At this time, the members of the provincial advisory bureaus once again wrote to the Qing court against the imperial cabinet, and this time, the parliamentarians spoke in an extremely tough tone, saying: "The cabinet should be responsible, and it is not appropriate to appoint the prime minister Yi Qinwei, please reduce the minister and reorganize the cabinet." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 However, the excerpt was not issued by the regent Zaifeng, and the representatives of the members of the Consultative Bureau were not satisfied, and continued to write to demand the removal of the imperial cabinet, and finally Zaifeng replied to the parliamentarians: "The use of people as the power of the monarch must not interfere with the provincial councilors." ”

This time it really hurt the hearts of the provincial councilors, who were still reluctant to give up on this Manchu court, and wanted to reform the Qing Dynasty through a constitutional monarchy and make the country strong and rich, but in the end it was a dream, and many parliamentarians wept bitterly and returned to their hometowns.

When Zhang Jian was in Jinmen, he sent a telegram to Wang Yongan and said: "The Manchu Qing Dynasty has no cure, and it is not a pity to die." ”

appeased the army, Shanghai Daotai Cai Naihuang came to visit again, Wang Yongan asked clearly after thinking about it, it turned out to be the Gengzi indemnity, last year (1910) Gengzi indemnity was guaranteed by the imperial court to borrow money from foreign banks to repay, but how to repay this year's Gengzi indemnity? There is still no silver in the Shanghi silver treasury, not to mention that the stock market crash caused the Qing court to lose silver, that is, other rich people also deposited the silver in the China Industrial Bank, and now the richest in the entire Jiangnan and Jiangbei is the China Industrial Bank, someone gave Cai Naihuang a preliminary estimate that the silver stored in the China Industrial Bank is 80 million taels, so Cai Naihuang found Wang Yongan, hoping to borrow some silver from the China Industrial Bank to repay Gengzi's compensation.

Wang Yongan smiled after understanding his intentions: "It's not difficult to borrow, but what kind of guarantee does the imperial court use?" ”

Cai Naihuang said: "The imperial court entrusts the general with a heavy responsibility, and the general should know that the imperial court will never let the general suffer, and will definitely find an opportunity to repay the general." ”

Wang Yongan sneered: "Is this opportunity to be regarded as prevarication? I don't believe in any chances, I don't believe in promises, either give me a certain accurate mortgage, or leave everything to say. The Industrial Bank of China is not only mine, but also the gentry and people in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, Cai Daotai, have you seen that the Industrial Bank of China indiscriminately caused Chinese currency? ”

"No, I didn't."

"So, I'm not going to make a selfish decision." Wang Yongan said, "But if Cai Daotai can occasionally make a mortgage and mortgage the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to the China Industrial Bank, I can consider persuading the shareholders to borrow money from the imperial court." ”

Cai Naihuang was taken aback and said, "How can it be like this, how can it be like this?" ”

Wang Yongan said: "In business, I have no confidence in borrowing without collateral, and the board of directors of the bank has no confidence after all. ”

Cai Naihuang had no choice but to retire and informed Zai Ze, the minister of the Du branch, that Zai Ze saw that Wang Yongan had set up a Zhonghua Industrial Bank and could make money, so why didn't the imperial court set up a bank.

So Zai Ze found Sheng Xuanhuai and wanted to join him in half a bank, Sheng Xuanhuai couldn't cry or laugh, and said: "Running a bank is extremely complicated, we don't have talents around us, and the bank needs a large amount of start-up capital as capital." That Wang Yongan opened a bank, mainly with the support of businessmen from Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and deposited the silver in the Zhonghua Industrial Bank, and he himself was rich with tens of millions, and he could only open a bank with capital. Zhenguo Gong, does the imperial court open a bank with silver? It's not much, only two million taels of silver, and Wang Yongan's first acquaintance was two million taels of silver. ”

Zai Ze said: "Where did I get two million taels of silver." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said: "Then the bank can't be opened, who will believe us if there is no capital for trading." Sheng Xuanhuai naturally knew that behind Wang Yongan's bank was the hope of the wealthy gentry and wealthy businessmen of the Han people in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and this Qing Dynasty wealth gateway was ready to stand on its own, and the imperial court had to find another way to prepare money.

"If you don't run a bank, you won't be able to repay Gengzi's compensation, and there will be more profits in the future." Zai Ze said, "I, the minister of the branch, have almost become a beggar for food." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai suddenly had an idea and said, "Why not state-owned railways?" ”

"Railways are state-owned?" Zai Ze asked, "Aren't you in charge of the railway?" How is it state-owned? ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said with a smile: "We redeemed the railway from the people, and then mortgaged it to foreign banks, and borrowed money from foreign banks. ”

Zai Ze slapped his thigh and immediately said: "The railway state is good, the railway country is very good, let's go to meet the regent together to explain everything, we will definitely be able to convince him." ”

The reason why Sheng Xuanhuai proposed the state-owned railways was actually to reap the benefits of just fighting, originally the Ministry of Posts in the late Qing Dynasty was the Yamen of Oil and Water, and whoever became the Minister of Posts could get oil and water. It's a pity that Sheng Huaixuan has many wives and concubines, just more than 20 concubines, and countless children, and all eat, drink, prostitute and gamble extremely extravagantly, Sheng Xuanhuai since he served as the Minister of Postal Affairs, found that the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the Army Airlines is mostly foreign debts, such as the gold owners behind the China Shipping Group is the Wang brothers, if Sheng Huaixuan dares to touch this cake, it is estimated that his children and grandchildren in his hometown in Changzhou will be killed by the Wang brothers, so after blackmailing everywhere, Sheng Xuanhuai still found that it was not enough to supplement the family, so he hit the idea of the railway.

And Zai Ze, the young man, couldn't think of Sheng Xuanhuai's insidiousness, they found the regent Zaifeng together, Sheng Xuanhuai began to fool Zaifeng, Sheng Xuanhuai said: "The Sichuan people refused the foreigners' funds at first, and raised their own funds to build the Sichuan-Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, which was a good thing, but now the funds are scarce, and the Sichuan people have no money to continue to build, so they have to stop the railway." It is better for the court to spend money to redeem it from the people, transfer it to the state, and then mortgage it to foreigners, so that the foreign debt will be repaid and there will be a surplus. ”

Zaifeng readily agreed, and Sheng Xuanhuai immediately found Britain, France, the United States and Germany, mortgaged the Sichuan-Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway built by the Sichuan people to the foreigners, and then forcibly redeemed the Sichuan-Guangdong-Han Railway from the people after borrowing the silver. Of course, if Sheng Xuanhuai honestly distributed silver to the people of Sichuan, he would not make too much trouble, but he didn't expect that Sheng Xuanhuai knew that he was sixty-eight years old this year, and he felt that his time was short, so it was better to make a big one, so he would give the people of Sichuan Province no silver but only silver tickets.

The people of Sichuan Province are naturally not fools, although they did not use the Chinese currency of the China Industrial Bank as the people of Jiangnan and Jiangbei expelled the Yinzhuang ticket number, but they also knew that the reputation of the Yinzhuang ticket number was too poor now, and the silver ticket was a piece of waste paper in their hands, so they protested one after another.

Sheng Xuanhuai only used silver tickets instead of silver, so he was greedy for millions of silver, and he took kickbacks from foreigners and had two million taels, and before and after the railway was nationalized, Sheng Xuanhuai, the minister of posts and communications, made a net profit of four million taels of silver.

When the foreigner exploration team came to the Sichuan-Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway to survey, the Sichuan people did not dare to drive the foreigners away, and threatened: "The Sichuan-Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway is from Sichuan Province, and outsiders don't want to be contaminated." In order to protest, the people of Sichuan Province went on strike by businessmen and students, and Zhao Erfeng, the governor of Sichuan, knew that the atmosphere of the people was and could not be suppressed casually.

Sheng Xuanhuai immediately said to Zaifeng that the people of Sichuan were rude and did not understand etiquette, and they should shoot the disturbers. At this time, Duan Fang asked for an official, and Sheng Xuanhuai recommended Duan Fang to serve as the Minister of Supervision of the Sichuan-Guangdong-Han Railway, and promised him that if Duan Fang could suppress the people of Sichuan Province, he would recommend him as the governor of Sichuan Province.

Duan Fang was elated, and after arriving in Wuchang, he borrowed troops from the governor of Huguang, Rui Zi (pronounced Tongcheng), into Sichuan, but Rui Cheng had always been at odds with Duan Fang, so naturally he could not borrow troops.

But at this time, there was a bloody case in Chengdu.