In 1897, the situation of the Qing Dynasty became increasingly festering, and the lives of the people became increasingly difficult. More and more people from all over the country fled to Beijing every winter.

Most of the refugees and beggars on the street are thin and thin, and they are covered with clothes. The streets are full of people. This has led to a deformed prosperity. Various markets are extremely lively. There are more and more peddlers who sell arts and bodies, do some small business, and there are also more peddlers who take streets and alleys.

The taxes collected by officials from all over the country are getting heavier every year. Not to mention ordinary people, even small landlords, their families are getting worse every year.

Land taxes, mining taxes, salt taxes, tea taxes and various industrial and commercial taxes in various places, and even borrowing taxes, lijin, Yigu and other means are being used to impose severe taxes, and the dynasty is in danger.

There was no way. The Qing Dynasty owed too much money, and the Eight Banners had many children. They also needed food and silver to raise those buckets. The great powers of various countries were eyeing each other, and the upper class was aiming the pockets of the people, and the great powers were aiming the pockets of the Qing court, one after another.

After the First Opium War, the Qing Dynasty's borders were completely opened, and dozens of ports were built across the country. These ports were basically controlled by the great powers, transporting the Qing court's silver and other raw materials back to the country, and then transporting rags from abroad to the Qing court. They have been playing with this set for hundreds of years.

Last year, the Qing court began to raise the second phase of indemnity to the little Japanese. It was like fighting for mating rights. The powerful powers of various countries rushed to ask the Qing court to borrow money from them. Among them, the most powerful British Empire in this era claimed that if the Qing court did not borrow money from Britain, the British Empire's warships would arrive at the doorstep of the Qing court's house and use force to let the Qing court borrow money.

Why do these great powers lend money to the Qing court so enthusiastically?

The reason is very simple. Take the money borrowed from Britain as an example. The Qing government borrowed 100 million silver, and only 94 million taels were obtained. The remaining six million taels were the handling fee, and the interest was 5 cents, which were paid in 36 years. They were not allowed to be paid in advance. Of course, if you borrow money, you must have something guaranteed, right?

It's okay, Britain has already decided on the Qing court. Then, during the 36-year loan period, your customs taxes will be used as deposit. In order to avoid your Qing court's debt, your Qing court's customs will be handed over to our British Empire for management.

In this way, the Qing court's customs administration fell into the hands of the UK. The Qing court's General Taxation Department was a British. From 1863 to 1909, it controlled the Huaxia Customs for half a century.

Those usury loans in the Internet in later generations should be the reference of the ancestors and the capitalist traditions!

Last year, when I borrowed money from Britain, Britain asked for customs taxes and borrowed money from Russia the previous year. The conditions for Russia's opening were darker and more sinister. Not only did it occupy a large amount of Chinese territory, it also required the construction of a railway running through the Northeast. Russia's ambitions for the Northeast were even cleared by Blind Liu, but the Qing court could not see clearly.

Perhaps even if you can see clearly, you will not be able to change the status quo. The Qing Dynasty has now knelt down to conquer the great powers, just like a cousin with her thighs, anyone can play that.

Only after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, after the little Japanese slapped the Qing Dynasty severely, other powerful people no longer took the Qing court seriously.

In 1897, the great powers were already unscrupulous. In the first month of the year, Britain demanded the Qing court to recognize the British Empire to obtain jurisdiction in Myanmar.

From now on, you will follow me. Yours will be mine, mine, or mine, and yours will be mine. From now on, this place will be British Burma.

The domineering behavior of Britain made Germany not want to be outdone. It directly sent warships to occupy Jiaozhou Bay and forced a 99-year lease contract. Germany also shamelessly stated that the friendship between the two countries is solid, and only renting you for 99 years. Leave it for one year for you, which is considered to be a face. Although it is rent, I didn’t see a word for rent in the entire contract. Do you negotiate the rent with me?

I'll talk about friendship with you, you'll talk about rent with me? Do I want to save face?

In fact, the reason why Germany rents Jiaozhou Bay is that it can be directly transported from cotton, coal, iron ore and other raw materials from the North China production area to the ocean to supply to Germany through railways.

Moreover, Jiaozhou Bay is one of the few natural ports in China. Large warships can be docked here. If you want to transport troops to China in the future, this is the best landing point. This is why the little Japanese snatched Jiaozhou Bay from Germany directly, which is not a good thing.

Germany's forced occupation of Jiaozhou Bay did arouse indignation from the Chinese people. Kang Youwei wrote to Guangxu for the fifth time, so the later reform of 1898 was born. Unfortunately, the Qing Dynasty is now a junk person, and there is an old witch making trouble behind the scenes, so the Qing court really couldn't help it.

Compared with the decay of the Qing Dynasty, Bai Jingqi's Bai's Pharmaceutical Company developed rapidly. Since 1895, after Bai Jingqi took over the Bai family, in 1896, Bai's Pharmaceutical established three pharmaceutical production bases, establishing new branches in Jilin and Taiyuan.

With a large-scale production base, various drugs can be produced in large quantities, and the cost has also decreased. Bai's medicines have always been of quality assurance, good efficacy, and not expensive. In the past, some folk remedies required several hundred taels of taels at a time, and doctors had to come to the door for consultation every day. Now, with instructions, it is easy and easy to prescribe the right medicine.

In the past, the medicines in Baicao Hall were all produced and sold by themselves, and they had to be purchased by Baicao Hall. Now, they rely mainly on wholesale. Pharmacies across the country can directly purchase batches of medicines produced by Bai's Pharmaceutical from sales points in various provinces by spending money. This modern sales model appeared in the Qing Dynasty for the first time.

Of course, it is not easy to travel around in this era. In order to lay out these sales points, Bai Jingqi also established a large number of branches of the guard escort agencies, and elite troops of the Hei Family Army also began to enter the guard escort agencies in batches. Fortunately, in recent years, the Qing court has become increasingly festered. Otherwise, if someone really wants to investigate, Bai Jingqi can still be found.

Moreover, Bai Jingqi has been acting low-key in the past two years. He wants to develop rapidly in silence and accumulate enough capital.

In 1897 alone, Bai's Pharmaceutical sold a total of more than 1.4 million taels of silver, and its gross profit was more than 600,000 taels, which was far beyond the period when Bai Laoda took control of the Bai family, and even exceeded the matter when Mr. Bai was in power.

However, last year, the expenses were more expensive, including the construction of production bases, recruiting personnel, training, and the most important thing was the import and procurement of various equipment from the institute, various prescription purchases, and other expenses, which even cost more than one million taels of silver. However, Bai Jingqi believed that all of this would be worth the money in the future, because now he was planning everything.

In the same year, a Bai's Pharmaceutical Technical School was established in the suburbs of Beijing. This name is very strange. This school does not recruit students to the public. It is all poor children, and even a large number of orphans and beggars, aged between the ages of seven and twelve.

Before entering the school, a three-month screening will be conducted, including intelligence, physical fitness, and even reaction ability, etc. After three months, students who pass will directly enter the school to study. The school adopts fully closed teaching, and all food, clothing, housing and transportation are contracted.

The school adopts a five-year education system. In these five years, it will go from learning to identify words, then to identify drugs, and finally drug learning, and so on. Of course, physical training is indispensable. Of course, this is not training the Hei Family Army. Physical training here will be much easier, but some students with physical talent will secretly send them to other places to study, and this is the real Hei Family Army training camp.

The school’s external introduction is that this is a training institution for Bai’s Pharmaceuticals, an internal training institution for training pharmaceutical workers and pharmaceutical apprentices. In the future, more than 90% of these people will be engaged in the pharmaceutical industry. From study to work, Bai’s Pharmaceutical will contract one-stop.

These children are beggars and children of poor families who are about to starve to death, which also reduces the burden on society. The government naturally has no objection, let alone if there is any problem, it can be completely dismissed with money now.

Bai Jingqi's purpose of founding this school is to cultivate talents for the future Bai's Pharmaceutical. In addition to pharmaceuticals, it will also train doctors. This is the real talent training base for Bai's Pharmaceutical.

Even the children of the Bai family will study in this school from now on, treating them equally. Of course, they have a good birth because their surname is Bai. If their grades are excellent in the future, they will naturally have special care. Who is Bai Jingqi's Bai's Pharmaceuticals is just a family business for the time being.

In short, Bai Jingqi has been slowly making arrangements in recent years, and the training of the Hei Family Army has not fallen. As the Hei Family Army gradually grows, it now has its own underground arsenal. It has purchased a large number of the most advanced guns and artillery of this era for dismantling and imitating. Bai Jingqi also spent a lot of time to compile a textbook.

This textbook does not teach how to make guns, but also explains the history of guns, as well as future gun development plans, including the subdivision of guns. Bai Jingqi gave them an idea.

He is not a weapon manufacturing expert, he can only draw a blueprint for them. Whether they can create future guns based on their imagination depends on their own wisdom.

The Hei Family Army is most lacking in funds. In the late years of such dynasties, the Hei Family Army relied on robbing the rich to help the poor, and has made a lot of funds over the years. If they are really short of money, they can slaughter a few fat lambs at any time to get meat.

Now there are more than 100 fat sheep on their hands. Everyone knows the family situation and even where the money is hidden in their families. Most of these people are high-ranking officials and princes and nobles of the Qing court, as well as some dead eunuchs with real power.

There are even many cash houses on the list. These, when necessary, will be dishes on the plate of the Hei Family Army. Troubled times are coming, and instead of being cheaper than foreigners, it is better to leave them to Bai Jingqi for a bigger career.

After twelve years of development, the Hei Family Army has now become a formal secret military organization. There are now several departments, from assassination operation teams, intelligence tracking teams, undercover spies, and finally weapons manufacturing.

Bai Jingqi used the number behind Black One as the title, and finally terminated the title when Black Seventy-seven was promulgated, because in Bai Jingqi's opinion, this method was a bit stupid. Isn't this obvious telling others that there are 77 people in the Hei Family Army?

Later, a member of the Black Family Army proposed to use the zodiac signs to divide them, rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, and pig. Each zodiac sign can be used for the code name of a certain department.

For example, snakes represent assassination departments, cows represent joining the guards of the guards, rats represent undercover agents, horses represent intelligence transmission departments, pigs represent the department that manages the organization's finances, and other departments also correspond to a zodiac sign, but this dragon represents only one person, that is, the leader of the organization, Hei Qiye.

This zodiac title has been in use for seven years now. The members of the Hei Family Army have now grown by more than 1,100 people. Especially in the next few years, it has developed rapidly. With the rapid expansion of Bai's Pharmaceutical, the Hei Family Army organization is also expanding and developing rapidly.

The second-ranked figure of the Hei Family Army is Zhang Li, one of the first members of the Hei Family Army. The young man has grown into a very wise commander, managing this secret military organization of more than a thousand people and in an orderly manner.

In fact, the first to fourth batch of members of the Hei Family Army have now grown up and gradually become core members. Bai Jingqi's Hei Family Army has the second ability and loyalty. He must firmly control this organization in his own hands.

He does not need some leaders of the Hei Family Army, he only needs to obey, because no one knows the future situation better than him. They only need to develop well according to their own layout and plans.

In 1898, Bai Jingqi finally became an adult. This year, the situation in the capital had become a little confused. The senior officials also realized that if the Qing Dynasty continued like this, it would be a few years before it could last. So under the deliberate training of the Qing court, militias in various places gradually began to become a climate.

Since Germany occupied Jiaozhou Bay last year, France has followed suit this year and occupied Guangzhou Bay. The great powers of various countries have set their sights on the map of China. If it is too late, they will have to drink soup.

Bai Jingqi has also accelerated his own layout. Now the Bai family's assets in Beijing are basically light assets. Even the production base of Baishi Pharmaceuticals has been moved to Hebei. Today, Baicaotang is only responsible for selling medicines. The Guardian Escort Agency has developed rapidly in recent years. Now it has a scale of 1,700 people, and has basically become a private security company of Baishi Pharmaceuticals.

The Hei Family Army has added 300 new people this year, reaching more than 1,500 people. These people are Bai Jingqi’s real trump card. In other words, Bai Jingqi currently has an armed organization of more than 3,000 people.

In fact, in addition to these two teams, Bai Jingqi has much more than these powers to control.

Since 1885, the trainees eliminated every year are ten times more than the current Hei Family Army. These tens of thousands are now spread in every corner of China, including more than one thousand people in the capital. More than one thousand people have controlled several beggar gangs in the capital. The more than one thousand people in the capital are still considered the peripheral organization of the Hei Family Army, because the number of students required a large number of fresh trainees every year.

Other members spread across other parts of China, except for some gangs of the three religions and nine ranks, have occasionally had contact, most of the teenagers who came out of the training camp have gone to other industries and have completely lost contact. The trainees who were eliminated from the training camp themselves will never force them to do anything, and they can completely find a better life.

These people have learned to write and read in training camps. This item alone can find a job in this era, not to mention that they also know some simple skills, and those skills will be the best foundation in all walks of life.

These people didn't know that they were eliminated to select the Hei Family Army. However, over the years, the legend of the Hei Family Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 made many people suddenly remember that they might have been the reserve candidate for the Hei Family Army back then, but they were eliminated in the end.

Because they are beggars and refugees, a mysterious team provided them with food and drinks, and after two years of training, they gave them a living plan. Although the mysterious team rarely contacted them in the future, how could they forget the recreation of that year?

What's more, when the two years of training were left, the mysterious team told them that if one day there was a need, they would contact them again. From today on, they could work hard based on what they had learned in the past two years and create a future with their own abilities. This passage, the people who left the training camp, heard this sentence.

Those two years of training changed the lives of many of them. Many people learned about the characters and had some basic skills. After leaving the training camp, many people did not actually stay in the whole family for much time. Many went to other industries, such as joining the army, or participating in various anti-Qing organizations in various places, or even becoming revolutionaries.

These will be Bai Jingqi's future connections. In the future, Bai Jingqi's identity as Hei Qiye will be exposed sooner or later. At that time, these people may have already been elite talents from all walks of life, or many of them will be selling Bai Jingqi for a little bit.

But there is another possibility. The trainees who were eliminated back then became a big shot in the past ten or twenty years later. When they met Bai Jingqi again, the thing they wanted to do most was to kill Bai Jingqi because they knew the real harm of Bai Jingqi.

Of course, Bai Jingqi didn't want that day, so he had to continue to expand his strength.

In 1898, the sales amount of Bai's Pharmaceutical successfully exceeded 3 million taels, and five production bases have been established across the country. The drugs produced by Bai's Pharmaceutical have established sales outlets in more than a dozen provinces in China, and even many foreign powers have purchased Bai's Pharmaceutical's medicines.

This year, the Baishi Pharmaceutical Research Institute finally made some breakthroughs. The extract of Artemisia annua ether was discovered. This is the famous artemisinin in later generations. Although this was an experiment that was only completed under the guidance and suggestions of Bai Jingqi, it also marked that Baishi Pharmaceutical reached a new height.

After three years of running-in, the older generation of pharmaceutical masters, including cheap dad, have finally accepted some concepts of foreign Western medicine. Currently, there are more than 60 members of Bai's Pharmaceutical Research Institute.

Among them, there are more than twenty masters including the cheap father and uncle Bai Yingyuan, and there are more than 40 people, all of whom are young. These people are even thirteen or fourteen years old. Most of these people are outstanding top students studying in Bai's Pharmaceutical Technical School. They are currently teaching in school and working as assistants and apprentices in the research institute. In the future, these people will be the foundation of Bai's Pharmaceutical Research Institute.

Bai's Pharmaceutical Research Institute has just started, and Bai Jingqi is not in a hurry and will give them time to grow.

The history of Artemisia juice in treating malaria has been around for thousands of years in traditional Chinese medicine, but it almost disappeared in the long river of history, because like other traditional Chinese medicine, this is just an ancient prescription, and no one knows why Artemisia annua can treat malaria. The discovery of artemisia can be said to be the most perfect combination of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, using Western medicine methods to purify and crystallize.

Bai Jingqi wanted to break the self-confidence of traditional Chinese medicine and use the thousands of years of Chinese medicine prescriptions through Western medicine experiments to figure out why this prescription can treat this disease, rather than just passing it on a mysterious secret prescription passed down by perfunctory.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes decoction and boiling, and boiling the essence of the medicinal materials into soup, and I wish I could even eat the residue of the medicine into my stomach. In fact, they don’t know why these medicines are effective together. They only know that traditional Chinese medicine has done this for thousands of years, and what they care about is an experience.

Western medicine has become even more clear and directly researched which ingredients in this medicinal material have therapeutic effects on the disease, then extracted them, and finally chemically synthesize synthetic drugs with better purity. In fact, this is the reason why Western medicine can truly dominate the world, because it is simple and clear, it will tell you what kind of chemical molecule it is.

Bai Wen had been looking forward to Bai Jingqi's coming-of-age ceremony for a long time, so he immediately prepared to find a wife for Bai Jingqi. After Bai Jingqi learned about this, he directly brought Huang Chun back to the Bai family and said in front of Bai Wenqi that this was his future wife.

Bai Wenshi looked pretty good when she saw Huang Chun’s appearance, but the only thing she was dissatisfied with was that Huang Chun was an orphan, but Bai Jingqi liked it, so he was the only one who could do it.

In the original work, Huang Chun's identity was immediately exposed by Master Bai San, so Bai Wenshi naturally did not want Bai Jingqi to marry the daughter of an enemy family.

However, in this world, no one revealed Huang Chun's identity because Bai Sanye did not dare. Moreover, although the Zhan Mansion and the Bai family were still enemies, these courtyards did not interfere with the rivers. In Bai Wen's eyes, there seemed to be no such deep hatred.

After experiencing the fire that year, Mr. Bai completely knew that Bai Jingqi, a little bastard, was ruthless and didn't dare to go against Bai Jingqi anymore. In the past two years, he was sent to Tianjin by Bai Jingqi, and he raised him for hundreds of taels of silver a month. Mr. Bai gradually forgot the horror that year, and only felt at ease and wandered around the kiln every day, and was happy to leave.

Since Bai Jingqi met Huang Chun at the home party that year, she became concerned about this little girl. Later, when the two got to know each other, Bai Jingqi also paid money every month to serve her. She has raised this little girl as a child bride since childhood. Seeing that she was adult, her biological mother was pressing her tightly, so she simply made the relationship clear.

Many people and events in this world seem to have returned to the original plot, but many things and people have changed a lot. The 18-year-old Bai Jingqi in the original work is a fair young man, while Bai Jingqi in this world is a big man with a big face with a height of 1.83 meters, a tiger-back and bear-waisted waist. Although he looks a bit like in the original work, he is actually two people with different personalities.

It was finally 1900. This year, too many things will happen. The sorrow between Bai Jingqi's eyebrows became deeper and deeper. He knew that many people would die this year. The great powers were preparing to kill sheep and get meat. Bai Jingqi also had this plan.

Bai Wen urged Bai Jingqi to return to Beijing to hold the wedding, but Bai Jingqi was not in the mood to get married. Just after the Chinese New Year, he transferred all the young and old Bai family from the capital.

Now the situation in the Qing Dynasty has become irreversible. Now the warships of the great powers of various countries have been in the Bohai Sea and are ready to shave their hair and pick up their flesh on the thin old sheep of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing court had already felt that it was too late to have time, so for this reason, he would summon the Boxer Regiment to Beijing to fight to the death with the foreigners!
Chapter completed!