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"The winter of 1886, in the words of the time, was the twelfth year of the pseudo-Guangxu.

The man who changed the history of Lushan -- Li Deli, a priest of the British Christian Church of America and Israel -- came up the mountain in such a year. The young 22-year-old missionary had been in China for less than a year.

The cities along the Yangtze River, Shanghai, Nanjing, Jiujiang and Wuhan, are all furnaces in summer. The foreigners who live here can't stand the heat, so they seek shady places.

On that windy winter day, after failing to buy land at the foot of the mountain, he found the area of Changchong in the east valley of Guniuling with flat terrain and lush forests. The overjoyed Li Deli realized in an instant that this was the most suitable place to escape the summer and that building a villa here would be a paradise on earth.

Li Deli immediately negotiated with the local government office about the purchase of land. Subsequently, through deception, bribery and other means, he got his hands on Changchong, a place with excellent scenery. Changchong is the east valley of Guniuling, and Li Deli, who got the leased land, combined the Chinese name and English and Italy, and translated it into English as: kuling, which means colling, that is, cool. Guniu Ridge was called "Guling Ridge".

However, things did not end there, but for the most prestigious Guling in Asia, this is just the beginning, and Li Deli is just making a wedding dress! ”

"Chronicles of the Royal Summer Palace of Guling"

In the past eight years, this former mountain valley has already developed into the most prestigious summer resort along the Yangtze River, and every summer, there are nearly 1,000 people from the provinces of the Yangtze River basin who come to the mountains to escape the heat.

Of course, all this has nothing to do with Li Deli, 16 years ago, after obtaining this land through deception and bribery, he began to take full action to build his ideal paradise. But then there was a conflict with the local people, and the government was forced to ask Li Deli for a contract under pressure from the people. For the fat that has reached his mouth, Li Deli of course refuses to spit it out. Nearly ten years after the public case was launched, the so-called development was suspended.

Until six years ago, due to the lack of progress in the land lease for many years and various pressures, Li Deli finally had to transfer the Changchong contract to the Beiyang Company, and then the Beiyang Company established the Guling Company, which had the official color of the Northeast and successfully solved the land lease problem after the intervention of the enterprise, and then the Beiyang Company began to build villas here.

After the establishment of Guling Company, it immediately opened the first highway between Lushan and Jiujiang, and the closed Lushan opened a door; They paved the passages in the community with stone paths along the mountain, forming a road network. Along the axis of the Changchong River, the Western-style natural garden is naturally unfolded, and the walking route is opened; Planting plenty of lawns and woods on flat river beaches for people to live in the landscape; Street lamps were built in an orderly manner to make the mountain brightly lit at night; Most importantly, they only built one villa on the 3.7 acres of land, and the building density was controlled below 15%; The most important thing is that all villas don't have to be in the same style. Because of this, this place has become a beautiful garden along the Yangtze River, and the villa here has also become a world architecture museum.

However, compared with the bustle of Guling in summer, Guling at the end of October seems a little deserted -- many employees of the company who have taken refuge in the summer have left here to go to the factories, mines and other enterprises and schools along the river, but although it is deserted, the "club" that began to be built five years ago and borrowed from the style of Western palaces is extremely lively, at this time, this luxurious palace and its attached more than 2,000 acres of land have been quietly transferred from the Guling Company to the royal family more than ten days ago. It has become the future summer place of the royal family.

However, for the guests, who have spent the summer in Guling many times, they are still immersed in the luxury of the palace-like architecture, this palace has just been built, and it is also the first time to show its style to outsiders, and even as guests, they do not know that this palace is no longer the "Guling Club", but the summer residence of the Chinese royal family.

"Your Majesty, now I believe that at least five years ago, you have calculated everything you have today!"

In the splendid palace, Zhu Erdian, the minister to China who had known Tang Haoran in North Korea as early as April, was full of admiration. Although in his telegram to London he declared that the unification of China was accidental, one of the unpredictable contingencies of war, he now, having learned that the palace had become the summer residence of the royal family, he immediately realized that his assessment might be too early.

"No!"

Shaking his head, Tang Haoran looked at Zhu Erdian and smiled.

"Ten years ago, as early as ten years ago, I saw the inevitability of reunification, as for Guling, believe me, this is just an accident for the enterprise."

At that time, the reason why the Beiyang Company would buy Guling was very simple, at that time, all kinds of diseases, especially malaria, were prevalent in the Guannai, and every summer, mosquitoes were particularly bad, and infectious diseases were rampant, and the Beiyang Company's economic investment and cooperation in the Guannai made them send thousands of technicians, experts and scholars to the Guannai. For their safety, as soon as the weather is hot, they have to go to a cool place to escape the plague of the summer season. For technicians, experts and scholars in central China and along the Yangtze River, Lushan is of course the best place to go.

And now, for Tang Haoran, who is the emperor, after getting used to the coolness of Dalian summer, he naturally has no intention of staying in the furnace of Nanjing in the summer.

"Your Majesty, respectfully, the unification of China is about to be completed, and I heard that Fujian has decided to support you as emperor, which means that except for Hubei and Hunan, which are ruled by Zhang Zhidong, you have unified the whole of China!"

"Yes! If nothing else, tomorrow they will be publicly electrified! ”

Nodding, Tang Haoran did not deny the changes in Fujian, of course, he also gave the flag man a promise - not to kill a flag man, but everyone will be exiled to another place, as for what place? It could be Xinjiang, it could be Siberia, in short, there are too many possibilities. But they will definitely not be left in the Kannai.

"Then Your Majesty, are you going to solve Zhang Zhidong's problem?"

Because most of Britain's interests in China are concentrated in the Yangtze River Valley, Britain can be said to be extremely concerned about the future peace and security of the Yangtze River Valley, and of course, this is also what London demands.

"Mr. Minister, I think that now, the issue of the two lakes is not something we need to think about, and we don't even need to waste time there......"

After a slight pause, Tang Haoran stared at Zhu Erdian and said in a serious and knowing tone.

"What we need now is to discuss what kind of position Britain should take in dealing with China in the future, whether it is a friendly and equal ally, or looking down on China from a high perspective!"

His Majesty's words made Zhu Erdian stunned for a moment, and then he understood what his words meant, indeed, in diplomatic exchanges, Britain is to put China in a secondary position, and the least unfairness is that Britain sends ambassadors plenipotentiaries to other countries, but it is ministers plenipotentiaries sent to China, this obvious injustice is obviously unacceptable to the Chinese Empire now, and in any case, after the war to defeat Russia, The fact that China will never be willing to be even inferior to South American countries in the diplomatic hierarchy makes it inevitable that they will make such a request.

Zhu Erdian, who thought he understood what Tang Haoran meant, then straightened his chest and said in a tone that was slightly arrogant in the style of the British Empire.

"Your Majesty, I think that as far as the current diplomatic level is concerned, the minister level is undoubtedly not in line with China's actual status, and now China's rising international status is obvious to all, and I will propose to London in the near future that diplomatic relations at the minister level be upgraded to the ambassadorial level, Your Majesty!"

For Zhu Erdian himself, the diplomatic promotion was also beneficial, which meant not only an increase in his income, but also a promotion in the diplomatic community, and he did not mind contributing to it when the time came. But when he sat there, trying to wait for his own Tang Haoran's gratitude, he unexpectedly found that the other party just smiled slightly, and didn't seem to care about it.

He obviously misunderstood the meaning of Tang Haoran's words, for Tang Haoran, he didn't care about these "false names" at all, if it was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they might be excited about the promotion of diplomatic level, but for him, what he needed was not only "Minister to promote ambassador", he was more concerned about actual interests than "false names".

"My Friend ......"

Leaning forward slightly, Tang Haoran's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said in a deeper voice.

"We've known each other for so many years, you know me, and I care more about the actual interests than the illusory affairs, so you don't understand what I mean!"

Despite the smile on his majesty's face, Zhu Erdian still sensed the dissatisfaction in his words, because he did not use "I" to refer to himself, and even the so-called "friend" was only a kind of Chinese politeness, for the Chinese emperor, they had never had friends, and he was using this way to remind himself of the reality - he did not have friends after becoming emperor, which also meant a possibility - the Chinese empire was very likely to reconsider its friends for the change of the past.

Realizing this, Zhu Erdian immediately felt a kind of horror that he had never felt before, if before the war, he might not have had this kind of emotion, but after this war, he was shocked by the power shown by China, and he had to face up to this threat. So he immediately pondered the words of the previous emperor in his mind.

"What we need now is to discuss what kind of position Britain should take in dealing with China in the future, whether it is a friendly and equal ally, or looking down on China from a high perspective!"

What does he mean by this?

For Zhu Erdian, until now, he has not figured out the true meaning of the other party's words. In fact, it's not that he doesn't understand, he doesn't understand, but because of British pride that makes him ignore many problems, and even for him, from the "Qing Empire" to the "Chinese Empire" is just a name change, although he himself understands that this is impossible, even in the past, the Northeast and Guannai are completely different, but the inertial thoughts, but he selectively ignores many problems, just like now, he ignores one of the most fundamental problems.

Ignoring the equality in Tang Haoran's mouth, and even ignoring the word "ally" in his words, after all, the premise of "ally" is equality, but British pride has made him ignore this practical problem, and even now, he has not discovered this problem.

And Tang Haoran did not remind him, because he knew very well that for those imperialists, they will always only have the interests of Britain in their eyes, for them, the interests of China can always be sacrificed, before the war, the Northeast needed the help and support of the British, and now, for the sake of future plans, it is time to throw off this crutch.

In fact, the time has come to shake off this crutch, because China is so big for Britain that even now, London does not advocate supporting China's expansion into the Philippines and Japan, and in their view, it is secondary to China's construction of a Hawaiian Pacific defense depth system, and they only value not allowing China to threaten their interests, as for China...... Who cares?

"Your Majesty, it seems that they have not really seriously considered our interests at all!"

After Zhu Erdian left, Tang Shaoyi, who came with him to meet him, said in an almost annoyed tone, no wonder he was so angry, because from Zhu Erdian's British pride, he saw the condescension of the white race to the yellow race.

"Shaochuan, don't be so angry, after all, we have never considered the interests of the United Kingdom!"

Why should British interests be taken into account?

"What is the essence of intercourse between nations? It is interests, our cooperation with Britain was based on interests, and now the break with Britain in the future is also based on interests, we need to consider not only China's position in the world, but also need to consider another problem, that is, in international affairs, how to use the differences between countries to strive for as many interests as possible, just like we used the Anglo-Russian contradiction before, now I think it's time to adjust our foreign policy! ”

At this time, when he said this, Tang Haoran himself didn't realize that his sentence had actually decided the future, and for him, as an emperor, all he needed to consider was China's interests, how to maximize China's interests! (To be continued.) )