The military intelligence secrecy work of the Heilongjiang mutiny was one of the best secrecy work done by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past 10 years or so, and the news had been transmitted to the Forbidden City for three days, and there was not even a trace of the news leaking, and even Li Tuo and other colleagues in the military aircraft department did not smell the news. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Only some very deep-rooted forces in the entire Sijiu City could learn this news in advance, such as the important princes and the Qingliu leader, and there were only a dozen people, these people had received the gag order from the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, and they didn't even dare to tell their housekeepers, let alone others.

But Li Tuo is obviously not an ordinary person, after all, the little fifth master of the Jingshi is also the son of Emperor Daoguang, and he can have access to a lot of secrets, plus the current fifth master is assisted by Li Tuo, Yang Zhi and others, and there is a secret consortium loyal to him in Jiangnan that is collecting money for him, and now the fifth master has a team of about 500 people in the hands of the rivers and lakes, and he is hiding in the grassland outside the mouth as a result of new military training.

The fifth master, who has money and guns, has already exposed his political ambitions, how can he not care about this kind of big change in the court.

Yi Cheng's house is in the northwest corner of the capital, Li Tuo's front door is led by the housekeeper and he changed his clothes, left through the back door on horseback, and then entered the three houses halfway and changed his clothes three times, and then dressed up as an ordinary prostitute and slipped into the half-hidden door of the rouge tiger in the red light district of Bada Hutong.

When he arrived, the fifth master and Yang Zhi were drinking together, but obviously their minds were not on the wine and food, let alone on the little beauty who pinched her shoulders behind him.

"Lord Wang, our chance has come......" Li Tuo, who was excited, raised his head to a glass of wine, and he breathed a sigh of joy.

"The 200,000 taels of silver that the prince used to buy the inner servants are really not in vain, and the sixth prince and the seventh prince are not military planes on duty at all, but to discuss the affairs of the north......"

"Oh, what did they come up with?" Yi asked with a light in his eyes.

"What is the prince anxious about, not to mention our spies in this kind of meeting, even Li Lianying and Zhou Daoying have to guard the gate, but the little eunuch saw the devil six slamming the door with his own eyes, and there was a violent quarrel before going, it seems that the sixth prince didn't give any face!"

Yang Zhi had a gloomy face, and the empty wine glass in his hand swirled between his fingers: "Quarrel, if I were the devil six, I would also argue, not only arguing, but also retreating, and throwing out the golden seal of the Xishan New Barracks...... Let's have a big sprinkle!"

Li Tuo laughed, "Clever plan, what a clever plan!"

Yi Cheng is not a person with quick wisdom, he asked eagerly, "What the hell is going on......?"

"Retreating is now the best way for the devil to deal with it, since the little emperor dares to play the banner of the imperial party, this is to put these uncles and girls in the court into an army, just to see how they will react to this matter......"

"The court and the central government are now in a mess, and each of these princes hopes that the dynasty will return to the era of the emperor's autocracy like the Kang Yongqian Three Dynasties, but on the surface, they can't say this kind of thought, and they have to make an attitude of respecting the emperor......"

"Of course Yi understands this truth, he can't give people an excuse to let others implement his hat as a king, so he has to hand over his military power to avoid suspicion, after all, there are also people in the court who are guarding against the soldiers in his hands!"

Now Yi Cheng suddenly realized, not only did he understand that the rouge tiger who came to add wine also understood, this woman leaned on Yi Cheng's side and added a glass of wine to the prince, and gently pinched the prince's shoulder.

"The prince is confused, isn't it, these days you talk about government politics, even I, a woman, understand half of it...... Didn't you all say that all the factions in the imperial court are now afraid of the wolf and the wolf? Whoever has soldiers in his hands and a strong army is afraid and will not sleep peacefully......

"Don't talk about the Han people, even if there are people within the Manchurians who seize military power, other people are not happy, can Prince Gong not avoid pretending?"

With a snap, Yi Cheng gave Rouge Tiger a big slap on the buttocks, "Do you dare to mix with the old man......'s things?"

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

The weakness of the late Qing Dynasty was really not only the backwardness of science and technology and industry, nor the fact that there were no hot-blooded men in the court who were willing to sacrifice their lives and forget their lives, but that the political system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had great flaws from the very beginning.

To put it bluntly, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a military tribal alliance, relying on ruthlessness and humility willing to learn from the Han people to settle the Central Plains, but the primitive tribal system and the advanced and developed Han civilization softened together, like two skins that could not be glued together at all.

The primitive tribal alliance pays attention to whoever has the biggest fist is the leader, and if you want to maintain the wolf nature of the tribe, you must not pull it out and practice.

The rulers of the Han nation had to learn to balance the forces within the empire, and they also had to know a lot of cultural methods.

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

And what the great empire needs is a big project, and the promotion of the big project needs centralized power and the authority of the emperor.

Modern people seem to have a kind of rejection of centralization, but in human history, centralized countries can do great things, without centralization there would be no Great Wall, without centralization there would be no Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, without centralization there would be no major project to control the Yellow River in the Kang Yongqian Dynasty...... A simple example is that it was difficult for an ancient state without centralized power to mobilize the whole country for national war.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there were several activities to control the Yellow River, and the emperor even set up a special yamen for water control, and the highest governor was the governor of the river, which was generally sent by the emperor to serve as a close confidant and had the power to speak directly with the emperor, which was already a very prominent official position in the ancient officialdom.

The Yellow River runs from Gansu in the upper reaches to the downstream, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Zhili, and caves...... A total of six provinces need to coordinate and run errands at the same time, and millions of people must be mobilized for each major project.

In the Middle Ages, how could such a large project be completed by a government without centralized power, and I am afraid that it would be difficult to coordinate even the food and drink of millions of people.

On the other hand, the authority of the government in the late Qing Dynasty began to decline, and many large-scale projects at the national level could not be carried out at all, and the projects of the people's livelihood could not be completed.