In the face of King Gong's excitement, Li Hongzhang took a sip of tea with a smile, but there was some inexplicable mockery on his face, but these words were what Tang Haoran said to him at the beginning, and now he is just repeating it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Prince, please think, if you issue a tael of silver bills and receive one tael of silver, these taels of silver can be exchanged for pounds sterling, and for the purpose of ordering ships and guns from foreign countries, isn't one money turned into two dollars? This extra money is equivalent to borrowing from the people, and the money is like an IOU, but there is no interest to pay. As for the people, with this banknote, they can pay taxes on their grain, and they can buy firewood and rice, whether they have a tael of silver or a tael of silver, and they are not short, so isn't it harmless to the people and beneficial to the country? ”

"Ahh That's a good idea! ”

Yixun, who realized the good strategy in the meantime, suddenly clapped his hands excitedly.

"Nowadays, it takes a lot of money to borrow foreign debts, and you have to guarantee them and pay interest, and if you send 10 million taels of banknotes and exchange them for 10 million taels of silver, you will have borrowed a huge amount of money in vain, and that would be wonderful."

"Yes!"

Li Hongzhang nodded and said.

"But if the ten million taels of silver, if the floating expenses are abused and squandered, it is a large debt. If it is used to open mines and build railways, as profit-generating capital, make money, and then add capital, so that the profits will roll up, and it will take twenty or thirty years to work, and my Great Qing Kingdom will be as rich and powerful as Western countries! ”

King Gong was overjoyed and decided to talk about this set of financial strategies. In fact, after Tang Haoran talked to Li Hongzhang about the financial and banking industry, Li Hongzhang himself had talked to and with the manager of the British HSBC Bank several times, but he knew it. This matter is not possible in the Great Qing Dynasty, at least for now.

"If you talk about this bank. Our Great Qing Kingdom. It's not like no one has done it! ”

Hearing Li Hongzhang say this, Yixun was silent for a moment, and then asked rhetorically.

"Old Zhongtang is talking about Tang Haoran?"

"Bank of North Korea!"

Li Hongzhang nodded, looked at King Gong and said.

"After he arrived in North Korea to serve as the chief supervisor, the first thing he did was to set up the North Korean Bank, change the North Korean money system, and fix the silver dollar. Copper dollars, and then the implementation of paper money, when we are embarrassed to do things for the silver money, he easily relied on the bank to raise tens of millions of taels of silver to do foreign affairs, Lord, you have done foreign affairs, naturally you know, this foreign affairs are nothing more than silver to pile up. ”

Yixun, who was once named "Devil Six" for supporting "foreign affairs", could not know that he said "yes" in a loud voice. And Li Hongzhang sighed again.

That is, relying on the bank, it raised tens of millions of taels of military expenses before it started its army. This Tang Haoran, ah......"

This exclamation was made by Li Hongzhang from the bottom of his heart, and he was supported by a series of financial institutions relying on the Bank of North Korea. Tang Haoran was able to successfully raise a huge amount of war expenses. In contrast, the Qing Dynasty, which has a lot of land and resources, searched the intestines and scraped the stomach to collect taxes, and demolished the east to make up for the west.

"Although the DPRK is narrow and the people are poor, there is a West French bank, so the soldiers are paid tens of thousands, and they all borrow their own national debts, and there is no need to ask for foreign demand. Although the Qing Dynasty is a large country and the people are rich but there are no banks, it is difficult to borrow millions of debts from the people. ”

After Li Hongzhang sighed in this voice, Yixun was silent for a while, and then sighed.

"If you are familiar with Western studies, there is no one on the left of Tang Ziran in this country, but it is a pity that this person has not been educated by the country, and the court will not reprimand him a little, so he will have a grudge and start a rebellion, which is really ...... Pity! ”

When Yixun mentioned Tang Haoran, he expressed his disappointment in regret, and he didn't seem to be annoyed by his actions, but anyone knew that this was just a temptation, but he never thought that his temptation was heard in Li Hongzhang's ears, but it made him sigh in his heart.

"It's a shame indeed! It's a pity that this person's talent can't be used by the country! ”

Li Hongzhang smiled slightly, talking about Tang Haoran's achievements in founding foreign affairs in North Korea in just two years, and at the same time talking about how Tang Ziran had a grudge with the Beijing officials - he rarely sent money to the Beijing officials, so those people naturally spared no effort to attack him, and with Tang Ziran's temper, he was so general, and after his three-point earthiness was topped, he naturally wanted to clear the king's side.

It seems to be a simple response, but he heard Yixun's heart chuckle, so much so that he looked at Li Hongzhang for several seconds without speaking, could it be that he Li Hongzhang ......

If it was said that talking about banks was still a government before, then now the two of them really got to the point, thinking in their hearts, Yixun continued.

"Oh, it turns out that what Tang Haoran did today is a grudge with Yanguan!"

Yixun's face was full of expressions as if he had just woken up from a dream, and then he looked at Li Hongzhang and said.

"But I heard people say that after Tang Haoran took charge of North Korea, his mind was clear, on the surface, it was to consolidate the domain, but in fact, because he had a rebellious heart for a long time, and some people said that his father was actually a remnant of bandits, and everything he did in North Korea was a rebellion!"

Yixun's "I heard" is actually telling Li Hongzhang that it is impossible for the imperial court to make concessions on Tang Haoran's issue, and as for other issues, everyone still has room to talk.

"Lao Zhongtang, our country of the Qing Dynasty, but Zeng Wenzheng and Lao Zhongtang were finally saved!"

At this moment, Zai Cheng interjected on the side.

"Old Zhongtang, you naturally won't allow others to make people of our Great Qing Kingdom!"

"It's nature!"

Li Hongzhang said with a fist.

"Hongzhang Shi is favored by the imperial court, and he should be loyal to the country and serve the country!"

These words are high-sounding, but in Yixun's ears, he knows that Li Hongzhang is playing with him, although he doesn't know what the eight governors are doing for a while, but the local Manchu ministers have successively reported to the court, and the local governors are all connected with each other, and there is a tendency to collude, and who is the leader?

Except for Li Hongzhang, who else can it be?

Even if he knew it in his heart, Yixun had to pretend not to know that the current Great Qing Kingdom was not the Great Qing Kingdom of a hundred years ago, and he had no ability to restrain Han Chen, a Xinjiang official such as Li Hongzhang, and relied on the face of the imperial court and Han Chen's own loyalty to maintain this balance, but all of this was now broken by him Tang Haoran.

This Tang Haoran is really ...... Damn it!

"However, when it comes to the affairs of the dynasty, even Hongzhang is already difficult to do!"

The words turned slightly, and Li Hongzhang looked at King Gong and said.

"The affairs of the country and the dynasty have changed slightly, and the officials have been involved in it, and the northwest is in turmoil, and the Russians are involved in it, so the telegram has just been set up; Since the Battle of France, the Navy was established. After a year or two of calm, there were changes in the official participation, so dare to engage in it? ”

Li Hongzhang introduced the matter, and directly pulled it to the Yanguan, and Yixun's heart became more and more secretly unhappy, so he smiled bitterly.

"If the official obstructs things, how can this king not know?"

In those years, when he presided over the prime minister's yamen, Yixun himself was not impeached by the officials, and even the "Jiashen Yishu" Empress Dowager Zhengbai used the excuse of the impeachment of the officials, so she did ......

"But, after all, this is the system of the ancestors!"

Yixun tried to exonerate the officials, not so much to excuse the officials, but to find ways to save the face of the court.

"Besides, if the official is impeached without evidence, this responsibility lies with the official, and the court will make the decision for everyone in the end, just like the old Zhongtang, who is loyal to the country, how can the court not know? How can you allow others to impeach me at will? ”

But every time it is all cautious, all of it is sincere and fearful, for the imperial court, the impeachment of the speaker is one of the means for them to control the local officials, and the speaker is the ancestral system...... Just like spending tens of millions of "soldiers of the world" Eight Banners and Green Battalions every year, what is the use of the two in addition to spending tens of millions?

Or in the past, Li Hongzhang might have laughed it off, or even mentioned it, but this time he was different from the past, the reason why he came to Beijing was to make a start, and tonight, the telegram from the other seven governors would be sent from the telegraph office to the military plane, and the telegram had actually been sent to Tianjin before he came to Beijing, but Tianjin had not been "forwarded", in other words, it was "temporarily withheld."

The reason why the seven telegrams were "suspended" was actually to give Li Hongzhang the opportunity to personally express the thoughts of the Han officials to the court, is there a better opportunity than now?

"The Council of Ministers of the Council of Ministers is also the ancestral system of my Qing Dynasty!"

Almost at the moment when Li Hongzhang's voice fell, the chopsticks fell from Zaicheng's hand violently, but in his early thirties, he had thought that Li Hongzhang would say this sentence, and anyone could hear the meaning of his words - "Eight Kings Discussing Politics", the so-called Council of Ministers of the Parliamentary King is actually "Eight Kings Discussing Politics".

From Shunzhi Ye to Yongzheng Ye, in order to ban this "Council of Ministers of the King of Parliament", it can be said that all methods have been exhausted, and it took more than 100 years to abolish this "ancestral system".

"This system has been abolished, and it must not be mentioned again!"

Yixun had a calm face, he stared at Li Hongzhang, and secretly beat the drum in his heart, is there really no room for redemption?

"Lord, at the beginning, I ruled the world in the Qing Dynasty, with frequent use of troops, and the military situation was dangerous. Today, at the time of changes unseen in 3,000 years, I should think about changes and ......"

Li Hongzhang's words only made Yixun's face more and more heavy, he knew that Li Hongzhang in front of him had made a choice, or that Hanchen had made a choice, even so, he still tried to redeem all this as much as possible, he knew that what the other party was trying to do was not to restore the "ancestral system" of the "Council of Ministers of the King of Parliament", that was the "ancestral system" of the Manchurians, but not the "ancestral system" of the Han people, what he wanted was probably the "Minister of Parliament", and who would be the "Minister of Parliament"? Like the king of parliament back then, I am afraid that it must be the "eight governors of the world".

"Now there is a military aircraft department, and all major military affairs are executed by military aircraft, if it is ......"

Without waiting for Yixun to finish speaking, Li Jingfang, who had been silent, interjected at the right time.

"Lord Wang, how can you solve the current situation with the meritocracy of the military aircraft department?"

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