In September 1656, Li Zhi stood beside the bed in the study room of Qianqing Palace, quietly looking at the drizzle outside the window.
The weather in Beijing today is cool, and the drizzle makes the early autumn weather clearer. The raindrops fell on the ancient palaces of the Forbidden City, washing the golden glazed tiles and granite walls very clean. Dry The two old pine trees in front of the Qing Palace seemed to be rejuvenated and shiny green after being washed by the rain.
Some raindrops floated in from the glass window and sprinkled on Li Zhi's hand. However, Li Zhi did not move his hand. Instead, he stretched out his hand to feel the cool raindrops, and just stood in front of the window, silent.
The surrounding attendants saw that Li Zhi's palms were getting wet and couldn't help but look at each other. However, they were Tiger Army soldiers who absolutely obeyed orders. They did not dare to speak until Li Zhi asked them to speak.
Li Zhi did not use eunuchs in the Forbidden City. After all, Li Zhi was a time traveler and felt that the profession of eunuchs was too inhumane. Moreover, Li Zhi did not hide three thousand beauties in the harem like other kings - Li Zhi only had Cui He. My wife slept in the same room with Cui He almost every day, so there was no need for a huge team of eunuchs to serve the women in the harem.
Li Zhi's choice was to have the palace maids serve in the harem and the Huben army guards to guard the front hall. This kind of rule was closer to the world practice of later generations, which made Li Zhi feel more comfortable.
Li Zhi was still looking at the drizzle in the Forbidden City, but Li Xing, who was standing behind him, couldn't hold back his anger. He bowed and said, "Brother, there are more and more spies being bribed in Europe now. Every town in one town and nine provinces has its own spies." The county has caught many traitors and spies."
Li Xing frowned and said: "Brother, if we don't take measures, I'm afraid we will have a lot of technology stolen by Western barbarians."
Li Xing is now the governor of one town and nine provinces in Daqi.
The situation described by Li Xing is a big problem in one town and nine provinces now. The Europeans suddenly went crazy and started frantically sending spies to Daqi. Although white people are on guard in China and cannot spy on intelligence, white people You can bribe traitors. The entire European colonization has accumulated countless wealth for hundreds of years, and now this money has become a powerful sugar-coated cannonball for the Europeans. Under the temptation of the white people's huge amount of money, a considerable number of Han people have been dazzled by the benefits and secretly Became a white man's spy.
If one hundred taels of silver can't seduce a poor man, the Europeans will spend a thousand taels of silver, or even five thousand taels. After all, all the silver mines in South America in this era are in the hands of Europeans, and the Europeans have a lot of silver.
One town and nine provinces are the industrial gathering areas of Daqi, and now these areas are at risk of being spied on by spies. According to Han Jinxin's estimate, the number of active spies and traitors in one town and nine provinces now exceeds 500.
Hiring five hundred spies only costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but it puts Daqi at risk of technology theft.
Li Zhi turned his back to Li Xing and said nothing.
Cui Changwu pondered and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that the reason why white people are able to bribe spies is because our merchant ships trade in Africa and South America. These two continents are basically white colonies, so there are a large number of white people and our private trading companies. Contact. If we stop trading with these white colonies, there will be nothing the white people can do."
Hearing Cui Changwu's words, Zheng Kaicheng frowned and disagreed. Although Cui Changwu cared about the people of the world, Zheng Kaicheng felt that his thinking was a bit closed.
Prince Li Huan stood behind Li Xing in a prince's uniform. He thought for a while and said, "We trade a lot and import raw materials from South America and Africa. If my father blocks the borders to prevent espionage activities, the industry in one town and nine provinces may be destroyed."
been greatly affected.”
Zheng Kaicheng looked at Li Huan, nodded and said, "What the prince said is true. Although the prime minister's countermeasures are easy to implement, it is inappropriate to give up raw materials to prevent spies."
Cui Changwu looked at Zheng Kaicheng lightly and said nothing.
Speaking of which, Cui Changwu is Li Huan's biological uncle. Cui Changwu should have been consistent with Li Huan in political affairs. However, under the management of Li Zhi, the culture of Daqi's top leaders is very particular about discussing matters. In fact, Cui Changwu, as a scholar with a scholarly background, is very familiar with the new school education.
Li Huan came out and had different views on many issues. Most of the time, Prince Li Huan got along better with Zheng Kaicheng and others.
Of course, Cui Changwu supports Li Huan no matter what. Li Huan's support from Zheng Kaicheng means that the future prince will have a more solid foundation for governance. Cui Changwu welcomes this. Cui Changwu is a person with no selfish motives. What he worries most about is the authority of the prince.
Unfortunately, the overseas colonies did not obey Li Zhi's command after a hundred years. So sometimes he often created opportunities for Zheng Kaicheng and Li Huan to speak out together, constantly pushing Zheng Kaicheng into the camp of Prince Li Huan.
Li Zhi became aware of Cui Changwu's thoughts.
Hearing everyone's discussion, he finally turned around and gave Cui Changwu a playful look.
Then Li Zhi asked Han Jinxin: "What's going on with the barbarians in Europe?"
Han Jinxin bowed and said: "According to reports from informants we bought in Europe, Europe has now formed a broad alliance. Except for Portugal, which has surrendered to us, almost all European countries have joined this alliance. Now the European Allies exchange military services for free.
Technology, and even joined forces to use all top craftsmen to develop steam engines."
Hearing the last sentence, Li Zhi frowned.
Europe is united, which is not good news. The Netherlands or England are not the opponents of the Qi Dynasty, but Europe united cannot be underestimated.
And if these countries develop scientific research together under pressure, their technology will catch up very quickly.
Technology is very difficult to explore in the dark without direction. But if you learn the direction from Li Zhi and carry out targeted experiments based on the direction discovered by the spies, then the speed of catching up will be very fast.
In fact, with the advancement of Daqi technology, because Li Zhi remembers limited technical details and industrial drawings, Li Zhi cannot directly provide technology to scientific researchers. As a time traveler, Li Zhi now provides Daqi craftsmen with technology
People's only direction is to keep them from taking detours. Under the direction provided by Li Zhi, Daqi's scientific research is still very efficient.
It will take future generations a century to master technology, because Li Zhi has a clear direction here, and Daqi's scientific researchers can achieve a leap forward in twenty or even ten years.
It is conceivable that white Europeans are now desperately engaged in scientific research under the pressure of survival. They have found the direction of technology from Li Zhi, and have brought together the top scholars and craftsmen from all over Europe. It will not take long for them to make a breakthrough
One technological difficulty after another.
Europe has formed an alliance to climb the technology tree together. This is definitely bad news.
Zhong Feng raised his hands and said: "I think the most terrifying thing now is the scientific research enthusiasm of the Europeans. Their combined population is no less than that of Daqi, and their overseas colonies are no less than that of Daqi. And they probably have more outstanding scholars and craftsmen than Daqi.
.If they work together at all costs to catch up and steal our technology, I am afraid that they will become my powerful enemy in Daqi in ten years..."
Taking a breath, Zhong Feng said: "Let alone conquering Europe, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to snatch Africa and the New World from the Europeans."
Li Zhi said nothing, turned around and looked at the drizzle outside the window.
For a long time, Li Zhi said slowly: "The global interests of the Han people cannot be challenged, and the European alliance must be destroyed."
