I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

But in any case, in the face of North Korea's complaints, the Qing court finally only gave the king of Muren County a uniform.

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There is one thing to say, although the style of my dress in the Qing Dynasty is ugly, but the workmanship and materials are very good.

Mu Ren looked at the six oriental pearls in his hand and the red crown of the county crown with an opal, and really wanted to withhold the gemstones on them to complete the military expenditure.

It is said that this hat alone is worth 300 taels of silver.

He couldn't figure it out, the Ming people had already been killed at sea, so how could these Manchus still love poverty?

However, these things are beyond his control. Muren put on the red-topped county king hat and left a pig tail to show his piety.

Soon, he came to the most beautiful building on Zhangzi Island, in front of the "Yamen for Friendly Negotiations and Trade Matters between Qing and Japan".

On Phi Island, the shogun of the shogun is connected with the "Ching-Japanese Friendly Negotiations on Military Affairs Yamen". Although there are only two words between the two yamen, the meaning and importance are completely different.

The Japanese government-in-exile is already in such a miserable state. The money brought out from Kyoto and Edo has long been spent, and now they have to rely on the Liao pay from the Qing Dynasty to live. How can there be any business matters to negotiate?

It can't be said that there is no one at all, at least for more than half a year, Muren and his close ministers still developed a little side business.

For example, Zhangzi Island, Zhangzi Island, as the name suggests, there are many roe on it.

It's just that the island is too small, and the roe deer on it are not only smaller than those on the mainland, but also less in number, so they can't be sold for money at all, and can only be eaten occasionally as sakura meat.

Fortunately, the natural resources of Zhangzi Island are more than that. A minister reported to Muren very early on that they found many abalones and scallops in the coastal waters of Zhangzi Island.

Abalone, ginseng, and belly are a delicacy both in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. Muren also organized manpower to catch them, and after drying them, they sent them to Tianjin for silver.

Not only that, Muren is also very interested in aquatic products. He personally researched and tried the unprecedented scallop farming technology.

This may be the awakening of Xueji, because Muren's grandson, Showa war criminal Hirohito is a genius in aquatic research.

He has published works such as "Atlas of postpartum gills in Sagami Bay", "Atlas of ascidians produced in Sagami Bay" and "Flora of Nasu".

If it wasn't for ghostwriting, or wanton plagiarism like Zhu Fugui, Hirohito is indeed a talented aquatic biology researcher who generates electricity for love.

Such traits also appeared in Muren.

Now his cultured scallops have reached a critical period of experimentation.

The wild-caught scallops have also been sent to Tianjin by Muren to sell for a lot of money, and they have been exchanged for funds for Japan's national revival.

In fact, it is a bit far from Zhangzi Island to Tianjin.

Zhangzi Island is less than a hundred miles east of Dalian.

It stands to reason that going to Liaodong or Shandong is the closest.

However, because of the butterfly effect of the reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu and Qing government has long ago halted the opening plan of the wicker edge.

Originally, the wicker side was opened to encourage hungry people from Shandong and Hebei to cross the Shanhaiguan Pass to enter the Guandong.

But now, Tsarist Russia is nothing. The Manchu Qing would rather give the Northeast to the Russians than dare to put 3000 million Han people in it as in history.

This is the suicide behavior of the birthday star.

Therefore, the Russians are slowly infiltrating the Northeast today, but Liaodong or the so-called "South Manchuria" area is still sparsely populated, and Muren has nowhere to sell those abalones and scallops.

As for Shandong, it was also because the Qing government did not open the wicker border as it did in history, except for some of the hungry people in Shandong who went south and were sold to Daming by the Huai army, most of them became Nian bandits on the spot.

In addition, the Hunan Army did not have the power to support Zeng Guofan in suppressing the bandits as in history, so now the whole Shandong is even more chaotic.

It's a good place to sell arms and opium, but it's better to sell abalone.

So in the end, Muren still had no choice but to go to Tianjin to sell goods.

But even if there is such a small-scale trade, the main function of the "Yamen for Friendly Negotiations and Trade Matters in the Qing Dynasty" is to monitor Muren.

After getting off the crude chariot, Muren felt that his eyes seemed to be a little blurry, his feet were a little fluttering, and his stomach was still growling.

Muren, Muren, are you just a man of this level?

He shook his head, threw off the guard's support, rubbed his stomach, and was about to step over the threshold and walk inside.

"Yo, Yuan Muren, Lord Yuan, you are finally here!" The Mongolian prince Sotna walked out with a smile.

The Mongolian's stocky body stood motionless in front of Muren.

Although Suotna was not the Iron Hat King, but as Seng Gelinqin's successor, he was the No. [-] Wuzhu state in the Qing Dynasty, and naturally he was also named the Prince of Bodole Gatai just like the monk king.

When it comes to status, it is not comparable to Muren.

"Chen Yuan Muren, I have met Prince Suo!"

Mu Ren's surname is not Yuan, but the Qing Dynasty said his surname is Yuan, so his surname is Yuan.

Not only that, but Muren, who had been gnashing his teeth because of his downgrading before, seemed to be a different person now before he became the Lord, fully displaying his grandson's specialty of pretending to be a grandson.

In the future, his grandson Hirohito could be servile to MacArthur, and Muren would naturally be able to kneel down to the Qing prince.

Not only kneeling, but also very skillful.

Mu Ren knelt down on both knees, grabbed the ground with his head, and said: "I wish the prince a prosperous martial arts!"

Seeing that the Japanese king in front of him didn't even call himself "little king", but called himself "subject", Suotna became more and more happy, thinking that he would give him a few words of kindness and let this kid raise the flag, and then he would I can call myself a servant.

But in any case, the most important thing in this trip, Sautna will not forget.

Although Sotna is not tall, he can be described as big and round, with a typical Mongolian appearance, anyway, that kind of appearance that is very sturdy at first glance.

If it weren't for this face, he would not have been easily recognized by the court as Seng Gelinqin's successor.

Although there is no bravery, there is no loss in physical strength.

With a wave of his big hand, Suotna picked up Muren like a chick, and scolded:

"In November, the Empress Dowager Mother of the Qing Dynasty will have a big birthday. I understand that Japan is too weak to offer any treasures, so I ask you Japan to send a congratulatory letter. I don't know how you are doing?

Don't look at this king's fierce appearance, but when it comes to poetry and songs, Wo Ren and Zeng Bohan may not be my opponents, so please quickly submit them and let this king review and polish them! "

Chapter 355 Ten Thousand Kingdoms Come to Korea, Telegraph Trend of Thought

Muren's Yishou Guange style regular script is quite beautiful.

Lord Sotna stroked his chin and nodded repeatedly.

When Muren finished writing the congratulatory form, he couldn't wait to snatch it away, carelessly dried the ink, and rolled it into his arms: "Brother Yuan, you have lived in Fusang for a long time, and the knowledge of the sage is still not that good after all.

I am the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, a first-class Confucian, a scholar of the Uchigri Woren University who is in the red flag, and this king is a close friend.

You congratulatory cousin, I'll take it first, and I will let the scholar of the University of Wa polish it up before returning it to you, so as not to make a fool of myself at the birthday banquet of the Holy Mother and Empress Dowager in the future.

You know, this time the [-]th birthday of the Empress Dowager is not just a birthday banquet, but a grand event for our Qing Dynasty to make friends with all nations.

At that time, not only Korea, Ryukyu, Vietnam, Siam, Burma (British occupation), Gurkha (British occupation), Zhe Mengxiong (British occupation) and other vassal states will come to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother, but also English Allies such as China, France, and Russia came to join us, and it is not an exaggeration to say that all nations have come to Korea.

If you make a mistake in such a scene, even if I, the Emperor of Qing Dynasty and the Empress Dowager are kindhearted and don't care about you, all the countries in the world will laugh at you and embarrass Japan! "

Salter's frothy talk was not entirely nonsense.

The Qing court has indeed sent envoys to various vassal states, asking them to come to worship.

At the same time, the Prime Minister's Office was ordered to send a note to the various powers and invite their ministers and counselors to the banquet.

In order to be able to receive these allies well, the Qing Dynasty has now deducted a large sum from the military salaries of the southern provinces.

Anyway, if there are too many lice, it doesn't itch, and if you have too many debts, you don't worry about it. Many regiment training troops in the south have not seen their salary for two years, and it is not bad for a year or so.

Taking advantage of the small achievements of the Northern Army, it is a perfect opportunity to embezzle all the southern payment, whether it is to invite allies as guests, to repair the garden for the emperor and queen mother, or to use it as Liao's payment.

As for the loyalty of the southern Han people...

Don't be An'an starving to death, but imitating the mantis with arms?

In the eyes of the court, the Han army will be unreliable sooner or later, and spending money to support them is no different from spending money to support thieves.

If I can starve to death because of this, it would be my great fortune.

Now among the Hanchens, only Zeng and Li are considered caring, and the other southern Hanchens are considered useless, have no ability to suppress thieves, and cry poorly, but each one is louder than the other.

My Qing Dynasty can't learn from Chongzhen and fill these bottomless pits with money!

Among the two models of Han officials, Zeng Guofan really worked hard to suppress the twist, and even carried out the coffin, and the overseer who carried the coffin was regarded as a model of Han gentry all over the world.

Li Hongzhang, on the other hand, was sympathetic and active in paying taxes. He was a major taxpayer among the governors, governors, and political envoys in the south.

In addition, Governor Li also pacified the rebellious people in northern Jiangsu without bloodshed, so that the poor areas in northern Jiangsu were not as corrupt and out of control as Shandong and Henan.

It can be said that a good fighter has no great achievements, and his role will never be inferior to that of Zeng Guofan.

The imperial court naturally likes such capable officials.

And Li Hongzhang's benefits are not only that, what makes the court even more happy is his "loyalty"!

Li Hongzhang not only paid taxes to the court, helped the court relieve the victims out of his own pocket, but also thought of the court in every way.

In addition to his status as the governor of Jiangsu, Li Hongzhang was also the Minister of Commerce of the Five Ports of the Qing Dynasty, and he shouldered the important task of introducing advanced technology to the Qing Dynasty.

Just at the beginning of the year, Li Hongzhang said that in the current world situation, non-guns are the top priority.

Westerners invented a thing as early as the 16th year of Daoguang, called the telegraph, and it has been 30 years since then.

This thing is the first key to the prosperity of my Qing Dynasty.

The telegrapher, who uses Morse code to record text, can travel thousands of miles in an instant, far surpassing the horse Feihong. It is a sharp weapon for the emperor to live in the temple and control the distance of the world.

The Queen of England is far away in Taixi, but she can command foreign soldiers like her arms, thanks to this telegram.

Therefore, Li Hongzhang suggested that the imperial court should allocate funds to establish telegraph stations in the main points of the Qing Dynasty, so as to facilitate hundreds of officials to receive inquiries from the imperial court, the government orders are smooth, and the administration of officials is clear.

I have to say that Li Hongzhang's proposal is very attractive.

This telegram can be used to communicate across the country, and it is indeed more important than guns.

Moreover, the repair of the telegraph only needs to be done by pulling the wire, which is far less than the social impact of disturbing the country's dragon veins and the people's ancestral graves like building a railway.

These days, ordinary people are naturally ignorant.

It is precisely because it is too ignorant that the rumors that wire radiation causes cancer do not exist.

Therefore, the resistance of pulling telegraphs is much smaller than that of repairing railways.

In history, China's own first telegraph line was also pulled by Li Hongzhang.

On June 1877, 6, 15 years after the laying of the trans-English submarine cable, 27 years after the laying of the trans-Atlantic submarine cable, and 20 years after the laying of the trans-Indian Ocean (from the Arabian Peninsula to Mumbai, India) submarine cable, Nagasaki, Japan to Shanghai Concession Six years after the laying of the submarine cable, Li Zhongtang of the Qing Dynasty finally built a telegraph line between Tianjin Machinery East Bureau and Zhili Governor's Office, with a total length of 15 kilometers.

If you are a player of P Club, you will definitely cry at this time. The spread of thoughts is indeed an eternal pain in my Greater China region.

Although it started relatively late, although it was criticized by the "Shenbao" and others as "exotic skills", the strategic value of telegrams was clearly valued by the Qing court.

After the first telegraph line was built in 1877, the Qing government spread it across the country in a rare and efficient manner, and even Taiwan also repaired the telegraph line.

These are the material foundations for the provincial governors to electrify the whole country after the Qing Dynasty is over in the future.

This also shows from the side that repairing the telegram is indeed not difficult, requiring manpower and financial resources, and facing relatively few obstacles from the villagers.

But even so, the Qing court couldn't come up with money at all.

Fortunately, it is Li Hongzhang, Lord Li Jue, who is loyal to the country, and his righteousness is as thin as sky.

He paid out of his own pocket to build a telegraph network across the country in the name of the Five-Port Trade Bureau.

In fact, among the materials that Li Hongzhang exchanged with the disaster victims from Daming was electric wires, which were very cheap, and the cost was much lower than the price quoted by the Russian consultant to the Qing court.

In any case, just a few days ago, the Tianjin telegram was completed.

Today, Prince Suotna made a special trip to Zhangzi Island to condolences to the Japanese king. There is another thing, which is related to the telegram...

He patted Mu Ren on the shoulder, and said: "Prince Yuan, since the congratulatory form to the Holy Mother and Empress Dowager has been written, then it's time to write the edict that you promised our emperor to all the Japanese people, right?"

"It should be so, it should be so!"

Muren nodded quickly, rubbed his sore shoulder, and continued to write the imperial edict.

From the perspective of the Qing court, Muren is the king of Japan conferred by the Qing Dynasty, so he naturally has the right and obligation to write edicts to all Japanese.

Due to the Ming Dynasty’s Pingwa War and the various controversial policies of the Wajima Governor’s Office in the Ming Dynasty, many Japanese ronin have recently become pirates, harassing the Qing Dynasty, and even colluding with the Shandong Nian bandits.

If the fleet bought with huge sums of money before the Qing Dynasty existed, the Japanese pirates on sampans that were several versions behind the times would naturally not cause too much trouble.

But that fleet was cheated by the British, and the steel factory that was finally sold to the Dutch was recycled...

Therefore, the seas and territories of the Qing Dynasty are still undefended, even worse than those in the Jiajing and Wanli years, and naturally they were made a big head by the Japanese pirates.

Fortunately, the southeast has been corrupted now, and it's hard to say whether the surname is Aixinjueluo, so it doesn't hurt so much to be robbed by the Qing court again.