Deterrence? Xianfeng was a little puzzled in his heart, the Beiyang Naval Division now has 60 large and small warships, 20,000 officers and soldiers, the Beijing Division has 150,000 Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, and another 30,000 newly recruited Eight Banners New Army, just with these more than 10,000 people, can it play a deterrent role in the Beijing Division? Or is it just a gesture?

Mu Zhang'a seemed to know what he was thinking, and said softly: "Your Majesty, there are a lot of troops in Beijing and Tianjin, but there is a lack of guns and ammunition, and the newly recruited 30,000 new troops of the Eight Banners only have 1,000 new muskets for training. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Moreover, now in Anhui, Henan, and Shaanxi, there are still 60,000 or 70,000 navies, and if this forms a flanking trend. ”

Xianfeng was shocked, "Yuan Qi is preparing to rebel?" As soon as he blurted out the words, he felt that it was wrong, if Yuan Qi wanted to rebel, how could he do more, the troops stationed in Anhui, Henan, and Shaanxi to encircle and suppress the Twist Army went directly south to Hubei and the Taiping Army flanked the Eight Banners New Army and the Green Camp in Hubei before and after, and then turned around and went north, and the imperial court was powerless to resist at all.

"Yuan Qi doesn't necessarily want to rebel." Mu Zhang'a said and took out a newspaper and presented it, "Your Majesty, this is a copy of Jiangning Daily sent by Kuaima. ”

Xianfeng took it and opened it, and there was an article in a prominent position on the front page - currency is fiercer than a tiger. This article mercilessly criticized the imperial court for casting large amounts of money and issuing official bills and treasures that could not be cashed, causing soaring prices, chaotic market currency, and seriously disrupting the economic order. Demand that the imperial court immediately stop minting big money and stop issuing official bills!

After reading it carefully, Xianfeng pondered for a moment before hesitating: "Could it be that Cheng Yuanqi wants to force the imperial court to stop minting big money and issue official bills and treasure banknotes by force?" ”

Mu Zhang'a was also a little puzzled by what kind of medicine Yuan Qi was selling in this gourd, and hesitated before he spoke: "Yuan Qi should not openly coerce the imperial court ...... by force." ”

Xianfeng agreed with this, Yuan Qi really wanted to coerce the court by force, which was tantamount to tearing his face, it was better to rebel directly, and after pondering for a while, he said: "The southeastern provinces will concentrate on the outbreak of the party rebellion, will it be Yuan Qi behind the scenes?" ”

In just over a month, the southeastern provinces and counties have successively broken out in party rebellions of different scales, and Mu Zhang'a once suspected that this was Yuan Qi's manipulation behind his back, but after careful consideration, he still felt that this was not very likely, and immediately hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, if Yuan Qi can manipulate the party in the provincial capitals of the southeast, why bother with the chaos*** before estimating that it should be the ..... of Hongyang rebels connecting with the party in various places." ”

Xianfeng was stunned for a moment, and felt that this was not unreasonable, if Yuan Qi could manipulate the party in the provincial capitals of the southeast, why should he disturb the southeast? I'm afraid that I would have directly raised troops to rebel and occupy the southeast half of the wall in one fell swoop to confront the imperial court.

Seeing that Xianfeng was silent, Mu Zhang'a said boldly: "The eight banners and green battalions in the southeastern provinces encircled and suppressed the rebellion, with little effect, the southeast has always been a place where the imperial court is endowed with wealth and wealth, and it can't be chaotic for a long time, can the navy be stationed in the provinces to quell the chaos?" Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, implored Yi Zhizu to transfer the Nanyang Navy stationed in Xiamen to take the stage to quell the turmoil, and the Xiamen Navy had already entered Taiwan in a big way ....... ”

Xianfeng glanced at him and said: "The navy entered Anhui and flattened the chaos, but the navy expanded by 50,000 and then entered the southeastern provinces to quell the chaos, what would be the situation?" ”

Hearing this, Mu Zhang'a was speechless for a while, the situation of the navy's crackdown, the local government and county officials are not without reports, the twist army is slippery like a loach, not like the Taiping army to capture the city, the main target of attack is the township market with poor defense ability, and the loot is a handful of runaway, rarely fight head-on with officers and soldiers, more difficult to deal with than the Taiping army, the navy has no cavalry, except for expanding the army to encircle and chase and intercept, what else?

He didn't dare to say this, and immediately said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the southeastern provinces are also the foundation of Yuanqi, Yuanqi will not sit idly by, even if he does not follow the order, Yi Zhixin is afraid that he will send troops to the provinces to quell the chaos." ”

Xianfeng felt aggrieved for a while, but he also knew that this was the truth, Yi Zhixiang was already bold and reckless, and now no one can restrain him, what can't he do? It is already a blessing to invite heaven to not raise troops to rebel, besides, if Yuanqi wants to expand his troops, where can the Wa Kingdom, Nanyang, Northwest, Anhui and Henan not expand? ordered the Nanyang Navy to quell the chaos, and it could save some face.

"It is proposed that the Nanyang Navy send troops to quickly quell the bandits in the southeastern provinces." Xianfeng said in a deep voice: "In addition, the governors of various provinces will pay close attention to Yuan Qi's movements and report them at any time. ”

"The minions obey." Although Xianfeng adopted his suggestion, Mu Zhang'a was not happy at all, Yuan Qi is now more and more out of the control of the imperial court, and there is a faint tendency to be anti-guest-oriented, as the chief military aircraft, he is also worried.

Xianfeng changed his mind, "How is the investigation of Yuan Qi's military factory in Baoshan being able to make Mini guns on his own?" ”

Hearing this, Mu Zhang'a hurriedly bowed down, originally when Daoguang was in power, the military factory ammunition bureau in Guangzhou and Baoshan sent officials to supervise, but all of them were bought by Yuan Qi, Xianfeng succeeded to the throne, Yuan Qi simply expelled the supervision officials, and the imperial court could not understand the situation of the Yuanqi Military Factory and Ammunition Bureau at all.

However, in the past two years, the two military factories in Baoshan, Guangzhou, have continuously produced a large number of mini guns, and it is impossible for this matter to be able to fill the ears and eyes of the imperial court in the two places, but the specific situation can not be found out, and he groaned slightly, and he said in a firm tone: "Your Majesty, Yuan Qi is very strict about the situation of the military factory, but the slave dares to be sure that Yuan Qi can indeed make his own Mini guns, and in the past two years, Yuan Qi has not only equipped a large number of Mini guns for the new army recruited in Henan, Anhui, but also provided a large number of Mini guns for the New Army of Hubei Eight Banners. There were also quite a few Minnie guns delivered to the northwest. ”

Hearing this, Xianfeng's face was a little ugly, and he said in a deep voice: "It has been four years since the establishment of the Tianjin Military Factory Ammunition Bureau, and the silver has not been spent, why can't it produce it by itself?" ”

Since the end of Daoguang, Tianjin has set up factories to develop industries under the support of Yuan Qi, and opened a series of factories such as flour mills, iron pot factories, hardware factories, tanneries, paper mills, dye factories, shipyards and other livelihood factories.

At first, Mu Zhang'a was also very interested in the Ammunition Bureau of the military factory in Tianjin, but after learning that the manufacture of Mini guns required sophisticated machine tools and that they could not be procured from Western countries, he became disheartened and stopped counting on them.

Xianfeng's tone was not good, and he hurriedly replied: "The manufacture of Mini guns requires highly sophisticated machinery and equipment, and I heard that only England, France, and the United States can manufacture them, and the three countries have extremely strict management of machinery and equipment for the manufacture of guns and ammunition, and there is no way to purchase them. The same is true for bullets and gunpowder, both bullets and gunpowder with excellent performance have extremely complex processes and processes that cannot be stolen. ”

After being silent for a long time, Xianfeng gritted his white teeth and said word by word: "Send someone to talk privately with the envoys of the Three Kingdoms, and buy a batch of machinery and equipment for manufacturing Mini guns and their ammunition at any cost!" ”

No matter the cost! Mu Zhang's heart jumped, knowing that Xianfeng felt a huge threat from Yuanqi, and his heart was ruthless, but this matter was not trivial, not only related to the reputation of the imperial court, but also related to his reputation, he didn't want to leave a reputation for eternity, hesitated, and then he said: "Your Majesty, the matter is very important, there can be no leakage of the slightest rumor, and the identity of handling this matter cannot be low, it is best to appoint the children of the clan to go south to Shanghai to prevent leakage." ”

Xianfeng glanced at him and said quietly, "Kneel down." ”

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Bao Shichen put down the edict and said with a smile: "With this edict, the lord will be able to justifiably dispatch troops to the southeastern provinces." ”

Yi Zhixin smiled disapprovingly, and said: "Without this edict, the result is the same, the governors of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces have already sent letters to implore the navy to send troops to the provinces to quell the chaos, but it is better to talk than nothing." ”

Bao Shichen smiled: "The lord has already sent troops?" ”

"After receiving a letter of help from the governors of the provinces, I have already ordered the division of troops to attack." Yi Zhizu nodded slightly: "Except for Taiwan, the situation in other places is relatively well controlled, but I am also worried that it will lose control after a long time, but fortunately, it is not too late for this edict to come." ”

Bao Shichen pointed to the north and said, "When does the lord over there plan to move?" ”

"The garrison fleet has been stationed in the mud puddle, and it is time to move." Yi Zhizhi said: "Mr. Lao is tired of writing an excerpt." ”

July 21, the auspicious day of the zodiac, appropriate: marriage, money, opening, trading, travel, sweeping, migration, shipment ......of money, this day inside and outside the Beijing division is also extraordinarily lively, the drum music of the welcoming team, the sound of firecrackers in the opening of the new store one after another, this year, the opening of the new store is really rare, a court to implement the gold system, the card is numerous, and then the imperial court minted a lot of money, a large number of official bills and treasures, prices soared, the official bills and treasures continued to depreciate, so that many businesses and shops suffered serious losses, One after another, closing down, the market was in a depression, and at this time, many new stores suddenly opened, which naturally attracted the attention of many people.

Almost all of the new stores opened in Beijing are the large and small semicolons of Yuanqi Bank - Yuanqi Bank Zhili Branch, Jingshi Branch, and the branch of each city street, within one day, there was originally only one Yuanqi Bank branch inside and outside Jingshi, and on the opening day, Yuanqi well-printed banknotes - silver bills and treasure banknotes were launched outward.

Needless to say, Yuan Qi has long issued paper money, the face value of silver tickets is divided into one yuan, two yuan, five yuan, ten yuan, fifty yuan, one hundred yuan, corresponding to the silver dollar issued by Yuan Qi, the silver ticket issued by Yuan Qi has long been flying all over the sky these years, not only businessmen around the country like to use, that is, officials also like to use, the gentry who live in the city also like, after all, the silver dollar is too heavy, it is nothing to carry three or five yuan, but it is extremely inconvenient, far less convenient than the Yuan Qi silver ticket.

The treasure banknote is a new launch of Yuanqi this time, with denominations of one Wen, two Wen, Five Wen, Ten Wen, Twenty Wen, Fifty Wen, One Hundred Wen, Five Hundred Wen, and One Thousand Wen, and it is clearly stipulated that one yuan can be exchanged for 1,500 Wen, and the two can be exchanged with each other at any time at Yuanqi Bank.

The news spread, Deng Shi caused a sensation in Beijing, attracting many gentry and merchants and ordinary people to go to see the excitement and understand the situation, the imperial court issued official bills in recent years, provoked the anger of the people, do not want Yuan Qi to actually come to join in the fun, also followed the issuance of treasure money, many people try to exchange some treasure notes with small silver bills to appreciate, I have to say, even if it is a paper banknote, the printing is also extremely sophisticated, the paper is of high quality, the pattern is exquisite, the feel is concave and convex, there is no difference with the silver ticket, a little bit of insight in the heart are secretly muttering, Printing and issuing this two-text and five-text banknote will not lose money?

After carefully examining the beautifully printed Yuanqi treasure banknotes in his hand, Zhuo Bingtian, a scholar of Wuyingdian University in charge of the Ministry of Industry, asked, "Didn't you say how to exchange the treasure banknotes?" ”

The entourage hurriedly said: "Go back to the master, one yuan can be exchanged for 1,500 wen." ”

Zhuo Bingtian glanced at him and said, "There is no other way to exchange it except for this?" ”

"Back to the master, there is no more." The attendant hurriedly shook his head and said.

How many people can exchange silver dollars for treasure money? This is certainly not the main reason why Yuanqi issued treasure banknotes! Thinking of the article "Currency is Fiercer than a Tiger" published in the previous time, Zhuo Bingtian had a thought in his heart, turned around and got into the sedan chair, and ordered: "Go to the military aircraft." ”

The sedan chair is very stable, but Zhuo Bingtian's mood is up and down, Yuanqi Bank suddenly opened such a high-profile branch in Beijing, and launched the silver banknote, the silver ticket is not worth thinking about, Yuanqi this time is mainly launched is the treasure banknote, the silver ticket and the treasure banknote are launched together, this is clearly to completely monopolize the money industry, the Beijing division is still like this, the situation in the provinces is estimated to be similar, Yuanqi is obviously a big deal this time, to take the opportunity to monopolize the entire Qing Dynasty's money industry in one fell swoop!

The reason why he hurried to the military aircraft was to see how Yi Zhizu planned to exchange treasure money, or how Yi Zhizu planned to promote and popularize Yuanqi treasure banknotes!

Before he stepped into the military aircraft duty room, Zhuo Bingtian listened to the commotion inside, which is an extremely rare situation in the military aircraft duty room, "..... I'm against it! Yuanqi wants to monopolize the entire Qing Dynasty's money industry! Once the Yuanqi treasure banknote is implemented, the court will have to look up to Yuanqi in the future! This is the voice of Lin Kui, who joined the military aircraft last year.

Then he listened to Qi Liaozao's voice, "Even if you oppose it, how can the imperial court oppose it?" Once Yuanqi makes public the regulations for exchanging Yuanqi treasure banknotes, the merchants and the people will inevitably flock to exchange them, can they still forcibly prohibit the people from exchanging them? Unless it's a ban on Yuanqi! ”

Yuan Qi really has another charter for exchanging Yuan Qi treasure banknotes, Zhuo Bingtian didn't know whether to be happy or worried, he stepped into the door with one foot, and when he came in, Qi Liaozao was overjoyed, and quickly got up and smiled: "Zhuo Zhongtang came just ...... time, and he was about to ask someone to look for you." ”