The visitor was Erich; Messerchmitt, born in Nuremberg in 1862, graduated from Kyle Naval School in 1881, was awarded the title of lieutenant of the naval army. He joined the German intelligence agency in 1882 and was stationed in the United Kingdom. Because he successfully obtained the battleship of the British Navy USS Indomitable (served in 1882), the battleship of the USS Collingwood (served in 1887), and the Victorian and Trafalgar-class battleships (ordered in 1884 and 1885), he was promoted to the Naval Major within 6 years. At the end of 1889, on the eve of his promotion to Naval Colonel, he clashed with Prince Heinrich (1862-1929, the Marshal of the Second German Empire, and the younger brother of German Emperor William II), shot and injured, killed two guards, fled, and fled to the Chinese Embassy.

The reason why Guo initially asked was quite radiant. It seemed that Erich had something that shouldn't have happened with the princess at the prince's banquet. His Highness, in anger, sent guards to capture him. The young man ruined his future in the German military for his own sake and did not dare to escape to the embassy of Western countries, which was closely guarded by Germany, so he had to come to China.

When I first arrived in Beijing, Guo Songshou reported to Li Hongzhang secretly. Li Hongzhang knew the value of this person, but he was afraid that if an unexpected situation occurred and the German side would bring unpredictable consequences to China, so he was quite hesitant. Therefore, when I heard me talk about overseas intelligence, I took the opportunity to kick the ball to me.

I also made a hesitation. There were a few Germans on the Royal Institute. I thought I would soon know whether this thing happened in Germany was big or small. If I learned that Erich was protected by the Qing government, once the news was transmitted back to Germany, it would not be said that it would be in diplomatic trouble. If Germany and Japan and Russia merged, then the future war would probably involve China, which was not what I hoped to see.

After thinking for a while, he said, "This person is properly placed and handed over to you to detain him for the time being. You can discuss with Shanqi what to do. What I mean is to see him again. After this year's big test, I will take the time to see him again." I summoned Shanqi and also told him some of the general idea of ​​the Military Intelligence Department. The purpose is to collect talents from Europe and collect information from European countries. If possible, the drawings of ships, firearms, cannons, etc. will also be collected. This is a secret work and it will not be effective in one or two years. Orientals and Westerners have different appearances, so it is not so easy to achieve results.

Without going back to the palace, I went directly to the military headquarters with Li Hongzhang. On the way, I discussed the affairs of Liaodong with Li Hongzhang. I mean a full switch, and let the land-free tenant farmers from the mainland provinces go to the Liaodong territory to obtain seeds and farm tools to develop land. The first is to use resources. Second, the industries in various places are prosperous and there are more people. Putting up a good look, and it is easy to mobilize people to explore the north in the future. The large area of ​​land opposite Heilongjiang, including Sakhalin Island, has been in the past.

When the country's land was lost, the Russians naturally did not dare to stay there. People would have to cultivate and accept the large area of ​​land. Li Hongzhang nodded and said yes, and also raised questions and suggestions. First, Liaodong was originally not allowed to enter, but now it is rashly opened and opened, and there may be material discussions. Second, if there are too many people, they will naturally have to send extra officials to manage it, otherwise new bandits will be prone to breeding. Liaodong's people are tough and the quality requirements for officials should be higher.

I naturally know that there are problems of this kind. It’s just that immigration is a major trend. China’s population is increasing, and its desire for living space is getting bigger and bigger. What should I do if I don’t expand the space?

The difficulty of having a large population is that there are many people, but in a society like China that has been influenced by Confucian culture for thousands of years, it is impossible for me to implement family planning. It is hard to imagine that those gentry and bureaucrats will obey you to have only one child. Even monogamy is absurd. Therefore, the population will only increase. In addition to expanding the living space, the empire has no other way to dissolve the pressure brought by these populations.

When he arrived at the Military Affairs Office, he received a bad news: after arriving outside Vladivostok, he set up camp and consulted with generals from Shengjing, Jilin, and sent personnel to notify the Vladivostok defenders about the acceptance of prisoners. The enemy was in a panic and kept silent. After a few days of stalemate, the Russian Far East Fleet in Vladivostok was on the flagship - the pride of the Russian Navy, which was specially from the Baltic Fleet to the ocean to cope with the situation in the Far East last year - the Peter the Great, the first Russian armored ship launched in 1876.

Under the leadership, four armored gunships, including the side gunships, the Crimir, Pervenetz, and the turret armored ships, General Greg, led the port of Vladivostok with dozens of other small ships. The direction was unknown. The Sino-British Joint Fleet supplied at the North Korean Wonsan Port, and the Royal Chinese Navy, which held a large-scale live-fire exercise on the ocean east of Jeju Island, were unable to capture any information about the Russian fleet. (The Peter the Great also had another statement that it was launched in 1817, which I personally think was obviously wrong.)

Such a huge disappearing fleet obviously cannot leave the home port by itself, and they obviously do not have enough ability to break through the blockade of the Sino-British Joint Fleet in the South and the Royal Chinese Navy. Even if they escape by chance, there are Fujian, Guangdong and Nanyang fleets in the south in the waters of China; and even if they can survive these, the British Pacific Fleet, East India Fleet, West India Fleet, East Africa Fleet, and Mediterranean Fleet are enough to destroy their dreams of going from the Indochina Peninsula through the Indian Ocean through the Red Sea, returning to the Atlantic through the Mediterranean Sea and then going back to the Baltic Sea. This is too ridiculous. The British global management system will definitely not allow such a thing to happen.

If you leave the port and wait for the summer to arrive, then go through Sakhalin Island and cross the Kuril Islands to visit California, you can vaguely remember that there is a port there, and maybe the fleet has already gone.

Zhang Jing took the map and found out that there was indeed a big port in Kamchaka, which was the capital of Kamchaka, Petropavlovsk.

I looked at Li Hongzhang, pointed to the map and said, "Is this place frozen? I don't know. We'll catch it blindly." I shook our heads and said, "They're a stopgap here and I can't stay for long. At present, we have to be careful that he is just a springboard here. The Japanese's attitude is very suspicious. I heard that Japan's Otori Keisuke went to St. Petersburg before. What exactly did he do? It's very interesting. This is also the reason why I want to form an overseas intelligence system.

In this way, you have someone tell Japan that the two Japanese prisoners of war who were imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice will be released immediately. In addition, please send another minister to Beijing to express regrets and inappropriate misunderstandings. We can pay silver pensions for the families of the dead and injured Japanese people. Let's do this immediately..." Seeing the expression on Li Hongzhang's face, I raised my hand and said, "Don't be slow, do it immediately. Let Wang Fengzao visit Prince Komatsu and declare his willingness to be friendly between China and Japan."

I raised my footsteps and thought for a while, "In addition, if you want Liu Buchan to withdraw his troops back to Weihai, it is best to find someone to punish him and leave the news to the Japanese. Tomorrow, I will be in the Dongxiang Heihachiro. No, it is better to meet him. It is better to be in the Ministry of Justice. The other monks will also meet him, and the room should be placed. Don't let them know each other. The repaid will be released every other period. Okay, let the military department discuss the army and leave the civil affairs to the study room for handling." He turned to Kou Lian and said, "Let the Luanyiwei prepare the carriage. I will go to the education yamen soon and notify Yung Wing Hou. In addition, Li Hongzhang, you will draft the topic on my behalf, and the palace examination will still be scheduled for April 20th."

"There are also wars in the north. I will send an order to the army, and use Nie Shicheng as the commander to control the army. The clear edict knows that the army is not in the port, and the enemy fleet can launch an attack immediately. In addition, the Russian side has no intention of receiving prisoners, so I will escort the two Russian military and political chiefs to Beijing. I will send a message to the joint fleet and ask them to go north immediately and launch an attack from the sea."

"I received the order." Li Hongzhang bowed and said a little hesitantly: "Master, if our navy does not participate in the war, I am afraid the British will not be so enthusiastic."

I paused, and there was some reason, but I still firmly believed that the British would move, so I smiled and said, "Well, it makes sense. I'm afraid they will have to wait for the new ship to leave before they can set off. But let's try it. If it really doesn't work, let's fight it yourself. You have to consider something. All parts of Liaodong, including Xinkefu, will be assigned to extra officials. This matter should be urgent but not slowed down. It's better to prepare early. Okay, there are so many things, let's do it one by one."

Li Hongzhang received the order and left.

After lunch, I had to go to the education yamen as planned. As soon as I left Huangji Gate, I received news that the Russian Minister Kasini had been on duty at the General Administration for the second consecutive day, asking the Prime Minister of Affairs Zai Ying to receive it. He replied that Zai Ying was seriously ill, but he always thought it was an excuse. Therefore, he had been staying in the General Administration yamen for the past two days and he came to work every day. He was not bad after get off work, and he followed him. It is said that since the Hailan Bashu news came to Beijing, Kasini has been in private frequently and asked to see Li Hongzhang several times, but Li Hongzhang knew what I wanted and did not dare to see him. He heard the news from the study that Kasini had much more white hair than in the past.

I laughed in my heart. It’s obvious what this guy wants to do. That’s what I want, but I’ll talk about everything when I conquer Vladivostok.

The Prime Minister's Education Office was the first of the mansion of Qishan, a Grand Secretary of the Daoguang period. In the first year of Xianfeng, the auxiliary general Yili, Jin Beizi, moved here. Later, Yili was expanded and renovated by Beizi, Jin Beile, and the prince of Jin. In the tenth year of Guangxu, it was expanded and renovated according to the king's system. It was a large scale and composed of three major buildings in the east, middle and west. The two parts of the East and middle have been converted into the Beijing Normal School. The teachers have been postponed from Europe and the United States, and are preparing to start classes or have already started classes. The students' students are from students who failed the third-level imperial examination. The good ones are selected to be admitted. According to Yung Wing's plan, the future selection of students will be expanded to the idle pens and posts of various yamen such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and after the three years of academic completion,

, basically master the preliminary teaching system, form a basic framework system for natural science, and then ask for the imperial examination to be a Jinshi, and then allocate it to each county as a Xuezheng or a newly established official position Xuezheng Tongzhi, and then gradually establish comprehensive middle schools at the county level across the country. Small counties cultivate hundreds of middle school students, large counties train thousands or even tens of thousands of middle school students, and qualified middle school students graduates are exempt from the child examination and directly obtain the reputation of scholars. However, more than 2,000 middle schools in various places are exempt from tuition, but food and accommodation need to be paid for labor, or those with wealthy families can directly pay food and accommodation. In terms of funding, the county magistrates can also mobilize the gentry to pay donations and state funds to solve the problem.

At the same time, the best among middle school students in various places were selected and sent to study in Europe and the United States. If you can obtain a degree, you will be recognized accordingly, either a juren or a jinshi. Then you will be used by the state based on the strengths of their studies.

The only disadvantage of this plan is that it is slow results, but education is a long-term project, and I am mentally prepared.

The three-row wing room in the western courtyard of the former Prince Qing Mansion is now the office location of the Education Office. Compared with the main hall next to it, it is a bit shabby, but it can also be seen that Yung Wing's sincere heart is.

The Education Office now has the power to manage the academic masters in various places, and Yung Wing himself has the power to take the exam for the Ministry of Personnel, so his words are useful, and some people have flattered themselves. In short, they are much more tough than before.

The welcome ceremony prepared by Yung Wing was simple and grand. A group of officials lined up to greet him, with smiles from the bottom of their hearts on their faces. After I signaled that I would not kneel, I would line up two teams to applaud and let me into the yamen.

Unexpectedly, I did not see Weng Tonghe, Xu Geng, and Sun Yuwen, three former military ministers. After asking Yung Wing, I realized that these three people had a two or three shadows, and later they kept saying that they were sick. I was not angry and laughed at them. These old people were the best to be able to do their best. They were not idle at home, as they were better than to act idle. Just pretend to be sick. But I smiled and ordered: "Little Kouzi wrote it down and asked the Imperial Hospital to send medical officers to see the three old men. I cannot forget those who have contributed their whole life to the court."

After looking at Yung Wing, he said, "You must also cherish your health. My century-old plan depends entirely on you. I have always put education first. If the people are not smart enough, there is no way to talk about strengthening the country and prospering the country." As he said, he walked into the main room and sat down. A group of young bureaucrats stood on both sides, and Yung Wing took the lead.

I asked everyone to sit together and asked if there were any difficulties. Yung Wing was blunt, that is, the announcement has been issued for several months, but no one responded so far. I guess I was afraid that the last encounter of young children studying in the United States would take place again, so there was a lot of resistance in this regard. Yung Wing suggested that I let Zaifeng go out on behalf of the royal family. I thought about it and shook my head and said, "Zaifeng sent troops to send troops, and he was a little older. In this way, I sent Zai Tao Zaixun to be an example, and I went back to do this matter personally. In short, this overseas study is... "

While I was talking, there was a sudden noise outside, and there was a hint of horses. There was a gunshot. I frowned and was about to ask, when Zai Wan ran in and knelt down and said, "The emperor is a foreigner. He claimed to be a Russian minister. He shot the gun in the sky. Now he pointed at his head and asked for a visit. He said that if the emperor did not see him today, he would commit suicide. The guards did not receive the order and did not dare to take him rashly for a while."

I laughed and stood up to tell Yung Wing, "Anyway, my heart for education has been unshakable for a hundred years." I turned around and looked around and said, "I am grateful to you, all the masters, and I feel it in my heart."

He smiled and ordered Zai Ting to tell him, "You go and tell him as your brother, that he would not meet him in this way, and I would not see him. I asked him to take down his weapons and go to the General Administration to ask Li Hongzao to introduce him. Has Li Hongzao been cured? If not, let Wu Tingfang introduce him. Humph! Will you meet me if you want to? A joke!"

After Zai Wen left, I talked with Yung Wing for a while. Sure enough, Zai Wen came back with a pistol and said, "The emperor is wise. Kasini has given up his weapons and thanked him all the time. If I hadn't seen him, I would have thought that someone else was in front of the General Administration's office that day. What's the point?"

I laughed and called back to Luang. I was in a great mood along the way. I stretched out my hand to widen my neck. The weather was a little hot. The sun shone directly in the afternoon, and it felt quite summery. Suddenly I thought of Shino Matsuhira, this guy should have started to move, right? I guess he was also waiting for the news that I had conquered Vladivostok. Maybe the day the city was broken was the time for his ambition.

I believe he had two choices at the beginning, one was to connect with Russia and the other was to join the Qing Dynasty. It was just by chance that he met Wen Tingshi and was received by me by chance. Now that the Qing army is about to recapture Vladivostok, I believe he will be glad for his decision.

Back in the palace, no new battle reports came from Vladivostok. He was planning tonight with Yi Xin, Li Hongzhang to prepare the palace test questions, and also to try international policy theories. Why not take the international situation after the recovery of Vladivostok as the topic to test Zhang Jian and Kang Youwei, who has a better vision?

Although I had a conclusion in my mind that Zhang Jian was an industrial and commercial talent, why did Kang Youwei? The four words "ambition and talent" would not have wronged him. But after all, I still have a lucky heart. Maybe it would make me change my impression?

In the small study in Yangxin Palace, after thinking about this, I got up and stretched, got up and walked towards Xiangning Palace. I haven't seen Caizi for a few days, and the little girl didn't know what happened.

When I passed Zunyi Gate on the way, I met two palace maids in front of me who might have just left Xiangning Palace and were talking to myself. One of them caught my attention: "The pearl shawl of Zhenzhu's is really eye-opening. I heard that it was sent in by several layers of relationships outside. I am so envious of people. If I could even put on such a cloak, it would be worth it if I died."

Another interface is a ridicule: "You are so admirable? By the way, if the Empress knows, she will ask the Emperor to reward another treasure, but I don't know... Oh, Your Majesty!", and knelt down in panic.

I was originally planning to ask who sent the thing in, but then I thought that these lower-level palace maids knew that their fur was already good, so I smiled and asked them to go.
Chapter completed!