As an idealistic and aspiring dictator and space-time trader, Li Yongji, like other big names, has a very busy schedule, so for him, every day for more than two months has been spent in a tense and busy way, not just simply teaching others how to operate a tablet, but also many, many other things to do.

For example, the construction of District 110 requires him to be responsible for it bit by bit, not to mention how the foundation pillars of the factory and the community foundation are connected to the ground in this time and space, and even how to transform the substation and how to connect the sewer system, all of which have to be taught by him, or watched by himself.

This is not counting, such as how the synthetic ammonia equipment can smoothly produce nitric acid and make urea by the way, how to produce high-quality nitrified fiber, how to use coal tar products to make chemicals such as phenol sulfonamide, how to make caustic soda, and how to install and run the new equipment for the preparation of sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid...... In short, the entire chemical industry preparation system, including three acids and two alkalis, must be personally participated in or supervised by Li Yongji, otherwise there will be problems.

This is also thanks to Li Yongji's space-time trading system, which can package the entire factory, allowing people to make a complete factory in modern society, and then transfer it intact, just like a great space shift.

At that time, Li Yongji only needs to reinforce the foundation of the transferred factory, and then connect it to water, electricity, sewerage, etc., which is basically all OK.

Although it looks simple, it is not easy to sit up at all, and you have to start all over again if you are a little worse, which is why Li Yongji has to participate in the whole process, because if someone else's words, you can't do it at all, at least not at once.

Once this person is busy, he usually does not let his subordinates idle, and since radio communication has been popularized among all the military and political leaders of the Chinese Empire, it also makes it possible for Li Yongji to urge and control.

Veteran ministers such as Shen Shiming, Wang Tao, Wang Sanwu, and Zhang Wei almost all have a radio mobile phone. These mobile phones can be used to contact Li Yongji directly through the repeater, so once Li Yongji has a little leisure, he will call the people below to inquire about the local situation and give "instructive" instructions, not because he is conscientious, but simply because he does not want others to be easy.

In other words, calling subordinates to inquire about the situation and then giving so-called instructions has become the norm for Li Yongji. And it is also an activity to release stress.

Sometimes when he calms down and thinks about it, even he thinks it's funny, and he feels that he is almost like the three generations of leaders of a certain Cao County in another time and space.

But because of this, even if Li Yongji was bored playing the technology tree in Guangde, the operation of the entire empire did not escape from his palm.

Or it can be said that it is precisely because of the radio communication system and the fact that the golden finger follows Li Yongji himself, so where is Li Yongji. Where is the command center of the empire and the center of secret material access.

Of course, as a de facto monarchy, when Li Yongji was diligent in government, the efficiency of the Chinese Empire naturally followed by rapid operation. For more than two months, almost every aspect of the empire has been developing for the better, and it is like beating chicken blood.

The first is the military aspect.

Among the three major armies of the empire, there were 200,000 Praetorian Guard troops under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. That is, the elite army of the first army of the Imperial Praetorian Guard, the Shangwu army of the second army and the mighty army of the third army have already been concentrated. The 56 semi-automatic rifle and the 56 submachine gun have been reloaded one after another, and now they have all been reloaded and have begun adaptive training, and now two months have passed, and the basic performance of the new weapon has already been mastered.

The reason why the Praetorian Guards all use semi-automatic rifles and automatic rifles is entirely because of the large number of these guns, Zhang Xindana's inventory still has more than one million, and the ammunition is enough, compared with the 1860 large-cover gun that has just started to be produced, it is more convenient and faster to use the 56 semi-automatic rifle.

At the same time, 50,000 of the 300,000 Wehrmacht troops under the Ministry of National Defense have begun to install the new Type 1860 large-cap guns, and the rest are all equipped with Sharps rifles, and they have all gone through the most basic infantry training in accordance with the training methods of the infantry drill code, and have also initially formed combat effectiveness.

It can be said that these 300,000 Wehrmacht, armed with advanced rifles, will have absolutely no problem even if they fight the main forces of the Western powers.

The 1.5 million National Guard, which is also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Defense and is mainly built by the nine major construction corps, has implemented a rotation system of half training and half work due to the coming of winter and the New Year.

Although the National Guard, which is dominated by the Construction Corps, has only 500,000 Sharps rifles, and the penetration rate is less than one-third, and the rest continue to be equipped with cold weapons, such as machetes, the original role of these troops is to maintain the locality and engage in construction by the way, so this kind of equipment is already quite good, at least, it can be taken out to bluff people.

What others don't know, once you start a fight, I heard that you pulled out two million troops, at least more than half of which have advanced thermal weapons, who can not be afraid of it?

This is not a modern society, it is the middle of the nineteenth century, there were two million troops, not to mention hot weapons, even if they were equipped with cold weapons, it would make people hairy. If nothing else, think about the Crimean War, it was a national battle, but they all had two warring sides combined, how many people were there in total?

Of course, Li Yongji's unit has a lot of water, for example, the National Guard, which accounts for the majority of them, is actually a non-full-time unit with a half-labor and half-soldier nature, but even this is very awesome.

After all, thermal weapons can ignore many training factors, as long as Li Yongji's military industry keeps up and lets everyone use hot weapons, then in terms of military strength, it can definitely be said to be the first in the world!

However, for his own purposes, Li Yongji has not made these military matters public to the public, such as the number of the Praetorian Guard and the National Defense Force, which is absolutely secret, and the National Guard is still in the name of the Construction Corps, and as long as outsiders are present, they will definitely see troops with cold weapons, and only troops with few hot weapons.

That is, real thermal weapons training. They are all closed training in uninhabited military bases, and pedestrians are forbidden to approach them in order to keep them secret.

In the eyes of modern society, it is just a basic-level secrecy measure, and the effect is quite good, and the other warlords have deceived it and don't know it, but at least the powers don't know the details of the Chinese Imperial Army, otherwise, the Russian intervention army will never dare to come again.

Of course, this is also related to the way of communication in this era of cheating, in this era when there is no direct communication between the East and the West. Communications are all dependent on fast sailing ships, intelligence is lagging behind, and no matter how much the Westerners open their minds, they would never have imagined that a backward and decadent China would be able to arm an army of more than one million armed with advanced thermal weapons in less than a year.

Just kidding, even the Russians don't dare to say such big things now, or even if there are people, Russia doesn't have the financial resources anymore, even they do. Not to mention China, where they have always been unable to arm an army of millions armed with thermal weapons, no matter how much they support it.

In a word. The construction of troops is carried out in an orderly manner, and although there has been no war recently, the overall strength of the Imperial Army has become more and more terrifying, which also makes the insiders at the top more and more confident in the Empire. Basically, those who can know this news have already lost their hearts to the Chinese Empire, and they can no longer have half a heart.

The reason is simple. With such a strong army, domination of the world is just around the corner, and if they don't send troops now, in their opinion, it is just that the soldiers have not been trained well, and the weather is still cold, but when the spring flowers bloom, the situation is estimated to be different.

Actually, it's the internal affair.

The reform of the imperial examination has begun to change under the direct intervention of Prime Minister Shen Shiming, except for Suzhou, Shanghai, Wuxi, Changshu, Changzhou, and Hangzhou, which are still implementing compulsory free enrollment for primary schools, other cities have temporarily implemented paid enrollment.

That is to say, except for the six super-grade cities, children will only be exempt from tuition and miscellaneous fees, that is, textbook fees, but there is no additional living allowance, and all living expenses must be borne by parents.

In addition, there are many people living in poverty, and it is a problem to eat, and their enthusiasm for reading is naturally not high, so the number of new school buildings built has been greatly reduced, so the central government does not have to allocate funds, and a lot of money has been saved.

Of course, in addition to reducing the central government's expenditure, this is also conducive to the centralized use of teachers, after all, there are not many suitable teachers, and even the six cities with free admission are not enough, let alone other cities.

However, in this way, it is actually tantamount to artificially widening the gap, after all, the six major cities have a better economic foundation, and now the children go to school for free, and they also manage the accommodation and living expenses, which is equivalent to reducing a big burden on families with children, and even some children secretly bring food home, so that the whole family will benefit.

In the long run, this will inevitably lead to an imbalance in the economic situation between cities, resulting in a situation in which the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

But in fact, this is not bad, in Li Yongji's view, first concentrate on the development of a few big cities, and then lead the area with points, just like the later generations of the first rich to drive the later rich.

As for how to alleviate the problems caused by the excessive gap between the rich and the poor, this is actually not a problem in this era, and there are too many ways to guide and digest it, such as immigration, soldiering, and work...... In short, if the real people have begun to secularize, all look to money, and all yearn for a better life, it is actually a good thing, after all, it shows that the people are eager to change the motivation of their lives, and they are no longer a pool of stagnant water like before, and they can eat a meal of rice every day and know their fate.

Why are most people adventurous in Western societies? It's not that they're born, it's that they're mostly secularized, and they want to have more wealth, and it's that thirst for wealth that drives them to keep forging ahead.

The Chinese in later generations are the same, why there are Chinese all over the world, it is because the Chinese in the later generations also began to become secular, becoming more yearning for wealth and a good life, which began the action of world adventure, which was called "locusts" by many foreigners.

But now the Chinese are different, now China is still dominated by a small peasant economy, such economic conditions, many people are short-sighted, can eat a full meal is very happy. even thought that being an emperor meant that he could eat flatbread every day. Under such circumstances, how can they arouse their enthusiasm to seize the whole world, and how can they be worthy of the so-called "locusts" of later generations?

Yes, Li Yongji can establish a basic industrial system and build a stronger army, but if the people cannot arouse the desire for a better life and the thirst for wealth and land in essence, then the wave of expansion led by Li Yongji will still be a dream after all.

Therefore, the Chinese are not kind and hardworking. It's just that they have been fooled by the policy of fooling the people for too long, and if they really rekindle that primitive desire, everyone will find that the Chinese are still very hardworking, but they never go along with the word kindness.

In fact, to see this clearly, you don't have to look at anything else, look at the fact that the Chinese even pray to God and worship the Buddha are so practical, and the Chinese have a utilitarian original sin in their bones.

In addition to the reform of the imperial examinations, the state's fiscal revenues have also increased in alarming ways. By March 1861, in February 1861 alone, the Chinese Empire's revenues had exceeded the $3 million mark.

Huayuan and one tael of silver are exchanged for huàn to one, that is to say. In February 1861 alone, the normal financial revenue of the Chinese Empire exceeded 3 million taels of silver!

That is, just over two months into 1861. The empire's financial revenue exceeded 5.3 million taels of silver, and this is just over two months!

Of course, fiscal revenues can become so high. In addition to the continuous expansion of foreign trade, it is also related to the introduction of new currency into society, which caused a small amount of inflation.

In addition, this period coincides with the traditional Chinese New Year, and most of the groups mainly military, workers, government officials and their families take money to spend, and the increase in spending power has promoted the increase of commercial tax and other consumption taxes, which can make fiscal revenue soar like a balloon.

If this economic growth can be sustained, even if it is not as high as in the first few months, then in time, in less than a year, the government will be completely self-sufficient in finances, that is, it will be able to set aside a fixed 4.5 million taels of silver every month to support the army.

This was still carried out under the condition of lightly leviing taxes, and if the Qing Dynasty's tax collection law was followed, then the fiscal revenue would have to be at least doubled.

Therefore, the growth of the imperial government's fiscal revenue is different from the growth of the national economy, and it is a more benign growth model, and it is no wonder that the people in the areas ruled by the empire are becoming more and more centripetal towards the empire. If nothing else, just for the sake of the light levy and the exemption of all harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, it is enough for all the people at the bottom to like this new government.

In addition, there is another one, that is, the empire's economy is actually inseparable from Li Yongji's royal enterprises, and the country's finances have risen like this, and all kinds of royal enterprises belonging to Li Yongji have made more money, and even those small businesses that serve the royal enterprises with their thighs are also quite happy.

Although the monthly gross income of the royal family's enterprises in the past few months has not exceeded the 100 million yuan mark, it is believed that this day is not far away.

The only thing that worries people is that this kind of high-speed economic growth is based on Li Yongji's golden finger, that is to say, almost all of it depends on the pull effect of modern products that Li Yongji got from another time and space.

Without the pull of ultra-high-profit modern products, fiscal growth would never be so outrageous.

However, what is happy is that with the gradual increase in the weight of drugs in foreign trade, the proportion of trade in stainless steel and other products has become lower and lower, and Hailuo has already achieved local localization with aspirin, plus it can now produce new drugs such as sulfonamides and phenol, that is to say, if modern products are cut off now, then perhaps economic growth will suddenly decline sharply, but the overall growth is still growing, but it will not be as outrageous as the current growth.

In other words, for Li Yongji, the golden finger of the space-time trading system is currently playing the most important role in transmitting modern production equipment and munitions materials, and there are fewer and fewer light industrial products that are really directly used to trade and make money.

Zhang Xinda didn't say anything, almost all of today's transmission tonnage is engaged in arms and industrial equipment, and another agent, Dou Bifeng, although in the past it was mainly to transmit medicines and light industrial products here, but now it has also begun to transport related light industrial equipment here.

For example, some new pharmaceutical equipment, real room supplies, as well as various drilling machines, excavators. The small generators, as well as the fuel oil that these equipment usually need, are almost all transmitted by Dou Bifeng, and Li Yongji is not only sending drugs to Dou Bifeng now, but also other things like some jade and gold have also begun to be transmitted to him in small batches to exchange for funds.

According to Li Yongji's knowledge, Dou Bifeng has now opened three large supermarkets in Miami, USA, and is also engaged in warehousing and logistics business, but in fact he has become the largest local drug supplier. It's just that he's careful. Taking advantage of the peculiar nature of the teleportation ability, he never pretends to transport goods to others, and never shows his face, he has always given the goods first and then took the money, and all of them are overseas account transactions, so no one has ever doubted him, coupled with his rich second-generation background, everyone thinks that he is just a rich investor from Huaguo, but he makes the local coast guard suspicious.

Because there are several times. In order to have fun and divert targets, Dou Bifeng secretly transmitted drugs directly to the Coast Guard ship, and the result was that people thought that the Coast Guard had internal ghosts.

Moreover, Dou Bifeng is more daring than Zhang Xinda. He also dared to steal, and on one occasion he used his teleportation ability to steal gold directly in the name of visiting the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The process of stealing is simple. When visiting the gold, he directly and quietly stole fifty tons of gold from an inconspicuous place in the gold and sent it to Li Yongji. Then just follow the crowd and leave.

There was nothing suspicious about him in the whole process, but the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was missing fifty tons of gold out of thin air!

He had done this more than once, he had done it ten times, stealing a total of 500 tons of gold, but he had visited more than forty bank vaults.

That is, he did not target every bank vault he visited, just to avoid becoming a target.

As for the gold he stole, it was given to Li Yongji, who then sent it to Zhang Xinda and exchanged it for more weapons and equipment and production equipment.

Zhang Xinda's current situation is also good.

According to Li Yongji's knowledge, Zhang Xinda has really established himself in South Africa, and has also obtained certain rights in Mozambique, and has enclosed a large piece of land in the local area as a private territory in the name of the development and development zone, and he is also a big figure in the local area.

Moreover, it is precisely because of Zhang Xinda's rise that China's arms enterprises, which were already sluggish, have been revitalized, and more than one-fifth of China's arms exports have been purchased by Zhang Xinda, and this proportion is still growing.

Suffice it to say, it is not the capital that restricts Zhang Xinda, but the tonnage of transmission, and Zhang Xinda is already known locally as one of the largest arms dealers.

The development of scientific research is also very gratifying, Xu Shou and others have perfectly copied the process of three acids and two alkalis, not only let the students cooperate with craftsmen, and make their own small-scale equipment for making three acids and two alkalis, and even have begun to continue to study the topics of blast furnace ironmaking, converter steelmaking and electric furnace steelmaking.

As for munitions, craftsmen have been able to use small stamping machines and lathes, plus steel pipes from modern times, to produce their own Sharps rifles, and the related ammunition has achieved 100% self-sufficiency, even the 117 mm caliber modified Napoleon gun, as well as the tail type flowering high-explosive shells used in this artillery.

That is to say, whether it is military, internal affairs, or science and technology, the development of Li Yongji's side is thriving and prosperous, and the only thing that is not good, or has not made much progress, can only be in the diplomatic aspect of other Chinese forces.

Perhaps because of the winter, there are very few battles in China, except in a few places. For example, the remnants of the Hunan army and the Taiping army are still in a state of complete ceasefire, and Emperor Xianfeng and Prince Gong, who fled to Mukden to rebuild the capital of the Qing court, are still playing power struggles, and they have no time to make trouble with the Chinese Imperial Army, or in other words, if the Chinese Imperial Army does not fight them, they will burn high incense.

However, that's it, even if the Chinese Empire has taken down the city of Beijing, but the situation has not happened, and the places that have not been actually controlled by the Chinese Imperial Army still maintain a wait-and-see attitude, or still ostensibly under the banner of the Qing Dynasty, and do not cry and shout to change the flag and join the big family of the Chinese Empire.

The reason is actually very simple and not complicated, that is, it changes too fast. Everyone's reaction time is too short, and the governors in various places are still waiting for the price to sell, or look at the shape of shì.

In other words, if the imperial army makes some big moves after the beginning of the spring, such as attacking Fujian, attacking the northeast, or attacking Jiangxi and Hunan, and then there are a few more big victories, it is estimated that the situation of the whole country being overthrown will really happen.

Compared with China's internal diplomatic actions, it has done a good job of external diplomatic actions. It can be said that the results are remarkable.

In order to stimulate the Russians and make the Russians not have so many worries, so that they can find fault more simply, so that they can slap themselves in the face, Li Yongji specially invited Britain, France, Russia, and the United States to visit the trial of the Russian minister Nikolai.

Other words. In the city of Suzhou, Li Yongji's Imperial Supreme Court formally prosecuted and tried the poor Russian minister Nikolai and other surviving high-ranking Russian officers on charges of espionage, and then on the second day of the second lunar month in 1861. Witnessed by many Chinese and foreigners, a public beheading demonstration was held against Nikolai and other high-ranking Russian officers.

Although for some reason, during the trial, Li Yongji did not come forward from beginning to end. Not even the slightest bit of information was revealed, and it seemed that all of them were going through the normal judicial process.

For example, the prosecution is filed by the Ministry of Defense, which is subordinate to the State Council of the Empire, and the party accepting the case is the Supreme Court of the Empire. The supervising party is the House of Representatives, the jury members are from the three respected circles of the Empire, political, business, and military, and the execution party is also the Supreme Court of the Empire.

But when the final result came out, especially when they saw Nikolai and others being pushed to the ground and beheaded in public, Britain, France, the United States and others were certainly a little chilled to see it, and the Russians were even more furious, and I am afraid that the interference will never stop again.

Of course, this qiē was all done by Li Yongji on purpose, he just wanted to deliberately make the Russians jump like thunder, and he hid his military strength, deliberately exposed only part of the cold weapon troops, and also deliberately let the British visit an "elite military camp" before, so that they could see the so-called "elite soldiers" who were loose and crumbling, also in order to confuse the other party.

Obviously, this plan has succeeded, according to the information obtained from the foreigners, the Russians have learned the information of the Russian minister who is openly aware of the Russian envoy, and the Russian tsar has officially signed the order to send troops, I am afraid that it will only take three months for the first troops to arrive in China.

Of course, this is good news, three months is enough time for Li Yongji to establish the most complete defense system, and if they really come over at that time, they can only come, and they can't go back.

At the same time as this good news, there was no other piece of good news that Li Yongchang's delegation had officially established a base in Hawaii and set sail for the United States again.

According to the plan, the delegation first went to the Kingdom of Hawaii and negotiated a series of deals with the local king, Kamehameha IV, in the name of the Chinese Empire, under the threat of bayonets and naval guns.

The main transactions included forcibly leasing Pearl Harbor on Oahu in the Kingdom of Hawaii to the Chinese Empire as an exclusive military port, allowing the Chinese to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction here, allowing the Chinese Empire to garrison troops there, and allowing the Chinese Empire to engage in free trade with the Kingdom of Hawaii, and Chinese merchants were not allowed to collect any commercial taxes when doing business here.

In addition, the biggest gain is the success of the Pearl Harbor information relay post.

In addition to garrisoning Chinese merchants in the area and monitoring the Hawaiian Kingdom, the most important purpose of this relay post was to serve as a relay station for radio communications between China and the United States.

As long as the weather permits, hot air balloons will be released here, and people will carry high-power relay stations into the air as repeaters to connect radio signals, so that the radio short-wave signals here in the Chinese Empire can be interconnected with the high-power radio carried by Li Yongchang, and there is no need to worry about the distance being too far and unable to maintain smooth communication links.

And the reason why Li Yongji was able to know what was happening in Hawaii so quickly was naturally the result of Li Yongchang's radio announcement.

Now, they have ended their operation in Hawaii and began to officially sail to the United States, which shows that Li Yongji's plan has also begun to take a solid first step!

All in all, all in all, all of them are going well, and all of them are developing in a good way, and Li Yongji has also passed the initial period of weakness, just like the sun at seven o'clock, which has begun to really move towards the take-off period. (To be continued......)