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After Li Jingfang and his party walked out of the train station, they got on the double-decker carriage that had been prepared. More than 100 people in the group took five double-decker carriages.
In order to experience the Ming Dynasty more intuitively, Li Jingfang deliberately sat on the top floor. As the carriage moved, he curiously looked at the city in front of him.
From now on, he saw a strange world in front of him. Even though it was evening, the tall buildings on the roadside seemed to present a completely different world.
"Then, that car doesn't use horses!"
Suddenly, someone pointed at a tram that was clanging in the distance and said.
They even looked at the bustling crowd in front of the train station with dumbfounded eyes, scrambling to get into the strange-looking car, and then watched it jingling away into the distance.
"Then that's the tram!"
Li Jingfang said to himself in surprise.
He had seen a tram in a pictorial and knew that it was a vehicle that did not require a horse. It was similar to a train, but it did not require a locomotive to pull it like a train.
"Yes, it should be..."
Just before Li Xuexian finished speaking, the dark streets suddenly lit up.
I saw a dazzling street lamp stretching along the street into the distance.
Li Jingfang and others were a little confused because they could not see the electric lights at the end. They knew they were electric lights.
They even knew that Nanhua was nicknamed the "City That Never Sleeps", but now when they looked up at the bright lights of the street lights, they felt an impact that outsiders could hardly imagine.
For Li Jingfang and others who arrived in Nanhua for the first time on this day, the shock they felt seemed inevitable. After all, Nanhua is currently the most modern city in the world.
Nanhua not only has street lights covering the whole city, but also has modern transportation like trams. As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Yingtian is undoubtedly lagging behind compared with Nanhua.
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However, this backwardness will soon change. In the planning of the capital, not only the construction of the capital is re-planned, but also a new district is planned in the south of the city. Compared with the old city full of European style, the buildings in the new district are modern but
It has Chinese architectural style.
After all, this is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and all European-style buildings are obviously inappropriate. Although Zhu Xianhai's plan is that the future capital of the Ming Dynasty will be in the hinterland, this temporary capital still needs to be built.
The central area of the new district is the administrative area, which is shaped like a "middle" when viewed from the air. The area includes many government buildings, as well as buildings such as the Imperial Library and museums. The State Council Building is located on the left side of the "middle" area.
, the building was designed by Zhu Xianhai himself. It is a building with Chinese architectural style. It covers an area of 51,000 square meters and has a construction area of 27,500 square meters. It is in the shape of a "mountain". The building is the latest reinforced concrete structure, and the main entrance faces east.
, with six floors on the front and two floors in the basement with a tower-type roof, the roof is covered with glazed tiles. Although the overall architectural style is modern, the top of the tower and the roof are oriental. The layout is grand and the appearance is extremely majestic.
In fact, this is also a characteristic of the architectural design style of the new urban area - mainly Chinese ethnic style, while taking into account modern needs, and paying equal attention to practicality and beauty. In March 1871, the second year of Shengde, the State Council moved here
Finally, to a certain extent, this was the political center of the Ming Dynasty, although it was a full 6.5 kilometers away from the imperial palace.
On this morning, as usual, Zuo Zongtang, the imperial prime minister, was handling official business in his office on the sixth floor. After a while, Foreign Minister Zhu Guozhong hurried over.
"Think Zuo, think Zuo,"
Why do you think left and right?
Every time he heard this uncle-in-law calling him, Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but grin. This guy's Mandarin-speaking.
"Something bad is going to happen!"
Putting a copy of the secret message he had just received on the table, Zhu Guozhong said seriously.
"The United States, no, it's Washington. Some members of Congress submitted the "Law Concerning the Implementation of Provisions of Treaties Relevant to Chinese People." They want to fundamentally prohibit Chinese from entering the United States..."
"What?"
Zuo Zongtang suddenly stood up and said.
"Telegram what's coming."
"Just now."
"Let's go to see His Majesty together!"
Let’s go see His Majesty together!
When Zuo Zongtang walked out of the office, he gave instructions to the secretary outside.
"Prepare the car and go to the palace!"
After a while, when Zuo Zongtang and Zhu Guozhong went downstairs, a black BMW 101 car had parked under the large balcony in front of the building. After the two got in, the car drove out of the State Council Building. Last year, Zhu Xianhai
At the time of the throne, this shape was borrowed from the limousine Ford sedan of the 1930s, but only a few were produced.
Now, more than 300 of this 50-horsepower four-cylinder engine five-seater sedan have been produced, of which more than 200 are in official offices. As soon as it was put into use, it was deeply loved by people. After all, this car is fast.
ah.
As the car drove out, six escort motorcycles were guarding it in front and behind. As soon as the convoy got on the road, the speed quickly increased to 40 kilometers. On the speeding car, Zuo Zongtang's brows were furrowed and his expression was tense.
With a little bit of annoyance.
"Aren't those American elders just looking for trouble?"
"Isn't that the case? Do they think our fleet is just a display?"
As the uncle of the country, Zhu Guozhong mentioned the fleet with confidence when he mentioned the United States because the U.S. Navy was simply not worth mentioning—it didn’t even have an ironclad ship. After the American Civil War, the U.S. Navy had 700
With a fleet of ships and more than 5,000 artillery pieces, the scale was far ahead of the navies of other European countries. After the war, even in the face of the reality of the country's division, the lawmakers of the United States still believed that since the war was over, there would be no war for a long time in the future.
, should focus on developing the economy, so they began to dismantle the navy on a large scale. The U.S. Navy only retained 48 warships in service. These warships were basically wooden-hulled ships. As for the ironclad ships built during the war that had no navigation capabilities,
Basically they were eliminated.
If you forget to fight, you will be in danger. It's not that Americans don't understand this truth, it's because there is no threat. Even in the south... they are just letting their horses go to Nanshan.
Uncle Guo's words made Zuo Zongtang frown again. This was exactly what he was worried about.
I'm really afraid of what will come. Just a few months ago, I was worried that the border between the Beihai Governor-General and the United States would intensify the relationship between the two sides. But now it's better, the Americans come directly to the door.
How could he not be worried in the face of the United States, which came to seek solutions?
"Uncle, what I'm most worried about right now is that His Majesty will use the fleet to speak!"
Before that, Zuo Zongtang had no worries in this regard, but since the Kedah Sultanate, he basically understood His Majesty's attitude - Ming Dynasty is a member of China, so it should naturally be the protector of the Chinese nation. Americans are now taking the initiative
Can Your Majesty stand up and look for trouble? Can you bear it?
However, after more than ten minutes, Zuo Zongtang's worries disappeared. After listening to his report, Zhu Xianhai did not answer immediately, but silently walked to the window and thought for a while.
The "Chinese Exclusion Act" was finally promulgated. In another world, we would have had to wait another ten years, but we never thought that now, the Chinese Exclusion Act would be promulgated ten years ahead of schedule.
America!
Finally I couldn't bear it anymore.
After smoking his cigar silently and thinking for a while, Zhu Xianhai said.
"Let's pass a law too!"
"What?"
"Let the Minister of Justice start drafting a Treaty to Exclude the United States, based on their treaty!"
Treat him with his own medicine, Zhu Xianhai sneered, and then said.
"Can't Americans pass laws? So can we. We should treat them how they treat the Chinese. Aren't there nearly 10,000 Americans in the Beihai Governor's Region? We should treat them according to American laws.
, they prohibit Chinese workers who are employed as miners from entering the United States, then we also prohibit Americans from entering the Ming Dynasty, and no American workers are allowed to enter the Ming Dynasty."
The reason why Americans are prohibited from entering the Ming Dynasty is not only a targeted countermeasure, but also a more important reason - gold. Soon the news of the discovery of gold in Alaska will spread around the world, and it will cause an air war.
previous wave of immigration.
If there are no corresponding legal prohibitions, how can we prevent Americans from entering the Ming Dynasty to seek gold? The law now introduced by the United States is simply a reason to come to the door, and it can directly close the door of the Ming Dynasty.
"As for the reason!..."
Walking back to the table, looking at the telegram, Zhu Xianhai read the contents of the law.
"Given that the U.S. government believes that Chinese workers coming to the United States endanger good order in certain places within the United States, therefore..."
Throwing the telegram on the desk, Zhu Xianhai suppressed his inner dissatisfaction and anger and said.
"In view of the fact that the Ming Empire government believes that American workers come to the Ming Dynasty to endanger the good order in certain places within the empire, therefore... without modification, this American law will be directly applied. Regarding this bill, which was proposed by those senators, remember to give
They mailed a copy and wanted it translated into English!”
"Your Majesty, this plan is very clever."
Zuo Zongtang quickly complimented.
"Take the other's way to control the other's body. Since the Americans can target us, we can also target them!"
Hum!
Regarding Zuo Zongtang's flattery, Zhu Xianhai just snorted and said nothing.
Is this considered revenge?
Of course this is not real revenge. What is real revenge?
Strength must speak for itself! Promulgating a targeted law like this is just a simple response, not retaliation at all.
And now...it's not very pleasant to hold in this tone.