It was precisely because of his son Baochu's desperate persuasion that Chongqi's complexion improved slightly. What happened today surprised him. He never expected that the emperor would come to see his daughter at home.
He let his wife and daughter into the back house, he and his son drank bitter tea face to face, and the bright yellow pocket watch was placed on the Eight Immortals table!
A boy was using wooden blocks to prop up the corners of the table. The master's slap just now was so hard that the table almost shook and fell apart, and he could hardly stand upright!
"I didn't expect that something would happen here in the end, even if I was on the safe side! Who would have thought that the emperor would actually break into a private house? If this kind of thing spreads out, my family's reputation will be small, and the emperor's prestige will be damaged! You're confused. …”
Baochu sighed, "It's not like the devil Xiao Letian seduced him! He was brainwashed every day with the foreign devil's theory of the jungle and the strong. This etiquette and morality of the Qing Dynasty is completely abandoned!"
"Father, look at what His Majesty has done since he returned to Beijing. Everything is overbearing and evil! In fact, we, the students, don't want Wansai to take charge, but we have to pay attention to the methods!"
"Donghua Gate, Anding Gate, Desheng Gate...the gates of the three city gates, if your emperor wants them, you can justifiably issue the decree! Why do you have to use such a tyrannical method to rob them?"
"This is what Xiao Letian brought up, this evil devil..."
Baochu has not yet passed the imperial examination. Currently, he is just auditing at Taixue through family connections. He has made friends with a group of bannermen who are different from the Eight Banners, who are not very dandy but love to read.
These people are full of dissatisfaction and are unruly in the capital. They are really different. They can't hang out with the dandies and feel that they must be big shots in the future and have a future.
There is also a gap between real Han scholars and them, because the Confucianism these people learn is very rigid and lacks some of the practical theories of real Confucian leaders!
But no matter what, in the Qing Dynasty, an era where Confucian scholars were respected, they were considered a relatively high-status group of people in the capital!
They are so old-fashioned that it is difficult to get in touch with them, and their ideas are even more rigid than those of the Han people!
Chongqi lamented, "If I had known that His Majesty was like this, why would I have asked your mother-in-law to take your sister to Beiyuan! How good would it be if we didn't think so?"
"Father, I can't blame you for this. It's not okay for you not to send your sister when the Queen Mother summons you! In addition, this matter must be viewed from a different angle!"
"Buddha said if I don't go to hell, who will? It's precisely because His Majesty was corrupted by Xiao Letian that he needs my sister to sacrifice her life to feed the tiger!"
"This is the responsibility of our family. My sister is also a sage and sage student following her father. Don't she have the ambition to assist the emperor? The emperor has gone astray, so we have to persuade him and educate him!"
"It is precisely because of your Majesty's behavior that my sister should be the queen!"
The decisive tone shocked Chongqi, and the eyes of this old-fashioned person lit up: "Yes, that's right! If the king has done something wrong, then we, the ministers, must have the responsibility of admonishing!"
"It doesn't matter if your sister becomes the queen. It's only right that your majesty return to the way of a saint little by little!"
"Go and ask your sister to come, and you must explain this matter clearly!"
I really didn't expect that Zai Chun's unannounced visit caused the Chongqi family to experience so many psychological changes. First, they were humiliated and wanted to commit suicide, and then they had the sacred acceptance of a new mission!
Zai Chun's visit actually drove this family to madness!
In the north of Beijing, there is a river called Qinghe dug by Guo Shoujing, a famous minister of the Yuan Dynasty. The water system leads to the Old Summer Palace and Kunming Lake in the west.
The land here is fertile, but most of it is owned by the banner people. Xisan Banner and Xier Banner are located here. Because the banner people are not good at management, the degree of land reclamation is not as high as that in Han villages.
There are still many uneven potholes and groves here, mixed with farms and some fields!
After leaving Anding Gate, Zai Chun, who was in civilian clothes, joined more than a hundred Yulin new troops. A group of people headed north straight towards the frozen Qinghe River!
"Your Majesty, British engineers have already conducted inspections in the early stage. This area is very suitable for building a large iron plant!"
Ma Ming urged his horse forward, stretched out his whip and pointed at a bleak winter plain in the cold wind. To the northwest, he could still see the rolling Yanshan Mountains.
"What large ironworks need most is actually water. Water is needed for material transportation and steel casting process. The water in Qinghe River is not too big or too small, which is just right..."
"Not far from the northwest, by the Chaobai River, is the camp of our Yulin New Army. If anything happens to the iron factory, our soldiers will be there day and night!"
"Long live if you are not at ease, let's find engineers from Germany, the United States, or even the head of state to take a look... This is the first New Deal after your personal conquest. No matter what, you have to kick away the good start!"
Zai Chun breathed the cold fresh air and looked at the pastoral scenery in front of him, but something had changed in his mind!
Factory buildings full of rust were built one after another, and the towering chimneys spit out black smoke and are full of power!
The roads are all black and gray, with coal and iron slag paved together, and people stepping on them make a rustling sound!
Small trains are running on the railway tracks, steamboats are roaring on the rivers, coal and iron are being transported in, and what is spit out is steel!
Steel is the food of the industrial revolution! With this thing, there will be more machine processing factories, military factories, shipyards... and there will be locomotives, rail tracks, and cannons!
These industrial products could not only arm the Qing Dynasty's million-strong army, but could also be dumped all over the world, including the entire inland Qing Dynasty, from the Mongolian Plateau to the borders of the Western Regions to the Yunnan-Guizhou River with hundreds of thousands of mountains!
All the little wealth will be mobilized by the power of industry, and the government's finances will be greatly relieved, so that they will not be restricted by agricultural taxes forever!
This is the ambition in Zaichun's heart, this is his ideal of governing the country, and his reforms are far more than that of Emperor Yongzheng!
"You're right, let Chinese engineers come and inspect it... Although we mainly follow British standards, we can't let them steal customers!"
"It would be a good idea to ask more people... According to my decree, registration will start from tomorrow. All households in the five hundred hectares of land must be counted first!"
"Remove what needs to be relocated, compensate what needs to be compensated, and prepare for land acquisition first!"
"Remember to keep it secret and do it secretly... Just tell the outside world that the new Yulin Army is going to acquire land to build a racecourse!"
"Let's go... follow me for a ride on horse power, let me see how big the future industrial base of the Qing Dynasty will be..."
Zai Chun galloped on his horse in front, followed closely by more than a hundred cavalry from the Yulin New Army. A burst of smoke and dust rolled up on the cold spring ground!
There are no secrets in the capital. Every move of Emperor Tongzhi is under the watchful eye of those who are interested. Several pairs of eyes in the haystacks not far to the south are staring at the emperor's every move.
This information was summarized and sent to Prince Gong’s Mansion that night!
"Father...this is the schedule for everything Long live today!" Zai Cheng stood carefully beside Yi Xin, holding the secret report in his hand.
