Chapter 323 Mr. Foreigners, take the Qing Dynasty with you to bully little Japan! (Please vote, please order)
"Lan Qing, come here quickly...look, what is this?"
In the cafe of Brown Hotel, Mr. Li Hongzhang, who was yawning and eating breakfast, saw Wang Libin coming in from the outside with a roll of "paper", and shouted to him to come to him, and then took out a check from the Bank of France.
Leave it to Wang Libin to see.
"This is... a bank check. Where did it come from?"
Wang Libin came to the UK with a large amount of money given by Luo Xueyan. After arriving in London, he had to do banking business. So he opened an account at Rothschild Bank accompanied by Witoma and deposited a large amount of pounds.
He also opened a check business, so he recognized at a glance that what Li Hongzhang handed him was a check.
"It's from the Bank of France...
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Li Hongzhang did not tell Wang Libin where the check came from, but Wang Libin pointed to the Arabic numerals on the check and said, "These are numbers, tens, hundreds, thousands...\n.\n.\n.\n. Five thousand!"
It should be French money, what is it called a franc? Twenty-five francs is equal to one pound.
Your five thousand francs are equal to two hundred pounds, which is equal to eight hundred taels of silver! By the way, who gave this to you? The signature is in French...\n
"Eight hundred taels...
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Li Hongzhang was confused. What was going on? Why did Mathilde give him so much money? He worked for Emperor Xianfeng in Beijing as editor of the Hanlin Academy for one year and only had forty-five taels of silver. He made it all in one night.
Eight hundred taels!
Is this a reward for sleeping with the princess?
Did she give too much?
No, why does this mean selling one's body? How could Mr. Li, a manly man, be like the prostitutes in Bada Hutong?
When Li Hongzhang was stunned, Wang Libin had already taken out a dictionary and started to look it up: "I found it.\n...:.\n. The signature on the check is Mathilde de Bonaparte...\n.
\n.\n.\n. There are words on the back of the check! Written in English: Li, thank you for your love, see you in Paris...\n. Love you, Matilde."
Wang Libin put down the check in his hand and looked at Li Hongzhang blankly: "Shaoquan, what are you...\n.\n.\n
"This is, this is...\n.\n" Li Hongzhang blushed, but he was one of the most capable people in history who got into the "Zhongtang", and he was still quick-witted, so he immediately thought of an excuse.
"This is what Princess Mathilde gave in exchange for the second volume of the "Great Book of Prophecy"! I gave her the second volume of the "Great Book of Prophecy" that you gave me, so she gave me five thousand francs!
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"Oh, really?"
"Yes! The prophecies in the second volume of the "Great Prophecy Book" are all for next year. Any piece of information is worth a thousand or eight hundred dollars. I gave her a copy and only received eight hundred. It's really cheap.
Already."
Wang Libin frowned slightly and thought: "It turns out that I was the one who lost. I also gave Sister Maria a copy of the second volume of "The Great Book of Prophecy", but she didn't give me a single copper. She just took it and left!"
Seeing that Wang Libin was silent, Li Hongzhang quickly collected the check from Mathilde - it was worth eight hundred taels of silver!
Of course, Li Hongzhang is not interested in Mathilde's money, he is interested in Mathilde's body, which is really good...\n. No, he is interested in her connections.
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Mathilde is a princess of the French Empire and the sister of the French Emperor. If she takes advantage of her, are you worried that this foreign affairs will not be handled well?
Thinking of this, Li Hongzhang asked Wang Libin: "Lan Qing, are we almost done with our foreign business trip to England? Is the next stop going to be Paris?"
When Wang Libin heard this question, he gave the roll of paper in his hand to Li Hongzhang: "Shaoquan, look at this."
"This is.
"This is a newsprint, called "The Times". Look at the front page.\n....\n. Battle of Sinop, the Russian Black Sea Fleet massacred the Turkish Navy!" Wang Libin pointed to the contents of the newspaper and said to Li Hongzhang, "
This matter was mentioned in the first volume of the "Major Prophecy", and now it has come true again!
It seems that the long live empress of England will send someone to announce your entry into the palace soon!?
Li Hongzhang suddenly remembered something and looked at Wang Libin: "Lan Qing, do you still have the English translation of the second volume of the "Great Book of Prophecy"? Give me another one!"
Shanghai Beach, Suzhou River.
The steamer made a sudden noise, dragging a passenger boat with a load of 2,000 pieces, and stirred up white waves on the river from Suzhou to Shanghai. The Nanyang Minister's National Python Festival flag was dancing in the north wind.
The Suzhou River is busy with boats coming and going. On both sides of the Suzhou River, construction sites are connected and in full swing.
Luo Yaoguo is now riding in the 2,000-ton passenger boat, discussing with Luo Dayou, Jiao Liang, and Wu Chaoyue, who just ran from Shanghai to Suzhou a few days ago, how to hitch a ride on the foreign master. No, it should be
They just took a boat to bully little Japan.
He originally wanted to stay in Suzhou Fucheng until after the Spring Festival before returning to Shanghai, not just to spend time with his wife, but mainly because he had a lot of things to do at Prince Wu's Mansion!
Now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Wu Prince's Mansion in Suzhou manages the territory of Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Huzhou Prefecture, Jiaxing Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, and Taicang Prefecture, a total of six prefectures and one state.
Although most of the territory in Songjiang Prefecture and Taicang Prefecture is under the jurisdiction of the Shanghai Governor's Palace, and the territory under the jurisdiction of Prince Wu's Palace is "one master, two systems", the territory now under the direct jurisdiction of Prince Wu's Palace is still very large, and all aspects of matters need to be dealt with.
There are so many people that Luo Yaoguo can't manage them with the small team he brought from Hunan.
Fortunately, the "land policy" implemented by Luo Yaoguo in southern Jiangsu is much milder than that in Hunan. He has begun to win over "enlightened landlords" and support the "national bourgeoisie". And it has been very effective. He has successfully won over the Dongting Mountain Gang, Nanxun
Silk merchants, two large local business gangs in Suhu, and a group of Anhui, Cantonese, and Fujian merchants doing business around Taihu Lake also joined Luo Yaoguo.
With these business gangs taking refuge, Luo Yaoguo Haolie has no shortage of young industrial and commercial cadres.
However, he couldn't just take the children from the business gang and use them. He had to set up a lecturer class, with him personally serving as the "principal".
The training lasted for several months. It allowed them to have a certain sense of belonging to the three intertwined systems of the God Worship Association, Prince Wu's Mansion, and the Taiping New Army, and they were divided through repeated assessments so that they could work in these three systems.
Find the right position in the system, and then let them play more roles.
In addition, Luo Yaoguo cannot use all businessmen to help his children, otherwise the land allocation in southern Jiangsu and Taihu areas will not be able to be promoted.
Therefore, while recruiting a large number of industrial and commercial cadres into the lecturer class for training, Luo Yaoguo also did not forget to select a group of young, smart, and well-educated peasant cadres from Kunshan County, which was the first to implement "dividing fields and dividing land" within the jurisdiction of King Wu's Mansion.
Suzhou training - these people are the seeds for the comprehensive promotion of "dividing farmland and dividing land" in southern Jiangsu. They are also the capital for the Wu Prince's government to build grassroots political power in the area under its jurisdiction.
While Luo Yaoguo was opening lecture classes to train cadres in Suzhou, he still had to worry about maintaining the areas under the jurisdiction of Prince Wu's Mansion.
His method of maintaining the ground was to send troops to "military control" while retaining the original senior officers and officials.
In short, at first it was business as usual, and then they vigorously promoted the Wu Prince's policies of "dividing fields and land", "protecting industry and commerce" and "encouraging mulberry silk".
It also opens the door to convenience for the gentry and landlords who hope to "run" Shanghai...\n
This series of operations is not simple. They are all handled by his disciples. Luo Yaoguo is still a little worried, so he wants to stay in Suzhou for a longer time, even if he personally leads a few classes and explains "
The principles in the Anti-Sutra are also good.
But in the twelfth month of the Western calendar, Luo Gangyou, Jiao Liang, and Wu Chaoyue, who had been staying in Shanghai to prepare for overseas missions, actually came to Suzhou together and brought Luo Yaoguo. The foreign adults in Shanghai were discussing to kowtow together.
Regarding the matter of preparing an "unequal treaty" package for the Japanese, Luo Yaoguo, no, it should be Luo Xueyan, must not miss it.
As long as the foreigners want to bully Japan, what's the point? The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "True Treaty Sect" and the Qing Dynasty's "Qing Lue Army" arranged for little Japan. If Japan wants to sign an unequal treaty, it must also have the Qing Dynasty.
One serving.
At this time, he was sitting in the warm and comfortable cabin, gently tapping the tea cup, and quietly listening to the plans of his three subordinates.
"Wu Wang, several printing houses in Shanghai have taken orders for "True Testament" and are working overtime to print it. Tens of thousands of copies have been printed...\nXiaguan heard that everyone in Japan knows it too.
With the Chinese text, the True Testament does not need to be translated and can be sent directly to Japan. It can be spread widely in Japan before the Catholic Church and the London Missionary Society!"
"Xue Shuai, the four provisions of this agreement, tariffs, one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, extraterritoriality, and concessions, must be arranged for Japan!
Otherwise, we will definitely suffer losses when we compete with Japan in the future."
"My lord, it would be best for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to pretend to be a good person after the Qing Dynasty joins the four-nation coalition to knock down the pass, and send envoys to Edo and Kyoto to convey the intention of our king to join forces with their generals and emperors to deal with the foreigners...\n.\
n.\n.\n. Even if their general and emperor are unwilling to cooperate with the king, the people below will definitely have different ideas."
Chapter completed!