Chapter 36: Crisis
The second more
"I care about my mother, and I care about the emperor!" Qingyu thought for a moment, looked at Rong An who was smiling outside, and also smiled, "And Rong An." [with _ dream]ā"
"Actually, you care most about the people. What you have been working hard for so many years is not to let the war affect the people. But you've been saying that you don't mind if they rebel. It should be said that you moved Your Majesty, you are just taking charge of the country, and we are just trying to do a little better before choosing a new leader for them. To put it mildly, you're more like you're developing your opponents, you're creating more and better leaders. Why? ”
This is what Chery wanted to ask a long time ago, they worked so hard, but they were not waiting for the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty, but to let the people wake up, and work hard to let them learn things, look at the national bodies of various countries, and even he heard that there were various study meetings in the Northeast. Those people are studying the meaning of those countries. Because every nation is stronger than them. They are looking for a way to save the country.
Chery jumps every time he receives such a report, he is saving the country, you scholars are simply talking about misleading the country. Why don't you do something practical when you have free time? Wrote a letter to Xianfeng, but what did Xianfeng say in reply? Let them go, right? It's also good to be able to research.
This doesn't need to be asked to know what Qingyu meant, he really wanted to jump, and finally let him question her in person at this time.
"Because we're hopeless!" Qingyu let out a long sigh, took Xianfeng's hand and let out a long sigh.
Xianfeng smiled at her, after five years of life, he already knew his wife very well. Holding Qingyu's hand back with one hand, he patted her gently.
"I said before that you were an old master, but you really are. Now how many of those courtiers around you can clearly know the outside world and our own environment like us? ”
"You have the skill to train the people, why don't you train the courtiers?" Chery wanted to stomp his feet.
"Because the people are blank sheets, they can read now, and then we introduce them to all kinds of books, and slowly, they will be confused, and finally they will wake up. It's oppression, it's exploitation, and they're going to rise up and fight. So it will break an old system and build a new one. Of course, this is a long process. Qingyu took a long breath, she really didn't treat Chery as an outsider, even if she hadn't met over the years, but those letters were enough to understand a person.
"We're building, we're building a new army, we're building a new industrial system. Our five years are 50 years or even 100 years of development. Chery has been out, he may not know a few foreign languages like Qingyu, but he feels that he knows the world better than Qingyu.
"Yes, you're building a new order, and then you think you can change the century-old trend. This is impossible, as long as the emperor and I die, all this will be back to the prototype. And then the great powers will still break into China, what can we do? Let future generations not surrender? Or don't be an emperor? Can we jump out of the grave and strangle them? ”
"Your Majesty, do you really think we don't have a chance at all?"
"No, it's just that over the years, my biggest obstacle is not the foreigners, not the people, but the courtiers. Including Zeng Guofan, who you all think is good, he looks down on foreigners from the bottom of his heart, he was the first to establish an industrial base, but if we hadn't pressed it to death, he would have gone to his grandchildren a long time ago. Not to mention these nobles in the capital, if it weren't for these years, they recruited all the children of the banner people to go to the Northeast every year, they would have turned the sky upside down. ”
"So you cut taxes if you have nothing to do, except for the export tariffs that are collected by foreigners, you almost try not to collect taxes, before I thought you were afraid of the people backlash, but it's not right?"
"We would rather hide the wealth from the people, let them have their own wealth, and wait for the day when their wealth is violated, and they will also take up the gun for their own sake." Qingyu smiled, because there was no future, she tried her best to let Xianfeng not collect taxes, so that the people would become rich first.
Now the first rich people in Jiangnan began to know the profits of industry, and then the government would exchange the land for factories and wharves for the inland arable land in their hands, and then the arable land would be distributed to the peasants. Slowly realize the earliest Qingyu flickering Xianfeng, so that the proletarian tenants begin to have their own land, as long as they have their own land, people will settle down.
In recent years, it has been in this direction that all localities have been carefully promoting. She doesn't have the ambition to say that everyone can have enough to eat, but, judging from the surveys in various places, the gap between the rich and the poor is still huge, but it is an indisputable fact that everyone's life is slowly getting better.
"Don't you think that if we make life better for the people, and then they don't rebel, everything will go in a better direction? You are still young, and if you live another twenty years, we may change the world. "Chery is going to jump to his feet in anger, can this person's brain be a little worse?
"How many people can you change? Can we kill them all? Two hundred years of solid disease, you expect us to build these factories and build the latest type of sailors to change it? What we do is die a not ugly death. Even if we die, they will be able to struggle a little more. Qingyu had a dark face.
"And you're still letting them be enlightened?"
"Chery!" Qingyu was really angry, she always thought that he understood her thoughts, and over the years, she really thought so. Every command, he can do his best. But now, she doubted.
"As I just said, we are still worried about the Great Powers when we call you back. We also called back Li Hongzhang this time, and he will cooperate with you in the future. Now our focus is on those schools. Now that the great powers see an awakened China, it will make them uncomfortable, and in the future, we will not let them take what they want. Then they might have something to do. ”
Xianfeng waved his hand and said softly.
"Afraid that they will teach bad children?"
"Yes, I think that the moon in a foreign country is rounder than in China, and then I am fooled, like a knife club, to send an excuse to others and let them call me. For example, this time France is looking for Russia and Japan, and if it weren't for our military campaign against piracy, you would have been fighting Russia at this time. And the Fujian sailors may be fighting against Japan. Then you say, will Britain, the United States, Italy and Germany take the opportunity to reap some benefits together. If we come in together, can we be worth more than a hundred years of other people's foundation? ”
"So, we can't mess around now, at least accumulate a little more, even if they die, they can at least hold on a little longer." Xianfeng is still a good man, interpreting Qingyu's intentions to Chery.