The majestic Forbidden City represents the supreme power of the largest country of this era. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Emperor Qianlong, who lives here, is still immersed in his dream of owning the world, the country he governs, east, west, north and south are separated by thousands of miles, the people are tens of thousands, the land is vast and the things are everywhere, and the small ones are all awarded, and the four countries admire and worship. This sense of satisfaction, this sense of accomplishment, belongs to him alone.

At this time, Qianlong didn't know that a "small country with abandoned people" thousands of miles away from him was plotting against himself and his country, which was completely impossible, and he had never even thought about it. In another time and space, before the First Sino-Japanese War, most Chinese people still thought that Japan was just a small country and not worth a fortune. However, with a bit of hard work and a bit of good luck, Japan finally defeated the large but faltering Qing Dynasty.

Of course, by analogy, at this time, the Qing Dynasty was still at the peak of its national power, although the civil unrest never stopped, and the emperor who was so happy about his achievements wanted to use troops at every turn, but at least this country has unparalleled national strength, has huge wealth in society, and can arm hundreds of thousands of soldiers at will, and it is a well-deserved dragon country in the eyes of Westerners.

Unlike Japan at the end of the 19th century, the population of the Tang Republic by 1777, including the overseas territories, was only more than 300,000, less than a fraction of the Japanese Empire after the Meiji Restoration. However, the territory of the Tang Republic is indeed more than three times the area of the Japanese Empire after the Meiji Restoration.

At the end of the 19th century, Japan was just civilized and was not even recognized as an advanced country by the great powers, but now the Tang Dynasty is the leader of the light of science and technology and civilization in the whole world.

Naturally, he sought to use troops against the Qing Dynasty. Datang and Japan also have completely different motivations. The Japanese are a hungry wolf. Hope to bite flesh from a weak, but gigantic neighbor. Strengthen itself, but Datang has a bigger mind, returns to his homeland, and preaches the orthodox body of the dragon.

What the Tang Dynasty needs is a radical change, not just to expel the Tartars, or to rule the Central Plains, to put it nobly, the Tang Dynasty is to accelerate the evolution of this ancient nation on the road of civilization. Make sure that this nation and this country are always the first echelon of trendsetters.

Of course, Qianlong, who had thought about letting a group of "overseas outcasts" claim to be his vassals, simply left it behind after Long Aotian was stunned and didn't think about it again. The Datang merchant ships in Guangzhou Port came and went, and the business had been non-stop, and the income of the Guangdong Customs had increased sharply year after year, but Qianlong had not paid attention to this matter. For him, a small country 10,000 miles away was too far and too small to be worth wasting his energy.

In fact, local officials in Guangdong. It has long been known that there are "rumors" to deceive the people of Fujian and Guangdong to go abroad. What kind of Datang Republic is going to that, the settling-in fee of thirty silver dollars, and the title deed of ten acres of land, is this pie in the sky?! In short, local officials do not believe this kind of thing.

Someone was ready to report to the imperial court, but was instructed by Li Shuyao, the governor of Liangguang, to open one eye and close the other. This is the result of the bribery of the Datang International Trade Company, and in the officialdom of the mid-Qing Dynasty, there was hardly an official with clean sleeves, and corruption was rampant. The benefits that Li Shiyao got from the Tang people were already astonishing, and the situation of the Fujian and Cantonese people going abroad was not serious, the local government was able to suppress some of them, and most of the people who left were landless and proletarian vagrants. Of course, no one wants to get along with the Governor of Liangguang because of such a trivial matter, and the Governor gives you a small shoe, and you will be finished immediately.

In the past two years, the immigrants recruited from Fujian and Guangdong can reach an average of five or six thousand people per year, on the one hand, there is a lack of people to carry out propaganda and recruitment on the spot, and many people cannot find "snakeheads" even if they want to go abroad. With Yang Zhen's support, the Heaven and Earth Society's influence continued to expand in Fujian and Guangdong, and even began to show signs of expanding into the mainland.

There was no better solution to this situation until the Tang Dynasty completely broke the shackles of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and disintegrated the control of its local government, after all, the Tang people could not recruit immigrants from all over the country in broad daylight.

As in ordinary days, Emperor Qianlong was handling government affairs in the Yangxin Palace, he was half lying on his dragon chair, a little tired, and he didn't want to watch the music by himself, so he asked the eunuch next to him to read all kinds of reliable and unreliable reports of his ministers for him.

"The Fucha clan Guotai is sparse, and each belongs to the people to strengthen the shotgun, and the strength should be exercised to gain practicality."

As soon as he read a sentence, Qianlong straightened up from the dragon chair and reprimanded: "Cathay also has no brains, he only knows one thing but doesn't know the other. Minzhuang is recruited by the villagers, which is different from the enlisted food soldiers; Moreover, gunpowder is very important, and it is inconvenient to distribute it to human servants. If they all practice shotguns and make them proficient in serial methods, it will not be beneficial to eliminate violence and prevent rape. In addition, if there are too many people in the provinces who are trained in firearms, it is necessary to prevent evil. ”

He didn't say it, but no one could hear what he meant. Ordinary people have never practiced martial arts, and even if they pick up swords and guns, and do not know how to fight, there is no great threat. But to go back to using a shotgun, armed with a random group of people, is quite a threat. Over the years, the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners have been seriously corrupted, and if they go to suppress the bandits, they will definitely be shot at the head, and most of them will definitely be dispersed.

Qianlong seemed to have a feeling, and said: "Three years ago, the case of Wang Lun in Shandong was disturbed because they were not good at using guns, so it was quickly pacified. If the Minzhuang Regiment practiced shotgun shooting and was bewitched by anti-thieves with ulterior motives like Wang Lun, the harm would inevitably be far-reaching. ”

The eunuch in charge of reading the music immediately patted his ass and said: "The emperor has insight into thousands of miles, and he knows the subtleties, which is beyond the reach of extraordinary people." ”

Qianlong listened to a lot of sycophants every day, and his immunity was very high, he still remembered this matter, and instructed: "The provinces, states and counties should set up strong people, and they should train wholeheartedly, practice ordinary skills, and defend the defense with the same qualifications as soldiers, so as to achieve practical results, and there is no need to practice shotguns." ”

The eunuch took note of the emperor's explanation, and said: "Your Majesty, there is another thing related to shotguns here, and several ministers jointly suggested that due to the increasing frequency of the use of shotguns in the battle array, the ...... should be added to use shotguns."

Qianlong had no patience at all, and said: "These people really don't have a long memory, I have ordered five times, the martial arts department should follow the old system, how can it be changed at will, the matter of the shotgun entering the martial arts department, don't mention it again, if someone discusses it again, it should be severely punished." ”

In Qianlong's eyes, the most important thing to guard against is the people, and it is also the Han people. Although the Manchu and Han families have shouted for so many years, and the Qing Dynasty has been sitting steadily since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, he can never forget that he is the emperor of the Manchus, and the Han people are immortal in thieves, and there is an endless stream of them, and any signs of his rule that may threaten him cannot be let go.

As for external threats, Qianlong didn't pay attention to them at all, although those small countries repeatedly violated the border, but they were not beaten back by his wise command. Although theoretically he doesn't win every time, but the Great Qing Kingdom is so big, even if he loses once or twice, it doesn't matter, because as long as he defeats the enemy once, the enemy is finished, and the final winner is still him.

Sometimes Qianlong felt that this was very boring, because there was no opponent who could match him, no matter how much he had a martial strategy or national strength.

Therefore, Qianlong believed that the Qing Dynasty could only be defeated internally, after all, there were too many Han people, and once they really rose up to resist, then one person and one spit, and his mighty and domineering Qing Dynasty would be ruined. Therefore, the successive emperors of the Qing Dynasty have spared no effort to castrate the spirit of the people, and the literary prison has cut off all those who have bad intentions, and the indoctrination is also a matter of loyalty and patriotism. The people are not allowed to touch any musket-like weapons, because the horror of this kind of weapon has deeply terrified the Eight Banners since the time of his great-grandfather Nurhachi wild boar skin. The powerful Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, if it faced a huge number of firearms army, had no chance of winning. It's just that God bless the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty army is rotten in the roots, the officialdom is rotten, and with the help of the peasant army, in the end, this flower and country became their love for the Xinjueluo family.

Even so, the descendants of Aisin Jueluo are no longer worried all the time, and any sign that may threaten their rule must be nipped in the bud.

This kind of action eventually led to the decline of the Qing Dynasty, and in another plane, this dynasty still has more than a hundred years to live, but in this plane, it is no longer the case.

In the end, Qianlong made another decision: to move the idle clan in Beijing to the northwest of the Daling Hippo Factory, Xingshan and Songshan, and there were 15 households willing to move there, with a total of 203 people. The Qing government decided to give 280 taels of silver to each person who moved there, 80 taels for the time being, and then 200 taels for the time being. Each person is given three hectares of land, half of which is cultivated by the officials, and half is calmly cultivated by themselves, or their families are allowed to cultivate, or the people are recruited to cultivate, and they are not allowed to sell it privately, otherwise they will be found guilty and punished, and the clan that moves there will still be reduced by half of the silver taels per year according to the regulations of the clan in the capital, and the whole bank will be eliminated after ten years; Each person was given cultivation equipment, and a year's ration upon arrival. The Qing government divided the idle clans that moved to into four tuns to live, and each tun selected two old men, rewarded them with gold domes, and cooperated with the generals to do things. Shengjing (now Shenyang) old residence in the sect, because of the large population, can not live, there are those who are willing to move, can also give acres of money and grain, by the Shengjing general together.

The idea of controlling Jingshi and taking down all the descendants of Aixin Jueluo in the cuckoo plan seems to have gone bankrupt at this time. (To be continued.) )