Chapter 19 Section 19

How can Chongqi be willing to be kind?He really believed that with the use of Kemiron, the vain silver in the treasury of the Ministry of Finance would flow overseas.So I went out of the yamen, went home, copied some documents, and went to see King Chun in Shiyuan. "Qi Ye!" As soon as we met, Chong Qi said: "I want to ask Qi Ye for advice today. What was the reason for the quarrel with the British back then?" Seeing his despondent look, Chun Wang was very puzzled, "Wen Shan," he waved his hand, "sit down and talk if you have something to say. Why? Are you so angry?"

"Traitors are rampant, why not get angry?" "Traitor?" King Chun was even more surprised, "Who are you scolding?" "Li Shaoquan and Yan Danchu are all traitors. Seventh Master, you can't be fooled by them!" Chongqi said loudly, "The foreigners have malicious intentions and coveted the silver in China. It's not a day. Daoguang started a war with Britain for twenty years. , for what? Just for the outflow of silver.” Then, Chongqi took out a stack of papers from the boot pages, and first read a paragraph of the Shangyu in December of the ninth year of Daoguang: "I heard that foreign money from foreign countries includes big buns, small buns, shaggy heads, bats, double pillars, The names of horse swords are used in the interior, not to buy goods, but to buy silver; they are secretly consumed, and every penny is exchanged for mainland grain silver, which is calculated as a loss of two to three cents. From Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu to the south of the Yellow River Foreign money is prevalent in all provinces. Foreign money is used in every payment of money and food and business transactions. Panbo, under the pretext of selling goods, brings foreign money to Haikou in various provinces to buy Wenyin.

The rising price of silver in recent years is not necessarily due to this. " "Qiye, listen again. This melody was given by Huang Juezi, Zhengqing of Honglu Temple, in April of the eighteenth year of Daoguang. Please listen to what he said?" A passage from Chongqi Nian is again about the outflow of Wenyin: "I have seen that the price of silver has been increasing in recent years. Every silver is one tael. It is easy to make money with 1,600 and zero. It is not the consumption of silver in the interior, but the leakage of silver to foreigners. Since opium flowed into our country, Emperor Renzongrui knew that it must be Harmful too, a special ban was set up, and the ministers at the time did not expect the poison to be so poisonous!"

"What do you mean by spreading poison? It's 'the rottenness of foreign countries, and the latent consumption of silver taels in the mainland'!" Chongqi then recited Huang Juezi's play, the number of opium smuggled into the country and silver smuggled out in the early years of Daoguang: "The profiteers in Guangdong province colluded with sea patrolling soldiers to transport silver out of the ocean and smoke into Therefore, from the third year of Daoguang to the eleventh year, the annual leakage of silver was 17.8 million taels; from the eleventh year to the fourteenth year, the annual leakage of silver was more than 20 million taels; There are more than 10,000 taels, and in addition to Haikou in Fujian, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Tianjin, there are also tens of millions of taels. Using China's useful wealth to fill the infinite abyss of overseas countries, this harmful thing is gradually becoming a worry for the sick country. Day after day, year after year, do you not know Yiyuhudi?"

"I heard my late father tell me." Chongqi was referring to his father Sai Shang'a. "At that time, Emperor Cheng was horrified when he talked about Huang Juezi's memorabilia. Wenyin flowed overseas, and he didn't know Yiyuhudi, so he made his own decision. He did not hesitate to fight the foreigners in order to close the loopholes of this disease that harmed the country and the people! Now that the Ministry of Households has set up an official bank account to let the foreigners manage the affairs, is it not asking him to flow the money abroad. The seventh master is the love of Emperor Xuanzongcheng Son, why do you have to do this?"

As he spoke, two lines of tears rolled down. This made King Jin both perplexed and uneasy, "Wenshan, Wenshan!" He shouted repeatedly in bewilderment, "Why do you do this, why do you do this!" "At present, there is only one person in the dynasty, and all the responsibilities rest on Qi Ye's shoulders. As long as Qi Ye works hard to restore the righteousness, all the ghosts and monsters will naturally disappear." These words made Chun Wang feel stinging.Chongqi opposed the establishment of an official bank, but she was holding boundless hopes for this matter.Then, the so-called ghosts and monsters, don't they also include themselves?

Thinking about it like this, he said seriously: "Wenshan, who is not as good as me in seeking loyalty to the country? You must always have a heart for others." "It should be so. As long as it is beneficial to the national economy and the people's livelihood, and the morals of the world are not against the people, of course it should be praised. Unfortunately, in today's world, the accumulation is not true. The saying goes, 'The promise of the people is not as good as the swearing of one person.' Seven Lord, it is hard to repay the favor of the country in Chongqi's life, so I can only be a scumbag and do my best to be loyal."

"Yes, yes! I know, I know." Chun Wang didn't bother to talk to him again, "Please go back! I'm always cautious about this matter." "Please Seventh Master be very careful!" Chong Qi added: "The so-called danger is in my heart, I dare not say nothing. If it is not enough to say it, then I have to fight!" These words sounded like a threat, Chun Wang felt unhappy, and at the same time very troubled.In the past, I always used to be that group of people who don't understand the past, talking right and speaking, they are stubborn in choosing the good. This year, after going through a lot of things, I realized that this generation is stubborn, and choosing the good may not be the case. If you don't go, there is nothing you can do about it!