"Secretary Yuan, these materials have been screened, and there is a special list of Koreans with bad backgrounds. There is also a large list of suspicious elements who have colluded with bandits from outside to the outside world. I think it takes a certain amount of time to sift them out. When Wang Shizhen put several thick files in front of Yuan Weiting, he told Yuan Weiting the reasons for distinguishing the files one by one.

Yuan Weiting was a little distracted, and when he heard the words "bad background", he would always be touched. The Yuan family's background is not good, not generally bad, but very bad. Yuan Weiting's uncle Yuan Jiasan was born in Jinshi, and fought with the Taiping Army, fought with the Guangfu Army, and fought fiercely with the Twist Army. After the establishment of the Republic of China, the Yuan family naturally belonged to the ranks of "political pariahs", and there was absolutely no chance of getting ahead.

The Yuan family's land was divided, and they could only honestly cultivate the land left for their family. When Yuan Weiting entered the cadre school for further study, he learned that there were regulations for "political pariahs", and after seeing the provisions with his own eyes, Yuan Weiting realized how lucky his family's turnaround was. Just when China invaded Alaska, a cadre visited Yuan's family and asked if Yuan's family was willing to serve the country.

For the hardships of Alaska, the cadres did not hide anything at all. The Yuan family was the only one whose uncle took Yuan Weiting to the north. Yuan Weiting still remembered the winter essentials that the cadres on the ship repeatedly talked about when the two of them went north. For example, in winter, you can't touch iron without gloves. When Yuan Weiting arrived in Alaska, he was still young, and the child was full of firepower, so he grabbed the iron rod with his hand, and his hand was frozen on the iron bar. His uncle scolded and poured the iron rod with warm water, and finally let Yuan Shikai lose only a layer of skin when he got out of the iron rod.

In a difficult environment like Alaska, there are no good guys and bad guys, if you don't follow the army and don't work hard, you will be a dead end in the ice and snow. In the same way, the people who have been trained in that kind of environment are not ordinary. Yuan Weiting began serving as a soldier in Alaska at the age of fifteen, and in an environment where he could not go out for half a year, he studied hard with other aspiring young people. After retiring at the age of eighteen with excellent high school exam scores and an excellent military record, he was finally able to return to work in Asia. At this time, his uncle died of illness, and his bones were buried in a cemetery in Alaska. In such a difficult environment, his uncle died in the hospital for more than half a month due to kidney failure. It is not because of illness that you are abandoned and you die.

Back in Asia, Yuan Shikai sometimes couldn't sleep because he was too tired, so he would look at the night sky outside the house. But he still remembers the scenery of North America. The ethereal night sky, the blue sky during the day, the mirror-like lake reflecting the sky and the forest, it is impossible to tell where the sky is and where the lake is from a distance. And the troops with weapons on their backs pass by the lake, and wild ducks, water birds, and even snow-white swans are startled from the lake.

The scenery of his hometown in his childhood is very faint in his memory. As a teenager, he followed the troops from Alaska to the Mackenzie River, and then south to the Great Slave Lake, where he fought brutally with the local British stronghold. Yuan Weiting also felt that those memories had actually begun to become blurred. What he could clearly remember was that he and a few of his comrades-in-arms heard that the swan meat was delicious, and tried to secretly hunt a few to eat. But watching the graceful and beautiful swans calmly swim in the lake with their gray clumsy furball-like babies, a group of people could not pull the trigger. So everyone lay on the soft grass by the lake, watching the swan family, pulling homely food, and eating canned fruit. He sometimes really wondered if he had fought in North America, a beautiful fairyland with cruelty as hell.

Hearing Wang Shizhen mention "bad background", Yuan Weiting remembered his shock when he saw the regulations on political untouchables. After seeing the regulations on political pariahs, Yuan Weiting realized that someone must have given the Yuan family a chance. Otherwise, the Yuan family would have been farmers in Henan for generations. Although he didn't know who gave the order, Yuan Weiting was still grateful.

So Yuan Weiting's heart softened, and he couldn't help but want to ask whether to give these people a chance. But in an instant, Yuan Weiting gave up this idea. During the war, the Chinese army gave the local Russians and British a chance, but this tolerance was often exchanged for deception and betrayal. Thinking of this, Yuan Weiting retracted his thoughts again. Only then did he notice that when he was a little distracted, Wang Shizhen was looking at him with sharp eyes.

Yuan Weiting said: "Section Chief Wang, since the top has agreed to our idea, we have to sing the trick next." ”

Wang Shizhen still said in a calm and unhurried tone that he was used to: "Your Majesty has actually been prepared for a long time. Secretary Yuan, didn't you notice that Your Majesty has always prevented us from getting involved in the grain trade? ”

Yuan Weiting smiled slightly, "I've noticed this a long time ago." Your Majesty's candlelight shines for thousands of miles, and at the moment, the Goryeo royal court is only jealous of our China, while the Goryeo people are envious of us. I hate Japan for buying Korean grain. ”

Wang Shizhen nodded, "That's right." Our Pyongyang Business Daily has been strategically telling about various business trends in Goryeo. A few days ago, I asked the editor-in-chief of the Pyongyang Business Daily, and the editor-in-chief of the Handelsel said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs instructed them to do so. Since the Koreans are living a miserable life now, then we have to find a way to clean China as much as possible. ”

It was the Japanese who bought the Goryeo grain, and the Korean people were also Japanese when they went hungry, and this was the effect that the Chinese side hoped to achieve. In fact, although this is true, if the propaganda is not good, the enemy has ample opportunity to reverse black and white and bite back. The life of the people of Goryeo is so bad, what they urgently need to find is a "culprit", and as for whether this culprit is the real culprit, this is really not certain. In a country like the Republic of China that tells the truth and tells the truth, after 20 years of propaganda and education, the people's views on things are often absurd. The people of Goryeo under the feudal system knew that they were suffering, but it was too high to expect them to understand the cause of their suffering.

Both Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen can realize that the central government actually has a layout in Goryeo, but the central government's energy is not focused on Goryeo at all. Both of them realized that as long as they could push forward the layout before the central government, not only would the situation in Goryeo be completely different, but the future of both of them would also be turned upside down.

The railroad workers' armament was built up very quickly, and in the midst of economic depression, the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company gained considerable prestige for several years by never defaulting on wages. It was easy to recruit the family members of some of the Korean Railway employees, and the new employees were happy to know that the work they had come to the company was similar to that of a caretaker. The income of the caretakers is not low.

By March, the number of railway police had expanded to about 3,000. They were assigned to various stations to guard the freight yards, warehouses, and also to guard the trains. Within a month or two, seven or eight hundred bandits were caught. These people were not sent to the official position, but were handed over by the railway police to the railway procuratorate, which prosecuted them and tried them by the railway court. The result of the trial was basically to send the mine to the railway for labor reform.

There are iron mines in Huanghae-do, and if you want to export capital in Goryeo, the best investment is of course the steel industry. China's steel output of more than 20 million tons cannot meet China's growing demand, so where is there so much steel to help Korea build the country. While Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen were working hard, Li Hongzhang was not idle, and he was in great contact with the Goryeo eunuchs and the Confucian institutions, the Inner Chamberlain and the Kuizhang Pavilion. Keep a close eye on the reaction of these two agencies to the actions of the Railways and the Telegraph Company.

The Inner Servant's Mansion didn't react, and the Kuizhang Pavilion of Rulin reacted quite a bit. When Li Hongzhang held a meeting, he talked about the attitudes of those Confucian people he came into contact with. After Li Hongzhang finished speaking, Yuan Weiting frowned and asked, "Director Li, are you saying that what these people care about is not that we have started to exercise judicial power in Goryeo, but that they think that our actions are not ruthless enough and do not conform to Confucian concepts?" ”

Yuan Weiting still has a bit of a family heirloom, and Wang Shizhen doesn't understand what Confucianism is like at all. So Wang Shizhen's question was more straightforward, "Director Li, does Gao Li really not care if we do this?" ”

Li Hongzhang explained: "Of course, I care, but this Confucian student's way of thinking about problems is very different from ours. In my words, the orders of His Majesty Weizer are as useful in Goryeo, and they will not dare to argue with me in power. Over the past few months, you have repeatedly gone to various yamen in Goryeo and asked them to solve the problem of banditry. They also self-gown themselves and have not set out to solve it at all, and they also have the intention of taking care of the loss. ”

This answer is clear enough, but what is clear is the truth, Wang Shizhen still can't imagine what the Korean people have to say. Li Hongzhang did not play the trick of letting his subordinates guess in the feudal era, he gave Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen a small lesson about the feudal system.

The legal system of the Republic of China determined that the judicial system itself was free from administrative interference, and even Wei Ze himself was under the law. Wei Ze obtained absolute power in accordance with the law, and theoretically as long as the people's congress can pass a resolution to reclaim Wei Ze's power, then Wei Ze is nothing. But there was no such idea in Goryeo, and the Goryeo royal court was above everything in Goryeo.

After all, China has been unified for so long, and the legal status in the system established by Qin Shi Huang, the ancestor of the unprecedented great revolution in Chinese history, is extremely important. "Law" was the most important institutional pillar of the Qin Dynasty. After that, Confucianism played a counter-revolutionary role, and in order to give Confucianism a respected status, they put "reason" before the law. The law should be logical and realistic, and this is not Confucianism's forte. Blind BB foaming at the mouth, this is something that the Confucian students can easily do.

Therefore, no matter how good the police and judicial system of the Republic of Korea based on historical materialism is, it is impossible for the upper echelons of Goryeo to accept it. The reason why the Goryeo royal court could not accept it was that the system established by the railroad and telegraph companies was not controlled by the Goryeo royal court. What the Confucian scholars could not accept was that the system was too controllable. The number of paths is too clear, and there is no room for them to be blind.

When it comes to this, Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen can still understand. Li Hongzhang was also a little relieved, these two young people were not good after all, and there was no problem with their comprehension ability. So Li Hongzhang continued to talk in depth.

Even if it was a second-best thing, the police and the judicial system were used by the Goryeo royal court. The Goryeo royal court still could not accept a police and judicial system that acted on its own in accordance with Goryeo law. As long as the existence of the law enforcement system and the basis of its actions are not the law, then the law enforcement system is no different from the existing system in Goryeo.

For the Confucian scholars, once the basis of the judiciary was not law, they turned to attack the efficiency of the system. Historically, the emergence of such new systems has been endless, and the origin of such changes is naturally that the current system cannot solve the problems of the time, and the driving force for such changes is the struggle between personnel power and administrative power launched by a certain group of powerful people in order to expand their own power. As for the outcome of such changes, when there is no fundamental change in the social system, the vast majority of changes are political battles that lead to great waste.

Successful changes are without exception the defeat of the old rulers, and the failed changes are the counter-attacks of the old rulers and the elimination of the groups that are trying to change. In the worst-case scenario, the change group is at odds with the old ruling group, and in the end, the other forces are allowed to pick the fruits out of thin air.

After talking about this, Li Hongzhang also felt a little exhausted. Even a small part of the history of political controversy requires considerable physical strength and energy.

Looking at Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen, Li Hongzhang asked, "Do you understand this?" ”

Yuan Weiting's eyes lit up, and he replied seriously: "Revolution is the result of the transformation of the productive forces. ”

Wang Shizhen replied: "This mountain looks at that mountain high, it will definitely lead to tragedy." ”

Li Hongzhang only felt that there was nothing to say, and the conclusions of these two people were also based on what Li Hongzhang expounded. But what these two men said was far from the current situation in Goryeo. What is certain now is that these two young men don't care what the Goryeo royal court and Goryeo Rulin think.

However, Li Hongzhang is Li Hongzhang after all, and he doesn't think there is anything wrong with these two people thinking about it so much. The situation in Goryeo was getting worse and worse, and the financial accounts of the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company were carried out by the Chinese banks of Pyongyang and Seoul in Goryeo. Even if the Goryeo royal court was in arrears, they could not get money from China.

The two old Goryeo armies, the Bulwei Battalion and the Zhuangyu Battalion, have not been paid for 17 months. April is another season of green and yellow, grain prices have skyrocketed, and Goryeo's grain exports to Japan have once again entered a peak period. If there was a mutiny at this time, neither the Goryeo court nor the Rulin would be anything in front of the rebellious army. At that time, the armed force mainly composed of Koreans carefully prepared by Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen could play a very important role. Li Hongzhang is willing to wait and see the results.