"Nonsense! Do we not even want face for the sake of such a small amount of taxes? Ignoring the national policy designated by our ancestors? The seclusion is for the tranquility of thousands of miles of sea and frontier, and for the thousands of generations under the rule of the Qing Dynasty! ”

Su Shun on the side couldn't help it a little, jumped out, and reprimanded sharply, although Su Shun admired Guo Ye more, but on such a "big right and wrong" issue, he would definitely not be polite to him, Su Shun is a famous xenophobia.

Guo Ye only heard a word, and he had already blacklisted Su Shun, I rub it, is this guy an out-and-out conservative? Lao Tzu doesn't want to set up a strong enemy for himself in the future, since you don't want to live, Lao Tzu doesn't want you to survive the Xinyou coup d'état!

Guo Ye sneered: "Su Zhongtang, you can't say this, the so-called world is different, things are different, things are different, two hundred years ago, we only had the Japanese to troubled the sea frontier, we blocked the coast, in order to block the foreigners, but now, now is not a question of whether we want to block or not, but we rely on the isolation of the country, we can't stop it at all!" Just last year, the British and French forces also drove warships into the Pearl River and occupied the city of Guangzhou! Twenty years ago, in the Opium War, the British pushed the war to the city of Nanjing, even not long ago, if we did not fight, Dagukou and Tianjin would not be able to be saved. If we want to keep the eternal peace of the Qing Dynasty, we rely on our strong soldiers and horses, strong ships and artillery, not a ban on trade! It is because we prohibit trade that Britain and France have successively aimed artillery fire at us! ”

Wu Ren sneered: "Joke, the ban on trade shouldn't be, can it be released?" Why don't you know, because of trade, how much silver is swept away by foreigners from the Great Qing Dynasty in a year? I'm afraid it won't take many years, and we won't have any silver in the Qing Dynasty! ”

Such a bunch of antiques!

Guo Ye was so angry that his eyes were full of stars, and he finally realized that the Westernists had fought hard a few years later, and this was completely a group of old stubborns who hit the south wall and didn't look back!

Guo Ye said angrily: "Lord Wuren, will you never eat because you were scalded by rice porridge yesterday?" Now that the foreigners have swept away a large amount of silver from the Qing Dynasty, won't we encourage industry and commerce, encourage foreign trade, and earn back the lost silver? As long as foreigners do not import opium to us, we encourage trade, and we are afraid that it will not take a few years to turn losses into profits! When the time comes, it will not be them who will earn our silver, but we will earn their silver, our tea, silk, porcelain, which one is not marketed at home and abroad? ”

Wu Ren was choked by Guo Ye's words one after another, and he really couldn't get off the stage, and roared angrily: "Your Majesty, the old minister asks for an order, and he will behead Guo Ye!" ”

Xianfeng's head has been quarreled with by them now, although he thinks that Guo Ye's contract is still a little inappropriate, but after all, he can say goodbye to the United States and abolish Guo Ye's contract, under the pressure of Britain and France and other countries, maybe the contract will be even more outrageous, at this time, cut Guo Ye, not to mention that no one is proficient in foreign affairs, but Britain and France hit again, and he broke an arm first, such a thing, no matter what, can not be done. Moreover, guarding against the words of Tsarist Russia, Xianfeng agrees very much, and spends some money to block Tsarist Russia to the west of the Ussuri River, which is still very cost-effective, where is a land of thousands of miles, and must not be occupied by Tsarist Russia, even if the Opium War failed, the first emperor did not cede the territory, if he lost his land and humiliated the country, it would be really ashamed of his ancestors.

Guo Ye on the side said to Xianfeng: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen said from the bottom of his heart, if you want to repel the tiger-like British and French Western powers, then you must make great efforts to govern the country and reorganize the army, if we have an army and fleet equipped with a large number of Western firearms like foreigners, then it is just a matter of a blink of an eye, and there is no need to work so hard!" What's more, Chen has already ordered a set of steel production equipment and a set of coal production equipment from the Americans in the contract, once these two factories and mines are completed, they will provide us with 20 million catties of steel and 50 million catties of coal every year, and the quality is by no means comparable to the current steel workshops and coal mines. It's definitely a great thing that we let the Americans earn only hundreds of thousands of taels of equipment money! A sure-fire deal! ”

Guo Ye continued: "There is also the matter of telegraphs, now telegraphs have been popularized in Western countries, but all military strategies, all through telegraphs, thousands of miles in an instant, the so-called noble soldiers, if the Qing army is equipped with telegraphs, it will be a huge change in the speed of our transmission of military information and orders, it turns out that from Liangjiang to the capital, even if it is seven hundred miles expedited, it will take several days, but if the telegraph is laid, it is just a matter of blink of an eye, which will save us too much time!" ”

Wu Ren shouted: "Guo Ye, about the telegram, we know that burying and erecting cables from the ground or above ground will completely destroy our dragon vein feng shui, which is to ruin our thousand-year-old foundation, you are doing death!" ”

Xianfeng is also quite excited, 20 million catties of steel, 50 million catties of coal, how much steel and coal can be produced in a year in the Qing Dynasty now? It can almost catch up with the annual output of the Qing Dynasty! Absolutely cost-effective!

Xianfeng replied lightly: "Okay, that's it, although the contract signed by Prince Gong and Guo Ye is slightly inappropriate, but I think it is still more cost-effective, it can bring a respite to the Qing Dynasty, and go all out to deal with Long Hair, we must go all out to eradicate Long Hair, and the rest will wait for it." ”

Xianfeng's words, as soon as he finished speaking, the conservative members below were dissatisfied and united to oppose it, even Xianfeng's ninety-five honors were a little passive and difficult to parry.

Just when it was about to be opened, a Yellow Gate official hurriedly walked in and said, "Your Majesty, Zeng Guofan, the governor of Suzhou Liangjiang, has reported it!" ”

Everyone was quiet, now in the Liangjiang area, Zeng Guofan and the Taiping army are fighting fiercely, related to the life and death of the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan's report arrives, there must be important things, and everything else must be put aside first, Liangjiang affairs are now the top priority of the imperial court, even if the British and French soldiers threatened Gyeonggi, Xianfeng did not recall Zeng Guofan's Hunan army back to King Qin, in order to encircle and annihilate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that was gradually showing its decline in one fell swoop!

Xianfeng was also stunned, what? Zeng Guofan's recital? Could it be that there is some major military situation in Nanjing? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Deng's heart became tense.

Xianfeng shouted: "Submit it!" ”