Chapter 316: Traitors! They are all a bunch of traitors!

"Zeng Xiaoyi's Haiqi had just arrived in Havana for supplies, and before it headed for the Mexican coast, Mexico backed off."

"Mexican President Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia personally apologized to the Qing Dynasty and said that the murderer would be severely punished. At the same time, Mexico paid a compensation of 30 million British eagles to the Qing Dynasty, to be paid in ten years."

This is more or less the case. If a backward country dares to massacre immigrants from powerful countries, it should be prepared to pay compensation. Mexico is too poor to pay 30 million British dollars at once, so paying it off over ten years is tolerable.

Chinese people now have to bow their heads when facing the British, but in a country like Mexico, with the support of their motherland, they can stand up straight in the future.

"Marshal, Emily beat me up. She blamed me for waiting for me to propose to her since I graduated from the military academy. She has been waiting for so many years that she has become old."

"We went to the church to hold our wedding last night. However, Emily is not in good health, so I want to take her to Hailing to see Dr. Fei for treatment. She won't stay in America anymore. She is weak, so I asked her to go directly to the cabin and not come to see the Marshal."

Xiao Ai is a romantic man like Le Xiucai. He married her even though he knew she was a sick girl. This is true love. Shao feels inferior to her.

Historically, Emily died of illness two years after marrying Emery. Emery became depressed and never married again. Later, he shot himself to follow Emily, and neither of them left any descendants.

In this time and space, Emory came to China on a whim and met Doctor Fei, who is truly the best doctor in the world. The couple is expected to live into the next century, which is definitely their luck.

"Well, Xiao Ai, you are so mean that you didn't even invite me to the wedding. Maria, give Xiao Ai 10,000 taels as my gift, and take good care of the lady. Ask Dr. Fei to prescribe any expensive medicine. Ask Ping Er to represent me and go to Emery's cabin to visit Xiao Ai's wife."

To give out 12,000 taels of silver as a gift right away, if Shao Quanzhong wasn't stupid, few people would be qualified to pay him so much money.

Emery is the source of China's new army and is worth the price. He cannot let his family burden affect the destiny of the Qing Dynasty.

As Shao Quanzhong's personal secretary, Maria had the power to issue a note for 10,000 taels from Wen's Bank. But she hadn't entered the Shao family yet, so she couldn't represent the Shao family to visit, and Ping'er was very proud of this.

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Forbidden City, West Warm Pavilion.

The little emperor was attending a morning meeting at the Grand Council, yawning.

For a child, having to get up early every day and sit here for meetings starting from the age of six is really too cruel.

Now the little emperor is twelve years old, thirteen years old, and can sit in meetings. But he has no right to speak at all, and sitting here as a tablet is even more boring.

Yihuan was the first to speak excitedly, "My Lord, the Mexican envoy has transferred the first indemnity of 3 million British eagles to the account of Wen's Bank through Citibank, and Wen's Bank's branch in Beijing has sent the silver to the Ministry of Revenue."

"This is the first time that the Qing Dynasty has received compensation from a foreign country. It feels really good to be a great power."

In fact, the Ottoman Empire paid compensation once, but the tone of the treaty was very tough.

In theory, Britain also paid "compensation" once, but that was just the court's own pleasure.

Moreover, Shao Quanzhong spent the two sums of money immediately without the court even noticing anything about it.

The great powers have no banks in Japan, and Japan has been slow to pay its indemnity, and there has been no sign of it arriving yet.

This time Mexico publicly apologized and paid compensation, and the court gained both money and face. Moreover, the silver was really moved to the national treasury immediately. The feeling of fulfillment was incomparable.

"Humph! We are about to give Prussia eight million taels of silver for free to help them build warships in Zhanjiang, and this little money will be gone in the blink of an eye?"

Well, you don’t need to mention it, you know who said it.

Master Qiao had to earn money for his adopted son. "Zhanjiang Shipyard is a joint venture. We own half of it. We only gave out 4 million taels." These were all meaningless disputes. Cixi spoke from behind the curtain. "We are open to Prussia. The Americans and foreigners benefited equally this time. We got two benefits. In addition, we deterred the Mexicans and got 30 million taels of compensation. Shao Quanzhong must be rewarded when he comes back this time. Do you have any ideas?"

Baojun stood up this time and secretly glanced at Wenxiang. Well, this old man was looking up and counting the beams of the west warm room.

Baojun was bolder. "We have discussed it. The idea proposed by the Grand Tutor to promote Shao Quanzhong to the rank of prince is not acceptable. Once he is promoted to the rank of prince and becomes the regent, wouldn't our Grand Council be useless? We still have to maintain the situation where the Empress Dowager makes the final decision on government affairs."

Everyone nodded. Grand Tutor Qiao actually didn't want the Grand Council to lose its power, so he didn't insist when his opinion was rejected.

"Therefore, we have come up with this reward method. Please approve it, Your Majesty."

After Baojun finished speaking, Cixi blushed behind the curtain for a rare moment and paused for a long time, "Let's do as you say."

The little emperor on the dragon throne suddenly spoke up, "I object!"

From behind the curtain came Cixi's majestic cough, but this time it failed to intimidate the little emperor.

The young emperor stood up and pointed at the important officials of the Military Affairs Office, "You are a bunch of traitors..."

"The emperor is tired, help him go back and rest."

An Dehai stepped forward and grabbed the little emperor, pushing him out. From afar, the little emperor's curses could be heard, "Traitors! They are all a bunch of traitors!"

He turned around and glanced at Andehai who dared to push him, "You bastard slave!"

The scene was quite awkward. The West Warm Pavilion was silent for a long time. Yihuan coughed and said, "This time Shao Quanzhong kept Zeng Jize as the ambassador to the American barbarians to coordinate with them on aid and immigration matters."

"Prussia and the United States already have ambassadors, and Britain, France and Russia have also requested to upgrade their diplomatic relations with us to the ambassadorial level."

"Zeng Guofan submitted a memorial recommending two of his staff members, Guo Songtao as ambassador to Britain and Chen Lanbin as ambassador to France. No one is willing to be the ambassador to Russia, so I recommend Wanyan Chonghou, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the former minister of trade in the three ports."

Now that the Qing Dynasty was fully open, the so-called three-port trade was no longer useful. Originally, the court wanted to transfer Wanyan Chonghou to be the governor of Zhili, but this position was taken by Qiao Songnian, so he was sent by the Military Affairs Council to St. Petersburg as an ambassador. After all, an ambassador is a high-ranking official, like an imperial envoy.

"Well, I heard that Wu Ziyi and Zeng Jize were both talented people selected by Shao Quanzhong. The people we choose cannot be inferior to them. I will ask these three people to come to see the emperor later. I will give them good instructions."

While the meeting was going on, the little emperor left the West Warm Pavilion in a very bad mood. He got angry when he saw his brother's face, and he stopped playing with his brother and strolled to the upper study.

His younger brother was studying with a sad face under the dual supervision of the Manchu No. 1 scholar's ruler and cassock. The little emperor found Zai Cheng, who was doing nothing and had no one to take care of him.

Now that Cixi's power was gradually consolidated, Prince Gong could no longer be imprisoned, so he was released and was now reflecting on his mistakes at home. Zaicheng could no longer miss out on studies, so he returned to the upper study to accompany him in his studies.

"Zaicheng, I heard that my mother is going to watch an opera, which will take a long time, so she won't have time to take care of me. Please take me out to see the Eight Great Hutongs."

"Master, I don't dare. What if I get kicked out again?"

"If you are discovered, I will bear the consequences for you. Humph, sooner or later I will rule the country myself, and by then you will be my right-hand man, so what are you afraid of?"

"Whoo."

The two men sneaked into the Hall of Mental Cultivation, prepared to change clothes, and went on a secret visit with a few eunuchs trusted by the little emperor.

The young emperor changed his clothes while swearing, "Humph, I can't touch Shao Ni. I will kill that bastard An Dehai if I get a chance. Zai Cheng, go outside and find out which loyal minister is brave enough. Then you can take him out and find an opportunity to become this rebellious slave."

(End of this chapter)

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