C537 contrasting happiness (1/2)

Of course, Xiao Letian's method of earning money was not limited to this. If he only relied on the small amount of benefits he got from buying and selling to raise his army, it would be a pipe dream. In the end, the dream of Xiao Letian's great navy and industrialization still fell to the Qing Dynasty.

Xiao Letian had always believed that the wealth that the Old Ancestor of China had accumulated for thousands of years was not a small amount. It was enough for a few generations of people to work hard to industrialize it. In fact, not to mention being in the middle of nineteenth century, even in our previous life when the Chinese nation was destroyed after the founding of our country, our previous generation still relied on tightening our belt to complete our country's industrialization and realize our dream for hundreds of years.

But right now, China had only experienced two Opium Wars, and the tens of millions of silver was nothing compared to the huge amount of wealth accumulated by the people, it didn't mean that Xiao Letian couldn't transfer the Qing Dynasty and those corrupt scholars.

First of all, how many Iron-armored battleship could the eight flags, which was worth ten million silver taels a year, buy? Even if the entire Qing Dynasty used up a year's worth of money, this huge black hole would probably cost more than 10 million taels of silver. The Qing Dynasty had several million taels of silver worth of money for their officials, let alone all sorts of amassed wealth.

Unlike Japan, which was across the sea, the navy wanted to buy a Jeju. Even the Emperor only ate one meal a day because he wanted to encourage the people to donate to the purchase of battleships and Beiyang Gan.

As for the Jiye, it was actually a fast iron armor cruise that had been booked by Li Hongzhang Beiyang and Armstrong's shipyard. Just because it wanted to give Ci Xi a birthday celebration, it forcibly transferred the silver over to the Summer Palace, which was why the Japanese was able to pry this market open.

The Jiye, on the other hand, had cost more than three hundred thousand pounds, which was equivalent to one million silver taels at that time. And for China, even middle Jin Shang families would be able to fork out over a million taels of silver. Needless to say anything further, even old shopkeeper's older brother Fan Ru could take it out.

The late Qing's Chinese economy was like a magic spell, the scholars desperately wanted to make money as officials, the merchants desperately tried to earn money and hide their profits, or they even bought land to collude with the officials.

In the end, all of these treasures were taken advantage of by the bandit, and under the force of the Gun cannon, they became the bandit's food in the blink of an eye.

The more unstable the society was, the more danger the wealth needed to avoid, the weaker the country would become, and then the society would become even more restless. When the wealth lost its mobility and lost the ability to create new wealth, his final outcome would be to be eaten by the other powerful individuals.

China is getting weaker and weaker under this kind of magic, while the Western world is doing the opposite. What will happen after the industrial and commercial financial system becomes more and more robust? More guns, more battleships, more aircraft tanks, more satellite missiles.

By the time they can wave the big stick of nuclear weapons around the world and shout, what can you do but pay the protection fee?

Xiao Letian's chess game was too big, one person wanted to defy the heavens? Sometimes, he himself would be shocked awake, but this was a one-way street with no way back. Xiao Letian had already walked up, and could no longer go down.

Ye Qiu, Pang Chaoyun and the others could only see the tip of the iceberg within Xiao Letian's huge plan, but this corner had already scared Tian Erdan and Ma Hui Mi to death.

”So, what we were eating was foreign rice? Ouch … You've never thought of such a treatment in your life? Where is Japan and Korea? Where is the United States? ”

Ye Qiu and the others never thought that their battle of heart against the Green Camp brothers would win with just a meal. In the eyes of these ordinary citizens, there were American canned beef, Japanese Korean rice, and shrimp in seafood soup.

Heavens! The earth! The days of deities should be like this, right? It was autumn now, and they could actually eat peaches that didn't go on sale until early summer. Everyone in their hometown would dare to believe these words.

”Wuwuwu …” F * ck, what kind of life did I lead in the past? I'm not even human compared to you guys … Does sir have a knife? ”Lend it to me …”

Without saying a word, Tian Erdan cut off all of his braids and threw them into the fire. ”It's done, just based on this rations, with the Prime Minister's kind intentions towards us as soldiers, I'll also do it …”

”It's done …” The crowd shouted in unison and went to borrow knives from the New Army. Not only did this meal cut off the braids on the back of their heads, it also cut off the braids on their hearts.

In the time of the late Qing, it was that simple to fight over the hearts of the people, the lowest level of commoners led a miserable life, and because the Qing Dynasty strictly observed the Ming Dynasty's rules, the commoners were sealed away in their own hometown.

Now, Xiao Letian had opened a new door for these foolish people, allowing them to personally see a completely different world. From that moment onwards, the foolish people's scam that the Qing Dynasty and the corrupt scholars had invented could be considered to have completely gone bankrupt.

So there was actually such a way of living. People could eat meat everyday, people could eat their fill everyday, and even when they met an official, they could not kneel and kowtow. They were actually very courteous when they saw foreigners.

So the world was like this, not just the monarch and his son. Those people who did not have emperors did not have a collapse, but instead, the people there were better off.