The military confidentiality work of this Heilongjiang mutiny is one of the best confidentiality work done by the Qing Dynasty in the past decade. The news has been spread to the Forbidden City for three days, but there has been no trace of wind. Even the officers of the Military Affairs Office, including Li Tuo, did not smell the wind.

Only some large forces with very deep foundations in the entire Sijiu City could learn this news in advance, such as only a dozen important princes and Qingliu leaders. These people have received the ban order from the two empress dowagers, and they dare not even tell their own housekeepers, let alone tell others.

But Li Tuo is obviously not an ordinary person. After all, the fifth master of the capital is also the son of Emperor Daoguang, and he can get in touch with many secrets. In addition, the fifth master Yi Qiong is assisted by Li Tuo, Yang Zhi and others. There is also a secret consortium loyal to him in Jiangnan who is gathering money for him. The fifth master now has a team of about 500 people in his hands, hiding on the grassland outside his mouth to achieve a brand new military training.

The fifth master, who has money and guns, has exposed his political ambitions. How could he not care about such major changes in the court?

Yi Qi's house was in the northwest corner of the capital. Li Tuo's front door was led by the butler and changed his clothes, rode a horse and left through the back door. Then he entered the three house doors and changed his clothes three times. Then he dressed up like an ordinary client and sneaked into the half-closed door of Yanzhihu in the red light district of the Bada Hutong.

When he arrived, the fifth master and Yang Zhi were drinking together, but obviously they didn't care about the food, nor did they put their heads on the little beauty behind him. When they saw Li Tuo coming, they immediately stepped back and dodged to give Li Tuo a seat.

"Prince! Our opportunity is here..." Li Tuo, who looked excited, looked up and saw a glass of wine. He breathed happily.

"The 200,000 taels of silver that the prince used to bribe the eunuch is really useless. The sixth prince and the seventh prince are not military aircraft on duty, but go to discuss matters north..."

"Oh! What's the result they discussed?" Yi Qi asked.

"What's the matter with the prince? Let alone our spies in this kind of meeting, even Li Lianying and Zhou Daoying have to guard the gate. However, the little eunuch saw the ghost six slamming the door with his own eyes. There was a fierce quarrel before he left. It seemed that the sixth prince had no face at all!"

Yang Zhi had a gloomy face and the hollow wine glass in his hand whirled between his fingers. "Is it a quarrel? If I were the Japanese Six, I would also make a noise. Not only would I make a noise, but I would also make a retreat and throw the golden seal of the Xishan New Army Camp out... Let's have a big show!"

Li Tuo laughed loudly, "What a clever plan!"

Yi Qiong is not a person with wise minds. He asked anxiously, "What the hell is going on? Don't keep it in hiding..."

"Retreat as advance is now the best way for the Japanese Six to deal with it. Since the little emperor dares to take the banner of the imperial party, he is to join the uncles and ladies in the court to see how they will react to this matter..."

"The court is now in chaos. Every prince and prince hopes that the dynasty will return to the era of emperor autocracy like the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties. However, on the surface, they cannot express this idea. They still have to make an attitude of honoring the emperor..."

"Yi? Of course he understands this principle. He can't give people a polite way to let others implement his royal party's hat, so he has to hand over the military power to avoid suspicion. After all, there are still people in the court who are guarding against the soldiers in his hands now!"

Yi Qiong suddenly realized it. Not only did he understand Yanzhihu who came to add wine, but the woman leaned against Yi Qiong and added a glass of wine to the prince and gently pinched the prince's shoulder.

"Your Majesty is confused, right? You talk about the government affairs these days, even I, a woman, have understood half of it... Don't you all say that the factions in the court are afraid of fighting wolves at both ends? Whoever has soldiers and strong troops is afraid of sleeping is so uneasy..."

"Don't talk about the Han people, even if there are people within the Manchus to seize military power, others are not happy. Can Prince Gong pretend to behave without avoiding suspicion?"

With a bang, Yi Qiong slapped Yanzhihu's butt, "How dare you interfere with the men's affairs? Go clean and wait for me to love you in the evening..."

After a few jokes, Yi Qiong's face became lonely, "Hey... I am also the son of Emperor Xuanzongcheng after all, and the dynasty has become like this now..." I can't say the following words.

The weakness of the late Qing Dynasty was really not just about technology and backward industry, nor was it about the lack of passionate men in the court who were willing to sacrifice their lives. Instead, the Qing Dynasty's political system had great flaws from the beginning.

To put it bluntly, the Qing Dynasty was a military tribal alliance that relied on a ruthless spirit and an empty mind that was willing to learn from the Han people. However, the primitive tribal system and the advanced and developed Han civilization were soft together, just like two skins that could not be bonded together at all.

The original tribal alliance emphasizes the leader who has the biggest fist. To maintain the wolf nature of the tribe, you must be able to practice it.

The Han nationality’s reliance on governing a country does not rely on martial arts. The rulers must learn to balance the power within the empire and understand many cultural methods.

It is absolutely impossible to govern a huge empire of tens of millions of square kilometers by relying on the decentralization system of primitive tribes, because once power is dispersed, it will be constrained.

What the great empire needs is a big project, and what the great project needs is centralization and the authority of the emperor.

Modern people seem to have a kind of exclusion mentality about centralization, but in human history, centralized countries can do major tasks. Without centralization, there would be no Great Wall, there would be no Grand Canal, and without centralization, there would be no major project to govern the Yellow River in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties... A simple example is that it would be difficult for ancient countries without centralization to mobilize the national war.

There were several activities to govern the Yellow River in the late Qing Dynasty. The emperor even set up a special government office to control the water, with the highest official being the governor of the river. Such special governors were generally assigned by the emperor to send trusted imperial envoys to the emperor and had the power to speak directly with the emperor. This was already a very prominent official position in the ancient officialdom.

The management of a Yellow River is going downstream from Gansu in the upper reaches, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Zhili, caves... A total of six provinces need to coordinate and handle the tasks at the same time, and each major project requires mobilization of millions of civilians.

In the Middle Ages, how could a government without centralization complete such a large project? It is probably difficult to coordinate the food and drink supplies of millions of people.

This is the greatest advantage of the centralized government in ancient times. On the other hand, the authority of the late Qing government began to decline. Many major national-level projects could not be promoted at all, and people's livelihood projects could not be completed. They still rely on large military industry? They still want to strengthen the army? They still want to build a large navy? These are all delusions.
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