While waiting for the decision of the emperor, Ye Zhao bought a bunch of Western things to bring back to the capital for use, and even Lawyer Hall's camera was bought by Ye Zhao at a discount.

In Lawyer Hall's elegant living room, drinking fragrant coffee, Ye Zhao discussed with Hall with great interest the possible surname of building a cannery.

In these days' contact, Hall has thrown himself into the ground for the five bodies that Ye Zhao has already worshipped, and this Lord Qincha is too knowledgeable, in Chinese words, it is simply "talented and rich".

Hall is an astronomy enthusiast in China, and Ye Zhao talked to him about astronomy, saying that the solar system is not the center of the Milky Way, and the birth of an astronomical telescope with better observation effect can prove his point.

Hall was greatly surprised, the consensus that the solar system is the center of the Milky Way and the Western celestial realm is the only way for him to overturn this consensus in a conclusive way?

After arguing a few words, Ye Zhao smiled and said: "There is a saying in China, man is the spirit of all things, and the West has a similar view since ancient times, but you must know that the vast universe is not born for human beings, hundreds of years ago, Eastern and Western civilizations believed that all things and stars move around the earth, and a hundred years ago they all thought that the stars in the sky were centered on the sun. Mr. Hall, do you think that's the case? ”

The words made Hall nod silently, and he felt that Ye Zhao's words were true.

A few days ago, Ye Zhao took out a "business plan" according to his statement, but it was a plan to build an arsenal on the American continent under the advantage of an industrial gunpowder factory, and the plan analyzed in detail the sharp contradictions between the interest groups in the north and south of the United States, and predicted that a war between the north and the south would be inevitable, and the establishment of an arsenal in the United States would allow you to get close to the water and make a lot of war money, of course, this will have to wait until the gunpowder factory can take root in the United States.

In this plan, Ye Zhao asked the Horto people to seal and bring it back to England for Wells to see.

Today, Ye Zhao talked about the cannery, and pointed out that the food [***] is caused by microorganisms, and the high temperature can kill this kind of bacteria that cause the food [***].

Although canning in continental Europe has always been made using boiling water and then sealing, it is only known that it allows food to be preserved for a longer period of time, and no one knows how it works.

Hall was amazed to hear this, and said that when he returned home, he would definitely ask the biologists of the Royal Academy of Sciences to prove it.

Whether it is a plan or a plan, Ye Zhao is boastful in front of Hall, the purpose is nothing more than one, to let Wells know how wonderful the prospect of cooperation with himself is, if not the businessman forgets his righteousness, and is far away from England, now the Suez Canal has not been opened, if the wind is not smooth, I am afraid that it will take a year to go, I am afraid that Wells will have an idea, so he kicked himself aside, and the two so-called authorization documents in his hand are no different from waste paper.

Ye Zhao also knows that he may be able to plagiarize some small technology inventions at present, but if he does not place them on the European continent, he will never be able to obtain the maximum benefits, let alone provide the greatest boost for his future development. Giving the patent to Wells was a big gamble. If you win, the road ahead is smooth, even if you lose, you are just plagiarizing other people's technology, what is the pity? When this road is not passed, it is returned to others. If you can't see through this bit of the world, you will be reborn in vain.

However, the canning factory he is talking about now, Ye Zhao really hopes to build one in Shanghai, and he has spare money in his hand, so he wants to build a small factory, and it costs more than 10,000 taels of silver.

Ye Zhao didn't expect the cannery to make any money, although there was a market for the merchant ships that came and went to the Shanghai docks, but if the 10,000 taels of silver were to buy some goods, how profitable would it be to travel between Shanghai and London? Who would put their money into such an investment with uncertain prospects in the short term?

Ye Zhao didn't know much about military affairs, but he also knew that canned food equipping the army was a milestone in the history of military supplies, and it was of great significance to reduce the burden of the army and supply the army.

Although lawyer Hall persuaded him, Ye Zhao still insisted on his opinion with a smile, and lawyer Hall seemed to think of something, smiled slightly, and began to help Ye Zhao analyze the viable surname of the cannery, but finally found that he had to configure a small glass factory to produce utensils for canned food.

Ye Zhao didn't care, so he asked Lawyer Hall to write a letter or send someone back to England to buy equipment that could not be purchased in China.

Lawyer Hall smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Ye can rest assured that the equipment and equipment required by the factory do not necessarily have to be purchased in mainland Europe, but only need to be purchased from Calcutta." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, but no, the first railway in Mumbai, India has been opened to traffic, but the Qing Empire used snowflake silver to redeem the first railway in China built by British merchants in Shanghai twenty years later, and then the railway was demolished and the roadbed was filled.

How can this land be changed by a mere government-led Westernization movement?

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December 24 of the third year of Xianfeng, in fact, it was January 23, 1854.

Several edicts finally arrived in Shanghai, among which the "cabinet sent an edict", praising Xu Naizhao and other officials for exterminating the Little Knife Society thieves in a few months, saying, "Qing and others have done their best, day and night, and have been able to sweep the number of annihilations. It is also known as "the thief has been defeated repeatedly, and the strategy is to suppress the line, and it is appropriate to take the opportunity to sweep quickly and take precautions." ”

In the edict, all officials were rewarded, such as Xu Naizhao added the rank of the right attendant of the military department, and the lower part was preferential. Qiao Songnian of Suzhou Prefecture was promoted to a Taoist, rewarded Hualing, and at the same time awarded Changzhen Tonghaidao and so on.

In this edict, he also mentioned the negotiation affairs of the Jiang Customs, saying that "the sea border is peaceful and the barbarians are the head", and Ye Zhao is also called "diligent in the completion of the work, the thief is advised, the young and the old are successful, and the worries are relieved", and he was named a first-class general of the Zhenguo and returned to Beijing for use.

Obviously, Ye Zhao's military merits have been added to the merits of razing affairs, and he has been promoted to three levels in a row, and he has the title of general of Zhenguo, but for the children of the clan, it is not a great title, and there are many people who are in the infancy to seal the prince of the country and Beile, but Prince Zheng is in his prime, and Ye Zhao is obviously going to send an errand after returning to Beijing, which is different from those yellow belts who are only raised by titles.

Wu Jianzhang was naturally also stained, and with Su Songtai, a Taoist and the political envoy of Jiangsu, he changed from a Taoist to a feudal lord.

Thinking back to the scenes after coming to Shanghai, Ye Zhao could only sigh that his fortune was at the head, but he thought that this trip was difficult, who knew that he had taken advantage of it again and again, first because of Su Hongniang's relationship with the knife club, and then used Su Hongniang's name to persuade the knife club to give up the county seat of Shanghai, so that the battle of Mud City did not develop according to the historical trajectory at all, and recovered Shanghai City, and made himself not fall behind in the negotiations with Ali Guo and others, plus he judged the situation and assessed the situation. Negotiating with them according to Western thinking, and a series of accidents such as the pro-soldiers making trouble in the concession, finally made the merit of this errand complete.

Ye Zhao laughed at himself for being so lucky, but in fact, step by step, which step was not carefully conceived by him? Perhaps only the pro-soldiers in the concession can be regarded as an unexpected episode.

At the same time as receiving the edict, Ye Zhao also received two letters from home, one was written by the prince, and there was nothing serious, just hoping that his beloved son would return to Beijing as soon as possible.

And the other letter surprised Ye Zhao, but it was written by Su Shun, who had just given the left servant of the household department, that is, his uncle in this world. You must know that Ye Zhao rarely had anything to do with him in the past, and Su Shun is also shrewd and capable, although the relationship between his brother Prince Zheng and Emperor Xianfeng in this life is not so harmonious, he still has a smooth career, and Emperor Xianfeng has reigned for just three years, and he has gradually emerged.

However, when it comes to titles, Su Shun can't be compared with his brother who inherited the king's reign, he is no more than an auxiliary general, and Ye Zhao is a grade higher than him at a young age.

In the letter to Ye Zhao, Su Shun mentioned that the imperial court may open the ban outside the customs, and Su Shun, the left servant of the household department, is obtained for this reason, if the holy will is decided, Su Shun is afraid that the prime minister will relocate the people.

Speaking of which, the Northeast may have been banned a few years earlier because of Prince Zheng's excerpt, not long after Ye Zhao left Beijing, Jing Chun, the general of Jilin outside the Guan, said that traces of Russians had been found in the area of Haji Bay.

Historically, due to the implementation of the Void Frontier Policy in the Northeast, the area of Eastern Siberia was inaccessible, and the Russians had no way of knowing about the encroachment on the Qing government axe in the area around Sakhalin, and even fewer people went to Sakhalin Island and the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. Even when the Russians had completed the actual occupation and sent Lieutenant General Muravyov to negotiate with the Qing government on the redrawing of the borders in the Far East, the Qing had no idea that the back garden had been occupied, and thought that they were discussing the long-pending border issue of the Udi River.

But now that Ye Zhao has been vaccinated in advance, and received a secret report from General Jilin, there will definitely be a fierce discussion in the court, judging from Su Shun's letter, the voice outside the ban seems to have been supported by Emperor Xianfeng, but how to open the ban, where to ban the land, how to move into the Han people, how to manage the Han people, and what is the scale of the move into the Han people? And so on, I'm afraid it will have to go through these ministers to have a good debate.

In the letter, Su Shun really praised Ye Zhao a few words, and said that when his nephew returned to Beijing, his uncle would definitely talk to Ye Zhao all night.

Ye Zhao knew that his uncle had a lot of talents, but he was too arrogant, he didn't have many skills in political struggle, and he had a grudge with the Empress Dowager Dong, which made his fate tragic.

And in this life, how will history develop?

Ye Zhao didn't know, and he couldn't guess, so he had to take one step at a time!

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The golden lacquer signboard of Juxian Lou shines under the scorching sound, tasting tea, Ye Zhao looks out from the carved vermilion wooden window, sighs softly in his heart, the sparse pedestrians on the long street, the rows of vegetable vendors not far away, it seems that everyone is in low spirits, and his expression is sluggish.

This is a newly opened teahouse on the second floor of the pavilion, Ye Zhao and Su Boss sit on a red sandalwood five-legged jade inlaid round stool, on the mahogany tea table, there is a small tea tray with two dragons playing beads fancy carved lacquer, white jade-like official kiln porcelain bowl, the tea fragrance is elegant, a piece of utensils, all are of the highest quality, it is no wonder that the tea price between the second floor pavilion is seven cents of silver.

Boss Su had a thin gauze covering his face, and it seemed that the wound healed quickly.

The trip to Shanghai made Ye Zhao feel that there was a shortage of manpower, and when he returned to Beijing, the old master was afraid that he would have to stay in Shanghai for a while longer, the canning factory was handled by Hall, and the managers and technicians were recruited by Hall from the European continent or India, but the old master needed to recruit Chinese workers and apprentices, and he couldn't just hire foreign workers all the time in a simple canning factory.

Moreover, Ye Zhao hopes that through this cannery, he can successfully sell a concept to Chinese businessmen in Shanghai, that is, Western technology is not as mysterious as imagined, and it is not difficult to train skilled workers who do not need to master theory.

Civilizing the people's wisdom is not an overnight thing, and the emergence of skilled workers will temporarily become some form of enlightenment.

Ye Zhao also thought about running a newspaper, but after reading several Chinese-language newspapers brought by lawyer Hall's dignitaries from Hong Kong, all of them were run by foreign businessmen, and they were nothing more than a tool for foreign businessmen to criticize the British political axe in Hong Kong, just like the British businessman Delun was attacking Hong Kong's Governor Bao Ling through the newspaper "Friends of China" at length, venting his dissatisfaction with the inadequacy of water supply facilities on Hong Kong Island.

If he was not in Shanghai, he was afraid that it would be difficult to run a newspaper with new ideas to develop the habit of Chinese businessmen reading newspapers, so Ye Zhao could only talk to Hall about his ideas in this regard, and asked him to help him find newspaper talents, and talk about the rest later.

Another errand that the old master stayed in Shanghai to do was to run a school with the help of Hall, and the church schools in Hong Kong and Shanghai were actually enlightenment education, while Ye Zhao hoped to set up two schools in Shanghai, one for men and one for women, with a secondary education level, and of course, mainly to learn simple scientific knowledge. The potential targets of the students are naturally the merchant families in the treaty ports and Hong Kong Island who have many contacts with Western countries, otherwise who would send their children to private schools where ghosts teach? And these two schools, Ye Zhao is ready to charge fees, of course, it is enough to maintain the school expenses, and the fees will also make these Chinese businessmen feel that the threshold of these two schools is very high, and it is also bright to send their children to study.

In terms of teachers, Hall negotiated with the church to provide teachers, but the school would pay the teachers a certain amount of money, and the school would offer a class in which the pastor would teach Christian doctrine for one lesson per week.

It seems that the old master is going to stay in Shanghai for a while, and the filial piety of nearly 20,000 taels of silver that Ye Zhao just got in his left hand and right hand out was all handed over to the old master.

Thinking about this matter, Ye Zhao felt that the trip to Shanghai was smooth, and he didn't pay much out of his pocket, and he really did a lot of things.

"Ye Gongzi is leaving Shanghai, right?" Boss Su wore a dress and a top hat, and now he is afraid that no one will recognize him even if he meets a fellow villager.

Ye Zhao smiled and nodded, and said, "Let's go on the second day of junior high school, you can't celebrate the New Year on the water, it's unlucky, and besides, it's not easy to hire a boat." ”

"It wasn't been a few days." Boss Su pinched the day, tomorrow Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, the day after tomorrow. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then, the matchmaker?" ”

Ye Zhaoqiang smiled: "It's time for the matchmaker to go back to Guangxi." ”

A hint of disappointment flashed on Boss Su's face, and he said faintly: "My sister, I really hope that she will go with you and live a peaceful life from now on." "Killing officials and rebelling, after all, there is no good end, what Boss Su hates most is to bring his sister into the bloody wind of rivers and lakes. And when he met Ye Zhao, he knew that this was an opportunity, don't look at Ye Zhao as if he was a hanger, but Boss Su had a feeling that if there was still a man in this world who could subdue his sister who was like a wild horse, it must be the Ye Gongzi in front of him.

It is because no matter what Ye Zhao's identity is, Boss Su hopes that the jade will succeed, and the younger sister will get rid of the bloody career from now on, and spend this life happily and peacefully, what is the use of "two arms have fought more than a hundred battles, and one shot does not fall after a thousand people"? What can be done with "galloping horses and Cao being arrogant, and thousands of foxes and squirrels are hiding and fleeing"? Girls, it's a real blessing to have a wishful husband, a hero, what if you don't have a good husband? inevitably ended up dying in a different place. Under Jiuquan, what face do you have to see your mother?

But when he heard that his sister was going back to Guangxi after all, Boss Su was disappointed, and silently dried the cup of tea.

Ye Zhao patted Boss Su's hand and said, "Matchmaker, it's not a thing in the pool, if you have to make her a canary in a cage, she will wilt, lose her original brilliance, and she won't be happy." When she gets tired and tired, she will naturally fly back to the nest. ”

Boss Su smiled bitterly and nodded: "It seems that the son is the confidant of the matchmaker, but I am afraid that the matchmaker herself will not know." ”

Ye Zhao smiled slightly, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and said, "I'll go down and take a look, big brother can sit for a while." ”

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Ye Zhao got down and hugged him, and sat at the window table Ruisi, Baksh and Alhatu sat at a table, and when they saw the master coming down, the three of them hurriedly stood up to greet him.

The vicissitudes of erhu in the lobby are the old man and young child I have seen before, but they seem to have a relationship with Ye Zhao, but they came here to sing again.

"Get out!" Suddenly, there was a crisp sound, but a table guest slapped the young child out with a mouth, and some people scolded: "What are you singing!" Defeated the lord's Xing! Get out of here! ”

The shopkeeper of the teahouse was sympathetic to the old and the young before letting them in, but at this time, seeing that he had annoyed the guests, he hurriedly stood up to play a round, and urged the old and young to leave.

"Slow!" Ye Zhao raised his hand and greeted the old and young with a smile, "Old man, come, sit here." ”

Some of the guests at that table were about to have a seizure, and one of them, a short and fat man in silk and satin, stood up, who knew that before he could speak, Rui Si was much more arrogant than them, and he attacked first, glared at them with triangular eyes and scolded: "You little rabbit cubs get out of here!" Wild with here? Let's see how capable you are? ”

Baksh and Alhattu also stood up, they were fierce and forceful, standing there like two door gods, the sight of it made people's hearts beat drums, and what was even more permeable was that when the two of them touched the long baggage on the tea table, one of them touched out a dagger with a cold light, although they came out in casual clothes, but the guy still had to bring it.

"Master, several masters, you look at my face, look at my face." The shopkeeper was so frightened that his face turned white, but after all, he couldn't ignore his own business, so he ran over to persuade him in fright, and gave the table a look at the guest, obviously a regular customer.

"Shopkeeper Hao, a few grandfathers are looking at you today!" The guests at the table said something about the scene, they all got up stupidly, threw a few copper plates on the table, and slipped out of the teahouse one by one.

Ye Zhao didn't care about their disputes, waited for the old man to approach, smiled and handed the old man a silver ticket of ten taels, and said: "Old man, singing on the street is not a solution, it's better to go back to your hometown and find a real business." ”

Xiao Er, who had the courage to come over and pour tea, saw the silver ticket, and his tongue couldn't be retracted for a long time, good guy, the reward is ten taels of silver, and this shot is too generous.

When the old man saw the silver ticket, he was also stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he hurriedly pulled the young child and asked him to kneel down and kowtow to Ye Zhao, "Huazi, hurry, thank you for your kindness." ”

Ye Zhao pulled up the young child who was about to kowtow to him, and said, "Old man, sit, sit quickly." "Turn around and call the guy for tea.

The old man is even more frightened, the old man who is kind to reward silver has seen a lot, but he has never been so generous, as for calling himself to eat tea at the same table, it is the first time in the world, what a merciful old man, but also pay attention to the difference between respect and inferiority, where can he sit at the same table with the singer to talk?

The old man couldn't refuse, Rui Si'er glared and said, "I'll tell you to sit down!" What nonsense! ”

The old man was startled, and then sat down tremblingly, Ye Zhao glanced at the black-faced young child, sighed and said: "Old man, this child is only a few years old, running around with you is not a head after all, he should be motivated to study." ”

The old man was stunned, and then smiled bitterly: "Master, it's not that I delay this child's future, she is really a girl." ”

In fact, Ye Zhao also saw that although the young child's face was full of mud, his eyebrows were beautiful, and there was a little red and glamorous beauty mole in the center of his eyebrows.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "What's wrong with the girl?" You can also study and progress, but if you can't enter a private school, you can go to the church's school! I don't need tuition, but I can also study Western studies, I see, my daughter should also be self-reliant! ”

Listening to Ye Zhao's deviant words, the old man's goatee was snorting and panting, but he didn't dare to refute his benefactor, so he had to agree indiscriminately.

The young child blinked her eyes and looked at Ye Zhao curiously, she didn't understand Ye Zhao's words, but she secretly remembered in her heart, what this beautiful little uncle said seemed to make sense compared to her grandfather.

Ye Zhao saw that the young child had been looking at him, smiled, and patted her head, Ye Zhao didn't know that the relationship between the two was not over at this time, and a few years later, the wind and clouds surged, and when the two met again, it was a different situation.

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