However, since Francesco Crispi mentioned it just now, if Emperor Hua continued to ask questions at this time, it would seem a little anxious. Moreover, this is not an urgent matter. The more anxious the Emperor Hua was, the more calm the surface he became.

The emperor's demeanor deeply impressed Francesco Crispi. The two chatted about some things about China and the Kingdom of Italy, as well as some things about China's life, but no longer mentioned diplomacy.

Francesco Crispi actually has an indifferent attitude towards whether to get close to a country like China. The Italian Kingdom does not have any major passive situation at the moment, and China is in a major diplomatic event such as whether to withdraw troops from Kyushu Island, Japan. Moreover, Francesco Crispi is also very clear that the problem of Emperor Hua is not only the problem of Kyushu Island, Japan, but also the large swath of land in Siberia and Central Asia that had just been seized, which originally belonged to Tsarist Russia, and there was a struggle for interests with Britain. Therefore, this is why Emperor Hua was so anxious and had to go to Europe to find allies in person.

Mr. Francisco Crispi, who completely possesses the upper hand, believes that this is not a reciprocal negotiation, so naturally, he will not be in a hurry.

The two of them talked a lot, but the politicians usually talked about light topics, just starting out and discussing very important points. This is a conversation at the direction level. For specific matters, the subordinates must be talking about them.

The two-hour meeting seemed to have said a lot, but in fact, I didn’t say anything.

Francisco Chrispi smiled and said, "I'm glad to be able to chat with the youngest politician of the century."

The cute president knew that the other party was seeing off the guests and was about to end the conversation. He smiled and said, "I am also very happy to be able to chat with such an outstanding and experienced politician as the Prime Minister, and I have benefited a lot."

Francesco Crispi looked at Emperor Hua in surprise. He saw that Emperor Hua must have known that he was about to end the negotiations. He originally thought that Emperor Hua would point out the matter of escalating diplomatic relations between the two sides at the last moment, but he did not.

He is not in a hurry? Why does it look like he is here for vacation?

At this time, Francesco Crispi had just contacted and chatted with Emperor Hua and was convinced that Emperor Hua was a genius, a very powerful person, and was definitely not a normal nine-year-old child. This made Francesco Crispi even more admire Emperor Hua's cunning.

"How is it?" Princess Katrina Kaf rarely asked after Emperor Hua came out. Generally, Emperor Hua would tell the princess if she had any problems and she didn't need to ask her directly. She was also anxious today.

Originally, Princess Katrina Kaif could accompany her in, but when Emperor Hua saw that Francesco Crispi was alone, he did not bring the princess to participate in the conversation. He thought Francesco Crispi liked this one-on-one method.

The cute president smiled and said, "I just chatted casually, but I didn't talk about the actual content."

"Ah?" Princess Katrina Kaif called out softly, unexpectedly, "Didn't talk about the substance? What the hell, is it just like the Earl Andrachy, who invited His Majesty to meet just out of politeness?"

The cute president raised his hand and whispered as he walked: "No, he, or he and Umberto I, behind him, are definitely not the attitudes of Count Andrach and the Austro-Hungarian Empire towards China. The Kingdom of Italy has the will to unite with China. They are a rising country and are extremely aggressive, but they have no territory. If they want to expand their power in the Pacific, they must establish good relations with China, otherwise they will not even have a place to settle down."

Princess Katrina Kaif nodded, took His Majesty's arm, and said as she walked: "So, does Your Majesty think he is playing hard to get, wanting to get more benefits in his interactions with China, and even wanting to take advantage of the situation?"

The cute president nodded and said, "It seems that this is the case. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has no overseas territory. If there is one, their concession in Tianjin may have been considered a relatively large place to settle down. The concession received a favorable tariff. I guess these two aspects should be the two aspects."

"Hmph, I think pretty well, I want land and money. Don't they know that China has been unified and has strong strength. Even if diplomacy is not going well, there is no big problem with self-protection. How dare I take advantage of the situation to rob?" Princess Katrina Kaif said angrily.

The cute CEO didn't say anything, walked silently, saying no hurry, that was all for others to show. In fact, Emperor Hua was very anxious, but no matter how anxious he was, he could not take the initiative to lower his attitude. He did not ask for diplomatic relations. He could only rely on strength to establish diplomatic relations. Emperor Hua deeply understood this simple truth.

After returning to the inn, Emperor Hua did not come out to have dinner. He spent the evening alone in the office, and the meal was also in the office.

In the small circle of Emperor Hua, he did not need to disguise himself, and could express his emotions freely. However, he knew that even in the small circle, he still had to act and not let the followers around him feel depressed. This would reduce everyone's confidence even more. At this moment, this trip to Europe was really a bit depressed for Emperor Hua.

He was even extremely depressed. Emperor Hua couldn't remember how long it took for him to try this kind of depressing taste. When the Qing court ruled, Emperor Hua's biggest wish was to replace the corrupt Qing government to rule the country. But when this wish was achieved, Emperor Hua didn't think he was much better than the Qing government?

National strength determines everything, China is really too weak!

The Qing Dynasty was a unified dynasty established by the Manchus in Chinese history and the last feudal dynasty in China.

In 1616, Nurhaci, the leader of the Jurchen tribe of Jianzhou, established the Later Jin Dynasty. In 1636, Huang Taiji changed the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty. In 1644, Dashun captured the capital of the Ming Dynasty. After the Battle of Yipianshi, the Qing army took advantage of the situation to enter the pass, and politically promoted the first respect for Manchuria, enclosed land, shaved his hair and changed his clothes, moved to the sea order, and literary inquisition. In military terms, the Dashun, Daxi, and Nanming regimes were pacified, and a large-scale massacre of the city (see the Qing Massacre for details), and then gradually controlled the country. The Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties were towards prosperity, and the unified multi-ethnic state was consolidated. At the same time, the monarchy developed to its peak.

In the middle and late period, due to political rigidity, cultural autocracy, closeness to the country, ideological confinement, and technological stagnation, etc., they gradually lag behind the West.

The most important thing is political corruption, ignorance and conservatism, and arrogance.

Before the Opium War, the Qing government knew nothing about the development of the world. Even in the "History of Ming Dynasty: Foreign Biography" written by the Qing people, they did not distinguish between each other, and called Portugal, France, Spain and other countries "Red-haired Fan". They could not understand the geographical location of some countries in the world, especially major European capitalist countries. In this regard, foreigners commented that the Qing rulers at that time did not distinguish between foreigners at all. "One was regarded as a barbarian by the Chinese. Their Asian-style spirit of snoring everything was so strong that they disdained to distinguish between each other's thickness."

Officials at that time all believed in "taking Mo Ling as an expert, taking weakness as a good plan, taking craft as a step to advance, and taking slumber as a plan to subdue officials.

From this way, all those who have obtained their own gains, and they will leave whatever they want, inherit their brides and their bonds will be firm and unsolvable." Therefore, many officials involved in major decisions have no idea how much impact the decisions they make will have on the future.

In Jiaqing, Cao Zhenyong, the military minister who served as an important position during the Daoguang period, said to his disciple who was seeking the success of his instructors: "There is no such thing, but he is more slutty and less talk!"

This is just as the people at that time revealed that scholars do not know shame, and are a shame for the country. After reading modern scholars, they have been promoted from the day of the report and the year when they are promoted, and there are fewer shames left. The longer the officials will be, the more arrogant they will be, the more flattering they will be, and the closer they are, the more charming they will be.

After the Opium War, although China was forced to accept the fact that the West was becoming increasingly powerful, some officials and the feudal royal family were still conservative and could not keep up with the pace of changes in the times.

In June 1876, the British Jardineshe Foreign Company ignored the dissuasion of the Qing court and built a Wusong Railway in Shanghai. The Qing government felt that foreigners built railways on the land left by their ancestors, which hindered Feng Shui and face. Finally, they decided to buy the Wusing Railway from Jardineshe Foreign Company for 285,000 taels of silver, and sent people to demolish the railway and throw it into the rivers and seas.

In order to solve the coal transportation problem of Kaiping Coal Mine, Li Hongzhang, the leader of the Westernization faction, built a railway from Tangshan to Xugezhuang with a total length of only 11 kilometers.

When the railway was first opened to traffic, the diehards claimed that the motorcycle would shake the imperial tomb. Li Hongzhang was forced to switch to horse-drawn carriages to walk on the railway, which became a strange story at the time.

Corruption becomes a trend, and plunders are endless.

In the later years of Kangxi, the trend of luxury and corruption had already emerged.

Later, after the reform measures such as strict economies and severe punishments during the Yongzheng period, it was controlled.

By the time of Qianlong, with the prosperity of the economy and abundant financial resources, the trend of extravagance and corruption rose again and became increasingly worse.

Qianlong visited Jiangnan for six tours, traveled to the mountains and rivers, picked up and sent them along the way, paid tribute and offered tribute, and built a large scale of construction. The luxury and pomp and show were unprecedented, and it was extremely frugal.

Qianlong took the lead, and its demonstration effect was unparalleled. Officials of all sizes and all kinds of opportunities were used to perform their extravagance.

All civil and military officials, landlords, and merchants all live a life of rich and rich life, especially the Manchu relatives and nobles, who are most contaminated with luxury habits.

Ak, a Manchu, had been in charge of Aren Huaiguan for more than ten years, and had plundered countless people's wealth and wealth. He was known as "Acao God of Wealth".

The luxurious situations of Han officials and noble families are similar.

When officials of all sizes took office, most of them were empty-handed, but when they left and returned home, they would be transported by a carriage and ship, which was in a mighty way.

In the late Qianlong period, the military minister He Kun was a famous corrupt official. During the Jiaqing period, he confiscated his family and classified all his property as No. 109, of which No. 26 was estimated to be worth 220 million taels.

Later, the foreman, Mu Zhanga, was comparable to the corrupt official He Kun, took power and sold official positions, and bribed the public. The world sarcastically said: "The upper and lower Mu."

In 1841, Grand Secretary Qi Shan was confiscated, with 10,912 taels of gold, 18.05 million taels of silver, and 11 boxes of jewelry.

The ugly voice is a lot. "Three years of Qing magistrate, 100,000 snowflakes and silver." It is a vivid portrayal of the corruption of the administration at that time and almost all officials are greedy.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a blatant phenomenon of buying and selling officials.

Since official positions in feudal society were a scarce resource that was monopolized, there were many officials who sold official positions and titles based on their power of appointment, removal, examination, promotion, demotion, and migration.

By the time of the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, it became quite common and even a natural phenomenon to pay bribes and seek officials to make money by becoming officials.

However, now it is China, and the situation is completely different from that of the Qing court. Why is China still so weak?

On the one hand, it is because of the cute president's policy that he insists on putting people's livelihood first and puts the interests of the people of the entire country first. On the other hand, it is because of the weak for too long. It is not that you can become rich and strong by becoming rich. Although China's development speed is now very fast, at least two to three times faster than that of the countries of the same period, it has been developing for hundreds of years!

As Emperor Hua saw along the way, even the Kingdom of Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, such small countries were so rich!

The comprehensive strength of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which had declined for a long time, was actually comparable to that of the Chinese countries during this period.

If you don’t have cards or strength in your hand, you don’t have cards for politicians. The key is that China is too big, like a bulky elephant. The Emperor Hua is still in the stage of awakening the elephant. Even if it has been awakened, the elephant will still be able to speed up.
Chapter completed!