In Tanggu City, Qing Sanye is definitely an alternative. In this city full of industrial atmosphere and strong westernization, there are really not many people with long braids, cheongsams and mandarin jackets sitting in sedans.
Folk customs have changed, and people in the Qing Dynasty have to follow the local customs. Many Qing businessmen came here to do business. They quietly hid their braids and put on a suit or Western-style casual clothes, with a Western-style gold medal in their front breast pocket. A gold pocket watch with a long chain attached to a button, it looks so trendy when you walk down the street.
Only businessmen who dress up in this way can enjoy themselves, be respected by others in interpersonal interactions, and people will be willing to do business with you. Moreover, there is now a Western-style carriage factory in Tanggu City. The lightweight carriages are equipped with several sets of spring shock absorbers and sophisticated bearings to reduce friction. Only one horse is needed to run fast and steadily.
Who still uses sedan chairs these days? It was small and stuffy, and the four bearers were too tired to run fast. It was cold and windy in winter and sweltering in summer. It was no different from a prison.
The most important thing is that the Prime Minister once said that when China was strong and prosperous since ancient times, no one rode in sedan chairs. Civil servants rode in cars and military generals rode horses. Only when society declined would such directly similar phenomena occur.
If you want transportation, there are oxcarts and horses. You can ride a mule all over the street and no one will care about you! Do you have to ride on someone? Are you showing off your nobility?
The thoughts of the prime minister have been able to influence the overall values of the Chinese people. When people think about it, this is true. Cars and horses are inherently more comfortable and faster than sedans, so why not use them and enslave the sedan bearers? Show your nobility by oppressing other weak people?
Instead of using fast and comfortable carriages and horses, we have to use human-powered sedans. This is actually a very concrete manifestation of social regression.
The custom of riding horse-drawn carriages has quickly become popular in areas controlled by the Chinese. Tanggu is an important base area in Xiao Letian's territory after Ryukyu. The people here are more civilized and Xiao Letian's thoughts have penetrated more thoroughly.
But Xiao Letian can fool others, but he can't fool his uncle, the first comrade he met during time travel, Third Master Qing.
In just a few years, Mr. Qing, who was high-spirited on the mountain roads of Yixian County, has aged a lot. His long and shiny black braid has actually been mixed with a few strands of white hair. There are also more wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. There is a hint of fatigue and fatigue in his eyes. A hint of confusion.
Arriving in Tanggu by boat from the south of the Yangtze River, not even two days after disembarking, shocking news came from the Far East. Hunchun held the secret decree of Emperor Tongzhi and launched the Heilongjiang mutiny, and Suona Tepuxin took control of the military and political power of the two provinces.
Immediately afterwards, Xiang Shaolong's volunteer army defeated the Cossack reinforcements, sweeping away the last trace of Tsarist Russia's military power in this territory. The news spread to the whole city of Tanggu, and excited Chinese people took to the streets holding candles, forming a river of lights in the dark night.
Fireworks were set off above the sea, and the colorful rays of fireworks exploded in the sky, which could be seen clearly within a radius of dozens of miles.
The people of this land have moved further and further away from the Qing Dynasty. 90% of the people on the street have no pigtails. Everyone is shouting long live the prime minister and long live the Chinese people!
At that moment Mr. Qing saw with his own eyes that the Tongzhi Yamen established by the Qing Dynasty in Tanggu City was as dim as a haunted house. Zhou Mingkui, the Tanggu Tongzhi Yamen, was probably the most embarrassing official in the Qing Dynasty. His daily job was to sit in the Yamen He didn't do anything there. The special zone would allocate him a sum of money every month, but he would keep part of it to pay the government officials, while the other part would be turned over to the Qing treasury.
That was simply a humiliation. In the eyes of the Special Administrative Region, the official yamen of the Qing Dynasty had become the residence of a group of beggars.
But the situation is stronger than the people, who dares to say no? This place is nominally the land of the Qing Dynasty, and the sovereignty is still in the hands of the court, but the management rights have long been lost. What is even more terrifying is that the people's hearts have been lost.
Qing Sanye can't understand the current world, and he can't understand the changes in his brother Xiao Letian. Before the release of the Chinese code, the third master can still do some of Xiao Letian's tricks. The worst he can do is to become the king of Ryukyu and then Fusang and Nanyang compete for some territory, and Xiao Letian becomes king. He doesn't have such a big appetite to swallow up the Qing Dynasty.
In fact, at that time, Qing Sanye and many Manchus were also mentally prepared for Xiao Letian, the Cao Cao, to force King Shangtai to step down and become the king himself.
Later, some of Fuso's daimyo surrendered to him and broke away from the control of the shogunate. Many small countries in Southeast Asia were also conquered by Xiao Letian.
Maybe in the end, Xiao Letian's wings will be hardened, and he will break away from the vassal system of the Qing Dynasty, become independent on his own, and maybe even claim the title of emperor... The court has already made these psychological preparations, and they know that Xiao Letian will eventually Can do these things.
But as long as Xiao Letian does not interfere with the Qing Dynasty, or if he interferes less, he will interfere with the special zone and so on... We will bear it when he is the emperor. Who makes the Qing Dynasty have no warships on the sea and cannot defeat him? Of course, the army can't defeat them either.
It is precisely based on this grand strategic judgment that the imperial court is extremely disgusted and hateful towards Xiao Letian, and wishes to kill him with a thousand knives. However, strategically speaking, Xiao Letian is not really a life-and-death enemy. His threat ranking is even behind Zeng Guofan. .
And everything has undergone tremendous changes since the promulgation of the Chinese Code!
First of all, they don’t understand what the Chinese code is supposed to do? Let’s talk about a gentleman’s constitution, but there is no monarch. Let’s talk about the United States system of the United States, but it still retains titles such as nobles, kings, and titles.
The Qing Dynasty could not understand such a messy porridge. This time Qing Sanye, as the deputy minister of the Prime Minister's Office, visited Jiangnan and Ryukyu, and he actually had the task of carefully studying this Chinese system.
Another thing that frightened them was the sudden rise of the Volunteer Army. Although the Far East had been ceded to Tsarist Russia, the sudden appearance of the Volunteer Army directly overturned the court's previous judgment.
Xiao Letian did not abandon the mainland and manage the islands at all. He was actually looking for opportunities to infiltrate power into the mainland. In this war, Xiao Letian directly controlled millions of square kilometers of land in the Far East.
This change in strategy made the entire Manchu group suddenly at a loss. Especially Qing Sanye, a revolutionary among the Manchus and an elite talent who opened his eyes to the world, could feel Xiao Letian's aggressive offensive.
There have been cracks in the brotherhood. The current Tanggu Special Zone is no longer the place of hope for the Qing Dynasty in the past. In his eyes, Tanggu now is the springboard for Xiao Letian's conspiracy.
"Xiao Letian! Xiao Letian... you are playing with fire! Do you really want to be an enemy of our Manchu people? Don't forget that you are also our Manchu people's uncle!"
"Go back. As long as you can go back, how can the court treat you badly? As long as you are loyal to protect the Qing Dynasty, it is not difficult to make you an iron-hatted king! You have to be that bad prime minister. You are really sick..."
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