New Ming Empire mixed in America

"Justice?" Li Mingqi looked at Liu Youcai and said in surprise.

He felt that Liu Youcai was somewhat pedantic.

In Li Mingqi's heart, it is righteousness to live a better life for the people of the empire.

For example, the reason why he is attacking San Jose now is not only to avenge the people of the empire, but also to expand the living space for the people of the empire.

"Do you know what the royal way is, what tyranny is, and what the way of Confucius and Mencius is?"

Li Mingqi decided to change Liu Youcai's mind, so he said:

"The kingly rule is: If someone is not good, then beat him until he behaves!"

"Domineering means: You are good, but if I don't like you, I will beat you up!"

"The way of Confucius and Mencius is this: before I hit you, let me know and prepare yourself, I'm going to beat you!"

Liu Youcai was shocked by Long Live Master's shameless...ahem, Long live Master's interpretation of the sages' teachings, and murmured: "This is against... against the way of heaven..."

Li Mingqi looked at Liu Youcai, who was doubting his life, and added: "The so-called way of heaven is that today it is your turn to be beaten!"

At this time, Liu Youcai completely stopped on the spot, thinking about what Li Mingqi said.

"Okay, this is how conflicts between countries go. Those foreigners didn't have any sense of justice when they bullied us Chinese."

"If they follow any righteous principles, then we won't be able to gather so many people on the west coast."

"Only when a country is strong can others take us seriously. If you want to gain their respect, you must use fists and artillery to gain it!"

"I can't repay kindness with kindness and I don't want to do it. If I do it, then...how can I repay kindness with kindness?"

After finishing speaking, Li Mingqi left Liu Youcai who was thinking, turned around and walked out.

It's been several days, and he's going to see if Neville has honestly written a letter to help him deceive... to help him 'invite' people from Europe to come over.

When he arrived at the imperial prison, Li Mingqi reached out to summon a guard in imperial robes and asked, "Has that baron written a letter?"

"Back to Lord Long Live, I have written several letters, but they have not been confirmed, so I have not reported them to you yet."

After the Jin Yiwei finished their salute, they took Li Mingqi and walked towards the interior of the prison.

Many prisoners have been imprisoned here, such as the newspaper owner who incited San Jose residents to murder the Chinese, and several factory owners who dared to resist the Ming Xiejun's "takeover" of the factory.

The most common ones are those thugs who first pretend to be pitiful and then shoot black guns at the soldiers of the National Defense Forces.

Li Mingqi has given instructions to these people not to let them go too peacefully.

Arriving at a pretty good cell, Li Mingqi saw Baron Neville sitting on the bed reading a book.

"Wang Suiye" Neville's first sentence made Li Mingqi react for a long time, and finally he figured out that the other person was talking about Long Live the Lord.

It seems that the baron has a clear understanding of the current situation, which makes Li Mingqi very satisfied.

People have to understand the current situation clearly. You won't survive long if you always act like a baron from the British Empire.

"I have written the letter as you requested. I wonder when you can let me go?"

The past few days in Neville's prison were really torturous, and the various screams made him sweat on his back.

Li Mingqi did not answer his question, but first took the letter from Jin Yiwei and read it.

Except for one of these letters, which was written to the Neville family to "report their safety," the rest were all friends he had some acquaintance with.

Looking at the names above, Li Mingqi didn't find anyone familiar, and felt disappointed.

But this is normal. It would be strange if a random person could know several celebrities who will be famous in later generations.

"I will naturally let you go after all the talents I need have arrived. Otherwise, keeping you would be a waste of food."

Li Mingqi's kind smile prevented Neville from hearing the deeper meaning of his words.

According to his European thinking, the chances of Li Mingqi letting him go after he achieves his goal are very high. After all, he is still a baron.

As for those friends who were ‘invited’ by him…

It is inevitable that you will make careless friends several times in your life, and this time you should treat it as a lesson to them.

"By the way, do you know an American named Antonio Meucci?"

"By the way, last year he demonstrated a machine called teletrofono (a telegraph machine capable of talking) in New York."

Li Mingqi looked at Neville and asked someone's name casually.

This man was the first person in history to invent the telephone. Although Bell was more famous, in 1860, Meucci demonstrated the first telephone that could make normal calls.

But Neville thought for a while and then said: "I don't know this person. I have been staying here on the West Coast last year and only went to the east a few times occasionally. I have no impression of this person at all."

Li Mingqi looked at this unscrupulous guy and sighed.

If a Chinese person were here, he would definitely be able to hear what Li Mingqi meant. Unfortunately, Neville is only a European.

"I think you should get to know him, maybe through your friends..."

In the end, Li Mingqi had to give him a little hint so that this stupid guy could understand his intention.

"I don't have many friends in the East, and I've never been to New York..."

Neville answered Li Mingqi's question very honestly.

He came directly to the West Coast by boat, initially planning to make some money during the gold rush.

But when he came here, he found that the wealth here had long been divided up by local capitalists.

He had no choice but to invest in some factories and turn to industry.

Unfortunately, the industries in San Francisco and San Jose have now become state-owned assets of the Xinming Empire.

"I asked you to write to your friend named Spencer... Bah, it's your friend named Spencer. Ask him to help you invite the guy named Antonio Meucci here!"

If it weren't for the iron fence, Li Mingqi would have to go in and give him a kick to see if he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid.

This time Neville finally understood what Li Mingqi meant. It didn't matter whether he knew the man named Meucci. What mattered was that the tyrant in front of him wanted Meucci to come to the west coast!

"OK, OK, I will write a letter to ask Christopher to help find that Meucci."

Seeing that Neville was so sensible, Li Mingqi also lost his temper and continued:

"Does your friend have any idea of ​​coming to the West Coast to invest and build a factory?"

Neville learned the lesson just now and thought about it carefully before replying:

"Probably not. It seems like a war is about to start in the east. When we last communicated, he said that he would make more money by building a factory in the east."

Bullshit made more money, the Spencer rifle would not be equipped to the Northern government troops until 1863, and his company was bought out after the war due to lack of orders.

Therefore, Spencer is not a business person at all, so he might as well come to the Xinming Empire and work honestly as a firearms engineer.

"You can write to him and tell him that there is a big business here. Just say that our New Ming Empire needs 50,000 Spencer rifles to sell to the puppet Qing Dynasty in the Far East."

"You ask him to move the factory here, and I can advance the cost of moving the factory. What do you think?"

"By the way, let him bring that Antonio Meucci with him."