People say that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, but in reality, opportunities are actually reserved for the lucky ones. The ancients described the lucky value as a good thing, which is called luck for individuals, but for a force, country, and nation, this kind of destiny attribute is actually the fate of the country.

A Far East storm caused by Xiao Letian has swept too many people and involved too many forces. Xiao Letian is like a great god holding a shit stirrer, standing in the cloud with two toilet papers to block his nose, and began to stir the cessation pit outside the pass with force.

The sediment spread and the stench was stinking. Many unknown secrets emerged from the surface, and many long-closed past events surged into my heart again.

Lao Lin looked at the accounts in front of him, and listened to the account's explanation, and he was completely stunned!

Looking at the entire Qing Dynasty, corruption has always plagued people like a cancer. Except for the ease of rectification of the official system during the Yongzheng period, officials were competing with the corruption of the competition.

Accepting bribes, occupying land, and tying miscellaneous taxes... These are actually just pediatrics. Really capable people have long intervened in more profitable industries, namely trade, especially cross-border trade.

Xiao Letian once said more than once that the so-called close-up of the country in ancient China was actually nonsense. Those officials who shouted that close-up of the country were brainwashing the emperor to death and say how terrible the world outside was, and they must not switch it casually, otherwise the country would be unstable...

Balabala said a lot. Even if the emperor is smart, he cannot withstand the large number of people. Therefore, since the Ming Dynasty, the policy of closing the country has been intermittently for two dynasties. Overall, he still has more time to retreat and less time to switch.

In fact, the tribute trade system is also a perverted system forced out of the policy of closing the country, because commercial trade is one of the driving forces for national progress. Civilization itself has the desire to integrate with other civilizations, and commercial trade is the most effective means of this kind of communication.

The Ming and Qing dynasties tried hard to suppress the desire for communication of civilizations themselves, but they found that they could not suppress them, and finally forced a tribute trade system, which was a kind of way to cover up their ears.

Including the earliest Ryukyu, why did the Shimazu family unwilling to destroy the country? In fact, the core root is still within the tribute trade system. Ryukyu has the right to trade tribute with the Ming Dynasty, which is the golden book and iron scroll that saved the lives of King Shangtai and others.

Scam! Everything is a scam!

Those Confucian scholars who were so proud of being in a closed country, it is undeniable that some of them were stupid people who were brainwashed, but there was a deeper and more influential group of people who said they were in a closed country, but they actually wanted to use this policy to make profits.

Xiao Letian is very rich. He paid his own private money to support a large number of professional archaeologists and expedition teams. This is completely Xiao Letian's own personal hobby.

Under the leadership of archaeologists and historical circles, some of these expeditions built with heavy money went deep into the South American jungle, some went deep into the Euphrates River Basin, some entered ancient Egyptian ruins, and some specialized in the Mediterranean civilization.

Of course, it is more about archaeological work in China and Asia. Xiao Letian spends about this hobby between one million and one and a half million silver dollars every year.

In countless overseas archaeology, Xiao Letian verified his guess that during the 500-year period of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the so-called closing to the country was a scam.

The ultimate goal of closing the country is to seek higher benefits for the smuggling group! This group wants to be a huge group, with officials, princes and nobles, huge merchants, and coastal landlords... They connect to a big network, try their best to close the country's doors, and then engage in huge profits of smuggling trade.

From the analysis of porcelain unearthed from Central Asia, India and the types and time periods of porcelain in European collectors, the entire world's porcelain trade with China has never been interrupted due to the lockdown.

Because no dynasties were found in overseas porcelain collections, porcelain from any period of the Ming and Qing dynasties was found overseas.

This can only prove that the more closed the country, the more rampant the trade is! In fact, China is often destroyed by these corrupt officials who say one thing and do another.

For the sake of interests, they forcibly closed the window of civilization exchange. For the sake of some smuggling, they could seal the Chinese civilization for five hundred years!

Without integration and technological and cultural exchange, a civilization will quickly lose its vitality and the ability to make blood. The final result will be a century of humiliation in modern history.

Today, the accounts found in General Tepxin's mansion once again proved Xiao Letian's speculation that the real world was far more cruel than people imagined.

The accounts record in detail the daily business activities and the distribution of interests of a smuggling trading group under Tephin. Although the original shareholder details cannot be found, the capital flow exposed everything.

Prince Gong, Prince Chun, Prince Qing, Prince Li in Beijing... including Li Lianying, Zhou Daotong and even Yishan, who are idle, have received dividends to varying degrees, which means that this interest group has won a very large force in the capital.

No wonder Yishan and Tepuxin were not punished for losing power and humiliating the country. How could they die if they had so many "noble people" protecting them?

The traded goods are really Linglang. The food, medicinal materials, fur, wood, Western goods and even the population... You read that right, the Far East controlled by Tsarist Russia was extremely barren, and the earliest people came here were some Cossack soldiers.

Without the public, those garrison sites cannot survive at all, so they urgently need a commodity that is, men, women and children need it. Men can work, women can use it for entertainment and childbirth, and children will become new slaves when they grow up in the future.

With the hardworking Chinese, the cold and cold Far East towns have a little popularity and certain conditions for survival.

In Tephin's secret account books, there are even records of contact with countless forces such as bandits, bandits, Mongolian horse bandits, etc. There are many shameful transactions, such as population, drugs, arms... all trades completed through the hands of these people.

This is such a big trade network. The smuggling trade between the entire Heilongjiang region and Tsarist Russia was completely monopolized by Tepxin and other people.

"Evidence! This is evidence! It turns out that Tephin is really treasonist! It turns out that they are really treasonist!"

"Come here! I interrogated these two bastards overnight, and then arrested all the people involved in Qiqihar City, interrogated the confession, and sent them to Ningguta..."

"No, no, no... I'll send it to Vladivostok and to His Majesty. This matter is too big and must be dealt with by His Majesty!"
Chapter completed!