491 Talent shortage crisis
Lin Fei smiled and said: "Mr. Eduardo understands the righteousness so well, I am very pleased, very good, then I will send someone to repair the tomb of Shen Zhiliang." ”
The interpreter agreed, so Lin Fei sent soldiers, let Eduardo lead the way, into Macao, Lin Fei's subordinates beat gongs and drums on the way, pulled banners, and said that we are here to build a tomb for Shen Zhiliang's righteous soldiers, although Shen Zhiliang's assassination of Amarlius has passed nearly 50 years, but there are still many people who remember this incident.
The people saw that Huaxia Guo was repairing the tomb of Shen Zhiliang's righteous soldiers, and the Great Qing Kingdom saw Shen Zhiliang being killed, but they didn't even dare to let go of a fart.
Eduardo and the thinkers were secretly happy, thinking that they had agreed to Lin Fei's unreasonable request, Lin Fei must have no way to attack us, and Philrick, who was imprisoned by Lin Fei, was so angry that his whole body trembled, and scolded Eduardo for being spineless, and scolded so much that his throat was hoarse.
The time came to July 11, during this time, Lin Fei has been sending people to visit the situation around Macao, Lin Fei intends to build Macao into a large trading port, at this time the trade between the Qing Kingdom and China, mainly concentrated in three places, one is Guangzhou, one is Xiamen, and one is Fuzhou, with the increasing volume of ore transactions, the three ports have become a little insufficient.
On July 11, Lin Fei felt that he had played enough with the Portuguese, so he made up his mind to seize Macau!
At 10 o'clock in the morning of 11 July, Lin Fei suddenly sent a diplomatic letter to Eduardo, in which he wrote solemnly: "At 10 o'clock last night, two of our soldiers disappeared in the urban area of Macao, and our side highly suspected that the Portuguese had killed the two soldiers. ”
This incident was completely fabricated by Lin Fei, and it was simply an excuse for Lin Fei to seize Macau, or was it that sentence, I want to beat you, but I can't find a reason to beat you? This incident was widely criticized by historians in later generations, who denounced Lin Fei as a treacherous and shameless tyrant.
Lin Fei wanted to send troops into Macao to conduct a house-to-house search of the Portuguese, which was simply a great shame for the Portuguese!
Eduardo was furious when he saw Lin Fei's official letter, and ordered someone to push the messenger out and shoot him, only to suddenly find out that the messenger was an Arab, Lin Fei had befriended a straightforward Arab prince, after the end of the Nanyang War, many Arabs came to China to do business, so Lin Fei recruited a large number of Arabs.
Eduardo didn't want to add one more enemy to himself, so he let the messenger be released, this stuffiness could only be held in his stomach, Eduardo waved his hand to call the wise man, and said angrily: "Distribute weapons to the Portuguese in the city, and fight to the end!" ”
The think tank agreed, turned around and went out, and conveyed the order, Lin Fei saw that Eduardo had no intention of surrendering, and with an order, the army of three thousand tigers and wolves entered Macao, the Portuguese army did not resist at all, raised their hands and surrendered, and the same was true of the Portuguese in the city, Eduardo saw that his subordinates did not resist, so he could only be reluctantly taken prisoner.
Lin Fei saw that the Portuguese did not resist, so he did not kill them, nor did he take them to the slave factory and mine, but ordered them to leave Macao within a time limit, if they did not want to leave Macao, issued a temporary residence permit for the Chinese Empire, after a three-month investigation, if the performance was excellent, then granted a permanent residence permit for the Chinese Empire, this kind of document is a small green book, which is vividly called a "green card", in the following decades, countless foreigners squeezed their heads to get a green card.
Lin Fei seized Macao, and did not let go of the matter of building a tomb for Shen Zhiliang, Lin Fei built the "National Righteous Warrior Memorial Hall" opposite the Governor's Palace, which not only includes the grave of Shen Zhiliang, but also the graves of other anti-Portuguese righteous soldiers, as well as various evidence of the Portuguese oppression of the Chinese people, including the torture instruments that mutilated the Chinese people, the legal provisions of the oppression of the Chinese people, and so on.
In the memorial hall, Lin Fei did not forget to belittle the Qing government, and in the exhibition hall of Macau's history, the scene of the Qing government's cession of Macao is reproduced with a huge portrait of the Qing court officials, all of whom are obscene and groveling, making people want to strangle them to death as soon as they see them.
Macau is solved, there is no need for Filrick to stay, Lin Fei handed Filrick over to Shangguan Yunlong and the angry warriors to deal with, the warriors decided to treat them in the way of others, and also stripped Filrick's skin, but they did not have the technology to peel off the whole piece of human skin, so the peeled off the skin was piecemeal, and Filrick of course suffered a lot, so he died.
Portugal solved, Lin Fei began to deploy his forces in the Qing State, at this time Huaxia bought a large number of various ores in the Qing State, and merchants often went in and out of the Qing State, which required Huaxia to set up consulates in various parts of the Qing State.
In the "Armistice Agreement between the Chinese Empire and the Qing Empire" signed by Lin Fei and Li Hongzhang, there was a most-favored-nation clause, which stipulated that the benefits given by the Qing to other countries could be automatically obtained by the Chinese Empire, so Lin Fei automatically obtained the right to set up a consular corps in the Qing State and garrison troops in the consulate.
At this time, the Chinese Empire mainly purchased coal, iron ore, tin ore, manganese ore and other ores, and the main ore mining sites were located in the south of the Qing Dynasty, and the mineral resources in the south of the Qing Dynasty were also quite rich.
Lin Fei then decided to set up an embassy in Beijing, consulates in Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai and Tianjin, with 500 troops stationed in the embassy and 300 consulates in various places.
At the same time as the import of ore from the Qing Dynasty, several large mines were discovered in Luzon and Mindanao, and the Australian mineral exploration team also basically locked the location of the large iron mines, and the mining and construction was gradually carried out.
The resource shortage crisis of the Chinese Empire has been alleviated to a certain extent, but another problem of Yan zhòng has been exposed, that is, the backward transportation of the Qing Dynasty has delayed the transportation of ore.
The backwardness of transportation is not easy to solve, it is not like the backwardness of ore mining technology, the mining technology is backward, Lin Fei can send technicians, but the backwardness of transportation will require the construction of railways, and the construction of railways will occupy land, not only occupy a certain piece of land, but occupy land in many places.
In this process, the greedy and corrupt Qing court officials and the conservative and ignorant people have formed a huge resistance, but these are insignificant compared to another difficulty, that is, the shortage of talents!
The officials of the Qing court were corrupt and could be smashed with money and intimidated by force, and the ignorance of the people could be deceived by propaganda and pretending to be ghosts, but there was no way to do it when there was a shortage of talents.
At this time, in the Chinese Empire, the mine needed a lot of talents, the factories needed a lot of talents, and the schools needed a lot of talents, but in Lin Fei's hands, there were really no talents.
Before the Nanyang World War, Lin Fei hired many British scholars with high salaries, but as soon as Britain declared war, these British scholars and professors all went out of school and returned to Britain.
When Britain was defeated, these people did not come back out of arrogance and patriotism, and there was a dilemma in the university that there were students without teachers.
Lin Fei frowned all day long, Xiyun couldn't help at all, although she was a talented woman who read poetry and books, but she was strict and biased, and she was very good at chanting poems and talking about the past and the present, and when it came to mathematics, the addition and subtraction of more than a hundred was not understood.
Ling Xue has shown the potential of a scholar, she often reads all kinds of science and engineering textbooks, to Lin Fei's surprise, Ling Xue's talent is amazing, learning all kinds of science and engineering knowledge is almost instantaneous, take advanced mathematics as an example, the subject that has caused countless college students a headache in her own time, Ling Xue can solve all kinds of exercises without leaving ten just by reading the book once.
If Ling Xue was in her own era, she would definitely be the rhythm of the junior class of USTC!
However, Ling Xue doesn't understand everything, she also doesn't understand something, and when she encounters something she doesn't understand, she comes to consult Lin Fei, so something that surprised Lin Fei even more appeared, Ling Xue asked questions that were deeper than the other, and in the end, she couldn't answer them at all.
In front of Ling Xue, Lin Fei has always been omniscient and omnipotent, god-like beings, but now that he can't answer a question, he suddenly feels embarrassed, and sneered: "In the future, I will find a teacher for you, and you are not allowed to ask me any more questions." ”
After Lin Fei said this, he suddenly thought, why can't I send our people to study abroad, the United States is an excellent place to study!
In this era, Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other famous universities have been established, including the most prestigious "Ivy League universities". These people have learned basic science knowledge in American colleges and universities, and after I come back, I will use the high technology I have mastered to point out to them.
Lin Fei stood up excitedly, Ling Xue didn't understand why Lin Fei was so happy, and couldn't help but ask, "Brother, what's wrong with you?" ”
Lin Fei said with a smile: "I want to send students to American universities, so that the talent problem will be solved." ”
Ling Xue was stunned for a moment, and asked hesitantly, "Then will the Americans want our people?" ”
Lin Fei said with a smile: "The most prestigious universities in the United States are all private universities, as long as they are willing to spend money, they will accept students, and I will go to the US ambassador tomorrow to talk about this matter." ”