In the fifteenth year of Guangxu, the cold winter was coming, and a book began to circulate in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuchang and even Guangzhou.

The strange title of the book is called "Tai Xice", which was issued by the same book office in Hankou, and there are not only Hankou editions, but also Beijing and Guangzhou editions. The paper is made of good American Bering paper, although the book is more than 100 pages thick, but the price of this book is not expensive, but the four dime silver dollars, these years, can understand the book naturally no one cares about the price of the book.

If you can understand the book, take a look at the title of this book "Tai Xi Ce", okay, isn't this similar to "Warring States Policy"? Looking at the author again, he was even more stunned, and the name of the author of this book is the three words "Tang Ziran" on the cover, as if he was afraid that people would not know that this book was written by him.

"Tang Ziran, named Haoran, the Qing Dynasty Wuchang people, his father was in turmoil when he was young, and he was robbed into the camp for hard labor, and then fled into a foreign ship to avoid bandits in the Western Ocean. Everywhere you go, you will see, you must think, travel for several years, and return to China this year. He wrote a book in the market, telling the strength of the Western countries, why the West is strong, and why the East is weak, so as to warn the great changes that have not been seen in the world for 3,000 years. Help our country turn the tide of the world. ”

The tone of the introduction is very large, and the book is really well written.

The history of the great powers, together with the fundamental movements in the country, is narrated one by one, although the words are plain, but they are fascinating. The constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom, the constitutional monarchy of the German Empire, the federal system of the American Republic, and the republican system of France. In this way, historical inheritance, national customs, virtuous ministers and famous generals, military formation, war strategy and even diplomatic strategy are all displayed in that "Tai Xice".

This is an unprecedented work in Chinese history!

Sure enough, it is a work comparable to "Warring States Policy". This Central Heavenly Kingdom, at first, disdained to know about those foreign barbarians, but then did not know where to know, seeing that the foreigners were strong in their ships, they set up foreign affairs from the Devil's Sixth Society, trying to make their own ships and guns sharp, but after decades, they fought with the French in the previous years, and they were defeated again and again.

And as soon as this strange book, which is comparable to "Warring States Policy", came out, Luoyang paper was immediately sold expensive.

Especially in the Sijiu City at the foot of the Son of Heaven, whether it is the Han people, the flag people, there are many idlers in the Sijiu City, especially the literate idlers, everyone gets together and chats about the current situation, the West or something, if you haven't read some books, then you naturally don't know anything about it, read this book, as if all of them have become Taixitong, not only that, but this is the tens of thousands of people who gather in Beijing, and the officials are attracted by this book.

Not only were the booksellers crowded waiting for books, but also the subordinates of various mansions, just waiting for the new books to arrive, and they hurried to buy them for their masters. I don't know how many officials who pay a little attention to current affairs are reading this book at night. Each book is densely circled, filled with different insights and experiences of various readers.

As for what everyone sees from this book, it is all based on their understanding, some people see how Prussia forged ahead and became a strong Tessie, some people also see how Turkey, which once shook the European continent, became the "sick man of Tessie", and also saw Peter the Great's reforms to make Russia strong for a hundred years, and some people also saw its decline, and so on, everyone has their own opinion. So much so that the controversy arose, and even the ministers in the legation who were proficient in Chinese characters also learned about this book from the customs and foreign translators, and they were really amazed by it, and even the British and German ministers exclaimed, "Tang Ziran is really the first person to understand the thousands of changes in Taixi", and the French minister even said that "one book solves the thousand-year-old affairs of Taixi", and even the ministers of various countries are amazing for the ancient strange books, can it be bad. Naturally, this book sold even more.

At the end of the day, everyone has a question. Who is this Tang Ziran, who is famous all over the country? Where are you?

As for those local officials, they are even more clever and trying to invite them into the curtain, and some people are also muttering to themselves, do they think they have entered the curtain of others?

"Hey!"

In the study room of the Beiyang Minister's Office in Tianjin, Li Hongzhang closed the book of "Tai Xice" in his hand, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"He Zhang Nanpi is really extremely lucky, and this kind of foreign learning is all obtained by him Zhang Nanpi!"

What is an all-rounder, at least in this book, Li Hongzhang saw that Tang Haoran really lived up to the name of "all-rounder", no matter the politics, economy, diplomacy, military, and law of Western countries, it can be said that it is a confluence, and the politics are analyzed one by one, and the economic way is elaborated on the way of the economy, and the way of diplomacy is discussed in terms of the vertical and horizontal way of diplomacy, and as for the military, it is extremely detailed from the training of officers to the training of soldiers, all of which are full of content, and such a generalist has fallen into Zhang Nanpi's curtain, so that he can not feel a pity.

"This Tang Ziran is indeed a talent!"

Zhou Fu, who was directly subordinate to the inspectorate, also read the book "Tai Xice", not only read it, but also studied it repeatedly, and he also highly respected that book.

"It's a pity that this son is now used by Zhang Nanpi!"

After a long sigh, Li Hongzhang still couldn't help but glance at the "Tai Xice" that had been closed, as the first person in the Qing Dynasty's foreign affairs, how could he not know that the first thing in foreign affairs is to use people, in terms of people, he has suffered many losses, but also tasted the sweetness of using people.

"In the past, he only said that Zhang Nanpi was ambitious and greedy for foreign affairs, but now, there is an extra Tang Ziran by his side,"

Shaking his head and sighing lightly, Li Hongzhang was a little jealous of Zhang Zhidong. Over the years, although the imperial court seems to have reused him, but in fact it has taken more precautions, and seems to support him in doing foreign affairs, but in terms of money, it is difficult in every way, on the other hand, Zhang Zhidong has always been able to get the support of the imperial court in doing foreign affairs.

For example, in the case of the relocation of the Guangdong Iron Works to Hubei or Zhili, although Zhili has the convenience of Kaiping Coal, the imperial court still chose to support Zhang Zhidong in the end, and the reason why the imperial court supported Zhang Zhidong was not to prevent him from Li Hefei?

"If you use the right person, it is naturally twice the result with half the effort to run foreign affairs, Yushan, you count the years we have done so many foreign affairs, everything is smooth, isn't that time the right person is used? If it doesn't go well, you can do it by changing someone, so it's ......"

Recalling the foreign affairs he has done over the years, Li Hongzhang sighed again and again.

"To do things, in the final analysis, it is still to employ people!"

"Quan Shuai, if it comes to employing people, I'm afraid that he Zhang Nanpi and Quan Shuai, you are really not one star or two points, how to use this Tang Ziran, I heard an interesting story from Wuchang."

As Li Hongzhang's number one confidant, how could Zhou Fu not know the balance between Li and Zhang in the imperial court, and naturally took precautions against Zhang Zhidong.

"Oh? Yushan, you come and listen! ”

Seeing that it was related to Tang Ziran, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but be curious,

"Quan Shuai, this news has just come over, saying that after Tang Ziran was invited to the shogunate by Zhang Zhidong, Yu Wuchang was left out in the cold for half a month, so he took a note to see Zhang Zhidong......"

Zhou Fu told others about the secret information one by one, not only in detail, but even cleared up the four strategies of yarn, silk, coal, and ship planned by Tang Ziran in the big signing room, and heard Li Hongzhang nod again and again, and heard that he was willing to set up a shipping bureau with 100,000 taels, and made a military order and wanted to make an agreement with Zhang Zhidong for three chapters, and secretly admired his courage in his heart.

What you can't get is the best, Li Hongzhang, who has been seeking talents for many years, is not so much interested in Tang Ziran's advice, but rather as valuing this person.

"Regardless of the rest, judging from these four strategies alone, when it comes to foreign affairs, even Xingsun can't be compared, it's a pity, it's a pity!"

Even saying that it was a pity, Li Hongzhang motioned to Zhou Fu to continue, and when he heard Wang Tingzhen ask to kill Tang Ziran, Li Hongzhang was so annoyed that he slapped the table and shouted.

"This Wang Tingzhen is a hypocrite, and he is so jealous that he can be so hateful!"

How could Li Hongzhang, who was also a staff member, not know why Wang Tingzhen suggested killing Tang Ziran, he was also victimized by the filth in this scene many times, and immediately became generous with the enemy.

"Indeed, Quan Shuai, if you are in the scene, I am afraid that if this generation is not killed, I am afraid that I will also be expelled from the scene!"

"Thinking about it, he Tang Ziran must have a follow-up move, since he mentioned the strategy of salt, could it be a local medicine monopoly?"

"Quan Shuai is wise! This is exactly what Tang Ziran wants to do! ”

After a little flattery of Li Hongzhang, Zhou Fu then came out of Tang Ziran's "gradual ban strategy" one by one, and Li Hongzhang frowned and pondered from time to time when he listened, until Zhou Fu sighed regretfully.

"It's a pity that Tang Ziran seems to have reservations and didn't make plans one by one in front of others, otherwise if he goes to Zhili, he will not only break the cause of tobacco and poison, but also get a huge amount of taxes to fund foreign affairs, which is really a pity!"

Compared with the "prohibition in the levy", this gradual policy can indeed stop the disaster of the spread of tobacco and drugs, and can also solve the cause of local financial resources, and the tobacco money obtained is used for foreign affairs, which is also appropriate, and for the imperial court, the levy has no foreign medicine tax, as long as it is not disturbed by the tax, the imperial court will delegate power to the locality! ”

However, it was only a moment's effort, and Li Hongzhang saw the pros and cons of "monopolizing and imposing a gradual ban".

"But the affairs of the world, the most important thing is to employ people, the power of monopoly is very heavy, if you use people improperly, it will cause trouble, since it is a tyrannical person like him, Zhang Nanpi may have to be cautious!"

What Quan Shuai said is extremely true, no, since then, there has been no news of this matter, as for him Tang Ziran, it seems that there is no shadow of him along with the ship's errand! If not......"

Zhou Fu suppressed his voice slightly, looked at Li Hongzhang and said.

"If you are lowly, you will send someone to see him, and maybe you can invite him to Tianjin when he is coldly treated!"

Zhou Fu's construction made Li Hongzhang's heart move slightly, but thinking of the past two years in order to avoid the suspicion of the imperial court, he tolerated Zhang Zhidong and others in every way, if Tang Ziran and Zhang Nanpi had a deep grudge, it seemed that the gains outweighed the losses, if it was four or five years ago...... Thinking of this and then looking at the "Warring States Policy" on the table, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but sigh.

"It's a pity!"

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