Sabot Cat
Banned
So what happened to running your updates by me beforehand?
I didn't want to wear you out. D:
I will send you the draft for the next chapter though.
Interesting update though . Some thoughts:
I'm wondering how they could *get* Yixuan to Beijing, seeing as it's surrounded by Taiping territory.
By Russian ship. =)
That's a fast promotion! Good choice though.
He was offered a rather prestigious position due to his skills in OTL, a little later.
This is going to have a massive long-term impact, both in the quality of the civil service, but also with the potential for later reform/revolution. I've heard it said by many people that the reason traditional Chinese civil service exams focused on how to write pleasing poems in the classical style was more to select for people who were capable of obeying instructions and pleasing authority figures.
I've heard as much too, and this might be an ulterior motive to challenging that, considering Yung Wing's pro-democracy advocacy in our timeline [Also, all of his reform ideas are taken nearly ad verbatim from his OTL proposals to the Taiping Kingdom, documented in his autobiography. It's good reading!]