In 1885, after the end of the Sino-French War, as the prestige of the Qing Empire began to recover, the United States and France gave up their privileges in China, and the British abandoned their policy of neutrality in the Asia-Pacific region.

In order to secure their privileges in China, the British began to prop up the Bun.

In order to take revenge and contain China's rise, the French are also supporting the capital, and the two countries have successively signed new trade agreements with the capital, giving the company more economic policy support and technical assistance, and successively purchasing up to 140 million pounds of government bonds.

This kind of almost irrational support has made Yuben take advantage of it in the past three years, not only has Yuben's raw silk and tea exports taken a turn for the better, but the entire industrial economy has also achieved tremendous development.

This also announced the failure of Hu Chuyuan's economic suppression campaign against Yueben.

In 1887, Ogawa, the chief intelligence officer of the Qing Dynasty, once again completed the famous "Qing State Conquest Proposal", advocating a five-year period to complete combat preparations, launch an offensive when the opportunity arises, assert the prestige of the country, and try to divide the Qing State into countless small countries, divide and rule, and occupy them one by one.

In this "Qing State Expedition Proposal", Xiao Chuan once again specifically realized that the key to the rise of the Qing State lies precisely in the Jiangnan Shipping Supervisor and Minister of International Trade Hu Chuyuan, and he proposed that it is necessary to let Hu Chuyuan and the Qing political axe have internal contradictions, so that Hu Chuyuan can not have an impact on the Qing economy, and when necessary, assassination can be used to prevent the Qing economic recovery.

According to the exact information that Hu Chuyuan has, Emperor Yue Ben and the cabinet of the Emperor and the cabinet of the Zheng Axe have agreed to this "Qing State Consultation Proposal", but he did not know that Hu Chuyuan quickly obtained the original text of the consultation proposal, which was not bad word for word.

Now, the new action has been officially approved, and 6 million yuan has been given, with the goal of dividing the relationship between Qing Zhengaxe and Hu Chuyuan.

Because of the special importance attached to this information, Pan Qiying, president of the Jiangnan Translation Bureau, the most veteran intelligence agency in the country, personally came to Shanghai to meet Hu Chuyuan.

The two met in the large study of Yongyuan.

With this information in hand, Hu Chuyuan looked at the signature of Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi at the bottom, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

After the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, this person who came to China to preach the reform of the New Deal was not a wolf in sheep's clothing.

For Yueben, the amount of information that Hu Chuyuan has is very amazing and in-depth, which seems to be due to the decision he made at the beginning, not to love all the hidden power of himself in Yueben was exposed, and continued to take root in Yueben to develop a large-scale intelligence and espionage network.

He thought in his heart for a moment, and asked Pan Qiying, "Hirobumi Ito should be leaving, right?" ”

Pan Qiying nodded silently and said: "He will officially step down on April 30, and the new Prime Minister is Kuroda Kiyotaka, the boss of the Satsuma Domain, and this person has a very special relationship with Inoue Xin." As far as we know, there has been a debate among the elders about whether to use assassination or discord, with Inoue advocating assassination and Ito Hirobumi advocating discord. The reason for the difference between the two is that the economic circles of the Chinese government are more in favor of assassination in order to prevent the further expansion of the CITIC and Jiangnan factions, and to pave the way for the chaebols to get involved in China and even monopolize the Chinese economy in the future. ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded, this judgment was roughly the same as the conclusion reached by his other two stationed intelligence organizations.

In the confrontation with Yue himself, Hu Chuyuan gradually cultivated a complete set of spy agencies, with his General Information Office Secret Office as the hub, operating eight intelligence agencies: the Left Secret Office, the Right Secret Office, the Hui Society, the Zhenguo Society, the General Information Office Overseas Secret Office, the Overseas Bureau of the Huameng Association, the Overseas Branch of the Jiangnan Commercial Bank Translation Bureau, and the Fuqing Society.

The first four are responsible for internal affairs, and three of them, including the Overseas Secret Office, are responsible for external affairs.

The Fuqing Society is a reading spy agency, not only responsible for espionage, but also responsible for assassination, which is distributed at home and abroad, and belongs to the Huameng.

Life is not so good, and if you want to protect yourself, you always have to pay a price.

In Yueben, Hu Chuyuan has four major intelligence agencies: the General Information Office in the Secret Office, the Jiangnan Translation Bureau in the Translation Agency, the Huameng Association Branch in the Bureau, and the Fuqing Society.

The Translation Agency is the oldest and the most deeply involved, the Huameng Society's branch bureau has the largest scope of expansion, and the Fuqing Society is the main executor of the assassination activities, and the work of the Secret Office has only started in the past two years, with the most funds and the most concealment.

Pan Qiying suddenly asked Hu Chuyuan: "My lord, can you assassinate Ito Hirobumi, we have very close spies around him, and it is still easy to assassinate him." ”

Hu Chuyuan quietly raised his eyebrows and said, "No, continue to bury, there is no special benefit to us if he is dead, we still have to continue to obtain more information by his side." ”

Pan Qiying nodded and said, "Then...... What about Inoue Shin, this man is very deeply hidden, it is almost difficult to find him, but we brought in six very good sniper rifles from Germany, and the gunners are also trained for many years, and they will kill within six hundred meters. ”

Hu Chuyuan thought in his heart.

He would rather say that he himself continued to use assassination tactics against him, and his current precautions were very sufficient, and his means were very numerous.

The question is...... His family.

In contrast, if he had used discord tactics, he would have been in a lot of trouble.

Of course, the funds he gave were not enough to complete the separation, and they were not enough to cover 1/5 of the funds he spent on bribing Qing officials every year.

After pondering for a moment, Hu Chuyuan said: "The problem is not too big, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, and there is no need to take such radical revenge for the time being." The top priority is to find out who they have a specific strategy and who they are going to use to complete the discordant plan. ”

Pan Qiying said: "We are already working hard to track down, and I believe that we will be able to raise eyebrows soon, but the domestic secret department must also be stepped up, I think, 90% of the possible surnames are around Cixi to make a fuss." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and said, "I guess it's the same." ”

Pan Qiying said: "There is another thing, uncle is very happy that you are willing to marry Limei as a second room, but considering that the whole country has a deep hostility towards you, he means not to be too loud, just do it as simple as that." I'm just going to be a member of my mother's family here. ”

Hu Chuyuan laughed and said, "Then we will be relatives in the future, my father-in-law said that he didn't say anything about the dowry?" ”

Pan Qiying said with a smile: "Uncle said, it's up to you, his daughter can marry into your mansion, that is already the glory of our Pan family." ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "Then you send him a telegram, and I will prepare a dowry of about one million yuan for him, which is not very valuable, so I will express my heart...... You explain it to me a little, after all, it can't surpass Shuzhen's share. ”

Pan Qiying smiled: "We can understand, then I'll do it." ”

The general letter office of Yongyuan has its own telegraph office, and he can send telegrams in Yongyuan, and he does not have to go far.

As soon as Pan Qiying left, Chen Shanyuan hurriedly walked in and handed over an urgent telegram to Hu Chuyuan, saying, "Li Hongzao Li's telegram." ”

"Huh?"

Hu Chuyuan opened the telegram and looked at it, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

It turned out that Li Hongzao was sending a message for Cixi, saying that Shanxi was suffering from drought again this year, and wanted to ask Hu Chuyuan to donate several million Qingyuan to Shanxi Province to play a leading role among businessmen.

Li Hongzao also said that if the money turnover is not good, the money donated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the past few years can be less, and the money will be used in practice, and there is no hurry to build Yichun Garden.

Isn't that obvious?

Cixi was not in a hurry to return to the government for retirement at all, and wanted to live in the Forbidden City.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan didn't dare to offend her, so he immediately explained to Chen Shanyuan, first donating 3 million yuan to Shanxi Province, and Yichun Garden continued to donate 2 million yuan.

Ride the wall.

Continue to ride the wall.

At the critical moment, he stabbed this old woman in the back again.

There is another advantage to keeping Cixi in charge of the Qing Empire...... The dawn of the revolution, but there are also greater disadvantages, especially Hu Chuyuan's family business, which is still within her range of concerns after all.

Li Hongzao said another thing, saying that he wanted Hu Chuyuan's two younger brothers to participate in next year's examination and try their luck.

Hu Chuyuan thought to himself, what is this called luck, the tenth ** is Cixi wants to give the Hu family one or two jinshi places, and they are recruited into the Hanlin Academy, and they will glorify their ancestors.

She thought this was a great reward, but she didn't know, whether it was Hu Chuyuan or the Hu family, they didn't care much about these things now.

Generation gap, generation gap, this is the generation gap!!

With the consent of the Pan family, the marriage of Hu Chuyuan and Pan Limei was held in a low-key manner in April, and many people were not notified.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan and Pan Limei were very happy, but the eldest lady, the fourth lady Luo and the fourth master Hu Yueqiao were not so happy, they were planning to give Hu Chuyuan a concubine, the original intention was to find a younger girl to inherit the Hu family.

It's good now, an old girl is cheaper, and she's all twenty-seven or eighteen, can she still give birth?

Soon after, Hu Chuyuan left Shanghai with his family and went to Kuching, Borneo after inspecting Fuzhou, Hong Kong and Haiphong.

Over the years, he has invested heavily in Kuching, promoting the construction of a large number of new cities in Kuching, St. Aman, Sibu, Pontianak, Songuchiyang, Surikoy, Sibunran, Bintulu, Miri, Silian, etc., and the development of rice, rubber, railways, and industrial and mining industries has been very rapid.

In Xilian, they also used the local iron and copper mines to establish a military factory to produce guns, ammunition, and artillery.

In Kuching, they set up a whole shipbuilding industry.

As the power of the Dominion of Borneo grew, the Sultanate of Brunei, the nominal suzerainty of northern Borneo, was also protected by the Dominion, temporarily prohibiting British infiltration into Borneo.

To do this, Borneo had to submit a tax of about 1.4 million taels of silver to the British Empire every year...... This is certainly not a big problem.

In recent years, the rapid development and stable social environment have led to the transfer of Nanyang Chinese to Borneo, coupled with new immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong, the total number of Chinese has gradually expanded to more than 600,000, accounting for an absolute number in major cities.

(To be continued)