Bao Ling bluntly refused: "We did not quote indiscriminately, the cost of research and development and manufacturing of guns is extremely high, in fact, after deducting the shipping costs, the profit we obtain in each set of guns will not exceed five taels of silver, today's world, is no longer a world where you can defeat the enemy with only spears and shotguns, since you are preparing for war, you must bear the high cost of war." ”

Yi Xun is not unclear, a set of 80 taels of silver is pure nonsense, the cost of the Qing Dynasty's homemade flintlock pistol is less than 10 taels of silver, even if the mini gun is more advanced, how can it be exaggerated to such a degree, in his estimate, 30 taels of silver is dead.

He doesn't understand the principle of grenades, so it's hard to draw conclusions, but if the artillery is not cast in copper, the cost will only be a few hundred taels of silver, even if the British artillery is advanced, the price will increase tenfold, and it will only be a few million taels of silver to buy a thousand!

Yi Xun only felt that his anger was almost uncontrollable, and he took a few deep breaths before he reluctantly said calmly: "The army fights, there are cannons and guns, since you are unwilling to make concessions, then our Great Qing Kingdom only buys guns, and we can't use grenades and naval warships for the time being." ”

"This" Burblon spread his hands, for the relief: "Grenades are the standard equipment of our Western army operations, and they play a vital role in the handover of short troops, please forgive me for saying that fighting with the Democratic Alliance Army, without grenades, will suffer a great loss, because the whole army of the Democratic Alliance Army is equipped with grenades, I think your country should have some understanding of the role of grenades, at least the cavalry can only become a live target when facing grenades."

In addition, the warships of the Navy are not insignificant, Prince Gong should not forget that the Democratic Alliance captured nearly 100 ships of various types of British troops. If you attack Tianjin from the sea, you will bombard the Dagukou Fort with naval artillery. How is your country responding? ”

Mai Lian snorted coldly: "His Royal Highness Prince Gong, does it make sense to be careful?" Now spend a little more. With all due respect, even if the Democratic Alliance unifies the whole of China, it will not bring direct losses to us, the United States, Britain and France, and I have heard that your government slaughtered hundreds of millions of Han people two hundred years ago, and this hatred cannot be faded in time, so I think that from the standpoint of your country, life and death are the most important. Even in order to destroy the Democratic Alliance, it can be done at any cost! ”

"What if we don't want to?" There was a hint of threat in Mai Lian's words, and Yi Xun's anger ignited again, and he asked in a cold voice.

Unexpectedly, the three ministers didn't say a word, they all knocked on their cigarettes, and smoked slowly, as if you were looking at it yourself.

Indeed, the Qing Dynasty would not have made mini guns, nor would it have made grenades. It will not be able to build long-range and accurate artillery like the Democratic Alliance Army, let alone ocean-going warships of thousands of tons, and even gunpowder of better quality, if there is time. It is also possible to introduce technology to develop slowly, but who knows when the Democratic Alliance will come back to attack the city of Beijing?

Last time, the NLD forces were not well prepared. I only asked for a prisoner exchange, but I will come back next time. Can the Eight Banners Army, armed with shotguns and earth cannons, be able to stop it alone?

The country is in decline, what qualifications do you have to fight with foreigners? Even kill these vampires. In addition to venting his anger for a while, the result in exchange will only provoke the foreigners alliance to come one step at a time.

"Hey~~" sighed helplessly, and Yixun said bitterly: "Your Majesty, let's get through the difficulties in front of you first." ”

At this moment, Xianfeng's heart was bitter, he only felt that this emperor was extremely heartwarming, but no matter how heartwarming he was, he could only endure it, and waved his hand at the moment: "The three of you quickly come up with a plan to discuss with Prince Gong, and it will be implemented according to the agreement after I approve it." ”

Bao Ling, Bourblon and Mai Lian secretly exchanged a smug smile, and according to their private agreement, the 300 million taels of silver loan from the Qing court was half of the British loans, France contributed 100 million, and the United States provided 50 million, and the mining resources of the Qing Dynasty were distributed according to this proportion, they never thought that the Qing Dynasty could afford to repay this money, all they wanted was mineral resources!

The price of 300 million yuan in arms is not even 30 million, which is equivalent to using 30 million taels of silver to extract the mineral resources of the Qing State, as long as the agreement is signed, the three countries will send professionals to explore for minerals north of the Yellow River as soon as possible.

Why north of the Yellow River? Because in their prediction, even if the Qing army is westernized, it can only barely hold on to the Yellow River line with the Democratic Alliance army, and if the mines are opened in Henan, what if the Democratic Alliance confiscates the mines? Is it possible to send troops to attack from the mainland?

Relatively speaking, foreigners prefer to deal with the Qing court, the Democratic Alliance is not easy to speak, and may not be able to fight, but the Qing court is a good bully.

As for helping the Qing court train the army, this was obviously a good opportunity to control the Qing army, just as the great powers did in India at the beginning, slowly elevating the Mughal dynasty, supporting local separatist forces, and then controlling them separately, and finally putting China on the road of Indianization!

Bao Ling, Bourblon and Mai Lian bowed in unison and bowed: "In that case, let's take our leave first, and we will do our best to draw up a draft for Prince Gong to see, goodbye." With that, the three of them walked side by side towards the outside of the hall.

Until the figure faded out of sight, "Bang! Xianfeng slammed the dragon case: "It's simply unreasonable, foreigners deceive people too much!" Am I so weak in Halal? ”

Yi Xun looked ahead in a daze, the Qing Dynasty is really rotten, take the Daoguang Mausoleum as an example, the mausoleum is the emperor's posthumous residence, who has always undertaken the construction of the mausoleum who has not put his head on the belt of his pants and worked diligently?

But Daoguang Mausoleum is not, this is a typical tofu scum project, fake and shoddy project, forcing Daoguang to abandon the old mausoleum and spend a huge amount of money to build a new mausoleum, because the mausoleum construction funds were embezzled, the underground palace leaked, cut corners, and Shi Dangdang's nose was actually glued!

Even the emperor's mausoleum funds dare to be greedy, which can no longer be explained by greed and insatiability, but audacious and lawless!

If the discipline does not exist, the officials have lost their awe, can the Qing Dynasty not die?

Yixun immediately arched his hand and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, my Qing Dynasty is in danger, the rebellion of the court is approaching the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the courtiers think that it is not possible to take strong medicine, and the emperor should make up his mind to punish corruption, rectify the rule of officials, or have the power to return to heaven!"

How did Shorthair grow so much in just one year? The key is that the corrupt officials and corrupt officials are not merciless, not only won the hearts of the people, but also the food and money confiscated are all used by him, think that there are many corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty, if the emperor can severely punish a batch, the United Kingdom will be cleared, and the copied money can also fill the emptiness of the treasury, which is a double win! ”

"Good!" Xianfeng shouted: "The Qing Dynasty must not die at the hands of our brothers, this matter is handed over to Lao Qi to preside, you concentrate on negotiating with foreigners, you can save a little is a little, go." ”

"Wow!" Yi Xun made a thousand punches and walked backwards out of the main hall.

At this time, the time had passed noon, Yi Xun did not dare to delay, and rode his horse towards Yi Xun's mansion, and in Hangzhou, thousands of miles away, the Fifth Army of the Democratic Alliance Army also completed the comprehensive encirclement of the city.

The Fifth Army brought ten artillery pieces and lined them up along the shade of the trees, and the rest of the soldiers were also a bunch in the east and a regiment in the west, trying not to be directly exposed to the sun, China's carbon emissions at that time were almost zero, so the shade was still very cool in the depths, but the city head obviously did not have this condition, and the city could only be exposed to the sun.

Nearly 10,000 bannermen all went to the city, including men and women, from the elderly in their sixties and seventies, to the babbling children, the atmosphere was as silent as death, and everyone's face was full of despair!

"Eniang, it's so hot, I don't want to stay on it anymore, I want to go down." At this moment, a little girl of three or four years old, sweating profusely, pulled up her mother's sleeve coquettishly, and the pleading voice broke the silence.

The little girl's Eniang is a woman in her twenties, with a relatively clear face, born in the Eight Banners of the Han Army, her surname is Ma Jia, and her surname is Hailan, Hailan means pity in Manchu, and her man died in the battle with the Taiping Army two years ago.

Hailan looked at the Democratic Alliance army hidden in the bushes, and then looked down at her young daughter, and couldn't help but feel sad, and tears of bean size burst out of her eyes.

"E-niang, why are you crying? What about Amma, how come Unahi has never seen Amma? Everyone else has Amma, why isn't Unahi? The little girl's name is Unahi, which is a family heirloom in Manchu, and the meaning of treasure jade is handed down, so she immediately raised her face and asked.

"Huh? E-niang was blinded by the sand, and it was out of the way! Hailan squatted down, hugged Unashi tightly and choked up: "Don't go down, there is nothing bare in the city, you stand on it, you can see the green trees, beautiful mountains and rivers, and birds flying freely in the sky, you hurry up and take a look, after reading it, Eniang will take you to see your Amma." ”

"Why?" The little girl wondered.

"Woo woo~~" Hailan finally couldn't bear it, and cried bitterly, her name is just like her character, love and pity what she has, youth, life, and her daughter, but since the Democratic League swept Su Song Taichang, she has fallen into uneasiness, she knows that there will be no way to live in the hands of the Democratic League, when Nanjing was full of broken cities, thousands of old and weak women and children were slaughtered by the Taiping Army, so that she lost hope of life!

In fact, in the eyes of most banner people, the difference between the Taiping Army and the Democratic Alliance Army is only that one has a shawl and the other has a short hair.

Sure enough, the Democratic Alliance army was killed, and she asked herself if she had never done anything hurtful to heaven and reason, but why did she still have to die? She cried for her inability to resist fate, and also for her daughter, this is a three-year-old girl, she doesn't understand anything, what is her crime?

The cries of despair and sadness were particularly abrupt in the silent city, and they also deeply touched everyone's heartstrings, and women began to cry along with them, until the city wept loudly, and the Democratic League troops besieged but did not attack, which brought them huge psychological pressure and mental breakdown. (To be continued......)

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