In a small restaurant in Paris, France, Louis Bricat and a guy in a trench coat and hat sat in the corner. Louis Bricat and a guy in a trench coat and hat sat in the corner. Louis Bricat? Bricat handed a few folded pieces of paper to the man in the trench coat across from him. The man opened it and saw a check in the paper. The amount was not large, but it was half a year's salary for an ordinary white-collar worker.
Putting away the check, the man in the trench coat looked at the contents of the paper. It was full of names and some simple information. The man in the trench coat touched his chin. "So much, it will take some time."
"How long?" Louis Bricat asked. Bricat asked.
"At least two months to give it all to you," the man in the trench coat replied.
Louis Bricat? Bricat did not answer immediately. He was a Chinese, or at least a Chinese citizen. His father used to be a French from Quebec and became a Chinese when the Min dynasty "bought North America." With the advantage of blood and language, Louis Bricat, a staff member of the Bank of Europe, was sent to France to do intelligence work. Bricat was sent to France to do intelligence work.
The man in front of him was a member of the Second International, working in the French Archives. The two had worked together several times. Regardless of the ideals of the French Archives, he had gained a lot of financial benefits. The list of names was the latest information collected by the Bank of Europe.
"Okay," Louis Bricat said. After waiting for a while, Bricat seemed to have no choice but to agree. In fact, the information was not that urgent. It was not a bad thing to give the other party a little illusion.
The two drank their coffee and then went their separate ways. Louis Bricat? Bricat had read the information on the French people himself. He did not quite understand why they collected information on non-important people. The Bank of Europe's choices sometimes seemed really inexplicable.
In Cyprus, the headquarters of the Bank of Europe, Wang Mingshan felt that the thousands of people at the headquarters were not a waste of public funds. There were a lot of bank staff in the team, but a large number of them were intelligence officers. They each had their own duties, and one of the most important tasks was to collect information on promising social pillars in European countries. For example, the group of university professors who came to Cyprus had files on them in the huge Cyprus database. According to the database concept proposed by the Military Governor Vaize, this group of people who were not well-known but had a large social network were paid attention to. After some screening and analysis, many mathematical models could be continuously improved. After personally leading the army for so long, Wang Mingshan could fully understand the importance of this.
Some time ago, his old friend, Shen Xin, came here for a vacation. Wang Mingshan and Shen Xin chatted for a long time. Then, Wang Mingshan had an impulse. It would be great if he could create such a system for the country. However, he had to bury this thought deep in his heart, not even thinking about it. If the head of a bank dared to establish a national character database, he would probably die.
But there was another thing that could be considered carefully. Shen Xin had said that the Party's thinking was rather chaotic at the moment. The grassroots were quite stable, and the cadres in the seventy-seven provinces were rather law-abiding. However, the first three rows had all sorts of problems. However, the commander-in-chief was only talking about the basics, which was of limited use to the first three rows. This made Wang Mingshan feel uneasy when he was doing the work at hand. The commander-in-chief went to North America to inspect the work, which made Shen Xin feel particularly uneasy.
The German delegation didn't know the intelligence of the Min dynasty. The group of right-wing professors were a little dissatisfied with the governor of Cyprus not receiving them, so they immediately ended the investigation.
Because a few days ago, when the professors did research and asked the Greek girls why they worked so hard, the answer they got was that they didn't want to rely on men. According to the tradition of Cyprus, when a daughter married, she would be given a house and land. The status of the girls in the family could be imagined. After the Min dynasty rented Cyprus, the girls finally had a chance to make a name for themselves. In recent years, the girls who came out to work felt that they could still be happy without relying on men. Marriage had more to do with love.
The poor women who worked for a living actually chose men like aristocratic women or rich heiresses. In particular, these women actually had the right to vote and had the right to vote. Several laws had even been passed in the local parliament to guarantee women's complete property rights. After hearing the news, many professors were angry. They thought that this was a woman usurping power, a disorder of yin and yang, and a sign of the demise of the country.
The angry professors felt that they could no longer stay in Cyprus, the bridgehead of the socialist system in Europe. If they continued to stay, the professors' blood pressure couldn't be lowered by taking special drugs made by the Min dynasty. The delegation left Cyprus and went straight to the Black Sea. When they passed through Bulgaria, the professors felt that their emotions had stabilized.
The Bulgarian people still maintained their national style. They were not Turkish, but they were not Western European either. The women were docile and obedient, driven by the men's orders, and the local aristocratic officials and landlords were bossy. Marx? Weber found that the simple customs of Bulgaria not only calmed the professors' emotions, but also gave them a sense of superiority. Germany was a Central European country, close to Western Europe. The aristocratic officials and landlords were equally bossy, but they were not as lawless as Bulgaria, an Eastern European region. The sense of superiority made the professors have a good impression of Bulgaria.
Marx? Professor Weber knew that his team was probably considered to be left-wing in Germany, but in fact, it was a true conservative right-wing. However, this group of conservative professors had one thing in common: they supported the concept of productivity. They didn't think like Uncle Ma that productivity was the fundamental driving force for social development, but they thought that productivity development could solve some of the immediate problems. It was somewhat different from the German politicians who thought that ensuring the stability of the current social system would allow society to develop.
After calming down, the professor's team entered Hungary. After crossing the Carpathian Mountains, they saw the familiar ox carts. The professors were happy to see such a familiar means of transportation, but when the trucks appeared in the ox carts, the professors' faces darkened again.
Marx? Professor Weber observed the Hungarian countryside carefully. Every village had a newly opened primary school. Not only children went to the school, but there were also adults. Every village had a blacksmith shop, and there were usually two or three people in the shop. There were many farm tools that needed to be repaired or sharpened. There was a unified management of large livestock, earthworm house to dispose of livestock waste, a rural meeting hall, and a lot of agricultural technology promotional pictures. There was even a radio in the village. Every day when the villagers gathered, the radio would be broadcast to the whole village through a loudspeaker.
What if Marx? Professor Weber noticed the fact that the villagers were finally beginning to be effectively organized. Many other professors and personnel were angered by the behavior of the organized farmers. The professors had the ability to collect information, and they were not surprised that they didn't see a church in Cyprus. The Min dynasty was an atheist country. Religious law stipulated that any pope not conferred by the Min dynasty administration was a cult. So the Min dynasty had not established diplomatic relations with the Vatican, because it did not conform to the religious law of the Min dynasty, and the pope was not recognized.
Now the professors could see that religion was rapidly declining in the Hungarian countryside. The churches they saw along the way had no clergy at all. Those churches had been requisitioned. After the crosses were taken down, the houses were either used as schools or as meeting places for farmers. The people who didn't believe in God were necessarily evil mobs without scruples.
They didn't even have to look to see what the evil mobs were doing. Every village had a militia, and it was really men and women going into battle together. The girls also carried guns and did shooting training. Slogans in Hungarian like "Prepare to destroy the counterattack of the nobles and landlords" and "Women hold up half the sky" could be seen everywhere in the countryside. The only thing that the professors could accept was the slogan "No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, no matter how hard it is, you can't be poor in children."
When they arrived in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, they saw an industrial area being built in the far suburbs. The industrial area was located next to the railway, and there were already factories in operation. In addition to the leather factory and other local Hungarian products, the professors found that there was a radio factory. These radios were exactly the same as the radios found in the countryside.
It was understandable that the components of the radio factory, such as wooden cases and wires, which were not technical, were produced in factories in the industrial area. There were also related factories in the new industrial area, including electronic tubes, loudspeakers, and other technical products. Near the factories, the new power stations had been completed, and some were still under construction. The Min dynasty's investment in Hungary was evident.
The visiting professor wrote angrily in his diary, "… the short Hungarians follow the tall Chinese masters, pretending to industrialize. In the eyes of the Hungarians, their long history is not worth one more steak or one more sip of milk. Betraying tradition is betraying themselves, and those Hungarians will get what they deserve … "
Although the German professors were angry, the Hungarian people could not be moved. The liberated Hungarians were still doing what was good for them. They studied, they worked, they ate, they danced, they fell in love, married, and had fun after work. While the professors were interviewing, the Hungarians were holding a new round of elections. The newly elected representatives of the National People's Congress went to various cities to participate in the new session of the National People's Congress. The farmers near the cities also went to the cities to buy some things. At the same time, they also wanted to know if the issues that the farmers were concerned about had been raised or passed.
When the German professors saw a group of farmers carrying weapons gathering in the cities before they left, they were naturally scared to death. In case of a riot, the professors did not have the ability to protect themselves. But the professors were also very happy. They thought that the Hungarian government had been subverted.
It must be noted that as a city resident, Vézé's views on weapons were somewhat similar to those of the German professors. The cities of the Min Dynasty implemented strict gun control, especially in several cities where there were cases of people shooting people on the streets with Qi guns on the buildings. Lead was shot into the head, causing people to die. The cities of the Min Dynasty implemented several rounds of strict gun confiscation.
When the commander-in-chief arrived in North America, he naturally had to travel around. When the people learned that Emperor Vézé had come, they almost went crazy and wanted to see the god in the hearts of the people. Vézé naturally had to contact the people. He soon discovered that the people in rural areas of North America were armed with guns.
The US Constitution guaranteed the right of Americans to bear arms, which was a constitutional provision. The Min dynasty Constitution did not stipulate gun ownership, and the management of guns was relatively conservative. After all, most of the early members of the Restoration Party were Hakkas and had experienced the tragic conflicts between the natives and the Hakkas. In his youth, Vézé was a famous Hakka mercenary in the conflicts between the natives and the Hakkas.
The tour was carried out province by province. After Vézé arrived in the province of San Francisco, the people spoke highly of the country's construction of the southern Great Wall. Before the construction of the Great Wall, those Mexican bandits often invaded the southern part of the province of San Francisco. Even if all the scattered people had guns, and even the girls had mastered the ability to fight through shooting training, the lives and property of the people could not be fully protected.
After the construction of the Great Wall, this problem was solved. If the Mexican bandits wanted to invade the province of San Francisco, they could only rely on ships to bypass the city wall that extended hundreds of meters into the sea. Such difficulty made those poor bandits give up the idea of harming the Min dynasty. It was not only the traditional people of the Min dynasty who were grateful for the emperor's wise decision. The new people of the Min dynasty, who had been hurt by the Mexican bandits for a long time, were even more delighted than the traditional people.
Even so, Vézé still didn't feel used to it. It was not that he was afraid of death, but that Vézé used to think that it was too outrageous for everyone in the United States to carry guns. Now Vézé found that the traditional people of the Min dynasty in North America did as the Romans did. If they lived in a place where they could see the village hall after half an hour on horseback, they could naturally rely more on the weapons in their hands. The situation of carrying guns was not the same throughout North America. The north was far away from the danger zone, and the level of carrying guns was kept at a very low level. It was basically used for hunting or cleaning up wild animals. The closer to the danger zone, the closer the weapons held by the people were to combat weapons. On the Sino-Mexican border, the weapons in the hands of the people were already real military products, or at least obsolete military products. It could be seen that the most dangerous thing to human beings was not the beasts, but other human beings.
In North America, the most common question asked by officials was "How should we develop the local economy faster?" and the question asked by the people was "How can we know if we are doing something wrong?" Vézé rarely heard such questions in China. Most of the people complained about not being able to make money.
After observing everywhere and thinking carefully, Vézé also understood why this was the case. During the outbreak of the Taiping Rebellion, the per capita land in China was less than three acres. With the food production back then, everyone really couldn't survive.
Now the people in North America did not have this problem at all. They could easily have dozens of acres of land, and they could also get a supply of synthetic ammonia fertilizers. Now that even the disabled could make a living by guarding the city gates, if healthy people starved to death, it would be difficult to get sympathy from the people around them. For the people in this vast and magnificent new country, Vézé was gratified.
The commander-in-chief was inspecting North America and there was no sign of him returning for a while. He felt much happier in the center of Beijing. People who held power were always so happy. The other members of the standing committee all believed that they had to follow the decisions made by the central government when it came to foreign affairs. Yao Bang, who felt that his power could not be implemented, held several meetings himself.
"Peace is just jam sandwiched in a bun, only a small layer. The commander-in-chief became softhearted after implementing the iron-blooded policy for so many years, which is why he wants to make peace. We still have time. The Min dynasty has endless time, and the iron-blooded policy will reappear sooner or later. What we are doing now is the preliminary preparation. There is nothing to worry about. "Yao Bang's think tank tried to analyze the situation for Yao Bang.
Touching his chin with his hand, Yao Bang didn't say anything. The Min dynasty did not have private advisors. Yao Bang's think tank was a university professor, and now he had used Yao Bang's influence to become the university's vice president. Seeing that Yao Bang had not made up his mind, the think tank continued to persuade, "The commander-in-chief has already made it clear that he wants to establish a republic. You are elected by the central committee members, and you represent the support of the central committee members. Now it is time for you to show your determination. The commander-in-chief is already 69 years old, and in ten years, he will be 79 years old. It is rare to live to seventy years old … "
Soon, the Frankberg ambassador to the Min dynasty received the news that Yao Bang had arranged a military friendship activity between the Min dynasty and Frankberg. The activity would be carried out on the newest battleship of the Min dynasty, the Anqing. The Anqing was a famous battleship of the Min dynasty, and it had participated in many battles. The current Anqing had completed all the equipment and trials at the end of 1901, and officially joined the Min dynasty navy.
The Frankberg military attache was immediately organized. Not only did the Min dynasty Frankberg consulates who had served in the navy, but even the retired officers of the Frankberg merchant ships with naval experience were brought to form a friendship team.
Just seeing the battleship docked in Tianjin, the Frankberg people were dazzled by the 28000 ton ship. Boarding the ship made the Frankberg people feel like they had entered heaven. The interior design of the Min dynasty battleship was simple and lively. After seeing it, they felt like they had entered a new world. When the Frankberg people entered the most critical power part, they saw the pure oil boiler. The huge pipe of the boiler led to a very strange shaped engine. Before the Frankberg people could see anything, the Chinese Navy soldiers' faces suddenly changed. They politely but coldly "escorted" the Frankberg people to the deck and ended the friendship activity.
Almost at the same time, the Naval Command learned that the Frankberg people had been sent off the Anqing. The Naval Commissar first breathed a sigh of relief, then became furious. "What the hell does Yao Bang want to do? This is f * cking nonsense!"
Yao Bang was still not a member of the military commission. It was just an empty title, and no one cared at all. Although Shen Xin, the former president and vice-chairman of the military commission, retired from the position of president, he did not retire from the military commission. Shen Xin's position as vice-chairman of the military commission was not vacated.
No one in the Naval Command supported Yao Bang, or even if there was, no one dared to speak out. So it was the Naval Commissar who continued to roar. "Who agreed with Yao Bang's order? Why did he let the Frankberg people on board?! "
The Chinese Navy now felt that Yao Bang's actions were a form of betrayal. This powerful navy had always had the technological advantage, and now that they had suddenly leaked their most advanced military technology to a foreign country, it was equivalent to suddenly closing the gap between them. The Min dynasty navy believed that the people's navy was not afraid of sacrifice, but the Min dynasty navy would never accept being stabbed in the back by their own people.
"What should we do?" the Naval Commander asked.
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