Chapter 43: Boat, Muslim

The icing on the cake for Lan Guiren's birthday was also the good news that the ironclad ship with a displacement of 6,350 tons was officially completed and handed over to the Royal Navy after several experimental cruises.

One of the most powerful giant ships in the world today, after nearly six years of hard work by Chinese technicians, finally appeared in the east like a shining rainbow at the end of 1866, and the ironclad ship was named "Regent".

The Regent uses a three-inflated steam engine, a water pipe boiler, with a power of 6,300 horsepower, a speed of 14 knots, and a battery life of 4,100 nautical miles/10 knots.

For sea ship units, the festival is 1 nautical mile per hour, 1 nautical mile = 3.704 miles. Shanghai is less than 6,000 nautical miles from San Francisco. That is to say, if the speed of 10 knots is maintained and the supply in Guam is sufficient, the Regent has basically the ability to cross the Pacific Ocean.

The three-expansion steam engine was first used on military ships. Its thermal energy utilization rate was amazing, laying the foundation for ironclad ships to remove sails.

The generator was also used on ships for the first time. The Regent was equipped with two generators that could provide 65 kilowatts, one front and rear searchlights each. It was calculated in terms of candlelight units of luminous intensity, which was about 15,000 candlelight units.

The total weight of the Regent's armor is 1243 tons, the armor on the waterline is 14 inches thick, and the armor under the waterline is 11 inches, and some armor is made of high-quality steel.

The main guns are 2 300mm breeze heavy artillery in Jinling Krupp, 2 155mm stern bow secondary artillery in Jinling Krupp, 4 75mm 75mm guns in Jinling Krupp, 8 57mm rapid-fire cannons in Guangzhou, and 8 47mm rapid-fire cannons in Guangzhou.

The Regent's firepower is excellent and can be said to be the world's number one, reducing the number of heavy artillery. With a large number of armor-piercing rapid-fire cannons, it can be said that after the mid-19th century, the speed of artillery often determines life and death. The rapid-fire cannons developed by Guangzhou Arsenal can have a rate of fire of 5-7 rounds per minute. The 57mm armor-piercing and 47mm armor-piercing flowering bullets are a fatal threat to the armor of most iron armor ships now.

At the same time, the Regent was launched together with the Regent and the trial sailing was announced. Two escort express ships were also announced to be completed, with a displacement of about 50 tons, each equipped with 4 continuous bead guns and 1 37mm rapid-fire gun, which was mainly used to protect the Regent from the left and right to prevent harassment of enemy boats, submarines, etc.

The Regent was in charge of Li Chengmou, the Royal Rear Admiral, and the former Changsha was in charge of the war with the Russian Far East Fleet, and was brave and brave, defeated the enemy's flagship, and made the first-class merit.

The imperial military system has improved its military rank, and the officers are generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, chief commanders, deputy chief commanders, assistant commanders, chief military academy, deputy chief military academy, and assistant military academy.

Sergeant: Sergeant, Sergeant, Corporal.

Soldiers: First Class Private, Second Class Private.

The ranks of soldiers and soldiers are used in regular army. The newly recruited soldiers or reserve troops in the local area. After the militia joins the army, they will pass the training for three months and be promoted to the first-class corps. After serving for one year, they will be promoted to the first-class corps, and will be promoted to the first-class corps for another year.

Now the empire fully implements the compulsory military service system, and sergeants are equivalent to professional soldiers. Only excellent conscripts can advance sergeants without the hardship of retirement. Although the Royal Army and Navy have all reorganized and incorporated a large number of veterans into the newly expanded corps as officers, the Royal Army's several extremely elite main corpses are still composed of sergeants.

The Royal Army, the chief and deputy corps officers and the outpost officers, were also non-commissioned officers.

The rank of officers, the salary of major generals and second-rank civil servants is the same. From this we can see that the steward of the Regent is completely two heavyweights and the steward of the Royal Army Infantry Battalion. Of course, the battalion officials have now removed the title of steward and replaced it with the battalion commander or battalion commander.

With the good news of the completion of the Regent, the bad news of Lincoln being assassinated came from the United States.

Ye Zhao was shocked when he received the telegram. He thought that because of his intervention, the butterfly wings had already swelled up storms across the ocean, and who knew that what he should come was still coming.

Ye Zhao couldn't help but feel a little regretful and never reminded Lincoln to be careful of the assassination of the southern slave owners. After all, he still admired Lincoln very much. But how could Lincoln not know that the southern forces hated him to the core? It also involved some great financiers who were extremely dissatisfied with Lincoln's new monetary policy that was about to take back the issuance of private bank notes. The assassination was confusing, but I'm afraid he could not escape this disaster.

The first snow made the entire capital look like an ice sculpture, covered with thick velvet coats.

The East Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace, the ground dragon burned hot, and Li Xiaocun was arguing fiercely with Zhou Jingshan, and Li Jianchen remained silent.

Ye Zhao sat on the throne of the Minghuang and slowly savored the tea. At the kang table, the matchmaker listened to the debate between the two.

He just finalized the itinerary for the Regent to visit San Francisco next spring. What Li Xiaocun and Zhou Jingshan are now arguing about is whether the emperor wants to go to San Francisco to meet with the Republican and Democratic leaders in secret. Is it dangerous?

In fact, it should be said that it is necessary. Zhou Jingshan, who is strongly opposed, can only use safety issues as an excuse. It is impossible to say that the emperor's move is inappropriate, right?

When Li Xiaocun heard Li Xiaocun talk about the domestic situation in the United States again, Zhou Jingshan interrupted him and said, "I am already familiar with the dispute between the American party and the minister, and it is not a matter of time to explain it. America and our country are far away from the ocean, and it is a place that is far west. The sea is windy and storm, and the civil turmoil has just stopped, and the political situation is even more chaotic. If the emperor wants to meet with the Americans, he only needs to tell his minister and see who he wants to meet. It is said that China will come to see the emperor. Why should he take risks if the emperor has a body of thousands of gold?"

Ye Zhao smiled slightly after hearing this. The situation in Western countries, not to mention the imperial auxiliary officials, even the people who like to read newspapers have a general understanding of them, which is already different from Yunling more than ten years ago.

Lincoln was assassinated, and Johnson, a Republican from the South, became the president of the United States. He adopted a compromise policy towards the southern states, which disagrees with the mainstream Republican Party and became the first president in American history to be proposed by Congress. His attitude towards China is also extremely ambiguous.

The reason is that when he competed with Lincoln for the nomination of the party's president, the Chinese clearly supported Lincoln in the newspaper and added many points to Lincoln.

However, Ye Zhao could only sigh for this reason, but it was actually Johnson's own illusion, or rather, he was just a typical example of himself making an excuse for himself.

There is another important reason for Johnson's ambiguous attitude towards China. He is negotiating with the Russians to buy Alaska. The Russians are cold in their attitude and obviously have no good feelings for the pro-China US government. The Russians proposed that the prerequisite for negotiation is that the United States will postpone the soon-to-be-favored-nation treaty with China, and support the chamber of commerce organized by Russian merchants to boycott China's barbaric behavior of "suppressing free trade and severely punishing tobacco merchants."

These things naturally need to be discussed with American political leaders.

In addition, the status of Chinese workers in the United States is also a difficult problem that China and the United States need to solve as soon as possible. Since the beginning of this century, Chinese workers have been sold to the United States one after another. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Chinese people who went to the United States, Australia, and Southeast Asia have increased by a geometric multiple. Many of them no longer act as piglets, but voluntarily traveled to the United States to escape.

As the central part of the American gold rush, San Francisco is also a gathering place for Chinese workers, and the construction of western United States railways is also indispensable for the presence of Chinese workers.

Today, Americans generally have a noble and kind attitude towards Chinese workers, saying that Chinese are model immigrants in California. In their minds, Chinese are thrifty, easy to get along with, and respect the law.

Although China's international status has risen like a rocket, it is conceivable how cultural and ideological status these Chinese workers who traveled across the ocean to make a living in the United States in the early days were. How could the American people who usually contacted them have real respect from the bottom of their hearts for these new members of society who are willing to take on stupid jobs?

But no matter what, Americans are still relatively friendly to Chinese workers now. But a few years later, with the economic crisis in the United States, small businesses went bankrupt, and the free capital economy entered the era of monopoly large enterprises. In this pain, millions of white people could not find jobs. Chinese workers who were willing to get the minimum wage naturally became thorns in their side and the culprits that caused their unemployment.

Ye Zhao doesn't want another Chinese anti-Chinese bill to be launched in the United States.

The Regent's visit to San Francisco is a visual display. At the same time, Ye Zhao also hopes to talk to American politicians about the issue of Chinese labor.

In addition, with superior institutional guarantees to adapt to this era and the United States, which is destined to rise without any surprises, Ye Zhao also hopes to maintain a sustainable and good relationship with him.

However, Ye Zhao went to the United States not to meet Johnson, but would secretly meet with several giants that really affected the US politics and economy, rather than puppets being carried on the table. In this case, Wells naturally needs to make a match.

Waving his hand to stop the debate between Li Xiaocun and Zhou Jingshan. Ye Zhao smiled and said, "It was said that it was a secret meeting. Maybe after arriving in the United States, he would still meet Johnson. After leaving the United States, he would issue a telephone call to announce his visit to the United States." He said to Zhou Jingshan again: "It's not that you think you are arrogant. I have long wanted to go to the United States to see it. I missed this opportunity, but I don't know when it will take advantage of the chaos in the political situation. If you don't influence it, it will be difficult to find such a good opportunity in the future."

Seeing that the emperor said this, Zhou Jingshan had to swallow his words.

Li Xiaocun smiled slightly. In fact, even in the European countries, the unique Chinese emperor's rhymes had probably spread to the aristocratic class. The Chinese emperor liked private visits, and even taught as a university professor, and published the books "The Periodic Table of Elements" and "Chemistry Summary". The world chemistry community respected him as Taishan Beidou, and the science of chemistry has also entered a new stage.

In addition to the great martial arts of the wars in the south and the north, let alone Li Xiaocun, even those noble politicians in Europe who heard the anecdotes of the Chinese emperors, who treated Ye Zhao as a god, were still very many.

Li Xiaocun has heard foreign friends say more than once that some European politicians believe that the Chinese emperor is one of the most outstanding monarchs in Eastern and Western history, or even one of them.

Of course, there are also many European aristocrats who believe that the Chinese emperor seeks fame and reputation. Those chemical theories must be the result of the Chinese emperor plagiarizing others. It is, how can there be such a perfect person in the world?

But whether it is praise or slander, the status of the Chinese emperor in Europe is unquestionable. The mysterious Chinese royal family and the legendary Eastern emperor are completely in line with the perfect incarnation of the Europeans' imperial power. In Europe, it is difficult for a country to establish a unified Holy Rome. The rising Eastern Empire also represents a complex.

The Chinese Emperor's mysterious visit to the United States and his final meeting with the US President is the consistent manifestation of the Chinese Emperor's mysterious and legend, and will play an important role in enhancing the pro-China complex of the American people.

Of course, the emperor would not meet with his president until he left the United States. This visit became a secret meeting, which was great.

Li Xiaocun thought, smiling endlessly.

Ye Zhao waved his hand again and said, "This matter is settled. After the annual meeting of the Privy Council, I will start with the Navy. You must keep this matter secret. It takes only more than a month to go to San Francisco, and it will take up to two months, so it is nothing."

Li Xiaocun, Zhou Jingshan, and Li Jianchen hurriedly bowed to obey the order. This matter was the highest secret. As long as they knew about it, even the rest of the members of the Privy Council were not known.

Ye Zhao pondered and said, "It's nothing to do next to you. You all have a clear approach and don't need me to talk to you." (The few people hurriedly said they didn't dare). Ye Zhao glanced at the Mistress and said, "I'm afraid that the Russians will cause trouble. Then just fight it." This was also said to the other assistants.

The matchmaker nodded slightly and said, "I think the Russians are waiting for the railway. When they build the railway to Novosibirsk City, they will definitely start a war with us. The railway will have to be built for another two years, so there is no danger for a while."

Ye Zhao nodded and said, "You can't let it show off your wishes. You'll be calculating when I come back." He waved his hand and several ministers hurriedly left.

...

At the meeting of the Privy Council of New Year, according to the two-year rule, Imam Bai and Living Buddha Zhebuzundanba also came from *** and Outer Mongolia respectively.

The other religious leaders, *** and Panchen Lama, have been ruled for five years. Zhangjia Living Buddha is now studying the Dharma in Lhasa. When he is successful, he will return to Beijing. The Living Buddha of the Yellow Sect in the Inner Kingdom has always been with the emperor.

This Privy Council meeting was similar to previous years, and the reports on various economic indicators of the empire were circulated. Ye Zhao reiterated his territorial appeals to Siberia, so that the members of each Privy Council were mentally prepared to go to war with Russia in full swing.

On the second day, Ye Zhao led the Grand Secretary of the Privy Council to Tianjin by train and read the Regent.

On the train back to Beijing, Ye Zhao specially ordered Imam Bai and Zhebuzundanba to sit beside him and ask about religious affairs between *** and Outer Mongolia.

Speaking of the railway that Outer Mongolia is preparing to start construction, Ye Zhao said to Zhebuzundanba: "The tools and tools in the world are also considered great freedom given to mortals."

Zhebuzundanba sighed softly and said, "Emperor, fight with Russia, the four outer Mongolian tribes are the first to be attacked."

Ye Zhao said: "The master is compassionate to the heavens and others, but I promise you that I will never let the Russians act violently in my territory. Fighting for Siberia is also a long-term solution. Otherwise, the Rakshasa people will not die, and sooner or later will be in trouble."

Zhebuzundanba united, "What the emperor said is."

Seeing that the big imam Bai was always trying to speak but stopped, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Why is the national teacher so difficult to speak? I have told you that everything can be asked for advice from me. I can just pretend to be comfortable."

The imam Bai stroked his chest and said, "The emperor forgives his crimes and is unfilial to his grandson Afafu arrives in the capital and says that there is something to bring to the emperor. My grandson is ridiculous, so the emperor doesn't have to pay attention to it. If she hadn't forced me to swear in front of Allah, she wouldn't have trouble disturbing the Holy Lord."

Afafu Ye Zhao was stunned. In front of him, a pure and beautiful Muslim girl in snow appeared, covering her face with a white gauze, revealing only a pair of eyes that were brighter than the stars in the sky.

"Have you come to Beijing?" Ye Zhao immediately knew that he had lost his composure. In the eyes of these people, he showed a little strangeness, so they didn't know where they thought of it.

"Call her to the palace tomorrow... Forget it," Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "Where is her current residence? I'll ask someone to pick her up."

Imam Bai bowed and said, "Yes, Afafu stayed in the Temple of Worship."

Ye Zhao nodded, knowing that the Temple of Worship is a mosque, and said, "It turns out that the mosque in Da Tofu Lane, Inner City is right?"

When he returned to the capital, almost noon the next day, Ye Zhao sent Urden, the deputy general manager of the guard who knew Afafu, to pick up Afafu at the Temple of Worship.

When Afafu thought that he was taken to a temple, he must be very surprised. When he saw Ye Zhao in the Zen room, the surprise in his bright eyes could not be concealed.

This is Xianliang Temple, which is also located in the former Yingbaiqi urban area. It was originally the residence of Prince Yunxiang, the thirteenth son of Kangxi. After Yunxiang died, he respected his wish to leave his house as a temple. Because it was close to the imperial city, many officials from other provinces in the previous dynasty came to Beijing to report their duties and mostly lived here.

Ye Zhao donated 100 silver dollars and won the opportunity to entertain friends with vegetarian dishes in Qingyou Zen Room.

Seeing Afafu enter the Zen room, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Long time no see, Afafu, hello." Although he did not encounter any real danger, he could also describe his friendship with Afafu. In this place of Central Plains civilization and a place of luxury, in the capital, seeing Afafu felt like a different life.

Afafu stroked his chest and bowed slightly: "Hello, Great Emperor."

Ye Zhao laughed and thought to himself that Imma Bai still bowed his knees when she saw me. This little Muslim is very arrogant.

Ye Zhao waved to her and said, "Come on, sit down. When I come to Beijing, I have to treat you well, but I don't know what you are taboo. I'm afraid that the return hotels in the capital will be fake, which will make you feel upset. Later, I think, let's eat vegetarian food, you won't avoid this, right?"

Afafu was stunned. She had a very conservative personality. Every time she met the Emperor of Central Plains, she was often mixed with her messy style of behavior and didn't know how to react. She walked to the wooden couch, and Si Wenwen took off her snow-white boots, sat cross-legged on the futon opposite her, and said, "You don't need to do this, I brought dry food."

Ye Zhao laughed: "Is it a steamed bun that can break the teeth again?"

At this time, Afafu took out a purple brocade bag from his small bag and pushed it in front of Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao said, "Aren't you not coming to Beijing?" While saying that, he opened the brocade bag and asked, "What is this? You gave it to me?"

Afafu said, "I want to come and have a look." Seeing Ye Zhao's careless look, he said, "I thought you could guess that Sister Gulishayier asked me to bring you to you."
To be continued...