Usurping the Qing Dynasty: My first love was Cixi

Chapter 262 Bai Feifei asks for a son! The Hunan Army breaks up!

(Damn, it was published successfully, but it was reviewed again)

In Shanghai, Su Yi and Weitoma held talks.

According to history, this man was already the number two figure in the British Empire in the Far East at this time, and he would be promoted to number one in a few years.

But in this world, he is still working hard, competing for the position of minister, and doing everything possible in London to send Sir Bruce away.

"Your Highness, I really can't believe that in just a few years, my title of you has changed from Sir to Your Highness." Witoma said: "Speaking of which, I am still your earliest friend."

Seven years ago, when Su Yi came to Shanghai to buy weapons, the first person he visited was Sir Wetoma.

Of course, that was not a good memory. In a sense, Su Yi was framed and humiliated, and therefore killed Zhang Yuzhao, and staged a dog-eat-dog drama in front of the British.

Su Yi smiled and said: "Of course, I still remember my first meeting with you. It was really pleasant. In terms of the entire British Empire's understanding of China, you and Basiali have the deepest understanding of Chinese culture. You even know more about Chinese culture than 80% of the Chinese people.”

"No, it should be more than 90%." Sir Witoma said: "I am a Sinologist, and most people in your country are illiterate."

Su Yi said: "There is a long way to go, and this is entirely my responsibility."

Sir Witoma said: "Your Highness, don't you think the responsibility you bear is too heavy?"

Su Yi said: "Really?"

Sir Witoma said: "I would like to ask you a question."

Su Yi said: "Please tell me."

Sir Witoma said: "In your country's political affairs hall, who is the chief political minister? Is it you? Or Prince Gong Yi?"

Su Yi said: "By default, it should be Prince Gong."

Witoma: "But, we only heard your voice."

Su Yi said: "That's probably because Prince Gong is more conservative."

Sir Witoma said: "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, but it also means the greater the consequences. In many cases, political consequences are difficult to use military means to offset."

Su Yi said: "Do you know that I have a very big headache when communicating with your country's knights? What is it?"

"My fault, my fault." Witoma said: "Let me be more direct. After you were promoted to the county king, you led the political affairs hall alongside Prince Gong Yi. You proposed four new policies?"

Su Yi said: "Yes, but this is entirely our country's internal affairs."

Sir Wytoma said: "The third one may not be completely your country's internal affairs. Opium trade is prohibited."

Su Yi said: "Of course this is also our country's internal affairs."

Sir Wytoma said: "No, no, no, the opium sold to your country by our country now exceeds one million pounds per year. If the opium trade is banned, this will be a huge loss for our country."

Su Yi said: "Then do you know how much money your country earns from the Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone every year? It is several times more than the opium trade."

Sir Witoma said: "But this is just a group of people who have made money, isn't it? From the perspective of a former friend, I advise you not to touch the opium money."

"And Your Highness, it's hard for me to understand that our British Empire is the most powerful country in the world, but there are still countless people smoking opium. What does it matter?"

Su Yi said slowly: "That's because your country has stood up and is already strong. It doesn't matter if it becomes decadent or degraded. But our country is so weak and still lying on the ground that it cannot withstand a little decadence and degradation. "

In fact, if we want to calculate the economic general ledger, banning opium will be a loss.

According to history, it will not take many years for opium to become one of the main incomes of the Qing court. Today, the annual opium tax is about two million taels of silver. In more than ten years, the opium tax revenue will reach about six to seven million taels.

There is a mystery in history. After the Qing Dynasty experienced the Hongyang Rebellion, the Nian Bandit Rebellion, and the Second Opium War, it was already on the verge of national subjugation. Why did it continue to support it for decades?

Relevant people analyzed that there were probably three reasons for this. The Qing court transferred enough power to the Han local governors to maintain a reluctant balance.

The foreigners used war to open up the country and carried out the Westernization Movement. The various taxes they paid to the central government of the Qing Dynasty greatly increased the Qing government's fiscal revenue, especially the customs tax revenue controlled by foreigners.

Because of opium, the fiscal revenue of the Qing court increased by nearly 20%.

Therefore, history is so absurd. The war between foreigners and the Qing court, as well as evil things like opium, actually kept the Manchus alive.

Sir Wytoma said: "Now the British Empire is indeed full of friendship towards His Royal Highness, but this friendship is very precious and cannot withstand consumption. Your policy of banning opium will consume this friendship. Don't forget it. "The first Sino-British trade war was because of your country's gunfire behavior."

Su Yi said: "Thank you very much, Sir, for the reminder, but please rest assured that I will properly coordinate with your government on the policy of banning opium."

Then he picked up the tea cup.

Sir Witoma's expression changed slightly.

Su Yi's move was undoubtedly very impolite, because the ban on opium was just an introduction to the conversation between the two, which was to put pressure on Su Yi first and then talk about the next important issue.

In the next few years, the Westernization Movement was launched in an all-out manner, with more than a dozen major projects, and the consortium behind Weituma wanted a share of the pie.

But he just didn't talk properly, which was the typical negotiation method of the great powers. He first found a difficult problem to put pressure on you and let you beg him. Then he reluctantly proposed a condition, as if it was a gift.

It was obviously the consortium behind Wade who wanted to invest in Su Ye's next Westernization project, but Su Ye was begging them.

Su Ye was most annoyed by this kind of negotiation method.

Sir Wade stood up and said, "Your Highness, you know what we want, but don't forget that you are not the only one who can choose us."

Isn't it just that you plan to invest in the Hunan Army Group and support the Hunan Army Group?

Su Ye raised his teacup directly to the other party.

Sir Wade left angrily.

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That afternoon, Su Ye received dozens of big businessmen in Shanghai and accepted interviews from several Western newspapers.

"The Merchants Group will be the top priority of our country's future work."

"With the example of the Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone, I firmly believe that the Merchants Group Conference in a few days will be a great success."

Then, in the study.

Su Ye listened to Shen Baoer's various reports.

All of them were about the Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone, with more than a hundred reports.

Nowadays, there are more than a hundred factories of various types in the Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone.

Of course, most of them are about the supporting facilities of those giant factories.

"After a year and a half of construction, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has taken shape, with a total investment of 7.9 million taels."

"There is still a fierce debate about the introduction of the continuous rifle production line, and our representatives are negotiating with difficulty."

"According to estimates, if we manufacture the Soviet-style continuous rifle ourselves, the cost may be more than 30% higher than the import price."

Su Ye frowned and said, "Why is it so expensive?"

Shen Baoer said, "Because of the cost of introducing the production line, and we have to pay several times the salary of foreign engineers, and several other core components also need to be imported from the UK, which our manufacturing bureau cannot make."

Su Ye said, "The patent right of the Su-style continuous rifle is ours."

Shen Baoer said, "This is already the cost after deducting the patent fee. The British used this method to prevaricate us and told us that it is better to buy than to make. However, they are willing to transfer the Enfield 1851 rifle production line to us at a relatively low price."

Su Ye frowned, which sounded very rude.

This is a rifle from more than ten years ago. What am I doing here?

Su Ye fell into silence, thinking and weighing.

Although Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone has a special board of directors and even a special committee, all major events require his approval.

As for the introduction of this production line, Bai Yan, Bai Feifei and others cannot make the decision.

While waiting for Su Ye to make a decision, Shen Baoer looked at him with a look of ardent admiration and worship.

She looked behind her, gently sat on Su Ye's legs, and said softly: "Husband, who do you think loves you the most among all the sisters?"

Su Ye weighed the issue of the production line in his mind, and said: "What do you think?"

Shen Baoer said in a greasy voice: "It seems that Sister Qingqing loves you the most, but it can only be said that her love is the purest. She loves your appearance and talent."

"Shang'er, that silly girl, is the last to open up. She has become a mother of two children. At this age, she is really open to the love between men and women, and her fascination with you is also pure. She just loves your looks and ignores your identity."

"Only my love, Shen Baoer, is the strongest and most complicated. Because my love for you includes the pure attraction between men and women, as well as worship of you, vanity, and fascination with your dark side, etc."

"So, I think I am the woman who loves you the most."

While talking, she knelt down and untied Su Ye.

Bao'er, are you so wild?

At this time, Su Ye was thinking about the issue of the production line in his mind. Of course, he wanted to show his strong will and try his best to suppress the British.

However, he knew deeply that time was the most important to him.

At least in weapons manufacturing, economic benefits are not important, independent production is the most important.

In particular, he has many drawings of big killers in his hands, and he can't give every one of them to the British arsenal.

Therefore, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau should produce as soon as possible, and there is no way to suffer a little loss in economy.

"So, we agree to introduce the production line of Enfield 1853, although it is a second-hand production line."

"In addition, I am willing to give up the patent fee for Su's continuous rifles overseas, which means that they will no longer need to pay me patent fees when they produce this batch of rifles and sell them to the global market in the future."

"But the production line of the continuous rifle and the several production lines I requested must be introduced."

"I am willing to pay the high salary of the British engineers, but there is a condition that a British engineer must bring two Chinese apprentices."

Shen Baoer made a sound from her nasal cavity while arguing.

Then, there was a knock on the door. It was Su Ye's other confidential secretary Fu Shanxiang.

"Your Highness, there are several important documents here that need your signature. Can I come in?"

Su Ye said, "Come in."

Fu Shanxiang walked in, holding several documents in her hands.

She was really dressed up today, the pure uniform was so tempting.

It's no longer a cheongsam, but a knee-length narrow skirt, and she also wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

There is also an inconspicuous industry in the Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone, the Royal Clothing Bureau.

The royal family here does not refer to the royal family of the British Empire, but the royal family of Su Yi, the county king.

The previous name was Duke Clothing Bureau, but after Su Yi was promoted to County King, it was immediately renamed Royal Clothing Bureau.

This clothing bureau is responsible for manufacturing the clothing of all high-level officials in the Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone, as well as the empire's new army officer uniforms.

Another direction is the fashion frontier of men's and women's clothing.

Men's clothing is okay, that is, windbreakers, suits, and Chinese tunic suits.

But women's clothing, that's a lot.

Su Ye gave out a large number of drawings, initially just to please his women and let them wear different clothes.

The British have a large number of female relatives in Jiujiang, thousands of them.

A small number of them are staff, and most of them are lovers, wives, or daughters of high-ranking British men.

They quickly noticed the various beautiful clothes of Su Yi's wife and concubines, and then asked to buy them.

Then, with money and leisure, they joined the Garment Making Bureau one after another.

And also participated in design learning.

As a result, this garment making bureau unknowingly led the trend, and all kinds of beautiful and fashionable women's clothing were produced here.

Su Ye's wives and concubines, this group of foreign female relatives, became the first batch of consumers.

Now, the Royal Clothing Bureau has opened a total of more than ten stores in Shanghai, London and Paris.

Under the guidance of several noble ladies, Princess Alice, the jewel in the eye of the Queen of the British Empire, also became a shareholder and designer of the Royal Clothing Bureau.

Every piece of clothing in this store is extremely expensive. For example, the skirt Fu Shanxiang is wearing sells for seventy taels of silver, which is exactly the annual income of ordinary workers in Jiujiang.

Moreover, she bought it with her own money.

Her income is also very high, because she has two incomes, one is the salary of Su Yi's confidential secretary, and the other is the allowance of Su Yi's concubine.

Shen Baoer's income is even higher. In addition to these two incomes, she also has dividends from some stores and factories.

Fu Shanxiang also deliberately unbuttoned the silk shirt on his upper body, revealing a bottomless white ravine.

The bra cups inside are also from the Royal Clothing Bureau, costing five taels of silver each.

The perfume she wears is from the Royal Clothing Bureau. It costs two taels of silver for a small bottle, and she has a quota every year.

"The first document is that some of the most loyal veterans of the Kingdom of Heaven surrender to the prince and are willing to go to open up wasteland outside the customs. The first batch of people is 12,000 people."

There was no public document from the imperial court about emigrating outside the customs. It was entirely Su Yi's personal decision, and it was something that was only done but not said.

"The relevant authority of this group of immigrants, as well as the size of the armed forces, have been stipulated. The other thirty leaders are all disabled veterans of the new army and are absolutely loyal to the prince."

Su Yi still took this step. Although it was a bit risky, it was dangerous outside the customs. There would definitely be a series of conflicts with the bannermen, and the honest people would definitely not be able to do it.

Therefore, I still chose the veteran of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom.

They had been educated for several months, a very simple and rough education, which was completely instilling Su Yi's ideas and loyalty to Su Yi.

Moreover, these more than 10,000 people are armed.

It is somewhat similar to the meaning of the Production and Construction Corps, more accurately, it should be the second-line militia.

Su Yi took a deep breath and signed the document.

"The second document is about the elimination of soldiers from the Nian Army and the Taiping Army to work in the Dexing Copper Mine, Pingxiang County Coal Mine, and Fuxian (Xinyu) Iron Mine, a total of 32,000 people."

Su Yi read the document carefully. There were 32,000 people, and the settlement money alone exceeded one million.

Su Yi signed the text.

"The third document is about the surrender of the female relatives of the Kingdom of Heaven. After three months of training, the first batch has been able to enter the textile factory for internship work. The total number is 17,000."

This does not mean that all of these more than 10,000 people will be directly assigned to work as textile workers, and there will not be such a huge vacancy.

Most of them were arranged to work on sericulture farms, cotton farms, and flax farms.

The fourth document is about the surrender of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Those who are young and strong and have certain military qualities, but are not qualified enough to enter the Empire's new army, have undergone professional training for several months and have been arranged to enter the Jiujiang Police Department, Mining Bureau Police Department, Yangtze River Police Department There are a total of 1,300 people working in the Transportation Police Department. "

Su Yi signed the fourth document.

This time the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a whole surrendered to Su Yi, and the Nian army surrendered to Su Yi. Finally, the total number of soldiers was 1.26 million.

Surrender is really just the beginning, the next placement is the top priority.

There are more than 100,000 of them, who are considered to be relatively elite people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Nian Army, and they need to be arranged into more suitable positions.

Su Yi said: "Is there any more?"

Fu Shanxiang said: "The last one is about the surrendered generals of the Kingdom of Heaven and the surrendered generals of the Nian Army who entered the Imperial Army Academy for the first time. A total of 526 people."

Today's Imperial Army Academy has more than a thousand students at all times.

The number of instructors and mentors also exceeds 600.

These 600 people were really brought out by Su Yi personally, including more than 100 foreigners, who were all considered students of Su Yi.

Whenever Su Ye was free, he would go to Tianjin to teach students. Even though the past one or two months were extremely busy and the situation in the capital was extremely depressing, he still went to teach twelve classes.

When he was away, Lin Li presided over the work of the academy.

This most fanatical member of Su Ye, a top theorist, almost devoted himself to the education work of the academy by burning his life.

More than 200 backbones under his command were all people with the same attributes as him.

Sometimes, Su Ye felt that his theory was too extreme and too inflammatory, and it was easy to go to the line of militarism, and he had to pull him back.

Before, all the books in the library of the Imperial Army Academy were basically provided by Su Ye, and the entire theoretical system was all provided by Su Ye.

And now, Lin Li's team has begun to expand on this theoretical system.

And it is extending towards Su Ye's personal worship.

Su Ye signed the last document.

After finishing the work, Fu Shanxiang faced Su Ye, and her whole body directly leaned over, gently leaning on the table, and softly said: "Prince, can you take me with you when you go to Nanjing this time?"

It didn't matter that she leaned over, and she immediately saw Shen Baoer lying under the table. She exclaimed softly, her face flushed. Shen Baoer, I know you are shameless, but I didn't expect you to be so shameless? I am reporting, but you are hesitating.

She instinctively wanted to run away.

But just after running two steps, she turned back, squatted down and said to Shen Baoer: "Sister Baoer, please make way for me."

Su Ye's female relatives are divided into three factions, the Manchu faction, the Han faction, and the Heavenly Kingdom faction.

Hong Renli is the leader of the Heavenly Kingdom faction. He despises Lin Shanger for being stupid and useless every day. He tells Fu Shanxiang that you have to strive for success, and the future of the Heavenly Kingdom faction depends on you.

So, Shen Baoer is Fu Shanxiang's biggest competitor, but they are both talented women and confidential secretaries.

So next, the plot of two women fighting for bamboo shoots was staged.

Next, it was the diediele, the paipaile, the four-petal flower, and the two paradises.

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The next day, Su Ye temporarily left Shanghai and went to Nanjing to carry out the disbanding of the Eight Banners in several southeastern provinces.

This city is almost Su Ye's second base camp.

Because the entire team of the Heavenly Kingdom surrendered, this city also has extremely high loyalty.

In addition, in the Westernization Movement planned by Su Ye, Hangzhou and Nanjing are both key cities.

There are many large projects that will fall on Nanjing.

In the old Heavenly King's Palace, Su Ye is meeting with the Manchu governors and generals of the southeastern provinces.

"The subordinate Jiangning General Tuomin'a pays homage to the prince." Tuomin'a skillfully greeted Su Ye.

Once a first-rank general, he lost all his power after this disarmament.

The position of General Jiangning will be directly cancelled.

This person has the earliest and deepest friendship with Su Ye.

But now he is still distant, because he chose to retreat when he stood on the side many times, and he didn't want to offend anyone on both sides, and just wanted to be his own high-ranking official in peace and stability.

Now that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been destroyed, there is no need for the Jiangbei Camp to exist.

Su Ye said slowly: "Tomin'a, this time, it is not only the Eight Banners Army in the southeastern provinces that will be disbanded, but also your Jiangbei Camp, which will be disbanded. You will go to Beijing first, and your new position in the Political Affairs Hall and the Ministry of Personnel will be re-arranged."

Tomin'a looked at Su Ye with a pleading look.

Su Ye said: "Of course, if you have any ideas, you can also write to me."

Tomin'a kowtowed and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace."

A few years ago, Tomin'a was still the commander-in-chief and the superior officer. He even called himself brother in front of Su Ye in order to show respect to the wise.

And now, he calls himself a slave.

In fact, Tomin'a still has another chance to stand on the side, but I don't know if he can grasp it.

It's just that this time he has to take the initiative to stand up, and Su Ye will never remind him again.

Then, he kowtowed respectfully and said, "I'll take my leave!"

Su Ye said, "Go ahead."

The second person to pay respect to Su Ye was Duolong'a, one of the two tigers of Manchuria.

As mentioned before, although the Eight Banners of Manchuria are in decline, there are still famous generals, one is Du Xing'a, and the other is Duolong'a, the general of Jingzhou and the general of Mongolia.

It's just that this person has been fighting under the command of the Hunan Army for a long time, so he has a very close relationship with the Hunan Army.

This time, all the troops under his command will also be disbanded.

"I pay my respects to Prince Yi." Duolong'a stepped forward and saluted.

Su Ye stepped forward and helped him up, saying, "Auditorium, Mo Duoli, Mo Duoli."

"I have seen that the Eight Banners soldiers in the southeastern provinces to be dismissed this time are about 20,000 to 30,000 in total, and your troops are the most elite. You are a meritorious minister." Su Ye said, "This time in Nanjing, the Southeast Eight Banners will be dismissed, plus the Jiangbei camp, a total of 46,000 people, and 8,000 people will be selected from them to be incorporated into the new imperial army. I am very optimistic about your troops."

Duolong'a said, "Thank you for your compliment, Your Highness."

Su Ye said, "The northwest will face a war next, and a large number of cavalry will be needed. At present, we have several famous cavalry generals, Wang Shiqing, Zhang Zongyu, and I hope you can be one of them."

Zhang Zongyu, a tough guy, is really a cavalry genius. After entering the Imperial Army Academy, Su Ye instructed someone to suppress him, and he still stood out in various indicators.

Duolonga still said rigidly: "Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness."

Su Ye said: "Next, I want to recommend you to study at the Imperial Army Academy. What position you can hold in the future depends on your own assessment results. Are you willing?"

Duolonga said: "I am willing."

He was not surprised by this result.

Duolonga is close to the Hunan Army because of the needs of the previous war. As far as he is concerned, he does not belong to the Hunan Army, he belongs to the bannermen.

Now Su Yi is dismantling the Eight Banners Army. As a tiger of the Bannermen, his biggest ideal and goal is to gain a firm foothold in the new army of the future empire and retain some vitality for the Bannermen.

The next person to meet was Guangzhou General Mukdene. This position reminded people of Wu Mengda in "The Military Champion Su Qier".

However, the two obviously have nothing to do with each other.

"This slave pays homage to the prince." Another person claimed to be a slave.

It's just that the Guangzhou general was very ill. It was obvious that after his dismissal, he was completely out of officialdom and retired completely.

The reason why he had such a humble attitude was because he had made money before and suppressed Tiandihui too harshly, and he was afraid of Su Yi's liquidation.

Nowadays, many backbones of the Tiandihui have also entered Su Yi's influence, and many are engaged in secret work. Mukdene has also heard about this. As a bannerman general, this matter is really unbelievable to him.

Su Yi's dignified clan left the Banner Man unused, and actually went to use the Tiandihui to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

What's even more interesting is that this group of rebels from the Heaven and Earth Society actually went to pledge their allegiance to Su Yi, the Qing prince.

Su Yi casually explained a few words and waved her hand.

Mukdene kowtowed: "Slave, please retire!"

Next, the summons of the Eight Banners generals such as the Fuzhou General, the Qingzhou Governor, and the Hangzhou General were all just a formality.

It only took more than half an hour for all the interviews to be completed.

Next, Su Yi took Fu Shanxiang and Shen Baoer to revisit their old places in Tianwang Mansion and Dongwang Mansion.

It's just that the memory of Dongwangfu is obviously not very good, and Fu Shanxiang is a little repelled.

Bao'er held Su Yi's hand and walked in the Dongwang Mansion, hesitating to speak.

"What's wrong?" Su Yi asked.

Shen Baoer said: "The eldest brother is like a fish in water in the economic experimental zone. He has accumulated a lot of experience and is very impressive."

Of course Su Yi knew that his eldest brother Su Quan's strict character was very unpopular in the official circles of the Qing court, but in the Jiujiang Economic Experimental Zone, it was as if it was tailor-made for him.

He is sensitive to numbers, and his requirements for integrity are almost pedantic. He has to review and review every part of the budget.

Corruption is really hard to hide under his nose.

Next, we need to develop Nanjing and Hangzhou. Hu Xueyan is in charge of Hangzhou, while Su Quan is in charge of Nanjing.

"By the way, eldest brother has taken concubines recently." Shen Baoer said.

Su Yi was stunned, he really didn't know about this.

The eldest brother Su Quan is extremely devoted to Bai Feifei, how can he take a concubine?

Shen Baoer said: "It was my sister-in-law who gave him a concubine."

Su Yi asked: "Are you asking for a child?"

Shen Baoer nodded and said, "Yes."

Su Yi asked: "How long have you been keeping concubines?"

Shen Baoer said: "More than five months."

Su Yi said: "Is there any news?"

"No." Shen Baoer shook his head and said, "My mother-in-law is very anxious, but Su Dong and even several of my father-in-law's brothers want to adopt their grandson to the eldest brother, but the eldest brother is unwilling."

After Su Yi became rich, he became very distant from his uncle's family and his uncle's family.

However, there was no choice but to get involved in Su Yi's career on a large scale.

Currently, he does not hold any important positions, and is at the middle level at most.

Of course Father Su He is happy and accepts the praise from his brothers and his wife and brothers every day.

This time Su Yi was conferred the title of county king, his father Su He was also promoted to duke, and his eldest brother Su Quan was also promoted to earl.

The happiest person belongs to Su He.

He wore the Duke's robe all day long and didn't want to take it off.

On the contrary, the old-fashioned eldest brother Su Quan wore a Chinese tunic uniform all day long, completely abandoning the robes of the Qing Dynasty.

Su Yi said: "In the future, we will have more children here, and we will adopt one or two for our eldest brother."

"This, of course this is a way." Shen Baoer suddenly became nervous and said: "There is one thing, if I say something wrong, please don't scold me."

Su Yi said: "What?"

Shen Baoer said: "What my mother-in-law means is that my sister-in-law has worked hard and made great achievements. She is the most important relative of our family. It is unfair not to have a biological child. There will be a huge family fortune that needs to be inherited in the future, but as a woman, She... also wants a child."

Su Yi said: "It's nonsense, don't mention it again at this time."

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The next day, the general disarmament officially took place.

Wang Shiqing led the first division and personally suppressed the entire scene.

Disarmament and the recruitment of a new imperial army were carried out simultaneously.

Although many people have questioned that the movement of tens of thousands of people requires huge costs, and commissioners should be sent to the Eight Banners garrison for disarmament.

But Su Yi still insisted on letting the Minister of War preside over the disarmament and let the Eight Banners from each province go to a certain place to assemble.

Although this will cost more than three hundred thousand taels of silver.

This time Su Yi wanted to dismantle nearly 50,000 troops. All parties were facing a formidable enemy, fearing that someone would mutiny or cause trouble.

Especially in the entire south, there are many people with ulterior motives.

Several hidden dangers did arise.

There were more than a few hundred Eight Banners soldiers planning to cause trouble at the disarmament site and scold Su Yi.

However, they were reported in advance by other Eight Banners soldiers, and all these hundreds of people were arrested.

Dozens of others were secretly executed.

The remaining few hundred people were directly expelled from the flag, so all disarmament subsidies were withdrawn.

Not only that, three assassination plans for Su Ye were discovered.

This scared the intelligence officials into a cold sweat, and they investigated to find out if there was a big fish behind it, or if it was the Eight Banners princes in Beijing who were behind it.

Hundreds of people were arrested at once, and the case is still under trial.

However, according to the judgment of professionals, it is most likely a random incident, and there is no big conspiracy behind the scenes. It is just that a few bold banner officers are angry and plan to assassinate Su Ye.

Because their assassination plan is full of loopholes, they have been drunk before they started to implement it, so they were reported in advance.

Although there were some hidden dangers, they were all eliminated in advance.

The entire large-scale military reduction was very smooth.

The Eight Banners in several southeastern provinces, plus the Jiangbei Camp of nearly 50,000 people, were all successfully disbanded.

In addition, 8,000 elites were selected and directly transported to the Tianjin Military Station to become the new imperial army.

It was not beyond Su Ye's expectations that a small half of them were Duolong'a's subordinates.

The remaining nearly 40,000 people all received their own layoff subsidies, plus travel subsidies, and returned to their homes under the leadership of their respective superiors to make a living.

Moreover, 70% of the layoff subsidies will be paid out every month from the Jiangnan Bank in the future.

If any laid-off soldiers make trouble or commit crimes in the future, their subsidies will be stopped.

In addition, several major iron mines, coal mines, and even factories are also recruiting on the spot to arrange jobs for these laid-off Eight Banner soldiers, which is a preview of the reform of the banner affairs.

The result is not very good, and there are very few people who sign up.

These Eight Banner soldiers are used to doing these so-called menial jobs and are not willing to do these so-called menial jobs at all.

Su Ye did not force it. When the banner affairs are reformed in the future, I hope your savings will be enough to support your life.

If you don’t do the job assigned to you, don’t blame me if you go begging on the street in the future.

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August 17.

The China Merchants Conference officially began.

The scene was very grand.

Ministers, counselors and consuls from Britain, the United States, Russia and France were all present.

Zeng Guofan, Governor-General of Liangjiang, Xu Youren, Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang, Guan Wen, Governor-General of Huguang, Yan Duanshu, Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Wang Youling, Governor of Zhejiang, Li Hongzhang, Governor of Jiangsu, Governor of Jiangxi, Governor of Hubei, Governor of Hunan, Governor of Anhui, Governor of Guangdong, Governor of Guangxi and other governors and governors were all present.

Reporters from newspapers in Britain, the United States, France and other countries were also present.

In addition, there were more than a hundred wealthy merchants.

But everyone could see that this investment promotion conference was aimed at the Hunan Army.

Because all the invited wealthy merchants had close ties with the Hunan Army.

In other words, it was the wealthy merchant consortium controlled by the Hunan Army.

Could Su Ye not invite other consortiums? Of course not, many consortiums flocked to it.

However, this investment promotion conference was held specifically for the Hunan Army.

Use huge benefits in exchange for the disarmament of the Hunan Army and the handing over of power in the southern provinces.

The atmosphere was very depressing.

Because Su Ye's battle was too big.

In the Chinese and foreign camps, everyone who could be invited was invited.

In other words, whether the Hunan Army surrendered or opposed, it was vigorous and had nowhere to hide.

Witnessed by China and foreign countries.

Once you make a choice, don't regret it.

There were two hosts, one was the Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs Wen Xiang, and the other was the future Minister of Westernization Shen Baozhen.

Wen Xiang once advised Su Ye whether he could invite the Shanxi Financial Group, the Mongolian Financial Group, etc. to the scene. In that case, if the Hunan Army did not surrender, they could also fill in immediately to avoid the situation being too ugly.

So as not to let people say that Prince Su Ye's Merchants Conference failed.

But Su Ye refused, and what he wanted was to be clear and clear.

And after arriving in Shanghai, Zeng Guofan repeatedly wanted to meet Su Ye, but was rejected.

Because there was no need to meet again, Su Ye had already given the highest bargaining chip he could give.

You either agree or refuse.

A few gunshots!

The China Merchants Conference officially began.

Su Ye did not speak, but the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wen Xiang spoke, the British Empire's Counselor to China Bashali spoke, and then the Minister of Westernization Shen Baozhen spoke.

Of course, no one cared about the content of the speeches of these people.

Everyone was only concerned about one point, would the Hunan Army surrender?

Soon the signing ceremony officially began.

Merchants from the Hunan Army faction came to sign various cooperation agreements.

Of course, this was just a draft agreement.

It was a bit like our boss visiting a foreign country, and signed a letter of intent worth hundreds of billions of yuan at the moment. Whether it counted afterwards depended on the changes in the situation.

"Shua shua shua..." Countless cameras on the scene kept taking pictures.

The entire signing ceremony lasted about two quarters of an hour.

Afterwards, all the signed letters of intent were displayed in front of Su Ye.

Moreover, Hu Xueyan immediately calculated and summarized them on the spot.

Seeing this scene, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and other Hunan Army leaders all changed their faces.

Actually, do you want to announce it in public?

Is there really no room for maneuver?

Only a quarter of an hour later, Hu Xueyan finished summarizing.

Shen Baozhen, assistant minister of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, stood up and announced with a serious face: "The intended amount for signing at this China Merchants Steam Navigation Company meeting is 6.92 million taels!"

Su Ye set a target of 50 million taels, of which 60% would go to the Hunan Army consortium.

In other words, if the Hunan Army wanted to surrender, the intended amount would be 30 million taels.

And this is the total investment amount for the next six years.

As a result, the other party only signed more than 6 million taels.

This... is a refusal to surrender.

This is the breakdown of the negotiations.

But they were worried about falling out, so they signed nearly 7 million taels as if to give face.

Everyone in the audience held their breath.

This means that Su Ye's recruitment conference has failed.

This means that the Hunan Army Group officially intends to stand on the opposite side.

Su Ye stood up slowly.

Suddenly, all the cameras flashed frantically.

The Times reporter asked: "Prince Su Ye, does this mean the failure of the China Merchants Conference?"

The reporter of the American "Domestic and Foreign Public Events" newspaper asked: "Prince Su Ye, does this mean that your negotiations with the Hunan Army have failed?"

"Excuse me, does this mean that the Qing Dynasty will soon break out in a civil war?"

The questions of this group of foreign reporters were bolder than each other, and Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others were shaking.

Su Ye did not answer, but just nodded to them.

Then, he shook hands with the ministers of several countries.

Then, he left the scene with Shen Baozhen, Wang Youling, Xu Youren, Wenxiang and other direct officials.

Zeng Guofan followed with Li Hongzhang, Peng Yulin and others and said, "Prime Minister Su, Prime Minister Su, please allow me to say a word."

Su Ye turned around and said, "There is nothing to say, Mr. Zeng."

"Just remember that this is the path you chose."

"Goodbye!"

Then, Su Ye left.

The two sides officially broke up.

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Note: It's late again today. Set a goal for yourself to finish writing at 10:30 tomorrow.

Benefactor, I weakly ask for a monthly ticket again. I am ashamed and thank you!