"Woo——." With a long whistle, the train slowly drove into the platform. The prefect Wang Ganwang felt a little nervous. It was difficult for officials of his level to see Yishishi in normal times. This opportunity was very rare for him for the entire Ganzhou. Of course, if the train was just a temporary stop, there would be no need to have any extravagance.

The carriages opened quickly, and teams of guards with live ammunition quickly took over the defense of the station. Wang Ganwang had no idea which carriage Yi Zhizu was riding in, and did not dare to ask randomly. He could only wait passively. Soon, a middle-aged officer walked over quickly, "Ganzhou Prefecture, Lord Wang?"

"It's the official." Wang Ganwang put his posture very low. He didn't know the other party's identity, but he thought he wouldn't be low.

"The prince is in the twelve carriage, follow me."

Just a temporary stop? Wang Ganwang felt a little disappointed, but he didn't dare to show it on his face. He hurriedly followed him. Outside the carriage, he saw an old man wearing a light gray gown, short hair, white beard, and looking at the 54-5-year-old stepping onto the platform. Following him was a middle-aged man in his forties, who had seen him--Zhao Liewen.

Wang Ganwang did not dare to hesitate, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to see him, "Sir, the governor of Ganzhou, Wang Ganwang, have seen the prince."

Yi Zhizu looked him up and down, and saw that he was only in his early forties, with short hair, black Zhongshan suit, and no beard. He knew he was a new official at a glance. He nodded slightly, "Mr. Wang, no need to be polite, arrange for him, we will rest in Zhangye for two days."

After hearing this, Wang Ganwang couldn't help but be overjoyed and hurriedly said, "When I heard that the prince came, the whole country of Ganzhou was very happy. It has already been arranged. The prince invites—."

Although the Qing Dynasty has been constitutional for nearly ten years, it is still the Qing Dynasty. The first prime minister is Prince Gong, so the officialdom is quite chaotic. Some officials still wear braids and beards and robes, commonly known as old-school officials, while some officials have short hair, no beards and wear Zhongshan suits. This is a dress that is imitated by Yi Qunsu in some public occasions, commonly known as new-school officials.

There is another type of official who is a centrist, shaved heads and mustache. According to the situation, they either wear fake braids and official robes or top hats and suits, which are also called fence-riding schools.

The new-school officials are basically the southeastern provinces. Many of them are new-style college graduates. Over time, with the mobilization of officials, they become a little confused. Fortunately, freedom is now advocated, and the officialdom no longer strictly requires that you have to keep your braids and official robes, so the officials have started to take their own casualties.

Zhangye is surrounded by Qilian Mountains in the south, and Heli Mountains in the north, and Heihe River runs through the entire area, forming a unique desert oasis scene. The territory is flat, the land is fertile, the forest is lush, the grain is abundant, and the fruits are fragrant. Snow mountains, grasslands, clear waters, and deserts complement each other, which has both the charm of the southern country and the style of the frontier.

It is known as the "land of mulberry and hemp", the hometown of fish and rice, and is also known as "Zhangye, silver and martial arts".

However, for Yi Zhizu, Zhangye is not the focus of the inspection. Although Zhangye has developed agriculture, the number of immigrants is not large, and it is not the main immigration area. Moreover, in his opinion, Zhangye does not have the conditions to develop industry, at least not yet. His inspection of the northwest is still focused on Xinjiang and Anxi.

Yi Zhizu and his party stayed at the government office. After a short rest, they went out of the back door to stroll around the street. Wang Ganwang was naturally unwilling to miss this rare opportunity. After a simple disguise at Zhao Liewen's request, he accompanied him along the way.

Zhangye City is not big, with wide and neat streets, rows of buildings, very prosperous, with many merchants, and many of them are ethnic minorities. At a glance on the street, many people wearing Yugu, Tibetan, Hui, and Mongolian costumes.

After wandering around, Yi Zhizu also noticed that there were many guild halls here, such as the Shanxi guild hall, Shaanxi guild hall, Zhidong (Zhili, Shandong) guild hall, Liangzhou guild hall, Zhenfan guild hall, Lianghu guild hall, and Henan guild hall. From this point, it can be seen that Zhangye's commerce is prosperous.

After a while, a few people walked in a teahouse to have tea. Zhao Liewen smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Zhangye is so prosperous. I'm afraid it's second to Lanzhou in Gansu."

"Zhangye was more prosperous and prosperous in the past." Wang Ganwang smiled and said, "However, with the development of the northwest and the development of railways, the role of Zhangye's military and political center and commercial channels gradually disappeared, and the status of Ganliang commercial port has been much inferior."

Speaking of this, he looked at Yi Zhizu and said, "Ganzhou has rich coal and iron resources. Can it vigorously develop industry?"

After pondering for a little, Yi Zhizu said: "At present, the focus of Yuanqi's development is Xinjiang and Anxi. In addition, the pollution situation in the development of industry is very serious, and the Heihe River is an inland river. I do not recommend that you rush to develop industry now, but it is better to base yourself on agriculture and commerce."

After hearing this, Wang Ganwang felt a little disappointed. Seeing his depressed expression, Yi Contented smiled and said, "It is good to have this idea, but you must focus on the long term.

Current industrial technology has great flaws in dealing with pollution. With Zhangye’s geographical environment, vigorously developing industry will lay a huge hidden danger to the environment and it will not be worth the loss!”

After a pause, he continued: "With the changes of the times, the rise and fall of a city and a place are inevitable, so don't pay too much attention to it."

The next day, Yi Zhizu rode his horse around Zhangye for most of the day. He returned to the government office around 3 o'clock in the afternoon and took a bath and changed his clothes. Zhao Liewen came in with a telegram, "The big shopkeeper, Shanghai call, Bolivar and Peru ministers purchased more arms in the afternoon. They wanted to buy a torpedo boat--."

Purchase torpedo? Yi Zhizu took the telegram and glanced a few times. The telegram was sent by Yi Zhengxing. After learning that England had sold a large number of ironclad ships to Chile, Bolivar and Peru could no longer hold back, hoping to buy the torpedo and damage the Chilean navy in one fell swoop.

The Qing Dynasty's ironclad ships had a considerable gap with the English-Genetic ironclad ships in terms of naval gun fire. This is the truth. After all, the Qing Dynasty's ironclad ships were equipped with torpedoes, which was enough to make up for the insufficient firepower of the naval gun. When the torpedo was disassembled, the Qing Dynasty's ironclad ships were indeed not as powerful as English-Genetic.

After spending a lot of money to buy more than ten iron-clad ships, the two countries found that they were still not rivals from Chile and proposed to buy torpedo boats. This is actually reasonable. However, the Qing Dynasty has always kept the torpedo technology strictly confidential, so how could it be sold to the two countries of Boli and Mi?

Seeing that he put down the telegram, Zhao Liewen tentatively said: "Is it possible that England wants to obtain our torpedoes through this war in South America?"

"This possibility is not ruled out." Yi Zhizu said slowly: "English has never been able to overcome the difficulty of controlling the course of torpedoes and conduct research on obtaining my country's torpedoes. This war in South America is a good opportunity. It is a large number of ironclad ships to Chile and intends to release news, which may be the purpose."

"If we do not sell torpedo boats to Poland and Myanmar, there are only two possibilities." Zhao Liewen said carefully: "One is that the two countries of Poland and Myanmar are defeated, and the other is that the two countries of Poland and Myanmar raise funds to purchase ironclad ships from European countries or the United States."

"Where can the two countries of Pole and Mi to raise funds to purchase iron-clad ships?" Yi Zhizu smiled and said: "The arms transactions with our country are mortgaged with mine tax."

Zhao Liewen said: "If the two countries are defeated, wouldn't our losses be too great?"

"The torpedo boats are definitely not for sale." Yi Zhizu said: "Let Zaizhao lead a fleet to South America and berth in the Port of Lima in Peru, and mediate first. If it cannot be mediated, sign a protection treaty with Poland and the Peru, and then declare war directly!"

Zhao Liewen said with some concern: "Will my country's rash intervention lead to more complicated situations?"

"Hmph." Yi Zhizu snorted coldly, "I want to see who dares to interfere?"

Zhao Liewen tentatively said: "Only publicly announce it?"

"There's no need." Yi Zhizu said: "Don't make a statement first, let them fight a few battles with Chile first. Both sides will suffer losses, which will be more beneficial to our country. Tell Zaizhao that you can cross the Pacific Ocean, go to North America first, and then to Peru, don't be too rush."

Xinjiang, Gongning, railway station.

On the platform, the Governor of Xinjiang, Zuo Zongtang, wearing a robe with a new official robe, shook his folding fan and looked at one end of the railway. Behind him was the glorious feathers. All the civil and military ministers were wearing official robes. This was naturally what Zuo Zongtang asked. He could not care about it. You would wear whatever you like, but today we are welcoming the Empress Dowager and the Emperor's Holy Lord, and everyone must wear official robes.

This requirement is not too much. Even those who cut their hair short does not matter. At most, you can buy fake braids. In fact, there are shops in the city that specializes in selling fake braids. If you wear a red tassel hat, you can't see even short hair.

Zuo Zongtang was born as a juren and became the governor of Xinjiang. He had both easy-to-be-satisfied appreciation and Xianfeng's valuation. He was in charge of the northwest for so many years, which was a result of the balance between Yuanqi and the imperial court.

Behind the officials, there were a group of gentry and merchants. Although the weather was a little hot, they were all robes and jackets. The train was not arrived, and everyone was talking softly excitedly.

The Qing Dynasty was established for more than 200 years. Except for Kangxi who pacified Galdan and visited Xinjiang, the emperors who served as emperors never set foot in Xinjiang again. Guangxu was the second emperor to come to Xinjiang in the Qing Dynasty. Many people were in a very upset mood. Although the Qing Dynasty had been established for almost ten years, in the hearts of many people, the Qing emperor was still mysterious and sacred.

"Woo--." A long whistle sounded, and the crowds who had been waiting on the platform became excited immediately and stood at the location they had designated earlier.

The train entered the station and stopped. When Empress Dowager Ci'an, dressed in court uniform, led Emperor Guangxu slowly onto the platform, everyone on the platform immediately knelt down, "My ministers Zuo Zongtang and others respectfully requested the Empress Dowager's Holy An, and respectfully asked the Emperor to be the Holy An."

The cry of "Please respectfully the Queen Mother, and the Emperor Mother!" suddenly echoed across the platform.

Looking at the scene in front of her, Empress Dowager Ci'an was in a complicated mood. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, she has used countless troops to the northwest and consumed countless money and food. Now the northwest has finally been completely consolidated, but the Qing Dynasty has become a constitutional king, and she did not expect that she would inspect the northwest one day.

Guangxu was not nervous and patrolled all the way. He had experienced countless such scenes. His black little eyes glanced at everyone. He said in a crisp voice: "Sage Bong'an."

"Long live the emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

.Germany, Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace.

Prime Minister Bismarck presented a telegram to William I. "English Prime Minister Disreli secretly visited Petersburg, received the Russian emperor's reception, and held secret talks with Prime Minister Gorchakov."

After receiving the telegram, William said in a muffled voice: "The British are trying to unite with Russia to curb our country. I wonder what conditions have been put forward?"

"The only thing that can attract Russia is the Balkans." Bismarck said slowly: "I don't think the Russians will offend our country and the Qing Dynasty at the same time for the Balkans, especially when the Qing-Russian railway is about to open to traffic."

"It's hard to say." William shook his head slowly, "Once our country annexes France, it will be a huge threat to Russia. Besides, if you are not sure, how could Disrael secretly visit Petersburg? This matter should not be careless."

Bismarck certainly knew that Germany could not compete with Britain, France and Russia at the same time. He said slowly: "After all, Russia has signed a defensive agreement with our country. As long as it can stabilize England, Geely, Russia will definitely not act rashly. I plan to go to London."

William glanced at him, "Are you sure to convince Disrael?"

"For England, the Qing Dynasty is the biggest enemy." Bismarck said in a deep voice: "As long as we agree to resell torpedo and submarine technology, I believe England will agree."

William said slowly: "Once England masters torpedo and submarine technology, our navy will have no advantage."

"As long as we can annex France, it is worth it even if we lose our naval advantage." Bismarck said: "If we annex France, our country will completely get rid of the dilemma of being attacked on three sides. Even if we lose our naval advantage, England will not dare to be rashly an enemy with our country. After all, England still has the Qing Dynasty, the great enemy."

After pondering for a moment, William said: "Are you planning to annex France and then transfer technology to England? Do you think England will agree?"

Bismarck considered this issue. If the technology was transferred after the war, England would definitely not agree. No one would agree if it were replaced. England would definitely be afraid that they would not keep their promises!

He said slowly: "Even if English has obtained torpedo and submarine technology, it will take time to produce in large quantities. I think it is possible to decide the time for technology transfer based on the war process after the war begins, such as after the capture of Paris..."

"Disreli may not agree." William poured a basin of cold water, "After our country captured Paris, even if we did not keep our promise, England could only stare at me. The situation could no longer be restored. England would definitely ask for technology transfer first."

It is definitely impossible to transfer the technology first! Bismarck pondered for a while before saying, "Try it first?"
Chapter completed!