Chapter 51: The Prologue of the Great Era
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For some poor scholars who don't want to stay in the vicinity of Xijin City to become village officials, it is okay to go back if they want to, just settle the round-trip airboat tickets first. We Japan United Air Transport is the most kind, passenger 100 miles 1 tael of silver also includes accommodation and insurance. From Sijiu City to the West into the City, the back and forth, regardless of the fraction, is just 22,000 miles of crickets.
How many years can a nine-grade sesame petty official from the ninth grade get together more than two hundred taels of silver, which is really a problem.
The scholar who was forced to stay in Europe as an official had to comfort himself: "I have studied hard for more than ten years in the cold window, and now I finally have an official status." ”
As everyone knows, Song Haiping has already seen through everything, and he is willing to delve into things like Baguwen, which must be official fans.
Whether I am in the Qing Dynasty or under the Southern Governor, the officials, even the relatives and family members of the officials, and even the domestic servants will reach out and make money whenever they have the opportunity -- and they will never be satisfied.
In the history of the previous life, when Guizi Liu served as the foreman of the military aircraft, the porter received as many as tens of millions of taels of silver every year -- Guizi Liuhe and the porter adopted the method of dividing accounts, and many officials came to the door to write down their names in order to send a sum of money to the door.
Song Haiping adopts the system of paying a deposit for the children of the rich to become officials, and there is no way, anyway, whether it is a donation official or an official who has been admitted to the Bagu Literary Examination, it is necessary to make money, so it is better to find some people with a bottom line to make money, which is the lesser of two powers. Even if a rich kid becomes an official, there is no bottom line, at least the bank deposit and the family property guaranteed by it can be used as counterinsurgency military expenses - it is better than the guy I have already enjoyed, who will be flooded after death.
As for the situation of borrowing usury to pay a deposit and become an official, Song Haiping also considered it at first, and later analyzed the financial market of the Qing Dynasty to know that it was impossible, and now the interest on loans (unsecured) on the market ranges from one cent to three cents, but the term is very short, and the longest is only half a year.
And it is the norm to be an official for three years a term, and the profits of borrowing usury as a deposit to become an official have also killed him -- even if there is such a large department, it will not be the turn to bid from outside.
In short, this matter can be done so smoothly, it is really the efforts and cooperation of many parties, if it were not for Xianfeng's westward march to conquer Moscow and other large areas of territory waiting for a large number of middle and low-level officials to manage, this matter would not have been so easy to solve in the first place - now a large number of backup officials in the imperial court who have no official to do have received a letter of official in the northwest - west to a certain place in the middle of the city to be an official, and those who do not want to endure hardships are simple, and it is okay to take away their official positions and go home to farm.
It's just that the initiator of this matter is no longer in the Qing Dynasty or even in Asia. Song Haiping went to the United States at this time. Specifically, Richmond in the American South.
1860 was an important year for the world, when Lincoln, the representative of the American bourgeoisie, came to power as president of the United States.
During this period, the American capitalists also needed cheap labor to fill the mines and steel plants, and Europe had just set an example for the capitalists of the world -- what could be cheaper labor than a large group of newly emancipated who had not been able to work, and the newly emancipated black slaves died in the mines and even saved their pensions. (Looking at it this way, the bosses in the blind well are quite conscientious)
The predominantly agrarian southern states decided to separate from the abolitionists in accordance with the rights granted by the U.S. federal constitution.
Then the northerners, represented by the capitalists, said: We don't want to divide the family, but want to divide your family property (black slaves).
Southern Slave Owner: If you want to rob, you asked me if I had a gun.
Northern capitalists: Lao Tzu has many guns and strong industries.
Southern Slave Owners: Justice Prevails.
Yankees: Cut, if justice wins, where are the good-hearted Indians who accepted British immigrants back then?
Southerners: I admit that what you said makes sense, I'm speechless, but it's impossible to surrender without a fight.
In short, in the years before the Civil War, the two sides began to fight for several years, and then as soon as Lincoln came to power, everyone knew that war was inevitable under the impetus of the capitalists. Of course, Lincoln would not say in the Emancipation Proclamation that emancipating you was to use your to fill mines for coal and promote the industrialization of our greater United States, but everything he did after he came to power served this goal.
In 1860, both sides began intense preparations for war, and then the seven slave-holding states in the south declared their secession from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America.
As a world-class arms dealer, Song Haiping has a reason not to come. First of all, the degree of industrialization in the north is relatively high, and the industrial output value is the fourth in the world at this time. Guns and ironclad ships can be produced by themselves -- the capitalists of the US military-industrial system have long been looking forward to the civil war to make a lot of money, how can they leave a lot of orders to foreigners, especially Song Haiping, who bears the name of a Japanese trading company.
In the eyes of the capitalists of the upper strata of the United States, Japan is nothing more than an ignorant Pacific indigenous island country that had just been helped by the United States a few years ago. What arms can be bought?
The South is different, the South has a weak industrial base, and has an attitude of almost asking for as much as foreign support.
Song Haiping came to Richmond by airboat along the way, enjoying the scenery of the Pacific Ocean and the magnificent mountains and rivers of the western United States at this time.
After the airboat landed on the outskirts of Richmond, the first to come out were sixteen bodyguards, all of whom were martial artists recruited from the north, all of whom were tall and tall, in the words of the storyteller, eight feet tall and eight feet in waistline. Then put on a fully armored alloy iron can, even if you don't have a weapon and ride a large Yanpony, it is still majestic.
Then, two pure-blooded Arab horses pulled out of the airboat with a gilded carriage. Spectrum is such a thing, unless it is a matter of life and death, it must be placed.
Sixteen alloy iron cans escorted the carriage and drove slowly towards Richmond.
Near the walls of Richmond, a group of people were discussing the UFO that had just appeared, and when they saw sixteen guards in full iron armor and a gold-inlaid carriage, no matter how dull they were, they knew that this was a big man.
At this time, the foreign maid who had been standing behind the car jumped out of the car and presented Song Haiping's famous assassination to the soldiers defending the city -- the Japanese Foreign Minister and the representative of the Japanese United Military Industry.
At this time, any solidarity of the international community is important for the relatively weak Confederate States of America, which can greatly boost the confidence of the military and civilians in resisting the capitalist bandits of the North.
So, after Song Haiping stayed in a hotel in Richmond for three days, he was personally received by Davis, the president of the Southern Bigwigs Confederate States.
After the two sides submitted their credentials, Song Haiping spoke first: "Our musicians were impressed by the establishment of the Confederate State, composed music and lyrics, and composed a song dedicated to the great Confederate State and President Davis. ”
Davis took the score, looked at it, and then couldn't help but sing to the beat with his hands: "
The Union flag fluttered in the wind, and the victory song was so loud;
Sing of our dear alliance to prosperity and strength from now on.
Sing of our dear alliance to prosperity and strength from now on.
Over the mountains, over the plains,
across the mighty Yangtze River;
The vast and beautiful land, our slaves are busy,
Slave owners all over the world have stood up!
Whoever dares to abolish slavery, we will destroy him!
The Union flag fluttered in the wind, and the victory song was so loud;
Sing of our dear alliance to prosperity and strength from now on.
Sing of our dear alliance to prosperity and strength from now on.
We are rich, we are brave, and our century-old history is brilliant;
Great Leader Davis, show the way for the Alliance!
We love to fight, we love our hometown.
Whoever dares to abolish slavery, we will destroy him!
The Union flag fluttered in the wind, and how loud the victory song was;
Sing of our dear alliance to prosperity and strength from now on.
Sing of our dear alliance to prosperity and strength from now on."
After Davis finished singing the song, his face flushed with excitement: "This song is so good, I want to try to pass it in Congress to make this song the national anthem of the Union, by the way, what is the name of this song?" ”
Song Haiping: "Singing Alliance." ”
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