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"Okay, okay, it's really a good time for you to come this time, and it's also a coincidence, I'm going to leave for Tianjing tomorrow, why ...... second" Lin Haifeng really looked at Ali Guo who had just put his ass on the edge of the chair with a happy face, and groaned for a moment, and then said, "I originally had one more thing I wanted to ask you, but now it's much more convenient." ”

"Excuse me?" As soon as he heard these two words popping out of Director Lin's mouth, Ali Guo, who had not yet fully sat down, hurriedly leaned forward, and his face showed a kind of uneasiness that seemed to be extremely uneasy, "Your Excellency Director's words are too heavy, and the contemptible people are just a commoner at the moment, how can they afford to be so valued by Your Excellency." "A lot of people are like this, no matter how gentleman you used to be, how noble you were, when he understood that he had to ask for something, he would become grovelling, and Ali Guo naturally couldn't get rid of this kind of vulgarity.

"You're polite, you're polite," Lin Haifeng was still so cheerful, pointing to the tea and cigarettes on the tea table beside Ali Guo, signaling him to take it easy, and then leaned forward and asked seriously, "If I guessed correctly, the purpose of Mr. is to give me a big gift first, and then...... Then you asked me to help you dredge the Tianjing side. Oh, look, I guessed right. But what exactly is this gift...... I've got to think about it......"

Ali Guo, whose face was already red, felt that his face was about to burn at this time. To be honest, before he came, he originally planned to give this director Lin a backup gift that was absolutely useful to him, and in his bedroom in Shanghai, there was a pair of extremely precious gold-plated diamond Swiss pocket watches, which was just the right gift for Director Lin and his wife. But when he remembered the embarrassing scene of being rejected as a gift before, he dispelled this idea again. He felt that Director Lin would go to France soon, and as long as he could help him this time, it would be better to send someone to send a generous gift to show his gratitude. If you give gifts here, there are many people, and these people who claim to be the most honest will not be able to get by on face. What he didn't expect was that this Director Lin would actually become a lion in front of him.

He understands that even if he brings the pair of precious gold watches that he has treasured for many years and are absolutely worth a lot of money to the director in front of him, whether it is said by himself or in the eyes of the other party, it can be regarded as a small gift, and now this open mouth is a "big gift", my mother, if it is 180,000 pounds each, I am afraid that it will not be able to pass this level.

"Lord...... H.E. Director......

Lin Haifeng had already understood Ah Liguo's flustered thoughts, but he deliberately pretended not to know, suddenly widened his eyes and waved his hand to stop Ah Liguo's explanation, and laughed haha, "I guessed, it must have sent me a warship." ”

Warship? What warship? Ah Liguo was stunned by this Director Lin, but after a while, he suddenly felt dizzy in his head, "Pavilion...... Excellency...... You...... True...... Really good at playing...... Joke ......"

Ali Guo actually suddenly understood what Lin Haifeng meant by "warship". That is, the 30 three-masted warships that the Qing Dynasty had ordered from them, and according to the agreement, these warships were to be delivered to the Qing Dynasty's loyal and righteous rescue ** sailor Yamen last month. At present, it is impossible for the Qing Dynasty to have any more sailors, and in the original order contract, the two Qing Dynasty only loaned money to his empire with the concession of Taiwan as collateral, and did not really pay his empire a penny, so after a few days of temporary stay in the East India Company, these warships sailed to Japan further east, and Viscount Canning's men were trying to sell them to the Japanese.

"Jokes? How am I kidding? Lin Haifeng still had a good smile just now, and he fell down with a snap, "Could it be that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has fallen, and you have to swallow it privately?" At present, the government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is the only legitimate government in China, and all the foreign debts owed by others must be repaid one by one. This is true for doing business, and even more so for countries. ”

External debt? Ali Guo fainted again, you, Director Lin, are really good at settling accounts, don't forget to calculate outside, didn't your newspaper clearly say that all unequal agreements signed by the Manchu government with foreign countries would be nullified? What's more, in the case of these warships, how can it be said that we owe the foreign debt of the Qing Dynasty? Are you confused with understanding, or are you being too greedy?

"Pavilion...... Your Excellency, you are probably ...... I probably don't know the actual situation," Ali Guo was dissatisfied, he didn't dare to say it on his lips, and he didn't even dare to show a cent on his face, "These warships of the Qing Dynasty government used a loan from our government, and the original collateral was Taiwan, and the contract stated that if the Qing government was unable to repay the loan due to domestic financial difficulties, Taiwan would give us the concession to Britain." So ......"

"If I'm not mistaken, your Mr. Ali Guo used to stay in Taiwan, right?" Lin Haifeng seemed to have caught the other party's pigtails, and he was very proud.

"Yes...... However......" Ali Guo's reaction was also very fast, and he obviously saw that this Director Lin was going to make up his mind on this.

Lin Haifeng shook his hand and interrupted what Ali Guo wanted to say again, "Then you should also remember that I warned you at that time that you can't go to Taiwan." In other words, Taiwan, as the land of the Celestial Empire's government, we have never agreed to your visit. But you went anyway. Not only did you go, but you also took the fleet, although there are not many of them, it's always the fleet. You also stationed troops in Taiwan, and instigated your merchants to continue to sell opium, which was strictly forbidden by the Celestial Empire. Also, the legation and barracks you built occupy so much land, and as far as I know, you have never paid a penny to the local government......"

"This ......" Listening to Lin Haifeng's "remarks", even if Ali Guo has self-cultivation, he can't bear it anymore, if it weren't for the fact that he has asked for others, I'm afraid that he would have had a big attack long ago. It wasn't until this Director Lin finished saying all the words that Ah Liguo suppressed the anger in his heart, pretended to be very plain on the surface, and shrugged his shoulders at Lin Haifeng, "Your Excellency Director, these are two different things......

"Two different things?" Lin Haifeng leaned comfortably back of the chair, tilted his head to look at the green tendons on his forehead, which were already visibly spitting and jumping, "Then I want you to explain to me, if I put my army in your British Isles for a year and a half, I must also have extraterritoriality, what is this?" Is this renting, should it be considered a loan, or something else? ”

Ali Guo is now only gasping for breath.

"Have you read all of our recent newspapers?" seems to be a bit of a good attitude of forgiveness and forgiveness, Lin Haifeng suddenly diverted the conversation again.

"Look...... Look, "I have dealt with this "enemy" a lot, Ah Liguo is very familiar with this Director Lin's ghost work in the sky and in the ground, and he knows very well that no matter how he goes around, he still has to go back to this sensitive issue just now. So, while he was spinning his brain rapidly, planning how to deal with it when the time came, he was casually perfunctory in his mouth.

"Notice the news of our major disarmament?" After saying goodbye for a long time, Lin Haifeng lit the first pot of pipes and smoked comfortably.

"Seeing the ......" Ali Guo's thinking was forced to move to this issue, because this question is also quite important to the Empire. He looked at Lin Haifeng, "It's not easy to build a regular army, isn't it a bit ...... to cut so many troops so quickly?" Somewhat rushed? ”

"There's no way, I don't want you, our local territory is too big, and the population is too much, so it's not good to be careful," Lin Haifeng said as if chatting casually with an old friend, while folding his fingers, "...... You see, that's it, except for the west where there is still some instability, most of our Celestial Empire is no longer threatened by war, and if you raise such soldiers, how many things will have to be snatched from the mouths of the common people. Besides, you also have some understanding of the officers and men in our Red Army, most of them are poor people who have nothing to worry about, and if they don't fight, they will feel uncomfortable, and millions of troops will have trouble sooner or later, so they must be laid off. ”

"That'...... That seems to be the right thing to cut as well...... According to the number of the dismissal published in the newspaper, it is really a bit ...... It's a pity," Ali Guo really thought in his heart. From Tianjing and the newspapers here, he saw the numbers of a number of elite troops that he was "familiar with", and these troops had either become the Railway Corps or the Agricultural Reclamation Corps.

"This is also a way to do it," Lin Haifeng's face showed obvious helplessness, "Who doesn't know the truth of raising fewer soldiers and raising elite soldiers." However, the large-scale economic construction that we are about to embark on on a large scale is even more important, and without a stubborn will and a spirit of not being afraid of hardship, it will be difficult to accomplish many things. For example, digging holes to build roads, reclamation in barren land in Xinjiang and Tibet, etc., ordinary people cannot do it, and they are not willing to do it. So, I can only rely on these basic strengths of mine. ”

Building roads, reclamation? Ali Guo's mind churned violently. Listening to the meaning of Director Lin's words, it doesn't look like the tone of Tianjing.

"Hehe, you must have visited my old friend Bourblon before coming to me, right? How is he, okay? Lin Haifeng picked up the water cup and lowered his head to drink water, and asked very casually.

This guy really can't hide anything from him. Thinking so in his heart, Ali Guo put on an extremely bright smile on his face, "Yes, I have been, His Excellency Minister Bourblon also asked me to say hello on my behalf, saying that he is eagerly looking forward to your early arrival in Tianjing." ”

However, there is something that Ali Guo did not say, and that is that Bourblon's life is not absolutely good. France's domestic economy is also in a similar situation as that of the United States, although the trade between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government and France is mostly barter trade, but since the second half of the year, the prices of arms and light industrial products exported by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government have been rising steadily with the expansion of trade with other countries, while the import of French industrial products has been declining unilaterally. Bourblon also expressed his concern in front of him, fearing that if the Taiping government tightened its finances, as Yang Xiuqing and others had said, France would face a big problem.

"It's hard for everyone now," Lin Haifeng put down the tea bowl, smacked his mouth, and then took a puff of cigarette, "However, for friends, you still have to help when you need to help." Hehe, this Burbulon, I have to pull the ocean across the sea, tell you, I'm really seasick. Last time I went to Fujian from Shanghai, I almost vomited my intestines together, hahaha......"

"Hehe...... "Ah-ri-laughed, "Actually, once the wind and waves at sea are strong, no one will inevitably get seasick." ”

"It's dizzy, it's no way, in order to find more stable economic partners and build our Celestial Empire better, it's worth fainting," Lin Haifeng squinted his eyes and looked at Ali Guo with a smile, "Fortunately, as long as you get through this time of drifting across the sea, then the following itinerary will be much more convenient." Rail transportation on the European continent is still very convenient, and the entry and exit are also fast. Actually, I think it's better to take a train than a boat. ”

Ali Guo's heart moved again, listening to this meaning, I'm afraid that this Director Lin in front of him is not just going to France?

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