1825 My New Daming

Chapter 29 Tongue Warfare - Offshore Balancer
Today is a good day for the army division to interrogate Zhuge Weidao!

The location of the interrogation is in a "classroom" on the fourth floor of the Beijing Institute of Technology Building. The [-] military advisers of the Zhuge family have arrived at [-], and the other five are not in Beijing. They are either serving as officials in other places or busy with their careers. If you can't separate yourself, you won't come.

Twelve military advisers are sitting in a row in the classroom right now. They are all elderly uncles, tall, short, fat and thin, with different shapes, but they are all dressed in the same way. They all wear lun scarves and crane cloaks. Holding a feather fan.At first glance, well, twelve Zhuge Liang!

In the middle is of course Zhuge Weijiu, the head of the Zhuge family, his old man's military adviser in international politics!He and Zhuge Youde came up with the poisonous plan to trick the Grand Duchess Natalie into becoming a queen and give birth to a child who has the right to inherit the Rakshasa throne. .

The two "old traitors" have set up a game for more than ten years, but now it has been completely destroyed by Zhuge Weidao. Why don't you make the old man angry?Seeing Zhuge Weidao and Zhuge Weixue coming in together, the old man was smiling, as if nothing had happened, and was so angry that he almost turned into old Zhou Yu.

Sitting on the two sides of Zhuge Weijiu are Zhuge Weijia, Zhuge Weiyi, and Zhuge Xiaoxiao. Among them, Weijia is a financial strategist and a banker. He is in charge of the Changjiang Bank of Zhuge's family.In addition, he is also the chief executive of the Zhuge Family Industry Association!

Zhuge Weiyi is a shipbuilder, and now he is an official shipbuilder of the Ministry of the Navy. In his early years, he was the general manager of Jiangnan Heavy Industry, and he was also the chief designer of the Hongwu Emperor class.

Zhuge Weixiao is a feng shui strategist—the so-called feng shui strategist does not specialize in feng shui, but in charge of construction and development.He is the authority on where to build a city, where to build a railway, where to build a port, how to build it, how to build it, and how much to invest.As for whether the repair of the railway is bad or not, he is even more authoritative!As long as he counts, everyone else has to shut up!

In addition to these four, there are four other senior military advisers and four senior military advisers present here today.They are respectively Zhuge Weiguo, Zhuge, the military advisor of electricity generation, Zhuge Guang, the military advisor of machines, Zhuge Weiming, Zhuge the military advisor of mathematics, Zhuge Youpin, the chemical advisor, Zhuge Youli, Zhuge the physical advisor, Zhuge Youxin, the naval advisor, and Zhuge Yougang, the army advisor.Looking at the titles of these military advisers, you can know that they are all expert military advisers, and they are all academic authorities in a certain aspect.In fact, before they became military advisers, they were already experts. Being a military adviser and receiving guidance from the heavenly book allowed them to take a step further on the basis of experts.

And these twelve Zhuge military divisions are all academic masters, and they are all "Zhuge cattle people" rolled out of the eight hundred Zhuges. If you want to test their IQs, there must be no one below 120.Those who are lower than this number can't even pass the initial test of the military division test!
Now this group of curly and powerful Zhuge military advisers already know that Zhuge Youdao, the "brain-broken" stupid Zhuge, actually wants to fight with others. Ge wants to challenge them, who took more than ten, 20, or even 30 years to win. Bit, it's really a bit dumbfounding.

However, according to the family rules of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Weidao is qualified to challenge for the position of military adviser - he passed the preliminary examination five years ago, and his test scores were very high. He got [-] of the [-] extremely difficult math questions right!

This IQ is really enviable!

So he can indeed challenge for the military division position.However, this military adviser position is not a military adviser position that can be won by the big guys who have been "rolling" for more than ten or 20 years. Before winning the military adviser position, they were already number one in all aspects.Why let him, a "little Zhuge" in his 20s, win the position of military adviser with just a lieutenant commander in the navy?Among the Zhuge family, there are many army and navy officers who have reached the general level and have not obtained the position of military adviser!

The group of old Zhuge present looked at Zhuge Weidao, the young Zhuge, but they were not very friendly.

However, Zhuge Weidao has to pass the interrogation of the military division before he can challenge for the position of military division. If he can't satisfactorily explain his behavior in the Raksha Kingdom and the Golden Empire, he will be exiled by his family and naturally lose the challenge of being a military division. bit qualifications.

And what Zhuge Weidao committed this time is not small, most likely he cannot escape the punishment of exile!
Thinking of this, some old Zhuge felt a little sympathetic to Zhuge Weidao again.Zhuge Weixiao, the feng shui military master, even felt guilty—he was the one who found Zhuge Youde's private house, which is obviously a treasured place of feng shui!Why can't Zhuge Weidao be blessed?Didn't you look carefully?
At this time, Zhuge Weidao had already sat down on a chair in front of the Twelfth Military Division in a grand manner, with Erlang's legs raised, and looked at the twelve "Zhuge Liang" with a smirk on his face—it wasn't that he was stupid, but It was twelve "Zhuge Liang" sitting together in an old classroom, and an old-fashioned wooden desk was placed in front of each of them. Is this Zhuge Liang's training class?It's ridiculous to think about it!

"Daozi," Zhuge Weixiao, who was a little guilty, shook his feather fan, and said kindly at this time, "We know that your head was seriously injured in Petersburg, and you are a little confused. That's why you did so many stupid things. You Ah, as long as you admit your mistake, we will forgive you, we will not expel you, and we will not let you go to New Manchuria. We will arrange a comfortable place for you and keep you a rich man for the rest of your life."

"Yes, yes," Zhuge Youli, a senior physics military strategist, is the most reasonable old man, and immediately stroked his white beard and said, "Daozi, we have discussed it. As long as you admit your mistake, you will be retired from the navy. Build a big manor for you in Nanyang or Siam for your retirement."

"Retirement?" Zhuge Weidao amused the old Zhuge, "You old Guigeng?"

"83," Zhuge Youli said with a smile, "My grandson is older than you!"

"You are 83 and still not retiring. I am only 26 and you let me retire. You are so old that it is unreasonable!"

Zhuge Youli was not angry at all, and said with a smile: "Didn't you break your brain? You broke the game that your second brother and your father had set up for more than ten years in Petersburg, and you even killed Duke Alexander of the Raksha Kingdom." Push it together with Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom. If the alliance between the United Kingdom and the Rakshasa is achieved, my Ming Dynasty will be isolated internationally."

As he spoke, he sighed again: "Nephew Daozi, I am a scholar, and I don't know much about these international affairs. Before your brain broke, you knew a lot more than me. What a pity!"

"Brother [-]," Zhuge Weijia, a banker and military adviser, also expressed regret, "Once the British and Rakshasas are married, the Westerners will become monolithic. Then we will be in big trouble.

This group of Westerners, whether they are Rakshasa, English, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, or others, are all the same in their bones, they are robbers!Their original territory was that part of Europe. Over the past few hundred years, relying on their strong ships and guns and the opportunity to enter the age of sailing, they have robbed most of the world's territory and wealth. A hero like King Wu Zhong suppressed them in Malacca and the Dutch East Indies, making them afraid to take a step north.

Moreover, we also used trade to attract most of the gold and silver looted by Westerners from the New World, Africa, and India to Daming, and even used the silver earned from trade to invest in British Malacca, Dutch East Indies, and British tin The property of the Netherlands and the Suez Canal Company. Although the governance of Malacca, the Dutch East Indies, and Ceylon belong to the British and Dutch, most of the industries there are owned by our Ming merchants.Most of the stocks of the Suez Canal Company were also bought by our people. In addition, we have invested a lot of property in the Raksha country and Western European countries!
But if we can't use the method of supporting one faction to suppress the other to keep the Western countries divided and balanced, but to unite or unify them, then the gangsters will have to worry about our money. Although we are in Malacca and the Dutch East Indies You can still send troops to snatch back your investment, but your investment in the west of Malacca will be in vain.Moreover, once Malacca and the Dutch East Indies are seized, the more than 1000 million aboriginals there will also be troublesome. Even if they are the people of Ming Dynasty, we will lose money. Otherwise, what should we do? "

The banker strategist rambled on a lot. Actually, it wasn't completely unreasonable.The diplomacy, foreign trade, and investment policies promoted by the Zhuge family are also formulated after referring to the heavenly scriptures, and of course they are extremely targeted.

On the way to Beijing, Zhuge Weidao had already inquired with Manager He Tianran and He Da about the "overseas investment" of the Zhuge family.Not to mention Malacca, the Dutch East Indies, and Ceylon Island, which is not too far away from Daming's sphere of influence, which are right under Daming's nose. Investments in the West are also quite wise.

The shareholding in the Suez Canal can ensure that the Zhuge family controls at least one director of the canal company, which gives the Zhuge family a say in the Suez Canal issue and can exert influence on Ali Pasha in Egypt.

Zhuge Family's investment in Western Europe is also very interesting. It is not invested in London, Paris, Amsterdam, or stocks and bonds, but in the land of the Ruhr area.After the death of King Zhuge Wuzhong, the Zhuge family began to continuously buy land in the Ruhr area to allow some of the precious metals to return to Europe—this would maintain the liquidity of the European market and allow Europeans to continue to buy goods from Ming Dynasty.

The land in the Ruhr area bought by the Zhuge family is mainly used to grow grape wine and grow wheat.Although the return rate is very low, the Zhuge family has been buying continuously for more than 100 years, and it looks like they are not bad at all.Now the land near the Rhine, Ruhr, and Lipper Rivers has almost been purchased. Although it will not completely prevent the development of the Ruhr coalfields (the Ruhr coalfields are distributed under thousands of square kilometers of land), it is still Increased mining and transportation costs, reducing the competitiveness of Rhineland industry.

I have to say that although these Zhuge military divisions are more timid, they are also bad enough!
Seeing Zhuge Weidao laughing and not saying a word, Zhuge Weijiu thought he knew his mistake, so he sighed: "Brother [-], you have done more absurd things these days. He also did two absurd things, one is to collude with Jindi Daoguang privately, and the other is, I won’t talk about it! You, admit your mistake, go to Nanyang and become the owner of the manor!”

Zhuge Weidao smiled, and began counting his fingers pretendingly.

"Brother [-], what are you doing?" Zhuge Weijiu frowned as he looked at his younger brothers.

"Second brother," Zhuge Weidao replied solemnly, "I counted my fingers, and I know that what you have done to Great Britain, Rakshasa, France, and Prussia is an offshore balance hand. It is through continuous support of European regional powers. To keep Europe divided and balanced by balancing the great powers keen to pursue European hegemony. Am I right?"

(End of this chapter)