Li Fangying said: "Jiangnan is everyone's Jiangnan, the imperial court came to Jiangnan for the land, the industry and commerce came to Jiangnan for profit, and we came to Jiangnan for the people." Although it is too late, without us, the righteousness of Yinghua cannot be established in this Jiangnan, and righteousness and profit will be contrary to each other. ”

Lu Yizhong also said: "I am not only speaking for the Hanlin Academy, but also for the people of Jiangnan. Industry and commerce Yili laid a big net in Jiangnan and caught the hearts of the people, but these people's hearts were not enough to represent the entire Jiangnan, and because the benefits were not attached, these people's hearts were not strong enough. So...... Not only did Li Qiuchi and I come, but people from 22 colleges and 63 clubs in the middle school also came, and even Kong Xingyu came. ”

Li Fangying arched his hand and said: "Jiangnan Xingying is the official residence of the imperial court in Jiangnan, and since we come to Jiangnan, we have to rely on Mr. Liu as my parents, and I hope that the chief manager will act in Jiangnan like protecting the industry and commerce in the country." ”

Liu Xingchun subconsciously asked: "Act?" You're trying to ......"

Lu Yizhong said with a smile: "Industry and commerce come to Jiangnan to fight for profit, we come to Jiangnan to fight for righteousness, so that Jiangnan people can see the way of heaven and the righteousness of China!" ”

Liu Xingchun groaned, feeling that his brain was a little overheated, this was what he was most afraid of seeing, as soon as Li Fangying appeared, he was alert, not only Li Fangying and Lu Yizhong, but also the club of the National High School Academy, unexpectedly poured out of the nest!

When he delivered his inaugural speech, he once emphasized his resume, starting from the earliest Senate of the Heavenly King's Mansion to the second assistant, he was in charge of public security, arresting thieves, and ensuring the safety of the people. In addition to being in charge of the Criminal Department, the "Bulletin Office" and the Praetorian Guard Department of the Department of Justice also report to him. When he came to Jiangnan, Li Xian's explanation to him was to "do things according to the established policy", and his own understanding was to do his own old job.

The chaos in Jiangnan is gradually emerging, which is the result of Fan Jin's indulgence in the industrial and commercial turmoil in Jiangnan in the past four years. The Shang Dynasty went deep into the countryside south of the Yangtze River, poured a torrent of commercial goods from Longmen, and even pretended to be deaf and dumb about the fact that the British and Chinese industry and commerce colluded with the Manchu government to create a "prison force".

Liu Xingchun naturally will not change his course, there are three major steps in the "Jiangnan Raiders", but the actual implementation plan is another set. Fan Jin completed the first two steps, one is to nail the dragon gate firmly in Jiangnan, and the other is to protect the industry and commerce into Jiangnan. Now what he Liu Xingchun has to do is the next step, starting with the Manchu local government and holding the power of criminal law and security into the hands of Jiangnan Xingying. This routine was already very skillful in the past before the Guangdong uprising.

Very simply, put down the master who listened to the call of the Longmen beside the state and county officials, and then the master controlled the state and county torture rooms, and then the Shang Dynasty, which had laid a good foundation for the Longmen industrial and commercial organization, provided stable money and food for the non-economic officials. With one hand of management power and the other hand of financial power, we will hold the grassroots law and order. According to Liu Xingchun's prediction, at most, in addition to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiangning and other important places, the local security of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces can be in the hands of Jiangnan Xingying.

But now that Li Fangying and Lu Yizhong jumped out with a large group of scholars from the middle school, Liu Xingchun has been in charge of public security in the country for so many years, and he can expect that the chaos in Jiangnan will become more and more intense. The struggle for industrial and commercial profits has forced the Jiangnan people to choose between Yinghua and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and a large number of Jiangnan people whose interests have been damaged have sided with the side of hatred of Yinghua, and the activities of the Dayi Society have spread to Suzhou and are spreading to Hangzhou and Jiangning, leading to fierce conflicts in all walks of life.

Now that the scholars have also come to Jiangnan, if they want to punish their hearts in Jiangnan, there will definitely be some people who are Yinghua, but it will definitely push more people to the side of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Catholicism recently built a temple in Jiangyin, which was burned by local Confucian scholars, which shows the difficulty of the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is difficult to ascend to the sky.

Liu Xingchun had a headache and moaned in Longmen, and Fan Jin had a headache and moaned in Wuya Palace.

"Official, the hearts of the people in Jiangnan have long been rotten, Yongzheng Wen Prison, no one in Jiangnan raised their arms, and even the voice of resentment was hard to hear, the minister was in Jiangnan for four years, and he didn't hear a complaint from the locals about Yongzheng, but felt that those people deserved to die. Jiangnan people all believe that the confrontation between the north and the south, and the national war is coming, should be so cohesive, and the people of the country Chinese go to Jiangnan, not only will it not work, but it will also make the resentment even deeper. ”

Li Shi shook his head: "Jiangnan people think? Where are the Jiangnan people? Don't forget, today I am Yinghua, among the important ministers of the court, thirty percent are Jiangnan people, and half of the Hanlin Academy are Jiangnan people. The three sages who traveled west were all from Jiangnan. Forty percent of the six cadets of the Huangpu Army Academy are from Jiangnan. In the east and west courtyards, a quarter of them are either Jiangnan people who have moved south, or their ancestral home is in Jiangnan. The industry and commerce in the country, especially the machinery and weaving industry, are mainly Jiangnan people, and Huang Zhuo, who studied the steam engine, is also a Jiangnan person. ”…,

Li Xian sighed: "I, Yinghua, although I started in Guangdong, I have not yet occupied Jiangnan, but this country was set up with the help of Jiangnan people." Among the people in Jiangnan, the smartest, most talented, most willing to take risks, and the most righteous people are all in our country. They want to save the villagers, can we ignore them? ”

This is not only a problem for Jiangnan people, the imperial court went, the army went, and industry and commerce went, but the scholars didn't go. From the fourth year of the Holy Path, the scholars in the middle school were busy digesting Western learning, and they were fascinated by the Europa learning compiled by the General Office. It was not that everyone was tired of it, but that Duan Guoshi, the three sages of the westward journey, and various academies had integrated the roots of Western learning with the sons of the ancient pre-Qin dynasty, thus setting off a "revival of ancient learning".

New academies were emerging, and guilds were popping up everywhere, and the scholars were no longer content with arguing at home, but wanted to go elsewhere to strengthen their own schools of thought. At this time, Kong Shangren had died of illness in Jiaozhi, and the Confucian Society wanted to use Jiaozhi as a place to revive ancient Confucianism, so they went to Jiaozhi and Guangnan one after another. The other factions naturally set their sights on Jiangnan.

Li Xi said to Fan Jin, who was a little stunned: "Last year, you blocked several academies from setting up branches in Longmen, but I didn't speak because I wasn't sure what the consequences would be when I fought in Jiangnan at that time. It's time this year, I promised them, but you said that Jiangnan was chaotic and still blocking them, you are putting yourself in a bit of a position. ”

Fan Jin's face changed, this is a very severe accusation......

Just as he was about to leave his seat to ask for guilt, Li Shi rolled his eyes and said, "Look, you still don't understand the significance of the position of the head of the Jiangnan camp." ”

Longmen, in the face of the forced gaze of hundreds of readers, Liu Xingchun smiled and bowed his hand to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, what are your orders, the little ones do everything!" ”

He quarreled with this group of scholars Yijing for a while, opening a academy in Longmen, it's nothing, but these guys still have to run around the south of the Yangtze River, and I don't want to think about it, the Manchu government doesn't dare to be embarrassed on the surface, but what means are used under the table, then it's not clear, in short, if you go out a hundred, it would be good to be able to huilai fifty.

Persuasion is useless, the scholars who come to Jiangnan are no longer hairy guys, they are full of knowledge, but they are all full of enthusiasm, and they regard this trip as a great cause, and they don't care about any difficulties and obstacles.

They didn't care, but Liu Xingchun didn't dare not care. Not to mention that there is a Hanlin like Lu Yizhong, the others are all bigwigs in the national high school circles, even if they haven't met in person before, their names are mentioned in the newspaper from time to time. If you really want to let them go to Jiangnan in person, it will be difficult for him to communicate with public opinion in the country if he loses one.

Liu Xingchun had no choice but to save the country, saying that this matter did not have to be done in person. Isn't it a battle between hearts and minds? Publishing books, distributing newspapers, running academies, and creating public opinion, what can you do in Longmen.

Li Fangying and Lu Yizhong thanked everyone with a smile, and asked Liu Xingchun to give a lot of support, only then did Liu Xingchun understand that he, the head of the Jiangnan camp, had earlier protected the commercial goods of industry and commerce into Jiangnan, and now he wanted to protect the righteousness of the scholars into Jiangnan, which was the life of a servant.

That's why he made jokes, called himself a subordinate, and called everyone master, of course, there was a bit of bitterness in the laughter, and his mind was still spinning "Fourth brother, you are so ruthless!" "The great disrespect.

How dare everyone accept his posture, and quickly bow back, and the hall resounded with laughter like a spring breeze.

Huangpu Boundless Palace, Fan Jin's laughter was particularly bitter: "The official family is right, in the past four years, I have indeed regarded myself as the lord of Yinghua in Jiangnan, and I put my own thoughts first in everything, no wonder the industry and commerce began to give me gifts, it turned out that I put the power on them, and did not put myself in the right position." ”

Li Shi waved his hand and said: "Don't blame yourself, Jiangnan matter, you have laid a solid foundation in the past four years, and this credit cannot be erased." Besides, even if you have this thought, don't you restrain yourself? Even if you don't restrain yourself, there are still the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the East and West Courts are watching you, and those personal feelings are always inevitable. If you really resign because you are not fit to serve, how can it be so smooth for me to promote you to secondary assistant? I, the emperor, don't do whatever I want now, just like the chimney incident before......"

Speaking of this "chimney incident", Fan Jin also shook his head and sighed, at least as far as internal affairs are concerned, the emperor is really no longer a man of his word.

He already knew about this when he returned to Whampoa, and the newspapers were discussing it in an uproar. The thing is also very simple, in fact, it is the aftermath of the earlier anti-steam engine craze. A group of students from the Tianshe Society of Huangpu Academy were finally held accountable and spent 10 days in prison because they instigated the people of Foshan to petition at the Temple of Heaven, which caused conflicts among tens of thousands of people and injured dozens of people. ..., after being released from prison, these students "changed their ways" and understood that making trouble is not the solution to the problem, and there is no change without sacrifice. They ran to Foshan and climbed onto the chimneys of steam engines and iron-smelting furnaces, trying to prove to the world that the black smoke was poisonous.

They succeeded, and of course the black smoke was poisonous. The high concentration of sulfur dioxide gas, the light sore throat, the severe pulmonary edema and even suffocation, if it were not for the workshop to quickly shut down the machine, others rescued in time, these ten or so students are estimated to have all been confessed on the chimney.

As soon as this incident came out, public opinion was in an uproar, and the steam engine trend, which had been deliberately diluted by industry and commerce and the imperial court, was detonated again. Seeing that the theory of natural disasters has just been dissipated by the various relief measures issued by the imperial court, and if it is made like this, there will be a big storm in the country again.

At this point, Li Shi, who had been standing by and feeling that he didn't have to pay too much attention to this matter now, also had to come forward. First of all, he pushed public opinion, laid the bottom tone of "promoting the good and eliminating the disadvantages", and avoided the debate from entering the extreme state of "whether to have a steam engine or not", and then went into battle in person and showed more than ten steam engines in Wuya Palace to the country, saying that my emperor is using it, and it is fine, there is no problem.

Of course, then there is a need to talk about how to reduce the harm, and Li Xi announced that he would take the lead in the supervision and set up a "Tobacco Reduction and Harm Eradication Association" with the Eastern and Western Academies and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which will study the issue of reducing industrial pollution and coordinate the conflicts of interest between industry and the people.

Technical standards such as raising chimneys, improving boiler design, and improving coal quality were soon introduced, which were well known to everyone, but because of the extra cost, the workshop owners were reluctant to use them.

Li Shi ignored this matter before, precisely because even if he gave pressure, it was difficult to see results. After all, the executive order is bigger than the laws of the market, and it is bigger than the interests of capital.

However, the laws of the market are constrained by the people's hearts and guided by public opinion, and the interests of capital must also bow down under the public opinion set up by the country of Yinghua. The public opinion from the people was turbulent, and the workshop owners had no choice but to back down, Li Xi was naturally happy to see it, the only thing that was a little depressed was that this "Heavenly Society" was the "Black Peace Organization" of the Mo family, which jumped out so early and opposed industrialization, which is really difficult to worry.

But now from the perspective of Jiangnan affairs, the most active ones in Jiangnan are also "Tianren Society", "Zhitong Society", and "Mo Society", Li Xi is also relieved, this is like the foot brake of society, and the brake must be allowed to exist. As for the extent to which the brake pads will affect the forward speed, it depends on the government and how he adjusts it.

When it came to the chimney incident, Fan Jin also roughly figured it out, cheered up and asked: "The official just said that I was appointed as the second assistant to deal with the important task, but I don't know what the priority is. ”

Li Shi beckoned, and the six cars handed over a thick document, and when he put it on the bookcase, he saw the "Northern Expedition General Plan" on the cover, Fan Jin took a cool breath, he was very familiar with this thing, when he was the governor of the Privy Council, he asked the General Staff Department to formulate a comprehensive Northern Expedition plan.

I was just saying that Jiangnan had to slow down the harvest, but now he threw this thing out......

Facing Fan Jin's extremely confused gaze, Li Xian said in a deep voice: "Su Wencai is transferred to the Privy Council, and what he has to do is to make the Privy Council set up a smooth paperwork process, and you are the second assistant, and the first job is to connect the government hall and the Privy ......Council."

Then Li Shi spit out two words heavily: "Prepare for war!" ”

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