I want to ruin the country

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, most families prepared mooncakes and apples, which they would never have dared to think about before, to celebrate the festival.

Mooncakes represent reunion, but in the past, when there was nothing to eat or drink, it was a luxury for children from poor families to eat a mooncake.

And at that time, after the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, we would start making mooncakes.

Due to the long storage time, the mooncakes are dry and hard, like bricks, and it is really impossible to chew them without good teeth!

Of course, wealthy people would not buy this kind of mooncakes. They would buy freshly made mooncakes with various expensive fillings.

Poor families don’t have money, so they can only buy some mooncakes for the festival.

They bought the cheapest ones, and some of the fillings even contained wheat bran.

Apple represents peace. The wishes of ordinary people are so simple: peace and reunion.

Another thing is to present tribute, such as Yantai apples, Laiyang pears, Leling dates, Ningxia wolfberries, Turpan grapes and Hami melons, etc.

We need to get some delicious and rare food from all over the place for the emperor to taste and make him happy!

If it is Chinese New Year, these seasonal fruits will be out of stock, and if they are available, they are mostly dried fruits, which cannot be compared with fresh ones!

However, this year Yining issued a special decree that a large number of tributes should not be transported to the capital.

It would be fine if we could get something that would show our intention. There are not so many people in the palace now. As long as it is enough to distribute to the old emperor's wives, that will be fine.

Boost the economy and get the national market flowing. Then people can buy whatever they want to eat on the street. That will be the true way to share happiness with the people!

An emperor who eats all the food by himself is not a good emperor!

Therefore, no extravagant celebrations are allowed this year.

Zeng Zhenfan, Luo Shixin, Seng Linqin, and You Zongtang were all recalled to Beijing for an audience.

Senglinqin's Eight Banners Army is still suppressing bandits in the Northeast.

The Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, with numerous bandit gangs that cannot be eliminated in a short period of time.

When he came back, Hebie temporarily took over the military command and continued to suppress the bandits.

You Zongtang had already cleared out the entire Hunan province.

The bandits in western Hunan are very rampant. There are not many large groups of bandits, but there are quite a few groups of dozens of bandits.

Their characteristic is that they roam around everywhere, shooting and moving to another place, making it difficult to capture their traces.

You Zongtang listened to the emperor's words and adopted the method of small shares against small shares.

People were sent out in company units to form alliances, making each company a net flower and weaving a huge net in the mountains of western Hunan.

He launched a people's war again, and arranged several secret sentries in every village to contact the nearest troops as soon as there was any movement of bandits.

As a result, the bandits became frightened birds and they had no place to stay!

In the end, some of these bandits surrendered, while others were annihilated.

However, before everyone arrived in the capital, a memorial from Wu Wenrong, the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, arrived.

"Your Majesty, I have learned that Myanmar has been harassed by England recently and is suffering terribly.

Their king was cowardly and incompetent, and he made concessions at every step, which made many of his ministers dissatisfied.

General Wu Bo sent someone with a letter, hoping to report it to the Emperor through me, asking if the Emperor would be willing to lend a hand!

When Yining saw this memorial, he was delighted.

"Haha, Grandpa was just worrying about where to start expanding the territory, and England just came to our doorstep!

Okay, I'll accept it!"

Historically, Myanmar is currently in a precarious and turbulent period.

In March 1824, Myanmar strengthened its defense of Arakan.

Britain, which had already occupied India, was worried about not being able to find an excuse to march into Burma. Taking this as an opportunity, Britain launched the first Burmese invasion war against Burma.

After a year of fighting, Myanmar was defeated.

The Burmese King Mong was forced to cede Assam, Manipur, Arakan and Tanassara.

British representatives were also allowed to reside in the Burmese capital, and British warships could sail freely in Burmese ports. This was the Treaty of Yandapo, a humiliating alliance between Myanmar and Britain.

Subsequently, relations between Britain and Burma became increasingly tense.

King Mongkeng of Burma adopted some tough policies that angered British businessmen and diplomats.

They demanded that the British Indian government send troops to Burma.

After many unsuccessful negotiations between the two countries, Britain closed its embassy and evacuated Myanmar in 1840.

The contradictions between the two countries are becoming increasingly acute.

Myanmar alone could never compete with India. They were originally a vassal state of China, so they sent people to ask China for help.

On April 1852, 4, the British sent warships to blockade Rangoon on the pretext that Myanmar was "abusing British merchants."

The war raged on for another year, and Britain unilaterally announced the annexation of the Pegu region.

In 1862, Britain annexed Arakan, Pegu and Tanassalim into "British Burma" with Rangoon as its capital and was under the jurisdiction of the British Governor-General of India.

After the two Anglo-Burmese Wars, Lower Burma became a British colony and the Konbaung Dynasty was confined to the northern half of Burma.

The difference is that now that Yining has come, he will not allow Britain to interfere in Myanmar and India again.

Not only Myanmar and India, Yining also has ideas about other places.

After careful consideration, Yining came up with a bold plan.

Fortune and wealth are achieved through risk, and a timid person cannot be a general. He decided to plan ahead and make a big move!

Haha, now that I’m in this world, no one can live in peace anymore!

He immediately sent the approval back to Wu Wenrong over 600 miles.

"My dear minister, please come to the capital first. I have my own plans!"

After receiving the imperial edict, Wu Wenrong rode his horse as fast as he could to the capital!

On the 15th day of August, a grand court meeting was held in the imperial palace.

Although it was called a court meeting, it was not actually a particularly important official business, and was similar to the annual meeting of a company in later generations.

Make a summary, arrange the tasks, reward those who have made contributions, and then eat and drink!

Yining sat in the Golden Throne Hall of the Qianqing Palace and accepted the worship of ministers.

Some governors and governors-general from other provinces met the emperor for the first time.

One by one, they briefly told the emperor what they had done and what achievements they had made.

Of course I can't say too much, I can only say it briefly and concisely. There are too many people, so I won't be able to finish.

And you can't talk about your worries. It's a festival, and if you want to make the emperor happy, you'd better not come!

Having said that, this is considered as reporting to the emperor.

In fact, the real performance report is in the Ministry of Personnel, and the emperor is just going through the motions.

Yining also made a brief comment on the situation in each province.

Of course, praise is the main focus. Even if there are some unsatisfactory aspects, we will talk about it after today!

However, after hearing the emperor's comments, these provincial governors were secretly surprised.

Although the emperor didn't say much, every word he said was to the point, clear and concise, without a single word of nonsense. It took him a whole day to finish the work.

After finishing the work, Yining ordered,

"Prince Gong is away on a voyage to the West this year. To comfort the Imperial Concubine Dowager who is missing her son, I will hold a banquet in the Imperial Garden this evening.

Let's all accompany the Imperial Concubine to drink and enjoy the moon, and have fun together with the people!"