Great Qing Dynasty talker

October 5th.

The two sides signed a city-surrender treaty.
The Kingdom of Prussia surrendered and accepted very harsh terms, and was burdened with extremely heavy debts. The indemnity was as high as 800 tons of gold, with a down payment of 200 tons and the rest to be repaid slowly.

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At this point, the last bit of dust from the tea war has finally settled.

Li Yu was completely relieved. The purpose of the war had basically been achieved, and the next step was to consolidate the victory.

Does winning the battle mean we win?
not necessarily!

War is just a means, just a way.

We must win thoroughly and get substantial benefits after the war! Establish a new order! Spread wide influence!

Profits are gold, land, minerals, and talents.

A new order is under construction.

Influence is difficult to describe precisely; it is complex and subtle.

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On June 6, all newspapers on the European continent collectively published an article written by Emperor Wu himself - "After Peace, Shaping a New International Order."

The article is divided into three parts.

The first part tells the causes, process and impact of the Tea War.

The second part emphasizes the core of civilization.

The third part describes the bright prospects for all classes after the war.

Finally, I want to tell all readers that the civilized Wu army has fulfilled its promise and will soon retreat back home in an orderly manner, intending to return peace to everyone.

The Wu army did not go on the expedition for land and gold, but was forced to do so and needed to punish some tyrannical monarchs and nobles.

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At the call of Emperor Wu, the "Global Free Trade Association" was established in Vienna, with 35 kingdoms of all sizes in Europe participating and signing.

The core clause is that import and export tariffs between member states, regardless of category, will be reduced to 10%.

As the eldest brother, Wu will assume corresponding responsibilities.

The Emperor of Wu publicly signed a commitment to set up a special fund with 30% of the global trade surplus to be used for direct investment in any industry in any region of any member country designated by the Wu royal family (note: land cannot be purchased).

note:

The previous three major treaties stipulated 20%, and now it is 30%.

Previously, the return of trade surplus was divided into different tracks, that is, the money was earned from whomever, and it was returned to that party in proportion.

It’s different now~
Regardless of country, all trade differences will be combined to form a large pool of funds (in theory, the Wu royal family can use the returns to make a certain area instantly rich, or a certain industry instantly take off).

……

The newspaper industry was collectively excited again, analyzing the positive significance of free trade to mankind from various angles.

Objectively speaking, free trade will indeed raise the living standards of ordinary workers on the European continent at this time, and the middle class will also be a beneficiary.

The big capitalists and the royal family were the victims.

The biggest beneficiary is the newly emerging comprador class.

Those pirate leaders active in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean transformed themselves and quickly became the first compradors by virtue of their familiar faces in tea smuggling.

They put on tuxedos, shaved off their messy beards, and walked into London, Paris, Vienna, and Amsterdam with a smell of the sea.
……

Of course, there were smart people in European countries who saw through Emperor Wu’s intentions.

But Wu's army was stationed in Vienna, Berlin, Warsaw, Amsterdam, as well as the Lorraine region, the Black Sea region, and the Mediterranean region.

Anyone who dares to rebel will suffer a bad end.

The European continent will no longer be able to organize a decent army in a short period of time, whether it is the manpower, weapons, funds or confidence.

Some less influential newspapers began to publish memoirs of frontline soldiers, trying to instill in readers the impression that Wu’s army, even if it was less than 10,000, would be invincible.

Make a steel stamp.

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The mastermind behind all of this is Li Yu.

Li Yu works eight hours a day, deploying work, receiving guests, and laying mines.

Under his powerful pen, countless minerals and forests from Alashankou to the Elbe River were transferred to Wu merchants at low prices, with terms ranging from 5 to 10 years.

Many princes of the Wu Kingdom married foreign princesses in advance.

Even Li Yu himself stepped forward and took as his concubines the daughters of royal families, nobles, and scientists from various countries.

Every day, His Majesty insisted on meeting four guests and visiting one foreign woman.

Your Majesty has truly sacrificed so much for the empire.

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To use a vivid metaphor, the European plate is like a broken mirror, with too many fragments and countless cracks.

Add to that the tea war, and there are even more cracks.

In the next 5 to 10 years, it is almost impossible for the European continent to unite again and fight against the State of Wu with force regardless of gains and losses.

A brief analysis reveals the following obvious contradictions:

Saxon and the whole of Europe (backstab) ~
Frank and the entire European continent (national system) ~
Polish-Lithuanian alliance and major European powers (annexation) ~
In addition, there are countless historical contradictions, big and small, which are simply too numerous to count.

……

After the war, Wu had at least five military bases around the European continent, numerous vassal states, and a second brother (Saxon) who had no choice but to be loyal.

But Li Yu was still worried.

In order to exert more subtle influence, he came up with a new trick - paying monthly wages to all the wounded warriors of the Battle of the Dnieper.

The conditions are quite strict and need to be met at the same time:
Visibly disabled.

Return home alive.

Below the rank of major.

……

Soldiers who meet the requirements can go to the consulate to collect half a year's salary at a time, paid at the rate of three silver coins per month.

The newspapers blew up the story again.

Praise Emperor Wu for his magnanimity, generosity and tolerance.

By the way, secretly belittle the feudal monarchs of various countries.

In theory, it was a comprehensive win.

But Li Yu was still not satisfied. Fearing that his victory was not complete enough or satisfying enough, he started to make trouble again.

With the assistance of the first group of gilded newspaper people who returned to Europe, comic strips were published.

More pictures, fewer words.

The themes are "Anti-War" and "Marry a Man".

One of them is "The Lady of the Camellias", which tells the story of a Frankish woman whose fiancé unfortunately died in the war of intervention, and finally took the initiative to marry a soldier of the Wu army.

The elements are very rich and the selling points are sufficient.

There is righteousness, love, blood, and thrill.

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Li Yu also created an international award in the name of the royal family - the Highest Civilization Award.

The award is given every four years to people of any nationality who have made outstanding contributions in any field. The winner will receive 4 taels of gold and the title of nobility of the Wu Kingdom.

Wolfe became the first lucky person.

The famous mathematician Euler, who lived in St. Petersburg and died almost ten years ago, also won the award.

The newspapers were in uproar~
Then, something even more shocking happened.

Euler's family produced a will, proving that Euler had wished to be buried in the East during his lifetime.

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In order to respect his personal wishes, Euler's coffin was unearthed from the sky.

His sisters, family members, and students, a total of 51 people, escorted the body on board the ship to the State of Wu.

Oula's relatives will settle in Songjiang, enjoy the emperor's favor, and have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

Euler's students can successfully enter the Academy of Sciences, and if they produce some results in the future, fame and fortune will be a given.

then,

After Fu Sheng, Fu Sheng and La Sheng moved into the "Tomb of Sages" on Shangfang Mountain in Suzhou Prefecture, Ou Sheng was added.

The indescribable collecting hobby of a crazy art student: collecting scientists' corpses~
……

Frankish mathematician and physicist Lagrange, who had a good personal relationship with Euler, as well as Fourier, Monge, Carnot and others, took their families and boarded the ship to Wu State under the strong persuasion of everyone, temporarily leaving their motherland to avoid following Lavoisier's path.

Once they arrive in Songjiang, they will all receive a well-paid teaching position at the Academy of Sciences and a noble title.

Emperor Wu privately stated:
“We need to have a standard for foreign scientists.”

"If he had taken the initiative to move to Jiangnan while he was alive, he would have been a great scientist."

"If he was unable to relocate during his lifetime for various reasons, but left a will before his death to be willing to have his remains buried there, then he would also be a well-known scientist."

"If he didn't want to go when he was alive and doesn't want to be buried there after he dies, then this person must be a fraud who is seeking fame and reputation. We should expose his hypocrisy, expel him from the ranks of scientists, and bury him in the garbage dump of history."

"Watt is a typical example!"

The art student's character flaws were fully exposed.

Very narrow!
Violence must be repaid!

indescribable!

……

Words spoken are as good as gold.

Mr. Watt, a member of the Royal Saxon Academy of Sciences, began to suffer a series of misfortunes. First, his illegitimate son came to his house to make trouble and demanded child support.

Later, the families of many partners complained in newspapers that Watt had a bad character and had been deceiving his partners for a long time, causing their partners to go bankrupt one by one.

The storm of public opinion is intensifying.

finally.

The daughter of a bankruptcy funder revealed in the newspaper:
Her father once funded Mr. Watt's research for seven years, but later he could not bear the burden, the factory went bankrupt, and her father died of depression.

After Mr. Watt gained fame and fortune, he actually tried to make me his secret lover.

After the report,

Watt was ruined.

A large number of conscientious people surrounded his residence and cursed him, and some radical elements threw Molotov cocktails into his private residence late at night.

Mr. Watt fled in a hurry and went to Richmond on the other side of the ocean.

……

No matter what, the world has finally returned to peace.

Wu Jun began to return eastward in batches~
Black Sea - Mediterranean Sea - Suez (this section is by land) - Red Sea - Indian Ocean.

One of the troops landed in Goa and destroyed the Maratha confederacy by force.

The Mughal Empire was favored by the Wu army~
The two sides signed a large arms deal!
The Wu Kingdom supported the puppet Mughal Empire and suppressed local tribes, basically establishing a new order in the South Asian subcontinent.

……

When withdrawing troops in batches~
Some of the vassal soldiers chose not to leave. They became farmers near the Black Sea and raised the American flag around their farms.

They began to cram their Chinese, abandoned their original names, and tried to become true immigrants from the upper country.

The kindhearted Emperor Wu allowed them to keep their own light weapons for daily self-defense.

Under the guidance of Xiqing guides, the soldiers returning along the northern land route destroyed the royal tents of the Khanate of Khiva and the Khanate of Bukhara without going deep into the mountains.

Since then,

The Mongols herded their cattle in the Caucasus.

The Cossacks settled on the western bank of the Dnieper.

The Western Qing lived a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural life in the area between the three khanates in Central Asia.

From the Ob River to the Dnieper River, from the Ili River to the Rhine River, smoke rose from the immigrant villages of Wu State, and merchants from Wu State came and went in an endless stream.

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At Li Yu's order, the extra cannons, carriages and baggage were sold on the spot.

It is definitely not cost-effective to bring these bulky guys back home from a long distance as the transportation cost is too high. It would be better to build new ones, which can also drive industrial development.

Because it is a weapon that has been consecrated on the battlefield, the price has doubled.

The Ottomans bought a batch.

The Habsburg monarchy bought another batch.

The Polish-Lithuanian Alliance gritted its teeth and bought a batch.

My second brother also bought a batch silently.

……

Li Yu left on the boat with a smile on his face.

concern?

nonexistent.

The shells will fall on the neighbors of the customers who buy the arms.

There's no need to treasure one's own things. They've all been unveiled. With Europe's industrial strength, it will take less than a year to copy them. It's better to hurry up and take a bite of the fat meat first.

confidence!

Absolute confidence!
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The arms dealers of the Wu State were busy selling unsaleable weapons and obsolete arms all over the world.

I am particularly keen on selling muzzle-loading cannons to chieftains around the world. I know you can't use them, so I want to sell them to you.
The Tea Wars were over.

We must seize this precious time window to clear inventory.

The old will not go, and the new will not come.

Various favorable factors stimulated the rapid development of Wu State's heavy industry, and steel production increased again and again.

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The light industry is in a slight downturn. Except for tea and food, other industries are somewhat lacking in stamina.

The new markets in the empire are somewhat saturated.

Pots, pans, cotton-padded clothes, quilts, iron tools, canvas products, coal stoves, these are all durable household goods that can be used for 10 years without being patched up.

So we need to explore more markets.

Sugar is the source of human happiness and the support of life.

The empire gained a large number of colonies at once, and the price of sugar continued to fall. Now that the people of Wu were much better off, they were naturally willing to buy some hard candies to try.

The people were delighted by this.

Even in the 20s, hard candies were a high-end snack that rural children could not get enough of.

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On the return trip, Li Yu boarded a 1500-ton steam battleship to inspect the colonies and naval bases along the way.

In the city of Suez, he issued a secret order, requiring the canal dredging project to be started immediately after the route was surveyed and determined. The Suez Canal must be dug within seven years.

Steam battleships have limited endurance, so they have to travel along the coastline, with naval supply points every few stops.

On board,
Li Yu asked the Navy to identify seven locations, including Suez City, Goa, Colombo, Yangon, Penang, Cam Ranh Bay, and Hawaii, as support points for overseas military bases.

Invest a large amount of money to build permanent fortifications.

Military and civilians work together.

Garrison, immigration, commercial transit, ports, agriculture, and fisheries.

Connect the dots and build the empire’s overseas lifeline.

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July 1797.

Chongming Island.

The flag is flying
The first batch of vassal troops withdrawn from the European battlefield boarded the ship again after a short rest.

In compliance with the Wu Emperor's decree: Return to the country armed, purge the imperial court, and punish the traitors.

The traitors are the yangban masters, daimyo masters, landlords and businessmen.

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The State of Wu finally took action against Fuso and Goryeo.

The slogan is:
Eliminate all traitors by force and distribute their land to the poor people of Fuso and Goryeo!

At the same time, it emphasizes:

The king still has good intentions, but he was blinded by the black-hearted yangbanni and daimyo. Therefore, he only opposes the traitors, not the king.

The vassal troops responded quickly to the call and were full of enthusiasm, clamoring for battle without any need for mobilization.

the reason is simple,
What is more honorable than returning home in glory is returning home in glory with a gun on your back~ (End of this chapter)