Chapter 108: Building the Foundation

The first update

"yes, it's money when you open the door." Qingyu sighed softly and thought for a while, "According to the concubine, if you let the court take any money, I'm afraid that you really don't have to do anything." ”

"What do you want?" Now Xianfeng likes to listen to Qingyu and is busy with interest.

To be honest, the person who is right to Qingyu is Xianfeng, and if you change someone, I am afraid that I will be impatient with Qingyu for a long time. It is precisely because of these emperors since Jiaqing that they are softer than the other, and when he arrives in Xianfeng, his only bottom line is Prince Gong, as long as his throne is not given to Prince Gong, he can actually give it to anyone. He is the kind of character who will drag Prince Gong to die if I die.

As for the others that can help him deal with political affairs and make him more relaxed, he actually thinks it is very good. In history, Cixi helped him approve the folds. Otherwise, Cixi would not have mastered the government so quickly. Now Qingyu is willing to tell him what to do, and he is really happy. If Qingyu had casually worn to the era of any promising monarch, she would have died a long time ago.

"You see, we don't have much support for Chery, but we still got some money last time, and then gave him 200,000. He wrote back the letter and saw how he found the money? Find a nearby village, fool those farmers in the countryside to make spirits with bud rice, the bud rice in the countryside is not worth much, put a piece of old bud rice before, and a piece of old grain from the northeast. The most expensive thing is to find a master who can blend and start a smuggling business. The peasants also made a fortune with him, and he got everything he wanted. "Qingyu is also thinking about this these days, how much money the court has is really pointing to the court to allocate money, but it is not enough.

Especially now that all parts of the country are like powder kegs, even if the Taiping Army is suppressed, who knows if there will be another Ping An Army. Now she doesn't dare to believe her knowledge of history.

But she knows the number that before liberation, ninety percent of China's peasants were illiterate. They don't have lofty ideals, as long as they have something to eat and clothes to wear, they can feel satisfied.

Think about it, there is also a saying in the Chinese idiom 'small wealth is peace', which is what it means. Therefore, the taxation must not be done, and if the house is raided again, I am afraid that it will also make the ruling class uneasy, and then they will not be able to do anything to Xianfeng, but it is still possible to kill themselves, the demon girl who has returned to the disaster. Looking for money, I already have to think of another idea.

"Do you want Li Hongzhang to be self-sufficient, like Chery?" Xianfeng looked at Qingyu, and now he felt that he could go on vacation without being busy.

"Of course not, you asked Lao Qi to train before, and Chery went to find money and guns. Even if Chery would give Lao Qi an idea, he didn't dare to let Lao Qi take his soldiers to smuggle. Why? That is, soldiers have only one faith, 'defend the family and defend the country'. Once a soldier becomes a businessman, then your wonder soldier is useless. Li Hongzhang and they are the same, they can use silver to smash the army, but they must not allow the army to participate in business, and legitimate business is not allowed. ”

Qingyu shook her head, there is no country in the world where the army can do business. Even if she doesn't understand military affairs, she knows that this is the most likely source of corruption. People only have the purer and more capable!

"So you want Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan to leave Monk Greenqin?" Xianfeng thought about it and looked at Qingyu.

"It's not all, Li Hongzhang has to stay with Monk Greenqin. I think Li Hongzhang is a smart person. Qingyu thought about it, wiped her sweat, drank a large sip of warm water, and fed it to Xianfeng by the way.

Xianfeng shook his head, he was the most unaccustomed to the lukewarm swallowing of water. But seeing that Qingyu was insisting, he only drank helplessly and motioned for her to continue.

"Zeng Guofan is the second grade, right?" Qingyu thought for a moment and looked at Xianfeng.

"Hmm!" Xianfeng probably guessed Qingyu's thoughts, and he was right, Li Hongzhang was only seven grades, even if he had made meritorious contributions before, he was promoted to five grades. Now it is not to help him, but to harm him. But Zeng Guofan is different, he was a second product before, and now he is letting him come out. He also had meritorious service last time, and at this time, he was promoted by half a level to give him a place to be released, which did not attract people's attention.

"Zeng Guofan was the governor of Liangjiang, from a product. Let him promote the construction of factories in various parts of Liangjiang. Let those old people take out the money and build as many factories as they can along the Yangtze River. As long as the rich people want to do it, let them do it, and the court is exempt from taxes for the first year. Qingyu knew that Xianfeng understood, so she said her thoughts directly.

She only remembered that when a man named Zhang Zhidong was the governor of Huguang, he established the Hanyang Arsenal, and the guns made in Hanyang were used until the Liberation War. Water and power plants have also been established. But that's been after 1900, and now it's done, has it been done? Still, she wanted to try.

Besides, Li Hongzhang is a student of Zeng Guofan, let Monk Greenqin train on Zeng Guofan's territory, Zeng and Li can communicate with each other, Zeng Guofan has a very high reputation among Han officials, otherwise Li Hongzhang's father would not let Li Hongzhang worship under Zeng Guofan's door. She remembered that most of the famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty at that time were students of Zeng Guofan. She now wants to make Liangjiang a special zone!

"No matter what kind of factory is built?" Xianfeng frowned.

"Yes, let them do it as long as they want to. I heard from the foreign wives about their power plants and water plants. If you want to start a machine, you have to build a power plant. Without electricity, the factory's machines won't work. If you want to be a weaving factory, you have to have a yarn factory to ask for cotton. There is also a weaving factory, and there will be a dyeing factory; Weaving and dyeing cloth requires a lot of water. They have to scrape together the money and build a water plant and a power plant for us. In this way, our arsenal will not be so difficult. ”

Qingyu has thought a lot about the industrial structure, and their company is also an entity, and most of the world's top 500 companies have entities. Even if it is all OEM companies to do it, it can be regarded as an entity, and they all have a real industrial chain. That's what she learned. No country in the world will force people to open any factory, and can only form their own advantageous industries in the form of encouragement.

At present, China does not have any industrial foundation, and if we want to establish this foundation, we must encourage them to let a hundred flowers bloom, and let the market determine the form of industry. I heard that there is also a saying in history that there is strength to save the country, but Qingyu said that she did not agree very much. Industry can't save the country, but industry can open the eyes of the people step by step. Slowly, open up their people's wisdom. At the very least, they can be self-aware little by little and can choose their own path forward.

"But in this case, those women can come and farm?" Xianfeng looked at Qingyu, he was still worried, they were an agricultural country, no one farmed the land, and the people were all starving to death? Xianfeng is not optimistic at all, but he has a good temperament, he is not questioning Qingyu's ability, but asking questions to make her think more completely.