"Today, tomorrow thieves are making trouble overseas, confusing the people with newspaper gossip, twisting bandits and Cantonese bandits are making chaos and inside, this is the time to save the world."

"However, there are still Prince Gong and others in the court, who have repeatedly spent state-owned assets and corrupted places, and the so-called foreign affairs are just a means for them to embezzle and accumulate wealth."

"All in all, the state is very difficult! Niangniang once said that serving Yangyi with her body back then was for the foundation of the ancestors and for the common people in the world.

Later, the Qing Dynasty signed the Treaty of Tianjin and the Treaty of Beijing with Britain, France and Russia respectively, and Niangniang made great contributions. ”

"Although this hypocritical matter is not as urgent as the devil six said, it must be guarded against after all."

"So...... The old minister is brave ......"

Smack!

The sound of hands clapping on the hem of official uniforms.

Boom!

The sound of your knees hitting the ground.

While!

The sound of his forehead hitting the ground.

"This is an eventful autumn, the national disaster is at the head, the old minister is brave, please ask the queen mother to work hard again, borrow teachers from foreigners to help suppress, no matter how bad it is, also sell some guns at a low price in the Qing Dynasty! This is the connection of all the people, and the connection of the ancestors! ”

Bang Bang Bang!

Through the bead curtain, Cixi looked at the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion who kowtowed like garlic in front of her, the scholar of the Ministry of Engineering, the master of science, the emperor Wenzheng, the good teacher of Zeng Guofan, and the great Confucian of the Mongolian Red Banner Uzigri U Ren, with a strange expression.

For a moment, Yehenara Xingzhen looked at the person in front of her and thought of the old turtle who forced him to become a prostitute in the folk book.

However, although there is a word "chastity" in her name, she is not a chaste martyr, and it is not impossible to do something.

The question is......

She really hasn't been trapped with foreigners!

Cixi's face turned blue and purple, but she quickly regained her mind.

After all, her Yehenara Xingzhen's internal fighting skills are still very high.

Although I didn't know what to do, I still looked like I was relying on it.

After thinking about it, Cixi suddenly asked: "Master Wa, you are the emperor's teacher, and you are also a great Confucian of the Ministry of Industry, and a master of science, you must know about steelmaking, right?" With a monthly output of 50,000 tons of steel, how much? ”

"Ah......h Steelmaking? ”

Uren got up, stroked his beard, and muttered for a moment.

Steelmaking?

This kind of thing involves the blind spot of his knowledge of the Ministry of Industry.

He paced around with his hands behind his back and said, "I don't know why Niangniang has this question?" (Uren is a Mongolian Eight Banners, and he should call himself a slave in private, but he is a teacher of Tongzhi, so it is inappropriate to call himself a minion.) ）

Cixi said: "The mourning family heard that the thief was making steel overseas, and put this as a merit in the newspaper and announced it to the world, so there is this question. ”

"The way to build a country is still rational and righteous but not scheming, the fundamental plan is in the hearts of the people and not in the skills, and the thieves have gone astray!"

Wu Ren twisted his beard and said, "If the thief does not take Confucius and Mencius as the first priority, he will suffer from it." As for a little steel, it is only a state and a government. When the first emperor collapsed, the minister went to North Korea for Xuan'en official, it was such a poor place, and the iron obtained every year was also a million catties, and the mother had nothing to worry about! ”

As soon as the conversation changed, Wu Ren said again: "The Ming people are good at making big words, although the foreigners are vulgar, but it is precisely because of the vulgarity that their army is some brave and aggressive people who come from the sea. ”

"I only need to cultivate virtue internally and be benevolent externally, so I can educate foreigners for my own use, so you have to hurry up!"

Cixi nodded and said: "The mourning family already knows about this matter, but the stakes are very high, and words cannot enter the ears of others." ”

"Let's talk about it here today, I mourn the lack of family."

After that, Cixi drove back to Luan surrounded by a group of palace maids and eunuchs.

Back in Chuxiu Palace, the people below had already prepared more than 120 frugal lunches for her.

Cixi lit a cigarette before the meal and was about to swallow it, when she suddenly saw Li Lianying, who had been sent out by herself to continue collecting information, sneakily poking her head into the warm pavilion.

Although Li Lianying is young, she is shrewd, quick with hands and feet, and is a person that Cixi relies on.

Cixi knew that Li Lianying was going and returning, and there must be something big.

Sure enough, as soon as she came out of the warm pavilion, Li Lianying hurriedly said: "Master, the slave heard something from outside, the Korean envoy was crying to Prince Gong at the Prime Minister's Yamen, saying that the French had forcibly occupied one of their ports under the pretext of conquest against Japan. ”

"The slave thought, this North Korea is the first domain, and it is next to the land of Longxing in our Qing Dynasty, so I can't let Prince Gong take the opportunity to make trouble, so I specially came to tell the master!"

"French!"

Cixi frowned, and instinctively wanted to hang it high.

Except for him and the sixth devil in the Qing Kingdom, no one really wants to deal with foreigners.

This is especially true of Cixi.

If she really wants to make her and the foreigner sleepy, she really has to close her eyes and smoke a few pressures to suppress the shock.

But then Cixi's eyes lit up.

Today is different from the past, in the past, it was best for the Qing Dynasty to have no dealings with foreigners, but now it's not thinking about borrowing teachers to help suppress it!

Four years ago, the imperial court gave half of the northeast more than 1 million square kilometers of land in exchange for the Russians to protect our Qing Dynasty from the British and French invasion of Vladivostok and other North Sea (Sea of Japan) coasts, and the effect was very good.

Now, if you can exchange half of North Korea for the French to send troops to destroy the Ming Dynasty......

The Northeast is the ancestral land, and North Korea is just a foreign domain, so there is a lot to be done in this matter!

"Little Lizi, you go and get the emperor's treasure seal."

Cixi instructed, "I'm afraid that this matter of borrowing the help of the teacher will fall on this Frenchman!" ”

·

At the same time, the new French Acting Minister Counsellor Borone, who had just been appointed in June, had already arrived at the French Consulate in Tianjin.

The Second Reich had been at war in Japan for more than two months.

It has to be said that the war went on harder than expected.

These diminutive Japanese are a little more tenacious than you think.

In particular, one of the American weapons units wearing the iconic green tights of the American Southern Army, which seems to be called some kind of odd troops, caused a lot of trouble for the armies of the Empire and the shogunate.

For this reason, the Imperial Foreign Secretary had protested to the Davis government in the south, demanding that they no longer provide arms assistance to the Japanese rebels.

However, since the Empire's imminent invasion of Mexico required the cooperation of the southern government of the United States, all that could be done was verbal protest, and no further substantive coercion could be carried out.

In addition, an armed force under the banner of the sun and moon appeared in the port of Shimonoseki and twice repelled the landing operations of the Imperial Navy.

Although uncertain, the letter from Colonel Borna states that this force is most likely armed by the man known as the Son of the Sun and the Moon, the Terminator of Lincoln.

For the Ming Kingdom, there was not much information within the empire.

But judging from the achievements of the Ming army in the Americas, even if they took advantage of the civil strife among the Americans, they at least had a military strength close to that of the North American militia or the Mexican government army.

This was a great threat to the Empire's East Asian operations.

Therefore......

Counselor Borone glanced up at the strange signboard of the Qing Foreign Ministry.

He wasn't sure if it was the right choice for him to go straight to the consulate in Tianjin instead of going to the legation in Shanghai.

However, according to the experience of the British in India, there should be nothing wrong with their own approach.

Just give a little benefit to win over and divide these ridiculous East Asian yellow-skinned monkeys.

Japan's Red Dragon Society, Zunhan Group and other underworld forces continue to commit crimes in various places.

After all, the Empire's army was limited in numbers.

There is a lack of supplies, and there is also a lack of security forces in the pacification areas.

The Tatar army may be vulnerable.

But it's also very suitable to deal with those ronins.

"Maybe the empire will pacify Japan and restore law and order will fall on these Qing people!"

Borone pursed his lips, and then with a wave of his hand, a swaggering red-headed Ah San stepped forward to call the door.