The Ogasawara Islands, which originally belonged to the Qing Dynasty, were bought by the Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in his private name after the Qing War, and renamed the Guangxu Islands to show that everyone was a private royal domain. Chichijima, the main island, was renamed Kokōjima, and the Futami Port on the island was renamed Emperor's Port.

Since the signing of the agreement on the sale of the Guangxu Islands, Guangxu has made it clear to all countries that in order to protect the security of the royal territory, the islands have begun to be completely closed for construction. All countries have recognized this, and it must be the territory of the supreme monarch of a country, and anyone can go to it at will. The officers and men defending the island were soldiers who were destined to not be able to continue to join the fighting unit after recovering from their wounds in the First Sino-Japanese War, and were guarded by the royal gendarmerie at the emperor's behest.

Guangxu also used the name of the royal private domain as a cover, and began to mobilize equipment and materials to go to the island under the pretext of building a royal garden. In May, the Cruiser sailed into Kaiser Harbour under the escort of the Royal Gendarmerie. It will receive powertrain modifications here. After the first steam turbine generator set was tested, the first set of steam turbines for use on warships was built, and now it is officially loaded into warships and tested to begin.

Why did the emperor choose such a remote island, officials in the know persuaded one after another. The island is surrounded by the sea, making it difficult to get in and out. Although it is easy to defend, the Guangxu Islands are too far away from the mainland after all, the mobilization cycle of materials is too long, and the cost is too high, and there are many places to choose from in the coastal waters of the Qing Dynasty. But Guangxu's reason is that the closure of the royal private territory can be blatant and will not be suspected, but the closure of the military port will definitely be targeted by the spy on the surname. The key is that the Guangxu Islands are too far from the mainland. Judging from the fact that the Qing Dynasty is not yet a powerful navy, no one would put the most important technical secrets on a small island that could be occupied at any time. Then do the opposite to achieve the effect of surprise. What's more, Guangxu wants to do bad things, and if he wants to do bad things, of course, he has to have a secret place to do it, and some people and some things can't be known. The idea of using the royal domain to do bad things is in the yes - too TMD, who would have thought that the darkness would be deliberately hidden in the light of the emperor.

Of course, it is still necessary to carry out construction on the surface. Nearly 10,000 craftsmen were selected from the country, and each of them put their fingerprints on the confidentiality agreement. No information about any royal domain, including building matters, types of materials, etc., must not be divulged, and only "beautiful" can be said to the outside world. Then they were all loaded onto the ship and sent over.

The emperor wants to build a private territory, which is the emperor's own private matter, and no one can control it, but what happened in the Qing Dynasty is also closely related to itself.

As soon as the news came out that the emperor was going to form a new army, people all over the world signed up. Although there is a lot of money, the old saying is good. Good iron does not hit nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers. But after all, the glory of the military parade and the real medal are the yearning of many hot-blooded young people, and even if they die, they can kneel to the emperor. What's more, the First Sino-Japanese War was too frustrating.

What is puzzling is that the twelve divisions that the emperor wants to form are about 130,000 people in total. At present, there are nearly 90,000 people after the adaptation of various ministries, but the emperor has recruited more than 80,000 people, how to arrange the extra 40,000 people? Now I finally understand.

At the beginning of April of the 21st year of Guangxu, Guangxu issued an order to cancel all the green camps and abolish the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty will establish its own local security forces modeled after the police system of the West, and try it out in Zhili and Liangjiang on a trial basis. Now everyone understands that the extra 40,000 people will be placed here. Although everyone doesn't quite understand what this police system is for, they all know that the green battalion, the main force that fought the world, has long been reduced to a local security force.

Wrong, in fact, change the medicine and not change the soup. Maintaining local law and order is soup, and this has not changed. And this medicine is the human being, but it is the focus of change. The governor of Liangjiang in Zhili, who was on a trial basis, asked the following to report the latest number of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners of the Han Chinese. Then send people down to check one unit at a time. Some officials paid someone to make up the number, and if the grade was too big or too young, it would be a reprimand. Is it only twelve or thirteen or fifty years old to go to war? Then dismissed the family for the crime of defrauding the king, and he must have asked to count the number of the Eight Banners of the Green Camp Han Dynasty, but the emperor had made a clear decree. Then please have some strong people and stand in front of the inspectors, that will meet the requirements. Well, the young man is in good shape, and he is transferred. What do you disagree with, why not? Or find a few people to ask in private, at this time, the common people are almost uneducated, and the concept of heaven and earth is deeply rooted in the bones. As long as you put on the name of the emperor, if you tell a lie, it will be a crime of deception, and this will be the result...... The result was that it was all spoken.

If you want to bribe, Yan Fu doesn't accept gifts, and Zhang Zhidong didn't dare to accept it when he was transferred to Zhili. Then bribe the inventory personnel, I'm sorry, the people sent to the inventory are all retired personnel who have recovered from the emperor's new army and can't enter the combat unit, and this is what they hate the most. Don't look at them with less arms or lame legs, a murderous aura arises when they stand there. That kills these investigators and blames the bandits. No, the governors have already issued a clear order to all troops, and all the inventory personnel must be responsible for the security of the local troops, and as long as there is an accident in their defense area, even if their troops are derelict in their duties, the result will not be dismissal and raiding, but raiding and destroying. Some also wanted to encourage other troops to join in the heckling. The troops in the Zhili area were completely defeated in front of him, and he had nothing to say. The Huai army has been adapted, what are you a green battalion! Speaking of the Zhili area, the emperor is heavily armed. Your 70,000 people were defeated by 20,000 people, and the emperor only needed 10,000 people, how can you fight.

The readers of the two rivers are a group of bandits. The muzzle of the gun is pointed at, and if there is resistance, it is not to be killed. The black muzzles of the officers and soldiers of the Reading Division and the eyes of the dead people are the same as the thoughts of resistance.

Of course, the one who can hold the power in the local area is not the local tycoons. The relationships they are involved in may not be fully understood by themselves. If you do it all, then you will offend all the local wealthy families. If the emperor wants to stabilize the court, he has to rely on the support of these scholars. If they all fall out, I'm afraid that the emperor may not be able to sit firmly on the throne. However, military reform must be carried out, and this is where unspoken rules play a major role. A rule came from the palace. It doesn't matter if you eat empty pay and drink the blood of soldiers. As long as you can honestly report the truth, you can negotiate a "reward money" with the number of vacancies, and then take the initiative to resign. The past is over.

The emperor's righteousness is in front, guns are in the back, and silver is allowed. The reorganization of the Green Camp and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty has also been carried out relatively smoothly. Because there is "repayment money", it originally cost a lot of expenses to be abolished, and there is also a source for this.

If the agricultural reform and the military reform are the second fire for the emperor's new officials to take office, everyone is now waiting for the third fire, but the summer has passed, but there has been no movement for a long time. The emperor's third fire did not burn at home, but abroad.

On this day, Guangxu suddenly went to the military academy. did not enter the staff headquarters, but took Deng Shichang and Cheng Cheng directly into the reconnaissance company, and then came to the warehouse of Shunfeng Logistics through the secret passage. In the inner room, Zhou Qin presented the compiled list to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, follow the list provided by the Emperor. Except for a very small number of people who have not yet been found, the others are already under the surveillance of the CIA. There are still a small number of people who have come to Daqing, and the list has been indicated. In addition, in response to the emperor's request to pay attention to the situation of elites in various walks of life in famous Western countries, the CIA also drew up a separate list based on the information obtained. Please also ask the emperor to take a look. ”

After carefully reading the list, Guangxu expressed satisfaction with the work of the CIA: "You can still make such achievements when the imperial court cannot help you." You guys did a great job. ”

"Wechen is just trying his best to fulfill the emperor's will."

may be because of long-term exposure to things on the dark side, Zhou Qin, who used to have a smile on his face, became a little silent and silent, and his body involuntarily exuded a cold chill. Guangxu just glanced up at Zhou Qin, and then pointed to a name on the list with an expressionless face and asked, "How is this person now?" ”

Rudolph? Diesel is the inventor of the diesel engine, as long as he holds it in his hand and adds his knowledge from some prophets in later generations, the diesel engine will definitely be able to make a substantial breakthrough within five years. What does an internal combustion engine mean? It means power, which is the core of all mechanization, and that is the source of the powerful military strength in Guangxu's heart. In later generations, China suffered a lot of losses in the power system. For example, aero engines, that is the confidence of backward China to dare to fight a world war. The Qing Dynasty has no industrial base, and if it only relies on its own development, Guangxu is also confident that he will rely on his own knowledge to form an internal combustion engine research team, but it will not be fruitful until the Year of the Monkey. Nowadays, there is not so much time to accumulate knowledge and talent, and there is only one way to achieve rapid progress - to stand on the shoulders of giants. Pack these talents back in one go, use the existing industrial base and knowledge in Europe, and let them serve China. So just after the New Year, Guangxu gained a firm foothold in the imperial court, and ordered Zhou Qin to bring back these urgently needed talents by all means.

Unexpectedly, Guangxu's internal combustion engine plan had problems before it began. Zhou Qin shook his head: "It didn't work, he didn't want to." ”

Guangxu frowned: "What's the matter?" ”

At this time, Diesel was born with a dull surname and did not like fame and fortune, but only devoted himself to the study of internal combustion engines, and his personal economy was acceptable. Ignore invitations from the East.

"Fame, money, and women, none of them can move him. We have exhausted all the options we can think of, and we have also offered to provide a research grant of one million pounds for him to set up a diesel engine research and development team. But when we asked to live in Hawaii to work, he immediately refused. ”

In Europe and the United States, everyone's impression of the East is that it is closed, backward, and ignorant, and Hawaii may be better, but there must still be a majority of Westerners there. It is almost impossible for the Great Qing Kingdom to recruit senior R&D personnel in Europe and the United States, and the plan to cooperate with Guangxu cannot be made public. Only the kind of small people who have fallen to the point that they have no place for the next meal will reluctantly come to the East because of the high bid, and it is not the Great Qing Kingdom. Their first stop was Hawaii, where they were tricked into boarding a ship and transported to Guangxu Island. That's not more than ten people combined. Even if it is a talent from a small country such as Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, Sweden, even if there is Nikolai? Tesla is a precedent, even if the bid is higher. As long as the economy is acceptable, none of them are willing to take the initiative to work in Qingguo.

Don't give face? Then you can only be ruthless. "Since he doesn't want to take the initiative to come, then don't you want to force him to come?" Guangxu asked.

"However, he is not interested in even giving him money to gamble." Zhou Qin wanted to use gambling to force debts.

"Why do you use soft methods, won't you come with some hard ones? kidnapped his whole family. Now that Pacific Freight has opened the Atlantic route, let the European person in charge contact with the freight company, and be sure to bring people back. And this Parsons is the same. ”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this Parsons can't do it." Zhou Qin briefly stated the situation of not being able to move Parsons.

Parsons was the inventor of the British steam turbine, and in 1884 he patented the axial multistage reaction steam turbine. As recently as last year, in 1894, he received a £50,000 research grant from the British Admiralty and founded his own Parsons Nautical Steam Turbine Company. Now he has made significant progress in the gas turbine he is working on. Today, Parsons is the Red Man of the British Admiralty.

"Back to the Emperor, the British group has been lurked in Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company. Just moving him during this period will definitely cause an investigation by the British Admiralty. In order to avoid the attention of the British side, there has been no action yet, and how to arrange Parsons also asked the emperor to show him. ”

Guangxu knew that in the 1897 battleship competition held in Britain, the battleship equipped with the steam turbine designed and built by him won the battle with a record speed of 34.5 knots / hour (about 64 km/h) and good maneuverability, causing a great shock, thus opening a new era of using steam turbines to propel ships.

Is it possible that such a person will have to stay until the most powerful warship is built for Britain and threaten himself in the future? Guangxu gently tapped the table a few times, and said with a serious expression: "It can't be used by me, and it can't be used by the enemy." Go clean and deal with it. Now that the local political axe has noticed, let's arrange an accident, a real accident, and deal with the relevant manpower together. However, they brought back as much technical information as possible. ”

"Wechen understands."