Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The Prince Kung had made up his mind today to counterattack Zai Chun. The empress candidate and the person who opposed industrialization were all just appetizers.

The Minister of Revenue, Bao Yun, was also an old official of the three dynasties.

In the past, when Xian Feng avoided the British and French combined forces and fled towards the Hot River, he had once ordered Bao Yun to use 200 thousand silver from the account department to repair the Chengde's Summer Palace!

This Bao Yun also had a stubborn temper, he was definitely not willing to submit an edict and even directly spoke to the emperor. The nation was in a financial crisis and had no money to build any palaces.

Xian Feng was so angry that he wanted to send him to jail, but the crime was too heinous to hear, you, the emperor, still wanted to build a palace when the empire was in a difficult situation to escape from?

In the end, Xian Feng came to find trouble with the accusation that the British and French combined forces robbed three mountains, reprimanding him and lowering his position! Of course, not long after that, the emperor also felt that he overdid it and restored Bao Yun to his original position.

It was also because of this that Bao Yun gained a good reputation in the imperial court. After Tongzhi ascended the throne, the empress dowagers promoted Bao Yun to the Minister of Revenue and Military Intelligence Service.

Today, Bao Yun walked out under the orders of General Gui Six and asked after paying his respects to the Tongzhi Emperor, "Reporting to his majesty! "This is the Steel plant. This official has seen it before, but I have a few questions …"

"In the preliminary data, there is only equipment for the iron factory, manual training, the employment of foreign engineers, and the financial plan for the building of the factory!"

"What about the purchase price of 500 hectares of land? And tens of thousands of military and civilian expenses? "But he did not mention it at all. May I ask how much you need for this silver?"

Zai Chun said indifferently, "Isn't that simple? There are eight flags of our Manchu on both sides of the Qing River, and a few of them are royal estates!"

"Since it is my own property, there is no need to be so particular about it!" "I do not want compensation from the imperial government. All of the land in the imperial manor belongs to me!"

"The rest of the palace ministers only owned a third of the land, and had already eaten the Great Qing Dynasty's iron stalks of crops for more than two hundred years, don't tell me you have no intentions at all?"

"Give me the prince's manor without any compensation!" "You all should do your best to help the imperial government!"

"As for the other nobles under the prince, their conditions might be a bit worse. I'll take the lands elsewhere and swap them out one by one …"

"In the end, it turns out that I'm the one who got the upper hand!"

Zai Chun thought that such an answer would cause everyone to see the light of day, but he never expected that Bao Yun would actually shake his head and say, "It's difficult … Difficult … Your Majesty, you've only counted the land, where are the forty thousand people? How do you plan to settle this? "

"Placement? Placement! They were both from the Imperial Manor. Wasn't it the same if they moved to a different place? What's going on … Do you still want This Emperor to compensate them with silver? "

Bao Yun said with a bitter face, "Your majesty! Although all the farmers in the imperial manor and the prince's manor were coating's servants, they still... However, it would not be appropriate to force them out of the fields! "

"He has injured His Majesty's holy name!"

At this time, Young Fifth Master Yi, who had always been carefree, said seriously, "Your Majesty! You really have to think about this... The citizens of the Beijing Belt have been unstable since ancient times, and the people of Beijing Belt have always been knowledgeable about it, so it is very easy for public opinion to be flooded into this place! "

"It's easy to refute the rumours of the lowlifes in the court, but if the commoners of this lowly manor say bad things, the people of this world will believe it! Your reputation is more important! "

"Besides, it's hard to leave one's homeland. Long live you might not understand those crops, but you really aren't willing to move to another place. Inviting them to move aside, but they still won't leave!"

At the mention of these commoner citizens, all the other ministers nodded their heads, "That's right! They do not understand the affairs of the imperial court, nor do they know the affairs of the world! "

"They don't even know about the new rules of the His Majesty. They will just have to see just what kind of benefits they will get from the new rules!"

"And the big question is, did they move the people, or the graves? This is silver with no money to back it up... Don't just look at how respectful and obedient the commoners are, why don't you make a move on their ancestors' graves? "

Zai Chun had really thought things through and made it simple. The people of the farming civilization had a strong reliance on the soil, losing the land was already a rebellion for the people!

Although all of those places were palaces, logically speaking, all of them were coating's servants, so it was reasonable to say that this servant's position should be even lower than the tenant!

On the contrary, coating slaves have a higher status than the free citizens. Your Emperor or Imperial palace can plunder the property of ordinary tenants, and you can't even receive punishment for bullying men and bullying women. However, you're actually more amiable towards your own servants!

Not only can't you bully him, you have to win him over, even if you want to punish that coating servant, if you want to take his life, you have to be responsible for it!

When the Yongzheng Emperor took over the throne, killing a few coating servants was also because they were unloyal to him. They had spread a secret to the other brothers, and committed the crime of being unloyal before being sentenced to death!

In the end, this problem still depended on the eight flags system of the Qing Dynasty. The eight flags system of the Qing Dynasty was actually a military alliance that included slavery!

This system had a very primitive and barbaric style. It retained slavery and at the same time a certain democratic consensus system in the ancient tribal system!

Because they were in a military alliance, it required slaves to work hard for their masters! How can I make this servant work so hard?

On the battlefield, how could this servant willingly block the blade and sword for his master, and carry it out of the sea of blood? If you don't have favors, then you won't have a loyal private army system!

In the 500 hectares of land on both sides of the Qing River, if the land there is occupied by ordinary Chinese tenants, then you don't have to be polite and can actually rob them!

It was not a big deal for the Qing Dynasty to burn, kill or loot people, even tens of thousands of people!

But the villas on both sides of the Qing River are all owned by Manchu, so 80% of the citizens here are standard-bearers!

This was not easy to deal with! If Zai Chun really went on with his plan, how would the people of the Inside Eight Flags and the rest think of him?

If he were to put on the big hat that wasn't worth his life, he wouldn't be able to take it off in this lifetime!

Zai Chun was startled for a moment. "Then, from what my beloved one sees, how much is the cost of relocating?"

Bao Yun calculated in his heart: "There are over 40,000 people, 500 hectares of land, and there are even houses, tools and livestock … Even if our ancestors' tombs were to be moved, we might not be able to get out without a million people! "

One million! The people in East Warm Pavilion started to discuss softly, "Is it 25 taels of silver on average for a single person?" Aiyo, this money is not much anymore, but the imperial government doesn't have that much money right now! "

Zai Chun gritted his teeth and calculated in his mind, "Even if I have to spend an extra million, I have to do what I need to do!"

Bao Yun suddenly raised his head and looked at the Tongzhi Emperor. "This subject would like to ask a second question. This is the cost of moving people, and the cost of building a factory, which is over four million, that was mentioned in the paper earlier …"

"So much money, where should I spend it?"