C2177 Lobbying Tongzhi

During this trip to Europe, everyone knew that the little emperor's main task was to travel and study. He wanted to travel the world to learn from the short term of other countries, and in the end, to provide reference for the reform of the Great Qing.

To be able to inculcate the advantages of a constitutional monarchy in the Eastern Emperor and affect the reform of the national policy of the Great Qing was the dream of almost all British politicians.

This was actually a very important reason why Zai Chun had to be so courteous. To sell the British political model to China, this was not only a political action, but also a matter that had very deep interests in the future.

Only by making the Great Qing carry out a policy similar to that of the British system could negotiations on further business progress be carried out. Only the government would not be so confused as to find a way to become a British person.

For example, the current capitalists of the Kingdom would spend their days on the map of the Great Qing studying how to lay the railways. It was a much bigger business than tea, silk or porcelain.

10 million gold taels for the first transition! There is no need to elaborate on how much money the railway makes.

However, the government of the Kingdom of Qing was simply too weird. The British could not find a way out at all. Normally, it was fine to do small businesses, but it would be fine if they negotiated directly with officials at the county level.

But the tens of millions of pounds of investment involved in the construction of railways across the provinces, a business that had to be negotiated with the imperial court, was a huge business between nations.

But can we talk? Ever since Tongzhi ascended the throne, the empress dowager and empress dowager who ruled over the Great Qing and even the foreign ambassador from the East Crossing Folk Lane were nowhere to be seen.

Although the United States and Russia of English and French had used the war to pry open the gates of the Qing Empire and force them to agree to the European powers setting up embassies in the Beijing, they did not expect the Qing Dynasty to have a way to please them.

I can't beat you anyway, but you want us to go to London, Paris, and Washington and do the same? I'm sorry, but we are not interested in this kind of tolerance.

What? You want to go into the Forbidden City to see the Empress Dowager and the Little Emperor? Please, the little emperor doesn't have an emperor yet, okay?

You said you wanted to see Her Majesty? Tai... What audacity. Don't you know whether men and women are intimate with each other or not? If you don't have a reputation, then the empress dowager of Qing must have a face!

How could a widow meet an outsider? How could a widow show herself? And to even see a bunch of foreign devils, how unpleasant would it be if word of this got out!

If the emperor could not see it and the empress dowager could not, then he could only look for the Prince Kung of the Head Office!

But unexpectedly, Prince Kung shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand, there was nothing I could do! With power in the hands of Her Majesty, I can't make such a big decision.

Come on, the ball is back in the Forbidden City. If you want to go to the Forbidden City again, the words you've been waiting for will still be there.

At this moment, the European diplomats that were left in China were all troubled by Qing Dynasty's actions of kicking balls. Even Xiao Letian was curious about the purpose of her actions.

However, when Xiao Letian used a lot of the resources in the CIA to dig up the truth from the mouths of countless Qing Dynasty Qing Liu and the high officials in the imperial court, Xiao Letian did not know whether to laugh or cry at the truth.

In the end, it was still a question of kneeling down to pay her respects. The empress dowager and the princes were all thinking, if foreign ministers were to enter the Forbidden City to negotiate with the empress dowager, should they kneel down to kowtow?

The foreign devil would definitely not kneel, but he would still have to get the dignity of the Great Qing. Just like this, while he was hesitating, the Qing Dynasty missed an opportunity to reform year after year.

The mystery of history had finally been solved. In Xiao Letian's previous life, he had seen a piece of notes about wild history left by the Qing people, and some small details from the time of Tongzhi's grand marriage were recorded in it.

When the European envoys of the East Crossing Folk Lane were about to go crazy from the torture of the Qing Dynasty kicking balls, they had finally arrived at the time of Tongzhi's grand marriage.

According to law, after the marriage, Tongzhi would have the authority to rule the empire. At that time, the minister could directly meet with the emperor, so the empress dowager's excuse of kicking balls wouldn't come in handy.

As long as they could see the emperor alone, the European envoys believed that they could definitely persuade the Emperor of China. After all, the young emperor still had the dreams of becoming a powerful country.

However, he had never expected that the Kingdom of Qing would only accept wedding gifts from European countries and would only let European envoys rest outside the Palace. In other words, the foreign devils would not be allowed to enter the main venue of the wedding.

This time, the foreign devils were anxious. They had united together to charge into the palace, which caused an uproar in the entire Qing Dynasty. In order to pacify these foreigners, the Prince Kung representing the empress dowager and the others, had promised to arrange a time for the Emperor to see these envoys alone.

After this conflict, the Qing Dynasty officially abolished the rule that the Foreign ministers had to kneel and bow to them. From then on, all the envoys in Europe, including Japan who had defeated the Qing Empire in the later stages, no longer had to kneel and kowtow after entering the Forbidden City.

Xiao Letian couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this, he recalled the famous quote from his previous life, 'In China, even if you want to move a table, you would bleed!'

The inertia left behind by the feudal dynasty s for thousands of years was so strong that it defied common sense. These Europeans could not even use their guns.

You and I are at war. If you defeat me, then I will cut off the land and compensate you! But you're going to change some of my traditional habits? That won't do, this is the ancestral family's law!

This was the true story of the Qing Empire at that time. It was precisely because of this background that Tongzhi Emperor's visit made the Europeans so excited.

They had finally found a chance to directly affect the Emperor of China. Furthermore, this little emperor was still so young, and he was at the critical moment in shaping their world view.

Whoever could influence Emperor Tongzhi would be able to influence the direction of China for at least fifty years. At the same time, they would also win countless business opportunities.

But today, Emperor Tongzhi had shown a strong interest in the British parliamentary system, causing all of the British politicians present to become excited.

"Your Majesty! "The governance of the empire has to be done with caution. A new policy has to be put to the test. There is no policy in the world that can satisfy everyone. What we have to do is to satisfy the interests of the majority of the people!"

"If a proposal can't even justify the doubts of the council, then the only thing we can say is that this proposal is wrong, or that it is immature!"

"Since there are problems, then let's go back and fix them. All of us who are in politics have no experience of being accused of being attacked? Everyone is the same, so we don't have the so-called feeling of humiliation. By the way, if we use an Eastern word to explain it, it's called losing face, right? "