President Meng felt amused, and said in a gentle tone as patiently as possible: "Since you know that the Qing government is corrupt and weak, why don't you understand that although the army of Huaguo cannot be said to be very strong at the moment of overthrowing the Qing court, it is like a seriously ill person, as long as he lightly punches him in the sore place, he can be killed." ”Zeng Siping sneered, "Your Majesty's metaphor is very vivid, Your Majesty's class is much more vivid and interesting than my father's." ”"Okay, five minutes is up, I'm really going to do something."
Hua Huang smiled.Zeng Siping sighed softly and winked at Huahuang, President Meng's heart moved, I don't know why, I actually had the urge to kiss Zeng Siping.Huahuang originally liked women older than himself, or it can be said that he liked mature women, and he had always felt embarrassed before, for fear that others would know, but looking back, he had no impact on Huahuang's life and work in recent years, and he was not as positive as usual.Huahuang thinks,Men's preferences change with age and experience,1622 years old may like the same age and the opposite sex,After coming out of society,Because you want to be independent,I want to find a sister to take care of,And then in your 40s, maybe you will still like mature women,Or you have no feeling for mature women by then,I prefer Lori to come。
Hua Huang can now say that he can see both the moving side of a mature woman and the moving side of Lori, I don't know what it is Zeng Siping saw Hua Huang staring at his pink face, and his face immediately blushed, "If Your Majesty is fine, I'll go out" President Meng hurriedly hummed, "Go ahead." ”Zeng Siping sneered, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for being my teacher." ”Hua Huang pretended to be mature and smiled, looking at Zeng Siping's delicate figure, slender and twisting waist, and secretly said that he was guilty of sin, Zeng Siping was still too young, and he had to endure it for two years.Emperor Hua's answer just now was too simple, in fact, it was a bit perfunctory Zeng Siping, the Manchu regime had inferior roots, so he would rather be a slave to foreigners than buy weapons to arm the army, because he was afraid that the Han soldiers would get advanced weapons to overthrow the Manchurian aristocracy.This is at best a small part of the reason.Emperor Hua's answer to Zeng Siping was a bit nonsense, in fact, since the First Opium War, the Qing court immediately recognized the power of new weapons and immediately began to buy them.Whether it is Lafayette or Li Hongzhang, they all have vision.Twenty or thirty years later, when the Westernization Movement developed, the first thing to do was the arms industry, and it cannot be said that the Qing court did not take money to buy guns.In the First Opium War, the British army used the Brown Beth rifle, a flintlock smoothbore gun, although much better than the Qing army's weapons, but it was definitely not possible to defeat the Qing army by long-range attacks.The British army was often the first to launch a white-knuckle charge in war, and it was the Qing army that relied on organizational discipline and the fighting quality of soldiers to defeat the Qing army.In fact, at that time, some of the Qing troops in Guangdong were also equipped with flintlock pistols, which were theoretically of the same level as the British army's weapons.However, after all, there were only a few people equipped with flintlock pistols, and the production process and gunpowder quality were very poor, and most of the Qing army weapons were arquebuses, so the gap between the weapons of the Qing army and the great powers in this period was the largest.After the First Opium War, the Qing court had realized the power of Western weapons and began to purchase and manufacture weapons.At that time, there were several views on Western civilization, some believed that it should be completely resisted, some believed that it should be used in Chinese and Western styles, and some believed that it could be comprehensively learned from the West.But even the most die-hard conservatives are not against Western weapons.A representative of the conservative faction, Uren Ugenfeng, also said that Western artifacts are not necessary except for weapons.Note that in addition to the weapons, it shows that there is at least a consensus among the Qing court: foreign guns are very powerful, and after they are bought, the Qing government and Britain and France will fight the second Opium War, which is already in the sixties of the nineteenth century, Zuo Zongtang's Chu army, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army, and Li Hongzhang's Huai army have all carried Sharpster and Remington rifled guns, and the gap with the equipment of the great powers is very small.At this time, the Shenji Battalion and Firearms Battalion of the Beijing Banner Army were all equipped with Western guns, but due to the corrupt military system, it was impossible for the medieval army to defeat the modern army with advanced weapons.Before the Second Opium War, it was ordered by the emperor to be manufactured urgently, and within a few months, the Zhenhai Artillery Bureau alone cast 117 large and small copper cannons, costing nearly 110,000 taels, and the efficiency was outrageously low.After the start of the Westernization Movement, the start-up fund of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was initially 5.43 million taels, which was increased to 9.43 million taels in 1849.Hubei Gun Factory, with a start-up capital of 800,000 taels.The Zhejiang Machinery Bureau, the Jinling Gunpowder Bureau, the Jinling Machinery Bureau, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, the Shandong Machinery Bureau, and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau invested a total of more than 42 million taels of funds.In the late Qing Dynasty, less than 100 ships were purchased from abroad, and 20 million taels of silver were spent, during which various shady scenes and scandals continued.For the sake of their own interests, the foreign officials and technicians who were active in China instigated the Qing government to buy a large number of their own weapons, and the German engineers wanted to buy German goods, and British officials wanted to buy British goods.Moreover, even if they bought enough arms to fight a long-term war, the Manchus would not be able to fight a protracted war, and the premise of a protracted war was a people's war.What does this mean, to mobilize the masses.However, what the Manchus were most afraid of was to mobilize the masses of the people with the Han nationality as the main body.Once the Han people were mobilized, the foundation of the Manchu ruling power would be unstable, and for the Manchu rulers, the threat to the mobilized Han masses was far greater than the aggression of the imperialist powers.It is not difficult to understand why as soon as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was busy cutting the Han armed forces such as the Hunan Army and the Huai Army.The Qing Dynasty closed itself off from the country and rejected foreign advanced things, in order to keep the Manchu cavalry from losing its superiority and prevent a small number of Manchus from drowning in the sea of Han people in the era of firearms and weapons, and not even a single wave could be turned over.The core of the entire dynastic policy of the Qing Dynasty was not the traditional Chinese rule of the world, but to ensure the "honor and disgrace of one surname", so Cixi would say such words as "measuring the material resources of China and forming a friendship with the country".If it were another dynasty, he would have been scolded to death by the people of the world a long time ago.Not only the indemnity for the defeat, in the original history, the Sino-French war situation gradually tilted towards the Qing side, but the Qing court still gave up the right to protect Vietnam, and opened the southwest region to France, and the French power gradually penetrated from the southwest; During the Sino-French War, China and Japan also had conflicts in Korea, but the Qing court still signed the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Reconciliation under the condition of taking advantage of the situation, and the treaty stipulated that China and Japan had equal status in Korea, and in the event of chaos in Korea, both China and Japan could send troops.Korea was a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, and according to the regulations, the Qing court gave up its absolute dominance in Korea in disguise, and Korea paid 500,000 yuan in compensation to Japan at the same time.The Qing court did not invest in the construction of the army, and it was precisely the investment in the army that led to the Westernization movement.Cixi in many cases leaned towards conservative opinions, but absolutely supported Li Hongzhang in the construction of the Beiyang Fleet.After the pacification of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Qing court consciously imported foreign guns and cannons to equip the Huai army and the training army, and at the same time reduced the scale of the green battalion to facilitate the construction of the training army; At the end of the Sino-French War, the Nanyang Fleet was completely annihilated, and the Qing court began to import warships and sent students to study naval affairs in the ocean.
At the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, the training of the new army began immediately, and the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the old army was completely annihilated, Yuan Shikai began to train the Beiyang Army, and the Qing court had no reservations about the investment in the Beiyang Army, and the Beiyang Six Towns were the best equipped and trained army in China at that time.It is also unjust to say that the Qing Dynasty did not invest in the armed forces, and most of the financial expenditures of the Qing government in the last years were invested in army building.Before every foreign war and peace talks, the Qing court's armament expenditure was at least 10 million taels of silver, and the two opium wars cost the Qing government at least 20 million taels of silver.Whether the Qing court has the heart to fight with the foreign powers, there is a long-term war, but the money is spent to be useful.The treasury bottomed out, the enemy army came to the capital, and the troops who usually spent a lot of money on training died, ran away, and had no money and no one, and they couldn't get up if they wanted to.If the Chinese government is now allowed to replace the Qing government of the First Opium War or the Second Opium War, even if it is exactly the same armament, but the Chinese can still abolish all the unequal treaties and let the foreign powers not take advantage, in the final analysis, it is necessary to have a government that is politically honest and serves the people, and the Qing court is rotten from the roots.As foreign capitalists, the Western invaders have always pursued the Chinese market, and as long as the Chinese government guarantees to open trade routes and has the ability to maintain market stability, they are even willing to provide the Chinese government with advanced equipment to suppress civil unrest.For them, when they found that it would take a lot of time and effort to divide and eliminate a country as large as Huaxia, the cost of training agents was much lower.Moreover, with the expansion of Tsarist Russia's influence in the Far East, the Westerners urgently needed to find a strong ally in the Far East to suppress Russia, just as the British supported the Ottoman Turkish Empire.At this time, it was in the interests of the Qing court and the foreigners to suppress the civil unrest, so they chose to cooperate, and the foreigners were not very interested in the occupation of Chinese territory by other countries except Maozi, which inadvertently reduced the offense to the Chinese government and its territorial sovereignty.The Qing court was not able to come up with tens of millions of dollars at once, and the arrears were guaranteed by the customs, and they had to be repaid with interest every year, and in the original history, they were repaid until the founding of New China.Without technical support, no matter how rich you are, you can't build an army like the current Huaguo.Advanced politics must first start with the industrial base before it is capable of building a new-style army.The Green Battalion of the Eight Banners has long been so rotten that it can't fight.The Hunan army was a landlord regimental training, and when the emperor appeared, it was also decayed.The leaders of the Huai army soon degenerated into old bureaucrats with vested interests.It is impossible for Emperor Hua to say too much to Zeng Siping, these have to be understood by herself in the process of learning, Zeng Siping's own grandfather Zeng Guoquan, the first credit for laying down Nanjing is his.is Zeng Guofan's younger brother again.In his early years, he was a bull storming a china shop, but in his later years he was a mediocre and conservative bureaucrat.The Westernists have all dealt with foreigners and have seen the power and technology of modern warfare.But if they want to change the ethics of the whole country.They only dare to say that middle school is the body, and Western learning is for use.To be a little more mediocre, it is to take benevolence and righteousness as the boat, and etiquette and faith as the armor.This was really the view of the most powerful bureaucracy in China at that time.It should be said that being able to start buying machines, buying weapons, being aware of this gap, and knowing that buying is the beginning of awakening.is already the most understanding group of people in the late Qing Dynasty.And the more far-sighted is to realize that the machine is dead, and the talent is the first.Advocate sending international students.The first batch of international students were sent by Zeng Guofan.And most of them are not in a good situation.Zeng Jize, the eldest son of the Zeng family and Zeng Siping's father, built a steamship and negotiated in Yili, because he was familiar with the national law and situation, and saved a lot of rights and interests.But in the original history, he died of exhaustion at the age of thirty-five.t1706231537: