Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The secret work of the Black Dragon River Army Transformation was one of the most outstanding secret work done by the Qing Dynasty in the recent decade. The news had already spread to the Forbidden City for three days, but there was not a single leak, even Li Tuo and the other members of the Military Intelligence Service's staff hadn't heard a sound of it.

In the entire Beijing, only some great powers with very deep roots would know about this news in advance, such as the important Duke, Qingliu Leader and a dozen or so people. These people all received the empress dowagers's order to keep their mouths shut, they did not even dare to tell their own stewards, let alone others.

In addition, the current Fifth Master Yi Cong had the support of Li Tuo, Yang Zhi and the others, and Jiang Nan had a secret corporation loyal to him that was currently amassing money for him. Currently, the Fifth Master had already gathered a team of five hundred people from Jiang Hu, which was hidden in the grasslands outside his mouth. This was a brand-new military training.

The rich and powerful Lord Fifth had already revealed his political ambitions. How could he not be concerned about such a huge change in the imperial court?

Yi Cong's house was in the northwest corner of the capital, so the butler led Li Tuo's back door and led him to change clothes. After riding away from the back door, Li Tuo entered three more houses to change his clothes, and then went into the eight main alley's red light district.

When he arrived, Lord Fifth and Yang Zhi were drinking together, but obviously they were not thinking about the food and drinks, nor the little beauty who was pinching his shoulder, seeing that Li Tuo had arrived, they immediately retreated to give Li Tuo a seat.

"My prince!" "Our chance has come …" , who had an excited expression, raised his head and downed a cup of fine wine.

"The prince used two hundred thousand silver taels to buy off the servants. The Sixth and Seventh Marquis weren't on duty, but to discuss northern affairs …"

"Oh!" What did they come up with? " Yi Cong's eyes lit up as he asked.

Don't even mention our spies, even Li Lianying and Zhou Daoying had to guard the door. However, the young eunuch personally saw the six slams of the scum who left the room and even had a huge argument before he left. It seems that the Sixth Prince did not give him any face at all!

Yang Zhi gloomily said as he swirled the empty wine cup between his fingers, "Did you make a ruckus? If I were Evil Six, I would also make a racket. Not only would I make a ruckus, I would also retreat and advance, throwing the Western Mountain New barracks's golden seal out … "Then let's do it!"

Li Tuo laughed out loud, "What a brilliant plan!"

Yi Cong was not an anxious and intelligent person, hence he asked anxiously, "What exactly happened? "Can you not keep us in suspense …"

"Using retreat to advance is the best way for General Gui to deal with this situation. Since little emperor dares to use the name of Imperial Party, then this means that he will be joining the army of his uncles and Mother s. I just want to see how they will react to this matter …"

"The imperial court is now in a state of chaos. These princes hope that the dynasty will return to the era where the Three Dynasties ruled over the Kingdom of Kang Yong, but on the surface, they can't say such a thing. They still have to act as if they respect the Emperor …"

"Of course he understands this. He can't just give someone a reason to give him the title of an royalist, so he has to hand over the military power to avoid suspicion. After all, there are people guarding his troops within the imperial court right now!"

This time, Yi Cong finally understood. Not only did the tigress who had come to buy wine also understand, he also came to his side to give him a cup of wine and gently pinch his shoulder.

"Your highness is confused, aren't you? These days, you have been talking about politics, even I, as a woman, can understand half of it …" Didn't you all just say that the various factions in the imperial government were currently afraid of each other? "Who has an army? Any strong army would be afraid to sleep so peacefully …"

"Let's not talk about the Han Chinese, even if there are people capturing military power within the Manchu, the others would be unhappy. How could the Prince not try to act?"

With a "pa" sound, Yi Cong gave the tigress's butt a big slap, "Women still dare to meddle in the matters of the old masters? "Go wash up and wait for this grandpa to pamper you tonight …"

After a few words of joke, Yi Cong's face became lonely. "After all, I am still the son of Xuan Zong's emperor. The empire has become like this …" Ye Zichen was unable to say anything else.

The weakness of the late Qing was not only due to the backwardness of technology and industry, nor was it because there were no hot-blooded men in the imperial court who were willing to sacrifice their lives. It was because the political system of the Qing Dynasty had many flaws from the very beginning.

To put it bluntly, Qing Dynasty was a military alliance of tribes, relying on her ruthlessness and the Hollow Spirit Force that she was willing to learn from the Han Chinese to stay in the Central Plains. However, the primitive tribe system and the advanced Han Chinese civilization could not fit each other at all.

The Primitive Tribes Alliance focused on the leader of the group, the one with the biggest fist. In order to maintain the tribe's wolfness, they had to pull him out and train him.

And the Han people did not govern by Wu Yong, the rulers had to learn to balance the power within the empire, and they also had to know a lot of civil and administrative methods.

It was impossible to govern a huge empire of tens of millions of square kilometers by relying on the separation of power system of the primitive tribes. This was because once the power was divided, there would be constraints.

What the Great Empire needs is the large project, and what the large project needs is the centralization of authority, the authority of the Emperor.

The modern man seemed to have an aversion towards centralized power, but in the history of mankind, centralized power could do instead. Without centralized power, there would not be a Great Wall, without centralized power, there would not be a Beijing and Hanging Grand Canal, and without centralized power, there would not be the three dynasties of Kang Yongqian and the three dynasties of Yellow River … A simple example is the difficulty of mobilizing national wars in ancient countries without centralized power.

During the time of the late Qing, there were many governance activities related to the Yellow River, the emperor had even specially established a water management office, the highest ranking governor was the river governor, this kind of special governor was usually appointed by the emperor's trusted aide, he had the right to speak with the emperor directly, this was already a very prominent official position in the ancient times.

Manipulating a Yellow River from the upper reaches of Gansu River to the lower reaches of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Zhi Li, Cave … A total of six provinces would need to coordinate their work at the same time, and every time, the large project would need to mobilize millions of citizens.

In the Middle Ages, how could a government without power complete a large project like this? It would be hard to even reconcile the food and necessities of millions of people.

This was the greatest advantage that the centralized government had over the ancient era. On the other hand, the authority of the late Qing government had started to decline, and many of the national large project s were unable to advance, so even the people's livelihood project could not be completed. You still want to strengthen the army? You still want to make a big navy? These were delusions.