Dominate the Country

"Breaking news! Breaking news! India's Sultan Hyder Ali abdicated due to illness, and his son Tipu took over his father's anti-British banner, refused to negotiate peace with the British East India Company, assembled a large army to continue fighting, defeated the British army in Cuddalore, and captured its highest commander, Brigadier General Orm, and 2,000 British and Indian soldiers. Now they are besieging Mangalore, the last stronghold of the British army on the Malabar Coast."

"The King of England called on France and the Netherlands in February to stop the war in India. It is rumored that the three parties are currently starting negotiations."

"King Carlos III of Spain formally demands that our country unconditionally withdraw from the occupied Spanish territory, otherwise he will send elite guards to land in America to attack our immigration areas."

"Spanish Hai The army and the army suffered a series of defeats and were completely at a disadvantage in the contest with our expeditionary army. "

"The British Navy Channel Fleet made another contribution. Under the command of Major General House, it escorted more than 140 transport ships to Gibraltar successfully. "

"For the first time, Sweden admitted to ordering a large number of guns and weapons from my country to improve the armament of the Swedish army! I wonder if there will be fire dragon bombs..."

"The representatives of the small and medium-sized nobles and the emerging bourgeoisie in Poland launched a patriotic reform movement. Russia expressed its uneasiness about its irresponsible and wanton military expansion."

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Shanghai, outside the British East India Company's trading house in Shanghai, a newsboy about ten years old walked and shouted with a stack of freshly printed newspapers. These are the news of the "Global Times" just published this week-"Global Times" belongs to the famous Yangtze River Group, which is the industry of the uncle of the king. In recent years, after the continuous large-scale investment of the Li family, it has developed rapidly.

It has become a cultural industry group integrating newspapers, weekly magazines, printing, publishing and other industries. And it was successfully listed at the beginning of this year. In just three or four months, the stock price almost doubled, which shows that its future is very promising in the market.

Global Times is an international express newspaper created by this newspaper group at the end of last year. Its vision is no longer limited to the Chinese cultural circle, but has spread to the world of Tianfang, India, Europe, Africa and North America. It is a truly global news newspaper.

This newspaper is published every two weeks, and it lists many recent events abroad. And the impact and relevance of these events, as well as the fluctuations with China. The newsboy in front of him is shouting some important news in the new issue of the newspaper to attract the attention of passers-by.

With the rapid promotion of the newspaper industry in China, newsboys have become a very common thing in China. Newsboys of various newspapers are mostly students of local schools or children of charity halls.

——Not all scouts can enter regular boy camps.

With the thorough establishment of Chen Han's political rule in China, there are fewer orphans on the market, but the completely formalized Boy Camp has really become a money-eating beast. It is too heavy a burden to accommodate all the homeless and orphaned children in China. In addition, in order to establish the children's sense of competition in the Boy Camp, children who are very bad in all aspects are often eliminated.

These eliminated children are transferred to charity halls established in various places.

China has had charity since ancient times. Thousands of years ago, infants, lonely old people, beggars, and corpse collection were clearly divided.

Now Chen Han has established a charity general organization from the overall perspective. The nominal person in charge is the empress dowager and the queen. The concubines in the palace and the wives of princes and ministers are also nominal members. It is just like the Rabbit Charity Association in the 21st century.

Charity halls are not only established in some large cities, but also in some small and medium-sized cities. The annual operating funds come from the court grants, private donations, and the profits generated by the operation of the venture capital fund under the association.

Most of the "newsboy" industry is contracted by the city's charity. Students still have to go to school, and their intermittent newspaper-selling career is more like an experience of life than labor, and it does not reach the "professional" level at all. But the children of the charity are different. Many of them cannot go to school and do not have the conditions, so they can continue to work as "newsboys", a career with no future, and practice makes perfect.

The newspapers sold by newsboys every day can account for more than one-third of the daily sales of newspapers in the city, and the rest of the sales are fixed newsstands or newsstands. That is a large part of the sales, and the level of newsboys is directly related to the income of the newspaper.

Robert would not care about China's charity and "newsboys". He had just arrived at the gate of the trading house in a carriage when he heard the shouting of the newsboys and the news of the damn Haider and Tiepu. These two names made him hate them.

Of course, Robert also thought of the rapid development of China's newspaper industry.

God knows that when he first learned that Mysore Sultan Hyder abdicated, Tipu took over his father's power and chose to continue to be the enemy of Great Britain, he really got it from that small "Global Times".

And the British East India Company merchant ship "Tulip" that arrived in Shanghai yesterday confirmed this news.

"Global Times" did not lie, Hyder was really seriously ill and could not get up. But Tipu completely took over his father's power. The battle of Cuddalore won him the support of the internal forces of the Mysore Kingdom and the support of the Indian princes.

The situation of the British in India fluctuated a little with the fall of Hyder, but it did not reach a qualitative difference.

Robert was very sad. The East India Company of the Kingdom of Great Britain could not transmit news as fast as a newspaper that had just been established for a few years. This made him laugh and cry.

At this critical period, some news that arrived one day in advance would have great value.

"Child, give me a newspaper."

In front of the gate of the trading house, Robert shouted to the newsboy through the window of the carriage. The newsboy's eyes lit up when he heard it. He jumped over in a few steps and took a five-cent coin handed by Robert with one hand, saying, "Sir. Your newspaper. This is the new Global Times, only ten cents. The content is detailed, covering the situation in India and Europe, as well as the analysis and prediction of the British, French and Spanish wars. It is definitely worth buying a copy and reading carefully."

Robert laughed a few times. This newspaper was delivered to his desk five days ago. He broke and chewed every word on it. The commentator of the Global Times was not optimistic about the situation of Britain in North America. He believed that even if China defeated Spain now and the latter withdrew from the battle, it would be difficult for the British to turn the tables in North America. The people of the Thirteen States have already gained confidence in victory, and the continuous victories have allowed them to build a strong cohesion.

As for India, commentators believe that the British can preserve their own interests. Although Tipu is a ferocious young tiger, as long as London resolves the war with France and the Netherlands, Mysore, which has lost the support of France and the Netherlands, will be at the end of its strength, and the war can only be suspended. Mysore did not fail, but it did not win.

In the long run, although the British did not win the war, they won time.

Three, five, or ten or eight years later, the British, who have recovered their vitality, can completely re-launch the war against Mysore. At that time, Mysore will not have the advantage it has at the beginning of this war.

The French will not come to help him again. Paris, which is heavily in debt, will have to worry about the financial crisis in the next ten or twenty years.

The Dutch may have been expelled from India by then.

"Little guy, come here. Two newspapers."

Just as Robert retracted his head, the carriage had restarted and entered the gate of the trading house. Several people dressed as laborers came towards them in front of the trading house. These people had a towel around their necks and walked while letting the sweat on their faces flow down their necks.

Robert knew that these laborers were from the dock labor company.

It can be said that the work of these people is the hardest, most tiring and least technical in the entire Shanghai dock.

These people can often be seen on this Shangguan Street in Shanghai. They are hired to carry goods from the warehouse in the dock area to the Commercial Street not far from Shangguan Street, and then they don’t even get the treatment of riding a truck back to the dock area.

If you don’t want to spend money to take a bus or a tram, you can only walk on your own feet.

Two of the laborers paid for two copies of the Global Times. It was the sixth day of publication, and the price of the newspaper dropped from 15 cents to 12 cents, and then to the current 10 cents. If you are willing to wait for another five days, you can buy this newspaper for only five cents.

Although Robert couldn't hear clearly what the two laborers holding the newspaper said to their companions, he knew that the Chinese had found some defects of the country introduced in the newspaper and were making some deliberately funny remarks to ridicule something when he saw the laborers laughing.

China's sense of pride is really annoying.

They think they are the only civilized people, and all other countries are barbarians. Yes, that's the feeling.

Just like the British look at Indians and Africans.

This feeling is really bad.

In China, even the poor people who may not earn as much as Robert earns in a year in their lifetime dare to look down on wealthy sea traders like Robert; those low-status women dare to say blatantly that they will not receive them.

Sometimes Robert really wants to turn into a mighty man and beat up a kid named China.

He also had a very real dream, so realistic that he thought it was real when he was awake. In his dream, Daqingguo had not perished, and there was no current Emperor Chen in the dream China.

Opium has eroded the entire Chinese country. There are opium dens in every city, and the streets are full of opium addicts. There are more opium soldiers in the Qing army than in the British army.

The East India Company enslaved thousands of Indians to grow poppies, and the opium produced was shipped to China in ships.

All the silver that flowed into China by the British for more than a hundred years was earned back by them with opium.

No, it was all the silver that flowed into China by Europe for thousands of years that was earned back by them with opium. It was a feast of joy for the entire Western world. The French, Americans, Dutch, and Portuguese were all shipping opium to China.

China's silver was flowing out rapidly, at a speed much faster than the normal flow of gold and silver in the East-West trade. China has changed from a huge and stable surplus country to a huge surplus country.

Later, a far-sighted minister of Daqingguo advocated banning opium. He believed that the opium trade harmed the interests of Daqingguo, but his behavior also harmed the interests of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Then Her Majesty the Queen personally announced a war against China.

This is really a great monarch comparable to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. Her army easily opened the door to China. After the erosion of opium, the corrupt Tatar dynasty has become vulnerable.

The British army not only captured Guangzhou, but also Nanjing, and finally captured Beijing. They plundered China's endless wealth and robbed the most beautiful royal garden in the world, the Old Summer Palace. Finally, Robert, as a witness of all this, was personally awarded the medal by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace...

Unfortunately, Robert's dream was awakened before he saw the medal.

Because a sudden war disrupted everything. The entire Buckingham Palace was caught in a war. A Chinese army holding a red flag, that is, the army of Emperor Chen, who did not exist before, landed from the sky and captured the entire London, and then surrounded the entire Buckingham Palace.

Countless Chinese people were burning, killing and looting in London. They robbed all the wealth and wantonly set fire to all the buildings, just like the British soldiers who looted the Old Summer Palace in his dream.

Robert fled in a panic, and was hit by a lead bullet that flew from nowhere. The severe pain and shock woke him up from the sweet dream.

It was such an absurd dream. The British robbed the Old Summer Palace, and the Chinese burned the whole of London...

Haha, Robert, who was awakened by death, recalled the dream after calming down.

It was really absurd.

How deeply taboo should I have about the current Chinese emperor to have such a dream?

Although there is no Emperor Chen, the Qing Dynasty may continue to rule China; looking back at the Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty's rule in China was still very stable. Therefore, the rise of Emperor Chen itself is an absurd drama.

In the heyday of a dynasty, it was overthrown by a small landlord family. Reality is really more magical than fiction.

Robert was still very superstitious. Merchants at sea in this era could not help but be superstitious. Moreover, it was important that he knew that there was a widely circulated book in China - Zhou Gong's Interpretation of Dreams, which was a book that was born very early.

But Robert did not look for "Zhou Gong's Interpretation of Dreams", but analyzed the dream with his own understanding.

Because after careful consideration, many things in that absurd dream were his ideas in reality, or assumptions that he had thought of before.

Without Emperor Chen, there would be no Chen Han today. Robert thought so a long time ago. And without Chen Han, China today would of course be ruled by the previous Tatar Dynasty.

However, he was really exaggerating on the issue of opium. Even if opium could really get some silver back from China, it would not develop to the scenes in the dream. All that was just his hope and imagination.

Direct trade between the West and the East has a history of hundreds of years, but there has never been a thing like "opium". The Chinese are completely collecting it, and the sales volume is growing rapidly. This made Robert unable to forget it, and then exaggerated it in his dream.

The Qing army could not be as weak as in his dream. The Qing was still a very powerful country, and everything was built on the super prosperity of the opium trade.

Occupy Guangzhou, Nanjing, Beijing, rob the Old Summer Palace...

Robert felt that he really had to confess to God. Greed had devoured his heart like a poisonous snake.

But he was really afraid of Emperor Chen. All the glory of himself and Great Britain was shattered with his reappearance, and the red flag fluttered over London.

Fortunately, it was a dream, otherwise Robert would really go crazy.

...

I thought a lot in my mind, but it actually took only a very short time.

The carriage stopped, and Robert woke up from his memories. Then his face looked bad because he remembered another thing.

How many Chinese workers were there just now? Four or five?

There were actually two people who recognized the Chinese characters on the newspaper. God, this ratio is really too high.

The smile on Robert's face froze a little.

In Europe and the New World, where most adults are illiterate today, perhaps only Prussia during the reign of King Friedrich William I, who has long since passed away, can be compared with China. William I promulgated a "Compulsory Education Regulations": "All minors, regardless of gender or status, must receive education."

But this rule has become a thing of the past in Prussia.

It is really difficult to find another country or region in Europe that attaches so much importance to national education as China. Chinese adult citizens, such as dock workers, have to attend night school cram schools regularly at night to learn cultural knowledge; this will earn them points, and the points system is really everywhere in China.

As long as the family conditions allow, children of school age must receive compulsory primary education, and in the boy camps hosted by the state, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people receive primary education while receiving early military training every year. All teaching staff and expenses are paid by the state. This is really a great policy.

Night schools, short-term training courses, vocational high schools, technical schools, these are all institutions for Chinese adult education. Coupled with their already systematic hierarchical education, through these multi-pronged approach, China's literacy rate has really improved significantly in recent years.

Although Robert is not sure why Chen Ming insists on investing in and promoting education, he may feel that more and more Chinese people have developed the habit of reading newspapers.

The sales of newspapers, magazines and books have increased a lot.