After Zhang Zhidong left Shanghai, Hu Chuyuan sent a telegram back to Li Hongzhang, telling Li Hongzhang that he would secretly donate 20 million Qingyuan to build Weihai Port, which would be financed and borrowed by the CITIC Bank, guaranteed by the Shandong Governor's Yamen, and also handled by the Shandong Governor's Yamen.

As for the funding of the Beiyang Naval Division, he personally donated 1 million yuan to talk about emergencies, and then we will talk about it later.

Li Hongzhang quickly got the telegram, but when he looked at it this way, he really couldn't laugh or get angry.

He didn't feel good in his heart, and finally seized the opportunity to blackmail Hu Chuyuan once, but he didn't expect that Hu Chuyuan was very cunning...... Since he claimed that he was in a hurry to use the money, it symbolized that the surname would donate 1 million yuan to save the emergency.

Since he said that Hu Chuyuan was not kind, Hu Chuyuan invested 20 million yuan in him, which solved a very big hidden danger in his heart.

The question is...... Is he Li Hongzhang really lacking this million clear yuan, okay, I finally saw a huge sum of 20 million clear yuan, which is good, it is cheap Zhang Zhidong for nothing.

Even if these things are done, the credit will be credited to Zhang Zhidong's name.

This thing is a toss...... After thinking about it, Li Hongzhang could only say: Hu Chuyuan, your kid is too ruthless, right?

At this time, in Shanghai, Hu Chuyuan quietly changed the Shanghai Wells Fargo Investment Bank Company from American to Chinese-funded, and transferred part of the capital to the Hong Kong Wells Fargo Investment Bank Company through capital manipulation, including the most sensitive HSBC shares and CIB Bank shares.

In terms of capital, there are few people in China who are more sensitive than Hu Chuyuan.

Aware of the changes in the overall environment, Hu Chuyuan quickly transferred the shares held by CITIC in Jiangnan Commercial Bank to the new Shanghai Wells Fargo Investment Bank Company, and reorganized part of the industrial shares of Wanqi Foreign Bank in the Shanghai Concession and the Wanqi Technology Bureau into the Wells Fargo Industrial Holding Company, and then set up a new Wells Fargo Industrial Technology Research and Development Bureau under the company.

At this point, Wanqi Foreign Bank officially began to move towards a new page, from a king of foreign banks in China to a petrochemical Kang Caien, from the upstream oil wells, coal mines, raw material mining, intermediate basic chemicals, and subsequent household chemicals, medicine, fertilizers, etc., and at the right time to merge and reorganize a medium-sized financial institution to complete the transformation of the entire Kang Cai En system.

In the Shanghai Concession, they will operate their own brand.

The Wells Fargo system is not only a huge financial group, but also a technology research and development, transfer and holding company, absorbing new technologies on a global scale, developing new technologies, and using the operation of the global market to rationally transfer technology to emerging markets while developing local production.

After the Fuguo system completed this transformation, the Jiangnan Commercial Bank and other commercial houses could only be his vassals.

After all, Hu Chuyuan's business acumen is ahead of this era, and in different environments, he has quickly designed a new business system to cope with it and obtain maximum profits and returns.

So, he was a born businessman, just as Jang Zhidong was a born politician.

The affairs of the imperial court also have to be done.

The Prime Minister's Jiangnan Yamen was officially set up in Wusong Town, ostensibly to save money, and the Yamen was simply handled, but in fact, all the real power affairs were placed in Yongyuan.

The garden currently covers an area of 78 acres, an increase of more than 54 acres from three years ago, and is surrounded by a castle-like outer wall similar to that of the West with four towers in mind.

Behind the Yihua Pavilion, a new large-scale Fuguo Villa has been built, which has only been built in a small part at present, corresponding to the Splendid Villa, which adopts baroque architecture, gradually transforms to the Loroco style, and finally integrates into the Chinese and Western style of the Splendid Villa.

A Siwei Fort has been added between the two Reading Villas of Phu Quoc and Splendid and the Hu Mansion and Yihua Pavilion, which is mainly the place where the guards are stationed, and it is also the command post for the security and guard work of the entire Yongyuan, with a bunker below.

From the Gothic revival, to the Baroque, Luo Luoco, and then to the traditional Ming and Qing Dynasty style Jiangnan gardens, and finally evolved the style of the Song and Yuan Dynasty gardens, the Yongyuan Garden is a must in the change and transition of the whole style, which is also the reason why the Yongyuan dares to be called the first garden in the south of the Yangtze River.

Of course, the cost is astonishing.

After the gradual completion of Phu Quoc Villa, according to the prior plan, the back hall of Hu Mansion will be read out and will no longer be used as a treasure house, and all antique cultural relics and artworks will be transferred to Phu Quoc Villa.

After further expansion, the back hall will become a new main hall, and Hu Chuyuan will move here with his family.

At this stage, Hu Chuyuan bought the Li Family Garden on the east side of the next door, which originally belonged to the Li family in Zhenhai, Ningbo, and used it as the real actual office location of the Prime Minister's Senior Minister's Yamen, where all bureaus of the Yamen worked, and it was also the garrison of the Yamen's subordinate battalion guards.

He has also negotiated with the Public Concession on the issues that may be involved here, and there will be no trouble.

In order to ensure the real power of the Prime Minister's Senior Minister's Yamen in the local area, and also as a reward for Hu Chuyuan's concession in the high-level power of the Qing Empire, Prince Gong spent a lot of brains to divide Baoshan County and Wusong, Wujiaochang, Jiangwan, Gaojing, Miaohang and other towns into a new Baosong Zhili Prefecture, which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Senior Yamen, with a separate Zhizhou, a general soldier and three generals, and three battalions to coordinate and guard Wusongkou.

In the future, this Baosong will become the Shanghai industrial community.

During this time, Zeng Zongyan, the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, was in a hurry to find Hu Chuyuan, in fact, he wanted to be this governor, and he was demoted from the prefect to Ren Zhizhou, which seemed to be a loss, but it was actually a big profit.

You must know that this is a lot under the jurisdiction of Hu Chuyuan.

In this way, the various bureaus of the Wells Fargo Industrial Holding Company and the Senior Yamen were set up at the same time, and the two happened to complement each other.

After discussing the division of powers with Yi, the Prime Minister's Senior Minister's Yamen temporarily set up nine bureaus for railways, public works, commerce, mining, agriculture, education, postal services, telegraphs, and general aviation, and each bureau had great real power, and as long as Hu Chuyuan could continue to coordinate well with the Military Aircraft Department, each bureau would actually be able to manage the affairs of the whole country.

The yamen itself has a minister of political participation, not fixed, according to seniority can be divided into foreman and assistant to participate in politics, the former is graded as the second grade, only two people, the latter is from the third grade.

Each bureau has a foreman and two to three chapter machines, referred to as the small senior minister, and there are other divisions and management offices below.

After calculation, the Prime Minister's Senior Minister's Yamen will suddenly add two senior members of the second rank, more than 10 third-grade officials, more than 20 fourth-grade officials, and nearly 100 fifth- and sixth-grade officials.

Officials from all over the country tried their best to apply for the transfer, and the Military Aircraft Department really wanted to install a large number of people, but Hu Chuyuan himself had a big faction, and it was not the turn of outsiders to interfere.

The ministers of the Military Aircraft Department also understand this.

In return for the peach, Prince Gong Wang Yi only arranged for Chonghou and Lu Chuanlin to serve as foremen to participate in politics, and the rest of the people secretly discussed with Hu Chuyuan to appoint a large number of so-called young officials of the Hu Party, such as Zhang Baixi, Liu Hongxi, Tang Jingchong, Li Zhaonan, Chen Menglin, Chen Kangqi, and Lu Runzhen.

Zeng Zongyan is his own person and his ability is acceptable, so Hu Chuyuan fulfilled his wish and was transferred to Baosong Zhizhou.

Busy and busy, time flies quickly, and a few months have passed, and the Prime Minister's Senior Minister's Yamen has gradually become a climate, directly under the Military Aircraft Department, and co-organized the new national industrial and commercial affairs policy in Shanghai.

In Shandong, Zhang Zhidong also gathered the Qingdao industrial community.

On this very day, Hu Chuyuan received a secret message from France, saying that the new foreign minister, Ito Hirobumi, had a secret meeting with Emperor Nicholas II in Tsarist Russia, and that under the mediation of France, the two sides might sign an "Agreement on the Alliance of the Far East between Russia and Russia."

This news suddenly made Hu Chuyuan nervous, and with China's current strength, it would be overstretched to deal with the fact that there was still a surplus in the country, and it would be overstretched to deal with Tsarist Russia, and at the same time it would be a big problem to deal with a Triple Alliance between France and Russia.

Is there any reason to be invincible?

Hu Chuyuan immediately mobilized all the spy networks hidden in Yueben, and he must confirm the details of the alliance between the two sides.

A few days later, a spy from the General Correspondence Office in the Secret Office obtained a personal letter, from which it could be deduced that France and Russia were indeed in close contact and were trying to conclude an alliance agreement confined to the Far East.

In return, the result of the internal negotiations among the elders was for the Russians to get the Liaodong Peninsula, and they must first ensure their "rights" in Korea and Taiwan.

Yes.

It is said that the word used by the patriarch Saigo Congdao in this letter is "equity", which is really the most naked bandit logic, as if the imperial court and Taiwan were originally theirs.

In addition to being angry, Hu Chuyuan also thought in his heart.

After the end of the Sino-French War, there has always been a trend of "using barbarism to counter barbarians" in France, and supporting Tsarist Russia and dealing with China has become one of the top priorities of the French authorities.

In fact, France's military preparations in Vietnam have never stopped, but in northern Vietnam, Hu Chuyuan's Black Flag Army, which also supported Liu Yongfu, kept it in check.

In the past five years, the French government and the private sector have successively increased their holdings of Tsarist Russia and local government bonds as high as 200 million pounds, especially in the French capital, and the vast majority of the funds have been used for military spending and industrialization.

With the acceleration of China's pace in railways and other undertakings, the birth of the Qingdao industrial community, and the preparation of a railway between Beijing and Shenyang, all this made Tsarist Russia, which had been peeking into the northeast for a long time, feel threatened.

Those who are not of my race will have different hearts.

The heart of Tsarist Russia is unusually a bit ridiculous and hateful.

They seem to have ignored the fact that Northeast China is Chinese territory, and instead regarded China's construction of railways in Northeast China as a threat to their interests in the Far East.

In addition, they did increase their military presence in the Far East.

Is it to break the game, or to take advantage of the situation?

This is the first issue that Hu Chuyuan should consider, and the way to break the situation is nothing more than to find a way to prevent the Russian-Russian alliance treaty from succeeding, and to take advantage of the situation is to take advantage of the contradictions between Britain and France, Britain and Russia, and Germany and France, and take advantage of the opportunity to win over Britain and Germany.

Hu Chuyuan was a cautious person, he did not make a hasty decision, but set off for Fuzhou to investigate.

In September 1889, Hu Chuyuan arrived in Fuzhou.

(To be continued)