Chapter 7: The Man Who Fills the Gap
"Get out of here." Chery gave him a roll of his eyes and looked down at the book again. Although he didn't know what Qingyu was reading now, in the past five years, he really felt that he was about to catch up with her.
In the past five years, Qingyu has really done a lot of things. At first, her foreign school only trained interpreters, but gradually more and more foreign instructors began to open various courses. Qingyu found a group of children to go to study, and let the alternate officials of the Hanlin Academy receive training.
At the time, no one understood the reason for this, including Chery. What can those people learn in the foreign school? I asked someone to get a course for the alternate officials of the Hanlin Academy. There are simple language conversations, as well as local customs, and etiquette.
Chery took a look at it and felt that it was not useful. But these people have been trained for three years, and this is also a part of their job examination.
Last year, the first batch of the top 30 outstanding ones were sent to various port cities to be responsible for docking with foreigners. And the previous Ye Mingchen was directly transferred back to the capital and replaced with another Han official who volunteered to study in the foreign school.
The Northeast also sent a few people, and Chery specially transferred two people over to help him do things. They didn't learn Tsarist Russian, but they learned English, and they found another Tsarist interpreter to slowly master some of it, and then went out to talk with him about business, which was much better than his previous Tsarist Russian interpreter.
He wrote to Xianfeng, and mentioned this matter, and then thought about it, Niangniang's move is of far-reaching significance, but it takes too long, so who knows if it will be too late in the future, it is better to send these people out to open more schools.
Xianfeng quickly replied and said directly, Qingyu didn't dare! At the beginning, the lion may want to roar, but the change can only moisten things silently.
He wrote back and asked Xianfeng if he was not afraid? He's seen the change. Even if the people are still illiterate, the literati are slowly broadening their horizons, and then all kinds of books have been introduced into the foreign school, and these books are placed in the bookstore for people to buy at will, and there are various book reviews in the newspapers.
And this paragraph was written by Qingyu herself, just one sentence, "Rest in peace, old master!" ”
Then Xianfeng wrote, 'Now that my wife are the ones who fill the gap, it is impossible to build a new ship, but it is a great thing that the ship can be repaired during their lifetime, and it can continue to drive.' ’
At this time, Chery also knew why Qingyu would write the words 'old master rest in peace', and he was not free and easy for them. They are working hard, so they used the words they told Xianfeng back then, 'Live freely, and when you die, no matter how big the flood is.' ’
It is because they are free and easy, so they desperately open the wisdom of the people and tell all those who know how to read and write that the world is like now. It's not what the old masters said, these foreigners only have those exquisite gadgets, and they don't drink blood.
They also told the courtiers, the scholars, the social formations of the nations. For example, the United States does not have an emperor, only a president; There are also Japanese and British emperors who are constitutional monarchies; Both France and Britain have emperors, but the emperors of France will change them if they have nothing to do, and they will make a revolution at every turn; And England is a queen, a queen who gave birth to nine children!
Their books on politics, such as the Patriot Declaration in the United States, and how the country was founded, will be translated and published for interested people to see.
In the past few years, Chery has been reading the translated books over and over again. He had a feeling that Qingyu had read these books, so she wanted everyone who could read to read them. He didn't know how many people were like him and her, but he understood Xianfeng and Qingyu's wishes.
They can't change their backgrounds and circumstances, and they also know that now the Qing Dynasty is a broken ship, and what the couple can do is not self-improvement, but enlightenment. We don't have to be emperors, but you have to be self-reliant. Even if one day, it doesn't matter if you really overthrow us, but please protect the territorial integrity of the country. At least like the United States, drive out the colonizers and become a truly independent place. ’
Combined with the article written by Qingyu after the Taiping Army was wiped out before. The slogans of each of the insurgents, then refuted them one by one, and finally said that the people should think seriously about which one could really bring them a new life.
At that time, he thought that she was trying to tell those scholars who were dissatisfied with the court to think clearly about what you were trying to express.
Re-reading this article at this time, he understood that Qingyu was not against the rebellion of the people, but he had to have real demands, and not to bring the most ordinary people into the abyss of war for his own selfishness.
Sometimes Chery especially wanted to write to Qingyu and ask her why she said this. But, in the end, he didn't, and all he could do was follow in her footsteps and see what she could do.
He once thought that he could do better than Xianfeng, and he was the one who could synchronize with Qingyu. But five years later, he began to feel that he was not as good as Xianfeng.
Because Xianfeng unconditionally supported everything about Qingyu. Even if he said such a big rebellious word, he didn't care. And his own thoughts are slowly changing. Xianfeng thought that he was just a person who made up for the leaks, but he didn't know that he was actually the master of Zhongxing. Qingyu hooked up with the British, but she didn't treat them well, but fought hotly with the Americans.
In the second year of Xianfeng, Qingyu bought farm tools from the Americans, but the Americans felt that this was a new business, and selling machinery was also very profitable. They also saw that in such a big country, how much food is not enough to buy their machinery, which is as surprising as buying food.
British ministers couldn't sit still, and they kept attacking the military and the East India Company at home. Because obviously, they didn't look in the right direction. But it was their Her Majesty the Queen who started the war in person, who made a speech in Parliament.
But waging war, these looks, look like there are huge interests, but apart from silver, what greater interests do they have in the country? They are the world's factories, so why can't they sell their most advanced technology and machinery to China, which has just woken up?
The main thing is that no one in their government dares to openly tell the citizens that they are doing business with China! They dare not say what their beautiful silk, fine porcelain, and fragrant black tea were exchanged for. No one in Congress, even in Congress, dared to say that openly.
In June of the second year of Xianfeng, Qingyu proposed to establish diplomatic relations with the United States and exchange ambassadors. After Xianfeng looked at the farm tools sent by the United States, and then looked at the trade figures with the United States over the years, just like Qingyu said, at least in these years, the trade with the United States is fair. And I agreed!
The U.S. government was really happy to establish diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, and sent people to teach them how to make their own ones, and sent some drawings over, anyway, they have more advanced ones.