After the second master Cui was teased, a small yellow door came to pass the decree and summoned Lord Wu to meet him, and Wu Chenxuan entered the Qingyi Courtyard with great confidence. After a thousand kowtows to say goodbye, Wu Chenxuan can be regarded as meeting with Cixi Lafayette again. At this time, there were two people kneeling in front of the couch in the wing, and there was an old man sitting on one side, both with their backs to him, Wu Chenxuan didn't remember the hobby of the back of people's heads, so he didn't carefully identify whether there were acquaintances. After Li Biping, without waiting for Lafayette to ask, this second-class Lord Wu opened his mouth first:

"Lafayette is well, look at your red face, I think it must be my Qing Dynasty Guotai Min'an, Haiyan River Qing, Lafayette, you are in a good mood, smile often, eat Ma Ma fragrant, and your body is great. If you want me to say that if you have leisure, you might as well go to the hometown of Jinan Mansion to revisit, here the lotus flowers of Daming Lake are blooming, and the three streams of water of Baotu Spring are even more gushing and gushing. ”

"Well, you don't recognize life." Cixi was stunned for a moment, stunned to make him amused, thirty or forty years, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not dared to interject before she speaks, this is a dignified second-class member, but he is still so casual, dare to take the palace to see them as their relatives. "Hey, the mourning family was in trouble back then, and they were escorted by loyal people such as you, but now I think about it, I have suffered a lot of crimes. The water of this Baotu spring is worthy of being the first spring in the world hand-picked by the first emperor Qianlong, the mourning family lived in the old Dewang Mansion back then, but there was no less drinking spring water, clear and sweet, and the tea brewed was full of sweetness. ”

Speaking of which, Cixi was happy to herself, and dared to let this kid take him to the ditch again, "Okay, you little monkey cub, dare to talk about mourning the family, you should be beaten." Forget it, it's nothing, I heard that Duanfang and you are in harmony with the Manchu and Han dynasties, and Shandong Prefecture and counties are also peaceful, and in two or three years, they can be called Huaibei and Jiangnan. Your new army of Wuyi is also strong and strong, not much worse than the soldiers of Beiyang. The mourning family was happy to hear it, but this is just a flowery article from the left and right, or you personally counted the mourning family until you heard it really. ”

"The minister is guilty." Wu Chenxuan changed the gag image of a hippie smile, took off the top flower feather, and put it on the ground beside him.

"Wu Aiqing, please calm down, the mourning family doesn't understand, what is the guilt of the Qing family?"

"Back to the Queen Mother, just now the Queen Mother said that the minister's Wuyi New Army, Chen Xuan didn't expect that in the eyes of the Queen Mother, the Wuyi New Army turned out to be the minister's private soldier, the minister was terrified, and the minister was guilty."

"Isn't it your Lord Wu's personal soldier?" A younger guy kneeling in front of him said coldly, "As the world knows, the military expenses of the Wuyi New Army are all allocated by the Shandong Chamber of Commerce, and the five major associations under your Lord Wu are all your cronies, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this Wuyi New Army is the Wu Family Army, right?" Obviously, Shandong Wufu is rich in people, why has the tax burden not increased for many years, but I only saw the chamber of commerce under your hand, a group of copper-smelling husbands knocking bones and sucking marrow, all of them are full of fat brains, and there is no trace of loyalty and patriotism. ”

"Oh, who did you not ask this adult?"

"In Xia Tieliang, he is currently the Minister of the Military Training Department."

"I have been looking up for a long time, but it is better to be famous than to meet." Wu Chenxuan simply confronted this guy, it was nothing more than a crime of dereliction in front of the king, and he was demoted and punished.

"Lord Wu, don't want to talk nonsense, what you just said is the truth?"

"Hehe, it's not." Wu Chenxuan's fingers shook three times in front of Tie Liang, "With the grace of the Queen Mother, the Chamber of Commerce regimental training of the year was able to expand the army and train the troops, and gave the name of the new army of Wuyi. Lord Tieliang, although you have not been in office for a long time, you probably don't know about the fact that the Wuwei Right Army once assisted in Shandong, right? ”

"How can this be reasonable, of course this official knows, and now the three towns of Beiyang are also cooperating with Zhili, Shanxi, and Henan."

"Since you know that this imperial court has a rule of local assistance, why do you say that the Shandong Chamber of Commerce is privately armed? The Shandong Chamber of Commerce pays no less than 5 million taels of silver in commercial taxes every year, and more than half of them are deported to the capital, and the commercial taxes left in Shandong are paid by a co-payer, but this co-pay is fixed, and it is not possible that the land tax of the ten prefectures and two prefectures in Shandong also has a part of the co-paying, so it has to be said that this Wuyi New Army is the private store of the 30 million people in Shandong. Wu Chenxuan is not afraid of such interrogations, they are all reasonable and well-founded, and they are easy to explain clearly.

"Let's talk about the issue of appointing private individuals, before Lord Tieliang seems to have accused Beiyang Minister Yuan Xiangcheng of the same crime, in fact, there are many examples of my Qing soldiers as generals, not to mention, that is, Zeng Wenzhenggong, Zuo Wenzhonggong, Li Laozhongtang, and Prince Seng Greenqin's generals are all recruited by themselves, and most of the generals are relatives and friends. Said that I appointed a private person, okay, I admit it, I don't know what crime Lord Tieliang plans to convict Zeng Zuo Li Seng of, I am not talented, I am willing to share the crime with several sages, and I also ask Lord Tieliang to fulfill it. ”

"You, you, are vexatious, unreasonable, and unreasonable."

"Where am I being vexatious? Why am I messing around? Where am I unreasonable? ”

"You're just unreasonable, you're messing around, you're unreasonable."

"Oh my God, how can you insist that I am unreasonable, unreasonable, and unreasonable?"

"stop!goout!too" look, force Lafayette to speak English, this Aunt Qiong Yao's words are not casual to drag, if you don't get it right, it will affect the innocent, the light is chest tightness and shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, and the heavy is manic and bloody. This Lafayette is mad, isn't it, in order to stabilize the good situation of unity, the grunt we just said is not broadcast.

"Okay, you are all members of the first and second grades, how can you still be like a child." Cixi's old face sank, and the two fighting cocks immediately turned into quails and kowtowed together to ask for guilt.

"Chenxuan, the mourning family knows that you are loyal and righteous, and you dared to break into Longtan and enter the tiger's den with hundreds of people back then, but this Great Qing Kingdom also has a law, and what Tie Liang said just now is good. Shandong's annual tax revenue is also decent, but the imperial court coincides with an eventful autumn, and the treasury of the household can run a horse. ”

"Back to Lafayette, it is precisely because of Shandong's own tax burden that businessmen are willing to invest in Shandong to build factories, if they are in their hometown, I am afraid that the factory has not been built, and the treacherous officials have already apportioned the tax burden to their heads. This seems to be a few percent more, but once it hurts the merchants, the silver will be buried in the ground and moldy, and it will not be invested to make money. The officials are not allowed to harass and extort businessmen, and businessmen must also pay taxes according to the regulations. Shandong's tax does not seem to be heavy, but it is better to be able to receive it in a real way, Lafayette is not a minister boasting, since the minister took office, Shandong's two taxes have been in arrears for a day? In the past few years, which time has not paid three or five cents more than the last time. ”

"Aiqing's merits are obvious to all." Cixi also has this account, and in recent years, the governors in the south have become less and less concerned about the imperial court, and the tax deportation of the capital has been delayed for a long time, and it is not uncommon for even to be in arrears for three or five years. Thanks to the taxes of Liangjiang and Shandong, they can be paid in time, otherwise the interest on the treaty indemnity will be repaid, and I am afraid that the expenses in the court will have to be paid in vain. "You have a lot of ideas, you might as well help the household department think of a way to see if you can pass this. Coming, the proposed purpose, Wu Chenxuan, the political envoy of Zha Shandong, is well-governed, good at finance and taxation, and adds the title of the right attendant of the household department. ”

Wu Chenxuan looked at the red top on the ground, okay, I didn't quit my job, I turned around and added a title, and I had no choice but to receive the decree and thank you.

"Obey. The minister also has a copy, please ask the Queen Mother to decide. ”

"Hey, submit it" Cui Yugui honestly forwarded the fold, but he didn't expect Wu Chenxuan, who was still bowing his head and looking solemn just now, to see that Cui Er was in charge, and the moment he handed the fold, he raised his head and made a grimace, which scared Cui Yugui so much that he almost didn't knock the fold away. When he calmed down and looked at it again, Wu Chenxuan had already lowered his eyebrows and continued to wait, as if the grimace just now was not made by him.

The Empress looked at it, gently put the fold on the corner of the kang table, pondered for a moment, and said:

"What do you think about the construction of the three towns of the Wuyi New Army?"

"Three Towns?" Tie Liang had served as the quartermaster of Beiyang, and knew that this seemed to be a town of 10,000 people, and the annual military expenditure was not less than one million, and if a new army was built, the munitions and equipment, barracks and stables would all be piled up with silver, and the start-up fee alone would not be less than 1.5 million taels.

"Why is there more people in the middle town of this Wuyi New Army than the two towns on the left and right?"

"Back to the Queen Mother, this Wuyi New Army Zhongzhen is also called the Manchurian Wuyi New Army. This soldier and grassroots sergeant are all from all over Shandong from the children of good families, trained for more than half a year, but please the court relatives and nobles, yellow belt, red belt, Baylor, Beizi, there are willing to contribute to my Qing Dynasty can first go to Tianjin Wubei Academy or Baoding Lecture Hall, after graduation, all according to the results of the position, control the new army of the new army of the middle town. The arms needed by Zhongzhen were all provided by the Shandong Repair Institute, and the military expenses were allocated in Shandong according to the usual land. ”

"But these two towns on the left and right are all your Wu family's army." Tie Liang is not dead yet, this guy is a mad dog, in order to catch and bite whoever is full of people, no wonder he was set up by Lao Yuan to die.

"I don't know if Lord Tieliang is interested, the lower officials are willing to appoint you to choose any town to lead, you might as well build an iron army." Wu Chenxuan smiled unhurriedly and gave a soft nail, but Tie Liang is not stupid, he is mixed under Wu Chenxuan's hands, and it is strange not to be killed by this guy. I haven't seen Duanfang go to Shandong for more than a year, and he has been cleaned up by this guy, this is still going down with the governor's big hat, if he falls off one by one, let himself be his subordinate, hehe, Tie Liang thinks it's better to thank Bumin.

"Chen Xuan has a heart, so, the prince and a few Zhongtang will discuss this fold, if it is feasible, let's do it. Since Chen Xuan wants to avoid suspicion, there is no need to make other arrangements for this right town, and Yuan Xiangcheng and Yuan Aiqing will send a general to take care of it for the time being. Listening to Cixi's words, she was obviously very satisfied with this self-cutting military power, which means that she will not attack Wu Chenxuan for the time being, and several officials are not stupid to be old people, so naturally no one jumps out and bars their teeth anymore.

"Hey, Queen Mother Shengming." The crowd bowed.

"Empress Dowager Qi, this year's Geng money is about to expire, and the foundation of the household department is less than two million taels, I don't know if I can let the officials and people of Shandong share one or two for the imperial court." The old zombie sitting tremblingly on the brocade pier suddenly spoke, almost breaking Wu Chenxuan's anger.

"Well, that's what I said, Chenxuan, you take care of Shandong's money bags, I don't know how much Geng money you can share for the court this month?"

"Well, Qi Qi Lafayette, the lower official has an idea, I don't know if to talk about it?"

"You're not guilty, but it's okay to speak."

"Hey, the minister went to Beijing to live in the hall that the Shandong Chamber of Commerce had just built, and I heard that it cost a lot of money just to buy land. The minister thought that the price of the land in the capital was not too much, so he counted 50,000 taels of silver for a courtyard house, in addition to all the government's own, about half of the city's land was sold, which was enough to pay off the Geng money with interest. In this way, it is the duty of the court to share the worries, and after the official reason goes back, he will be reasonable and affectionate to the colleagues of the Chamber of Commerce, and strive to sell the industry of the Chamber of Commerce in the capital, and get no less than one million taels of silver, all of which will be donated to the court. In the future, all officials and citizens who have real estate in the capital will receive a real estate donation at half of the house price, and they will be able to pay off the Geng money in general. ”

"Ah, bah, why don't you sell your ancestral grave to please your foreign master." This old man is on fire, and he is playing the general's order with a white beard. "Selling the land in the capital to make money is really not a son of man."

The little eunuch stood up, knelt down and kowtowed tremblingly, "Queen Mother, this person has ill intentions and rebellious words, and I also ask the Queen Mother to make an order quickly, please punish this fang." ”

"Well, if you collect real estate donations from several of your families, you will be arrested and killed, so you should just cut the flesh and scrape the oil from the 30 million businessmen in Shandong? Have the elders of Shandong ever owed the court a penny of tax silver in recent years? In this way, this is justified in arrears, and those who pay taxes should die. Didn't you deliberately let the financial and tax lifelines of Shandong, Liangjiang and other imperial courts wither and the people swelled? The governor dared to go in a good direction to manage the herdsmen, and as soon as it was better, he would be taxed, and it would be better to be in arrears. In the long run, the country will not be a country, and the Queen Mother will be asked to issue an order to severely punish the thief and investigate the behind-the-scenes operators. Wu Chenxuan is also not polite, the reputation of this officialdom is maintained by the bureaucrats who are crushed by him.

"This" Cixi is also sitting on wax, everyone knows the trick here, but these are things that can only be understood and cannot be spoken, so that this second stunned person can make his words clear, but there is nothing to say.

Before Lafayette could figure out how to speak, with a "uh" sound, the white beard fell straight to the ground, and pulled over, the scene was suddenly chaotic, Wu Chenxuan and others saw that it was not a thing, under the kneeling order of Lafayette, they rushed out, and it was a few old imperial doctors from the imperial infirmary who passed by, this one is blessed, let the imperial doctor serve, what about the royal treatment.