Chapter 571: This Gold Is Not Another Gold
It is common for the court to attack each other in the court, Li Guolou was not at ease, and was the first to leave the study, and hurried to the prime minister's yamen, where he ate a few small biscuits in the morning, and his stomach was growling, and he was just thinking about the food in the prime minister's yamen restaurant
"Master Li" at the gate of the palace, Xiao Dezhang probed his brain and shouted
Li Guolou's face was strange, he was a little uneasy in his heart, he didn't do anything bad for a long time, he touched his nose, approached, and asked in a low voice: "What's the matter with Xiao Dezhang?"
Xiao De stretched out his hand with a smile on his hippie smile and said, "Master Li has been promoted again, don't forget the little brother."
Li Guolou touched all over his body, brought dozens of silver tickets into the palace, and gave them away, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Xiaodezhang, my silver tickets are rewarded, and I will make up for it next time."
"Oh, it's okay, next time I remember my little brother, I'll do it" Xiao Dezhang doesn't care about this kind of small money, but the rules in the palace can't be broken, and he ran from the Old Summer Palace to the Forbidden City and didn't get a penny of copper coins, a little down, and said: "The Queen Mother told Master Li to go to the Old Summer Palace tomorrow to meet the Queen Mother."
"Oh, I know, tomorrow morning, after the meeting of the Military Aircraft Department, I will immediately go to the Old Summer Palace to meet the two queen mothers, Xiaode Zhang, you go back on an errand," Li Guolou did not kowtow, thanking him, just like the master sent his slaves, he waved his hand and left
Xiao Dezhang still smiled and said loudly: "Master Li, let's go, little brother take a few friends to Baozhi's room to rub for a meal, and go back to the evening to make errands."
The other eunuchs all call themselves slaves, but Li Guolou is the eldest brother of Xiaode Zhang Zhi, he has the opportunity to eat and use it for a lifetime
Li Guoloutou didn't reply and said: "Xiaode Zhang don't have more than one table of people"
"Deling" Xiao Dezhang made a strange tone, now he is a celebrity in the palace, the power is monstrous, the three masters are in front of the snowflakes, the silver is rolling, it is no longer the broken little eunuch in the past, his backstage is Li Lianying and Li Guolou, now there is no need to practice walking with the "Wufu" toilet
Li Guolou muttered in a low voice: "How can so many women be settled, they want my life."
Li Guolou was preoccupied, leaving the Forbidden City, family affairs, and state affairs were mixed together, and for the rise of the nation, he should abandon his personal enjoyment of Gou Jian, but he was lying on his salary and had the courage to live a hard life, and he was fat and light, and behind him, there were a lot of loaded guns, how could Goshha be a low-key person
Thinking that he shouldn't marry so many women if he worked for the country and the people, Li Guolou rode a horse, and even calculated which grandmothers to kick out, and he had to pay the public food at the family banquet at night, and he was both happy and worried, and he was born to work hard, and the perfect combination of life and color is his goal, or should he spend his energy on the Empress Dowager Ci'an and the Empress Dowager Cixi, so as to lay a good foundation for the next career, women have to coax him, how can they have time to settle so many she-wolves, Li Guolou was cranky, and he didn't realize that he had been watching more than a dozen horses, and the people were watching and could not walk an inch, and he was blocked on the street
"Let's see Lord Li", "We are Zhao Zilong of the Qing Dynasty", "Lord Li, we support you"
Bustling, everyone on Chang'an Street has patriotic complexes, the people of Beijing worship Li Guolou as a national hero, dense crowds gather more and more, a wide street traffic jams, help the old and the young, and the people rush out to see the diorama
Li Guolou's ten personal soldiers and guards hurriedly surrounded Li Guolou's mount, and they wanted to highlight the encirclement in the middle, but there were too many people, and countless hands stretched out, wanting to be stained with the light of national heroes
Li Guolou had nowhere to escape, and he persuaded a few words to let the people disperse, but instead attracted a large number of onlookers to cheer loudly: "Master Li, say a few words, where is our Daqing Road, you are the guide."
"Yes, yes, Master Li, say a few words, I will deposit all the money in the family, please come to the bank, our whole family supports your restructuring"
The crowd is crowded and squeezed down, and if it goes down, it will kill people, Li Guolou dare to say more, he wants to escape from Chang'an Avenue, regretting that he shouldn't have crossed the street on horseback, and he is watching like a monkey, and he doesn't dare to be angry, and now he represents the interests of many people with his words and deeds, how can he lower his value
Some people cry, some people laugh, and finally saw the famous Li Guolou in the world, and sure enough, the spirit of people and horses, Goshha around him are all heroes, and the crowd is black and oppressive along the way, chanting patriotic slogans: "Regain the land of the Qing Dynasty and defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance"
"The Great Qing Dynasty is a hundred victories, and the generals are victorious"
"Wansheng" "Wansheng" "Wansheng" "Wansheng"
It was only a quarter of an hour from the Forbidden City to the Prime Minister's Yamen, Li Guolou and his entourage had difficulty walking an inch, and it was ten times more difficult to walk than visiting the temple fair
Fan Dahui was already the prime minister's yamen, and he was impatiently waiting, pointed to his pocket watch and said, "Lord Li, take a look at what time it is, Prince Gong and Master Fu are still waiting for you to eat."
Li Guolou said angrily: "Why do you want to die together when I wait?"
Seeing that Li Guolou had a bad temper and was not proud, Fan Dahui knew that the study was not going well, and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with Master Li, who is angry with you?"
Li Guolou waved his arm and said: "Go in and say that when we are Western-style factions, we are shit and I was almost killed by Master Fu Xiang, why didn't you notify me in advance and attack me from all sides."
Li Guolou complained all the way into the state guest hall, and also complained that Li Hongzhang did not go to the road, did not disclose a little information in advance, and let him be this traitorous envoy, even if he betrayed a little national interests, he could still afford to sell a little national interests, and there was a conspiracy behind him, if it were not for his cool-headedness, he did not respect his teacher, and dared to speak up, maybe the Tongzhi Emperor was hot-headed and ignored the conditions put forward by the British Empire, and the disaster of war was opened, and the coastline of the Qing Dynasty would be restless
Li Guolou can speak and tell Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang about the strange things that happened in the morning meeting, and turn the reception banquet into a Western-style denunciation meeting, and they all scolded the Qing faction for having nothing to do, and they were as ignorant as those mobs in the Tianjin teaching case
"Hey, people are too upright, but instead of being officials, Li Hongzao and Weng Tonggong are the princes, and Taibao is suitable to be the emperor, but it will make a country suffer a disaster, and the national shame is that Lin Zexu took a closed door to close the country and brought it to say that it is good to ban opium imports into the Qing Dynasty, and it is a ban on opium, that is unwilling to trade with the British, which caused the first opium war, how can scholars govern the country, and can they talk to foreign devils?" Li Hongzhang was full of complaints, this time he was reprimanded by Emperor Tongzhi, and he knew that there was no good thing, but he didn't expect that behind it was the Qing faction and the conservatives, who wanted to bring down his Fu Xiangzi
Prince Gong drank it and smiled bitterly: "Lord Fu Xiang, they are trying to get rid of the Prime Minister's Yamen, this kind of despicable trick will only make the relatives bitter and the enemies bring great shame to the Qing Dynasty."
Li Guolou echoed: "Yes, Prince Gong, you said too well, I also advise the emperor to take a step back, the sea and the sky, endure the calm for a while, we are a hard-working nation, as long as the gross national product doubles after ten years of steady restructuring."
Prince Gong looked at him and said: "Li Guolou, you drank too much, and when you came back, you talked nonsense, my country's war reparations have to be repaid for eight years, and after ten years, you will be debt-free and light, and the country's annual income will be conservative, and 50 million taels of silver will be doubled twice, which is 150 million taels of silver, where will you dig up so much silver, and turn it twice, if you don't turn it over and press Qiu Xiang's body."
Fan Dahui, Xu Zhan, and Zhang Jingtian, the three staff members, hehe, hehe, clinked glasses with each other, and Li Guolou said big things again, this person is thick-skinned and dares to set a historical precedent, as if ridiculing Li Guolou, in fact, they all pricked up their ears and listened, and they all knew that Li Guolou advocated that there was a practical and feasible plan, and directly took it as a doctrine and changed it into a Westernist idea
Li Guolou sat with a sneer in his nose and sighed: "You guys are still short-sighted, I only see the big train in front of you, the small and small Western building, and the big train has been almost built. The queen mother will play a few times in the two palaces, and the queen mother will also like to take the big train, which is a hundred times more luxurious than the luxury carriage, and the prince and Fujin will also like to go to the Western building to play, and the train rings, the gold is ten thousand taels, have you heard of this Western proverb, I will save the country with a trick, and I will bring the Qing Dynasty to the road of strong industry to save the country, this time you can't be greedy for my credit, not to mention the fact that I have been in the book, and this matter is brilliant in the annals of history, and Li Guolou rewrote the history of the Qing Dynasty."
Li Hongzhang's slender eyes glared and he reprimanded angrily: "Li Guolou, don't be greedy for other people's credit, building the train is the governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong is going to build the Jinghan Railway, but you are doing it is useless, how can you govern the country?"
Li Guolou opened his mouth and was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while
How could the Manchu nobles be so good at talking, otherwise the Qing Dynasty would not be able to see a train route, and Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong were not on good terms, Li Hongzhang specially put small shoes on Zhang Zhidong, even if the court passed the bill, the court would not allocate enough money to Huguang Governor Zhang Zhidong, the Jinghan Railway will definitely be built and unfinished, and now he said that Li Hongzhang clearly wants to grab the credit, he wants to meddle in the railway business, he must be stripped of his skin, Li Hongzhang spoke implicitly, and even revealed that he was not very clean, and the old bottom said that he cheated in the Jinshi and deserved to explore Hualang Zhang Zhidong, not on the same level
"Oh, this king has also heard this Western proverb, it turns out that this gold is real gold, not gold excreted from the train."
Prince Gong listened happily, his right hand is a capable minister, one is good at using roundabout strategies, Li Guolou is also willing to betray the hue, and he can learn from the same, and he can fight in one net, if it is really his proud protégé, the other is excellent, Li Hongzhang can put aside personal grievances, speak for Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, to create momentum for the first Jinghan railway in the Qing Dynasty
Everyone laughed at Prince Gong, who was able to have fun in the bitterness, and did not collapse because of the Margaret case, and joked at the dinner table
Li Guolou's bitter gourd smiled embarrassedly, he couldn't tell the true meaning of this Western proverb, don't be said by Prince Gong, this gold is not the other, as soon as the gold train opens, the country will go into debt and financial difficulties, and the Westernists will hand over the management of the railway construction errand to the foreigners, and then betray the interests of the country
Hurriedly reminded: "Prince Gong, Master Fu Xiang, don't joke, the train construction is inseparable from the help of foreigners, but in the future, the jurisdiction must not be handed over to foreigners, even if foreigners invest, it is not okay, this is the artery of the Qing Dynasty is controlled by foreigners, and our lives will be handed over to foreigners, then we will never turn over to build railways, if the funds are not enough, you can raise funds from the private sector, and allow you to operate them for a number of years, and foreigners, banks, and businessmen will also handle the profits with this policy, and you can share the profits, and the sovereignty will never be betrayed."
Li Hongzhang had no place to vent the evil fire in his belly, and was scolded as a traitor for a day or two, and he was reprimanded by Emperor Tongzhi, and the grandson of the Yitong clan also dared to expose his scars, put on an elder tone, and was not afraid to knock the precious folding fan to break, and knocked Li Guolou's head casually, and scolded: "Li Guolou, who are you talking about, I don't understand foreign affairs, who else in the world understands?"
Li Guolou's neck shrank, and he stroked his head and said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, Lord Fu Xiang's lesson, I just said, remind all the subordinates to be the special envoy for the negotiation of the Margaret case, or continue to bargain according to the framework discussed by Master Fu Xiang, I will be a grocery shopping grandmother, pick out the rotten vegetable skins from the British basket and throw them away."
Hearing Li Guolou's statement, Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang's faces were much better, and they wanted to fight for this tone, and they must not sacrifice a little national interests because of the fall of the Ma Jiali case