"What if they are dissatisfied?"

When this confident speech echoed in the room, the corners of Yuan Shikai's lips were slightly raised, and his expression seemed quite conceited, as if in this Zhejiang territory, the gentry's right to life and death was all in his hands, in fact, this is just a manifestation of the power of the center, in the past, the local gentry were able to make the local officials jealous, all because of the provincial officials who served in the center, especially those new officials, but also preferred to impeach others to make a name for themselves, for the new officials, they were mostly helped and supported by the local gentry when they studied, For this reason, he will naturally repay his kindness, such as provoking the gentry to be "oppressed" by local officials, and willing to be driven by the township party gentry, but now it is in the center of the weak. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Not to mention that because the name of the official in the "Renchen Change" was completely destroyed, everyone in the world remembered the disadvantages of the official and the country, so far the court had to abolish the official. More importantly, under the "Nine Governors Discussing Politics", the central authority was swept away, and the local officials were no longer afraid of it, so the local gentry naturally lost their biggest backer, and without the support and constraints of the Chaozhong Township Party, local officials like Yuan Shikai were naturally "lawless" when they started to do things.

Perhaps, for Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and other local officials who have been famous for a long time, under their fame, they must maintain their reputation, and there will still be some taboos, but for Yuan Shikai, although on the one hand, he has done everything possible to maintain his reputation and make an appearance, but on the other hand, he is also eager to achieve quick success, but this is precisely because of this, which has achieved the name of Zhejiang's new deal.

Perhaps, in the eyes of Li Hongzhang and others, Yuan Shikai's actions are acceptable and understandable, and more importantly, they are in a wait-and-see attitude and let his actions in Zhejiang be experimented. If it is successful, it can be used as a reference, but for Zhang Jian, who is already a member of the local gentry, he cannot accept this kind of suppression of the interests of the gentry, and it can even be said to be a trap.

Looking at Zhang Jian, who was frowning slightly, Yuan Shikai, who knew his thoughts, sighed loudly.

"Brother Ji, brother Wen wants to devote himself to industry. The little brother took the liberty of asking, who should invest in the industrialist sell the factory to? ”

After that, Yuan Shikai took a sip of tea quite easily, in fact, in his opinion, this matter is nine out of ten, and no one can deny that this is "benevolent government", even those gentry have to knock out their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs.

"Naturally, it is the people of the whole world!"

Zhang Jian replied without thinking. Then he looked at Yuan Shikai in surprise, as if to say, does this still need a problem?

"In this case, if the money and profits of the people of the whole world are exploited by usury, then who will sell the goods from the factory run by the old man?"

In fact, the same question, Yuan Shikai was also asked rhetorically. It was this rhetorical question that changed his attitude.

"This ......"

A simple rhetorical question only made Zhang Jian stunned, so that he couldn't react for a long time. He really hadn't thought about this question, so much so that it took a while for him to speak.

"This, after all, this loan shark is only a part of the ......"

"This year, Zhejiang Province has lent more than 3 million taels of rice grain, and if it is borrowed according to the method of borrowing one out and three returns in the countryside, when the grain is harvested, the people will have to return more than 1000000 taels of grain. At that time, the grain merchants will take advantage of the villagers' urgent need to repay the grain, and take the opportunity to lower the grain price. ”

Yuan Shikai's words only made Zhang Jian's face turn pale in an instant. He had never calculated such a fine account, and more precisely, he had never considered that the loss of money caused to the villagers by usury should be so great if he put it into a province. Now if you think about it carefully, isn't this exactly the case, the so-called "benevolence borrows green and yellow and does not receive subsistence food", on the surface it seems to be "benevolence", but behind the "benevolence" is a knife that kills people without seeing blood.

"Brother Ji, junior brother, may I ask, if more than 20 million taels of silver profits that should have been exploited for usury are all in the hands of the villagers, then there is abundance in the purse, and the villagers will naturally add clothes and buy cloth at that time, and they will naturally buy goods.

Since he became governor of Zhejiang, it can be said that in order to enrich the treasury, Yuan Shikai can be said to have tried all kinds of methods, in addition to taking advantage of the opportunity to exterminate the bandits to reorganize the aftermath and the financial bureau, and also imitated Taiwan to establish an anti-smoking bureau to promote the monopoly of tobacco and soil.

There is only one way to solve the problem at its root, and that is to revitalize business, which is at the heart of the New Deal. How to revitalize business? How to develop the industry, this is all testing Yuan Shikai.

Compared with any governor in the Guannei, Yuan Shikai is undoubtedly the youngest, and because of this, he is more able to let go of his hands and feet, better at listening to the opinions of others, of course, the most important thing is to be good at employing people, in addition to using a group of young children in the United States, he even poached some talents from the Northeast, and it is those who came from the Northeast to bring the concept of economic control to Zhejiang, although limited by the external environment, only a part of the transformation is implemented, but it has already shown its effect.

Just like the establishment of the Zhejiang Provincial Grain Company, although it was not able to "control the purchase and sale of grain and make full use of the profits of purchase and sale" as in the Northeast, it still broke the grain merchants' control over grain prices in Zhejiang, and more importantly, won the trust of the people by borrowing grain from the people, thus laying the foundation for the future purchase of grain and even monopolizing the market. The corresponding cost of grain companies can also fundamentally problems such as usury and exploitation, and grain cheapness hurts farmers, thereby increasing the income of rural peasants, achieving the purpose of increasing consumption and stimulating commerce.

According to those people, this is the basic cycle of the market, and the poorer the rural peasants, the more difficult it is to do business, and if it is difficult to do business, it is impossible to talk about revitalizing business, and vice versa. It is precisely for this reason that only by doing everything possible to increase the income of rural peasants can it be possible to stimulate commercial development.

Although he doesn't know how to do business, Yuan Shikai understands the truth that he dares to spend silver only when he has silver in his pocket, and it can be said that this is the simplest truth, and it is precisely because of this that he agreed to set up a grain company to "compete with the people" after weighing for several months from last year, and this profit is to borrow the grain company to return the land from the hands of the rich gentry to the hands of the villagers, and of course the government can also profit from it.

In fact, the reason why Yuan Shikai was able to make up his mind was precisely because he compared himself with the governor of the three northeastern provinces in his heart, and in his opinion, since he Tang Haoran could use these methods to achieve his career, he Yuan Shikai would naturally be able to succeed with this. It is precisely this mentality that makes Yuan Shikai invisibly imitate the Northeast, and it is precisely because of this that there is a sharp change in Zhejiang's new policies under his auspices.

Of course, the reason why Yuan Shikai was able to implement bolder new policy measures in Zhejiang than Zhili and other places is probably because of his special position, Zhejiang is nominally under the jurisdiction of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, but both in the past and now. Yuan Shikai is a pawn of Beiyang cloth in the south of the Yangtze River, which makes the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang has not been able to insert into Zhejiang, and on the other hand, the Beiyang Yamen cannot directly intervene in Zhejiang for various reasons, which naturally leads to Yuan Shikai can "act recklessly" in Zhejiang Province, almost without scruples, of course, the most important thing is that Li Hongzhang supports his "wanton" new deal, Li Hongzhang. Even Zhang Zhidong and others need to see if this kind of imitation can be successful.

Just as Tang Haoran said back then, China is too big, and it is not easy for the ship to turn around, so some new policy measures need to be tried in a new way, and they will be tried first, and then they will be successfully tried. If it is put into the whole country, the politics of the Northeast can be done in the remote places of the Northeast. But what about the mainland? To some extent, Zhejiang under Yuan Shikai is the answer, the answer that Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and others need.

"Moreover, in the opinion of Brother Ji, in today's world, if the Chinese squires are still trapped in the fields. If there is a future, what good will it do to be trapped in the field and the country? Therefore, in the younger brother's view, in the current world, non-work is not strong, non-business is not rich. If the country wants to be rich and strong, it must set up industry and revitalize commerce, and there is no other way, and the reason why today's younger brother uses the grain company to abolish the squire for high profits, is that he sees that the land profits are meager, and then turns to industry, and seeks wealth through industry and commerce, is it not better than squeezing the peasants? ”

A great truth came from Yuan Shikai's mouth into Zhang Jian's ears, but Zhang Jian was surprised, and he also looked at Yuan Shikai with admiration.

"The foresight of the comfort pavilion is far beyond the reach of my brother! Admire, admire for my brother! It is a blessing for Zhejiang fathers and elders to have such parents as Comfort Pavilion! ”

If Zhang Jian still had a grudge in his heart before, then now after listening to Yuan Shikai's words for the country and the people, his heart is filled with only admiration, so that those Xu Ji Di are all gone because of Yuan Shikai's heart for the country and the people.

Zhang Jian's changes in words and mentality made Yuan Shikai feel proud for a while, he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart, and Yuan Shikai, who knew that he was moved by his words, did not show a smug look, but said sincerely.

"Since Brother Ji is willing to devote himself to industry, if my brother does not dislike it, I may wish to consider investing in Zhejiang, if my brother can invest in Zhejiang, my younger brother will give the best conditions, I don't know what my brother thinks?"

Yuan Shikai's invitation is indeed sincere, in Yuan Shikai's view, Zhang Jian is a person who runs a business, rather than let him run a career in Jiangsu, it is better to invite him to run a business in Zhejiang, as for the local business gentry in Zhejiang, few people can enter his vision, of course, more importantly, in Zhejiang, Zhang Jian can only rely on him Yuan Shikai, and compared to those local snakes in Zhejiang...... It can only be used sparingly.

Zhang Jian did not immediately refuse Yuan Shikai's invitation, but said that he would consider it, and then he changed the topic.

"Weiting, as everyone knows, since he presided over the Northeast in Wuchang, the factory he runs is unique in the world, unparalleled in the sea! I heard that the Shenyang Gun Factory will surpass the German Krupp Factory, and in my brother's opinion, who can stop the trend in the Northeast in the future? ”

This is obviously an unfactual exaggeration, Yuan Shikai, who is no stranger to Europe, just smiled faintly and did not squeak at this exaggeration of the Chinese people, but in his heart he knew that Zhang Jian's words were not untargeted, maybe now Wuchang has reined in his minions, but everyone knows that he relied on 100,000 newly recruited soldiers to beat the Qing Dynasty to the ground, even if he is a Zhongtang adult...... If it weren't for that, how could the big guys train the new army with their heads down now.

"No work is not strong, no business is not rich, the trend of the world is nothing more than this, the Northeast today's sharpness, all in the prosperity of industry and commerce, but the Northeast is located outside the customs, and there are Russians stumbling together, its future is ......"

Shaking his head slightly, at this point, Yuan Shikai, like others, completely pressed the treasure on Russia's containment of the Northeast.

"If you give Wuchang 20 years of work, its prosperity may be as long as the Russians, after all, with Wuchang's ability, there is no one in the country who can match!"

After a sigh of praise, Yuan Shikai said regretfully.

"It's a pity, in this world, how can Wuchang be given twenty years?"

Although as the most important disciple of Weng Tonggong, he was even more hostile to Tang Haoran, but Zhang Jian was not as pedantic as his teacher and regarded Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong and other local ministers as "traitorous ministers".

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Jian knows better than his mentor that the current situation has reached this point, and there is no reversal, so he naturally knows that the world will change, and there is no one who can change this day than the local ministers, and among the local ministers, Li Zhang and Tang are the most, and the strongest of these three people is Li, and the one with a weak foundation is Tang Haoran in the Northeast.

And Yuan Shikai's words made Zhang Jian nod yes.

Twenty years!

But isn't it, if there is twenty years to lay the foundation for Tang Haoran, then there will naturally be no one in the world who can stand out, but the question is this, will Li Zhang and others give him twenty years, if nothing else, in the future, the Tang family will be at most the soil emperor of the Northeast, well, or the king with a different surname in the new dynasty!

And who will be the surname of this new dynasty in the future?

Is it surnamed Li, or is it surnamed Zhang?

Looking at Yuan Shikai in front of him, Zhang Jian smiled and said:

"Indeed, Wuchang is proficient in the name of Western learning, and the world knows it, but it's a pity that Wuchang is young and frivolous, and his foundation is weak......"

At this point, Zhang Jian turned the conversation around again and gently patted Yuan Shikai on the back.

"When my brother was in the capital, I heard that the world was talking about the new policy, and those who were in the customs should be the first, at first I thought it was just an exaggeration, but this time I came to Hangzhou, looking at the changes in Hangzhou, I knew that it was not an exaggeration, I thought about it, and the achievements of his day comfort pavilion will not be Wuchang."

Zhang Jian's sycophant made Yuan Shikai quite useful, but he didn't drift, but hurriedly smiled:

"It's just barely managed, now that Zhejiang's new policy has just been made, I think it will be similar in a few years, Brother Ji, now is the time for my generation to forge ahead, there is a younger brother living in the government, wouldn't it be wonderful if my brother invested in industry here?" (To be continued.) )