After several years of adjustment, none of these bigwigs in the six central departments are stubborn and pedantic people.

Formal exchanges between China and the West, and between countries can be said to have been highly valued by the imperial court.

The Department of Etiquette, which was originally in charge of the affairs of the guest and the reception of foreign guests, can no longer adapt to the current development in terms of the division of functions and the construction of personnel, including the diplomatic concepts of these officials.

He Yaomin wanted to pull Jia Cong, who was most familiar with Western countries, into the Ministry of Rites, not for a day or two.

At that time, the development of firearms was in a critical period, and he could still distinguish which was more important than the other.

But now, in addition to the war in Goryeo, the Great Xia Haiyan River is clear, and it is peaceful, and it is time for my Ministry of Rites to pick up the wool.

"Your Majesty, the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Chinese dynasty and the Western countries is the most important thing at present. The old minister thinks that it is most appropriate for Yongfeng Bo to preside over this matter......"

Duan Jun, who was originally in charge of the background board today, suddenly felt that someone pulled him.

Duan Jun came back to his senses from the state of fugue outside the world, and saw that He Yuan, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, was sweating in a hurry, pulling his sleeve and whispering: "Ministry, if you don't say anything, our family's money bag will be pried away by Lord He!" ”

Okay, okay, you are not a son, dig the corner of my Ministry of Engineering in front of the old man!

"Hey, Mr. He, are you going to rob people with the old man?"

Duan Jun saw that the emperor's expression was obviously moved, is this worth it?

Jia Cong is the money bag of the Ministry of Industry, and in the past two years, the Ministry of Industry has made a lot of money by relying on the ever-changing advanced technology.

In the past, it belonged to the Ministry of Works, which belonged to the end of the six parts, and now walks outside and looks at people directly with their nostrils, how can it be described by a cool word?

"Your Majesty, how many miracles has Yongfeng created for the imperial court since he joined the Ministry of Workers? If nothing else, firearms and wool weaving alone earned the treasury ten thousand taels of silver. Think about it, isn't it a waste of Yongfengbo's talent to put such a talent in the kind of idle yamen of the Ministry of Rites? ”

Duan Jun also fought hard in order to keep Jia Cong in the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu was called the great uncle, who was the nobleman of the nobles, and in the next cabinet, He Yaomin would enter the cabinet to pay respects to the prime minister.

But does it matter?

Duan Jun directly fired the map cannon, reduced the Ministry of Rites to a Qing Idle Yamen, and directly confronted He Yaomin, the head of the world's clear stream.

"Your Majesty, the New Deal has just begun. Needless to say, you should also know that the implementation of the new policy requires silver for every item. If Yongfeng Bo is transferred to the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry will only have to eat the old ......"

He Yaomin was stunned by the Ministry of Works, who was a good old man in the past, and Jia Cong on the side called a good guy in his heart.

Sure enough, if you can go to the position of a book, there is no simple person among these old men in the palace.

Duan Jun never left the silver, and directly pinched the lifeblood of the emperor's heart.

"This ......"

The Emperor hesitated.

He Yaomin saw that this was not good, and immediately said quietly: "Your Majesty, Western countries want to establish diplomatic relations with our DPRK, open commercial ports to each other, and formulate tariff treaties. As Yongfengbo once said, the era of sea power has come, and diplomacy is the top priority. The amount of money earned by the sea trade is no less than that of the Ministry of Industry's 'Kit Kat Skills', and it is doubling year by year......"

Hiss!

Jia Cong took a deep breath, He Laoqi, you are going to fight with Duan Laoqi!

After seeing the power of the latest firearm of the Ministry of Industry before, Toga Yaomin's eyes lit up. When you "borrow" money from the Ministry of Works, your Ministry of Rites is a miracle.

Co-authoring has now become a "kit kat kinky technique" again!

It is true that the silver brought by the sea trade is not less than the silver earned by the Ministry of Industry, and even more than that.

Moreover, this time the Xiyi envoys brought a large number of merchants in their country, and the amount of trade taxes next year will be increased several times.

He Yaomin's confidence in speaking was called a foot, and he didn't retreat and started a verbal battle with Duan Jun.

In terms of verbal warfare, Da Zongbo is obviously so powerful.

The emperor's favor once again fell on the side of the Ministry of Rites, and Duan Jun was anxious......

"He Yaomin, his mother!"

Duan Jun, who was speechless, was in a hurry, and scolded his mother elegantly, and opened the first "Imperial Martial Arts" in Yuan You's ten years.

The two old civil officials are fighting, and it really doesn't have much lethality.

Not only did no one in the palace come forward to persuade them, but they were interested in watching the two people who were tearing and entangled on the ground......

Not again! Not again!

This is my minister!

Fuck ......

"Alright, stop acting!"

The corners of the emperor's mouth twitched, and he slapped the dragon case heavily, and the pile of folds on the case jumped a few times.

"Jia Cong......"

"The minister is here."

Jia Cong bowed forward and stood in the middle of the temple.

He Yaomin and Duan Jun, who were still tearing, got up from the ground neatly, tidied up their clothes, and smiled at each other tacitly.

The emperor didn't bother to look at these two people again, and said to Jia Cong: "The establishment of diplomatic relations with Western countries cannot be lost, so I will order you to receive the title of squire of the Ministry of Rites, assist the prince, and have full authority to deal with this matter." ”

"The minister's affairs in the Ministry of Works......"

"You can't relax in the affairs of the Ministry of Industry, the so-called diplomacy is based on national strength. The truth is only above the edge of the sword! ”

When He Yaomin and Duan Jun heard this, they arched their hands to each other. One dug up half of the corner, the other guarded the bottom line, and both of them achieved their goals.

Only Jia Cong has more and more official titles on his body, and he has more and more things to do, but his fortune is ...... Don't mention it, it seems that he has been punished to the sixteenth year of Yuan You.

……

After the small court meeting in the Qinzheng Palace, Jia Cong originally wanted to go to the East Palace.

However, when everyone left the hall, the emperor kept him, and Jia Cong wanted to stay, and finally acquiesced to stand aside.

"Enhou, are you bent on resigning from the post of former military governor?"

Speaking of this, the emperor was also full of sighs. At the beginning, with the help of Jia Yu, he gradually disintegrated the influence of the founding martial arts on the Beijing camp, and completely controlled the entire Beijing Twelve Guards.

Jia pardoned the matter of resigning from the official, to be honest, the emperor was also both happy and worried.

The joy is that Rongguo Mansion knows the current affairs and knows the proportions. I am worried that this matter will make the feelings of the monarch and ministers suspicious.

The father and son were in charge of the front and rear armies, accounting for almost forty percent of the total strength of Great Xia, he was not suspicious, but there were already many people in the court who played and advised to prevent Wu Xun from sitting on the big thing.

Jia Yu arched his hand and replied: "Your Majesty also knows the temperament of the minister, if you say that the minister will lead the troops to fight, the minister has nothing to say, this is the responsibility and obligation of the descendants of Rongguo. But to let the minister go to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies to deal with those military affairs documents, to be honest, this is embarrassing for the minister. Your Majesty is doing well, so let's spare the ministers. ”

Although Jia Yu said it sincerely, the expression on his face was also extremely distressed, as if the affairs of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies annoyed him.

But the emperor's heart is like a mirror, this old boy is just to avoid suspicion.

"You...... I understand! ”

The emperor wanted to keep one or two, but in the end he agreed with a little bitterness.

Trust is trust, and he can't make this bad head.

Forty percent of the military strength is concentrated in the hands of one family, which is indeed a taboo.

"So, since you don't like the case, go and watch Jingying for me. The British Duke told me a few days ago that he wanted to resign from his post as the envoy of the Jingying Festival......"

……

The Jingying Jiedu envoy has a lofty status, and he is nominally the commander of the Beijing camp, and he is always in charge of the power of the Beijing camp.

However, in non-war times, the envoys of the Beijing camp were more to supervise the commanders of the guards, as well as to inspect the drills and military discipline of the Beijing camp, and recruit and train new troops.

The emperor issued an edict that the British would be invited by the British public, and Jia Yu, the Duke of Rongguo, would take over as the envoy of the Jingying Festival.

The impact of this incident is still very great, which means that the first person in the Great Xia military has changed from the British Duke Zhang Yue to the Rongguo Duke Jia Amnesty, and the Jia family has returned to the first position of martial arts.

However, Zhang Yue did not retire completely, he was still the governor of the Chinese army, in charge of the front three guards, it is estimated that he will not retreat to the second line until the emperor finds a suitable candidate, or directly resign and return to his hometown to recuperate.

When Jia Cong arrived at the East Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was standing at the door of the main hall rubbing his eyebrows, and he felt as if a nest of ducks was living in his brain, constantly quacking.

"The fourth brother seems to have a headache?"

Liu Hong pointed to the full ...... in the main hall of the East Palace. The envoys of the Western countries smiled bitterly: "Listen to it yourself, it is a headache for everyone." ”

But no, Nie Chaoyi, the host and guest of the Qing Dynasty, was already stunned, and when he saw the familiar figure outside the hall from a distance, he weakly stretched out his hand and wanted to ask for help.

"Run, someone is going to drag me into the water!"

The two left the main hall quickly, found a sunny place in the small garden, set up tables and chairs, and made tea and talked.

A moment of leisure under the warm sun finally made Liu Hong feel a little pure.

"You're finally back, I don't even have a moment of leisure when these Yi people came over a year ago. Don't you know, when they first came, the smell on their bodies was even more ...... than that of tartars."

Liu Hong thought about it, the people on the grassland are also the people of Great Xia now, so it is not good to describe it like this, so he paused and continued: "After they came to the East Palace for the first time that day, I asked the palace people to burn all the incense in the East Palace. ”

Burst~

Jia Cong really couldn't hold back, at this time, the West really didn't have good hygiene habits.

The legendary romantic city of Paris does not even have a sewer.

"I had to get the people in the Ministry of Rites to re-establish the rules, at least let them learn to burn incense and bathe. Let's not talk about that, let's get down to business. ”

After complaining about the hygiene habits of the Yi people, Liu Hong mentioned the establishment of diplomatic relations.

As Jia Cong expected, the imperial court was still confused about the policies of diplomacy, trade and tariffs, and did not know where to start.

From Liu Hong's mouth, I learned that the central government adheres to an open-door policy, but there are also many people in the DPRK and China who are more wary and suspicious of the Westerners.

Of course, Liu Hong didn't know the bottom in his heart, he was a little worried that Western imported goods would make money from Daxia's silver.

After listening to the prince's worries, Jia Cong shook his head and smiled: "Fourth brother, Yiren can't earn our silver." On the contrary, as long as we establish formal diplomatic relations with the West and exchange trade, in a very short period of time, we will be able to bring all the gold and silver plundered by the Yi people back to Great Xia. ”

Oh?

Liu Hong asked in surprise: "How did Brother Cong have such great confidence?" The merchants who came with them these days almost sold out all the goods they brought with them during the New Year's Festival. News came from the Dragon Guard, and in just one month, the Yiren earned at least one million taels of silver. ”

Jia Cong raised his sleeves, and the gold and silver threads on the brocade shimmered dazzlingly in the sun.

"Just such a silk brocade can make the nobles of the West empty the silver deposit. Porcelain, tea, which one is not grabbed by the Yiren to break their heads? Although those who oppose the opening of the sea are a little pedantic, they are true in one sentence, the Celestial Empire is rich in products and has everything. The things that make people easy are just fun and strange to watch. ”

He pointed to the tribute porcelain and tribute tea on the table again, showing his white teeth and smiling: "The freshness has passed, and that's it." But our things are different, food, clothing, housing and transportation, we are all far ahead now, and those nobles will desperately spend money to buy our goods in order to show their nobility. ”

Just kidding, in the eyes of those Yi people, the Celestial Empire is the embodiment of nobility and the place of heaven.

It's porcelain, silk, and tea that only exist in the Oriental Paradise!

Those Western aristocrats are eager to exchange all their wealth for silk that can only be worn by Oriental nobles, serve rice with exquisite porcelain, and taste Oriental leaves......

Even if the "Qing Dynasty" was opened by strong ships and cannons in the previous life, and unequal treaties were signed, it could not make the British Empire change the situation of trade deficit.

It still relied on repeated wars of aggression that it took decades to finally snatch a huge amount of silver from China.

"So, the fourth brother really doesn't have to worry about this. The establishment of diplomatic relations and trade is a profitable business for us. ”

Although Jia Cong despised the backwardness of Western countries, it was only in their system and living standards.

The level of science and technology of the Yi people has surpassed that of the Celestial Empire in many places. At least the West has just experienced the Renaissance a few years ago, and it can be said that it has undergone earth-shaking development and changes in science and technology.

He has always admired the main reason for opening his eyes to the world and building business with the West.

Great Xia must seize this opportunity, learn the science and technology of the Yi people, and combine the wisdom left by the ancestors, bring forth the new, establish a sound scientific system, strengthen its own strength, and finally stand on the top of the world, so that the Quartet can come to congratulate.

The two chatted for a long time in the small garden of the East Palace, and it was not until the sun set that Liu Hong personally sent Jia Cong out of the palace.

……

The Yi people were eager to establish diplomatic relations with Bactria and trade with them, but Jia Cong used the excuse of illness to delay the negotiation process and did not show up at the Ministry of Rites for many days.

He is not in a hurry, whoever is in a hurry at this time will be led by the nose by others.

"Negotiations, naturally, should be based on the rules set by the Celestial Empire. For example, tariffs, wait for me to look at the economic strength of Western countries, and then divide them according to their population and economic situation. ”

Jia Cong asked Nie Chaoyi, who was in charge of entertaining the Yi envoys, to discuss the negotiation with him.

He handed a draft treaty to Nie Chaoyi, and said with a smile: "Negotiation, we must also take the interests of Great Xia as the standard, we must not do anything to betray the country!" Let's take a look at this first, can we see if it's okay? ”

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That's it for today, continue tomorrow, good night!

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