Educational expenses are expected. During the Meiji Restoration, compulsory education was forced to be implemented during the Meiji Restoration. The investment in education once reached more than 15% of the fiscal budget. Strict laws led to some local officials who failed to implement education ineffectively responding to strong work pressure by committing suicide. However, in my country, I was almost alone in carrying the problems in education. China has a large number of things to invest, just hardware investment, repair of school buildings in various places, foreign teachers, and higher education are all money, which is incalculable for short-sighted people.

History has also proved that a country needs a certain period of large-scale investment in education to rise from history and from the perspective of a strong person in real competition. South Korea and Taiwan, among the four Asian dragons in later generations, once accounted for 10% of GDP in the early stages (I won’t go into details about the difference between GDP and annual income.) The United States, the only superpower in later generations, invested 4% of GDP in compulsory education from 2001 to 2002, with an average of 8,685 US dollars per student. What is the proportion of this investment in annual income? What is the scale of compulsory education in the United States and the scale of all education? Short-sighted people will never understand how expensive it is to get education.

Fortunately, I am not such a person. Under the premise of enriching the country in the industry and strengthening the military, education is listed as one of the three major financially oriented projects. While industrialization and the navy are showing a complementary trend, although education has never been a profitable business, no matter what, it will continue to do it.

The world in 1907 finally showed a dawn of peace after two consecutive years of crisis in 2005 and 2006. All countries were busy strengthening their own strength, and there was almost no war between countries. After establishing their own ruler status in Asia and establishing a psychological inertia that China is the dominant country in the minds of Europeans, the ancient and young Chinese Empire entered its own period of rapid development in recent years, without external worries, and internal troubles were also unnourished under the authority of a monarch with a reputation that surpassed any ancient emperor. History has proved that any Chinese regime, as long as it can solve these two problems, will enter a period of golden development. The decades of golden period of the Tang Dynasty, the developed domestic economy in the early Song Dynasty, and the strength in the early Ming Dynasty, all proved this.

The Ministry of Qing Dynasty also provided the greatest help he could do for the reform of the ancient official system of this ancient country. In the more than ten years since his establishment, in addition to the accusations involving the court's cabinet veteran Li Hongzhang and others that were rejected by me due to political reasons, the remaining secret reports were mostly approved and handled, and the "Qing Dynasty Imperial Execution" formed a legal effect in the form of imperial decree laws and regulations, which provided guarantees for his independence in the official system and financially independent of the administrative system. The historical experience of countries in later generations and ancient times also proved that the integrity system must be independent of the administrative system to play the role that he originally needed to play. China is not a country where everyone is obsessed with profit. Many scholars can maintain a respectable ethics for a long time, especially when they were young. This cannot be said to be the role of Confucian culture in attaching great importance to and promoting self-cultivation.

The next day, in April 1907, I received news of the Taiwan earthquake that not only destroyed houses and land, but even the expanded Kaohsiung Port was almost completely destroyed. The 24 million silver coins invested in the early stage were almost wasted. In the 188x era, the funds for the construction of 30 to 40 medium-sized military factories such as Jiangning Machinery Bureau were almost wiped out in this earthquake. Local officials reported that the initial estimate was that the loss would reach 400 million silver dollars, which was almost a month and a half. It was just the time when I was worried about money, I was sick in bed.

Of course, the news of my illness will not be leaked. On the one hand, the cabinet is in charge of the local garrison and the government to make every effort to rescue disasters. The Ministry of Civil Affairs strives to provide relief to avoid changes. On the other hand, it also needs to make public appearances every now and then to avoid the idea of ​​the officials in the Korean Central Committee.

The government expenditure this year has almost been everywhere. Although I allocated 200 million yuan from the 1.4 billion silver dollars left in the treasury to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for relief, the expenses of post-disaster reconstruction and resettlement of people's livelihood must be enough for the officials of the cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue. I heard that they were already trying to touch the thoughts of the wealthy people among the people, so I didn't stop them, so I let them do it first. Of course, everyone is happy. If there is really a big problem, it will be beneficial to the subsequent handling work if I don't come forward.

What surprised me was that while I was in a state of anxiety, I dug out a court official who was dying. Zhao Hansheng, the Minister of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry, actually submitted a request to repair my tomb on the day of the earthquake. This person had already done a lot of work in advance, including site selection and construction plan, manpower, cycle, and of course, the budget was quite good, with 370 million yuan of silver coins. This was the only time I checked the Qinming Literature Office Department after the court meeting, which was my secretariat. I happened to see a few people outside laughing and circulating, and took it to see it, and caught a straight.

After the inspection, I was already very angry and threw the note underground, and my body was already trembling with anger. Although, by heart, this person might be kind-hearted, or he wanted to get some money from the engineering supervisor, but the time for the collision was not good enough. It happened that the country was short of money and I was sick and not a careful crime. But no matter what, this person was in a high position and was wearing a third-rank minister, but he had no political sensitivity or a little political vision. He was just a corpse and a corpse-like person who stayed in the seat. He happened to take this opportunity to do it.

Since the Zaifeng party members were purged, almost no one in the court could make me so angry. He immediately passed the oral order. Zhao Hansheng immediately removed him from the position of the Ministry of Justice and was dismissed from his post because he was disrespectful to him. The General Office of the Clerk Office, Yang Rui, was incompetent in the administration of the Ministry of Justice and was dismissed from his post. He was dismissed from his post because he was accused of neglecting his duties, and he was arbitrarily venting his post and returning to his post for the purpose of his post. He was told that several young people had neglected their duties, and had arbitrarily vented the secrets of the court and handed over to the Ministry of Justice and vainly leaked the secrets of the court.

It is an indisputable fact that Yang Rui's secretariat is not as good as Liang Qichao's time. This is an indisputable fact. This person is still a little more scholarly and has less experience. When I first pulled him into the inner court, I had less observation and had some impulsive decision-making. So I took him off with this reason and let him go to the Construction Department to practice in the construction department. And those young people have been staying under the eyes of the emperor for a long time and have forgotten the rules. Such a perverse person will sooner or later have to do something big. But the punishment should not be too heavy. I believe that they will be able to work harder after this difficulty.

Facing Liu Guangdi, the Minister of Justice who came to the palace to ask for the imperial edict that night, I expressed my mind's arrangement. It was said that it was the Ministry of Justice's consultation, but the Ministry of Justice still had to ask the emperor's will. Liu Guangdi was also frightened by the sudden outbreak of the Great Rebellion case and knelt down on the ground and did not dare to get up. I originally wanted him to get up and speak, but after thinking about it, he still asked him to continue kneeling. He said in a cold voice, remembering something in his heart, so he carefully said: "This Zhao, Da Ni, Ling Chi, please leave the market, please do it."

Liu Guangdi moved his body and kowtowed for a long time and said, "Your Majesty, Guangdi dares not accept the order."

"Oh? You have learned to be rebellious," I smiled in my heart, but said sarcastically: "Everyone is looking forward to my death?"

"The Emperor scared me." Liu Guangdi kowtowed, and hit the ground of Taihu Stone with a thunderbolt, and said in tears: "I am a straight man, and I am deeply promoted by the emperor's grace. I have a surname of Liu today. If the emperor says this, I will never dare to say this. I am not close to Zhao Hansheng, nor have I had selfless friendship. I just think that the new emperor ascended the throne and then repaired the tomb. Although Zhao's memorial request for the tomb was a bit crazy, it is also a matter of the subject. I must not die if my crime is committed. Emperor, think twice."

I let out a sigh and said in a hypocritical manner: "You retreat, my intention has been decided. If you don't obey the order, I will not be able to kill his Zhao? Kneel down and send a message to Liang Qichao to see you."

Liu Guangdi begged for a while, but I ignored him and he cried.

After Liang Qichao came, I became angry again. Of course, Liang was so aware. After scolding for a while, he finally followed their wishes and asked Liang to pass the imperial edict to Liu Guangdi, Zhao Hansheng and others. The Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple jointly monitored the law and order the Qing government office to investigate Zhao's property.

After this action, the Qing government and Dali Temple, two other important and profound judicial institutions, were able to enter the case, and established their own power when the Ministry of Justice was obviously misunderstood by the emperor. I believe that after this, these two departments will attract many talents.

Of course, Liang Qichao was the good man I asked him to do. Of course, his status in the future must be appropriately improved. Moreover, the two powerful central and local politicians, Zhang Zhidong and Yuan Shikai, are also quite conspicuous. Zhang Zhidong wants to retreat to China ten years, that is, three years later, 1910. He is too old. The next Prime Minister of the Cabinet is currently the most popular one. Of course, I will not be afraid of him or use scholars like Liang Qichao as his opponent. Talents will not be able to use it. That is the greatest sorrow of the ruler. What I think is that after the First World War, the country will always have a civilian government. Although Liang Qichao is a bit idealistic, his years of career in accompanying the journey, the management of old-school officials, and the experience of senators in civil matters will help him improve some problems that are difficult to change with his own power.

Therefore, from now on, we must start preparing for the successor's successor.

After finishing this business, the second half of the year was the work of disaster relief and recovery construction. By the way, observe the international situation. This year, the Germans successfully joined the British army under peaceful competition. After New Zealand was forced to sign the Treaty of Waitangyi with the British colonists in 1840, the Germans gained inspiration from the Moroccan crisis and some previous Chinese strategies in the Far East. They established some connections with the Maori and some descendants of immigrants who were dissatisfied with the British government, and successfully planned some local riots and armed uprisings. By September, the British Empire had to hold a special meeting and decided to give New Zealand the status of the autonomous territory from this year.

Although it means that the Germans were making trouble behind the scenes, without clear evidence and the Far East military strength was slightly inferior to the Germans, the British obviously did not intend to launch a counterattack immediately. For them, a new opponent like Germany was added to the battlefield of this conspiracy, and they did not have much preparation to lose this battle. If the Germans really wanted to compete with the British Empire on this battlefield, they would not mind giving the arrogant Germans several courses on international relations operations in the next few years.

For the British Empire, their special status in New Zealand did not change much. They still control political, economic and diplomatic powers, which is enough. What is important is interests, not territorial ownership that Eastern talents value as much.

Although this incident is not so prominent in the global fanatic atmosphere in recent years, it has a special effect on the state of the Asian War in the next few years. It proves that the Germans have the ability to compete with Britain on all battlefields, which also makes the British more vigilant and move their huge global chess game in advance. For them, they control the general trend, and even if they lose a few games in the minor quarters, what if they lose a few games?

At home, Zhang Zhidong did do his best in the second year of his second term. Although he faced the difficulties of a shortage of state capital, he benefited from the awakening of private capital and a large number of interventions in industrial production. During this year, except for his subordinate Zhao, who was afraid of the case of a rebellion, he was generally quite happy.

As the end of the year approached, his annual economic work report also made me feel a little relaxed. In 1907, the total government revenue reached 2.69 billion silver dollars, of which the proportion of industry accounted for 21.4%, which was close to 570 million silver dollars. This was the first time that the industrial data had broken the 20% mark. More than ten years of vigorous development of industry finally achieved another phased result. Although this data does not indicate that my country has become an industrial country, considering the low tax system of industry for years, the proportion of industry in the national economic output value may be about ten points higher. And if we only take out industrial data, this is not a trivial data in the world.

Of course, before that, just as the Western Literary New Year was approaching before the Spring Festival, the Chinese government and naval delegation led by Prince Chun, the Prime Minister Zhang Zhidong, and the Cabinet Navy Minister Liu Buchan arrived at the United States on the other side of the ocean under my leadership. They landed in San Francisco. President Roosevelt personally arrived at the Chinese emperor who had first set foot on American land, and took a train with me to Washington on the Atlantic coast. On the train, President Roosevelt proudly expressed his gratitude.

I felt regretful, and the pain of happiness made me laugh. He smiled funnyly, "Your Majesty, I think I would have sent an invitation in advance. If it was seven years later, you could go around Panama in the south and reach Washington directly. And I don't need to travel across the entire United States and then travel across the entire United States again. But... you also know that by that time, I will definitely not be in this seat." With a burst of ridiculous laughter, Roosevelt expressed his regret.

I looked at him with a smile and said, "It doesn't matter. At that time, I can invite you. If you are interested, you can visit the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca and return to the Pacific Ocean from the Siam Canal. You must know that the British may start their projects... I will be waiting for you and my private friends in Shanghai or Guangzhou, maybe Tianjin."

As he spoke, both sides understood the meaning behind the words. After helping them with a ride on the Panama Canal issue, President Roosevelt used his nearly two-week itinerary to express his gratitude or importance to me. It was not a very pleasant thing to travel through the United States in that era.

And the following conversation was almost tempted, Theodore.

Roosevelt began his quest with his question: "His Majesty the Emperor, since I talk about the canal of Siam, I have to express my friend's concern for purely friendship. Since your country intends to build the canal of Siam, why should I hand over such an important project to the British? Oh, maybe it is a German. You must know that no matter what, as long as it is a good thing, it is always safer to put it in your own pocket."

I looked at him and recalled what he meant in his words: "Thank you for your friendly concern. You must know that my subordinates are also participating in the competition. Why, is your country also interested? If our country is not interested, I will definitely support your country."

"Frankly speaking, no." Roosevelt shook his head and denied: "The United States has no power or ambition to operate two important canals at the same time, and it is important that we have a friendship agreement. I just want to express my doubts to His Majesty the Emperor. If His Majesty can tolerate Europeans as masters on your territory, then the American people may feel worthless for His Majesty, you and your country."
Chapter completed!