"Chengli, what do you have to ask Ziran?"

Zhang Zhidong, who was in thin mud, after asking this sentence, drank tea with a teacup, although it was a burst of tea, but the fragrant tea still made him feel happy, and looked at Wang Tingzhen with a smile.

Zhang Zhidong's question made everyone turn their attention to Wang Tingzhen again, and Wang Tingzhen, who was concerned by everyone, only felt a burst of fluttering, the previous relief for Cai Yijing was because of the friendship between the two, and now it is not so much to solve the siege, but to show his talent and attract the attention of Dong Weng.

"Hui Xiangshuai, it's just a little puzzled!"

bowed deeply to Zhang Zhidong, Wang Tingzhen's tone was calm, and he looked like he was humbly asking for advice.

"This Wang Chengli is really ......"

Secretly, Gu Hongming couldn't help but worry about Tang Haoran, he was like when he first returned to China, he spoke and acted too directly, and he didn't know that he had offended many people...... At this moment, Wang Tingzhen's words interrupted Gu Hongming's worry about Tang Haoran.

"Dare to ask Brother Ziran, now Xiangshuai wants to do foreign affairs in Hubei, whether it is an iron factory or a railway, the cost is quite large, with Hubei's financial resources can not do these two things, what is the surplus wealth to do the four things of the yarn and coal ship?"

Wang Tingzhen didn't even give Tang Haoran a chance to explain, and even directly ignored what Tang Haoran said before, but directly separated everything and expressed it separately.

"Brother Chengli, it takes three years to set up an iron factory, and yarn ......"

Without waiting for Tang Haoran to open his mouth and want to invest in the factory in installments, he used the remaining money to build the factory again, and Wang Tingzhen's tone changed again.

"Brother Ziran has lived in the West for a long time, knows the policies of the West, and suggested to Xiang Shuai that his words and deeds should be used to support him, and he will manage the income and output of a year's finances, but he will not help improve the current situation of Hubei's financial embarrassment, I don't know if Brother Ziran can have a good plan to expand the financial resources of Huguang and increase the financial resources of Huguang?"

Good!

Cai Xiyong, who was originally forced by Tang Haoran to ask questions, secretly shouted for Wang Tingzhen, and then realized that Fang Cai's own mistakes were completely weak to attack the strength of the other, since he Tang Haoran offered the "four strategies", he naturally did enough to do the article, and Wang Tingzhen is now re-mentioning finance and taxation, which happens to choose Tang Haoran's weakness.

Cai Xiyong, who has been in the West for ten years, will not know that compared with China, the finance and taxation of the West are more sound, but some things can be learned, and some things can not be learned, if not, how could he Tang Haoran borrow the degree to lead to the four strategies, even if it is the "degree of support" is probably just its excuse, his real intention is still yarn, silk, coal, and ship four policies, after all, in China, in Hubei finance and taxation There are many doors, and there is no unified income and naturally there is no unified support, how to spend it.

"Look how you end up this time!"

With a sneer in his heart, Cai Xiyong sat on the chair as if he was sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, picked up the teacup, looked at Tang Haoran with a solemn expression, and waited for his answer.

After Wang Tingzhen asked for advice, including Zhang Zhidong and others, their eyes were on Tang Haoran, looking at the high-profile Tang Haoran, when Gu Hongming was about to relieve him, Zhao Fengchang beside him shook his head at him as if he had found it, and then picked up the teacup and said softly.

"Let's see!"

In fact, whether it is Cai Xiyong or Wang Tingzhen's successive "troubles", they have already made Zhao Fengchang's heart surge with a fire, who doesn't know that this Tang Ziran was "discovered" and "recommended" to Xiang Shuai by him Zhao Fengchang, and now they take turns to make trouble, isn't it just that they can't get along with him Zhao Zhujun?

Let's see what the best plan is!

Compared with Gu Hongming's heartfelt concern, Zhao Fengchang wanted to see if Tang Haoran had a way to break the siege by himself, so he would stop Gu Hongming, not to mention that he knew that now Xiang Shuai also wanted to know if Tang Haoran had a way to untie the "dead knot" of Hubei Foreign Affairs, if he could untie this knot.

Looking at Cai Xiyong and the others, Zhao Fengchang secretly sneered in his heart, what are you going to do then?

"Hmmm......"

It's really difficult!

Looking at Wang Tingzhen's smiling face, Tang Haoran said secretly, his brows were also furrowed, it feels good to be noticed, but the question now is ...... money, he is not a fortune boy, and a piece of silver comes to his mouth.

The reason why the previous shipping bureau dared to play that guarantee ticket was because Tang Haoran had seen relevant information in the historical materials, in China, the profits of inland river liner shipping outside the Yangtze River are far greater, and the highest foreign banks and civil merchants who have entered the inland river liner shipping are all making a lot of money, and it is not an exaggeration to use the metaphor of earning back a ship in a year, and even this kind of shipping profiteering has lasted from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, even if it is a people's livelihood company in the middle of the Republic of China, facing the competition of foreign ships, it can also make a lot of profits, and it will develop for more than ten years, from the river to the sea. If it weren't for the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, perhaps relying on the strategy of replenishing the sea with the river, the coastal route would have been recaptured in less than ten years.

But now, what he Wang Tingzhen asked for advice was not to do business, but to pay taxes, how to increase Huguang's taxes, not to mention him Tang Haoran, that is, he Zhang Zhidong, even if he had a reputation of "slaughtering wealth", it was just barely maintained, like Zhang Zhidong, through guò plus li, increase taxes to "slaughter wealth"?

Looking at the smiles on the faces of Cai Xiyong, Wang Tingzhen and others, Tang Haoran knew that as soon as he mentioned raising taxes on his side, they would probably blame themselves over there.

Tax source, tax source...... Thinking of these words, Tang Haoran's brows furrowed, should you levy an air tax? Thinking of a joke in the future, Tang Haoran couldn't help but smile, the crows in the world are really all black! No matter what the name is, they will eventually keep their eyes on the people's money bags!

"How?"

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Zhang Zhidong, who was still full of hope, couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

"You don't have a good plan!"

Zhang Zhidong's rhetorical question made Tang Haoran's heart "chuckle", he was favored by him just now, if he was disappointed because of this, how could he lead the foreign affairs of Hubei Province in the future and become the "foreign affairs commissioner" in the shogunate.

If not...... In fact, as early as when writing that article, Tang Haoran had repeatedly studied Hubei's taxes, China's taxes during this period were extremely primitive, even Hubei only relied on agricultural taxes, salt taxes and centigold, as for the commercial tax is not enough to maintain the operation of local governments, and the tariff is naturally not moving, after all, the agreed tariff is there.

In other words, if you want to raise taxes, you have to make a fuss in other places, Tang Haoran did think of a place, but the question is whether he can accept it?

Hesitating in his heart, Tang Haoran's whole person suddenly fell into an unprecedented struggle, he knew that once he put forward what that Jian yì meant, and because of this, if there was no Wang Tingzhen's hard work, he would bury it in his heart, maybe one day in the future, but now, now......

"Ziran, if you don't understand anything in the place of finance and taxation, you can ask, my brother will say everything!"

At this moment, Wang Tingzhen said on the side, raised his head, and looked at the seemingly humble smile on Wang Tingzhen's face, in the past, Tang Haoran never felt that the smile was dazzling, but this smile was very dazzling, and even made him have an urge to stomp it under his feet.

"Brother Chengli, brother has something to ask for!"

was so sarcastic, and a hot word in his head spit out of Tang Haoran's mouth.

"What is a monopoly?"

"Monopoly...... Hmm,"

Although this word is a little new, Wang Tingzhen still understands its meaning from its words.

If the brother understands well, it was called "Rong" in ancient times, such as salt, wine, and tea. Our dynasty follows the method of previous dynasties, but monopolizes salt! ”

As if to block Tang Haoran's way, after explaining what a monopoly is, Wang Tingzhen turned around and bowed deeply to Zhang Zhidong.

"Xiang Shuai, Huguang has never produced salt since ancient times, the salt used, one is Huai salt, the other is Sichuan salt, the two places are thousands of miles away from Huguang, through land and water transfer, the loss is quite huge, since the rise of the army, the price of salt in Huguang and Guangzhou is rising, and to the hinterland of Huguang, the price of salt is more than that of the people of Wuchang for a long time, and please Xiangshuai for the people of Huguang, not a last resort, must not increase the price of salt, add salt, otherwise, I am afraid of causing civil unrest!"

As soon as Wang Tingzhen's voice fell, the two Huguang locals who had only entered the curtain at the back of Hubei also hurriedly asked for the life of the old man in Huguang Township, and the big signing room was so lively for a while that Zhang Zhidong even hurriedly said to comfort the two of them, looking at Wang Tingzhen's performance, Tang Haoran couldn't help but have some doubts, and even had an impulse to ask him.

Did I smash your pot, or did I pull it into your pot, you have to target me like this!

But this thought is just thinking about it, just watching this performance with a smile, listening to Wang Tingzhen's worries about the country and the people, listening to him preaching the original intention of salt, and watching Zhang Zhidong swear there that he will never increase the price of salt and salt.

"Tang Sheng, it seems that Ziran doesn't care about salt!"

Noticing Tang Haoran's negotiation, Zhao Fengchang said a word to Gu Hongming by taking advantage of the teacup.

"Xiang Zhuang Dancing Sword!"

Gu Hongming nodded in agreement, from beginning to end, he only saw Wang Tingzhen singing a one-legged show there, compared to Tang Haoran, he talked about the system, which would make anyone feel that he was not targeting things, but Tang Haoran's people, thinking about it, he Tang Haoran had to be handsome and reused in the preliminary shogunate, how could he not be jealous.

"So, in the opinion of Brother Chengli, the strategy of salt is to avoid salt profits from falling into private hands, and the Han Dynasty used salt to fight against the Xiongnu and the needs of disaster relief, and the country collected salt profits to practice benevolence?"

After Wang Tingzhen performed almost, Tang Haoran casually asked out of context.

"If you don't make a way to get salt, the salt profits will go to the traders......"

This time, Tang Haoran did not give Wang Tingzhen a chance to continue performing, but casually lifted the hem of his clothes, knelt on the ground at Zhang Zhidong, and said loudly in everyone's puzzlement.

"Xiang Shuai, please go down"

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