"The old minister lived in the Ryukyus for two months, during which time he had a lot of contact with the Ryukyu monarchs and ministers, and he also learned about the atmosphere of civil society...... Today's incident, in my opinion, can be explained in four words, that is, 'not good, not in a hurry'......"

"Oh?" The eyes of everyone present lit up, and the calm energy on Weng Tongyi's body made everyone, especially the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, feel a lot more at ease.

Weng Tongyi twisted his beard and said thoughtfully, "It's not good, I mean that this matter has completely exposed Xiao Letian's strategic intentions, don't say whether he wants to rebel and annex the Qing Dynasty, at least Xiao Letian's intentions are very obvious......"

"Please forgive the old minister for bluntly saying that the Ryukyu detachment is already helpless in our Qing Dynasty, and there is no strong navy like Europa, so we will not be able to punish those overseas island countries at all, for the Ryukyu detachment, the old minister thinks that the imperial court can only accept fate!"

With a bang, Yi slammed his fist on the coffee table, and his face showed an angry expression: "It's hateful! It's really hateful! If it weren't for the long-haired and twisted army chaos in our Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, if it weren't for the turmoil in Gansu, Shaanxi and Xinjiang that has not subsided until now, why can't we even build a navy!"

"As long as we are given three or four years of peaceful respite in the Qing Dynasty, we can easily gather fifty or sixty million taels of silver, and when the time comes, we can also buy a fleet!"

Yi said with a sad face, "It's too much of a loss, we're too much of a loss, from beginning to end, we just suffered a loss without the navy...... If we had a decent navy, even if we didn't fight, we would not have suffered such a big loss if we were to scare those foreigners on the sea!"

This sentence made the eyes of the two women, Cixi and Ci'an, suddenly light up, "What Uncle said really makes sense, if we really have a huge navy, buy more warships, and swing it into the sea when the time comes, the frightened foreigners will not dare to bully us...... When the time comes, will a small country like Japan and the Ryukyus dare to fly into the sky?"

This is the thinking of women, this is also the common thinking of the Manchu and Qing dynasties at that time, they were completely panicked about foreign wars in that era, and if they could not fight, they would not fight, and if they could settle things with silver, they would definitely not need to settle with the army.

In the eyes of Cixi and others, let the hard-working Han people work hard to make money, and then collect more taxes from the Manchurians, and finally use a part of the tax as protection money, so that a foreigner will not bully him...... What a beautiful picture!

In the past, Yi was always clamoring to build a navy, shouting about building the first fleet in Asia with tens of millions of taels of silver, protecting the empire's maritime frontiers, and playing with foreigners.

It's terrible to think about it, and the affairs within the empire haven't been settled yet, so they want to go to the sea to fight?

But today, Yi's unintentional words scratched the itch of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces.

Anyway, the Qing Dynasty has money, and it costs money to buy it, and when the time comes, invite foreigners to come over and take a look, and the warships in our Bohai Bay are lined up to the edge of the sky.

"Well, Uncle Huang is right, we do have to have a navy in the Qing Dynasty, and this matter will be discussed in a few days! It's not a matter to be bullied like this!" Cixi also looked at the Empress Dowager Ci'an with her eyes, but this time Ci'an also had the same heart as Cixi, and kept nodding.

Yi and Weng Tongyi were a little confused, and said in their hearts What is going on? If you talk about the Ryukyu secession of the feudal domain, why did you suddenly get crooked to the head of the navy?

However, of course, it is a great thing to be able to build a navy, Yi quickly got up and gave a salute with a look of gratitude.

"Old man, you go on, I'm sorry to interrupt you......" Yi bowed his hand to Weng Tong.

Weng Tongyi smiled bitterly and said, "Get up, Prince Gong has just said very clearly, without the navy, we really can't deal with the Ryukyus, don't expect to fight against the ships of the foreign concession, if you want to defeat the Ryukyus, you can't do it without a hundred thousand troops, I have seen the largest fort in the Ryukyus, the Shuri Fort, good guy, that huge cannon caliber is enough to stuff a big watermelon......"

"When the French warships invaded the Ryukyus, the French ships that blew up on this fort did not dare to shoot closely, but only moved outside Naha Bay to shoot...... That island in the Ryukyus has long been built into a steel fortress by Xiao Letian!"

"Not only is the military situation bad, but also in the hearts of the people, the introduction of this Chinese decree is also a bad phenomenon, Xiao Letian's intention is obvious, he wants to split the door wall of the saint and steal out a concept himself...... This evil demon is really terrifying, and it is foreseeable that his fallacies and heresies will definitely deceive a large number of people, especially some literati in Jiangnan, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape his bewitchment!"

Weng Tongyi's words made the people present very worried, and Yi Xun sighed, "Can't you deal with him?" Even if we can't deal with him, we have to rescue the emperor quickly......

The old man shook his head, "This is about to say the word "no hurry, the current situation is very unfavorable to us, but our disadvantage is not an emergency, but a remission!"

"Our court still has time, I have always felt that Xiao Letian issued the Chinese order this time is very hasty, he is not prepared in many places, this pot of rice porridge has not yet been boiled to the ......"

"First of all, what kind of Far Eastern Volunteers appeared inexplicably on the side of Vladivostok was arranged by Xiao Letian, although I don't understand why he had to fight with the Russians, but now that the victory is not decided, he shouldn't throw out this Chinese order too early?"

"Then there's Fuso, which Xiao Lotian just infiltrated, and I've had secret talks with high-ranking shogunate officials, local samurai daimyo, and even the ministers of Kyoto...... Now there are still a large number of people in Fusang who are not satisfied with Xiao Letian, only those big names who can share the benefits and the low-level warriors who are eager to change their fate are of the same mind as Xiao Letian!"

"Launching the Chinese Decree too early, I think it will stimulate those opposing forces even more, which is very unwise!"

Weng Tongyi clenched his fists tightly and said, "To sum up, I personally feel that Xiao Lotian must have encountered a very big difficulty, and the introduction of the Chinese Decree is probably not aimed at us, and all the disadvantages for us now are just piggybacking!"

Note: In the previous chapter, we talked about the feng shui problem of the Forbidden City, in fact, there are quite a lot of stories in it, and it is quite interesting. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu royal family did a lot of damage to the feng shui pattern of the Forbidden City.

Tell a little story, when the Empress Dowager Cixi lived in Changchun Palace, she opened up Changchun Palace and Qixiang Palace in front of this palace, demolished the palace wall and palace gate between the two palaces, and built a new Tiyuan Palace in place, and renamed Qixiang Palace as Taiji Palace, and Tiyuan Hall is generally used as the front hall of Changchun Palace.

That is to say, let's go to the Forbidden City to play now, the Tiyuan Hall actually has a very short history, and the Taiji Hall used to be called the Qixiang Palace.

Later, Cixi opened up the Yikun Palace in front of the Chuxiu Palace, and after demolishing the palace wall and palace gate separating the two palaces, she built a new body and hall in the same place, as the connecting hall of the Yikun Palace and the Chuxiu Palace.

In this way, the original feng shui pattern of the harem has been destroyed, and the huge kun hexagram pattern of the west sixth palace has completely become nothing, which cannot correspond to the kun hexagram pattern of the east sixth house.

With such a large-scale destruction of the feng shui pattern of the Forbidden City, it is no wonder that the Qing Dynasty will die.

The above is just a legendary story, just laugh at it, don't take it seriously, and don't take it to debate with others!