A transcript of the fold was placed on the table in front of Zhang Zhidong and Sang Zhiping like this, but whether it was Zhang Zhidong or Sang Zhiping, neither of them spoke, and Zhang Zhidong was even more silent, frowning from time to time.

Tang Ziran's twist and turn can be said to have scratched his itch, in any case, please repair the Guanwai railway branch line, with Weng Changshu and others to help, Li Hefei will be in trouble, Tang Haoran will definitely get some benefits from it, for Zhang Zhidong, after the Luhan Railway was blocked by Li Hefei, he was naturally happy to see someone blocking Li Hefei.

But is it that simple?

Of course, it's not that simple, this is just an exchange, and what is the exchange?

"Zhongzi, this Ziran......"

Shaking and sighing softly, Zhang Zhidong sighed Tang Haoran's "delusion", he wanted to borrow silver from Hubei.

"The interest rate of seven percent is three percent higher than that of foreign banks, and if it is hundreds of thousands of taels, it will be fine, but his mouth is the special fund of the four million taels of the navy yamen! With such a large sum of money, how can it be said that it is borrowed? ”

Song Yuxin was appointed by Tang Haoran to come to Wuchang, not just for the sake of the twists and turns, but for the special fund for road construction allocated by the Navy Yamen, a special fund of four million taels of silver, and now the money is deposited in HSBC, and the reason why it is deposited in HSBC is also simple - not to build roads for the time being.

According to Zhang Zhidong's vision, the Luhan Railway and the Guangdong-Hankou Railway should all use the iron of the Hanyang Iron Works, and the Hanyang Iron Works was also established to repair the railway. Even the foundations of the ironworks have not yet been laid. How can we talk about iron? How can roads be built without rails? So this one is from the time it was allocated. It was deposited by Zhang Zhidong in HSBC to eat interest, and he took it as he wanted, and there was still a four-percent interest, so that he could get 160,000 taels of interest a year, which was naturally beneficial to the country in Zhang Zhidong's view. But now Tang Haoran has his eyes on the 4 million taels of special funds, and he wants to borrow this money from himself and borrow it to North Korea. It was used for his foreign affairs in North Korea.

If it is only a few hundred thousand taels, or even more than a million taels, it is not impossible to lend it to him, but the problem is that he wants four million taels, and it has always been forbidden to borrow from each other without authorization in this place.

For a while, Zhang Zhidong was difficult to decide.

"Brother Xiangtao, now it seems that Ziran should be in difficulty in North Korea, this court has no money to allocate, and it is difficult for him to ride a tiger over there, otherwise. I'm afraid I won't use my brain to use this special fund! ”

Sang Zhiping did not speak for Tang Ziran, but directly pointed out his current predicament.

"Borrowing. Hey......"

Zhang Zhidong's eyes narrowed into slits, and he groaned for a long time.

"It's a pity that North Korea is not Hubei, otherwise with its ability to breed, how can there be today's difficulties?"

Sang Zhiping's words made Zhang Zhidong's eyebrows jump, the reason why Hubei is not bad for foreign affairs now, when it comes to the root, it still depends on the anti-smoking bureau founded by Tang Haoran in Hubei that day, after rectification, this anti-smoking bureau is now handed over to the treasury every month The silver is 300,000 taels when it is small, and even more than 400,000 taels at most.

Not only that, even the original Tang Haoran negotiated the "yarn, silk, coal, ship" has also been founded one by one, although now the yarn factory has not yet produced yarn, the silk factory has not produced silk, and the coal mine is also under construction, but the Huguang Official Ship Bureau has been put into operation, and its four 300-ton iron-hulled steam ships have been put into use as early as the Dragon Boat Festival, as Tang Haoran said at the beginning, the benefits of inland river shipping are far greater than the coast, four ships sailed on the Yangtze River and entered Dongting Lake, and transported Hunan's rice and many native products to Wuchang, and then to Shanghai, Its capacity is far from being comparable to that of the old wooden ships, and the speed of the ship is extremely fast, which is naturally popular with business travelers, but after a few months of hard work, the ship bureau has earned back a ship.

In the final analysis, he still inherits Tang Haoran's feelings in these matters, if there is no detailed plan for him that day, how can there be today's prosperity of Hubei foreign affairs? Thinking like this in his heart, Zhang Zhidong looked at Sang Zhiping and sighed lightly,

"Zhongzi, you mean, we have to lend this silver to Ziran?"

In the face of Zhang Zhidong's inquiry, Sang Zhiping smiled and said nothing, there are some things that he, as a staff member, can only click on from the side, but he can't completely break it.

"Hey, this is true!"

Zhang Zhidong shook his head helplessly.

"If you have these four million taels, I don't know how big a wave you can make in North Korea!"

Although Tang Ziran has long been far away from Hubei, Zhang Zhidong has been paying attention to his every move in the capital and North Korea, it is okay in the capital, it seems to be specialized in learning, but here the court will send it to North Korea, and there will be like a dragon in the sea, and it will instantly set off a storm in North Korea.

It seemed to have stopped for a while, but after Song Xinyu carried the silver, Zhang Zhidong knew that it was not Tang Ziran who stopped, but that he had nothing to make him make waves, and if there was the four million taels of silver borrowed by Hubei, it might not cause a big storm in North Korea.

"Money is heroic courage, with silver, to do things, naturally it will be smoother!"

Sang Zhiping smiled, looked at Zhang Zhidong and said.

"However, what Ziran did in North Korea, according to Song Yuxin, is to build roads and open mines, and his intention is to mine North Korea's high-quality anthracite, but he is trapped in a lack of funds, unable to mine, and unable to build roads for transportation.

It seems to be a simple sentence, but it has another meaning, the meaning is simple, Tang Ziran knows that you Zhang Zhidong is his last support, so he sent his henchmen to ask for help, if you give it back, I am afraid that it will really cold his heart.

"But the court is ......"

Zhang Zhidong groaned and expressed his worries.

"If Li Hefei and others know, maybe this will give them another excuse to attack Hubei, after all, this money is a special fund for road construction of the Navy Yamen, although it seems that this money will not be used for at least three years, but after all, it is a special fund not ......."

At the beginning, Zhang Zhidong had made a discount to use this special fund to build an iron factory, but later after Tang Haoran founded the Anti-Smoking Bureau, he naturally did not have the idea of playing that amount of money again, and the special fund should not be used without permission, which is the most basic rule.

"Didn't Song Yuxin say it, the navy's special funds are now deposited in the Bank of North Korea, and the Bank of North Korea is also deposited, not to mention that the interest offered by the Bank of North Korea is 7% interest, so calculated, this year is 280,000 taels, which is 120,000 taels more!"

Sang Zhiping smiled and said Song Yuxin's statement, it is a deposit, not a loan, it is really a shame that Tang Haoran can think of it, then the North Korean Bank was run by him Tang Haoran, and the four million taels of special funds were deposited in the North Korean Bank, and he didn't use it as he wanted?

"For three years, HSBC is ready to use, Tang Haoran is scheduled for three years, and it cannot be withdrawn within three years, and the principal and interest will be withdrawn after three years!"

"Xiangtao, are you worried that Ziran won't be able to come up with this silver after three years?"

"Worried?"

Shaking his head, Zhang Zhidong said with a sigh.

"I'm really worried if it's someone else, but it's Ziran's turn, he has these four million silver, I don't know how many things he can do, not to mention four million taels in three years, it's ten million taels, he can also get it, hey! That's it, Zhongzi, you go back and inform Song Jieqi, and say that the old man has allowed him to set up a branch of the Bank of Korea in the Hankou Concession! ”

This sentence did not answer whether the silver was borrowed or not, but everyone knows that when Zhang Zhidong said this sentence, it meant that when the Korean Bank opened a branch in the Hankou Concession, the Huguang Governor's Mansion would naturally deposit a huge amount of money.

Sang Zhiping smiled when he heard this.

"Brother Xiangtao, your appreciation for Ziran has not diminished at the beginning!"

The old friend's praise was only exchanged for Zhang Zhidong's chuckle, looking at Sang Zhiping with a smile, Zhang Zhidong asked rhetorically.

"Zhongzi, if I return to Ziran, what are you going to do?"

The proprietor's rhetorical question made Sang Zhiping dumb at first, and then laughed at himself.

"I'm not Brother Xiangtao, so naturally I can't help much, but I will still persuade him to open a branch in Hankou, and Zhujun always has some ways to help him raise a sum of money, although it is not much, but it can also solve his urgent needs!"

Sang Zhiping's answer made Zhang Zhidong stunned, he didn't know that Zhongzi asked Zhujun to help, what kind of help he helped, I am afraid that he used the relationship between Zhujun and the cigarette merchant to make the cigarette merchant deposit a sum of silver in the North Korean bank, so that he might be able to raise one or two million taels of silver for him. And I think Zhujun will also be happy, isn't the anti-smoking bureau he is now presiding over ......

Gift!

Whether it is himself or Zhujun, in some kind of Cheng dù, they owe Tang Haoran a favor, and depositing the silver in the North Korean bank is to repay him this favor!

Nodding slightly, Zhang Zhidong picked up the teacup and commanded by taking advantage of the time to drink tea.

"Zhongzi, you can talk to Zhujun when you go back, this is a matter, the silver is not too much, as for Ziran's side...... That's all we can help! ”

After taking a sip of tea, looking at the back of Sang Zhiping leaving, Zhang Zhidong's brows were locked again, and he couldn't help but think of it in his heart.

"Did Ziran calculate his own side from the beginning?"

Although he knew that Tang Ziran was a person, Zhang Zhidong still had some doubts, if he hadn't calculated this, how could he have sent someone here for help?

This Tang Ziran...... After a sigh, Zhang Zhidong smiled again.

"Forget it, anyway, the silver has been lent to him, even if he doesn't have the silver, the old man will have a way to squeeze it out again, now, let him leave it to him for the time being!"

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