537 Contrasted happiness
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Of course, Xiao Letian's way to make money is more than this. If you only rely on buying low and selling high, you will be foolish to support your army. Xiao Letian's dream of naval and industrialization will eventually fall on the Qing Dynasty.
Xiao Letian has always believed in a little bit that the family wealth accumulated by the ancestors of China for thousands of years is not a small amount, enough for generations to work hard to industrialize. In fact, it is not the middle of the 19th century, even after the founding of the country, when the Chinese nation was severely damaged by the destruction of its vitality, our fathers still completed the industrialization of the country by tightening their belts and realizing hundreds of years of dreams.
Now, China has only experienced two Opium Wars. The tens of millions of taels of compensation are just a drop in the bucket for the huge wealth accumulated by the people. The Qing Dynasty and the corrupt scholars cannot mobilize it does not mean that Xiao Letian is not good.
Needless to mention, how many iron-armored warships can be bought with the Eight Banners’ taxi pay of more than 10 million taels of silver per year? The Qing Dynasty had to embezzle how much silver it had to be consumed in one year, and I'm afraid it would be more than 10 million taels. Some of the money sold for official positions and titles in the Qing Dynasty was several million taels, not to mention other wealth that was levied with excessive taxes.
It's not like Japan across the sea. The Navy wanted to buy a Yoshino ship. Even the Emperor took the lead in eating only one meal a day, with the purpose of encouraging the public to donate money to buy warships and Beiyang.
The Yoshino was actually a fast-armored cruiser that was booked by Li Hongzhang, Beiyang and the British Armstrong Shipyard. It was just that it wanted to celebrate Cixi's birthday and embezzled the money to the Summer Palace, which made the Japanese pried the market.
The Yoshino ship spent a total of more than 300,000 pounds, which would be calculated based on the exchange rate at that time, which would be one million taels of silver. For China, even the middle-aged Shanxi merchants could pay out the money. Needless to say, even the old shopkeeper's brother Fan Ru could take it out.
The Chinese economy in the late Qing Dynasty was like a curse. Scholars tried hard to become officials and make money, while merchants tried hard to make money and then hid their profits or just bought land and officials to collude with officials and businessmen.
In the end, all these wealth became cheaper than the open fire robbers, and under the pressure of foreign guns and cannons, they turned into Chinese food for robbers.
The more turbulent the society is, the more wealth needs to be avoided. The more it is avoided, the weaker the country will be, and then the society will be more turbulent. When wealth has lost its mobility and the ability to create new wealth, its final outcome is to become a Chinese-mouthed food from other powers.
China is getting weaker and weaker in such a curse, while the Western world is doing the opposite. The extremely developed industry and commerce financial system is becoming more and more sound. What do you get in the end? It is more guns, more warships, more aircraft and tanks, and more satellite missiles.
When they can wield the big and thick stick of nuclear weapons and shout around the world, what else can you do besides paying the protection fee?
Xiao Letian's chess game is too big and he wants to go against the will of heaven with just one person's strength? Sometimes he himself will be awakened, but Xiao Letian has already walked on this one-way road without turning back and can no longer play.
Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun could only see the tip of the iceberg in Xiao Letian's huge layout, but this corner almost scared Tian Erdan and Ma Hui to death. They even looked down at the lunch box that had just served the rice and muttered.
"So, what we just ate foreign rice? Oh... I never thought about this treatment in my life? Where is Japan and North Korea? Where is the United States?"
Ye Qiu and the others never expected that the battle against the Green Camp brothers would be a victory in just one meal. In the eyes of these simple people, they could eat canned American beef, Japanese and Korean rice, and shrimps in seafood soup, and they could even eat canned peaches after the meal.
Oh my God... the earth... I guess the life of a god is like this? It's autumn now, and I can actually eat peaches that are only available in early summer. I can say this and every fellow villagers in my hometown dare to believe it.
"Wuwuwu...Damn, what kind of life did I live in the past? Compared to you, we are not humans... Does the sir have a knife? Is it a loan to me for use..."
Without saying a word, Tian Erdan cut off his braids with one hand and threw them into the fire. "I'll do it, just make this food. I'll do it as well as the good people's hearts compared to our soldiers..."
"Don't do it..." The crowd shouted in unison and went to Xinjun to borrow a knife. The meal not only cut off the braids behind their heads, but also cut off the braids in their hearts.
In the late Qing Dynasty, it was so simple to compete for people's hearts. The people at the bottom lived a hard life. Moreover, because the Qing Dynasty strictly abides by the Ming Dynasty's road-guiding system, the people were closed in their hometowns. If you can see the surrounding hundreds of miles, you will be considered a person who has traveled around you.
Now Xiao Letian has opened a new door for these ignorant people, allowing them to see a completely different world with their own eyes. From that moment on, the foolish people scams fabricated by the Qing Dynasty and corrupt scholars were completely bankrupt.
It turns out that there is really a way of living. People can eat meat every day, people can eat a full meal every day, and they can not kneel down when they meet officials, and they are polite when they see foreigners.
It turns out that this world is like this. It is not a world with only one ruler, minister, father and son. Those nations without emperors do not have the sky and the earth fall, and the people there live better.
It turns out that there is really a paradise in this world where hard work can make you feel good about food and clothing...
That night, two thousand green camp soldiers collectively launched an insurrection and joined the new army. In just one night, two thousand bald soldiers were added to the Special Administrative Region. Although their military literacy was not high, even engineers from Europe and the United States saw their vitality.
In just one night, their temperament was completely different from the time they surrendered.
The next morning, the Zhengtang established a contact with the remaining 4,000 defenders on the Dagukou Fort. The Special Zone used a small sampan to transport a large amount of supplies to the fort, and guns, ammunition and food were put on the order. As long as the Special Zone had some, it was continuously transported to the fort.
Four thousand defenders vowed to guard the Dagukou Fort to the death. The people were there, and the people died and died.
For a whole day, the small boats transporting supplies to the south bank of the Special Administrative Region on the north bank of the Haihe River were connected into a line, and the flow was endless and never stopped. However, what was strange was that the French on the sea and the Mele defenders of Wangzhuang, the big and small Wangzhuang had no movement at all.
"It's wrong, the taste is really wrong... I'll send orders to strictly prevent them, especially where is the Dagukou Fort, so that our snipers can go up and support..." After all, General Liu Lang followed the Kingdom of Heaven to fight the Northern Expedition, and fought out in the bloody storm, and had a nearly intuitive understanding of the murderous aura.
Just as Tanggu was fighting, a big chaos was in chaos in Tianjin Weili, west.
Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Wei, the word "wei" has vividly explained the characteristics of this city, which is to establish the city with troops. When the Ming Dynasty established Tianjin Wei, it was to support the northern front and stationed in Haihekou. When it was the Qing Dynasty, it became more important and became the first line of defense to resist the enemy from the sea.
There are many Weili Yamen in Tianjin, from the Green Camp, from the Eight Banners, from the Acropolis... Even the Yancao Gangs have set up offices here, who made this a water and drought wharf?
Just this morning, the main warehouse in the Eight Banners Camp in the south of the city was watered. I heard that it was caused by the fire caused by the fried dough stick shop, and some said that the incense and candle shop accidentally knocked over the lamp candle... As for why there are so many fire hazards around the main warehouse site? Only God knows.
It's really a cool autumn weather. This kind of weather is a good weather for setting fire. Soon the fire in the entire warehouse became a piece of fire, and black smoke rolled up ashes all over the city. From a distance, it looked like a black snow.
Although the army in the late Qing Dynasty was declining and corrupt, the Tianjin Wei was a strategic location after all, and defending foreigners also had to defend Xiao Letian. Therefore, the arms in the warehouse here were really real. At most, those officials dared to suffer a 10% loss. If there were too many, they were afraid of beheading them.
During this period, the warehouse was full of guns, ammunition, cotton cloth, oil and beans, and even more than 100,000 taels of scattered silver.
This is the lifeblood of Meller's battle. If it burns all over, the anger in the Forbidden City will probably collapse the wall.
The streets were full of soldiers running around, carrying wooden barrels and sweating profusely. In the end, even the guards of various yamen were dispatched and rushed towards the south of the city.
The fire soared into the sky, and the people in the city were looking around. Many timids even knelt on the ground and chanted Buddha's name and prayed. Even the officials in the yamen stood at the door and looked around and talked.
The Tai Yamen established by the Ministry of War is located in the northwest corner of the Gulou. At this time, a group of teachers at the gate were crowded together to watch the fun, and their faces were filled with regret.
Someone in the crowd whispered, "It's a loss, it's a loss. If we had known that there was this fire, why wouldn't we make a lot of deficits? So many good things are gone. If we had started early, we would have to make about 200,000..."
"Take you down, this is the military supplies for Meller. We will suffer a 10% loss and it will be too high. Do you still want to scrape out 200,000? Dreaming..."
Just as people were talking, a dense sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the depths of the street. At first, it was scattered slightly, but soon it became a momentum, rumbling like a tank and pressed from the north.
"What happened? Who dares to ride a horse in the city? Something that doesn't understand the rules..." The scolding in the crowd started to start, but his voice seemed to be pinched by an invisible big hand, and he couldn't even jump out a word.
"This...what the hell thing is this?"
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But sometimes it can't be turned on with your phone, which may be a problem with the settings, so it's best to use a computer to enter this web page.
Alas, the design of the cake activity of the website is too problematic. The book friends who have not considered reading books on their mobile phones at all. I wonder if the website leader can see my words.
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After complaining, I continued to write.
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