(1st Update)

When he heard the name of the candidate, Sheng Xuanhuai was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Ye Kai to choose this person first, and this person is not only Sheng Xuanhuai's subordinate, in charge of the steamship China Merchants Bureau, he and Sheng Xuanhuai himself have been friends for nearly 20 years, and have a very deep partnership in the shopping mall, secondly, Sheng Xuanhuai was also surprised by Ye Kai's keen vision, Zheng Guanying has been in the field of commercial and financial industry in the southeast for many years, has a wide range of contacts, and has rich experience, so it is indeed suitable to choose him.

"Such an important task is none other than Director Zhengda." Ye Kai continued to say on the side.

Many people's understanding of Zheng Guanying stems from his book "The Danger of the Prosperous Age", and Ye Kai is no exception, but if you dig deeper, you will find that this person can be called a legend in the business field, and he also has the status of the first person to open his eyes in the field of politics and education.

Ye Kai's persistence also forced Sheng Xuanhuai to endure the pain of cutting his love, and he was able to turn losses into profits at the beginning of his tenure at China Merchants Steamship, which shows this person's ability, which is also one of the reasons why Ye Kai takes a fancy to him.

"Okay, as Lord Ying Liang said, let Zheng Guanying rush to Shanxi to prepare for the establishment of the head office of the bank, and if it works, we have to see him."

"Thank you, Lord Shan."

The most important supervisor has been finalized, and at this point, the meeting has finally reached an agreement.

Of course, the integration of Shanxi ticket number is only the beginning, but for them on the edge of the cliff, this is the last chance to redeem themselves, if the decision-makers of the ticket number continue to be short-sighted, then the end of the closure is not far away, from now on, there is not much time left for them.

Ye Kai wrote down the results of the meeting in detail on a letter, and as for whether these ideal ambitions can be turned into reality, they still have to go through the last procedure.

Qianqing Palace, Hongde Palace.

When Zaifeng saw this proposal on the establishment of Shanxi Bank Headquarters, he naturally did not have too many objections to the above content, and after briefly asking Ye Kai a few irrelevant questions, he nodded and agreed to this plan.

The next day, the edict was successfully issued, faster than Ye Kai thought, Zheng Guanying was appointed as the Minister of Supervision of the Shanxi Banking General Bank, and in order to concentrate resources and reduce the resistance to reform, at the request of Ye Kai, Zheng Guanying was also specially appointed as the envoy of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, equivalent to the minister of Qincha, and ordered the governor of Shanxi and the political envoy to deal with it in coordination, if necessary, at any time to listen to his dispatch without delay.

Zaifeng and Ye Kai made a big decision.

Soon, the letter of appointment was sent to Shanghai by telegram, under Sheng Xuanhuai's entrustment, Zheng Guanying immediately left, non-stop rush to Shanxi to preside over the financial reform work, of course, the arrival of an outsider is bound to break the original pattern of interests, the task given to him, in fact, is not easy.

In this recital, there is another detail worth paying attention to, Dai Hongci's name is written in front of everyone, Ye Kai uses this way to imply that Dai Hongci played a major role in the whole plan, while deliberately increasing the latter's exposure, it also lays the groundwork for his future promotion.

When writing this note, Ye Kai also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to carry out more daring and incomplete reforms across the country, such as unifying the currency, issuing practical paper money, abandoning the silver standard and replacing it with the gold standard, recovering tariff autonomy, establishing a stock exchange and other modern financial measures, but after thinking about it, he still gave up, and when the power was not in his own hands, these original best intentions were likely to end in failure.

Take the unified currency as an example, not to mention that the foreigners will not agree, even the governors of various places will secretly obstruct it, the unified currency will inevitably deprive the local government of the concession to mint money independently, and the silver in the pocket will be taken away in vain, which is the situation that those with vested interests do not want to see, they will definitely find ways to find reasons to refuse to carry it out, and when the time comes, an order of the imperial court is likely to become waste paper when it arrives at them, and the central authority that is in danger will be worse again.

After the mutual protection of the southeast, the majesty of the imperial court plummeted, and the yang and yin were violated in various places, and some people even made treaties with foreigners' private residences, completely ignoring the central government, and doing a traitorous act in disguise, no way, the excessive decentralization of power has seriously hindered the implementation of reform, which is not only a big trouble, but also a dangerous signal, once the spark of revolution is ignited, the dynasty will fall apart in an instant, and these series of causal relationships are not difficult to understand.

But in any case, change always requires a difficult start, and since it can't be done overnight, then do it little by little.

The reform of Shanxi ticket number is the first stepping stone thrown by Ye Kai.

Judging from the reaction of the next two months, the effect of this pathfinding stone is not bad, although Zheng Guanying encountered some troubles in the early stage, but the process of preparing for the head office of the bank is generally smooth, the largest several ticket numbers have been losing money year after year, and even the branch located in Beijing has a run on the storm, their days are even more sad, the ticket number owner who was forced to a dead end finally agreed to buy shares, under the guidance of several blocks such as Rishengchang, Wei Taihou, Dade Heng, etc., more than 40 ticket numbers have joined it, after the preliminary election of board members, By this time next year, the head office of the bank will be established.

The newly established head office of the bank, the scope of business will have a big change, in the continuation of the original eastern region, the eyes have gradually turned to the central and western regions and the northeast region, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Sichuan, Tibet, Gansu, this is a capital blank area, infrastructure, they will get official direct investment, soon they will get the first pot of gold, so as to consolidate the original not very close upper board of directors.

Ye Kai's ultimate goal is still the Northeast region, under the eyes of Japan and Mao Xiong, the Northeast has become the target of public criticism, and the growing bank head office can well resist the further erosion of Japanese and Russian capital in the Northeast.

As for the emerging financial center - Shanghai, it is not yet classified as the business scope of the head office for the time being, but the Yangtze River is also the most basic strategy of the head office of the bank.

Of course, everything is temporary, and Ye Kai is already thinking about this

After the riots in the infantry yamen and the decision to reform the Shanxi ticket number, the imperial court entered a period of calm and calm, and Yi-Liang did not make any major moves after recovering a city, and Zaifeng also focused on the way of forbearance, pursuing the principle of non-conflict, non-confrontation, and of course no dialogue, and the balance of power was temporarily formed on the scene.

Time is spent day by day in this stalemate state, all parties have a rare respite, taking advantage of this leisure time, Ye Kai enjoyed a good family fun, Lan Niang's illness is almost better, his three girls are also alive, day by day is more and more difficult to serve, fortunately, the full of people's Gege do not need to bind their feet, otherwise these three little sparrows don't know how much to make a fuss.

The eldest Rong Ji is seven years old this year, compared to those two, he has already passed the stage of running around the ground with a runny nose and a doll, and he has reached Ye Kai's waist, and he has reached the age when he should go to school, about the education of his children, Ye Kai has another headache, almost the whole family is on Lan Niang and Han Cuier's side, advocating that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and it is enough to be able to read and write.

Ye Kai had no choice, these old concepts couldn't be changed for a while, while persuading his wife with kind words, he had to be flexible, and personally went to the Jingshi Tongwen Museum, and invited two old Hanlin, teaching foreign languages on the one hand, and teaching Chinese studies on the other, it was barely decided on the matter, of course, this cost is also expensive, three or four hundred taels of silver a month, and the actual purchasing power converted is as high as the current sixty or seventy thousand, but Ye Kai is also willing to pay his blood.

Just when Ye Kai was busy with this, before he could sit down and take a breath, an explosive news suddenly came from the military plane, which made this peaceful life go away from him in an instant.

Zhang Zhidong is dead.