"The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are on the surface of Tongguan Road. Looking at the western capital, he hesitated. Sad, the Qin and Han dynasties, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer!"

Zhang Yanghao's "Hillside Sheep Tong Caring for the Ancients" tells the rise and fall of the world, and also the suffering of the people in the rise and fall of the world. From ancient times to the present, for the people, whether it is good or bad, in the end, they always have to taste the suffering of the world, but if there is a choice, the people in the world are still "rather a peace dog".

Even sometimes, this "Taiping" is also self-deception, but just like in this Tongguan, to a certain extent, the so-called "Taiping" is just a deception, everyone knows that the so-called Taiping days may be broken at any time, the Ming army may be killed at any time into Tongguan, into the Guanzhong, for the people of Shaanxi, this is naturally what they have been looking forward to for a long time, but for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is undoubtedly a nightmare, so, this Tongguan in the past few years, always a heavily guarded appearance, once changed, The jackbox at the gate would be lowered at any moment.

Although this Tongguan separated the Ming Dynasty from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in fact it was "open", and the traders could still carry a steady stream of goods to and from the two places, which to some extent seemed to be much more relaxed than that of Emperor Lie.

The Manchus could not do without the Ming Dynasty's cloth, tea and other commodities, and even military supplies such as sulfur needed to be obtained from the Ming Dynasty, of course, unlike the former, the latter were smuggled to Shaanxi by traders through various trails.

And through Tongguan into Shaanxi is often a variety of materials related to people's livelihood, but because Tongguan is extremely important, so every caravan entering Tongguan has to go through a search, although in the past few years, it seems that people have forgotten about the war, only the Qing soldiers who keep money rat tails to search for goods, reminding people that this is the place of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The Qing soldiers guarding the pass would always take advantage of the search to blackmail the people, and when they saw the Qing soldiers in front of them, they were about to use the bayonets on the long guns to stab the cloth, and the cloth sellers all hurriedly took out the silver and complimented the Qing soldiers with good words, so as to keep the cloth on the car.

"Let the heavens call the earth and call the ancestors, but I hope that I will not meet the Tartars......"

Listening to the shaking of the head and sigh of the vendor in front of him, the middle-aged man's mind sank, and when he looked at those Qing soldiers, his face became a little unnatural, and then he sighed again.

In that sigh, there was more helplessness.

After entering Tongguan, the middle-aged man who was originally dressed as a businessman went straight to the outside of the city, and after asking for a stagecoach with an official certificate in the post station outside the city, he hurried to Xi'an.

"If there is a train, why do you need such a waste?"

The middle-aged man on a horse thought of the train in Kanto and the speed of traveling thousands of miles a day, although he longed for it in his heart, but his face was more helpless.

After a day and a night of driving, he finally returned to Xi'an, and the dusty middle-aged man didn't even rest much, so he changed into an official robe and went directly to the palace.

"The slave knocks to see the master."

Cao Xi, as the fifth and third leaders of the White Banner of the Internal Affairs Bureau, is the emperor's domestic slave, and his actual status is very low, but because of the emperor's trust, and because of his loyalty to his master and his own talent, he is trusted and reused. Therefore, the status is naturally not comparable to ordinary minions.

Cao Xi, who was ordered to enter the customs this time, naturally had to meet his master first when he returned to Xi'an and report this trip to the Kanto.

"Why did you come back so soon, I thought it would take at least another half a month,"

Xuan Ye didn't raise his head, nor did he signal Cao Xi to get up, but just asked him to kneel there and said, he is a royal minion, and his status is slightly higher than that of a eunuch at most.

"Back to the master, the slave can come back so completely this time, all because of the train of the Ming Kingdom."

"Trains?"

Xuan Ye asked with some curiosity.

"What train?"

"Master, the train is the steam locomotive mentioned in the Ming newspaper earlier, because it uses coal to burn the fire to produce gas, so it is called a train. Not only was the train powerful, but it could travel thousands of miles a day, and it was not at all like a horse, which needed fodder and water, and it was not as delicate as a horse......

Listening to Cao Xi's words, Xuan Ye's brows became tighter and tighter, he knew about the steam engine, and he had read books related to the steam engine, but he never thought that the steam engine could actually be used in the car.

"Master, at present, there are no horses and horses on the railway, all the vehicles are pulled by trains, a train can pull twenty wagons, enough to 160 tons of strange, in the eyes of the ministers, with the help ......of trains, the Ming people will definitely use troops to my Qing Dynasty."

For a long time, when the Ming Kingdom marched westward, it has always been a sharp sword hanging in the hearts of the Qing Dynasty, and now, there is no need to worry about it anymore - because the Ming people will soon come over.

"With the train, the Ming people can continuously transport materials to Tongguan and Shaanxi, and there must be no worries, so it is by no means a blessing of the Qing Dynasty......"

In the face of Cao Xi's report, Xuan Ye has been silent, now he seems to feel the helplessness of his father back then, the helplessness of being caught in the net and unable to pull out, despite all kinds of struggles, but it has been exhausted in the reality of Han Conggu, which makes people breathless, once upon a time, he thought that only the Western Regions were opened, then the Great Qing Kingdom would have a future, but even if the Western Regions were opened, what could it be?

In the beginning, when I saw a report of a steam locomotive in the newspapers. He thought that the newspapers were all exaggerated, but Cao Xi's words let him know that he was afraid that the newspapers not only exaggerated the train, but also probably didn't know how useful it was. Maybe ordinary reporters don't know, but for Xuan Ye, who is the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, he knows very well why Hong Chengchou would offer his father to go to the Western Regions back then, because the Western Regions are too far away from the Ming Dynasty.

From ancient times to the present, only the Han and Tang dynasties have used troops in the Western Regions, the former has almost exhausted the national strength with troops in the Western Regions, and the latter is just an army to break the countries of the Western Regions, and if the Qing Dynasty occupies the Western Regions, with the Qing Dynasty with hundreds of thousands of troops, if the Ming Dynasty does not invest hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of troops, how can it be possible to win the Western Regions?

"Once the Ming attack is frustrated, he will be able to negotiate peace with the Ming State one day......"

Labor expeditions exhaust national strength. Once upon a time, this was the only hope for the Qing Dynasty.

Labor Expedition?

With the train, how could the Han people be afraid of the labor expedition?

Now, there is not even that glimmer of hope.

Xuan Ye, whose face became extremely ugly, didn't even care about what Cao Xi said next, he was just imagining the scene of Da Ming laying the railroad tracks all the way to the Western Regions, imagining that Da Ming transported thousands of soldiers and countless supplies to the Western Regions through the rails.

How will the Qing state resist their attack by then?

Even inadvertently, Xuan Ye's hands were trembling, cold sweat broke out on his back, and he could even imagine a picture of himself becoming the king of the dead country.

Do you want to hang yourself in the coal mountain like Chongzhen?

By the way, there are no coal mountains in Xi'an, and even Shengjing, which is a new city that has just been built this year, is located at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, which will be the new capital of the Qing Dynasty, and the regulations are the same as those of Shengjing in Manchuria, except that the status has become the Western Regions.

In fact, God is still gracious to the Qing Kingdom, the year before last, when the Qing Kingdom was worried about the attack of the Ming Kingdom, a major earthquake in Shandong bought time for the Qing Kingdom, so that the Great Qing Kingdom could defeat the fight to recruit the Weirat Mongols paved the way, otherwise, the Great Qing Kingdom could only flee into the Western Regions in a hurry, and not like now, by joining forces with the weaker Heshute Department Ozirtu Khan, together annexed the strongest Dzungar Department, although now it seems that the Heshute Department still maintains its independence, But sooner or later he will be included in the Eight Banners.

After several years of hard work, the Qing Kingdom has basically gained a foothold in the Western Regions, and even most of Ding Zhuang in the Mancheng of Xi'an has moved to the Western Regions. Originally, the Qing Kingdom had done everything, and once Tongguan was lost, it would retreat to the Western Regions, with the help of thousands of miles away, to resist the attack of the Ming army, but who would have thought that the Ming people would just make a train.

“…… Master, the slave is in Qinghe this time, and has negotiated with the merchants of the Ming Kingdom the materials that need to be purchased, and in the next month or two, those materials will be transported into my Great Qing Dynasty, and when the time comes, the military prestige of my Great Qing Dynasty will definitely be able to reach a higher level......"

Cao Xi, who knelt on the ground and kowtowed, didn't notice the change in his master's face, he was just quietly inviting credit, as a servant of the Internal Affairs Office, he knew that the actual status of the Cao family in the Great Qing Dynasty was not wonderful. Once they lost the favor of the emperor, the sad situation of the Cao family as Han Baoyi was exposed—their actual status was not only lower than that of the Manchurian, Mongolian, Han and other soldiers and civilians of the Eight Banners, but also lower than that of the Manchurian and Mongolian Baoyi, who were also slaves of the emperor.

Because of this, in fact, Cao Xi has always hoped to get rid of the identity of the coat and carry his nationality into the flag like the coat of other flags, but he is the royal coat, and he is not a flag without the emperor's order.

"Master, this time the slave went to the Ming Kingdom and found that the Ming Kingdom was more protective of my Qing Dynasty, so the slave dared to buy more things, in case he couldn't buy it in the future, the slave made his own opinion, and asked the master to punish him!"

It is said to be a request for sin, but in fact it is an invitation to merit.

"Cao Xi, you did a good job on this errand. I see. ”

Xuan Ye, who came back to his senses, didn't bother to pay attention to Cao Xi's "deliberate invitation", just glanced at him, and then said.

"Go down!"

Just when Cao Xi knocked on the leader's order, Xuan Ye instructed him as if he had thought of something.

"Cao Xi, do a good job for me, I naturally won't treat my family badly."

Baoyi is his own family, maybe Xuanye's holy decree made most of Baoyi carry the flag, but the servants in the internal affairs office are still the emperor's domestic slaves, and he needs these minions.

Although he said thank you to the lord Long. But Cao Xi's heart was full of mixed feelings. Although the slave who is the master is very prominent, and he is also deeply appreciated by the master. It's in his heart. It is inevitable that there will still be jealousy of those who have been carried into the flag.

Compared with them, the status of the Cao family is prominent. It's just a minion. Because of this, for Cao Xi, he has always thought that one day he will be able to become a Taiwanese citizen. It's not like it is now, it's just a slave of the master.

But on the other hand, her heart was very entangled, because he knew that the reason why the Cao family had its current status was precisely because of the master's trust, if it wasn't for him being the master's minion, how could the master use him?

This is also the sorrow of being a minion. Without the trust of his master, he is worthless. On the other hand, this is also the reason why he hopes to be able to raise the flag.

Only by elevating his nationality to others like others can it be possible to bring the Cao family to a position where they will not be completely dependent on the trust of their masters as they are now.

The Cao family is just a slave of the master, a chess piece in the master's hand. It's just a dispensable role.

Only by carrying the flag and becoming an official of the imperial court, only the Cao family can show their importance in the imperial court.

In the future, the Cao family will be the Cao family of the Great Qing Kingdom, not just the master's minions. Maybe still a minion at that time, but. It is a completely different status from the present. At that time, the Cao family was the prominent family of the Great Qing Kingdom.

At that time, it will even be possible to make friends with the powerful and marry the powerful. Even when the time comes, you can ask the master to give the surname, and at that time, no one will say anything about the Cao family, and will only say in a reverent tone that their family is the magnate of the Great Qing Kingdom.

But all of this requires a premise, that is, Taiwanese nationality is included in the flag.

But the emperor's meaning seems to be that he wants to raise the flag into the flag, and it is not so simple. Everyone else directly raised the flag and became naturalized. But the minions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not have such a good life.

Out of the palace, Cao Xi was still a little absent-minded. Originally, he thought that with the credit of entering the customs this time, he should be able to make the emperor spit out and raise his nationality into the flag.

But what made him think was that the emperor didn't mean this at all. Although the emperor seemed to spit out. But in fact, it may be a long way to go.

"Don't you know what the minions want when you get to the emperor?"

Of course, Cao Xi knew that the emperor must know what he wanted, but the emperor was unwilling to give it to him.

Because for the royal family, the royal family always needs minions, especially capable minions like him.

Think of the current situation. Cao Xi naturally thought of the people he saw in the pass. Those people are people. But what about him?

Thinking of this, Cao Xi couldn't help but sigh, he knew that this kind of thought, he shouldn't even think about it. If you think about it, I'm afraid you'll lose your head in the end.

But sometimes he can't help but think about it, just thinking about it, maybe one day when the emperor is happy, he will let the Cao family raise the flag, and at that time, he Cao Xi will be able to make the Cao family big enough to make everyone look up to the mountain.

But when will the emperor be merciful?

Thinking of this, Cao Xi looked towards the east. In the end, I just let out a long sigh......

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