Liu Xian is living a relatively easy life now. Most of the government affairs are handled by the cabinet, and only matters that are important will be reported to Liu Xian, and the role of the first cabinet assistant of Fan Debang has been very successful. Liu Xian's will can be implemented and implemented, and Fan Debang is very satisfied with Liu Xian in this regard. Therefore, the power of the cabinet is getting heavier and bigger.

At the beginning of the dynasty, many people were still unimpressed with the form of the cabinet and the first assistant. Now that the first five years are coming, who in the Manchu Dynasty does not know the preciousness and authority of the first assistant of the cabinet?

The position of the next cabinet chief assistant is still Van de Bang. In five years, Van de Bang will be almost 70 years old, and he will be in the Council with peace of mind, or he will be renamed Congress at that time, and he will live in retirement. This is Liu Xian's praise for the heroes and his descendants.

Now Zhang Shouyan and Li Hongzhang, plus Fan Debang, are the three forces in the cabinet. Of course, Fan Debang is the dominant family, but Zhang Shouyan and Li Hongzhang have not always joined forces to fight the enemy. On the contrary, in the cabinet, the two of them fought more fiercely, but they were very deferential to Fan Debang.

Li Hongzhang yearns for the throne of Shoufu, but he knows his identity and the friendship between Fan Debang and Liu Xian, and when the time is not enough, Li Hongzhang will not be able to move Fan Debang at all. Fan Debang, who has Liu Xian's backing, no one dares to challenge him in the cabinet. It's like the "Labor Protection Law" and the workers' union. Liu Xian did not express his position, Fan Debang pressed the battle alone, Zhang Shouyan, Li Hongzhang and others opposed it, and they could not successfully beat Weng Tongyi's fold back in more than half a month.

And Li Hongzhang also has to face a strong challenge from Li Ying. The latter has a wide range of vitality in the Qin army system, although he has also had loopholes and made Zhang Shoushan, the great traitor of the Qin army. But Liu Xian doesn't care, and no one cares about the danger and badness of this matter.

After the Qin army took the northwest. Li Yingguan to the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, absolute high power. Coupled with his founding marquis, he is more glamorous in rank and status than any ordinary cabinet minister. At the end of his term of office in the second half of next year, Li Ying will definitely jump from Lanzhou to Beijing. In the next five years, he will be another big obstacle for Li Hongzhang to compete for the first assistant throne.

……

Iron Lion Alley, Fan Mansion.

The time had come to eleven o'clock, and Fan Debang rubbed his sour eyes before finishing the work at hand. It's another quarter's financial statistics, and soon after, it's a year's tax summary, and the busy time is still to come. And next year, his first five-year term will come to an end. Although Fan Debang has long known that he will continue to do it in the position of first assistant. But he also has to show a dazzling achievement to give himself face.

Industrial development, railway, transportation, agriculture and so on are not 'real materials'. The imperial court's gold and silver sea are all filled in, and it would be strange if these were not developed.

Fan Debang's 'rouge' who wants to dress up himself actually refers to Hong Kong.

In addition to the land still occupied by the Russians, Hong Kong is already the only territory in China that is occupied by outsiders. Fan Debang 10,000 wants to take back Hong Kong. Of course, it is not possible to take it back by force, so the soft method is to turn Hong Kong into a free port, a free city, and a joint city government between China and Britain to administer it. If he can do this, he will be able to sit down as the head of the cabinet in his second term.

But after the opening of fire between China and Russia. The British wanted to delay again. The British quickened the matter of the Shanghai concession and postponed the matter of Hong Kong, which seemed to be a fair exchange. But will China accept them?

The emperor took Wei Tuma around the ruins of the Old Summer Palace this afternoon, and Lan Fang's troops also moved earlier.

China is expressing its displeasure. This dissatisfaction was expressed by the emperor himself. Vanderbang intends to wait and see what the British will do. Don't think that only the emperor can express his 'dissatisfaction' with the British Empire. As the head of the cabinet, he has the same right and strength to express his dissatisfaction with the British.

This is a matter for the Cabinet. Liu Xian just came out to stand on the stage. Moreover, Vanderbang also expects Britain to 'ignore' the emperor's instructions, and he expects himself to use the power in his hands to solve this matter.

……

The next day.

"Reminiscences. Sino-British Enmity

"The Old Summer Palace: China's Biggest National Shame ......"

The Emperor Expresses His Displeasure with Britain

Early in the morning, sensational headlines were printed on the front pages of many newspapers in Beijing.

Liu Xian's whereabouts are the most concerned by the newspaper industry. He took the British ambassador to China, Wittoma, around the ruins of the Old Summer Palace. It's just too much speculation.

Fortunately, the mouthpiece of the Chinese government, the Huaxia Daily, does not show the slightest sign of bad things about Sino-British relations.

"The emperor is the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and every word and deed is the attention of the whole country." Lu Lun, who came to the palace, said.

Liu Xian smiled and sighed. The folk newspapers are open. He had already learned three or five points from the mouth of the squire.

Now there are already people in the market saying that there is a big contradiction between China and Britain, and they are going to use troops. The troops in Beijing went south in preparation for the attack on Hong Kong.

It was also the bad luck of the military, and when they were conducting a railway dispatch drill again, they bumped into this incident and became a big background board.

The rumors are so nonsense, and Liu Xian is also helpless.

"Fortunately, this time I didn't seriously mobilize tens of thousands of people out of Beijing. Although the difference between 8,000 and 10,000 is not big, it is 1,000 and 10,000, giving people a very different feeling. ”

Although Liu Xian did want to do a decent stress test to see how far he could go with the current level of operation of the 'Grand Cross'.

-- Railway connection only means that you have hardware, and the daily operation is software. Lack of sufficient operational capacity, even with railways, can also cause huge waste and delays. Liu Xian was not satisfied with the operation scheduling of the previous meeting.

However, Beijing is the imperial capital, and every move is implicated. It is impossible to make a military movement of this magnitude in a hurry. In order to test the military's ability to respond, Liu Xian did not give the order to the military in advance.

Time has rushed together. When Liu Xian took Wei Tuoma to the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, he didn't have any contact with the military, but it coincidentally led to such a big speculation among the people.

Lu Lun is well aware of the 'friendly' relationship between China and the UK. If there is a change in Sino-British relations, he will certainly be the first to be notified. Some of Hua Xia Bank's business is involved in Europe, and the main partner is the British banking community. Bad relations between China and Britain, and even the outbreak of war, will have a great impact on the financial and banking industries.

Therefore, Lu Lun, who had not heard the slightest news of Sino-British hostilities, scoffed at the headlines in various newspapers this morning.

And he didn't come to ZN Sea for this, he came for the upcoming gold coin commemorating the victory in the war against Russia.

This commemorative gold coin is not something that Liu Xian is upside down. This is Huaxia Bank's own method of generating income.

They've already made a version and are going to make 10,000 pieces to test the water. If the feedback is good, this is not a one-shot deal, but a glittering financial road.

Lu Lun took out a golden coin from his sleeve and handed it to Liu Xian. "Your Majesty, this is the commemorative gold coin." This thing has been around in foreign countries for a long time.

Liu Xian caught it, turned his hand and looked at it, and said with a smile, "Panda? ”

The total amount of one metric tael, China's most exquisite manufacturing process, heavy pressing, but also dazzling gold.

The obverse of the gold coin naturally depicts a soldier and a victory. On the back is the panda that appeared for the first time in the eyes of many people in the north when the Beijing Zoo opened last year. This name was also set by Liu Xian, round, chubby, looking like a bear, but not a bear, in Chinese legends called tapir, commonly known as the iron beast. In Liu Xian's eyes, they are the giant pandas of later generations, and now they are also called pandas.

It looks like a bear and has a cat-like temperament. Rolling in the yard and lazily basking in the sun, if you really want to talk about temperament, it is indeed like a cat.

Because of Han Gang, the name of the panda has spread more widely and faster than tapirs and iron-eating beasts. Of course, there is also the reason why the panda itself is likable in appearance.

Now Huaxia Bank has taken a trick.

On the reverse of the coin, a golden panda lies on the golden bamboo forest, the bamboo leaves are clearly recognizable, and the eye circles are also clearly recognizable.

If the way of the commemorative coin is feasible, this golden panda will be the unique symbol of Huaxia Bank's commemorative coin.

……

Early October, Borneo, Brunei.

A flotilla of five steamers, waving red flags, arrived at the port of Brunei under the protection of a gunboat of the Chinese South Seas Fleet. This small country that had just been brutally invaded by the Lanfang militia, this prey that had just been forcibly snatched from the British by China.

Liu Xian's actions more than half a month ago did not trigger the nerves of Whitehall. Fan Debang got his wish, and the Lanfang militia, which was heading east, gave the order to go north. Under the 'suppression' of the two Saxony-class ironclad ships of the South Sea Fleet, it took only two days for the Lan Phong militia to occupy all the territory of Brunei, and Sultan Atdumbon signed a protection agreement with the Lan Phong provincial government.

And just when the Lanfang militia received the order, five migrant ships that were supposed to go to the Natuna Islands were also notified to change their course and sail directly to the port of Brunei.

It was a bold decision. Vanderbang showed his strength and determination. There is a saying that the Hong Kong issue must be resolved as much as possible.

Liu Xian didn't know how this decision would shake up 10 Downing Street. Anyway, China, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Batavia and other places are shaken.

The contradictions between China and Britain suddenly intensified, and rumors that the conflict between the two sides was about to turn into war and become clear, and the clamor was supreme for a while.

However, in Hong Kong, there is no shortage of vegetables and meat in the market, and there is no strike of workers at the wharf. Guangdong's local government and businessmen don't seem to have seen the cabinet's decision, how should they deal with Hong Kong......

The only thing whose fate seems to have been changed was the five ships of immigrants. They came from the Natuna Islands, where the environment is relatively harsh, to Borneo, where the conditions are quite advantageous - Brunei! (To be continued......)