When the power chaos of an empire ends and a new order is established, this seemingly bloated bureaucracy will immediately burst into efficiency that you can't imagine!
Zai Chun won the bloody political struggle in 1872. This news was quickly transmitted to the entire Qing Dynasty relying on Qing Sanye's telegraph network!
Today's Daqing telegraph network has covered all the prefectures and counties in the Central Plains, and is tenaciously approaching the northwest frontier of the empire. Now the telegraph poles in Jiayuguan have been erected!
Except for Tibet, there is still no telegraph information exchange. Even in the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas where hundreds of thousands of mountains stretch, major cities also have telegraph systems!
The entire empire's bureaucracy used the fastest speed to get secret reports from the capital, and also learned about the personnel transfers of high-level officials!
No one is a fool. Everyone understands that the emperor has taken charge, and he has taken charge in advance. Just like Emperor Kangxi defeated Obai, the power of the empire has returned to the emperor!
Those fence-sitters suddenly panicked. They suddenly realized that what they had done before was so unfaithful to the emperor!
What is even more frightening are the conservative officials who have invested themselves in the six gates of the Japanese. They are all in panic all day long, thinking that the imperial edict to behead their heads and confiscate their homes will appear in front of them the next day!
what to do? It can be said that 80% of the bureaucrats in the entire empire, and even more than 90% of local officials, do not believe that the little emperor will get power so quickly!
They are too dependent on the original conservative power system!
The desire to survive was highlighted at this moment. All the officials had only one thought at the moment, which was to congratulate the emperor on his wedding. They must prepare a grand wedding for Long Live Lord. Only by making the emperor happy, might they be able to escape the disaster!
The Chinese and the Europeans were all dumbfounded. How had they ever seen officials from the Qing Dynasty be so dedicated and work so hard on their errands?
Jiangning Weaving Mansion has not had a break for more than half a month. It is bustling with people during the day and brightly lit at night. Jiangning Weaving has reported to the capital that it will restore the brocade weaving technology of the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty and make it for the emperor on the occasion of the emperor's wedding. A complete set of new dragon robes!
The jade craftsmen in Suzhou invited the top-quality Hetian jade obtained through the smuggling channel of the Hunan Army, with a total weight of more than one and a half tons, to restore and carve a miniature Mount Tai to wish the emperor eternal peace and peace!
As a manufacturer of porcelain for the royal family, Jingdezhen smashed more than 6,000 pieces of porcelain that had been ordered before... Why did they smash it? This was a deliberate show by the officials to show the emperor!
It’s not that the previous imperial porcelain was not good, it was that it was not perfect enough and was not worthy of the name of your great sage, Emperor Tongzhi!
Just give the order and it will be smashed! More than 6,000 pieces of exquisite wedding porcelain were turned into pieces. The foreigners who picked up the goods from Europe shed tears when they saw it!
They are all gold-pink painted porcelain with a bright yellow background. These are the colors used by the emperor and are not sold to the public at all!
Although Europe had cracked the secret of porcelain at the end of the 19th century and was able to produce pure white porcelain made of kaolin clay, time was still short after all and the industry was not yet mature. Really high-quality porcelain still relied on exports from China!
If those foreign devils could buy a few hundred pieces of these more than 6,000 pieces of porcelain and transport them back to Europe, they would make a fortune!
As long as they can transport it back and announce it to the market that this is porcelain for the royal family of the Qing Dynasty, as long as this gimmick comes out, the European nobles will go crazy!
These are porcelains that can be sold in auction houses, not ordinary high-end goods!
But these were all smashed to pieces, and not a single piece was left. Qing troops were guarding the whole process, so no one could cheat!
The loss of this batch of porcelain exceeded 250,000 taels of silver, and the officials did not know where they had redeemed the new porcelain, but they actually allocated 700,000 taels of silver!
All of this is a play, and it must be shown to the emperor. It must be written down in a book and delivered to the city of Beijing using telegraphs and fast horses!
All the European luxury goods merchants in Shanghai were surrounded by these Qing Dynasty officials and their brokers, with top-notch Swiss watches, red wine from the best valleys in France, and Spanish olive oil and ham!
Even some of the Renaissance paintings, sculptures, and crystal products that were smuggled out were all sold out. These precious luxury goods were eventually packaged and carefully sent to the capital with heavy troops!
Shanghai Customs, a cruise ship from Britain slowly docked at the shore, and a gentleman in his thirties came down with his Indian servant.
On the pier, several blond Europeans were waving and waiting to greet "Simpson... Your ship was delayed for four days... God bless you, you finally arrived safely..."
Simpson is a special correspondent for the British "Illustrated London News". He is also a well-known journalist, archaeologist, artist and traveler in London!
He came to the Qing Empire this time to be invited by the newspaper with a large sum of money. The purpose was to personally experience the wedding of Emperor Tongzhi, to interview some eye-catching news, and finally to help the newspaper publish a series of special reports!
"Sorry, my ship encountered a storm in the South China Sea. Thanks to the many new safe docks built in Chinese Borneo, we were able to escape for a few days..."
"I'm so sorry, I wish I could come earlier!"
Several friends hugged each other, and a servant helped Simpson carry the gift. A friend who greeted him said, "This is your first time in China, right? I called a very representative sedan, and you can take a ride..."
"Thank you...but please let me appreciate this Asian style. This is China? It's such a magical place..."
The East, the West, industrial civilization and agricultural civilization, colonial colors and feudal traditions, and various heads of state are intertwined to create the fascinating Shanghai Beach scene!
Simpson was so curious about all this that he couldn't help but press the shutter a few more times!
Just as he was recording the beautiful scenery, a serious conflict and quarrel suddenly broke out on another trestle behind him. The intensity attracted the attention of people around him!
On another parallel trestle, a Chinese-style hard sailing ship was docked beside it. Several sailors were busy raising the sail, and a white and fat country squire on the wooden board boarding the ship was wiping his face. The sweat and tears on my face were just like a few guards working on the cow!
"What do you want to do? Why are you searching my ship... You have all checked it before. There is no contraband, no soot, salt or iron. They are all my personal belongings!"
"Master Guo... you are also a scholar. We don't want to be rough with you. Do you know what happened? Don't make things difficult for the little ones. Just hand it over!"
"It's just...it's not like I want you for nothing. Why are you running away?"
Simpson looked a little curious at the sudden conflict. He turned around and asked the translator to ask the Qing people working on the docks what happened. Unfortunately, these dock workers were all obedient and did not dare to say anything!
