How little can a woman give to her lover? Just look at Ci'an and you'll understand, it really fills up your life!
As the empress dowager, Ci'an certainly had fine clothes and fine food, but how much money did she have? In fact, it's really not much, because ensuring one's own wealth is completely different from doing a huge business.
According to the empress dowager's living standards, if you have one million taels of silver to spend your whole life together, how much can you eat and drink on one stomach?
Jewels, palaces and buildings are also reused. If you die, others will inherit them, so you really don’t have much money to spend on yourself.
To start a business and establish your own power, you need an astronomical amount of money to buy weapons and horses, arms training, and soldiers to eat horses and chew them.
Local officials are selected one by one to become their direct descendants. The balance between the factions in the DPRK and China also requires the transfer of interests. To do business, you also need start-up capital!
Even if it is a eunuch in the palace, if you bribe him, you will have to pay for it with gold!
Fu Qing spent a lot more money than Ci'an, and Ci'an really loved the man who gave her a child, but Xianfeng was a fool in his heart!
The father's sperm and mother's blood, together with oneself, gave birth to an offspring. This kind of emotion cannot be experienced by outsiders.
Ci'an's own small treasury had been emptied by Fu Qing a long time ago, and now Ci'an only had tens of thousands of taels of pocket money in hand, which he used to make ends meet. Now I heard that there was still a lot of shortfall in buying arms in Fuqing, so I quickly ordered to bring out my jewelry from the bottom of the box, with a total value of four to five million taels.
"Take it, take it all...these external belongings are gathering dust here. I don't usually like these jeweled things!"
"You! How can this be done?" Fu Qing put down his wine glass and stood up in a hurry. "You are the Queen Mother. You have to participate in various celebrations. When the time comes, you will not even have your head or face. What will you do?"
"Oh, I've kept enough. I don't like to show off, so I just have two sets to swap back and forth with!"
"You take all these and exchange them for money to invest in the ocean trading company you mentioned. It's not enough for two ships, right? Let Xiao Letian take care of it. The two ships will make back the money after running for two years! "
"When the time comes, you can redeem them for me, or buy new ones..." Ci'an secretly wiped her tears, "I don't want these external things, I want you and your children to be safe... I have been a mother for one year. I can only see the child once, I feel so uncomfortable!"
Fu Qing hugs Ci'an, and the eunuchs and maids in the palace have all retreated. At this time, words of comfort are feeble, so you can just hold her like this to give her a sufficient sense of security.
The girl born to Ci'an and Fuqing is now hiding in the mountain manor north of Chengde, and the Queen Mother can only go to Chengde every summer in the name of summer vacation!
It was then that she could secretly see her daughter!
Ci'an was a smart person. She had long understood the internal and external troubles of the Qing Dynasty. No matter whether Emperor Tongzhi's reforms were successful or not, they could not stop her and Fu Qing from wanting to be independent in secret.
Where is ZTE? The chaos in the world cannot be made up by one or two people. At this moment, we must take action early and carve out a base area first.
The vast land of Chahar and Rehe is extremely important. From a high position, it can control Mongolia in the north, suppress the capital in the south, penetrate into the Hetao area in the west, and peek into the Liaohe Plain in the east.
This is a treasure land. Although it has not been a land of dragon prosperity since ancient times, it is no problem to protect yourself and become a prince!
"Third Master, do your best... From now on, there is no reason why people with different surnames cannot be crowned kings. We don't dream of becoming emperors! But we can still compete for being a king with military power!"
In the Qiwang Tower, the two of them were looking forward to their future, and in the capital shrouded in darkness, how many people were looking towards their future!
According to the practice of the Qing Dynasty, after entering the twelfth lunar month, all ministries will start to clean up their accounts. In this month, the government affairs squeezed by the court, in addition to military and state affairs, normal government affairs must have a conclusion and an explanation.
It is best to have a clear explanation of whether it can be done or not, and it can be considered an end!
On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zai Chun called into the court meeting. Dozens of courtiers in the Qianqing Palace gathered together. Among them, Li Hongzhang came back from Shandong specifically with his book to discuss at the court!
Sure enough, as soon as the plan for the establishment of the Great Qing Dynasty was taken out for discussion, it triggered a chaotic quarrel in the court. Qingliu shared the same hatred and resolutely opposed this plan that wasted people and money.
These people have also learned enough to know that it is not possible to directly deny Western things. After all, the Qing Dynasty has opened its doors, and railways and steel plants are already well known to people.
They dare not mention the theory that industry harms the country, but these people can find another way and directly say that you, Li Hongzhang, are so happy that you are wasting the limited money in the national treasury for non-urgent needs!
The Qing Dynasty Navy requires an allocation of 10 million taels of silver in the early stages of construction, and the Navy cannot directly provide profits. It is completely a bottomless pit and useless!
These clear-minded people in the court were so powerful that they were all gushing and drooling. Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang were no match for them and were defeated one after another!
Just when Weng Tong and the others thought they had a chance to win, Shishan, a direct descendant of Mr. Qing, suddenly jumped out and held up a memorial asking the court to discuss it!
And this memorial is the detailed rules for the establishment of the Qing Ocean Trading Company discussed by various ministries a week ago!
This memorial did not attract much attention before. People thought it was just an ordinary business, a plan of Master Qing, and not an urgent matter!
Who would have thought that Third Master Qing's men would actually jump out to cut off the chaos at this great court meeting, directly interfering with the proceedings of the court meeting!
"Shishan! The meeting before the Spring Festival is to discuss military and national affairs. Don't be in a hurry with this kind of business deal. Take it down and discuss it later!" Li Hongzao hurriedly came out to speak.
But unexpectedly, Third Master Qing raised his eyelids and said, "Master Li, what you said is wrong! This Daqing Ocean Trading Company has a profit of tens of millions of taels of silver every year, so it cannot be delayed!"
"The Qing Dynasty has suffered a lot in recent years. All our good things have been cheated away by Europeans driving sea ships!"
"A box of tea purchased from us only costs more than one hundred taels of silver, but when shipped to Europe, it can be worth thousands of pounds!"
"Don't we make a profit from these intermediate profits? Just now you said that the Great Qingsui Marine Corps wastes money and wastes people but does not make money, so now I will give you a plan to make money. All adults, please discuss it!"
The water was suddenly muddied by Master Qing. The ministers in the palace were talking a lot, and many people were looking at Emperor Tongzhi secretly!
At this time, Prince Dun also jumped out, "Your Majesty! I also have something to report... I pray the imperial court to immediately invest in the construction of the Beijing-Hankou Railway! Such an important north-south transportation road, the earlier it is completed, the earlier the imperial court will benefit!"
