Li Hongzhang smiled and nodded, "Yue Meng is becoming more and more sophisticated, one sentence will seal me up, I won't talk to the president about any official business, the biggest official thing is to delay the pressure of the Great Qing Kingdom to repay the loan, didn't Yue Meng not agree?" ”

Yixuan didn't speak, and when he saw Li Hongzhang mention this stubble, he wanted to speak, but he couldn't help it, indeed, the Qing court had to pay 10 million taels of silver to Huaguo every year, which was indeed a big burden on the Qing court's finances, which were on the verge of collapse. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"President, can you slow down, please really slow down, the Qing Kingdom is too difficult, if it goes on like this, it won't be able to support it this year." Yixuan echoed Li Hongzhang's words and said.

Li Hongzhang nodded, and he was also energetic, if he could say that Xuan Yuemeng would be reduced, or to ease the repayment pressure of the Qing court, he would really make a great contribution today.

President Meng smiled: "I didn't say it, how much is 10 million taels of silver?" Even if you don't know how to do it yourself, if you put it in my hands, the remaining land in the Qing Kingdom will be taxed at 50 or 60 million yuan every year with your eyes closed! ”

Li Hongzhang was surprised: "How do you collect fifty or sixty million taxes?" Jiangnan is in the hands of the Great Qing Kingdom, and the annual taxes of the Great Qing Kingdom have never exceeded 20 million taels. ”

"So, this is your problem, you control the business too hard, the business can't come up, how can the money come up? Thinking about making a fuss from the salt eaten by the common people, the iron tools they use, and the rice they eat, can this be rich? It's all about fishing. "President Meng is very serious about discussing the future of the Qing court with Li Hongzhang, although he can't administer this area for the time being, but President Meng is still very concerned about the development of the whole of China, and also hopes that the Qing Dynasty can be civilized.

Li Hongzhang sighed, "It's easy to say, these are the rules that have been passed down from generation to generation, and you should be the place where you hit it with a gun?" Do whatever you want? ”

President Meng smiled: "That's not the case, you haven't worked hard at all, in my opinion, it's not that there is a problem with the Westernization Movement, but that your Westernization Movement is just a formality, and there is no serious reform at all, no matter how much equipment you buy, you can't run a money-making factory." ”

President Meng said these words, how could Li Hongzhang not understand? But is there any way, the whole system, that can be moved by one person? Jiangnan, the only one with the most foundation for reform, was directly taken away by you, and it is also wrong for you to make us want to reform now, Li Hongzhang sighed.

President Meng doesn't think so, if he doesn't take it, you will continue to take the route of being beaten, taking the route of kneeling and sending money, so that thousands of Chinese will never be able to raise their heads, and they will not be able to straighten their waists and be people! Then in the First Sino-Japanese War, I directly sent a gift package of 200 million taels of silver to the Japanese! In President Meng's opinion, he asked the Qing court for 200 million taels of silver, which is really not much at all, and it is much better than giving it to the Japanese devils.

Moreover, without the financial output of the Qing court, just relying on President Meng's own ability to carry out reforms, even if China is partially industrialized, it will take half a century, or even a century.

Because, the world is constantly moving, and the great powers will not watch you develop and ignore it.

President Meng believes that Li Hongzhang understands these truths, but he also understands Li Hongzhang's difficulties, and wants to carry out Western-style reforms in feudal rule, and he will always be a flower in the moonlight mirror in the water.

President Meng played for a while, and Li Hongzhang Hara, and then told some jokes with Yixuan, in a good mood, in this way, a little interesting came out, when the president for what, not just for the hard life, President Meng is actually very satisfied with the current state, in this era, Huaguo has been able to assume the responsibility of supporting China, not to mention putting on steel armor for the land of China, at least wearing a cloth armor.

If you are not a super power, if you want to come to China to find trouble, you have to weigh it yourself.

"But there's one thing I really want to thank you for." Li Hongzhang thought of something.

President Meng said strangely: "Oh? What's the matter? It's not the New Year's gift I gave Li Zhongtang, right? ”

Although there is no need to bribe Li Hongzhang now, the etiquette of President Meng is still done, and during the New Year, the people of Tianjin Station sent the Zeng family and Li Hongzhang's family New Year's goods respectively, and also gave Hua Yuan worth 30,000 taels of silver!

Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "That matter is a private matter, of course, I want to thank you, but it can only show that Yuemeng is a great person, otherwise, how could I be pulled to the platform by you again?" I still don't know what I'm standing on. ”

President Meng smiled, knowing that he couldn't hide anything from Li Hongzhang, so he didn't speak.

Xuan Zonglu answered: "Zhongtang, what are you thanking us for?" ”

"That's it?" Yi Liang also wants to hear the answer.

Li Hongzhang said slowly: "What else can it be, the British thing, I heard that Yue Meng settled the matter of the foreigner translator who was killed by the people in Yunnan last time, during this time, the British Minister Wei Tuma did not come to me again, I can't thank Yue Meng?" ”

Everyone laughed and said yes.

The convoy swayed along the city of Beijing, and there was no special place, which further relaxed the vigilance of Emperor Li's concubine, Jie Gege and Li Hongzhang, everyone didn't know what President Meng was going to do, in fact, they were vaguely still thinking, what political purpose does Xuan Yuemeng have, it seems that Xuan Yuemeng has a political purpose for doing everything.

"There are so many people in this capital?" When the concubine of Emperor Li saw the crowd of people on the street, she couldn't help asking.

Geger laughed, "How long has it been since you came out?" It's normal for so many people to be there, and it's the New Year. ”

Princess Katrina Kafu continued: "Originally, there were not so many people, because our management has reached a level, now the household registration of Beijing City is basically completed, the people are stable, and the Chinese ruling area does not collect taxes, how many people want to do business here, this is the capital, they had no power before, how dare the little people who have no capital come, President Meng is just a wholesale market, it has opened more than 20 at one time, all of which are various special markets, including shoes and clothing, leather, small commodities, steel and building materials markets, and ...... ”

Princess Katrina Kafu has a lot of credit for this, and it can be said that she has made great contributions, and she is familiar with all aspects, so the introduction is particularly detailed.

Emperor Li's concubine was fascinated by what she heard, and couldn't help but say, "It's all Xuan Yuemeng's idea?" ”

"Well, our Meng president's brain is amazing, I can think of everything, the re-planning of the entire Beijing city, a total of 14 phases of renovation projects, all the widening of the main road, high-end community planning, and the outer city, than originally expected to expand fifteen times, in the future, it will really become a big Beijing, to connect Beijing, Tianjin, Tongzhou, all together, by next year, the population will at least ten times!" Princess Katrina Kafu said with a smile.

"Well, with the money of the Great Qing Kingdom, all of it was used for construction." Jiegege couldn't help but be a little angry again, she also hoped that President Meng would develop well, and hoped that Huaguo would develop well, but all this money was squeezed out of the Qing Dynasty's ruling area, which still made Jiegege a little unable to get over this hurdle.

Princess Katrina Kafu smiled and shook her head, "You can't say it all, yes, 10 million taels of official silver will be handed over to Huaguo every year, and the pressure on the Qing court is very great, but this money, in Huaguo's finances, really does not account for anything, in President Meng's first ten-year plan, the construction funds alone will be more than 300 billion official silver converted into Chinese dollars, you calculate, the two billion official silver, what is it?" ”

"Since Huaguo is so rich, why do you want the imperial court to pay so much silver?" When Gege heard Princess Katrina Kafu talking to Xuan Yuemeng, she didn't know why, and her heart was pantothenic.

Concubine Lihuang was also listening attentively, she didn't know much about politics, and now what Jie'er and Princess Katrina Kafu were talking about was the politics at the top of China.

"Why? Because this money should have been given by the Qing court, the Qing court took out this part of the money to facilitate the return of funds, and the president said that he would not rely on this money to weaken the Qing ruling area, but to help them. Princess Katrina Kaaf said seriously.

Jiegege couldn't understand this, and said strangely: "After taking our money, do you still help us?" (To be continued.) )