Dominate the Country

"Haha, dear Ambassador, you hit a wall, didn't you? I knew it would be like this. The Chinese don't value the empire at all. This is the best evidence of the Chinese's contempt for the empire."

"Rejecting the imperial ambassador's request for an audience, just because of a storm?"

"Haha, what a ridiculous reason. Every year, there are about ten typhoons in China. Does the Chinese emperor have to spend half of the year dealing with typhoon-related affairs?"

"We should return to the empire immediately! We should say "no" to this country that doesn't respect the empire!"

After the news that Selim's request to see the Chinese emperor was rejected reached the Ottoman delegation, Bayezid Tusun Murad was excited.

Although Bayezid's words were directly regarded as fart by Selim and Mustafa, this guy only made trouble after coming to China. Although everything is within the scope of the rules, it is even more disgusting to do this.

Fortunately, the Chinese are very "generous" and know who their friends are and who their enemies are, and don't care about this. Bayezid himself was also very unlucky. He fell down from a high staircase while visiting the Purple Mountain Observatory. There was no one around at the time, and Bayezid didn't even have anyone to bite.

The dozens of steps certainly wouldn't kill Bayezid, but the deputy envoy of the delegation would have to stay in bed from then on.

This matter was strange no matter how you looked at it.

But Selim was not a saint, so he wouldn't pursue the truth and make trouble with China for Bayezid.

"Asshole." Looking at Selim and Mustafa who ignored his words and walked past him as if nothing happened, Bayezid, who could only lean on a pair of crutches, was so angry that he wanted to stuff the crutches under his arms into Selim's stomach.

Mirza behind Bayezid had a fleeting gloating in his eyes. He was ridiculed by Bayezid at the beginning, so how much better could Bayezid be than him now?

He is a more distinguished deputy envoy, but he is also made unable to take care of himself by the Chinese?

Bayezid said that he stepped on a small bead, and that small bead was placed there intentionally by the Chinese. Selim and Mustafa did not believe it at all. Even if it was true, they would not believe it, not to mention that Bayezid had no evidence at all. Mirza believed it, because he knew very well that the Chinese were insidious, and his injuries were far from healed.

These Chinese may look full of smiles on the surface, very friendly, and even give people a feeling of being easy to bully, but when they attack, they will not show any mercy.

Fujian? That is the province where Xiamen, the second mainland port where the Ottoman mission stopped after Guangzhou, is located. It is not a large place, but the population living there is as high as 8 million [including Taiwan], which is comparable to one-third of the total population of the Ottoman Empire. It is even very close to the main ethnic population of the Ottomans.

Although this number is undoubtedly a small part compared to China's total population, the number of people affected by the disaster is also hundreds of thousands or even millions. Unless the emperor of China is crazy, he will turn a blind eye to the disaster in Fujian.

Moreover, in the past few days since they came to China, Selim, Mustafa, and Bayezid, who was plotted against, have all tried their best to understand China.

The emperor of this ancient empire has the authority of a god, and has absolute power that the Sultan of Istanbul and the kings of Europe can't even imagine. At the same time, the cabinet cultivated by the emperor of China also has great power. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is directly under the leadership of the cabinet. Before, the Chinese emperor met Selim, which was directly bypassing the cabinet. Now everything is just back to normal.

The negotiations between China and the Ottoman Empire are the responsibility of the cabinet, but the final negotiation results are submitted to the emperor for review and approval.

Selim and Mustafa returned to the room, and the fragrant and strong Arabic coffee had been brought up by the servants. In the Arabian world, in the Ottoman Empire, coffee is like Chinese tea, which has been entangled with the entire civilization for a long time.

But now Selim, with a sad face, was not in the mood to drink a sip. The strong aroma of coffee lingering on his nose could not arouse his desire at all.

Mustafa had never seen the iron mold casting method, but he and Selim saw the fire dragon bomb with their own eyes. Mustafa sorted out his thoughts and said: "It is obvious that the Chinese will not give up the manufacturing method of the fire dragon bomb. This weapon has been a trick in the hands of the Chinese since the day it appeared. In the past few years, they have used great energy to protect this secret. Although I firmly believe that this secret is destined not to last for a long time. But as long as this secret is not leaked, they can despise other countries like a god."

"Although the Ottoman Empire has great interests in China, it is difficult for China to give up this strategically significant weapon."

As Mustafa spoke, the scene of the fire dragon bomb exploding flashed through his mind. It was really the wrath of a true god. It is indeed a pity that they cannot obtain this weapon, but now the Ottomans have to curry favor with China, so they have to endure everything they can.

Besides, what China said is right. Even the broken leak in Istanbul that is ventilated on all sides, if the manufacturing method of the fire dragon bomb is passed on, at most within a month, everyone in the major European countries will have one.

So, be realistic. "Although we cannot obtain the manufacturing method of Fire Dragon Bomb, we must reach an agreement with the Chinese. Once this terrible weapon is controlled by the Europeans, China's secrecy will no longer be meaningful, then they must provide it to our country as soon as possible How to make fire dragon bombs."

Since you can't get what you want, then settle for the next best thing.

As the second deputy, Mustafa proved with facts that although he was just a sidekick, he was indeed a wise sidekick.

Chen Ming did not have time to pay detailed attention to the Sino-Austrian negotiations, but this does not mean that he did not know anything about the Sino-Austrian negotiation process. Selim came up with the idea of ​​Fire Dragon Ball, and Huang Song immediately brought the matter to Chen Ming, who personally vetoed it.

But human energy is limited. After expressing his goodwill and attention, Chen Ming paid almost as much attention to the Ottomans as the Burmese War.

Twelve days have passed, and the typhoon that made landfall in Taiwan and then moved to Fujian has subsided.

The country's work to clean up the mess is already in progress, and there are still people who are obsessed with money. Chen Ming could not have imagined that in just a few days, someone had already played the trick of shoddy goods.

Under the watchful eyes of the National Security Bureau, the police and the Investigation Division, some people extended their hands for relief supplies, and some were bold enough to do so.

There is really no limit to human greed, and even the shedding of blood cannot completely scare away greed. Although this number is decreasing!

In recent years, the number of officials who have committed crimes and been dismissed due to economic problems has been decreasing.

Chen Ming has updated the relevant laws on bribery. If someone compares bribes, you can report it to the police yourself, and you can get the same amount openly. As for the bribers, if after their bribery is successful, they come forward to report the bribe-taking officials, not only will their previous bribery crimes be completely eliminated, they will get back the money they gave away, and they will also receive a large reward.

Such laws and regulations have greatly increased the risks for officials of all sizes in China's officialdom when accepting bribes, and to a certain extent, they have undermined the integrity of officialdom.

In mid-May, Chen Hui traveled again. The military, civilians, officials and merchants in Nanjing are already familiar with this scene. The Emperor travels almost every year, but this time the Emperor chose not to go to Hangzhou or the north, but to Wuhan. From Wuhan to Nanyang, and then to my hometown Lushan. There were many old people going together, including Mr. Li and his wife. They will not return to Nanjing this winter.

Since entering the Chinese stage last year, the Li family has developed rapidly this year because they have the support of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce behind them.

After receiving a large amount of financial support from the Jiuzhou Chamber of Commerce, the Li family took the opportunity to get a piece of the pie as the powerful officials tightened their money and sold a large number of corporate shares and factories. Up to now, they have occupied a place in Jiangnan, the political and economic center of China. It’s just a status that many outsiders covet!

Although Jiangnan has always been an open market, the power of local business groups has been suppressed by outsiders. But the new dynasty has been in power for four years, and the geomantic treasures of Shanghai and Ningbo have long been shared by others. In this case, the Li family wants to get involved. If their background is not so powerful, how can they be so powerful? easy.

Mr. and Mrs. Li, an old scholar, are also winners in life, blessed people.

Their daughter earned them absolute capital, and their son sacrificed his life to wash away the shame of the year. Now the son in a wheelchair is leading the entire business. After the two of them got over the initial discomfort, they naturally got on with it. Chen Hui's big ship named "Enjoy".

After seeing off his father and his entourage, Chen Ming returned to the palace and immersed himself in his desk and read a collection of novels. This is not that he is lazy, nor is he not doing his job properly, but that he is really carrying out a very meaningful government affairs. These novels were submitted by the Department of Education, and the content of many novels has been transformed into operas and spread throughout China. So why not turn them into novels and distribute them all over the world? Wouldn't this help spread them to a wider range?

People from the Department of Education made the first batch of officially defined novels three years ago, many of which were compiled based on folk tales.

This year's batch of novels has a stronger sense of political propaganda, because among the seventeen novels this year, fifteen are innovative novels, and the protagonists in eleven of the fifteen innovative novels are soldiers.

Chen Ming is shaping Chen Han's Dong Cunrui, Huang Jiguang, and Qiu Shaoyun, and shaping the heroes of this era in China.

They are not the all-powerful heroes in history, nor are they Guan Erye, Zhao Yun, Qin Qiong and other famous generals who have left their names in history. They are ordinary soldiers, middle and low-level officers, and ordinary people with ordinary backgrounds.

Although shaping these people into heroes is somewhat different from the traditional 'god-making method', even Chen Ming himself cannot guarantee how effective it will be, but he must give it a try.

Heroes are not novels.

The protagonists of the old-style novels back then were all from famous families and had all kinds of awesome identities, but in the Internet age, grassroots are rising!

In fact, the same goes for hero creation.

When making this decision, Chen Ming thought about it carefully, and the more he tasted it, the more he felt like this. The rabbit of that year did indeed represent the people.

Times are different now, and Chen Ming may not be able to have such a strong sense of grassroots participation.

When old-style novels are popular, if a grassroots rises up, it may not be able to truly rise. So he read this year's novel collection absolutely seriously.

Among these eleven novels with soldiers as the protagonists, there are seven who died. Five of them died on the battlefield. The other two were retired policemen who died in the struggle with the sticking department, and the other was washed away while saving people during a flood. Of the remaining four living people, two continued to serve in the army, one was disabled and retired and started a farm at home, and one retired and became a policeman.

The deeds of all eleven people can be verified. Their resumes are roughly consistent with the plots in the novels, but the novels must have been artistically processed. This is like Yang Zirong and Yang Zonggui, there must be a difference.

Chen Ming was not the only one who got these novels at the same time.

Chen Cong wiped his crystal glasses and said to his eldest son Chen Jiqing: "Go and find Liu Wen for me."

The Education Department and the Press and Publication Administration are now under the absolute control of Liu Wen. Not only the old and new Confucianists cannot get involved, but other people cannot get involved.

These two units are like the photoelectricity of rabbits, directly blocking all the channels for "consciousness" to flow into the market.

Although Chen Hui was the chief minister of the cabinet, several levels higher than Liu Wen, he was useless in the real exercise of power.

Soon, Liu Wen came to Chen Hui's house.

The Song Palace in Nanjing City was still so simple, without too gorgeous decorations, and it looked worse than the Sulu Marquis's mansion.

"Liu Wen, is the stuff in this book true or fabricated?"

Chen Hui said directly holding a book.

Liu Wen knew these 17 books very well, and he knew the contents of the books as soon as he saw the cover. "It's Ding Huang. May I ask which one the prince is asking about?"

"The chapter on Sun and Moon Mountain."

That is the last chapter of the whole book. Ding Huang, who marched into Qinghai, died in the battle of Sun and Moon Mountain. A reinforcement team he personally led and more than 200 soldiers were almost wiped out. Although their sacrifice also caused the supporters of the Qing Dynasty in Qinghai to lose no less than 300 people.

"Your Highness, there is no exaggeration in the battle of Sun Moon Mountain. After being ambushed by the superior enemy, Ding Huang's troops fought to the last moment. The resistance was so fierce that hundreds of young men who surrendered were slaughtered by the Mongols. According to the prisoners who participated in the battle, Ding Huang, whose arm was chopped off, really detonated the explosives at the last moment and died together with the surrounding Mongols."

"The only exaggeration is the result of this battle. According to statistics, 300 Mongols were killed or injured in that battle."

"You turned the result of 300 people into 2,000 with a stroke of your pen? There are less than 5,000 Mongols in the entire Qinghai!" Liu Wen is really good at boasting.

A construction team that was ambushed, a reinforced team of no more than 200 people, could kill 2,000 people under the attack of the absolutely superior Mongols. If the Mongols are really so useless, is it necessary for Chen Ming to care about them?

"Your Majesty, you shouldn't pay attention to this. You should look at the whole idea of ​​the book. The book "The Road to Heroes" describes how Ding Huang grew from a beggar who made a living to a combat hero of the entire army, married a wife and had children, owned hundreds of acres of land, and was promoted to battalion officer step by step. He became a nobleman that the county magistrate had to bow to when he saw him. In the end, in order to protect all kinds of materials on the construction site from falling into the hands of the enemy, he resolutely detonated the gunpowder barrel and died with the enemy, sacrificing his life for the country."

"Your Majesty said. Now our country is still at war and is always in war. The country needs heroes to unite the people, and the people also need heroes to inspire their beliefs. This hero cannot be a hero set off by glory and wealth, but a hero who grew up from the common people."

"It should make the common people feel familiar after reading it, and feel that it is the person around them..."