Ci'an is not an ignorant woman who sticks to the rules. Maybe she was before, but since he hooked up with Fu Qing, this beloved man has changed her greatly!
Fu Qing was an absolute Manchu reformist and one of the oldest. He was the first among the Manchus to come into contact with Xiao Letian and learn Western learning.
Since Fu Qing was not a high-ranking official when he came into contact with Xiao Letian, he was just a junior officer in the Xiling Guards. In the final analysis, he succeeded Xiao Letian in his meteoric rise to fame!
Such a person cannot be a powerful reformer. He is not very interested in the reform of the political system. He does not have such a strong political background, so he can only start from technological innovation!
Xiao Letian once said to Fu Qing, "Chinese learning is for the body, Western learning is for the application!" 'This is a slogan, but it has been made a lifelong goal by Fu Qing!
Fu Qing is a typical technical reformer, so he can build his Qing Telegraph Bureau with peace of mind!
It is precisely because he focuses on technology that the ministers in the court can still tolerate him. At most, they regard him as an alien!
You don't grab military power, you don't grab financial power, and you don't grab personnel rights... If the court allocates a small amount of money to you, just go and repair the telegraph line yourself. If the money is not enough, you can raise it yourself!
If you're done well, I'll praise you or scold you a few times. Anyway, I won't be able to fire you in the end!
The late Qing Dynasty is indeed quite interesting. The relationship between the imperial court and the officials who really did practical things was more like a cooperative relationship!
I approve you to do a certain project, but I won't allocate funds to you, and the court doesn't have any money to give you. You have to find a way to solve it yourself!
Who cares about your cheating? Even if you borrow usury to start a business, you will end up starving yourself!
If things are not done, you will be punished. But if they are done? In the end, it became the imperial court. This Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely irresponsible and empty-handed!
Just like Zuo Zongtang's Western Expedition, if you Han people are willing to fight, then go and fight. Anyway, the court has no money, so you can raise it yourself and exchange it yourself!
In the end, the country that is conquered must be owned by the imperial court!
The Qing Telegraph Bureau in Fuqing followed the same pattern. You go find investment and pay back the interest. No matter how it is built in the end, the Qing Telegraph Network will belong to the imperial court!
A business that is sure to make money without losing money! All the benefits are theirs, and they don’t take any risks. It’s really no capital but huge profits!
In fact, this is the fundamental reason why most officials in the late Qing Dynasty were inactive. If they did well, there would be no benefit, but if they did poorly, they would be punished. In the end, they would just be making wedding clothes for others!
Who is still trying so hard? Only those who are short-sighted will work hard!
Of course, the imperial court does not give any benefits to officials. It will acquiesce that you have the right to be corrupt. For example, Zuo Jigao contracted the project of Zuo Zongtang’s Western Expedition. Then you only need to get the thing done in the end, and you can do the whole process. Corrupt as you like!
The construction of the telegraph network in the Qing Dynasty was contracted to you, Fuqing, so you can embezzle as much as you want in the process!
This is a kind of unspoken rule. In fact, the rope is still in the hands of the court. They will acquiesce but will not admit it openly. Whenever they feel that they are going to attack you, they will also turn the unspoken rules into explicit rules!
The chaos of the late Qing Dynasty actually began at the highest levels of the empire, and it is difficult to recover!
Of course Fu Qing is not a bad official, but he is not an honest official either. He also follows this unspoken rule. He is also corrupt, but he is more conscientious in his corruption.
With the money gained from corruption, Fu Qing also secretly invested in some businesses. For example, in the Northern Industrial Zone, he invested in a nail factory, a match factory, and several small machinery processing plants!
While making money, he also accumulated some skilled workers for the imperial court. He was secretly accumulating some talent reserves for the imperial court in his own way!
What a good official, he knows how to do his job without fighting or grabbing, and he keeps a low profile!
Because of this, the Qing Telegraph Bureau has been a clean figure in the imperial court for the past five years, a unique yamen with a completely different ethos!
Through purchasing and trading with foreigners, even Fuqing sent out more than a hundred apprentices and managers in batches. These people also inspected some industries in the United States and Britain.
He sent a lot of first-hand documents to Fuqing, including photos, postcards, etchings... and even translated some enlightening readings!
Fuqing and Ci'an are like honey mixed with oil. Of course you have to show these good things to your loved ones!
Ci'an loves Wujiwu and originally had no interest in foreign gadgets, but she couldn't resist men liking them, so she gradually started to learn them along with them.
Five years have passed, and Ci'an of Beiyuan has mastered a lot of basic knowledge of Western learning, and even the reserve of this knowledge far exceeds that of Cixi!
Emperor Tongzhi is having a showdown today. Of course the Queen Mother of the East can understand what the little emperor is worried about!
"I gotta...I can understand what you are saying, but every reform you want to carry out will touch the interests of countless people!"
"You want to build a big iron factory? How big do you want it to be? It won't work if it's small, and the scale with thousands of people is too big. You are directly grabbing the rights of the Ministry of Households!"
"You want to establish a new type of education? You want to build a university? That's even worse. You are trying to steal the jobs of Confucian scholars all over the world!"
"As long as there are objections, you will definitely suppress them. In the end, you have to rely on the new army you talked about... Your new army is getting more and more, and the military system is undergoing major reforms. You have offended the people of the Ministry of War again!"
"And the Ministry of Revenue! These undertakings of yours require money and food, and you directly intervened. How could the people in the Ministry of Revenue not have any objections?"
"New undertakings require a new talent selection mechanism. In the end, you took away the rights of the staff..."
"There is still a Ministry of Punishment and a Ministry of Etiquette? You must deserve it! My son... you are setting yourself up on a pyre and burning yourself on fire!"
Zai Chun suddenly stood up, "Of course! Of course I know that I have stepped on the crater! But so what? The road to innovation is to step on step by step through blood and corpses!"
"What I want is to maintain the reform! For this goal, even if the bones of tens of millions of people are piled up, I will still find a way out!"
"People stand in the way of killing people! Buddhas stand in the way of **!"
The bloody slogans were so frightening that Ci'an's bones turned to ice!
Bang bang bang... bang bang bang...
Suddenly, monotonous applause sounded in the distance, and then a figure walked out, "Your Majesty, you are so courageous! You have indeed seen the big scene in Europa!"
"Who?" Zai Chun suddenly turned around. He never expected that someone would dare to eavesdrop on his private conversation with the Queen Mother Dong?
But after seeing that familiar figure, Zai Chun's iceberg-like face suddenly bloomed with countless flowers!
"Ouch...Sister Cai!"
The fit-fitting Chinese naval uniform of the visitor was a style familiar to Zai Chun, and the heroine with a beautiful smile was none other than Cai Bixia!
Chinese Navy Lieutenant Colonel Cai Bixia, the flower of the Chinese Navy!
