Chapter 208: Li Hongzhang Visits
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In the Xinjin Palace, Zhu Fugui looked at the old Eunuch Li in front of him with satisfaction.
Although the weight is still a bit overweight, and the height has shrunk a lot, the old Li in front of him has taken pictures on the Internet, and anyone will be able to see that this is imitating the former American commander.
As the saying goes, there are four major evil arts in East Asia, Fuso makeup, Korean plastic surgery, Chinese P-diagram, and Thai sex reassignment.
But in the 2020s, when self-media is highly developed, at least the first three techniques have become a trend of convergence and return to their ancestors in China.
Zhu Fugui spent 2,000 yuan to hit the third place on the list from a small Internet celebrity, and then asked him to personally guide his makeup skills, and the model was Li Chunfa.
Not to mention, although this little Internet celebrity is not very popular, but his strength is quite good, under some guidance, Zhu Fugui, Yin Susu, plus three palace maids with a little makeup skills, will make Lao Li look like a dog.
Happy, Zhu Fugui rewarded him with another 100 yuan.
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Zhu Fugui decisively interrupted the connection with the guy who was talking with the orchid finger, and played the script with Lao Li again.
Let Daming Concubine Yin broadcast live?
Eat, go for you!
The Daming women's group of 18 can consider expanding.
To be honest, when he heard the news that Li Hongzhang was coming to visit, Zhu Fugui was taken aback.
After all, his reply was clearly rejected, but I didn't expect this old thing to be so thick-skinned, and he wanted to come to Kangkang.
How much labor does Daming have to waste up and down?
The Chinese sign of Xinfeng Pier alone has to be hidden a lot.
Therefore, Zhu Fugui originally planned to directly detain this Lord Li, and then report a shipwreck to Zeng Guofan, so that he could be martyred.
Anyway, as long as it is not exposed in front of the Manchu bureaucrats for the time being, the Ming Dynasty can still recruit immigrants legally and smoothly, and it doesn't matter who Zhu Fugui cooperates with.
However, it was later learned that Li Hongzhang came to Citigroup this time to solve the matter of the fleet sold by Yi Li, and Zhu Fugui was immediately not sleepy.
If you want to say that Devil Six, he is really a talent!
As early as 1861 he realized that China could not live without a navy.
At that time, Yi Yi was still negotiating with the British and French forces to recover the city of Beijing, and at the same time played to Emperor Xianfeng.
The name of the song is "Please Buy Ships and Guns", and Yi proposed to join forces with Gui Liang and Wen Xiang to establish the naval fleet of the Qing Empire.
In the end, Xianfeng agreed to Yi Li's concession, and the latter used appropriations, private and foreign bank loans, and paid a total of 1.48 million taels of silver in installments to buy a 12 large and small warships of the Far Eastern First Naval Division!
It can be said that in horizontal comparison, this 1860s sailor is not inferior to the Beiyang sailor.
However, success is also devil six, defeat is also devil six.
A beautiful affair turned into a farce in the end, and the control of the fleet was in the hands of the British from beginning to end, and in the end Yi Yi could only spend another 10,000 taels of silver to ask the British to drive the ship back and sell it.
And the Qing Dynasty finally recovered the silver...... It's only 600,000 taels...
Doing business to this point, Yi Yi can be regarded as an ancient, and there is no one to come.
However, in his personal account, there is an extra "0" in the deposit.
This kind of business, where no one suffers losses, only "I Daqing" has blood losses, Zhu Fugui naturally wants to take a good foot.
Not to mention, those are 12 warships that are worth it for any amount of money!
Therefore, Li Hongzhang's visit must not be sloppy, and all the Ming Dynasty mobilized to cooperate with Master Li to complete this visit for the sake of the warship.
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Meanwhile, in Seattle City Hall, Charles I, the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, is being admonished by the commander of the Ming Dynasty Guard.
Charlie's wife and children had already been kindly invited by Daming to live in Fengdu and became neighbors with the Donalds.
Being able to be a neighbor with the future King of Pinxi, Grand Duke Charles has nothing to complain about.
In addition, since the Ming Dynasty conquered Xinji, Seattle has basically been an isolated city, and there is no possibility of getting foreign aid, so Charlie has basically accepted his fate. (See map of this paragraph)
The main ...... He found out when this faint deem ...... The needle does not poke!
Seattle completely banned guns, and the defense was handed over to the internal guards of the Ming brocade guard, and the rest of the Ming did not interfere much.
After all, what the Ming Dynasty signed with him was the "Imitation of the Golden Horde and the Muscovy Treaty".
In other words, the Ming Dynasty, like the Mongols, adopted a package tax system.
As long as Charlie can pay his taxes on time, hand over the controlled weapons, and cooperate with the Ming Dynasty's military rule, then the Ming Dynasty will not care about his spending all his time drinking and fishing.
The Mongols used to implement a tax package system in China, and it ended up in less than a hundred years, but in Europe, the system worked much better.
In fact, even in China, the landlord class welcomed this kind of tax system, and even called the Mongol policy "unprecedentedly lenient".
But the Chinese people are not Slavic serfs in Fira, usually they can endure hardships and stand hard work for the sake of their wives and children, but as long as the lord's arrogance and indulgence break through the bottom line, they can immediately burst out with terrible power.
The prince and the prince will have a kind of martial virtue, which the Europeans will never have.
Anyway, with more than a year of running-in, squeezing the bottom white skin and uniting the upper white skin, the Ming Dynasty's fettered rule over Seattle was quite successful.
At least when the engineering team of the Ministry of Industry moved into Seattle and built the "White House" with prefabricated panels, the few white people who dared to make trouble were finally hanged by the lords of the Grand Duke's Mansion themselves.
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On October 20, the second year of Dewu, the ocean-going transport ship "Wenming" finally crossed the Pacific Ocean and arrived in Xinjin.
Accompanied by Joseph and others, Li Hongzhang, the Minister of Commerce of the Five Mouths of the Qing Dynasty, and a staff member of the Five Ports Trade Bureau walked down the escalator, followed by 200 young children from Hunan and Huai.
Like the young children in the United States who were initiated by Rong Hong and led by Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan, the average age of this group of children is not very old, only 14 years old.
They are all children of the Hunan Army and the Huai Army with innocent family backgrounds, and they have a certain amount of cultural knowledge, but they are by no means scholars.
After all, in this era, no one knows what it means to stay abroad, whether they can complete their studies, and whether they have a future after returning to China.
Only one of them is an exception, and that is Li Hongzhang's eldest son, 11-year-old Li Jingfang.
To say that Lao Li is also a ruthless person, in order to mobilize the children of Xianghuai, he also took the lead
If he fails to study abroad, no one can complain, after all, he Master Li also sent a son.
However, people who know a little bit about the inside story know that Lao Li is actually a little unkind about this matter.
The reason is very simple, this Li Jingfang is actually not Li Hongzhang's parent, but Lao Li has no heirs for a long time, and he inherited from his hometown.
But a few years ago, Lao Li hit a middle-aged cannon and was happy to have a noble son.
And this child was born to his stepwife Zhao Xiaolian, and he was born from a serious child.
Liu Bei succeeded Liu Feng back then, and later had his own son Liu Chan, Liu Chan was not a son-in-law, but a concubine.
Now Lao Li's mentality is more or less the same, although it is not enough to say that he wants to deliberately rectify his adopted son, but after all, he knows that his future political resources are not his.
Therefore, it may be a good thing to find another way to stay in the United States.
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On the dock, Donald and his entourage were greeting him, Li Hongzhang was dressed and was about to step forward, when suddenly there was a bang and a cannon roared.
Bang!
Bang!
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The 220-gun salute shook the ground, the sky changed color, and the Qingchen was almost terrified and fell to the ground, and Li Hongzhang's flower feathers fell to the ground without knowing it.
"The power of the cannon, why is it so far!" His brain was buzzing, and it took a long time to hold back this sentence.
Donald explained with a smile: "Master Li don't have to be afraid, fire the salute, this is the tradition of Westerners to greet VIPs!" It's the same as you set off firecrackers in the Qing Dynasty. ”
"Even the welcoming ceremony has to sound the cannon, Citigroup is really armed! But...... Isn't it a little louder? ”
Li Hongzhang was really frightened, this was more than 50 cannons in unison, and in a short period of time, 4 rounds were fired in a row, if it was replaced by the cannon of the Huai Army, it would have exploded a long time ago.
"Not much, not much, the Qing Kingdom is exactly 220 years old this year, the number specially chosen by my lord." Donald laughed.
"The Grand Commander has a heart."
Li Hongzhang nodded, he was also quite honored to be valued by such a Western power.
But what he didn't know was that the reason why Zhu Fugui fired 220 cannons was naturally not to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the Manchu Dynasty's entry into customs, but to wake up the military and civilians that it had been 220 years since the theft of Shenzhou.