Chapter 14: The Armor
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Han officials used their in-laws to weave an impenetrable network of relationships in the officialdom. www.biquge.info From Lin Zexu at the beginning of the Opium War to Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Lu Chuanlin (the last Han military minister in the Qing Dynasty) and other relatives from Lin Zexu at the beginning of the Opium War to Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Lu Chuanlin (the last Han military minister of the Qing Dynasty) and so on.
This is also to resist the Manchu in the early and middle Qing Dynasty at every turn to the nine clans of the prison of the literal prison, it can be said that since the Opium War, as long as the Qing Dynasty came to the nine clans of the literary prison, all the Han officials will rebel - because everyone is a relative.
After the formation of this ubiquitous network of in-laws, the power of the Manchu emperor was weakened to a certain extent, and it was easy to kill officials, but if you want to kill an official, you have to think about it carefully.
The three Manchu emperors in the Kangqian period were about to find trouble to kill a group of Hanchen at every turn, and they were never seen again after the Opium War.
After Cixi's death, those Manchu relatives who lacked political skills actually wanted to kill Yuan Shikai, the most powerful military among the Han people, so don't blame Yuan Shikai for wanting to be in a yellow robe and be Zhao Kuangyin to bully the orphans and widows of Emperor Xuantong.
Lin Haiyang was on an industrial ship, and he began to develop weapons when he had nothing to do, and many of the slightly advanced technologies were used as future backups, and there were also some that could not be copied even if the enemy got samples, but could be equipped in large quantities. For example, Lin Haiyang has developed a full-body armor cast with nanoscale alloy particles.
The total weight of this suit of armor varies from person to person, and the total weight of a suit of armor for an adult man who is 1.8 meters tall is about 9 kilograms. Because of the use of high-tech casting methods and superalloy formulas, the frontal defense of this weight armor can completely block the close-range fire of rifled guns - in the face of direct fire from larger caliber guns, of course, there is no way to defend against it, and the impact force man can't stand it.
Lin Haiyang swore that unless someone developed a steel-core armor-piercing bullet earlier, this armor would be invincible in this century. After various shooting and slashing tests, the shogunate army has begun a large-scale refitting of this 19th-century invincible armor.
Finally, in the mobile phone video communication, Lin Haiyang asked: "I originally made several models, but as a result, as you know, small models below 1.55 meters are in short supply." There is a large backlog of medium models of about 1.65 meters and large models of more than 1.75 meters, and you have no market. ”
Song Haiping: "The backlog is all sent, I'll ask Yu Deqian to send a set of gold-plated ones to Lord Xianfeng." ”
As for the purchasing power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, both the court and the people now have money. After Weng Xincun and Song Haiping poured several waves of grain on their side, they insisted on smashing the grain price in Sijiu City to the price of rice to 127 yuan and 1 stone, and the price of flour to 223 yuan and 1 stone.
Most of the areas around Beizhili are Huangzhuang banner fields - they are all the results of the Eight Banners of Shunzhi and Kangxi in the early years, and the northern landlords and gentry who surrendered without a fight did not regret taking the medicine. For Weng Xincun and Song Haiping, there are more people who have offended, and they are not worse than these.
In total, more than half of the profits of the grain business of more than 20 million taels of silver were made, and Song Haiping didn't care about it, so he made 30% of it, and his subordinates divided some up and down, and finally more than 2 million taels of silver fell under his hands.
Weng Xincun is even more timid, Song Haiping estimated that the old man had made about 200,000 taels of silver by himself, but the problem is that now the Hubu treasury is full, not only erasing the deficit of about 800,000 taels of silver left by the previous Hubu Shangshu, but also saving 5 million taels of silver in the Nissin Silver in Sijiu City, and 2.7 million Shinanyang rice in the Tianjin Wei Riqing grain store.
In fact, according to the definition of the Qing Dynasty, the household department itself is a treasury keeper and account, but it can't stand it, once there is no money and food, the court will hold the household department accountable, and the guy who is the secretary of the household department at the time will be unlucky.
After all, there are only a small number of officials in the capital who can enjoy the local officials' Bing Jing and carbon respect, and after the household department has money and grain, not only do they not have to receive the previous national hardship salary, but the market price has also stabilized a lot, and the price of grain has gradually decreased. The praise of Lord Weng filled the court for a time - it was simply a generation of famous ministers and capable officials, of course, there were also impeachments of Weng Xinxin to compete with the people for profit and Oriental businessmen who resold Nanyang rice to make a fortune, but this kind of performance The emperor was retained, that is, he did not care.
Xianfeng knew that no one in the world could follow the public, especially the children of the Eight Banners. He Weng Xincun did not sell the official porridge, nor did he take away his wife and daughter, but took care of the household department in an orderly manner, and even paid the rice that was in arrears due to the severance of Cao Yun and the Beijing official camp caused by the long hair, so other things would not matter.
For Xianfeng, there is no shortage of loyal servile courtiers in this world, but there is really a lack of capable ministers who can make money for him and the court.
The impeachment of Weng Xincun is mostly because Weng Xincun blocked their way to make a fortune, such as the Manchurian Kuding, who relied on the chrysanthemum swallowing silver skill he had practiced since he was a child, and every time he saw the library, he used his rectum to pour the silver home, although he was rich, even the Manchurians looked down on this kind of person.
Now the household department is really full of government treasury, but the government treasury on the books is full, and these people have lost the opportunity to start. In order to prevent this bit of silver money and rice grain from being dumped home, Song Haiping and Weng Xincun simply stored it on the books of the silver number grain number.
Originally, in history, in order to cope with the economic crisis caused by the cut off of transportation, the imperial court minted a lot of money, printed a lot of paper money, and finally caused inflation and a poor life for the people - during this period, the officials naturally took the opportunity to make a big profit, and enriched the dying doctor of the Qing Dynasty.
Originally, it was a good thing that the court had some money, but some people couldn't see it, and took it for granted that the court was mine, especially the Manchu officials and the Internal Affairs Office.
Since Bai Ye became the Minister of the Interior, he has been constantly instigated by the people below, and on this day, the Great Dynasty issued a report: "I heard that the household is rich in silver and rice, and the servants have asked for the repair of the three mountains and five gardens for the purpose of enjoying the summer." ”
Xianfeng also thought about it for a while, the palace is indeed not stupid, the territory is big, and I don't know how many little eunuchs and palace maids get lost every year, but these are hundreds of years old buildings - bitten by wind and sun, insects and rats. Therefore, the palace has only a name left, and Xianfeng himself likes to work or rest in the Three Mountains and Five Gardens - the scenery there is much better.
Originally, after the construction of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, they were repaired by the Construction Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs every year, but since the first crow, the imperial court has to pay compensation and the silver is tight, and the Three Mountains and Five Gardens are not repaired much. But right now, Yingyi and other foreigners may come to the door one day, and it is really not the time to spend money on repairing the garden.
Of course, the mind of the Internal Affairs Office is on the silver, and there is no project where the Internal Affairs Office will get the oil and water - later Cixi spent tens of millions of taels of silver to build the garden, and most of the funds were privately divided between the upper and lower levels of the Internal Affairs Office.
How can the internal affairs government get money, for example, the emperor's imperial dining room wants to buy an egg, and the egg in the market is five yuan, and when it comes to the internal affairs office, it becomes the royal egg five taels of silver - more than 3,000 officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty internal affairs government rely on the emperor's family to make a fortune or suck blood.