"The imperial court has always been afraid of external troubles!"

When the rain dripped down the green tiles in the garden, in the east study of Nanbee Palace, several people were surrounding a map, Tang Haoran stared at the upper northern corner of the map, and said softly.

"Since the imperial court is afraid of external troubles, then we might as well make an article on this!"

If it weren't for a telegram transferred from the Beiyang Yamen, I'm afraid Tang Haoran would really not have remembered this year's major event, or even this year's major event that would have directly affected the pattern of East Asia for half a century.

"What the lord said is extremely true, if it were not for the increasingly strict "worries of the imperial court", how could it have decided to prepare for the construction of the railway inside and outside the Guan, and hire British engineers to survey the railway route from the south of "Manchuria" to Hunchun, where Russia and North Korea meet......

Li Guangguang's words made the corners of Tang Haoran's mouth rise slightly, this so-called "worry about the east" is the intrusion of Tsarist Russia into the northeast, in fact, now Tsarist Russia's intrusion on the northeast is still engraving, and the "worry about the east" was introduced into the court, but because of another thing - after the failure of the Luhan and Guangdong railways that the China Railway Company presided over by Li Hongzhang's staff and Zhang Zhidong competed for, in order to block its road construction and highlight the importance of the Beiyang system, through the mouths of the generals and officials of the three northeastern provinces, he advocated "worries about the east" in the DPRK and China, and then used " Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been in the customs for more than 200 years, for them, this customs outside the customs is still their foundation, and it is natural for them to follow the clouds in the court, although Weng Changshu and others know about Li Hongzhang's "conspiracy", they can only express their approval, after all, the so-called "ancestral foundation" and "banner people's roots" are there. It's just that to their surprise, as soon as the imperial court here agreed to "build the internal and external railways of the Luhan Railway", the reaction of the Russians over there completely exceeded the expectations of those big officials.

"It's just that the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department didn't expect it. This move. Immediately alarmed the Russian government. Tsar Alexander III, known as the "Great Talent", naturally did not sit idly by and watch us extend the railway to the northeastern border. So. It issued a decree "to build the Trans-Siberian Railway as soon as possible". Foreign Minister Gilles also sent a letter of support to the Tsar last month, and the Russian government also heard the news, and if it is not bad, the plan to build the Trans-Siberian Railway will replace the sporadic railway plans of the past few years, and it will no longer be a partial railway in the Far East, but a railway extending from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok! ”

When Tang Haoran said this, another thing came to his mind - a year later, in order to show the Russian government's determination to build the Trans-Siberian Railway, and more importantly, to demonstrate to the Qing government. The crown prince's trip to the Far East, but now Russia obviously has not made a final decision, in the Beiyang Yamen's general text, only mentioning the imperial court's will build the internal and external railways and the Russian decision to build the road, but does not mention the crown prince's trip to the Far East, obviously at least for now has not made a decision, this matter can only be temporarily buried in the bottom of the heart.

But in any case, now that Li Hongzhang has taken out the "worries of the east" to fight for power with Zhang Zhidong, he can't take a ride without compensation and seek some benefits for himself from this "worries about the east".

"Since he is the Minister of Beiyang, he can play this card. Let's play this card too! ”

"Your Excellency, what do you mean......"

Song Yuxin looked at the adult. With some doubts on his face, the minister of Beiyang played the ancestral land in the northeast as a signboard, so he could naturally ask for silver from the household department, but what kind of signboard did the Tongjian Mansion play?

"What my lord means is that this worry about the east is not only in the northeast, but also in the land of Korea, and there is also the trouble of Russia, so if it is not bad as expected, the lord is to hand over the fold to the imperial court to build a railway to connect with the railway inside and outside the Guan, one can consolidate the domain, and the other can solve the east worry, and threaten the east neighbor with its side!"

Just looking at the map, Li Guangguang guessed Tang Haoran's thoughts.

"Your Excellency wants to get on the sedan chair of Lord Nakado?"

Tang Shaoyi's brows furrowed slightly, how could the sedan chair of Lord Zhongtang be easy to ride?

"That's right!"

Tang Haoran nodded, looked at everyone and said,

"The imperial court ordered me to consolidate the feudal domain in North Korea but did not give a penny of silver, now the strong neighbors look around, how can we sit idly by, if this road is built, it will be able to connect North Korea and China as one, and there will be no centrifugal betrayal of China from now on, but this road needs silver, so we only have two roads now, one is the court to give this silver, and the other is that the court gives us a policy, let's find a way to raise money ourselves!"

Compared with the policy, Tang Haoran hopes to get a piece of the 2 million taels of the railway inside and outside the Guanxi every year, as for the silver for building the railway, Tang monk's meat is delicious, but not everyone can eat it.

"My lord, I'm afraid this piece of meat is not delicious!"

Li Guangguang looked at Tang Haoran and said what he was worried about.

"From the current point of view, this railway is expanded on the basis of the Tangxu Railway, south to Linxi Town on the Jingu Railway, north to Yuguan (Shanhaiguan), to be repaired to Yuguan, and then to the outside of the pass, let's take the liberty of inserting a foot, but I'm afraid that the Beiyang Yamen will ......."

Beiyang Yamen, this is the most critical place, the reason why the Unified Supervision Office can hold the position of Emperor Taishang in North Korea, abolish King Li, support the new king, and make a new covenant depends on Beiyang, if you complain about Beiyang because of this matter, what will be the result Li Guangguang didn't even dare to think about it.

"The meat is too fat to put down!"

Tang Haoran said helplessly, staring at the map and continuing.

"If you want to bite some meat out of the two million taels of silver this year, you need to do something else! For example......"

After a pause, Tang Haoran spit out two words.

"Rails!"

Track!

The moment he heard these two words, Tang Shaoyi immediately answered.

"My lord, do you want to follow Zhang Xiangtao's method?"

The rails are made of steel, and when adults mention rails, they naturally want to set up an iron factory, but isn't that what Zhang Zhidong did?

"That's right, it's the ironworks......"

Spreading out a map again, Tang Haoran pointed to the south bank of the Datong River estuary and said.

"When the company was exploring the minerals along the Datong River, it found a large iron-rich ore here, the iron content of the ore can reach seventy percent, the ore can go straight into the blast furnace, and the ore is the best iron ore with low sulfur and low phosphorus, so let's take out this iron ore and set up an iron plant with Beiyang Yamen!"

The joint establishment of the iron plant was a decision made by Tang Haoran after repeated thinking after learning that Russia would build the Trans-Siberian Railway, and then introduced Beiyang capital to establish an iron plant, so as to establish his own iron and steel industry. Now is the time for the "Iron Age" to show its strength, when steel is the most basic industrial base, not to mention that only by having a steel plant of your own can you make use of what you have learned.

"My lord, in that case, wouldn't they have reached out to North Korea?"

Song Yuxin is naturally very aware of his own affairs, and he finally has a piece of his own territory, and now if he cooperates, won't he have to bring in Beiyang's hand?

"Jie Qi, take a long-term view!"

Knowing that Song Yuxin was worried about the loss of autonomy of the Unified Supervision Mansion, Tang Haoran smiled slightly.

"As long as this iron factory is built in North Korea, even if it is jointly established, what can the yamen do with me? Moreover, this joint operation does not mean that the power of the iron factory must be handed over, not only the human rights and powers of the iron factory cannot be handed over, but even have to be spun off, and the iron factory must not be turned into a yamen. ”

Tang Haoran has his confidence in the joint iron factory, and he believes that Li Hongzhang can see the benefits and finally agree to his request.

"What the Lord said is extremely true, for Lord Zhongtang, what he wants is political achievements, as long as we can complete the iron factory, for Lord Zhongtang, it is a political achievement, if it can be earlier than Hubei out of the railway, out of the rails, it is also better, not to mention, Lord Zhongtang has always been favored by adults, if the adults hand over the policy of co-organizing the railway, I want to come to the Lord Zhongtang side will definitely be moved!"

Secretly, Li Guangguang admired his chances, whether it was Zhang Zhidong or Li Hongzhang, they were all favored by him, although this favor was because of his talent, but it was not because the two of them were helpless - no one was available! In this helplessness, the adults' foreign talents are naturally valued by the two adults, and perhaps for Li Hongzhang, this joint iron factory is Tang Haoran's dedication.

"Chongshan, you can handle this matter yourself, if you need to, you can also go to Tianjin in person, and then, Shaochuan ......"

Turning his gaze to Tang Shaoyi, Tang Haoran had a smile on his face and said seriously.

"Let's see if you can collect some of the recent actions of the Russians, even if it's just rumors or something, you can also use it, we have to let the capital know that the North Korean side is also in danger now!"

Only when North Korea is in danger can it show its importance, only in this way will those "adults" in the capital not have the idea of transferring themselves out, not to mention the road construction money of the Navy Yamen, Tang Haoran can't give up it anyway, two million taels of silver a year, not to mention anything else, at least it is more than enough to build a Renhan railway, and with that amount of money can more things be done, anyway, it will not be like Zhang Zhidong, as much as four million taels of road construction money will be deposited in a foreign bank to eat interest......

Thinking of Zhang Zhidong's move of depositing the road money allocated by the Navy Yamen last year and this year into the HSBC bank for interest, Tang Haoran, who was worried about not having silver, raised his brows, and suddenly moved the idea of this silver in his heart, if he could get this silver, would he still be short of silver? With four million taels of silver as a basis, how can he break a penny into a few petals of flowers, when the thought in his heart appeared, Tang Haoran's whole person suddenly fell into contemplation, and said to Song Yuxin on the side.

"Jie Qi, you will go to Incheon tonight to catch tomorrow's boat to Shanghai, and then go directly to Wuchang!"

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