Weng Shuping didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Ren'an would suddenly jump the topic from Ding Zhihuang directly to "open source and reduce expenditure", he was stunned for a moment, his brain teaser was in a hurry, and it was easy to adjust his thinking.

Weng Shuping thought about it for a while, and then he had a plan in his heart.

Lin Yizhe, Lin Yizhe, the hole you left behind, I'll fill it for you!

Weng Shuping immediately replied: "After returning to his mother, the words of the Queen Mother are that the country is not full of vitality, the times are still difficult, the government is too much, the people are not at peace, the industry is not half prosperous, and everything needs to be done. However, the treasury is empty, if there are many things at the same time, the use of a large number of degrees, too extravagant, I am afraid that there is a risk of carelessness in the beginning, just the so-called desire to prosper and turn to harm, and it is better to say that it is better to be delayed. The only way to do this is to choose the most important one among all things, hold it gradually, persevere for a long time, and strive to avoid vanity in order to seek reality. And the next thing should be carefully arranged, slowly planned, and then continued when the treasury is full, so that all things can be helped, funds can be turned, and the people can get interest. ”

Hearing Weng Shuping say so much, but there was only one meaning of "choosing priorities", Ren'an and Renxi glanced at each other, and their eyes flashed with dissatisfaction.

"According to what Master Weng said, what is the most important thing and what is the secondary?" Empress Dowager Renxi asked.

"Back to the words of the Queen Mother, the minister thought that since the eleventh year of Tongzhi to the great water master, in the past few years, the strategy has been widely planned, carefully managed, and the practice has been gradual, although it has cost tens of millions, but it has finally succeeded. The Japanese invaded, the whole army was destroyed, and the Ryukyus were recovered, and the navy was defended for a long time. And now there is nothing to do in the southeast sea frontier, and the matter of the navy seems to be able to be slowed down a little. Moreover, land defense is also the foundation of the country, and now the Yong battalion is accumulating more and more evil, and the military front is slackening, and it is necessary to rectify it urgently. With the armament of many of the old style, the funds are scarce, it seems that it is advisable to rebuild it in another way, eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and merge and train in order to be effective. Weng Shuping carefully worded his words, and as he spoke, he peeked at the reactions of the two queen mothers, "The old minister's method is to suspend the purchase of guns, guns, ships and machinery by the North and South Seas and the Harbour Administration for two years, and then make up for it after the limit is expired. And the whole elimination of the unusable brave battalion, the price of silver, the solution of the department to fill the salary, then the flood and drought disaster has money relief, the west expedition will not be abandoned halfway, so the measures are more weekly, the risk of the treasury, can still be relieved, can be a lasting party. ”

Hearing Weng Shuping's answer, Empress Dowager Renxi's brows suddenly furrowed.

"Master Weng's method is just 'throttling', but it is still not possible to blindly throttle, and it is necessary to 'open source'." Empress Dowager Ren'an was obviously not satisfied with Weng Shuping's answer, "Has Master Weng thought about this 'open source' method?" ”

"After returning to the queen mother, this ...... method of 'open source', the minister has been thinking about it, but there is no decision at the moment, so he doesn't dare to ......play it" Weng Shuping's forehead sweated like pulp, flowing down his cheeks, dripping from his chin to the floor, Li Lianying, who was on the side, saw Weng Shuping's embarrassment, and secretly applauded in his heart.

Empress Dowager Renxi's methods of rectifying her subordinates have always been clever, and this time he has seen it again.

"Open source and reduce expenditure, why open source in the front and reduce expenditure in the back? How much silver can be saved by light throttling? Open source is the first priority! Empress Dowager Renxi's voice revealed a hint of sternness, "There is an old official who talks about my garden, and all the money in this garden is the service of overseas businessmen, where do I dare to touch the treasury?" Besides, how much money did it cost to repair the garden? Even if I don't repair the garden, I will take it out and give it all to the household, a hole so big that I can't even hear a sound when I throw it in! There are also people who always say that this is a matter of repaying money, I really don't know what the intention is! ”

Although Weng Shuping knew that the Empress Dowager Renxi's words were not directed at him, but should be her complaining on the opportunity, he was still frightened.

After the Qingqi Garden was destroyed in the war of Gengshen year, the Empress Dowager Renxi has always wanted to rebuild this royal garden as a retirement place for herself after returning to power, and Emperor Tongzhi also wanted to repair the garden, leave the sultry Forbidden City, and have a comfortable place to work, but with the financial resources at the time, it could not afford it, so it was opposed by the Qingliu officials as soon as it was proposed. Because the opposition was too loud, and the treasury really had no money at that time, this matter was shelved, but it has always been the heart disease of the Empress Dowager Renxi.

The turning point of the matter occurred in the eighth year of Tongzhi, when due to the cooperation of the dry law with the shipmaster, with the efforts of Lin Yizhe, who was in charge of the shipyard, the French side returned a large number of treasures of the original Qing Qi Garden, Lin Yizhe prompted overseas Chinese businessmen to "repay" to the Daqian royal family a total of 3 million taels of silver, through the Zhili Governor Li Shaoquan, the original fierce opposition to the repair of the garden Prince Jing agreed, and personally to the Empress Dowager Renxi to rebuild the Qing Qi Garden. Knowing that the garden could be repaired without spending a penny from the national treasury, the Empress Dowager Renxi was naturally overjoyed and agreed, so the garden repair project was started.

For Lin Yizhe's move to promote the garden, the Qingliu officials hated it very much, believing that he was unscrupulous in order to invite favors, not only to criticize him well, but also to fiercely oppose the construction of the garden, pointing out that the repair of the garden was a move of "misleading the country and the sick people". Since then, there have been endless voices of opposition to the cultivation of the garden, but the Empress Dowager Renxi was not moved at all.

Lin Yizhe's purpose in doing this back then, Uncle Weng and the Qingliu boss always thought that it was simply to invite pets, but what happened later showed that they were all wrong.

Lin Yizhe is doing foreign affairs in the name of repairing the garden!

By procuring golden silk nanmu from Moss Bay for the repair of the garden and transporting the timber from the sea to Jingshi, Lin Yizhe obtained funds for the shipmaster and the assistance of the French side, established the corresponding transport fleet, and formed a shipmaster and sailor to escort the fleet; In the name of repairing the garden and quarrying, Lin Yizhe introduced the machinery of Westerners into the gardener; In order to transfer the timber transported to Tianjin Dagukou Port from the land to the construction site in the suburbs of Beijing, he took the opportunity to build a railway from Beijing to Tianjin!

And when the garden work was completed, the Empress Dowager Renxi lived comfortably in the birthplace of her youth "Yongqing Changchun", and held her 40th birthday celebration there, the gossip officials were surprised to find that from "Yongqing Changchun" to the imperial city Gen'er, there was a small railway!

Those things of foreigners who once hated Qingliu appeared in the Royal Forbidden Garden!

It was only at this time that Uncle Weng and the Qingliu bigwigs understood the true purpose of Lin Yizhe's promotion of the garden!

And at this time, it was already too late for the gossip officials.

Despite this, the Qingliu were not reconciled, and at the first opportunity, they went to the court to impeach Lin Yizhe and questioned the cost of the garden workers, which provoked the anger of the Empress Dowager Renxi and the Tongzhi Emperor, and all of them were severely punished by dismissal and dismissal.

Weng Shuping never understood what was going on with the Empress Dowager Renxi and Emperor Tongzhi being so angry, but later he took the opportunity to ask when teaching Emperor Tongzhi and learned the answer.

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