"How is it, how is Hu Linyi's situation?"

"Your Majesty, he's not doing well." In the face of Li Yongji's inquiry, Huang Kuan on the other end of the phone shook his head, "I gave him a comprehensive examination and confirmed that it was tuberculosis, and it was in the advanced stage, not only that, his health was quite poor, his liver, kidney and spleen were not good, fortunately he came to us in time, if it is a little later, I am afraid that his life will be in danger at any time." ”

"That's right, like him, you can try conservative treatment, such as regularly hanging water and taking some nutrient solutions, taking some drugs to protect the liver and kidneys, regular oxygen inhalation, and providing a sterile environment, and you should also pay attention to your diet, and take care of your body first." Li Yongji said, "When his body is almost recuperated, he will be given quadruple drug therapy, otherwise, he will be unable to stand it if he takes antibacterial drugs all of a sudden." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will definitely do it." Huang Kuandao, "I have also seen the quadruple drug therapy in the book, but we only have streptomycin here, and there are no other drugs." ”

"Don't worry, I'll get the medicine to your hospital as quickly as possible." Li Yongji said, "For the time being, you first give the patient regular oxygen, eat nutritious porridge, hang nutritious water, stabilize the condition, and later set aside a room for thorough disinfection, and then place a negative ion machine, so that he can live in the best environment."

In short, we must do our best to rescue at any cost! Got it? ”

"Understood, Your Majesty."

After hanging up the phone, Li Yongji exhaled.

When Shen Shiming called to report Hu Linyi's situation, Li Yongji was in the Ma'anshan Industrial Base, focusing on the expansion and upgrading of heavy industry, but after hearing about Hu Linyi's situation, he still paid the greatest attention to him and directly transferred him to the hospital in the secret base in Area 110, because there were the most advanced medical equipment and the best doctors in China.

The reason why Hu Linyi attaches so much importance is that in addition to the so-called daughter buying horse bones, commending the first feudal official of the autonomous province to give up his position. It's more out of admiration for each other's style and realm.

Although Li Yongji's current status is no longer cold to the so-called historical celebrities, for example, he has no special treatment for Li Hongzhang, but Hu Linyi's ideological realm of single-mindedness is still very commendable.

Moreover, Hu Linyi has a lot of protégés and deceased officials, and he has a good reputation in Hubei, if he can protect Hu Linyi and cure his illness, no matter what he does in the future, it will be a propaganda for himself.

Past. Li Yongji has always advocated the rule of law, but after some persuasion by Shen Shiming, he also understood that in today's China, it is inappropriate to blindly pursue the rule of law, and it is necessary to join the rule of man, and use the popular universal values to assist the construction of the legal system, rather than using the values of later generations to measure the people of this era.

In such a situation, it is very important to set up a few moral models and promote high moral values. This is conducive to shaping a positive social atmosphere and avoiding premature falling into the torrent of all-out money worship.

In the past, when Li Yongji was still grassroots, perhaps because of the difficulties of life, he was full of complaints. And they don't believe anything, especially the government's so-called moral propaganda, which they think is synonymous with hypocrisy and falsehood.

But after so long, with the change of identity. Li Yongji also slowly understood some truths, that is, sometimes, fig leaf is indeed needed. Some seemingly hypocritical moral propaganda is also even more needed, because if the government does not even do these propaganda, then the social atmosphere will only decline faster, and the damage caused by then will not be a little bit.

The so-called national characteristics, in many cases, are actually linked to tradition and social atmosphere, and it is not impossible to change, the key is to see how you guide and maintain.

It is true that there are many dross in Chinese civilization, but there are also many positive things, especially traditional virtues such as respecting the old and loving the young, sacrificing one's life for righteousness, etc., which are especially worthy of being promoted, and should not be discarded as hypocrisy, which will lose the soul of the Chinese nation.

Li Yongji has always felt that many places in the later generations of Red China have actually lost the traditional Chinese virtues, and more follow the West.

This is not to say that it is not bad, after all, the moral concepts of the West also have a certain degree of advancement, but it is okay to be completely Westernized, but you are not completely Westernized, and you have only learned the bad problems of Western money worship, but you have not learned the balance and forgiveness of Westerners, and finally formed a new set of traditions, and as a result, the material is becoming more and more sufficient, but the overall national quality is declining more and more.

Therefore, Li Yongji decided to use the Hu Linyi incident to absorb some moral role models in order to increase the government's image, and at the same time to send a signal to others that as long as they have talent, they can also make great achievements in the new dynasty.

As for Hu Linyi's previous visits to Huajie and Willow Lane, it was all a young thing, and now he is indeed worthy of being a famous minister of the country and the people.

Li Yongji asked someone, Hu Linyi was in charge of Hubei, and Hubei was doing well, but his own family was pitiful, and he barely gained much more money because of this, and almost all the money was used to buy books.

In other words, the reason why Hu Linyi can be so well rated in Hubei is that in addition to the fact that he does have a set of local governance, the most important point is that he has a strong self-control ability, and he is synonymous with true honesty and dedication.

Such a person, similar to Premier Zhou of the later dynasties, can drive a little bit of moral effect, but a lot of roles, and is exactly the fresh blood that the government needs.

"陛xià, 陛xià?" Seeing Li Yongji pondering there, Soho, who had been promoted to secretary general of the emperor, reminded in a low voice, "Everyone is still waiting for you to cut the ribbon." ”

"Oh, yes, yes, cut the ribbon." Li Yongji nodded, then straightened his clothes in the mirror before stepping off the carriage again.

The ribbon-cutting that Soho said refers to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the official launch of China's first homemade train.

The railway from Guangde County to Ma'anshan has long been repaired, but there has been no introduction of locomotives from modern times, the reason is very simple, most of the modern locomotives are diesel locomotives, but in this era of China, the oil industry has not yet begun, it is inconvenient to use diesel locomotives, the most suitable is the coal-burning steam locomotive, but it's just very few modern coal-burning steam locomotives, and it is very troublesome to get it, so it is delayed when it comes and goes.

Helpless, Li Yongji had no choice but to continue to build the railway. However, the new railway no longer uses 60 rails, but 43 rails, and the speed of the railway reaches a speed of 8,000 meters a day.

This kind of crazy energy to build a railway regardless of one effort has caused a lot of dissatisfaction, but because it is a special order of the emperor, they don't dare to say anything, but they just feel that it is a bit silly to waste so much good steel to build roads.

The reason is simple, although with the proliferation of books on Western knowledge, the people of the Chinese Empire are no longer blind to the West. But after all, it is just beginning to understand, and many people don't even believe what the book says at all, just read it as a mythological story, and for things like trains, because they have not yet appeared in China, they are also skeptical.

It was only recently that Zhang Xinda transported the 12 upstream steam locomotives he had collected, and with a large number of wagons, the railway was no longer an ornament.

These locomotives are all 1-4-1 axle construction. The traction force is 20,766 kg, the construction speed is 80 km/h, and the actual operating speed is 65 km/h, which is economical and practical. The structure is reliable, the technical difficulty is not high, and it is the most suitable product for their own imitation.

Of these, four locomotives were left for their own people to study. With complete technical information, in order to be able to manufacture imitations as quickly as possible.

The other eight locomotives were all put into operation, and four of them mainly ran on the line from Ma'anshan to Guangde. It is mainly used as a freight train, and the other four are used as freight and passenger trains on the first line from Ma'anshan to Nanjing.

Now, Li Yongji is about to cut the ribbon for the first batch of trains, after which the four trains will carry a large amount of steel and personnel from Ma'anshan Station to Guangde County, and then transport coal and a batch of chemical raw materials from the local area.

Once this operation is successful, four other routes from Ma'anshan to Nanjing will also be opened, thus combining Nanjing's capital advantages with Ma'anshan's heavy industry advantages.

This time, the ribbon-cutting ceremony was quite grand, not only the emperor himself attended, but also the imperial prime minister, and even several foreigners, such as the ambassadors of Britain, France and Russia to China and the American minister to China.

After giving a short speech, Li Yongji cut the ribbon with Shen Shiming, and then, with a whining whistle, the first locomotive began to start slowly.

All locomotives are named Zhonghua series, for example, the first locomotive that started now is called Zhonghua No. 1, and the others are Zhonghua No. 2, Zhonghua No. 3, etc., as for the source, it can only be said that it is produced by itself, after all, the world's famous powers have not produced this type, except to say that they produce themselves, there is no other way.

This is also the reason why Zhang Xinda chose the upstream locomotive, which is actually not the best, but the shape is more in line with the expectations of the mid-nineteenth century trains, and the technical difficulty is also small, so this kind of locomotive was chosen.

The Zhonghua No. 1 locomotive pulled 30 wagons, on which in addition to a batch of steel rails, there is also a regiment of production and construction corps, the task of going to Guangde this time is to continue to build roads, build the railway from Guangde to Jiaxing Port, so as to facilitate the construction of Jiaxing Military Port.

It can be seen from this that the first batch of railways is mainly to connect resource areas and industrial areas, the main purpose is to facilitate the transportation of materials, speed up the transportation of several industrial areas, and the transportation of personnel is not so urgent.

This is also normal, because the upstream locomotives themselves are to pull goods, although they can also pull people, but after all, the experience is relatively poor, so this batch of locomotives is currently mainly pulling goods.

Not to mention, after the train really moved, most of the visitors exclaimed, the so-called layman to see the lively, the insider to see the doorway, different people look at these trains, see different places.

Generally, because most of the Chinese are laymen, they just see the momentum of these trains and the ability to pull goods and people, while some insiders are different, they are amazed by the speed and capacity of this train.

You know, at this time, the train at most will pull a small wagon of 20 cars, if you pull so many goods, the speed can be 20 kilometers per hour, it is good, but this kind of Chinese locomotive pulled 30 large wagons at a time, but the speed easily exceeded 70 kilometers per hour, which gave people a lot of impact.

70 kilometers per hour is faster than a horse, and anyone with a discerning eye knows what it means to be transported at this speed all the time.

Especially the personnel of Britain, France, the United States and Russia, who originally came to visit with an inquiring mind, now saw such a powerful train, and it is said that it was produced by the Chinese themselves, and everyone is mixed.

There is no other reason, self-production and purchase of other countries' products are two concepts, to be able to produce such a strong locomotive by oneself, itself means that the technical level has reached a stage. In this case, China really cannot be taken lightly.

After all four trains had departed one after another, in order to entertain the guests, Li Yongji held a small buffet celebration reception, at which the British ambassador Wei Tuma was the first to come up to congratulate him, relying on the strength of Britain and the close relationship with the emperor in the past: "Your Majesty, Honorable Emperor, congratulations on the success of your train operation. I've seen it, your locomotive is quite powerful, I wonder if it can be exported to our country? ”

"I'm so sorry. Mr. Ambassador. Li Yongji said with a smile, "Although these locomotives are good, but they are difficult to manufacture, our people took more than a year to build them little by little, and the number is very small, we ourselves are not enough, if we want to export, it seems impossible for the time being." ”

"Oh. Is that so? Wittoma nodded thoughtfully.

"Yes." Li Yongji said, "In fact, our industrial strength is still very weak, and we can only learn to imitate it little by little by hand, so don't look at this locomotive and look good." In fact, the output is very low, and it cannot be compared with the mass production locomotive of your British Empire, in other words, there is still a big gap between our industrial level and your Britain. ”

"Your Majesty, you're humble." Wittoma smiled. "It seems to me that His Majesty is far-sighted, and the empire is under your leadership. It was only a matter of time before we entered the industrial age. ”

"I don't doubt that." Li Yongji nodded.

"China is a great country." "We in the UK are also great countries, and I hope that in the future we can have deeper cooperation between our two countries in all aspects. ”

"Of course, that's exactly what I wanted." Li Yongji nodded politely.

Seeing that the others were still waiting to meet Li Yongji, Wei Tuoma also knew that he couldn't stay here for long, so he could only lower his voice and say in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Your Majesty, in fact, I have the will of Her Majesty the Queen of our country here, and I hope to have a private meeting with you later to talk about the United States." ”

"Oh." Li Yongji nodded thoughtfully, "Very good, it will be as you wish." ”

After the celebratory reception, Li Yongji summoned the British envoy Wittmar alone as promised, and as expected, Wittoma wanted to talk to him privately about joint intervention in the American Civil War.

Although Britain and France had sent envoys separately, they had only discussed with China about the seizure of ships and the capture of British and French, and did not talk about interfering with the United States.

In other words, Britain did not publicize the Chinese garlic interference in the American civil war, and did not even sue the United States alone, but changed its mind and quietly carried it out.

In fact, don't look at the impartial and neutral face of the British faction, but in fact, it has been interfering in the American Civil War, or in other words, as early as the outbreak of the American Civil War, the British began to favor the American South, many private fleets are sending weapons to the American South, and then pulling agricultural products from the South, and even the Canadian region in the North has increased its garrisons, oppressing the northern defense line of the North of the United States, and secretly supporting the South of the United States in various ways.

In history, if Prince Albert had not been cautious and did not agree to intervene in the American Civil War, it would not have been impossible for the British Prime Minister and the strength of Britain at this time to declare war on the American North and personally intervene in the American Civil War.

But this time, because of Li Yongji's intervention, Prince Albert of Britain had more worries and considerations, and began to really consider the gains and losses of intervening in the American Civil War.

Of course, the main thing was that he was shocked by the Chinese Navy's clean and tidy elimination of the Russian expeditionary fleet, coupled with those fake and realistic photos, which made Prince Albert surprised for the first time by China's strength, and once again regarded the Chinese Empire as a powerful opponent on an equal footing, and such a militarily powerful country wanted to take action against the United States, especially the plan of the 500,000 expeditionary force, which made Britain feel that interfering in the internal victory of the United States was greatly increased, and if he did not intervene, he was really ashamed of the country.

You must know that if China can be mired in the quagmire of the American civil war, it will definitely weaken the two countries, China and the United States, and then Britain will only have benefits, not harm.

It was with this in mind that the British finally chose to agree to cooperate with China and intervene in the American Civil War, but as Prince Albert said to his Prime Minister, restraint, restraint, restraint, in other words. That is, Britain tried not to directly declare war on the North of the United States, and all interference had to be done in the name of civilian volunteers.

To put it simply, in the matter of interfering in the US Civil War, Britain did not plan to directly send troops in the early stage, but would only dispatch its navy to monitor the east coast of the United States in the name of escorting and protecting overseas Chinese, so that the fleet of the United States in the north could not attack the southern part of the United States unscrupulously. The British would also encourage British merchant fleets in India and Southeast Asia to be hired privately by China to help them transport personnel and supplies to the United States.

During this period, all transportation costs were borne by China, and Britain only provided ships and crews to help Chinese immigrate to the United States, and as for what will happen to Chinese and Americans after immigration, it is none of the British business.

In doing so, the British did not take much risk of war. On the contrary, they can take advantage of this to make a lot of money, and as for the future, they can choose whether to start in person according to the actual situation.

If the North of the United States does not support it, then they will personally send troops to the North. Competing for interests, on the contrary, if the North of the United States has a better chance of winning, then they will remain neutral. Don't wade into muddy waters.

"It seems that you don't have much sincerity." Li Yongji smiled, "I just verbally promised to help us transport personnel and materials to the United States, and we have to pay for the freight ourselves." By the way, we will unconditionally return to you the British ships and prisoners we seized in the naval war against Russia, and even compensate them for their losses...... Hehe, is this a cooperative attitude? What do I think of it, how do I think it is taking China as the main culprit? ”

"Your Majesty, in fact, we are very sincere." "If we weren't sincere, we wouldn't have sent a fleet to spy on the east coast of the United States, let alone agreed to help you transport people to the United States, after all, we, the British Empire, would have to take risks." Otherwise, the volunteers who joined the Russian Expeditionary Force did something wrong, and we could have ransomed the British sailors and ships with money, what do you think? ”

"Take the money to redeem it? It's easy to say, but you don't have to talk to me, just talk to my Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Li Yongji said lightly, "Didn't you talk to my diplomats about this before?" ”

"Talked." "But your asking price is too high, and you have to pay all of it in gold, and according to the tonnage, one ton counts as one tael of gold, and according to your new weights and measures, one tael equals 50 grams, that is, one ton counts as 50 grams of gold, which is also too unusual." According to this calculation, wouldn't a 2,000-ton ship cost us 100 kilograms of gold? Even if we build a new one, we won't need so much money. ”

"That's your problem." Li Yongji smiled, "Our people must have our own considerations when they give this price, after all, those people and the ship are prisoners in the war, not to buy a ship?"

In other words, we fought through guò and captured these enemies in a dignified manner, and since we were captured enemies, since we failed, we have to consider the issue of war reparations, and I have been very generous if I did not ask you Britain for reparations. ”

"But war reparations are a matter for the Russians." "Even if those British help the Russians, it can be regarded as a Russian battle sequence, and since Russia has given compensation and signed an armistice agreement with you, it should be followed by the agreement to release the prisoners." ”

"We complied." Li Yongji shrugged his shoulders, "But the Russians only cut the land and didn't give money, so we didn't let the Russian prisoners go, and the Russians also said that they were only responsible for the Russians, and those volunteers were not within the scope of their compensation."

So, if you want your British volunteers to leave, you have to follow our rules, because they are our captives first and the British second. Not only you Britons, but also the French. In the same way, since those ships were captured by us in the war, they are our property, and if you want to go back, you have to ask our master if he agrees or not. ”

"Your Majesty, didn't you say that you want to cooperate with us, is this the attitude of cooperation?"

"Cooperation should be fair." Li Yongji smiled, "Just thinking about making cheap for yourself and making others suffer losses is not cooperation, it is fraud." In short, with our strength, we can do it alone, and call you Britain, but for the sake of convenience and make friends, but without you Britain, we can do it ourselves, and we can do what we want, just for a little longer.

You may say, "Why should we, I sue you, I don't rely on anything else, just on our population of 50,000,000, on our 3 million regular army, on our more than 10 million mobilized soldiers, on our desire to become stronger, on our desire to gain respect, on our unique geographical location, on our advanced weapons that are not inferior to yours.

In short, as a new country, as a nation that has suffered humiliation, my 3 million army needs a place to vent its anger, either against the distant United States or against neighboring countries. (To be continued......)