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Of course, there are more ways for Xiao Letian to make money than this. If he wants to raise an army just by relying on the profits of buying low and selling high, it is tantamount to wishful thinking. Xiao Letian's dream of a large navy and industrialization will eventually fall on the Manchus.
Xiao Letian has always believed that the wealth accumulated by the Chinese ancestors over thousands of years is not a small amount, enough for several generations to work hard to industrialize. In fact, let alone the mid-19th century, even after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the previous life, when the Chinese nation was severely damaged by the devastation, our fathers still completed the industrialization of the country by tightening their belts and achieved hundreds of years of development. dream.
Nowadays, China has only experienced two Opium Wars, and those tens of millions of taels in compensation are just a drop in the bucket of the huge accumulated wealth of the people. Just because the Manchus and the corrupt Confucians can't mobilize it doesn't mean that Xiao Letian can't do it.
Not to mention anything else, how many armored warships can the Eight Banners buy with its annual salary of more than 10 million taels of silver? The entire Qing Dynasty had to embezzle a lot of money just by burning this big black hole in a year, probably more than ten million taels. The Qing Dynasty earned several million taels a year from selling officials and conferring titles, not to mention other kinds of wealth gained through expropriation.
It's like Japan across the sea. The navy wants to buy a Yoshino ship. Even the emperor takes the lead and only eats one meal a day. The purpose is to encourage people to donate money to buy warships and Beiyang dry ships.
The Yoshino was actually a fast armored cruiser ordered by Beiyang Li Hongzhang and the British Armstrong Shipyard. It was only because he wanted to celebrate Cixi's birthday that he misappropriated the money to the Summer Palace, which allowed the Japanese to pry the market.
The Yoshino cost a total of more than 300,000 pounds, which was one million taels of silver based on the exchange rate at the time. And more than one million taels of silver, for China, even the middle-class Shanxi merchant families can afford it. Needless to say, even the old shopkeeper’s brother Fan Ru could take it out.
The Chinese economy in the late Qing Dynasty was like falling into a curse. Scholars desperately wanted to become officials to make money, while businessmen desperately wanted to make money and then hid the profits or bought land and officials to engage in official-business collusion.
In the end, these wealth all benefited the robbers who fought openly, and under the pressure of foreign guns and cannons, they suddenly became the robbers' food.
The more turbulent the society is, the more the wealth needs to be hedging. The more hedging is not liquid, the weaker the country will be. Then the society will be more turbulent. When the wealth has lost its liquidity and the ability to create new wealth, , his final outcome is to become a meal for other powers.
China is getting weaker and weaker under such a curse, while the Western world is doing the opposite. Its industry and commerce are extremely developed and its financial system is getting more and more complete. What will it get in the end? That means more guns, more warships, more aircraft and tanks, and more satellite missiles.
When they can wield the big stick of nuclear weapons and scream all over the world, what else can you do except obediently pay the protection fee?
Xiao Letian's chess game is too big, and he wants to defy the odds with his own strength? Sometimes he would be frightened and wake up, but Xiao Letian had already walked up this one-way street with no way back and could never get back down.
Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun could only see the tip of the iceberg in Xiao Letian's huge layout, but this tip almost scared Tian Erdan and Ma Hui to death. They even looked down at the lunch box they had just filled and muttered. He muttered.
"So, what we just ate was foreign rice? Ouch... I have never thought about this kind of treatment in my life? Where is Japan and North Korea? Where is the United States?"
Ye Qiu and the others never expected that the psychological battle against the Green Camp brothers would be declared victorious with just one meal. In the eyes of these simple people, they could eat canned beef from the United States, rice from Japan and Korea, and seafood soup. Shrimp, and canned peaches after the meal.
Heaven...earth...I guess this is the end of the days of gods, right? It's autumn now, and you can actually eat peaches that are only on the market in early summer. This is something that every villager in my hometown would believe.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...
Without saying a word, Tian Erdan cut off his braid with a backhand knife, and threw it into the fire. "It's done, just use this ration, and with the Prime Minister's good heart for us soldiers, I will Did it too..."
"Done..." The crowd shouted in unison and went to the New Army to borrow a knife. This meal not only cut off the braids on the back of their heads, but also cut off the braids in their hearts.
In the late Qing Dynasty, fighting for the hearts of the people was so simple. The life of the people at the bottom was really too hard. And because the Manchu Qing Dynasty strictly abided by the Ming Dynasty's road guide system, the people were closed to their hometowns, and their horizons were If you can see hundreds of miles around you, you are considered a traveler.
Now Xiao Letian has opened a new door for these ignorant people, allowing them to see a completely different world with their own eyes. From that moment on, the scam to fool the people jointly fabricated by the Qing Dynasty and the corrupt Confucianists was completely bankrupt.
It turns out that there really is such a way of life. People can eat meat every day, have enough to eat every day, do not have to kneel down when meeting officials, and are actually polite when meeting foreigners.
It turns out that this world is like this. It is not just a world of monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons. Those nations without emperors do not have the world falling apart, and the people there live better.
It turns out that there really is a paradise in this world where you can have enough food and clothing if you work hard...
That night, two thousand Green Camp soldiers collectively broke off the uprising and joined the New Army camp. In just one night, there were two thousand more bald soldiers in the Special Administrative Region. Although their military quality was not high, even engineers from Europe and the United States saw it. The vitality in them.
In just one night, their temperaments were completely different from when they surrendered.
Early the next morning, the execution hall established contact with the remaining four thousand defenders on the Dagukou fort. The special zone used small sampans to transport a large amount of supplies to the fort, including guns, ammunition, food and clothing. As long as the special zone had all A steady stream of them was delivered to the fort.
The four thousand defenders swore to defend the Dagukou Fort to the death. Those who were there would be there, and those who died would be martyred with the fort.
For a whole day, the boats transporting supplies from the special zone on the north bank of the Haihe River to the forts on the south bank formed a line. The flow continued without stopping for a moment, but what was very strange was that there was no movement at all among the French on the sea and the Mailer garrison at Xiaowangzhuang. nothing.
"Something's wrong, it smells really wrong... Pass the order and take strict precautions, especially at the Dagukou fort. Let our snipers come up to support..." After all, General Liu Lang followed the Kingdom of Heaven through the Northern Expedition, and he was struggling in the bloody storm. When I hit it, I had an almost intuitive understanding of murderous intent.
While Tanggu was holding back the fight, a huge chaos was raging in Tianjin Weili to the west.
Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Wei, the word "Wei" has already vividly explained the characteristics of this city, which is to build the city with the army. When the Tianjin Guard was established in the Ming Dynasty, it was to support the northern front line and garrison the Haihe Estuary. However, in the Qing Dynasty, its position became more important, becoming the first line of defense against enemies coming from the sea.
There are many yamen in Weili, Tianjin, from the Green Camp Army, from the Eight Banners Manchu Acropolis... Even the Yancao and Yancao Gangs have set up offices here, so why let this be a flood and drought wharf.
Just this morning, the warehouse in the Eight Banner Camp in the south of the city was flooded for unknown reasons. It was said that the fire was caused by a fried dough stick shop, and it was also said that the incense shop accidentally knocked over the candle... As for why the warehouse was Are there so many fire hazards around? Only God knows.
It was a refreshing autumn day. This kind of weather was perfect for setting fires. After a while, the entire warehouse was ablaze, and black smoke and ashes were flying all over the city. From a distance, it looked like a black snow had fallen.
Although the army in the late Qing Dynasty was in decline and corruption, Tianjin Wei was a strategic location after all. To defend against foreigners, we also had to defend against Xiao Letian, so the arms in the warehouse here were really real. Those who were in office would dare to eat one at most. If the profit is insufficient, if the profit is too much, they are afraid of beheading.
During this time, the warehouse was full of guns and ammunition, cotton and cloth, oil and beans, and even more than 100,000 taels of silver.
This is the logistical lifeblood of the Mailer operation. If it were burned down, the fury in the Forbidden City would probably collapse the wall.
The streets were full of soldiers running around, each carrying a bucket and running sweating profusely. In the end, even the guards from each yamen were dispatched and rushed towards the south of the city.
The fire was soaring to the sky, and the people all over the city were looking around. Many timid people even knelt on the ground and chanted Buddha's name and prayed. Even the officials in the yamen stood at the door, looking around and talking.
The Zhentai Yamen established by the Ministry of War is at the northwest corner of the Drum Tower. At this time, a group of masters and pen posties were crowded together at the gate to watch the fun, with regrets on their faces.
Someone in the crowd whispered, "What a loss, what a loss. If we had known about this fire earlier, why didn't we make a few percent more loss? So many good things were burned in vain. If we had started earlier, we would have lost something." 200,000 yuan..."
"Stop you, this is military supplies for Mailer. If we suffer a 10% loss, we are already overwhelmed. You still want to scrape out 200,000? Just dream..."
Just when people were talking about it, suddenly there was a dense sound of horse hooves deep in the street. It was scattered at first, but soon it became a force, rumbling like a tank pressing over from the north.
"What happened? Who dares to ride a horse in the city? Those who don't understand the rules..." The crowd started to curse, but it was as if his throat was pinched by invisible hands, and he couldn't even speak a word. Not coming out.
"This, this, this... what the hell is this?"
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After I finished complaining, I continued to code.
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