Chapter 1501 The war begins
"Okay, you are very brave. Come and give me a bottle of the Fountain of Youth." Mrs. Lu sat expressionlessly behind the curtain and dictated.
Immediately there was a nearby eunuch, holding a wooden tray, and gave a bottle of spring water of youth to the military department for the ninth generation Yan Feng.
The Ninth Emperor Yan Feng immediately thanked him, but nothing happened about the official appointment and expedition.
He felt that he had not cultivated his mind well enough, and the Queen Mother had seen through it.
Fortunately, this result is reasonable.
Just next time, I will go to the monks and Taoist priests to learn more meditation methods so that there is only one thought in my mind.
I was so excited just now that the thoughts in my heart came to my mind.
At this moment, a report suddenly came from outside the door.
“The Empress Dowager is informed that there is an envoy from the Dasu people stationed in Beijing outside the door, requesting an audience.”
"Xuan."
Soon everyone saw a white man with brown hair, blue eyes, a tall nose and a broad nose, walking up to the hall arrogantly with an entourage.
"Sir Crenso, the envoy of the Dasu people, has seen the Holy Queen of Heaven." The white man said with cupped hands.
"Messenger, if you don't kneel down yet, don't be disrespectful in front of the palace." the etiquette officer reminded.
"No, no, we Westerners only kneel to God, not to the king." The Dasu envoy shook his head.
"But the Dasu people's envoy has already knelt down."
"They are losers and incompetent people, so they can kneel down casually, but we are the winners." The Dasu people's envoy glanced at the kneeling people with disdain Big fangs on the ground.
Lu Zhi was so angry that he was furious.
Only then did she truly understand that the insults and filthiness she had previously thought were nothing in this kind of formal court.
This solemn sense of ceremony and the humiliation she suffered in a very formal occasion were more real and more intense, far exceeding the humiliation she had thought she had when she was in her second year of middle school.
Just like a child feels extremely insulted, while adults wonder where he is, the difference in perspective creates a communication barrier.
She has lived for hundreds of years. Just a hundred years ago, the Dasu people's envoy was still the same as other envoys, kneeling and kowtowing.
Now it is really thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi!
Of course she doesn’t know that Dasu people are the ones who know best what kind of treatment should match their strength.
"The war has just begun, do you think you have won? Let me tell you, we will ban you from the fountain of youth! We will also drive you all out of the land of the Celestial Empire and prohibit you from living here and reincarnating!" The Minister of Rites took the lead in attacking.
"Hmph, we have occupied several islands in the south. If you can, drive us out! We have also stocked up enough Fountain of Youth for thirty years, but I don't know if your government can support it for thirty years. War!" the Dasu envoy said without fear.
Everyone was surprised and suddenly understood why the Dasu envoy dared to initiate a war.
It turns out they were already prepared.
Someone glared at the Big Tooth envoy. The other party did not tell such important information. It was obvious that he had ulterior motives.
But they forgot that such intelligence should be collected by themselves, rather than relying on foreign envoys.
Of course the Daya people's envoy knew the news. He did not tell it because he wanted to create a time lag so that the relationship between the two parties would deteriorate sharply. In this case, the Dongfang court and the Daya people would only fight more intensely, which would be of great benefit to them.
Only then did Lu Zhi realize how ridiculous he was. It turned out that the other party had already made a comprehensive plan.
The big-toothed people are not good either.
It’s all nonsense to use barbarians to control barbarians.
The Daya people had ulterior motives and deliberately gave wrong advice in order to further intensify the conflict between the two parties.
The feudal bureaucrats did not think of the trade embargo at the moment. The Daya people proposed it, but they did not say that the Daya people had already prepared for it.
The trade embargo imposed by the Chinese Empire will only intensify the war and make the war irreconcilable.
But now, it was impossible for Lu Zhi to give in just because of the other party's attitude.
After all, she is not a qualified politician and has a personal temper.
I am the possessor of mysterious power, how could I bow to you people who have been deceived by me?
That's ridiculous!
She directly ordered: "Push it out and kill!"
The style of a feudal old queen is vividly reflected.
"Queen Mother, no!"
The first assistant immediately stood up and advised. "When the two countries are at war, they will not kill the envoys. Even if the envoys from Dasu are offended, they should be treated with a little leniency because they are outsiders."
"Insiders should not be lenient, but outsiders can be lenient? Behead!" Lu Zhizhi, who was born in modern Dongzhou, did not have the softness to distinguish between the inside and outside, shouted immediately.
Immediately there were guards in front of the palace to drag the envoy out.
"I, I kneel, I kneel!" The Dasu envoy immediately panicked, and the other party did not play according to the routine.
He suddenly realized that the seemingly civilized Eastern court was actually a barbaric feudal place. It was not their parliamentary meeting place, nor was it a civilized place.
"Kneel down too late, behead me!"
An hour and three quarters later, the head of the envoy appeared ferociously in the main hall.
Everyone was stunned.
The accompanying deputy envoy of the Dasu people was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
"Humph, I'm issuing an edict to declare war on the Dasu people!" After Lu Zhi finished speaking, he drove back to the palace.
All the ministers knelt to see him off.
When the Queen Mother left, the important ministers spontaneously stayed for a small meeting.
"The Queen Mother has killed the envoy, and there is no way back. We can only fight on." The chief minister sighed.
"The Big Ya people's strategy is not easy to use. They can only strengthen the wall and clear the country first. They have come from afar and are not familiar with the place. They will definitely not last long." Cisuke followed.
“But if this happens, foreign invaders are raging, people’s livelihood is in ruins, and the ports are blocked. Even if the court has money, it will not be able to buy anything in the long run.” Huang Xiong VI was worried when he heard this.
Thanks to Tuoxi's study, the feudal bureaucrats had studied a series of mercantile books such as The Theory of National Wealth, and finally understood that there is another term called "inflation"...
Silver is just a currency. If the market is depressed, silver will The more, the worse it will be.
"We are backed by the inland, as well as grassland and border trade, so we can still maintain one or two. Now we need to quickly appease the grassland and the west, and don't face enemies on both sides." Sanfu reminded.
"We split up to do it, each wrote a statement, and immediately ordered the customs in various places to be on strict alert."
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The huge and sluggish Eastern Court finally started to rotate slowly.
The news that the Dasu people’s envoy was killed has long been spread to the Dasu people’s fleet.
Originally, they were not ready to go north. They only wanted to fight a few battles in the south where supplies were easy, and threaten the court to hand over the real Fountain of Youth and its location.
In the end, the other party killed the messenger, which was obviously proof that he would never admit defeat.
What else is there to say? Let’s go to the capital!
A mighty fleet of hundreds of steamships and sailing ships headed north.
One month later, the large fleet appeared near Fuhai City, which was only three hundred miles away from the capital.
“The Dasu people have landed!”
The news spread crazily throughout the capital.
For a time, people's hearts were floating and the market was in chaos.
Businesses closed and wealthy people fled westward.
The rich people among the people have a more sensitive sense of smell than the imperial court.
They knew the quality of the imperial navy and they would never be able to defeat the Westerners.
Everyone found it strange that even though they had studied Western learning for hundreds of years, most of them were satisfied with just learning a little bit, as long as it was enough.
Of course they don’t know that this is the nature of feudal bureaucracy. As long as they deal with the Queen Mother well and get the reward, who cares whether it is really advanced or fake?
After all, they have no pressure to survive, no pressure to compete from the bottom up, and certainly no motivation to innovate themselves.
They are not aliens who can see the whole world.
The aliens are under pressure to survive. If they do not evolve, they will be killed by their opponents. Of course, they must do their best to evolve.
(End of this chapter)