Chapter 363: Family Affairs, State Affairs, and World Affairs
The Qing Dynasty was vigorously arming its troops, and Russia was reorganizing its army. A huge conflict between East and West is about to erupt, and the outcome of the conflict is enough to change the world pattern.
White Europeans are actually very tangled in their hearts. The Slavs were savage, and their greed for the land never ended. To the east, they fought with Germany, and to the south, there were ten Russo-Turkish wars, and in the Middle East, they fought with Britain, all of which were blocked to the death. So they set their sights on the territory of the Yellow Race in the Far East.
The complete defeat of Russia and the restraint of this barbaric Slavic race can be said to be the common desire of all white Europeans, but none of them are willing to pay this price alone, including Germany. Now the yellow race in the Far East wants to challenge the Slavs, if the Qing State fails, then the Slavs will inevitably go all out to establish the so-called Yellow Russia, which will pose a threat to the interests of European countries in the Far East, and once they have completely digested such a large territory in the Far East, Russia, with its rich resources in the Far East, may be so strong that the whole of Europe is not an opponent. But if the Qing can defeat the Slavs this time, Russia will languish for at least ten years. But the thought that it was the backward yellow race of the Far East who defeated the Slavs made the proud whites very uncomfortable. No matter how bad the Slavs are, they are the same Caucasian race as them, aren't they?
The tangled mentality is spreading in the hearts of white people, so the best option at this time is to wait for the outcome of the war in Qing Russia. Countries have begun to assess the impact of a Russian victory on the world situation. In the end, they still believe in their hearts that it is Russia that will win the final victory.
The eve of the Great War is always calm. But Guangxu will not allow such a calm situation. As a relatively backward China, if it wants to occupy a place in the world that has been carved up, only by stirring up the situation in the world can it open a way for China to rise.
The time when the Qing Kingdom will stir up the world again took place on December 1, 1903!! Place. The northern suburbs of Shanghai.
All the reporters held their cameras high and kept taking pictures, and they wanted to take pictures of the wooden shelves in the air. Clement? Adel flew through the air on his "Romantic". He proudly announced to the world that mankind had found wings to fly into the sky.
This is the first time in the history of mankind that it has completely relied on human power to fly into the sky, and this is the greatest invention in the history of mankind, and this is a miracle in the history of mankind. Countless noble titles were added to Adel and his "romantic" photos drifted across the sea with newspapers. The Wright brothers froze as they looked at the wooden shelves that were almost identical to the ones they had made. Adel took to the skies exactly a week earlier than them.
The world is celebrating the first time that humans have taken to the skies, but the Qing Dynasty is surprisingly calm. In the eyes of the Qing people. These foreign devils will waste money, and it is better to have these efforts than to open two more plots of land to grow some food.
North Sea. The former royal garden was opened up by Guangxu as a resting place for the military generals when they returned to Beijing, but because various measures were in place, the civil officials were indignant at the military generals' monopoly of the Beihai garden, and they had no choice but to change the Beihai Park to be open to all officials.
When Guangxu watched his children grow up. The narrow Yingtai can no longer satisfy the children's yearning for the world. They crave their peers to play and play with. At least Xiao Putian is very disgusted with the palace maids and guards in the palace, she likes to run out of the palace every day to find Li Hongzhang's granddaughter, Yan Fu's son or other officials of the same age to play, sometimes a day away, two meals at noon and night are eaten at other people's homes, if you don't go out one day, you must bully her three younger brothers who are one and a half years younger than her at home.
"Of course, children don't like their elders who only reprimand them, and since they like to play together, it's better to find a good way for them to play." Of course, Guangxu understands that captive children are of course small-sighted. If you look at Chinese history, you can understand that whether it is the founding monarch or the lord of Zhongxing. No enlightened king grew up in the palace as a child. Of course, Guangxu doesn't want his son to be a bastard who will bring disaster to the country and the people in the future. So at the beginning of last year, the Tuancheng in the south of the North Sea was cleaned up and used as a kindergarten. All children of officials in Beijing who have reached the age of three can enter the kindergarten and study free of charge.
This proposal for the emperor was approved by the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and as a descendant, he could grow up with the royal children as a descendant. This is good for the future of their family. The friendship that grew up together can always help in the future, even if the younger generations of their own family are incompetent when they grow up, they can always live without worry. This is also why Pu Tian plays everywhere and no one recognizes this as a violation of etiquette.
If you have a school, you have to have a husband. There are three types of gentlemen, the teacher teaches virtue, and the master teaches knowledge. The protector passes on his martial arts. Moral character is always the first place in the Chinese lineage, and people with bad virtue are recognized even if they have great ability. This is a custom that has been passed down for thousands of years. Knowledge and kung fu are the two most basic things for people to deal with, and they are also indispensable.
So two generations of emperors, the former Jiangnan newspaper tycoon, and the history of the first in the world, Sun Jianai, the secretary of the history department, once again served as the Taishi, when the emperor sent the three three-year-old princes to kindergarten, he sat down on the name of Sun Jianai's three generations of emperors. The position of Taifu was snatched by Li Hongzhang with power, and Li Hongzhang, who has been getting worse and worse in recent years, has gradually delegated power to Yan Fu, so he appeared in the kindergarten to teach children more and more time to write. There is no way, Li Jingfang and other sons have no hope, and now Li Hongzhang hopes that the children of his grandchildren can take the opportunity to grow up with the prince to leave a way back for the Li family. As for the post of Taibao was hung on Wang Shizhen, the children of this kindergarten are different from other children, they are all the children of the nouveau riche in the DPRK, and the successor of the Qing Dynasty in the future must have vision and mind, and as the chief of staff who commands the entire war situation, he is naturally the best candidate for Taibao.
The Taishi will tell them the stories of the noble and famous men in Chinese history and cultivate their virtues. Taifu taught them to read and write, and increased their knowledge. The Taibao told them about the world on the map, cultivating their vision and mind. As the chief of the internal guard of Shaobao, Qi Yide will teach them the basics of kung fu, as the future successor of the Qing Dynasty, it is not possible to have a strong body.
But the children's favorite is Uncle Wu Deren. Because Uncle Wu would sit among them and tell them the story of the big warship fighting the waves, especially the story of the war with the enemy, and the children who were only a few years old were enthusiastic about going to see the battle. But soon Wu Deren was ordered by the Minister of Chinese and Military Affairs of the DPRK not to enter the kindergarten again. You can tell the story of the war, why do you tell the children about the robbery of the natives? How to grab the efficiency and high income? Our children are good-natured people, and if you continue to teach, you must not be badly taught? I don't have to say, as long as Wu Deren enters the kindergarten again, he will be beaten once he sees it. I hadn't seen Uncle Wu for a long time, which made the children very disappointed for a while.
On the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the last court meeting of each year will be held. The emperor of the Taihe Palace and the civil and military officials summarized the work content of this year, praised the achievements and explained the shortcomings. Then plan what you want to do next year and look forward to the future. After the court meeting, the emperor sealed the seal and the official sealed the pen. The national holiday officially begins until the seventh day of the Lunar New Year of the following year.
Guangxu, who changed out of court clothes, and the ministers came to the royal kindergarten in a car, because this day was also the day of the kindergarten holiday. Since the kindergarten was established, the first thing the officials of the next dynasty did was to pick up their children and grandchildren and go home with them.
"Daddy-" Pu Tian was the first to run out with a small schoolbag. Holding several coins in his hand, he kept shaking. Guangxu did not allow his children to call his father, because there was always a sense of alienation of a monarch and a minister in it.
Guangxu squatted down with a smile and asked the daughter who ran in front of him: "What's the matter with your money?" ”
"This is my daughter's own earnings!" Pu Tian said happily: "The hairpin given to me by my grandmother is very beautiful, and many girls in our kindergarten like it." I called my grandmother, and she sent me a lot of beautiful hairpins, and I gave them them, and many boys bought them for their sisters. You see, that's how much money my daughter makes. After speaking, he proudly put the money under Guangxu's eyelids to show off.
When I'm so old, I'm still rolling in the mud, and my daughter, who is not yet six years old, will be in business? Seeing other children with hairpins showing off to their fathers, Guangxu was full of black lines. Hesitated. Guangxu asked cautiously: "Girl, does the price you sell count the money and shipping cost of grandma's purchase?" ”
"Forget it, my mother will help me do the math." Pu Tian took down his schoolbag and opened it for Guangxu to see: "Daddy, look." This is the cost of the hairpin, can you help me give it to my grandmother? ”
There will always be a day when children will grow up, and one day they will have to take control of their own money. Since childhood, I have been exposed to money and calculate money, even if I don't know how to lose something, it doesn't matter, won't I lose when I grow up? Guangxu suddenly smiled: "Grandma won't come to our house for the New Year today, and you will go to grandma's house for the summer vacation next year." When you hand it over to your grandmother, she will be even happier. ”
Pu Tian happily stuck to Guangxu's arms and coquettishly. The three boys who followed behind were extremely envious of their sister. My sister can be coquettish, but the three of them will definitely be beaten by their daddy. Because Daddy said that boys are not to be spoiled.
"My girl is amazing, and she can make money at a young age. Daddy kisses one. Guangxu and his daughter made love for a while and said: "But girl, you see that your father has helped your baby princess advance money for four years, do you want to settle this fee first?" Don't you say you don't know? ”
"Isn't the baby princess a gift from her father to her daughter?"
"The Baby Princess is naturally a birthday gift from my father to my daughter, but this ship needs to use coal to drive, and it always needs to be maintained on weekdays. If you don't have any money, you have to pay the people on the ship, or they won't starve to death." It's been your father's money for you all these years, and now you will make money, although this is not enough to have expenses over the years, so it's okay to settle a part of it first. After speaking, Guangxu reached out and took away the money in Pu Tian's hand, and then stood up and beckoned the children home.
Pu Tian looked at his empty hands and his father who was stuffing money into his trouser pocket, and suddenly a wave of grievances came up and he opened his mouth and cried. Surrounded by high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the court, they don't care that their children buy hairpins from the eldest princess as a child's game, who can still lack these two money. But the eldest princess suddenly burst into tears, and these high-ranking officials and dignitaries stepped forward to check.
"Grandpa Li-" Pu Tian hugged Li Hongzhang's feet and choked up, "Daddy bullied me, wow-"
Li Hongzhang hugged Pu Tian and coaxed: "Your Highness doesn't cry, tell grandpa what's going on, grandpa will help you make the decision." ”
"Daddy, Daddy snatched all my money. Woo-"
"Hey. Girl, you can't talk nonsense. Guangxu took the money and patted it in his hand: "This is to pay the wages of the crew on your baby princess." ”
Pu Tian doesn't care, anyway, the money she just earned was snatched away by her father. This will lie on Li Hongzhang's shoulder, tears and saliva will wet Li Hongzhang's clothes. Li Hongzhang finally figured out what was going on, and complained to Guangxu with an angry face: "You are the emperor of a country, and you are the father of the child, but you are competing with your daughter for this little profit, where is the royal atmosphere and the tolerance of being a father?" ”
"I'm her father, yes, she's not an underage. Eat mine, use mine, and use mine. But the baby princess is in her name, and now she will make money. Naturally, you have to pay your own profits and losses. Saying this, Guangxu was not embarrassed at all, but had a reasonable expression.
Without waiting for Li Hongzhang to open his mouth to refute, Lin Qizhao on the side laughed and hugged Pu Tian from Li Hongzhang's arms: "Uncle told you." Not only has your baby princess never lost money, but it also makes a lot of money every year. ”
"But my father's salary and coal money for the people on the ship are my father." Pu Tian finally stopped crying, but the tears on his face were still flowing.
"The Baby Princess doesn't stop there, and when there's nothing to do, the Princess will be used as a cruise ship to carry people and cargo, and the income here is more than paying salaries and coal money. In other words, even if the Princess is self-financed, the Princess is profitable. As for the cost of your father, it is a matter of course that your daughter eats her father. ”
"Hey, hey, hey. I said Lin Qizhao, why don't I know about the profit of the princess? ”
"The accounts of this princess are reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs every year, and the emperor can't blame Weichen for not checking them carefully." Lin Qizhao helped Pu Tian wipe away his tears: "Your Highness didn't cry. The money that the Princess makes. Uncle will help you save it in the Daqing Bank! ”
Pu Tian stopped crying, and scrambled to lie down from Lin Qizhao, and stretched out his little hand to Guangxu: "If you are responsible for your own profits and losses, you will be responsible for your own profits and losses, and now return my money to me." ”
Guangxu was very embarrassed, and after hesitating for a long time, he returned the money he had just collected to Pu Tian: "Forget it before, this time our father and daughter can talk about it." In the future, your baby princess will be responsible for its own profits and losses. ”
Pu Tian ignored Guangxu. Just look down and count the money, for fear that your father will take a few tickets. The eldest son of the emperor, Pu Le, ran to his sister very doggedly and said, "Eldest sister." You've made money, do you want us something? ”
"Okay." Pu Tian lifted the money and said in a milky voice: "Let's go." ”
"Ou-" After a loud shout, Pu Tian ran away with his three younger brothers and a large group of children. Guangxu saw it, it was more than ten yuan, enough for a family of three to live in the capital for a month. Guangxu pouted and motioned for Qi Yide to lead someone to follow.
Everyone else left, only Guangxu looked at the children who were gone and smiled bitterly. Li Hongzhang saw the supreme beings around him and stepped forward: "Why is the emperor like this?" ”
"As a royal family, you should set an example for all people. Although the princess is small, she is no exception. ”
"Although the emperor is as holy as a god, he is far away from the emperor. I'm afraid that this artistic conception can't be passed on to the end. ”
"Someone once said to me: The upper middle is crooked and the bottom is rotten. The factories under my name did not dare to evade taxes, and I myself was responsible for distinguishing between the treasury and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and I did not use a single cent of the treasury revenue. Not to mention some officials evading taxes, they dare to openly embezzle the local treasury for their own use, really thinking that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and I, the real dragon, can't suppress them? ”
"The big war is just around the corner, and the domestic situation should not be shaken at this time. Please also ask the emperor to think twice. ”
"For thousands of years, China's laws have always been too partial to officials and nobles, so that they are only for money. How can such an official undertake the heavy task of rejuvenating China? Officials and nobles can be treated preferentially, but they can't lose their bottom line. The laws of the Qing Dynasty are complicated, and I intend to follow the laws of the Western powers and redefine my Chinese laws. Guangxu's words are no longer asking whether to re-establish the law.
Li Hongzhang naturally understood what the emperor meant, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Wu Tingfang, the waiter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ”
"Let him go when the New Year is over. Tell him to carefully study the laws of the great powers, but not to copy them rigidly, and to make a set of laws that suit China's actual national conditions in light of China's actual conditions. ”
"The old minister understands, so I'll go and inform Wu Shilang."
"In addition, I will give those people a month to make up for the tax stolen and the embezzled treasury. Otherwise, if you have a life to make money, you have to have a life to spend, and I still have a bunch of reserve officials who have nowhere to arrange. (To be continued)