Chapter 29: War of words - Offshore balancing hand (please collect, vote, recommend, and continue to read)

Today is a good day for the military division to judge Zhuge as the Taoist!

The location of the joint trial was in a "classroom" on the fourth floor of the Beijing Institute of Technology Building. There were twelve of the Zhuge family's seventeen military advisors, and five of them were not in Beijing. They were either serving as officials in other places or busy with their careers.

If you can't separate yourself, you won't come.

Twelve military advisors are now sitting in a row in the classroom. They are all elderly uncles, tall, short, fat and thin. They come in all shapes and sizes, but they are all dressed in the same style. They all wear turbans on their heads and crane cloaks.

Holding a feather fan in his hand. At first glance, okay, there are twelve Zhuge Liang!

The one in the middle is of course the head of the Zhuge family, Zhuge Weijiu, who is a strategist in international politics! He tricked the Grand Duchess Natalie into becoming the queen and gave birth to a child with the right to inherit the Rakshasa throne, which was used to split the Rakshasa at the right time.

Luo Sha, he and Zhuge Youde came up with the poisonous plan to seize the eastern territory of Luo Sha.

The two "old traitors" have been setting up a trap for more than ten years, but now it has been completely destroyed by Zhuge Weidao. Why don't you make the old man angry? The old man saw Zhuge Weidao and Zhuge Weixue coming in together, with a smile on his face, and followed him

He acted as if nothing was wrong, and was so angry that he almost turned into old Zhou Yu.

Sitting on both sides of Zhuge Weijiu are Zhuge Weijia, Zhuge Weiyi, and Zhuge Weixiao. Among them, Weijia is a financial strategist and a banker. He is in charge of the Yangtze River Bank of the Zhuge family. In addition, he is also a member of the Zhuge family.

The chief executive of the Industrial Association!

Zhuge Weiyi is a shipbuilding strategist. He is now the Minister of Shipbuilding of the Navy Ministry. In his early years, he was the general manager of Jiangnan Heavy Industry and the chief designer of the Hongwu Emperor level.

Zhuge Weixiao is a Feng Shui strategist - the so-called Feng Shui strategist is not a professional in Feng Shui, but in charge of construction and development. Where to build cities, where to open railways, where to build ports, how to build, how to build, and investment

To some extent, he is the authority. As for whether railway construction is bad for feng shui, he is even more authoritative! As long as he figures it out, others will shut up!

In addition to these four, there are four other military strategists with the title generation and four with the title of generation present today. They are the power strategist Zhuge Weiguo, the machine strategist Zhuge Weiguang, the steel strategist Zhuge Weichao, and the mathematical strategist Zhuge Wei.

In the Ming Dynasty, chemical strategist Zhuge Youpin, physical strategist Zhuge Youli, naval strategist Zhuge Youxin, and army strategist Zhuge Yougang. If you look at the names of these strategists, you will know that they are all expert strategists in a certain field.

Academic authority. In fact, they were already experts before they became strategists. Becoming strategists and receiving guidance from the Book of Heaven allowed them to go one step further on the basis of experts.

And these twelve Zhuge military advisors are all academic masters, and they are all "Zhuge masters" who were rolled out of the eight hundred Zhuges. If you want to test their IQ, there will definitely be no one lower than 120. Lower than 120.

With this number, you can't even pass the first test of the Military Advisor Exam!

Now this group of Zhuge strategists, who are both sophisticated and powerful, all know that Zhuge Youdao, a stupid Zhuge with a "bad brain", actually wanted to fight with Qunge and challenge them. It took them more than ten, twenty, or even thirty years to win.

The position of military advisor is 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 advisor - he passed the preliminary examination five years ago and scored very high. He answered 18 of the 20 extremely difficult math questions correctly!

This IQ is really enviable!

So he can indeed challenge for the military advisor position. However, this military advisor position is not something that can be won by just solving the questions. Most of them have been "rolled" for more than ten or twenty years to win the military advisor position. Before they win the military advisor position, they have already

He is the number one figure in the field. Why should he, a "little Zhuge" in his 10s and 20s, get the rank of military advisor as a mere lieutenant colonel? Is it possible that the army and navy officers who have reached the general level among the Zhuge family did not get the rank of military advisor?

Not much!

The old Zhuges present looked at Zhuge Weidao, a young Zhuge, and they were not very friendly.

However, before he can challenge for the position of military advisor, Zhuge Weidao still has to go through a military advisor group review. If he cannot satisfactorily explain his behavior in the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Jin Empire, he will be exiled by his family, and naturally he will lose the opportunity to challenge the military advisor.

position qualifications.

The things Zhuge Weidao committed this time are not trivial, and he will probably be exiled!

Thinking of this, some old Zhuges began to sympathize with Zhuge Weidao. The Feng Shui strategist Zhuge Weixiao even felt guilty - he was the one who found Zhuge Youde's Yin Mansion. It was obviously a treasured place of Feng Shui! Why couldn't he protect him?

Where is Zhuge Weidao? Didn't you look carefully?

At this time, Zhuge Weidao had already sat down on a chair in front of the Twelve Military Advisors in a grand manner. He also crossed his legs and looked at the twelve "Zhuge Liang" with a silly smile on his face - it was not that he was stupid, but that

Twelve "Zhuge Liangs" sat together in an old classroom, with an old-fashioned wooden desk in front of each person. Is this a Zhuge Liang training class? It's ridiculous to think about it!

"Daozi," Zhuge Weixiao, who was a little guilty, shook his feather fan and spoke kindly at this time, "We know that your head was seriously injured in Petersburg and you were 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 ensure that you will be rich for the rest of your life."

"Yes, yes," Zhuge Youli, a distinguished physics strategist and the most reasonable old man, immediately said, stroking his white beard, "Taozi, we have discussed it. As long as you admit your mistake, we will retire from the navy."

I’ll build you a big manor in Nanyang or Siam for your retirement.”

"Retirement?" Zhuge Weidao felt happy for the old man, "Are you noble Geng?"

"Eighty-three," Zhuge Youli said with a smile, "My grandson is older than you!"

"You're eighty-three and still don't retire. I'm only twenty-six and you want me to take care of you in old age. What you're saying is unreasonable!"

Zhuge Youli was not angry at all, and even said with a smile: "Aren't you beaten out of your mind? You ruined the trap that your second brother and your father had set up for more than ten years in Petersburg, and you also killed Grand Duke Alexander of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

Let’s push it together with Princess Victoria of England. If the alliance between Britain and Rakshasa is formed, Ming Dynasty will be isolated internationally.”

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

"Brother 108," Zhuge Weijia, a banker and military advisor, also had a look of regret on his face, "Once Britain and Rakshasa form a marriage alliance, the Westerners will become monolithic. Then we will be in big trouble.

This group of Westerners, whether they are Rakshasa, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or others, are all the same at heart: they are bandits! Their original territory is Europe, and these days

In the past hundred years, relying on their powerful ships and cannons and the opportunity to enter the age of navigation first, they have seized the territory and wealth of most of the world. Only our Ming Dynasty suppressed them because of heroes like our ancestor King Wu Zhong.

Malacca and the Dutch East Indies made them afraid to take a step north.

Moreover, we also used trade to attract most of the gold and silver that Westerners plundered from the New World, Africa, and India to the Ming Dynasty. We even used the silver earned from trade to invest in British Malacca, Dutch East Indies, and British Tin

Although the governance of Malacca, the Dutch East Indies and Ceylon belongs to the British and Dutch, most of the industries there belong to our Ming merchants. The stocks of the Suez Canal Company are also mostly owned by

Our people bought it. In addition, we have invested in a lot of industries in the Rakshasa Kingdom and various countries in Western Europe!

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 let them unite or unify, those bandits will have to worry about our money. Although we are in Malacca and the Dutch East Indies

The investment in Malacca and the Dutch East Indies can be snatched back by sending troops, but the investment west of Malacca will be in vain. Moreover, once Malacca and the Dutch East Indies are snatched, the more than 10 million natives there will also be troublesome. Even if they are Ming Dynasty citizens,

We have lost money, what should we do if we don’t count it?”

The banker and strategist talked a lot. In fact, it was not completely unreasonable. The diplomacy, foreign trade, and investment policies promoted by the Zhuge family were all formulated with reference to the Book of Heaven, and of course they were very targeted.

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On the way to Beijing, Zhuge Weidao had already inquired about the "overseas investments" of the Zhuge family with Manager He Tianran and He Da. Not to mention Malacca, which was right under the nose of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch East Indies were not too far away from the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence.

As far as the distant island of Ceylon, investment in the West is quite wise.

The shareholding in the Suez Canal ensured that the Zhuge family controlled at least one director of the canal company, which gave the Zhuge family a say in the Suez Canal issue and exerted influence on Ali Pasha of Egypt.

The investment of the Zhuge family in Western Europe is also very interesting. It was not invested in London, Paris, Amsterdam, nor in 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 precious metals to return to Europe - this could maintain the liquidity of the European market and allow Europeans to continue to buy Ming products.

The land in the Ruhr area purchased by the Zhuge family is mainly used to grow grapes, wine and wheat. Although the return rate is very low, the Zhuge family has been buying continuously for more than 100 years, and it is basically not short of money.

Almost all the land near the Rhine, Ruhr, and Lippe rivers has been purchased. Although it does not completely prevent the development of the Ruhr coalfields (the Ruhr coalfields are distributed under thousands of square kilometers of land)

, but it still increases mining and transportation costs and reduces the competitiveness of the Rhineland industry.

I have to say that although these Zhuge military advisors are relatively cowardly, they are still very damaging!

Seeing Zhuge Weidao smiling and saying nothing, Zhuge Weijiu thought that he had realized his mistake, so he sighed and said: "One hundred and eighty-year-old brother, you have done more ridiculous things these days. You are in the Kingdom of Jin."

He also did two ridiculous things. One was secretly colluding with Jin Emperor Daoguang. The other is, I won’t talk about it! You, admit your mistake and go to Nanyang to become the owner of the manor!"

Zhuge Weidao smiled and began to pretend to count on his fingers.

"Brother one hundred and eight, what are you doing?" Zhuge Weijiu frowned as he looked at the little brother counting on him.

"Second brother," Zhuge Weidao replied seriously, "I can tell you with just a few fingers that you are using an offshore balancing hand against Great Britain, Rakshasa, France, and Prussia. That is, by continuously supporting regional powers in Europe.

Check and balance the great powers that are keen on pursuing European hegemony in order to maintain the division and balance of power in Europe. Am I right?”
Chapter completed!