Berlin.

Charlottenburg Palace.

William I stood in front of a large floor-to-ceiling mirror, twisting his fat figure to show off his Oriental gown, which he had just bought from Richmond Fashion Week.

This is a dress designed by the fashionista, a loyal fan of the Page fashion brand and a secondary creator, Master Robert Lee.

Of course, Robert Lee's long-term pen pal and aesthetic confidant, His Majesty Zhu Fugui, also contributed a lot in this outfit.

The name of the outfit is "Spirit of Resistance".

The white color, wide sleeves, and bright patterns on the chest made William feel stylish and beautiful.

The most important thing is its meaning, which is said to be perfectly in line with the indomitable spirit of the German nation in its pursuit of freedom and survival.

Of course, this suit is also said to be the oldest and most traditional dress in China, older than the emperor's dragon robe.

In fact, Zhu Fugui definitely did not deceive Robert Lee, a year-old friend.

Can plain white prison clothes not be ancient?

Prostitutes and criminals are the oldest professions of mankind.

This outfit is the oldest professional uniform.

……

His Majesty Wilhelm stretched out his arms.

The wide sleeves and the feeling of leaking air made William feel a faint Roman wind.

On the side, a famous court painter was working hard.

On the other side, Bismarck clicked the shutter.

"Feng?? Marquis Bismarck, a faithful German servant of Emperor Wilhelm I. ”

This is Bismarck's epitaph written on the tombstone.

He spent his life as a loyal servant of His Majesty William himself.

Taking pictures of His Majesty is a matter for servants.

Bismarck had heard Zhu Fugui say that An Lushan, a loyal servant of the Tang Empire, had also done this kind of thing.

I will be more loyal than An Lushan.

This trip to the Ming Kingdom made Bismarck feel a lot of emotion.

The British and French descriptions of the Oriental formed a strong sense of tear with what he saw and heard.

Had it not been for their religious and political shortcomings, Bismarck would have been worried about the future of European civilization.

But in any case, the European body is the best choice in Prussia today.

For example, this photo in your own hand.

The painter can make His Majesty more heroic, but superb photography skills can actually do it.

This is what Bismarck learned from his Ming counterparts.

That Ming Foreign Minister Zhao Aqian is said to have climbed to a high position step by step from taking photos for Zhu Fugui.

Bismarck's position in this position, or any minister's position, was equally important in maintaining a close personal relationship with the monarch, in addition to competence and loyalty.

Bismarck had seen too many pretentious guys who had a bumpy life in their careers.

So since seeing the charm of photography, or the group photo taken by Zhao Aqian, who was half a head shorter than the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, Bismarck has keenly discovered a new fixed pet routine.

Just like the licking dog who will take pictures in later generations will have a much greater probability of being on top, Bismarck is also practicing his photography skills during this time.

So far, it has been quite successful.

William I happily took the photograph, admired his heroic appearance, and praised it.

Of course, it's not that he thinks this "oriental dress" looks better than all his own dresses.

The former is still too plain and elegant, lacking embellishment.

But just as Yongzheng likes dresses, wigs and stockings and high heels, it is also a good choice for William to occasionally have some oriental charm in his private outfits.

Bismarck complimented: "Robert Lee is worthy of being the godfather of fashion, but more importantly, Your Majesty, you have always maintained a good figure and are a natural hanger." ”

William laughed, but suddenly thought of something, and said with a sinking face: "Edward, have you read the recent "Times"? ”

Bismarck sighed slightly.

Pork diplomacy has become the talk of the British after dinner, and His Majesty must have felt that he could not hold his face.

After all, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is Her Majesty's own mother.

In 1855, the despicable British used beauty tricks to destroy the Prussian marriage plan and planted a time bomb in the Prussian palace.

His Majesty's dissatisfaction with his daughter-in-law is almost a well-known secret.

European royalty can be said to be a group of distant relatives.

Before, the reason why Nasan as the French emperor couldn't get a noblewoman of high blood and high family as a wife was because the major European nobles unanimously believed that the Bonaparte family was a low-class nouveau riche and collectively rejected him.

To put it bluntly, it is a simplified version of Ah San, and the low-caste officials are not allowed to intermarry with Brahmins and Kshatriyas.

In fact, this set of Chinese ancestors has long been rotten.

Not to mention things so far away as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the so-called five surnames and seven hopes, and the so-called Wei and Jin celebrities, are actually such a set of things.

Fortunately, the Chinese ancestors believed that "the prince and the prince will have a kind of peace".

When Hou Jing, who came to the Southern Dynasty with heavy troops, asked Emperor Wu of Liang to give him a marriage, and after receiving the reply that "Wang Xie Men is not a coincidence, he can visit Zhu Zhang below", his choice was not to be obedient, and he was willing to be a licking dog.

Instead, he sent troops to break Jianye, imprisoned Liang Wu, and slaughtered Wang Xie.

"In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people."

This is something that Europeans could not have imagined.

Specific to the Prussian and British royal families, Victoria's husband was actually a nobleman of Saxony in the German Confederation, and he was a relative of Wilhelm I.

The British wanted a limited unification of Germany to counterbalance France, but at the same time they wanted a united Germany to be a pro-British liberal country.

Therefore, the Victorians tried their best to facilitate the union of the eldest princess and William's eldest son, Frederick III.

This marriage, full of intrigue and political calculations, is also one of the foreshadowings of the future German-British breakup.

Victoria's grandson, and Victoria's grandson, ended up playing dog brains.

[In simple terms]

It was Prussia that wanted to marry Russia to consolidate the quasi-alliance relationship, but the eldest British princess intervened, charmed the Prussian crown prince and succeeded in ascending the throne.

And she, with the orders of her parents, carried out liberal ideological education in the Prussian court.

This was at odds with the conservative ideals of William I and the Junker aristocracy, whom he represented.

The eldest princess of England has shown a strong posture since she insisted on holding a wedding in England, always showing her sense of superiority, despising Prussian culture, and even being unwilling to be perfunctory with superficial compliments.

Queen Victoria also maintained correspondence with her daughter, and every time she did not forget to remind her: "You are the princess of England, and you must always put the interests of England first." ”

is like a vicious mother-in-law who asks her daughter to suck blood from her husband's house.

At the same time, Victoria also publicly stated: "I don't care what the Prussian tradition is, but remember that it is not every day that a Prussian prince marries the eldest daughter of the Queen of England." ”

Listen, it was the British who deliberately tried to tempt my son with a beauty trick before, and now he actually says such things!

William I was so angry with the mother and daughter and his unsuccessful son that his blood pressure soared several times, if it weren't for the daughter-in-law's mother's background being too hard, he would have driven this woman out of Berlin a long time ago!

Bismarck also knew the source of Wilhelm's anger, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, pork diplomacy is pork diplomacy!" Now is the time for us to keep a low profile and build up our strength, and it is best not to arouse the alarm of the British. ”

"Hmph, Edward, do you think I'm mad at the title 'Pork Diplomacy'? No, no, no, Edward, pork diplomacy itself is fine, and I love pork as much as every Prussian, but ......"

William I snorted coldly, "I'm angry at those sanctimonious Englishmen who talk about sacred pork in a playful way, and what qualifications do these Englishmen, who can't even understand how to fry fish, laugh at delicious pork?" ”

"Go and tell the chef my will!"

William I turned his head and said to the waiter, "From today onwards, the palace will only eat pork imported from the Ming Kingdom, and it is not allowed to eat British pork, especially the princess, and I will be given Ming pork for three meals a day, remember, it must be raw." ”

"Didn't her mother say that she didn't know about Prussian traditions? I'm going to stuff raw pork into that old woman's mouth someday! And tell her that this is the tradition of our Prussians! ”

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Throughout March and April, Prussia and Britain were locked in an endless diplomatic dispute over the provision of untimely food to the Princess, which caused her diarrhoea to the point of prolapse of the anus.

However, this dispute was only a small amount of thunder, but it successfully diverted attention and provided cover for Mingpu trade.

As early as mid-February, the Railway Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of Daming had seized the time to start construction of two important railway trunk lines at the same time.

The Zhongheng Railway from Xinhu to Salt Lake City, and the Zhongzong Railway from Xinyu to Xinqin.

In the "Founding Strategy", Yat-sen designed an extremely large railway network for China.

But because it was too unrealistic, it only became a piece of paper in the end, and even he himself left the nickname of a cannon layman.

Zhu Fugui has always been studious, so naturally he had already written a Ming version of "The Strategy for the Founding of the People's Republic of China" and locked it in the cabinet in Zhu Dashuai's office.

For the planning of North America, Zhu Fugui plans to build three horizontal and three vertical railway trunk lines, as well as related branch lines, a total of 200,000 kilometers.

That's basically the total length of railroads in the Americans in 1890.

However, the Ming Dynasty already owns the northern part of Mexico, and in the future, it will definitely include places like Canada, which are vast and sparsely populated and have many resources.

Therefore, there is a difference between the railway plan of North America and the plan of Millican, but the general framework is the same.

Although Canada is large, the vast majority of the region is tundra that is not suitable for railroad construction.

And the part that can build a railway, the British are already helping to repair it.

So it's enough for Daming to take care of his own affairs.

However, for the time being, the construction of the eastern front needs to be postponed indefinitely.

The government of the north is unified, and its strength should not be underestimated.

It was easy to defeat them, but it was difficult to govern them, and Zhu Fugui had no interest.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty had no incentive at all to push the border to the thirteen colonial states.

There is no way to build a railway there.

However, if the Ming Dynasty does not repair it, Little Lincoln himself should also repair it, after all, the Ming goods are still fragrant!

Even if you don't count the eastern route, the remaining railway network in Zhu Fugui's plan is a huge project.

Later, Sun Yat-sen established the China Railway Corporation, and wanted to build 160,000 kilometers of railways in China, which was already called a cannon.

In this way, the name of Zhu Jucannon may be worthy of its name.

However, there is a big gap in the technical difficulty of railways caused by the influence of terrain.

At the peak of the Americans, that is, in the first half of the twentieth century, 400,000 kilometers of railroads were built, and then they were dismantled one after another, and by the twenties of the twenty-first century, there were still 260,000 kilometers.

In the twenties of the 21st century, the total length of China's railways was only 145,000 kilometers.

Literally, the gap between the two is like a chasm.

But with a little understanding, you know that the numbers don't tell the story.

Americans have actually gradually abandoned rail transportation and are in a state of total decline.

The speed and carrying capacity of the railways in the two countries are not the same.

But the numbers at least show that it is far easier to build railroads in the United States than in China.