The people who prepared New Year’s gifts for Xiao Letian were not just the monk Longye and King of Thailand. Almost all the senior officials who were preparing to return to Ryukyu began to rack their brains to prepare New Year’s gifts.

Chun Shisanniang from Beijing City mobilized countless resources from the Northern Branch of the CIA and purchased twenty-four young and beautiful women from the public, and sent them to the name of insufficient service for the Prime Minister's Office.

During this period, Chun Shisanniang did nothing else, and she focused on the loyalty assessment of these twenty-four girls. The eight generations of ancestors were investigated clearly, and she had to carry out ideological education every day. To put it bluntly, it was brainwashing.

Chun Shisanniang was also afraid that a few fine works would be mixed in, and that would happen.

Tanggu Lotte Foreign Business also started to move, and the affiliated companies that maintained close cooperative relations with the foreign business were also crazy. It was like Niu Zhangguan, the Sihai Business Company, who made a fortune with Xiao Letian, had already become angry in the past two days because of the gift preparation.

Lotte Foreign Company and Lotte Bank are the two most important financial institutions under the Prime Minister's Office. After years of running around, Niu has already changed to a permanent seat in a bank. This is a golden rice bowl that can never be exchanged. He is also a core member of Xiao Lotte's power.

"What's the matter? Xuande Lu! Are you wearing a pig's brain? Can you take advantage of antiques from the Song Dynasty? The most time is the prosperous Tang Dynasty... and look for it again!"

"Send a beauty? Am I not stupid or are you stupid? Chun Shisanniang from Sijiu City has already given it. Can we show ours even if we give it to you? Besides, Thirteenth Lady can give it to you, no problem. If I give it to you, wait for the two ladies to turn back and clean up me! Get out..."

"By the way... I remember, the adult's travel to the west has not yet been published in the collector's edition! This is a great opportunity. We will pay a lot of money to dig up the carving masters from Beijing and Jiangnan to carve a collector's edition for the adult!"

"That's right, someone is here! I'll collect two million taels of silver from the semicolon in advance. I want to invite all the calligraphy masters from all over the country to ask for the best carvings and the best painting masters... I engrave them at any cost!"

"No matter whether it's too late or not, we can at least carve out 50,000 or 60,000 words in these two months! This money is so decent!"

Manager Niu thought that his creativity was so good that he couldn't even find his eyes when he smiled. In two months, he really carved a volume of 50,000 words first. According to those who know the knowledge, it was as exquisite as the complete book of the Wuying Palace Siku published by Emperor Qianlong.

There are many people who are tempted, and Jiangnan is in chaos. Hu Xueyan is very smart. He knows that although Xiao Letian has money, one of the weaknesses of Lotte Foreign Company is that he stores too much silver and too little gold reserves.

In Asia's trade circle around the Qing Dynasty, silver is a very important currency, but if you want to conduct bulk transactions in Europe, silver is not easy to use, because the mainstream European currency is still gold, and the settlement prices of gold and silver are different.

Sometimes European countries are too lazy to ask for silver, and they prefer Asian physical goods of the same value.

The 3,000 taels of gold ingot looks vulgar? But this vulgar thing is the reserve currency that Xiao Lotte's financial empire is urgently needed. Hu Xueyan's Fukang Money House also promised to help Lotte Foreign Company exchange at least 50,000 taels of gold from Jiangnan within three years.

This gift is even more precious!

Senior officials from the Intelligence Bureau dispatched to the northwest prepared a high-precision military map of the northwest. The Ryukyu envoys from the South China Sea brought the latest Southeast Asian naval charts, and diplomats dispatched to India collected the best Sri Lankan gems.

Of course, Fusam, the senior officials of the Fusam Intelligence Bureau, such as Sakamoto Ryuma and Ito Hirofumi, even secretly instigated the Emperor to cut a piece of Lanshe Agarwood, treasured in Todaji Temple, and give it to Xiao Lotte.

This Lanshe Treatment is extraordinary. It is a top national treasure in Japan. In history, everyone who has accepted Lanshe Treatment Agarwood is the actual ruler of Japan.

In history, Ashikaga Yoshimi, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Toki Raitake, Oda Nobunaga, and Emperor Meiji have all used it.

The size of this New Year banquet has shocked East Asia, Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guoquan, and Zuo Zongtang from the south of the Yangtze River, all expressed their hope to send representatives to the banquet, and have prepared many precious gifts.

But Xiao Letian refused, and his tone was very polite. He said that this was just a New Year's party inside Ryukyu, and he thanked others for watching the gifts. Whenever there was a gift, Ryukyu would have a return gift.

Zeng Guofan gave a calligraphy, the nine generals Zeng Guoquan gave a treasure knife, and Zuo Zongtang from the northwest painted a painting. These were all ordinary gifts. In the end, even the Qing court issued an order to reward Xiao Letian with a yellow jacket and Batulu.

What is surprising is that the decree was issued but no one sent it to Ryukyu. The Qing Dynasty did not take this matter seriously, and Ryukyu was even more serious. Anyway, this is what both sides wanted.

I am the king, you are the minister, I reward you, you accept the reward, just be able to perform this face show, but the New Year gift to Zaichun was brought to Ryukyu a month in advance.

The New Year is approaching day by day, and people from all over the world gathered at Naha Port. Almost every day, senior officials disembarked at the port, and the bigwigs were welcomed endlessly.

Ships of rare goods were sent to Shuri Castle and the Prime Minister's Mansion. The various ingredients prepared for the banquet were piled up like mountains, and the inventory warehouse was full of 24 hours a day.

In the lively atmosphere, there was only one person extremely lonely, that is the Emperor Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, Aisin Jueluo Zaichun.

Xiao Zaichun has just returned from Fuzhou. His three hundred guards have been sent to Fujian. Where is the sphere of influence of Zuo Zongtang, a loyal minister, and the three hundred guards initially plan to train 3,000 new troops loyal to Zaichun.

Fukang Money House provided more than three million taels of military expenditure and weapons and equipment. Xiao Zaichun's guards have all transformed into platoon leaders and ate and lived with the new recruits. They took out the full set of skills they learned in Ryukyu and began to replicate the model of the new army in Ryukyu, hoping to train a strong army.

Zaichun was not sure whether he could surpass the Ryukyu Marine Corps, but there was no suspense about whether he could surpass the Xishan Camp. The only thing that made people worry was the gap in the number of people.

Zaichun was very conflicted. In what capacity should he attend this New Year banquet? The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was also a student of the Prime Minister? Ryukyu had made it clear that this was an internal gathering of all officials under the Prime Minister's Scene. He declined diplomatic congratulations and did not accept national gifts. Until now, no one has sent the yellow jackets in Sijiu City.

As for Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and others were just New Year's gifts given in their private names, and they had nothing to do with this big banquet.

"Ermao! What should I do if you say I should do? The identity is so embarrassing!"

Ermao stood behind Zai Chun and said calmly, "Awkwardness is just a kind of mentality. It depends on how you choose your heart... But I still have something to say. Without the Prime Minister, you really don't have your Majesty today!"

Zaichun closed his eyes and felt the night breeze blowing on his face. The scene in his mind clenched his fists and rotated back and forth like a lantern. The Forbidden City, which is like a prison, and the Wenhua Hall of Zhihuye is studying every day. He respects the surface but ignores his officials in his heart... The scenes are like yesterday's dream.

Nowadays, Zaichun's bedroom is full of world-famous guns, and he fires hundreds of bullets every day. Now even Ye Qiu and the others are picking their thumbs up in Zaichun's shooting skills.

There are also the three hundred guards, one by one who can train themselves like tigers. Zuo Jigao from Fuzhou mobilized all resources to select soldiers for him. They are all children of poor and kind families, and they are simple farmers. According to what the Prime Minister said, these are all the best soldiers.

Who gave all this? They are all my masters!

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