I can't die

No.80 six

Lin Ruzhou's errands were settled, and after the personnel were in place, because of the attention of the upper echelon, the government machine of the Qing Dynasty quickly started to operate.The headquarters of the newspaper was delineated by Zai Chun next to the "Prime Minister's Office of State Affairs", so that Prince Gong would take care of it, so ordinary people would not dare to act presumptuously here, and this would also protect the Lin family.The purpose of the newspaper was to ban smoking, and it would definitely offend the interests of many people. Lin Ruzhou was determined to follow in the footsteps of his father Lin Zexu when he took office. In order to make up for the Lin family, Zaichun wanted to treat Lin Ruzhou's daughter well.

Lin Ruzhou's daughter is called Lin Sister Yin. She has a very beautiful name and looks good, but she is an old girl. She is twenty-one years old. She was indeed an old girl in ancient times. I heard that she was divorced because of the downfall of the Lin family in her early years. Never married.Now that she has entered the palace, she can be regarded as the female official next to Princess Rongshouchang. Zai Chun is not stingy about her rank, and gave her the title of acting female official. She is the third rank, but it is higher than many ordinary men. This daughter is a high official.

Sister Lin even went to thank Zai Chun after Rongshou was born. After all, she was in the palace, her rank was too high, and she didn't have much to say. Now she has a beautiful woman who is generous and well-educated as a companion. joy.When Rongshou got a man, he took her to invest in the construction of the Qing Dynasty. As for the construction project you ask?Let's start with Rongshou's contact with the sticky pole.Since the assassination of Prince Gong's son-in-law, Rongshou has been completely attached to the stick, not to mention Zai Chun's intentional promotion. Before Xia Changping went to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to work in the army, Rongshou almost became the second in command of the stick. She became the No. [-] female spy in the Qing Dynasty.

Rongshou said very early on, "I am a gentleman, and the phoenix comes from the phoenix." After she started to manage the sticky place, Rongshou saw that the whole sticky place was all men except her, and she had some thoughts in her heart. In the end the idea became clearer and clearer.She decided to report to Zaichun to build an all-female spy agency for the Qing Dynasty!

female spy. . .When Zaichun heard Rongshou's request, he was stunned. This imperial lady is really ambitious.Female spies, even thinking about it, feel exciting, tights, small leather whips, high heels, flying over the walls.Zai Chun's brain hole couldn't help opening up, and he agreed to Rong Shou's proposal with great joy.Ask Xia Changping to guide and allow Rongshou to select women from the private sector for spy training.

Flowers bloom at both ends, run away from Chengde and don't talk about it with the capital.Everyone turned their attention to Shanghai again.

As the so-called world of flowers and flowers, ten miles of foreign markets, it refers to the first city in the Far East - Shanghai.Relying on unique Chinese and foreign political systems and geographical advantages, Shanghai gradually became the most prosperous economic and trade center in the Far East after the opening of the Opium War. It was known as "Adventurer's Paradise" and "Oriental Paris".Li Hongzhang is now the governor of the south of the Yangtze River. Although the south of the Yangtze River has been centered on Jinling City since ancient times, he has moved his main office to Shanghai, not only for the convenience of communicating with foreign envoys, but also for this famous historical official Given the city's unique development conditions, it wants to use Shanghai as a divergence point to vigorously develop the economy, thereby stimulating the south of the Yangtze River.

But what Li Hongzhang thought was very good, in actual operation, various problems came again.

Since the successful establishment of diplomatic relations between the Qing Dynasty and the northern government of the United States, the British envoys have continued to protest. Although in a conflict in the East China Sea that was not considered a war, the pirate ship played by the United Kingdom was repelled by the Sino-US partnership, but the British military pressure near the Yangtze River It didn't lessen.

Standing at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Shanghai, you can see warships with the British flag hovering on the river at any time.Once the British warship blocked it, it almost blocked the Yangtze River, the longest natural waterway in the Qing Dynasty, and cut off the import and export trade along the south of the Qing Dynasty in some ways. Similarly, it also greatly cut off the Qing Dynasty. Several overseas smuggling lines have formed the largest trade monopoly in the UK.Li Hongzhang saw this situation and was anxious in his heart, but he couldn't think of a solution for a while. Anyone with a discerning eye knew that Britain was showing favor to the imperial court.

"Although men farm and women weave in my Qing Dynasty, if we want to develop, we must strengthen exchanges with foreign countries and increase business relations. But now the British ships are blocking our Yangtze River waterway and cutting off our waterways. It is really not good for our Qing Dynasty. I can't do it. Holy Majesty's verdict."

Li Hongzhang's memorial was sent to Chengde Mountain Resort in a hurry. After receiving this secret letter, Zai Chun was not in a good mood.He recruited Li Hongzhang's teacher Zeng Guofan to negotiate on this matter, but Zeng Guofan shook his head after seeing it, unable to make up his mind for a while.

In fact, the best way is to make persistent efforts and fight a war. As long as the British warships are knocked down, how can there be so many troubles?But at this time, Britain's military strength is number one in the world. Although the Qing Dynasty only had the "Anqing", it was only a warship. How could it be fought?Sending it is just adding food.

In this way, this memorial had to be suppressed all the time and not published.

Can only wait, this is the only way at present.Zai Chun knew in his heart that the Qing Dynasty was now a huge cake in the eyes of the Western powers. Although Britain now dominated Shanghai by virtue of its world's number one military power, other powers were not vegetarians either.Sooner or later, there will be countries that can't understand the greed of Britain's current food alone, and when the time comes, the opportunity of the Qing Dynasty will come.Only when the water is mixed can it grow in the cracks.

If it didn't work out, Zai Chun made one last move.And see below.

The activity of studying abroad in the United States has been carried out in full swing for more than a month. In the end, Prince Chun preliminarily selected more than 60 people, all of whom are around seven years old. It is definitely not possible to imitate Zheng He's mind.

In fact, as early as 1847, some folks in the Qing Dynasty spontaneously went to the West to study abroad through the church. In order to encourage Chinese people to study abroad, the church even issued many preferential measures, such as tuition exemption and so on.And now the leader of the official team of the Qing Dynasty to study abroad is Yung Wing, the scholar who was the first to study abroad in the West.This person came to New York to study medicine at the age of 19. The school is the top Yale University, and he even got a job as a librarian at Yale University.After returning to China, he was recruited by the Hunan Army and served as an aide under Zeng Guofan's banner.He is the first foreign student in the modern history of China who independently chooses and completes his studies, the first self-financed foreign student, and the first person to complete his study abroad through work-study programs.

Before Zaichun and his group of children went abroad, their parents interviewed the No. 1 overseas student in the Qing Dynasty, and then privately gave him a letter of credence, telling him to hand it over to the senior officials of the northern military government after arriving in the United States.