"Commander, Vice Governor Yan did a beautiful job, and he saved me nearly two million taels of silver at once. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Now I finally don't have to worry about silver anymore, and I have a balance of one million taels of silver in my hand! As soon as he entered Yang Xingguo's office in the middle of the week, he told Yan Bing about letting businessmen share millions of immigrants' living materials.

Then he analyzed Yang Xingguo: "Commander, you brought back three million taels of silver from the capital, and the Liaodong Army handed over a total of 1.35 million taels of gold and silver, and Vice Governor Yan also sent me 800,000 taels of silver in more than a month. A total of 5 million taels of silver, 2 million taels were spent on buying grain, 1.5 million taels were used to pay pensions to the soldiers killed and wounded in battle, 500,000 taels were used for the arsenal, 200,000 taels were used for the rest, and now there are 950,000 taels left! ”

"Although we still need to spend nearly two million taels of silver to buy grain, Vice Governor Yan can now send 500,000 taels of silver every month, and the grain saved of two million taels of silver is not imminent. Although income and expenditure are not yet very balanced, the gap in silver is not so big! ”

Yang Xingguo didn't expect Yan Bing to have such a mind, and while he was happy, he was already thinking about how to thank Yan Bing when he saw her at night.

Of course, happy is happy, Yang Xingguo is at least sensible.

It didn't take long for Yang Xingguo to frown, and he asked Zhou Zhongju rhetorically: "I will provide you with 500,000 taels of silver a month, and Yan Bing is not the God of Wealth, how did he do it." ”

"This is another place where I want to admire her, and now even the second uncle has to admit that Yan Bing is a heroine among women, and you have married a good daughter-in-law!" Zhou Zhongju said with emotion.

"How did he do it? As far as I know, even if the business of the Liaodong Foreign Trade Company in her hand is good, it will be thankful that she can earn 200,000 taels of silver every month. After all, there are not many weapons and ammunition that these companies can sell now! Yang Xingguo was stunned for a moment, and at the same time, he asked excitedly and expectantly.

Zhou Zhongju hurriedly replied: "In terms of selling weapons, several branches of the Liaodong Foreign Trade Company have only earned 100,000 taels of silver in the past two months, after all, the sales group of the foreign trade company has been transferred from the imperial court officials and soldiers to the local gentry and local militias, and they can not digest many weapons. ”

"As for the remaining 400,000 taels of silver, all of them were earned back by Yan Bing according to local conditions!"

At this time, Yang Xingguo was even more interested in his mysterious wife, and immediately asked: "How to adapt measures to local conditions!" ”

Zhou Zhongju replied without thinking: "Isn't the area of Fengcheng mountainous?" And they are all mountains that have never been developed, and they are full of prey and herbs, and Yan Bing uses these two things to make money! ”

"Organize the young people who have migrated to go into the mountains to hunt and dig herbs in the village, and then use the prey and herbs they have caught to exchange food from us!"

"As soon as the prey turned around, it became meat and fur, and the meat was sold to the people in the Liaozhong area and the Liaodong army to eat, and the fur was sold to the fur merchants from the Guannai and sent to the Guannai for silver."

"As for the herbs, especially those precious herbs in the mountains, such as ginseng or something, they are all white flowers and silver."

"Yan Bing collected the herbs and sorted them in a centralized manner, and the ordinary herbs were sold directly to the pharmacists from Guannai. Precious herbs are directly sent to several branches of Liaodong Foreign Trade Company for sale at high prices. ”

"In this way, the immigrants can exchange food from us through four ways: reclamation, road building, hunting, and digging herbs. And our Liaodong Army has the prey and herbs collected from the immigrants, and it has also gotten rid of the passive situation of only giving money and no income. ”

According to Yan Bing's idea, she will organize immigrants living by the river and the river to find a way to break the ice and fish, according to Yan Bing, the price of fish in the capital is very expensive now, if you can use ice to freeze the fish and send it to the capital, you will definitely be able to sell a lot of silver back!"

At this time, Yang Xingguode's train of thought was also opened, and he said happily: "Yan Bing's idea is very good. In addition, as far as I know, when we took Liaodong, we also took over several gold mines from the Japanese and Russians, and now these gold mines are deserted there, and I brought back several mining students from the capital. Tell Yan Bing to open up all these gold mines, and expand the scale. ”

"Several gold mines are all combined, and the monthly output of 10,000 taels of gold is the income of 100,000 taels of silver, such a large income cannot be forgotten!"

Zhou Zhong's eyes lit up and replied, "I'll tell Commander Yan Bing your proposal when I go back!" ”

After the old and difficult problem of silver was solved, Yang Xingguo was in a good mood. At noon, he also drank several glasses of wine with Sun Liechen to celebrate.

However, this good mood lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon and disappeared because of the second arrival of the midweek lift.

The midweek was in a hurry, and it could even be described as panicked.

As soon as he rushed to Yang Xingguo, Zhou Zhongju said anxiously: "Commander, something happened!" Yuan Shikai put us together in the court and described our reform in Liaodong as a rebellion. Cixi was furious and sent the minister to come over to investigate. Judging from the time, the minister should have left the capital by now! ”

"It's still coming, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly!" After reading the information sent by the capital, Yang Xingguo frowned, sighed and said.

Zhou Zhongju immediately asked: "The imperial court is menacing this time, there must be Yuan Shikai's people in the Qincha, if one is not good, we will sit on the big crime of conspiring against us!" ”

"Now we still lack a million quintals of grain to buy from the customs, and once we are guilty of the great crime of rebellion, it will be difficult to buy another grain from the customs. So, no matter what, now is not the time to turn the other cheek with the court. ”

Yang Xingguo shook his head and replied: "Not only you here, but the army here is not ready yet!" ”

"Over the past two months, the five main divisions have just been replenished, and they are now seizing the time to train, and their combat effectiveness is far from reaching the level of the last anti-encirclement and suppression campaign. Although there is no shortage of troops in the Sixth Division, the shelves have not yet been erected, and even the division commander has not yet been decided. In addition, more than 100,000 Japanese troops are still staring at us in Lushun, and now is by no means the time to turn their faces with the imperial court. ”

The anxious expression on Zhou Zhongju's face became even stronger at this time, and he then asked, "Then what should we do?" This time the court must be menacing! ”

Yang Xingguo snorted coldly and said: "There is only one way, let the imperial court see the bad situation in Liaodong and dare not touch us!" ”

"Raise your own respect!" Zhou Zhongju immediately thought of a scene that Yang Xingguo asked him and Zhou Zhongju to play for the court spies a few months ago.

Yang Xingguo nodded and affirmed: "It's to raise Kou's self-respect, but this time you have to really fight, otherwise you must not fool those Qin Messengers!" (To be continued.) )