What should come is always coming.

Hu Chuyuan confessed.

Regarding his holding of shares in foreign banks, Zuo Zongtang and others are clear, and this point will not cause much damage to him, and the real big kill is his American citizenship.

The Qing court could appoint foreigners as officials, but it would never allow the Han to have two ministers.

Back in the backyard, Hu Chuyuan's face was gloomy, Wu Shuzhen was asking people to list his favorite dinners, ever-changing, and that bowl of bird's nest would always be missing.

Seeing that his face was embarrassed, Wu Shuzhen asked him what was wrong.

Hu Chuyuan asked the maid next to him to retreat first, told her about this matter alone, and couldn't help but ask her: "How did you say that I knew these things?" ”

Wu Shuzhen was silent for a while, and only said after a while: "I can't tell you clearly, it seems that it took a lot of energy, and it may also be an unexpected gain...... However, there are several people in the United States who know about this matter, and at the beginning, we probably shouldn't have taken care of the anti-China turmoil, which was too eye-catching at that time, and it was inevitable that someone would check the entry and exit and other issues! ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded.

He guessed that he himself probably discovered it by accident, and the source of the intelligence leak was probably those politicians on the US side...... It could also be something more special and unexpected.

In short, it doesn't seem to matter who leaked the secret.

Hu Chuyuan sighed and said to Wu Shuzhen: "There is no impermeable wall in this world, I am ready to retreat...... And be quick. I hope to seize this handle to persuade me, and even win me over, so I haven't told Li Hongzhang about the hole cards, otherwise, Li Hongzhang will not give me a chance to breathe...... Wrong, it's not that he won't give me a chance, but he won't give Xiang Jun and Zuo Zongtang this chance, if I really collapse, Xiang Jun and Zuo Zongtang, as well as this Fujian Navy Division, will also collapse. ”

Wu Shuzhen was silent, and only said after a while: "I guess I also thought that I could pinch us nine times out of ten." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly, and said: "It is precisely in this way that we have a little time to strategize, and it is estimated that we can still wrestle with the Manchurians, or even wrench our wrists." It is still relatively difficult for the Manchurians to raid me, but we also have to guard against it, and try to transfer the capital and general ledger back to the concession in advance, even Hong Kong and the United States. ”

Wu Shuzhen chuckled lightly and said, "It's really not good, let's go back to the United States." Even if these domestic assets are confiscated, our wealth in the United States is not much less than that of JP Morgan, and you may still be the richest person in the United States. ”

Hu Chuyuan also smiled and said, "That's what I said, it's a pity...... If the situation is really out of control, we can only retreat to Nanyang and the United States, and then the domestic mess will probably be put on hold...... The plans I had in mind were going to be put to rest. ”

Wu Shuzhen persuaded more and more angrily: "If the Qing court doesn't know how to cherish it, why should you cherish it, I am your wife, and I don't know your ability yet." This country should be entrusted to you to run the most, you can't be an official of the Qing court, that's the best, let's go back to the United States to run our own family business, and then carry out a bourgeois revolution in Nanyang to overthrow these Manchus who don't know what to do. ”

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment, and also sneered.

He asked for the surname to eat dinner first, and then got up and said to Wu Shuzhen: "You go to bed early today, and you are going back to the United States tomorrow, and I will let someone clean up at night." This time, even if the Qing court didn't regard me as a big disaster, it probably wouldn't let me sit in the position of the Minister of Shipping. Duties of the General Office of Jiangnan Commercial Bank...... I'm afraid it's dangerous...... I have to make a plan in advance, transfer the assets to the concession first, although the Manchurians don't dare to raid me immediately, but we also have to be careful. ”

Wu Shuzhen understood what he meant as soon as she heard it, smiled lightly, and said, "Okay, I'll go back to the United States tomorrow, and prepare to retreat first, if it doesn't work, let's be in the United States." ”

Hu Chuyuan smiled, got up and returned to the flower hall of the Yamen, called Yan Shizhang, Miao Quansun and Chen Shanyuan over, and discussed the matter first.

After he finished speaking, Yan Shizhang smoked a dry cigarette, and after a while, Yan Shizhang said: "The owner, just saying that I am making trouble in the back, the problem will not be too big, what we are afraid of is that Li Hongzhang will seize the opportunity to play us a self-interest and damage the country, and the two ministers will be outside the heart." ”

Speaking of this, he sighed again and said, "I'm afraid it's bound to be sued." ”

Miao Quansun also said: "Yes, a few years ago, Li Hongzhang meant to reconcile with adults, but he couldn't find any handle, and now that he has such a good handle, of course he wants to denounce the adults to death." There are so many people in the Huai system, and one person can also bring down the adults. ”

Chen Shanyuan said hatefully: "Oh, then let's do the opposite." ”

Hu Chuyuan glanced at him coldly and asked, "What do you take against it?" ”

Chen Shanyuan was speechless.

Miao Quansun said: "There is no way, we have empty salaries, and we have no military power in our hands." The current strategy is to protect the Jiangnan Commercial Bank first and plan for the future. ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "The situation of Jiangnan Commercial Bank may be a little better, I have been prepared, if I am lucky...... Or if the Manchurians are not bold enough, I can still contain them. The position of the Minister of Shipping will definitely not be kept, so it is better to retreat in advance and do a good job later, so as not to be seized by Li Hongzhang to install an incompetent person. ”

Yan Shizhang thought for a while and said: "There are not many people who are qualified to sit in this position at the moment, Lord Yang Changjun Yang of Shanghai Daotai is the most suitable person, and his relationship with us is self-evident." Then find a way to let Huo Hongji serve as Shanghai Daotai, and Liao Zhongshan will make up for the lack of Yanhang Daotai, so that there will be no problems. The question is...... Yang Changjun is afraid that he will not be able to come up! ”

Hu Chuyuan thought silently, and suddenly said: "Yang Changjun really can't come up, he is Zuo Zongtang's person, at that time, Cixi will not easily use people from the Hunan family." Find a way to let others recommend Zhang Zhidong, the last resort. ”

Yan Shizhang also nodded slightly, and said, "The last resort candidate, but he can also be used alive." ”

In terms of political matters, Yan Shizhang is the most suitable person to make up his mind.

He quickly gave Hu Chuyuan a series of tricks to minimize the loss and not let Li Hongzhang profit too much.

That night, Hu Chuyuan sent telegrams to Zuo Zongtang, Mei Qizhao, and Yang Changjun, asking them to be more careful, and Jiangnan Commercial Bank and others also received similar telegrams.

The next time, Wu Shuzhen left with Ye Tongguang and other people from the general account office and went to Oakland, USA, while Hu Chuyuan went to visit He Jing and explain the matter.

The problem now is obvious, it is not a big problem for me to make trouble in the back, Li Hongzhang is in the light, Sheng Xuanhuai is in the dark, one is contributing, the other is contributing, and the tenth can get Hu Chuyuan off the horse.

The position of the Minister of Shipping is bound to change, and the chances of Jiangnan Commercial Bank changing hands are half and half, or even ...... It is very likely that the imperial court will dismiss Hu Chuyuan and take the opportunity to take away the huge wealth he has accumulated over the years.

Coming back from the Yamen of the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, on the way, Hu Chuyuan silently sighed in his heart, life is so unpredictable, once you change history, history will become more unpredictable.

Hu Chuyuan had imagined many possibilities, but he did not expect that he would eventually fall because of the way he was denounced.

He also understood that once he fell and slipped from the position of the Minister of Shipping of Fuzhou, without the protection of military power, it would be easier for him to assassinate him.

On the other hand, once Li Hongzhang wins Zuo Zongtang, let his people ...... In particular, if the person he likes has mastered the Jiangnan Commercial Bank, it will be impossible for the Jiangnan Silk Industry to have a restraining effect on the company.

Things get a little funny, but history is always so funny.

Those small details can change the wheel of history.

In order to win, he has always been unscrupulous, and this time, it seems that they are going to win again.

Even so, Hu Chuyuan did not intend to compromise, because he knew better that once he was forced to join forces with Yue himself, he would always become Han Jian, and the reason why Sheng Xuanhuai and Yuan Shikai became incognito Han Jian, all the way started from the smallest temptation.

said that my own benefits, that is not to be collected at all.

Compared with the cooperation with Yue himself, Hu Chuyuan would rather die in the endless assassination of Yue himself.

As Hu Chuyuan predicted, it was Li Hongzhang who was the first to shoot, and Sheng Xuanhuai was also active in Beijing, saying that he had collected a large number of secret reports and news through his own intelligence network, all of which were provided to Sheng Xuanhuai and Li Hongzhang, becoming the best evidence for them to attack Zuo Zongtang and Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan escaped the first day of junior high school, but did not escape the fifteenth.

Cixi is a particularly authoritarian woman, the so-called "authoritarian", this is Zeng Guofan's word, to put it more bluntly - once Cixi is angry, there is basically no reason at all, even if she understands in her heart that Zuo Zongtang cannot be offended directly, as long as she is given a real chance, she will still spare no effort to fight the forces of the Hunan system and stabilize the foundation of the Qing Dynasty in her heart.

Although Hu Chuyuan gave her a lot of money, in a fit of anger, she still wanted to dismiss Hu Chuyuan and investigate it, and finally it was Prince Su who pleaded and persuaded Hu Chuyuan to be reappointed as the deputy minister of the Qing Dynasty to the United States.

Deputy Minister...... This title has always been given to foreigners and Chinese-Americans, such as Yung Hong.

This is enough to show how Cixi thinks of Hu Chuyuan.

Hu Chuyuan still explained that he did not control foreign banks for personal gain, but to use these foreign banks to handle various affairs, and he became an American citizen because of marriage and the convenience of controlling foreign banks.

These explanations have no power in the face of the slander of Li Hongzhang and Huai officials, and Zuo Zongtang is actually quite angry...... angry with Hu Chuyuan, angry at him, hated him for not being strong, but he could only say nothing.

Cixi also said another thing very funny - she would rather borrow 8 million taels of silver from foreigners, but also buy back the commercial shares of Jiangnan Commercial Bank and deal with the State Economic Administration.

She thought that the total investment at the beginning was only a few million taels of silver, but now she used eight million taels of silver to buy back all the shares, which was very face-saving for Hu Chuyuan.

Show funny old woman!

As early as last year, after realizing that many people knew that they had American citizenship, Hu Chuyuan did his homework.

He transferred some of the shares of those foreign banks held under his name to Jiangnan Commercial Bank, and his shareholding rate in the four major foreign banks of Wanqi, Taikoo, Chanchen and Wanbao that he mainly built exceeded 30%, and the number of shares held by Wanqi was 72%, Swire was 59.7%, Chanchen was 36%, and Wanbao was 33%.

These four major foreign banks each transferred about 10% of their shares into the Jiangnan Commercial Bank, which made the capital of the Jiangnan Commercial Bank expand sharply, and in order to maintain the share capital of the official shares, the official shares of the imperial court owed Hu Chuyuan another 37.78 million yuan.

Coupled with the debts of the Hunan army, the loans of the household department, and the loans for agriculture and water conservancy in the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, the imperial court owed Hu Chuyuan a total of 115.98 million yuan, and the annual interest was 11.2 million yuan.

Just before Li Hongzhang denounced Hu Chuyuan, Hu Chuyuan had already transferred the debt to Wanqi Bank.

At this time, Wanqi Bank had been renamed "Citibank", and it was not directly related to Wanqi Bank, but the Shanghai branch of the National Trust Savings Bank of America, and Hu Chuyuan was only the guarantor of the debt.

It's funny, domestic debt becomes international debt.

With the courage of Cixi and the Qing court, Hu Chuyuan didn't believe that they dared to repay their debts?

As the largest creditor of Jiangnan Commercial Bank, Citibank's influence on China cannot be ignored, Hu Chuyuan wants to see how humorous Cixi will be this time!

Of course, Cixi and the Qing court were completely unaware at this time.

She thought that Hu Chuyuan was very good, and wanted to send him away with eight million taels of silver, so she issued a holy decree on the same day to let Hu Chuyuan go to the United States.

Hu Chuyuan did leave on the same day, waved his hand, did not take a check, took his guards and entourage, and left Fuzhou on the Tengchong, he didn't even have a chance to go to Shanghai.

He just walked away, looking extremely embarrassed.

Li Hongzhang and Sheng Xuanhuai were overjoyed, thinking that the hundreds of millions of fortunes left by Hu Chuyuan would belong to them, the Jiangnan Commercial Bank would also be theirs, and the CITIC Bank would also be theirs...... But the truth will make them laugh and cry.

Hu Chuyuan did not go to the United States immediately, and the Tengchong went all the way south, but went to Singapore.

(To be continued)