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In this autumn, the harvest of the Celestial Empire was so rich that Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Zheng Nan and other military and political leaders of the Celestial Empire in Tianjing were busy all day long.

With the assistance of Zheng Nan and others, Yang Xiuqing looked at the reports and requests from all over the world on the desk every day, and did not dare to blink his eyes to read them carefully, carefully checked, and carefully approved. As the saying goes, chaos will occur when you are busy, and Yang Xiuqing is quite proficient in this Tao. At present, the world is decided, in the face of this mess left by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, and the newly built local governments in various places are naturally the most concentrated when they open their mouths and reach out for money, and he is the great steward of the Celestial Empire. He knows very well that money is a good thing, but if you are not careful, it can turn you from a person into an insatiable demon in an instant.

This is a report from Lin Wanqing of the Southeast Military and Political Office, because most of the newly recovered areas are in urgent need of food relief, and the pressure of military supply is also increasing day by day, the people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian have already complained. Lin Wanqing means that if he does not change the current way of purchasing grain and grass, he still blindly calls on everyone to have the courage to contribute, but he is afraid that it will dampen the enthusiasm that the people have gradually cultivated in the past, and thus lose confidence in the Celestial Empire. ”

"Oh?" Yang Xiuqing raised his head from the other official document he was holding, looked at Lu Xianba, and twitched his cheeks for a while, then sighed softly, "Didn't they come up with any effective solutions?" ”

"That's right, but I feel that something is wrong," Lu Xianba put Lin Wanqing's request in front of Yang Xiuqing, and shook his head with a wry smile, "According to the system of the Celestial Empire, it is the obligation of grain farmers to hand over a certain share of public grain, and in addition, the surplus grain they have on hand can be traded freely on the market, and the local government can also buy it at an appropriate price." It stands to reason that this method is already very good, and I don't know how many times better it is than when the demon was there. But this person is not greedy enough, and he has just lived a good life for a few days, and he ......"

"You have so much nonsense," Yang Xiuqing frowned, dropped the official document in his hand with a "snap", and glared at Lu Xianba dissatisfied, "I asked you Lin Wanqing, what specific ways do they deal with it, I didn't ask you who is greedy and who is generous." You're generous, but you can't grow even a grain of rice. ”

"Hehe......" Lu Xianba smiled awkwardly, and hurriedly gave up his hand, "Since the current market price is higher than the original purchase price, in order to complete the requisition, I don't want to hurt the feelings of the grain farmers too much, Lin Wanqing They mean to appropriately increase the purchase price of surplus grain." ”

"What's the approximate number?"

Lu Xianba was very strange, because he couldn't see anything unusual on Yang Xiuqing's face at this time. "Ishei, that's the bare minimum."

Yang Xiuqing didn't speak again for a long time.

"This is not a small amount, at the moment, there are too many places for our Celestial Empire to urgently use money, and there is such a big expenditure in addition, I am afraid that it will ......" Lu Xianba still couldn't help but comment again, "Do you want to transfer this official document to Chairman Shi and Vice Chairman Zheng first, and then ask Director Lin's opinion?" ”

"No need," Yang Xiuqing, who looked like a stone carving, finally waved at Lu Xianba and spoke, "If it weren't for some insurmountable problems in the requisition, Lin Wanqing wouldn't have made such a big deal lightly." At the moment, it is a top priority to be able to complete the requisition as much as possible and ensure the needs of various places, and reply to them, and such situations can be handled by themselves in the future. ”

After speaking, he looked at Lu Xianba meaningfully, "Brother, we can sit in such a beautiful house without moving our bodies, eat when we open our mouths, and take it when we reach out, but can grain farmers?" They face the loess with their backs to the sky all day long, for the sake of this autumn harvest? When my brothers and I burned charcoal in Bauhinia Mountain, didn't we pray every day that we could pick it out and sell it for a good price, but unfortunately I couldn't do it at that time, so I had to suffer poverty. Today, we don't have to worry about food and clothing, but we can't compete with the people for money. As long as we do what we do with our conscience, I believe that after the grain farmers become rich, they will one day repay our Celestial Empire. ”

"Yes, it seems that my thoughts are much simpler, far less far-reaching and far-sighted than the chairman of the committee," Lu Xianba nodded repeatedly.

"Come on, you kid better pour me less ** soup," Yang Xiuqing rubbed his two swollen temples, first snorted disapprovingly, and then laughed again.

"How is this ** soup, what I said is from the bottom of my heart," Lu Xianba also smiled and picked up another official document. He quickly glanced at the official document that he opened, and then pouted his mouth at Yang Xiuqing, "Haha, this is the official letter for help from Vice Chairman Zheng and Hong Renji from the Vietnamese King Nguyen Phuc Dinh......"

The prestige of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, which had recovered Liangguang and then Yunnan, made Vietnam, which was in a corner of the south, dizzy and bewildered by the remnants of France and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and claimed to be the sole heir of Han civilization, had to begin to think about their own position in this vigorous "Han Chinese expulsion of Tartars" revolution and their future countermeasures. At the end of last year, at the beginning of this year, King Nguyen Phuc Dinh twice sent envoys to Tien Kyo to meet the leaders of the Celestial Empire. The first time was just a thorough investigation, and the second time, the two sides finally made a lot of substantial progress. Nguyen Phuc Dinh said in a veiled manner that since everyone is a nation under one culture, Vietnam can naturally maintain the past practice of paying tribute to the Manchu court, not only continuing to pay a certain amount of tribute to the Celestial government in Thien Kung every year, but also hoping to receive the protection of the Celestial Empire. At the same time, however, the cunning Nguyen Phuc Dinh avoided the important matter that the Taiping government should be the suzerainty of Vietnam, let alone consider the direct stationing of the Taiping Red Army in Vietnam. To put it bluntly, he just wanted to exchange an ambiguous tribute for the protection of the Tenkyo government, and use the mouth of the Celestial Empire government to warn the French who were eyeing the enemy not to act rashly against Vietnam.

For this reason, when Lin Haifeng received the Vietnamese envoy in Tianjing, he made it clear that it was the duty of the Celestial Government and the responsibility of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire not to allow any foreign forces to get their hands on Vietnam, which was an inseparable part of the Celestial Empire. However, Lin Haifeng also warned the messenger to go back and tell their king, don't leave it to chance, there are many greedy people in the world now, they do not recognize that the Celestial Empire government has any rights in Vietnam, and they are not afraid of your threats and intimidation with your mouth. Lin Haifeng was actually hinting to the envoys from Vietnam, telling them to go back and tell Nguyen Phuc Dinh that for the sake of Vietnam's security, the only way out was to hand over diplomatic power to the Celestial Empire government, and at the same time must accept the Celestial Empire's Red Army stationed in Vietnam.

Nguyen Phuc Dinh was dumbfounded. I really knew this was the case, so why bother in the first place? If we had directly and openly acknowledged that the Tien Chyong government was the suzerainty of Vietnam, wouldn't the inappropriate barking of dogs from those foreigners be gone? Why not let the Tianjing government push itself into a corner all of a sudden. Diplomacy, the military, once these two things are gone, damn, what is Lao Tzu?

But that's not the only thing that makes Nguyen Phuc Dinh uncomfortable. Although the envoy had clearly and unequivocally told him when he returned, His Royal Highness King An, who was extremely powerful in Tianjing, had repeatedly warned the French minister Bourblon in front of him that the Celestial Government would never sit idly by if France was desperate to pursue interests in Vietnam. But the fact is that it is exactly what the king said, and the French Empire is really not afraid of intimidation.

Four months ago, Rear Admiral Ruyori of the French Navy went to Hue to present his credentials, not only demanding that Vietnam fulfill the treaty they had signed with King Nguyen Phuc Anh in Gia Long in 17**, but also demanding that the Vietnamese government pay a huge amount of compensation for the large number of French missionaries who were brutally massacred in Vietnam. At the same time, they claimed that if the Vietnamese government dared to refuse the goodwill of the French Empire any longer, the Empire would not hesitate to resort to abnormal means. Of course, Nguyen Phuc Dinh refused to buy Rujori's account. So, Rujori's fleet landed at Toulon (Yan Harbor), and then sat in Toulon and continued to bargain with that Nguyen Phuc Dinh.

Ruan Fuying was panicked at this moment, and hurriedly sent an envoy again with a large bag of treasures and antiques, and rushed to Tianjing for help in a hurry of 800 miles. The damned French don't even care about the holy Celestial Empire, which is not only a shame for Vietnam, but also a contempt for the Celestial Empire......

After listening to Lu Xianba's rough reading of the contents of the official document, Yang Xiuqing smiled slightly, picked up the report that was thrown on the table just now, and asked casually, "What is Vice Chairman Zheng's opinion?" ”

"I don't have any more opinions, I just ask the chairman to read it and then transfer it to Chairman Shi for specific consideration," Lu Xianba smiled.

"That's right," Yang Xiuqing nodded, grabbed the brush on the inkstone, and gestured towards Lu Xian, "Come, I'll just draw a circle on it, and then hand it over to the Kai there immediately." ”

In the midst of his busy schedule of making arrangements for military forces in various parts of the south, Shi Dakai urgently met with the French minister Bourblon and made some representations that were said to have taken quite a long time. Later, the New Tianjing newspaper published a protest statement by the Celestial Empire government strongly condemning the French government's disregard for the sovereignty of the Celestial Empire. The statement once again reiterated that Vietnam has been an inalienable part of the territory of the Celestial Empire since ancient times, and the French Government's armed occupation of Vietnam has seriously hurt the feelings of the people of the Celestial Empire, aroused the unanimous indignation of all the military and civilians of the Celestial Empire, and at the same time damaged the cooperative partnership between China and France. The statement demanded that the French fleet must first withdraw from the territory of the Celestial Empire unconditionally, and as for the unpleasant things that had occurred before, the two sides could sit down and negotiate calmly on the basis of the principle of seeking truth from facts.

Nguyen Phuc Dinh's envoys came to Tianjing non-stop, however, unlike the previous arrival, several days had passed, and they were so anxious that their mouths were foaming and their stools were dry, but they did not see any of the other senior leaders of the Celestial Empire, except for Hong Renjihong, who was in charge of foreign affairs. Especially if they were not received by the vice chairman Shi Dakai, who was in charge of the military affairs of the Celestial Empire, they were like ants on a hot pot, restless. It wasn't until they took the newly published "Xin Tianjing Bao" and read it word by word several times that they finally received a summoning order from Vice Chairman Shi.

"The Celestial Empire is not a person who forgets his righteousness for the sake of profit, and it is not a person who does not make efforts to help his brother because he does not have treasures and antiques. The key problem is that we have done everything we can," Shi Dakai looked sincere and helpless in the face of the envoys from Vietnam, "You have also seen it very clearly in the newspapers, for your sake, I negotiated with their envoy to China yesterday for a whole day, and in the same severe terms as when Director Lin Haifeng was there, I condemned the despicable acts of the French in the same severe terms. But it's hard...... You have your reasoning, and others have their reasoning. This bastard of Bulblon has seized on the rule that the Celestial Empire government does not interfere in the internal affairs of any other country, and is messing around with me. There is no way, so far, the Celestial Empire government can only do this. ”

Nguyen Phuc Dinh's envoy cried and was heartbroken, how powerful the French fists were, they had already understood, "Please, Elder Commissioner, save us, if you leave us alone, then wouldn't we be ......"

Shi Dakai let out a helpless sigh again, and ordered the guards to quickly send a towel and wipe the tears of the envoy, "How can the Celestial Empire not care, but the Celestial Empire can't go deeper." Condemnation, protest, haven't we already done it, I hope they can stop in moderation. ”

"Elder Commissioner," Ruan Fuying's envoy couldn't care about any face anymore, and got up and knelt in front of Shi Dakai with a puff of snort, a handful of snot and tears, "Director Lin has long said that foreign devils are never afraid of scare, just with their mouths and newspapers...... Which...... How can it work......"

"Yes, no one is frightened to grow up," Shi Dakai quickly left his seat with great sympathy and helped up Mr. Envoy, who was already crying like a child, "But what can I do?" If they dared to do this with us, they would have been beaten to the point of urine, running away with their tails between their legs. But where you are...... Alas...... People just touched our bottom, so they dared to act so boldly. As you know, the Celestial Empire has just recovered the whole country, and there is not so much power on the sea to deter those foreigners, wait, wait until later...... Alas......"

Looking at the strange appearance of Ruan Fuying's envoy Mu Dud, who had forgotten to cry, Shi Dakai suddenly smiled, "However, don't worry, I am working on the formation of the South China Sea Fleet of the Red Navy, and it is estimated that in a few years, our South China Sea Fleet will be able to make all foreign enemies frightened." ”

Nguyen Phuc Dien's envoy was really crying now, and he had nothing more to say. People have already made it very clear that the Celestial Empire is not afraid to fight, unwilling to fight, or unwilling to fight, but that your little Vietnamese Nguyen Phuc Dinh does not ask us to go in and fight, sorry, then we can only wait slowly.

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