Chapter Ninety-One: The Envoy to Korea

The idea was decided, and Ding Yuntong was determined to prepare for a few more months before it was fully launched. There are a few things to do well during these months.

First. Liaise with Western countries, especially Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, to prepare for industrialization externally. The victory of the Sino-French War greatly curbed the greed of the West. If you want to take advantage of China, you have to weigh whether you are willing to pay the price. In this way, the powerful countries can only focus on the economy for the time being.

Second. The original household registration management system has been comprehensively strengthened, focusing on implementation. An inspection team was dispatched to spot check the localities, and where the implementation was not in place, the local leaders made a decision.

Third. All propaganda departments must make all preparations to sing the praises of prosperity and whitewash peace. It is necessary to organize some old artists, such as Henan Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Huai Opera, Qin Opera, Sichuan Opera, Lu Opera, etc., to go to the localities, go to the grassroots, in the fields, in the village and town markets, to carry out condolence performances, to publicize the kindness of the Son of Heaven, the care and warmth of the emperor, and the slogan "The Holy Lord is heart-to-heart with everyone!" In this most easy-to-understand language, to promote the emperor's pro-people image.

Fourth. A part of the armed forces should be mobilized to form a rapid reaction force to respond to illegal gatherings at any time. Nip in the bud all kinds of possibilities that endanger social stability and harmony.

Fifth. Sichuan was selected as a special zone, and the surplus grain collection system was first implemented, because it was an important grain producing area in the first place. Moreover, Ding Yuntong feels that the number of armed forces in his hands is limited, with hundreds of thousands of patrol battalions and tens of thousands of guards. If the whole country goes on the horse together and rebels everywhere, it will be troublesome.

At the same time, in the process of policy implementation, it is also necessary to accumulate a lot of practical experience.

For example, how to stop people from hiding grain and refusing to pay it?

How can people supervise each other, expose each other, and snitch each other?

How should the people's reaction be suppressed, not only to kill a large number of people, but not all of them, how to grasp this scale?

If there is no food, how can we effectively stop people from fleeing the famine?

If millions of people starve to death, how can you cover up the news and block the news?

In case of news leakage, how should we deal with it, how should propaganda work be carried out, and how should we forcefully "refute rumors"?

All these will be new topics in the new situation and will directly test the ability to govern. Therefore, it is necessary to set up special zones in order to gain experience, and as long as the work goes smoothly and the results are good, it can be gradually extended to the whole country.

Originally, Ding Yuntong wanted to take Vietnam as the first target, but it was still inappropriate to think about it. Vietnam has done too badly, and it will have a bad demonstration effect on other regions, such as the south of Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Thailand, and even Central Asia, and it will be more difficult to conquer in the future.

Ding Yuntong thought about it: "Death is death, death of 10 million is death, and no one will praise me for mercy if I die hundreds of thousands."

There is a big difference between a dead person and not a dead person. But dying 10 million is exactly the same as dying 5 million, psychologically.

Starve to death by tens of millions, even if you starve to death by 100 million, so what, China is still a country with a large population.

Just pretend that the bugs didn't enter the mothers' stomachs, pretend that the Jihua of the Celestial Empire gave birth a hundred years earlier, and pretend that those who starve to death can go to heaven, and then you have to thank me! At this time, the population of Sichuan reached more than 40 million, ranking first in the country, so prepare to starve it to death by 10 million! The heroes and martyrs have taught us that as long as socialism is true and the revolution has its own descendants, the Chinese people will never be killed! "

In 1882, it was a spring, and a teenager drew a circle in the southwest of China. Soon, there will be a mythical rise of tombs, and miraculous gathering of mountains of grain.

In the early morning of March 26, on the Yellow Sea, a mighty fleet was heading towards Incheon in North Korea at a uniform speed, and the warships were all wearing yellow dragon flags on their bows, which was the new fleet sent by Ding Yuntong to North Korea.

But this Yellow Dragon Banner is a little different from the original, the Yellow Dragon with teeth and claws in its mouth, holding a shining red star, this is a modification made according to the emperor's holy decree.

Ding Yuntong means: The Guards are the red star, including the army or the navy. I am the true dragon emperor, the guards are the treasure in my mouth, and the red star will fight according to me.

At this time, Yuan Shikai, the new Chinese plenipotentiary representative to the DPRK, stood on the deck of the flagship Qinglong, silently looking at the sea and sky in the distance.

For hundreds of years, the mouth of the Yellow River has been in northern Jiangsu, and the turbid water of the river is directly discharged into the Yellow Sea, making its coastline yellow, from which the name of the Yellow Sea comes from, until the Yellow River burst in 1855, and then diverted to northern Shandong.

At this time, the Yellow Sea is quiet and serene, quiet like an artificial lake. The flat sea, like a smooth green marble floor, stretches endlessly ahead, but in the rear it is divided by the white track of warships.

A few seabirds hovered back and forth in the air, and the breeze sent a fishy smell. Yuan Shikai smelled this fishy smell and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The bizarre circumstances of this life are really unpredictable. Not long ago, the battlefield in Vietnam, which was still at the southern tip of the mainland, is now going to the mainland

of the North. Since ancient times, China has resisted foreign invaders, all in the northwest, with clear boundaries. Which is like now, the door of the sea is open, once there is something, the shijie countries come in response, and the vast ocean is like a broad road. Li Bai Shiyun returned thousands of miles to Jiangling in one day, that is a lie. But now trains and ships everywhere are really thousands of miles away, but they are coming day and night, which is really a change that has not been seen in thousands of years. "

Thinking of this, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but be ambitious, and raised his voice: "The eldest husband is the world, since he should be crisscrossing the world, in the midst of thousands of years of changes, and making immortal miracles, how can he die in the head of the kang in vain!" "

"What a spirit, Lord Yuan is so ambitious! Someone applauded in the back, and it turned out to be the commander of the fleet, Liu Buyun.

He walked over with a smile: "Lord Yuan, this time you can go to the court to make great achievements." "

During the Sino-French War, in a show of neutrality, the British recalled the navy to teach Lang Weili. After the end of the war, the Chinese side re-applied for it, but Luang Weili was not able to take up his post for a while, and Liu Buyun was in charge of fleet training.

Yuan Shikai hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be, a few wild words from the subordinate made the general laugh." I wonder when North Korea will arrive? "

"Come on, I guess it'll be there after noon. "

"That's really a great blessing, fortunately today is calm, if the turbid waves are emptied like the day before yesterday, I am afraid that when I get to North Korea, it will be difficult for the lower officials to protect the prestige of the Celestial Empire. "

Both of them laughed as they spoke, but they were very careful in their words and did not dare to joke. They all know that there are also agents of the Military Justice Department on the warship, and if something that shouldn't be said reaches the emperor's ears, everyone knows what is happening in the capital.

At noon, the fleet finally arrived at the port of Incheon.

Ma Jianzhong, China's deputy representative to the DPRK, and DPRK officials Yu Shi Yunzhong and Gong Cao Counselor Kim Hongji are already waiting in the harbor. In the waiting crowd, there was even a Japanese man dressed in North Korean attire, who was none other than Kintaro Suzuki, the counselor of the Japanese embassy in North Korea.

Amid the salute, seven warships of the Chinese fleet streamed into the harbor at neat intervals. Colorful flags fluttered on the warship, cannons were lined up, and officers and men put their hands behind their backs and lined up on both sides. The hull of the ship is all painted in silver-gray color, and under the midday sun, it is radiant, majestic and majestic.

The people on the dock were all tongue-wrenching, marveling at the magnificence of the Chinese Navy. Ma Jianzhong and the others smiled, while Kintaro Suzuki had a solemn face.

Yuan Shikai had been told by the emperor in advance that although Yu Yunzhong had a deep friendship with the Min group and was one of the "Eight Scholars of Minmen", he and Jin Hongji were both pro-China factions, and they were also two of the three giants of the pro-China "big party" in the future, and they vowed not to stand with the pro-Japanese "Kaihua Party". Therefore, Yuan Shikai was extremely polite to the two of them, and they were very attentive, and the guests and hosts talked happily. Not only talking about political affairs, but also poetry and articles, you must know that these Korean bureaucrats have no less Confucian cultural skills than the Central Plains.

After a night's rest in Incheon, the next day, the group began to hug and hug for Seoul, the capital of North Korea.

Seoul was formerly known as Hanyang, which means north of the Han River. After the capital was established, it was renamed Seoul. The Great West Gate of Seoul, also known as the Dunyi Gate, is also used as the main gate because the suzerainty of Korea is in the west, so the Great West Gate is also used as the main gate, and the Chinese ministers who come to the court enter the city through the West Gate.

Outside the Great West Gate, there is a Ying'en Gate, which is specially used to welcome the envoys of the Celestial Empire, which is ironclad evidence of the relationship between the Chinese and Korean clans. After the First Sino-Japanese War in the previous life, the Ying'en Gate was demolished and an independent gate was built. According to the rules, the king of Joseon was supposed to kneel down to receive the envoys at the Yeeun Gate, but in fact it was no longer enforced.

After passing through Yeeun Gate and then through Daeseo Gate, the group went to Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul.

The human customs along the way made Yuan Shikai look at it with relish.

All I saw were untouchables dressed in white, and according to the rules of North Korea, ordinary people were not allowed to wear colored clothes

There is no hygiene, and the white clothes are dirty. Especially women, the white clothes are all with split breasts, all of them are bare-chested and exposed. This made Yuan Shikai, who first arrived in North Korea a few years ago, very surprised, because this is also a Confucian civilization, how can he be so shameless. In fact, in previous lives, it was not until the Japanese colonial period that this kind of breast-revealing clothing was banned.

The porters on the road are also different from those in China, and instead of pressing on the shoulders, the flat pole is crossed with a rope on the back, and the flat pole passes through the middle.

Women wash their clothes by the riverside by the roadside, using laundry sticks. In the previous life, the Korean police hired by Japan liked to beat the people of Northeast China with this kind of stick, and the Goryeo stick came from this.

The roads are all thatched houses of ordinary people, and occasionally you can see a few tiled houses, and there are almost no two-story buildings, and the whole city looks very dilapidated

Yuan Shikai secretly sighed: This is the capital of a country!

(PS ed. Ji Boss said that he was going to let me recommend books on the homepage, but it was a waste to change it every day. I'm also very helpless, riddled with chores, the children at home are also on vacation, noisy, really headaches, I can't help but support my friends, but I will try to get a few days and two shifts. After the New Year, the children go to school and kindergarten, and my spring is coming! )