14. Building the French Style (5)
On the third day of December in the sixth year of Tongzhi, the Shangshu Qing Sea excerpt of the Li Fan Yuan began to play, and the king of Sulu Dongtailai had come to Guangzhou and asked to enter Beijing to see the court. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
At this time, the war in the northwest was stalemate, there was a slight progress, the south road was close to the old nest of Agubai in the west of Xinjiang, and Wu Yundi on the north road first feinted to attack Korla, and attacked the town of Korla Waiyan County, the Korla rebels panicked greatly, and hurriedly shrank their troops, but they didn't know that Wu Yundi shook a shot, and went north three times and five divided by two to relieve the siege of Dihua, and the things in the north changed greatly, and the siege of Dihua was solved.
The war has progressed, the Empress Dowager Cixi is naturally energetic, coinciding with the pilgrimage of the foreign domain, naturally to show the majesty of the Celestial Empire, at this time, the railway from Beijing to Tianjin to Dagukou has been completed ahead of schedule, the Empress Dowager decreed, "The king of Sulu came from afar, worked tirelessly, and ordered the king of Fujun to receive him at Dagukou." ”
Hengzhu is now very convenient to Tianjin, the king of Fujun will receive the decree out of Beijing, to Dagukou and wait for a few days, the king of Sulu escorted by the Beiyang sailor from Qingdao arrived on the ship, the king of Sulu has learned that the prince and minister who came to greet him is the uncle of the Son of Heaven, the status is noble, as soon as he saw the king of Fujun, he was moved to kneel down quickly, the king of Fujun read out the holy decree, no need to translate, the old prime minister behind him was very rude to pull the sleeve of the king of Sulu, "The will of the Celestial Empire says that you are the prince of the Sultan, and you will not worship in the court!" ”
Thanks to the holy decree, a group of people on the train, all the way to see the flowers, to Tianjin, a little rest, the king of Fujun is naturally the friendship of the landlord, with the king of Sulu in the station around, the king of Sulu is naturally Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden, everywhere is staggering, even the king of Fujun is the first time to see the Tianjin railway station so prosperous, he pointed to those dozens of zhang high high-rise buildings and asked in surprise: "These houses look very strong, how to build?" ”
"It is made of ash, this area of the station is all the industry of the Ministry of Industry, warehouses, restaurants, and hotels are all built by the construction department of the Ministry of Industry, and now the newly built houses in Tianjin and Dagukou are made of ash bricks, which are stronger and tighter than the wooden houses," the king of Sulu also admired on the side, "The ministers saw that the wharf was built with ash at Dagukou, which was very strong, and the small country of Sulu was on the south side of the Tianhai Sea, and the storm was very strong, and those wharves often had to be rebuilt in less than a year, if they could also do this ash to build a wharf, I guess I saved a lot of money. ”
King Fujun smiled, "Why should the king worry, this time in Beijing, the queen mother and the emperor must have a reward, not to mention this little gray," King Fujun saw the opportunity, and invested a lot of shares in the many factories of the internal affairs government run by An Dehai, who has always been known as the God of Wealth, so even if he does not enter the government, he does not counsel military affairs, and no one comes to treat guests and give gifts. The cement factory of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a little stake in him, so of course, the Fujun Wang Tianjia is magnificent, and the foreign vassal has already spoken, so there is no reason not to agree, so he patted his chest and said: "This king will personally send you a thousand bags of ashes to help build the dock of Sulu State." (To be continued.) )