Quotation
These days... People see the Great Qing Empire as backward unable to keep up with the latest advances. Imagine... If we had cannons like the British.
-Does Your Majesty need cannons? Aren't the Guillotines enough?
Armillary sphere, terrestrial globe, air pump, pulley system, steam engine... Do you think they're hard to build? ... Gong-e, take a look. In this library of mine there are hundreds of books chronicling the Qing Dynasty. My legacy will be recorded among them pass on for generations. I will not allow it to be tarnished by this dirty chapter, insure the survival of the dynasty...
-Without the help of the Guillotines? Can we rely on the tricks of Westerners to pacify the Han Chinese?
Didn't you say that a guillotine kills any target within ten paces? The range of a firearm far exceeds ten paces. Cannons can strike targets a thousand paces away Do you see?