In the palace, Zhu Zaiming was lying on a chair, flipping through the system mall to pick out some good things.
Although the East India Company's 50 million silver compensation has not yet arrived, it does not prevent it from being added to the shopping cart first.
The first is various industrial materials purchased for the Ministry of Industry, as well as a small number of samples.
Followed by the warships of the Navy's First Fleet, the four major ones remain unchanged, and four new Zhiyuan-class dome-armored cruisers are added, namely Pingyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, and Jiyuan.
The four coastal defense ironclad ships serve as artillery destroyers and are named Chaoyong, Shengyong, Yangwei and Longwei.
Two steam merchant ships, Shingo and Luzon, served as supply ships.
As for the Army, it added 12 steam armored vehicles and assigned them to the 1st Brigade as seeds for cultivation.
In the early days, large steam locomotives were welded with iron armor and equipped with small cannons to become tanks, which was very "advanced".
As steam-powered machinery, these war machines were easy to maintain for the current Ming Dynasty.
After analysis and imitation by the Ministry of Industry, mass production is possible and it is very cost-effective.
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At this time in China, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were stepping up their deployment of troops.
Some green battalions were dispatched from the interior to the coastal provinces. At the same time, 20,000 tribal villains were selected from the Longxing Land and began intensive training in Beizhili.
Jiaqing invited many foreigners, purchased a large number of muskets and field artillery from Tsarist Russia, and is intensifying training.
Xu Zhaochun, who was far away in Guangdong and Guangxi, leisurely set up a pot in a large granary.
During the Jiaqing Dynasty, inventorying granaries in various places was an insurmountable hurdle.
As the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Xu Zhaochun naturally had to actively cooperate.
He carefully took out a piece of tofu, cut it into eight pieces with a small blade and threw them into the hot soup pot.
The pickle leaves and tofu tumble together with the surging soup.
"I told Mr. Song, you have to take care of your accounts. How much comes in, how much goes out, and where it is used must be clearly arranged.
If you really have a deficit, choose a few soldiers with no background, arrange a fire dragon to burn the warehouse, and die without proof! "
Old Songtou pinched his slender beard and said calmly.
"Don't worry, Governor Xu. I've been doing this trick for decades, and I've helped cover it up. Don't worry, I can't make a mistake!"
Xu Zhaochun picked up a piece of tofu and put it into his mouth with a few pieces of pickles attached.
It was salty, tender, sour and refreshing. Xu Zhaochun was very satisfied. He felt happy when he thought of the hundreds of thousands of stones of grain he had resold.
I couldn't help but hum a song.
"After eating pickles and rolled tofu, the emperor...is not as good as...me~"
At this time, the door was violently pushed open.
Xu Zhaochun was shocked and said angrily.
"Who the hell is that?"
When I looked back, I broke out in cold sweat.
The visitors were a group of eunuchs, but their uniforms were very different, with golden tiger tattoos on them.
They had long knives hanging on their waists, and one of them was carrying a drop of blood, his face pale and cold.
"Xu Zhaochun, right? You've done something wrong! Do you want to wait for me to take action or follow on your own?"
Xu Zhaochun didn't know that this was the secret service agency of the Manchu Qing emperor, Sticky Branch.
He immediately expressed confusion.
"I am conscientious and diligent, and I think I have done nothing wrong to His Majesty. There must be a misunderstanding..."
"Where did the misunderstanding come from?"
The chief eunuch interrupted Xu Zhaochun's quibbles and revealed an imperial edict.
"Xu Zhaochun, since the time of the late Emperor, you have bribed officials, sold off large warehouses of grain, and secretly directed the Thirteenth Industry to sell opium, which has made the people miserable..."
As the chief eunuch muttered, Xu Zhaochun finally understood.
Like Heshen, he was kicked away by Jiaqing after doing dirty work for Qianlong.
He was going to be killed as a pig.
In the imperial edict, Emperor Jiaqing completely dismissed Qianlong's responsibilities, and placed all the blame on his ministers.
Now, Xu Zhaochun knew that he would definitely die, so he couldn't help but kneel down and ask.
"I wonder what the emperor will do with us?"
Xu Zhaochun still has illusions.
After all, He Shen's house was confiscated and Bai Ling was given to him, which was considered a decent way to die.
And he left behind descendants and still became a wealthy man, and the family inheritance was not interrupted.
However, the blame this time was a bit big, and Jiaqing was a bit ruthless.
The great eunuch laughed shrilly.
"Not to mention the serious crime of selling opium to poison the people, you just called me "Emperor", which is also a serious crime of punishing the nine tribes..."
When Xu Zhaochun heard this, he became anxious.
Seeing the cold faces of these eunuchs, knowing that Jiaqing had made up his mind, he laughed miserably.
"Hahaha, Jiaqing kid is so cruel.
This Aisin Gioro family is full of ruthless people. They torture their people and make their ministers take the blame. This is a strange thing for the ages!
I know that I am not upright and am willing to die.
But Jiaqing's children are not like human beings! "
Xu Zhaochun looked at the eunuchs viciously and cursed.
"Since Jiaqing's son has the idea of killing me, there are many people who want to be executed, otherwise it would be impossible to hide it from so many mouths.
I don’t know how many father-in-laws are on the list. I’m afraid they won’t know it when they die, right? "
A group of eunuchs looked at each other, and some of them looked hesitant.
The eldest eunuch shouted in a low voice: "You are about to die, but you still want to deceive the public with your monstrous words. You guys, I will chop them off with knives. Every one of the people here will be chopped off!"
"twitter!"
Everyone put their thoughts aside and chased and chopped people with knives all over the granary.
The knife split open the grain bag, and gravel mixed with a small amount of white rice poured onto the ground.
The entire south, from granaries to the mansions of high officials, was filled with killings.
Commander Shen Lian of Jin Yiwei hid on a tree trunk in the distance and secretly took a picture of this scene with a Polaroid.
Jiaqing, who was far away in the Forbidden City, thought he had done a perfect job.
We opened champagne and entertained several foreigners.
"I can give you mansions, gold, silver, and beauties, but if the new army cannot play its due role, I will punish you!"
How much did the 20,000 Eight Banners New Army cost?
These soldiers came from the authentic White Mountains and Black Waters. Even if the Aixinjueluo family became emperor, they did not give much support to the construction of Longxing Land.
The euphemistic name is: protecting the purity of the Jurchen tribe and maintaining the fierceness of the men in the tribe.
In fact, these Manchus knew very well that when the Aisin Gioro family became emperor, they kicked the tribe away and lived a good life.
The reason why I don't want my brothers to suffer is because I simply don't care about these poor relatives.
From barbarism to civilization, the Aixinjueluo family has been working hard to get rid of the barbarians, and they are all arty but ridiculous.
What one piece, two pieces, three or four pieces.
Stamp various calligraphy and paintings.
How many good things have been ruined.
Now that the country is in dire straits, Jiaqing thinks of his relatives in his hometown again.
Spending a little money to recruit 20,000 people can work for him.
The military pay is not much, but the cost of weapons is terrifying.
15,000 flintlock muskets, plus a dozen old artillery pieces, cost the treasury 3 million taels of silver.
Coupled with the sky-high recruitment fees for these foreign officers, the national treasury spent a total of 4 million taels.
Even Jiaqing, who had hundreds of millions in internal savings, felt quite distressed.
Therefore, Jiaqing attaches great importance to the new army.
So there was this banquet.
The meaning is obvious, I gave the money, but if it doesn’t work.
Only the Nine Clans can have fun.
These Western colonists who came to the capital brought their families with them.
The Qing Dynasty today is not the Qing Dynasty during the Opium War.
A paper tiger is still a tiger.
There is nothing to fear in governing these colonists with no background.
