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"Kaiwen, go prepare some refreshments, I want to talk to Mr. Jinliang at night."

Zhu Jishi is now thirsty for talent, so he hurried over without eating, chatted with Zuo Zongtang for a few words, and suddenly felt hungry in his stomach, so he asked Tang Qiwen to get some refreshments, and ordered him to stay outside the door, and then continued to ask Zuo Zongtang for advice.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty has always regarded the children of the Eight Banners as their own sons, the Han people Lin as their evil servants, and the billions of Han people as slaves. Although the slaves are controlled by evil servants, and eighty percent of the world's profits are collected to support their children, it is especially insufficient, and it is too much to reward slaves with one or two of the world's profits. Therefore, they are deducted everywhere, and they are afraid that the evil servants will bully the master and take away the world of their bannermen, so they are strictly guarded everywhere, just like waiting for thieves! However, the Han people read the books of sages and sages, talked about ethics, and still treated the Manchus as their fathers, and they did not know how to wake up. The so-called son does not say anything about his father, although he is treated harshly and strictly guarded by the Manchurians, but he still treats him with sincerity, so it is extremely difficult to shake his foolish and loyal heart. The Ming Duke did not have the luxury of competing with the Manchus for the hearts of the scholars, but he could do the opposite, so that the Manchus would cut themselves off from the world."

As Zuo Zongtang spoke, Zhu Jishi only felt that he suddenly realized that he had a new understanding of the current Chinese intellectuals - it turned out to be a bunch of fools! Although there are a few smart people, stupidity is still the mainstream, so I can't reason with them. This kung fu is still used on the Manchu Qing, because the emperors and princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It's also a group of fools who don't know what to do. It's always easier to fool a fool than to reason with a fool.

This Zuo Jinliang is not only a great talent. It's simply Zhang Liang's resurrection, Zhuge reincarnated! I don't know where this squint in history, why haven't I heard that there was a big official surnamed Zuo in the Qing Dynasty? Uh, no! There seems to be a Zuo Zongtang, the three famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, who seems to be also from Hunan! I don't know if it's a relative of Zuo Jinliang? If so, it's best to dig up Zuo Zongtang too......

"But how can I make the Manchus self-defeating?" Zhu Jishi pressed Zuo Zongtang's mind and continued to ask for advice.

"It's very easy." Zuo Zongtang stroked his beard with a smile, "The Emperor of Manchuria has never believed in Hanchen. It is only because they are not very competitive and the Han people are extremely deferential and capable, so they have to be gradually reused. If the children of the Eight Banners can cheer up one or two, and the Han people show their disobedience, the Manchu Qing will definitely seize the power of the Han Dynasty and reuse the Eight Banners. He smiled, looked at Zhu Jishi and said, "These Eight Banners are all anointed, and they are easy to deal with!" ”

Uh, it seems like that's the case! Zhu Jishi thought to himself, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty hadn't reused Han Chen like Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang to run regimental training to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. But relying on their Eight Banners, this Hong Xiuquan is bound to sit on the dragon chair in Beijing.

"But how can I cheer up the children of the Eight Banners, and how can I make the Han people who look forward to the Manchu Qing Dynasty like their parents feel disobedient?" Zhu Jishi asked again.

Zuo Zongtang waved his hand and said, "Ming Gong, you are an immortal, and there is no way to cheer up the waste of the Eight Banners." It is also difficult to let the Han people give birth to a second heart. He paused, a contemptuous smile on his lips, "But you can make Emperor Daoguang mistakenly think that his Eight Banners disciples are useful." Han people are born with different hearts! ”

"Lying to Emperor Daoguang?" Zhu Jishi frowned, "Can it work?" ”

Zuo Zongtang nodded affirmatively. Laughing: "Why not?" Daoguang is very confused, faint one! The Manchurians around him were all greedy and incompetent. Hanchen people are cunning and cunning. Above the temple, the lord is faint and treacherous, this Qing dynasty is so corrupt, it is proof! ”

This is ...... Reasonable! Zhu Jishixin said that the monarchs and ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty must be bastards, otherwise with the current population, resources, and wealth of China, how could they make a great power! Zuihou almost lost the country (China), isn't it because these monarchs and ministers are stupid and stupid donkeys?

But how exactly to deceive?

Zuo Zongtang didn't sell anything, and then said to Zhu Jishi, "Although this Han man is stupid and loyal to the Manchu Dynasty, he really wants to make efforts to maintain the Manchu Dynasty, and he doesn't just rely on his blood." There is also the need for power, especially the right to war! Otherwise, at most, it would be better to die than be an official of the Zhu family, but those who are so loyal must be a minority, and the most important thing for this Han family scholar is to be an official fan. Therefore, the Ming Duke must sound the alarm for the Manchu Qing on the issue of 'Han people in charge of the army'! ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, his Jishi army relied on a group of Hanlin scholars to write articles and scold, and he would definitely not die. If the Han people want to stand up to defend their Manchurian parents, they must have military power, and if Manchuria does not allow them to have military power, then no matter how loyal these scholars are, it will be in vain.

"Hanchen's military power has always been divided into green battalions and regimental training. Among them, the Green Battalion was the economic control of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although it was badly decayed, but there were hundreds of thousands of people, and it was actually the pillar of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's armed forces. And the military power of this green battalion is extremely decentralized, and the governors, governors, military officials and other civil ministers, as well as the generals of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, all have the right to govern. The military attachés of the Green Battalion, such as the commander, the commander-in-chief, the adjutant general, the staff general, etc., do not have heavy military power. Moreover, the children of the Eight Banners can also be military attachés of the Green Battalion, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always used the Eight Banners to deter the Green Battalion. But in the green camp, after all, there are still Han generals in charge of the army.

As for the group training, it arose from the White Lotus Rebellion, and now there are group exercises in various places, which are used to calm the place and suppress the rebellion. Guangdong is no exception, there is a large number of group exercises. And those who master these group exercises are the Han scholars who live in the township. ”

Zuo Zongtang looked at Zhu Jishi with burning eyes, paused and said: "The Hanchen in charge of the green camp and the scholar in charge of the regimental training are actually the biggest trouble for you to seize Guangdong, and you have to make Daoguang completely lose trust in them!" ”

……

The long conversation between Zhu Jishi and Zuo Zongtang lasted almost the whole night. Early the next morning, Zhu Jishi asked Zuo Zongtang to share a car with him and returned to the Deep Water Bay mansion. At noon on the same day, he convened an important deployment in Hong Kong and announced that "Zuo Jinliang" would be a military adviser, and his status was equivalent to that of Liu Peng, Premier of Lanfang. He also ordered people to immediately build a mansion in Deep Water Bay for Zuo Junshi and his family to live in.

At the same time, Bai Siwen and Luo Li, holding a bunch of accounts and a few silver dollars, visited the Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Zexu in the Yamen of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the city of Guangzhou.

This account is a breakdown of Bai Siwen's expenses for purchasing foreign guns, gunpowder, and lead bullets from Rodley & Co., and of course it is seamless. A few silver dollars, which were samples of "Qingyang" presented by the French HSBC Bank, were hand-minted by the Hong Kong shipyards under the Jishi Bank, but the workmanship was still extremely fine. The word "Qing" in the middle and the surrounding Daoguang years are all written by Xu Guangjin, the governor of Liangguang. This Xu Guangjin obviously also supported the issuance of "Qingyang" by the French HSBC, because of the "deference" of France in diplomacy, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is now full of good feelings towards the country, and even Lin Zexu is no exception.

"There should be a lot of price difference in the issuance of Qingyang, right?" Lin Zexu played with the silver dollar for a while, and asked Bai Siwen with a smile.

"It's really profitable." Bai Siwen said, "And it's not a small profit, a silver dollar can get a net profit of two coins of silver, and we can't get such a silver dollar in the Qing Dynasty now, so we can only rely on foreign merchants to make profits." It is suggested that our foreign affairs yamen can open a silver dollar bureau by themselves, buy machinery from the West, and mint silver dollars, so as to avoid the outflow of profits. ”

"As it should be." Lin Zexu thought for a moment, and then said, "However, the silver dollar of the French HSBC bank still needs to help it circulate, after all, there are my Daqing country and Daoguang year on it, which are much more pleasing to the eye than the Spanish silver dollar and the Mexican eagle ocean." In the future, our own silver dollars should be like this. ”

A currency minted by a country mimics the currency issued by private banks...... Lin Zexu probably didn't have the concept of coinage right in his mind, put down the silver dollar and looked through the accounts for the purchase of foreign guns, and felt that the price was quite expensive, so he shook his head and said: "The price of this foreign gun is still expensive, and the price of one shot is 27 silver dollars...... That's the cost of a small farmer for two or three years. ”

Bai Siwen sighed, also showed a painful expression, and said, "What Mu Weng said is extremely true, but this is already the lowest price of foreign merchants. To be honest, what we are buying now is a brown bass gun from the Kolkata factory in India, which is a British factory, and the British do not deal with us, and the opium trafficking from Calcutta to Canton is more profitable......"

Lin Zexu waved his hand and interrupted: "I know what you said, it seems that you still have to run your own factory." Enming, do you have jihua in this regard? (To be continued......)