In fact, when I met Zuo Zongtang and the other three who visited the book, I woke up in the morning. Zhao Kuo, a shameless gangster in the underworld, was in a good mood. After kissing the queen, he hummed the song "I am not Huang Rong" and went to work as the emperor.

Yesterday he summoned Dou Wenjian, Huan Zhuguo and other Song Zhuliang to convene a small high-level meeting, assuming that if the British and French coalition forces quickly captured Sevastopol, which had been besieged for 9 months, and turned their attention to the Far East after winning the Crimean War, how would the Song Dynasty seize the best interests in the chaos, and how would the Qing Dynasty be stabbed to death?

After all, under the demonstration of Zhao Kuo, an oriental who can communicate, and amid the howling of international businessmen who are extremely aggressive for money, British Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bamaitun has already clamored to "raise his voice to the Qing Dynasty."

This matter was very pleasant to discuss. It was basically the case that the Song Dynasty, who is now holding the "grain, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi" bases, was there to stab at the base of the three provinces, whether to kill Yunnan and Guizhou first consolidate the rear, or to concentrate elite forces to unite the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to destroy the Hunan Army. The former is a scrupulous strategy, while the latter makes people feel itchy, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is very troublesome. If these bandits destroy the Hunan Army, the Yangtze River will have less checks and balances, and they may flow wherever they go. Although their territory is not large, they will flow away for several provinces at any time, and it is difficult for rabbits to cook.

In the evening, he played mahjong with the deposed count Chen Kai for 5 hours. Chen Kai cried and complained, saying that his old face was completely lost, that his morality in the world was unreliable, and that he was alienated from Opium Zhang and He Bo; Ershu had no shame to stay there, and under the emperor's "care", he ran to France to be a study abroad official--Zhao Kuo comforted him, but he felt very proud.

The Crime of the Bureau hit the reputation of the Tiandihui. Originally, they were a group organization that was developed to fight against the exploitation of the Qing officials. It was a bit of a black-for-black thing. The Qing Dynasty was also a big underworld that relied on fists. Zhao Kuo didn't want such a faith-loving organization to grow and threaten his power. Moreover, they were based on the essence of the handicraft guild. It was not conducive to commercial development--If you don't join the Tiandihui, someone would smash your store at night; if you join the Tiandihui, you would smash your competitors' store at night. This ghost can do business.

As a result, the reputation of the Heaven and Earth Society dropped greatly as soon as the self-destructive edict was issued. Moreover, because several well-off bosses refused to save the book of the former boss, and the powerful Foshan Tian and Earth Society had a crack. Of course, Zhu Baitou made a fortune in the world, but Zhao Kuo was sure that this little book would be recorded in the black account of history--I want to be favored and abuse the law one day, but in history, the shame of this subordinate set off his selfless greatness.

In addition, the Song Dynasty could not help but guns (because foreigners were there, they could not be banned at all), the role and threat of gangs were reduced, and the spread of foreign religions, the scale of the world was shrinking.

So yesterday was a happy day, and Zhao Kuo took advantage of yesterday's east wind to start his work as an emperor today.

But the two guys I'm going to meet in the morning are not easy to deal with.

This is his trouble.

Recently, the Song Dynasty has been successful, including war, commerce and industry. However, Zhao Kuo also "keenly" aware of danger with his vision beyond a century.

This danger is from the wall between the farming society and the industrial society.

This wall requires flesh and blood. For Zhao Kuo, it is another betrayal of some people. As a treacherous, Zhao Kuo is not afraid of "betrayal". After he used the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he betrayed Hong Xiuquan. After he used the Heavenly Earth Association to rebel, he betrayed the Heavenly Earth Association. After using the Pirates to rescue Xiaodao Association, he immediately turned against him. But now this group of people who want to betray is not easy to mess with.

In recent days, he knew that several cities such as Haijing and other prosperous trade began to become increasingly expensive.

This thing is inflation. But Zhao Kuo understood how this came about.

There are too many silver books coming in. Haisong Finance is entering Chao.

He made a big profit in the huge opium trade by monopolizing domestic sales and smuggling the Qing Dynasty, which was equivalent to collecting the transfer fee, and he took over the cost of smuggling and embezzlement of officials in the past in Qing Dynasty;

Another profit from exporting tea and other agricultural products is the original private wallet of Xianfeng’s “buddy”, and now it belongs to him;

In addition, there are also a large amount of loans from Britain and France. Of course, this money was not given in vain, but was mortgaged using customs taxes that he had to hand over to foreigners. This is equivalent to later installment shopping. You get 5,000 yuan a month, but you immediately get a set of 1 million yuan room books. In the first few years, a large amount of silver books came in.

The question is how these sea-like silver books were allocated to various groups of people in the sea and Song Dynasty.

The biggest expense is of course the army. A large amount of arms purchases have made Western arms dealers rich, but the soldiers also received large amounts of military pay. Because Zhao Kuo raised the status of a soldier, it was rare in the Qing Dynasty, equivalent to the high-paid army of the Hunan Army. Officers and soldiers had money by working hard;

The second is Zhong Jialiang (domestic sales of opium), He Liu (inland smuggling, transportation), He Bo (maritime smuggling, transportation), Zhou Kaiyuan (textured merchant), Zheng brothers (arms), etc., who support land owners, they will definitely be very rich; and all kinds of small merchants who do transit or retail in the trade chain of the Western Song Dynasty.

Then there were all kinds of workers who sold their labor: such as firearms factories, road-building coolies, factories and coal mines, iron smelting plants, and sailors on merchant ships that were as numerous as sea sand.

Finally, there are service industry and foreign business staff who get a piece of the business trade in Haisong Zhuoyan;

Obviously, the only thing that cannot benefit is the farmers.

Because all this capital is invested in commerce and industry!

A worker, even an apprentice, earns more than a farmer's farmland.

There is no difference between arable land in 1855 AD and arable land in 1855 BC. Farmers are just tied to the land and cannot get a piece of the pie from industry and commerce. They are not business, but a life. Moreover, farmers' farmland efficiency is suppressed by things such as liquidation and exploitation. Otherwise, how could there be a difference between landlords and tenants? The land that farmers can cultivate is much larger than the land they own! For example, if a landlord can afford to buy oxen, his land efficiency can be higher.

From this perspective, Zhao Kuo feels that he will soon face a huge and terrifying problem.

Under the influence of Chinese agricultural civilization, soldiers and those engaged in industry and commerce will use a large amount of silver books to buy farmers' land. The former is so efficient in making money, which is like a shark swallowing a small fish, which will constitute land annexation.

There is nothing to be afraid of when there is land annexation. But the problem is that the adults in this place are all farmers.

Once this trend occurs, a wave of refugees will soon form.

In fact, there were signs of refugees. As the Song Dynasty gained a foothold in the south, it was vaguely a kingly spirit, and the tax and oppression were lighter, refugees from the Qing Dynasty such as Fujian and Hunan began to surge here.

"Where are so many places? I'm not the wasteland like North America!" Zhao Kuo looked at the information and felt his scalp numb.

The only place that can accept landless refugees in large quantities is factories or mines, and opening these things will distribute wealth into the hands of industrial and commercial practitioners, thus accelerating the generation of landless farmers once again.

If a large number of refugees exist and there is nothing to do to eat, it will only be a rebellion for him!

Zhao Kuo felt that he was trapped in a horror cycle: it seemed like he was standing on the top of a snow mountain and running down quickly. Once he took it out, every step would cause an avalanche, but if it stopped, the snow would immediately bury you and could only run faster, but this would cause a larger avalanche, and he could only run forward faster.

If you run to the foot of the mountain, you will be a great success. On the contrary, the corpse may not exist.

This is why industrial civilization will suck blood on the farming civilization, because the former is more powerful and efficient. And it itself requires a large number of workers to use their blood and sweat as power to make the machine rotate.

----This means betraying the farmers and using their flesh and blood to sacrifice the steel monsters with coal.

This is the hurdle that any civilization that reaches this wall must pass, either the blood of the peasants flows into a river, or the head of the emperor falls to the ground! Civilization is standing still!

Zhao Kuo used the methods of dividing fields in the Qing Township and sharing the spoils with farmers, eliminated the patriarchal system in the Qing Dynasty civilization and earned money. He also relied on farmers to win the current status. He was not afraid of betraying farmers, but he was afraid of betraying farmers!

In the agricultural society of China, farmers have always rebelled against peasants and become emperors. In addition to the Mongolian Yuan and the Qing dynasties, the latter also entrusted the blessing of the peasant uprisings initiated by Li Zicheng and others. Zhao Kuo had to be afraid. He also relied on peasant uprisings to speculate and knew that they were powerful - they were illiterate. They were afraid of the government. They didn’t know anything, they didn’t know what the country or nation were. They didn’t care whose land was, but they didn’t have land and couldn’t survive, so they fought for you. Facing the people like this, they didn’t have the original book bullet (they didn’t know what it was when they took the original book bullet and traveled through the country). What could you do?

Of course, the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty was just a scam of the Qing emperor's funds. It only added a few yamen. The officers beat people in the yamen and the so-called "workers" to build guns at the Qing Dynasty Manufacturing Bureau. They were all emperors, and they all held gold rice bowls and would not have any impact on the economy.

But Zhao Kuo could not be as happy as the Qing officials. His safety was ahead of the curve with a vision of civilization. If he had a relationship with the Qing civilization, who knew if he could survive?

Who hasn't done the foreign gun team? Shanghai officials have worked with Wall, and Li Hongzhang has done it too! What's so hard to do? Just buy arms and find someone to train.

The only way to make a more advanced civilization is to create a more advanced civilization. Can a lion book with 1,000 sheep beat 1,000 lion books led by a sheep?

That's nonsense and fart!

The light pressure of the lion books also crushed those idiot sheep to death!

I can’t be an official, I can’t fight, but I can be an emperor, because I have a vision of 100 years and I have no so-called shame as Confucianism!

Therefore, Zhao Kuo indulged businessmen and foreigners to do these things in private, which was all the most essential push for people. If they wanted to make money, they were as eager as Qing officials wanted to get money to smoke opium, and they were very efficient.

Faced with the possible "machine cannibalism", Zhao Kuo himself has no confidence in his ability, but he still has a floodgate available.

On that day, Zhao Kuo did not enter his office, but instead called Prime Minister Huan Zhuguo, walked through the busy dress officials in the court, pushed open the exquisite wooden door, and entered the VIP reception room.

This is designed by him in a style that combines Chinese and Western styles, specifically to receive VIPs from various countries. Of course, except for sofas and carpets, he stole the antiques from Ye Mingchen and other adults when he entered Guangzhou and put them in. It would be OK.

As soon as the three of them entered, a small man in a suit and a foreign minister, Xiao Zuye, stood up immediately. Seeing the little book about to kneel, Zhao Kuo quickly looked and copied a step forward. He held him, held his arm with one hand, and shook his hand with the other hand and said with a smile: "Mr. Li. There is no need to kneel down, we are good friends."

This little book has a slender face, with a raised chin, thin lips, thin eyebrows and concave eyes. It is called Shaobing Face in the south, and the shoehorn Face in the north. Fortunately, the book is powerful and erected like a military flag, meaning: You have squeezed into me with other facial features!

The palms are quite large, and the handshake is very powerful.

Zhao Kuo smiled and held his hand, held his shoulder affectionately, sat on the sofa with him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Li Bingkun, I have worked hard all the way. I saw the scene of Haijing yesterday, but is it still acceptable?"

"Your Majesty is humble. Hai Jing is thriving, and we are very envious and admired." Li Bingkun pulled out his hand a little flattered.

While speaking, he was also looking at the emperor: I saw that this man was the actual controller of the three provinces. But he was wearing a cheap coarse cloth robe and book, with a red turban on his head. Except for the shiny leather shoes on his feet, it was no different from the small farmers and merchants that could be seen everywhere in the Qing Dynasty. However, all the officials in his court were dressed and tied, guarding soldiers' guns and dresses; he said that he was traditional, but his subordinates were obviously foreign, saying that he was foreign. But he dressed in a absolutely simple and traditional way; compared with the two, he could not help but feel that this man was indifferent to all rivers.

"Did you sleep well last night? Lao Xiao, I asked you to send mosquito coils to Mr. Li, have you forgotten? There are many mosquito books in this place." Zhao Kuo turned his head and asked his foreign minister.

Before Xiao Zuye could answer, Li Bingkun hurriedly said, "I'm sleeping well, so I'm so troubled by Minister Xiao Zuye. Besides, in West Borneo, the climate mosquito book is similar to that here, haha. It's very accustomed to it."

"You are polite. You are our distinguished guest. You must say it if you are not used to it. Mr. Li is left to you Lao Xiao." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

"Your Majesty. It's really no need." Li Bingkun said in panic.

Huan Zhuguo smiled and said, "Mr. Li, how about the trip to Beijing?"

Hearing this question, Li Bingkun shook his head and looked helpless: "I stayed there for a month, alas, I just gave the eunuch a few hundred taels of silver books, but the result..."

"That guy Xianfeng still doesn't admit you?" Zhao Kuo laughed: "He is hard to protect himself. You go begging him? It's useless."

Huan Zhuguo stopped reading the emperor's words and said with a smile: "My Song Dynasty is a country of believers in Britain and France. Our army has won consecutive victories and is invincible on the mainland. Moreover, marine trade is also related to the interests of us and friends. We are very looking forward to reaching a closer relationship with your company."

"Well, this, our Tang Dynasty chief Liu Asheng also respects the Third Dynasty of the Song Dynasty very much. Indeed, we need help, but..." Li Bingkun said carefully.

"Anyway, the Qing Dynasty did not recognize you overseas travel books. As long as you cooperate with us, I can give him the Duke! Upgrade Lanfang Company to the Lanfang Song Dynasty country! If you donate soil to me, Liu Asheng will be the first duke, and he will be hereditary!" Zhao Kuo waved and cut him off.

"What?!" Li Bingkun exclaimed.

Huan Zhuguo smiled and added: "That's right. Not only can the Chief Liu Datang be awarded the title, but you will leave the conflict with the Netherlands to us for discussion. You only need to provide us with free missionary qualifications, domestic trade qualifications, and the power to dispatch some officials, the joint navy to wipe out pirates, and the piglet business to us. They are all God's letters. It is not good to kidnap and be coolies. We will register and the court will send legal laborers to Nanyang."

"If you don't have our Far East, you will definitely not be able to fight against the Dutch. But if you join us and become a state of the Song Dynasty, we can use diplomatic relations with Britain and France to help peacefully resolve the territorial disputes in Kalimantan. If it cannot be resolved peacefully, we will do everything we can to help your brothers to the greatest extent." Xiao Zuye added next to him that after two years of training, this former hawker had already spoken his diplomatic rhetoric.

"And Lanfang Company is a brother from Guangdong and Fujian, and is a brother from Hongmen. They are all our scholars, and the Heaven and Earth Association are also from our Song Dynasty. We are wedging the same blood. We hope to help our brothers and compatriots." Huan Zhuguo said.

"You are the full-minded envoy of Lanfang Company, how about you?" Zhao Kuo asked: "In a word, my envoy will follow you to Lanfang immediately!"

The Qing Dynasty was actually a period when the Han people were flowing overseas in large numbers because their colonial rule was extremely cruel and greedy, especially the poor people in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, who could not survive in Southeast Asia to make a living, or were sold as piglets.

In order to unite and fight against violence, the Southern Tiandihui and other associations were prevalent, so the Tiandihui and other associations also flowed overseas with refugees. The most important focus was in Southeast Asia, and the four largest associations were: "Yixing", "Watson", "Haishan" and "Harvine Society".

Among them, the largest and earliest Tiandihui organization in Nanyang was Luo Fangbo, the stone fan guarantor in Jiayingzhou, Guangdong Province, established the land in 1770 (the 35th year of Qianlong). This is Lanfang Company!

In the western part of Kalimantan, the Chinese are called West Borneo, or "East Wanlao". This large island is called Indonesia in the time and space of Zhao Kuolai.

Luo Fangbo referred to some legal systems in Western countries and set up a complete set of administrative, legislative and judicial institutions. The state has a Ministry of National Defense. However, there is no permanent army, but the whole people are soldiers. They are scattered in various places to carry out production and concentrate to fight against the enemy during wartime. Local governments are divided into provinces, prefectures and counties, and the heads of local administrative organs are elected by referendums at all levels. Luo Fangbo was the head of state for 19 years and died of illness in 1795. Subsequently, citizens from all over the country elected Jiang Wubo to succeed as the head of state.

However, the fact is that although he was nominally learning the Western style and known as the "republic", he was actually a loose family and gang rule.

This is almost the case with the Chinese in Southeast Asia. They need gangs to unite to resist the powerful Western colonists. These gangs have held strikes, demonstrations, and even rebellion; but on the one hand, they are buyers and complicitors who sold their compatriots "piglets" in the Qing Dynasty, and even manipulators who even used black prisons and death penalty to deal with their compatriots who resisted or offended their compatriots.

In addition, many gang leaders are themselves thugs of Western colonists. These people are called "Kipaidan" (transliteration of captain, Kuiling, the meaning of headman), and are used to control China with China, manage and deal with their compatriots Chinese.

Under the Qing Dynasty civilization, the entire Chinese group had an extremely low organization.

What was Nanyang in the 18th and 19th century?

It's a homeless place.

It is almost the same as North America discovered, first come first served, without country or territory, and is a rich place without development.
To be continued...