Chapter 285: Clearing the Obstacles

The news of the Qing court is always lagging behind, but the real Cheng dù is okay, after all, the top businessmen of this era are all in collusion with the court officials, and if they hear the situation on the front foot, they can send it to the capital on the back foot.

It's just that the level of public opinion control in the Manchu Qing Dynasty today is similar to that of the five scum of the war of the national dynasty a hundred years later, and they don't even know how to be false and wronged. Since the Yang clan put on a posture that they were determined to get along with the Qing Dynasty, the Qingliu people in the imperial court simply saved the effort of pretending and practiced military warfare wholeheartedly.

They didn't know that this was tantamount to the court's acquiescence to Yang's series of practices. Most of the people did not know that they had planned to kill them, but they were unable to control it, and for a while, all kinds of rebellious remarks spread everywhere.

Yang Haixin's commercial operation method is to insert needles and needles, and there is no respite at all.

She summoned an unusually avant-garde women's salon on the front foot, and took the opportunity to make a high-end promotion of the money-making foreign goods that had been raised for a long time. As a result, the high-end cosmetics, toiletries, stockings, underwear and fashion products that are popular all over the world immediately spread along with countless exquisite brochures!

In the winter, foreign devils from all over the world have nothing else to do, and almost all foreign women with some status have participated in the grand salon and ball. The stockings products that once caused an unprecedented sensation in this world were as ferocious in this era, immediately occupied every thigh, and led the purse of the foreigners to shrink for a year.

The toiletries that can fool billions of women in this world are comparable in impact to the atomic bomb in this era. As long as she has seen the effect with her own eyes, no woman can resist the temptation to be several years younger. I don't dare to think about eternal youth or anything. Being more beautiful than others is a must.

The most adventurous lady in the Beijing and Tianjin area. Ladies and gentlemen. Be the first to be the first victims.

Then the concubines who were ready to climb to the position of the wife all day long and dominate the body of the old man decisively joined in, and they did not hesitate to spend a lot of money.

Immediately followed by the high-end special practitioners of a large hospital, they immediately threw away the shavings oil in their hands, and all kinds of paste, water and anything were left, and all the new ones were replaced from the inside out. Since then, the gentlemen who like to come out of Beijing and Tianjin are blessed. The appearance of the woman they saw was upgraded several levels at once. But the price is also rising!

Yang Haixin's methods did not stop there, and the women's magazine, which had been carefully compiled for a long time, was released. It is a counterfeit of a fashion magazine on the bad street in the 21st century, and with the list of excellent customers counted by the "Guowen Daily", it has been distributed all over the country in the form of free reading, and almost all high-end users have been wiped out.

At the same time, the membership system is launched with a one-year subscription as the primary level, the consumption of one hundred taels is intermediate, and the full one thousand taels is the senior VIP. Further up is the bronze level of the 10,000 taels, which can enjoy personal customization business. as well as regional regular salons. The silver level of 100,000 is entitled to shares in private clubs. Become the leader of the local style. The gold-level of one million can become a promoter and shareholder, and officially board Yang's commercial aircraft carrier to make a fortune.

As for the fact that there is a diamond level of 10 million or two...... Yang Hao feels that with such a cheating number, there is no one in the world who is willing to take money to corrupt, and he can't afford to corrupt it!

But if there is none, it is not absolute. I believe that it won't be long before there will be tens of millions of assets among the shareholders related to the Yanhua Chamber of Commerce. When the time comes, someone in their family will naturally be able to enjoy this place, but whoever can come in will probably have to break their heads!

In this world, men have always earned money and women spend. When women are "pleasing to themselves", there is no upper limit to the amount of money to be spent.

Yang monopolizes the market of the whole world, exclusively provides all the goods, and dares to sell a pair of stockings for a few yuan in the future for more than a dozen taels of silver, and he is also a hundred-fold profit at the higher end - such as toiletries.

Yang Haixin is much more ferocious than Yang Hao, she sells the entire bathroom and dressing room, wardrobe, and shoe cabinet together. In the podium department store of the Oriental Book Building, the women who can stand out as long as they go in have basically caused countless debts to their men.

The most vicious thing is that she used this to issue a series of banknotes, in the ratio of one dollar to one gram of gold, in the decimal system of corners, cents, and cents, as the only purchasing volume for goods in the American Concession and the entire Yanhua Chamber of Commerce. If you want to buy the goods produced by the Yang family, you can only exchange real money and silver for huàn and then buy it, and the banknotes of other foreign devils, I'm sorry, I don't recognize it.

As a result, with the publication of tens of thousands of magazines, the commercial channels throughout the world have rapidly expanded and doubled. In this world, a magazine editorial team composed of more than a dozen people can earn a conservative estimate of one million taels of silver a year in subscription fees alone!

No matter how the Qingliu officials scolded the beautifully printed fashion magazines on coated paper, it was difficult to stop the tide of related products pouring into various places.

At the same time, the foreign devils in China also suddenly saw a supermarket with so much profit that they couldn't calculate it that came out, no matter what they used to do import and export to make a living, or to be an official, they all poured over.

Countless transoceanic telegrams were sent all over the world, orders poured in like snowflakes, and almost overnight, the capital of the Yanhua Chamber of Commerce skyrocketed several times. All the cargo ships that can run long distances along the coast of China are fully ordered, and no matter what they pulled before, they are all unloaded, frantically chasing the goods that Yang Haixin is stuck with the numbers.

Everyone knows that when the first batch arrives in the mainland, it is equivalent to a shipload of gold that they haul!

Under the cover of this piece of drunken gold, the war in Liaodong came to an end. The 1st Division of the New Army fought steadily, and with its strong firepower superiority, it pushed all the way from Haicheng to Phoenix. Even if Youpeng in Shan County concentrated all the remaining forces of the 3rd and 5th Divisions, he would not be able to stop the wild bombardment of hundreds of artillery pieces at every turn! Exhausted of ammunition and food, they escaped from Andong and retreated into Goryeo.

The 1st Division of the New Army stopped its pursuit on the banks of the Yalu River.

At the beginning of March 1895, the four "Weihai-class" frigates of Rizhao Shipbuilding were launched, and the two warships "Zhenyuan" and "Laiyuan" were also refitted. In this way, a huge fleet with a minimum speed of 18.5 knots was formed, and when the great powers were busy mediating, they quietly rushed out and almost wiped out the Japanese fleet led by Ito Yuhiro under the surprise attack!

To say that the Japanese are also stubborn and speechless, Ito Yuhiro commanded the scum like that, almost buried the entire powerful fleet, and they didn't even know to change someone. There are only a few capital ships left in the fleet still led by him, and he doesn't know how to keep Taoguang in obscurity, and he is still insisting on escorting the sea transport team.

They didn't suffer much damage all winter, making them mistakenly think that the opponent's striking power was nothing more than that. How did they know that Yang Haiwei was purely training the number of personnel on board the ship in order to accumulate a lot of money. Not only have the officers and men of the two upgraded warships completed their training, but the junior officers and men of the other ships of the Beiyang Naval Division also went to the training in batches in the form of rotational training.

Piloting the advanced "Weihai-class" frigates, they finally got a preliminary understanding of the weaponry and combat means that are more advanced than those of the present day. Except for a very small number of foreign devils and hardcore pipes loyal to the imperial court, with Li Hongzhang's acquiescence, the officers and men of the entire Beiyang Naval Division now dare not say that they have been reborn, at least to a higher level.

On March 20, 1895, on the first anniversary of Yang's crossing of the B plane, half of the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division, together with half of the naval officers and men personally trained by Yang Haiwei, drove seven capital ships and ten torpedo boats to suddenly block the way of the Japanese fleet at the southern end of the Yellow Sea.

The upgraded "Zhenyuan" used four 305mm heavy guns with one shot per minute to blast seven or eight holes in a row during the assault, and then used the side rapid-fire guns to wash the opponent's superstructure clean. Ito and the entire headquarters are almost not left dead.

Subsequently, under the "Zhenyuan" as a meat shield and main firepower output, the "Laiyuan", which also upgraded the two 210mm front main guns to tube guns, took the opportunity to start, and united with the former to beat the Japanese army's repaired "Sina Speed", and finally finished with the 305mm cannon, which was completely bombarded and sunk!

The total number of 20 rapid-fire guns of the five "Weihai-class" frigates surrounded the two ships "Itsukushima" and "Hashidate", which had replaced the front main guns, and fired at a speed of more than 300 rounds per minute, from 10 kilometers away to 5 kilometers, and poured out a full 3,000 shells in one go! The two Japanese ships were so sad that they almost didn't have a chance at all, and they were beaten into a sieve!

None of the rest of the subordinate ships ran away, and all of them were blown to pieces. If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army listened to the British warning and didn't dare to pull out other ships with weak defensive firepower, they would have been able to wipe out the Japanese navy this time!

Even so, it completely annihilated its living forces at sea. From then on, even if there was only one "Weihai-class" frigate cruising on the Yellow Sea, the Japanese army would not even think of a fishing boat. They could only communicate with Goryeo from the Sea of Japan, but this would be inefficient at all.

Under the heavy blow of sea and land, the Japanese army, from the Japanese emperor Muren down, completely lost their spirits, and had to follow the proposal of the mediation delegation of the foreign countries and agree to hold peace talks. However, in line with their usual urine nature, they still asked the Qing State to send people to Japan to negotiate.

Li Hongzhang didn't matter who won the battle, the old man was in good spirits and responded unceremoniously: "If you want to talk, come to me to talk, otherwise where will love go!" ”

On March 28, Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito arrived in Tianjin on a British ship. In the midst of the crowd, a young Korean man quietly grabbed a pistol from his arms and slowly approached. (To be continued......)