C3512 Ci An and San Ye

Returning to the Kiki's tower, Ci An changed into a set of undergarments and his personal palace maid helped her milk them all up. After washing up, Ci An leaned on the bed and carefully beat up the empress dowager's legs.

Ci An said in a low voice while still half asleep, "Who do you think we can rely on now?"

"Look at what Master is saying, of course it's San Ye …" This Beiyuan was repaired by Master San, and this Master San is an old man with eight proper flags, the chief minister … "

"Bootlick …" Isn't San Ye a telegraph repairer? If this really happens, he doesn't have any soldiers! "

Zhou Daoying was also grinding his teeth like a beggar. "True, now that the military power of the imperial government has been divided among those people, San Ye can only fish for some silver from other places …"

"However... There's Xiao Letian behind San Ye! "

"Talking about him again! Is he a member of our Great Qing? The British already admit that the Chinese are an independent nation, and you still hope for Xiao Letian? "

Zhou Daoying stuck out his tongue: "Master is right, isn't this servant being anxious?"

Ci An turned his body to the side as he held onto his head. Zhou Daoying quickly changed his position and kicked, when he heard the empress dowager say, "It's the soldiers of the Great Qing … "It looks like there are a lot of them, but not many of them can fight …"

"Green Battalion and soldiers stationed in different places are already considered commoners. It might be alright to expect them to catch thieves in the areas, but if they really want to throw them thousands of miles away to fight, they are trash!"

"Xiang Army is currently occupying Jiangnan, thanks to Zuo Jigao splitting up a portion of his elites, Li Hongzhang has pulled away another portion of his veterans … Although the scale of the rest was huge, seven to eight years had passed since the war in Jiangnan … The warm wind should have softened their bones by now, right? "

"West Mountain has sixty thousand soldiers, His Majesty has trained thirty thousand. "Where else can I use my soldiers?"

Zhou Daoying continued, "The north! What about the Hunchun General from Heilongjiang and Ningguta? He has troops that have fought against the real old setae! "

"What about Mongolia? The Mongol palace on the prairie will listen to Her Majesty as well... "Now our suffering is how to transfer these soldiers into the pass!"

Ci An didn't really look at his, but Zhou Daoying could clearly feel that the empress dowager's body was stiff and his muscles tensed up.

Zhou Daoying lowered his voice and said, "It's been more than two hundred years, there are some things that should be done that I can't hide from … In the end, our Manchu is still located to the north of the Great Wall! "

Ci An suddenly opened his eyes, "Tell me … In the future, if there comes a day when Xiao Letian and I have a talk, I will give him a place in the Ming Dynasty, and my Manchu will protect the land outside the borders … "

"Do you think he'll agree?"

Zhou Daoying shrunk his neck back. "Master, this is something that this servant dare not say …" "But it's not at that level yet, is it?"

Ci An slowly closed his eyes and said, "Yes … It hadn't reached that far yet, but what about the future? Look at the fold on the table, Shuntian Palace gave it to me... "

"The north district of the Tanggu has already been completed. Now, we just have to wait for Xiao Letian to return home and take charge of the ceremony.

"It's a two hundred mile long railway. The goods and personnel could be delivered in four hours … "As a result, when the railway was completed, the Northern District lost 800 men."

"Can you understand it? Do you know what that means? "A thousand miles in one day …"

Ci An's breath gradually became regular and steady. He left the room and walked out of the Kiki's tower, looking at the stars in the sky. "When Hairy # 2 comes back, I will need to ask him for advice …" This is an iron mill, a railway, and a new army! "

"Why did it become so chaotic?" If he didn't learn a bit more, he probably wouldn't be able to serve his master anymore! Repair railway... What does building a railway have to do with a reduction in manpower? "I don't get it …"

Zhou Daoying and the rest would not be able to understand this logic in their entire lives, but the Qing San Ye that was heading south had no choice but to study it!

The Steamboat Buffalo that belonged to the United Kingdom was flying along the coastline towards Shanghai against the wind. Qing San Ye had already taken the lead to set off with the first batch of welcoming personnel from the Head Office.

Behind him, Weng Tonghe and the rest of the army, including Young Fifth Master Yi, still had two more days before they could board the ship!

Cheng Huai, Stone Mountain, Stone Water... Mongol guards were also present. These were the so-called core forces of reformist that had gathered around Qing San Ye.

Back then when Ci Xi had sent people to attack Jingshan, these reformist had even gone through quite a bit of suffering. Luckily, Xiao Letian managed to break through Beijing later on, allowing them to leave the prison safely.

These loyal supporters of the New Foreign Affairs Faction took two hours to explore the Northern Industrial Zones before they boarded the ship. The result was that they did not come here for a year and a half, and were already stupefied by the changes that had occurred.

"10,000 tons of hydraulic forging machines!" I've asked the foreigners, this thing is like a machine tool, it's an industrial mother machine! "

"With these, we'll be able to forge even bigger metal components, including cannons …"

"We, the Qing Dynasty, have to brace ourselves. We still can't even build a gun barrel, let alone a cannon barrel …"

"I've looked at the railways in the Special Zone. They were constructed flat and flat, with steam locomotives being adjusted. The smoke coming from them is at least three stories high …"

"It's already been four hours since we left the Special Administrative Region and arrived at Kaiping Coal Mine. If we want to use water or land transportation, we'll have to suffer for a day or two!"

"Master San, you have to talk to His Majesty about this. If the imperial government does not act up, and does not attack our factory, we will be finished in the future!"

Fu Qing's face ashened. He was a busy man who traveled to the north and south, making a trip to the south and Ryukyu twice a year. He was very clear about the changes that had occurred in the outside world.

Furthermore, because of his special identity, Fu Qing was able to come into contact with some of the Chinese decree documents. Although it was a top secret of the CIA that he could not see, he still had access to the details of the European battlefield.

Back then, the Poo War already caused Fu Qing to not be able to sleep after eating so much.

The inside of the Qing Dynasty was fearless. Anyone who opened their eyes to look at the world would tremble with fear!

Qing San Ye still had some lingering fear when he thought back to how he watched the ten thousand ton hydraulic forging machine in the special region. The red-hot iron ingots weighed at least five to six thousand kilograms, and under the impact of the huge hydraulic forging machine, they were kneaded and molded like dough.

What kind of power was this? It was simply crazy to the point of disbelief. Only after some investigation did he come to understand that without this kind of ten-thousand-ton forging machine, the cannon simply couldn't be produced!

So the barrel needed forging! The pitiful Eight Flag Hedonist and even the officials in the court thought that the cannon was built out of iron!

This kind of thinking and philosophy was far worse than anything else in the world!

"Even if you didn't say it, I would have done it! If we do not do foreign affairs, our Great Qing will be done for sooner or later! "

With a bang, Fu Qing smashed his fist on the table, causing the teacup and wine cup to jump up high. He pushed open the porthole and a cold wind blew in.

Looking ahead, the lights of the entire fleet on the sea had become a long line of lights. At a glance, one could only see that they were all ships from the Special Administrative Region that were trading in and out of the sea.

In the past, these fleets had all delivered some profitable commodities, such as food, weapons, treasures, and industrial goods from overseas … One ship after another, they exchanged the Great Qing's pig hair, herbs, porcelain ware and tea leaves …

But since the Franco-Prussian War, with the recognition of Chinese statehood and some deregulation in Europe, Prussia had begun to export large quantities of industrial mother machines to China.

Amongst the fleet that Qing San Ye was looking at, one quarter of them were large ocean ships that were used to transport basic industrial mother machine equipment!