Qing Country, Zhili Region!
Catherine's special train headed east, passing through the endless Mongolian steppe, entering Zhili, and speeding toward the capital.
The feeling of being close to home was even more timid. From the moment Qin Jun entered the garden, his emotions began to drip. He did not have the anticipation and longing he had when he left Moscow.
Along the way, through the glass windows, one could see the tragedies that had happened or were happening in the Land of Flowers.
The social order collapsed, the people were in dire straits, their families were broken, and white bones could be seen everywhere in the wilderness.
Everywhere he looked, there were commoners in ragged clothes, with yellow skin and numb expressions.
As for the rich and powerful, they were all dressed in western clothes and had fat heads and big ears.
Even Catherine found it unbelievable. How could there be a country in the world with such backward infrastructure and lifeless people?
"Hubby, what did Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty usually do? Doesn't he care about state affairs?"
When the train entered Xuanhua City, she leaned against the window and saw the low, dilapidated, and dirty city. She also saw the people on the roadside who looked like walking corpses. She could not help but turn around and look at the gloomy Qin Jun and ask in a low voice.
At this moment, Qin Jun's mood was like a volcano, a volcano that was about to erupt.
Hearing Catherine's gentle voice, he forcefully suppressed his anger and said coldly,"Qianlong is preparing a birthday banquet. He's eating a Manchu Han Imperial Feast. There are a total of 108 dishes!”
“……”
Catherine was dumbfounded. Was it that extravagant?
As the Tsar, she usually ate at most nine dishes. She was used to eating Chinese food with Qin Jun, otherwise, she would eat some noodles and meat. She could not bear to eat precious dishes.
108 dishes for a meal, how much would that cost!
"Hubby, is Qianlong always so extravagant? Or do you want to eat it on your birthday?"
"You don't understand how complicated the flower and vegetable system is, and you don't understand how extravagant the life of the royal family and nobles of the Qing Dynasty is. The reason why they can enjoy delicacies every day and night is because they are exploiting hundreds of millions of flower farmers and using their flesh and blood to satisfy their extravagant life.”
Before he transmigrated, Qin Jun had always felt that no matter how heartless the Qing court was, no matter how barbaric and cruel they were, they would not be so selfish as to sacrifice hundreds of millions of flower people to feed the Zhenren, right?
The facts proved that the Qing court's brutality and shamelessness were beyond imagination.
It was the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The crops in the roadside fields were growing very well. The fields were connected together, and one could not see the end of them at a glance.
However, in this year of good weather, the people were dressed in ragged clothes, their faces were yellow and their muscles were thin. The children had big heads and big stomachs, and their limbs were as thin as hemp poles. It was obvious that they were malnourished.
Did the commoners not farm?
No, they wanted to farm, even in their dreams.
Flower farmers were not people from Black Continent who would not farm. Since ancient times, flower farmers had been big agricultural countries. They were hardworking, simple, and understood the principle of being vigilant in times of peace. They had already carved the genes of farming into their bones. Whether it was a bumper harvest year or a year of great disaster, they were busy farming, storing food, and preparing for emergencies.
As long as the emperor was not muddle-headed or cruel, and his life was still passable, the gardeners would take care of their own land without complaint and live in peace.
If they couldn't live on, then it would be embarrassing. Since the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty, who knew how many powerful empires had been overturned.
The Qing court was different. Its appearance was evil and unjust. It had obtained the country unjustly. Coupled with its cruel and barbaric nature, the peasant uprising was suppressed.
An uprising? Kill! Massacre the city!
Rebellion? Kill! Massacre the city!
They captured a village, a town, a city…
As time passed, those who had knowledge, ideas, and courage were all killed. The rest were enslaved and ruled, passed down from generation to generation. Who would dare to rebel?
When the trade war broke out, the Barbarian Qing Country was blasted open by the foreign powers. Under the impact of western culture, a portion of the flower farmers awakened and rebelled again.
However, Qianlong did not allow the flower gardener to awaken. He issued a punishment that shocked the whole world. He killed millions of people and broke the spine of the flower gardener again.
A gardener who had lost the courage to resist, and faced the Qing court's heavy taxes, all kinds of messy taxes added up. Even if you worked day and night, you could only pay taxes.
Can't feed his family?
More and more people could not survive, so they gave up their land to evade taxes. Some even sold their land to the powerful landowners and became tenants with their families. At the very least, they could survive and not starve to death.
Under the chain reaction, the phenomenon of land annexation appeared.
Qianlong was an extremely selfish and smart person. He knew how to govern the country.
It was fine for the untouchables to give up their land and sell it. They were still planting flowers anyway, so they could not run away.
The imperial court sold the land abandoned by the commoners to the powerful landowners and also relaxed the policy, allowing the commoners to sell their land to the powerful landowners.
If you like to be tenants, then go be tenants! The taxes were paid by the landowners and nobles, so it did not affect the court's collection of taxes at all.
This was because when the land was in the hands of the landowners and nobles, they would rack their brains to recruit people to cultivate the land in order not to let it go to waste.
Qianlong's prediction was right. The more land was annexed, the more taxes the court would collect.
As long as the taxes are paid, it's fine. As for the lives and deaths of the peasants, it has nothing to do with the imperial court. It's not like we're exploiting you. If you want to hate someone, hate the landlord and the nobles.
It had to be said that Qianlong's move of "using barbarians to subdue barbarians" was too beautiful.
It not only guaranteed tax revenue, but also shifted the ethnic conflict, killing two birds with one stone.
However, the people were suffering.
In order to cut down expenses, the greedy landowners and nobles raised as few tenants as possible, causing nearly half of the people to become refugees, living a life of exile where they could not eat and sleep in the open. There were often people who starved to death on the way to escape.
If even the Zhili region near the capital was like this, how miserable would the other places be?
Qin Jun didn't dare to think about it anymore. His heart felt like it was being pricked by needles.
Catherine could clearly feel Mr. Qin's emotions, and her eyes reddened.
"Hubby, I'll go back and take on the role of the principal of the Imperial Military Academy in the outskirts of Moscow. I'll work hard to train a group of trusted officers to join the army.”
"When I completely control the army, I will immediately promote you as the commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force. I will support you in destroying the evil Qing court.”
No!
Qin Jun shook his head decisively.
"Billions of flower men can't wait, and neither can I!”
"The Wei Nation can't wait to invade and plant flowers. They've already mobilized 600,000 elites to the northeast.”
" Next, I've decided to start a war. Russia will send troops to fight a local war with the Wei Nation in the northeast…"
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