Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 414: Britain’s Outrageous Operations
After Li Yi finished speaking, everyone's faces showed a thoughtful expression.

After a while, they all spoke.

"Your Majesty, now that the internal strife of the Qing Dynasty has broken out, this is the best time for our Tang Dynasty to send troops outside the Great Wall to recover Liaodong."

"I second the proposal to send troops outside the Great Wall to recapture Liaodong!"

"Send troops outside the Great Wall to recapture Liaodong!"

"..."

Soon, everyone in the Grand Council reached a consensus.

Send troops outside the Great Wall to recapture Liaodong!
Seeing this, Li Yi nodded immediately.

"Very good, let's do it!"

"Pass on my military order, the army will march out to Liaodong!"

"This battle must be successful in one fell swoop!"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the Grand Council bowed in agreement.

"Yes, I obey your command!"

……

Tianjin Port, military dock.

"Hou'an, long time no see, how are you doing?"

Chen Guotai laughed and walked forward to greet Yang Yuebin.

Yang Yuebin first clasped his fists and bowed, then spoke.

"I'm sorry, Sir Chen, I'm sorry."

"I've been having a great time lately!"

Chen Guotai came forward, hugged Yang Yuebin tightly, and then said.

"You're a good kid!"

"I said I was going to the military academy to learn naval warfare, so I really went."

"I was appointed as the first mate of a 3000-ton steam ironclad ship right after graduation. I have a bright future ahead of me."

Yang Yuebin smiled shyly when he heard this.

"I was just lucky."

Of course, Yang Yuebin's words were just modesty.

The reason why he was appointed as first mate right after graduating from the Naval Academy was certainly not just because of good luck.

He is a capable person!
Not to mention anything else, in the Naval Academy's graduation examination alone, he ranked first in all the graduation results of several major subjects.

In addition, Yang Yuebin already had an official position and made contributions before entering the academy, so he was promoted to first mate as soon as he graduated.

You know, most of his classmates who graduated from the Naval Academy are now only captains.

After being humble, Yang Yuebin continued.

"From now on, I will continue to work under you, sir. I hope you will take good care of me."

Yang Yuebin graduated from the Naval Academy at the beginning of this year.

After graduating from the Naval Academy, he was assigned to become the first mate of a 5,000-ton steam ironclad ship, and was then sent to sail to Tianjin Port to serve in the Bohai Fleet.

The current commander of the Bohai Fleet is Chen Guotai in front of him, who was also Yang Yuebin’s previous superior.

Therefore, after arriving in Tianjin, Yang Yuebin came to Chen Guotai to pay his respects as soon as possible.

Even if you don't ask for special care, you still have to reminisce about the past and build some relationships.

When working in the government, it will never be wrong to have good relationships with your superiors.

Chen Guotai patted Yang Yuebin's shoulder hard and spoke.

"Haha, you're too polite, kid."

"Who are we to each other? You're being so polite. It's just too formal."

"Let's go find a place to have a drink and catch up."

Yang Yuebin agreed with a smile.

The two men left the military camp with their guards. Yang Yuebin was about to find a restaurant but was stopped by Chen Guotai.

"Hey, why go to a restaurant? Restaurants are boring!"

"Let's go, brother will take you to a good place."

Chen Guotai put his old subordinate's arm around his shoulder and took him to a brothel called Sihai Chunfenglou.

As soon as the two reached the door, an old procuress came out and spoke enthusiastically.

"Hey, isn't this Uncle Chen?"

"Quick! Quick! Please come in!"

Chen Guotai surrendered to the Tang Dynasty when he was in Guangxi, and subsequently made many contributions in a series of wars.

After Li Yi ascended the throne, he was conferred the title of Earl.

Even though Chen Guotai is only an earl and is inconspicuous in the capital.

But in Tianjin, Chen Guotai still has some status.

Even though the boss behind Sihai Chunfeng Tower is not simple, the madam still has to serve Chen Guotai carefully.

Chen Guotai said with a smile.

"Mother Wu, has there been any new tea in the building recently?"

"My brother just arrived in Tianjin recently. He was so upset during the trip that I brought him here to cool down."

Upon hearing this, the madam said immediately.

"Uncle, you came at the right time. It's really possible."

"Recently, our building has just received a group of foreign women from Western merchants. They have just been trained and have not yet married."

"If you are interested, I will have someone bring the person here, and you will be in trouble to take a look!"

As Li Yi opened up the sea and the Tang Dynasty opened its doors to the world, these brothels also began to come up with new ideas and launched many new projects.

There are quite a lot of varieties, including Silla maids from Korea, Japanese women, Hu girls from the Western Regions, tropical styles from Southeast Asia, and even black pearls.

Naturally, there are foreigners among them.

The reason for this is that the Tang Dynasty banned opium. As the Tang Dynasty strictly cracked down on the opium trade, the opium trade of Western powers in the East was almost eradicated.

However, we must know that the West had a huge trade deficit with the Tang Dynasty.

Before this, the foreign devils almost entirely relied on selling opium to make ends meet.

But isn’t opium banned now?
Moreover, the Eight-Nation Alliance was unable to defeat the Tang Dynasty during their invasion of China, so the foreigners naturally had no way to restart the opium trade.

Therefore, in order to make up for the unbridgeable trade deficit after the opium trade was eradicated, Western countries such as Britain and France started to think about it and began to engage in population trade.

They trafficked people from India, the Middle East, Africa and other places and sold them to the Tang Dynasty.

Although the Tang Dynasty is not very interested in men, they want as many women as possible.

Seeing this, Britain and France knew what to do.

Then, there were many more exotic atmospheres in this brothel!

Upon hearing this, Chen Guotai nodded immediately.

"Good! Good! Good!"

"Bring the people here!"

As he was talking, Chen Guotai took Yang Yuebin's arm and sat down.

The two men sat down in a private room, and soon, several women were brought into the room.

They all have fair skin, beautiful looks and slim figures, and their white skin is faintly visible under the veil.

Especially that face full of exotic charm, which made Chen Guotai and the other man feel angry.

In fact, these women were not Europeans, but Indians.

Although the low-caste untouchables in India are dark, the high-caste Aryans are still good-looking.

The reason why it is Indians is because of the British people’s outrageous actions.

Firstly, India is close to the Tang Dynasty, so transportation is more convenient.

Secondly, India has a large population and is cheap.

Moreover, due to racial issues, Indians can also pretend to be Europeans and sell them at high prices.

It is really hard to tell the difference here in the Tang Dynasty.

The profit here is staggering.

Therefore, we, Great Britain, can only say sorry to India.

For the sake of Britain's interests, India had to be compromised.

……

Tianjin City Hall!
After the Tang Dynasty launched a northern expedition and recovered the capital, Li Yi appointed his former chief of the imperial secretariat, Zhang Tai, as the prefect of Tianjin.

Subsequently, in order to facilitate industrial development, promote maritime trade and opening up to the outside world, Li Yi ordered the change of Tianjin Prefecture to Tianjin City.

Several government offices were established, including the City Hall, Police Station, Judicial Bureau, and Tax Bureau.

Zhang Tai was appointed mayor!

After launching the pilot reform of converting prefectures into cities in Hong Kong, Li Yi prepared to further carry out the reform of converting prefectures into cities in the Tang Dynasty.

First, he planned to carry out trial reforms in various coastal port cities and key cities in the interior.

Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, Lianyungang, Dengzhou, Tianjin, as well as the two capitals of the north and the south, and cities such as Wuchang and Hanyang in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River were the first batch.

In the office, Zhang Tai was reviewing the documents in his hands.

This is a report on the construction and development of an industrial park to be established near Tianjin Port.

The King of Chu had such a thin waist that many people died of starvation in the palace.

With an emperor like Li Yi who attaches great importance to industry and commerce, developing industry and commerce is the most important political correctness in the Tang Dynasty today.

Under the implementation of the will of Li Yi, the founding emperor, the entire Tang Dynasty's 400 million people, from top to bottom, were working hard to implement Li Yi's will.

Various policies supporting industrial development have emerged one after another.

Tianjin is not far from the capital and is right under the emperor's nose, so the progress of its industrial development is naturally good.

At present, Tianjin's industrial parks have built thirteen large textile factories, five large food processing factories, three large printing and dyeing factories, two large machinery manufacturing factories, and two large chemical factories...

You know, according to the Tang Dynasty's planning, only a factory with more than one thousand employees can be called a large factory.

In addition to these large projects, there are also many more small and medium-sized factories, and their number is also not small.

So many factories have appeared in Tianjin's industrial park in a short period of time, which shows that the speed of development is quite fast.

Looking at this development report, Zhang Tai slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, feeling somewhat relieved.
"With this report, I should be able to give an explanation to His Majesty, right?"

Although he was sent away by Li Yi, Zhang Tai had no complaints against Li Yi.

Instead, I felt a little guilty!

The reason is simple: Li Yi is too generous.

Although he made mistakes, he was still given the position of prefect. How could Zhang Tai not be grateful for such generous treatment?

Just when Zhang Tai was feeling relieved as he looked at the industrial development report in his hand, someone knocked on his office door.

Zhang Tai responded casually and came in.

Soon, a secretary came in from outside.

"Mayor, a telegram from the Government Affairs Council of Beijing!"

The secretary handed a telegram to Zhang Tai.

Zhang Tai took the telegram and started reading it.

Soon, his expression became serious and he looked up and spoke to the secretary waiting in front of him.

"Pass on my orders."

"Conscript civilians to open the city's material storage warehouses, transport the materials in the warehouses to Tianjin Port, and prepare to load them onto ships."

When the secretary heard this, he was stunned at first, but then he reacted, nodded, and turned and left.

Although he was somewhat curious about the specific content of the telegram from the Executive Yuan, as a secretary, he understood one thing: don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask.

After the secretary left, Zhang Tai stood up from his chair and said with a serious expression.

"Is the war finally about to begin?"

"After this battle, the Qing Dynasty will finally come to an end..."

(End of this chapter)