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As an emperor, Qianlong was still diligent in handling government affairs, and this kind of thing rarely happened in the early dynasty, after all, he was worthy of his name as a "virtuous monarch".

Yu Minzhong, the chief minister of military aircraft, cleared his throat and sang out of the class: "The minister has his own music." ”

This Hanchen is the Qianlong Dynasty, the longest-serving military minister of the political evergreen, born in the Jintan family, although he does not have any geniuses, but he is good at observing words and feelings, and is cautious, more intelligent and vigilant, low-key and modest. As a minister of military aircraft, what he will remember most for future generations is not his ability, but his ability to meet his needs. Qianlong has outstanding literary talents, and likes to be vassally elegant. On every occasion, he likes to write poems, and Yu Minzhong, as a close minister, can always write out the poems written by Qianlong silently on the same day, basically word for word, which makes Qianlong greatly favored him.

However, like most of the courtiers of the Qianlong Dynasty, Yu Minzhong, who had an honest reputation, was also corrupt, and after his death, because his family fought for family property, Qianlong was alarmed, and his property was counted, which amounted to 2 million taels. Then there was a major corruption case involving the disaster relief in Gan Province, which amounted to more than 2,811,350 taels of silver, and Yu Minzhong was the core figure in this major corruption case.

Despite this, at least during his lifetime, Yu Minzhong was still a very popular minister and was extremely trusted by Qianlong. This time, Yu Min played this day and said: "Since the forty years of trade between Guangzhou Guangdong Customs and Tang Yi, strange and obscene Tang goods are like a tide, flooding in my Heavenly Empire, when everyone takes Tang goods as the United States, there are rich businessmen and officials, poor two thousand taels of silver, buy Tang Yi leather goods, and compete for wealth. Such as the Jin Shi Chong old things. The human heart is not ancient. Virtue is degraded, and it is chilling. There are also merchants from Guangdong Province who sell foreign goods, and they are tired of astonishing wealth, and they get ten when they get one, and there are not a few. The Cantonese people were all bewitched by it, abandoned their fields and destroyed their farms, and became pawns of traffickers. Peddling Tang goods, the eclipse of the country's capital is also. ”

This old pedantic-like minister of military aircraft, spoke a thousand words with enthusiasm, and the central idea is one, since 1775, when the Tang Dynasty goods entered the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although it was only three or four years of work, but the sales of Tang goods in the Qing Dynasty were explosive, and the expensive and luxurious Tang Dynasty goods not only bred a lot of rich people's comparison emotions, but also made the small people pursue profits, give up farming and become businessmen. Seriously damaged the national capital.

Qianlong didn't feel these things, but Yu Minzhong said it. It was quite shocking, and at this time, there was a minister's play.

"The minister has this music, the Guangdong Customs trade Tang Yi three years of strange, every year imported things, the value of silver is huge. In 40 years, the import of Tang Yi goods, to 11 million taels of silver, 41 years of Guangdong Customs, the import of Tang goods, has reached 19 million taels, 42 years exceeded 30 million taels, Tang Yi with strange and obscene things, stealing our country's assets, it is impossible to ignore it. Guangdong Province, together with several provinces in the southeast, because the silver is both into the Tang Dynasty, the price of silver soared, since the emperor ascended the throne, the silver price in Guangdong Province is basically in a thousand Wen one tael, now forty-three years, the silver price in Guangdong Province has reached more than 1,300 Wen, the people can not continue, complaining! If there is a continuous outflow of silver, or more people will be ruined, this crisis will be played to the heavens, and I hope to ban the sea by thunderous means, protect the national body, and secure the society. ”

For this group of corrupt Confucian officials who have no economic ideas, they do not see that the people of Guangdong are called merchants, not only because of the popularity of Tang Dynasty goods, but more importantly, because of the serious land annexation in the local area, and more and more people have no access to land for farming. Originally, the commodity economy of Guangdong was far more developed than that of the inland and even Jiangnan, and Datang commodities became a catalyst for commercial development.

As for the fact that silver is expensive and cheap, it is a fact in the first place. In another section of the Opium War, in order to reverse the trade deficit, the British used opium as a magic weapon, which caused a large amount of silver to flow out, not just opium, and the sales of cotton cloth and cotton yarn in China after the Industrial Revolution were explosive. This situation caused serious damage to the economy of the Qing Dynasty, and now the dumping of Tang goods into the Qing Dynasty, although the situation has not been eroded to the extent of the early Opium War, but it has also caused many people to worry.

In particular, the Tang people are Han people after all, they do not grow hair, their behavior is no different from that of foreign people, and more importantly, they do not accept the king, which makes many corrupt bureaucrats who have broken their backbones and consider themselves important ministers of the Qing Dynasty very dissatisfied. For these people, it doesn't matter if they are dissatisfied with the Han or not, the key is that the Tang people who have no ancestral rules and lack etiquette and virtue are big bastards, and they must not let them pollute the hundreds of millions of people of our Qing Dynasty.

This wave of problems against the Tang Dynasty has not yet ended, Qianlong and his courtiers still need more discussions, and the debate in the hall has given Qianlong a headache. One faction of ministers firmly believed that Datang commodities had led to the outflow of silver and the corruption of morality, and that they must be banned; On the other hand, the other faction, led by the local forces such as the feudal officials, believed that the import of Datang commodities had invigorated the local economy and benefited the coastal people, and should not be strictly controlled.

After retreating from the dynasty, Qianlong was still upset and irritable in the Palace of Nourishing the Heart. The eunuch gave a thing and said, "Your Majesty, this is the ice brain candy offered by the Internal Affairs Office, refreshing your mind, can you try it?" ”

Qianlong casually stuffed the sugar pill in the exquisite glassware into his mouth, and a coolness rushed up, and sure enough, his whole mind was much cooler, Qianlong nodded with a smile, and said, "It's really a good thing." ”

The eunuch didn't know what the emperor was worried about, he said playfully: "Your Majesty, this is Tang Yi's candy specially purchased by the Internal Affairs Office, if you want to say that this Tang Yi really knows how to make sugar, not only this ice brain candy is quite effective, Tang Yi also made dozens of flavors of candy, the nobles of the harem are all loved, the Internal Affairs Office entered a lot of Tang Yi candy this time, but each palace divided a point, and soon it will be gone, and then let the Internal Affairs Office offer, but it is gone, the housekeeper of the Internal Affairs Office sent someone to Guangdong, saying that it is to wait for Tang Yi to arrive in Hong Kong, and prepare more." ”

Qianlong didn't speak after hearing this, but there were waves in his heart. He suddenly felt as if he was going to be surrounded by Tang Yi's goods, the glassware containing the ice brain candy was also presented by Li Shiyao a few years ago, he liked these things to be crystal clear, clean and exquisite, so he usually used them. The floor clock in the corner of the Yangxin Palace is also Tang Yiwu, and the dial is not Arabic numerals, but the Chinese characters of each hour, which is quite pleasant to use, and much more accurate.

The more Qianlong thought about it, the more shocked he became, and he felt that there were so many Tang goods in this palace. After a while, one of his favorite concubines came to visit, it was almost winter, this favorite concubine was dressed in a gorgeous mink fur, coupled with a small face like jade, she looked really better than a flower.

"Your Majesty, look at the slave's body, but it's good-looking?"

Qianlong smiled: "It's really good." ”

Then the next sentence of this favorite concubine was, "This is sent by the slave's mother's family, and it is said that it is an extremely rare Tangyi mink fur, and it can't produce a few pieces a year, all of which are the best furs, and the price is more than a thousand gold." ”

Qianlong's face suddenly turned cold: "Get out!" ”

The next day, just when Qianlong was determined to do something, someone kicked out another big case.

"Li Shuyao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, during his tenure as the governor of Liangguang, colluded with Tang Yi, accepted bribes of no less than one million taels, and hoarded high-priced Tang Dynasty commercial goods, worth no less than one million taels, and Li Shuyao even connived at the landless people of Guangdong Province to go to sea, which is equivalent to selling my Qing people and Tang Yi as slaves, and his crime should be punished!"

This is the ultimate weapon in the hands of the maritime ban faction, Li Shuyao is not a clean official with a clean ass and clean sleeves, although he is the governor of Liangguang, he is still secretive, but this situation can still be found out, after all, every time the merchant ship of the Tang people arrives in Guangzhou, it is rare to send people to give gifts to Li Shuyao, even if the Tang people do it privately, but there is always a group of slaves in Li Shiyao's family, and there are people who can't control their mouths. Especially when he moved from Liangguang to Yungui, some of his attendants were also dismissed, and after these people were found by people with good intentions, they naturally got a lot of information. said that Li Shuyao took a million taels of bribes, which is basically an imaginary number, and the Haiban faction only needs to find out about this matter, and Qianlong will naturally find someone to investigate.

"He Shen, I will go to Yunnan and find out the case!"

At this time, He Shen, who had not yet reached the peak of his life, immediately knelt down: "The minister accepts the order." ”

In the end, Qianlong made a decision: "The arbitrary sea ban is useless, the Tang people are treacherous and evil, and it is the disaster, so that the thirteen lines of Guangdong will stop trading with Tang Yi from now on, and no one from Tang Yi will be allowed to enter the land of our Qing Dynasty, if anyone is instigated by Tang Yi to go abroad and abandon the land, he should be severely punished!" ”

Last night, Qianlong was still a little dissatisfied with these decisions, if Tang Yi was the same as Burma or Jinchuan, next to the Great Qing Kingdom, it would be good, he could do his best to go directly to the door, teach Tang Yi a lesson, maybe he can conquer the land of Tang Yi. Tang Yi's strange and obscene utensils, although they are not on the table, they are all good things, and the idle people should not enjoy them, but as the Ninth Five-Year Honor, he should enjoy the best things.

It's just that Qianlong has long looked at the globe, and the land of Tangyi is more than 10,000 miles away from the Qing Kingdom, and it is still separated by such a large sea, and the Qing Kingdom is really not enough. This made Qianlong feel sorry.

In the winter of 1778, the Guangdong Customs received Qianlong's decree to completely terminate all commercial and trade operations with the Tang Republic. The employees of the Datang International Trade Company, who were temporarily living in Guangzhou, were directly expelled, and of course their property left in Guangzhou was also directly seized by unscrupulous soldiers.

He Shen finally found out the case of Li Shuyao, and when Li Shuyao was the governor of Liangguang, he accepted bribes from the Tang people totaling 1.73 million taels. And He Shen was also praised by Emperor Qianlong for his profits.

In January 1779, the Tang merchant fleet, which had planned to trade in Guangzhou, was blocked and forced to transport goods to Borneo for overseas territory, and a large number of Tang goods were unsalable.

In mid-February, the news returned to the Tang Republic and the whole country was shaken. (To be continued.) )