Chapter 771 North Korea: Regret it when you count this account

"Let's swing the oars and the boat push the waves......"

In the government hall of Huangpu Boundless Palace, Li Xian sang in his mouth, holding the fleshy little hand of the baby in his arms, making his youngest son who was not more than two months old giggle.

This is Siniang's son, not counting the fourth son who died young, Li Xi already has six sons, and he originally wanted a daughter.

In addition to Siniang, Baoyin is also eight months pregnant and about to give birth, Xiao Fumei said that it should be a son to the touch, which makes Li Xian quite depressed, he only has three daughters. can see that Siniang and Baoyin are very happy, and they are relieved, whether they are men or women.

"Your Majesty, the Treasurer and the Privy Council, and the Ryukyu Emergency."

Li Xiangyu handed over a stack of newspapers, and then reported the Seventh Prince named Xiao Si from Li Xian's hand, the little guy was about to cry, but he was quiet in Li Xiangyu's familiar pat.

"What can happen to the Ryukyus......?"

Li Shi picked up the Ji Si proclamation first, and frowned when he saw it, this is the big deal.

Ji Si submitted the 12th year budget amendment of the Anxi Governor's Mansion Shengdao, and it was that number that made Li Xian frown. According to the newspaper, because the route out of Sichuan is not smooth, the loss of horses and vehicles is too high, and the actual expenditure of the Anxi Governor's Office this year will be seven or eight percent higher than the budget. Last year, a budget of 3 million was set, and if the Anxi army is allowed to achieve the established scale, the actual expenditure this year will be as high as 5 million taels.

Errors are inevitable, and those guys in the Privy Council Staff are still scholars after all, and they always like to talk on paper. There are information on previous wars, and the actual cost of the mobilization and fighting of the army can be basically ascertained, but the budget deviation of logistics and supply is too great, especially the difference between water and land transportation.

For example, a 30-pound cannon from Hunan to Lanzhou cost as much as 350 taels of silver, and at least four horses were exhausted, almost a quarter of the cost of the artillery. And a pound of rice was transported over, costing four taels of silver, which was still under the logistics supply system of Yinghua far superior to the Manchu Dynasty, and the transportation conditions were also quite different from the Manchu era.

"Do you want to occupy Xi'an?"

Li Xi thought that if Xi'an was occupied, supplies such as grain, grass, clothing, and even medicine would be taken from the local area, and if a cannonball, bullet, and fire medicine factory would be built, the supply of ammunition and medicine would not have to be shipped from Sichuan and Huguang, and there would be many benefits.

Without thinking deeply, Li Xi shook his head and vetoed this idea. The heavy burden of the occupation of Xi'an was far greater than the harvest. The reason why Li Shi put Wu Ya in Sichuan was that he began to clean up the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu, and if Xi'an was forcibly captured, Shaanxi and Gansu were estimated to bloom everywhere, affecting Zhili. At that time, the "Anglo-Qing Peace Agreement" will be in vain, and the Anglo-Chinese will not have the strength to advance westward for at least ten years.

Westward is the established national policy of Anglo-Chinese, why? Russia......

Defeating Mobei Mongolia, advancing into the North Sea, that is, Lake Baikal, and cutting off the center of Tsarist Russia's advance into the Far East, this is the first step for Li Shi to fight against Tsarist Russia, and it is also a necessary step to "move from west to east". In the top-secret strategic plan of the Anglo-Chinese Privy Council, Britain and Tsarist Russia are the two century-old enemies at sea and on land, respectively. In this chess game, the Manchus were nothing more than insignificant companions.

"From sea to land, this is a huge change, and this country has not adapted very much."

Li Xi sighed with emotion, in the past ten years, in terms of military theory, the characteristics of the national strength of the British and Chinese countries have been very clear, that is, they rely heavily on sea routes to support transportation lines, and the game of gathering national strength by land is not very familiar.

Not to mention the South Seas, all the wars relied on sea transportation for supplies. Even if the 200,000 troops entered Burma, only the Eagle Yang Army passed by land from Yunnan, and the main force still relied on the sea route to go north from Siam. …,

The conquest with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, starting from Guangdong, to Hunan, and then to Jiangnan, except for the Sichuan route, the main battlefields basically relied on waterways: Beijiang, Xiangjiang, Xijiang, Dongjiang, Dongting Lake, and Yangtze River.

After crossing the Yellow River, this advantage was gone, and the investment of Yinghua forces was severely limited. Li Xi originally wanted to expand the Anxi Army to more than 80,000 people in the ten divisions of the Fourth Army, but now with the addition of the Dragoon, a total of 40,000 people in eight divisions, the budget has been seriously overrun. This year, it will increase to 80,000, and the result is that the figure reported by the Ministry of Accounting has not yet reached 3 million.

Three million silver, squeezed everywhere can still be squeezed out, the key is that the guarantee is already difficult to keep up, Li Xi calculated again, shook his head and sighed, and approved the petition "recalculate with the existing strength".

Put down the Ji Si Wen Bao, and then pick up the Privy Council file, which is the Privy Council Siyang Si Wen Bao, open the cover, but a private letter floated out, Li Xian frowned.

Siyangsi lifted Feng Jingyao [1] This is eating the gall of a leopard, and he dares to use official documents and newspapers to carry private messages! This is a serious breach of newspaper regulation. As the emperor, Li Shi had to read concise reports or opinions, rather than asking his subordinates to hand over original evidence to help them make decisions.

If it weren't for an earth-shattering event, Feng Jingyao's move would at least be a minor mistake, at least one product would have to be cut and one to three levels lowered.

There is also a Navy Division in the file, but Li Xian wants to see what it is that can make Feng Jingyao, who has always been cautious, lose his temper so much.

Feng Jingyao said in the report that the private letter was submitted by Fan Sihai, and Feng Jingyao himself felt that the matter was important, but it was difficult to explain, so he had to submit the letter directly to the emperor for decision.

Unfolding Fan Sihai's letter, the amount of information is too large, "Hibiscus Ointment", "Crow Tablets", "Nian Qianyao", "Busan Naval Battle", "Satsuma Merchant", one word after another outlines the situation in North Korea in the past half a year, and Li Xi's face turned pale at once.

I'll go...... Could it be that the war of opium is going to start by me!?

When I opened the newspaper of the Navy Division, it was the report of Bai Yanding of the Beiyang Fleet, which just supplemented the situation described in Fan Sihaixin, including the Korean trade of crow tablets, and the entry of Nian Qianyao's naval division into North Korea and the heavy damage to Fan Sihai's armed merchant fleet in Busan.

Li Xi felt that a door was about to be knocked open, and the howls of demons and monsters behind the door were heartbreaking.

"This is a crow tablet, not hibiscus ointment......"

In the secret hall of the political affairs hall, Tang Youzeng, Fan Jin, Wu Yaluo, Chen Wance, Tang Sunhao, Shi Yizhi, Song Ji, Gu Xiyi and Liu Dan and others sat solemnly.

"This is hibiscus ointment, but the merchant has taken a new name for Fushou ointment." Tang You once fanned his nose with his sleeve and said in disgust.

Handing the crow piece to the guards and motioning to take it out of the hall, Li Xian shook his head: "No, it's completely different......

This is the first industrialized drug in human history, and it is completely different from the drugs of traditional society.

Li Xi knew that Fan Sihai was using drugs to pry the North Korean country, but he thought it was just a foil for cigarettes, and he was more used to bribe. And I thought it was the old kind of hibiscus cream.

But when he saw this thing today, Li Xiancai was shocked, this is an apyro, an industrialized opium that will become popular in China in his previous life, and it will be a hundred years later.

Boiling, seasoning and even packaging are all guided by the business concept of "household first". Judging from the information learned by the Shentong Bureau, manufacturers and sellers of acorn tablets have also developed a number of products with different prices for different markets. If Li Xi was aware of the channel system that Fan Sihai had rolled out in North Korea, his views would be strengthened. …,

The harm of traditional drugs is not great, in the ninth year of the Holy Dao, when the Ying Ci Yuan pushed the East Court to pass the "Anti-drug Order", Li Xi didn't pay much attention to it, and only regarded it as a people's heart project, of course, Xiao Fumei's pillow wind also played a very important role. In his opinion, the crow was still a thing of considerable age, and a product of the Britons.

But now it seems that when capital, with its industrialized production and marketing system, takes aim at the crows, the harm is terrible. And Kankan stepped into modern society, industrialization had just begun, and Yinghua, which was full of capital, even drilled a crack in the egg, and took advantage of the North Korean incident to nourish the crow film industry.

"It's the minister's fault, the minister found out the truth of the commercial goods in North Korea, so that Fan Sihai had the convenience of dumping crow films."

Liu Dan of the Shentong Bureau was very annoyed, when Li Shi "hired" the Shentong Bureau to go to North Korea to investigate the commercial and economic conditions of North Korea, and prepare for the pry of North Korea, he didn't expect that Fan Sihai, who was doing specific things, chose to use crows as a weapon to break the door, which is a big crime.

Li Shi shook his hand: "Whether it is right or wrong cannot be decided, and the summoning of Qing and others today is to discuss the contingency plan, not to judge the case." ”

Tang Youzeng was immediately excited: "Is this move still right?" The minister thinks that Ah Furong must not be allowed to flood the world! North Korea is a vassal of my Huaxia, how can it use this poison to harm it? Even if there is no contact with North Korea at this time, the benevolent people cannot let such poison harm people! If you want the people to know that it is my Yinghua mastermind, what is the righteousness of a country!? ”

Everyone's faces are even more ugly, although Tang Youzeng's words are pedantic, but the position is very right, for the people's hearts at this time, even if the enemy countries compete and use poison, it can only be on the battlefield, how should it not poison a citizen. If any country wants to do this, it will be a disease of heart

Tang You once said in a deep voice: "Fan Sihai, you should be killed!" ”

If it was the courtiers of the entire political hall who were present, or even changed to a national from Yinghua, Tang Youzeng's words were estimated to trigger thousands of people to respond, and if they really wanted to vote, 99% would choose to execute Fan Sihai. Because he sold opium and poisoned North Korea.

Li Shi didn't speak, and Shi Yi said straightly: "What crime is used?" ”

Wu Yaluo said casually: "Isn't it easy to find a crime?" Anyway, he should be killed, just find someone who can kill him. ”

Even if it was the emperor's old team, Shi Yizhi didn't give face, and sneered: "Then all the effort spent by Your Majesty Jiangnan to set the law has been wasted. ”

He seriously asked everyone present: "What law did Fan Sihai violate?" The Anti-Narcotics Order does not prohibit the trafficking of drugs into foreign countries. ”

Tang Youzeng frowned and said: "Why should such a thing be confined to French? If you don't deal with it, how can you reassure people's hearts, and how can you set righteousness? ”

Li Shi spoke up: "I said, this is not a judgment, what you want to discuss is the situation in North Korea, and it is the trade of crow tablets!" ”

He is also very helpless, hurting the heavens and harming the reason is against the righteousness, whether the law is managed or not, this matter is hindering the righteousness of Yinghua.

But now the more important question is, where do you go from here? In the memory of previous lives, behind the opium trade and even the war of opium were extremely complex and far-reaching economic issues.

"The minister is late, Your Majesty forgives the sin, the Nian Qianyao sailor is wreaking havoc in Korea, the Beiyang Fleet is not responding effectively, and the minister has just drawn documents in the Privy Council to prepare."

Xiao Sheng only arrived at this time, and took the seat after confessing his guilt to Li Xian.

Tang You Zeng said: "Prohibit the production, transportation, and sales of crow films!" The South Seas thoroughly inspected the plantations, the navy thoroughly inspected the passing merchant ships, and it was time for the General Office to contact the DPRK and take the opportunity to assist in the fight against narcotics. The country must be strictly guarded against stubbornness, and crows will never be allowed to circulate in the country! Since the government has reached the township, it should all be moved, the harm of this crow, the minister heard the supernatural power bureau also talked about it, that is to change the world into an underworld! ”…,

Xiao Sheng estimated that he had just sorted out the situation of the navy, and he couldn't sit still when he heard this, "Shoufu, it's easy to say a thorough investigation, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of merchant ships coming and going in the South Seas, can the navy find out?" ”

Song Ji also sighed: "The crow chips produced in Nanyang, the industry of the Chinese people is okay, but if you want to borrow the name of the locals, it is simply difficult to reach the sky." The source of opium flakes is opium poppy, which can be planted in half an acre and three points of land, how to check? ”

Liu Dan also said: "The minister also inquired about the process of producing crow slices, a large cauldron, a number of auxiliary materials, plus the production method that has been spread around, one person can produce hundreds of catties in a month, and it is almost impossible to ban the production of crow slices." ”

Tang Youzeng and Wu Yaluo were resolute: "Then it has to be banned!" ”

Li Xian said: "The ban must be banned, but to what extent it can be banned, I can take a good account of it." ”

Tang Sunho didn't know what to think, and added: "The minister thinks that it has to be counted as a ...... for the crow piece."

Tang Wu and the others looked sideways, but Tang Sunhao said: "How much profit there is, how much strength can be gathered, and only after calculating the benefits can we know whether it can be banned or not, and how much effort it will take to ban it." ”

Tang Wu was angry, and everyone nodded, this is the truth.

Since the important ministers of a country are all there, and there are experts like Liu Dan who have business and economic intelligence, then start the calculation on the spot.

Li Xi only felt that his mind was a little trance, and he faintly felt that Yinghua might step into a new world because of this account. It is not a heaven, but a chaotic realm where heaven and hell are mixed together.

Li Shi sighed: "I think...... You may regret that this account is too easy to calculate. ”