To be honest, Zai Chun was really influenced by Xiao Letian too much. The head of state hated the eunuch system very much. It was a vicious system that dehumanized people.
Living in heaven and earth, it is already a great blessing for you to become a king. Why are you still not satisfied? You have three palaces and six courtyards, and all the maids are your women. This is not enough, and you always want to have eunuchs to serve you?
In the final analysis, this is because you are not practicing virtue!
You find so many women for fear of cuckolding yourself, and end up with a lot of cripples to serve you. This kind of derogatory thing will directly affect your governance!
Don't say that blessings are false, any good or evil you do in life will be repaid!
Zai Chun was influenced by Xiao Letian and was very disgusted with the eunuch system...but his disgust did not rise to the level of fraternity like his master!
Xiao Letian has no hatred for the Manchu eunuchs. Although An Dehai, Li Lianying and others make him hate them, from the bottom of his heart, Xiao Letian pities them!
They were all children when they first entered the palace. It was the vicious system that harmed them, not that these children were so bad in nature!
It's very simple, Ermao is an example!
The family really couldn't survive, so they sold their children to the palace to be eunuchs, and they almost didn't become eunuchs!
By chance, Xiao Letian rescued Er Mao, and thus became the most famous eunuch Er Mao in the late Qing Dynasty!
Xiao Letian's attitude towards eunuchs is pitiful and hateful!
But this boy Zai Chun can only be hateful to the eunuch, not pitiful!
Apart from the four personal eunuchs, Ermao, Xiaosixi and Manshun, the remaining eunuchs are all rubbish to him!
Especially people like Li Lianying and An Dehai, who dare to discuss government affairs relying on the favor of the Queen Mother? Damn it, grandma, I’ll have to pluck out a piece of your skin even if I don’t die!
Zai Chun yelled that he was going to beat Li Lianying to death. Of course Cixi couldn't watch her slave die in vain, so she quickly stopped her son!
"Are you crazy! Even if Lianying has overstepped her bounds, it was you who took the initiative to ask. Why are you so angry?"
Zai Chun squinted his eyes and snorted coldly, "Eunuchs have not been allowed to discuss political affairs since ancient times. This is the family law of our ancestors. How dare he disobey it? There is a way to heaven, so don't take it!"
"I was wrong, I knew I was wrong... Please be merciful!"
Kowtowing is like pounding garlic, Li Lianying encounters a life and death dilemma!
Cixi could not let Li Lianying die in the hands of her son no matter what. The glaring Empress Dowager drove away the guards who rushed in. She finally suppressed Zai Chun's bad temper with her persuasion and shouting!
"You kid... If you want to establish your authority in the Forbidden City, how can you attack one of your own people?"
After E Niang's desperate persuasion, Zai Chun finally put away his bad temper. Li Lianying failed to flatter him so much that he withdrew in despair!
After blasting away the servants in the Yangxin Palace, Cixi frowned and said, "Lianying also has good intentions, what are you doing?"
Zai Chun sneered and said, "The eunuchs... are just shady people. We give them benefits and they obey our orders. If others give them benefits, they may become others' dogs!"
"Oh my God! There are so many eunuchs doing political things in history that have caused outrage and outrage, so we must be on guard against them!"
"What I want when I govern the country is to be upright and upright, and what I want is to defeat ten groups with one force!"
"How can you defeat ten groups with one force?" Cixi asked!
"Haha... Mother, you can rest assured. Why do I want the New Army's garrison rights at Deshengmen and Andingmen? That's because I already have a reform plan!"
"Oh? The reform plan... tell me about it!" Cixi also became interested.
"In today's world, the competition is who has more steel and whose industrial power is stronger!"
"Mother, you haven't seen that the European war has simply entered the steel age. The muskets are all made of metal fixed bullets, not the old muskets that are loaded with projectiles by themselves!"
"The bullet shell wraps the gun and the warhead, and it's just one bullet when fired... Think about how much copper that costs?"
"It's no joke that gold is worth ten thousand taels when the cannon goes off. The army's artillery shells are as thick as a bowl of ocean. The sound of the cannon was so loud that the sky and the earth shattered. The army formation with dozens of people on the opposite side was all blown up with one shot!"
"Not to mention the navy, everything from the keel to the deck is made of steel!"
"The navy's main gun has a maximum caliber of 210, which is as thick as a child's head... A single shell from the battleship's main gun can blow up an entire house!"
"This is war, this is the mainstream of the future era! Still playing with swords and spears? It's all outdated!"
Zai Chun said excitedly, "The first thing I have to do after taking office is to build a large steel factory in the northern suburbs of the capital..."
"Iron-making, steel-making, these are the foundation of industry!"
"With steel, I can build military factories and machining factories... No matter what, I have to let the Qing Dynasty produce its own guns!"
Seeing her son's excited expression, Cixi couldn't bear to pour cold water on her: "My child... is it possible to build an iron factory in the capital? Are the resources enough?"
"Mother, what are you afraid of? The capital is a treasure! There is coal in Xishan. Although the output is not much, it is in Shanxi! As long as the roads are built, there will be plenty of coal!"
"Not to mention iron ore. I don't believe there is no iron ore in the Taihang Mountains and Yanshan Mountains!"
"I'm going to find foreign engineers and prospecting teams right now. As long as we find iron ore and coal mines, this steel plant will be built!"
"With steel, everything is possible! My dear mother, in this era from now on we have to fight for steel!"
Cixi sighed, "That's very good, but the coal mine is in Shanxi, and the iron ore is unknown in the deep mountains and old forests... How can we transport it to the capital if we find it?"
"Oh my dear! Railway! We can build railway transportation..."
When Cixi heard about the railway, her expression suddenly changed: "Son... you have to think carefully, this railway cannot be built right away!"
"Both the government and the public are filled with hatred for this railway! Did you know that Feng Shui is broken?"
Zai Chun couldn't sit still when he heard the word "Feng Shui". He stood up and said, "This is all nonsense! Feng Shui, Feng Shui, you are so good at Feng Shui, why is the Bali Bridge being beaten by the British and French forces?"
"No matter how good the feng shui is, can a graveyard be able to withstand a big cannonball?"
"Mom! What kind of world is this now! Surrounded by wolves, if we still hold on to the past, we will be destroyed sooner or later!"
Cixi never expected that her son's thoughts would become so radical. She hugged the child and said sadly, "My mother is not against you, but you have to stabilize the government!"
"You are neither married nor in power! How many of the civil and military officials are really aligned with you?"
"If you want to reform, you must first find a group of people who will work with you!"
"Listen to my mother, don't be in a hurry with your reforms... Let's get married first, and then take charge! Only by taking one step at a time can we truly seize power!"
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