Chapter 272 Behind Diplomacy

"On the Philippines issue, the British Empire does not recognize any military existence in any country. According to the Philippine government's statement in 1902, the Philippines' status should and should only be the autonomous territory under His Majesty Edward VII, King of the British Empire. Any other political form of existence will be regarded as illegal. The possible problems may arise include the Chinese royal family and government who created the Philippine incident." The hard statement was used to reply to the speech delivered by Prince Chun Zai-dang, who was responsible for Philippine affairs in the speech delivered to the United Kingdom on December 26, the previous year.

This is the first press Q&A meeting of the British Empire's Foreign Ministry since the beginning of the new year in 1905. When answering the British Empire's response to China's announcement of completing their first phase of action plan in the Philippines, spokesman Peter Loy made an official version of the explanation to the reporters. In such a speech, the current difficulties of the British people can only express their dissatisfaction with the new changes in the Philippines issue, but in fact they cannot make any fierce reactions from the military. There is no way, in the three-country game in the Asia-Pacific region, any military behavior against Party A must not only consider Party A's own strength, but also any actions that Party B may make.

In fact, British intelligence agencies can also see what they do from the German Pacific Fleet's departure records.

The Navy asked the cabinet for its opinions on this. The cabinet's reply was that before completely solving the Germans or Chinese, the Philippines issue could not be considered for the time being, but efforts should be made to cultivate resistance forces.

When I received news from the intelligence department about this decision in the UK, I was in Jiangnan. This time I went to Jiangnan for the first time. Recently, quite a lot of voices have appeared in newspapers, saying that the imperial examination system is no longer suitable for the times and should be replaced by other ways. These people raised questions, and there are indeed problems in the imperial examination system, such as pursuing generalists too much and not adapting to the current reality of talents urgently needed by the country.

However, as an examination system, this kind of system of selecting state officials in this examination is not wrong. I have also consulted several veterans in the court, including the founding figures of the new education, and the State Education Director Yung Wing, who returned from studying in the West. They also believe that the imperial examination system has been slightly reformed, and the selection of individual examinations in various special categories is more suitable for the current national development situation. If the imperial examination is rashly cancelled, it is bound to reopen a path for the selection of state officials. At present, there is no better way to replace the imperial examination system that has been implemented for more than a thousand years.

Officials are not very active for the time being, and they will deal with the repairs for the time being. They only added a decree that officials above the seventh rank must graduate from college to cope with the common phenomenon of not attending college directly in society. Similarly, examinations such as provincial examinations and other levels have also been held by each province from schools. Similar to the form of college entrance examinations in later generations, those who pass the examinations can be registered from each province to the unified juren of the Ministry of Education. This is also a compulsory measure that requires the whole people to participate in comprehensive popular education.

Of course, the cost of education, from childhood to college, as long as you can study, some food and accommodation needs to be donated by work. If all food and accommodation are also handled by the state, this part of the money is calculated as an astronomical figure. Fortunately, women are not liberated yet, and women from poor families only have a few studies. The cost of female students is not considered initially. There are nearly 50 million students at all levels across the country each year, and each person spends an average of 50 silver dollars a year, which is 2.5 billion silver dollars. This has already been waiting.

Two-thirds of the country's annual fiscal revenue, so it is said that it is full-inclusive, but it is actually popularized in some large cities in wealthy areas. Fortunately, the gentry class in China maintained the good tradition of donating money to support education at this time, and it was not as much as it was later generations. Every year, educational institutions in various places can always collect a lot of money from local wealthy families and rich families to supplement the education gap. What students have to pay is to help the good people and serve as cheap labor.

Of course, now there is no need to bear the cost of food and accommodation for students, and the education funding can still be taken out. The Ministry of Revenue has never dared to be careless about the education funding of nearly one billion silver dollars a year. Teachers' salary and infrastructure construction such as school buildings are the two major issues at present. In the beginning, it will be a little harder. After a few years, the school buildings will be built, and it will be almost done. And the emerging capitalist class in the country, as vested interests of national policies, should they vomit out a little. At worst, I can work harder and write a few more imperial books for them to hang in the middle hall to support the storefront of the house.

It's ridiculous to say that an emperor has fallen to the point of selling words to raise money from wealthy families, I am afraid I am the first person in history.

This country is too big, and many ideal slogans are really unavailable. The cabinet is already considering adding a variety of taxes such as education tax. In addition, the fundraising function of the People's Livelihood Lottery in Beijing's civil affairs system has also attracted the attention of the cabinet. The Ministry of Education is considering whether it can cooperate with the Ministry of Qing Dynasty to open educational lottery in various big cities and raise education funds for remote areas in the province.

In addition, we need to open up wealth channels. Two young ministers and deputy ministers of the Ministry of Education also complained to me, saying that they are now the ministers and officials of the Ministry of Education. In addition to understanding education, they also need to know how to make money. Although it is a joke, it can also show the hard work on the education line.

The selection method of state officials is only slightly changed, but the selection method of officials needs to be reformed step by step. The previous model of officials can basically see signs of hereditary. Some people joke that officials are not hereditary, and officials who have no back-end will leave in a few years. However, the officials have been in charge of you for generations and are a god of officials in this land. Some places are foolish officials who bully officials, which is also a tourist news. Just as the Civil Affairs Bureau reported that after the reform of the military system, a large number of demobilized soldiers were all young people. If they were put on the local area rashly and there was no arrangement, something would happen in the future.

Therefore, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Military Affairs discussed for a while, and I finally made an order that from now on, those who have no service records in the military will not be allowed to serve as clerks. I believe that if there is a few years of transition, the situation will improve slightly.

Therefore, when I went to Jiangnan this time, I was to raise education funds, and to check the administration situation in Jiangsu. The struggle for school education was here, and I was hitting my bet on the school. I am afraid that some people would have misunderstood their intentions and would have caused great corruption or something.

Of course, there is another obvious reason to see Weng Tonghe, but he was not convinced. He died in bed before my train arrived in Jiangning. He heard his family say he was laughing to death. I thought it was because I heard that I was going to see him, so I laughed so much. Well, I saved me from going there and wrote a handwritten book and gave it to him, which was worthy of him.

In addition to educating me, what I care about most is military, which is one of the important reasons why I went south. The submarine was in Nanjing and the tank was in Shanghai. When the two places reported to ask me to name it, I also thought about it. Of course, I had a curse on the names of the tanks and submarines, and I was used to calling them. But how to make the Chinese accept such a sudden name, and if you want to say it, it would be fine if the submarines were, the submarines could always be linked together. The tank went through a lot of trouble, and finally decided on the name of "I won't be able to defeat you before."

Of course, both of these things are still in the confidential period of top secrets. Although there are also submarines, French and British people are doing this, the gap between private experiments without military orders and the special funding of my country is not based on reason. Of course, for strategic reasons, both of these things are shared with the Germans at the same time. Of course, I hope that the Germans can be stronger and last longer in Europe. After all, for me, it is better to fight forever, although this is impossible.

As for the long-term proposition of the General Staff, the issue of the two strong men in Britain and Germany fighting against each other in the empire, I came up with an unexpected plan.

The General Staff does not recommend that our country make any decisions that stand in advance unless the two strong men show a clear one-sided situation. Xu Shichang showed a side that surprised me. As a newly established department with a German officer as the main body, the General Staff report did not show any obvious tendency. They had a sentence that satisfied me: "My China stands in the East, and the situation is quite similar to the United States of America, but this area is always under the control of the British. I think the two strong men can compete with each other.

It is possible to establish a century-old hegemony in Asia. Our China is in a prosperous era that has not been seen in a thousand years. We are clearly attached to England and secretly aided Prussia, but in fact we are seeking our China foundation. Before the battle between the two powerful peoples, we can tell the world that Asia is the thing in our China. English can clearly help England and Prussia can secretly assist Germany, both strong people, and both ways can be carried out. After all, Europeans are not my race, and both of them are particularly good. Only those who are concerned are the ones who take advantage of the situation and replace them. Therefore, I would like to visit the United States at a time.

Basically, I agree with this summary statement. The only problem is that due to the Philippine war, some of the actions on the surface will probably be more difficult to win the trust of the British. After all, Asia was originally his chassis, but now I will directly declare that Asia is my territory. There are great differences in interests, but Germany is here now. If there was no Germany in the world, maybe Britain would have poured all its troops to attack.

Of course, if there were no Germany, the British would probably not have waited until today. When they made peace with Russia, the first one to abandon was China.

This is also the eternal law of international relations, and there are no permanent friends. When Britain and Russia are hostile, China and Britain can be as good as honeymoon. Once the British-Russian relations are thawed, all problems arise.

So I have to find an opportunity to show goodwill to the British. Of course, it is not necessary to pay too much money.

Now let Xu Shichang go to the United States as Chief of Staff. His foundation in the military is not deep, and it is just right to go to the United States.

The third son of the emperor, Puxia, is twelve years old. It is time to receive a complete system education. I still want to pay my hope for him. One of the two brothers in the first place fell out of favor due to family reasons, and the other is because of their early marriage and their wife's family is a European royal family. They are arrogant and arrogant. I heard that they are also a little bully outside. But when I saw me like a mouse and a cat, I don't have that much time to repair him. Therefore, I look the kindest at the younger Puxia. Maybe because of the lack of a deep background in the matriarchy, I still look a little bit, so I arranged for him to study in the United States. From middle school, Xu Shichang accompanied him in the name of escorting him and had a round of contact with important American politicians.

When I parted with them in Shanghai, I still focused on Xu Shichang. From the perspective of military strategic thinking, there are not many places worth learning at present. The important thing is to establish friendship and continue the political cooperation habit of respecting each other's sphere of influence. Some time ago, the United States gained control of the Panama Canal was a typical case of cooperation. At present, we have no place to help the United States. He can completely treat this month as a vacation.

However, the Pacific islands along the way have strategic importance, so we should pay attention to them and say hello to the overseas Chinese in the United States on my behalf, especially some newly occupied islands such as Guam along the way. In Honolulu, where Sino-US cooperation, we should spend more time there.

Of course, there were also agents who went there. First, to protect the safety of the prince, and second, the Military Information Department would also give some guidance and help to the Chinese and Italians mixed in black and white.

I believe the US government also knows that my subordinates are connected with their domestic gang characters, but they also find that my purpose is probably to understand and influence the US foreign policy as much as possible. Americans will sooner or later become enlightened, but it is not now. They are busy controlling the entire America - fighting against world hegemony.

Since entering the 20th century, South America has also entered the old path that Asia has taken more than a decade ago. Several regional powers are in a life-and-death arms race. Peru, the original maritime power of South America, has been left behind by Brazil and Argentina. Behind these two powerful people, the figure of international overlords is looming.

It's nothing to do with me. After reviewing several private tank modification factories in Shanghai, I issued an order to guide these factories to merge, and not stop the tractor production line. We can help them move the production line westward in the form of part of the orders first, and guide them to join forces to establish a new company to meet the military's order needs. Of course, the number of the first batch of experimental properties will not be too large. Twenty-seven tanks are enough to form a tank battalion. After all, the current tanks modified by tractors are too far from the tanks in the concept of later generations. When I saw those iron lumps with my own eyes, although I was mentally prepared, I almost sprayed a mouthful of water.

The firepower is an improved version of a one-pound cannon and a Maxim machine gun - the domestic Hanyang Thunderbolt-type machine gun, which formed all the attack firepower. It ran almost as fast as a donkey cart, and the maintenance rate was OK. Three of the twelve tanks I inspected stopped fire on the way. The business owner who was fortunate to be received was inevitably embarrassed. Fortunately, I was in a very high interest and talked to them about the cost issue with them with interest. After asking, the labor cost of this tank company was as high as 70,000 silver dollars, and it was sold to the military for a price of 100,000 yuan. If it was equipped with a tank division, it would be more than 20 million silver dollars. This was not a small amount. If there was this money, a rifle that was enough to equip more than 200,000 troops would be equipped with 100,000 bullets.

There is no way, it is necessary to reduce costs, otherwise buying tanks in the future will make people poor. What you want to buy is not just tanks?

The submarine is even more expensive. Although the construction cost of the first submarine is nearly one million silver dollars, it is still expensive. After all, this is not an official business. In my idea, weapons and equipment need not only rely on official factories, but also on private arms companies to purchase them. In this way, weapons and equipment can be used according to military needs, rather than looking at what others have before studying and researching things.

Therefore, the first submarine, plus John Holland's patent purchase money, paid a total of three million silver dollars, which was more than 500,000 pounds. Nearly one-third of the cost of the dreadnought was enough for him to go back and become a rich man.

Although the money was so painful, the effect he had after returning to the United States was extraordinary. There is a reason why the United States could attract scientific talents. I don’t have the reason that he had, so I had to create my own truth. This truth is money, a stable life, and there is no threat of war. Although the United States has language advantages, no matter what, it is enough to attract one or two representative talents from an industry. If I don’t have that much money, I will spend the Royal Institute.

From a world perspective, the situation I started to create more than ten years ago finally began to see the prototype this year. The center of the whole world is in Europe, while the other two areas with little threat to war and stable life are one in North America and the other in East Asia. The local areas of these two countries seem to be almost difficult to attack.

In China, this is the credit of the first island chain. What is the value of the navy's great investment? The value lies in giving the local area a peaceful and stable environment. China is a country facing the ocean. Without a strong navy, what is the development of stability and rise? When the enemy's gunboats open, everything is empty.

In addition to cultivating internal strength, the rise of a country also requires cooperation from the international situation. In this year, the situation in Europe has been extremely extreme.

The first one to fight was not in the Balkans, but in North Africa. The Moroccan crisis caused Germany and France to fight. The first one to attack was the Italians who made a fortune silently. Under the indulgence of the British, Italy seemed to have seen the sweetness of following the British big brother. It sent more than 40,000 naval and army soldiers to launch a sudden attack on Oasekhufra, a major city in Libya, which was stationed in only 7,000 Ottoman Legions.

It was a sudden attack, without any warning, the Turks had almost no reaction. After a period of ignorance, the seven thousand people found that the enemy was several times more than they were, so they could not raise the white flag and demanded to surrender home. The Italians were not too much, and happily accepted the Libyan and Turkey colony. The once lost self-esteem was found with the support of the British big brother again.

What Germany can give, Britain can give. What Germany can't give, the British can give. The British left such an impression on the Italians.

The Italian offensive in the spring of 1905 may be because they were too close to the Germans, or because of the construction of the Hanzhi Railway, Turkey officially bid farewell to his friend period with the British. Like a piece of toilet paper, after rubbing the Russian shit, they were arrogantly thrown into the doomed cesspool by the British.

Taking Herzl's funeral as an opportunity, the British Empire formally expressed its support for Zionism. "After considering South Africa, Argentina, and Uganda, the Jews finally found their direction. Yes, Palestine and the British Empire supported the Jews to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine. Bless you, wish you to end your displaced life from now on and gain eternal life."

The representative of the British Foreign Ministry brought the blessings of the Prime Minister, which made the Jews in the whole world cry out for it. After being rejected by the Germans and discriminated against by the French (represented by the De Vrees incident), a world-wide power finally supported the Jews to build their own homeland.

When the British made this speech, they did not pay any attention to the attitude of the current owner of Palestine, the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In their hearts, what is more worth noting are the Arabs living on that land.

While blessing the Jews, the British also offended the Arabs. Although their envoys were trying to contact the Arab guerrillas, some unpleasant things happened. In Palestine, with the acquiescence of local officials, the Arabs attacked the British's merchants and agencies, and some British people were beaten to death and injured.
Chapter completed!