Bai Siwen changed into a suit, wore politeness, and carried a cane in his hand, and walked hurriedly along the alleys of Central, Hong Kong, before turning out and getting on the main road, he saw a group of laborers in short shirts and many ordinary people watching the excitement were crowding on the street, as if listening to someone's speech! Why is this scene so similar to a revolution by Europeans? Now here in Hong Kong, there are also revolutionary party anti-thieves...... No, if China also had a revolutionary party, they would not have been able to reform the life of the Qing Dynasty, and if they wanted to reform, it would also be the life of the Ming Dynasty!

Bai Siwen took out a pocket watch and looked at it, it was not early, and there was still business today. But...... Let's go and hear what they have to say! Bai Siwen thought to himself and leaned over.

"Sir, China needs you!"

A young man dressed as a student saw Bai Siwen, who looked like a comprador, approaching, and immediately stuffed a crudely printed leaflet into him. Bai Siwen took it and took a look, and it was indeed printed with the words "Down with the autocratic dynasty and establish a republic of five ethnic groups"!

"It's ...... Is there really a revolutionary party? Is there really a republic in China? Countless surprise thoughts flashed in Bai Siwen's mind - the surname Zhu also has today! God has finally opened my eyes! China...... No, it's the Qing Dynasty that has been saved! Zhu Rebellious's country is going to be in chaos now, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the northwest has not yet been peaceful, and now there are people making trouble again...... Even if it can make a republic, it is better than letting a thief like Reverse Ming do the country.

Thinking of this, Bai Siwen did not hesitate to touch a handful of gold rubles in the pocket of his suit and gave it to the student: "Here, take it first, this is a little bit of heart that my brother gave you!" ”

"Thank you. Thank you! The young student surnamed Sun bowed again and again. Their "Constitutional Research Society" is supported by Hu Zhenguo's big brother's belongings. This is the first time anyone has made a donation!

It seems that there are still people in China who support the democratic republic!

"Do it well!" Bai Siwen patted the young man, and hope seemed to be ignited in his heart. He glanced up at the Russian fleet docked on the dock not far away, this time it was really good for Zhu Jishi to see. He hurriedly quickened his pace, and today he made an appointment to meet with Shang Yonggong, the head of the Ryukyu Kingdom's merchant hall in Hong Kong, to test whether the Ryukyu Kingdom had any intention of independence.

If this trick is successful, the southeast of Zhu Jishi, a traitor, will be unstable, and the large fleet of the Russian Empire will be watching every day. Can he be relieved? If he doesn't relax, I can hope for Daqing!

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At this time, Zhu Jishi actually knew that someone was promoting a republic in Hong Kong! Hong Kong Jishi University was founded by him, how could he not have eyes and ears? However, he did not order the master of the brocade guard to go to Hong Kong Island to get people, which is the territory of the British Empire! It's not as good as Liangjiang - when I fought with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom last time, there were no fewer people from the Cao Gang.

Moreover, he always felt that there was something wrong with the origin of this "constitutional research society", although it was only a matter of time before the republican ideology was born. But when is it now? In 1850, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement had not yet begun at the same time in history, and now that the bourgeois revolution had been completed, the common people below probably would only think that the pace was too fast, and who would have thought of a more radical republic?

Don't be the emperor! Who can accept it? So this thing is strange, let's let Jinyiwei keep an eye on it first. Put a long line and catch big fish......

Ying Tianfu. Purple Mountain, Fort Maria.

In the middle of a forest, Zhu Jishi raised a breech pin pistol, and it rang off with a bang. His marksmanship has improved a lot now, after all, he is now a veteran of battle. When the shots rang out, a gray hare fell to the ground, and he couldn't live when he saw it. A tall fat foreigner beside him, Bei Semai, clapped his hands with a smile: "The marksmanship under His Majesty the Emperor is really a hundred shots!" Zhu Jishi smiled and threw the rifle to Su Yuniang beside him, and said with a smile: "My marksmanship is not good, your breech pin gun is really good!" It's not worse than the Prussian Dreiser! ”

He turned around and said to Su Yuniang: "Yuniang, if I had 20,000 such breech pin guns, I wouldn't have won the battle in Jiwei Town so dangerously. ”

Su Yuniang took the rifle from Bessemai's hand, skillfully loaded the bullet and aimed at the branch in the distance and shot it, before reluctantly returning the rifle to Besemai: "Your Majesty, it's really a good gun!" If our Ming army uses this kind of gun, are you afraid that you won't be able to sweep the world? ”

"It's impossible to use them all, at least not for a few years." Zhu Jishi took Su Yuniang's elbow and walked in the direction of the castle. On one side, it seems to be talking to himself; "Our industrial base is so thin that it is not as good as that of Prussia, and they have already equipped their troops with Dreiser's breech-loading rifles. On our side, we can equip the Guards at most in 2 years. ”

"You're going to fight Lao Maozi in 2 years?" Su Yuniang frowned and asked. Although she no longer leads troops, her military sense of smell is still extremely keen.

"There will be a war in three years at most, and Maria estimates that there will be a fight there in Europe as well."

Zhu Jishi frowned and said, "The war in two or three years will start preparing now." This war was different from the war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The battlefield will be thousands of miles away, and it is impossible for us to invest hundreds of thousands of troops, so that the logistics will not be able to support it at all, at most the main force of one army, plus a number of capable small troops. Since the number cannot be increased, we can only pursue the power of firepower. ”

For the future war with the Russian Empire, Zhu Jishi has great expectations. This was an opportunity for Britain, France, Turkey, and the Ming Dynasty (in fact, there was also a Kingdom of Sardinia) to beat Maozi. If you don't eat a bite to become a fat man, you can't live up to such a period of historical opportunity.

So preparations for war have now begun. The navy naturally depends on neat ironclad ships, and Emperor Zhu still has this bit of historical knowledge, and the era of steam ironclad ships is coming! So he didn't invest heavily in the navy to build any first-class and second-class battleships, even the third-class battleships, and he pinned all his hopes on 8 steam ironclad ships.

The Army, on the other hand, has to rely on breech-loading pistols to prop up the façade, and it is a bit difficult to fight the sea of people in Central Asia, Mongolia and Western Siberia. The distance is too far, and tens of thousands of troops will reach the sky, so you can only take the elite route. Among them, the large corps is naturally the Guards, and the capable small army Emperor Zhu also thought about it, you can recruit some Japanese samurai, the military quality of these guys is very good, and they can endure hardships and are not afraid of death, just use them as cannon fodder, not much, just have 10,000 people. Japan is now full of samurai who can't earn money for food with their martial arts, and it is not difficult to recruit thousands of people, and they are not distressed when they die, so they lack a name, and it is definitely not possible for the Tokugawa shogunate to send troops overseas......

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Kowloon Emergency Electricity!"

Before he entered Fort Maria, the secretary Weng Tongyi trotted out of the house, still holding a copy of the newspaper in his hand.

"Kowloon Emergency? What's the matter? ”

"Your Majesty, Jinyi Wei Jiulong has reported that there is intelligence that the Russian Far East Fleet (referring to the Pacific Fleet) is preparing to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom! There is also news that Britain, Russia, and the United States are ready to jointly put pressure on Japan to abandon its policy of closing the country! ”

"What?" Zhu Jishi was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly took the telegram and read it, and his complexion became grim. "Britain and Russia jointly put pressure on Japan? Britain is going to ......"

"Your Majesty, this is not the first time that the British have put pressure on Japan, and every time they are pushed back by the Japanese, I'm afraid I'm really annoyed this time, right?" Followed by Weng Tongyi was the military advisor Luo Zenan, who frowned and said, "Otherwise, let's also persuade the Tokugawa shogunate and let them open the country." ”

"No, no, you can't let Japan open the country, not yet." Zhu Jishi shook his head, he knew that the basis of Japan's current stability is "the first army to open the country", first to strengthen the army, then reunification, and then to open the country must not be chaotic. Otherwise, the Tokugawa shogunate, which was not justified in name, would collapse. When the time comes, it will get out of control, and if you throw yourself into the arms of Britain and become Britain's Asian watchdog, you will be in big trouble. (To be continued......)