!--The beginning of the chapter-- People say that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, but in reality, opportunities are actually reserved for the lucky ones, and the luck value is described very well by the ancients. For individuals, We call it luck, but for a power, a country, or a nation, this unnatural attribute is actually the national destiny.
A storm in the Far East caused by Xiao Letian has engulfed too many people and involved too many forces. Xiao Letian is like a great god holding a shit stick, standing in the clouds and holding two toilet papers. Hold your nose and start vigorously stirring up this big cesspit outside the customs.
The sediment rises, the stench hits the nostrils, many unknown secrets surface, and many long-dusted past events come to mind again.
Lao Lin looked at the books of accounts in front of him and listened to the accountant's explanation with a deathly expression. He was completely stunned!
Throughout the entire Qing Dynasty, the problem of corruption has been plaguing people like a cancer. Except for the rectification of the official system during the Yongzheng period, the situation was somewhat alleviated. At other times, officials competed with each other for corruption.
Accepting bribes, seizing land, exorbitant taxes... these are actually just child's play. Really powerful and capable people have long been involved in more profitable industries, that is, trade, especially cross-border trade.
Xiao Letian has said more than once that the so-called seclusion of the country in ancient China is actually nonsense. Those officials who shouted that seclusion was good, tried their best to brainwash the emperor and said that the outside world was so terrible, and they must not turn it on or off at will. The country will be unstable...
There are a lot of things to say, no matter how smart the emperor is, he cannot withstand the power of numbers, so the isolation policy continued intermittently for two dynasties after the Ming Dynasty. Generally speaking, there was more time for isolation and less time for opening and closing.
In fact, the tributary trade system is also a perverted system forced out of the closed-door policy, because commercial trade is one of the driving forces of national progress. Civilization itself has the desire to integrate with other civilizations, and commercial trade is this kind of system. The most effective means of communication.
The Ming and Qing dynasties tried their best to suppress the civilization's desire for communication, but they found that they could not suppress it. In the end, they forced a tribute trade system, which can be regarded as a kind of deception.
Including the earliest Ryukyus, why is the Shimazu family unwilling to annex and destroy the country? In fact, the core root is still within the tributary trade system. Ryukyu has the right to tributary trade with the Ming Dynasty. This is the golden book and iron scroll that King Shangtai and others used to protect their lives.
scam! Everything is a scam!
It is undeniable that some of the Confucian scholars and officials who call the country closed to the outside world are fools and brainwashed fools, but there is also a deeper and more influential group of people. They talk about closing the country to the outside world, but in fact they just want to Use this policy to make profits.
Xiao Letian is very rich. He used his own money to support a large number of professional archaeologists and expedition teams. This is entirely Xiao Letian's personal hobby.
Led by archaeologists and historians, some of these heavily funded expedition teams went deep into the jungles of South America, some into the Euphrates River Basin, some into the ruins of ancient Egypt, and some specifically investigated the Mediterranean civilization.
Of course, more of it is archaeological work in China and Asia. Xiao Letian spends between one million to one and a half million silver dollars on this little hobby every year.
In countless overseas archaeological studies, Xiao Letian verified his guess. During the five hundred years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the so-called isolation of the country was a scam.
The ultimate goal of closing the country is to seek higher benefits for the smuggling group! This group wants to be huge. It includes officials, princes, nobles, giant businessmen, and coastal landlords... They are connected into a big network, trying every means to close the country, and then engage in hugely profitable smuggling trade.
Based on the analysis of the types and time periods of porcelain unearthed from Central Asia and India, as well as the porcelain in the hands of European collectors, it can be seen that the entire world's porcelain trade with China has never been interrupted due to the isolation of the country.
Because no dating has been found in overseas porcelain collections, porcelain from any period of the Ming and Qing dynasties has been found overseas.
This only proves that the more closed the country is, the more rampant the smuggling trade will be! In fact, China was often destroyed in the hands of these corrupt officials who said one thing and did another.
For the sake of profit, they forcibly closed the window for civilizational exchanges. Just for the benefit of some smuggling, they were able to close the Chinese civilization for five hundred years!
Without integration and exchange of technology and culture, a civilization will quickly lose its vitality and ability to make blood. The final result will be a century of humiliation in modern history.
Today, the accounts found in General Tepuxin's mansion once again proved Xiao Letian's speculation. It turns out that the real world is far more cruel than people imagined.
The accounts record in detail the daily business activities and profit distribution of a smuggling trading group under Tepuxin. Although the original shareholder details cannot be found, the capital flow exposes everything.
Prince Gong, Prince Chun, Prince Qing, Prince Li in Beijing... including Li Lianying, Zhou Daotong and even Yishan who raised idlers, all received dividends to varying degrees, which means that this interest group has gained a lot of power in the capital.
No wonder Yishan and Tepuxin were not punished for losing their power and humiliating the country. How could they die with so many 'nobles' protecting them?
The commodities traded are really full of grain, medicinal materials, leather goods, timber, Western goods and even people... You read that right, the Far East controlled by Tsarist Russia is extremely barren, and the first people who came here were some Cossack soldiers.
Without the people to develop those garrison points, they would not be able to survive at all, so they urgently need a commodity that is "Chinese". Both men, women and children need it. Men can work, women can use it for recreation and childbirth, and the children will be new when they grow up. slave.
Thanks to the hard-working Chinese people, the cold Far Eastern towns have gained some popularity and have certain conditions for survival.
In Tepuxin's secret account book, there are even records of contacts with countless gangsters, bandits, bandits, Mongolian horse bandits and other forces. Many shady transactions, such as people, drugs, arms... are all passed through these people. Hand done trade.
This is such a big trade network. The entire smuggling trade in the Heilongjiang region and Tsarist Russia has been completely monopolized by Tepuxin and his group.
"Evidence! This is the evidence! It turns out that Tepuxin is really a traitor! It turns out that they are really betraying the country!"
"Come here! Interrogate these two bastards overnight, and then arrest all the people involved in the case in Qiqihar City. After interrogating their confessions, send them to Ninggu Tower..."
"No, no, no...send it to Vladivostok and to His Majesty. This matter is too big and must be handled by Your Majesty!"
