A.D. 1893, August. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the seaside wharf, Bao Longxing, dressed in a dress, walked down from the huge freighter, saw Zuo Xiaoyou, laughed and hugged him: "My lord, I'm back." ”

"Good work." Zuo Xiaoyou patted him on the back and asked with a smile: "Did the road go well?" ”

"It went better than I thought." Bao Longxing smiled and said: "I have cheated those foreigners this time." ”

"Oh?" Seeing Bao Longxing smiling so treacherously, Zuo Xiaoyou couldn't help laughing: "Even you yourself said that you cheated them, it seems that this pit is quite ruthless." ”

"Hahaha, the Hummer we produced is so beautiful, comfortable to sit on, and you can listen to music, those rich foreigners are rushing to buy it, and the supply is in short supply, and in the end I called these people together, and the one with the highest price wins." Bao Longxing laughed proudly: "Guess what, how much gold does a Hummer sell for on average?" ”

"Ten thousand taels?" Zuo Xiaoyou guessed.

There is no precise value reference for ancient gold and silver, but from the current era, one tael of silver is almost two hundred yuan, and one tael of gold is ten taels of silver, but considering that one gram of gold is equal to fifty grams of silver in later generations, Zuo Xiaoyou knows that silver will depreciate in the future, so now sell things abroad, basically do not want silver, as long as gold.

As for diamonds, because of the emergence of glass, there are too many fake diamonds, and there is a lack of experts to identify authenticity in this era, so Zuo Xiaoright is not accepted.

I think that foreigners used cheap 'glass beads' to exchange countless gold, silver and jewelry in the land of China, and the death of the pit did not pay for their lives.

Gold is a soft metal, so it is easy to identify authenticity, but the purity needs to be tested. Gold and silver have always been the currency in circulation in China, and there are many experts in identifying the purity of gold and silver, even Bao Longxing himself can identify it, so it will definitely not suffer a loss when collecting gold.

"Hahaha, eighty thousand taels! It's 80,000 taels of gold! Bao Longxing laughed: "On average, each Hummer sold for 80,000 taels of gold!" My lord, we have made a fortune this time! ”

Zuo Xiaoyou was also a little surprised, he didn't expect the Hummer to be sold so expensive. This time on the ocean, the freighter brought a total of 50 Humvee cars that had just been successfully developed, that is, the well-known military off-road vehicles in later generations, but the left and the right seized the opportunity to produce this kind of car in advance, although the performance is not as good as the modern one, but in this era, it is an unprecedented super car.

Fifty Humvees, with an average of 80,000 taels of gold each, that is, 4 million taels of gold, equivalent to 8 billion yuan. That's 8 billion yuan, and just 50 Humvees sold 8 billion yuan.

What kind of pit man is this? This is clearly a money grab! No wonder even Bao Longxing, the Minister of Commerce, is happy to be like this.

Bao Longxing has been following Zuo Xiaoyou for almost 20 years, because he has a sharp mouth and a good brain, so Zuo Xiaoyou teaches him some modern business methods from time to time.

After five or six years of study, Bao Longxing became a master of learning and began to be responsible for the import and export trade of Guangdong, relying on the commercial means beyond the times, Bao Longxing was invincible, and earned a lot of gold and silver for the "imperial court" of Guangdong, and later Bao Longxing was appointed as the minister of commerce of the imperial court, specifically responsible for the domestic and foreign trade of the imperial court.

After more than ten years of development, Guangdong has a population of up to 100 million, accounting for a quarter of the country's total population, especially strong economic growth, accounting for 90% of the country's total GDP.

That's right, it's 90%!

One province actually accounts for ninety percent of the country's GDP, which shows how rich Guangdong is.

And the per capita GDP has reached ...... According to the calculation of later generations, it has reached a per capita GDP of 15,000 yuan.

That is, the average monthly salary is more than 1,200. Don't think that this number is very low, because the price is only equivalent to the mid-nineties of the later generations, and in the mid-nineties, taking the capital as an example, the average salary in the capital at that time was only six or seven hundred.

To make a simple comparison, at present, the people of Guangdong are holding the salary of 2000 and enjoying the prices of 1995, and that small life is quite nourishing.

In the past decade, he has been letting farmers under his rule grow high-yield crops, and has trained a group of agricultural experts to go to the countryside to tell farmers how to make yields higher.

The most important staple crop is, of course, hybrid rice, which has been improved to be retained. Not only is the yield per mu higher, but it can also be continuously retained and diffusion, which is the preferred staple food of the people in Guangdong.

Of course, Guangdong's economy is getting better and better, which has also attracted the attention of Beijing. A quarter of the country's population has gone to Guangdong, and if they don't notice, then they are really pigs.

The capital also sent officials to Guangdong to investigate the situation, and when they saw the development of Guangdong, everyone was red-eyed. The imperial court even sent ministers to take over Zuo Xiaoyou's position, but unfortunately these people couldn't come and go, and they were killed by Zuo Xiaoyou.

After doing this a few times, the capital will know what's going on.

This is a blatant rebellion!

Lafayette was furious and sent a large army to conquer Guangdong, but it is a pity that in addition to Guangdong's good economic development, its military development is better.

When hundreds of thousands of pigtails came to the border of Guangdong with guns and horses, the musket team on the left and right side and the tank troops beat the hundreds of thousands of pigtails to the ground in three or two strokes, and captured countless horses and ordnance, as well as a large amount of grain and grass.

Ninety percent of the pigtailed army was captured, and the rest also fled all the way, either dead or wounded, and when the remnants of the army were defeated and fled back to the capital, the total number was less than 1,000, and the Lafayette was scared of the farts and urine, and after the serious illness for three months, he no longer dared to mention the crusade against Guangdong.

However, after the left and right sides built Guangdong well, they were not idle, and directly took over the territory of the 'eleventh section line', which locked Japan's maritime transportation lines at once, choked Japan's anger, and constantly protested to the Qing court, but the Qing court did not have the ability to control the left and the right, so it could only make peace with Japan, and even moved the mind of borrowing a knife to kill people.

You go and kill him, but I won't interfere.

Receiving the hint from the Qing court, the Japanese wondered: What does this Manchu court mean?

Later, after investigation, I found out: Oh, it turns out that the imperial court can no longer control Guangdong, plus the territory in the southeast, it almost belongs to the independent imperial court.

After learning of this situation, the Japanese were also sharpening their knives and preparing to fight a naval battle with the left and right. Zuo Xiaoyou has eyeliner in Japan, and after learning about Japan's actions, he is also rearming for war, and at the same time increasing his purchasing power for foreign warships.

Although after more than ten years of development, Guangdong also has its own shipyard, but after all, the time is short, and only about a dozen combat ships have been produced at sea, and they are petite, and it is almost interesting to deal with the Japanese navy, so in the past ten years, the navy built on the left and right sides is still mainly based on the purchase of European warships.

After more than 10 years of purchases, the South China Sea Navy already has more than 80 warships, 20 of which are more than 3,000 tons, and more than 50 torpedo boats, all of which add up to two or three times the naval strength of the Japanese Navy.

Anyone who knows modern history knows that the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War was divided into three stages: in the first stage, the Beiyang Fleet dispatched 12 warships, two of which were of more than 3,000 tons and 10 of which were of less than 3,000 tons; The Japanese Navy also dispatched 12 warships, but 8 warships of more than 3,000 tons were dispatched, and the warships were more advanced. The firing distance of the Northern Fleet was only 3,000 meters, but the firing distance of the Japanese Navy reached 5,000 meters.

The gap in equipment is simply too great.

However, I also have to admire the soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet, with such broken equipment, they also fought with the Japanese Navy with mutual casualties, even if the three-stage Sino-Japanese War ended, the Japanese Navy only won a miserable victory, and almost lost to the Beiyang Fleet.

It can be seen from this that the original navy soldiers were still more elite in the Beiyang Fleet, and Japan won the victory by relying on better equipment. If the equipment is the same, nine times out of ten, the winner is the Beiyang Fleet.

It's a pity that a series of problems of the Manchu Qing Dynasty harmed the Beiyang Naval Division, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty became the most humiliating dynasty in Chinese history, humiliating the country for more than a century.

Therefore, after Zuo Xiaoyou went to school, his least favorite historical period was the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period, and at the same time, he hated the Han people for not fighting for themselves. From the perspective of race, in modern times, there are no purebred Han people in the world, and they are basically hybrids of farming and nomadism.

However, race and nation are two different things, and a nation is a stable community formed by people in history with a common language, a common territory, a common economic life, and a common psychological quality expressed in a common culture.

Therefore, nationality is different from race, it is a social unity formed over a long period of history, and it is formed due to the differences in economic life, language, living habits, and historical development of various races (or tribes) in different regions.

Therefore, ethnic groups are divided by cultural identity, not by blood.

The reason why the Han people are confused now is because the Manchu Qing Dynasty shaved their hair and forced the Han people to abandon their national culture, in order to interrupt the cultural identity of the Han people, so that they can rule, so that now many Han people do not know what their national costume - Hanfu is, and many people mistakenly think it is a kimono.

The Han nationality has become the only ethnic group in the world that does not have national costumes, in fact, it has been forgotten, but fortunately, many young people have begun to wear Hanfu and promote Han culture. The purpose is to let the brilliant Han culture wash away the ugly and disgusting impression that the Manchu pig's tail culture brought to the world.

Of course, the modern Chinese nation is already a multi-ethnic country, with a national system dominated by Han culture and supplemented by multi-ethnic culture. This is also very good, the sea is inclusive, tolerance is great, and the purer the race, the less it can become a big country.

For example, Japan, North Korea, Mongolia...... (To be continued.) )