With a smiling face, Corporal Lixian sent Li Guangdi away with a humble attitude, Lin Feng immediately lowered his face and began to think about this matter from a comprehensive perspective, now things are more troublesome than he imagined, Li Guangdi's opinion just now represents the opinion of the entire civil service system, and before, due to the government's financial considerations, they have always been consistent with Lin Feng in terms of mercantile policy, and now they suddenly jumped out and lashed out at this policy, which shows that the current situation is indeed very serious.

From a political point of view, such an internal reform carried out in a peaceful environment is actually a process of compromise between radical and conservative, and whether this reform can really succeed, in addition to the perspective of economic growth, maintaining the stability of social order, or maintaining a smooth transition of society is also one of the most important test criteria, it is conceivable that if this policy of encouraging industry and commerce triggers an internal split within the Han military group, or pushes the conservatives under its own rule into its own camp, No matter which one it is, it is absolutely impossible for Lin Feng to accept it.

In fact, in Lin Feng's mind, the reason why he adopted this policy was mainly for the consideration of his tens of thousands of troops, and then by the way, let China embark on the road of modernization as soon as possible, although it is not very good in the military, but the basic concept of logistics is still there, and the military consumption in the gunpowder age is naturally not the same as that of cold weapon troops, and the matching must have the corresponding social productive forces to satisfy, and now to do it, it seems that he is a little taken for granted.

After thinking about it, Lin Feng had no choice but to send someone to find Wang Shirong. Lin Feng didn't have any idea of the real situation outside, so it was better to send someone to investigate.

Wang Shirong didn't give Lin Feng any good ideas this time, in fact, the military, as the beneficiary of this mercantile policy, is really a little embarrassed, Wang Shirong, as a traditional Confucian scholar, is really contradictory in his heart at this time, if judged by his own values, this deviant approach is very wrong, it is simply contrary to his own political ideas, but helplessly, the head is always determined by the ass, he is a senior officer, as the "Han Ordnance and Grain Statistics Bureau" The supreme commander is very clear about the equipment and logistics situation of the army, and the importance of this is still weighed, so he adopted an extremely rare strategy of "talking less and doing more" in front of Lin Feng this time. (Note 1)

The impartial attitude of the secret service system made the investigation report quite detailed, and when Lin Feng read this large pile of case files one by one, he couldn't help but be surprised, because this result was indeed too amazing.

The tone of the report is very calm, and it looks at the current situation completely and completely as a third person, and it specifically lists several major cases to illustrate, and the most irritating of Lin Feng is a criminal case involving Beijing's "Huairentang".

Because of the military reform, all units of the Han army have established the "Langzhong Battalion" under the overall planning of the General Staff, which exists independently as a field hospital, so for the establishment of this organ, the government needs to purchase a large number of medical equipment and medicines, and Beijing Huairentang, as a well-known time-honored brand, is of course the first choice, but unfortunately, there are other groups of people who are fighting the idea of this business. Of course, this group of people could not win in the legitimate business competition, so one night, the family of Huai Ren Tang's generation was assassinated in their own home, and then the drug warehouse in their backyard was also burned, and the murderer quickly turned himself in, and confessed to his crime in the Chengtianfu court, it is said that the motive for the murder was that the famous doctor of Huai Ren Tang deceived his family into poverty, and he did not save him when he saw death, so he held a grudge and committed murder, of course, this simple case was quickly concluded, and the murderer was immediately executed to pay for his life, However, Huairentang lost an astronomical amount of business because of this incident.

Lin Feng still has some impressions of this matter, in fact, this criminal was personally executed by himself, and it was a little strange at the time, it stands to reason that this Huairentang family is a famous person, and the place where he lives is near the garrison of the guards, but now he was easily killed single-handedly and burned the warehouse by the way, this murderer can indeed be regarded as a generation of masters, but it was the Russian envoy who visited at that time, and he did not think about it carefully, and now it is speculated according to this report that he can have the ability to complete this "project". There are only so many people in Beijing.

In addition to this case, there are also a lot of other incidents listed in the report, through the official articles on the paper, Lin Feng immediately understood what Wang Shirong meant, and it can be seen that Lao Wang must have had a headache when writing this report, not only to let Lin Feng understand what he meant, but also not to be suspected of falsely accusing colleagues. Almost all of these large and small cases have one thing in common, that is, the victims are all the owners of traditional handicraft workshops under the rule of the Han army, although their criminal methods are varied, or usury, or kidnapping, or intimidation, or physical threats, in short, the ultimate goal is to force the other party to sell their own property or give up some competition, and behind these criminals, more or less have the shadow of Han army officers and government bureaucrats.

It's really frightening, Lin Feng, who read the report, couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, is this the germ of capitalism in his mind?!!

Robbery?!

Officials and businessmen?!

Is this encouraging business or "mutilating"?

Lin Feng suddenly felt a little overwhelmed, this situation appeared, he had no way at all now, and what made him even more at a loss was that judging from his position, he couldn't even judge the right and wrong of these things, he didn't know whether to divide these things into "criminal primitive accumulation of capital", or sentence these things as "vicious criminal cases".

What is even more terrifying is that, judging from the current situation, even if he judges these things as vicious criminal cases, I am afraid that he will not be able to deal with and crack down on them -- judging from Wang Shirong's implications, this kind of robbery with open fire is no longer a reckless move by a certain person or a few people, but a semi-official act within his own ruling group, and a collective act of a large number of officials.

Lin Feng did not have any luck about the authenticity of this report, in fact, since the corruption of the army was rectified, he had a clear understanding of the group of officers under his command, but at this moment he did not have too much anger, because from the origin of the matter, Lin Feng himself also bears a huge responsibility for the expansion of "Hu Ji Tiexing", and maybe these people may have seen their connivance with Hu Mingren, so they will be so unscrupulous, right? Perhaps, just yesterday or the day before yesterday, Hu Mingren acted as a political weather vane to some extent, even if things were not at all as imagined.

Lin Feng deeply understood the responsibilities and obligations of a dictator at this moment, and he suddenly understood why so many emperors in China were able to "be famous and martial" and many were "absurd and tired of government", this is really a profession that requires 10,000 percent caution, and a little carelessness in words and deeds will lead to disastrous consequences.

There are thousands of thoughts in his heart, Lin Feng was carried by his hands, back and forth in the study, and he was never able to make a decision, this matter is related to internal unity and unity, it seems that he can't find a think tank and strategist for advice, and can only be "dictatorial" by himself.

I don't know how many circles I went around back and forth, Lin Feng was bored, he couldn't help but walk to the window, and pushed the window open.

A cool breeze hit, blowing the calligraphy and paintings in the study, Lin Feng looked back, only to see the huge map behind the desk was blown high, slapping the wall behind him one by one, he stared for a long time, the Han army occupied area was firmly embedded in the Qing army, the peasant army and the Mongolian army surrounded by the army, several small flags swaying in the breeze, precarious.

Lin Feng suddenly sighed, reached out to take Wang Shirong's investigation report, hesitated for a moment, and then leaned over to the candle and lit it, quietly watching it slowly turn into ashes. (Note 2)

Note 1: There are many book friends and brothers who put forward the concept of 'Four Great Wenchen' to the characters in the book, the author is a little embarrassed, in fact, it is very clear that Zhou Peigong and Wang Shirong are both senior military officers and military generals.