"The old minister has been living in Ryukyu for two months. During this period, he has had many contacts with the rulers and ministers of Ryukyu, and has also understood the customs of civil society... In my opinion, this matter can be explained in four words, that is, 'No need to worry'..."

"Oh?" Everyone present had their eyes lit up. The calmness on Weng Tonghe made everyone, especially the two empress dowagers, feel much more at ease.

Weng Tonghe twisted his beard and said thoughtfully, "I can't say it well, I mean that this matter has completely exposed Xiao Letian's strategic intentions. Let's not talk about whether he wants to rebel and annex the Qing Dynasty. At least Xiao Letian's intention to be independent and independent..."

"Please forgive me for saying that the Qing Dynasty was helpless in the escape of Ryukyu. Without a powerful navy like Europa, we would not be able to punish those overseas island countries. Regarding the escape of Ryukyu, the old me believed that the court could only accept his fate!"

With a bang, Yi? Hit the coffee table with a punch and showed an angry expression on his face, "It's hateful! It's really hateful! If it weren't for Changmao, the Nian Army had been in chaos in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and if the turmoil in Gansu and Shaanxi and Xinjiang had not subsided yet, why would we not even be able to build a navy!"

"As long as we give us three or four years of peace respite in the Qing Dynasty, we can easily gather 50 to 60 million taels of silver. When we spend money to buy it, we can also buy a fleet!"

Yi? said with a sad look on his face, "We are suffering too much. From beginning to end, we have suffered no losses from the navy... If there is a decent navy, even if we don't fight, we will scare the foreigners on the sea, we will not suffer such a big loss!"

This sentence made the eyes of two women, Cixi and Ci'an, lit up. "What the uncle said really makes sense. If we really have a huge navy and buy more warships, we will wave it to the sea, and it will scare the foreigners to not dare to bully us... At that time, will the small country like Japan Ryukyu dare to fly to the sky?"

This is the thinking of women, and this is also the common thinking in the Qing Dynasty at that time. In that era, they were completely panicked about foreign wars. If they could not fight, they would not fight. If they could settle things with money, they would never settle things with the army.

In the eyes of Cixi and others, let the hardworking Han people work hard to make money, then collect more taxes for the crowd, and finally use part of the tax as protection fee to exchange for a foreigner not bullying... What a beautiful picture!

Yi? Why didn’t he talk like he is today? Yi? In the past, he always made trouble for the construction of the navy, clamoring to use tens of millions of taels of silver to build the first fleet in Asia, protect the empire’s seas and foreigners’ lives.

Are you fighting with foreigners? It’s scary to think about it. Things in the empire have not been settled yet, so I want to go to the sea to fight? This brother-in-law is really worried.

But today Yi's words accidentally touched the itchy spots of the two empress dowagers.

That's right, there is no need to really fight when we build a navy! Isn't it good to put it out and scare foreigners? Anyway, the Qing Dynasty has some money, so spend money to buy it. At that time, foreigners come and take a look. The warships in our Bohai Bay are lined up to the horizon. Are you talking about this in Sun Tzu's Art of War, and you can defeat others without fighting?

"Well, the emperor is right. Our Qing Dynasty really needs to have a navy. We will discuss this matter in a few days! It's not a big deal to be bullied like this!" After Cixi looked at Empress Dowager Ci'an with her eyes, but Ci'an was also in love with Cixi this time and kept nodding.

Yi and Weng Tonghe were a little confused and thought to themselves what was going on. How could they talk about the fact that Ryukyu was separated from the vassal state? Why did they suddenly fall into the head of the navy?

But being able to build a navy is of course a great thing. Yi? He quickly stood up and bowed with gratitude.

"Old man, please continue, sorry to interrupt you..." Yi? bowed to Weng Tonghe.

Weng Tonghe smiled bitterly and said, "Get up, Prince Gong has already said it very clearly. Without a navy, we really can't deal with Ryukyu. Don't expect to fight against foreign concessions. If you want to defeat Ryukyu, you can't do it. If you want to defeat Ryukyu, you can't. I have seen the largest turret in Ryukyu, Shuri turret. The big gun that is so big that it can stuff a big watermelon..."

"When French warships invaded Ryukyu, the French ships that were bombed by this fort dared not get close to shoot, but only dared to move outside Naba Bay to shoot... The island of Ryukyu had long been built by Xiao Lotte to build a steel fortress!"

"Not only is the military situation bad, but the introduction of the Chinese order is also a bad phenomenon in the hearts of the people. Xiao Letian's intention is very obvious. He is going to split the saint's door wall and sneak a concept himself... This evil demon is really terrible. It can be foreseeable that his fallacies and evil sayings will definitely deceive a large number of people, especially some literati in Jiangnan. It is probably difficult for him to escape his bewitching!"

Weng Tonghe's words made the people present very worried. Yihuan sighed, "Can't you deal with him? Even if you can't deal with him, we have to rescue the emperor quickly..."

The old man shook his head, "I have to say the word "no hurry". The current situation is very unfavorable to us, but our disadvantage is not an emergency disease, but a slow disease!"

"Our court still has time. I always feel that Xiao Letian issued the Chinese order this time very hasty. He was not ready in many places. This pot of rice porridge has not yet been boiled to the temperature..."

"First of all, the Far East Volunteer Army that appeared inexplicably in Vladivostok was Xiao Letian's arrangement. Although I don't understand why he had to start a war with the Russians, he shouldn't have given up this Chinese order too early without a decision on the victory or defeat?"

"There is Fusang, which Xiao Letian just penetrated into. I once had a secret talk with the high-ranking shogunate officials, local samurai daime, and even the nobles in Kyoto... There are still a large number of people in Fusang who are not convinced by Xiao Letian. Only those great names who can share the benefits and the lower-level samurai who are eager to change their destiny are on the same side as Xiao Letian!"

"I think the introduction of the Chinese order too early will stimulate those opposing forces more. This is a very unwise behavior!"

Weng Tonghe said, "To sum up, I personally feel that Xiao Letian must have encountered a very big difficulty. The introduction of the Chinese order is likely not aimed at us. All the disadvantages to us now are just piggyback!"

Note: I talked about the Feng Shui issue of the Forbidden City in the previous chapter. In fact, there are many stories and interesting. The royal family in the late Qing Dynasty destroyed a lot of Feng Shui pattern of the Forbidden City.

Let me tell you a little story. When Empress Dowager Cixi lived in Changchun Palace, she opened up Changchun Palace and Qixiang Palace in front of this palace, demolished the palace walls and palace gates between the two palaces, and built a new Tiyuan Hall on the spot. Qixiang Palace was also renamed Taiji Hall, which was generally the front hall of Changchun Palace.

In other words, when we go to the Forbidden City now, the Tiyuan Hall has a very short history, and the Tai Chi Hall used to be called Qixiang Hall.

Later, Cixi opened up the Yikun Palace in front of Chuxiu Palace. After demolishing the palace walls and palace gates that separate the two palaces, a new Tikh Hall was built on the spot as the connecting hall between Yikun Palace and Chuxiu Palace.

With this change, all the original Feng Shui pattern in the harem was destroyed, and the huge Kun hexagram of the West Six Palace completely became nothing, which completely could not correspond to the Kun hexagram pattern of the East Six Palaces.

If you destroy the Feng Shui pattern of the Forbidden City on such a large scale, don’t blame the Qing Dynasty for its demise.
Chapter completed!