I want to ruin the country

When Prince Gong returned to Tianjin, Yining came to greet him in person again.

After going through the formalities and drinking three cups of welcoming wine, we returned to the capital!

Seeing that they were now sitting in a comfortable jeep, Prince Gong said,

"Your Majesty, you have given me another surprise!"

Yining smiled and said,

"It's hard to go from zero to one, but once you have one, it's much easier to go from one to one hundred. Cars will become more and more comfortable in the future!"

Yining asked,

"Is there any danger on the road this time?"

“Your Majesty, the boatmen are experienced and will stop the boat to avoid the wind in bad weather.

Our warships have powerful firepower, and it's a blessing for them that we don't cause trouble, so the journey back and forth is very smooth!"

Yining Road,

"That's good, you're back just in time. Our own Tianjin is now combat-ready, so let's just pull them out and give it a try!"

Prince Gong asked,

"Who does the Emperor intend to train?"

Yining Road,

"Who else can we do? Get rid of the Japanese pirates first, and we won't have any worries!"

When Prince Gong heard about attacking Japan, he said,

"Your Majesty, I wish to lead my troops to razing Wogua Island!"

Yining smiled.

"It's hard enough for you to travel back and forth to the West. I can't let you take any more risks!"

Prince Gong said,

"Even the Emperor can lead the army in person, and I, your humble servant, also want to leave my name in history!"

"A tiny Japanese gourd country is not worthy of a prince like you to personally conquer. You should just rest at home!"

The emperor did not allow him to go, and Prince Gong was very depressed, but there was nothing he could do.

This time the car drove directly to the Royal Hotel, where Yining welcomed Prince Gong and his entourage.

Nowadays, Yining is willing to hold some large-scale conferences or activities at the Royal Hotel.

Compared with the lifeless Forbidden City, he felt that this place had a modern atmosphere. Coming here, he felt like he had returned to the afterlife.

Li Hongzhang was surprised to see this magnificent and luxurious hotel and the lobby that was as bright as day under fluorescent lights.

Only then did he believe that what he had heard was true. Today's Daqing is much more advanced than the European powers.

If these technologies were sold to foreigners, the price would be sky-high!

However, he also heard from Prince Gong that the emperor was afraid that Europe would develop too fast, so these technologies could not be sold for the time being!

The welcoming banquet was very grand, and all officials of the third rank and above in the capital attended.

Yining solemnly praised Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang and others.

This time, Prince Gong not only bought back nine ironclad ships, but also received a richer reward than last time.

They brought back hundreds of top talents from various fields.

Moreover, the silver earned from this trade was one third more than last time.

Yining rewarded meritorious personnel, especially Li Hongzhang, who was appointed as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, a third-rank official.

After two years abroad, Li Hongzhang was promoted rapidly, skipping three levels from the fifth rank to the third rank, a deputy ministerial level official.

He was ecstatic and grateful to the emperor, and he wished he could sacrifice his life to repay the emperor's kindness.

This time, Yining directly let Li Hongzhang take over from Ruijin.

Rui Jinle was so happy that he couldn't even walk after getting nearly 200 million taels of silver. He always felt light under his feet.

What happened to the emperor? Why didn’t the money earned this time go into the treasury?

Although Ruijin was grumbling in his heart, he didn't dare to ask. He was afraid that burning incense would attract ghosts and the emperor would turn against him and ask for the money back!

The country is really spending money like water nowadays. There are six railways under construction at the same time.

One runs from Tianjin, Shengjing to Mohe, through the entire Northeast.

One is from Hohhot and Ulaanbaatar to Lake Baikal.

One route goes through Datong, Hohhot, and Urumqi to Yili, Xinjiang.

One route is from Beijing, Xi’an, Chongqing to Kunming!

One is the later Dajingjiu Railway.

The other route is from Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Fujian.

But there is far from enough steel now, and we have to wait and see before the railway is paved with stones and the rails can be built.

There’s nothing we can do, the production can’t keep up!

There are countless roads under construction, and construction is underway all over the country, gradually forming a network that connects all cities.

Now Ruijin understood why the emperor wanted to recruit so many people from the country of Wogua.

It’s not enough, it’s not enough at all!

There are so many places that need people. If these 10 million people were put into this huge construction site across the country, they wouldn't even make a ripple.

Millions more were recruited in Vietnam and Myanmar.

Nowadays, apart from necessary farming, people across the country are basically engaged in infrastructure construction every day.

At first, there was no particular need for road construction in Ruijin.

Hasn’t our ancestors lived this way for thousands of years?

However, since the advent of cars, the enthusiasm for road construction in Ruijin has gradually increased.

Only then did he realize how huge the difference was between the asphalt road and the previous dirt road.

Even now, he admired the emperor's vision from the bottom of his heart.

Now the highway from Beijing to Jinan, Shandong has been fully opened. He can comfortably take a jeep and reach the destination in less than a day. It is a thousand miles, which you could never have imagined before.

He also tried the newly manufactured train and found it comfortable.

Next spring when I go to Jinan, I won’t have to take a jeep. I can just lie on the train berth.

Oh my god, it’s so comfortable. It doesn’t matter whether people are comfortable or not. The key is that the transportation capacity has been greatly increased.

Although Ruijin was not a military general, he knew that war was all about logistics.

Without food, can the soldiers fight when they are hungry?

Without grass, what will the horses eat? Horses can’t fight on an empty stomach!

Therefore, the battle is about the supply of food and grass!

In the past, when fighting on the frontier, the consumption of 100,000 soldiers on the front line required the transportation of 500,000 civilian workers to barely ensure the supply of food and fodder.

The key point is that these 500,000 people and livestock also need food and drink on the road.

With cars and trains, is transportation still a problem?

Dozens of train carriages, like a huge iron ox, can transport thousands of tons of cargo to you.

It can pull a lot, run fast, and is not afraid of cloudy, rainy and windy days!

How did these scientists come up with this!

He now admires the emperor even more. Although the emperor was so good to Zhang Xiang in the past, the ministers actually had some opinions about it privately.

But now, not only when they met Zhang Xiang, but also when they met any scientist in the Academy of Sciences, the ministers would bow down in worship.

They truly understood that science and technology are the primary productive forces.

When Ruijin kneels down to worship his ancestors now, he is always thanking his ancestors in his heart for giving him birth in this era, opening his eyes and allowing him to see and feel the benefits that these high technologies bring to people!

Now his house has also been renovated and is equipped with electric lights, telephones, sofas, coffee tables, Simmons mattresses, and flush toilets.

When the emperor needed him for something, he could solve it with just one phone call.

If this had happened in the past, he would have rushed to the palace no matter if it was the dead of winter or the dead of night.

Happy, happy!

Now, every night he drinks two taels of Laobaigan and listens to the radio.

It's amazing, really fucking amazing, how can a person be put into such a small box.