When Wang Tan came out of Zhao Xin's office, he looked quite sober, but in fact his mind was still in a daze. He never imagined that his life would undergo such a big change in just one day.
After the graduation ceremony yesterday, he was still worried about his whereabouts. He thought that it would be fine if he went to Fengtian or Shandong, but what if he was assigned to Heilongjiang City, Yaksa or even Siberia? As a result, Huang Chengji told him in the morning that he wanted to enter.
When he was working as a copywriter in the Secretariat, he felt like a big pie had fallen from the sky; now that it was confirmed that he would join the Navy, he finally felt that his wish had come true.
From the bottom of his heart, Wang Tan, who is self-consciously full of knowledge, does not want to be a copywriting staff who depends on others. What he desires most is to imitate Jiang Fan and ride in the desert and Tianshan Mountains. Although the job of the secretariat is regarded by countless people as a noble job,
, but the daily routine is nothing more than drafting official documents and communicating with various departments in Beihai Town; occasionally, in the name of Zhao Xin, he writes memorial letters to the soldiers who died on the battlefield or the workers who were injured or killed in accidents.
Although in the eyes of this group of old-style literati, becoming an official through the imperial examination and engaging in central or local politics is the right way to enter the official career; but due to the "imperial examination plus training system" in Beihai Town, the talent selection model of the eight-legged essay has been changed.
In addition, Zhao Xin, the "Emperor God of War", directly controls the army, and the officers' salaries are high, so the Beihai Navy group has great appeal to scholars.
The problem is that the system of the North Korean Navy is different from any previous army. Anyone who wants to enter the military system must first undergo 3 to 6 months of recruit training, even civilian officers in the logistics and mission departments.
The North Navy is currently experiencing a climax of military expansion. The huge training plan for the 300,000-strong army has brought the total demand for officers to nearly 30,000. However, Zhao Xin insists that he should not be promoted randomly from ordinary people, but must be promoted from experienced officers and non-commissioned officers.
Selection. This situation can only be regretted by the vast majority of scholars who cannot carry it on their shoulders or lift it in their hands.
The interviews with Zhao Tingjun and Wang Tan were already regarded as Zhao Xin's "leisure" after a busy and stressful day. No, as soon as Wang Tan stepped out, Huang Chengji walked in with a briefcase. Zhao Xin thought he was here to ask questions.
Unexpectedly, Huang Chengji came up and took out two telex newspapers from the folder, pushed them across the table in front of Zhao Xin and said: "A call from Kinmen."
Zhao Xin picked up the first page and glanced at the beginning, then put it aside and said to Huang Chengji: "Both of them are pretty good, but Wang Tan has other arrangements. He will report to the training base in a month. You go back and talk to Zhong Baoqi
Let’s discuss and select two more students from Shandong to join the secretariat.”
Huang Chengji never expected that Wang Tan would make this arrangement. He pondered for a moment and asked, "How about letting Sun Tzu Xiao...?"
Zhao Xin frowned and said: "Sun Zixiao's whereabouts have been decided. Civil Affairs needs manpower in Shenyang."
Just a few days ago, the Civil Affairs Commission issued a decree to restore Shengjing to its old name in the Ming Dynasty. After 160 years since Huang Taiji established Shengjing as the capital, the place name "Shenyang" has once again appeared on the map of China.
The "Fengtian Mansion", which governed six counties and two prefectures and represented the Manchu Fengtian movement, was also swept into the garbage dump of history and was renamed Liaodong Administrative Office.
When Sun Yuanxiang was nine years old, he lived in Fengtian for four years. His late father, Sun Hao, was an official in Fengtian Mansion at that time. He had a good official reputation and was not greedy for money. The common people and Liaodong scholars all praised him. The civil affairs asked Sun Yuanxiang to go to Shenyang. , just want to borrow the legacy left by his father back then.
Seeing Zhao Xin's expression, Huang Chengji had no choice but to say yes and immediately withdrew. Next, he had to take Wang Tan and Zhao Tingjun to go through the entry procedures, otherwise they would not even be able to enter the government affairs compound tomorrow.
The room was clear. Zhao Xin lit a cigarette for himself and took another sip of tea. Then he slowly picked up the telegram and read it. Lu Qi reported a total of three things, which contained a lot of content and filled two pages. .
The telegram began with a brief report on the construction status of the Coloma gold mine.
After two months of preliminary survey, an old miner supported by Lanfang Company has roughly determined the direction of the two mineral veins; this person was responsible for looking for mineral veins when he was in Borneo. Although Zhao Xin and the others knew about science and technology, The total gold reserves in the Loma area are unknown, but the direction of the veins and the specific mining locations are unknown. In short, professional matters must be handled by professionals.
However, in addition to the construction of the mining area, the current main task is to build a road along the south fork of the Yuanwu River to the Lushui Plain, and it must be a two-way carriage, otherwise it will be difficult to transport mining equipment and supplies into the mountains. .As for taking the car, forget about it for the time being. Construction is too difficult. Rucci predicts that even if there are enough manpower and tools, the entire road will have to be built as soon as May next year.
In addition, part of the river channel of Lushui, which is the Sacramento River in another time and space, needs to be deepened and widened to ensure the passage of flat-bottomed barges with a load of more than 500 tons. The current river channel is fine for assault boats and small boats, but the Lushui Plain is settled The construction of points and roads requires the transportation of a large amount of materials and equipment, so the depth of the river must reach four meters.
Zhao Xin had already foreseen the problem of the gold mine. In the final analysis, it was necessary to have sufficient manpower and materials. The material matter was easy to handle. At worst, he would run it himself, but the manpower was not that simple. It was easy to pick up a few pieces of placer gold from the river ditch. , it is another matter to achieve large-scale mining. Even in the modern era of another time and space, a small gold mine has a one to two year cycle from construction to production.
The second thing is that the negotiating mission sent by the Spanish will arrive at the Golden Gate Fortress by boat on the 10th of next month to negotiate with Beihai Town on the return of prisoners of war and the issue of California. According to the previous envoy sent by Monterey, The official head of the mission is named Alonso Nunez de Haro Peralta, who is currently the Archbishop of the Diocese of Mexico and the representative of the Spanish Royal Supreme Council in the Americas; the deputy head of the mission is California Governor He Captain Ser. Joaquín de Arrillaga, and President of the Franciscan Mission Fermín de La Suén.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The reason why the standards are so high is because Lucci captured a big fish during the battle on the San Bruno Mountain - Denava, the commander-in-chief of the Western Province General.
The Spanish Viceroyalty has been greatly embarrassed this time. No matter how they retaliate in the future, what they have to do now is to do everything possible to get the captured general and other officers back before the news reaches the British and Americans. It is so popular among the world that even the Archbishop has come out for this purpose.
It is also very interesting to say that the Spanish person responsible for communicating with the Golden Gate Fortress is a monk who was posted to the Diocese of Manila and Macau, named Hilarion Diez. This man went to the Diocese of Manila more than ten years ago and was posted to
Having lived in Macau for many years, he is proficient in Cantonese Mandarin. Although it is difficult for Lu Qi to communicate verbally with the other party, there is no problem in writing.
If Zhao Xin had been mentally prepared for the above two things, the third thing mentioned in the telegram made him frown deeply.
Just five days ago, an American fleet arrived in Golden Gate Bay, led by a middle-aged man named Robert Gray. According to the other party, they set out from Boston in April and were affected by
Employed by two trading companies in Boston, they have no official status.
This American fleet docked in Golden Gate Bay for a total of two days. First, they went ashore to visit Lucci. The atmosphere during the meeting was very harmonious. When Captain Gray introduced himself, he mentioned that their original plan was to go to Nucat Sound to purchase a batch of furs.
Then they went to Guangzhou for tea trade; they had already traveled the same route in October last year and returned to Boston in July last year, with huge profits.
The reason why they came to Kinmen was because when they were passing through and docking in Acapulco, Mexico, they heard in a tavern on the pier that there was a strange oriental people who were having conflicts with the Spanish in Alta California. Out of curiosity, they
Come to visit. The American fleet also replenished fresh water and vegetables before leaving. Captain Gray proposed to use the cargo on the ship as payment, but Lucci generously offered to waive it. It was just a few hundred kilograms of radishes, which was really not worth mentioning.
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"Robert Gray?"
Zhao Xin felt something familiar when he saw the name, but after thinking about it for a while he had no clue. He got up and walked to the bookshelf. After spending a few minutes, he finally found a book printed and bound on A4 paper among the many densely arranged materials.
It's a thick book. I saw on the front page written in large English: Conflict on the Northwest Coast - Confrontation between the United States and Russia in the Pacific Northwest.
This is the advantage of using foreign language materials. The old-fashioned scholars in the secretariat can't understand them at all. Even if they come to help clean up, they don't know what they are written on.
He opened the book and first checked the table of contents, then quickly turned to page 12, and finally found the captain's name.
"Oh no! It's him!"
Robert Gray was the first captain in American history to complete a circumnavigation of the world. He "discovered" and named the Columbia River, which originates from the Rocky Mountains and flows westward from Nucat Sound into the Pacific Ocean. Of course, he
The Spaniards had been here before, but the careless Spaniards only saw the groups of sea otters on the coast and had no time to pay attention to the turbid river water flowing out of the shore. As a result, the latecomers took advantage.
It was precisely because of this man's northward expedition in 1792 that the United States, which had just been founded less than 20 years ago, gained a foothold on the northwest coast of the Pacific, a land covering an area of more than 2,600 square kilometers on Vancouver Island. In the next few years,
In 1999, the U.S. government used this as a reason to propose territorial claims to the Oregon region from the United Kingdom. Later, Seattle and even Washington State also came over based on this claim.
Zhao Xin originally thought that the Americans' expansion into the West and the establishment of strongholds would be decades later, but he never expected that they would be happening now.
This is absolutely impossible!
Zhao Xin, the "Luo Ying God Axe" of the Washington Code, did not take it seriously. The old man had only a few years to live, but the third president Thomas Jefferson was by no means an easy person to deal with. This man not only founded
The "Democratic-Republican Party", the predecessor of the future political party of the United States, also completed the purchase of French Louisiana during his term, nearly doubling the territory of the United States.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xin decided to take action as soon as possible, no later than June next year, to take down the American stronghold on Vancouver Island. Buy and sell by force, or sell if not, or implement military occupation of Vancouver Island.
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Now, given the courage of ten British people, they would not dare to go around the entire America and declare war on Beihai Town. You must know that their main opponent is France, and the "French Revolutionary War" is not over yet!
Besides, both the "Local Governance Treaty" being sent to the British mainland and the mission sent by the Viceroyalty of New Spain are enough to prove the military strength of Beihai Town.
After reading the telegram, Zhao Xin felt that he had to go to Kinmen anyway. Lu Qi was currently preoccupied with many things, not to mention the large stalls on the Lushui Plain, and he was not good at confrontation at the negotiation table. So, he was not good at negotiating.
He drafted a brief telegram, then called Chai Rugui and asked him to send it to the telecommunications room to be sent to the Kinmen Fortress. The content of the draft was just one sentence: "If nothing unexpected happens, arrive at Kinmen before the 10th of next month.
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Nowadays in the whole of East Asia, when it comes to who is the first person at the negotiation table, whether it is the shogunate, the Li Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or Tsarist Russia, Zhao Xin has to be called "boss". This guy is the best at the negotiation table.
He is so arrogant that he can often surprise his opponent by surprise.
Just like the border negotiations between Beihai Town and Li Chao, the final contestants were Wang Zhong and Liu Taigong, but the actual mastermind behind the scenes was Zhao Xin. Although Ding Guofeng took the lead in the negotiations between South Asia and the British, the commander behind them was also
he.
To put it bluntly, this guy's method is nothing more than a slap in the face and a sweet date, a combination of military and economic means. If he is not satisfied, he will flip the table and rely on the gold in his hand, using advanced weapons from another time and space and his own "supply of mythical beasts"
The advantage was such that the opponent gave in. The Shogunate, the Manchus, Tsarist Russia, Annan, the Netherlands, the Li Dynasty, and the British all suffered from it, and the Spaniards and Americans will be no exception in the future.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Apart from these things, the problems of the Russians in Alaska are best solved this time.
Zhao Xin was thinking about it, and suddenly he had a premonition that Beihai Town might have a war with the United States over the Louisiana Territory in the future. After all, both sides were determined to win.
Today's Louisiana and even Florida are Spanish colonies. The former was ceded to Spain by Louis XV in accordance with the Treaty of Paris after the Seven Years' War and became a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain; the latter was a colony of the American Revolutionary War.
When it was over, the British ceded it to Spain.
There is no Panama Canal in these days. If we really start a war, it would be nonsense to cross the North American continent. The Northern Navy fleet can only go around Cape Horn and head north to Huanglong. Other supplies can be easily dealt with, but fresh water supplies must be docked.
Acquired; either a Portuguese colony or a Spanish colony.
As a result, the negotiations with the Spanish mission must be well controlled.
On the plus side, Louis Charles and King Carlos IV of Spain are both members of the Bourbon royal family, and Spain is still a member of the "Anti-French Alliance" and supports the restoration of the French Bourbon royal family, so they must not be allowed to
Due to the defeat, Louisiana was ceded to Napoleon.
On the bad side, it is definitely not that easy to get Spain to spit out Louisiana obediently. Either a large army will be sent to completely defeat it, or it can only be exchanged for the security of the Philippines.
But five massacres cost the lives of 100,000 Chinese! Not to mention Zhao Xin’s unwillingness to let Manila go, I’m afraid other people in the committee would not agree either.
What to do? Zhao Xin wandered back and forth in the room for a long time, and the last thing he could think of was to wait until Elizabeth passed the postpartum recovery period and take Louis Charles and her brother to Europe. With that fatuous
Carlos IV, and then tried to find a way to get rid of Queen Luisa, who actually controlled the government, and her prime minister's lover.
The problem is that if you go to Spain, you have to go to the United Kingdom. Furthermore, if you go to Europe, you have to go to Belgium and Austria anyway, which are the strongholds of the French royalists.
Next year, the Bei Navy will go south to enter the customs, and there is also the matter of touching warships... Zhao Xin just feels a little hopeless, and he is almost catching up with the donkeys of the production team.