Seeing Li Jingfang's face change, Li Hongzhang understood what he was thinking in his heart.

Knowing the son is more than the father. How could Lord Zhongtang not know that this eldest son, who has been engaged in diplomacy for six years and has a broad vision, has a strong ambition that ordinary people cannot match? If he hadn't been firmly holding on to it, I'm afraid there would have been some uncontrollable trouble at this time.

Li Jingfang, outsiders call it "Little Hefei". There is only the wrong real name, and there is no wrong nickname. It can be seen that his talent and courage are extraordinary.

Li Hongzhang's heart is like a mirror, the eldest son has a heart for Yang Hao, he feels that talents are rare, and he can't bear to let himself clean up!

smiled slightly: "Don't worry, he is still of great use now." Didn't you see that the noisy movement of the Qingliu party in the DPRK and China has been much smaller recently? But one part is his credit. ”

Li Jingfang couldn't help but say: "Fortunately, thanks to his insight, the world knows about my father's painstaking planning, so that today's situation is possible." There is no need to put all the blame on you because of the disadvantage of the army. ”

Li Hongzhang shook his head: "He's not that good." In fact, it's just that he is a little more well-informed and bold than those people. In his bones, he is still constantly uncovering the scars, and sooner or later he will have to force everyone to be anxious, and join forces to clean him up! ”

Li Jingfang also had nothing to say.

If you talk about the level of hatred, I'm afraid there is no one in the world who can compare with Yang Hao.

In the business world, his sudden rise hit the market with a large number of foreign goods, which made Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries very uncomfortable. After all, the purchasing power of this era is so great, and you can get not only a lot of things, but also low prices and good quality. Let the powers, which were already in economic crisis, have no targets for dumping.

Although the cake of the Great Qing Kingdom is big. But there is absolutely no room for more people to intervene in and share profits. Didn't you see that the British were guarding against Russia and the United States?

After that in finance. Yang Hao's meddling in the banking industry and lending money to Li Hongzhang is another one.

Although Yanhua Commercial Bank does not collect savings, it intercepted tens of millions of taels of funds from the four major groups out of thin air! The subsequent industrial investment support project will break the commercial foundation of Britain and France. I can't bear this thing in the first place!

Then, the British had planned to eat interest at both ends in the Sino-Japanese war. Borrow money at a ratio of 1:4 to silver in pounds sterling, and collect accounts at 1:7, not to mention doubling the basic money. The interest rate also has to be doubled. This is at least tens of millions of taels of silver! Yang Hao intervened and grabbed a few million first, and I heard that he recently intends to continue to mix and lend more!

As for whether the British will see him as an additional force to break the layout of the Far East, there is no word yet. However, Li Jingfang believed that with the domineering of the British, it would definitely not be tolerated for long.

After that, it is the political zhì. Yang Haotong guò "Guowen Bao", Li Hongzhang's Huaijun faction, Weng Tongxiao's Qingliu faction, and even Li Lianying's eunuch system all revealed the old foundation.

Months since the Sino-Japanese conflict. Almost every time, Li Hongzhang's personnel, political judgment, and military deployment were criticized and unorthodox. In the end, he can always say right, such as today, everyone regards Yang Hao as a great military strategist. Great understanding of people.

Weng Tongyi vomited blood, and the banner of Qingliu collapsed, and the imperial party was caught off guard, and now it has not eased up. It's strange that they don't hate Yang Hao to death.

Inside the palace controlled by Li Lianying, he and the prince Baylor started to eat and take cards in the project of repairing the garden, and unscrupulously put money in his pocket, which was also poked out by the "National News". The account has to be counted on his head.

In the end, Yang Hao got out the "Essentials of the Four Libraries of the King James Dynasty" and made a lot of money for the royal family. Later, the first person in the palace checked it and found that there was something special to collect and sort out, and it was the only set of reproductions! The imprints on them are all exactly the same!

I don't know how he did it, but it's too sensitive. The Manchu Qing Dynasty worked hard for 250 years to get a literary prison, but today Yang Hao has lifted the fig leaf, which is unbearable!

In the past two months, no matter how strictly the Manchus tried to defend themselves, many shoddy and illegal publications still appeared throughout the country. Among them are the fragmented "Extracts", as well as the "Manchu Forbidden and Destroyed Bibliography" and other incredible things.

But the most intolerable thing is still a few small talk books that spread rumors and slander the Qing court.

Because of the sensational effect brought by the serialization of "The Legend of the Great Song Heroes" in "Guowen Daily", it was quickly spread by storytellers and known to the world. Later, the single book that came out caused an unprecedented martial arts craze, and many literati who couldn't get along with it threw themselves into writing similar novels as if they had discovered a new world.

At first, the Qing court didn't take it seriously, but it didn't take long for a novel called "Book of Swords and Enmity" to quietly circulate. It actually said that Qianlong was a descendant of the Chen family in Haining, and the Chen family had two imperial gift "Airi Hall" and "Chunhui Hall" plaques as evidence.

All of them are allusions to the Tang Dynasty Mengjiao's poem "Whoever says an inch of grass will repay Sanchunhui". If Qianlong is not the son of the Chen family, can he talk about repaying his parents' deep kindness like Chunhui?

There is also a book of "Excalibur Shocking Piercing Yongzheng", which is simply a ready-made storytelling text, and the storyteller has memorized it and even saved the effort of pinching the high tide. But the problem is that what is written in this book is the drama of the unjust murder of Lu Siniang, the granddaughter of the great Confucian Lu Liuliang, and the assassination of Emperor Yongzheng and the cutting off of his head!

How Yongzheng died is still a secret of the Qing family. Nowadays, some people use novels to talk nonsense, splashing dirty water on Manqing's face, I really can't bear it!

If this matter had been placed fifty years ago, and the whole world would have been mobilized as soon as it was mobilized, it would have been immediately confiscated and confiscated by someone with a book, and he would have been killed.

But the problem is that now the Manchu emperor is actively moving closer to the Western civilized world, and is about to make a false posture of political clarity and freedom of speech to fool people. In addition, the governors and military and political powers of the provinces throughout the world also returned to the hands of the Han officials because of the turmoil of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom. What if you kill them on a large scale and make them angry and forced to rebel?

If Weng Tongyi is here, he must take the initiative to invite Ying, call up and down, and gather a group of loyal Qingliu. willingly be a cow and a horse to do things. On the viciousness and viciousness of Cheng dù. They are expected to be superior to the Manchus.

Now he's gone. The old head of the Qingliu Kui wants to see Li Hongzao and Zhang Zhidong, and the young one wants to see Zhang Jian. As for Zhang Peilun, he has just obtained an official position, and he can't make a fuss for a while.

At the critical juncture of the Sino-Japanese joint war plan, none of them cared about anything else. Li Hongzhang can't control it, or simply pretend not to see it, others are powerless to manage it.

The common people don't care about that, listen to the new excitement first.

Most storytellers don't dare to overdo it. Your own life matters. But there are too many folk readers, and they all like the pleasure of reading banned books in the middle of the night. After reading it, I couldn't help but discuss my experience, and now the news slowly spread from the people.

It's been two months, and when the Manchus found out, almost everything they should know was known.

Who else could do such a thing? Naturally, it was Yang Hao and his "Huaxing Club" group of young elites.

Not only did he do it, but he also gave a fake feature in the "National News", but the perpetrators targeted the Japanese.

After several months of anti-Japanese propaganda, the major cities and provinces of the Qing Dynasty now know that the Oriental small nose is not a good thing, and that being ungrateful has no reputation. Caught between East and West, swaying left and right. flattered on both sides, but the wolf's ambition was to encroach on China. Extinction of China.

Yang Hao unceremoniously reprinted the articles that the Japanese themselves had poured upside down, and some of the Japanese believed that "since the Yuanmeng and Manchu Qing can rule China, then Japan, which is also an oriental culture, can, and the Chinese are very docile and will definitely accept the Japanese way of rule."

On this basis, "the Japanese concocted a series of scandalous rumors and spread them covertly and widely, with the aim of striking at the imperial court, disturbing public opinion and public opinion, and laying the foundation for their future aggression and even rule."

The Japanese do not want to "join China and become China," they want to impose their own nondescript civilization system. Kill the disobedient, those who are left behind must learn Japanese, eat raw fish and raw meat, do not wear shoes in winter, bathe men and women together, and the father gives his daughter the first adult class .......

If you want to hack the Japanese, who else has more information in your hands than Yang Hao? In the 21st century, the Japanese still retain many strange customs that are difficult for outsiders to understand, and even more so in the 19th century, when they were not fully civilized.

In these years, the Qing Dynasty was not allowed to go abroad without permission, and diplomats like Li Jingfang could not necessarily see much of the situation in Japan. The common people can still be seen as anecdotes at first, and over time, they will inevitably have a huge sense of rejection.

The "conspiracy theory" concocted on this basis is believed by countless people. In addition, the two countries are at war, and the "national feud" that has not yet risen to the kind of Cheng dù later has pushed Yang Hao to a new realm.

The Japanese have not yet made a fortune in their series of troubles, and there is not even a channel for protest. Even the most honest and mediocre Qing court officials could not speak for them at this time.

A lie repeated a thousand times can become the truth, and with Cheng Dù, the authority of the "Guowen Bao" today, the vast majority of people believe it. Although the Japanese jumped into the Yellow Sea, they could not wash it away, and the ears and eyes of the Qing court were also mixed so that they could not distinguish between east and west, north and south.

Only Li Hongzhang, a treacherous and cunning man, after a little analysis, he was on target. After learning that Yang Hao led people to block the Japanese army in Dongxian Ridge, he immediately ordered an unannounced visit, and sure enough, he dug out Yang Hao's roots from Rizhao County, the capital of Yizhou.

At such a point, Li Hongzhang can't see that the surname Yang is not well-intentioned, that's a strange thing!

But the problem is that the more information he finds, the more doubts he becomes. The speed of Yang's rise was too fast and fierce, the endless financial resources and advanced technological strength that the great powers could not comprehend, and the huge industrial group that was created in a few months, all seemed to be blessed and supported by an incredible divine power.

Li Hongzhang also does not reject the theory of ghosts and gods, and the Confucian saints are "outside the Liuhe and do not care", how can he be an exception?

The situation was too strange for him to make up his mind for a while, and he couldn't do it.

Now, the Beiyang Naval Division has won a tragic victory, and the future of the army is dark, and he can't spare his hands to clean up Yang Hao - this Great Qing Kingdom, after all, is not his own.

On the contrary, Li Hongzhang must now think about one thing, what to do with those battleships that have suffered heavy losses? In order to balance the forces of China and Japan, the great powers dared not even deliver shells, let alone repair ironclad ships for him.

The only one who can be counted on seems to be Yang Hao!

He couldn't believe it before, but now that he saw something, Li Hongzhang believed it.

Yang Hao proved to him with actual combat that he could not only get guns, but also a steel freighter as big as the Dingyuan ship, and advanced cannons. Nowadays, Yang's steam ships of various tonnages and steam engines of various powers continue to appear in the coastal market, and their industrial strength is no longer in doubt.

After thinking quietly for a long time, Li Hongzhang asked, "Is there any news, how long will Yang Hao return to Tianjin?" ”

Li Jingfang's body shook slightly, lowered his head and replied, "Say it will be five days later." ”

Li Hongzhang couldn't see any expression on his face, and said lightly: "When he comes back, you go and find him to the yamen, the old man has something to ask him." ”

Li Jingfang didn't know if his father had made up his mind to kill, and he responded with an extremely complicated mood: "Yes! (To be continued......)

PS: ps: It's hard to write if the number of words is less, try the chapter of three thousand and a half today.