough to threaten the coast of the Empire, it can pose a threat to the empire's economy. Like Britain, the empire is now facing the same predicament as Britain in the future, there are too many colonies, and the navy is also too extensive, and the current era is the time for the rapid development of naval technology. Often, new warships are already behind before they are launched, so in recent years the development of the Imperial Navy has begun to slow down, and it is ready for the next major development of technological innovation. The British really played a good game! However, he has never relaxed his work with Japan over the years, and the pro-China forces in Japan are still far greater than those of the pro-British faction. Moreover, a number of famous figures in history such as Okubo Ritsu were basically firmly grasped by Lin Hong's brainwashing and pyramid scheme-style education, and the British people's abacus was afraid that it would fail.

"It's too late to think of industrialization now!"

"Yes, if it weren't for Your Majesty's initial integration of Asian tariff industries, Japan might not have been your loyal hound."

Lin Hong suddenly laughed, "It's good if you know!" As he spoke, he added to his tone, "Japan's geographical location is very important, and its people are brave, with a population of nearly 30 million, it is not easy to annex it, and it is unlikely that it will become a second Korea." As a result, they can only try to control the economy of their country. Make it forever dependent on the Empire. That's the purpose of my trip to Japan! ”

"I have painstakingly planned that Japan would not have the best industrial and financial system, and that its industries should be dependent on the empire. Its finances should be controlled by the Empire, its customs should be integrated with the Imperial Customs, and the people of the Empire and Japan should be able to move freely. In addition, its language and culture should be similar to that of China, and its education system will also be integrated with the empire, and the elites of one country will all study in the empire and have common interests with the empire. In this way, the empire and Japan are two countries, but they are one. That's what I'm after. ”

To make a more vivid analogy, the industrial system is a computer filled with various software connected to the Internet, and various hardware and software form a whole, and communicate with the entire information world through the Internet. And some of the most important and core departments are the hardware and software that must not be missing, without which the computer would not be able to run. And those hardware and software that are not necessary, or the non-core departments of the entire industrial system, with them, the whole system can play the greatest value, but without them, the system can barely function.

In Emperor Lin's mind, the whole of East and Southeast Asia, as well as all the regions that the Chinese Empire could control, should become all the components of a computer in the future. The empire itself should be the core of this system, such as chips, motherboards, memory, hard disks, power supplies, displays, * production systems, and so on. Japan, on the other hand, should focus on software that adds value to the entire system, such as ...... stored on hard disks Romance action movies and adult games or something. Their value can only be built on the basis of the good functioning of the entire system.

In the middle of the 19th century, the core of an industrial system was undoubtedly heavy industry such as metallurgy, machinery, and military industry. Although the British Empire is the center of the world's textile industry, it is her steel, machinery and shipbuilding that really make Britain the world's number one power and maritime hegemon, and the world's number one navy relying on these industries!