"Since the supervisor of Zhu'an, the Queen Mother and the Sixth Master are no longer monolithic. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info this matter of repairing the garden, the sixth master and the queen mother are twisted, the deeper the suspicion, after a long time, one day if you can't keep it together, there will be a landslide and tsunami...... "Li Hongzhang sighed, "If the sixth master is not in power, if the replacement is ignorant of the general trend, I am afraid that this foreign affairs will die in the middle of the way......"

"Yes! Zeng Dishuai is not in good health now, once the sixth master and Zeng Dishuai are gone, and the central place will lose the person who controls the overall situation, this foreign affairs will really not be able to be done......" Sheng Xuanhuai imagined the scene when Prince Gong and Zeng Guofan were not there, and couldn't help but shudder.

"This Lin Yizhe is still young and inexperienced. After experiencing such a storm this time, I think he can grow older. Li Hongzhang said, "If time passes, it may not be the mainstay of this foreign affairs in the future." ”

"Since the adult has a correspondence with Lin Yizhe, it is better to remind him in the letter, and if this kind of thing happens again, he will not repeat the mistakes of the past." Sheng Xuanhuai suggested, "If you wait until the end of the matter to remind him, it will be too late." ”

"What you're saying is that I'm going to fix a book with him, so that he doesn't know that the sixth master is worrying about these treasures he got back." Li Hongzhang got up as he spoke, returned to the study, Sheng Xuanhuai followed him step by step, and without waiting for Li Hongzhang's instructions, he started to lay paper and polish ink for him.

Within a few days, the letter was delivered to Lin Yizhe's hands.

“…… After receiving the instructions and planning carefully, the party entered the capital to exhibit the pilgrimage and follow the Hu, and handed the letter to Jingsheng (Shen Guifen, Minister of Military Aircraft) for inspection in the same year, and presented it to the palace on behalf of Gongdi. The deacons should preside over the examination of the section on going abroad to learn shipbuilding and sailing, and there should be no involvement. As far as the funds for the maintenance of ships and going to sea are insufficient, it is still hoped that the division ships will be abolished and the ships will be raised in order to raise ships, and it will be feasible to allocate them evenly one after another. If there is nothing to do in coastal defense, it seems that it can be calmly organized, and it is also considered that the Jiang and Guangzhou parties have the strength to comply with it. ”

"Merchant ships and military ships are built between them, and they are used by the Bureau of Information and Commerce. However, I heard that the machine costs coal. Tang Jingxing and Sheng Xingsun arrived in Tianjin in the summer, agreed on a rough plan, and then held a meeting. The children of the Tianjin Bureau of firearms and craftsmen can go to the Puchang Law Factory to study, and it is easy to improve. Suffering from no one to take it, there is no money to help. The telegraph fee is appalling, and it is also a shame to be uncaught. ”

"Jun's passage of the law this time, the danger of causing a huge disaster, fortunately there are Gong Di, Jing Sheng, Wen Xiang to protect it, and Zeng Shuai, Ding Fu and Bucai Bao Gong outside, so it has to be invisible. …… This time, the Dharma Lord returned the national treasure, the two palaces Jiayue, and the king has great benefits, and the Gongdi has great harm. Since An Dehai ambushed, the Queen Mother and Gong Di are getting deeper, the Queen Mother wants to repair the garden for a long time, Gong Di has repeatedly refused to be caught by the national strength, Jun gave the Queen Mother a good topic this time, if Gong Di refuses, there is a worry about losing his position, and the person who presides over foreign affairs; If it is followed, the country's financial resources will be insufficient, and foreign affairs will also be in danger of being killed in the middle of the road; …… Thinking about it in the quiet night, there is no way to solve it, but what to do! ……”

After reading Li Hongzhang's slightly accusatory letter, Lin Yizhe knew that he had caused a lot of trouble for Prince Gong this time, so he couldn't help but smile slightly.

Of course, he knows very well about the grievances and grievances between Prince Gong Yixin and the Empress Dowager Cixi.

In fact, Cixi's suppression of Prince Gong began before the killing of An Dehai.

The Empress Dowager Cixi formed an alliance with Prince Gong Yixin in the "Xinyou Coup" and got along very well, but as Prince Gong's status continued to rise and his fame and power increased, he caused the Empress Dowager Cixi's unease. So the Empress Dowager Cixi began to attack him and limit his power. On the fifth day of the third month of the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), Cai Shouqi impeached Prince Gong, saying that he took power and accepted bribes and was arrogant for personal gain. The ministers of the court and the central government interceded, and the Empress Dowager Cixi allowed him to walk in the inner court and manage the prime minister's affairs of various countries, but the position of the king was never restored. In the eighth year of Tongzhi, Yixin supported the Tongzhi Emperor and asked the Empress Dowager Ci'an to kill the Empress Dowager Cixi's confidant eunuch An Dehai, which made Cixi jealous and hateful, but also knew that her power was not stable. Although Ci'an usually doesn't care about things, she has a high prestige, and as soon as she joins forces with Prince Gong, she can cause huge pressure on herself. It was because after the Andehai incident that Cixi had always paid great attention to consolidating her power, so she had always been quite vigilant and defensive against Prince Gong. And Prince Gong's repeated opposition to Cixi's cultivation of the garden intensified her feelings.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Cixi herself knew that the entire project of rebuilding the Yuanmingyuan was huge, which was difficult for the current national strength to bear. What she wants to cultivate is only her "birthplace" - "Heaven and Earth Family Spring", so that she can have a place to rest for the elderly after returning to politics. The cost of this project is actually not too much. In Lin Yizhe's view, as the most powerful supporter of the Westernization Movement, if Prince Gong can be flexible in this matter, he can heal the rift caused by the Empress Dowager Cixi due to the An Dehai incident, and he will have great benefits for the country.

Lin Yizhe even thought about whether he could help the Empress Dowager Cixi realize this dream of "heaven and earth as a family", obtain the support of the heroine who controls national politics, and realize the dream of a strong country in his heart!

The reason why he has such an idea is that when Lin Yizhe was impeached by the official this time, Xu Run reminded him that Cixi might help him prevent disasters for the sake of the set of "Heaven and Earth Family Spring" cherished porcelain he offered; The second is due to his deep knowledge of antique collecting. He knew that throughout his life, Cixi missed the "Heaven and Earth Family Spring" deeply, and during the Guangxu period, not only did the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory burn a large number of exquisite porcelain with the "Daya Zhai" hall, but also cast the "Daya" text on the palace money that rewarded his ministers, and even engraved the words "Heaven and Earth Family Spring" on the large copper cylinder used for firefighting in the Forbidden City!

And now, Li Hongzhang's letter has made him start to think formally about the possibility of turning this idea into reality.

Lin Yizhe put down Li Hongzhang's letter and took the list of accounts of the "Lin's Underwear Company" from Europe and read it. He did the math, and finally shook his head.

After getting the first income of more than 7,000 pounds, the second operating income of Lin's company soared to more than 20,000 pounds, relying on these incomes, as well as Qiao Zhiyong's capital turnover, Lin Yizhe successfully got rid of the operational crisis. Although there is still a surplus of this money, and the operating income from Europe is still rising, it is obviously not enough to cope with the big hole of repairing the garden.

Lin Yizhe put down the list, and then flipped through the letter written to him by Chen Hongsala and his wife, and suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in his mind!

He immediately took out all the letters and laid them on the table, looking between the lines for something.

"So that's ......" After comparing all the letters, Lin Yizhe suddenly realized.

From these letters, he has already seen that not only the Chen family has the idea of returning to their homeland, but even the Rothilde family, which married the Chen family, also has the intention of developing in the East!

If that's the case, isn't this a good opportunity?

Lin Yizhe thought for a while, put away all the letters, and then picked up the pen and began to write a reply to Li Hongzhang.

“…… Before receiving the letter of Hui, he knows everything. I don't feel at ease. I didn't sleep for a few nights, thinking about the solution day and night, in order to relieve the difficulties of Gong Di. Luckily...... I thought that the queen mother did not want to repair the whole garden, only the former residence of 'heaven and earth one spring', so the cost was not large, and the palace should not be refused. At present, the country is not enough, but in a few months, my brother should take measures overseas, and I am annoyed that my brother will speak for Gongdi......"

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Chan's Estate, London, United Kingdom.

"Father, I just got the news, the news from the Pan family, that Mr. Pan wants to sell the ancestral house." Chen Hong said to Chen Tingxuan.

"Oh, that means that Mr. Pan's life in Guangzhou is really unbearable."

Chen Tingxuan sighed and sat down.

"I didn't expect him Pan Shicheng to come to this point today......"

"Yes! This thing is very strange, his Pan family has been running the salt industry over there, last year the business was good, but this year I don't know how to ...... all of a sudden"

"He is too big a stall, and the money and silver turnover is out of order, so he has this misfortune." Chen Tingxuan said, "He still doesn't understand that it is not good to be a businessman or an official after all." ”

The old man Pan that Chen Tingxuan said is Pan Shicheng, the head of the Pan family who is still in Guangzhou in the Thirteen Lines.

Pan Shicheng, the word Deshe, the owner of the Haishan Immortal Pavilion. Pan Shicheng's grandfather, Pan Zhengwei, was a salt merchant, Zhengwei's eldest son, third son, eighth son, and twelfth son entered Guangdong to do business, and lived separately in Suidi, and the eighth son was the tenth Fu outside the Taiping Gate. Pan Shicheng was born in the ninth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1804), and the Pan family had been engaged in the salt industry for three generations when Pan Shicheng arrived, and the family business gradually took shape. Pan Shicheng is a businessman with brains, who chose the path of becoming famous in the imperial examination, becoming an official and a businessman, and relying on power to make money. He was diligent in his studies and sought fame. In the twelfth year of Daoguang (1832), the 28-year-old Pan Shicheng went to Beijing to take the exam, and Zhongshun Tianxiang tried to be a deputy tribute. He donated a huge amount of money to help the famine victims in Beijing, and all of them survived. He also donated money to suppress the Yao uprising in Lianshan, Guangdong. In the same year, Emperor Daoguang issued an edict to reward the merchants and salt merchants who donated silver taels to suppress "Guangdong Lianshan Pai Gang Trouble", among which "donated 20,000 taels of deputy tribute to the criminal department and Pan Shicheng of Langzhong, which was discussed by the ministry as usual". Pan Shicheng became famous in one fell swoop, and the famous people in Beijing clinged to each other, according to the county chronicles: "all the celebrities are vying to postpone the visit", "people at home and abroad extend the visit, and it is a pity that they don't know it". He became friends with Lingnan celebrities in Beijing, Lingui, Chen Changji, Yuan and Chen Zhonglin. After that, Pan Shicheng still returned to Guangdong.

As a well-known figure in the capital and a half-official position, he had close contacts with political dignitaries and local government figures who traveled to and from Guangdong as a gentleman and wealthy businessman. Among them, there are 8 Xiangguo, 6 Taishi, 8 Shangshu, 10 Shilang, 18 Zhijun (Governor), 11 Fangbo (Bu Political Envoy), 13 Zhongcheng (Governor), 59 who have been writers, revisers and editors of the Hanlin Academy, and the rest are high-ranking officials such as sacrificial wine, Taishou, observation, general, servant, and waiter. In terms of the background of the imperial examination, there are 5 champions, 5 Bangyan, 4 Tanhua, and 17 Jinshi. These people not only have important people in political circles, but also elegant people, literati and writers, such as Lin Zexu, Guo Shangxian, Zhang Yuesong, Tang Yifen, Yao Yuanzhi, Wu Rongguang, Deng Tingzhen, etc., most of whom have public and private contacts with Pan Shicheng, and they have a very close relationship.

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