Qian Chu Jiuqiang smiled and said: "Diplomat diplomat, isn't it just a room with a foreign beauty?" ”

was pressed by Ding Yi on the spot, pulled the dust whisk in Cao Jixiang's hand, and whipped it on his buttocks seven or eight times, and broke the dust handle.

"You bastard! If you don't learn, you can't do it! Ding Yi was so angry that he was really angry.

If it weren't for Liu Ji's desperate blocking, I'm afraid I would have to continue fighting.

"'If he does not dare to flee away, but is he reluctant to repay his virtue by being kind to diplomacy, shall he not be able to?' This is called diplomacy. Liu Ji also smiled bitterly, and while helping Qian Chujiu, he explained to him, "But it is not 'those who are ministers have no diplomacy, and they dare not be two kings', what they say refers to the private views of the princes; ”

Qian Chujiu got up and wiped his tears, but he had an open tone: "Uncle Shi, what you said, the child can't understand half of it!" Boss, I really don't understand this! The child is wronged! ”

Liu Ji, who was born as a scholar, immediately understood when he heard Ding Yi talk about diplomacy. However, he gave Qian Chujiu's explanation, from the "Chinese. Jin Yu" went to "The Book of Rites", and then "Han Feizi", Qian Chujiu really didn't understand!

"State-to-state activities, that is, the affairs of international relations, are diplomacy." Ding Yi couldn't, so he had to tell him once in the vernacular.

This Qian Chujiu understands it as soon as he hears it.

However, after being beaten in front of Ding Yi, Qian Chujiu had no complaints, because after figuring out what this diplomat was doing, he also felt that his previous understanding was indeed wrong.

And after getting Liu Ji's face-to-face instruction, Qian Chujiu felt that he could do his job as a diplomat well.

Because the charter that Liu Ji gave him was very simple: "If they are not comparable, then we must compare every bit to prevent the other party from gaining an inch; If they are strong and I am weak, we will put aside the dispute and develop together; If I am strong and weak, then you must set the rules, and if there are no rules, there will be no circle. ”

And where does Qian Chujiu not understand? At this time, it is definitely the season when I am strong and weak, and formulating rules is the best for Jingshi Xiaobawang. However, in Jingshi, he is tinkering with some unspoken rules that cannot be put on the table, which will allow him to stand up and formulate diplomatic rules, but he is handy - how to balance the interests of all parties, how to make the other party have to obey, how to make all parties feel that this rule can still be played, so as not to flip the table? If you really find someone who is loyal and honest, I'm afraid that I won't be able to get this thing for a while.

It is Qian Chujiu, who is mixed in the middle of the tricks, and he is extremely fast to get started.

The next thing began to become simpler, and Liu Ji set out to mobilize the soldiers of the former Fourth Division of the Ming Dynasty who had been assembled and even changed their uniforms. This is really not difficult, these soldiers of the Fourth Division may not have much sense of belonging to the so-called Roman Empire, but there is no problem in following Ding Yi. In addition, Liu Ji himself is good at this kind of propaganda work, and there will definitely be no chaos.

Cao Jixiang's helpers prepared expedition materials;

It's that Yang Shousui is a little overwhelmed these days, because a lot of things are pressing on him.

Not only the government affairs of the two Guangzhous, but also the four garrison divisions that took over from the Fourth Division, because they were originally reorganized from the militia division, are still in charge of Zhu Yong. As a result, Zhu Yong, who took over the defense of various places, kept coming to complain to Yang Shousui. Because the total number of the four divisions is slightly stronger than the original strength of the fourth division, but whether it is personnel or weapons and equipment, it is not a concept at all.

For example, the Fourth Division, originally placed the strength of one company in one county, the company headquarters and one platoon in the county seat, and the other two stationed on the main water and land routes, combined with the local militia, could well ensure that there was nothing to hide from the mountain bandits and robbers who were wandering across the border. Because it is an elite soldier, if there is any problem, including rescue and the like, the efficiency and speed are extremely fast.

It has just been seven or eight years since the land reform, and there are really no major events or big bandits, after all, it is now on the rise.

But as soon as the defense was changed, the problem came out, and a single rain washed away the ridges, and as a result, the two villages were able to fight.

It turned out that there was a squad of soldiers stationed on the edge of the two villages, and this had happened before, and the elite soldiers quickly assembled, and only a few families quarreled on the spot, whether it was reprimand or persuasion, the situation was immediately suppressed; But with the replacement of the garrison division, which has just been reorganized from the militia, when they grinded to the past, they were already fighting dozens of people, and one squad could hold it down? Well, send people to the county town company headquarters to ask for reinforcements, and it will arrive every other day at the earliest, and it is not uncommon for hundreds of young people in the two villages to fight, and it is not uncommon for twenty or thirty people to be killed or wounded.

Therefore, Zhu Yong kept handing over reports, asking for an increase in troops, four garrison divisions, and guarding Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunyuan, but he felt that it was not enough at all. He thinks that in a place, you have to station the strength of a division! How could Yang Shousui agree? As Xu Bin criticized, the treatment of the new army is too good, and every new army has to spend a lot of money. This is the route of elite soldiers, where is it possible to station at least one division in one government according to Zhu Yong's requirements?

So Yang Shou casually came to Ding Yi, hoping to let Du Ziteng take charge of the affairs of the army.

In his opinion, Zhu Yong is not a qualified military commander at all, and it is not bad to do military work.

"Without Zhanzhi, Liangguang and Yunyuan will have to sink in Lu?" Ding Yi simply rejected Yang Shousui's request.

"Sir, the disciple is really lacking in skills!" Yang Shousui can't, he can manage the army, but what about government affairs? Throw it away and let it go?

Because it turned out that Xu Hui was in front of the governor of Liangguang, he was in charge of government affairs, and at this time last year, Xu Hui's health was not good, and he had to retreat to the second line, although Ding Yi still left him a position as an adviser in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, and the position of the governor of Liangguang on the court side still did not change, but in fact, he could no longer look at things, and Yang Shou was in control.

Ding shook his head when he heard this: "There are really no manpower, so let's make the officials younger." ”

"Disciple, please transfer Senior Brother Hu, the commander of the First Division, to return to Guangzhou Mansion to preside over the military affairs of Liangguang and Yunyuan."

Ding Yi thought about it, and finally agreed: "Transfer Xing Dahe to lead the first brigade to stay in Chengdu, and the rest of the first division personnel to withdraw to Liangguang." "This problem has finally been solved, because it is impossible for Ding Yi to let Du Ziteng take charge of the military affairs of Liangguang and Yunyuan.

He made it clear that he wanted to take Du Ziteng to go to sea with him.

Even if he is a qiē shun lì, after three to five years, he will still take Chen San out.

The war against the Ottomans was by no means a simple matter, and a large number of ground battles would make it difficult to give full play to the superiority of the naval guns' firepower; And the Ottomans, who also had artillery, were certainly not as easy to deal with as the Mamluks.

However, during the rest of Ding Yi's time in Guangzhou, a lot of time was occupied by those technicians and engineers from the Ministry of Industry. Ding Yi has gone from being nineteen years old to his early thirties now, and more than ten years have passed, which is enough to completely cultivate a generation, which is completely different from the technical backbone of Li Jiangtou's masters in terms of basic knowledge and thinking.

Of course, for the masters of Li Jiangtou's generation, they will complain all day long that the young people of today are far inferior to them back then. There is a lot of disdain for the skills of today's technicians and engineers. Even sometimes because of technical problems, the master craftsmen of Li Jiangtou's generation get angry, and often say defiantly: "If you have the ability to go to the tong table and drum up something, come out and take a look!" ”

This is a fact, in terms of the work at hand, the current engineers and technicians, out of ten, I am afraid it is difficult to find one, the technology in hand can be compared with the generation of Li Jiangtou. Who are those masters? It was coaxed, cheated, and dug out by Ding Yi from Wang Gongchang, and it was the best craftsman in the Ming Dynasty in an era.

The dexterity of those hands is really not blown.

But not everyone can grow into a role like Li Jiangtou.

And the new technicians and engineers trained in the past ten years, many of them, will reach the height of Li Jiangtou, or even surpass. They have studied the table of elements, know the laws of physics, understand chemical reactions, and understand the rules of current transfer. Ding Yi gave them a foundation in mathematics, physics and chemistry at the junior high school level, and among them, those with good talent even reached the high school level.

Knowledge is power, not just words.

The successful research and development of gun barrel steel, according to the report of Du Mu and Li Jiangtou, these new generation of technical backbones have played a great role. Even when they came to Ding Yi, the question he asked made Ding Yi feel happy: "Your Majesty, if you wrap rubber and other insulating things on the telegraph wire, you can extend the distance of transmission, and if this fund can be approved, we should be able to make progress within a year." ”

"In the process of smelting, if you blow oxygen from the bottom, it is theoretically ......"

“…… We have not made progress on how to convert the electric frequency signal into an audio signal for the time being, but we have a new idea for the research and development of dry batteries......"

"The results of the test showed that it was not possible to build the high-grade steam engine drawn by His Majesty, and it was mainly due to the strength of the material that could withstand the working pressure......"

Ding Yi is very happy, not because he has invented anything new, but because he has seen a new era, and with his own efforts, it is growing strongly.

"As long as you persevere, Huaxia will not be defeated!" He even said this excitedly to Xu Hui when he went to visit the latter.

After staying in Guangzhou for more than a month, the mobilization of soldiers and the preparation of materials were finally complete, and the sea breeze was just as expected, so Ding Yi's fleet set sail.

Compared with going south from Beijing, Ding Yi was much less depressed.

When leaving the port of Guangzhou, Ding Yi held on to the gangway and said to the envoys of various countries who had returned to the west with the fleet: "The Ottomans must be taught a lesson. ”R1152