On a winter day, at the Mén Pier in Macao, a slender ship with a high mast and low board side was berthed, its sails and hull were weathered, and the blue background white fork red cross flag on the bow of the ship

It was also in tatters, and the sailors cheered when they stepped on the dock. **Free book TXT e-book download**

The three of them stepped off the pedal first, and the middle-aged gentleman in the lead looked at the bustling city of Ao Mén behind the pier, and said with emotion: "Finally arrived in Tartary in 1729...... No, Seris......"

"Sir Lawrence? Colonel Morton? Mr. Charfi? ”

One person beckoned under the pedal, and the three took off their hats in order, matching their identities one by one.

"Mr. BōPoul? If you don't take it seriously, you'll think you're a Seris. ”

The middle-aged gentleman was none other than Sir Lawrence, and it took a long squint to see that the man in the robes and the sorghum crown was a blond compatriot.

The East India Company's envoy to Cyster gave Bō Poole a fist in salute, and then stretched out his arms: "Do as the locals do...... I just went to a banquet for the Australian Mén Chamber of Commerce, please ...... I thought you would only arrive next year, but is Congress starting to get anxious? ”

Sir Lawrence shook his head: "The affairs of your East India Company, Congress does not want to take too much care of it now. But His Majesty the King, the Minister of Wobōr, as well as the Navy and the Royal Society, all took a great interest in Seris, so they ...... The three of us, His Majesty's Sī Envoy, the Naval Envoy and the Society Envoy, do not represent Parliament and all of Britain. ”

Guiding the three of them into the carriage, Bō Pur said, "Wo Bōer will definitely regret it!" Congress will regret it! If we don't establish a formal relationship with Seris sooner, we in Britain will be isolated from the whole world! The power that Seris has shown in Myanmar, has no one in the country seen it clearly? The Spanish and French envoys had been waiting for Emperor Seris in Whampoa for two months, and the closer they were to Seris, the harder it would be for us in Britain to benefit from it in the East......"

Although the person next to Lawrence was in civilian clothes, his waist was straight, and he said disdainfully: "The war in Burma is just the war of your East India Company, and if you lose, of course, you must raise the strength of your opponent." Doesn't it mean that the Navy of the Seris is already comparable to our Mediterranean Fleet? From Malacca to Eagle Yang Harbor, and then to Mén, all you see are large cruisers, and your East India Company fleet was defeated by those single-deck cruisers? ”

Bō Poole sighed, "That's your bad luck, Colonel Morton. The main fleet of the Cyris had gone to the north, and although their battleships had only two gun decks, they were all equipped with guns more powerful than thirty-six pounders, and even our second-class battleships could not win one-on-one, not to mention that our East India Company ships were all armed merchant ships. ”

Colonel Morton pinched his mustache and realized: "Artillery...... Major Clinton said that the Cyris's army was generally armed with rifled guns, which were of little significance, but that the Cyris's rifled guns were unusual and could hit a mén from a distance of 2,000 yards. Both the Navy and the Army are interested in rifled guns, and if they can figure out how to make them......"

Bō Poole waved his hand: "This is the magic weapon of the Serisians, they are very tightly guarded, and even the Portuguese who have the best relationship with them are not able to do it." Unless the kingdom comes up with valuable chips and wants to spy on ...... The heads of more than a dozen spies of the East India Company's colonial faction are still hanging at the mouth of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau. ”

The third person was Charfi, the special envoy of the Royal Society, who said eagerly: "Steam engine! I'm here to find out how the Seris used the steam engine, which can only cō water, for iron, weaving, and papermaking. Before his death, Sir Newton once said with a sigh of relief that the power to be stable and unaffected is the cornerstone of transforming the old world, and why the Seris are ahead of the curve, while we in Britain are lagging behind! "...,Bō Poole said weakly: "There are dozens of heads hanging on the Hong Kong Customs, all of them are sī steam engines." ”

Sir Lawrence said hatefully: "What an advanced and barbaric civilization......"

As the carriage entered the city, the sound of firecrackers poured in, and Lawrence asked in surprise, "Did we remember the wrong time?" It's not the Cūn festival of the Seris yet, is it? ”

Bō Poole first praised Lawrence's understanding of Ceris culture, and then said with a beaming face: "Ceris has recovered Gangnam!" The Tatar Emperor to the north humiliated himself and sued for peace with Emperor Seris! The people of Seris celebrated all over the country, and firecrackers were set off every day for half a month, ready to be put on the Cūn Festival! ”

Before leaving, the three of them only read a little bit of Seris's cultural knowledge, and they had no concept of this matter at all.

Charfi frowned and said: "I heard that the territory of the Seris people is already very vast, larger than France, and the population is more than that of France, what is the point of recovering Jiangnan?" Like Calais of the French? ”

Bō Poole lamented the ignorance of his compatriots: "Seris was destroyed by the Tatars for more than eighty years, and only a fraction of the land previously recovered...... It's like Wales compared to England and Scotland. Jiangnan is England to the Serisians, and after recovering Gangnam, Seris was restored to the land of five hundred years ago......"

Bō Poole was stunned, and the brains of the three Britons were dizzy, and it was difficult to figure out what the relationship between Seris 2,000 years ago, Seris a thousand years ago, Seris 500 years ago, Seris 300 years ago and Seris now, but the common point is very clear, these Ceris are all great countries with unparalleled wealth and power in the world.

Originally, Lawrence and Morton were still very dissatisfied with Bō Poole's praise of the current Seris, and Bō Poole gave two figures to make them speechless, "After the recovery of Jiangnan, the population of Seris is estimated to be 90 million to 100 million, and the revenue of the central government ...... Last year, it was already 50 million taels of silver. ”

Charfi also breathed a sigh of relief, Britain now has a population of just over six million, and its fiscal revenue is less than 10 million pounds, which is converted into 30 million taels of silver......

Lawrence sighed: "So we have to carefully assess the impact of the rise of Seris on Britain, which is why we came to Australia first, instead of going directly to Whampoa to visit Emperor Seris." ”

Bō Poole shrugged his shoulders and paid a direct greeting to Emperor Seris? Didn't you just say that even the envoys of the kings of Spain and France have been waiting for His Majesty the Emperor for two months, and just by virtue of your status as envoys of the Sī people, you are not the representative of the East India Company's retail merchants and the company's envoy to Seriste, and you really don't have the heart to pick up you fools who are blind and arrogant......

Pressing down on the disdainful thought, Bō Poole smiled: "Don't think about business yet, it's the carnival of the Seris people, all the restaurants are free and festive, and tonight I will go and eat the seafood of the Serisian style!" ”

He added: "Tell the captain that the girls of the western part of Australia are also being treated for free, so don't miss this great opportunity for the sailors on board......"

took out another thing and shook it: "I just have to buy this new set, otherwise the girls won't take customers." ”

The three of them looked at each other, their breathing a little cloudy, and Charfi asked, "Is it Miss Seris?" ”

Bō Poole corrected: "There are Annam, Siam, Japanese, Luzon, and even Portuguese and Spanish, but there is no Seris...... There are some in the city of Guangzhou, but they are only in the business of the Serisians. ”

The three of them scolded at the same time: "Racial discrimination! ”

After a while, the horse-drawn carriage drove into the center of the city of Mén, and the firecrackers and cheerers were like a sea of cáo, drowning them all.

In December of the tenth year of the Holy Dao, Chinese New Year's Eve is approaching, north to Yuezhou, south to Malacca, west to Myanmar, east to Ryukyu, people's hearts are immersed in piping hot mì juice, sweet to thick, smoked like drunk. ..., the decisive battle of the Yangtze River ended, and Yinghua recovered Jiangnan, Huguang and Sichuan, and the territory has shown the pattern of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Manchu Qing in the north was baffled by the general trend, and two emperors collapsed one after another, and the Qianlong Emperor, who is now in power, grovelled and signed the "Anglo-Qing Peace Agreement", recognizing the Shengdao Emperor as the uncle emperor, respecting the south and the north, and thus making peace with each other.

It has been nearly two years since the comprehensive mobilization of the British and Chinese, and millions of people have not returned all year round. Although all walks of life have made a lot of war money, the hard work of continuous rotation is indeed somewhat irresistible. The court and the government were also almost divided by the complicated affairs of the past two years, and the affairs of Xinfudi were even more like a mountain, pressing the newborn administrative system to almost collapse.

This is the war of the Anglo-Chinese National Mobilization, from the people to the court, the heart has been exhausted, and it can stop with this brilliant result, and the whole country is excited, but also takes a long breath. The new country, the first national uprising, 300,000 troops attacked from several sides, the political situation in the country was stable, and the industrial, commercial and agricultural industries could still benefit, which has made the traditional thinking of the country face up to its own mechanism and strength again.

Enough is enough, it's time to take a break......

Spread over a vast territory of millions of kilometers, the officers and soldiers and civilians all think so.

Enough, it's time to count the money, start a family, build a house, have children, and enjoy yourself......

Farmers, craftsmen, and proprietors of firms' workshops all thought so.

That's enough, it's time to reward meritorious deeds and add officials to knighthood......

Officials in the Privy Council, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the local government offices all thought so.

Enough, my voice is hoarse, my wrist is sore, it's time to put pen to paper, and earn a half-official position in the land of Xinfu......

In the past two years, there has been a lot of noise all day long, and the students who are full of enthusiasm have been thinking so.

Enough, the bonds are almost gone, the total number of bonds is twenty or thirty million, I sweat all over when I think about it, and then think about my commission, I have to count the silver to the hand......

Ticket numbers, banks, and brokers in the financial industry on Fish Head Street all thought so.

Enough, there are too many holes dug, when will it be filled one by one......

Xue Xue, Chen Wance and other advisers had a headache for the unfinished matters left by the previous national policy of "first south and then north, from west to east".

The Northwest has a different affair and has to concentrate on dealing with it. Nian Qianyao took the chestnut in the fire, picked up 7,000 Manchus and returned to the north, and seemed to have taken in hundreds of Han military camp gunners. Although Ortai and Tian Wenjing were imprisoned, it was difficult to guarantee that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not make small moves. And the various light and dark terms agreed by the two sides also need to be carefully mentioned.

Enough, our Yinghua has restored the Song Dynasty, the world of Shenzhou, the position of Huaxia Zhengshuo has been firmly seated, and the Tartar emperors have all regarded us as the upper kingdom of the Shu Dynasty, so it is time to stop and taste the luscious taste of this victory!

All the people of a country think so, even the most enthusiastic main battle faction, at this time, it is difficult to shout that they will cross the Yellow River and recover the whole of China. The people who do practical things are tired, and the only ones who can still jump are the mouth cannons......

At the end of December of the 10th year of the Holy Word, the Anglo-Chinese countries welcomed the coming New Year with joy, and the significance of this new year was extraordinary.

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