Thousands of miles on Dongting Lake, the sails are dotted, but there are a few clouds of smoke, the smoke clouds are the steam ships spit out of the soot, from the end of the year before last, with the steam ships of the Huguang Shipbuilding Bureau opened up a route to Changsha, the steamships on the Dongting Lake are increasing day by day, this is only because of the wide water depth of Dongting Lake, the steamship transport has obvious advantages such as large volume, fast speed, safety and reliability compared with the wooden ship transport, and the Huguang Governor's Office to support the operation of the steamship bureau, exempting it from miscellaneous taxes such as centika responsibility, but also contributed to the development of the steamship bureau. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

With its large volume and low freight advantages, the steamship quickly replaced the traditional wooden boat along the Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River, and transported all kinds of local products such as Hunan rice to the Yangtze River through Dongting Lake and sent to Hankou and other places, the prosperity of the market stimulated the development of the steamship industry, but in only two years, the Huguang Steamship Bureau expanded from the initial 4 ships to 24 large and small steamers, and opened up a series of new routes along the river and lake, and as its initial place on the Dongting Lake, the size of the steamer sailing here is as many as more than 10, It's not uncommon for soot to curl on the surface of the lake now.

"Liyuan" is a small steamship of more than 100 tons, compared with the ordinary sailing ship sailing on the lake "Liyuan" but people have the illusion of galloping, even for Wang Minyun, who is accustomed to being a boat, when standing in the bow of the ship against the wind, this illusion will also be produced, and when he holds his beard and stands and laughs without saying a word, a young man in his thirties next to him seems a little excited, and the young man can never understand the inner turmoil of the elders around him at this time.

Although the weather in February was still cold, Wang Minyun, who was standing on the bow of the boat, did not feel a trace of wind chill, but his heart was quite hot. Just a few years ago. He received a handwritten letter from Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, brought by his disciple Yang Rui. Invite him to the Lianghu Academy, no, it should be the Lianghu University Hall to teach, of course, according to Yang Rui, this is just the surface, and the adults also intend to invite him into the shogunate.

Entering the Zhangzhidong Shogunate, if it had been shelved two years ago, Wang Minyun would have disdained this kind of invitation. But now he is eager to do it, and immediately began to explain everything in Chuanshan Academy one by one, and then went to Wuchang with Yang Rui.

Opportunity, perhaps in the eyes of many people, is just an opportunity to squeeze into the shogunate and jump into officialdom, but for Wang Minyun, it means that he can show what he has learned in his life in the shogunate of Zhangzhidong.

Greetings to the Prime Minister!

For almost every scholar's dream, to learn a body of literature and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family, and the reason why it is the goods and the emperor's family. It was the day when he climbed the Dragon Gate and worshiped the prime minister. But how many talents have been hidden in it throughout the ages. He did nothing in his life.

In the so-called "prosperous era", I don't know how many talents are buried in the middle for various reasons, and they are not valued by others, and their ambitions cannot be developed. The so-called eclectic world of talent may only appear in troubled times. After all, in troubled times, those who want to achieve great things are the first to employ people.

However, although this worship is the dream of a scholar, for Wang Minyun, his dream is by no means as simple as worshipping the prime minister and sealing the marquis, for him who has studied the imperial art all his life, what he longs for is to worship the prime minister and the marquis in the new dynasty.

In the first year of Tongzhi, it was with this intention that he entered the curtain of the Zeng State Domain, but he had no courage to achieve great things, how could he succeed? After his suggestion was rejected, Wang Minyun left Zengmu and devoted himself to lecturing.

Originally, he thought that it would be difficult to show what he had learned in his life, but last year's "Governor's Discussion" gave him a glimmer of hope, and since then, Wang Minyun has devoted more energy to domestic current affairs, and even with his own understanding, the nine governors have analyzed them one by one, and after some analysis, the results he got are just similar to those of outsiders, and the power of the world belongs to the three of them.

And who of these three can get the world?

Thinking of this question, the corners of Wang Minyun's lips raised slightly, and he looked at the students around him who seemed to be excited.

"Shuqiao, after you arrive in Wuchang, you should also go to the Lianghu University Hall to study Western studies, understand?"

Wang Minyun's tone was extremely solemn, if it was an ordinary disciple of the Holy Gate, he might still have a sense of resistance to Western learning, but Wang Minyun, who had studied the imperial art all his life, was quite flexible, or it was more practical, last year's great changes in the world, he didn't see what Tang Wuchang relied on to sweep the northeast, not only forced the imperial court to sign the alliance under the city, but also forced the imperial court to divide power in the locality, and then caused the trend of today's world?

Relying on its military might, borrowing its current situation, but in the final analysis, if it does not have the foundation for the new policy in North Korea, how can it become the trend of the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.

"In today's world, the knowledge of the Holy Gate is more than enough to cultivate physically and mentally, but in the ordinary world, how can it rely on the knowledge of the Holy Gate, it must rely on warships, guns, and even ......."

Pointing to a ship in the distance, Wang Minyun sighed again.

"It depends on business profits as a pillar!"

From ancient times to the present, has there been a government for business? But now the governor of Huguang is not doing a big deal, in Huguang set up a raw silk bureau, the purchase of silkworm cocoons, the mechanism of raw silk to export overseas in exchange for profits, and the yarn layout, cotton spun into yarn and then sold to the people to weave homespun cloth, and the raw silk, yarn and homespun cloth is sold everywhere is this steamship bureau, so complementary to each other, Huguang Governor's Mansion a year profit is not only tens of millions, abundant financial resources is the foundation of Zhang Zhidong's implementation of the new policy, if such as Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou,

Sichuan is generally trapped in one place without sufficient silver, and has no power to compete for the world.

"Although this Western learning is disdainful of it, in today's world, all parties use their talents first to inform the West, and understand Western learning, Tang Ziran ......"

After a long sigh, Wang Minyun's words revealed a mixture of appreciation and regret.

"What changes will be brought to our China, I am afraid that everyone knows that today's world is not a foreign talent, he Tang Ziran relies on the knowledge of the West, with the Western law to run government affairs, with the Western law to run the economy, and with the Western law to train the new army, so that there is today's Northeast trend! Uncle Qiao, you have learned six or seven out of ten of the knowledge of the teacher, and the rest is all based on experience, as for the Western knowledge, you can't teach it as a teacher, and you can't teach it, so you can ......teach it to others in the university hall."

The teacher's advice only made Yang Rui hurriedly respond.

"What the teacher said is extremely true, adults today use people to choose talents, the first emphasis is on Western learning, those who are not good at Western learning, even if they have a thousand kinds of learning, they cannot be used, proficient in Western scholars, they can enter and exit the curtain, and they are important members......"

When he was speaking, Yang Rui glanced at the teacher intentionally or unintentionally, and looked at the teacher, but his mind became a little complicated, just as the teacher said, after Tang Ziran, the world will take Western talent as the selection standard, and the most regretful thing in the life of the people who make Taiwan is probably to send Tang Ziran to Beijing, but the regret is not that he Tang Ziran tore the tiger skin of the Qing Kingdom with three fists and two feet, and regretted that he failed to let it stay by his side for Huguang's use, and the annoyance is that today's trend, Huguang and Zhili are in the corner. Tang Ziran was in the Northeast Tiger Pass again.

On the one hand, he is unwilling to be under Li Hefei, which means that he is longer and shorter. On the other hand, Huguang is unwilling to make wedding dresses for others, this is Huguang's predicament today, and what's more, Huguang can't tear his face with the Northeast, even if he runs the new policy and the new army, Huguang also needs to rely on the Northeast, so that Huguang is naturally thirsty for talent, and in addition to the introduction of thousands of Western and Oriental talents who are hungry for food, the adults are even more to change the Lianghu Academy into the Lianghu University Hall for the purpose of cultivating people.

But all this is only a symptom but not a root cause, that is, under these two dilemmas, the master will think of the teacher, and think of the teacher's imperial technique. It was also this imperial technique that made Yang Rui's mind float, although now with the promotion of the master, he has become a councilor, but for Yang Rui, this is only an officialdom.

In the past, the master and Li Hefei were just "the first governor of the world" of the false name, and today the two are fighting for the world, since last year, anyone who has a little vision can see that the world has become a trend of competing for deer, even if it is the Manchu court in the capital, this will also realize the crisis, all day long just busy with military training, and even have the meaning of training the elite of the Eight Banners again, retake the meaning of the Chinese world, and still carry the orthodox Manchu court, not to mention the place?

Li Hongzhang's Beiyang New Army, Li Hanzhang's Liangguang New Army, Liu Kunyi's Liangjiang New Army, plus Huguang's Self-Strengthening Army, now seems to be behind the stable situation, in fact, the big guys are training elite soldiers to make other moves. Even Shaanxi and Gansu, which are the most poor, are now a town, and the new army has been formed.

What a day...... Qin lost its deer, and the world chased it!

Yang Rui still doesn't know if the Manchu Qing Dynasty can hold his world by relying on the New Army of the Two Towns and Eight Banners, but he knows that the current situation is an opportunity for him to worship the prime minister and become a marquis, and even because of this willingness, he has no intention of being the seemingly glamorous councilor in Beijing.

"So, Shuqiao, you have to study Western studies, after all, compared with others, Xiangshuai is your teacher, and has been trusted by Xiangshuai for many years, and today only those who are deficient are all not familiar with Western studies, Shuqiao ......"

After a meaningful exhortation, Wang Minyun set his eyes into the distance again, if it weren't for Yang Rui is his disciple, he would never say this, and entering the hall as an officialdom is this charm, and it is far beyond the reach of ordinary people, but it is this courage that is transmitted to Zhang Zhidong's ears, which can naturally add a point to Yang Rui.

"What the teacher said is very true, after returning to Wuchang this time, the students asked Xiang Shuai to resign and enter the university hall to study Western culture, thinking that Xiang Shuai shared his worries!"

Seeing that Yang Rui understood his hard work, Wang Minyun only smiled slightly, and then looked at the Qianli Dongting, feeling the chill of this early spring, and suddenly whispered softly when he closed his eyes and smiled.

"Shuqiao, you said that after this time in Wuchang, what did Xiangshuai Yu ask for the teacher?"

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