Muren's first-hand pavilion style is quite beautiful.

The prince touched his chin and nodded his head to the side.

When Muren finished writing the congratulatory watch, he couldn't wait to grab it, blew the ink dry, and rolled it into his arms: "Brother Yuan, you have lived in Fusang for a long time, and this sage's knowledge is still a little worse after all."

I am a scholar of the Ministry of Works, a first-class Confucian, a scholar of the Red Banner Uzigri Uren University, and a close friend of this king.

I'll take your cousin first, and then I'll give it back to you after I go back and let the scholar polish it, so as not to show my appearance at the birthday banquet of the Queen Mother in the future.

You must know that the 30th birthday of the Queen Mother is not only a birthday banquet, but also a grand event for my Qing Dynasty to make friends.

At that time, not only Korea, Ryukyu, Vietnam, Siam, Burma (British-occupied), Gurkha (British-occupied), Zhe Mengxiong (British-occupied) and other vassal states came to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday, but also friendly countries such as England, France, and Russia came to cheer.

If you go wrong in such a scene, it will be my Emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the Queen Mother who are kind-hearted and don't care about you, and all the countries of the world will laugh at you and shame Japan! ”

Sottna's frothing rambling talk wasn't entirely nonsense.

The Qing court had indeed sent various vassal states to ask them to come and pay homage.

At the same time, he also ordered the Prime Minister Yamen to send a note to the various powers and invite their ministers and counselors to come to the banquet.

In order to be able to receive these friendly countries well, the Qing Dynasty has now deducted a large sum of money from the military salaries of the southern provinces.

Anyway, if there are too many lice, it is not itchy, and if there are too many debts, there is no worry, and many regimental training troops in the south have not been paid for two years, and it is not worse than a year and a half.

Taking advantage of the small success of the Northern Army now, it is a perfect opportunity to embezzle all the southern salaries, whether it is to invite friends as guests, or to repair gardens for the emperor and queen mother, or to use it as a liao salary.

As for the loyalty of the Han people in the south......

Don't be An An starving, but especially the praying mantis?

In the eyes of the imperial court, the Han army will be unreliable sooner or later, and spending money to support them is no different from spending money to raise thieves.

If I can starve to death because of this, it will be a blessing for me.

Now among the Hanchens, Zeng and Li are quite intimate, and the other southern Hanchens are all wastes, and they don't have the ability to suppress thieves, but they cry poorer than the other.

I can't learn from Chongzhen in the Qing Dynasty and fill these bottomless pits with silver!

Among the two Han Chen models, Zeng Guofan really worked hard to suppress it, and even the coffin was carried out, and the coffin was carried to supervise the army, which can be regarded as a model for the Han gentry in the world.

Li Hongzhang was sympathetic and very active in paying taxes, and was a major taxpayer among the governors, governors, and political envoys in the south.

In addition, Governor Li also pacified the rebellious people in northern Jiangsu without blood, so that the poor land in northern Jiangsu was not as erosive as Shandong and Henan.

It can be said that a good fighter has no outstanding merits, and its role will never be under the Zeng State Domain.

Such a capable official, the court naturally likes it.

And Li Hongzhang's benefits are not only that, what makes the court happy is his "Loyalty"!

Li Hongzhang not only paid taxes to the imperial court, paid out of his own pocket to help the imperial court to help the victims, but also thought about the imperial court everywhere.

In addition to his role as the governor of Jiangsu, Li Hongzhang was also the Minister of Commerce of the Qing Dynasty, shouldering the important task of introducing advanced technology to the Qing Dynasty.

At the beginning of the year, Li Hongzhang said that in the overall situation of the world today, non-guns are the first priority.

As early as the sixteenth year of Daoguang, the Tai Westerners invented a thing, called the telegraph, which has been 30 years ago.

This thing is the first key to my Qing Dynasty's strength.

The telegrapher, who records the text in Morse code, can be thousands of miles in an instant, far exceeding the horse Feihong, and is the emperor's high temple and a sharp weapon to control the distance of the rivers and lakes.

The English female emperor was far away in Tessie, but she was able to command foreign soldiers like an arm, relying on this telegram.

Therefore, Li Hongzhang suggested that the imperial court should allocate funds to set up telegraph stations in the major points of the Qing Dynasty, so as to facilitate the hundred officials to accept inquiries from the imperial court, and the government decrees should be unimpeded, and the officials should rule the Qing Dynasty.

It has to be said that Li Hongzhang's proposal is very attractive.

This telegram can be used to communicate the whole country, and it is indeed more important than guns.

Moreover, the repair of the telegraph only needs to pull the line, which is far less social than the social impact of the construction of the railway that disturbs the country's dragon veins and the ancestral graves of the people.

In these days, the common people are naturally ignorant.

It is precisely because of the ignorance that there is no rumor that the radiation of wires causes cancer.

So pulling a telegraph is much less resistant than building a railway.

Historically, China's own first telegraph line was also pulled by Li Hongzhang.

On June 15, 1877, 27 years after the laying of the trans-English submarine cable, 20 years after the transatlantic submarine cable was laid, 15 years after the laying of the trans-Indian Ocean (from the Arabian Peninsula to Mumbai, India) submarine cable, and 6 years after the laying of the submarine cable from Nagasaki to the Shanghai Concession in Japan, Li Zhongtang of the Qing Dynasty finally erected a telegraph line between the East Bureau of Tianjin Machinery and the Zhili Governor's Office, with a total length of 16 kilometers.

If you are a P Club player, you will inevitably cry at this time, and the spread of the trend of thought is indeed an eternal pain in my Greater China region.

Although it started relatively late, and although it was criticized by the "Declaration" and others as a "strange and ingenious skill", the strategic value of the telegram was obviously valued by the Qing court.

After the construction of the first telegraph line in 1877, the Qing government spread it out in all provinces of the country with rare efficiency, and even Taiwan built the telegraph.

These are the material basis for the future after the Qing Dynasty is completed, and the governors of the provinces will electrify the whole country at every turn.

This also shows from the side that there is really no difficulty in repairing the telegraph, and the manpower and financial resources required are relatively few obstacles from the villagers.

But even so, the Qing court couldn't come up with any money at all.

Fortunately, it is Li Hongzhang and Lord Li who are loyal to the country, and the righteousness is thin and cloudy.

He paid out of his own pocket to build a telegraph network throughout the country in the name of the Five Ports Trade Bureau.

In fact, among the materials that Li Hongzhang exchanged for the victims of the disaster to the Ming Dynasty were electric wires, which were very cheap and much lower than the quotation told by the Russian advisers to the Qing court.

In any case, just a few days ago, the telegraph from Tientsin had been completed.

Today, the prince of Sotna made a special trip to Zhangzi Island to express his condolences to the Japanese king, and another thing was related to telegraphs......

He patted Muren on the shoulder and said, "Lord Yuan, since the congratulatory note to the Queen Mother has been written, then it is time to write the edict you promised our emperor to all the people, right?" ”

"As it should be, as it should be!"

Muren nodded hurriedly, rubbed his sore shoulders, and continued to write the edict.

From the perspective of the Qing court, Muhito was the canonized king of Japan in the Qing Dynasty, and naturally had the right and duty to write edicts to all the Japanese people.

Due to the Ming Dynasty's War of Peace and Japanese War, as well as the controversial policies of the Ming Dynasty and the subsequent Imperial Protectorate of the Ming Dynasty, many Japanese ronins have recently become pirates, invading the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and even colluding with the Shandong bandits.

If the fleet that was bought with a huge amount of money before the Qing Dynasty was there, it would not have caused much trouble if it was a few versions of the sampan and the Japanese in the backward era.

But wasn't that fleet pitted by the British, and finally sold to the Dutch to the steelworks to be recycled......

As a result, the Qing Dynasty's current maritime frontier is still undefended, even worse than in the Jiajing and Wanli periods, and it is naturally made big by the Japanese invaders.

Fortunately, now that the southeast has been eroded, it is difficult to say whether it is even surnamed Aixin Jueluo, so it is not so distressing to be robbed by the Qing court again.

But something has to be done in the end.

At least let those good citizens who are loyal to the Qing Dynasty believe that the imperial court has always been concerned about them and has done its best for them.

Now that I have the King of Japan card in my hand, I naturally want to play a dozen.

Isn't this the purpose of raising this mascot?

Now this telegram has also been repaired, just to use this sharp weapon to inform the Japanese king's edict to his overseas remnants, all night long, don't come to harm my Qing Dynasty, to scourge, to scourge the mob Ming is!

After a while, Muren stopped writing and respectfully invited Prince Soltena to look at his handwriting.