One was an active attack on the Tsarist Russian army in the Far East, and the other was the law-enforcement that established a new pattern of modern warfare!
Both wars were fought by the Chinese on their own initiative. The War in the Far East was fought independently by the Chinese. Although France and Prussia were a coalition of the two countries, they fought against France, which was globally recognized as the second most powerful military country in the world and had the largest army at that time!
Military experts around the world were dumbfounded by these two wars, and people around the world were dazzled by the sight of them!
Especially in Asia, these two bloody battles directly established Xiao Letian's absolute personality cult that cannot be looked up to!
This was the late Qing Dynasty and the 19th century. Two Opium Wars had pitted Asia against Europe. There was already a mood of pessimism and despair. Even the Golden Kingdom in the classical era and the capital of China had been breached!
The Chinese golden dream that has existed for thousands of years in human history has been completely shattered!
It is a moment when people's hearts are losing their minds. The strongest spiritual desire of the people in this era is for someone to lead them to defeat the foreign devils and win a foreign war!
Whoever can do this will be able to become a god!
Xiao Letian did it, more than once. Such a person will definitely be quickly deified!
When Zhu Bao heard his uncle's name, his knees buckled a little and he wanted to kowtow. How could he stand up to his aunt's intimidation? But think about it carefully, my uncle must be very angry about his embezzlement of river workers’ money!
If this were an expert's method, even if I were beaten to death, I guess the court wouldn't protest!
"No! Go and raise money quickly! Make up for the shortfall first..."
For three whole days, Zhu Bao visited many bank accounts and even banks, relying on the government's favor to dismantle it, and then raised money within the family. It can be said that he demolished the east wall to pay for the west wall!
However, after three days of dismantling, there was still a shortfall of 800,000 yuan. In the end, Fuhui really couldn't bear it. After all, it was a relative who had to pay for the shortfall from his own pocket!
Zhu Bao was so lucky. Later, when he learned that the first thing Zai Chun did after taking office was to conduct a large-scale accounting of the Qing Dynasty, he was shocked and broke out in white hair!
Fortunately, the shortfall was filled in advance. If this cannot be stopped after taking office, Zai Chun will definitely not be merciful by then!
You must know that in the late Qing Dynasty, officialdom was running rampant with deficits, and how could officials make up for the deficit when they ran out of money? Do you really use your own money to make up for it? That is impossible, no one is stupid!
Moreover, this deficit is often not spent by the official alone, but is shared among the officials and subordinates. The local financial deficit is also caused by many people, not the chief official alone!
At this time, the shortfall is filled by borrowing. When the court comes to review, there will be officials from the Ministry of Revenue...for example, Liu Peiqi and others who have taken bribes will send small notes!
As soon as Zhu Bao saw that the court was about to clear the accounts, he would immediately go to the ticket office to dismantle it. This was an old rule, and the bosses of the ticket office knew the rules!
Prepare millions of cash for local officials, move it directly from the private warehouse to the official warehouse, take at most ten days and a half, deal with the audit, and then move it back!
During this time period, the interest rate is high, and it’s good to have a government-endorsed credit. This kind of business is the favorite among bank accounts!
But someone wants to ask, after dealing with it once, there is still no money in the warehouse? Deficits always exist, right?
There is no other way. Zhu Bao can only exchange time for space, gradually fill the previous holes through later taxation, and slowly close the deficit!
This kind of official is already a good official. In the late Qing Dynasty, people like Zhu Bao were considered conscientious!
Another way is for the government to do business, produce salt, iron, tea and other commodities, and use the profits from the business to make up for the shortfall!
There is one last way, which is to never fill it in and pass it on from generation to generation! This is also a rule. When the predecessor and the successor hand over the official position, everyone will tacitly agree to ignore the deficit hole and let the hole be passed down from generation to generation!
Anyway, it’s an unspoken rule in official circles. One appointment after another leaves, and if you take over the shortfall, your successor will also take over your shortcoming!
This goes on from generation to generation, until the country falls, the dynasty changes, and then a new ledger is established!
Zhu Bao was forced by his aunt and uncle, so he had no choice but to use the first method to make up for the shortfall. He even took the initiative to dig into his pocket and use family money to make up for his part of the card!
Even if he escaped, the whole country's accounts after Emperor Tongzhi's wedding were in turmoil!
It was a very large-scale national audit, and it was also a unified time inventory. Now all the officials across the country have no money to dismantle it!
All the silver that is liquid on the market has been loaned to the government's warehouses, and the money available is extremely tight!
There are even many officials who want to dismantle it but can't find any silver, and all the banknotes across the country have been emptied of cash!
That inventory really cut off many people's heads. Zhu Bao relied on his aunt to escape the disaster today!
Three days passed quickly, and the atmosphere in Jining Mansion became solemn. Everyone on the street knew that the head of state's wife lived in the government office. The prefect was as busy as his third grandson these days!
The telegraph office on the interface is the busiest. The government has officers on duty here for a long time. As long as there is a telegram coming from the south, the news will be sent to the government office immediately!
All along the canal are the spies of the local government. Everyone is watching the movements of the three gunboats of the head of state. The common people are watching the excitement, but the local wealthy businessmen and officials have a lot on their minds!
Along the way, invitations for an audience were sent in baskets to the battleship, and invitations for the head of state to stay for a banquet were piled on the pier in bundles!
But Xiao Letian didn't receive any reward. He only had one thought at the moment, the eldest wife is in Jining. I haven't seen her for several years. I have to see my wife!
Huniu got angry when she saw Xiao Letian's eager look, and the jealousy in her heart kept rising, but she still couldn't let it out. She just looked at the scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and got angry every day.
Wang Huaiyuan was the only one in the fleet who knew the details. He didn't dare to join in the fun at this juncture. As a result, Wang Ju hid on his ship and simply refused to come out because of illness!
Gradually, everyone else also felt the awkward atmosphere. This awkwardness did not ease until the fleet left Weishan Lake and passed the Zaolin Gate!
The Grand Canal runs through the entire China from north to south, and the altitude of the areas where the Grand Canal is navigable is definitely different!
Due to hundreds of millions of years of erosion and accumulation of loess, the elevation on both sides of the Yellow River will be slightly higher. At this time, if the canal wants to cross the Yellow River smoothly, it cannot be directly navigable, but needs to go through various gates!
It is through entering the gate and releasing water to raise or lower the water level to ensure that the ship changes its height, so as to achieve north-south navigation!
This Zaolin Gate is one of the most important water conservancy hubs in Jining Prefecture, and it is a must-pass for ships traveling to and from to increase their altitude!
The huge steel warships have filled the river inside the gate. The two sides of the ship are less than one meter away from the two banks, and they are almost passing through the gate!
At such a close distance, the people on both sides of the gate could even reach out and touch the rivets on the steel battleship!
In the eyes of the Chinese people, the mosquito boat is no longer small, but in the eyes of the people on both sides of the canal, it is already a huge monster!
The old man was so frightened that he dropped his pipe and pot, the dried dates in the child's hands were scattered all over the floor, and the young daughter-in-law stared so hard that she couldn't even care about the scoundrels around her taking advantage of them...
"Ouch... Could this be the treasure from the East China Sea Dragon Palace? Kowtow..."
On both sides of the Zaolin Gate, a crowd of ordinary people knelt down in darkness, and Wuyang Wuyang could not be seen to the end!
