Chapter 251: Together in the Boat

The Qing Dynasty had not yet gotten rid of the bureaucracy, and the two guys who claimed to be officials of the Ministry of Industry were arrogant and reluctant to even show their work documents. After reluctantly taking out his documents, he asked Lin Feier to go with them to the yamen to assist in the investigation.

Can Lord Lin Hongzhang's wolf's den go? Although Lin Fei is not afraid of heaven and earth, he still has this bit of proportion, and said: "What are the rules of the Great Qing Kingdom?" What powers does the Ministry of Industry have to investigate? Isn't this a matter for the prosecutor's office? ”

One of them said viciously: "You incite enterprises to boycott the creation of national strategic institutions, and the Ministry of Industry is looking for you to discuss with kind words, if you don't cooperate, the next one to find you is not a department like us that values peace, and the Ministry of Justice will look for you, do you understand the crime of obstructing national security?" ”

Linfield: "Oh? It sounds like it's scary. I know better than you do. Did you know? Your country's former parliamentary prince, Prince Gong, and auxiliary minister Guo Songtao once went to Shanghai to watch the 'trial of the East King' directed by me. It's a pity that people's hearts are not ancient, and now ****** are going to deal with me. You know, at that time, I was thinking about the Qing Dynasty and thinking that after the modernization of the legal system, the Qing Dynasty would be able to take back the consular jurisdiction from the British. Thankfully, the British government didn't agree, otherwise I wouldn't have found a protector today. Please come back, both of you. Next time, I invite someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come to me, because I am a citizen of the British Empire, and this matter is in the hands of the British Consul? ”

The little junior sister is really sharp-toothed, Tang Ning couldn't help laughing, after all, it is on the territory of the Great Qing Kingdom, and most of the presidents of China are a little drumming in their hearts, and this laughter is so harsh on this tense occasion that those two dogs can't hear it.

The two doglegs don't know which countryside Hu Guangyong pulled from, they may not usually read the newspaper, and they don't even know Chairman Tang, they are here to smash the field, and the striker instructs, the bigger the trouble, the better, and then the media to incite xenophobia, so that the Windsor consortium enterprises will be in a situation where it is difficult to do business in the Qing Dynasty. Now, the doglegs seized the opportunity to lash out at someone Tang, who didn't know the current affairs: "You laugh? What's so funny? I'm asking the Ministry of Industry to cooperate with the investigation, but you don't take it seriously? Do you think that the Qing Kingdom would not be able to do without the king's law? This is Jiangning, not the Shanghai Concession! The British have no consular jurisdiction here! ”

Tang Ning was in a good state of mind, and said indifferently: "Brother, I'm very happy to see that the Great Qing Kingdom is talking about the king's law, President Lin's company headquarters is in Shanghai, why don't you go back to Shanghai and talk about it." If you want to be serious in Jiangning, you have to bring some people with you, otherwise you will suffer. ”

In order to cooperate with the big, the surrounding presidents all laughed to show that Boss Tang was humorous and smiled lightly. This time the two doglegs trembled with anger, and shouted: "You fake foreign devils and traitors, help foreigners bully our Qing Kingdom, do you have a lot of face?" The faces of your fathers have been lost! ”

Lin Fei grabbed the conversation and sneered: "If the Great Qing Kingdom can protect every citizen, no matter how poor he is, why should we be fake foreign devils to protect ourselves?" The Qing Dynasty King Law is so powerful! We don't even have the freedom to do business? Don't sell electricity to Li Hongzhang's Private Manufacturing Bureau, what's the matter? Do you want to grab it? Even property rights can't be protected, this is the most humiliating thing for a country! ”

Tang Ning sighed with emotion: "That's right! It seems that the Qing Dynasty has not yet reached the most fundamental change, your official authority is too great, and ordinary people who do business must not be scared to death? That's not going to work......"

This is reasonable, in addition to Linfell's super-first-class guards, these presidents have made up their minds to stay in the concession with nothing to do, so as not to find a reason for ****** to do it, hey, these days, it is not easy to be a comprador, and they are worried about their lives, and they are reluctant to have that attractive high salary and status. Most of the Windsor enterprises are monopoly enterprises, and the face of being the president of a country is too big, and all the people who do that business come to you, which is sometimes more cool than being a big official. When a governor can only govern one province, when he is a president, businessmen from all over the country come to "worship".

Tang Ning continued to say to the doglegs: "Let's go, see you in the civil dispute court, talk about national security issues, find ...... British consul, or German consul. ”

can actually replace President Lin to issue an eviction order, President Lin next to him still has a very natural expression, it seems that this person's status is higher than President Lin, these two Hu Guangyong's minions are frustrated, and then look at the surrounding guards, the guns in the arms of the two minions are reluctant to take out, so they just throw down a cruel sentence: "You wait!" Offend the Prime Minister, you don't want to live! Then he left.

If Lin Feier fights with Master Li on his own thoughts, maybe Tang Ning won't care, freedom of speech, and he doesn't need to make the money of Daqing Power, let President Lin mess around, but after these two doglegs come to the door, the visual sense is too strong, making people feel that Daqing has become the world of the Li family, which is worth it? It was not easy for the Qing Dynasty to move towards modernization, but I didn't expect that Li Hongzhang, who was originally famous for his Westernists, actually became the head of the clumsy democratic Qing Dynasty who relied on the Qingliu Party and conservatives to come to power......

After the two doglegs left, Tang Ning said lightly to the presidents: "From today onwards, all units will boycott Li Hongzhang, thank you!" ”

The presidents of each unit were solemn, only Linfield was smiling, hehe, finally pulled him into the water.

The goal of the two doglegs has been achieved, and now, they are triumphantly returning to ask for credit, and the next step is to direct the "Ta Kung Pao," whose circulation is increasing day by day, to vigorously attack the ugly face of fake foreign devils who play for tigers; unexpectedly, just as Hu Guangyong was sitting in the prime minister's office waiting for the good news to spread, the next day the "Ta Kung Pao" "broke off." It turned out that the Sanzheng Color Printing House, which had been working for the major Chinese newspapers with superb printing technology, refused to print newspapers for the "Ta Kung Pao" without hesitating to breach the contract.

Due to the huge circulation of "Ta Kung Pao", I couldn't find a suitable factory for a while, I have fully used the Chinese typesetting machine, technically to return to ** autonomous, the layout will shrink by one-eighth, and the typesetting will take a long time, it is impossible to print it every day, even if they print it, they will definitely be laughed to death by competitors, because in this way, whether it is paper, font, layout is ten times more ugly, this is the end of the confrontation with the Windsor consortium.

Not only that, the Chinese newspaper "Daqing Shimbun", which is still the largest in circulation, changed its gentle appearance in the past, implicitly murderously put the news of Hu Guangyong's two dog-legged trespassing into private gardens on the front page, and aggressively bullied the president of the beautiful girl, and gave Lord Hu a villain to sue first. In the end, he went to the newspaper of another political party to publish a statement to excuse himself, and he may have said something like "help my brother for the sake of the party-state" in order to beg others.

During the honeymoon period between the Qing Dynasty and the Windsor consortium under Guo Songtao, the Wind Bird Express Company in the ten major cities of the Qing Dynasty has built a Haierbeck permanent magnet as the core of the express delivery network synchronized with Europe, and has become the main bearer of the postal system in large cities because of its high efficiency and parity. ”

The president of the wind bird was originally the president of the more moderate attitude, but since some of his employees mentioned yì to do this, I am afraid that if they do not express their position, it will be against the will of the big boss, so they have to join the ranks of breach of contract, when the boss of the "Qing Yi Bao", who has always been friendly and cooperative, came to reason with the facts, the president of the wind bird had to promise to lose money, and said: "Now our big boss is even if he loses money, he has to pinch with Lord Li, I can't help it, someone below me found your article, if I don't deduct it, Ming'er even lost my black gauze hat!" Brother, forgive me, just this once, there will be no next time! ”

Poor Hu Guangyong, a cabinet member of the Qing Dynasty Ministry of Finance, finally ended up going to a tabloid to make a defense. This tabloid is sold by the ** and scarlet articles of celebrities, and because of its low taste, it was rejected by the three primary color printing houses, and it can only import technology from France to print it itself, and they don't want to have the opportunity to work for the Prime Minister's Office now, and they are very hard-working, so that Hu Daren's defense explanation was finally spurred by the "Daqing News" A week after it was able to appear in front of the readers, giving people a feeling that they can't raise their heads. In the top ten cities, the tabloids hired a lot of rickshaw drivers to get the newspapers out and enjoyed infinite grievances.

The defaulted businesses have taken the Windsor enterprises to court, to say that the judicial system is really autonomous, even if there are a large number of judges in the international school park, they still do not bend the law for personal gain, Windsor enterprises have lost the lawsuit for compensation, but the compensation is no deterrent to the Windsor consortium, they often only send a cashier to appear in court, how much, do you say a number? It's really contempt of the court.,Almost made the "own people" of the International School Park angry.。

The tabloid newspaper became the policy spokesman of the Li government, and its sales soared, and the government severely criticized the "foreign forces" for all kinds of arrogance and rudeness towards the Qing enterprises, and took the lead in the international community in proposing the policy of "nationalizing" core industries for the sake of national security.

The Qing media were enthusiastically discussing where to start, the Daqing Railway Bureau, which controlled transportation, of course, should be listed as the target of nationalization, as well as industrial infrastructure - power companies, radio stations, printing houses, and the Qing Imperial Telecommunications was a communication infrastructure, which was naturally also listed. In this way, transportation, electricity, media, and communications are all the targets of nationalization, and the "Times," which has always been at odds with Li Hongzhang, sarcastically said: "If ****** really dares to nationalize all these things, we really admire them." This means that in the Qing Dynasty, private property was not guaranteed, and the government could do whatever it wanted, which has undermined the basic spirit of the Constitution. It's better to ask Lord Li to ascend the throne as the emperor, let's go back to the era of imperial power, and what the holy decree says is what it is. ”

President Lin is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, and in addition to economic resistance, she also wants to play bigger. She thought that the Windsor Consortium did not have its own political party in the Qing Dynasty, and the friendly political party indirectly influenced the political situation, which was obviously not strong enough, so shortly after the Suiyuan turmoil, she established the "Windsor Freemasonry" in the Shanghai Concession, attracting parliamentarians from all over China to participate, and the highlight was that the beautiful girl would persuade Tangning to sell a king-class heavy cruiser to the Freemasons!

And it is the latest model, which reduces the artillery and increases the helipad. Doesn't Li Hongzhang know how to play nationalism? She announced in the "Daqing News" that Freemasonry is completely composed of Chinese, the world's most advanced, synchronized with the East India Company's king of warships will be completely controlled by Chinese, the concept of Freemasonry is this: whether Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, as long as the Chinese-speaking ethnic group is "Chinese", the Chinese are naturally within the scope of Freemasonry's protection, striving for the Chinese nation to industrial civilization and freedom of thought, and the old-style bureaucracy of cronyism is not in common, Small note: This is the kind of policy that Li Hongzhang and Hu Xueyan put up in the Dagong Party, which ostensibly promotes democracy, but in fact promotes policies that are harmful to the development of modern civilization in the Chinese Dynasty.

The Freemasons will have the most powerful military and economic strength in the Qing Dynasty, and will not hesitate to fight a gun-to-gun and pole-to-pole battle with the Li clique. It seems that Linfield has a tendency to become a female warlord, but Downing likes it very much! It's really motivating.

Originally, there were still some suspicions, but when he found out that even the King-class cruiser had been sold to the Freemasons, all his suspicions were gone, and Tang Ning must have supported the Freemasons. Well-informed lawmakers are well aware of how powerful the Windsor consortium is around the world, and the political arena, which had been twisted together by nationalism, has quietly loosened.

The two richest places in the Qing Dynasty were Jiangsu and Guangdong. It was also elected by the people, when Li Hongzhang was the governor of Jiangsu, he dared to find the auxiliary minister unhappy, and now the governor of Guangdong also has the courage to do so, he hosted the Qing Dynasty's own cruiser exhibition in Guangzhou, and for a time, the streets of Guangzhou were empty, which greatly improved the self-confidence of the Chinese nation. Tang Ning saw the unprecedented pomp and felt that Xiao Linzi played politics better than himself.

The exhibition was held for half a month, and Chairman Lin announced that the cruiser would be donated to Guangdong Province! The whole country was shocked by the Qing Dynasty, is this the rhythm of separatism? The governor of Guangdong was also very cooperative, ignoring the face of the premier, and immediately announced that Guangdong would build its own "Nanyang Naval Division", and this world's top heavy cruiser was naturally the master.

All wealthy provinces have the urge to **, as long as they have strength. Because who is willing to pay more taxes to the state? Such a big event, Li Hongzhang's government did not respond in time, there was no way, the Qing Dynasty Royal Telecom also boycotted the Prime Minister's Office, Li Hongzhang had no choice but to retro the "eight hundred miles expedited" mode, and the critical moment was still the ancestor's things reliable!

Sending letters and characters can be used through the telegraph systems of France and the United States, but Chinese telegraphs are really helpless, and the Prime Minister's Office is very passive in this regard. Sometimes I was really anxious, so I went to the Japanese minister to send a telegram, and the Japanese minister often responded, "I'm sorry, we are with Mr. Tang, please go back." I really couldn't stand the other party's pleading, so I said, "Just this once!" Did anyone see you coming in just now? It's good if you don't, wait until you get out the back door, and don't let the Freemasons see it! ”

What's even more terrifying is that the officials of the central government have received a notice from the central bank of the Qing Dynasty (the Hubu Bank has been changed) that from next month, due to the change of the banking system, everyone will be aggrieved and move to the Ministry of Finance to queue up to receive money. If you haven't forgotten it, the central bank of the Qing Dynasty used the wire transfer system of the Bank of Zurich, and now, the Bank of Zurich has decided to terminate the cooperation and completely break with the Prime Minister's Office.

Almost all the banks and banks in the Qing Dynasty used the Bank of Zurich's wire transfer system, so government officials could have gone to any commercial bank to receive their salaries, but now they had to deign to move to the queue. The Qing Ministry of Finance wanted to transfer the money from the treasury of the Bank of Zurich to a new vault, and the Bank of Zurich finally made a mistake and gave all the money to the House of Commons.

The Progressive Party led by Zeng Jize is the majority party, and when the money is in their hands, you think about how painful the Prime Minister's Office is. In view of the fact that the Daqing Shimbun repeatedly advertised that Li Hongzhang had turned the government into the Li Mansion during this period, the Progressive Party had sufficient reasons not to hand over the money from the central bank directly to the Treasury Department, which had lost its credibility, but to set up an institution similar to the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, the central bank of the Prime Minister's Office, and even changed its name to the Daqing Reserve Bank.

Under the blows of Freemasonry all the way, the Prime Minister's Office was really majestic, if it weren't for Shi Dakai and Li Xiucheng repeatedly advising Lord Li not to use force, otherwise the consequences would be very strict, and Lord Li would have jumped up a long time ago. After the establishment of the Nanyang Naval Division, many of the generals of the Yuanshen Machine Battalion resigned and went south, which increased Li Hongzhang's doubts, and he didn't control this team well.

I thought that the Freemasonry could be stopped after being a turtle with a shrunken head for a while, but unfortunately it was not President Lin's style to stop and stop, so she asked the Freemasonry Parliament to put forward a bill - taking advantage of the reform of the central bank, the corporate tax revenue was changed from the original central government to the local government after the bank distributed the national plan to the central and local tax collection plan.

The core of the bill is that 90% of the taxes of enterprises operating in the whole country shall be registered in Beijing, and 10% of the taxes shall be attributed to the central government, and 10% of the taxes shall be attributed to the local government, and 90% of the taxes shall be attributed to the local government and 10% shall be returned to the central government. In view of the fact that all Windsor enterprises are national, Li Hongzhang did not care at first, and a member of parliament reminded him that he broke out in a cold sweat, and the original idea of the Freemasons was that after the bill was passed, all enterprises would be registered as local, and then only handed over to local taxes, which would put the central government in an embarrassing situation.

The Freemasons negotiated with the local councillors, so that 90% of the tax would go to you, the local people would be happy, and your position as a representative of the people's will would be strengthened. After talking so much about negotiations, there was finally news coming to Li Hongzhang, which made him have to take a tough attitude.

However, the interesting point of this bill is that the legislators who support it will be regarded as heroes by the voters of a certain province, and it is difficult to guarantee the political career of the legislators who oppose it, because you are not fighting for the interests of the local government. The Grand Communal Party speaks of the strength of national unity, but few people buy it, and even if more than 20 provinces in the country have 10% of the tax revenue, it is a lot, okay?

The disadvantage of weakness in military force soon overstretched the Prime Minister's Office, and the legislators, under the strong pressure of local rights and interests, passed the bill of decentralization with a high vote, and the Qing Dynasty entered an era of expansion of provincial power. (http://.)。 Coming to this step, Li Hongzhang was disgraced, but he persevered tenaciously and did not resign, the general trend of the world is unpredictable, he endured humiliation and burden, hoping for a day of reversal.

One day, Li Hongzhang met Guo Songtao and complained to his fellow countrymen, Guo Songtao looked like he had nothing to do with himself, and said to Lao Li with a smile: "He is already very polite, really." ”

Of course, the future of the earth's artery will not dump the central government of the Qing Dynasty at all, and directly contact the elected governors of the provinces, which is equivalent to a large railway connecting the world, only fools will object, and the governors of the provinces not only do not object, but also invite famous photographers to shoot the scenic spots of their own provinces, and warmly invite human footprint companies to build routes in their provinces.

Some provinces have unique natural scenery, and those photographs really play a role in publicity.

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