Napoleon. Bonaparte followed Koseki Otani into the office of the Superintendent of Education in the Governor's Palace of the Atlantic. Lang Heshen, dressed in a modified Confucian costume (this is the standard attire of the Ming civil officials), was already sitting behind his desk with a smile on his face, when he saw his secretary Sophia push open the door and lead in Mitsushi Ohtani and a young European man in his twenties. The two young men bowed to him, and Mitsushi Ohtani introduced with a smile: "Director Lang, this is the Napoleon I mentioned to you. Bonaparte, who was a student leader at the Otani School of Medicine, was the president of the Heapon European Society, and was also a priest of Freemasonry. ”

Lang Heshen smiled and looked at Napoleon, this is a somewhat thin young man, shorter than the average European, with upright facial features, some deep eyes, and no hair bun on the top of his head - hair buns are dispensable in Daming, there are few people left, and there are many people with short hair. Because the Ming Dynasty does not regard Confucianism as a prominent study, there is naturally no saying that the body hair and skin cannot be discarded, and cutting hair and filial piety do not match. However, in the Qing Dynasty, Confucianism was a manifestation of learning, so there was such a rule, and after Zhu Chong's eighth dynasty, the bun on a man's head was regarded as a sign of allegiance. If you dare to cut off your bun, you can't get along with the Qing Dynasty. The so-called "cutting hair to kill the head, growing hair and keeping the head" is also.

This Napoleon cut off his bun, and he is undoubtedly standing on the opposite side of the Qing Dynasty! Lang Heshen has been in Macao for a while, so he naturally knows this situation - in today's Macau, there are still a lot of European students in the Qing Dynasty who have cut their hair buns.

In Lang and Shen's view, it makes sense that both the Yuan and Qing dynasties pursued a closed country! Once Europeans were allowed to leave the Qing Dynasty, they would be exposed to all kinds of bad ideas from outside, especially nationalism and the civil state...... The whites drove out the flag men. To run the country yourself, for radical-minded young people. How can it not be attractive?

Moreover, in today's Europa. Whites have proven themselves to be able to run the country well. Aren't the Kingdom of England, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom of the Nordic doing well? At least it's better than the camel of the Great Qing Kingdom that is about to die of emaciation.

Even if it is the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom that believes in the Divine Sect of the Heavenly Dao Sect, it is not the Shenzhou people from the East who rule the white people, but the country where the Shenzhou people and the white people are mixed. If you want to analyze their ancestry carefully, it seems that the white component still makes up the majority.

With so many examples of successful nation-states on display, would the white students who came out of the Great Qing Kingdom not be tempted?

Lang Heshen looked at Napoleon, nodded, and stretched out his hand to shake him vigorously: "Bonaparte, welcome to Macau to study." As Director of Education at the Governor-General's Office of the Atlantic, I would love to hear your suggestions for the education systems and facilities in Macau and Hong Kong. ”

Hearing Lang Heshen's insincere words. Napoleon just smiled faintly, of course his identity as the other party was not so simple...... Before coming here, Mitsushi Otani had already told him that this Director Lang was an active lieutenant colonel of the Ming Navy! Could it be that the education of the Ming Empire was managed by the navy?

The expression on Napoleon's face became serious: "Mr. Director, I am not here to see you today as a student. I am here to meet you as the president of the Prosperity Society and the priest of the Freemasonry. So what I'm going to discuss with you has nothing to do with education. ”

Come straight to the point! Lang and Shen nodded. The bureaucrats of the Great Qing Kingdom like to greet and nag, and big things can be said for a long time, but this European young man is crisp enough. Thinking of this, his impression of Napoleon was a little better.

Napoleon took a breath. He knew that today's meeting was an interview - since the Ming Empire pushed England to invade the Qing Dynasty, there was no doubt that they must be looking for a new political force that they could cooperate with to replace the Qing Dynasty.

And this kind of political power can only be generated from the Europeans of the Great Qing Kingdom! Because the nation-state is already the trend of the times, it is the world hegemon like the Ming Empire. I am afraid that there is no power to support a new Shenzhou colonial regime in Europa.

"Monsieur Bonaparte, if you have anything to say, you can say it." Lang and Shen looked at Napoleon with a smile.

Napoleon said: "Your Excellency, Director." Guess that the Ming Empire has now abandoned the Europa policy of maintaining the Qing Dynasty, right? ”

Lang and Shen were noncommittal. This is not a question he can answer. However, anyone with a bit of political quality can see it...... England is the "Europa watchdog" that the Ming Empire has raised for hundreds of years, even if there has been a revolution in England. The identity of the watchdog remains unchanged.

Because England is not a continental country like the Divine Heavenly Dao Country, it is an island country. The economy depends on maritime trade, and the defense depends on the navy. And the Ming Empire had a powerful fleet enough to destroy the English Navy!

Napoleon looked at Lang Heshen, who was expressionless, and then said: "The Ming Empire is the hegemon of the world, and with the support of the Ming Dynasty, the Kingdom of England and the United Kingdom of Northern Europe should be able to defeat the Great Qing Kingdom, right?" ”

Lang Heshen shook his head and said, "The Ming Dynasty is a neutral country. ”

Neutral means that the Ming Empire will not directly send troops to help in the war. But the things that gave huge loans to the Kingdom of England, the sale of advanced weapons, helped them train the fleet and the army, and so on, did not stop all these years.

Napoleon smiled and said: "Even if the Ming Dynasty does not send troops, the Qing Dynasty will be defeated!" Is that right? ”

"The Qing Dynasty will be defeated." Lang and Shen replied in the affirmative. As he spoke, he looked at Napoleon intently, and instead of the slightest apprehension, his face was full of joy...... Obviously, this person has completely betrayed the Great Qing Kingdom!

"After the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, it should die?" Napoleon asked tentatively.

"The Qing Dynasty should die, but not so soon." Lang and Shen did not hide it from Napoleon. England can defeat the Qing Dynasty and force the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom to take action! But no matter whether England could defeat the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom or not, England could not annex the Great Qing Kingdom. She can only cut the flesh on the Great Qing Kingdom, but she can't swallow the Great Qing in one bite. This is a principle, if England dares to violate it, the Ming will interfere.

Moreover, in the plans of the Ming Empire, many small states should be established on the territory of the Great Qing State. Now the question is just who will lead these small countries......

"Your Excellency, Director, I think. The Ming Empire must hope that in the west of the Europa continent, there will be a European citizen country that can compete with the Divine Heavenly Dao Kingdom, right? ”

Napoleon's chest rose and fell as he spoke. He's only in his early twenties now, after all. Although it caught up with a big era, it didn't experience any real storms.

He calmed his emotions for a moment. He lowered his voice and said, "The Rembudsman and Freemasonry are willing to stand up and become a force for historical progress. If the Ming Empire is willing to support them, the 10,000 members of the Xingou Society and the 10 million brothers of the Freemasons are willing to pledge their allegiance to the Ming Empire and do things for the Ming Empire. ”

Of course, there are no 10,000 members in the Xingou Club, and it would be nice to have one or two hundred members. As for the 10 million Freemasonic brothers, the Freemasons continued to play the role of the European underworld rebels under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and their numbers increased day by day, and their power became bigger and bigger. Today, there are tens of millions of disciples. It's just that the organization of Freemasonry is still loose, and there is no one who can control the tens of millions of disciples. Otherwise, tens of millions of people will attack together, will the hundreds of thousands of new troops of the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Kingdom be able to deter them?

Napoleon's words now are simply amplifying the cannon...... However, Lang Heshen is still quite satisfied with the young man in front of him who is a little open-mouthed.

It's also a kind of ability to open up the river and amplify the cannon! Aren't all kinds of Datong party members in the Ming Dynasty also relying on this set to fool the working class into trouble with the court and bosses? Although they couldn't overthrow the imperial court, in the past two or three hundred years, they have forced the imperial court to make a lot of concessions...... Now the workers in the Ming Dynasty have long had the right to organize trade unions and carry out strikes. As a result, child labour has been eliminated, and the number of years of free and compulsory education has been raised to nine years. In addition, there is a statutory retirement age and an old-age security system shared by employers and workers, as well as a free medical security system. Workers' wages have also risen several times over the past 50 years!

That's right. The various Datong parties and trade unions in the Ming Dynasty also used a nationwide general strike twelve years ago to "freeze forever" the prices of the gentry cards. This means that, with inflation and rising workers' incomes, sooner or later the gentry card will become very cheap, and the working class of the Ming Dynasty will not be able to spend a few bucks. You can buy voting rights......

Lang Heshen nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, the Ming Empire has always been very supportive of various progressive forces in the Qing Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty is currently pursuing the national policy of maintaining the territorial integrity of the Qing Empire...... So. I can only give you some grants in the name of funding education. There will be 1,000 yuan a month (which is not as valuable as it was hundreds of years ago), enough for you to start a tabloid in Macau. The money will be transferred through Otani. In addition, your activities in Macau and Hong Kong are protected. Something happened. You can ask Otani to come and tell me, or you can just take this business card to the Governor's Mansion to find me, or go to the Trade Department to find Lin Shuangwen (this is the chief representative of the Army Intelligence Agency in Europa, who is not in Macau now). ”

As he spoke, Lang Heshen took out a gilded business card and handed it to Napoleon - in this time and space, the business cards of high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty were not issued randomly.

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"Director Lin, the old man is looking forward to you! Hurry in, come in. ”

Just when Lang and Shen were in Macao to meet with the rebels of the Qing Dynasty - not only Napoleon, of course, but also the head of the Freemasonic Buncher from Germany, the Jesuit Archbishop Poniatowski from Poland, and the beggar gang leader Wilhelmina from the Netherlands - Lin Shuangwen, the representative of the Intelligence Bureau of the Ming Army Staff, went to the Qing Dynasty merchant capital Rouen.

Lin Shuangwen's public identity is the commercial superintendent of the Daming Atlantic Governor's Office, so naturally he will not visit the commercial capital of Rouen. Of course, the real purpose of his visit to Rouen this time was not for business, but to meet the scholar of the Wuyingdian University of the Qing Dynasty, the minister of Beiyang, and the governor of France, Hailancha (a descendant of Hai Dawei).

The Governor's Mansion of Hailancha is in the city of Rouen, a yamen that seems to be in the style of the Song Dynasty - the current France has a Western name, and there are really not many foreign goods - the Governor of Haida personally greeted him outside the gate, and invited a commercial director who did not have a little merchant atmosphere and was completely a military man into the living room of the Governor's Palace.

Because of the title of a university scholar, Hailancha is known as the Hall of the Sea. His ancestor is amazing, he is the general Hai Dawei who followed Zhu Sijiu to open up the Great Qing Kingdom. With such an ancestor, the Hai family was naturally a high-ranking official in the Qing Dynasty for generations. A few decades ago, the Haisheng Haizhongtang who presided over the smoking ban in Rouen was Hailancha's father - they Hai Clan, and I really don't know how many Zhongtang have been in the past 300 years. It is not an exaggeration to say that we will rest with the country.

However, Hailancha now has a very bad feeling: it is very likely that he will be the last Haizhongtang.

Because I'm afraid this Great Qing Kingdom is coming to an end!

Hailancha's father, Hai Sheng, was the leader of the Qing reformists after the Balkan Wars. He advocated learning from the Ming Dynasty, running factories, running a new army, running a navy, and sending students to study abroad. And with the support of the regent Empress Catherine, many things were really done. Hailancha, on the other hand, has been involved in the reform movement with Haisheng since his youth. He even went abroad several times to investigate, saw the big scene of the "fog capital" Jiangdu factory, and also went on the battleships of the Ming Navy, and watched those giant cannons fire salvos with his own eyes!

Now the Beiyang Naval Division, which is covering the northern coast of the Qing Dynasty, is even more single-handedly operated by Hailancha, the minister of Beiyang. For this naval division with four ironclad ships (obsolete battleships), six fast cruisers (not at all faster than the cruisers of the Ming Navy), six ramming cruisers (which could not hit anything at all), eight unprotected cruisers (that is, unarmored wooden hull ships) and four torpedo cruisers, the entire Qing Dynasty was extremely optimistic. It is thought that it is enough to confront a naval power like Italy, and it is enough to dominate in Europa. Dealing with a small country like England is not a problem at all.

However, Hailancha knew that the fleet he had worked so hard to build was already outdated before the first battle. Now the largest ironclad ships in the Ming Empire are 25,000 tons, which is more than twice as large as the two ironclad ships of the Beiyang Fleet! Moreover, the main guns and secondary guns have been replaced with rapid-fire guns, and the firepower is much stronger than the ironclad ships of the Qing Dynasty.

Most of the main ships of the English navy, which was about to start a war with the Qing Dynasty, were built by the shipyards of the Ming Dynasty in the past few years. The specific situation is naturally kept secret from the Qing Dynasty, but referring to the battleships and cruisers that the Ming Navy has served in recent years, you can know how big the gap between the two sides is.

This Qing Dynasty and England can only fight, not fight! It's okay if you don't fight, people don't know the truth and don't dare to start. If there is a rash war, this great empire of paper paste will be completely exposed! (To be continued.) )