"Sir, this is the number on the book. We are still checking the specific goods. We must count them within three days. At that time, we will deliver them a lot of them to the front line to reward the soldiers!" Xu Taiyue held a freshly released official document book and walked towards Chen Shiqing with a smile on his face.

Chen Shiqing opened and saw, I'm going, these rich people are so rich, right? These food and supplies are enough to support the army's expenses for half a year. According to the calculation of fifty wealthy businessmen, it means that one person's money can support more than 700 soldiers fighting outside! What is this concept?

If it were ordinary people, because the consumption was very low, the money that could support more than 700 soldiers could often support two thousand ordinary people. The money of a rich man could be eaten by two thousand people for the first half of the year. What kind of wealth is this? If you use it to do business, the profits will be an astonishing number every year.

"Oh, I said, Master Azan, really, I don't know what to say. Our government office, as the Zhili Prefecture of the Qing Dynasty, could hardly even pay the salary. The so-called county office is a little more broken than your country houses. In this way, it was leaking rain and air. If we wanted to repair it, we also had to pay our own money. What was the poverty like?"

"But look at you guys, it's so fat! It seems that I'm right in the fight against you. If you transport so much money and food from Beijing, you'll have to consume more than half of it on the way. How many cents can you fall into the pockets of the frontline soldiers? How many grains of rice can fall into the mouths of the frontline soldiers?"

"I regret not asking for half of your property now. In that case, our army will have all the food and grass for the war in a few years. What logistical issues do you need to worry about!" Chen Shiqing said with emotion.

Azan smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Sir, now you have emptied us people and are empty. What's the use of shops when you want our house? Who doesn't have a hundred or even hundreds of servants in our hands? The servants have to support them? Which of these people's food, drink, defecation, and sleep is not money?"

"Every day, I open my eyes and I want to support hundreds of people. This is a big deal! But it's a big deal for adults to just ask for our money and food. If the adults really force us to death, these people will lose their jobs. Together, they will cause trouble! As a result, our related business customers have lost their business, which is a real trouble. I don't know when the adults will be upset."

Chen Shiqing smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, what Mr. Azan said is that it is not easy for you. It seems that you are all businessmen who are rich enough to compete with the country. In fact, you are under great pressure. After so many ups and downs, the Qing Dynasty has reached this point today. Since we have already reached Myanmar, it is impossible to return in a defeat. We must achieve success. The next thing is that you will do your best to support the front-line battle. I must transport this batch of money and food immediately. The food and clothing cost on the front line is really amazing. If you ship it one day later, it may cause a mutiny among the front-line soldiers and unstable morale!"

Azan hurriedly said, "I understand! I dare not say anything else, but just say the merchants all over the room, they will still give me some face if I say it. Don't worry, sir, leave all these things to me! The merchants will be done soon. If you only have an instruction on the front line, the villain will do it for the adults here. It will definitely not make the brothers on the front line worry about food and cost issues!"

Chen Shiqing nodded lightly. This time he did a good job. I don’t know how Agui thought of him, but since he got things done well, he had to do it to the end. Overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and establishing a prosperous era is not a simple military issue, or a national emotional issue. It contains too many things and too complicated.

The Ming Dynasty would lose its power, obviously it was not just a problem of one person, but a system. There were thousands of problems in it that had to be straightened out from the beginning, and we had to start again. The Ming Dynasty could not play itself to death, so we just had to let others play itself to death. The Qing Dynasty turned around. As one of the few dynasties in Chinese history, I don’t know how to say that the Qing Dynasty is good.

Logically speaking, the Qing Dynasty knew that the day before its demise, it had strong control over the country, and there was no sign of collapse or destruction at all. It can be said that it was hard to find in the ages. If it were not for that exception, a series of exceptions, perhaps the Qing Dynasty would not have perished, and perhaps China would not have fallen into the civil war and civil war period of the Republic of China, which seriously affected the country's modernization process, missing the advent of the tank and aircraft era, and almost destroyed Japan.

Chen Shiqing now reflects on the fact that the Qing Dynasty would be killed by himself, and the main reason was that he died in the financial crisis in the end. It seems that the reason for the demise of the Qing Dynasty is no different from that of the Ming Dynasty, but don’t forget that the surface is the same, but there are huge differences in it.

Yes, the Qing Dynasty also died of lack of money and financial crisis. He was unable to send troops south to expel Sun Yat-sen, so Yuan Shikai took advantage and threatened the Qing emperor to abdicate. In fact, the Qing Dynasty at that time still had extremely strong power, at least there was no suspense to defend the north, even Yuan Shikai rebelled. He could defend Mongolia and Northeast China and maintain the power of Manchu and Mongolia, which was very different from the Ming Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty itself was the dynasty with the highest fiscal revenue in China. In the early stages of its demise, there was even a super high fiscal revenue of 360 million taels of silver, which can be said to be fat. We all say that Empress Dowager Cixi misappropriated naval military funds to build the Summer Palace and celebrate her birthday. But the problem is that you have to admit that even if it was such luxury and waste, the Qing Dynasty still established three major naval masters, which were maintained by powerful economic power. It can be seen that the Qing Dynasty had economic power.

If the Qing Dynasty was corrupt and extravagant, he would not have perished. The demise of the Qing Dynasty was precisely because he wanted to strengthen himself, but he did not take the lead in clarifying the internal conflicts. 360 million taels of silver were enough to compensate the Eight-Nation Alliance. How could it not be enough to maintain the expenses of the Qing government and in the end it could not even pay military expenses, so it was impossible to quell the rebellion and lead to abdication?

There is only one reason: if you don’t burn money if you win a battle, if you don’t burn money if you don’t burn money if you don’t burn money if you don’t burn money, how much can you burn? Besides, even if you burn money, it will be spent in China and the meat is rotten in the pot. For the country as a whole, the goal of not fertilizing water and water flowing from outsiders has been achieved.

The key was that the Qing Dynasty wanted to be self-reliant, spent money everywhere to build railways, run post offices and newspapers, wanted to start a comprehensive modernization road, and train new troops on a large scale. Not to mention that the Qing Dynasty had no backbone, he wanted to train a modern new army of 38 towns, that is, 38 divisions, and planned to avenge the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

In the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, it was said that it was lost to the Beiyang Fleet. In fact, it was nonsense. It was completely defeated by the army. Otherwise, the territorial waters would be controlled and would not threaten the capital. What kind of judgment should be discussed? If the new army in the thirty-eight towns were trained, it would be almost a numerical advantage in the face of the Japanese army of seven divisions!

In addition, the combat effectiveness of the new army is far stronger than the traditional brave camp, Eight Banners, Green Camp during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1, and can definitely kill the Japanese with 6 to 1, and revenge is successful. However, the Qing Dynasty forgot one thing: what you have to do now is industry. Without the foundation of industry, everything is in the air loft. Although the fourteen towns were only trained on the eve of the demise, and it has twice the advantage compared to the Japanese army, but burning money is really not a big deal.

The huge amount of silver burned down, but it caused the hidden danger of the country's destruction. The new army turned around and turned the gun head at itself. The Qing government did not think about the reason clearly. If it was thought clearly, this would not happen.

Chen Shiqing summarized now and thought that there are two things. First, the overly huge self-reliance construction will not be able to recover obvious benefits in the short term, which will make the people under the background of agricultural China very disgusted. What is an agricultural country? It is mainly agricultural production, and the idea of ​​small farmers is prevalent. What is a small farmers' idea? It is short-sighted. According to the habit of farming for several months as a period of time, agricultural practitioners think about problems in a relatively short-term and have no long-term vision.

The country where industrialization and commercialization are prevalent is of course a group with long-term vision, because what they have to do often takes ten years to sharpen their swords. How can they do it without long-term vision? Unfortunately, there are few people with long-term vision in agricultural China, and there are many people with no long-term vision, so the Qing Dynasty's self-improvement policy actually made a major mistake from the beginning.

This is the same until today. Many large projects have great significance, but the people do not understand it. For example, high-speed rail improves the competitiveness of regional chain reactions. Sorry, the people do not understand it. I only know that I can't get started. You might as well share the construction money equally with me, and I will vote for you. This is the idea of ​​a small peasant. In China, where most people are still small peasant ideas, even in modern China, large-scale self-improvement and long-term plans cannot get the support and understanding of even the nationals with university education, let alone the Qing Dynasty during the illiteracy period of the entire agricultural society?
Chapter completed!