Since the teahouse came out, the young master's interest remained unabated. Seeing that the young master seemed to like Baosi's words very much, the old man stepped forward and said, "Since the young master likes it, why not raise this person?"

The old man seemed to want to give his preferences, but he didn't expect that the young master immediately lowered his face after hearing this. "Mr. Li, I told you that the emperor would not raise troops with anger, nor could he abandon state affairs based on his personal preferences. This treasure four is just a clever mouth, so what can I say? Do you want me to have a group of flattering jesters around me?"

It turned out that this young prince was Zai Tian, ​​the Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, and the general manager Li was naturally the eunuch Li Lianying. At this time, Li Lianying saw the emperor angry and hurriedly knelt down: "I deserve to die, I will never dare to do it again!"

Zaitian said in a muffled voice: "Get up, remember, no next time!"

"Yes, I will never do it again!" Li Lianying kowtowed again, then she got up, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and quickly followed quickly.

Zaitian seemed to be disturbed by Li Lianying and stopped talking along the way. After a while, he said softly: "That Bao Si is right. The names of Liu Yongfu and Wu Changqing are really festive."

This time, Li Lianying didn't dare to respond randomly, but Zaitian turned his eyes to the man dressed by the master beside him, "Wang Aiqing, your name is Wenshao. I ordered you to raise education in Western learning, which is also true. Can you also surprise me?"

This master was Wang Wenshao, the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Because of the reimbursement case in Yunnan, Zaitian was involved in the position of Shangshu, but he asked him to set up a Western-style school.

Wang Wenshao said with a frown: "I am not talented, but I have to bear the great trust of the emperor."

Zaitian looked at him, "Oh? What, is it not going well?"

Zaitian came out today and took Wang Wenshao alone. He had already asked about the progress of education, but he was interrupted by Baosi in the teahouse. Now that he has mentioned the topic again, he naturally has to ask clearly.

"It is indeed difficult to go back to the emperor. On the one hand, it is difficult to find teachers. Those who are proficient in Western learning are all foreigners. Where can anyone dare to send their children to teach them? On the other hand, it is difficult to find students. Anyone who wants to study will send their children to the clan. The private schools in the village will learn elementary school or Confucian orthodox, but no one cares about Western learning."

After hearing Wang Wenshao's words, Zaitian smiled coldly, "I'm afraid Lord Wang also thinks it's better not to learn Western learning."

Since the Tongzhi year, the Westernization Movement in the Qing Dynasty was launched. However, whether in the court or in the wild, what they said was "middle school is the body and Western learning is the purpose." Since it is something used, naturally no one will study and study in depth. Moreover, it is even more difficult to change the old masters who have been immersed in Confucianism for decades to support Western learning.

Although Wang Wenshao was guilty, he was easy to teach and asked him to run Western education, but he was also a lip service and had no intention at all.

Zaitian naturally knew what Wang Wenshao was thinking, but he could not force Wang Wenshao to change his mind immediately. After all, almost everyone in the Qing Dynasty was like Wang Wenshao, completely ignoring Western scientific knowledge. He just held the scriptures and books of his ancestors, looked at the sky in a well, and was determined to be self-confidenced, and Wang Wenshao was quite enlightened.

"'Middle school is the body, Western learning is the application'. Since we need to use it, we must use it well. Confucius said, we must know the reason, and we must know why. We should not only know the Thai-sea machines and how the ships operate, but also how they were made and why they were made. Only in this way can we build our own ships, steam engines, even guns and cannons one day. Wang Aiqing should know how much silver the court has to spend every year to buy arms and machines from foreigners. Could it be that the Wang Qing family is willing to watch the huge amount of silver taken away by foreigners every year?"

"If we want this money not to be earned by foreigners, we must have the ability to make it ourselves, foreign fire, foreign oil, foreign cloth, foreign nails, and all kinds of things, which one was made by us? Not to mention steamer, warship, steel cannon, and foreign guns. But if we want to make it ourselves, can we do it without learning Western learning?"

"And the school I asked you to start with elementary school. What I learned is nothing more than the original elementary school, plus mathematics and foreign languages. Let's not talk about foreign language for now. This mathematics is originally one of the six arts of gentlemen advocated by Confucius. The Chinese people have been abandoned for a long time. I asked you to pick it up again. Isn't that okay?"

After Zaitian said so much, Wang Wenshao didn't tell the difference, but just lowered his head and said, "The emperor taught me a lesson!"

"Oh..." Zaitian sighed secretly. He knew that after the two hundred years of constraints in the dynasty, he could not have turned the thoughts of the Qing Dynasty around with an imperial edict, nor could he allow a great scholar like Wang Wenshao to accept Western learning by just one or two conversations. He only hoped that Wang Wenshao could listen to it and help him put on the educational aura first. Because he was really useless now.

"I'm giving you a year. If you can't run your first school by September next year, then come and see you."

After giving the death order, Zaitian did not forget to give Wang Wenshao an idea, "If you say those people are afraid of foreigners, then don't use foreign teachers. Haven't we returned to some overseas students in recent years? We can choose personnel to serve as teachers. We can also hire knowledgeable Chinese from Nanyang and Hong Kong to serve as teachers. Wouldn't this solve the teacher's problem?"

"As for students, those gentry, rich families don't want their children to learn Western learning, you can admit children from poor families. I am not running schools to collect money. Children from poor families cannot afford to study, so the court can allocate funds to allow them to study. We can even set up a 'scholarship' system..."

"scholarship?"

"That's right, it's the reward for learning. Anyone who comes to study does not have to pay a penny to take care of the school and pays clothes. If you do well in the exam, you can reward ten kilograms of rice and two kilograms of pork every month. But similarly, those who fail the exam will be dismissed, saving you from eating and drinking and not studying hard. In this way, a student will only cost 40 taels of silver a year, and a primary school will only cost a few hundred people, and a year will only cost thousands of taels."

Because of the "Yunnan Reimbursement Case", Zai Tian squeezed a total of one million taels of silver from Wang Wenshao and Jing Lian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. With such expenses, it can support at least two or three years of expenses in one hundred primary schools.

Although Wang Wenshao opposed Western learning from the bottom of his heart, teaching and educating people was in line with the thoughts of this great Confucian scholar. It was acceptable to be able to pay the court to let more people learn the saints' subtle words and meanings, even if there were some foreign things mixed in it.

"In addition, the south is easier to accept Western learning than the north. If you have a hard time running a school in Zhili, it is better to go to Guangdong to try it first."

"Since that's the case, I will try it according to the emperor's method."

Zaitian nodded, "Remember, the so-called strong youth means strong China. This is a contribution to the present and the future. You must do it for me!"

"Yeah!" Wang Wenshao knelt down and bowed, "I'm going to leave."

"Go."

After sending Wang Wenshao away, Zaitian took Li Lianying and two guards back to the palace from Houhai. Then he walked outside the palace gate and saw the eunuch Fang, the eunuch in charge of Yuqing Palace, who was walking around in a hurry at the door.

Seeing the figures of the three emperors from afar, Xiao Eunuch Fang stepped out his legs and ran towards the three of them, "I'm so proud of the emperor!"

"Flat!" Zaitian called Xiao Fang and then asked, "Why are you here?"

Eunuch Xiao Fang said anxiously: "Prince Chun entered the palace and met the emperor with an urgent matter. The slave could not find the emperor, so he waited here."

Zaitian was shocked, "King Chun is here? But what's the matter?"

Xiao Fang said: "I don't know that the prince is waiting in Yuqing Palace. I have prepared the dragon chassis, the emperor..."

Zaitian waved his hand without saying a word, "Hurry up and set up Yuqing Palace!"

After returning to the palace, Zaitian went to Qianqing Palace to change his clothes first, and then came to Yuqing Palace. Prince Chun Yihuan had been waiting here for a long time. As soon as Zaitian entered the door, he said directly: "Flat," stopped Yihuan's courtesy, and then asked: "What's so urgent?"

Yihuan quickly took out a clip from his sleeve, "Report to the emperor, something big is wrong, Vietnam has been captured by the French, and the Vietnamese king has surrendered to France!"

The Battle of Wilde embarrassed the once arrogant French. The first-class European army power had to rely on the power of nature to drive it away, which was obviously a gloomy face.

After this battle, Mr. Bohua was honored to become the highest French officer in the middle rank of the "Black Flag Army phobia", and this disease will recur in the next battle in Bohua.

Fortunately, Courbet helped France recover some face in the next action.

August 18, 1883. This day was the French Saturday and the weather was clear. Vietnamese soldiers stationed in Shun'an Fortress outside Hue suddenly discovered that a large fleet was driving on the sea in the distance.

Shortly after Bosch wanted to grab the credit without taking any advantage, Courbet began his action.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Tokyo Detachment arrived outside Hue. Courbet ordered the ships to occupy appropriate positions, requiring them to approach Shun'an's turret as close as possible to combat as possible to help increase the artillery hit rate.

In front of the enemy's fortress, he was approaching the anchor and mooring, which shows how arrogant the French army was.

Among the Tokyo Detachment, the flagship "Baya" has the most fierce firepower, and is arranged in a position facing the center of the Shun'an Fortress. The firepower can be used to reinforce other warships at any time. The "Renault Castle" and "Adalangde" are respectively parked on the left and right of the "Baya" and aimed at the two large turrets located in the south and north of the Shun'an Fortress. The transport ship "Drake" is parked next to "Adalangde" and is responsible for attacking other auxiliary small turrets of the Shun'an Fortress. Because the remaining warships of the Tokyo Detachment have shallow drafts, they are responsible for approaching the landing forces when necessary and directly supporting the landing force.

The entire Tokyo detachment was lined up, posing in a manner that aimed at Shun'an Fortress on starboard.

When they learned that the French were coming to the capital, the Vietnamese court, which had already been in chaos, was even more indifferent.

In May, just when Liu Yongfu's black flag army killed Li Weiye and the relationship between France and Vietnam was extremely dangerous, Vietnam's Sidd Emperor Nguyen Phuc died in internal and external troubles. The country was in full swing and the national crisis was in the face of national crisis. The officials in the Vietnamese central government were not discussing a response, and a court internal struggle started.

After Nguyen Phuc's death, the eldest son, Yingzhen, succeeded the throne according to the system. However, the powerful minister, Ruan Wenxiang, and the sushishi, had a slight relationship with Yingzhen, so he asked the empress dowager to abolish his heirs and establish another branch of the side branch, Hong Yi, Hong Yi, as the emperor, and was called Emperor Shaozhi.

At this time, Emperor Shaozhi had just ascended the throne and encountered the major change in France's attack on Hue.

The flagship of the French Tokyo Detachment, the "Baya", was built in Brest in 1882. Its ship type is an armored cruiser, and in the French Navy it belongs to a special type - foreign warships. This kind of warship is mainly used as the flagship of French naval detachments. Its combat power is required not to lag behind the British foreign warships in the region. It is also required to retain full sailing equipment on the ship so that it can still sail far away in the absence of overseas supply points. The "Adalangde" also belongs to this balanced warship.
Chapter completed!