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Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing, although they are the top rebels in China in this era, their knowledge cannot escape the limitations of the times after all, and they still stay at the level of rebellion sitting in the world. If you change the history of Hong Renji, who stayed in Hong Kong until 1859, carefully studied Western culture, and really opened his eyes to see Shijie clearly, or you can understand what Zhu Jishi is doing now, in fact, it is not simply creating a rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty, but carrying out a revolution!

A revolution in which the bourgeoisie overthrew the feudal dynasty and established a modern state under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie! This kind of revolution is unimaginable to any Chinese who does not really understand the current shijie.

Just when Hong Renji went to Guangxi to contact Hong Xiuquan and promote the worship of God to raise an incident in Guangxi against the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Jishi was holding a bunch of reports on Lan Fangxing's business and watching.

Lan Fang's current status is peculiar, nominally a semi-colony of the British Empire. But in fact, there are too many colonies and semi-colonies of the British Empire, and Lanfang is poor and small, and there is not much oil and water, so even the Governor's Office of the Straits Settlements has almost forgotten that there is such a piece of land under the protection of the British Empire.

But it is this almost forgotten land, in a year or so, that has attracted hundreds of ships of people and goods from the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, India, Batavia, Singapore, and even Europe.

Zhu Jishi's huge investment in the establishment of Lanfang Bank, spending money is like flowing water. There are many who search for all kinds of industrial talents at any cost. Purchase of machinery and equipment. And these engineers, who are mainly from India, are not only working in the iron works, gunsmiths, textile factories, gun factories, coal mines, gold mines, and shipyards under Lan Fang Hong. He was also stuffed into many schools that trained Jishu workers and became a teacher. Each engineer or technician who acts as a teacher is also equipped with a local Chinese who are proficient in English to act as interpreters, so that they can communicate with the students.

And almost all of their students are young and flexible "piglets" that Lan Fangxing "bought" from Nanyang Bank at the cost of 30 foreign dollars each. These young people, who were supposed to be put into mines, rubber plantations, or various construction sites and factories to work as coolies, were instead sent to school, where they were not only free of tuition, but also included food and shelter. There are actually three dollars of pocket money every month!

The only thing you have to do is to study hard and pass the monthly assessment. Of course, what they learned was not the Four Books and the Five Classics, but all kinds of "handicrafts", and they were all "foreign crafts" that could not be learned in China. After learning the craft for more than half a year, they were assigned to the factories and mines owned by Lan Fang Hong for "internship". At the same time, a new wave of students was "sold" into the campus. The number has doubled compared to the first batch of trainees! With so many students, no matter how you look at it, it is not something that the mines and factories that Lan Fangxing is operating now can accommodate, and even a third of them cannot accommodate it.

Obviously, these jishu workers, trained by British and Indian teachers, were not used for this aspect of Lan Fang's industry. Their future is in China! If we say that Hong Kong's Jishi College and Jishi University are cultivating middle and high-end talents for China's modernization. Then these technical schools in Lanfang are training absolutely indispensable jishu workers for China's industrialization. Together, the capital of Zhu Jishi, a big capitalist, and China's vast domestic market, abundant resources, and almost unlimited cheap labor, all the elements needed for the industrial revolution are already there!

Once Zhu Jishi takes Liangguang and Fujian, he can set off an industrial revolution in the territory of the future Ming Kingdom in the shortest possible time! According to Zhu Jishi's understanding of the reaction and decision-making speed of the Western powers, in any case, he has two or three years to delay, not to mention that once Napoleon III is restored, he will have another bargaining chip to deal with Britain.

As long as the Ming Dynasty has its own modern industry and can support 100,000 to 200,000 modern army operations, the British Empire will not tear its face with the Ming Dynasty - China and Britain are relatively far apart, and the British Empire cannot send tens of thousands of troops to China to intervene in the Chinese civil war like Egypt.

This time, Lanfang Premier Liu Peng returned to Hong Kong, in addition to reporting the latest situation of factories and schools that Zhu Jishi had given high hopes for, and spent more than one million silver dollars. There is still a war on Borneo Island that has just ended, and Zhu Jishi, the Grand Duke of Lanfang, needs to come forward to put an end to it.

"Ming Gong, this is Zhao Daheng and James. The peace treaty agreed upon by Brooke is hereby presented to you for the purpose of ......"

Liu Peng, prime minister of the Grand Duchy of Lan Fong, stood respectfully in the small back garden of his mansion in Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong, holding a stack of documents. Zhu Jishi was holding a beautiful woman and walking in the garden. This garden is also small, there are no exotic flowers and plants, they are all ordinary plants, and the most attractive thing for Zhu Jishi is a few saplings that are not much thicker than chopsticks.

This is a number of seedlings of the three-leaf rubber tree, which was planted by Zhu Jishi when he first arrived in Hong Kong last year, and the current growth situation is not very good, but it is barely surviving, and the climate in Hong Kong is still a little colder for rubber trees.

The woman Zhu Jishi is holding is the favorite concubine Hong Xuanjiao, at the age of sixteen, but there is a bewitching style, and the bed also gives Zhu Jishi great pleasure, this time, Zhu Jishi has been taking her with him. Of course, the second lady of the Luo family, Mrs. Duran, and Wang Yunjiao's third daughter, Zhu Jishi also likes it. But these three women are busy people now. Only Hong Xuanjiao has nothing to do, she is just a favorite concubine.

"Are there any differences between the statutes of the peace treaty and the terms and conditions drawn up before the war?"

Zhu Jishi's eyes were still on the rubber saplings - there were not just a few rubber saplings in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, but tens of thousands! In 6 years at most, they will be able to enter the rubber tapping period, bringing a lot of money to Lan Fangxing. In addition, the headquarters of the World Bank has also brought a lot of palm tree seeds from Africa to Lanfang for trial planting, and the growth is said to be very good. When these palm trees are grown, they can be harvested for oil, which is used to make candles and industrial lubricants, and is in great demand.

"What difference can it make? This Brook only has a thousand new armies, and we have six thousand! ”

Brunei Darussalam, once the largest princely state on the island of Borneo, was cut off by these 7,000 new armies! The territory was also divided equally between the Grand Duchy of Lanfang and the Kingdom of Sarawak. Bandar Seri Begawan, which was rich in oil in the future, is now the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lan Fong.

"That's it, send the peace agreement to the study, and I'll sign it later." By the way, why didn't Luo Junqi come with you? ”

In the past, the number one horse boy of the Lan Fang Luo family was Lan Fang's Minister of War after Han Si left, and he commanded the war against Brunei this time. But as soon as the battle for Brunei was over, his War Minister was done. As soon as Brunei was destroyed, Borneo was left with only the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, the Kingdom of Sarawak and the Netherlands. Among them, the Kingdom of Sarawak, like Lan Fang, is a British protectorate, and the Dutch East Indies are not something that Zhu Jishi dares to challenge at the moment.

Therefore, the 6,000 troops stationed in Lanfang were useless, so Zhu Jishi transferred 4,000 of them and Luo Junqi himself to Lantau Island, and the post of Lanfang Minister of War was also given to Zhao Daheng. Liu Peng came with the troop carrier, but Luo Junqi still had to settle the troops he brought, so he couldn't get to Deep Water Bay for a while.

"Well, in that case, I'll go to Lantau Island to meet this General Luo!" Zhu Jishi smiled, and instructed Hong Xuanjiao to invite Luo Xiangju, who and Luo Junqi are brothers and sisters of the same clan, both of whom are surnamed Yingjialuo, although the blood relationship is not very close, but the relationship is very good. This Luo Junqi is regarded as the Luo family's sisters in the army, and Zhu Jishi put it on an equal footing with Han Si. In addition, he also supported Su Yuniang, and another general of the Jishi Army, hoping to form a situation in which the three giants stood together in the Jishi Army - Luo Junqi is the "Hou Party", representing the indigenous people of Lanfang. Han Si is the "Imperial Party", plus the graduates of the Apleizhou Military Academy and the Military Academy of Jishi University, they can be regarded as Zhu Jishi's descendants. Su Yuniang is the representative of the Heaven and Earth Society, and she is very likely to become Zhu Jishi's concubine in the future. As long as these three aspects of Liliang are balanced in the Jishi army, and they will be controlled by Zhu Jishi, there will be no risk of the Ming Dynasty's military power falling in the future. (To be continued......)