"Your Majesty is too impatient. He has to start a business as soon as he returns to the country. It is still the most eye-catching industry! In the imperial court, there are many obstacles to doing industry. Now, doesn't it give more credibility to the population?"
"We must let Mr. Long Live understand the difference between priorities. We must let the emperor take charge first!"
Weng Tonghe didn't understand any industry, nor did he understand technology and machinery, but he understood the political situation and the cruelty of factional fighting in the Qing Dynasty.
"Your Majesty has not been with me in the past few years. He has been taught a wild temper by Xiao Letian and has entered an evil path!"
"The king of a country always wonders about the future of what the craftsmen do? The emperor's first task is to balance, to balance people and things. Once the power in the court is balanced and controllable, what will he be able to do in the future? "
"Your Majesty, Third Master... I have put my words here, your Majesty, you have to persuade me!"
"No, I have to go back to the cabin first. I have to think about writing a note for His Majesty. I want to refute Xiao Letian's fallacies one by one, and I want to bring Long live the Lord back!"
Weng Tonghe didn't let anyone else speak, and hurriedly got off the boat and took the boat to his own boat. The prince Yipei and the Prime Minister Fu Qing were left looking at each other in shock.
"Why is this old man no longer as steady as usual? He is as hurried as a young man who has just become an official..."
Third Master Qing smiled bitterly, "It's been too long since I left Master Long Live. I feel like time is running out, and I always want to make up for the five years I lost!"
"Actually, the old man is right about this matter, but what Long live the Lord said is also reasonable!"
"Your Majesty, I have no objection to the old man's policy of pro-government first, taking power first and then doing things, but there is one more thing that your Majesty should consider!"
"Today, the world is advancing rapidly, and the technology in Europe and the United States is developing at an unimaginable speed. Xiao Letian has said to me more than once... What is this era called? The era of big technology... the big bang!"
"I don't know what explodes and doesn't explode! I just know that one step is slow and one step is slow. If Long Live Lord seizes power and takes another three or four years, how many factories will other people build in these three or four years?"
"How many weapons do we need to build and how much steel do we need to produce? The longer we delay, the more passive we become!"
"It's not as serious as you said, right?" Yi Pei was a little surprised.
"Oh my lord! Let's take the steel industry as an example. In today's world, every powerful country must develop the steel industry. This is the foundation of industry!"
"For a medium-sized blast furnace steelmaking plant, it will take at least three years from the establishment of the project investment to the actual production of the first batch of molten steel. But we in Qing Dynasty have no experience and lack of talents. I am afraid it will take at least five years!"
"Long live the Lord, you have to prepare for your wedding when you return to the Forbidden City, and then you have to prepare for the ceremony to take office, and then it will take time to seize power with those people after you take office!"
"Can I grasp the power in five years? I don't think so... Let's do the math first! It will take five years to take charge, and then it will take another five years to build a steel plant..."
"Ten years! My lord, do you know how much the world has changed in ten years? Ten years!" Mr. Qing shook his head and sighed as he walked.
"Ten years? What's wrong with ten years? It's not bad to seize power in ten years!" Yi Pei couldn't keep up with his train of thought. He scratched his head and whispered, "It took Shunzhi eight years to defeat Dole. Gon personally governs!"
"After Emperor Kangxi ascended the throne, it took him six years to take charge and eight years to get rid of Obai!"
"Before Emperor Yongzheng came to power, he fought with his brothers for 45 years before he finally won. The one who becomes a big deal in the world cannot rely on time!"
"Ten years? You can't wait for ten years? This Fuqing has been fed too much by the foreign devils!"
Yi Pei stood on the side of the royal boat and meditated, watching the young eunuchs beating the ice floes in the middle of the river with iron rods. This year was a rare warm winter, and it seemed that the cold air from the Qing Dynasty had blown to the northwest.
Everyone on the expedition team was freezing to death, but here in the capital they could survive the winter with cotton-padded jackets! In such a warm winter, the frozen ice in the river is not very thick. In order to allow the emperor's boat to pass, the government along the canal specially organized manpower to break the ice.
Finely crushed black cinders were sprinkled on the ice in the middle of the river to create a path through which the imperial boats could pass. Then every morning, people went to the ice to break the ice.
In order for Emperor Tongzhi to return to Beijing, more than 400,000 people were mobilized from Tianjin to Beijing to work as corvees. They brought their own food and drink without any wages and worked in vain every day.
Before Long live the royal boat, the middle of the canal must not be frozen. This is a fatal order from the officials along the way!
If that village disobeys, then the village chief, security chief, and Li Zheng will all be handcuffed with a 70-pound yoke! If the common people below dare to cause trouble, they will be charged with rebellion.
Poor people along the river have suffered unreasonable disasters. In the middle of winter, they have to bring their own dry food and go to the river every day to break the ice. Every village has its own responsible area, and whoever has problems will be blamed. Life!
Although winter is a leisure time for farmers, people still have to celebrate the New Year. The little food they save in autumn will last all winter. Now that we have to do so much hard work, the government will not give any subsidies if the food is gone.
The people dared to be angry but dared not speak out, and everyone swallowed the bitter water in their stomachs!
After such a waste of time and money, we have the wonder of winter boating!
The high-ranking big shots won't think about such a trivial matter. Long live the Lord is considering the big issue of reform, while Xiao Wu and the others are thinking about how to let the Long live Lord take charge.
The eunuchs on the boat were carefully clearing the ice floes, and the guards were watching the river embankments on both sides of the river with vigilance.
No one knew that on the back side of the river embankment, where the view was blocked, the wolf-like government officials drew swords and forced the people who broke the ice to crawl on the ground and not move.
"Be honest... Anyone who dares to peek at the Emperor will be treated as a rebel!"
"You don't want to live anymore? Don't make any noise, all lie down on the ground... all lie down on the ground, lie down on the ground..."
These people who risk their lives day and night to break the ice, now don’t even have the right to see the Holy Driver!
It was under the control of these local officials along the way that what appeared in the eyes of Prince Yi Pei was a pastoral scenery as beautiful as an ink painting.
The black in the snow outlines the outline of the hills on the earth. Villages and farmland are dotted in the distance. The white snow is the blank space in the ink painting. The dead trees stretch out the paper, and the jackdaws fly across the desolate scene.
"Ah..." Yi Pei breathed out after seeing such beautiful scenery, "This is so decent! The Qing Dynasty must have such an idyllic scenery, without noisy untouchables, no dark chimneys and factories!"
"Look at what they've done over there in Tanggu. Take a breath and see the cinders in your nose and eyes. It's very dirty!"
"What kind of industry are you doing! If you destroy this beautiful painting, future generations will scold you!"
"That's right! That untouchable named Xin Jian in the industrial zone dared to contradict Shengjia. He is probably the one who put Master Long Live in a bad mood, this damn guy!"
"Come here..." Yi Pei growled, followed by several guards running over from the corner.
