Chapter 247 Preparing for the New Century

"According to the will of heaven, the emperor ordered that Yuan Shikai, a minor official, was born in a low-end cold. After Li Hongzhang recommended him to be a Taoist in the customs stationed in the court, I have been promoted repeatedly, and I have been a minister of the border. However, I did not want to be grateful for the kindness of heaven. When I performed peaceful actions in East Asia and spread the kindness of heaven on the world, I took advantage of the orders and used small plans to drive the tigers and wolves into the land of the ministers and vassals. I was determined by the will of the king and father.

Where is it? The Censorate impeached you Yin to deceive your neighbors and dominate him. I am the same. However, I think about it for a moment that you know someone and it is a pity to dismiss him. Therefore, I specially decreed you to show me the world and comfort me to be loyal and upright. Hill is good at remembering him!" Kou Liancai held the imperial edict, but he looked at Yuan Shikai and others who were kneeling on the ground. Then he recited: "For this reason, Yuan Shikai immediately dismissed the Governor of the East China Sea and was appointed as the Governor of the South China Sea, and then he was appointed as the Governor of the South China Sea. He immediately went to Manila to serve as the Governor of this!"

In recent years, this kind of show has become less and less. Even if there is an imperial edict, it will be a telegram. This time, he mobilized many troops to send Kou Lian, the eunuch of the Six Palaces of the Inner Palace, to Weiying Mansion. How could Yuan Shikai understand the key points? He respectfully put on a plead guilty expression and stood up to receive the imperial edict.

Kou Liancai pushed Yuan Shikai's silver notes and smiled with Yuan Shikai, "The emperor has a strict order. The inner palace ordered the eunuchs to accept more than 20 taels of silver from outside the government, and they will beheaded." Then he held his ear in Yuan Shikai's ear and said, "I'm afraid I don't know that Lord Yuan is outside. During this period, a group of eunuchs who served were rectified in the uterus. The villain only asked to serve the emperor for two more years. The emperor received the wishes, so what is tea money..."

Yuan Shikai immediately understood and nodded, "It's so strange that my father-in-law is in the six palaces at such a young age. Shikai admires it! Admiration!" Su Rong praised a few words and sighed, "After listening to the emperor's reprimand, Shikai is really regretful, father-in-law..."

"Sir——" Kou Liancai said in a distorted manner: "The villain is just a useless man, and he dare not hear about the major affairs of the country. Sir, the emperor has another word to let the slave bring it to the master."

"Oh?" Yuan Shikai was stunned, then stopped, shook his horse's hooves and was about to kneel down.

Kou Liancai hurriedly blocked and said, "The emperor has something to say, this is not an order, so sir, please do not give me a gift." After making a gesture of invitation to Yuan Shikai, he went forward in dislocation, and said, "The following is the emperor's original words, sir, listen." He learned from my tone: "Yuan Shikai gave me such a step, which shows his talent and ambition. You can send him a message to him to reassure him. I am just his donkey down the slope."

After saying that, he saluted Yuan Shikai, who was a little dazed, smiled and turned around.

Yuan Shikai bowed and said goodbye, first smiled, suddenly came to his senses, and asked: "My father-in-law is going to go back now? It's hard for him to travel around the sea. Should I rest for two days and let Shikai finish his friendship with the landlord?"

"When I say to the great master, there are rules in the palace, and the villain dare not stay too much. The great master must also pay attention to the will. The villain still has the will to Lord Zuo. After the matter is done, the villain will wait on the ship." After that, he gave another gift and turned around and headed for the carriage line.

Yuan Shikai was stunned and began to chew on the eunuch's will and the words that the emperor specially asked to pass on oral.

I know my own family affairs, and I have great suspicion of Zaifeng's fall before. There is no reason to interact with Zhao Bingjun and others. I also pointed it out when the emperor summoned me, but I didn't punish me. It was not that I looked up to the emperor's attention, but that I was going to do a big thing here in Donghai and I just ignored me for a while.

Unfortunately, if this child has been in China for three or five years and has a Jinshi, his future achievements will be unlimited. Yuan Shikai developed a love for talent. If this child is recommended to him for his experience, with his intelligence to look at problems, he will definitely not be a thing in the pool in the future. What a kind of person Yuan Shikai is, his mind will immediately become agile. While thinking, he nodded and said, "Well, tell me, why did you see that the court has to go through the Southeast Asian countries? Hey, don't you see the imperial edict, and I will immediately be quiet around me?" This is the truth. The words in the imperial edict are already very strict. At this time, those who dare not come to touch his bad luck or are not optimistic about his future will probably account for half of them. At this dock, the number of people who talk to him as a lord is almost 70% less than usual.

"Those are just fools." Guo Yanqing curled his lips disdainfully, "Anyone who is interested in national affairs can understand that our Qing Dynasty and Northern China will be able to expel Odi and after the East pacify Japan, the next focus of the strategy must be Nanyang..."

Before he finished speaking, Yuan Shikai interrupted: "Get in the car and talk, will Mr. Zilan follow Shikai to take office in Nanyang?"

The car set off and headed towards the Governor's Office in the city.

Zuo Baogui took over as the governor of the East China Sea and still served as the admiral of Xinxiang. As for the responsibilities of the governor of the two provinces and the admiral of Xinshu, two civil officials from the British overseas Chinese who had a good reputation in recent years were replaced by Song Qingyu and Xia Shouzhong, who had sent the country to overseas Chinese. Before going abroad, they were promoted to the third-rank Taoist platform after returning to China. On Tianjin Road and Laizhou Road, they served as Shandong governor and Zhejiang governor respectively last year, and this year they were promoted to the governor, showing a strong upward momentum. The two also have one thing in common, that is, they are both members of the New Confucian Party, and their background in studying in the UK, this appointment also fully demonstrates the blood exchange signal of the civil servant system.

Dai Zongqian took over the responsibility of the admiral of the New Shu Province. On the one hand, he had experience in combating Japan, and on the other hand, he was also a good soldier. This mobilization was purely based on pragmatism.

Tang Shaoyi was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Tongzhi. Considering his lack of experience in governing local areas and pioneering capabilities, his advantages of being familiar with foreign affairs are considered to be a perfect person.

To let Yuan Shikai go to the Southeast Ocean, he must use his ability to deal with the chaos, determine the situation of the current situation of the three forces of the Philippines, the Chinese occupation forces, and the local Chinese, and to a minimum, all Luzon Island must be managed well. In the future, the Port of Manila can play a role in squeezing Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries. Together with Kaohsiung Port and Hainan Island, they can also defend the power of any country entering the Pacific from the Indian Ocean to a considerable extent.

In terms of industrial raw materials, the transportation lines for ore transport from Australia to domestic will also be protected by the Pacific Fleet, which uses the Philippines as its home port.

This critical place is where Yuan Shikai should go the most.

As for Japan, with the huge changes in Japan's vassal state and the situation, major strategic changes will not happen again. Before the First World War, we must settle down on the basis of the current situation. As long as there is no big trouble, with Zuo Baogui's ability and courage, there should be no major problems.

Therefore, Guo Yanqing's guess is correct. The next focus of the empire's strategy must be Nanyang.

With the deepening of industrialization, the status of rubber, a cash crop that is more and more important to the progress of industrialization to some extent, is increasingly important. Without a stable situation, the Nanyang that you can fully control is intolerant.

This is the problem that Western industrial countries have encountered. The demand for industry will inevitably affect national policies. Of course, the situation in my country is different. For example, I have not yet encountered the problem of opening up new markets. The reason is that the internal market of my country has been digested for many years.

As long as you spend some effort on the Japanese direction in this half year, the situation will basically be settled. With the elite 103 and 104 towns stationed in the Akagiyama area more than 70 kilometers away from Tokyo, and the Kyoto direction in the west will allow 101 and 102 towns to help Tianhaiguo fight civil war training, in the next 100 or 20 years, Japan's military strength may even be a problem to deal with Tianhaiguo, let alone cause trouble for me. Even if he has the two 7,000-ton pocket battleships, he will replace the old ships of the Northeast Asian fleet in a few years and eliminate the two Dingzhen ships to Tianhaiguo. Under the command of Hirahachiro Togo, the Tianhaiguo navy may not be able to chew these two pocket battleships. Then it depends on how King Meiji requests me to mediate.

Japan's pacification has also reduced many future problems. At least the great powers have to gain a foothold in Northeast Asia. It is impossible for me to have a private contact with the Japanese government and have limited treaties called vassals, Japan will be the first to be unlucky, and the country that is coming will immediately face the danger of angering me. This is a mistake that the British Empire dares not make easily now.

The Great Deed in Northeast Asia is the special merit made by Yuan Shikai. He obviously knew that he was prone to my taboos. He found a mistake and asked me for trouble. He could transfer him to Nanyang by the way. This person is really smart. I will never forget his merits. After a few years, the Philippines will make it and give him a gift, which is considered to be an explanation to him.

From north to east to south, this is the strategic focus of the country. The key to tactical work is the World Peace Conference to be held in Beijing in April next year. It has been clearly stated that the six countries that are going to participate in are Britain, Germany, France, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy, Turkey, and China. In addition to the United States and Russia, there are basically all the other countries in the world.

It is understandable that Russia doesn't come. It's very embarrassing to fight China just now, but he has a problem with it. It's basically enough to have Britain and France come.

The failure of the United States to come is also an important trend, which fully demonstrates that the United States has devoted all its energy to the American strategy. In part, Germany's clear withdrawal in exchange for the United States' support for Germany's world policy, or at least a neutral expression, this is a win-win result.

Germany's strategy is very correct. Instead of fighting with the UK in South America, it is better to give up South America's interests in exchange for the support of the United States and concentrate on fighting with the UK in the place where it should be. Asia has China, Europe is the focus of its own business. If Africa secretly gives UK eye drops, this game of chess can be more vigorous. With its own strength, challenging the UK around the world is the behavior of a fool.
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