In the autumn wind, Zhang Zhidong, who was dressed in civilian clothes, came to the top of Snake Mountain with Sang Zhiping, although it has been half a month since he arrived in Wuchang, but this is the first time Zhang Zhidong has walked out of the city, and he has never been here. He looked ahead, only to see the sailboats in the rolling Yangtze River, although it was across the river, but the scenery of the three towns of Wuhan was still in full view.

"Sure enough, it's the thoroughfare of the nine provinces!"

Standing on the top of Snake Mountain, Zhang Zhidong couldn't help but sigh, this is the place where he established the world's first miracle!

"The Luhan Railway is 3,200 miles long, the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway is 2,400 miles, these two railways add up to 5,600 miles, and the two railways intersect with the three towns of Wuhan.

After a sigh, Zhang Zhidong looked towards the Yangtze River, although there is a Yangtze River to isolate both sides of the river, but he is the governor of Huguang just in the middle, more than ten years later, when the two railways are completed, who dares not to regard him as "the first governor of the world"!

When he was standing in the cave of Shensi Zhang, Sang Hanping had already walked to his side and greeted him with a smile.

"Brother Xiangtao, why are you distracted!"

Zhang Zhidong looked back, and it was Sang Zhiping who was standing next to him who went up the mountain with him. He said with a smile.

"Brother Zhongzi, it's just a momentary feeling when you look at the thoroughfare of the nine provinces from the top of Snake Mountain!"

Although it was Sang Zhiping's idea to move to Huguang and supervise the railway, some of Zhang Zhidong's words would rather be hidden in his heart, which was just the sentiment of the literati, and at the same time took the opportunity to change the topic.

"It's been more than half a month since I came to Hubei to take office, and this Huguang thing ......"

Shaking his head and sighing, Zhang Zhidong, who was originally in high spirits, let out a long sigh.

"You don't need to worry about it, you can figure it out slowly."

Knowing what Zhang Zhidong sighed, Sang Zhiping hurriedly said comfortingly,

At the beginning of next year, not only will we have to pay off the balance of the iron plant, but also explore and mine iron ore and coal mines, and we will also acquire land for iron factories and coal mines.

After a long sigh, Zhang Zhidong couldn't help but complain again.

"Although Hubei is rich, the annual tax amount to millions of taels, but every year most of them have to go to the imperial court, 450,000 taels of the Beijing Division, 150,000 taels of the Jiaojing Division, 180,000 taels of the Beijing Division, 20,000 taels of the Beijing Officials, 330,000 taels of Gansu Cooperation, 100,000 taels of the Northeast Defense Army, 50,000 taels of the Tianjin Huai Army from the Jianghan Pass, 60,000 taels of the Navy Yamen from the Yichang Pass of the Hanjiang River, 150,000 taels of the Hubei Provincial Flag Barracks, and so on. The amount of silver retained every year is only more than one million taels, how can such an embarrassing financial resource be used to build a railway? ”

Although according to Sang Zhiping's method, the navy yamen allocates 2 million taels every year for the construction of railways, but it is a special fund for railways, not to mention that it cannot be misappropriated elsewhere, that is, it can be misappropriated, and I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, waiting for him to embezzle and the incident happens.

"The matter of the iron factory, you can hand over a copy to the imperial court, since the iron factory is to build railway tracks, it is related to the railway, and Xu Neng is a little loose!"

As he spoke, Sang Zhiping commanded Dagen, who was holding up a few stools on the site of the Yellow Crane Tower, and then turned his face to Zhang Zhidong and said:

"I'll do it for a while, when the weather is cold and the wind is strong by the river, this snake mountain can't come again."

Zhang Zhidong nodded, and walked towards the spacious masonry ground, Sang Zhiping pointed to the only bronze roof of the Yellow Crane Tower left after the destruction of the Yellow Crane Tower in the ninth year not far away,

"Brother Xiangtao, do you know what this is?"

"It should be the bronze roof of the destroyed Yellow Crane Tower!"

Zhang Zhidong glanced left and right, and there was only this piece of remnant roof left in this Yellow Crane Tower.

"Brother Xiangtao, do you know that in Wuchang, this Yellow Crane Tower has the saying that the country is prosperous?"

"I once saw in Wuchang Zhizhong that the last Yellow Crane Tower was built in the seventh year of Tongzhi and destroyed in the tenth year of Guangxu, and that year ......"

When the words came to his mouth, Zhang Zhidong's face sank slightly, doesn't this confirm this sentence.

Zhang Zhidong's face changed, and he fell in Sang Zhiping's eyes, but he saw that he pointed to the Yangtze River in front of him and said:

"The three towns of Wuhan, for hundreds of years, have been known as the nine provinces, and it is the place where Brother Xiangtao seeks to build the world's first contribution, so why worry about some trivial things now?"

Sang Zhiping said easily, but Zhang Zhidong sighed.

"At present, there are only 400,000 taels of silver in the treasury of Hubei, and half of it is still in the various prefectures and bureaus, and it is extremely difficult to use Hubei's financial resources to set up railways and iron works.

Zhang Zhidong turned around and asked Sang Zhiping.

"I want to rectify the aftermath in order to make money, what does Zhongzi think?"

"It is not indispensable to rectify the aftermath bureau, since the spontaneous chaos, the aftermath bureau will be a semi-independent financial institution in Hubei Province, if it can be rectified, it will definitely be used by the governor's government, so that the aftermath bureau will be used exclusively for the use of Hubei localities, but it can do something."

Sang Zhiping's approval made Zhang Zhidong nod, he wanted to rectify the aftermath before, but what he did was only to increase Hubei's income, but Sang Zhiping went further, making the aftermath bureau Hubei, more precisely, the "domain" directly controlled by him, the governor of Huguang.

"This matter, that's it, Zhongzi, you help me plan well, see what to do about this matter?"

Zhang Zhidong stroked Sang Zhiping's shoulders and sighed.

"Zhongzi, although there are dozens of friends in the curtain now, it still depends on you in the end!"

His sigh is telling the truth, although he met and cultivated some talents during the period of supervising Guangdong, but most of those talents are people from the southeast, and they have a deep connection with Li Hongzhang and others, such people can be used but dare not be credited, as for the trustworthy ones, most of them are not familiar with foreign affairs, thinking of this, he can't help but think of Tang Haoran, who has been snubbed by himself for half a month, and he doesn't know what that kid is doing, if he is really talented...... But after thinking about it, the unsolved practical problems still made Zhang Zhidong frown.

In the past, those Jingshi Qingliu friends thought that they cared about everything in the world, but they didn't talk about making money and making profits, and almost all Qingliu thought that words and profits were not the work of gentlemen. Zhang Zhidong, who has been in the local area, has really understood that the development of practical things in the world is not built on the basis of financial resources, and its ultimate goal is based on the word profit. Without talking about wealth and profit, there can be no living beings living and working in peace and contentment, nor can there be a strong and prosperous country. For now, without money, not a single good idea can be realized.

As for the rectification of the aftermath, according to the calculations of the people in the shogunate, the increase is only a few tens of thousands of taels to a maximum of more than a hundred thousand taels of silver, how can that little silver be accomplished? If there is no money, a new measure will be abandoned halfway, why did Li Hefei agree to move the iron factory to Hubei Province? Could it be that he had expected this a long time ago?

Just when Zhang Zhidong was most distressed, Tang Haoran came to the governor's detention room.

"Xiang Shuai."

Like everyone else, Tang Haoran called out affectionately, Zhang Zhidong, as a commander of the army, can be called a handsome. The word Xiangtao, according to the practice of officialdom at this time, can be called Xiangshuai. But for the governor who was born as a literati and has never led soldiers to fight, people usually don't call him handsome, people just call a few governors with military merits a certain marshal, the most famous marshal is Liu Kunyi, who has been the governor of Liangguang and is now the governor of Liangjiang, Zeng Guoquan, the ninth marshal who was the governor of Liangjiang, and Peng Yulin, who has acted as the governor of Liangjiang, and so on. However, when someone called him like this, he was still extremely proud in his heart, and the people below naturally shouted, and this title followed all the way from Guangdong to Hubei.

"Ziran."

Since arriving in Wuchang, I haven't seen Tang Haoran's Zhang Zhidong again, and when I saw Tang Haoran again, compared to last time, this time it was much more pleasing to the eye, not only did he change into a horse coat, but he also wore a fake braid on his head, which looked like that.

"Ziran, after coming to Wuchang, are you still used to it?"

Zhang Zhidong, who knew that he had been neglected for more than half a month, asked with concern.

"Hui Xiangshuai, a qiē is still used to it, after all, Haoran's ancestor also lives in Wuchang!"

"Well, it's good to get used to, it's good to get used to it."

Looking at Tang Haoran, who was tall and handsome, Zhang Zhidong said seriously.

"I have told others that if there is a chance, I will definitely find your ancestral home, and you can live in peace with me!"

Although it seemed to be comforting, but in Tang Haoran's ears, he secretly shouted, "Sure enough", fortunately he guessed it, otherwise he might have been marginalized.

"Ziran, how is your book?"

In the face of Zhang Zhidong's inquiry, Tang Haoran naturally did not hide it, and informed the fact that the book had been completed and handed over to Gu Hongming for polishing, and finally even specially asked Zhang Zhidong to review it on his behalf.

"Xiang Shuai, although Hao Ran first returned to the country, he was ignorant of all things in the country, but in the past two days, he has heard some things, and he heard in the market that this time Xiang Shuai's governor of Hubei is running a railway, and the other is a foreign business, and others say that in the end, Xiang Shuai is afraid of returning home."

"Where did you hear that?"

Zhang Zhidong looked at Tang Haoran sharply.

"It's just a rumor in the market, but in Haoran's opinion, although it is the words of a fool in the market, it doesn't make sense!"

"Hmm!"

His eyes opened suddenly, and Zhang Zhidong forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and said,

"Tang Ziran, tell the old man well, where is the truth!"

At this time, Zhang Zhidong's tone of calling Tang Haoran changed, but Tang Haoran looked at Zhang Zhidong as if he didn't know it, and spit out a sentence.

"Money, finance and taxation are the source of the government, if there is no money, how can Xiangshuai build railways and set up factories?"

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