After this circle, Lin Zhe can be regarded as completing the first and most important task today, and then Lin Zhe gave a short speech, which was not long for only five or six minutes, after the speech, the venue temporarily carried out a relatively relaxed stage, and some military and political dignitaries who held their own identities were enough, so they came to Lin Zhe's side, and occasionally brought a few ordinary people over.

For example, Pan Lixuan, the director of the Royal Family Assets Management Office, brought a person who was about forty years old to Lin Zhe and introduced Lin Zhe: "Your Majesty, this is Fei Zhijin, the minister of the Strategic Development Department of the Royal Bank. ”

That Fei Zhijin immediately stepped forward, and then half-bowed and said, "The minister knocks to see the emperor!" ”

Although Fei Zhijin works in the Royal Bank, which may seem like a banker to outsiders, he is also an employee of the Royal Family, and his personnel relationship is directly under the Royal Asset Management Office.

The royal estate was enormous, with millions of direct and indirect employees, but in fact many of them were ordinary employees, and this kind of ordinary employees was, to paraphrase later generations, contract workers, the kind that had not been established. For example, the Shanghai shipyard in the royal industry has thousands of workers, but most of them are not royal employees, but ordinary employees.

There are two kinds of real royal employees, one is directly subordinate to the staff of the palace affairs department, and the other is directly subordinate to the staff of the royal asset management office, including the headquarters staff of the imperial asset management office, and many middle and senior management of the royal family's industry, which are all formally established, and the total number is not large, only tens of thousands.

These are employees of the royal family and the state. They are all Lin Zhe's courtiers, so Fei Zhijin will call himself a minister.

Minister of Strategic Development?

When Lin Zhe heard Pan Lixuan's introduction, he became interested in the middle-aged man in front of him. Although Lin Zhe was busy with affairs, he generally did not interfere in many matters of the royal family's property.

However, the Royal Bank, which is an extremely important financial institution for the empire, still attaches great importance to it, and the current organizational structure of the Royal Bank is relatively special, like other royal industries, because it is wholly owned by the Royal Asset Management Office, so there is naturally no so-called shareholders' meeting or board of directors.

The head of the bank is the head of the bank, followed by a number of deputy governors. Assist the president in managing the affairs of the bank's provincial branches, Shanghai branch, etc.

At the same time, there are many institutions in the bank's headquarters. For example, the first investment department, the second investment department, the third investment department, the administration department, the organization department, the finance department, the supervision department, the strategic development department, etc.

Some government agencies are quite similar, because the Royal Bank is so large that the ordinary corporate structure is simply not suitable for the Royal Bank.

One of the most important is the Strategic Development Department, which is actually responsible for the Royal Bank's internal development programmes. It also shoulders the task of domestic financial regulation and control and supporting the development of domestic industry and commerce.

After all, the Royal Bank is essential for the development of modern imperial industry and commerce. It has a very important role in providing loans not only to those companies, but also to local governments.

When some local governments carry out infrastructure construction, due to the lack of local finances, they often choose to borrow from the Royal Bank and then carry out infrastructure construction.

For example, in the early years of Tianjin's Beihai Industrial Zone, the basic investment in the early stage basically came from loans from the Royal Bank, and was secured and repaid with local fiscal revenue.

This time. The Ministry of Strategic Development is very important, after all, there are too many companies and local governments in the country that need loans. Although the Royal Bank is well-funded, it cannot meet them all, but must first meet the loans of those enterprises and local governments? This needs to be judged from the industrial development of the whole country.

The Department of Strategic Development, which appears to be a purely theoretical research, but is actually responsible for the country's macroeconomic adjustment, although it is only an internal organization of an enterprise, but its actual effectiveness is far beyond that of ordinary enterprises.

The Ministry of Development also conducts research on foreign economies, and many of the reports are valued by the Cabinet and an important basis for administrative decision-making.

With such an important department, Pan Lixuan naturally wouldn't just choose someone to sit down, so Lin Zhe also had some interest in this Fei Zhijin and had a few words with him.

However, because of the limited time tonight, it was impossible for Lin Zhe to say too much to him, but a minute later, Fei Zhijin retired with Pan Lixuan, and at this time, other people stepped forward, such as Admiral Lin Dabiao is and a young officer came to Lin Zhe.

This young colonel Lin Zhe is a little familiar, and after a little thought, he remembered, this is the Lin Tongshu he saw two years ago, in 1866, in order to prepare for the British East India Fleet, the Imperial Navy formed a temporary combined fleet, and set up a joint fleet staff group, this Lin Tongshu was the head of the staff group at that time.

On the eve of the battle, Lin Tongshu came to the palace to see Lin Zhe, and elaborated on some of his opinions on the upcoming naval battle, which made Lin Zhe still satisfied.

In the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary, he commanded the Imperial Combined Fleet to sink the Resistance, forcing the East India Fleet to retreat to Singapore, a battle that made him famous.

Become the most dazzling new generation of officers in the Navy!

If it weren't for the fact that he was too young and was promoted too quickly, I'm afraid he would have become a major general.

However, although he is famous and talented, he has even become the actual head of the naval officer academy and a principal who is not a principal, but the navy has been established for many years, and there is already a fixed promotion system, and if he has military merits, he must have qualifications to be promoted, so although he was promoted to colonel after the war, he had no chance to become a rear admiral in a short period of time.

Otherwise, if there is a rear admiral who is only in his twenties, how can you make a large number of forty or fifty-year-old colonels in the navy embarrassed!

Even if he was the fastest, Lin Tongshu would have to wait until he was about thirty years old to be promoted to rear admiral, and this speed was unique in the contemporary Imperial Navy and even the Army.

However, he was only limited by the lack of years. But if you want to be promoted in the future, there is no threshold, and you will naturally be able to rise when the time comes.

For this kind of talented soldier, Lin Zhe naturally has a good attitude. even joked with Lin Tongshu: "Lin Aiqing, this lifelong event must be grasped quickly, I don't want to see the young people of our navy die alone!" ”

When Lin Tongshu heard this, his face couldn't help but turn red!

Lin Tongshu is not married, this is already a well-known thing in the navy, and the reason why Lin Tongshu is not married is also related to his experience, and he was admitted to Xiucai early. Then he was admitted to the Naval Academy, and then he was sent to study in the United Kingdom, and after returning to China, he held a number of important positions. In the first two years, he was in charge of the decisive battle of the United Fleet, and with so many things dragging on, there was time to think about marriage.

In addition, he has a high vision, and ordinary women can't look at it at all. You must know that many powerful families in the empire have seen this Lin Tongshu very much. It is not impossible for Lin Tongshu to grow into a Minister of the Navy in time, so many people want to marry Lin Tongshu.

But Lin Tongshu's vision is too high, and after having the experience of studying abroad, he disdains those ladies in China and the like, and is bent on finding a woman who can communicate with him.

And there are really few such women in China, to be honest.

The women of this age were all traditional women, and the educational reforms of the empire for many years were practically limited to male students, including elementary and elementary schools. They don't admit girls.

Although there were several specialized schools for girls in the Empire, most of these schools taught etiquette courses.

Lin Tongshu wants to find out if he is in good shape. Looks are superior, and at the same time, they have to be women who have extraordinary thinking and knowledge, and can communicate with him on an equal footing, the first two are simple, but the latter one is difficult, to communicate with Lin Tongshu on an equal footing, at least you have to be a college graduate, and in contemporary China, there is not even a female college student, let alone a female college student, ordinary middle school or even primary school students.

However, Lin Tongshu would rather be lacking than excessive, and would rather be single than find those mediocre women, and this situation is not a secret in the navy, basically many people know that Lin Tongshu is higher than the sky and his life is thinner than paper in his treatment of marriage.

And if you don't change, it is estimated that you can only be a bachelor in this life.

Lin Zhe teased him twice, Lin Tongshu also laughed, if someone else made fun of him, Lin Tongshu would definitely not give others a good look, but Lin Zhe is different, this can joke with him, proving that he is Jane in the emperor's heart, and this is what he desires most as a courtier.

For example, Vice Admiral Shen Tongdeng, to be honest, his ability is nothing in the navy, but why he was able to rise to prominence and even become the commander of the First Fleet is because Shen Tongdeng was appreciated by Lin Zhe when he was the naval attendant military attaché, and he was the first person in the emperor's heart of the admiral Li Jian.

If it weren't for Lin Zhe's attention, with Shen Tongdeng's own ability, he would not be able to climb to the important position of commander of the First Fleet in his lifetime.

After making a few jokes, Lin Tongshu took advantage of this rare opportunity, ignoring the eyes of Lin Dabiao on the side, and directly told Lin Zhe about the future development of the navy!

"Now the development of the Imperial Navy has reached a very critical period, and with the growth of the Navy in the next few years, it will inevitably cause hostility to the navies of Britain and other countries, so the future development strategy of the Imperial Navy must also be changed accordingly!"

Lin Zhe didn't have any special feelings about Lin Tongshu talking about these things on this occasion today, on the contrary, he understood this Lin Tongshu better, this young man knew how to seize the opportunity, and he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to report directly to himself.

"Oh, then what do you say, what should the future of the Navy be?"

"In the opinion of Wei Chen, there are two ways out for the Imperial Navy in the future, one is to develop heavy artillery capital ships to carry out decisive battle missions and block the enemy's main fleet in ports, and the other is to develop ocean-going assault ships to force the enemy forces coming from afar to lose their combat effectiveness by destroying the enemy's sea transportation lines!"

This theory is not very prominent, in fact, this is the strategy that the Navy is implementing, but since Lin Tongshu put it forward, he should have his reasons.

So Lin Zhe said: "Oh, Aiqing will go back to the next excerpt, I will take a look!" (To be continued.) )