"Seventh Prince," Sun Yuwen saw that it was not too early, and there were still two tricky matters to discuss, so he used a quick knife to cut through the mess, and took out the draft of "Complying with the Aftermath of Coastal Defense" that he was ordered to write, and held it with both hands, "Please sign it!" ”

This manuscript has already been read by Prince Alcohol, so he doesn't need to read it anymore, and hands it to the west. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info sat next to him and sat next to him, but King Alcohol crossed his back and handed it to Li Hongzhang:

"Shaoquan, look at it!"

"Please take a look at it first." Li Hongzhang was polite to Yixuan.

"I've already seen it, the seventh master is the prime minister, and Beiyang is your own business, you have to take a closer look."

Li Hongzhang received his advice, and really looked at it very carefully from the beginning to the end, and he wanted to advocate that the funds for the north and south oceans should be coordinated and financed by the navy's yamen. However, after thinking about it, it is useless to fight, but it hurts the harmony, it is better not to fight, so after reading it, I praised it again and again.

Even he has no opinion, and others naturally don't have anything to say. So he signed the manuscript in turn and agreed. Such a major event was decided smoothly.

The second major event is the negotiation of railways. "This matter," Prince Alcohol leaned back, with a hint of staying out of the matter, "this king has no prejudices, please discuss it!" ”

Not only did Sun Yuwen have something to say, but he was also against building a railway. Because this section of the railway starts from Dong'e and ends in Linqing, although it has nothing to do with his hometown Jining, the feng shui of the ancestral tomb of several generations, but the fellow villagers in Shandong have asked him to "preside over the correct discussion", and he has to do it.

It's just that he didn't want to openly offend Li Hongzhang, so he thought of a sleek way, took care of the military machine Zhang Jing, checked out the old files, and made a copy of the Yanguan's opposition to the railway. ”

Li Hongzhang knew that it was not a good thing to say: "Please read it and let everyone listen to it." ”

So Sun Yuwen counted and said: "There are a total of six excerpts, and Xu Zhixiang, a cabinet scholar, has two of them, thinking that there are "eight evils" in opening a railway.

"Nancao is transshipped by rail, and it takes two or three years to complete the work, whether it is slow or not, and the merchant ships are closed, hunger and cold are forced and thieves are prosperous, which is harmful.

The Yellow River in Shandong is overflowing, and the small people are in distress for many years, and if the railway is held today, with more than 10,000 dollars, it will be resentful and chilling, and it will cause two harms.

Qingjiangpu is the main point of water and land, the throat of the north and south, and the non-trade wharf. As soon as the railway opened, the Yi people would ask for the construction of western-style houses, the addition of detective stacks, and the construction of churches. Rushing to the important place with the throat, and sharing it with the yi, its harm is three.

Yizhi wants to open a railway in China, and has been thinking about it for more than ten years! Now China is the first to create itself, and it will do the same. If you allow it, you will open the door and steal, and if you refuse, you will provoke and prosper, which will cause four harms.

If China can rely on the danger of being able to rely on the land route, open up the railway widely, and extend it in all directions, how can China stand on its own feet? The fifth harm is true.

If it is said that it is easy to recruit and adjust salaries, I don't know that although the railway is strong, it is impossible to control the land. If you defend it with soldiers, you have to guard against it everywhere? Harm six.

If it is said to be convenient for newspapers, the steamer does not travel more than 50 miles per hour, and China's emergency post delivery documents can be 6 or 700 miles a day and night, and there is no delay ....... “

As soon as he read this, Li Hongzhang laughed, and he deliberately laughed loudly, expressing his indignation and contempt, "These Hanlin celebrities who write big papers as economics, I really convince him!" ”

He raised his voice and said, "Liegong, please think about it, how many hours should you walk in fifty miles in an hour, and twenty-four hours in a day and night?" Isn't it 1,200 miles? Compared with six or seven hundred miles, it is said that there is no delay? Isn't this staring and talking nonsense? ”

In fact, there is no need to mention these discussions, Li Hongzhang has heard them a long time ago. In his opinion, all the reasons for opposing the opening of the railway are that they do not know the vastness of the four seas, and the frog crying from the bottom of the well is not worth refuting.

The only reason is that it is necessary to dig up many graves and destroy people's feng shui, but for the sake of enriching the country and strengthening the army, it is not enough to take care of that much.

So when he was sitting in silence and hesitating, Li Hongzhang spoke with a slightly excited demeanor: "In the fifth year of Tongzhi, Prince Gong and Wenzhong founded the Tongwen Museum, took the right way, learned the science of astronomical arithmetic, and made a big uproar.

How does it look now? Ridiculous, isn't it? This can't be blamed on Wu Wenduan, when he first talked about foreign affairs, I don't know how it works? What is strange to me is that the current and the past are different, and it is clear that the master is long, and he has seen its benefits, why is there still that set of opinions of Wu Wenduan?

Take the land wire as an example, thousands of miles of information, instantaneous, something echoes the handy, nothing can be convenient, today, the dare to say that the telegraph should not be established? However, at that time, some people insisted that it was impossible, and the people of Fujian began to obstruct and steal.

I would now like to ask the Beijing officials in Fujian, is it better to have a telegram or not to have a telegram? I remember that the excerpt on the Tongwen Pavilion quoted the edict of Emperor Shengzuren: "Western countries, after thousands of years, China will be burdened." 'Thinking that 'the holy mind is far-reaching, although it uses its method, it really hates its people', this is a quote from Wu Wenduan!

I dare to say that if Emperor Ren is still alive today, although he hates others, he will use his methods. The length of the master is why it is a place of control!

I remember that Prince Gong refuted the excerpt of Wu Wenduan, and said, 'Since the scholar has used this move as an obstacle, he must have other good intentions.' If there is a clever plan to make a foreign country and not be made by a foreign country, the ministers and other ministers, after following the scholar of the university, will do their best to do their best to deal with it.

And he said, 'If there is no other good plan, I would like to take faithfulness as armor, propriety and righteousness as dry oars, etc., which means that you can break the bottle and control the enemy, and the ministers will not dare to believe it.' I see the same thing about today. Please judge the prince, and all the princes will discuss it together! “

Speaking of which, Li Hongzhang was already panting, and it seemed that the old minister was loyal to the country. The people here, since Prince Alcohol, are all intimidated by the momentum of Li Hongzhang's words, even if there is a reason to refute, they must also consider whether it is appropriate to export at this time?

Others can be silent, but Prince Alcohol can't help but speak. Originally, he was in favor of building a railway, but last year he was prepared to use foreign debts to build a railway from Xishan to Lugou Bridge by the Shenji Battalion, which was specially used for transporting coal, and he did not want to attack the road for words, so he was a little timid.

However, it is only to express support, "The benefits of the railway cannot be seen by outsiders, and those discussions cannot be heard." Having said that, he could not be the master, "I think this matter should be played by the Holy Judge." ”

Next, the third and last major event to be discussed on this day is the establishment of a bank. (To be continued.) )