In 1840, when the British came with strong ships and cannons, after a hundred years, they heard the news of foreigners again, and this day had long been different.

And now, when the Fourth Ming Empire reappeared in this world, Cixi and others were finally willing to spend a little time studying what was going on in the Ming Dynasty in addition to a luxurious life and endless infighting.

After all, foreigners want silver, and this Ming man wants their lives!

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Li Lianying took out a copy of "Daming Times", which had expired for one and a half months, and read it to Cixi in a sharp voice like singing.

Listening to this, Cixi's eyelids drooped, and she almost didn't fall asleep.

After all, she Xingzhen is also a woman.

The vast majority of women are interested in Gong Dou, but they are not interested in industrial development, science and technology at all.

Helpless, she could only light another cigarette, take a sharp puff, and continue to cheer up.

"The following said, the rich breeding pig is good, the rich breeding pig is wonderful, with the rich pig breeding, please find Zhang Yide breeding pig farm......"

"Yawn!"

Cixi finally couldn't help it, slapped the table, and said angrily: "Little Lizi, aren't you entertaining the mourning family and picking useless things to read?" ”

Li Lianying wiped the cold sweat from the corners of her forehead, hurriedly turned the page, and said: "Xinlu Iron and Steel Group, under the strong leadership of His Majesty Fugui, has always grasped the string of safe production, and achieved a monthly output of 50,000 tons of steel during the high incidence of accidents this summer, with zero accidents ......"

"Wait, you wait!"

Cixi asked, "50,000 tons of steel?" Is this much? How much steel does Beizhili produce a year? This steel is wrought iron, right? ”

Li Lianying wiped the cold sweat again.

He is the son of an old farmer in Shandong, how can he understand this.

Xinlu is not Lu, he doesn't even know what Xinlu is, what is called ton, he also doesn't know.

Li Lianying could only laugh and say: "Master, a slave is a servant, I am afraid that these have to be known by the Confucianism of the Ministry of Industry, but the slave knows that there are 30 million people in Hebei Zhili, and one person and one spitting star can also drown those thieves!" ”

"I'm afraid that these killings of Beizhili can't be trusted!"

Cixi frowned, thinking that 50,000 is indeed not a great number, I am rich all over the world, which is not tens of thousands, trillions.

Come to think of it, these 50,000 tons of steel are just a fraction of the Qing Dynasty.

What is really worrying is that the pseudo-Ming dog emperor bewitched the hearts of the Han people!

At this time, Li Lianying turned left and right, and finally saw a news that she could understand.

"The summer grain production of the Xinjin Agricultural Reclamation Construction Corps has been reported again...... According to the estimation of agricultural expert [Xiao Organization], this year's summer wheat yield is expected to reach 750 catties per mu! ”

"Haha, master, listen, this thief is really indiscriminate, wheat can produce more than 700 catties per mu, why doesn't he brag that he can produce 1,000 catties!"

Li Lianying thought of her hometown in Shandong for a while.

If there is really more than 700 catties of wheat per mu, Shandong will not be in trouble year after year......

If Shandong is not in a famine, there will be no twist, and if there is no twist, you don't have to enter the palace to cut off that little thing......

Thinking about it, Li Lianying was full of emotion for a while, and she didn't know whether she was a curse or a blessing now.

Although Cixi didn't understand agricultural production at all, she was also relieved to hear her confidant little eunuch say this.

It seems that as he thought, this so-called Daming Kingdom is just like Zheng Ming back then, a lonely pirate hanging overseas.

These Ming people are also really, more than 200 years ago, and they still can't change the tradition of falsely reporting their military exploits.

Or I'm honest.

Baliqiao said that it was to kill 3 foreign soldiers, that is, to kill 3 foreign soldiers, but it would not boast of martial arts!

If he knew Cixi's thoughts at the moment, Zhu Houzhao would definitely open the coffin, and there was a sentence that his mother wanted to talk about.

In short, a few months ago, the news of the restoration of the Ming Dynasty came back to Beijing, and the gentlemen of Beijing City had been in the news for a long time.

Today it is rumored that the army has arrived in Tanggu, and tomorrow it will be said that Emperor Dewu has already worshiped his ancestors in Fengyang.

But after half a year, after getting through the initial panic, the shadow of the Ming army was not seen for a long time, and the people's hearts slowly settled down.

Now it seems that it should be too much to worry about.

Back then, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Jing claimed to have thousands of miles of land, but in fact?

Taiwan's Napo Island does not have as many people as Fujian.

Cixi listened to two or three more newspapers, which talked about industrial, commercial, and agricultural matters, mixed with some new equipment and war fears.

It's just that Cixi doesn't understand it at all, and the ignorant are fearless.

In general, what she wants to hear, how many soldiers Daming has, how many tens of thousands of taels of income there are, how many tens of thousands of war horses, and how many thousands of shotguns and cannons, she didn't listen to these data.

Blame it on the fact that after the Changfa War began, there were no new newspapers on the Changzhou Domain, and Cixi didn't see the special issue on the Ming National Day military parade in July.

Otherwise, she shouldn't have been so comfortable while smoking a cigarette and going to the Heart Cultivation Hall to meet the minister in a soft sedan chair.

Qing emperors generally went to the court two or three times a week to deliberate, but it was not so formal, and compared with previous dynasties, the Qing Dynasty actually did not have a system of gathering officials early in the morning to stand on shifts.

The Kangxi Dynasty once followed the system of "listening to the government at the imperial gate", six o'clock in the morning in winter and spring, and five o'clock in the morning in summer and autumn, first in Qianqingmen, and later changed to listen to politics in Taihemen, which has the taste of the early dynasty.

However, in the Xianfeng Dynasty, the "Imperial Gate Listening to Politics" was canceled.

Now the Tongzhi Emperor is basically just a puppet, and the empress dowager of the two palaces, especially Cixi, listens to the government.

The place to listen to the government is in the Warm Pavilion of the Heart Cultivation Hall near the West Sixth Palace.

However, today is not the day of the last dynasty, Cixi has come to meet with her political allies.

Today, what Cixi talked about secretly with Li Hongzao, Wuren and other leaders of the clear stream of science was mainly about the counterattack of Prince Gong's mansion.

In the past few days, Devil Six has taken advantage of the restoration of the Ming Kingdom to intimidate the imperial court to restart Westernization in Tianjin, expand the Tongwen Museum, hire foreigner instructors to train new-style troops, and find reliable middlemen to buy the Western fleet again, so as to go to sea to exterminate the puppet Ming traitors.

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To be honest, these Cixi who said Devil Six still agree with it.

She is not really stupid, she doesn't know how powerful foreign guns are, and it was a general like Shi Lang who relied on Zheng Ming to exterminate Zheng Ming back then, and it was not impossible to rely on foreigners to exterminate this new Ming.

And after experiencing the autumn hunt of Mulan, being chased by foreign guns, Cixi is also very clear about foreign guns

The Boxer and the big brother and sister who shine on the red light haven't brainwashed her yet!

Some people think that it is impossible for a top feudal ruler like Cixi to believe in the invulnerability of the elder brother and sister.

This could not be more wrong.

Since ancient times, China has believed in this set of monarchs like carp crossing the river, that is, in the 80s when science and prosperity were prosperous in later generations, and the whole people once fell into qigong fever, and there were many leading cadres among them.

However, Cixi is superstitious and superstitious, but foreign guns and cannons are also wanted.

In fact, it's not just her, but even the clear currents of science such as Wu Ren and Li Hongzao, where do they not know the sharpness of foreign guns?

The so-called "faithfulness as armor and etiquette as the trunk" does not mean that they really want to learn from Song Xianggong, their heads are not so iron.

Don't you see, the pious princes of Arabia, can they purchase rabbit brand weapons one by one?

But here's the problem......

They are not as rich as those oil princes of the tyrant country.

"The Queen Mother, there are no outsiders today, and the old man will speak bluntly." Wenyuan Pavilion University scholar Wu Ren suddenly spoke.