The cute president felt funny and tried his best to say in a gentle tone: "Since you know that the Qing government is corrupt and weak, why don't you understand? Although the Chinese army cannot be said to be very strong at the moment of overthrowing the Qing court, it is like a seriously ill person who can kill him by punching him gently in the place where he hurts."

Zeng Siping laughed, "Your Majesty's metaphor is very vivid. Your Majesty's class is much more vivid and interesting than my father."

"Okay, it's five minutes, I really have to do things." Hua Huang said with a smile.

Zeng Siping said softly and blinked at Emperor Hua. The cute CEO felt aroused his heart. For some reason, he actually had the urge to kiss Zeng Siping.

Emperor Hua originally liked women older than him, or he could say he liked to be familiar with a woman. He used to feel embarrassed, for fear that others would know, but looking back, it has not had any impact on Emperor Hua's life and work in recent years, and he is not as positive as usual.

Hua Huang feels that men's preferences change with age experience. Aged 16-22, you may like the opposite sex of the same age. After you come out of society, you will have to be independent and want to find a sister to take care of them. Then when you are in your 40s, you may still like mature women, or you will have no feelings for mature women by then and like loli more.

Emperor Hua can now say that he can see both the moving side of a mature woman and the moving side of a loli. I wonder what this is?

When Zeng Siping saw Emperor Hua staring at his pink face, his face immediately turned red, "Your Majesty? If it's okay, will I go out?"

The cute CEO hurriedly said, "Go."

Zeng Siping laughed, "Thank you for being a teacher for me."

Emperor Hua smiled as if he was mature, looking at Zeng Siping's pretty figure, twisting his waist slenderly, and thought to himself that he was sinful and sinful. Zeng Siping was too young and had to endure it for two years no matter what.

Emperor Hua’s answer just now was too simple. In fact, it was a bit perfunctory Zeng Siping. The Qing Dynasty regime had bad 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 Manchu nobles. This can only be considered a small part of the reason at most.

Emperor Hua's answer to Zeng Siping was a bit nonsense. In fact, since the First Opium War, the Qing court immediately realized the power of new weapons and immediately started buying them.

Whether it is Lafayette or Li Hongzhang, they all have vision.

Twenty or thirty years later, the Westernization Movement was developed, and the first thing that started was the weapons industry. It cannot be said that the Qing court did not use money to buy guns.

The weapon used by the British army in the First Opium War was the Brown Beth Rifle, a flintlock smoothbore rifle. Although it was much better than the Qing army's weapons, it was definitely not something that could be defeated by long-range attacks.

In war, the British army often took the lead in launching a hand-to-hand charge, and was defeated by the Qing army by organizational discipline and soldiers' fighting qualities.

In fact, some of the Qing army in Guangdong were equipped with flintlock rifles at that time, which theoretically were of the same level as the British army's weapons. However, the few equipped with flintlock rifles were poor, and the production process and gunpowder quality were very poor. Most of the Qing army's weapons were still colloid guns, so the weapon gap between the Qing army and the great powers during this period was the biggest.

After the First Opium War, the Qing court had realized the power of Western weapons and began to buy and make weapons. At that time, there were several views on Western civilization. Some believed that they should resist them in a comprehensive manner, some believed that they should use them in China and the West, and some believed that they could learn from the West in a comprehensive way. However, even the most stubborn conservatives did not oppose Western weapons.

The representative of the conservatives, Waren, also said that Western artifacts are unnecessary except weapons. Note that in addition to weapons, it means that the Qing court had at least one consensus: foreign guns are very powerful and they should be bought!

Later, the Qing government fought the Second Opium War with Britain and France. This was already in the 1860s. Zuo Zongtang's Chu army, Zeng Guofan's Hunan army, and Li Hongzhang's Huai army were already carrying Sharpst and Remington rifled guns, and the equipment gap between them and the great powers was very small.

At this time, the Shenji Battalion of the Beijing Banner troops was equipped with Western guns and cannons, but due to the corrupt military system, the medieval army could not defeat the modern army with advanced weapons.

Before the Second Opium War, the emperor ordered emergency manufacturing. Within a few months, the Zhenhai Artillery Bureau alone cast 117 copper cannons of large and small, costing nearly 110,000 taels, which was extremely inefficient. After the Westernization Movement began, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau's initial funding was 543,000 taels, and in 1849 it had been added to 943,000 taels. Hubei Guns and Cannon Factory had an initial fund of 800,000 taels.

The total investment of seven military factories in Zhejiang Machinery Bureau, Jinling Gunpowder Bureau, Jinling Machinery Bureau, Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, Tianjin Machinery Bureau, Shandong Machinery Bureau, and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau is as high as more than 42 million taels!

Due to the lack of business acumen and blindly purchasing equipment, the ministers of the Westernization Affairs Bureau not only caused waste when they repeatedly introduced them, but were also often deceived by foreign businessmen. In the late Qing Dynasty, less than 100 ships were purchased from abroad, and they even spent 20 million taels of silver. There were various dark curtains and scandals.

For the sake of their own interests, foreign officials and technicians in China encouraged the Qing government to buy a large number of domestic weapons. German engineers wanted to buy German goods, and British officials wanted to buy British goods. The cost-effectiveness of the Qing government was extremely touching. The Qing government could not tell the difference that the country's military construction was not just something that could be done with money.

Also, even if you buy enough arms to fight a long-term war, the Qing Dynasty could not fight a protracted war. What is the premise of a protracted war? People's War. What does this mean? Mobilizing the masses. However, what did the Qing Dynasty fear the most? It was mobilizing the people with the Han people as the main body.

Once the Han people are mobilized, the ruling foundation of the Qing Dynasty will be unstable. For the Qing rulers, the threat of the Han people mobilized is far greater than the invasion of the imperialist powers. It is not difficult to understand why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was just destroyed, and the Qing Dynasty rushed to lay off the Hunan Army, Huai Army and other Han armed forces.

The Qing Dynasty closed its doors and refused advanced foreign things in order to keep the Qing cavalry from losing its advantages and prevent a small number of Manchus from drowning in the ocean of Han people in the era of firearms and weapons, and could not even make a wave.

The core of the entire Qing Dynasty's dynasty policy was not the traditional Chinese rule of the world, but to ensure the "honor of one surname", so Cixi said the words "measure China's material resources and make the country's favor." If it were other dynasties, they would have been scolded to death by the people of the world.

Not only were the defeated reparations, but in the original history, the Sino-French war situation gradually tilted towards the Qing side, but the Qing court's top leaders still gave up their protection of Vietnam and opened up trade with France in the southwest region, and French forces gradually infiltrated from the southwest. During the Sino-French War, China and Japan also had conflicts in North Korea, but the Qing court still signed a reform of the regulations when it had its advantage. The treaty stipulated that China and Japan had the same status in North Korea. Once North Korea had chaos, both China and Japan could send troops.

North Korea is a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. According to regulations, the Qing court gave up its absolute dominance in North Korea in disguise, and North Korea also paid 500,000 yuan in compensation to Japan.

Did the Qing court invest in military construction? Yes, and it was precisely the investment in the military that led to the Westernization Movement.

In many cases, Cixi tended to conservative opinions, but she absolutely supported Li Hongzhang in the construction of the Beiyang Fleet. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was pacified, the Qing court consciously imported foreign guns and cannons to equip the Huai Army and the training army, and at the same time cut the scale of the green camp to facilitate the construction of the training army. The end of the Sino-French War, the Nanyang Fleet was wiped out, and the Qing court began to import warships and sent overseas students to study naval affairs. The end of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the training of the new army was immediately launched, and the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded and the old-style army was wiped out. Yuan Shikai began to train the Beiyang Army. The Qing court had no reservations about the investment in the Beiyang Army. The six Beiyang towns were the best-equipped and trained troops in China at that time.

It is also unfair to say that the Qing Dynasty did not invest in the armed forces. Most of the fiscal expenditures in the late Qing government were invested in military construction.

Before each foreign war peace talks, the Qing court spent at least 10 million taels of silver. The two Opium wars consumed at least 20 million taels of silver in the Qing government. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 paid the entire Beiyang army, and Li Hongzhang's Huai army was killed and injured, and the military expenditure was unknown. The Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the Qing court in China, and the Qing court handed over all the guaranteed Wuwei Army.

Did the Qing court have the intention to fight long-term wars with the great powers? Yes, but it is only useful if the money is spent. The treasury is at its bottom and the enemy has come to the capital. The army that usually spends a lot of money to train is dead, run away, and there is no money and no one, so I can't be hard even if I want to.

If the Chinese government is now allowed to replace the Qing government in the First Opium War or the Second Opium War, even if it has the same military equipment, China can still abolish all unequal treaties and make the great powers unable to gain a advantage. After all, it is necessary to have a government that is politically honest and serve the people. The Qing court is completely terrible from the root.

As foreign capitalists, Western invaders have always pursued the Chinese market. As long as the Chinese government ensures that it opens trade channels 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 find it takes a lot of time and effort to divide and eliminate a country as huge as China, training agents is much cheaper.

Moreover, with the expansion of Tsarist Russia's power in the Far East, Westerners urgently needed to find a strong ally in the Far East to suppress Russia, which was the same as the British supporting the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

At this time, suppressing civil unrest was in the interests of the Qing court and foreigners, so they chose to cooperate. Except for the Russians, other countries were not very interested in the occupation of Chinese territory, and inadvertently reduced the offense to the Chinese government's territorial sovereignty.

The Qing court could not have taken out tens of millions of millions of dollars in one go, but the debt was guaranteed by customs and was repaid every year. In the original history, it was not until the founding of New China.

Without technical support, no matter how rich you have, you will not be able to get an army like China today.

Advanced politics begins with industrial foundation before it can be able to build a new military.

The Eight Banners Green Camp had long been too corrupt to fight. The Hunan Army was a landlord regiment, and when the Emperor Hua appeared, it was also corrupt. The leader of the Huai Army quickly transformed into an old bureaucrat with vested interests.

Emperor Hua could not say too much to Zeng Siping. She had to slowly understand this in the process of learning. Zeng Siping's biological grandfather Zeng Guoquan was his first contribution to Nanjing. He was Zeng Guofan's younger brother. In his early years, he was a bull who rushed into the porcelain shop, but in his later years he was a fool and conservative bureaucrat.

The Westernizationists have all dealt with foreigners and experienced the power and technology of modern wars.

But if they want to change the ethical principles of the entire Chinese people, they only dare to say that middle school is the body and western learning is the purpose.

To be more foolish, one would take benevolence and righteousness as its boat and etiquette as its armor. This was really the view of the most powerful bureaucrats in China at that time.

It should be said that we can start buying machines and weapons, realize this gap, and know that buying is the beginning of awakening. We are already the group of people who understand the most in the late Qing Dynasty. And the more visionary one is that we realize that machines are dead and that talents are the first. We advocate sending international students.

The first batch of international students were from Zeng Guofan's school, and most of them were from poor families.
Chapter completed!