"Your Majesty is holy."
"We are all our own people here, there is no need to be so restrained. Times are changing, and the population of Ming Dynasty is also constantly increasing. If we don't find a way to expand our territory, sooner or later Ming Dynasty will follow in the footsteps of the previous dynasty.
The western barbarians have discovered a new continent. They colonized the new continent and harvested countless gold, silver and jewelry from the new continent. Some of this money went into the research of military equipment.
Although Ming Dynasty's equipment is much more advanced than theirs now, if we are proud and complacent, we will be surpassed by others sooner or later.
Until then, all you can do is get beaten. "
"Your Majesty, this is it."
“Don’t think it’s impossible, not everyone has the same idea as you.
I am kind to the people at the bottom, but in many places, the people at the bottom are even worse than dogs.
Since Ming Dynasty is a country of benevolence and righteousness, naturally we cannot sit back and watch the people at the bottom suffer. Why don't we be hypocrites? "
"With benevolence and righteousness internally, the people will think of you well. If benevolence and righteousness are external, the foreigners will think you are stupid and easy to bully, and they will even take the things you give and massacre your people.
So now you know why I hate those officials who talk about benevolence, justice and morality so much.
The Ming Dynasty's reform requires a lot of money. Selling some firearms to those foreign races is to make money for the Ming Dynasty's reform.
What was sold to those foreign races were nothing more than matchlock guns.
The matchlock had three major disadvantages.
First, when lighting a fire with a match rope, in windy and rainy weather, the gunpowder in the fire door will either be blown away by the wind or wet by the rain, so that it cannot be fired.
Secondly, the matchlock carried by the matchlock gunners was not only troublesome to use, but also required the matchstick to keep burning if they wanted to be able to shoot at any time. It was also a huge safety hazard, especially due to the rough manufacturing and frequent explosions in the chamber.
Thirdly, the range of the matchlock gun was only a hundred steps. After firing a shot, it needed to be loaded and the actions were repeated, which wasted time. Facing the cavalry charge, it was always difficult to withstand the offensive.
And the most inferior firearm equipped by our Ming Dynasty's main force is now a flintlock gun.
Compared with the opponent's matchlock gun, it is a piece of junk. Taking junk and getting a lot of money is a business that will never lose.
Also, listen less to those civil servants farting.
Bao Qingtian also has a trick to trick his uncle, Bao Mian. How can other officials avoid causing trouble?
You have to remember that no one who wears official robes does anything like this or that. Even those so-called clean streams who pride themselves on being aloof are not necessarily so clean.
Collecting money from people and doing things for them, when those officials talk about tax cuts, when are the tax cuts not for those extremely rich guys?
The rich pay more taxes and the poor pay less taxes. This is the right thing to do and is the foundation of the country's long-term development.
If you protect the interests of the rich and squeeze ordinary people to death, you are destroying the destiny of the country.
It's not that those civil servants couldn't figure out this truth, but it was because they were blinded by the money sent by the people below.
Three years to clear the magistrate's office, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver, where did this money come from? Or was it not given by those rich people? Why did those rich people give them money? Are they cheap or stupid?
No, they can get greater benefits from it.
Don't think that if the water is clear, there will be no fish. You must know that if the water is muddy, the country will be ruined. "
"Your Majesty, I have realized my crime. I will never interact with those civil servants again," Wang Chengen said directly as he knelt down on the ground.
