Chapter 63 Inquiry

"Oh!"

Responding lightly, Yuan Shikai didn't show any emotion. 9VK novel netizen hand-hit

"The army opens the way in the front, and the company follows up in the back, which is also the way to expand overseas, Your Majesty's heart to expand overseas should not be underestimated!"

Habitually lit a cigar, Yuan Shikai pointed to the cigarette case again, and motioned for Yang Du to take it himself. And from the mark on the cigar box, Yang Du could see that this cigar cigarette was "rewarded" to Yuan Shikai by His Majesty.

In the past, this was a "gift from the emperor", but now that Yuan Shikai took out such a courtesy, it was obviously exalting him Yang Du, how could this not make Yang Du's heart stir.

But Yang Du knew that this is where Yuan Shikai is shrewd, this cigar cigarette was rewarded by His Majesty last year, as for the cigars in the box have long been smoked, but His Majesty smoked Cuban cigars, Yuan Shikai got some from the agent, five yuan a cigar cigarette, and it can only be shown in a box with a royal seal.

Yang Du took out a skillful cigar scissor, cut off one end, and then said while wiping the match:

"Not every company can get logistical subcontracting from the Guards."

If there is anything that is most popular in the upper echelons of the empire, I am afraid that it is cigar smoke, Your Majesty is good at that sip, ten years later, the upper class has long mastered how to smoke cigars, Cuban cigars have always been the most imported luxury goods in China, millions of imports every year, it has really been criticized by some people, although the sea imposes heavy taxes on Cuban cigars, but it cannot stop the habit that has long been formed.

Yuan Shikai puffed out a puff of smoke from his nose and sneered:

"In this logistics subcontracting, there is a lot of water, in addition to traditional industrial companies, there are also enterprises that have good relations with the War Department, well! It's not something that ordinary people can get! ”

"I heard that Qinhuai Company has just won an order from the War Department to build a base for the Arab Army."

"Oh? That one Qinhuai company? ”

Yuan Shikai gently knocked the cigar on the ashtray, and the gray ash was scattered in the black and red jar, as if adding a thin layer of frost.

"It's Ms. Liu's Qinhuai Company!"

There are some imperial secrets, Yang Du knows that Yuan Shikai in front of him knows far more than him, and this time he came to get some information from Yuan Shikai.

"Huizi, you better go back!"

Yuan Shikai threw the unfinished half of the cigar into the ashtray, and a puff of air burst out of his nose. Looking at Yang Du's eyes, there was a little dissatisfaction, Yang Huizi, Yang Huizi, he has lived back all these years.

Sensing Yuan Shikai's dissatisfaction, Yang Du smiled dryly, and at the same time hurriedly changed the topic:

"Hehe, that is, I want to come to the War Department's own arrangements for the War Department, Yuan Xiang, I want to ask you. In your opinion, now Your Majesty, on the one hand, sent nearly 200,000 troops to Arabia, and on the other hand, encouraged the Orientals to expand their army, and also trained them in Outer Mongolia. ”

Seeing that Yang Du was interested, Yuan Shikai picked up the cigar again and said slowly:

"That's a question I want to ask you. Although I am the president of the House of Nobles, I have not paid attention to state affairs for more than a month, and state affairs are like clouds to me. As the vice-president of the House of Commons, you have a lot of deliberation powers, what do you say? ”

Yang Du shook his head and said with a wry smile:

"What to talk about the right to deliberate! Don't you know that we in China, that is, with a constitutional hat, although in recent years, the power of the lower house is greater, and it has the right to deliberate government bills, but it can be seriously supervised and implemented, but there are still a lot of articles in the meantime, and this lower house is just better than the previous two years! Like those confidential information, as soon as the lower house mentioned it, it was returned by the cabinet as confidential! ”…,

Although he said so, Yang Du's face was somewhat proud, since the lower house had the right to deliberate, he devoted himself to it, and it can be regarded as knowing that he can't do it! And more importantly, the ministries that used to ignore the lower house are now much weaker when they see the committees of the lower house, and there is always some power.

"You're telling the truth."

Yuan Shikai took a sip of his black jade cup, and said seriously.

"No matter how big the law is, it depends on people to enforce it. I have never believed that a constitution can govern the country, and that only capable people can govern the world. Constitutionalism, constitutionalism, China has a constitution, isn't it also constitutionalism! ”

Yuan Shikai's words have similarities with Yang Du's thoughts, and there are also similarities. Of course, this is not the time for debate, Yang Du didn't want to talk about this issue, he looked at Yuan Shikai and said:

"Yuan Xiang, after Zhang Xiang died, you can be said to be the pillar of our China, everyone in this country, Your Majesty has a lot of respect for you! Although you have the heart of a wild old fisherman, Your Majesty and the country are still inseparable from you. ”

Yang Du's words were not made up to curry favor with Yuan Shikai, but he was telling the truth. Since Yuan Shikai's resignation the year before last, some domestic newspapers have often consciously published articles praising Yuan Shikai, as for Guan Mingtang, the seriously "Europeanized" premier, although he is not bad at doing things, but compared with Yuan Shikai, Guan Mingtang is too clear-eyed, or too "rule-abiding".

Yuan Shikai twisted his beard and smiled, this sentence went to his heart. He knows better than anyone that things in Chinese officialdom cannot be explained clearly in a few words! Guan Mingtang is as good as Guan Mingtang, but he Yuan Shikai is also as good as his Yuan Shikai, just like in the process of dealing with government assets, although the operation methods of the two are basically the same, they both hand over the disposal of the enterprise to the imperial trust for escrow, and then sell it to the people, but Yuan Shikai's reform is cautious.

But Guan Mingtang is different, his handling is drastic, he grasps the government's determination to restructure and reorganize state-owned enterprises, in encouraging family companies and large group enterprises to acquire state-owned enterprises, he will not only sell those enterprises, and even in the disposal of some enterprises, investors even get cash compensation, and this only makes public opinion and the lower house of parliament continue to blame, but Guan Mingtang, who has the support of His Majesty, still goes his own way to carry out drastic asset disposal. Perhaps because of the sound asset evaluation supervision and restraint mechanism, Guan Mingtang even repeatedly asked the asset disposal agency of the Imperial Trust Company not to be bound by the loss of state-owned assets or the idea of maintaining and appreciating value, in short, all Guan Mingtang wanted was to sell those enterprises as soon as possible.

He suddenly remembered something and said to Yang Du:

"Huizi, I'll tell you something, don't spread it."

"What's the matter?"

Yang Du was excited by Yuan Shikai's sudden demeanor.

"Two months ago, Zhang Jizhi came to Huanshang Village."

Yuan Shikai's eyes suddenly lit up.

"He talked to me for four or five hours and didn't get him back to the train until midnight."

Zhang Jizhi is Zhang Jian, the champion of the world before the dynasty, today the chairman of Nantong Dasheng Yarn Factory, a member of the House of Nobles, and the speaker of the Jiangsu Provincial Assembly, but in recent years, this Zhang Jizhi is determined to be in industry, although in the constitutional monarchy, Yang Du talked to him well, and met no less than five or six times a year, but Yang Du knew that this Zhang Weng preferred silver.

Why did this old celebrity come to see Yuan Shikai? Yang Du muttered in his heart, and then asked:

"What did Mr. Ji Zhi tell you?"

But when the words came to his mouth, Yang Du bit his tongue, two months ago, Zhang Jizhi used the imperial trust to compensate 100,000 yuan for the acquisition of the Kulun woolen company with assets of more than one million yuan, and it seemed to have caused a storm at that time, the Kulun woolen company is an enterprise jointly invested by the central government and the Mongolian princes, but it has been in a loss, which is why there is an imperial trust compensation. …,

"Ji Zhi is a person with vision, in the eyes of others, it seems to be a loss-making business, but now he has made money in his hands, in Kulun's place, there is only one light railway built by the army at the beginning, so it looks like how to calculate, how to lose money. But as soon as this war started, Russia lacked everything, Kulun's woolen was directly exported to Russia, and now the Japanese soldiers are training in Outer Mongolia, and his woolen factory may expand again! ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Shikai smiled lightly, picked up a piece of walnut kernel and put it in his mouth and chewed it. Yang Du listened to it very tastefully, he seemed to hear some meaning from Yuan Shikai's words, Zhang Jian has a deep relationship with many important cabinet members, but this does not explain what His Majesty and the cabinet are singing.

But Yuan Shikai continued.

"That day, I suddenly received a telegram from him from Hankow, saying that he was passing through Zhangde in the afternoon, and he wanted to get off the car to meet me, telling me not to go out. Ji Zhi is also rare. When I was Prime Minister, he didn't interact with me much, but now that I have the heart of a wild old fisherman, he comes to see me, enough friends! I personally went to the station to usher him to Huanshang Village! ”

"Affectionate friends, this is a true gentleman!"

Yang Du, who is a friend and a friend, hurriedly opened his mouth and praised.

"We reminisced about the past, and talked about the bittersweet and bitter of his yarn factory over the years, and then talked about the Kulun woolen factory, he didn't have much thought, it is said that it was because Guan Mingtang found him that he decided to take 500,000 plates, if you add tax compensation, it is 400,000! Do you know what Guan Mingtang said to him? ”

Yuan Shikai asked rhetorically at the same time, and drank tea again.

"Please also ask Yuan Xiang to make it clear!"

Yang Du hurriedly asked, he knew that Yuan Shikai was afraid that he was really going to get to the point.

"Look farther, look farther, don't just look at the country!"

After saying that, Yuan Shikai stopped, and then looked at Yang Du with a smile, seeing that Yang Du still didn't seem to understand, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Yang Huizi, the vice president of the hall, was really a little too tender.

"Recently, there have been a lot of reports on the European war in the newspapers, over there?"

When Yuan Shikai asked, Yang Du first pondered for a moment, and then suddenly said.

"Yuan Xiang, what do you mean ......"

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