As Hu Chuyuan expected, Prince Alcohol and Prince Gong were waiting for him in the palace of Yongjun, no, they had to persuade him to give up the idea of reform, and they had to persuade him not to be the governor of Zhili...... It really doesn't work, the positions of the governors of Liangjiang and Fujian and Zhejiang are still negotiable.

Hu Chuyuan told the truth, he didn't want to be a Guan Zhong, the problem was that the emperor forced him to do it, what could he do?

He talked about the things that he discussed with Emperor Guangxu later, avoiding the important and trivializing, especially taking the military aircraft department as the focus of the reform and separating the power of the prime minister's senior minister's yamen, which inevitably made Prince Alcohol breathe a sigh of relief.

Prince Alcohol knew that Hu Chuyuan was not the stunned young man like Zhang Baixi, and he knew how important it was.

If Hu Chuyuan really handed over the power of the prime minister's senior minister, in other words, it would be okay to let him be the governor of Zhili, in case someone really wanted to support Cixi to come out again, he, the governor of Zhili, would definitely not sit idly by.

In any case, there is a marriage relationship between Prince Alcohol and Hu Chuyuan, which is a very important political guarantee - at least Prince Alcohol thinks so.

The three of them discussed all night, especially about the issue of the Manchurian people's support for silver.

In the Kangxi period, this was already a headache for the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, the cost was too high, it was too amazing, and during the Daoguang period, this problem was already overwhelming.

What Hu Chuyuan said is very simple, if you delay it any longer, the Qing Kingdom will be lost.

The expenditure of 70 or 80 million yuan a year is 780 million yuan in 10 years, and after 30 years, when the Manchu population increases to 3 million or 4 million, there is no need for foreign countries to fight at all, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty itself will go out of business first.

The most important problem is that the Manchu Eight Banner Battalion is no longer of any use, and it has to raise another 100,000 training troops, and the annual expenditure is also about 50 or 60 million Qingyuan.

If you don't raise the training army and continue to raise the Eight Banners Battalion, if you have a little bit of trouble, you won't expect those local feudal officials to recruit you in the future.

Therefore, the Eight Banners Battalion must be cut by half, and the rest of the Manchurian support must also be dismantled by more than half.

The best way is to reduce the Manchu people's support to the current 50 percent, and then allow the Manchu people to choose their own jobs to support themselves, and then reduce it to 20 percent after ten years, and then maintain this standard, which can only be regarded as retaining a preferential treatment and national subsidy.

A fart problem, three people actually talked about it until dawn.

In the end, Prince Gong agreed with Hu Chuyuan's suggestion, believing that this was indeed the best way in desperation, and there could be no other way. What's more, the various methods proposed by Hu Chuyuan to persuade the industry bureau are still very feasible and can control the situation.

Prince Yiyun still disagreed, but he didn't plan to object.

The two of them are more sober and not so bastards among the Manchurians, and they know better than anyone what the problems of the central finances are, and it is really not a way to drag on like this.

As for the latter things, Yi and Yi Xun are not particularly worried, after all, Hu Chuyuan has given them power, they can control it, at least they can play some methods of yang and yin, originally said that it will be cut to two percent after ten years, maybe the finances will be better after ten years, and it will always be maintained at fifty percent of the Manchurian support.

This kind of thing always has to be taken step by step, and looking at Hu Chuyuan's attitude, he is not determined to do it in one go.

This is so important...... They can at least confirm that Hu Chuyuan does not want to be a Guan Zhong.

This is the most fucking thing.

Every day after that, Hu Chuyuan had to go to the Military Aircraft Department to report, and discuss with other military ministers, first of all, he had to create a legal affairs bureau, and Khenpo the "Company Law" and "Industrial and Commercial Taxation Law" to allow domestic businessmen to open factories and companies in China.

The specific tax law should also be adjusted and reformed, and the transportation tax will no longer be increased, and the commercial tax will be raised to 12 draws, the industrial tax will also be 12 draws, the mining tax will be 10 draws, and the Ding tax will be divided into two, that is, the agricultural tax and the industrial tax, the former will remain unchanged, and the latter will be slightly higher, and it will be drawn through various companies and commercial banks.

Where the personal income exceeds 3,000 yuan per year, the excess part must pay income tax of 100000 percent, and businessmen can also pay 100,000 or 1 million yuan of buyout income tax every year according to the amount.

In addition, the "Gold, Silver and Precious Metals Control Act" must also be put on the agenda immediately.

When it comes to reform, everyone is not interested, they are still very resistant, and when it comes to taxation, everyone is very excited.

In the end, the Military Aircraft Department began to compete with the Ministry of Household Affairs for power, and wanted to set up a tax bureau in addition to the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Academic Affairs Bureau, the Audit Bureau, the Post Office, and the Transportation Bureau, so as to have jurisdiction over the collection of new taxes throughout the country.

Fortunately, Yan Jingming, the Hanshang Book of the Household Department, was also in the military aircraft department, and the matter was still under his control, so nothing happened.

It's relatively easy for everyone to discuss behind closed doors, but I don't know what kind of bird it is when it comes to implementation.

Hu Chuyuan doesn't care much about this, with the increase of practical officials, there are indeed great reform requirements in China, but on the whole it is not particularly intense.

Zhang Baixi and Emperor Guangxu are relatively fierce people.

Li Hongzhang was "promoted" to the Han Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and then he was appointed as the governor of Sichuan, although he did not leave his hometown of Hefei, and did not want to go to Sichuan to serve as the governor, the position of the governor of Zhili had been vacant for a long time.

On June 4, 1891, Hu Chuyuan was officially appointed to concurrently serve as the Governor of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang Commerce, and at the same time he was also a scholar of Tirenge, the prince of Taibao, the minister of military aircraft of the auxiliary class, and the minister of prime minister.

This one.......

Hu Chuyuan himself was also very depressed.

To put it simply, he is the Lord of Zhongtang, and he is also the Prime Minister's Minister and the Governor of Zhili, and the rest are all imaginary, the Prime Minister's Minister and the Minister of Military Aircraft of the Auxiliary Class are detained together, and the Governor of Naoli and the Minister of Beiyang Trade are detained together, but they are nominally divided into four official titles.

He thought, Liu Mingchuan should be the most depressed person, right?

After a lot of adjustment and discussion, Liu Mingchuan remained as the governor of the three eastern provinces, his younger brother Liu Shengxiu became the governor of Korea and minister of trade, and the Huai army stationed in Korea reached six battalions.

Rong Lu returned to serve as the governor of Huguang, Liu Jintang served as the governor of Liangguang, Xu Zhanxu was promoted to the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Zuo Guigui was appointed as the governor of Zhili, Nie Shicheng was appointed as the governor of the three eastern provinces, Zhang Zhidong continued to serve as the governor of Shandong and the governor, and Huo Hongji also continued to serve as the governor of Taiwan and the governor of land and water.

Lu Guangquan was promoted to the rank of Registered Admiral, served as the overseer of the Huguang Corps, and officially returned to Hebei from North Korea to station.

On June 12, Hu Chuyuan officially arrived in Tianjin, took over the power of the governor of Zhili, and lived in the Tianjin Yamen, which Li Hongzhang had run for more than ten years, and his family also set off to Tianjin to meet him.

That night, he couldn't sleep all night, and he was always so unsteady.

Guangxu Zaiyan finally began to reform, and he was about to reform again, but he didn't think it was a good thing, and it seemed to be a good thing.

A few days later, Lu Guangquan's troops withdrew to Tianjin, and their headquarters were in the Panshan area of Tianjin.

When the army returned victoriously, Hu Chuyuan also gave them a welcome ceremony, and in the evening he held a banquet in the office of the governor of Zhili in Tianjin.

Looking at these young generals who were not much different from him, Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart.

He knew that some people had left them completely.

In the entire Gengyin War, the Fuxing Society also lost more than 400 people, of which more than 10 were backbones.

After the banquet, Hu Chuyuan left Lu Guangquan and Li Kaiye alone.

The moonlight is clear, the warm wind floats in the courtyard, raise your eyes to look at the stars, the stars are shining and brilliant, the Milky Way jade belt passes by the sky, which makes people feel nostalgic, I don't know how big the world is, how small people are.

Looking at the sky, Hu Chuyuan suddenly sighed.

Lu Guangquan couldn't help but ask, "My lord, do you have anything on your mind?" ”

Hu Chuyuan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then said to Lu Guangquan: "Guangxu Zaiyan is still a good emperor, at least he knows how to be motivated and wants to be reformed...... He entrusted me with such a heavy life, I don't know what to do. ”

Li Kaiye raised his eyebrows coldly and said, "My lord, what else do you need to do, let's take the opportunity to develop our forces and capture the Jingshi in one fell swoop." In the future, you will be the founding president, and we will be lieutenant generals, generals. ”

Hu Chuyuan chuckled lightly and said: "People must always talk about conscience and faith in this world, and Zai Yan can be said to have more respect and trust for me, which makes me feel a little embarrassed." ”

Speaking of this, he changed his voice and said in a rather low voice: "But China can't wait like this, I will be my constitutionalist boss and try my best to maintain China's stable recovery and prosperity, while the Renaissance Society will continue to do what it should do, just to grasp the measure, what can be radical, what to be safe, you must know in your hearts." When the revolution is successful, I can quit politics and go back to retirement. ”

Lu Guangquan and Hu Chuyuan persuaded him: "My lord, in terms of age, you are not a few years older than me, and in terms of qualifications, prestige and ability, I don't know how much better I am." If you want to go back to retirement, then who is still qualified to do big things? ”

Hu Chuyuan raised his hand and motioned for him to stop talking.

Lu Guangquan didn't say anything anymore, just saying that, even if Hu Chuyuan wanted to retire at that time, who would dare to let him retire, not to mention that if Hu Chuyuan really wanted to retire, then he would not control all the personnel of the new army and navy.

For Hu Chuyuan, the question of whether to return or not is too early.

His only worry is that once he retreats, there may be a warlord scuffle behind, and now in this situation, it seems that there is no second person besides him who will have a chance to shake the situation in the country.

Yuan Shikai?

Yuan Shikai didn't have that chance, besides, Yuan Shikai didn't shock later, but just grabbed the Beiyang faction.

That night, Hu Chuyuan, Lu Guangquan, and Li Kaiye talked a lot, and also taught them what to do in the future, and that they might as well build a Xingzhong Society and Guanghan Society in addition to the Fuxing Society, and engage in some activities similar to terrorist attacks, responsible for planning revolutionary rebellions, and carrying out revolutionary propaganda.

An organization does one thing, and through the Huameng Association, it supports each other and connects with each other.

All the money is spent from the Chinese League, which is certainly not a problem.

At present, the main leaders of the Huameng Association are Zhang Lingpu, Lu Guangquan, Ouyang Geng, Rong Kui, Liu Yongfu and others, basically performing their own duties, Ouyang Geng is the main developer, responsible for the organization of overseas students in various countries, Zhang Lingpu is planning a great cause in Nanyang, Liu Yongfu controls the Tiandihui and Hongmen, and Rong Yu is running around, sometimes going deep into China, and the main places of activity are in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Pan Qiying and Huang Kaijia are in Yueben, and Zeng Dugong is in Germany.

Generally speaking, the United States, Germany, Benjiang, Nanyang, and Hong Kong are the main places of activity of the Chinese League, and almost all of its main members are Cantonese and Fujianese.

Through the cooperation with the Heaven and Earth Society and the Hongmen, they also have other dark lines.

Funding is certainly not a problem, Hu Chuyuan will secretly transfer five million US dollars to them every year through the rich countries of North America, some businessmen in Nanyang, especially like Ye Wenlan and Zhang Bishi, everyone has donated, and the Philippines and Borneo basically have stable tax revenues and base areas after reading power.

In Hawaii, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Nagasaki, and Berlin, they all have stable activity sites.

As the Huameng Association gradually entered another stage, Hu Chuyuan temporarily withdrew from the Huameng Association, no longer using a pseudonym, but through his younger brother Hu Xuanyuan, Pan Qiying, Duan Qirui, and these people were connected from a single line.

Hu Chuyuan continued to do what he was supposed to do in the open, and the Huameng Society did things in the dark.

In July, Wu Shuzhen brought her family to Tianjin Zhenyuan, and the family was resettled in Tianjin.

For the growth of the children, Wu Shuzhen moved the Zhenyuan Garden to the next door of Tianjin University, re-expanded a Zhenyuan covering an area of more than 40 acres, gathered the essence of Chinese and Western combinations, and continued to invest in the construction of a more than 50-meter-high earthen mountain, and set up a Zhenyuan horse farm and forest farm, so that the children can play freely.

In Zhenyuan, she set up a school, and also enrolled outside children for free, using Western-style education, combining Chinese culture, martial arts, and horsemanship, from kindergarten to high school.

Money, for the Hu family, this is never an issue.

For her, and for Hu Chuyuan, nothing is more important than the growth of the children, and they invited the best martial arts master Cheng Tinghua to the children, the best doctors, the best teachers of Chinese culture and natural science.

They also adopted more orphans and raised them, seeing them as their hope and continuation.

Wu Shuzhen also no longer continued to participate in the operation of Jetta Foreign Bank, handed over to the partner, and also let her cousin and niece Wu Zhenni become a shareholder and participate in the operation. She quietly enjoys the joy of life, disciplines the children, and runs her own garden and school.

Hu Chuyuan focused on the Restoration, he is Hu Chuyuan after all, whether it is money or relationships, he can always stabilize the big situation.

As he gradually reduced the Manchu Fengyang silver, reduced the number of the Eight Banners Battalion, and sent many Manchus back to the Northeast, the contradictions between him and the Manchus were gradually expanding.

The Manchu governor of Shanxi said that Hu Chuyuan was the worst among the Han people, and sooner or later, he would toss all our Manchurians.

Similar remarks abound, but no one can help Hu Chuyuan, and Hu Chuyuan doesn't care about them.

In his heart, Hu Chuyuan despised these Manchurians.

There are many bastards in the Manchurians, these words are the original words of Su Shun, the minister of Gu Ming, left behind by Xianfeng, and later, Yi said this more tactfully, he said - There are too many bastards in our Manchurians, and there are more ignorant people.

In Hu Chuyuan's view, today's Manchurians not only have a large number of bastards, but also some incompetent bastards who are greedy for money.

With his current power, he doesn't have to give those people any good looks at all, and any prince Baylor has to be a man with his tail between his legs in front of him.

Being a person, especially being an official, sometimes you have to be arrogant.

You are not arrogant, others only bully you.

Especially those Manchurians who don't have long eyes and don't understand anything, they are resolute and dare to fart, Hu Chuyuan immediately checked his position, played him a corruption and incompetence, and pulled him off the horse.

Hu Chuyuan...... He knew very well in his heart, and he didn't expect to be in the position of governor of Zhili for twenty years like Li Hongzhang.

Decade. Ten years is enough.

At that time, he was also forty years old, and for many people, forty years old is the beginning of life, and for him, it may be similar.

(To be continued)