I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

It's a bit of a detour this way, but it saves you a ton of money and it's safe.

Donald nodded again and again, "Safe, that's pretty safe! Mr. Gordon, you can rest assured and go on the road!"

……

With these two cooperations, Li Hongzhang regarded Donald as a confidant, and even praised the important American minister as "the most friendly and reasonable person in Europe and America" ​​in his letter to Zeng Guofan.

After getting acquainted, Li Hongzhang couldn't help asking: "Mr. Donald, you are proficient in Chinese and like Chinese culture. Do you have a Chinese name?"

In fact, Li Hongzhang thought, if Donald didn't have a Chinese name, he could help him get one, so that the relationship between the two parties would be closer, wouldn't it?

Who would have thought that when he heard the answer "Tang Sangui, my Chinese name is Sangui!", Lao Li almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

After hesitating for a long time, he did not dare to explain the meaning of "Sangui" to Donald, so he could only say: "Mr. Tang, your Chinese name is too shocking, it is better not to use it lightly in our country..."

"Understand, understand, King Pingxi, the name is too big, you are afraid that I will not be able to suppress it, right? I know your Chinese habits!"

Donald patted Lao Li on the shoulder, thinking that this person is really considerate and talented, and he can recommend him to Wanshui later.

The relationship between Tang and Li heated up rapidly, until the day before leaving, Donald and his East Asian followers rushed into the governor's office angrily with red eyes.

The foreigners are crazy, and the servants dare not stop them.

Donald took the lead and broke into Li Hongzhang's bedroom, pulling him up by his beard.

Li Hongzhang was stunned.

He didn't know why the usually gentle and gentle Donald would become so cruel.

"Tell me, where did you take Dr. Xingguan!" Donald asked angrily, grabbing Lao Li by the collar.

……

In the end, Donald left by boat without having time to meet Dr. Xing.

Donald is a bit regretful that he missed the opportunity to meet the greatest scientist of this century, or since Newton. Fortunately, he is not a person who loves science.

If the Geng Ministry of Industry was here, I am afraid that they would have to stay in Shanghai for two more days to have a long talk with their idols, even if they disrupted the plan.

But Donald still confirmed Dr. Xing's safety.

In fact, if the local "legal businessman" Xing Jiuliu hadn't been arrested by the "beggar soldiers" and Shanghai Benbang businessmen held a small-scale strike, Donald and the others really wouldn't have noticed this.

After all, in their minds, Dr. Xing must be a mysterious and low-key man, it is impossible to show others by his real name.

Unexpectedly, his name was actually Xing Jiuliu.

However, in the mouths of the local gentry, he is a local businessman who is honest, honest, and persecuted by the Anhui people.

This is one hundred and eight thousand miles away from Dr. Xing's image.

However, this convinced Donald and the others that this was the chief scientist of Ming Dynasty, Dr. Xing, who was hiding in the city, but somehow, he was captured by the Huai Army.

What are you waiting for?

It must be rescued!

As a result, after the rescue, it was discovered that the identity of Dr. Xing hadn't been revealed at all.

Instead, it was Donald who exposed the "Doctor" as soon as he opened his mouth.

Good thing...

"Turning away customers? Who is turning away customers? This old man has never been sorry for turning away customers!"

"Oh no, Mr. Tang, are you talking about a businessman surnamed Xing? The things he resells really do not comply with the laws of the Qing Dynasty..."

"I don't care, D...Mr. Dao Ke Xing is my mentor, no matter what you can't hurt him!" Donald said firmly, "Otherwise, I, Ming... my Great Amica army will attack the Forbidden City again! "

……

All in all, just like that, Xing Jiuliu somehow became the candidate magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, and theoretically he was also a member of the fifth rank or the fifth rank.

Of course, it's not uncommon to be a candidate for prefect these days, and you can buy it with money.

But even if you spend money to buy it, an alternate magistrate will cost 2 taels of silver. Based on the calculation of 200 yuan for one tael of silver, it will be equivalent to nearly 400 million yuan in future generations.

It's a good deal to buy an alternate county magistrate for 400 million yuan, but unless you get lucky, the word "alternate" may not be removed for the rest of your life.

(The magistrate is generally lower than the magistrate, higher than the county magistrate, and the position is more flexible. It is hard to say whether it is the mayor or the county magistrate, but the magistrate of Shanghai should be the county magistrate.)

The most important thing is that Xing Jiuliu's alternate magistrate is not false, but actually helps the governor to handle affairs and deal with foreign affairs.

In other words, the reason why Xing Jiuliu was not promoted to Shanghai Dao in one step was entirely because of insufficient official qualifications.

When he made great contributions to foreign affairs, let alone Shanghai Road, even if he went a step further, it was not impossible to enter the Prime Minister's Office.

All in all, how far Xing Jiuliu can go depends entirely on his knowledge of the world.

Chapter 168 Wonton Noodles, Seeking Roots, Lexington

On the surface of the East China Sea, a fleet is slowly heading northeast.

Gordon, an Englishman with an extra 7 yuan in his Citibank account, is embracing the mentality of returning to his hometown with honor, hugging the railing, drinking a cup of coffee, laughing at the rising and falling of the tide, and chatting happily with Donald.

But in the next second, General Tang Sangui pressed a hard object against his waist.

"Your Excellency Special Envoy, what do you mean? The United Kingdom and the United States are not belligerent countries. Do you want to cause international disputes?" Gordon exclaimed in surprise.

Several sailors tied up Gordon, and Donald slowly put away his pistol: "Mr. Gordon, if you're sensible, return the money, or I'll treat you to wonton noodles!"

"What are wonton noodles?"

"It's the pawnshop Ling Nudou!"

Donald shook his head and said, "Forget it, you don't understand what I said, come here, fork him down, and lock him in the bottom cabin. Then invite the Chinese workers and Taiping warriors in the bottom cabin! It's true to invite them to eat dumplings. Dumplings, make no mistake!"

……

Gordon was nothing but a windfall.

Li Hongzhang paid 7 yuan in cash, and Donald helped deposit it in Citibank, and as soon as it changed hands, it went into Daming's treasury.

Of course, Donald knew that Sleepy Man was a fastidious person, and a large percentage of the money would eventually be returned to him as a performance award.

As for Gordon himself, during the more than a year he served as the leader of the foreign gun team, not to mention the killing of Taiping soldiers, he killed good men and pretended to be meritorious, and the crime of robbing the people was enough for him to be shot ten times.

But Sleepy God has always been wise and kind, presumably his final fate is to dig coal in a coal mine.

It has to be said that the theory of Adam Smith's chamber is still reasonable, and the efficiency of slaves is indeed not as good as that of industrial workers.

Today, the Plash Coal Mine, which has been robbed by the Ming Dynasty and cut off from the railway company, has more than 2000 white slaves, but the output has not increased at all.

But it is not without advantages, that is, compared with industrial workers who have a little freedom in life, these white slaves who are completely under surveillance 24 hours a day have little possibility of making trouble and are easier to manage.

Anyway, they were all war criminals. If they refused to obey the management, they could be shot directly. The procedure was completely legal. Of course, from the perspective of protecting property, no one was willing to shoot the slaves of Long Live Lord lightly.

Of course, Zhu Fugui kept his word.

As the royal private property, the white slaves, also known as the so-called imperial slaves, still have a way to rise.

Dr. Xing, strike it out, the Internet is not a panacea, and many production processes that meet the objective conditions of the [-]th century may not necessarily be found on the Internet.

And some lucky white slaves seized the opportunity to improve Daming's production technology and obtained Daming's temporary residence permit.

Obtaining a Daming temporary residence permit can obtain some citizenship rights in reserved areas like mining areas.

If you can make further contributions, you will have a chance to get Daming's green card.

As for obtaining the Ming nationality, it is extremely difficult. According to the standards of later generations, it is impossible to even think about it if there is no Nobel Prize-level contribution.

An ignorant soldier like Gordon probably won't even have a temporary residence permit in his life.

If there is no accident, he will spend the rest of his life in the cold mine, or die in a mine collapse accident.

After the Ming Fleet sailed into the high seas, the Stars and Stripes, which had been flying for a long time, slowly fell and was thrown into the warehouse by the sailors like a rag.

Instead, the vermilion sun and moon flag and the green dragon spit water flag fluttered high.

Of course, there is one ship that has not changed its flag, and that is Morishita's "Jiading" gunboat.

He will take the handwriting of Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan, Ma Shali, Tian Bei, "Lincoln" and others to Guangzhou to supervise the redemption of Shi Dakai's old soldiers.

Due to the excessive enthusiasm of the Manchu and Qing bureaucrats, this time, not only was Daming able to buy more than 2000 soldiers from Dashubao at a low price, but even the soldiers who had been recruited by the Southwest Hunan Army before were able to return.

This is also a good thing for the Hunan Army. Anyway, Zeng Guofan has realized the problem of his high meritorious service, and he himself does not have the courage to support his troops. He has already made plans to disband the Hunan Army on the spot after "killing the thieves". up.

Having more soldiers and fewer soldiers is a fearless thing for the generals of the Hunan Army. Maybe they will take the opportunity to resell some of their original mud legs and drink the last mouthful of soldier blood.

In this way, the number of people could be several thousand or even tens of thousands. Fortunately, Minister Tian Bei has helped to contact the largest ship merchant in East Asia——Changqi Shipping Company to help transship them, so it should not be a big problem.

Morishita went ashore from Guangzhou and went deep into the southwestern mainland to supervise the purchase of prisoners. Naturally, he had other purposes.

He planned to take a special detour to Qujing, Yunnan, which is the land of his ancestors!

Morishita even learned in the book that there is another settlement with the surname "Mori" in Qujing.

This must be the root of the Morishita family, and Morishita plans to take his savings and travel thousands of miles back to his hometown to find his roots.

At that time, donate several thousand taels of silver so that my father, grandfather, great-grandfather and others can enter the family tree, and it would be good to have a collateral line...

Besides, there is one more thing.

It may be the talent of the Japanese. Morishita intends to carry out illegal surveying and mapping of the southwestern provinces along the way, so as to contribute to the Ming Dynasty's conquest of rivers and mountains in the future.

……

Just when the Ming Fleet was divided into two, one was seeking its roots in the southwest, and the other was seeking revenge in the Aleutians, the eastern part of the North American continent was not peaceful.

Lexington, this is a city with special significance for colonial gangsters.

90 years ago, it was here that the Citi gang fired the first shot and became independent from the Miqi gang.

Lexington was not a dazzling metropolis in this era, but today it is very lively.

Because it's graduation day for the newest class of Virginia Military Academy cadets.

Compared with West Point Military Academy, Virginia Military Academy is naturally a younger brother, but it is the pride of southerners.

In fact, the Virginia Military Academy was established in the 40s and has been in operation for more than 20 years.

But for a long time, the Virginia Military Academy was nothing more than a product of southerners and northerners. There were only 30 to [-] students in the previous batches.

However, with the outbreak of the Civil War, both the southern government and the southern Chongwu faction realized the importance of the Virginia Military Academy, and the school's funding and enrollment skyrocketed.

A large number of southerners who studied and served at West Point Military Academy left the North and came to the Virginia Military Academy, which also injected new vitality into the school.

Today marks the graduation of the first cadets following the outbreak of the Civil War.

This is an important force, and they will quickly replenish the weary Southern regiments.

So in this graduation ceremony, not only the school leaders, but also the mayor of Lexington attended, and the Confederate Ministry of Defense also sent senior officials to congratulate the students.

Among them, the most anticipated one is the Southern Army Soul, the de facto commander-in-chief of the southern government, and the national hero who led the southerners to defeat the northern government's invasion plans. The report of General Robert Lee made a speech.

Chapter 169 The South Is Like Fire, The North Is Like Ice

In fact, among the more than 200 graduates this time, most of them are proud to enter the Northern Virginia Army led by General Lee.

When the host announced that Robert Lee was on stage, there was warm applause from the audience, and young paramilitary officers stretched their necks looking forward to their idols.

Many people have even put on red vests and raised their own Paige flags, looking like a fan meeting.

At this time, I saw an old man wearing a dividend jacket, a green sailor cap, and a piggy page tie on his chest, walking up to the podium in good spirits.

If Zhu Fugui were here, he would definitely admire him from the bottom of his heart. He is worthy of being a famous general in history books, but even the "Fat King" failed to fatten him up, only a little stronger.

After a short greeting with the graduates, Robert Lee spoke about his well-prepared speech:

"Students, do you know why, as an old man who is almost 60 years old, I am so healthy and full of energy?

That's because our just cause of liberty has been helped by a gentleman.

Although he is not a southerner, he selflessly subsidizes our supplies at low prices to resist the tyranny of the northerners.

This fits into an editorial, which was published in a British newspaper and I think many of you have read it.

That is a series of writings by Mr. Deathstroke.

This Mr. Deathstroke is also a democratic scholar who cares about freedom and human rights. He published a series of articles exposing the ugliness of the northern government and praising the will of our southern people, which is comparable to a sharp knife in the literary world.

All of this confirms his saying, 'If you get the right way, you will get much help, if you are wronged, you will get little help'.

In addition, I also appreciate his judgment on the situation of the war.