Ci'an was so angry that he fainted, and Zai Chun rushed over to support the Queen Mother, "Quickly call the imperial doctor, hurry up..."
The Queen Mother was always surrounded by an imperial physician, who only needed to be summoned for a three-minute visit. The experienced imperial physician pricked her with a few silver needles, and Cian slowly woke up after a while.
She was not in a coma in the first place, she was just dazed for a moment, so she would be fine if her blood pressure was stabilized!
Zai Chun quickly patted the Queen Mother's back and whispered, "Don't worry, Queen Mother. There are also ignorant savages and talkative women who have never read in Europe. Don't believe their nonsense..."
While enlightening Ci'an, Zai Chun winked at Cai Bixia!
Cai Bixia sighed helplessly, "Why is the Queen Mother like this? Do the Eight Banner idlers in the Four-Nine City still curse other countries? England, France, the United States... including the Chinese, they are all cursing them to death. !”
"The world is very fair. If the Qing Dynasty is allowed to curse and abuse other countries at will, shouldn't other countries be allowed to curse the Qing Dynasty?"
"The head of state once said that getting angry because of other people's remarks is the most stupid behavior... This is using other people's mistakes to torture yourself!"
"No one can imagine that everyone in the world will say good things about themselves. How can we, the common people, still have three annoying relatives among us? One family even curses them in private!"
"Not to mention these other ethnic groups with different languages and races!"
"Scolding is healthier. If you get really angry because you are scolded, such a person will not have much potential and will not be able to accomplish anything big!"
Did Ci Anna have high blood pressure because of being scolded? Actually no, Ci'an doesn't care about the foreign devils' scoldings. What she cares about is actually because she has accepted the latest ideas. She actually knows that what Xiao Letian said is right!
This is what scares Ci'an the most. She knows that the reform and reform is an irreversible trend of the times, but she is really afraid of change, because the conflicting forces released in the process of change are too cruel!
"I...I, the Qing Dynasty, cannot do that...the billions of people in the Qing Dynasty all believe in gods and Buddhas. Long live the emperor's status as the emperor cannot be lost!"
"If you forget this fundamental...the world will be in chaos...people's hearts will be utterly devastated..."
"Child, listen to me... You also have to give Xiao Letian some advice... If a person doesn't respect the gods three feet above his head, can he still have a bottom line?"
"The dark room has a dark heart and a bright eye. Who is going to control the hearts of the people when they are alone?"
"If people don't have awe, then they will do any bad thing... Then it will be like a hell!"
"The Queen Mother..." Zai Chun said aggrievedly, "I dare not refute the Queen Mother's reasoning, but in this era, good people are really not allowed to live!"
"We want to have a moral conscience, but we must have battleships and cannons to protect this moral conscience! The key to the issue now is not whether we want to reform, but that the outside powers are getting stronger day by day!"
"They will beat us! Our first goal now is not to let them bully us anymore! We must have the power to protect ourselves!"
"What I want is the power to protect myself. As long as we have the ability to fight with the foreign devils, I can continue to ask for justice and conscience!"
"I don't want to abolish Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. I just want the self-protection power of the Qing Dynasty!"
"Why can't the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty not understand such a small request? We, the Qing Dynasty, must survive first? Then we can think about other things... Why can't we understand it?"
Seeing Zai Chun's impatient look, Ci'an took his hand and said, "Son...can't you just spend money to buy it? My mother will eat chaffy vegetables to save you money. Let's buy foreign guns and cannons and train the new army!"
"The Qing Dynasty is full of people... How about we train a million-strong army? Isn't it enough to be able to draw a tie with the foreign devils?"
"No!" Zai Chun's eyes were filled with red tears. "No! No! No! Absolutely not..."
"You don't understand anything. You don't even know what the law of the jungle is!"
"Will the foreign devils sell us the best weapons? Impossible, they can only give us eliminated weapons!"
"Who would help a competitor become stronger for no reason?"
"Besides, the strength of this country is not only reflected in guns and cannons, the key is to be productive!"
"We have to be able to make steel, ammunition, warships, trains... The combination of this series of things can be called a national strength!"
"A million troops alone are not enough to strengthen a country!"
Ci'an made Zai Chun extremely upset. She waved her hands anxiously, "Then what do you think we should do? These things can't be done in a day or two!"
"But once you want to engage in these things, you will immediately encounter resistance! The Ai family is afraid that your New Deal will collapse before you start things!"
"Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes. I have taught you this since you were a child. Why don't you understand?"
Zai Chun was really determined after eating the weight, "No! It's just because too many people are afraid of wolves and tigers. They all know that this thing is difficult, so no one is willing to do it!"
"If you don't do it, I won't do it, everyone won't do it... in the end, this thing will never be done!"
"We can no longer follow the old path. If we continue on this path, the Qing Dynasty will really perish... Queen Mother, do you know that the war strength of the foreign devils is increasing day by day, with new technologies appearing every year, and new weapons every year!"
"When the British and French forces attacked Beijing, their artillery was still front-loaded! It only took three to five minutes to fire a cannon, but now in the Franco-Prussian War, the Krupp cannon has been fully rear-loaded..."
"It can fire two cannons in one minute, and its range is more than double that of the French cannon!"
"Mother! Think about that scene. If such artillery were gathered on our Qing Dynasty's land, how would we fight? They are no match at all!"
"Right now, all artillery in the Qing Dynasty can't match the range and rate of fire of this Krupp breech... Then they will be beaten one-sidedly, and they won't be able to fight back!"
"How can you afford to buy such a magical weapon? If you buy the first generation model, will you buy the upgraded model of the next generation?"
The debate at Beihai completely stunned the ignorant eunuchs and maids. Zhou Daoying, the chief eunuch next to Ci'an, turned pale with fright, "What? Why are they still selling it from generation to generation?"
"How can we still fight this war like this...the guns and guns we bought once can't be used, and we have to buy new ones every year?"
These people will never understand the importance of changing clothes in modern warfare. War in medieval times was actually very simple. Swords and spears can be reused!
In theory, if a large knife is well maintained, it can be used for hundreds of years without any problems!
Therefore, the maintenance cost of the army was not high in the Middle Ages. The weapons and armor invested in the early stage can be repaired and used forever!
The so-called bulk of the money is nothing more than grain, bows and arrows, and ammunition for cannons!
But in modern times, the military has made a huge investment, which is equipment replacement. Equipment needs to be updated from generation to generation, and soldiers need to be trained to adapt!
Without gold and silver, it would be impossible to support a modern army!
