Since the beginning of the First Opium War, China under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty has gradually degenerated into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and in history, China from the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing with Britain in 1842 to the founding of New China a hundred years later, the biggest negative impact on China is not the loss of concessions and land cedes, although these losses are heart-wrenching, but to be honest, they will not cause fatal and irreparable damage to China.

The most important reason why modern China lost the most in history and hindered the industrialization process of modern China was the loss of tariff autonomy.

The failure of industrialization in modern China is of course due to internal factors, such as the backwardness of the Manchu system and even the ignorance of the vast majority of Chinese people, but it is also very related to external factors, and how external factors are reflected is directly reflected through tariffs.

For example, as one of the most obvious industries in the process of modern industrialization: the textile industry!

If modern China in history can guarantee tariff autonomy, then it can raise the import tariff of foreign cloth, and then let the domestic woven fabric develop, but the historical situation is that China's woven fabric market has always been occupied by foreign cloth, before the First World War, it was occupied by British foreign cloth, and after the First World War, Japan's original Oriental cloth was also added.

It may be unbelievable that the industrialization of a country depends on the textile industry, but we must not ignore the huge energy of the textile industry after the eighteenth century.

What did Britain rise on? Textile industry!

Later, the same was true of the Japanese Restoration, which relied on the export of raw silk in the early stage and the export of cotton cloth after the First World War, which initially completed the accumulation of industrialized capital, and if there was no success in the textile industry, the Japanese would not have enough foreign exchange to buy machinery and equipment. The introduction of advanced technology lays the foundation for the development of the industrialization system step by step.

For example, after the reform and opening up, what is the main industry that made China's economy develop rapidly in the early stage of reform and opening up, which is a large number of cheap light industry manufacturing industries, and what is the most important part of the light industry industry? It is a variety of textile industries, with the export of hundreds of millions of pieces of clothing to obtain foreign exchange to purchase all kinds of foreign advanced machinery and equipment and then carry out industrial upgrading. This is an important part of China's success in reform and opening up.

Even in the 21st century, the textile industry is still an important part of the economic development of backward countries, such as the backward countries in South Asia after the 21st century, they are the first to develop, but also the easiest to develop is still labor-intensive industries, and the most obvious sign of labor-intensive industries is all kinds of textile factories.

It can be said that in the past two or three hundred years in history, there has been no industry more important than the textile industry.

For China in the nineteenth century, the textile industry was even more important for China!

Whether it is to develop the textile industry or to develop other industries. It is necessary to have a very important means, that is, the regulation and control of tariffs, to take the initiative to increase the import tariffs of certain commodities, increase the prices of imported commodities or reduce the tariffs of certain raw materials, so that similar domestic products can gain price advantages, and then gain competitive advantages in the market.

This is the simplest, and at the same time, the most common way to support an industry.

In order to regulate tariffs and serve the development of domestic industry, tariff autonomy is necessary.

When it was understood the importance of its sovereignty over tariffs. Then you will find out that Lin Zhe is ruthless. There is a reason to fight such a war with Britain and France at the expense of delaying the pace of domestic reunification.

This reason is not the so-called concession or Hong Kong issue, or even the issue of land cession, but its core goal is to reclaim tariff autonomy and provide the most basic and important external barrier for China's subsequent industrialization.

So when Lin Zhe looked at the Sino-British Shanghai Treaty in his hand, he didn't pay attention to other details. For example, the right to proselytize, such as the opening of ports, and even the Hong Kong issue are not his concerns, but only the tariff-related clauses.

Lin Zhe picked up the pen and signed his name on the treaty. Then the secretary of the secretariat on the side took the treaty and prepared to stamp it with the seal of the Chinese national seal.

"Good, good!" Lin Zhe put down his pen and looked up at Song Guanqian: "Song Aiqing has worked hard these days!" ”

Song Guan first heard Lin Zhe say 'an era is over', and then now he heard Lin Zhe say yes and good continuously, which made him unclear what Lin Zhe was thinking.

He is not a roundworm in Lin Zhe's stomach, so he naturally doesn't know that the reason why Lin Zhe has ended an era is the end of the 'semi-feudal and semi-colonial' era.

The end of the semi-colonial era also means the beginning of a new era!

But Song Guanqian was always able to know that Lin Zhe was in a very good mood now, which could be seen from the smile on Lin Zhe's face.

Three days later, Lin Zhe held a grand state banquet in Nanjing to celebrate the end of the war with Britain and France and the successful signing of the treaty.

In this state banquet, Song Guanqian and other officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs replaced the military generals in the previous state banquets, especially after Lin Zhe came to the state banquet in person, and praised Song Guanqian's diplomatic negotiation work in front of everyone for making great contributions to the cause of the unification of the empire.

In the last state banquet, it was the military generals who were in the limelight, and many cabinet ministers were envious and jealous of those military generals at that time, and this time at the state banquet, looking at the cabinet ministers who were in the limelight, the military generals were also unhappy, sitting around with their own care, and then said:

"Hmph, if we hadn't beaten those foreigners, he would have been able to negotiate before Song Guan?" This is because the military is the most powerful, and the cabinet is just following behind.

"This person did not insist on taking back Hong Kong, allowing the empire's land to swim outside His Majesty's holy grace, and let the empire and His Majesty suffer such humiliation, instead of taking the blame and resigning, he was triumphant, if such a person was under my command, Lao Tzu would have to shoot him directly!" It's a grumpy guy who wants to get his hands on everything.

"Although this Xiao Song has some achievements, he is still too domineering. What a waste of the title of viscount bestowed upon him by His Majesty! "This is not used to the current scenery of Song Guanqian, and even more so the noble family badge on Song Guanqian's chest. He is older than Song Guanqian, he has been in the dragon for four or five years, and he has not yet earned a knighthood as a major general in the official army, why did he get a viscount in front of Song Guanqian and foreigners?

The viscount title of Song Guanqian has always been the main reason for the envy and jealousy of outsiders, not only those civil officials who think that the viscount title obtained by Song Guanqian is not qualified enough. Even many military generals thought that Song Guanqian was unearned and took away the credit of their military generals.

However, the envy and jealousy of these people are floating clouds for Song Guanqian, no matter what you say behind your back, I am not a saint in front of Song Guanqian, and my official fortune is prosperous!

After a state banquet dispersed, Lin Zhe, who had drunk two glasses of wine with the ministers, returned to the harem, and came to Fang Defei's side according to the custom.

Seeing Lin Zhe coming, Fang Defei stepped forward with a smile to help take off Lin Zhe's coat, and then shushed and asked for warmth. But Lin Zhe saw a trace of sadness on her face.

Lin Zhe knew that she was not comfortable at these times, the reason was because she gave birth to a daughter, not a son, although Lin Zhe was busy with work on weekdays, this time in the harem was not much, and even if he returned to the harem, few people dared to talk to him about sons, daughters and other topics.

But he could still hear some of the rumors in the harem. For example, half a month ago, Lin Lao held a banquet in the harem every day, on the one hand, to entertain the families of military and political dignitaries. On the one hand, it is also to find something to do for the women in the palace who are idle and have nothing to do every day, so as to pass the time.

However, most of the other concubines during the banquet did not talk to Fang Defei, they were dissatisfied because Fang Defei monopolized most of Lin Zhe's time. Even the family members of the high-level military and political dignitaries who were invited to the palace did not talk around Fang Deconcubine as before, and those women didn't even look at the little daughter in Fang Deconcubine's arms, and they all surrounded Li Huifei and Lin Xuan in her arms.

And as the biggest boss of the harem, Mrs. Lin. is also all on the little prince Lin Xuan, not to mention Fang Defei and her daughter, even the queen Chen Jing and her two daughters did not let Mrs. Lin take such a look.

Fang Deconcubine has not been very good recently, and it is even worse than the queen Chen Jing, who gave birth to two daughters in a row, even if Chen Jing gave birth to two daughters in a row. made Mrs. Lin and even many ministers outside the palace a little dissatisfied, but she was the queen who was officially canonized in the founding ceremony, if there was no big accident, her position as the queen in this life would be safe and secure, even if Lin Zhe wanted to abolish it, it was not so easy.

And it is said that some people outside the palace have rumors, saying that in order to consolidate the country's foundation, the only prince Lin Xuan will be handed over to the queen Chen Jing to raise, and he will be officially established as the eldest son of the emperor to ensure that the heir is in order.

In other words, even if Chen Jing gave birth to two daughters in a row, her status inside and outside the palace, especially outside the palace, was far from being comparable to Fang Defei.

also gave birth to a daughter, and Chen Jing had ministers outside to run for her to ensure that her concubine was in order, and she was a concubine, when people heard that she had only given birth to a daughter, they immediately turned around and ignored it.

Some time ago, when Fang Deconcubine's mother entered the palace to visit their mother and daughter, Fang Deconcubine hugged her mother and cried all day!

Although Lin Zhe doesn't care much about these trivial matters in the palace, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know, it's just that there is not much he can do, and he can't use it

The form of the order allows others to accept Fang Defei!

Therefore, he can only use his own practical actions to support Fang Deconcubine, he gave most of his time in the palace to Fang Deconcubine, such a move does not need to be said explicitly, it is enough to prove that in Lin Zhe's heart, Fang Deconcubine is still the most important among the people in the palace.

It's just that the melancholy of a woman is somewhat inexplicable, and once it starts, it is often difficult to completely disappear, no, when he walked into the yard, Lin Zhe saw the paper on the desk by the window, the ink on it was not dry, and he glanced at it slightly, and the few words that came into his eyes were autumn and winter, falling flowers and the like, and he could feel a strong sad atmosphere without looking closely.

If it is for future generations of psychiatrists to come to see it, then Fang Deconcubine's symptoms will be judged to be postpartum depression, and it is not light! (To be continued......)