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

As for Li Jingfang, or Sha Jingfang... Adoption is not counted.

According to history, Brother Zuo will not have a good life for a few years, and he will die in depression at the age of 7 in another 73 years.

Daming has now fully controlled the cultivation of Prince Zuo's heir, and instilled in Zuo Xiaowei the education of being loyal to Daming, and there are not many high-ranking Zuo Chu people who hold Zhuka.

Therefore, after Zuo Zongtang's death, there is nothing to worry about in the power transfer of Xichu.

It's just that Zhu Fugui still purely hopes that Brother Zuo can live for two more years.

After all, this Time and Space Brother Zuo is not constrained by the incompetent Manchu Qing court. According to his original intention, he will expand the territory for China and stick to the frontier. The depression in his heart has long since disappeared.

At the same time, he also has advanced medical insurance from Ming Dynasty, which may increase his life expectancy a lot.

There has been a precedent before. Zhu Fugui's old friend, General Robert Lee, who is two years older than Zuo Zongtang, regularly goes to Fengdu for medical examinations and obtains advanced medical insurance. He is now 70 years old and has not yet burped.

Historically, Robert Lee died of a lung infection in his early 60s.

Zhu Fugui estimated that if Daming could prolong General Li's life by 10 years, he would naturally be able to prolong General Zuo's life by 10 years.

Zuo Xiaowei's eldest nephew has to wait.

In contrast, William II, whose father, mother, and grandfather won three prizes in a row, won the essence of the protagonist's aura like Zhu Fugui, whose parents sacrificed to heaven at the beginning.

Speaking of which, Zhu Fugui also met another historical celebrity in Suiye City.

There was a huge deviation in the trajectory of his life.

This person is Zhang Zhidong, who was named after Zeng, Zuo, and Li in history—"Xiangshuai".

The history of the late Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty cannot bypass Zhang Zhidong, especially the Westernization Offices he founded.

Hanyang Iron Works, Daye Iron Mine, Hubei Gun Factory...

Zhang Xiangshuai was the success of these yamen enterprises, and Zhang Xiangshuai was the failure. The ending is hard to describe.

However, in this era, Zhang Zhidong had nothing to do with setting up a factory.

He is actually the Minister of Education of Western Chu, in charge of the education work of the entire Western Chu.

But it's not a surprise when you think about it.

Zhang Zhidong is actually a generation younger than Zeng, Hu, Zuo, and Li.

He was only in his 20s when the Chu army went north to fight against Russia.

At that time, Zhang Zhidong had just participated in the Pseudo-Qing General Examination and Palace Examination. He was No. 3 in the first class and was awarded the editorship of the Imperial Academy.

After that, he was sent to Zhejiang by the Qing government as an assistant examiner for the Zhejiang Provincial Examination.

This was just an ordinary business trip for Zhang Zhidong to accumulate qualifications and contacts as a Hanlin, but he happened to encounter the Zuo family's change and was detained in the Western Chu Army.

Afterwards, he came into contact with the Dongxue thoughts from the Ming Dynasty, learned about the turbulent waves in the vast world, and understood that this is the autumn of life and death in the confrontation between China and the Western Yi.

Any young man with some backbone will make the right choice.

In this way, Zhang Zhidong followed the Chu army all the way to Central Asia.

And the labels he left to the world naturally became "Tanhua", "Hanlin", "Imperial Examination Examiner" and the like.

Western Chu was waiting to be rejuvenated, and it was imminent to establish education and promote Confucianism and Eastern Learning. Zhang Zhidong naturally did his part and became the Minister of Education of Western Chu.

Compared with Ming Dynasty, Western Chu paid more attention to the promotion of Confucianism.

It's just that this Confucian is not a corrupt Confucian, not a Cynic.

The environment in which Western Chu lived could not tolerate rotten Confucianism and cynicism.

What is needed here is a mad Confucian who can disagree with one word, draw a sword to kill, debate scriptures with others, and physically preach.

Zuo Zongtang is such a Confucian, and Zhang Zhidong is also such a Confucian.

Prince Zuo admired this young man very much, and this time the emperor came to inspect and shepherd Xichu, so he recommended him to the emperor to show his merit.

"Very well, Zhang Aiqing can let the shepherds fully praise the name of Confucius. This merit of enlightenment should be fully understood. The world will misunderstand that I don't respect Confucius and Mencius. There are so many people who misinterpret and tamper with it!"

Zhu Fugui was very happy and gave Zhang Zhidong a drink to have fun with him. The latter blushed and was extremely excited.

Zhu Fugui flipped through the Confucian textbooks compiled by Zhang Zhidong, and felt that the content in them was vivid and vivid, but not dogmatic, let alone dull, which was very rare.

However, Zhu Fugui did not intend to take it back and promote it in Daming Academy.

The national conditions of Daming are different from that of this place. There is no urgent need for Confucianism to be included in the compulsory curriculum of primary and secondary schools, and it can even be said to be counterproductive.

The Ming Dynasty did not engage in serious things, and the traditional dross in the cultural field has not been cleaned up. Propagating Confucianism rashly, even if the original intention is good, is likely to attract the soul of those unclean things.

But in Western Chu, it is very necessary to hold high the banner of Chinese tradition and Han Confucianism, and you will live or die.

After drinking for three rounds, Zhu Fugui ate Li Banban's favorite pig ears, and asked with a smile:

"However, as far as I know, the religion of the Three Gods has far-reaching influence, it's not so easy to convert..."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, humble ministers are only people who can be saved. As for those who are stubborn, I will ask General Liu Jintang to send them to find the heaven in the scriptures..."

"Good, good, I preach in China, I should be so elegant and easy-going!"

Zhu Fugui, Zuo's father and son, and Zhang Zhidong toasted and laughed together, drinking freely from the cup.

At the moment, in a mountainous area in Khorasan in northern Iran, Liu Jintang, who was passing on the "Analects of Confucius New Notes on Dong Xue Edition", suddenly sneezed.

He looked up at the sky, waved his hands and said, "Boys, hurry up, don't make those mountain people who are waiting for the sage's enlightenment wait in a hurry!"

Not long after, the voices of "Open the door, fellow, send enlightenment!" came out one after another in the mountains.

Chapter 882 Zhu Fugui, good man!

It was said that it was the Three Emperors' Alliance, but during the daytime on the first day, Zhu Fugui was almost always receiving officials from Western Chu.

Among the four major inner feudal clans, Jin Yiwei has countless spies.

Even in the court, there were Jin Yiwei's informants.

It can be said that even if Zhu Fugui never leaves Fengdu for the rest of his life, he can firmly control the situation.

But no matter how detailed the description and how accurate the data are in the intelligence summary, it is not intuitive to go through the truth.

Zhu Fugui cordially met and encouraged a large number of young officials of Western Chu, encouraging them to work hard for the cause of China's revival and take root in the frontier.

It was not until the evening that the impromptu trip prepared a big meal, and the Son of Heaven formally entertained friends from the West.

Talking while eating is not only a Chinese tradition, it is also effective for foreigners.

Having been ruthlessly pretended to be "Tsinghua Palace" by Zhu Fugui before, William II was a little depressed.

At the wine table, he originally wanted to put on the indifferent face of a strong man to show his arrogance.

It's a pity that he accidentally ate a piece of pork noodles with chopsticks in fried sauce, and he broke his work in a second.

Just kidding, when Bismarck came to Daming, he ate [-] bowls of Zhajiang noodles, one more bowl than Kissinger.

William II would like to say that the noodles made by his mother are the best noodles in the world, but when he thinks of the noodles made by his mother in England, William II has to admit that the gap between British cuisine and Chinese cuisine is, I am afraid It is even bigger than the gap between the R-1 airship and the Kunpeng aircraft.

It's abominable!

Generally speaking, the better the cooking, the worse the fighting power.

The French are like this, the Italians are like this, the Turks are like this, the Indians are like this, why are the Ming people...

William II gnawed on the pork knuckle while swallowing tears of grievance.

Of course Zhu Fugui didn't know what his nephew was thinking, and he didn't care.

He kept passing the favorite delicacies of Duguo people such as big elbow and fat intestines to his eldest nephew, and he almost caught them in his bowl with chopsticks.

This is an elder's care for the younger generation.

As for how Zhu Fugui knew which dishes Duguo people liked to eat, it was actually very simple.

In the early years, Zhu Fugui discovered that all the dishes that Li Banban likes to eat are liked by Duguo people.

Apart from Li Banban and the Duguo people in the world, Zhu Fugui has never seen the third type of ruthless people who love to eat honey pig ears.

Compared with William's eldest nephew, who was drowning in the sea of ​​pork, Alexander's younger brother was much more.

On Kunpeng, which has a limited load, he stuffed more than a dozen boxes of water of life, and now he took it out.

This is spirittus rektyfikowany vodka from Poland.

Just as the independent country is rich in Polish Hercules, Russia is also rich in Polish vodka.

The reason why they insisted on bringing wine is because when the foreign students in Liuming returned to Moscow to visit their relatives, they actually said that vodka is a drink for country people, and the upper class people have to drink Laobaigan, boring Erguotou.

This made many Russian nobles deeply dissatisfied.

So this time, they stuffed a lot of this 96-degree water of life on the tsar's special plane, and planned to have a touch with the Ming people in Suiye City.

This made Zhu Fugui couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat.

It's not that I'm sweating for myself, but for the plane.

Zhu Fugui decided that in the future, a new version of the flight manual should be formulated, and dangerous objects should be explicitly prohibited from boarding the plane.

96-degree vodka... the purity of this thing is 1 degree higher than the fuel alcohol in the alcohol lamp!

Zhu Fugui really didn't understand why this thing could be called wine.

Of course, even Tsar Alexander, who is strong in wine, would not dare to drink the water of life directly. Doing so would really kill people.

He mixed the water of life with the Dawusu produced by Xichu, lowered the dosage, and drank it one mouthful at a time, raising his eyebrows at Zhu Fugui from time to time.

Zhu Fugui pretended not to notice this.

I have four beautiful wives who are as beautiful as flowers and jade, and a beautiful translator, so I can't do anything else, let me harden my liver first.

Zhu Fugui knew that he would definitely not be the opponent of the Russians tonight, but the first three days of negotiations at this level were most likely just a warm-up, and no substantive content would be discussed.

I only need to wait a few more days, and the situation will be reversed.

How could Zhu Fugui not prepare for the loss of the wine table negotiation in Budapest last time.

Daming promised not to use Li Banban first, but he did not give up using Li Banban either.

For some reason, old eunuch Li is not suitable for taking the airship, so the time to arrive at Broken Leaf City will be a little later.

When he arrives, it will be the day of Ming's counterattack.

After eating and drinking for three consecutive days, until the fourth day, that is, the eighth day after the two Western monarchs arrived, Alexander woke up from the hangover in a daze, and was surprised to find that he was hugging William II in blue clothes. Sleeping in one place, he remembered that stalwart figure last night.

Although he said something like "Sajia doesn't know how to drink", "Yellow wine is still warming up, and the spirits are really bad", but the stalwart figure picked up 96-degree vodka, raised his head, and killed tons of tons. Then he stuck out his tongue in disgust and fanned the wind.

"Even the water from blanching pig intestines is better than this stuff!"

That stalwart man smacked his lips, raised the glass bottle held by three fingers, and stuffed it into Alexander's arms, "Huang Luocha, the Sa family has done it, you can do whatever you want."

Alexander remembered that his face seemed green in the reflection of the wine glass.

The stalwart man urged: "Emperor Luocha, if you don't drink it, is this not giving the Sa family face?"

Then, Alexander saw the man lift himself up like a chicken, lifted the wine bottle and stuffed it into his mouth.

Alexander didn't remember what happened later...

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Alexander II is known by historians as the greatest tsar of the Normanov dynasty, and also the tsar with the best personal habits.

He is the only one among the tsars who successfully quit alcohol addiction, even abstaining from alcohol.

It is believed that it was because he was so diligent and devoted to state affairs that he created the possibility for the revival of Russia-Eastern Roman State.

But at this moment, Alexander II was a little confused by the series of agreements he had signed.

He can't remember at all how he lost the ownership of the Caspian Sea and the piece of land north of the Caspian Sea.

Talking about business over a wine glass is a Russian tradition.

It's just that Russia has always taken advantage of this kind of thing, but he didn't expect him to lose so completely this time.

Fortunately for Alexander, in the previous "Mingluo Budapest Agreement", he had almost sold all the land that could be sold, and this time he did not let the old and cunning Zhu Fugui take advantage of the majority.

Alexander studied the terms carefully, his brows gradually relaxed.

Zhu Fugui did not take advantage of the dangers of others to devour Tatarstan, or push the border of the Ming Dynasty to Georgia to gain access to the Black Sea.

If that's the case, Alexander will tear up this new "Supplementary Agreement" even if he tears his face, which is absolutely unacceptable.

This time, Daming only took away the northern part of the Caspian Sea, a small triangular area at the mouth of the Volga River, and a small peninsula called Baku in Azerbaijan. (as pictured)