Of course, Xiao Letian's way to make money is more than this, if you want to raise an army just by buying low and selling high, it is tantamount to a fool's dream, Xiao Letian's dream of a large navy and industrialization will eventually fall on the head of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Xiao Lotian has always believed that the wealth accumulated by the Chinese ancestors for thousands of years is not a small amount, enough for several generations to work hard to industrialize. In fact, not to mention that it is now the middle of the 19th century, even if the vitality of the Chinese nation was greatly damaged after the founding of the People's Republic of China, our fathers still completed the industrialization of the country by tightening their belts and realized their dreams for hundreds of years.

And now, China has only experienced two Opium Wars, and the tens of millions of taels of indemnities are just a drop in the bucket for the huge wealth accumulated by the people, and the fact that the Manchus and those corrupt Confucians cannot mobilize it does not mean that Xiao Letian can't do it.

Needless to say, how many ironclad warships can be bought by the Eight Banners with a flag salary of more than 10 million taels of silver a year? In the whole Qing Dynasty, how much silver would have to be swallowed by the big black hole in a year, and I am afraid it would have cost more than 10 million taels. The Manchu Qing Dynasty sold millions of taels of money a year, not to mention all kinds of other rampant wealth.

Wherever Japan is like across the sea, the navy wants to buy a Yoshino, and even the emperor takes the lead in eating only one meal a day, the purpose is to encourage the public to donate money to buy warships and Beiyang dry.

And the Yoshino was actually a fast ironclad cruiser ordered by Li Hongzhang of Beiyang and the British Armstrong Shipyard, but because he wanted to celebrate Cixi's birthday, he embezzled the silver to the Summer Palace, which made the Japanese pry the market.

The Yoshino cost more than 300,000 pounds, which would be 1 million taels of silver at the exchange rate at the time. And more than one million taels of silver, for China, even the middle Jin merchant families have paid out. Needless to say, even the old shopkeeper's brother Fan Ru took it out.

The Chinese economy in the late Qing Dynasty was like falling into a spell, scholars desperately wanted to become officials to make money, businessmen desperately tried to make money and then hide the profits, or they just bought land and officials and engaged in collusion between officials and businessmen.

In the end, these riches were all cheapened by the robbers who fought in open fire, and under the persecution of foreign guns and cannons, they became the mouths of the robbers in a blink of an eye.

The more turbulent the society, the more the wealth needs to be hedging, the more avoidant the country is, the weaker the country, and then the society will be more turbulent, when the wealth has lost its liquidity, lost the ability to create new wealth, and his final outcome is to become the mouth of other powers.

It is in this kind of curse that China is getting weaker and weaker, while the Western world is doing the opposite, with extremely developed industry and commerce, and the financial system is becoming more and more sound, and what is the final result?

When they can wield the big stick of nuclear weapons and shout at the whole world, what can you do but pay the protection money?

Sometimes he himself will be scared awake, but this one-way road with no turning back has already been walked up by Xiao Letian, and he can't get off again.

Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun could only see the tip of the iceberg in Xiao Letian's huge layout, but this corner had already scared Tian Erdan and Ma Hui to death, and they even looked down at the lunch box that had just been served and muttered.

"So, we just ate foreign rice, hu......h? I've never thought of this kind of treatment in my life? Where is Japan and North Korea? Where is the United States?"

Ye Qiu and the others never thought that the battle against the Green Camp brothers would be declared victorious with just one meal, in the eyes of these simple people, they could eat canned American beef, rice from Japan and North Korea, there were really shrimp in the seafood soup, and they could actually eat canned peaches after the meal.

Oh my God... O earth... Now it's autumn, and you can actually eat peaches that are only on the market in early summer, and every folk in my hometown dares to believe it.

"Woooooooooo......oo Damn, what the hell did I live before, and we're not human compared to you...... Do you have a sword, sir, lend me a ......?"

Tian Erdan didn't say a word, cut off his braid with a backhand, and threw it into the fire, "If you do it, just rush this ration, just from the good heart of the Cheng to our soldiers, I will also do it......"

"it......" The crowd shouted in unison and went to the new army to borrow knives, and this meal not only cut off the braids on the back of their heads, but also cut off the braids in their hearts.

In the late Qing Dynasty, it was so simple to compete for people's hearts, and the people at the bottom lived too hard, and because the Manchu Qing Dynasty strictly abided by the Ming Dynasty's road guidance system, the people were closed in their hometowns, and they could see the surrounding hundreds of miles and were already counted as people who went south and north.

Now Xiao Lotian has opened a new door for these ignorant people, allowing them to see a completely different world with their own eyes, and from that moment on, the foolish scam concocted by the Manchus and the corrupt Confucians will be completely bankrupt.

It turns out that there is really such a way of living, people can eat meat every day, people can eat enough every day, they can not bow down when they meet officials, and they are polite when they see foreigners.

It turns out that this world is like this, it is not a world where there is only one monarch and a father and son, and those nations who do not have emperors have not fallen into the sky, and the people there live better.

It turns out that there is really a paradise in this world where hard work can be abundant in food and clothing...

That night, 2,000 Green Battalion soldiers collectively broke off and revolted and joined the camp of the New Army, and in just one night, there were 2,000 more bald soldiers in the Special Administrative Region.

In just one night, their temperament and the time of surrender were already like two people.

Early the next morning, the torture hall established contact with the remaining 4,000 defenders on the Dagukou Fort, and the Special Zone used small sampans to transport a large amount of supplies to the fort, and guns, ammunition, and food were served, as long as the SAR had them, they were continuously sent to the fort.

The 4,000 defenders swore to defend the Dagukou fort, and the people were in the fort, and the dead were martyred in the fort.

For a whole day, the small boats of the Special Administrative Region on the north bank of the Haihe River to the forts on the south bank were connected into a line, and the river did not stop for a moment, but it was very strange that the French on the sea and the Meyler garrison of the big and small kings did not move at all.

"Something is wrong, the taste is really wrong...... Pass the order to go down and take strict precautions, especially where is the Dagukou Fort, let our snipers go up to support......" After all, General Liu Lang had fought the Northern Expedition with the Heavenly Kingdom, and he had an almost intuitive perception of murderous aura.

Just when Tanggu was holding back the war, a big chaos was raging in Weili in Tianjin in the west.

Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Wei, a Wei character has vividly expounded the characteristics of the city, that is, to establish the city with the army. When the Ming Dynasty established the Tianjin Guard, it was to support the northern front line and garrison the mouth of the Haihe River, and in the Qing Dynasty, the location here was more important, becoming the first line of defense against the enemy on the sea.

There are many yamen in Tianjin's Weili, the Green Camp Army, and the Eight Banners are full of Acropolis...... Even the Yancao gang has set up an office here, who made this a dry dock.

Just this morning, the warehouse of the Eight Banners camp in the south of the city did not know how to run out of water, I heard that it was the fire caused by the shop of fried fritters, and it was also said that the incense and candle shop accidentally knocked over the lamp and candle...... As for why there are so many fire hazards around the warehouse site, only God knows.

This is really autumn weather, this kind of weather is a good weather for arson, and after a while, the fire of the entire warehouse is connected, and the black smoke is full of ashes, and it looks like a black snow from a distance.

Although the army of the late Qing Dynasty did not fall into decay, corruption became commonplace, but Tianjin Wei is a strategic place after all, and the defense of foreigners also has to defend Xiao Letian, so the arms in the warehouse here are really real, and those who are officials dare to eat a deficit of one percent at most, and they are afraid of killing their heads.

During this time, the warehouse was full of guns, ammunition, cotton and cloth, oil and beans, and even more than 100,000 taels of broken silver.

This is the logistical lifeblood of Mailer's operation, and if this fire burns out, it is estimated that the anger in the Forbidden City will collapse the wall.

The streets were full of soldiers scurrying around, sweating profusely one by one carrying wooden barrels, and finally even the guards of the various yamen were dispatched and rushed quickly towards the south of the city.

The fire was raging, and the people all over the city were looking around, and many timid people even knelt on the ground and prayed for the Buddha's name, and even the officials in the yamen stood at the door to look at and discuss.

The Zhentai Yamen set up by the Ministry of War is in the northwest corner of the Drum Tower, and at this time, a group of masters and pen posts at the gate are crowded together to watch the excitement, and their faces are full of regret.

Someone in the crowd whispered, "It's a loss, it's a loss, if we had known that there was a fire, why didn't we make more of a deficit? So many good things have been burned in vain, if we start early, we will have to make 200,000 yuan......

"Pull it down, you, this is a military quartermaster for Mailer, we will already have a deficit of 10%, and you still want to scrape out 200,000......?

While the people were talking, suddenly there was a dense sound of horses' hooves from the depths of the street, which at first was small and scattered, but soon became a momentum, and rumbled like a tank from the north.

"Who dares to ride a horse in the city?" ...... something that doesn't understand the rules," the scolding in the crowd just began, but his voice seemed to be pinched by an invisible hand, and he couldn't say a word.

"This, this, this...... What the hell is this?"

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But sometimes you can't open it with a mobile phone, it may be a problem with the settings, so it's best to use a computer to enter this web page.

Hey, the design of this cake activity on the website is too problematic, and I don't know if the website leader can see my sentence if I don't think about reading books on my mobile phone

"Now the people who cover me with cakes and give me tips are all mobile book friends, obviously mobile phone reading has become the mainstream, how can you still engage in activities and always circle around the PC station? Isn't this a donkey wearing an eye patch?

"Reform, must be reformed, why is it always old-brained? People who watch pirated copies would rather come alone to reward than subscribe to read, because what? Isn't it that the mobile phone reading experience is not good......

After complaining, I continued to code.

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