"I look at the London Industrial Area, the Liverpool Industrial Area, the Hamburg Industrial Area in Germany, the Ruhr Industrial Area... that is not a place where hundreds of thousands or even millions of people gather!"
"Don't they have the pressure of public security? There is the same pressure, even greater! But you can't stop working just because you're afraid of rebellion!"
"Industry is different from agriculture. This means that many people need to gather together to produce various products! This is a labor-intensive industry!"
"I know that in the hearts of all your ministers, there is a natural fear of people gathering together! Since ancient times, when people gather together, there will definitely be chaos!"
"In prosperous times, bandits will appear, but in troubled times, rebels will appear directly! But we can't stop the construction of industrial zones just because everyone is afraid and worried!"
"Master Weng! Let me tell you the truth, building an industrial zone requires a lot of people. When the industrial zone is completed and put into operation in the future and it starts to make money, it will also take a lot of people to work together to produce products!"
"What will we do then? Will we close the factory just because we are worried? That is impossible!"
"So we have to start adapting now, adapting to the ongoing management of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people coming together!"
"Public security is a problem. Is food, clothing, housing and transportation a problem? Is it a problem if there is a plague? Is it a problem if there are snowstorms in winter or floods in summer?"
"If there are too many people, there will definitely be a problem within the problem. Even the toilets will be a problem!"
"Do we have to avoid so many problems? Since we have avoided them, why should we engage in industry? We have to adapt! We have to adapt! Solve the problems as they come and accumulate experience!"
"If you want to eat the fat meat of industry, you must be mentally prepared to survive the chaos! There is no free wealth in the world, unless you become a robber!"
Zai Chun's words left everyone present speechless. The sound of horse hooves gradually left south, and the construction site of 40,000 people returned to its original busyness!
The wooden cages on the three flagpoles were hung with three assassins who could neither survive nor die, which shocked people's hearts!
Emperor Tongzhi's every word and deed will be paid attention to by the government and the public. Everyone is trying to figure out the little emperor's intentions. What happened today quickly reached the ears of Guiziliu!
Yi Xin, who was pretending to be sick at home, lifted up the quilt and sat up after hearing this. "You heard it! All the 'big men' of the Eight Banners, did you hear it? Do you understand it?"
"Do you know why I rebel against this little bastard? This little bastard was born to destroy our Eight Banners!"
"He has been poisoned! He has been poisoned by the Han people! How did our Eight Banners get started? We started by entering and plundering customs. For more than two hundred years, we relied on conquering the Han people to maintain our lives!"
"How can we bannermen learn from the Han people and carry out construction ourselves? Isn't this just sacrificing the good and the bad?"
"Zai Chun wants to engage in industrialization. He must learn from the Chinese and Europas and personally run the construction and make money! He has completely forgotten how his ancestors became successful and prosperous!"
"We, the Eight Banners, are the eagles in the sky and the wolves in the forest... How can we learn to live like cattle and sheep?"
"Even if you Zaichun want to engage in industrialization, you should encourage the Han people to do it. What we want is to use force to suppress the Han people!"
"Holding the knife is the foundation for lasting peace and stability and ruling the world! If you lose this foundation and learn how to make money instead, you will simply forget your ancestors!"
"Zai Chun... don't blame Uncle Six for being cruel! You won't survive October 6th! As long as you dare to leave the city and go to Tongzhou, you will definitely die!"
This assassination by the Capital Iron Works, which was like a joke, did not cause any harm to Emperor Tongzhi, but it made the little emperor lower his vigilance!
And the emperor's remarks caused by the assassination only further stimulated these die-hard conservatives!
This is a fundamental conflict, this is an irreconcilable conflict. The Eight Banners is actually a military group that uses absolute force to tax the Han people all over the world to enrich themselves!
You, Zaichun, now insist on industrializing yourself. This means abandoning the ancestral system that was formulated before entering the customs!
If you act like this, all Eight Banners members will have strong feelings of uneasiness. Are you not letting us eat the hard-core crops? Do we have to force everyone to make money and create wealth by themselves?
The Eight Banners have lost the right to use force to collect taxes. Is it still necessary to exist? Let’s all pull out our teeth and become sheep!
The wedding day is approaching day by day. On the surface, the atmosphere in the capital seems to be full of joy, but there is an undercurrent surging inside!
On October 3rd, Zai Chun issued an order that all the elders over sixty years old around the capital should share food and wine, and the Eight Banners would receive an extra month of pay!
The Ministry of Rites conducts the fourth rehearsal of the standing ceremony in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony!
On October 4th, the empress dowagers of the two palaces formally paid homage to the Imperial Ancestral Temple. They were rewarded with two seals from Tongdaotang and were enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. They were officially sealed away after the wedding to show that the government was returned to the emperor!
On October 5th, envoys from various countries in Dongjiaominxiang entered the Forbidden City to practice the order of the ceremony in advance. British reporter Simpson and other European reporters captured the Qing Dynasty's numerous palace restrictions for the first time!
On October 6th, Emperor Tongzhi left the Forbidden City at nine o'clock in the morning and went to Tongzhou to check out the wedding gift given by his master Xiao Letian!
Emperor Tongzhi, surrounded by eight hundred Royal Forest Cavalry, left Chaoyang Gate and headed east. Tongzhou is too close to the capital, but it is only more than thirty miles away. It can be reached in half an hour by horseback!
Fifteen miles out of the city, there is a large-scale fodder yard that supplies fodder for the capital's cavalry camp! And this fodder farm has been inspected by three waves of people from Shuntian Mansion, Jiumen Admiral Mansion, and Yulin New Army before!
But this hayfield is too big, and the limited manpower simply cannot inspect every inch of the land!
This is a secret fortress carefully arranged by Guiziliu. All the dead soldiers are hidden underground, and there is a secret passage extending towards the post road!
There is no need to leave the forage yard, just go out directly from the tunnel entrance to the post road. The twelve tunnel exits are enough to ensure the suddenness of the attack!
There is no trace of morbidity in Guiziliu today. He is lurking out of Beijing, wearing soft armor and braids tightly coiled around his neck. A cowhide armed belt is hung around his waist, and a gun is inserted!
Behind him are his direct relatives, Xie Duowan, Eratu, Enguang... and a group of personal bodyguards, all of whom are top masters second only to Long Ye and the old farmer!
In the underground bunker, oil lamps were inserted into the neatly shoveled earth walls. The dead soldiers had been lurking here for several days. Now it was time to use them. The large bowl of strong liquor was poured slowly!
Prince Gong Yixin had a ferocious look on his face, holding a large porcelain bowl, "Come! My brother! You have accomplished your feat today, and your life and death will depend on this!"
"You are ignorant! I will kill you on behalf of Heaven! Just drink this!"
Note: It’s the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I can’t rest for a long time. I’ll send you two updates as usual!
