C537 contrasting happiness

Of course, Xiao Letian's method of earning money was not limited to this. If he only relied on the small amount of benefits he got from buying and selling to raise his army, it would be a pipe dream. In the end, the dream of Xiao Letian's great navy and industrialization still fell to the Qing Dynasty.

Xiao Letian had always believed that the wealth that the Old Ancestor of China had accumulated for thousands of years was not a small amount. It was enough for a few generations of people to work hard to industrialize it. In fact, not to mention being in the middle of nineteenth century, even in our previous life when the Chinese nation was destroyed after the founding of our country, our previous generation still relied on tightening our belt to complete our country's industrialization and realize our dream for hundreds of years.

But right now, China had only experienced two Opium Wars, and the tens of millions of silver was nothing compared to the huge amount of wealth accumulated by the people, it didn't mean that Xiao Letian couldn't transfer the Qing Dynasty and those corrupt scholars.

First of all, how many Iron-armored battleship could the eight flags, which was worth ten million silver taels a year, buy? Even if the entire Qing Dynasty used up a year's worth of money, this huge black hole would probably cost more than 10 million taels of silver. The Qing Dynasty had several million taels of silver worth of money for their officials, let alone all sorts of amassed wealth.

Unlike Japan, which was across the sea, the navy wanted to buy a Jeju. Even the Emperor only ate one meal a day because he wanted to encourage the people to donate to the purchase of battleships and Beiyang Gan.

As for the Jiye, it was actually a fast iron armor cruise that had been booked by Li Hongzhang Beiyang and Armstrong's shipyard. Just because it wanted to give Ci Xi a birthday celebration, it forcibly transferred the silver over to the Summer Palace, which was why the Japanese was able to pry this market open.

The Jiye, on the other hand, had cost more than three hundred thousand pounds, which was equivalent to one million silver taels at that time. And for China, even middle Jin Shang families would be able to fork out over a million taels of silver. Needless to say anything further, even old shopkeeper's older brother Fan Ru could take it out.

The late Qing's Chinese economy was like a magic spell, the scholars desperately wanted to make money as officials, the merchants desperately tried to earn money and hide their profits, or they even bought land to collude with the officials.

In the end, all of these treasures were taken advantage of by the bandit, and under the force of the Gun cannon, they became the bandit's food in the blink of an eye.

The more unstable the society was, the more danger the wealth needed to avoid, the weaker the country would become, and then the society would become even more restless. When the wealth lost its mobility and lost the ability to create new wealth, his final outcome would be to be eaten by the other powerful individuals.

China is getting weaker and weaker under this kind of magic, while the Western world is doing the opposite. What will happen after the industrial and commercial financial system becomes more and more robust? More guns, more battleships, more aircraft tanks, more satellite missiles.

By the time they can wave the big stick of nuclear weapons around the world and shout, what can you do but pay the protection fee?

Xiao Letian's chess game was too big, one person wanted to defy the heavens? Sometimes, he himself would be shocked awake, but this was a one-way street with no way back. Xiao Letian had already walked up, and could no longer go down.

Ye Qiu, Pang Chaoyun and the others could only see the tip of the iceberg within Xiao Letian's huge plan, but this corner had already scared Tian Erdan and Ma Hui Mi to death.

"So, what we were eating was foreign rice? Ouch … You've never thought of such a treatment in your life? Where is Japan and Korea? Where is the United States? "

Ye Qiu and the others never thought that their battle of heart against the Green Camp brothers would win with just a meal. In the eyes of these ordinary citizens, there were American canned beef, Japanese Korean rice, and shrimp in seafood soup.

Heavens! The earth! The days of deities should be like this, right? It was autumn now, and they could actually eat peaches that didn't go on sale until early summer. Everyone in their hometown would dare to believe these words.

"Wuwuwu …" F * ck, what kind of life did I lead in the past? I'm not even human compared to you guys … Does sir have a knife? "Lend it to me …"

Without saying a word, Tian Erdan cut off all of his braids and threw them into the fire. "It's done, just based on this rations, with the Prime Minister's kind intentions towards us as soldiers, I'll also do it …"

"It's done …" The crowd shouted in unison and went to borrow knives from the New Army. Not only did this meal cut off the braids on the back of their heads, it also cut off the braids on their hearts.

In the time of the late Qing, it was that simple to fight over the hearts of the people, the lowest level of commoners led a miserable life, and because the Qing Dynasty strictly observed the Ming Dynasty's rules, the commoners were sealed away in their own hometown.

Now, Xiao Letian had opened a new door for these foolish people, allowing them to personally see a completely different world. From that moment onwards, the foolish people's scam that the Qing Dynasty and the corrupt scholars had invented could be considered to have completely gone bankrupt.

So there was actually such a way of living. People could eat meat everyday, people could eat their fill everyday, and even when they met an official, they could not kneel and kowtow. They were actually very courteous when they saw foreigners.

So the world was like this, not just the monarch and his son. Those people who did not have emperors did not have a collapse, but instead, the people there were better off.

So there really was a heaven in this world where hard work made one fully clothed!

In just one night, there were two thousand bald soldiers in the. Although their military attainments were not high, even the engineers from Europe and America could see the vitality in them.

In just a single night, their temperament was completely different from when they surrendered.

The next morning, the Discipline Hall established contact with the remaining four thousand garrison troops on the Da Gu Kou's cannon emplacement. The special region used a small boat to transport a large amount of supplies to the cannon emplacement.

The four thousand garrison troops vowed to defend the Da Gu Kou's fort to the death.

During the entire day, the small boats in the special zones on the north shore of the Hai River that were delivering supplies to the Southern Bank's battery formed a line and flowed without stop. But strangely, the French and Maylor's army on the ocean, as well as the Great Little Wang Manor's army, did not make any movements.

"Something is not right, the smell is definitely not right …" Pass down orders to stay on guard, especially against the Da Gu Kou's cannon emplacement, to have our snipers go up and support them … " After all, General Liu Lang had fought in the Northern Faction before, he had fought in the midst of a bloody storm and he had an intuitive understanding of killing intent.

Just as the Tanggu was holding in her anger and fighting, a huge chaos broke out in the western TIANJIN Wei.

TIANJIN Wei, TIANJIN Wei. The word "guard" already described the characteristics of this city, and that was to establish a city with an army. When the Ming Dynasty established the TIANJIN Wei, it was to support the northern front line and to guard the mouth of the sea. The Qing Dynasty's position was even more important, and became the first line of defense against the enemies of the sea.

There were many yamen runners in the TIANJIN Wei, some from the Green Camp's army, and some from the Eight Flag Manchu's Acropolis City. Even the two tribes of Yanzhai have offices here, but this is a dry dock.

This morning, the warehouse of the Eight Banners Camp in the south of the city had somehow lost water. I heard that it was caused by the fried dough sticks shop, and there were also those who said that the candle shop had accidentally knocked over the candle … As for why there were so many hidden dangers in the area around the warehouse? Only God knows.

This was truly a refreshing autumn day. This kind of weather was good for setting fire to the weather. Not long later, the entire warehouse was filled with fire. Black smoke and ashes filled the entire city. From afar, it looked like a black snow had fallen.

Although the armies of the late Qing were decaying, and corruption was turning into wind, the TIANJIN Wei was still a strategical place, defending foreigners still needed to defend Xiao Letian, so the ammunition in the warehouse was real. Those officials would at most dare to take 10% of the losses, otherwise, they would still be killed.

During this period of time, the warehouse was filled with firearms, ammunition, cotton, oil, beans and even over a hundred thousand taels of silver.

This was Maylor's lifeline for battle. If he burned it all with fire, the anger in the Forbidden City would probably collapse.

The streets were filled with soldiers. They were sweating profusely while carrying buckets. In the end, even the guards of each yamen were mobilized and they quickly rushed towards the south of the city.

The fire raged as the citizens of the city looked around. Many of them knelt on the ground, praying. Even the officials at the yamen were watching the fire and discussing amongst themselves.

At this time, a group of teachers and clerks were huddled together at the entrance of the town hall to watch the show. Their faces were filled with regret.

Some of the people in the crowd said in a low voice, "We lost, we really lost. If we knew that there was such a huge fire, why didn't we make a lot of loss?" "So many good things have all been burned for nothing. If we were to make a move earlier, we would have at least produced 200 thousand …"

"Take you down, this is for Maylor to have military supplies, if we eat 10%, that would already be our limit, do you still want to make 200 thousand? Keep dreaming … "

Just as everyone was discussing, the sounds of horse hooves coming from the depths of the street could be heard. At first, it was only a slight sound, but soon it became a continuous sound. It came crashing down from the north like a tank.

"What's going on? Who in the city would dare to ride a horse? "Something that doesn't understand the rules …" The crowd had just started cursing when his throat seemed to have been pinched by a giant invisible hand and not a single word could be heard.

"This, this, this, this …" What the hell is this? "