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January 1797.

The cold wind is steep.

People in Paris hurried around in their coats.

Occasionally, horse-drawn carriages with bells dangled by, and if you look closely at the ground, you can still see the railroad tracks.

Horse-drawn carriages have long been around in Europe.

Merely.

The railroad tracks were just horses pulling carts running.

Really.

In a short time, a steam locomotive came with two carriages in tow.

It's not fast.

However, when the Ming Dynasty won the world, especially after the imperial examination, there was also the road to the rise of the university entrance examination.

The results of more than 100 years of Russian expansion were lost overnight.

As a result, he studied foreign languages such as Dutch, French, and English.

According to his birth, it is definitely no fun to inherit the family business.

Therefore, being stationed in Europe is the fastest channel for almost all Ming diplomats to be promoted.

The Lu family in Guangzhou has money, therefore. He, a concubine who is usually not taken very seriously, also got the support of his family at once, and soon became a squire of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and got the opportunity to send abroad to Europe - everyone knows that diplomacy with Europe is the focus of Ming diplomacy, and now the Grand Duke of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shang Shulin was promoted after returning from Europe.

So at the beginning, he was trained as an expatriate shopkeeper, and he didn't learn any Four Books, Five Classics, and Eight Strands since he was a child - his identity did not allow him to take the imperial examination.

"Do you think the Son of Heaven doesn't know this?" Lupuzer smiled.

Daming needs an opponent.

"Why do you sigh?"

"I want to hear about it!"

And there are no more countries qualified to be Ming's opponents.

Next to Pan Youke is a young man named Lu Puze, a new diplomat who was transferred to Europe from China last year and a graduate of the University School of International Politics at Daohua University.

"Fifteen years" Pan Youdu groaned.

Lu Puze smiled when he heard this: "Have you ever heard that the country will die if there is no external trouble?" ”

"This is one of them!" Lupuzer said with a finger out.

Apparently cultivated as a general matter.

"The train was the first to appear in the Ming Dynasty, and within a few years, France, Britain, Prussia and other countries appeared one after another!" Pan Youke shook his head and said.

Lu Puze continued: "The prosperity of our dynasty's martial arts is far from the Han and Tang dynasties, and even if it is Mongolia in the past, it may not be comparable to the martial arts of our dynasty!" Between the fifth year of the liberation and the seventh year of the liberation, our dynasty successively carried out a great expansion in the northeast and northwest, swallowing a large amount of land that could be reclaimed as fertile land. How much benefit can I gain by continuing to expand? ”

As for the Russian Empire . This country simply does not have the strength to threaten the Ming Dynasty!

Now the place where the world needs the Ming to make diplomatic efforts is Europe.

In the East.

"Are you worried that the European alliance will lead to the emergence of a strong opponent in the world?"

Is this really good for Da Ming?

"Do you think that the current situation in Europe is not favorable to the Ming Dynasty?"

From the son of the Lu family to the protégé of the Son of Heaven, Lu Puze's life counterattacked.

Not to mention that he has more than a dozen elder brothers, it is impossible for him to inherit the family business just because of his identity as a concubine.

Russia that once seemed incomparably large.

Under the successive blows of the Ming Dynasty, it also changed from a great empire across Europe and Asia to a purely European country - after losing the stronghold of the northern steppes of Central Asia, even if the army of the Ming Empire did not continue to advance, Russia could not maintain its rule in Western Siberia.

With his foreign language advantage, Lu Puze was quickly admitted to Daohua University and became the first batch of graduates of Daohua University.

In fact, he did not agree with the idea that the scholars and bureaucrats in China should first solve the troubles in the north.

Now, after several battles with them, although the Ming has successfully won a large area of territory - but what is the use of these territories?

Moreover, the defeat of the Russians also caused a widespread "yellow peril theory" to appear throughout Europe.

Pan Youke nodded.

"But." Pan Youke frowned slightly when he heard this.

"The foundation of Europe is here, and they have a deep industrial base, which is indeed an enemy that cannot be ignored by our Ming Dynasty!" "Although the Ming were one step ahead in many technologies, they quickly caught up. ”

The consulate of the Ming Empire in Europe is the cradle of the future Ming diplomatic talents.

But

Pan Youke, the consul general of the Ming Empire in Europe, who was sitting in the carriage and looking out the window, couldn't help but sigh as he watched the train rumble past.

Without the support of strongholds in the steppes of northern Central Asia, this tundra could not have a long-term army or establish a solid bureaucratic rule.

The handling of relations between Japan, the DPRK, and other countries is not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Third, in the current world, the time for a big war has not yet come. Whether it is my Ming Dynasty or European countries, they are now at a critical point in time for technological outbreaks, and all countries are paying more attention internally! And the focus of my Ming Dynasty is no longer on the war against the West, but on digesting the land that is now swallowed, building railways, building ports, and strengthening immigration to the west coast of North America." Lu Puze said, "Envoy, if a big war breaks out, it will take at least fifteen years!" ”

Pan Youke was thoughtful.

He himself is the former 13th Bank Guangli Lu family, and now the second room of the Lu family, the major shareholder of Guangzhou Investment General Commercial Bank.

"Isn't it?"

"The Son of Heaven must have intended for Europe to form a large-scale alliance!" Lupzer said firmly.

Lupuzer asked.

"That's why the Son of Heaven is happy to see the formation of a European alliance." Pan Youdu nodded.

"Isn't it? If Europe is scattered, no European country will have the national strength to confront the Ming Dynasty! But if they unite, not necessarily, I don't see why the Europeans are being forced to unite. Pan Youke said.

If he had been the Emperor's advisor, he would have advised the Emperor to take Australia first, and then establish several strongholds on the west coast of North America.

This led to the emergence of the idea of an "alliance" in Europe.

European countries should unite against the Ming Dynasty.

"Second, our dynasty will unify the entire Shenzhou world, and the vassals will submit, and they will not dare to disobey. At the beginning of the Son of Heaven's army, the Yellow and White races competed to absorb Japan, Korea, Annam, Siam, Burma and other countries to sign suzerain-vassal agreements one after another, and completely integrated into the Chinese Celestial Empire system. ”

It is managed by the Rifan Academy.

Therefore, for the diplomats of the Ming Empire, only diplomacy with Europe made sense.

Then again.

This is an internal affair of the Celestial Empire.

Neither Britain nor France had the qualifications to be hostile to the Ming Dynasty alone.

The Russians retreated to Europe.

"That's right! The whole world will remain peaceful for at least fifteen years. Lupuzer said.

But will their power be weakened much by this?

Actually, not necessarily.

As the two of them spoke.

The rickety carriage stopped.

"Two adults, Aeheri Palace has arrived."

(End of chapter)