Today is a good day for the military division to interrogate Zhuge Youdao!
The location of the joint trial was in a "classroom" on the fourth floor of the Beijing Institute of Technology building. There were twelve of the Zhuge family's seventeen military advisors, and five of them were not in Beijing. They were either serving as officials in other places or busy with their careers. If you can't separate yourself, you won't come.
Twelve military advisors are now sitting in a row in the classroom. They are all elderly uncles, tall, short, fat, and thin. They all look the same, but they are all dressed in the same style. They all wear turbans on their heads and crane cloaks. Holding a feather fan. At first glance, okay, twelve Zhuge Liangs!
The one in the middle is of course Zhuge Weijiu, the head of the Zhuge family, who is a military advisor in international politics! He and Zhuge Youde came up with the poisonous plan to trick Grand Duchess Natalie into becoming the queen and give birth to a child with the right to inherit the Rakshasa throne, so as to split the Rakshasa at the right time and seize the Rakshasa's eastern territory. .
The two "old traitors" have been setting up a trap for more than ten years, but now Zhuge Weidao has completely destroyed it. Why don't you make the old man angry? When the old man saw Zhuge Weidao and Zhuge Weixue coming in together, with a smile on his face, as if nothing happened, he was so angry that he almost turned into old Zhou Yu.
Sitting on either side of Zhuge Weijiu were Zhuge Weijia, Zhuge Weiyi, and Zhuge Weixiao. Among them, Weijia was a financial strategist and a banker. He was in charge of the Yangtze River Bank of the Zhuge family. In addition, he is also the general manager of the Zhuge Family Industry Association!
Zhuge Weiyi is a shipbuilding strategist. He is now the Minister of Shipbuilding of the Navy Ministry. In his early years, he was the general manager of Jiangnan Heavy Industry and the chief designer of the Hongwu Emperor level.
Zhuge Weixiao is a Feng Shui strategist - the so-called Feng Shui strategist is not a professional in Feng Shui, but in charge of construction and development. He is the authority on where to build cities, where to build railways, where to build ports, how to build them, and how much to invest. As for whether building railways is bad for feng shui, he is even more authoritative! As long as he figures it out, everyone else will shut up!
In addition to these four, there are four other strategists with seniority and four with seniority present today. They are the power strategist Zhuge is the country, the machine strategist Zhuge is Guang, the steel strategist Zhuge is the court, the mathematical strategist Zhuge is Ming, the chemical strategist Zhuge is Youpin, the physics strategist Zhuge is Youli, the naval strategist Zhuge is Youxin, and the army strategist Zhuge is Gang. If you look at the names of these military advisors, you will know that they are all expert military advisors and academic authorities in some aspects. In fact, they were already experts before they became strategists. Becoming strategists and receiving guidance from the Book of Heaven allowed them to go one step further than experts.
And these twelve Zhuge military advisors are all academic masters, and they are all "Zhuge masters" who were rolled out of the eight hundred Zhuges... If you want to test their IQs, they will definitely not be lower than 120. Ten. Those with lower numbers than this will not even be able to pass the preliminary test of the Military Advisor Exam!
Now this group of Zhuge's strategists, who are both sophisticated and powerful, all know that Zhuge Youdao, a stupid Zhuge with a "bad brain", actually wants to fight with others... It took more than ten or twenty years to challenge these people, and even It took thirty years to get the position of military advisor, which is really a bit dumbfounding.
However, according to the rules of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Weidao is qualified to challenge for the position of military advisor - he passed the preliminary examination five years ago and scored very high. He answered 18 of the 20 extremely difficult math questions correctly!
This IQ is really enviable!
So he can indeed challenge for the military advisor position. But this military advisor position is not something that can be won by just solving the questions... Everyone has "studyed" for more than ten or twenty years to obtain the military advisor position. Before obtaining the military advisor position, they have already mastered in all aspects. Number one. Why should he, a "little Zhuge" in his twenties and a mere lieutenant colonel of the navy, get the rank of military advisor? There are quite a few army and navy officers in the Zhuge family who have reached the general level but have not obtained the rank of military advisor!
The group of old Zhuge present looked at Zhuge Weidao, a young Zhuge, but they were not very friendly.
However, before he can challenge for the position of Military Advisor, Zhuge Weidao still has to go through the trial of the Military Advisor. If he cannot satisfactorily explain his behavior in the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Jin Empire, he will be exiled by his family, and naturally he will lose the opportunity to challenge the Military Advisor. qualifications.
The things Zhuge Weidao committed this time are not trivial, and he will probably be exiled!
Thinking of this, some old Zhuges began to sympathize with Zhuge Dao. The Feng Shui strategist Zhuge Weixiao even felt guilty - he was the one who found Zhuge Youde's Yin Mansion, it was obviously a Feng Shui treasure! Why can't I protect Zhuge as the Taoist? Didn't you look carefully?
At this time, Zhuge Weidao had already sat down on a chair in front of the Twelve Military Advisors in a grand manner. He also crossed his legs and looked at the twelve "Zhuge Liang" with a silly smile on his face - it was not that he was stupid, but that he was stupid. Twelve "Zhuge Liang" were sitting together in an old classroom, with an old-fashioned wooden desk in front of each person... Is this Zhuge Liang's training class? It’s ridiculous to think about it!
"Daozi," Zhuge Weixiao, who was a little guilty, shook his feather fan and spoke kindly at this time, "We know that your head was seriously injured in Petersburg and you were a little confused...that's why you did so many things. What a stupid thing. As long as you admit your mistake, we will forgive you, we will not expel you, and we will not let you go to New Manchuria... We will arrange a comfortable place for you and ensure that you will be rich for the rest of your life. Weng."
"Yes, yes," Zhuge Youli, a well-established physical strategist and the most reasonable old man, immediately said, stroking his white beard, "Taozi, we have discussed it. As long as you admit your mistake, we will retire from the navy." I’ll build you a big manor in Nanyang or Siam for your retirement.”
"Retirement?" Zhuge Weidao felt happy for the old Zhuge, "Are you noble Geng?"
"Eighty-three," Zhuge Youli said with a smile, "My grandson is older than you!"
"You're eighty-three and still don't retire. I'm only twenty-six and you want me to take care of you in old age. You don't understand what you're saying!"
Zhuge Youli was not angry, and even said with a smile: "Aren't you broken in the head? You ruined the trap that your second brother and your father had set up for more than ten years in Petersburg, and you also killed Grand Duke Alexander of Rakshasa Kingdom. Put it together with Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom... If the United Kingdom and the Rakshasa alliance are formed, the Ming Dynasty will be isolated internationally."
As he spoke, he sighed again: "My dear nephew, Daozi, I am a scholar, and I don't know much about these international things. Before your brain broke, you knew a lot more than I did. What a pity!"
"Brother 108," Zhuge Weijia, a banker and military advisor, also looked regretful, "Once Britain and Rakshasa form a marriage alliance, the Westerners will become monolithic... Then we will be in big trouble. .
This group of Westerners, whether they are Rakshasa, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or anyone else, are all the same at heart: they are bandits! Their original territory was Europe. In the past few hundred years, relying on their powerful ships and cannons and the opportunity to enter the age of navigation first, they took over half of the world's territory and wealth. Only our Ming Dynasty had the ancestors. It took a hero like King Wu Zhong to suppress them in Malacca and the Dutch East Indies, so that they did not dare to take a step north.
Moreover, we also used trade to attract most of the gold and silver that Westerners plundered from the New World, Africa, and India to the Ming Dynasty. We even used the money earned from trade to invest in British Malacca, Dutch East Indies, and British Tin Although the current governance of Malacca, the Dutch East Indies and Ceylon belongs to the British and Dutch, most of the industries there belong to our Ming merchants. Most of the shares of the Suez Canal Company were bought by our people... In addition, we have invested in a lot of industries in the Rakshasa Kingdom and various countries in Western Europe!
But if we can't use the method of supporting one faction to suppress the other to keep the Western countries divided and balanced, but let them unite or unify, those bandits will have to worry about our money... Although we are in Malacca The investment in the Dutch East Indies can still be regained by sending troops, but the investment west of Malacca will be wasted. Moreover, once Malacca and the Dutch East Indies are seized, the more than 10 million indigenous people there will also be a problem. Even if they are Ming people, we will lose money. Otherwise, what should we do with them? "
The banker and strategist talked a lot... but it was not completely unreasonable. The diplomacy, foreign trade, and investment policies pursued by the Zhuge family were all formulated with reference to the Heavenly Book, and were of course extremely targeted.
On the way to Beijing, Zhuge Weidao had already asked Manager He Tianran about the "overseas investment" of the Zhuge family. Not to mention Malacca, the Dutch East Indies, and Ceylon, which were right under the Ming Dynasty's nose, and the island of Ceylon, which was not too far away from the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence. Just talking about investment in the West was quite smart.
The shareholding in the Suez Canal ensured that the Zhuge family controlled at least one director of the canal company, which gave the Zhuge family a say in the Suez Canal issue and exerted influence on Ali Pasha of Egypt.
The investment of the Zhuge Family in Western Europe is also very interesting. It is not invested in London, Paris, Amsterdam, nor in stocks and bonds, but in the land of the Ruhr area. After King Zhuge Wuzhong passed away, the Zhuge family began to continuously buy land in the Ruhr area to allow some precious metals to return to Europe - this could maintain the liquidity of the European market and allow Europeans to continue to buy Ming Dynasty products.
The land in the Ruhr area purchased by the Zhuge family was mainly used to grow grapes, make wine and grow wheat. Although the return rate is very low, the Zhuge family has been buying continuously for more than a hundred years, and it seems that they are not short of money. Almost all the land near the Rhine, Ruhr, and Lippe rivers has been purchased... although it will not completely prevent the development of the Ruhr coalfields (the Ruhr coalfields are distributed over thousands of square kilometers of land (below), but it still increases mining and transportation costs and reduces the competitiveness of the Rhineland industry.
I have to say that although these Zhuge military advisors are relatively cowardly, they are still very damaging!
Seeing Zhuge Weidao smiling and saying nothing, Zhuge Weijiu thought that he had realized his mistake, so he sighed and said: "One hundred and eighty brother, you have done more ridiculous things these days. You are in the Kingdom of Jin." He also did two ridiculous things. One was secretly colluding with Jin Emperor Daoguang... Second, I won't talk about it! You, admit your mistake and go to Nanyang to become the owner of the manor!"
Zhuge Weidao smiled and began to pretend to count on his fingers.
"Brother 108, what are you doing?" Zhuge Weijiu frowned as he looked at the little brother counting on him.
"Second brother," Zhuge Weidao replied seriously, "I can tell you with just a few fingers that you are using an offshore balancing hand against Great Britain, Rakshasa, France, and Prussia... through continuous support. Europe's regional powers should check and balance the powers that are keen on pursuing European hegemony in order to maintain Europe's division and balance of power. Am I right?"
