Chapter 793: The Character Who Won the Eyes of Emperor Liu!
"Your Majesty, this is the Englishman's The Times, which has been translated."
Liu Xian took a pinch of the same size newspaper from the hand of the attendant, which was the British "Times", and the text on it was clearly written in Chinese characters. The chamberlains did not need to do translation work, they were responsible for restoring pieces of articles to the original state of the newspaper. The 'tradition' of reading the newspapers of the major Western newspapers every day is a must-have job for Liu Xian.
Thousands of miles away, at the headquarters of the Office of Europe, there is a room in the telegraph room where the daily task is to send telegrams to Beijing. Of course, he is also responsible for the translation of foreign languages. Here are some of the best translation scholars in China.
"The foreigners are not satisfied with the peaceful transition of our cabinet election!" Liu Xian said to Huo Guangcheng with a smile. Huo Guangcheng withdrew midway before the election of the fifth cabinet, and Liu Xian only used him as a pretext to see the quality of the people below, and in the next few years, Huo Guangcheng will not work in China itself, but on the North American continent on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. He is China's next Governor General of North America!
It was Zeng Jize who became the first assistant of the fifth cabinet, Ji Xiliang failed to succeed in the election, and the attendant department was too divided. Naturally, Ji Xiliang also failed to become the deputy assistant of the cabinet, because the election of the first assistant and the second assistant was the first to start. But after all, his work was recognized by the whole country, and he succeeded Huo Guangcheng in the subsequent cabinet election and became the head of many departments such as industry, energy, and mineral deposits - Minister of Heavy Industry and Economy. The second assistant was Liu Mingchuan, who had recently retired from the governorship of Nanyang.
The whole thing was overly calm and submissive, even in the previous battle, when all the dust fell. Then there is only resignation.
During the handover process, there were no 'accidents' in the entire cabinet. This makes Britain and other countries in the Western world very regretful. As the embodiment of the two major systems of cooking in Europe - England and France. There are no more turbulent waves in their parliaments all the time.
In the process of handing over work, it is normal not to cooperate. A lot of prime ministers and ministers who have just started the cabinet. Presidents and prime ministers spend a lot of time searching for a detailed document.
China's competition in the process of cabinet change is not inferior to that of Britain, France, and the distant United States, but after the new cabinet took office, the cabinet office appeared to be so calm. A large number of people left the office and were delegated to the grassroots level, and another part of the group was added. The handover of work between the two sides is also very clear.
"Donkey skills are poor!" Huo Guangcheng took another newspaper from the hand of the attendant, his eyes quickly swept from the front page, and when it came to Liu Xian's culture, he smiled coldly. Only the most helpless people expect their opponents to make mistakes on their own initiative.
"Well said!" Liu Xian heard a wave of self-confidence in himself and contempt for the enemy from Huo Guangcheng's voice. And Huo Guang has always been down-to-earth. Meticulous. The contempt in this voice is a strategic contempt for the enemy!
The British really have no choice but to bounce in the newspapers. If there was a gap in the domestic political arena for them to drill, the John Bulls would not have been so fruitful in the newspapers.
Huaxia is not a real dish after all, as long as Liu Xian is alive for a day, his status and rights are unshakable. With this great god pressed on the top of his head, few people feel unscrupulous 'misconduct'. Cooking is only 'relative'!
Huo Guangcheng failed to go further this time, which is the reason why Liu Xian is pressing. He wanted Huo Guangcheng to be in North America and systematically integrate the existing industrial forces in North America. And the best way to do this. There are only Ji Xiliang and Huo Guangcheng in China today. Of these two races, Huo Guangcheng is younger, he is not as old as Liu Xian, less than sixty. Ji Xiliang is already sixty-three. After this cabinet, his political life will also end!
Of course, in order to build momentum for next year's World Games. After Huo Guangcheng arrived in North America, he became China's representative in the Americas, and he did his best to expand China's influence in Central and South America. Better South American countries. There is also the Panama Canal, which also requires direct attention and resource imports from North America.
Huo Guangcheng's life in the next few years will not be too comfortable. But the overall good interests of the Americas. His qualifications and abilities will make the entire government and the opposition bow down. China's first assistant no longer needs a political minister in the style of Fan Debang, Zhang Shouyan and Zeng Jize, who has taken office, each made a new annotation for the definition of the first assistant minister, in addition to politics, a qualified first assistant must also understand economics and diplomacy, and in the future, Huo Guangcheng will also print another definition of understanding industry for the first assistant.
Huo Guangcheng is Liu Xian's ideal first minister, with such a courtier who understands industry to take care of the country, Liu Xian can go to the battlefield with confidence. It's just that when the next war will break out, Huo Guangcheng and even Liu Xian himself, whether they can wait until that time, is unknown.
Today is Huo Guangcheng's last pilgrimage before parting, and tomorrow he will pause for another day, and the day after tomorrow he will leave for Tianjin early in the morning, and take a ship to North America the next day. Liu Xian left Huo Guangcheng to eat in the palace.
It's not a big honor. The royal family of the new Qin is absolutely different from the former Qing Dynasty, too many people eat in the palace too often, so that the speech of the imperial banquet is directly separated from the emperor's daily diet. The emperor only eats four dishes and one soup alone every day, and eats with concubines, princes, and princesses, with six dishes and one soup, and with the queen with eight dishes and one soup. There is Qianqing as a comparison, such rules, and Liu Xian has a simple reputation.
And as long as the emperor is hooked with the word 'simplicity', it is difficult to have many bad rumors.
Liu Xian stayed with Huo Guangcheng for dinner today, and deliberately asked the prince to come over to accompany him, and when he was about to leave the palace, the queen came to say goodbye, which immediately looked very different. Many people in the outer court knew about this place when it was dark that afternoon, and there was nothing to say. Huo Guangcheng is not only a well-known minister in the world, the founder of the heavy industry of the dynasty, but also Liu Xian's cousin.
China's cabinet transition was smooth, the war in the Middle East stopped, the rebellious tribes of the peninsula suffered heavy losses under the attack of the Ottoman army, Britain and France and other countries did not immediately move the knife with the Ottomans, so the peninsula coalition forces could not hold it at the critical moment.
The heads of the six chieftains were sent to Istanbul, and a large number of tribes from the Najd plateau fled to South Yemen, but the Najd plateau was not something the Ottomans were willing to stay for long, and the Ottomans did not make a real conquest of the Najd plateau when they were at their strongest. Throughout the Arabian Peninsula, the Ottomans claimed only the southern shore of the Persian Gulf and the northern shore of the Red Sea, that is, the lowlands on the left and right sides of the peninsula.
This time, the tribal chiefs, nobles, emirs, and so on of the peninsula on the Najd plateau, with the same money and self-esteem, as well as the lives of some people, made Istanbul reclaim its army to the satisfaction of the people.
The peninsula was peaceful again, and the Najd plateau soon returned to the control of the peninsulars, but the Ottoman Empire did not pay nothing. The Chinese embassy in Istanbul is open to money, and it is a matter of buying some connections in the Sudanese regime. The Ottoman Empire had signed secret treaties with Britain and France, and it would take a lot of money and time to know what they were about.
The subsidence of the war in the Middle East has also had an important domestic stimulus, and Kuwait is completely safe and there is no longer anything that can threaten the development company. The price of development stocks has returned to the pre-war level in the month of Layue, as long as more oil is produced, 3,500 yuan is definitely not the cap of development stocks!
At the same time, the good news came from the offshore drilling team in the Persian Gulf, which is indeed buried under the surface of the sea and has abundant reserves.
After the New Year, before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month arrived, Liu Siam received news from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Ottomans had sold the right to exploit oil in the Persian Gulf Sea to the British and French, leaving China with only a small area off the coast of Kuwait.
Liu Xian hurried up, and this was most likely a provision in the secret treaty between Britain and France and the Ottomans. Only instructions were given to continue to grasp the line of the secret entente, and the rest did not react. However, the Chinese people and newspapers have once again set off a wave of criticism of the Ottoman Empire, and the impression of the Chinese people on the Ottoman Empire has once again fallen.
In the first month, the Organizing Committee of the Chinese World Games still launched an invitation to the Ottoman Empire as planned, and the Middle East also received invitations from Persia and Egypt, although the latter was occupied by the British in 1882 and almost became a British colony, but the name of the country is still there, and it is still an independent country. And the current Sultan Abbasid II is a clear anti-British fighter with a very capable personality. In 1892, when he succeeded his father Tawfik I in Egypt, he was already an important figure in the Egyptian people, ethnicity, lordship, and righteousness movement, trying to free Egypt from the control of the British Consul General, Lord Cromer, and rule Egypt independently. At that time, the growing British power in Egypt also caused dissatisfaction among the Egyptian people, and the people, tribes, lords, and righteous people supported Abbasid II. By 1894, after he had criticized the efficiency of the British army, Lord Cromer took steps to curtail his rights. At that time, Abbas II, although no longer leading the nationalist movement, provided financial assistance to the pan-Islamic, anti-British daily newspaper The Admirer. Last year, in 1898, Abbasid II reconquered Sudan and added it to Egypt. A railway from Egypt mainland to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, was completed this year, cementing Egyptian rule there. At the same time, Egypt under Abbasid II was still working on the construction of the first Aswan Dam. Although Britain had in fact completely dominated Egypt's domestic economy and politics, and Egypt's power was too weak, Abbasid II still did not lose a figure who won Liu Xian's eyes!
Along with Egypt, Abyssinia, later known as Ethiopia, was invited by the organizing committee. The existence of this country is as if it is specifically to prove that the 'Italian side' is really face-to-face. Their king, Menelik II, was like Liu Siam after the First Russo-Chinese War, because of the brilliant victory at the Battle of Adwa, established himself in North Africa!
Ethiopia enjoys absolute independence as a sovereign State and pays an indemnity of 10 million lire. This is the answer of the Italians. It is also the biggest victory of Africa against Europe since the Battle of the Mahazan River! (To be continued......)