"We will definitely do it and win the battle."
"Okay, our soldiers must have this kind of energy."
"Okay, let's continue."
"Our Ministry of Science and Technology is currently focusing on the upgrade of naval warships, artillery upgrades, armored vehicle upgrades, various soldier weapon upgrades, engine upgrades, and aircraft development."
"The first batch of armored vehicle orders will be delivered to various units soon."
"The first plane is almost finished and ready to take off."
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"good!"
"Snap, snap, snap!"
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"Our Tenglong Empire's treasury currently has 3,500 tons of gold and 30 million taels of silver..."
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"Our foreign arms trade orders are basically completed, and we are currently communicating with various countries on how to transport them."
"After the first round of communication, the three countries tend to send people to our Tenglong Empire to adapt to driving warships. After a month of training, they will then drive warships to escort the arms of the three countries back home."
"Well, okay, this is our first batch of arms order, we need to do it well."
"My Ministry of Education..."
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"My sports department..."
"My Ministry of Health..."
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"Our Tenglong Empire has changed a lot in one year!"
"It has been less than two years since our Tenglong Empire raised its flag, and the territory it currently controls is not much smaller than the territory that the Qing Dynasty once actually controlled."
"Victory is destined to belong to our Tenglong Empire. I am calling you all this year to let you and I know the current status of our Tenglong Empire, so that we can better set goals for the future."
"Today's meeting ends here. Please move on. I have prepared a dinner for you."
"After this dinner, you should go back quickly and celebrate the New Year with the other brothers."
"Yes, thank you Grand Governor!"
Li Jingxiao and the others quickly had a dinner, each of them had four dishes and one soup.
After eating, the leaders of each unit, except those whose headquarters was in Henan, all left Henan. They had to celebrate the New Year with the people below when they returned.
Li Jingxiao held this meeting more than ten days in advance, so those who were far away could still take a train back for the meeting.
The farthest one is the Tibet Military Region, and there is still a section of road after taking the train.
After all, the governor of Xinjiang and the commander of the Xinjiang Military Region, the governor of Annan of Yunnan and Guizhou, and the commander of the Yunnan-Guizhou Military Region are headquartered in Yunnan and Xinjiang. The two places have long been connected by train, so there is no need to go to Annan and Northwest Provinces to celebrate the New Year.
This group of people finally met and reunited, but it was hard to bear to separate immediately.
Just like Bai Tao, Li Xia, Liu Bihua, and Zhang Ruijin, the oldest people are located in the northeast and southwest corners of the Tenglong Empire, the farthest places.
Liu Bihua and Zhang Ruijin are both in Xinjiang, and Bai Tao and Li Xia are both near Henan.
Ma Zheng used to be Li Jingxiao's personal bodyguard, but now he is also responsible for fighting in Shandong.
After finally coming back to see the Governor, we had to part ways for a day.
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"Your Majesty, it's so cold this winter. Our first railway can't be built anymore."
"It's okay. We will continue repairing it next spring."
"By the way, Yulin, isn't there a long road ahead?"
"We will connect this section of the road. As my first railway in the Qing Dynasty, I want to go up and sit on it myself."
"Let's see if it's as magical as you say."
"Don't worry, Queen Mother."
"When we have trains, we will not need so many migrant workers to transport supplies from Shengjing to Zhili and Heilongjiang."
"It just takes trains to get supplies to the front lines."
"It's a good relationship, and we can save a lot of money."
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"Go to court!"
"Long live my emperor! Long live!"
"The Queen Mother is a thousand years old!"
"Would you like to get up?"
"Ministers, this year has passed, and today is also the last court meeting of the year. Can you tell me?"
"What have you done? Why do we only have so many provinces left in the Qing Dynasty?"
"The north is north of the Heilongjiang River and the east of the Wusuli River is still in the hands of Lao Maozi. Ulia Sutai is now obeying orders but not the propaganda."
"The area we currently control is not as large as the Tenglong Empire's Xinjiang Province."
"If you don't worry about national divisions, our Qing Dynasty will really be finished."
A large area of territory from Ulyasutai to the sea, including the Sihet Mountains in the east and northeast, Vladivostok, the north of Heilongjiang, south of the Treaty of Nerchinsk, and Kuye Island should have belonged to the Qing Dynasty.
As early as the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Treaty of Nerchinsk signed between the Qing government and Tsarist Russia clearly stipulated that areas such as Vladivostok belonged to the Qing Dynasty.
However, the power of the country was declining in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. During the Second YP War, the Qing government and Tsarist Russia signed the unequal "Aihui Treaty" in 1858, which stipulated that the area east of the Ussuri River including Vladivostok was jointly managed by China and Russia.
In 1860, Russia forced the Qing government to sign the unequal "Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing". The Qing government ceded about 400,000 square kilometers of territory east of the Ussuri River, including Sakhalin Island, including Vladivostok.
Later, it became an important military base for Tsarist Russia in the Far East. However, because it was too far away from Russia's headquarters, the development of the place was slow.
This area is not small, it is very vast, especially for the current Qing Dynasty, this area covers almost two-thirds of the area they control.
Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue: "Old Buddha, it's because our ministers don't care about serving the country."
"As the saying goes, the emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers. At present, the soldiers from all over the country have not collected the pay and money. Marshal Zuo asks me for money every day. Why don't I have it?"
"Why are we out of money again? Didn't we just borrow 10 million taels of silver from England?"
"Your Majesty, training the new army is a waste of money. The weapons in each soldier's hands are twice as expensive as selling them directly to foreigners. The main reason is that the weapons explode at every turn."
"Prince Gong, what's going on?"
"Your Majesty, the person in charge of our weapons manufacturing bureau was appointed by you. I don't know why the weapons are more expensive to manufacture than the ones sold to us by foreigners."
"Xuanye Herala. Guixiang."
"嗻."
"Xuanye Helana. Guixiang..."
Yehelana Guixiang is Cixi's younger brother. She also wants to know what her brother is doing in this critical moment.
Prince Gong continued: "Queen Mother, we are currently short of money. Can the two things I mentioned earlier be implemented?"
"Oh, tell me about those two things. All civil and military officials are here today. Let's see if they have any opinions."
"Well, the first thing is that we remove all the privileges of yellow belts, and only retain the three closest generations. If you exceed three generations, you will be demoted."
"The second is to ask all honorable people to donate money."
"Didn't I agree to this? Why hasn't it been done yet?"
"Queen Mother, the current resistance from the yellow belts and noble nobles is very strong and they won't listen at all."
"Please give me a certain amount of power, Queen Mother. I want to scare the monkeys. I don't believe that they can't cough up the money, or they are still unwilling to change and continue to be old-fashioned and wait for the demise of the Qing Dynasty."
"Okay, I can give you the power of life and death. The Qing Dynasty has reached this point, and they should be killed if they only care about personal interests."
