Of course, Queenie has to follow the devil six closely, and he doesn't know that the fourth devil is emptying the toilet in Changping.

This will be stupid and want to burn the cold stove of the old four devils.

In order to show his unwavering loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor, Queenie offered to accompany His Majesty the Emperor to Tianjin to meet the trade delegations of various countries.

But this job was robbed by Lao A.

Queenie couldn't get out of his way because he, the prime minister and vice-minister in charge of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Domain, had to hold a series of talks with the vassal states in Beijing.

The first is to officially issue to all countries the report on the denial of the legitimacy of the four dynasties since the Shunzhi made by the Xiangyang Hundred Officials and Clans Conference, and listen to the opinions of various countries on this report;

The second is to determine whether each country recognizes the Restoration Emperor as the only legitimate emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

This series of work is not only tiring, but also complicated.

At present, the Qing Dynasty had 19 vassal states, including Korea, Annam, Siam, Bhutan, Ryukyu, Sulu, Kokand, Sikkim, Luang Prabang, Borol, and Andijan.

It's basically left over from the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the vassal states had personnel stationed in Kyoto, and they were under the jurisdiction of the Inner and Outer Pavilions of the Imperial Domain.

In fact, it is the meaning of the diplomatic institutions of later generations.

Whether the Restoration court could become the only legitimate court of the Qing Dynasty required the recognition of these vassal states, in addition to the support of the provinces and border regions in the country.

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Otherwise, the vassal states collectively jumped back and did not recognize the six emperors of the Restoration, although they could not move a single hair of the six emperors, but the face of the country would definitely not look good.

Quinny can't leave, but in fact, the trade part has nothing to do with Lao A, the prime minister and vice minister in charge of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of General Affairs, and it should be the elder Li Qu, who is in charge of the four institutions of the Ministry of Households, Hanlin Academy, Taichang Temple, and Taifu Temple.

It's that Lao Li refuses to go, because he can't pull off his face to accompany the Six Emperors to embarrass people.

In any dynasty and generation, there is no reason for the emperor to pick up foreign merchants!

Now it's okay, Lao Ah once again seized the opportunity and relied on the next emperor candidate.

As the only prime minister and vice minister of the cabinet who accompanied His Majesty the Emperor to Tianjin, after His Majesty the Emperor finished speaking, Lao A immediately added an explanation: "Your Majesty means that you can let go of your hands and feet, as long as you can make money, you can make the treasury and the people's money bags bulge, and when you are an official, you don't have to pay attention to what the outside world thinks, let alone worry that someone in the court will write to impeach you." ”

It's over, I thought about it, and used the words "policy support" to describe the great importance that His Majesty the Emperor attaches to maritime trade.

That is, on the basis of equal trade, the customs officers of Tianjin, as the seat of the customs, should open their minds, let go of their hands and feet, and spare no effort to support their own merchants and people in trade with Western countries, so that Tianjin, the only treaty port in the north at present, can quickly grow into a new commercial center in Asia, and at the same time, through trade with Western countries, they will continue to absorb the wealth they have obtained from foreign colonization, and provide strong financial support for the industrialization development of the Qing Dynasty.

"That's what it means."

Jia Liu nodded with satisfaction, the more than 20 officials he personally met were all carefully selected, and they were not only responsible for the expectations of His Majesty the Emperor, but also the future fate of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, it is necessary to personally take the helm, personally guide, and do a handful of help and a handful.

"In the past, businessmen from Western countries came to our Daqing Dynasty to do business, either through our own merchants in the Qing Dynasty, or they formed a community of interests with some local officials... In this Tianjin trade, I hope that the Tianjin Governor's Yamen, the Tianjin Prefect's Yamen, and the Tianjin Customs Yamen can do a good job as agents and deal directly with foreign merchants. ”

Jia Liu emphasized this point because he didn't want Beiyang to follow the old path of Nanyang again.

That is to say, tens of millions of taels of maritime trade profits every year are called comprador groups like the Thirteen Banks and the local bureaucracy in Guangdong, and the household department can only obtain more than 1.4 million taels of tariff silver from the Guangdong Customs every year.

This number is increasing at a decreasing rate every year.

On the one hand, there is an annual profit of tens of millions of taels, and on the other hand, there is a treasury income of more than one million taels, which is no longer proportional and inverse, but a complete disaster!

Therefore, Tianjin should adopt the form of government-run monopoly to carry out import and export trade, and it cannot be the same as that of Guangdong, where the 13 banks come to the "special market".

"The world is very big, not only our Qing Dynasty, you were personally selected by me to be placed here in Tianjin, so I hope you can live up to my expectations..."

Jia Liuzheng said, and Zhu Dawen, who was going to be the deputy superintendent of Tianjin Customs, suddenly mustered up the courage to raise his hand to report.

"Dawen has something to say?"

Jia Liu smiled and signaled this hero who attracted investment to Macao to speak boldly.

Earlier, he promulgated the decree in Xiangyang to completely lift the ban on speech, hoping that the subjects in the country would speak enthusiastically and everyone would take charge of the government.

"Your Majesty, the minister went to Macao this time not only to actively attract investment according to His Majesty's wishes, hire Western experts, buy new Western books, but also specially investigate the situation of Guangdong Customs..."

While speaking, Zhu Dawen got up and presented the "Guangdong International Trade Investigation Report" that he had spent more than half a year writing.

"Oh?"

Jia Liu hurriedly took the report and opened it, and he felt very excited just by looking at the catalog, because Zhu Dawen's opening sentence was very spiritual - "The master of Yi has long skills to control the four Yi, and those who are good at the four Yi can control the four Yi." Those who are not good at teaching outsiders will be controlled by outsiders. ”

There is this special spiritual opening sentence, and Jia Liu doesn't need to look at it in the back.

"Good, good, very good! Dawen's report is attentive, if all the officials in our court are as realistic as Dawen, why worry that my Qing Dynasty will not die... Why worry that my Qing Dynasty is not prosperous! ”

In addition to being happy, Jia Liu handed the report to Zhu Zhu and ordered him to hand over 10,000 copies to the chamberlain for printing, and all officials above the eighth rank must have one copy, and officials above the fourth rank must also submit a review of no less than 5,000 words to the cabinet. Submit the following four products to their respective superiors.

In order to make officials big and small aware of the importance of this report and the signals conveyed by the report, Jia Liu even asked for the feeling after reading as an indicator of the year-end evaluation of officials.

"Dawen, I am really the first person in the world to open my eyes, I am not as good as you, not as good as you."

His Majesty the Emperor's praise made Zhu Dawen faint with happiness, and also made Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin, who was sitting on a small stool in front of him, envious.

However, for the progress, Lord Xu doesn't care, anyway, he is retiring, and after retirement, he can still receive a special preferential fee of 300,000 taels every year.

The daily end is not as good as this treatment.

"Only when I went to Macao this time did I know the greatness of the world and the essence of all things in the world..."

Zhu Dawen told a few things about what he had seen and heard in Macao, and the officials present were shocked, especially Zhu Dawen said that the Westerners had built a Jinni loom, and once this kind of machine was put into production, it could withstand the output of dozens of weavers a day, and not only the output was terrifying, but also the price of cloth fell rapidly.

If the Qing Dynasty does not keep up, it will not be long before the Westerners' cloth will occupy the domestic market, because our weavers in the Qing Dynasty do not have that output at all.

"It's Jenny Loom."

Jia Liu's face was solemn, he got up and slowly came to the windowsill, gently pushed open the window, took a deep breath of the fresh air outside, took out Jin Jian's pocket watch to honor him, opened it and said to the Tianjin officials present:

"In the past, our scholars always thought that things from other countries were not good, such as the pocket watch in my hand was regarded as a miracle skill, but with this pocket watch, I can know the time accurately at any time, which is very remarkable.

In war, time is of the essence; In business, time is money..."

Jia Liu's tone was very passionate, which meant emphasizing and re-emphasizing.

"Therefore, I hope that you will not have the old thoughts of the past, do not look at everything from above, put down your body and face new things seriously, accept new things, and strive to use new things for the national economy and people's livelihood of our Qing Dynasty.

... Here I can assert that the world of the future will be a world of strange and skillful things, not a world of others.

The old set is no longer good, it must be changed, it must be completely changed!

Whoever doesn't change his mind, I will change his life! ”

With a "click", Jia Liu closed the pocket watch without words, and looked at everyone expectantly: "I believe that as long as you can understand and implement the spirit of what I said in place, it will not take ten years, and our Qing Dynasty will definitely open up and wisdom will rise...

In a few years' time, when I celebrate my thirtieth birthday, you will try to get the Western missions to come and congratulate me on my birthday, and I will personally sing a three-class trial of Galileo for them. ”