Determination is not so easy to make, and determination is not so easy to believe. Emperor Tongzhi wanted to industrialize and make the Qing Dynasty an industrial power. This is an ideal that everyone knows!
But before today, everyone still had the illusion that the little emperor was the Three-Minute Heat II, and his attitude toward industrialization was that of a child who saw a new toy!
He wants it, but he doesn’t want it firmly throughout his life. Maybe that day his attention will be distracted by other new things, and by then he will forget about the reform!
Knowing that today, 40,000 bannermen were directly beaten into factory slaves, depriving all bannermen of their due rights. When such an imperial edict came out, all the officials were scared to death!
They underestimated the determination of the little emperor. No one expected that the emperor would be so determined and his methods so cruel!
Abandon the hardcore crops of 40,000 banner slaves? These banner slaves are also bannermen, but they are slaves of the nobles in the palace. However, within the legal system of the Qing Dynasty, they are still bannermen with a higher social status than the Han people!
Just destroy the hardcore crops? Political rights have also been smashed? Becoming a factory slave means that all future generations will become factory slaves!
You no longer have a share in the food and supplies of the army, and you no longer have anything to do with the imperial examination. You can't even work as a minor official in the banner government!
You were born as a worker in a steel factory, and you will die as a ghost of a steel factory!
Men enter the factory to work directly, while women also have to do some starching, cooking, brewing, cleaning...all kinds of auxiliary industries extended by the steel factory!
As for your children, they will also have to repeat reincarnation, and they will endure life and death here!
This is Zaichun's punishment, the iron-blooded suppression of those troublemakers!
Zai Chun didn't listen to the advice of Bao Jun and others at all, and remained calm even if you kowtowed like a fool. "Don't say I'm cruel, did I give them a chance?"
"But who takes it seriously? Who is willing to listen to my kind words? No one in the entire capital takes my will seriously!"
"Do you think I don't know what those bannermen and idle men said in the wine shop and teahouse? Do you really think that I am the son-emperor locked in a deep palace? Do you let you make up whatever you want?"
"You can say that I am just a gust of wind or three minutes of heat, or that I have been brainwashed by Western learning and poisoned by Xiao Letian's evil spirit..."
"What else is someone secretly saying? Are they still talking privately about how to seduce the emperor? Is anyone still thinking about Prince Gong and Prince Chun?"
"Is there someone plotting to kowtow to the empress dowagers of the two palaces and beg to be forced into the palace?"
"Is there anyone else secretly discussing mutiny? Haha, there are all of these, all of them... This means that no one took my will seriously from the beginning to the end, and everyone thought I was joking, right?"
"Do you think the law does not punish the public? Do you think there is nothing I can do if 30,000 or 40,000 people gather to cause trouble? I have to give in under your pressure, right?"
"Haha, the 17th of next month is the day of my wedding. I have decided that the foundation laying ceremony must be held at the main building of the iron factory on the 16th!"
"I will lay down the first brick to lay the foundation myself!"
"Qinghe, hurry up and interrogate. Those who have not used weapons or weapons and are just watching the commotion, select a group first to level the foundation, clear the trees, and get to work immediately!"
"I know that many people have escaped and gone to Shunyi, Changping and other places...I have ordered them all to be captured! No one can escape!"
"Anyone who dares to resist arrest will be killed immediately!"
"Why are you all kneeling and kowtowing? Get up and draft the edict! Do you think I should write it myself? If you want your whole family to become factory slaves, I don't mind giving you a ride!"
The atmosphere in the Military Aircraft Department was extremely tense, and the smell of blood was permeating the air. Even Bao Jun and Ying Gui, veterans who had led troops to fight against Changmao, shuddered a little!
Zai Chun's decree was not finished yet. He sneered and said, "The Ministry of Propaganda and Propaganda immediately organized manpower to conduct an on-the-spot investigation according to the topographic map of the capital sent by the head of state!"
"People have already inspected the route, so we can just follow the map. Don't we know how to do such a simple job?"
"Prepare funds, recruit civilian workers, and immediately start the construction plan of the Beijing-Tianjin Railway... We don't have railway tracks now, so we can place orders around the world!"
"There is also the construction of bridges across rivers. The Ministry of Industry must also come up with a plan. We can build bridges ourselves for ordinary small rivers. For those with too long spans, we will ask foreign engineers to build iron bridges for us!"
"Everything must be prepared for a rainy day and prepared in advance... All prefectures and counties along the railway must allocate tasks. At the very least, they must organize the workers who transport sand and gravel and fill the soil!"
"Does the Qing Dynasty still lack manpower? If one hundred thousand civilians are not enough, then three hundred thousand, if not, then five hundred thousand... I am open to importing rice from overseas to feed the working people!"
"Even if a million people work together, I can still afford it!"
"What I want is for the Beijing-Tianjin Railway and the Beijing Steel Plant to be completed at the same time! All your military ministers and officials from the six ministries should be responsible for their respective tasks and write the military orders for me!"
"Head! I want you to use your head to protect the military order! If you can't do it, then come to me with your head!"
"Send a telegram to Fujian Mawei Shipyard. Where is Shen Baozhen? Didn't he come to celebrate my wedding? If he is in the capital, let him come to see me!"
"I remember very clearly that the Mawei Shipyard prepared by Zuo Zongtang also has a naval academy! Didn't Shen Baozhen send a large number of officers to the West to study the navy?"
"Contact them immediately and let them graduate and return to China early if they can graduate! After these talents return to China, it will be the time when our Qing Navy will be established!"
"Don't be afraid of being slow, be afraid of standing still! Even if you make an inch of progress every day, it will be ten thousand times better than being disappointed!"
"Navy, navy! If we in the Qing Dynasty don't have a navy, we will be bullied by others in the future. We will all be slaves to the subjugation of the country!"
After a lot of talking, an unhealthy blush appeared on Zai Chun's cheeks. He hadn't eaten breakfast and now it's lunch time. The hunger in his belly has become too strong. The continuous drop in blood sugar makes Zai Chun a little dizzy!
Zhang Jing, who was writing in the Military Aircraft Department, was copying the emperor's original words word for word, and someone else began to convert these vernacular words into the words used by the imperial edict!
The imperial edicts were gradually drafted and taken shape. Finally, they were reviewed and approved by the military minister and the emperor. After using the jade seal, it became the law of the Qing Dynasty!
At this moment, Zai Chun realized the benefits of pro-government. There were still more than ten blank imperial edicts stamped with the seals of the imperial reward and Tongdaotang sent by the two queen mothers, which were enough for this major reform of the empire!
On the 17th of next month, as long as he gets married, he will no longer need to be bound by these two seals, and this empire will truly be his!
"Finally... if we work harder, we still have to make a will!"
"Your Majesty... let's have lunch first, your health is important!" Da Sixi advised carefully.
"No! After I finish writing the last decree, I will have dinner... Let's discuss the Chinese concession plan!"
"Show the statement to all the ministers!"
