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Chapter 512 Launching the Promotion Plan ([-])

On June 51, Kangxi [-], the second issue of "Jingshi Times" came out after the first issue was successfully issued. The front page is still a big debate about the "Kyoto Treaty". There are both pros and cons. All the articles this time have added an editor's note, and the "Beijing Times" has clearly shown its support for the adoption of the "Kyoto Treaty", especially for an article "The Farmer and the Snake" published by an author signed by Chen Xi The article is not stingy with praise.

Chen Xi is no one else but Hong Qing's pen name. The "Farmer and the Snake" he quoted comes from "Aesop's Fables". In addition, no one knows its origin, but it does not prevent people from this simple fable to draw such a simple truth that a woman's benevolence is worthless. In addition, the follow-up comments and arguments of this article are extremely rigorous, but The brilliant writing made the readers admire. For a while, the article was popular in the capital, and the name of Chenxi was heard all over the city. At the same time, the originally fierce debate turned one-sided, and the attitude of the people towards the "Kyoto Treaty" was almost It is overwhelmingly in favor.

With just two issues of the newspaper, the public opinion has been completely set. Tian Bingyi and other dissidents have become street rats, and have been reviled as traitors by countless people. They all evacuated in disgrace. Guangji Temple is such a gathering place, there is no sound in the wind and clouds.

With such a certain tone of public opinion, there was no obstacle to the court meeting—on June 51, 29 of Kangxi, after more than a month, the old man went to court again. During this period, the third master proposed the motion of passing the "Kyoto Treaty", and there were countless respondent. Opponents were rare, and the fourth master and his son saw that the situation was not going well, so they didn't dare to stand up again, so the third master's motion was passed. The next day, the old man issued a clear edict and approved the "Kyoto Treaty".

On the second day of July in the 51st year of Kangxi, the old thirteen came to this chapter, requesting that the new army be supplemented to meet the rotation of the troops stationed in Dongying. Instead, he merged the new army into the jurisdiction of the Fengtai camp, and at the same time, brought the old thirteen back to the Ministry of War to help run the military aircraft.

On the fourth day of July in the 51st year of Kangxi, the board of directors of the "Eight Banners Company" made a resolution to allocate 120 million taels of silver from the development fund as military expenditures for the land and sea troops stationed in Dongying. In addition to the expenses, a total of [-] personnel ([-] troops each on land and sea) can receive double pay, and then count the local income (this is undoubtedly the big head, nothing else, the Qing army in Dongying is the role of the overlord , It’s very easy to get rid of it.), Generally speaking, an ordinary bannerman who has been stationed in Dongying for two years can get nearly a thousand taels in the account. As for middle and senior generals, the income is more than ten times more. The news As soon as the news came out, the idle bannermen who were waiting to see whether they would join the new army suddenly became crazy. Countless people swarmed and crowded the Yamen of the Eight Banners Capital to a great extent. The officials are all uneasy, and they often quarrel with each other over the ownership of a quota. When the disputes cannot be settled, there are indeed a lot of scenes of punching and fighting.

On the ninth day of July in the 51st year of Kangxi, the old fourteenth came to this chapter, requesting that the armaments of each banner battalion be updated to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. It is planned to complete the entire plan in five years, and it will generally cost more than [-] silver per year. Ten thousand two, the old man refused to publish this chapter, obviously he did not intend to do so, the old fourteen refused to accept, and moved the book again on July [-]th, the old man finally approved, only agreeing to attack the [-] troops of the Fengtai camp To be reformed, as for the rest of the request of the old fourteen were all ignored.

As soon as the old man made such an attitude, the government and the public inevitably talked a lot. No one could understand what the old man meant. You must know that the power of the new weapons has already been tested in actual combat, and the new army has only 1 troops. He easily wiped out tens of thousands of Japanese troops. If all the troops in the Qing Dynasty were equipped with new weapons, their combat effectiveness would probably be raised to a level of terror. With the wisdom of the old man who is now the emperor, it is impossible not to see this, but The old man just didn't do this, and the implications of this are really intriguing.

why?Others don't know why, but Hong Qing knows it all too well, nothing else, it's just a warning, not only aimed at the old fourteenth, but also a hidden warning to Hong Qing, the militant who advocated the conquest of Dongpu at the beginning— ——The old man is getting old, and he really doesn’t want to make any more troubles. All he wants now is to spend his old age peacefully, and don’t make any changes in Xuanwumen. For the old man, it’s a good thing. As for the war, unless it’s a last resort , the old man doesn't want to fight anymore, besides, there seems to be no big threat in the surrounding area, at least in the old man's view, there is no need to spend huge sums of money to upgrade the existing army, another hidden The reason for this is naturally that I don’t feel at ease with the brothers, even the most favored third master. Otherwise, the old man would not have dismissed the old thirteen’s new army commander without any reason. Now, the old man Fourteen wanted to seize power in the name of the whole army, how could the old man be at ease, vetoing was inevitable.

As for warning Hongqing, it's not complicated to put it bluntly, nothing else, although Hongqing handled the conquest of Dongpu very cleanly, it is absolutely impossible to hide it from the old man's eyes. The matter, the previous transfer of the old thirteen out of the new army and the rejection of the old fourteen's proposal this time all express the same meaning, that is, the old man is tired of the war, and whoever dares to use weapons again will be at his own risk!

The old man does not want to fight. Such wishes are undoubtedly beautiful, but the reality is cruel. The power of Cewang Allah Butan entrenched in Qinghai and Xinjiang has expanded rapidly in recent years. There is still a battle to be fought, and Hong Qing knows this matter very well, but this is not the time to tell the truth, and I don't want to stir up troubles in the army and arouse the old man's suspicion, and the consequences will have to be It's not for fun, besides, Hongqing doesn't really care about military matters at the moment, probably because the promotion of many inventions of the Ministry of Industry has already been mentioned on the agenda, and there are so many articles of association to be written. Where to go, but there are not many people who understand economics and management in the Ministry of Industry, Hongqing can only do most of the things by herself, and she is so busy every day that she has no time to intervene in military affairs.

On the ninth day of August, after more than two months of hard work, the first draft of the regulations on the promotion of many inventions of the Ministry of Industry was finally drawn up. Hong Qing did not delay much, so he published this chapter on the same day. After reading it, the old man did not change it. Instead, they handed over Hongqing's booklet and forty pages of detailed descriptions to the scholars for discussion.

The discussion among the great scholars is destined to be fruitless. It's not that the regulations drafted by Hong Qing are not detailed, nor is there any perversity in them. In fact, Hong Qing has written the regulations in as much detail as possible. Even some economic terms have given corresponding explanations and explanations, subdividing the 47 projects that will be used for promotion into three categories-small light industry suitable for small and medium-sized businessmen, ordinary light industry, and capital-intensive Heavy industry, and detailed the scale of various shareholding systems and related control regulations. With the talents of Zhang Tingyu and others, there is no obstacle to comprehend what is right. The problem is that the amount of investment involved in this regulation is huge, and the area involved It is extremely wide, so that all the great scholars have to be cautious and cautious. In addition, the great scholars have different positions from each other, and naturally have different attitudes towards the regulations proposed by Hong Qing. After several days of discussion, they still failed to agree. Reaching a consensus, in the end, can only push the charter back to the imperial court.

The Grand Scholars couldn't come to a conclusion, so the old man was a little entangled, not because of anything else, just because Hongqing's plan to revitalize the economy is too grand, if it really comes to fruition, in the foreseeable future, The annual income of the imperial court can be doubled, and this does not include the tax income from the household department. The share dividends of the imperial court in these industries alone are already an astonishing astronomical figure, which is enough to support Hong Qing's proposed governance. The river and the need for building bridges and roads are undoubtedly a great thing for the imperial court, and there are only two things the old man has to do. One is to issue an edict to pass the "Patent Law"; 500 million taels of silver were allocated from the war reparations of the Ministry of Industry as the start-up fund for this plan of the Ministry of Industry.

Whether the "Patent Law" is enacted or not is not a big problem for the old man. The law does not conflict with the current law, nor does it conflict with the mainstream thinking. It’s nothing more than a matter, but if the old man is required to take out a huge sum of 500 million taels from the first installment of war indemnities that have been collected in the treasury, it will inevitably make the old man feel pain-if it really works, the investment of 500 million taels of silver will not be a problem. It's not much, but if it fails, wouldn't the 500 million taels of silver be in vain? Furthermore, the old man's designated heir is the third master, but his focus is on Hong Qing. If the Qing government failed this major event, wouldn't the government fall into chaos again, and the old man's hope of spending his later years in peace would naturally fall into emptiness, and this was the root of the old man's hesitation.

Time flies, and it is the beginning of September in a blink of an eye, and the old man has never commented on this chapter written by Hong Qing, nor has he submitted it to the court for discussion. , under the impetus of people with good intentions, it even became more and more violent, pointing the finger at Hong Qing, such as too high-minded, high-sighted and low-handed evaluations were all unceremoniously slapped on Hong Qing's forehead, and the situation in the capital was so strange stand up……

(End of this chapter)