Mystery Makes Me Strong

Dasu Kingdom, looking at the name, some hard-educated people in the court thought it was a land of fragrant rice and corn.

But I don't know that this millet is not another millet.

It is also a shame to endorse a country as an evil.

They started with trade and plunder, and in order to regain the eastern trade route, they defeated many maritime overlords successively.

Now finally, with the westerly wind of the steamer, they rushed to the east and started their journey.

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"What? A monster emitting black smoke and white gas?" In Huaquan Palace, Lu Zhi looked at a report and got up suddenly.

"Lafayette, Mr. Liu doesn't learn western art. This is obviously a steamboat. What kind of monster is it?" the seventh-generation reincarnation of Chaoying, the chief eunuch who handed over the memorial, said with a smile...

Lu Zhi glanced at him, then pulled out the earplugs.

Then she heard the heartfelt voice of King Chaoying VII:

"Old Liu is a stubborn old man who pretends to be clean and honest. He dares to fight against the miscellaneous family. He dares to investigate the miscellaneous family's seventh wife who is outside the palace. The miscellaneous family must kill her today."

She put the earplugs in again.

An old stubborn, but an upright official.

An enlightened person happens to be a eunuch+greedy.

It doesn't matter, she suddenly realized a big problem: the chaos cycle of the dynasty, she solved it by cheating and cheating.

It doesn't matter if the common people don't have land, as long as they have work to do.

The imperial court sent jobs, engaged in river construction, navigation, and foreign immigration... The imperial court had no money or food, how to get it, and defrauded money and food from those who occupied the land, and took their lives together.

These are equivalent to engaging in land redistribution every year.

So her court lasted for five hundred years.

However, the internal troubles were gone, but she subconsciously ignored the external troubles.

It is also because she has been living in Dongzhou and never thinks that there is any foreign trouble.

I learned from textbooks that in the history, it is always expanding to the east, expanding to the west, expanding to the south and covering the north. Wherever there is foreign trouble, it is all foreign entertainment: every time it expands to a place, the local people welcome Master Wang and congratulate themselves for getting the Dongzhou Red Card for free.

Seeing that Westerners have come up with steam engines, she suddenly realized one thing.

It's over, she forgot about the Industrial Revolution!

Some people will ridicule, how can the traveler forget the industrial revolution and the steam engine?

Those who say this ignore that there are still countless people who don't even know about the Sino-Japanese War, let alone the Industrial Revolution.

At any rate, Lu Zhi still knows the chaos cycle of a dynasty, which is already very good.

At this time, she immediately issued an edict: "Immediately order the cabinet to draw up an edict, solicit folk Western scholars, buy and imitate Western steam ships, and learn Western-style maritime warfare!"

"Yes, Queen Mother." Chaoying VII immediately knelt down, and then went out to deliver the Queen Mother's oral order.

The queen mother has long been an old Buddha, an old fairy.

Only her old man has the spring of immortality that does not require reincarnation.

This is normal, and of course the most distinguished people drink the best version.

Nobody has a problem with that.

Even if you have ambitions, you will restrain yourself and dare not discuss what is fair or unfair in public.

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The cabinet office, the small court hall in the south study.

Four cabinets, plus four ministers, plus some important ministers, are working here.

"What Western steamships? They are all ingenious and ingenious things that are not worth mentioning. We have millions of soldiers in the sky, why are we afraid of this thing?" Sanfu VIII said.

Shoufu VII looked at him, thinking that fortunately the queen mother is not here, otherwise, the youngest would have become a hedgehog.

"That's what you said about the cannons of the Westerners before." Hubu Shangshu Huang Xiong VI said disdainfully.

It has been a full 340 years since he became a minister. In the sixth reincarnation, he can live for more than 40 to 60 years in each life, which is actually very good.

Sansuke was very unlucky. He only lived to be four years old twice. Fortunately, he confessed in advance to a dead man who came to pick him up. When he was about to die of illness, he quickly took the spring of immortality to heal himself, so that he could continue reincarnation.

This is the advantage of important ministers, there is always a way to find a few dead men, whether it is from orphans, or from the court system to select one or two.

Ordinary rich people can't do this.

"Hmph, virtue is not the danger in governing the country. Now the people are happy, and bandits have not heard of riots for more than 30 years. This is unprecedented. The people's hearts are with me. What is a mere steamboat in the West?" Sansuke said. I don't care.

Everyone shook their heads.

The third child was stabbed by the queen mother back then, but fortunately he was cured.

Now he still doesn't change his mind, and insists on fighting against the Queen Mother.

Fortunately, for some reason, the Queen Mother promoted him again after he had been reincarnated several times.

The empress dowager is really broad-minded, far better than many emperors.

How did they know that the real third child has been dead for hundreds of years, and the current one is just the third child with previous memories.

No matter what happens to Mrs. Lu, it is impossible to bear grudges against the dead hundreds of years ago.

"Put away your morality first. All I know is that their steamships are cavalry at sea, and our sailboats are infantry. The disadvantage is too obvious when you fight against cavalry. If you fight, you can't catch up. If you lose, you will be all The army was destroyed. Since ancient times, only the cavalry can restrain the cavalry." The Minister of the Ministry of War said with a serious face.

Huang Xiong VI nodded. For someone who can be the Minister of the Ministry of War, the Empress Dowager would definitely not choose to be old and stubborn. She is looking for death.

The Ministry of Rites can find a stubborn old man, it doesn't matter, if he is disobedient, he will give him a knife.

"The Ministry of Households, how much mobile money do you have? Can you use it to buy Western steam ships and imitate them?" Chief Assistant VII nodded, and then asked Huang Xiong.

"The household department only has two million taels of live silver, but the Empress Dowager gave a note at the beginning of the year, and there is still three hundred million taels of mobile silver." Huang Xiong VI said arrogantly.

He just sits dead on the household department, and he is not rare as the first assistant.

Everyone looked at the yellow bear with envy and hatred.

If you have money, the household department is the uncle.

Without money, the household department is a dog.

"Let's make a budget first. The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry will select a few people to go down and ask merchants who are proficient in Western boats to see how this steamship is sold." Shoufu said.

Everyone nodded.

When the meeting was about to adjourn, suddenly there was an urgent report from outside.

"Report, a long-distance telegram at Nanjiangkou, the Dasu Kingdom fleet forcibly broke through and fired artillery at Nancheng, demanding that we immediately reduce tariffs and allow them to go deep into the inland and trade freely."

"Damn it!" Minister of the Ministry of War was furious, "How can a group of barbarians break into someone's house by force?"

Shoufu VII took the telegram.

The important ministers realized the benefits of the telegram immediately, and the natural nature of the imperial court's centralized power made them immediately order investment and construction.

This thing is the natural nemesis of frontier generals and distant chieftains, and it is the natural help for civil servants to rule the world.

He read the telegram and passed it on to everyone.

"Damn it, the governor of the Southern Province actually said that he is powerless to fight, he can't surrender and he can't fight, he can only die to repay the Queen Mother and the court!" Huang Xiong VI was furious after seeing it.

After eating so much money from him, the only thing he can say now is that he deserves to be killed!

"Western ships are strong and cannons are strong, and they are rotten for dozens of miles. Has he never learned anything about Western learning? Westerners' cannons are just smoothbore guns. They are good enough to shoot five or six miles. They just smashed a few city walls. Where can I use the erosion for dozens of miles?"

"The governor of the Southern Province and the general office of the army should be executed!"

In the small court hall, all the ministers were filled with righteous indignation.

"Hurry up and invite the Empress Dowager to discuss important matters." The Chief Assistant VII reacted quickly, and immediately asked the eunuch who was serving him to pass on the news.

As for the emperor, he just ate and drank every day, participated in some ceremonial ceremonies, and didn't know anything about the major events in the court.

As soon as the words fell, the voice of the great eunuch Chaoying VII came from outside the door.

"The Queen Mother is here!"