What's more, in order to borrow foreign money for the western expedition, Hu Yulin also staked the Fukang silver number and his family fund, and deserved to be rewarded for his dedication and benefits, but there was no such item in the institutional arrangements of the imperial court. The so-called "saint can be right", and it is logical for Zuo Jigao, who calls himself "Jinliang", to let Hu Yulin eat the interest rate difference at a high interest rate in return.

In desperation, in order not to be the wronged leader of Zuo Jigao's "usury", the governors of the provinces had no choice but to use various means to apportion the salaries to the heads of the merchants.

In this way, the problem of the Western Expedition was effectively solved, but Zuo Jigao also became the object of hatred of the apportionment of merchants and people.

As early as the beginning of the Western Expedition, Zuo Jigao proposed that Qianguo could imitate the practice of foreign countries in "lending troops to pay the merchants" and "return taxes, follow business sentiments, and collect things easily", but the reality ruthlessly shattered his idea. Zuo Jigao planned to negotiate with the local merchants to borrow 2 million taels to support military supplies, but the merchants were only willing to borrow 800,000 taels of silver, not even half of it, and "the heart was still hesitant and could not be relieved." Zuo Jigao was furious about this, and simply began a hard apportionment to severely punish the merchants who refused to comply. For a time, Shaanxi, Gansu and other western expeditionary armies passed through the provinces, and the merchants dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out.

Even so, the drama of "Expedition to Xinjiang and Restoration of Homeland" that he starred in with all his love is still in danger of not being able to sing because of the relationship of "salary".

Thinking that Zuo Jigao actually hit the head of his opponent Lin Yizhe with the idea of raising money, Zeng Boheng can be said to be both shocked and admired.

This kind of thing, only he Zuo Jigao can think of and do it!

Zeng Boheng only understood why after Lin Yizhe's death, Zuo Jigao even sent a sincere mourning couplet from thousands of miles away, deploring Lin Yizhe's untimely death.

It turned out to be because of the money!

In Zuo Jigao's view, Ding Yusheng, who is now taking over the shipyard, is likely to have also taken over the relationship left by Lin Yizhe with overseas merchants and European money merchants, so when the household department has been in arrears for many years, Ding Yusheng still has silver to build ships!

Ding Yusheng refused to pay the shipmaster's Yu Yin to help the Xiexi expedition, obviously because he wanted to continue to be like Lin Yizhe, and not sell his Zuo Jigao's account, how could Zuo Jigao bear it?

"Lao Liang, don't be impatient." Zeng Boheng thought for a while and said, "If you go up to impeachment Ding Yusheng, it means that you Lao Liang is asking for money from the ship administration behind your back, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”

"What do you say about Yuanfu?" Zuo Jigao was stunned and immediately asked.

"I'm afraid that this matter will still fall on the household......" Zeng Boheng stepped forward and leaned into Zuo Jigao's ear and whispered a few words.

"What Yuan Fu said is extremely true, it is much better for the household department to negotiate with the Maritime Affairs Department than for me to go here!" Zuo Jigao nodded again and again, and smiled at Zeng Boheng.

Beijing, Prime Minister's Naval Affairs Yamen.

Weng Shuping took a sedan chair early in the morning and hurriedly came to the navy yamen.

On that day, after receiving a telegram from the Minister of Shipping, Ding Yusheng, Weng Shuping was angry and hateful for several days, and he was helpless, but received a telegram from Zuo Jigao, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu.

Zuo Jigao's telegram this time made an unprecedented decision to talk about the "Western Levy Affair," but after reporting on the payment situation in various localities, he added a sentence that "the Western Levy is urgent, the shipping administration should be slow, and how to be austere is the negotiable Maritime Administration."

Although this sentence is not long, Weng Shuping immediately understood the meaning!

He understood that this was Zuo Jigao waking himself up.

Thinking that since the establishment of the Navy Yamen, a large amount of money has not passed through the household department, Weng Shuping couldn't help but feel angry in his heart.

"If I knew this was the case, I shouldn't have let this happen!" Thinking of the impeachment of the gossip officials when the Navy Yamen was established, and he did not strongly oppose it for fear of angering the Queen Mother, Weng Shuping regretted it.

But he also knew that he was desperately opposed at that time, and he was afraid that he would not be able to prevent the establishment of the Navy Yamen.

As soon as he thought of Lin Yizhe tying up "garden workers" with "navy" and "foreign affairs", and every time he made the gossip officials throw into the mouse, Weng Shuping hated it very much.

On March 10 of the first year of Guangxu, stimulated by the Japanese invasion of Moswan, Empress Dowager Renxi issued an edict: "The affairs of the coastal defense navy are of great importance, and the prime minister of naval affairs, Prince Yixuan, and all coastal sailors will be dispatched in moderation, and the university scholars Wen Bochuan and Baojun, the governor of Zhili Li Shaoquan, the governor of Liangjiang Shen Youdan, and the minister of naval affairs Lin Yizhe will be sent to handle it together." Ding Yusheng, the Minister of Shipping, and Wen Yu, the general of Fuzhou, helped to handle it. Now, at the beginning of the Beiyang military training, Li Shaoquan was instructed to take charge of his affairs. It shall be established and prepared for all matters, and shall be carefully planned by the king's ministers and others, and shall draw up a charter and make a clear plan for the establishment of the first order." According to this appointment, Prince Chun Yixuan and others changed their previous prevarication and wait-and-see attitude, and the plan was ready in only six days, and they requested the establishment of the "Prime Minister's Naval Affairs Yamen", which was approved by Yi on the same day. It's so fast that it's rare. From then on, the coastal defense forces of the Great Qian Empire were directly managed by the central government.

The establishment of the navy's yamen was a major move taken by the ruling clique of the Daqian Empire, which increasingly felt the threat from the sea from the great powers, to resist foreign aggression and strengthen coastal defense. Although the Great Qian Imperial Court attached great importance to naval construction from the very beginning, compared with the long coastline of the Qianguo and the treacherous international situation it was facing, it was obvious that the Great Qian Imperial Court did not attach enough importance to the navy, so the development of the navy was far from ideal, and the development of the new-style navy was extremely slow. More importantly, at that time, there was no unified naval command organ in the whole country, and all naval divisions were under the jurisdiction of local governors, so it was difficult to coordinate operations, and the governors of various provinces regarded the naval divisions as their own private property, which was not only difficult to deploy, but also unwilling to change. For example, the Yangtze River is under the jurisdiction of Nanyang, and the minister of Nanyang nominally has the right to control the Yangtze River naval division, but when the new governor of Liangjiang and Nanyang minister Shen Youdan asked for the unified reorganization of the Nanyang naval divisions, the old sailing ships were removed, and they were replaced with steam ships. It is difficult to carry out the orders of the governor of Liangjiang and the minister of Nanyang in the Yangtze River naval division under his jurisdiction, and the overall situation of the navy of the whole country can be imagined.

In short, the Great Qian Imperial Court still used the traditional method of managing the navy to manage the modern navy, and did not realize that the equipment and technology of the modern navy were quite complex and must be unified, and the height of systematic management was far from comparable to that of the old-style navy. But what is even worse is that many people in the government and the opposition think that the establishment of a naval yamen, a new institution that is not available in the traditional "six departments" of the Middle-earth Dynasty and only has "Yidi", means "changing Xia with Yidi"!

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