Agricultural civilization, industrial civilization, information age...these are not just terms, the differences between them are quite big.
The most critical point is speed and efficiency. The difference is really big!
The Manchus and the Chinese, including Britain, France and other great powers, all lived in the same era, but did their understanding and use of time be the same?
It's completely different. The efficiency difference here cannot be solved by a little telegraph line. It is a state of mind and a manifestation of the speed of response to affairs.
Empires like the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, from the era of fishing, hunting and nomads, entered the farming civilization all at once through invasion. They were enjoying the rich fruits of the Han people's thousands of years of farming civilization and felt very satisfied.
This is a huge contrast. The prosperity of the farming civilization in the Central Plains is completely different from the fishing and hunting era of white mountains and black waters before them!
Because they are already complacent, they will not think about going further. They just want to enjoy happiness forever in the cradle of agricultural civilization, so there is no motivation for change at all!
Look at Xiao Letian's difficulties when he first promoted the telegraph line! The imperial court didn't believe it at all. If they hadn't used military force to perform martial arts in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and even personally conducted a telegraph experiment in front of the young emperor, I'm afraid those officials still wouldn't believe it!
This kind of resistance, this kind of resistance to the new civilization comes from the heart. They are stuck in their ways and do not want to change at all, and they do not understand how fast the era of industrial civilization will be.
Xiao Letian, the founder of Huazu, is a prophet who came from the information age. He has a natural sensitivity to speed and efficiency. Although Huazu is now an industrial country, many systems and consciousness are based on the information age. Formulated for efficiency.
Fast means a quick response and smooth flow of information without any lag!
On the other hand, the Qing Dynasty has completely different concepts. It is completely like an ox cart. It runs so slowly that you don't even know it, and there is no quick emergency response at all.
It stands to reason that the imperial court received the latest news last night. With such important information, you, Emperor Tongzhi, must immediately convene an imperial meeting to discuss it. The worst you can do is issue an announcement to stabilize people's hearts!
Not to mention those troublemakers in the stock market are bastards. Any stock market in the world that experiences such a crash should have a policy of temporarily suspending trading!
But Manqing closed at three o'clock but there was no reaction at all!
Is it because they don’t know that this news will cause instability in people’s hearts? Of course I know, but why there is no response even if I know, is it because the whole system is rigid!
The emperor was already panicking and didn't know how to deal with the master's move. He didn't realize the stock market in his mind, or he didn't expect it to be so serious.
Military Minister Yinggui shared this information with the Sixth Ministry early the next morning. Logically speaking, the Sixth Ministry should have a plan, right? But still nothing.
why? Because the six departments all go to work at midday, that is, at six or seven o'clock, ordinary civil servants who do not go to court basically go to the six departments at seven o'clock and are not considered late.
They usually get off work at four in the afternoon, which is their working time for the day!
It seems like a lot of time, but the efficiency is so slow! When civil servants go to work at seven o'clock, they have to drink some tea, have some breakfast, chat, and wait for today's errands to be completed.
It also takes time to lay paper, grind ink, and organize the four treasures of the study. If there is such a mess, no one will be able to do it before nine o'clock!
As long as it is not a major military matter, those details will be handled step by step, and no one will be anxious, because no one is responsible for these things.
Just like this morning, the message from Mr. Yinggui was sent to the Sixth Department. What was the result? No one paid any attention to the news at first, and it was not until nine o'clock that these people began to report the latest memorial to the head of the Sixth Department.
These officials pay attention to the word "prudent". No one will act or speak rashly. When encountering something, they must carefully wait and see the direction of the wind, look at the attitudes of various forces in the court, and guess what the emperor means.
You must be able to speak for yourself, not offend others, and still have to take credit for your ideas. This all takes time!
Faced with such information, the officials of the six departments lost their voices for a moment, and they all started to wait and see!
The officials didn't speak, the little emperor didn't think clearly, and the two empresses had their own thoughts. As a result, such a strange situation emerged. No one thought about the stock market, or even realized it!
Of course, the market was still going very well for half a day in the morning, and they felt that there was no problem. There was still plenty of time to think slowly and deal with it carefully!
This is a kind of outdated and rigid administrative efficiency, which is absolutely compatible with the slow farming civilization!
How do they know that the capital market is in turmoil? In a flash of lightning and thunder, millions and millions of capital can be shifted!
The market changed in the afternoon. The stock price in Jiangnan remained unchanged, but in Jingshi there was a serious stampede and collapse due to the leak of the news!
The half-day trading time in the afternoon was only two hours, and the collapse was so fast that it was unimaginable, falling from five yuan to two eight yuan!
How did the imperial court react? The officials were running back and forth between the six ministries to send messages to the officials in each ministry, and they didn't even have time!
After all, the imperial system was not designed to cope with such a fast society!
It was past two o'clock in the afternoon, and the news of the collapse had only reached the Sixth Department. The officials running errands below had already wasted a lot of time just looking for the chief officer.
The yamen of the six ministries were all outside the Forbidden City. The officers who delivered the news were in a hurry and sweating profusely. The entrances and exits of each ministry were like a vegetable market.
"Dashilan is asking for help. Please ask Prince Yu to send an additional hundred soldiers..."
"Where is the Hubu Hall official... Immediately send people to improve the stock market trading area. Mr. Qin is asking for urgent help!"
"Where is the chief officer of the Ministry of Rites... hurry up and draft a notice to calm the people and tell the people that the news about the Chinese is nothing serious..."
"Go and ask Mr. Fuqing...and ask the Qing Times to quickly print the number..."
"Where are the ministers of the various ministries... Your Majesty is calling urgently from the Yangxin Hall..."
"Where are the people...where are the people...where are the people?"
There are noisy shouts everywhere, and the more critical the moment, the less likely the responsible person can be found. There are many people in each department, but when there is a real problem, no responsible person can be found.
You go to approve a note, and when you meet someone, he shakes his head and says he has no rights. You want to find the person in charge, but he shakes his head again and doesn’t know where he is!
I will give you instructions from the east to the west, and then from the west to the south, and all the time will be wasted in vain!
The entire administrative system of the Qing Dynasty just watched the market collapse without taking any action!
The Ministry of Rites was unable to write a notice to calm the people, the Ministry of Household Affairs did not know about the temporary suspension, and the Ministry of War and the General Police Department were the last to send soldiers and police to support.
Fu Qing, the Prime Minister and Post Minister, is a sensible person, but today, when he is angry, he is the mastermind behind the deal. How can he care about you?
When the news reached Zai Chun's ears, the little emperor realized that he was afraid, but it was already half past two in the afternoon, and the market would close in half an hour.
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