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

It's just that Zhu Fugui is very clear about how much manpower and material resources were spent on developing the Great Northern Wilderness in history, and how many people died.

Allowing these Japanese Eight Banners to open up mountains and open up water, burn mountains and open up wasteland, can reduce casualties in the future Ming Dynasty Production and Construction Corps.

As for these Japanese people, they naturally continued to develop Siberia.

Zhu Fugui didn't regard these stubborn Japanese who had fled from the Protectorate of Wa Island as his subjects at all.

Now by relying on Tongliao Khan, you can cheat if you can, and use it if you can.

One day it will be overwhelmed and the performance will no longer be able to continue. It is not a big deal for Sauter to dig a hole and bury it.

Anyway, this work, whether it is Mongolian or Japanese, they are all skilled, Party A and Party B are skilled workers, and they must be able to do it beautifully.

……

Just like letting the Eight Banners open up wasteland in the Great Northern Wilderness and pave the way for the Ming Production and Construction Corps, Zhu Fugui raised his hands in favor of the Qing joining the Allied Powers and obtaining loans from the British and 62 industrial projects.

In Zhu Fugui's view, Britain's plan to arm the Manchu Qing and support the Manchu Qing was called Bruce Lee meeting Bai Scholar—a waste of effort.

This is doomed to fail.

This is a system problem, really a system problem...

If the industrialization of the Manchu Qing was successful, Zhu Fugui would write the characters Zhu upside down, or even change the name to Aixinjueluo Fugui the next day.

The Manchus collapsed, especially the Chinese men's football team.

It doesn't matter if you increase investment, hire foreign coaches, or naturalize foreigners to play football, the Chinese men's football team has played steadily and never disappoints Chinese fans.

The same is true of the Qing Dynasty.

Historically, the British also tried to arm the Qing Dynasty to prevent Tsarist Russia from going south and engage in the so-called Yellow Russia plan.

Most of the achievements of the Westernization Movement were largely achieved against this background.

However, in the end, the British still found that the Qing Dynasty was a lump of mud that could not be supported, and turned to support the Japanese.

The British did not have the advantage of being a traveler, and they did not have the perspective of God. They still chose the dead end of supporting the Qing Dynasty this time.

Of course, the target this time was not the Russians.

The Russians had secretly signed the "International Order Framework Stabilization Agreement" with the United Kingdom a few months ago, or simply said the "Secret Agreement Against Germany and Ming Dynasty".

Alaska-Canada, Kazakhstan-Afghanistan, India-Tibet-Western Regions, these three areas where Britain and Russia wrestle, have all been separated by the emergence of Ming Dynasty.

Except in the Iran region, Britain and Russia still have some overlapping interests, there are not many conflicts between the two countries.

On the contrary, the rise of Germany and the Ming Dynasty are very important geopolitical threats to Britain and Russia, which cannot be ignored.

Therefore, it is logical that Britain and Russia signed the "Secret Agreement Against Germany and Ming Dynasty".

Of course, Tsarist Russia hopes to add the old enemy Ottoman Turkey to the name of the agreement, but the British side still has the idea of ​​​​wooing Turkey for the time being, and has not agreed.

However, what the British didn't know was that the Three Kingdoms of Ming, Germany and Earth had already signed the "Alliance of Three Emperors", sharpening their knives and preparing to carve up the world.

And the Ottoman Turkish "Caliph" is still the most active one.

After all, Turkey is the middle school, and Huskies are the middle dog.

Although native chicken is a dish, its addiction is great!

In short, in order to further find allies who can contain the Ming Dynasty in the Far East, the British came up with the idea of ​​supporting the Qing government.

Without God's perspective, poor British people, Zhu Fugui is sad about their low interest loans.

……

The ignorant British people don't know what kind of bottomless pit they are facing.

Beginning in the middle of the eighth year of Dewu, engineers and supplies from the Indian and Malay Governor's Offices began to be shipped to Beijing one after another.

During this period, Ming not only did not block the British transport ships at sea, but also sold them a lot of supplies at a low price.

In order to catch up with the construction schedule, reduce the budget, and embezzle more money, many projects even hired construction teams from Daming under the subcontracting layer upon layer.

The labor of the Ming construction team is not low, but Ming Liangzong has special subsidies for these construction teams that undertake the business of the Qing Dynasty. Even if the price is lower, they can complete the task with quality and quantity, and send the drawings back to the Fengdu Archives spare.

Jingshi Manufacturing Bureau, Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory, Baoding Ordnance Institute, Wulanchabu Arsenal, Luanping Coal Mine Bureau, Tongzhou Weaving Bureau, Weihai Shipping Bureau...

The little bit of oil and water that the British Empire squeezed from the bones of Indians, Malays, and Burmese was continuously fed into the lives of clean politicians in Britain, corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty, and honest contractors in the Ming Dynasty. Inside the fanny pack.

New factories that have reached or approached the level of the second industrial revolution have been built.

It's just...

Just like the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in history, these factories run by the Manchu government were faced with problems of poor management, low output, and even on the verge of bankruptcy once they were completed.

The Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant, which can be used by later generations to compete globally, was completed on October 26, the ninth year of Dewu.

The whole factory cost a total of 180 million taels of silver, equivalent to a contract of 120 million Ming Yuan, or 16.5 pounds. (Because of the depreciation of silver, the Ming Yuan has depreciated benignly against the pound, and the current exchange rate is around 7.27.)

Nearly 1/2 of them are low-interest loans provided by HSBC Bank of the United Kingdom, with the prospecting rights of Jilin Province as collateral.

This iron and steel factory includes a steelmaking plant, an ironmaking plant, 7 large and small factories of an iron foundry, 2 furnaces, 3000 workers, and 1000 coal mining workers.

It is designed to produce 5200 tons of steel per year.

In the first month of its completion, the Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant lived up to expectations and suffered a boiler explosion, shutting down for nearly half a year for maintenance.

That was already in April of the tenth year of Dewu.

Moreover, the output and quality did not meet the design standards at all, and various accidents continued.

The total amount of steel produced throughout the year is only 200 tons, barely reaching a fraction of the designed capacity.

Tangshan Iron and Steel Works is just the epitome of a series of events that brought down the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The shrewd British have to swallow this long-lost bitterness in the face of our own national conditions in the Qing Dynasty.

Chapter 603 National Bird and Tribute

The eighth and ninth years of Dewu, that is, 1870 and 1871 AD, the first two years of the 70s, were later called "the eve of Pompeii" by some Western scholars of modern history.

This kind of hopeless and full of Western-centric title is not recognized by the world's mainstream historical views.

But objectively speaking, the description of "Eve of Pompeii" is still very appropriate.

In the fourth year of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in AD 79, Mount Vesuvius on the Apennine Peninsula erupted, and the ancient city of Pompeii, a symbol of Western classical civilization, was mercilessly wiped off the earth by volcanic ash about 5.6 meters thick overnight. .

And the two years of peace from the eighth year of Dewu to the ninth year of Dewu were like the eve of Spombe's downfall, quiet and lonely, but dark and turbulent.

Fengdu, the residence of the Ming Emperor.

Spring is blooming, and all things are revived.

The bald eagle's broken, weak cry kicked off the prelude to a new day.

This kind of raptor, whose appearance is golden and jade, has lost its status as the national bird of Minglijian in this time and space.

In the voting for the national bird of Ming Dynasty held in July of the eighth year of Dewu, the red-crowned crane became the national bird of Ming Dynasty with a support rate of more than [-]%, followed by the golden pheasant and the green peacock. .

In later generations, when the issue of the national bird was discussed within the Republic, the red-crowned crane was also the most popular candidate bird at that time because of its rich Chinese heritage and beautiful humanistic sustenance.

It's a pity that it was an era when the West occupied the absolute right to speak in the world.

The English and Latin names of the red-crowned crane are both Japanese cranes, which were taken randomly by ignorant Western naturalists out of arrogance.

Such a foreign name makes it impossible for the red-crowned crane to become the national bird of China.

Although the remaining golden pheasant is beautiful, if it is regarded as the national bird, it will be a bit weak after all.

Fortunately, for Daming, there is no such trouble at all.

Although Western naturalists still use "Japanese Crane" and "Grusjaponensis" as the names of red-crowned cranes.

but.

who cares?

Anyway, Zhu Fugui didn't care, and neither did the people of Daming.

The red-crowned crane is so beautiful and elegant, and it is also associated with auspicious longevity.

The key point is that the red-crowned crane is a large bird with strong fighting power, which has excellent hunting record and its lethality is not inferior to many birds of prey.

This fits Daming's style very well.

Of course, the cry of the red-crowned crane is also very fairy-like, much better than that of the bald eagle.

The bald eagle that was parked on the rockery in the front yard of the Star Picking Platform was chirping.

Suddenly, it soared into the air in a panic, and a few messy feathers scattered in the air.

Messi rushed to nothing, put away his paws in disappointment, turned around and jumped off the ambush stone.

If it was a few years ago, Messi felt that he would be able to catch this silly bird.

Unfortunately……

Scratching his fat belly with his hind paws, and then scratching his already cheeky cheeks, Messi walked back to his lion's den, turned over, and continued to doze off.

This scene was captured by Zhu Fugui who was brushing his teeth on the balcony.

Should I tell Susu that it's time for Messi to lose weight?

Zhu Fugui couldn't help having such thoughts.

But before he finished brushing his teeth, a pair of long white and long legs wrapped around his waist.

"Don't make trouble, let me finish brushing my teeth... Gululu..."

Zhu Fugui spat down the mouthwash helplessly, hitting Messi's nest, causing it to growl and protest.

"Mr. Writer, this year is my last day in Fengdu. Do you think I will let you go?"

The one who hangs on Zhu Fugui like a koala is none other than Vanderbilt Jolie, whom the court ladies called Concubine Fan.

A few years have passed, and Julie is still the same as the little fan girl back then, but she has become more mature and charming.

Zhu Fugui reached out and scratched her small and firm nose: "You are already 25 years old, why do you still look like a child!"

Julie shook her head: "I don't care, I'm going to Europe tomorrow...

……

For various reasons, people always ignore Zhu Fugui's age.

Born in 1848, he is actually only 23 years old this year.

In future generations, he is just the age of just graduating from university, and he is a younger brother in the workplace.

But in Daming, Zhu Fugui has become a reliable big brother.

Very branchy.

And no one doubts it.

After all, he is a great man from the Rocky Mountains. He used a slingshot to smash the front teeth of the Eight Banners soldiers at the age of 7. Now he has excellent leadership skills at a young age, which is also very reasonable.

But no matter how mature their minds are, Zhu Fugui and Julie are still young men and women in their early twenties physically.

What happened during the few weeks when Xiaobie reunited is not known to outsiders.

This is also the first time that Julie has really entered the Ming court.

It was Zhu Fugui who caught him after repeated begging.

It's somewhat unreasonable to stay overnight in a dragon bed before you get married, but at least in the one-third-acre land of the imperial residence, Lord Fugui is the reason and the law.

Moreover, Julie is not the first foreign woman to appear in the Imperial Palace.

Lao Zuo didn't know if he had any misunderstandings about the wealthy emperor who was not close to women, diligent in government and loving the people, and had the style of the ancestors, or heard some unrealistic roadside news that he would give Zhu Fugui Tribute Orchid.

Fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl with soft waist, from Maomei to Persian cat, with eyes ranging from blue to green, everything that one expects to find.

Zhu Fugui ordered several times to warn him not to disturb the local area and pay tribute to strange things.

Lao Zuo insisted that these women were all refugees displaced by military disasters, and the emperor ruled the world with benevolence and righteousness, so they should be treated kindly.

Zhu Fugui felt a little reasonable.

In desperation, Lao Li had no choice but to let Lao Li arrange it on his behalf and fill in the palace.

Since then, [Dameng Industrial] has added a new girl group.

Videos of Maomei beating trees and Maomei smashing watermelons on her chest drove the sales of Daming melons and fruits, and made Zhu Fugui a small profit again.