Young Master Meng touched the armrest of the chair with his chubby paws, and said lightly: "I don't need adults to treat me as the object of key care, just treat me as an ordinary manager of a foreign bank, I believe that Lord Zhongtang is such a powerful person, or put the social welfare of the Qing Kingdom in the first place!" ”

Li Hongzhang suddenly laughed again, "That's right, listening to what Yue Meng said, if you're not careful, your headquarters will become a shameless person!" But the headquarters wants to ask Yue Meng, without the shameless person of the headquarters, how did these Huai troops grow, and how did the world stabilize? If there is no money in the hands of the headquarters, how can foreign affairs be promoted? Yuemeng, you said that you are so noble, Yuemeng, you don't make less money? ”

Young Master Meng said in his heart, the westernization is your own westernization, no wonder the Qing Dynasty's Westernization movement failed to reach home, that is, by a few of you, regarded it as your own private property, and there was no extensive mobilization of the grassroots, so it would be delayed

Young Master Meng smiled faintly and said, "Not a penny of the money I earn is without conscience!" ”

"Not necessarily, right? This Tianjin was originally owned by my Qing Dynasty, and this concession was forcibly occupied by foreigners, and you help foreigners make money, isn't this making money with a clear conscience? Is there really anything good about foreigners? "Li Hongzhang sarcastically ridiculed Xuan Yuemeng, he didn't think that Xuan Yuemeng had anything noble!" Well, the headquarters already knows what Yue Meng means, only Yue Meng is noble, and everyone else is shameless. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Xuanzong saw that the two words were going down more and more, and knew that he was going to stiffen, so he hurriedly said: "Lord Zhongtang, Yue Meng definitely didn't mean this, Lord Zhongtang, don't misunderstand." ”

Young Master Meng knew what Li Hongzhang needed, and he used words to confront, that is, to make a mouth happy, Young Master Meng slapped his face, and Qiu Yun presented a silver ticket, which was 500,000 taels!

There is no silver ticket that works, if you want to deal with the old dog, you have to use dog bones, and no one understands this truth better than the young master Meng!

The inferiority of the feudal bureaucratic landlord class has been seen through by Young Master Meng!

Li Hongzhang hasn't done anything for Xuan Yuemeng recently, this is an extra gift from Xuan Yuemeng, Li Hongzhang naturally won't know in his heart, it is difficult for him to resist the temptation of such a large sum of cash!

Li Hongzhang smiled slightly, and motioned for Qiu Yun to put it aside first, "Yuemeng, what is this for?" Isn't there too much silver, and you need to ask the headquarters to help you spend some of it? ”

Young Master Meng said with a smile: "This is to show respect to the adults, in the future, Yue Meng will give the silver to the Lord Zhongtang every year, at least more than 500,000 taels, half of the annual taxes in the entire Zhili region, and there may not be fifty-five taels of silver." ”

Li Hongzhang nodded, "This is indeed a lot, but the headquarters is useless, do you have anything to do?" ”

Young Master Meng smiled: "First of all, I am grateful to Lord Zhongtang for allowing my grandfather to sit smoothly in the position of governor of Liaoning, in addition, just now Lord Zhongtang said that my father is going to sit on the fourth grade, the prefect of Tianjin!" Concurrently serve as the Prime Minister's Yamen to host Zhang Jing! Take full responsibility for Tianjin foreign affairs! I thank you in advance. ”

Young Master Meng did not mention that the Kingdom of Hawaii was allowed to establish a consulate of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Prince Richard Harris in the Great Qing Kingdom! And, cede Dandong as the Consulate of the Kingdom of Hawaii for a period of 100 years!

The affairs of the Hawaii Kingdom are actually the most important to Young Master Meng, but Young Master Meng believes that the more Li Hongzhang does not know that he is involved in this matter, the easier it will be to handle this matter!

Sure enough, Li Hongzhang asked: "I heard that there is a Hawaii Kingdom recently, and we want the Qing Dynasty to allow the Hawaii Kingdom to establish a Hawaii Kingdom Consulate in the name of Prince Richard Harris in the Qing Dynasty!" Moreover, the concession area of Dandong as the consulate of the Kingdom of Hawaii was ceded for a period of 100 years, wasn't this matter arranged by Yue Meng? ”

Young Master Meng shook his head, "I didn't arrange it, I didn't know about this matter at all!" ”

Li Hongzhang snorted, and said in his heart, it should be arranged by the consulates of several great powers, it seems that this Hawaiian kingdom has some origins, since the imperial court has no opinions, this matter should be settled as soon as possible.

"As for Hong Tao's matter, Hong Tao still needs to take credit in this negotiation with the Japanese, so that the old man can easily recommend Hong Tao, originally, this has foreigners come forward, and it is not a big deal, but this foreign diplomacy is not a joke, Hong Tao must show the world that he can do it?" Li Hongzhang pushed the boat down the river and unloaded the burden on his shoulders, "As for the Hawaiian Kingdom, let Hong Tao talk about it together, it's not a big deal, sort out the details of the treaty, and the headquarters will come to seal it." ”

Xuan Zonglu bowed his head and said: "Yes, thank you Lord Zhongtang for taking care of me, I will transfer the words to Hong Tao, and let Hong Tao be on duty tomorrow." ”

Li Hongzhang said with a smile: "Okay, the headquarters is going back, tomorrow, let Hong Tao rest for another day, the headquarters will let people arrange to vacate the Tianjin prefect's yamen, and in the future, Hong Tao will work in the Tianjin prefect's yamen!" ”

Young Master Meng was secretly happy in his heart, it seems that there is only one thing left to negotiate with the Japanese at the moment, in fact, this foreign diplomacy, Young Master Meng does not think there is any difficulty, he can get the right to communicate directly with foreigners, and it is advantageous to buy and sell things in the future!

This is the reason why Young Master Meng wants to let Xuan Hongtao occupy this position, as for whether Xuan Hongtao can be competent, Young Master Meng is not worried, in fact, now Tianjin's foreign affairs are almost Klinsmann Foreign Firm as an agent, Xuan Hongtao will deal with Klinsmann Foreign Company in the future, what is not competent?

If you are afraid, you are afraid of a war with any great power, and then diplomacy will run into problems.

Also, this time, like the Japanese, they changed their hexagrams, which is also a troublesome thing.

After the conversation, although the contradictions between each other have not been eliminated, for the sake of future interests, everyone still achieved the appearance on the scene, at least, Li Hongzhang continued to collect money, which illustrates this point.

Young Master Meng also promised that he would help Li Hongzhang to obtain the right to use the wharf in the US Concession after the establishment of the China Merchants Bureau, free of charge, which is an expenditure of three or four hundred thousand taels a year, which also saved Li Hongzhang's face in front of everyone.

When Li Hongzhang went back, he held hands with Young Master Meng again, which made Xuan Hongtao, Xuan Hongbo, Xuan Hongyu, and everyone wonder for a while, when Li Hongzhang came just now, he and Yuemeng obviously had a knot, such a little effort? Is this good again? (To be continued.) )