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"Too much, too much......"

On the Kowloon Walled City, from the eyes of Li Shien, the general of the Dapeng Left Battalion, a sea of bayonets had spread out around the small walled city. The last time he saw this formation was in the Opium War! And now, this army with the banner of the sun and the moon seems to be several times more than the English army a few years ago!

"It seems that the qi of the Qing Dynasty has really come to an end......

Li Shien sighed with emotion from the bottom of his heart, and a chubby six-rank civil official with a heron complement on his official uniform next to him took a breath, turned his head to look at him and said, "Li, Li Shenrong, what do you mean by this?" ”

Li Shien sighed and said with a wry smile: "Dai Jiaoxi, why don't we abandon Qing and Touming together?" ”

"Abandon ...... Qing Tou Ming!? The fat man's eyes widened, and he looked at General Li fixedly, and he couldn't speak for a while.

Li Shien smacked his lips and said, "Dai Jiaoxi, why are you staring at me?" Aren't you a Qingliu official who came up on the right path of the imperial examination, aren't you just a guarantee official who can settle accounts? Can you be loyal to the martyrdom of the Qing Dynasty? Now that Lin Zexu and Bai Siwen are gone, what kind of loyal ministers are we still in? Besides, where is our Han in the heart of Emperor Lao Tzu? He pointed to the sun and moon and the same banner of the Ming army under the walled city, "Do you see it?" The sun and the moon are bright, that is our Han family, your old belly of arithmetic knowledge, and those students of yours, are not just used by the Zhu family! ”

Although this fat man looked like he was wishing you prosperity. But he is not a rich man who was born in a donor class. Rather, he was a mathematician. His name is Dai Xu, the word Eshi, and he is from Qiantang County. When he was young, he wrote the book "The Diagram of the Heavy Difference", although there were few readers, but it attracted the attention of Wei Yuan, after the latter became the general office of the Western-style Yamen, he hired this Dai Xu to be the chief teacher of the Western-style school, and also asked Lin Zexu to promote him to a six-grade top - this time Daoguang quickly approved. If this is so right to Zuo Zongtang, this Qing Dynasty will probably be able to mix up for a few more years, right?

"But...... But my family is all in Zhejiang! "Dai Fat Man was so anxious that he was about to cry, he knew that the Ming Dynasty would come back so quickly, why did he bother to be a broken official of the Qing Dynasty, and go directly to Jishi University to get an errand!

"It's okay, it's okay, the court's reaction is not so fast." Li Shien sneered and said, "Now that hundreds of green camp officials have taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty, where can Emperor Laozi still manage your civil officials?" Now hurry up with me to cast Ming, and then ask the great tomorrow to send the master of Jinyiwei to Zhejiang to bring all your old family to Guangdong. Belch. This has to be quick. ”

"Weishenme? It's not that the emperor, uh. Can't you take care of it? ”

After listening to Dai Xu's words, Li Shien daxiao, "If you don't hurry up, this Zhejiang is the world of the Ming Dynasty, and it will be time for you to return to your hometown!" ”

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"Ming Gong, the Kowloon Walled City has surrendered...... Along with those who surrendered, there were hundreds of students under Dai Xu, the chief teacher of the Manchu Dynasty Westernization School......"

Military advisor Zuo Zongtang was holding a stack of reports he had just received, and was following Zhu Jishi. In the lobby of the Kowloon branch of HSBC, there are still a bunch of people, listening to Zhu Jishi arranging tasks there.

"Is the garrison of Kowloon arranged? This is our first territory on the mainland, and it is still an international commercial port! If you make a slight mistake, you will throw people into the world! And there are still mountains of gold and silver here, and you have also seen that there is so much silver in HSBC that it can't even fit into the vault, and even the aisles are full of money boxes, so you can't lose anything, you know? ”

"The Kowloon Manufacturing Bureau, the Official Money Bureau, and the Western-style School must be taken over immediately, and the workers and students should be retained as much as possible, but the teaching of foreigners needs to be carefully assessed, and they cannot be allowed to fish in troubled waters! Well, that's for Brother Trigo. ”

"Customs is going to take over immediately! And the anti-smuggling team should also be established as soon as possible! Kowloon is our first commercial port in the Ming Dynasty, how can there be no customs? No anti-smuggling squads? Robert, take care of this first. What are the rules of the British customs, and what are the rules of our Ming customs, no different! The anti-smuggling team is also under the management of the customs, and no one should give face, even the ships of Nanyang and Lan Fangxing! ”

"What? The list of items that are prohibited from being imported and exported without permission by the customs, uh, refer to the rules of the Manchu Qing Dynasty first! After all, our Ming government has not yet been established...... Opium? Of course, the same rules, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty is not allowed to import, we are not allowed either! ”

It was easy to wait for Zhu Jishi to finish assigning the task in good spirits, Zuo Zongtang handed over the report, and then reminded in a low voice: "Ming Gong, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to ban the import of opium, right?" ”

There are a lot of interests involved behind this opium, the British East India Company and a group of British merchants who do overseas trade all point to the huge profits of opium to make a fortune, if Zhu Jishi wants to implement the anti-smoking policy, I am afraid it will cause a conflict between Ming and Britain......

"Opium must be banned! You have also read Marx's "History of the Opium Trade", and you said that if opium is released, can we still establish a country in Liangguangfu? ”

Letting go of opium is nothing more than letting go of cultivation and not letting go of cultivation but letting go of imports, and the former will definitely cause opium to flood on Zhu Jishi's territory! At present, there are more than 100,000 smokers in Guangdong, and this does not harm the foundation of the nation; if it increases several times in a short period of time, Zhu Jishi will not have "usable soldiers," and it will also pose a fatal threat to the development of Guangdong's capitalist economy -- all the money has been attracted by opium, and the laborers have been poisoned by opium, and the development of this national industry will naturally be sluggish. As for the mere liberalization of imports, it will not be possible to do so, as the speed of the outflow of silver from Guangdong will be greatly accelerated, which will cause a shortage of silver in Guangdong, which in the words of later generations is deflation. Moreover, it is serious deflation, and Zhu Jishi has no "silver to pay".

In addition, there is another problem, that is, the hearts of the people in the world, most of the people hate opium, and the Confucian Qingliu represented by Lin Zexu also hates opium! If Zhu Jishi yielded to Britain on this issue, then a hat of "traitor and traitor" would not run.

So Zhu Jishi can only stop smoking now!

"Ming Gong, but is it too early for us to put up a sign prohibiting smoking? In case England wants to interfere ......"

"Mr. Zuo, don't worry, England won't interfere!" Zhu Jishi waved his hand indifferently and said: "Their British Empire does not belong to a few opium dealers, as long as we adopt a suitable trade policy and fully open the market to British goods, the voices of opium traders in the House of Commons of Parliament will definitely be drowned out by the voices of the textile industry, the steel industry, the shipbuilding industry, the machinery industry and the pharmaceutical industry." ”

Seeing that Zuo Zongtang was frowning, as if he wanted to say something, Zhu Jishi raised his hand and said, "Military advisor, I have my own plans for diplomatic matters, so don't worry about it anymore...... By the way, you just said that hundreds of students under Dai Xu, the chief teacher of the Manchu Dynasty Western-style Academy, have all taken refuge in us? ”

He raised an eyebrow: "That's great! We have to take over these students and train them well, and they will all be pillars in the future! Strategist, you go and appease them first. I also had to meet with the representatives of the foreign merchants, and when I was done, I invited all of them to the Far East Hotel in Kowloon for a big dinner. ”

Zuo Zongtang only nodded, he also knew that Ying Li was unlikely to send troops to attack because of Zhu Jishi's anti-smoking policy. But their policy of supporting Zhu Ming will definitely change, at least to move to neutrality, and may even prevent Zhu Ming's Northern Expedition, knowing that the Manchu anti-smoking policy has been fully relaxed......

Zhu Jishi saw Zuo Zongtang's face, smiled faintly, pulled his arm to the side, and said in a low voice: "Military advisor, I understand your thoughts, first use the ban on opium to win over the British, and with their support, quickly take the Manchu Dynasty from the Northern Expedition, and then turn against the British...... But this can't fool the British, they can dominate Shijie, not all by strong ships and cannons, and it is not under us to play intrigues. Therefore, even if we let go of the opium trade, they will still do everything possible to prevent us from reunifying China, because weakening and splitting China is their fundamental national policy! (To be continued......)