When he is not a person, he doesn't know, but for Duanfang, who is the head of the household, he really knows what it is to be inside and outside and not a person. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info I don't know who poured a bucket of "gold" at the door early in the morning, this is not counting, even when it comes to the household, those flag people who are on an errand in the household department look at him and are also yin and yang, and they don't look at him properly.

"The flag salary of these two taels will be deducted by 20%, and the court is also ruthless, do you want us to live!"

"But no, I just don't treat us as if I saw this court!"

"People ......"

When the sneer entered the household from the end, it reached his ears from time to time, and those flagmen on duty were all sitting there lazily, seeing that he didn't even care about the number of salutes to say goodbye.

"We are banner people, and we were born to be the emperor's slaves, otherwise, you think that the silver on the ground is white and white-haired, and it is all a gift from the master to the slave!"

It seems to be a reasonable sentence, but as soon as the people below pick it up, they immediately change their taste.

"Gifts? If you have silver, you are the master, and if you don't have money, you are the grandson! ”

This sentence was so choked that Duan Fang almost didn't reprimand him loudly, but the next sentence suddenly made him lose his temper.

"Hey, what did you kid say, according to me, this is the emperor and Lafayette who were deceived by traitorous ministers, what was it like when Weng Zhongtang was there in the past? What is it like now? In my opinion, this is a traitor among our banner people, and they are in collusion with Tianjin and the northeast, they say that they are for the imperial court, and they want to deduct our money and food for any training, and they want us to complain about the emperor! ”

"That's it, how can we do everything in the flag people that this is not a human thing......"

What is the next errand flag to say? Duan Fang couldn't care about it, he didn't even want to stay in this household anymore, what was the purpose of painstakingly running this government affairs?

Not for the sake of the Qing Kingdom? How could these banner men, who were accustomed to being pampered under the court, understand his suffering. Understand the suffering of the imperial court. They patronized the two taels of silver in front of them, but they didn't want to think about it, if the Han people won the world, not to mention that the two taels of silver were gone, whether their heads could be kept at that time was a matter of saying.

This Great Qing Kingdom!

Thinking about Duanyan in his heart, he was embarrassed for a while, now the Qing Kingdom is not like this, and the grace of raising the flag is over. If you don't support it, it's over!

"This Great Qing Kingdom is really going to die!"

muttered in his heart, and went out of the household to give instructions directly to the sedan chair man.

"Go to Xianliang Temple!"

The current Xianliang Temple is not only the residence of foreign ministers when they enter Beijing, but also the residence of provincial councilors. According to the agreement between the imperial court and the local government, these councilors did not live in the capital but in the Xianliang Temple, and the starting point of the imperial court was to concentrate them in one place for easy surveillance. On the other hand, however, it is conducive to the collusion between the members of the council. However, fortunately, although the parties represented by this councillor used each other, they also restrained each other, especially when they lived together, and they had the purpose of monitoring each other, so that they barely fulfilled their original intention.

Although now, whether it is the court or the place. They all want the councillors to live in their own homes. But no matter what, the rules are set, and it is natural to abide by them, and since then, from time to time, you can see the officials of the court and the central government coming from time to time in this virtuous temple. Although most of them are in the name of visiting friends, since there are those who pave the way for their future, there are also those who work for the court, but in any case, if the former comes to Xianliang Temple and casts a prayer sticker, then there will be no chance to change the door - everyone is watching him.

Although almost every day, there are Beijing officials to stick to the place, or to seek the future, or to seek the opportunity to release the present, but not every capital in and out of the Xianliang Temple is like this, at least no one has ever put the end of the square into the former, after all, the world knows that he is the right-hand man under King Gong, and more importantly, as a banner man he has no chance to take refuge in the place. Every time he came to Xianliang Temple, what he did was official business, just like now, the reason why he came to Xianliang Temple was to ask to see Li Guangguang and the four-grade Taoist with special purpose.

Just like when the Chinese people met, the two were polite for a while after meeting, and then chatted left and right for half an hour, and then this end was to the point.

“…… Now the imperial court intends to set up an agricultural and industrial bureau to promote the development of agriculture and industry, and this capital is a model place for the whole country, since it should be the first to encourage industry and commerce, no, the imperial court plans to set up a waterworks, electric light factories, and other factories first......"

To encourage industry and commerce, what is the loudest word to be called in various places now? I am afraid that it is to "implement the New Deal", and the most important thing in this New Deal is to "encourage industry and commerce", even the local governors know that this financial strength is directly related to the success or failure of the New Deal, and the enhancement of financial resources is nothing more than "encouraging industry and commerce", only when this industry and commerce develop, it is possible to get financial resources to support the New Deal.

Locally, for the imperial court that only holds the capital and the surrounding counties, the financial embarrassment is worse than the locality, and they also understand that this "encouraging industry and commerce" is the only choice to solve the financial dilemma, as the end of the presiding household department has long written to the establishment of the agricultural and industrial and commercial bureau to encourage industry and commerce, but this capital is not as good as the local, there are still all parties involved in doing things, and it is naturally not as smooth as the locality, just like the agricultural and industrial and commercial bureau has not yet been listed, but this does not prevent the end from doing some things in the name of the household department, just like now.

“…… Therefore, the brother hopes that the handsome side can raise his hand and give this coal number to the imperial court for the sake of the business of the upper and lower levels of the Beijing camp! ”

After talking for a while, Duan Fang finally brought the topic to the purpose of his trip - Huayang Coal. As the secretary of the household department, he knew that "financial management is the first in open source", and the so-called "throttling" can only be solved for a while, so he proposed to build an agricultural industrial and commercial bureau, set up a water plant, an electric light factory, and even weave a layout, ostensibly to prepare for the resettlement of the people of Jingying, but in fact it is also for open source.

But whether it is a waterworks or an electric light factory, it takes a lot of money to weave the layout, and it takes a year or two to see results, and if there is any business in the capital that can see results in a short period of time, it is probably the briquette business that Tang Haoran sat in the capital back then.

"What do you mean to let my marshal sell Huayang to the imperial court?"

After saying what Duan Fang meant, Li Guangguang couldn't help but sigh. There are indeed a few smart people among these Manchurians, and many banner people regard the marshal as a rebellion, and naturally disdain to socialize. But they didn't know that it was not Li Hongzhang who wanted to maintain the "imperial court" the most, but the marshal, at least until the northeast completed its preparations, the marshal had to hope that the Manchu court would maintain the current situation.

And how to let the Manchu court maintain the current situation, this is another problem that has to be considered, to put it bluntly, it is to let the Manchu court maintain the most basic authority. The Manchu court now runs entirely on the hands of others, which is clearly contrary to the interests of the Northeast, at least to a certain extent self-sustaining. This is what the marshal wants to see.

However, these banner people are too uncompetitive, and now they are the governors of Shaanxi and Gansu in Lanzhou, and they also know how to plan railways and implement new policies. Encourage industry and commerce. Although it is not very realistic, it is also a pulse of the future. In contrast, the seemingly ambitious Yixun fell behind - he had nothing else to do except train a new army of Eight Banners.

Looking at the incompetence of this "imperial court", how can Li Guangguang not be anxious, but he has no other way to be anxious, after all, in the eyes of the imperial court, Li Hongzhang and others are hateful. But the real hateful is still the handsome, not to mention the things in the Guannei. Not interfering for the time being is another strategy for the marshal to appease the marshals in the pass, and this pool of muddy waters cannot be waded.

Not wading through troubled waters does not mean that there is no opportunity to meddle in the affairs of the customs, sometimes, some things others will always take the initiative to find the door, just like the end of this meeting, he didn't take the initiative to find the door.

"It's not about selling, it's about letting!"

Shaking his head, Duan Fang looked at Li Guangguang and said,

"Now the silver treasury of the household department can starve to death rats, even if Tang Dashuai is willing to sell, I can't take out the silver to buy it! This Huayang Beijing Branch, as far as Tang Dashuai is concerned, is just a small profit, so please also ask Dashuai to read the old feelings of the court yesterday and give it to the court, so that the court can be maintained! ”

The reason why the end side said this sentence is out of the understanding of the Northeast, more precisely, the understanding of the recent period, not to mention that the Northeast and the inland provinces have formed an alliance of interests, and they are politically and economically interconnected. The Beiyang Trading Company entrusted the right to sell anthracite coal in Liangjiang, Huguang, Fujian, Zhejiang, and even Liangguang to the companies under the name of the governor's office, so that it could obtain millions of taels a year.

This entanglement of interests is often even more striking. Even the Zhongtang Lord in Tianjin was red at the coal profits, after all, compared with bituminous coal, the anthracite coal can be used by ordinary people in a large amount, and now he has not also ordered Tangshan to set up a coal station, and negotiated the sale of anthracite coal with Beiyang Mining.

After the matter was settled, the Beiyang Yamen relied on Zhili and Shandong to underwrite the sale of North Korean anthracite coal every year, which could not only make a profit of millions of taels, but also the three provinces of Zhili would not be less than 10 million yuan in cigarette taxes every year in the future.

But how can the concessions in the northeast be made for nothing?

Not to mention anything else, just after the loss of Lushun, the business of the new wharf built by the Beiyang Navy Division in Qingdao was handed over to Beiyang Infrastructure, what are the corresponding conditions? The steel beams, smin-earth, glass, and even wires used in factories need to be prioritized for purchasing goods from the Northeast, and even half of the military uniforms of the New Army must be purchased from the Northeast.

Why is he, Tang Haoran, willing to sacrifice his immediate benefits? How can the so-called factory profits alone make up for its immediate losses. Besides, isn't this suspicious of expanding other provinces?

After thinking about it, it wasn't until the end of the past few days that he figured it out - whether it was Li Hongzhang or Zhang Zhidong, he couldn't get into his Tang Haoran's eyes, and he said that he Tang Haoran had a new army of 7 towns in his hands, and through this kind of "funding", he could maintain a certain balance of power, so that others would not dare to act rashly, but on the other hand, he showed his far-sightedness.

Why would Tang Haoran do such a loss-making business? Of course, it will not be a loss-making business, millions of orders can help the factory grow, and can also make good friends with the mainland, so that the inland provinces will always use North Korean coal, and not switch to other coal, after all, compared with others, North Korean coal is the biggest pillar of the Beiyang Company, if the provinces are regarded as rivals, they will inevitably switch to other coal to avoid "capital enemies", and now the provinces will do everything possible to promote the sales of North Korean coal in order to seek this excess coal profit.

With coal profits and tobacco profits as support, Li Hongzhang will not be unable to maintain the army and navy due to financial embarrassment, and then lose the hat of "the first governor in the world", as for Zhang Zhidong, because it is located inland, although it sits on Huguang and wealthy, but at least in the next few years can only catch up step by step, as for Liu Kun, he is trained into a new army. I'm afraid I can only put it in the shadow of the two,

But the local power is balanced, and in the next seven or eight years. Li Hongzhang will do everything possible to maintain his position, and Zhang Zhidong will do everything possible to improve his strength, but what about the imperial court? The situation in the past few years can be maintained by their mutual bondage, but how many years later? You have to train a new army!

But where does the money come from to train the new army?

There is no end to the tax point, and I can only put my hope on the Tang Dashuai in the Northeast, compared to Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong. That Tang Dashuai from the Northeast was the real threat, but even so, Duan Fang still came to the door. As in the local area. He asked for a coal profit, but instead of acting as an agent for North Korean coal, he directly took the coal number in order to profit from Jingxi coal.

"The Imperial Court Maintains ......"

Yu smiled secretly in his heart, Li Guangguang looked at Duan Fang and smiled.

"Adults should know. This Huayang is the private property of my family. If I remember correctly, when the court returned, the business was lost by fifty or sixty percent! ”

Li Guangguang is talking about the old things when the army was first raised, that will be the Manchu Qing court, but the adult's property in the capital is gone, and later although it was returned to the adult, but even if other losses are not counted, the coal business has also lost a full fifty or sixty percent, and it has not been able to recover so far. It's not even as good as a day.

"Even if your Excellency agrees to give up the coal to the imperial court now, how do you plan to maintain this business? Otherwise, it will only rely on the tens of thousands of taels of silver. How can it solve the urgent needs of the Korean court? ”

In the past few months, looking at King Gong and others trying to turn things around, Li Guangzhi was shocked, what he was afraid of was not that they really turned the tide, but that they were afraid that they would ruin the current situation, and even together with the suggestions such as the weaving layout, it was also a suggestion he made through the mouths of others, what he was most worried about was that King Gong and others should not be ruthless, completely cut off the flag salary of the Eight Banners, and then cause any trouble, when the time comes, if they want to calm the trouble, those people in Xiyuan will definitely not be able to go up, if Li Hongzhang takes advantage of the situation to enter Beijing, What will happen then? But in any case, that is not the situation that adults need, no matter what, this court must be maintained first, as for this coal number...... The reason why Huayanghao's business is not as good as day by day is precisely because of the resistance of the people in this city to such a "chaotic minister and thief" as Dashuai.

This capital is really "at the feet of the Son of Heaven", and the people in this city, if they say that the children of the Eight Banners have no good impression of the handsome, Li Guangguang can understand it, but the problem is that when many Han people mention the handsome, they also say that the adults are "chaotic ministers and thieves", and it seems that for them, this Qing Dynasty is the orthodoxy of China.

In this way, they will naturally not use the briquettes of the Huayang as in the past, after all, this coal is handsome. But now Duanfang has taken a fancy to the coal number, which cannot but be amazing.

"It doesn't matter if you can't solve the urgent need, it's the ...... that counts"

After a pause, Duan Fang looked at Li Guangguang and said.

"It's to let the court look at the real profit, and with this real profit, it will be easier to do things! Dude, do you think that's the reason? ”

Duan Fang's answer made Li Guangguang's heart alarmed, and even his eyes changed when he looked at him, so that he could really know why Yixun would use him as the head of the household despite the resistance, and this vision alone was not comparable to other banner people.

Although the current Manchurian court is not as good as day by day, there are still some princes and ministers who stick to the old rules, and they are even more obstructive in things such as running factories, and even together with Yixun's desire to set up a machine bureau and produce guns and ammunition for the use of the Eight Banners New Army, they are all blocked by the ministers.

As for the waterworks, electric light factories and weaving layout factories, there are also many obstacles, although the plan can be built until the year of the monkey. But Duan Fang did the opposite, he wanted to put away the coal number first, and then use the real profit of the coal number to persuade the princes and ministers who raised cheap silver to be "honored" to the imperial court.

"That's right!"

Nodding, Li Guangguang stared at Duan Fang for a long time, until Duan Fang's heart was numb, and he even thought that the other party had made a killing move, and then suddenly smiled and said.

"I hope so!"

I hope so!

Now those princes and ministers can still rely on Yixin to suppress and rely on Cixi to suppress, this uncle and sister-in-law cooperate very well inside and outside, and even when the court is insufficient, the Cixi who "makes me uncomfortable for a while, I will make whoever is uncomfortable for a lifetime" also took the initiative to reduce the amount in the palace to support Yixun's errand. But what if Yixun died?

When the time comes, who will be able to suppress those princes and ministers? Who can be with the DPRK as Cixi's help? When he turned his gaze to Duan Fang again, Li Guangguang was a little sympathetic to this non-Jinshi Manchu minister, without Yixun's support, even if he did these things in the future, what could he do?

At that time, it may be good to end up well, after all, this side is Manchen, not Hanchen, Hanchen still has a little bit of sympathy for the court to kill Hanchen, but Manchen...... Your minions, you can kill if you want, what do you have to do with me?

After a sigh, Li Guangguang did not agree.

"However, I can't be the master of this matter, after all, this is a handsome business, brother, you see ......"

As he spoke, Li Guangguang had already picked up the teacup as a send-off, and seeing that the other party had already served tea to the guest, Duan Fang hurriedly stood up and said.

"In this way, the younger brother will resign, and please bother the elder brother!"

Leaving Xianliang Temple, when he was about to step into the sedan chair, Duan Fang, who had a slightly bitter face, couldn't help but look in the direction of the northeast and muttered in his heart.

"I just hope that you Tang Haoran are really Cao Cao......"

(Insomnia all day long, patrolling the fields every day, extremely low spirits...... (To be continued.) )