Support Japan! Looking at the telegram from China, O'Gner was so angry that he wanted to slam the telegram in Salisbury's face. How big is Japan, and how big is the Qing Kingdom, don't those damn nobles still understand? At this time, he completely forgot that he was also a member of the aristocracy.

In just half a month, the Qing Dynasty successively issued more than a dozen bills on opening up commerce and speeding up the circulation of goods. The most direct manifestation of this is that the Ministry of Commerce of the Qing State has taken the initiative to negotiate with the ministers of various countries in China on the issue of customs duties and transaction taxes, and the Qing State has made it very clear that once the agreement is reached, the Qing court will immediately cancel the payment. Not only that, but the Qing State has ordered the cancellation of all road donation card fees. In addition to the roadblocks that will be used as major transportation arteries will be retained, and the necessary checks will be carried out on incoming and outgoing goods, the Qing Dynasty is gradually eliminating unnecessary roadblocks.

The Qing State began to officially issue paper money, and the Qing currency was transitioning from the silver and copper standard to the gold standard. Although it will take a year and a half to make a transition, it is understandable to all. A year and a half, how much profit can be mined in such a long time.

At the same time, the Qing country's money roads had to be extended, the highways had to be expanded, and even the cement and steel used in basic industrial facilities had to be imported in large quantities, and the funds needed for such a huge business development plan were not yet available to the poor country of the Qing country. Therefore, the Qing Ministry of Finance and the Daqing Bank are negotiating loans with Britain, the United States, and Germany. To this end, the Qing state took out a large amount of newly explored resources in exchange for loans. Coal Mine, Iron Ore, Forestry ...... And so on and so forth, on the table, for bargaining.

It's all profit. At that time, the empire used naval artillery to open the gate of the Qing State. Isn't that the purpose of forcing the Qing to open its markets to that is precisely that? Why is it that today, when the Qing State took the initiative to open its market, the empire was for a small country that still owed the United States ten years of debt for even grain imports? To offend the Qing Dynasty and lose such a huge market. Is it just because the industries that the Qing State was able to exchange loans for were mainly concentrated in the Yangtze River Valley? If that's the reason, Ogner believes not. Because Ogner is sensible, he also believes that the parliamentarians in the country are also sensible. Otherwise, he'd rush back home and beat up those stupid guys. But he couldn't figure out why Congress would make such a decision that bordered on stupidity.

After all, the Qing State had already shown sufficient respect for the British Empire, and Eugener was the only one who had the right to enter the Qing Imperial Palace at any time to meet the Qing Emperor, and that was the only one. He was already the first minister to China. The British side had just put forward the hope that the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway would be completed by the end of this year, and the Qing Dynasty had already begun to transfer manpower from various localities to speed up the construction of the Beijing-Guangzhou Qian Road. For this reason, the entire Qing Dynasty stopped the construction of the railway connecting Heilongjiang and Xi'an, and now the entire Qing Dynasty is still working on the railway except for the Beijing-Guangzhou line. It is the Beijing-Shanghai line.

In order to obtain more loans from the Empire, although the agreement has not yet been signed due to the issue of investment and shareholding, the Qing State has already negotiated with the Empire a specific plan for the construction of the Hunan-Shanghai Railway.

Do you think that the Qing Kingdom did not know what the Japanese were doing in London? The Qing State did all this, not just to win the support of the empire. You still have to choose to support Japan. What is called the aggressive nature of the Chinese. Meng Tian in the Qin Dynasty broke the Xiongnu, Huo in the Han Dynasty went to the grassland in blood, and the inhumane killing of the grassland in the Tang and Ming dynasties, which became evidence of the aggressive nature of the Chinese? Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu's inexplicable speech at the British Parliament even won the sympathy and approval of most of the parliamentarians. That's not aggression but counterattack, why didn't you see the killing of the Han people by the northern steppe peoples before the Chinese counterattacked. Ogner has read Chinese history, even the British Empire has a duel, why can the Chinese be bullied when they are weak, and they are not allowed to take revenge after being strong? Why didn't those idiots in Congress see the Chinese retreat to the Central Plains after countering the threat of annihilation?

The Chinese pay attention to gratitude and virtue, and the grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated. Once the empire really made up its mind to support Japan unconditionally. This will inevitably attract the disgust of the Qing State, and at this time, the Qing State is no longer the time for foreigners to open factories if they want to. The Qing country's victories in two foreign wars gave the Qing people too much confidence. In the past, as long as a foreigner opened a factory and then went to the yamen to report, the yamen would recognize it. Now, if you still do this without getting the approval of the local government of the Qing Dynasty, you will be demolished if you say that it will be demolished, and you will be arrested directly in prison after a few words. If you want to do business in another country, it will be difficult to do so without the support of the local government. If the Qing government deliberately publicizes it at this time, even if you can get the approval of the local government, you may face the dilemma of not being able to recruit workers.

The British Empire is an empire on which the sun never sets, and it is precisely because it is so big that it is powerless. And because of this - the British Empire needed to support a pro-British government on the ground. At the same time, a government that will challenge the regime will be supported to balance the forces on both sides in order to maintain its dominance or maintain dominance in the region. This strategic concept is true, but the actual situation in the Far East is not what they think. What can Japan do to challenge the huge China that is beginning to rise, you must know that China's history is longer than the history of all the civilizations in the world combined. If you want to support Japan in challenging the Qing Kingdom, it can only be...... Ogna was startled by the only possibility.

The British Empire must not be allowed to fall into the trap of the Japanese. O'Gnatti began writing letters to the country, trying to persuade members of Congress to change their minds and support the Qing state instead. Then, he had to go into the palace to meet Emperor Guangxu and explain to him that everything that happened in the parliament was only the will of a few. He sincerely hoped that all this would not affect the Qing State's attitude towards the British Empire.

The Americans did not have such scruples, and took advantage of the opportunity of borrowing money from the First Sino-Japanese War and building warships for Japan to completely establish the United States' economic dominance over Japan with a loan of $5,000. Japan is very poor, but the market of 10 million people can absorb a large part of the production capacity, which is also good news for the United States, which has already filled up its warehouses. As for the investment in the Qing Kingdom, the Americans were already on the verge of despair. The Americans used countless financial resources and technology to accumulate a large number of industrial facilities in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty. But it was blown up in the sudden war. The new automobile industry, equipment manufacturing industry, mining industry, and so on were all blown up by the Russians. Except for the two railways, there was basically nothing left of the investment of the year.

The Qing-Japanese war was not bad, and there was little damage. Second, after receiving compensation from Japan, the Qing State also gave corresponding compensation to these damaged enterprises. But these are different, the Qing State failed to get the compensation from Russia, so it rejected the compensation demand of the American company. In the words of the Chinese, it was this group of damned Russians who made their investment go down the drain. Now, in the face of the Qing State's willingness to invite them to invest in the Northeast again, the Americans have said no. Are Qing people stupid to be Americans? Now everyone knows that the crazy emperor of Russia is still clamoring to send another 500,000 troops to retaliate against the Qing state. You Qing people still let us Americans invest, what is the difference between that and sending money to Qing Guo.

Since you don't want to invest in the Northeast, is Jiangnan good? Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Jiangning and other places can consider expanding the conditions for opening up.

What the? You let us go to the territory of the British. Oh God. To hell with it. Haven't we been beaten badly enough by the British in the European market?

Then Shandong and Jiangsu can be, and the inland transportation is inconvenient, so the coastal area can always be, not to mention that the imperial court has decided to open the Oriental Wharf in the middle of the Qing Dynasty in Lianyungang, which is okay. No way. Not there. The Americans again refused. Next year, the Japanese fleet will come back, and it is a fleet that is more powerful than the Qing fleet, and it is not safe to invest in the coastline.

Then there are only Xi'an, Sichuan and other places in the mainland, and the imperial court gritted its teeth and agreed, who told you Americans to have money and the imperial court to have no money. What, the traffic is backward there, you want to invest in Zhili. No, now it's Qingguo's turn to say no. The Zhili region is a place that is ready to be used to divide the meritorious ministers. You choose another place.

The American minister Tian Bei kept visiting the ministers of the Qing Dynasty for several days in a row and made all kinds of wishes. It is to win the investment rights in the Zhili area. Americans are scared to invest in the East. But whenever there is a war in the Qing Kingdom, the most unlucky people are always the Americans. Naoli is a good place, this is the capital of the Qing Kingdom, and no matter where there is a war in the Qing Kingdom, it will always try to avoid the outbreak of war near the capital.

In order to compete for the Qing Dynasty to expand its investment, he was even willing to obtain a 30 million US loan for the Qing State, and even Tian Bei built a red coral tree more than three feet high to bribe the new Minister of Finance. Although the plan to invest in Zhili may still be frustrated, there is a new idea -- Taiwan.

Lin Qizhao is right, now the Qing court and Ben do not have the financial resources to take care of this small island far overseas, and even the Keelung Military Port under construction has stopped construction. Therefore, if the Americans are willing to invest in Taiwan, then Lin Qizhao can win the greatest preferential treatment for the United States, and if the Americans want to build a railway in Taiwan, there will be no restrictions on railway materials. What's more, the current governor of Taiwan is the son-in-law of the current prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, and there will certainly be no difficulties in local policies.

This seemed to be a good idea, Tian Bei carefully sent this information back to China, waiting for the decision of the country.

France also saw the opportunity for the Qing Dynasty to develop greatly, and the minister to China, Shi Alan, was also busy jumping up and down. But no matter how he ran the relationship, it seemed that Qing Guo only looked at his shipbuilding industry. For other industries, it is always a dispensable attitude. Is it that the conditions in France are not favorable enough? Aren't you Qingguo just running out of money and taking loans everywhere? To paraphrase your emperor, the problem that money can solve is not a problem. Thinking of this, Shi Alan started a new round of activities.

The same is true in Italy, where the Qing only focused on their artillery manufacturing technology, and even did not hesitate to spend dozens of times the price to buy technology from Italy, and also directly purchased cannon barrels, which rejuvenated the factory that was on the verge of closure. However, it is no wonder that even Germany, which has the best relations with the Qing Dynasty, is reluctant to sell artillery technology above 152 mm, and only Italy in the world is willing.

Germany did not have these messy concerns, and the Qing Dynasty absolutely welcomed Germany. The Qing court always gave priority to any request made by Germany. What made the Germans angry was that the damned Russians were defeated so quickly that before their ordnance could be transported to Dalian, the Russian ** team collapsed with the arrival of the Qing Royal Army. Without the war, what did this leave Germany to do with several ships of ordnance. Fortunately, the Qing State saw the face of Qingde's "traditional friendship", and reluctantly accepted these weapons, only to disappoint the Germans who wanted to make war money.

If Spain, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans and other countries also want to get a piece of the pie in the Qing Dynasty, it can still be said in the past. Chile, which is far away in South America, also wants to come to Daqing to receive orders because it helped Hawaii build a few destroyers, but I just heard that there are not enough ships in the Qing Dynasty, even if they can't receive orders for warships, civilian cargo ships can do it. Anyway, now the shipyard is idle. No problem, then choose to build five destroyers, and each warship will help the Qing Dynasty to support a hundred shipbuilders. Now Guangxu, who has received a total loan of nearly 40 million pounds, is not an ordinary cow.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the British side. Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu made a public speech at the British Parliament, talking about all kinds of things that China is wrong with, and especially about China's aggressive nature since ancient times. At a small-scale meeting, CIA Director Zhou Qin handed over a draft of Mutsu Munemitsu's speech that he had just received.

"It is understandable that the Japanese do not give up and want to rearm against our Qing Dynasty. Even if Britain continued to support Japan, it was predictable. It's just that I didn't expect Britain to allow Mutsu Munemitsu to speak in public in the British Parliament, but I can't figure it out how openly it supports Japan, is it that Britain has been arrogant enough to ignore the position of the Qing Dynasty in the Far East and the huge Far East market? Tang Shaoyi, who had read the manuscript, angrily slapped the manuscript on the table.

"Britain has arrogant capital. Even the United States, which is the weakest, is not something that our Qing Dynasty can deal with. Li Hongzhang sighed.

"Go and call Cheng Cheng and Wu Deren." Guangxu, who pondered for a while, spoke.

Cheng Wu and the others came soon, looking at the two who were still panting, Guangxu only said one sentence: "I just ask, once Britain resells the two warships ordered by our country to Japan, can our Qing Navy defeat the Japanese Navy?" ”

"What ......" (To be continued......