382 We're standing up!
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"I'm fine, Your Majesty, if you think I'm annoying, then I'll sit down."
In the clattering train noise, Li Mo pushed Du Dazhuang, who was dozing off on the side, but he didn't expect that this big man actually thought that he was annoying himself, and was ready to retreat far away.
Li Mo really couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly shook his head to let him sit down, and said with a smile: "Da Zhuang, you have been following me for so many years, do you feel a little wronged?" ”
"No, no grievance!" Du Dazhuang was startled and shook his head away.
Looking at him with a nervous and innocent look, Li Mo knew that this big man had misunderstood, and hurriedly said: "Come on, look at how strong you look, why are you so small?" Don't worry, I won't drive you away! I just heard Zhang Shun say, your big mind is to really fight, there is such a question. ”
Hearing that he didn't want himself, Du Daqiang breathed a sigh of relief, scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's a little wronged." But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt that he could tell the emperor about his grievances, so he hurriedly waved his hand and hurriedly said: "Oh, no, no, I think a little." ”
"Yes, how can there be a soldier who doesn't want to fight, and a soldier who doesn't want to fight is not a soldier." Li Mo patted Da Zhuang's shoulder and said with a smile: "Look at the opportunity, if there is a chance, I will let you go up and have a good time." ”
"Really!" Hearing this, Du Dazhuang stood up violently, his eyes were bright, in fact, what Li Mo said was really good, he really wanted to fight, especially when he saw Zhang Shun Luofeng and others back then, now they are all on their own, but they are still nesting here, and it is false to say that they are not moved.
Especially the Praetorian Guards are all veterans who have come down from the battlefield, every time he hears them talk about the previous wars, he always feels bitter in his mouth, but now that the south is calm, there are only a few rabbit tails left, so what about the war?
"Stupid!" Li Mo punched him angrily: "The Russians are not dead either!" We haven't gotten it back yet, Siberia has got it back! Besides, the British are willing to slip away so disgraced? ”
"I'm telling you, this battle still has to be fought!"
"yes!" Du Dazhuang touched his head and nodded as quickly as if he was pounding garlic, as if he had a good idea of continuing to fight.
Li Mo shook his head, ignoring this loyal bodyguard who was once called "tall and big, good at blocking guns" by Fu Bo, and walked to the window by himself, but after lifting the thick curtains, he found that the bright lamp on the table could only make the outside appear chaotic and dark.
This is just like the international situation in front of him, Yunnan has been recovered, which means that the southeast has returned to the embrace of China again after several years of mutual protection and separation, if it were not for the delay in time due to the weather and long supply lines, perhaps the national reunification could be celebrated at this moment.
However, the rebels have not been able to support for long, under the offensive of the Northwest Army, the rebels have suffered heavy losses, and they can't even do a decent attack at this moment, and when the news of the complete withdrawal of the British army from China reaches Europe, I believe that even if Nicholas II is arrogant, he will not be willing to start a full-scale war with China with his free hands in the case of insufficient preparation.
Regardless of whether the previous decision was wrong or not, Hua can finally really get a period of respite, and the return of the southeast means that the work of the Prime Minister's Office will also change from how to accelerate reunification, to the current establishment of local governments based on counties and cities, the resumption of production, the promotion of administration, and the construction of the south.
Compared with the north, the Westernization trend in the south has deepened, whether it is the Jiangnan Machinery Bureau in Shanghai, the Shipbuilding Bureau in Guangzhou and Fujian, or the steel factory in Hanyang, they can all be regarded as relatively good industrial bases in China, with a certain industrial base, which makes the Prime Minister's Office have a large choice.
And the country will officially get the opportunity to recuperate, hard work and immerse themselves in construction, from this moment on, they have almost ten years, what can they do in ten years? Some people may not be clear, but look at the ten years of reform and opening up in later generations, what can be done by concentrating all the country's resources!
He knew that Li Enfu was preparing to build the Greater China Party, and he also knew that the parliament represented by Rong Yu was forming a party, and the Prime Minister's Office had only issued boarding licenses for these two political parties after he had first studied the idea of the two-party system in the United States.
As a constitutional emperor, he did not participate in the affairs of the political party, and Chen Ping, Long Guozhang and Zhao Long and others also strictly adhered to the requirements that his army must be neutral, took the initiative to draw a clear line with the party, and once again clarified the provisions of the army's non-interference in the army, and began to strengthen the concept that the emperor is the head of the country. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※
The military's approach allowed him to continue to be in charge of the military, and also controlled part of the right to speak to the outside world, coupled with his ambiguous treatment, so that Li Enfu and Rong Kui were a little unclear whether he supported or opposed the party, so the speed of construction was not high.
The reason for doing so is actually to avoid getting caught up in the political party strife as soon as possible, and to concentrate as much as possible the current state resources on building and improving industrial capacity and improving the people's living standards.
China is very large, and with the overseas territories he has brought to this country, resources are no longer a major problem for development, and in terms of total resources, they are even more than the United States, which lacks open sea territories and relies only on domestic resources.
Moreover, the rapid settlement of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the unification of the south made it possible for the wealth of the late Qing Dynasty to be preserved, and the poor and white could no longer be imposed on China, according to the statistics of the Prime Minister's Office, even if the industry that began to rise, the annual national fiscal revenue was about 60 million blue coins, to put it bluntly, it was possible to build five to six Chinese ships every year.
This is income, not gross national product, so later generations said that the late Qing Dynasty ruined the family fund, in fact, it began to decline after the First Wu Dynasty, but now there is no First Wu Dynasty, and there is no later large amount of foreign debt compensation, the family base is still very solid.
At least according to the calculations of the Prime Minister's Office, this income can be ranked seventh in the world, and the vast majority of this is the profit from agriculture and agricultural products, so when this income is in front of him, his initial dream of abolishing the agricultural tax can only be temporarily shelved until the actual financial pressure.
Because compared with the huge investment, the income is almost disproportionate, transportation, water conservancy, electricity, communications, education, etc., just these basic things, according to the Prime Minister's Office projection, will be invested no less than 500 million yuan per year!
Even if you add the industrial and commercial income that began to rise in the north, it is far from enough!
Therefore, the current government is still a net investment, and uses the income of enterprises established in Honolulu and some monopoly resources similar to rubber to subsidize the finance, so after he saw the mature vulcanized rubber technology, he would rather press the small scale for his own use and not sell it to the outside world, just to grab foreign wealth to a large extent, but even so the government's financial deficit is enough to scare many people.
Fortunately, this is the era of the gold standard, as long as there is gold, you can print money at full speed, so Li Enfu is active in looking for gold mines, not to mention Luzon, Borneo and the whole of Southeast Asia, where gold is produced, even after hearing Li Mo say that there is gold in the South Chiba Islands, he immediately arranged for the Ministry of Mineral Resources to mine it, and even let the North Korean garrison forcibly occupy a small gold mine that was just discovered on the island of Shikoku and was predicted to contain more than 500 tons, and also sent 10,000 people to take a crazy predatory mining!
It is shameless, but very effective, under his crazy gold operation, the current Chinese government can bring back more than 80 tons of gold every year, more than 50 tons of young master Li, and the number is increasing every day, which means that the government can print at least 80 million more blue coins every year to supply the needs of the market.
In the case of tight funds, how to make good use of the current few resources is a great waste to let the political party ruffle, so Li Mo will be vague so far, in order to take advantage of the current period when the idea of centralization is still left, to make use of the state's resources as much as possible, and put them into some important construction.
Ten years, two five-year plans, if you can awaken the big private wealth to invest in industry and commerce, it is not a dream to change the face of the sky, not to surpass the United States, but at least to enter the world's top three is very likely!
Quite simply, because China's current land area alone is larger than the whole of Europe, excluding Russia, and much larger than the United States.
With his own guidance, Li Mo believes that after more than a year, after the Prime Minister's Office completes the national government structure, pushes the administration in a big way, and solves the internal constraints that plague him, Hua will officially enter the lane.
But just when the situation at home began to gradually become clearer and brighter, the outside world became obscured by the domestic light becoming brighter and brighter.
Britain withdrew from the land of China, the Far East Fleet even ran back to India to recuperate, France avoided Vietnam, and the Netherlands honestly hid in Java and Sumatra.
Li Mo didn't have any ideas about this, maybe a battalion would be enough, but everything would not work by force, not to mention that Portugal was the suzerainty of Brazil, and it was worth it to have a good relationship with this South American resource country, even if it was worth paying some conditions.
After the United States ends the defeat of Cuba, its eyes will definitely extend to South America and the Pacific, this is not a politician can decide, this is the choice of the times, when the domestic cheap goods are flooded, is there a huge population similar to China's as many as more than 400 million, how to find a buyer for these goods is an urgent matter, so the United States must still take the old road of expansion, and even after not getting the Philippines and Cuba, it will accelerate this external expansion to make up for the losses and consumption in Cuba.
Conservative Germany still started the Nassau class, and with Britain getting the technology in a few months, Europe will officially be in the middle of a fiery shipbuilding race, a few years earlier than in history, and a sign of an increasingly uncertain future.
As for Russia.
Well, this war with Russia in the coming years is inevitable, and it is not so much that Nicholas II wants revenge, but that he has taken a fancy to the huge Siberia, and the creation of a huge buffer zone with Russia is necessary, which will help to withstand the cold current of Europe from the land.
But he seems to have gone too far, where is Nicholas II's superfleet of forty capital ships going to come from in the Far East?
Thinking of this, Li Mo couldn't help but laugh dumbly, he really thought too much, but if Nikolai really didn't send that other "super fleet" to death, but stayed in Europe to continue mischievous, then Le Ke would really be a big deal!
Regardless of whether there are really forty capital ships in the future, but at least it is a huge pre-China-class fleet in Europe second only to the United Kingdom, and if it stays in Europe, I am afraid that the whole of Europe will have trouble sleeping at night!
Mess up!
It's really too messy, it turns out that the kind of crossing with a gold finger in the past, taking the learning machine back and honestly fighting World War I, fighting World War II is actually impossible, because history is history, if you add some material to history, how can you continue to restore it?
It's like two lovers suddenly joining a third party, no conflict! Don't drive!
How can it be?!
After thinking about it, Li Mo picked up the pen, and under Du Dazhuang's blazing gaze, he pondered for a while and then put down the pen.
Xiong Xiling held the newspaper and walked into Changsha Yuelu Academy with a smile, this Hunan University, but also one of the cores of the changes in the late Qing Dynasty, the academy that local students dream of entering, after the recovery of Hunan, has been officially included in the list of the Chinese Ministry of Education to be rebuilt and expanded into a comprehensive university.
Along with this news, it was the sound of excited breathing in the academy, and today there are two other good news, the land of China has finally ended the land concession, and the shameful years of the rampant foreign powers have ushered in life after the artillery fire that lasted for several months in the southeast land.
"I picked up the pen and wrote a few words, and suddenly found that my words were really not very good, so I hope that I don't choose to rub it directly when it is published."
"Hehe......."
Xiong Xiling held the newspaper, surrounded by students from Yuelu Academy and a large number of young people, when they heard this opening, they immediately laughed and leaned back, shouting: "Brother Xiong, you can't be mispronounced, how could the emperor write like this!" ”
Xiong Xiling also smiled, shook his head but was very serious, and said solemnly to the future pillars of these countries: "I read it right, this is indeed the emperor's article, you will probably think it is funny, you will think that the emperor is like a child and says that his words are ugly, but in my opinion, this is precisely the emperor's different side."
Because the emperor dares to face his weaknesses and dare to tell the world about his shortcomings, good is good, bad is bad! Only if you can dare to face your weaknesses and flaws, can you change it, can you overcome it!
Can any of you do that?
See the truth in detail, you have forgotten this sentence taught by gentlemen? It is precisely because of the emperor's true temperament that he is unwilling to hide in the open sea to be a rich man, and finally risked life and death, expelled foreigners with infamy, and saved my China, do you still think it is a coke? ”
In Xiong Xiling's sonorous words, the young people in the venue were silent, introspecting themselves, it was easy to say, but how many people could do it?
"Today, when the news of Yunnan's recovery came, I heard the sound of firecrackers outside, but I couldn't afford to be excited, because today, an era is over!" Xiong Xiling read aloud the article published by Li Mo in the newspaper, his voice was high-pitched and loud, and the eyes around him slowly recondensed.
"Yes, an era is over!"
"A braid, which has bound our nation for hundreds of years"
"A period of humiliation has made us miss the opportunity to participate in an era of great change, when foreigners drove ironclad warships and carried opium to smash our doors with giant ship cannons, we were at a loss!" "Once upon a time, our compatriots began to sink under the poison of opium. Once upon a time, foreigners were given the privilege to erect a sign that Chinese and dogs were not allowed to enter! Once upon a time, with tears in our eyes, we signed lease agreements in various places, and watched our land become someone else's racetrack! ”
"We live in humiliation!"
"Our compatriots began to become numb, our siblings became slaves of foreigners, and our land began to shrink day by day!"
"My heart aches, I shed tears, because the China I love so much, with 5,000 years of devastating civilization and the Celestial Empire that once nurtured the whole world, has lost its pride because of a small group of people for its own interests!"
"But!"
"At such a moment when the family and country are in danger, some people have not given up, just like the majestic Kunlun Mountain, there are always some people in this nation who have stood up their backbone!"
In front of the sickbed, Lu Weitang was a little excited holding the newspaper, on the sickbed, Li Hongzhang's face was thin, his beard was white, but his eyes were flashing brighter than ever, and his hand tightly held Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kun, who had worked with him for many years.
Lu Weitang paused and continued: "We have Zuo Zongtang!" When the Hui people rebelled, the vast northwest was rotten, and the Russians were already eyeing him! It was he who held the coffin, took the heroic 60,000 Hunan soldiers, on the vast Gobi, with the firm belief in safeguarding the unity of the country, stepped on the Qilian Mountain, shed tears on the top of Kunlun, drank ice and snow, ate the wind and sand, and repaid the enemy with blood! ”
"We have Li Hongzhang! With the power of one hand, he let my Chinese sons and daughters see the outside world, it was he who brought back the machines and cannons of the foreigners, and it was he who brought the first fleet to this country, and those Beiyang soldiers are still the backbone of this country! ”
"We have Zhang Zhidong! He established Hanyang, which gave us the first real industry, and it was he who established the school, so that many schools could enter the school, and he was the first official to cry out for those Chinese grandchildren who were suffering and were enslaved and oppressed by foreigners in the open sea! ”
"There are many, many such people, even if they have to drag a braid, but they are still using their own strength to influence the country, although they did not succeed, did not let China rise again, but the heart of China in their chest has never stopped beating!"
"I want to thank them, because it is their efforts that have prevented this nation, which has been devastated by the Manchus, from completely sinking!"
In the headquarters of the Northwest Army, Sun Jiugong and all the officers stood upright, listening to the voice of the staff officers, in the background of the sound, the cavalry braved the wind and snow, pierced the enemy's chest with the snow sabers, cut off their heads, behind them, there were countless army soldiers, guided by the sound of the horn that resounded through the heavens and the earth, stepping on the wind and snow, recovering one town after another.
The staff officer read aloud: "Today, the southeast is finally home!" ”
"But we still can't get tired, because our soldiers are still braving the wind and snow to attack the enemy, because our warships are still patrolling every sea frontier, because we have not yet completed the dream of China's rejuvenation!"
"Russia is eyeing the north, and they are starting to recruit hundreds of thousands of troops. The British fleet left for the time being, but they still stuck in the South Seas and choked us by the throat to get out! ”
"The Manchu Dynasty's methods of breeding and enslavement made us idle in the tide of the industrial revolution and made us miss a good opportunity for China's rejuvenation."
"Therefore, I hope that all the people in this land will forget the previous events, forget the estrangement between ethnic groups, and return to the Chinese family with pride! Let us use a hundredfold effort and use our hands to re-establish a China! ”
"At this moment, I have a lot to say and a lot of things to write, but I look out the window at the majestic mountains, but I only think of six words, I just want to tell the world."
"We're standing up!"