Although it was late at night, but at this time in the Huguang Governor's big detention room, but the lights were still on, in the light of the oil lamp, Zhang Zhidong, who was lying in front of the case, occasionally looked at the strip Chen in his hand, his expression was very solemn, and Sang Zhiping, who was sitting on the side, just looked at Tang Haoran curiously, half a month ago, when he heard his name for the first time, his first instinct was that he was afraid that he was a literati like Gu Hongming, and at the moment, his article that had no literary brilliance to talk about completely overturned this idea.

"Finance is the source of government, if there is no finance to support, everything is empty talk!"

The simple and straightforward words fell into the ears of several people, but they talked to the bottom of the hearts of several people, especially to the bottom of Zhang Zhidong's heart, the completely unliterary vernacular, every word in it, all hit the worries in his heart.

"To set up foreign affairs, in general, there is no external construction of railways, wharves, factories, factories and mines, practical learning, and cultivation of foreign talents,"

Although he knew that the first thing to do in the establishment of foreign affairs should be Qi Minzhi, but he knew that Zhang Zhidong, who had not yet been affected by the First Sino-Japanese War and the Gengzi Change, was relatively conservative in his thinking as a local powerful figure of the Qing school supported by the imperial court, so Tang Haoran still put Qi Minzhi to the end and changed it to "Xingshixue".

"If these six strategies are successful, the foreign must be successful, but each of these piles will eventually be attributed to a problem silver!"

After spitting out these two words, Tang Haoran looked at Zhang Zhidong with a solemn expression, and the previous article Chen directly pointed to the problem of money, to be precise, it was pointed out that Hubei's financial foundation could not support the construction of foreign affairs, at least with the current Hubei finance.

"If there is no money as a support, all the words are empty talk, since the reluctance to open a factory, although the initial funds were raised, but the follow-up is weak, in order to make the cause not give up halfway. It also has to set up donations for things, and move from west to east, so that all industries are often facing a standstill crisis! ”

"According to what you say, is it true that this railway will not be repaired and the factory will not be built?"

Cai Xiyong, who was recruited by Zhang Zhidong as the governor of Guangdong, immediately refuted it, and Zhang Zhidong also frowned, in this report of Tang Haoran, only listed in detail the lack of financial resources in Hubei and the lack of money due to events, and pointed out that an annual expenditure should be set up to coordinate the financial expenditure of the year, so as to avoid the suspension of the cause. has been an official for many years, and he knows that the young man in front of him, who has been neglected by him for more than ten days, will never just come up with such a piece of Chen, since most of the article is out of Hubei's lack of financial resources, and finally ended with "degree of expenditure", there must be some aftermath, otherwise, he would not have recruited his cronies and friends to discuss here.

"Yes, this foreign affairs can't be stopped because of lack of financial resources!"

So he deliberately pretended to be annoyed, stared at Tang Haoran, and said in a deep voice.

"Then the railroad is not being repaired?"

"Do!"

Facing Zhang Zhidong's sight, Tang Haoran had no fear at all.

"The factory has to be built, the railway has to be repaired, but the key is how to do it, dare to ask Xiangshuai and your colleagues, what do you want to run a factory?"

Tang Haoran's rhetorical question not only made Zhang Zhidong dumb, but also Sang Zhiping, Zhao Fengchang, Gu Hongming, Cai Xiyong, Chen Nianren, Liang Pu and others were all dumb.

"In order to save the country, one is to be strong, and the other is to be rich!"

Ma Zhenyu, who entered the scene in Guangdong, said on the side that this was the original intention of setting up foreign affairs.

"Factories, railways and other foreign affairs cannot be opened without large sums of money; There is no inexhaustible source of income, and it cannot last. If you want to be self-reliant, you must first be earned; If you want to save money, there is no better way to revitalize business. ”

Zhang Zhidong's protégé Huang Shaoji added another sentence on the side, although he quoted Li Hongzhang's sentence, Zhang Zhidong still nodded.

"In the final analysis, running a factory is not only for the sake of strength, but also for the sake of getting rich, and seeking wealth is also for the need to be strong, I wonder if Haoran is wrong to understand it this way?"

With Huang Shaoji's "foreshadowing", Tang Haoran's words naturally have no objection.

"That being the case, the government's foreign affairs are actually doing business with businessmen, which coincides, and its consideration is not to do much things, but how to do as much as possible with limited financial resources!"

Tang Haoran's words made the people around him stunned, Yang Du and others, who had already entered the curtain when Zhang Zhidong was in charge of the mountain village, saw that he compared the official foreign affairs with the businessmen, and his face suddenly changed, but he didn't wait for him to object, but Zhang Zhidong laughed.

"Then you sue me, how should I do more with my limited wealth and get things done?"

When the laughter fell, Zhang Zhidong glanced at Sang Zhiping, or Zhongzi knew people, if there was no cold reception before, he was afraid of these words, he Tang Ziran might not dare to say it.

"In fact, the truth is very simple, the key is what to do!"

After a pause, he saw that he had successfully re-aroused Zhang Zhidong's interest in Tang Haoran, so he said with a smile.

"It takes several years to run a foreign affairs factory, during which it needs a steady stream of financial resources, if it exceeds the financial resources, it will be a burden, and it will drag down other undertakings.

Seeing that Zhang Zhidong seemed to be unhappy between his eyebrows, Tang Haoran immediately realized that the lord in front of him was not the master of "greed for perfection", so he hurriedly remedied.

"If we take Hubei foreign affairs as an example, we need to first formulate an overall implementation plan, such as iron works, railways, and iron mines, and such major military affairs cannot be delayed, not only can there be no delay, but also should start as soon as possible."

Seeing that he was worried about Tang Haoran before, Gu Hongming breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time secretly asked that Tang Haoran was really like himself who had just returned to China, and he would have to teach him well in the future.

"In addition, we need to consider what factory to start, which can be established in a short period of time, and the production is fast, the management is easy, and the return is fast, so that the profits of this factory can support the promotion of other foreign affairs, so as to promote a virtuous circle, and promote the establishment of new factories with a steady stream of profits from the factory."

As early as the Fujin period, because of the acquaintance of the British missionary Timothy Lee, Zhang Zhidong, who had experienced the transformation of "Westernization" in his thinking, had already accepted his proposal to build railways, excavate mineral deposits, and set up industries and manufacturing plants. There is no consideration at all about how to do it, everyone only knows how to use silver to build factories and railways, as for how to run factories? How does it work? How to make a profit? Naturally, I didn't think about it, but I just took it for granted that the factory was done, the machine was opened, and the silver could be recovered.

It is precisely because of this that both the government staff and Zhang Zhidong himself relied on this half-understanding to include foreign affairs such as railways, iron works, coal mines, and yarn layouts into the plan when they were still in Wuhan, regardless of financial resources, and Tang Haoran was sitting on changing Zhang Zhidong's unplanned industrial construction.

"Ziran, then tell me, if I set up a foreign affairs in Hubei, what factory should I set up first? What factory returns quickly? ”

Zhang Zhidong, who was already worried about the lack of financial resources in the foreign affairs industry, hurriedly asked, he clearly knew that Li Hongzhang relied on Sheng Xuanhuai, who was proficient in the way of making money, to run foreign affairs, and Zhang Zhidong suffered from it, and it was precisely because of this that he went to Hubei to take office, and he did not see anyone along the way, but only met Sheng Xuanhuai once in Shanghai, although he knew that it was impossible to recruit him for use, but he still saw it.

"Yarn, silk, coal, boat!"

spit out four words one after another, and seeing Zhang Zhidong and the others listening carefully, Tang Haoran felt a little complacent.

"Yarn, silk, coal, boats,"

Zhang Zhidong silently recited these four words in his heart, and his eyes moved to Tang Haoran, who was drinking tea, what kind of surprise can this young man bring to himself?

"Yarn, that is, cotton yarn, cotton yarn is a must for spinning, the cost of foreign yarn is much lower than that of native yarn, so that the people love to use foreign yarn, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, foreign yarn sales are far better than native yarn, the people use machine yarn to weave native cloth, marketing all over Hubei, Hanyang, Xiangyang, Yicheng, Suizhou, Guangji, Macheng are weaving old cloth, and marketing nearby provinces, hundreds of thousands of people rely on weaving, in exchange for silver, in order to support their families and pay taxes, if you run a yarn factory, exclusively sold all over Hubei, for the people to weave cloth, line to "foreign yarn homespun", not only the yarn factory can make a huge profit every year! "Native export" can also benefit the people and subsidize civilian use! ”

After everyone arrived in Hubei, they had all looked through the Hubei Gazetteer, and naturally knew that Tang Haoran said that those places are weaving millions of horses every year, and they are sold to other provinces by traders every year, not to mention, and sold to other provinces, this is indeed a source of profit, and in the past, he only thought about setting up a factory, but never considered how to run a factory and other issues Zhang Zhidong, after listening to Tang Haoran's explanation, he nodded again and again, looking at Tang Haoran's gaze also changed slightly, since the gaze is appreciation, but also gratifying, appreciating his talent, I am glad that I finally have a person in the shogunate who is really proficient in foreign affairs, not to mention anything else, just this vision......

Tang Haoran naturally felt the appreciation of Zhang Zhidong, and thought of Zhang Jian, another type of Zhang Jian who relied on "foreign yarn and homespun" in history, and secretly apologized in his heart, and then added.

"If the yarn mill is successful, after deducting the operation of the yarn mill and the necessity of expansion, after the yarn mill is established three years later, it should be able to release tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the official treasury every year......

When Tang Haoran's words fell, everyone in the big signing room was at a loss, and several staff members had their eyes shining, in their opinion, this Tang Haoran had already helped them get a good job, and they just needed to take over and follow the method of "foreign yarn and homespun". This yarn mill is a place where gold and silver are born, if you can get the position of the general manager of the yarn factory......

"What about silk?"

Someone on the side asked anxiously, and the staff, who were a little excited, realized that Tang Haoran had come up with a total of four ways to make money.

"Ziran,"

Zhang Zhidong stroked his beard and smiled.

"What about this silk?"

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