Chapter 160 Give Time to the Glory Imperial Navy Command, Li Hongzhang finished his day's work, and now that he is no longer the governor of Zhili, the Nanjing government has canceled all his official positions in the local area, just concentrate on doing a good job as your naval commander.

But at this time www.biquge.info he also felt a lot of pressure, his brother Li Hanzhang in the south had already sent a message, hoping to transfer some personnel from the North Sea Fleet to Liangguang, and now the coastal smuggling of the empire is very serious, because the industrial products of the empire are too popular.

However, the Nanjing government has indeed made restrictions on export products, in Zhao Bingjun's words, the good things of China must be given priority to the use of the Chinese people, why do they always have to sell!

So the government started imposing very high tariffs on exported goods.

This made coastal smuggling very rampant, and many countries began to collude with the smuggling of Chinese people along the coast of the Chinese Empire in order to avoid China's high taxes.

At the beginning, Li Hanzhang did not agree to impose high tariffs, because he was worried that the price would be too high and the empire's products would not be able to be sold, but what he did not expect was that after the imposition of high tariffs, the empire's tariff revenue was not only not decreasing, but increasing.

After the tariffs collected returned to the hands of the government, they returned to the hands of enterprises through export tax rebates, which formed the profits of enterprises, followed by the expansion of reproduction by enterprises, the increase in workers' wages, and so on.

Because of the prosperity of trade, smuggling is inevitable, especially those big countries, recently Li Hanzhang found that there is a ** epidemic along the coast, the source has not been investigated, but it is speculated that only Britain has the guts.

In the past, the armed police and the army of the empire were not separated, and Li Hanzhang was also in charge of the Guangzhou Navy, but now it is not possible, the commander of the South China Sea Fleet is Deng Shichang, and Li Hanzhang can not do much in the face of crazy smuggling.

But now Liangguang is very rich, so he plans to expand the strength of the armed police on the Liangguang sea, and he has already built four armed warships at the Guangzhou shipyard.

With a displacement of 3,000 tons, it is equipped with four 210 mm guns, six high-speed guns, and a total of eight Suzaku III subsonic heavy machine guns in the front and rear.

But there is a lack of sailors with enough experience, Li Hanzhang is not worried about this at all, his younger brother is the commander of the navy of the Huaxia Empire, and he controls the navy of the entire empire, so there must be no problem with some seamen.

But this is really a very serious problem for the Chinese Empire, and now there are more than 100 naval warships under construction in the empire and paramilitary warships built by the provincial governments themselves, which Li Hongzhang himself knows very well.

His Tianjin shipyard has received orders that will not be done until five years later, and the little emperor also greets him, hoping to give priority to the construction of warships for the Korean kingdom, and also help them build their own navy, and the DPRK will send people to learn from the Chinese imperial navy.

Li Hongzhang's head is big, and now Liu Buyun's head is also very hard, and the North Sea Fleet will not give it, otherwise he will resign and quit, without such bullying, the North Sea Fleet will be dismantled.

If you don't have someone, you won't give it to your life!

But as the commander of the Imperial Navy, he didn't know who to tell about the pain in his heart!

At this moment a staff officer came in and said; "Marshal! The Chief of Staff of the North Sea Fleet, Lord Schlongway, asks to meet! ”

Li Hongzhang said; "Who!"

Chief of Staff of the North Sea Fleet, Sch Langwei!

Li Hongzhang slapped his head and thought of something!

Immediately he said, "Let him in!" ”

After Shi Langwei saw Li Hongzhang, he first stood up and saluted Li Hongzhang!

Li Hongzhang is still not used to such etiquette, and he has no habit of returning the etiquette to his subordinates!

Pointing to the chair, he said; "Sit!"

As soon as Shi Langwei sat down, he wanted to talk about something!

But Li Hongzhang stopped him as soon as he raised his hand, and then said; "Chief of Staff Schronway! You've been in China for almost 15 years, right? ”

Schlongway said; "Three months to go!"

Li Hongzhang said; "Lord Shi, what do you think of the Huaxia Empire to you?"

Schlongway did not speak!

Li Hongzhang himself said; "Since the emperor came into power, he has attached great importance to the imperial navy, and your contribution in the imperial navy is obvious to all. But at any time, even when the relationship between Huaxia and Britain was at its most tense, Huaxia never had any suspicion of you, and you were always the chief instructor of the navy! ”

Schronway stood up and saluted!

Li Hongzhang motioned for him to sit down!

Li Hongzhang said; "There is still a shortage of experienced commanders in the Imperial Navy! You are from the Royal Naval College, do you have a suitable person to recommend? ”

Sch Longway was silent for a while, and then spoke; "Marshal! Let me think about it! I'm going to report this to the Royal Navy of the British Empire! ”

Li Hongzhang said; "It should be! You're welcome! ”

At this time, Sch Longway said; "My lord! You can see the report I submitted! ”

Li Hongzhang took out a report, but did not hand it over to Shi Longwei!

Li Hongzhang said; "You still don't understand the national conditions of the Huaxia Empire! Once this report is handed over to the emperor, not only will the matter not be done, but if the emperor takes it seriously, you will be hurt! ”

Shi Langwei didn't understand Li Hongzhang's words very much!

Li Hongzhang said: "Master Shi! All these questions about the maintenance and upgrading of warships, the training of sailors, and the increase of ammunition reserves are all up to you, but you don't have to meddle in other things, especially logistics, or leave it to the Navy Logistics Department! ”

Schlongway said; "Then how do I report to the emperor!"

Li Hongzhang said; "You don't have to report it, I'll report it to the emperor! That's right! Now your treatment is 2000 dragon yuan per month! ”

Schlongway said; "Yes!"

Li Hongzhang said; "This is the same treatment as Ding Ruchang, the chief of the General Staff! But now that the prices of the empire have risen again, I plan to apply to the government to give you a salary increase! ”

Schlongway said; "Can I buy a few cars in the empire and go back home! You know that the tariffs imposed by the Huaxia Empire on car exports are too high now, I can afford them in Huaxia, but I can't afford them if I get to the UK! ”

Li Hongzhang smiled knowingly when he heard this, and said: "I can meet your requirements!" But you can only choose the cars produced in Tianjin, and I can't control the Shanghai and Fengtian Automobile Factories! ”

Schlongway said; "Thank you, sir!"

Sch Longway is gone!

Li Hongzhang looked at the documents handed over by Shi Langwei, and was stunned!

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He Ziyuan and Tang Rongjun returned to China, standing on the battleship He Ziyuan recalled the journey, and on the way back, He Ziyuan received a notice that in view of the importance of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and Tang Rongjun's achievements, the Chinese Imperial Government appointed Tang Rongjun as the deputy prime minister of the Central Government of the Chinese Empire at this time!

Tang Rongjun has not returned to China yet, this is the second time he has been promoted, and such a thing cannot be managed internationally!

Li Ruohong immediately organized a dance party on the boat, making it look like the whole world was going to celebrate.

He Ziyuan is not in such a mood, he already knows the domestic affairs, his subordinates directly fought with Zhao Bingjun, this matter must not be over yet, he has not been by Guangxu's side for a long time, although he has been promoted to this position, but he always feels that something is missing in his heart!

At this time, Tang Rongjun came to He Ziyuan's side and said; "What is Premier He thinking?"

He Ziyuan said; "Nothing!"

Tang Rongjun said; "Brother He! You're welcome! I know everything in China! None of this is a thing! I'm all in it! ”

Hahaha!

As the Thirteenth Taibao!

Tang Rongjun has a very detached status, in the most difficult time, Guangxu has been protecting this guy who can cause trouble, but Guangxu's efforts are still very rewarding, and now a large part of the empire's financial income is developed by these two couples, and these two people have played a role in laying the foundation for the development of the empire's economy!

He Ziyuan is also one of the founders of the construction of the Chinese Empire, but in terms of education, there are no clear assessment indicators for education, and there is no effect in a short period of time, so he is a little unnatural as a vice premier!

Tang Rongjun, who was already a little drunk, said; "Don't you realize there's something strange about this?"

He Ziyuan said; "Strange?"

Tang Rongjun said; "You still don't know enough about our little emperor! Why is the little prince in Nanjing, and why is his appearance so timely! Both sides are armed with guns and swords, why is it useless! ”

He Ziyuan thought back to Tang Rongjun's words again!

When He Ziyuan was looking up, Tang Rongjun had already left!

He Ziyuan was even more puzzled at this time!

Why is that?

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Duan Qirui returned to Chengdu, this time Duan Qirui went out for more than a year, and now he should immediately go to meet Marshal Zuo Zongtang, the commander of the Southern Military Region, but now Chengdu has undergone great changes.

During the period of his absence, the population of Chengdu increased a lot, and Chengdu also began a large-scale industrial planning and construction process, at this time, the time caused by the conflict of interests gradually increased.

Now many places are under construction, the original sinking at the bottom of the river sand suddenly turned into a valuable thing, there are sand mining boats working on each section of the river, but because of the excessive government, the original yamen has been abolished, and the new government agencies are still under construction, so that the government once had a vacuum.

In addition, the local government has not encountered it before, and it simply does not have the power to manage these unexpected events.

As a result, there were many checkpoints and private guards in the southwest region, all of which collected taxes on cargo ships and caravans, which made the people complain greatly, which had affected the trade between China and Burma.

And Duan Qirui found that the **, which was once extinct in the southwest region, began to appear again, which made Duan Qirui very worried, so he began to report that Zuo Zongtang was going to start a governance operation in the southwest region!

Zuo Zongtang agreed to Duan Qirui's plan and told him!

The Army Headquarters of the Chinese Empire submitted an application, the Central Government of the Chinese Empire agreed, the Imperial Council of the Chinese Empire passed, and the Emperor of the Chinese Empire approved the promotion of the fourth military general!

Duan Qirui was awarded the rank of General of the Imperial Army and was awarded the title of Viscount!

Duan Qirui wasn't too excited!

He immediately asked Zuo Zongtang for more equipment!

In the case that the army of the whole country is stepping up the rapid training of reserves and reducing the standing army!

Duan Qirui's First Army did not attrition, but was fully manned!

The most well-equipped!

After Zuo Zongtang issued the equipment distributed to the First Army, he was very puzzled, why is this!

The configuration of this first army far exceeds the establishment of an army, why should the emperor do this!

Could it be that something will happen in the Southwest?

With Duan Qirui's qualifications and ability, why is he only a military commander, there are too many whys!

Zuo Zongtang Zi said to himself; "Looks like I'm getting old!"

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At the headquarters of the Heilongjiang naval fleet in Vladivostok, a group of sailors came to a naval officer with a man tied up, and one of the sailors said; "My lord! This guy is sneaky outside our base, and he doesn't look like a good person! It's something that was found out of him! ”

The man spoke in very Liu Li's Chinese; "My lord, I'm from Silla Province, I'm just here to do business!"

The officer very skillfully opened the back cover of the thing, withdrew the handover from the inside, the handover was all exposed, and it was completely unusable, and the officer saw the image inside in the sun, which was the image of the icebreaker that Yang Naiquan left for the Heilongjiang fleet!

After reading it, the officer threw the paper into the furnace, and the gelatin quickly burned out in the flames, and two words popped out of the officer's mouth: "Spy!" ”

As soon as the sailors heard this, they immediately began to think that this spy was beckoning with fists and feet!

The officer said; "Stop fighting! If it's broken, you won't be able to buy it! ”

All the sailors stopped, and the leading sailor spoke; "Got it, sir! And then he took that spy away!"

The officer opened the drawer, and there were already three cameras inside, all of which were the latest and very small!

At this time, the sun was already rising high outside, but you couldn't open the window because it was cold outside!

At this time, there was a continuous explosion sound, which was blowing up the waterway, and there would be such a sound every few days, in order to keep the water surface from being frozen, and the merchant ships and warships that came and went could sail freely, the Heilongjiang River Navy used explosives to blow up the frozen sea.

Heilongjiang Province is now very large, because there is oil and coal, and there is abundant timber, and the fertile black soil is very suitable for growing wheat and rice, but there is a half-year freeze period every year, which seriously restricts Heilongjiang's trade in winter.

Both Japan and Korea buy these raw materials in Heilongjiang Province, and the Imperial Government has recently begun to raise export tariffs in the hope that Japan will buy less, because the Empire now needs these raw materials very much.

But this did not stop Japan's enthusiasm, and Japan was very active in exploring how to maintain Vladivostok's navigability in winter, and it was Japan that first came up with the idea of how to keep the waterway open and keep it navigable.

Coupled with the greed of the imperial merchants, so the waterway is very prosperous, and the ships of the south are indecisive with the merchant ships of Japan and Korea.

At present, the Heilongjiang Navy has almost no main warships, and the Nanjing government does not know what it thinks, so why not allocate warships to the Heilongjiang Fleet!

The Heilongjiang Navy thought all day long, if only the Qinglong battleship was assigned to the Heilongjiang Fleet, the sea area under the jurisdiction of the Heilongjiang Fleet was very large, although he would have a half-year freezing period!

But the coastline of nearly 10,000 miles really exists, and an icebreaker is not enough, and a battleship of the battleship Qinglong is not enough!

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