Duguyi gave a helpless expression, to be honest, because of the Qing Dynasty, she has always had a bad impression of ancient society, even if she knows that some concepts are wrong because of professional knowledge, but long-term prejudice is so easy to change. It was also the sudden crossing to Daqi that she knew what the ancient times of the Eight Classics were like. Although this world has been changed by the Traveler Demon, the Traveler is a minority after all, and after so many generations of indigenous rule, it can still have such a situation, which can only be said to be because the Qing Dynasty is too spicy.

"What does the national letter say? It stands to reason that even if the vassal states submit their credentials, they won't be too stiff if they can't trade with each other, right? ”

This is a good question, Duguyi explained: "The Qing court felt that the overseas Yi people submitted their credentials to visit the Qing Emperor, naturally because they admired Wang Hua and wanted to become a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, but those Yi people felt that they were enough to stand on the same level as the Qing court. ”

Wang Yan nodded clearly, and analyzed: "At that time, the Qing Dynasty in the land of Kyushu has always said the same, and the surrounding small countries are all bowing their heads, this suddenly appeared a small country that has never heard of it and tried to stand side by side with it, naturally it is impossible to accept, just like the Japanese country of my dynasty, if that day the Japanese country whimsically wants to talk to me like the Liao country, the court is naturally unwilling, the best way to solve this kind of problem is for the two countries to fight, no matter which side wins, as long as someone is subdued, This is the case. ”

"Brother Zhong really saw it clearly." Dugu Yi smiled bitterly, from ancient times to the present, this truth seems to have never changed, "The bad thing is that the Qing court abolished its martial arts, lost the firearms technology that had become more and more mature in the previous dynasty, and finally lost its armor by the firearms of the Yiren." How to put it, it is not that the soldiers are afraid of battle, but that they are injured by firearms without even touching the enemy. ”

Dugu Yi said very pertinently, the Qing court is not without soldiers who are not afraid of death, those soldiers with big swords and spears to fight against the foreigners' fire wood warehouses and fire bags also fought to the last moment, but what is the use of this? The elite is making senseless sacrifices, and what is left behind is a bunch of greedy wastes who have lost their courage and are afraid of death.

"What is the fate of the defeated country, Brother Zhong also understands, ceding land and paying compensation, losing power and humiliating the country, after so many times, those Yi people have seen the details of the Qing court's external strong and middle-class cadres, and they have no scruples about doing things, and the Qing court has become a puppet of the Yi people in order to survive, helping the Yi people to squeeze their own people, so that they can continue to be drunk and dream of death." Duguyi gritted his teeth and said: "At that time, the Qing court emperor was young and the empress dowager was in the court, and the empress dowager actually said the words 'measure the material resources of China and form a friendship with the country', what else is 'rather with friends than domestic slaves', such a court ......!" ”

Dugu Yi grinded his teeth with hatred, "Because of the defeat, the Qing court was forced to open the treaty port, but because the people in the country were accustomed to the self-sufficiency of male farmers and female weavers, those Yi people not only did not make money, but lost a lot of money to buy porcelain and silk. Seeing that they couldn't sell enough silver and gold from the Qing Dynasty, they simply began to smuggle 'forget worries' made of hibiscus, picking on those who were well-off. Even an emperor of the Qing court was addicted to poison, and gave the harmful medicine a name 'Fu // Shou // Cream', since then 'Fu // Shou // Cream' has completely become a good thing for dignitaries and dignitaries to follow the emperor's wise decisions, and the emperor has used it, and the people below are naturally more unscrupulous. ”

"Since it's smuggling, there must still be people in the DPRK who understand, right?" Wang Yan guessed, in the past, the five stones scattered and poisoned the world, wasn't it because of the strong intervention of the imperial court that this thing was completely destroyed, then the Qing court is a huge court, and there will not even be a person who understands, right?

The two entered Wang Yan's courtyard one after the other, sat down in the warm pavilion, Dugu Yi handed the soup woman in his hand to the maids and asked them to take it down to change the water, and said while borrowing the cloak: "Naturally, there is, and then there was a boss on the top, so I planned to ban this 'Fu //Shou // ointment', and specially sent Qin to deal with this matter, not only destroyed the things in a centralized manner, but also knocked those foreign merchants to a beating." Then, because of this matter, the Qing court fought with a relatively powerful country on the Yiren side, and lost, and this smuggling became legal. ”

"Between nations, weakness is sin." Wang Yan sighed.

"Big countries play games, and small countries play chess. It is an honor to be a chess piece, and if you don't even have the qualifications to be a chess piece, that is the real end. ”

Dugu Yi said in his heart, how similar this is to the game between the imperial power, the big chess pieces must be carefully protected, the small chess pieces can be given up at any time, but there are only a few people who are qualified to play chess.

Because of the repeated defeats in the war with the Yi people, the Qing court was burdened with heavy war reparations, in order to collect taxes, they let the popularity of "Fu // Shou // ointment", and then collapsed, all kinds of warlords fought in a melee, in order to raise military funds, the warlords simply let go of the cultivation of hibiscus in their jurisdiction, and many farmers simply pulled out the grain and planted Hibiscus. ”

Wang Yan is keenly aware of the risks, "Raising military expenses is generally a miscellaneous tax, they destroy the farmland and plant Hibiscus, where does the military rations come from?" ”

You know, this military food is much more important than military salary, according to the environment at the time, whether the military salary of the low-level soldiers can be fully distributed to the hands of the two said, coupled with the natural and man-made disasters that often occur in the last years of the dynasty, I am afraid that many people are soldiers just to eat well, and the military salary may be withheld if they are deducted, if they can't even afford to eat, I'm afraid that it is not the old birthday star who hangs himself - it is a long life.

Duguyi has been numb to Wang Yan's keenness, and his mouth confirmed Wang Yan's concerns, "A once-in-a-century drought, after the great drought and locust plague, at that time, in order to resist foreign invasion, the Yellow River embankment was blown up, the Yellow River was diverted several times, and the imperial court disaster relief was unfavorable, forming an 800-mile flooding area in Henan. At that time, Henan had a population of about 10 million, and more than 3 million died of starvation, and more than 3 million people went west out of Tongguan to become refugees, starving to death, dying of disease, freezing to death, trampling to death, and even cannibalism along the way, and countless people died. The fertile land of the Central Plains for thousands of miles has been full of soldiers since then, and the people's livelihood has withered! ”

Duguyi's eyes were slightly red, the ancestors of her family had a big life, because the place where they lived was too remote, and fortunately the source of a big river, although the river was small but not broken, in the end it was in this famine to survive, "the predecessors fell to the ground and still shouted, and the descendants flocked to the corpse and planed", his great-grandfather father saw the tragic image of Luoyang.