A year later, when the war on the other side of the ocean subsided, Wells sent a ciphered telegram, which was translated in a codebook, which was the proceeds of the American Civil War.

The Wells telegram also said that the U.S. Treasury bonds, which had been purchased at a low price, were now victorious in the North, and that they were a huge amount of income. He also consulted Ye Zhao on whether to invest in Yunyun for the reconstruction of the federation.

Ye Zhao replied with a long letter, saying that the free economy will decline soon, the development of free capital has reached the neck, and the future will be an era of monopoly, an era of rampant large enterprises, and small capitalists will be gradually swallowed up, so we should be cautious in investment now.

Every time he telegraphed with Wellstone, Ye Zhao always had the feeling that he was a conspirator, especially as the financial markets of European countries became more and more perfect, and the scale of industry became larger and larger, the smell of the two sneaking out of it to plunder the world's wealth became stronger.

The Nanyang investigation team began to negotiate with the Dutch, demanding that the Sumba people be temporarily allowed to form a political axe similar to a self-governing state, which would also be under the supervision of the Dutch, but would have greater autonomy.

With the launch of ironclad ships, Dinghai and Jinghai were honorably retired like Zhenhai and became the training ships of the Harbour Master School.

At present, the empire has thirteen ironclad ships, namely: Jinling, Fuzhou, Yanjing, Changsha, Fengtian, Dihua, Jinan, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Jingyuan, Chengyuan, Xingxing, Wuchang, including seven second-class ships with a tonnage of more than 2,500 tons.

There are also nearly 50 wooden warships and auxiliary ships.

The battleships of the first class, which were being built, the protagonists of the "6,000-ton plan", gradually took shape, completely abandoning the design of sails, except for the power system using the latest inventions of the empire, which had already been successful on merchant ships, the three-expansion engine and water-tube boiler, the most notable thing was the introduction of steel into the armor system.

British and French battleships of the same class have long been launched, and the two old empires have undoubtedly paid considerable attention to the Chinese navy, which has always been innovative, and the media are also speculating about the combat effectiveness of China's monarch-class battleship.

The Dutch, now entrenched in the South Seas, increasingly succumbed to China's rapidly growing naval forces, and quickly agreed to the Sumba's proposal to form an autonomous state.

In Nanyang, the Chinese used to be highly respected, with the arrival of the Dutch and Spanish colonists, the status declined sharply, and the colonists of both countries carried out massacres of Chinese surnames, and now in Nanyang, in Luzon under Spanish rule and Sumatra and Java under Dutch rule, the Spanish and Dutch have gradually learned to get along with the Chinese on an equal footing, and they have another face against the natives.

Negotiations with the Russians were tentatively drafted, and as the Turkestan immigrants gradually arrived, the artillery towers increased and increased, and the Chinese made concessions and unconditionally released the first batch of Russian prisoners, about 3,000 people, so that the Russians, who had been impatient with no progress in the negotiations, returned to the negotiating table again. However, in Orenburg and Novosibirsk, the Russians have shown signs of troop build-up, and similarly, in the northwest and northern Xinjiang, the Chinese are also secretly carrying out military movements, and some Western analysts believe that it is likely that both sides are buying time through negotiations and preparing for war.

In fact, Ye Zhao is now concerned about the wind of innovation in the judicial system, and the Taihe Xing case has undoubtedly injected a shot of strength into the Dali Yuan system, making the judges truly realize that they have a considerable reading power in the trial of cases, and the establishment of the Dali Yuan reference case system has laid the cornerstone for the legal spirit of the empire.

After the winter break, the Royal Chinese Academy of Sciences was officially established, according to the charter, the Emperor is the patron of the Royal Academy of Sciences, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, representing the highest honor in the imperial scientific community, and the Royal Academy of Sciences is also the organization that finances the development of science.

The House of Representatives voted to approve a grant of $1,000,000,000 for the first year of the year.

After Prince Rui resigned as Chief Minister of the House of Representatives late last year, the Imperial House of Representatives held its first vote for Chief Minister.

At present, there are a total of 367 parliamentary envoys in the Imperial Council, of which 65 are legislators with the titles of the former dynasty, and the remaining more than 300 people are allocated to the provincial seats and elected by the provincial councils.

There is no way, the current parliamentary envoy will inevitably be a local celebrity who has the right to speak, not that the national election cannot be realized, the president of the United States is also elected by the whole people under such rudimentary communication and transportation conditions, and many systems are far from being so difficult to achieve.

It's just that today's national thinking, if one person really gives a vote, even if he elects a political envoy, it will inevitably be wrong, not to mention that the final result is only afraid that those squires and celebrities will be elected, and the lowest people, even if they enter the parliamentary house, they are not the same people, and what ideas can they have, this is not discrimination, it is a fact.

It is already a great step forward for these squires and celebrities to experience the election, to experience the real election.

However, Ye Zhao has already prepared to realize the election system of local councils and political envoys within ten years, and the elected ones must be businessmen, celebrities and gentry, but through the election, they will definitely be prompted to pay attention to public opinion and localities, at least they will not be pretending, even if they pretend to be good, they must pretend to have a good reputation.

Originally, Ye Zhao planned to set up a House of Lords similar to the British House of Lords, such as the United States, which originally only had a House of Representatives, but he preferred to establish a Senate with higher power. ”

However, as Ye Zhao's prestige became more and more prominent, the practice of the House of Nobles, which attracted the hearts of the people, was abandoned and the unicameral system was directly implemented.

Of course, it is not a copy of the European model, and an institution with considerable power and can represent the will of the people is the inevitable demand of civilization to a certain stage of development.

In fact, in many cases in the Western electoral system, when the hardware conditions are not much different, money is everything, and Ye Zhao is preparing to liberalize the election of the parliamentary council while also thinking about how to make the parliamentary chamber truly become a body that reflects the will of the people.

At present, among the more than 300 parliamentary envoys in the Imperial Council, about half of them are respected old people and new professionals, because after entering the Imperial Council, they are busy with affairs and have become a kind of political profession.

The Imperial Council is re-elected every five years, and half of the parliamentary envoys are replaced.

At the end of last year, Ye Zhao also tried the approval system of the Council for the first time, and submitted the budget of the new year to the House of Representatives for consideration, and the results of all budgets were unanimously approved, which was also expected by Ye Zhao.

I also want them to understand that the Government Council and the emperor themselves are not the same thing!

At that time, Ye Zhao couldn't help but sigh, but thinking about it in a blink of an eye, it was not easy to get to this point.

In the election of the House of Representatives, the new Chief Minister of Parliament Du Boqi, Ye Zhao did not interfere in the election at all, but only nominated ten people as candidates from among the parliamentary envoys, and after the speeches of the ten people, all the parliamentary envoys voted. Duboch is the first minister to be voted for by the Empire.

Du Boqi is sixty-one years old this year, a squire of Guangdong, and his son is the commander of a certain group army in the empire, which is also the main reason why he can win, in the empire, the prestige of the military is extremely high.

Ye Zhao deliberately kept a distance from Du Boqi and the Council, because the House has its own special surname, and Ye Zhao didn't want the House to become an institution that would be his own ears, but hoped that it would have the ability to read and grow up on its own.

Of course, once the resolution of the House of Representatives conflicts with Ye Zhao's national goals and affects Ye Zhao's plan to build the country, Ye Zhao will not hesitate to use the final ruling power, and even dissolve the House of Representatives, which is also the power granted to him by the Constitution, but Ye Zhao hopes to see this day as soon as possible, and he hopes to use speeches to change the voting results of the House of Representatives, and the use of the final ruling power and the dissolution of the House of Representatives are only a last resort.

The appropriation of the Royal Academy of Sciences, which was also unanimously approved by the House of Representatives, was also the amount of one million silver dollars submitted by Mendel, President of the Royal Academy.

Mendel, the first president of the Royal Academy of Sciences, whose Chinese name Mendel, was an Austrian-Chinese scientist, botanist, and father of modern genetics, who made great contributions to the empire's seed engineering, and the hybrid rice and corn seeds he cultivated had been planted in a large area within the empire.

The first batch of academicians to be elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences was only 12, all of them of European origin, including Sanchez, the founder of electrical energy, and Morey, a young physicist who laid the theoretical foundation in the field of radio.

It's just that Ye Zhao hopes to see Chinese academicians appear in the Academy of Sciences as soon as possible.

Grants received by the Royal Academy of Sciences are used to fund private scientific research, and projects may be funded by a written application to the Academy of Sciences, which will be assessed by the Evaluation Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of course, will also seek the advice of academicians in the relevant field.

In addition to the establishment of the Royal Academy of Sciences, after the Spring Festival, the empire held its first sports meeting, and the events were only for long-distance running, wrestling, martial arts, and lion dance.

So far, the annual mini-sports meeting has replaced the four events of "teaching, cheating, sumo, and shibang", and has become a grand event for the royal family and the people to enjoy together.

At the end of the games, the northern suburbs of the capital began to build the arena as the venue of the annual sports meeting, the arena invested 100,000 silver dollars, covering an extremely wide area, the design was extremely magnificent, and it would be a landmark in the capital to be a magnificent building.

After the event, the Imperial Throne issued an invitation to King Yi Yu and Princess Cheoljong of Joseon to visit the Empire.

When the newspapers in Seoul heard the news, they immediately cheered, the suzerainty obviously had a very special affection for Korea, and this was the first time that the imperial family had invited the monarch to visit China, and the object of the invitation was the king of Korea, how could the Koreans not be excited?

Walking in the Qianqing Palace, Ye Zhao must hold the matchmaker's hand, which makes the matchmaker a little helpless.

The matchmaker is graceful and luxurious, the pearlescent phoenix crown, the green velvet hangs on both sides, the scarlet brocade dress is rusty with the golden totem symbolizing the identity of the imperial concubine, the country and the city, the noble and elegant aura makes Ye Zhao feel that he is blaspheming her when he holds her hand, but he is a little proud, such a beauty, is it his wife?

"I haven't seen Concubine Jin yet." The matchmaker said suddenly.

Ye Zhao inevitably felt a little weak-hearted, and the relationship with this "daughter" was really a little ambiguous.

Officially inviting Li Yu and Concubine Jin to visit the empire, firstly, the political situation in North Korea is a little unstable, but it is not to support Concubine Jin, from the perspective of national interests, as long as you are close to the political faction of the suzerain, naturally whoever wins the hearts of the people will support whoever comes to power. Second, they are preparing to start recruiting servant troops from Ben and Korea, of course, nominally a joint army, so that the two countries will bear the military expenses and send soldiers to assist in the war, why not, the target of Ben and the Korean servant army is naturally the power of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, and the war with Tsarist Russia is inevitable, just waiting for the right time.

The second industrial revolution of the empire has begun to emerge, in the first industrial revolution, many technological inventions are derived from the practical experience of craftsmen, science and technology have not yet been truly combined, China has caught up with the tail, and these technologies are not difficult to absorb. The second industrial revolution, the new development of natural science, began to be closely integrated with industrial production, and China will become the beginning of the second industrial revolution, which will play an immeasurable role in narrowing the gap with the developed countries in Europe.

In fact, China has become the world's leader in many technological fields, but its industrial base is weak, although it has developed rapidly for ten years, compared with the industrial production capacity of developed countries in Europe, the gap is still extremely obvious, and the tide of the second industrial revolution will undoubtedly make China greatly accelerate the pace of catching up with the European powers.

"Grandpa Sarava, you should meet, right?" The matchmaker said again.

Ye Zhao nodded slightly and said, "Wait for this busy period to pass." ”

If you want to say that Li Yu can really stand up, the imperial doctor has issued critical illness notices several times, but he has survived, perhaps, the imperial doctor he sent helped him renew his life?

However, his body and bones will definitely not be able to stand up for a long journey, and this time Concubine Jin and the adopted Xiaoyuan Jun came to China, no matter what, they have to be entertained well.

Xiao Yuanjun was just six years old, and he heard that he was extremely smart, so he wanted to see him.

Thinking of the little brother Zailian again, is it more than ten years this year? handed it over to Rui Si to "concentrate on learning", but I don't know what's going on, this year's New Year, Niu Colu is still asking, I want to see him.

Myself, it's time to go and see him, I was negligent for a while, I forgot about him a long time ago, just Ruisi's heart, didn't kill him, right? I haven't asked about it, maybe Rui Si thought that he deliberately didn't mention it, which was a hint.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhao sweated a little, although he was used to life and death, but after all, he was a child, and if he was killed because of his own negligence, he would be guilty.

At this moment, the guards came to report that Boss Su had arrived.

Ye Zhao hurriedly ordered to attract Dongnuan Pavilion to talk, and said to the matchmaker: "I haven't seen my uncle for a long time!" He took the matchmaker's hand and went to sit down in the Dongnuan Pavilion.

It didn't take much effort, the footsteps sounded, the bead curtain was provoked by the guards, Su Laoda's burly figure flashed, he wanted to kneel down when he entered the warm pavilion, and said: "The grass people Su Ah Da give the emperor and the concubine Niangniang a greeting." Ye Zhao had already walked up and pulled him up, and said with a smile: "Big brother, we don't have these rules, come, sit down." ”

Boss Su went to Australia a while ago, and the Taiping army fled to Australia on an armed contact, occupied a gold mine, of course, need to pay taxes to the British and Australian authorities, last year's New Year, Boss Su once came to Yanjing City, but at that time Ye Zhao was fighting in the Western Regions, speaking of which, the two have not seen each other for a long time.

Boss Su got up, scratched his head, and said with a smile: "Originally, the eldest brother let people take advantage of it, but my eldest brother, I took advantage of you, I want to have another sister, and I will give it to you, I'm afraid you won't like it." ”

Ye Zhao laughed, and the matchmaker said angrily: "Brother! "Boss Su is the only relative in her world, and the only person who can't refute the lesson.

Ye Zhao looked at the scar on Boss Su's face, sighed with emotion, and said: "Big brother, when you come back this time, don't go to Xinjinshan, that's the territory of the British, if something happens, it's too late to pick you up for a while." ”

Boss Su smiled and said, "That's nothing, me, if you really tell me to be stable, I'm not used to it." ”

After taking a sip of tea, Boss Su said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, you must have heard that new gold mines are often found in the area of Xinjin Mountain, in my opinion, how much gold there is in the entire big island, can we get it from the British?" ”

Ye Zhao was silent for a while, and shook his head, Australia, which is much closer to China than Africa, is rich in mineral resources, what do you really want, what do people value nowadays is only gold mines, but the richness of its iron ore and copper ore is actually more breathtaking.

However, if you intend to get involved in Australia, it is equivalent to declaring war with Britain, the tiger whiskers of the world hegemon are not easy to touch, and now in war with Britain, the British are only afraid of relying on the Indian fleet, they are afraid that they will be able to crack their navy, and they are not afraid to provoke thorns with France, who told him that he does not have a fleet all over the world, in the East, he is really not afraid of a war with France, of course, the ensuing consequences are also unpredictable, such as if the aftermath cannot be dealt with, Chinese merchant ships will not go to Europe.

Boss Su was a little unconvinced, and said, "Are the British so strong?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled, waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about this, big brother, I discussed with the matchmaker, you should also become a family, what's the matter, do you want me to be a matchmaker?" Is there a girl you like in Beijing? ”

Boss Su was a little embarrassed, and his words were a little stammering: "This ......, this ......"

The matchmaker persuaded: "Brother, it's time for you to start a family, otherwise, I'll help you get an idea!" ”

Forced to be forced, Boss Su stammered: "I'm in Xinjinshan, I know, I know a ghost girl......" His face turned red, and he couldn't say any more.

Ye Zhao smiled and said in his heart, Okay, you have opened the foreign meat. I don't know how to say this, and it seems frivolous.

The matchmaker looked at her in surprise, the eldest brother who had always been decent, and was speechless for a while.

(To be continued)