C1699 Difficult Qing Dynasty

Yang Zhi put down his wine cup: "The current dynasty is really not suitable for the promotion of weapons. Firstly, there is no money, the treasury is empty now and can be used to send mice. If not for me using banknotes, it would be difficult for officials' salaries to send out."

"To pacify the rebellion in the Hun Chun, although the imperial government has held the right to be righteous, and can attract the support of the princes and officials outside the borders, but in such a large area of land, less than one hundred and fifty thousand elite soldiers is definitely not enough …"

"One hundred and fifty thousand elite soldiers would need to be transported and supported by three hundred thousand people, and a million more would need to be moved by the locals. Where are we going to get so much money?" "If you don't have 10 million taels of silver on you, don't even think about fighting …"

"The first problem is money, and the second problem is whether we can win. Don't forget that Hun Chun didn't take action without permission, he is still holding onto His Majesty's decree, so you can't call him a rebel!"

"Once the weapons are activated, it would mean admitting to the entire world that the imperial government has split into two factions. What do the foreigners think? What do the Chinese think? Is there anyone who would think differently? "

Li Tuo nodded, "That's right! Not to mention that there was a volunteer army in the Far East! Don't just look at how they've just become an army. They can even beat the powerful Shao Ao in arm wrestling. What do you think of their battle prowess? Would these people support the Hun Chun? "I feel that it will definitely happen. This has added a few more variables …"

Yang Zhi picked up a piece of Ma Lian meat and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing on the fragrant horse lotus meat as he smiled lightly: "The loyal soldiers are Xiao Letian's lackeys, no matter how much you play in the future, it will always be within his scope of influence. Even if we do not participate in the war, supplying them with ammunition and supplies would be a huge problem! "

"That's why!" In my opinion, the chances of the imperial government winning are not high. There is a seventy to eighty percent chance that they would definitely lose! "

Yi Cong frowned, "Are you really that pessimistic?"

Yang Zhi and Li Tuo clapped at the same time and said simultaneously, "Isn't it that pessimistic! What's more terrifying is that within the imperial government, who would dare to let Prince Kung lead the army? "

"Thirty thousand Xishan New Army s as the core, gather another hundred thousand or so Baji s. "Hahaha, the imperial government cannot control this army!"

"He has orders from the outside world, he can gather these hundred thousand people as he pleases, listen to his high position, do not listen to his framing and punishing, use thirty thousand Xishan New Army as the skeleton, and disrupt the formation of those hundred thousand people from their new arrangement. These are all his powers!"

"When the army is assembled, the imperial government won't be able to take it away. All the middle and high ranking military officers are direct descendants of General Xie Zi Liu, so how do you think the imperial government can control them?" This will become the private army of General Gui Six! "

Li Tuo leaned on the back of the chair, stretched his body and without turning his head, he roared out. Stir in a serving of your best Hibiscus Chicken, and then warm up a pot of wine! "

Hearing the voices of the tigress in the rear room and the maid's reply, Li Tuo comfortably toasted, "Don't mention that Prince Kung doesn't have any aura, just thinking about it makes me think that he's the popular person in front of Emperor Xuan Zong all those years ago, the one who almost became Emperor is him …"

To put it bluntly, this Jiang Shan was someone the previous emperor had tried to trick into getting his hands on, the six of them had higher expectations than Xian Feng, If one day, you were to raise your arms and call out a hundred thousand soldiers to respond, what kind of tricks do you think the orphans and widows in the Forbidden City would have? "Isn't it because he is waiting for a military change …"

Her gloomy voice made the back of Yi Cong's neck turn cold. "No … That shouldn't be necessary! After all, my royal brother is the chosen successor for the first exam. No one... "No one will mess around with Sixth Brother …"

"Tsk …" Yang Zhi curled his lips. He and Li Tuo had long since been direct descendants of Yi Cong, so there was no need to hesitate from saying a lot of outrageous words.

"Tsk …" Do you really believe in destiny? Isn't it just the size of a fist or a principle? Similarly, in Qiandong, opponents have also been assassinated before … "Don't even mention how your fourth and sixth brother fought over it during the assembly …"

"Actually, in the eyes of the court officials, it doesn't matter who becomes the emperor. In any case, the kingdom doesn't have the rule to pass down their eldest son …"

What Yang Zhi said was not wrong, all the empires under the Han Dynasty's rule paid attention to their eldest son's inheritance, and this was a set of strict rules, this was the ancient law of etiquette.

For a prince, the order of his succession would first depend on the order of his birth, and secondly, on the status of his mother. Naturally, a boy born to the empress would have priority over his son, while a child born to a concubine and others would have to be postponed.

Moreover, the order was very important. The eldest was born to be the crown prince, and the second and third brothers only had a chance to meet after the eldest died. This was the Confucian etiquette, which seemed to be very unreasonable because no one knew if the eldest had enough intelligence or not, but etiquette had its advantages in ancient times.

That was to avoid the internal strife caused by the prince's ascension to the throne, which was in fact a last resort to avoid internal strife.

The Qing Dynasty was not like that. The Tribal Alliance that came from the White Mountains and Black Water Tribes believed in strength the most, and that is to say, they believed in talent. The more sons one had, the better it was.

Kang Xi had many sons, and in the later years, when many sons took over the throne, it was actually a scene that Kang Xi was willing to watch. Only when they fought and killed each other, would they be able to pick out the most outstanding descendants, and the dynasty would be able to continue on, becoming more and more prosperous.

This reasoning was not wrong, it seemed very reasonable, but in the eyes of Scholars like Ceng Guofan and Weng Tonghe, even pseudo scholars like Xiao Letian, there were big loopholes in this logic.

He placed his children in the arena and began to fight amongst each other to pick out the most powerful one. It was the same with the Tibetan mastiff.

In Xiao Letian's previous life, he had met a Tibetan friend in university. This student had once told a story, in the ancient times when Tibetan mastiffs were not very valuable, Tibetan people raised their mastiffs based on natural selection.

The bitch gave birth to a litter of puppies, dug a deep hole in the snow and put them all in, then didn't feed on any of the puppies who knew that at the end, one of the puppies killed the other brothers and ate their meat to survive. Only then could the dog be called a mastiff.

Just listening to this story, one could feel the stench of blood on their face. When Kang Xi was younger and his princes were fighting for the throne, the blood rain inside the Great Qing was simply a unbearable memory to look back on.

Yang Zhi put down his wine cup and said in an extremely lonely manner, "Actually, Xiao Letian had explained the logic very early on, for this kind of natural selection method, there is a big prerequisite, and that is that you have to have a lot of descendants to choose from. You have to know that a majority of people would not have more than three sons …"

"For example, wasn't Xian Feng the only son in the end? This way, the natural selection competition that Manchu believes in will cause huge hidden dangers … "