Complaints, complaints, all complaints! Could it be that Emperor Tongzhi's counterattack was to encourage the foreign devils to cause trouble? But what could cause trouble?
It's just some economic disputes, such as asking for bribes, corruption, and deficient accounts... In the final analysis, it's all about money. Do the foreign devils really expect to use these things to bring him down?
I can't even think of what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd, so I just don't think about it!
"The soldiers are coming to cover up the water and the earth. Aren't we going to file a lawsuit? Let's go ahead and send all the cases to the Yamen where the incident occurred and let officials at all levels handle it quickly!"
"If they can't suppress this evil trend of complaining, they should hand over their support!"
"Let the Ministry of Punishment send out people and organize a group of people to litigate against these foreigners. If there is any complaint, I will take it! If the foreigners owe us, there is no way they can default on it!"
"If we owe someone something, then don't delay... As long as this matter is handled with fairness and justice, even the foreign devils must be reasonable!"
Now that the general principle has been set, let’s go run errands for the yamen below! Anyway, Yixin doesn't believe that foreigners will start a war because of this lawsuit!
As long as there is no war, the lawsuit is nothing, and in the end it is just a matter of spending a small amount of money to settle the grievances!
There was nothing wrong with Yixin's handling, but he underestimated the level of his opponent this time. The opponent was not a person who played according to common sense!
Three days later, the bad news escalated. This time it was not a lawsuit, but a group of royal nobles who had a good relationship with Yi Xin. They were accompanied by Prince Yi Kuang of Qing, Yi Pei of Fifth Master, and Prince Shi Duo of Lao Li. There were more than a dozen of them. There are princes and Baylor, all of whom are high-ranking figures in the capital.
A group of people came to our door like unwelcome guests without even saying hello in advance!
When the fifth master Yi Pei took out his brother's book and broke into the Fu Hall, Yi Xin and Fu Jin were having dinner. Zai Cheng was also pretending to be serving soup to his parents, and the family was enjoying themselves.
"Oh! What a good life! There is food, drink, and wine...you can really drink it!"
The fifth master didn't care about etiquette anymore, he pulled up a chair and sat next to Yi Xin. He took the wine bottle and drank it in a few gulps without raising his head from the glass!
After entering the Qing Dynasty, he also learned a lot of Han etiquette rules whether true or not. This eldest brother did not avoid any taboos or say hello in advance, so he just sat at the table with his brothers and wives?
Fujin threw down his chopsticks angrily, "Fifth brother, what do you mean? There are rules for visiting other people's homes. How can you fight someone's backyard with such open fire?"
"Haha... Don't be upset, brother or sister. Brother, I can't even open the door to the family. Who else can I look for if I don't look for my biological brothers?"
When Yi Xin heard that there was something in this, he quickly winked at his wife, "You go back and rest first, and we brothers can talk!"
Fujin turned away angrily, leaving Yixin confused!
"Brothers, brothers, and uncles are around! What do you say? Come to the door properly. Did I do anything wrong?"
Prince Qing's belly was as bulging as a toad's, "Sixth brother! Don't blame me for not listening to my words... We all come to you. One of them admires your ability and knows that you want to lead everyone to do something." !”
"But the other one is just for food! You promised us that life with you will only get better and better and will never get worse!"
"Why can't you even keep your job now?"
This time Yi Xin was even more stunned. He looked at a group of angry toads in confusion and didn't know what was going on. Finally, his eyes fell on Prince Laoli Shiduo.
"Old uncle... tell me, what's going on? I really don't understand!"
Prince Lao Li sighed and knocked the pipe pot against the copper spittoon. "It's not a business yet! Everyone's business has been stopped today! What's going on? Why did such a thing happen? Son!"
From Prince Congli's words, Guiziliu finally understood what had happened!
You must know that in the late Qing Dynasty, the lives of the royal nobles were extremely extravagant, and the money needed to maintain this kind of life could not come from flag pay alone!
After all, the prince's annual salary is only ten thousand taels of silver, and the rice and grain range from five thousand to ten thousand shi!
This amount of money would be an astronomical amount to put into the homes of ordinary people, but it would not be enough to maintain the livelihood of the palace!
Most of the time, the nobles in the palace have to rely on the output of the manor, that is, the land, to maintain their lives. Each prince will inherit the ancestral property left by his ancestors. Many of these ancestral properties were snatched from the land when he first entered the customs. Some of them were awarded by emperors of all dynasties.
Can the prince purchase the land directly from the market? Of course it is not possible. Emperors of all dynasties also knew the disadvantages of land annexation, so they strictly prohibited the royal nobles from wantonly annexing land.
But this is all in vain. Many of the prince's men are domestic slaves, and it is common to annex land in the name of domestic slaves!
Not only the output of the land, these princes will also send their men to join forces with many businessmen from other places to do business. For example, the most popular Shandong cooks and Shanxi businessmen in the capital at present. These two gangs will 100% have to find the palace nobles. backing!
Only if they score a lot of stocks can your business continue!
Sales, land, and flags and salaries, these three major sources of money are the main sources of daily expenses for princes!
But these were the rules of the early Qing Dynasty. After the Opium War, the power of the foreign devils became more and more powerful. These conservative nobles would oppose all reforms, but they would never be troubled by money!
Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou...these prosperous port opening areas are all in their plans. What a big piece of cake the import and export trade is, who doesn't want to get a piece of it!
The princes who are working today, that firm in Jiangnan that has no shares? Did they get industrial products from Tanggu Special Zone for distribution?
Now this amount of money has become the bulk of their income, even reaching one-third!
But just today, this third of the income suddenly had problems. Domestic slaves from all over the country sent telegrams back to their masters. It turned out that all their cooperative businesses with foreigners and Chinese people suddenly had problems.
Foreign devils and Chinese businessmen came to look for trouble as if they had already agreed!
Some people take the account books and ask for reconciliation, saying that you are corrupt!
Some have simply made it clear that they want to separate and stop cooperation!
What was even more outrageous was that they actually detained these domestic slaves and the housekeepers and had to send them to the government. The crime was that they had embezzled their money!
This was a huge collapse like an avalanche. It can be said that the properties of these princes in the capital were attacked by collective liquidation at the same time!
Prince Li's lips trembled with anger, "My tea house in Hangzhou obviously took over a big business of 60,000 tons of tea from a British businessman... but today the foreign merchant insisted that my tea was substandard!"
"Demand a return! That's two hundred thousand taels of silver goods! If you return it, you'll have to pay it all!"
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