The revolutionary army occupied the territory, set up a military government management body, and established a civil service system according to the plan published by Yang Hao before.

Fortunately, Yang Hao now has a lot of useful people under his hands, in addition to him personally serving as the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army and the president of the Huaxing Association, Yan Fu and others have come forward to take the lead in government affairs. Yan Fu was appointed as the interim chief of administration and education, Li Jingfang was the chief of foreign affairs, Zhan Tianyou was the chief of communications, and Xu Jianyin was the chief of industry...... and so on.

Many of them did not openly announce their break with the Manchus, nor did they refuse to accept the errands that had been arranged. For example, Zhan Tianyou was busy with the planning of the construction of the Jiaoji Railway and the Beijing-Tianjin Railway without saying a word, and led a large group of Chinese and foreign engineers to survey and construct everywhere.

With the ready-made text materials brought by the world, the specific types of people recruited by major institutions are clear at a glance, and their respective powers and responsibilities are clear at a glance, and the assessment methods are clear. As long as the supervisory body implements it strongly, they are not afraid of their corpses.

Of course, now they only have one province and one province, and most of the area is still gradually encroaching on. If you want to complete the kind of comprehensive transformation that Yang Hao needs, don't think about advancing to the countryside in a year and a half.

Yang Hao has the intention of making a model project to let the governors of the whole country see who is good and who is bad, and whether he can achieve the kind of civilization and progress and prosperity he propagated, must be seen to be believed. In addition, he also needs to make a solid base, which requires him to do his work in detail to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Basically, his target form is the Soviet area of the beginning of our party in this world, or the Cheng dù of Yan'an later.

Specifically. It is necessary to ensure the decrees issued by the revolutionary government. It can be communicated to each level of management below. In the ears of every village, thus breaking the deadlock of the clan gentry power controlling the rural order for thousands of years.

In this world, it was only through the land reform in each village that it was successful. Yang Hao has more convenient conditions, he first starts from the root to break the situation, the specific means is to solve the traffic and information transmission first, so that the lower class people have the opportunity to hear and walk out.

Since the division of the revolutionary army, it has been constantly expanding the highway from the core to the surrounding areas. Telephone broadcasts were set up, post offices were opened to every township, and telephone calls were made to guò.

In Tianjin at this time, Yang Hao's movement was even greater! Starting from the seaside wharf, along the end of the Tangxu Railway, the construction of the railway double line to Beijing and the reverse Shanhaiguan was started at the same time. In addition, a high-grade highway was built in parallel, and the Haihe River and canals were vigorously dredged, almost all the idle labor force that emerged in the surrounding areas was revitalized.

Because the arsenal was the first batch of key enterprises, the highway was built first, and the progress was faster by countless telephone poles, which spread electricity, telegraphs, and radio from the American concession to all sides. In a short period of time, it extended to the county seat. Then continue to advance in the direction of Beijing.

At the kind invitation of Xu Jianyin, Yang Hao made an enthusiastic speech inside and outside the arsenal. After coming out, continue along the highway to Tianjin City.

He did not hide his way along the way, and everywhere the distinctive convoy went, whether it was the soldiers who maintained order or the civilians who had some knowledge, they all showed great enthusiasm and respect. This made a large number of Qing court eyeliners arranged everywhere secretly sigh and grit their teeth, but they did not dare to make the slightest move, so they could only report the truth to the capital continuously.

In the current Qing government, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who had seen enough of a group of high-eyed masters and low-level Qingliu and the reformists, took over government affairs decisively. From the beginning of the initiative to contact the ministers of the great powers for secret negotiations, she has always firmly controlled the power, and used a bunch of hardcore post-party and old-fashioned officials to come to power.

However, she still stayed in the Summer Palace, and the ministers basically had to go to report to their work every day and listen to the hadiths. When the news came from Tianjin, it was determined that Yang Hao had completely broken with the British and had an intention to advance to the capital, so she finally couldn't hold it back, decisively moved to the palace, and listened to the government again.

On this day, the palace is "called Daqier", that is, the Great Morning Meeting. Officials above the fourth rank in the capital had to go to the Qianqing Palace to listen to the edict, and wait for the emperor to receive and perform the matter, but this time the person in charge was simply replaced by the Empress Dowager of the West.

The revolutionary army outside made people panic, no matter which faction the officials in the capital were, all those who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty felt thorns in their backs, and they didn't care about tearing up the imperial party and the party, and their minds were all about how to deal with Yang Hao.

Hundreds of Manchu and Han ministers of civil and military affairs crowded the Jiuqing courtroom, and the crowds inside and outside the hall were crowded, all of them slumped over their chests and shoulders, and their eyes looked at their feet, and they didn't dare to gasp. At such a critical juncture, no one knows what Lafayette will do when he hangs the curtain again. In case a table xiàn is not good to get tired of crooking her, it will not end well.

Emperor Guangxu was still sitting on the throne, his whole person was thin with a handful of bones, an unhealthy flush appeared on his cheeks, and his two eyes were bright. Most of the high-ranking officials present are rich and wealthy, and at a glance, they know that the emperor has been boiling hard recently, but they are afraid that they have hurt their vitality.

Facing the ministers who were silent, Guangxu asked with a strong spirit: "Yang Shun started a war with Britain, what should the imperial court do, come out with a way." ”

Gangyi hated Yang Hao to the core, and said loudly: "Let's not care, just let them eat dogs, just make a fuss!" If I have this vacancy and let the governors of the provinces step up their military training, I don't believe that with hundreds of thousands of new troops, they can't quell his rebellion. ”

Guangxu probably thought that this guy was an idiot, so he didn't blink his eyelids, and continued to look at everyone indifferently.

Li Hongzao had lost a lot of face before, and he was disgraced because he took the initiative to contact the great powers to lure the wolf into the house, but now he spoke extra carefully, stroked his beard and said: "After all, Yangyi wants to occupy our country's territory, if you go too far with it, I am afraid that it will not be easy to explain to the subjects of the world." In the opinion of the ministers, it is better to tell the countries to ensure that the borders of the country are not destroyed by the flames of war. Let them go to the sea and fight. ”

Qingliu obviously still has a sense of shame, and this has attracted the echo of many people, but the movements are weak and weak, and they are not so reasonable.

Gangyi couldn't get used to these guys, and snorted coldly: "Foreigners want to be so easy to talk to, why do they make it like this?" Let them stay away. Do they have to be willing, too? ”

Li Hongzao scolded in his heart: "What a fool! It's important to do this kind of thing well on the surface. It doesn't matter whether the foreigner does it or not. The key is that you say it clearly, so that everyone in the world can see our attitude! ”

Shaking his head, the old guy was silent.

Emperor Guangxu turned his head and stared at the pretending devil Prince Liugong: "King Gong handles foreign military aircraft, what is your opinion on this?" ”

Prince Gong Yixin didn't plan to come out, but now he had to deal with it vaguely: "The imperial court always has to be self-reliant, foreigners are greedy, once they find it difficult to kill Yang Yi, it's hard to say whether they will be a traitor." Don't be careful! ”

Emperor Guangxu nodded: "It's quite a clear sentence." In this case, the imperial court's reform and reform of the law must not be stopped, and it must be stepped up to prevent Yang Wei from demagoguery, damage the ethics of Gangchang, and shake the fundamentals. ”

He went to see Rong Lu again: "How is the training of the new army going?" ”

Rong Lu said in a sullen voice: "Back to the emperor, the Wuwei Army is being reorganized, but if you want to raise 100,000 soldiers and horses, you must get tens of millions of taels of silver, and the current household department is not enough to raise money!" ”

Emperor Guangxu gritted his teeth: "Then borrow!" There are so many treaties signed with foreigners. promised them a lot of cheapness, and the money that should be given must be urged as much as possible. There is no court Zhengshuo. What can they expect from those who rebel and keep their promises? ”

The ministers did not speak, and took the corner of their eyes to skim the shadowy master behind the bead curtain.

The final decision-maker of the treaty was Lafayette, and the emperor was not easy to speak.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was tired of her heart. At the beginning, she agreed to negotiate with foreigners, hoping that the foreign devils would sweep Yang Hao away in one fell swoop. When the time comes, the most important province and government will be returned, and the cost of ceding it back will be made up for just by raiding the house.

As a result, I didn't expect the foreigners to be so useless, and they destroyed the fleet as soon as they came up, and the British wanted to transfer troops to retaliate, at least a month later. But according to Yang Hao's advancing speed, who knows if he will be able to repair the road to Beijing in a month? At that time, the people were panicked, and the Qing court had to "patrol and hunt" and run away if it was not good.

The Empress Dowager Cixi didn't speak, so naturally someone spoke for her.

Sun Yuwen stood up and said: "The emperor said that it was easy, but now the governors of all provinces are reaching out to ask for money, and the best ones are millions of taels of silver, what can the court use to mortgage and borrow from foreigners?" This is tens of millions and hundreds of millions of dollars, who can bear it! ”

The Manchu Dynasty's civil and military eyes rolled, but they refused to express their position immediately.

Everyone knows that any errand with the word "money" hidden a surprising amount of great benefits. Now that the whole country is training troops, the silver involved is tens of millions, and you can earn a fart oil crotch by pulling a little bit of it.

But there is a trouble inside, the money of foreigners is not borrowed for nothing. They often bundle tariffs, salt taxes, minerals, railways, and so on to negotiate with you, as well as high interest rates. There are countless troubles inside and outside here, and they are so bad that they will stink for thousands of years -- after all, they are selling ancestral property.

Most of the people in the Qing court wanted to eat fish and were afraid of getting fishy, and they all wanted someone to come out and take advantage of it.

It was still Li Hongzao's cunning and cunning, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he said: "The minister recommended the Minister of Commerce Sheng Xuanhuai to do this matter." This officer is proficient in foreign affairs and is familiar with practice, which is the most suitable. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai? Everyone's eyes lit up, and he was a very good candidate!

Everyone knows that this person has in his hands the richest Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in the Qing Dynasty and many government-supervised, commercial-run enterprises such as wheels, electricity, coal, and textiles, and his financial management level is first-class. Now that Li Hongzhang has gone to the wilderness to retire, Li Jingfang, the second master he may be loyal to, has become a rebellious party, and he must find the next backer. Rather than letting him go to others to help make money and make a fortune, it is better for the court to use it first.

Emperor Guangxu didn't say anything, he didn't like Sheng Xuanhuai, an old fritter who ran away when he saw that the situation was not good. A few days ago, after Li Hongzhang was dismissed and before Yang Hao raised the banner to rebel, this person repeatedly asked to resign. Now that I think about it, I already knew that the sky was going to change, hum, I was definitely not a loyal minister!

But it's not his turn to call the shots here, and the figure behind the curtain flickered, flashing half of Li Lianying's old face.

Sun Yuwen and Fortitude, Wang Wenshao and others said in unison: "The ministers seconded the proposal. ”

That's a good thing. However, Sheng Xuanhuai did it alone, and the others were definitely not happy. If you select the top bar on the front, someone must be responsible for taking advantage of the profits. There is no way to discuss this matter in the court, and everyone has a small calculation in private.

Clarify the matter of borrowing money, and then you have to decide how to spend it.

It was agreed to establish the Armed Guard Army, and recruit soldiers based on the Eight Banners to form the Armed Guard Middle Army; The remnants of the Huai Army were used to form the Wuwei Front Army; Dong Fuxiang and Ganjun were trained as the rear army; The Yi Army of Song Qing was trained as the left army; The remnants of Yuan Shikai's new road army were expanded into the right army.

The total number of soldiers and horses of the five major is 100,000. Gyeonggi Tuan Tuan will be protected. and establish a passage to Rehe and Shanxi, respectively. Once Yang Hao's army came over, they couldn't resist it. You can protect the important people of the court and run away.

This time, he did not hesitate to fool around, and in accordance with the construction proposed by the German Hannagan, a full set of the most advanced munitions and German-style training, prepared 100,000 regular troops for training, and spent 30 million to 40 million taels of silver.

However, before Hannagan built yì for a year, now we can only see which day it lasts.

In addition, Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi and other provincial governors and ministers respectively started training new troops, and the whole country added up to at least 16 towns and nearly 300,000 people. The standard for disbursement of silver was halved compared to that of the Guards. Almost every side has to give three or five million taels to deal with it.

All this adds up, and the imperial court has to borrow at least 100 million taels of silver, what a big deal!

In order to decide the matter of the negotiation team and the appropriation, there was a lot of quarrel inside and outside the hall, and Emperor Guangxu kept his mouth shut from beginning to end. Until the matter was finally settled, the eunuch shouted at the top of his voice to retreat, then stood up stiffly, turned back and saluted respectfully in the curtain. waited for Cixi to move, and then left with a black face.

Li Hongzao and other loyal ministers could only shake their heads and sigh, if it weren't for the foreigners led by the British, they would clearly want to keep Guangxu's position. I'm afraid that they have changed their allegiance to a master.

After Cixi returned to the harem, she instructed Li Lianying: "Little Lizi." When it comes to borrowing money today, you have to keep your eyes open, but don't fool others. The foundation laid down by our ancestors of the Great Qing Kingdom cannot be corrupted in the hands of those people. ”

Li Lianying is overjoyed, this is to make him rich! Quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, thinking about how much oil and water he was going to pull out of it.

The Qing court had their own wishful thinking, but they didn't know that at this time, Sheng Xuanhuai, who was going to be launched as a gunman, was facing a table of colorful and fragrant meals in a Lu restaurant in Tianjin, and he had no appetite.

Yang Hao sat opposite him, filled the porcelain pot with his hand, and said with a smile: "It is difficult for Master Sheng to get out at this time, why don't you just give it a go, maybe you can have an unexpected gain?" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai shook his head with a wry smile, took a drink from the wine glass, and sighed lightly: "Sheng wanted to retreat bravely, but now it seems that he can't help himself. Whatever Mr. Yang wants, please just ask. ”

The court meeting has not yet opened, and he already knows about the topics to be discussed, and today he confirmed his decision to be pushed out of the thunder from Yang Hao in real time. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was in danger, he saw it clearly, the first choice was Zhang Zhidong, and now Yang Hao was not safe. But when he joined Yang Hao's banner, he was worried that his foundation would have to be swallowed up sooner or later.

What a contradiction! Sheng Xuanhuai wanted to dodge, but he still dug it out easily for Yang Hao, and he wanted to catch the ducks on the shelves today, so he couldn't do it.

Yang Hao had already studied this Tianzi No. 1 comprador, raised his glass to accompany him, and said with a smile: "Sheng Daren is a rare talent in China, and now that he is in the prime of life, he naturally has to take on greater responsibilities." My condition was simple, in the matter of borrowing money between the Qing court and the foreign powers, I would try to facilitate the accession of Yanhua Bank. After that, we will pay with various weapons and equipment. In the end, he tried his best not to let the foreign devils take too much advantage of it. ”

Sheng Xuanhuai was shocked and almost dropped his chopsticks: "You want to sell weapons to the imperial court?!" ”

He thinks Yang Hao is crazy, obviously the two sides are mortal enemies, you actually sold weapons to the imperial court to use on your own battlefield, there is nothing wrong with it, right?!

Yang Hao said lightly: "There is a famous saying that if you don't sell arms to fight your own country, you can't be considered an international arms dealer." There is no one in the world today who is better than the weapons I provide, as long as you set the delivery deadline in the negotiation terms, those foreign devils can only take them from me at most, and then sell them to the Qing court as second-hand dealers. In that case, why don't we just separate some of it? ”

Sheng Xuanhuai was speechless, twisting the wine glass in his hand and silently digesting this amazing statement. He thought that he had seen the craziest people and things in the world, but today he realized that compared to Yang Hao, they were all pediatrics.

The imperial court has the strength of a country, and it will not break its bones if it borrows hundreds of millions of funds from foreign powers to buy arms, and if it really uses advanced weapons to arm hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to press it over, can the current revolutionary army resist? I really don't know how this man's head looks.

However, he believes that since Yang Hao dares to say this, he must be sure that he can do it.

Having reached this step, he had no way back. Gritted his teeth, drank another drink, paused on the table with a "snap", and said categorically: "Okay, Sheng will do his best." However, I also have a condition, in the future, when Mr. Minghua decides to win China, I hope to let my Sheng family have a way to live. ”

Yang Hao admired in his heart, Sheng Xuanhuai was really a smart person. After controlling the foreign affairs of the Qing Dynasty for many years, the Sheng family has accumulated a lot of wealth. I will help with the loan today, and I don't know how much I have to earn in the middle.

But since ancient times, the rich families who have no foundation may become the target of slaughter in the new dynasty, and Sheng Xuanhuai certainly doesn't want to end up because of money.

According to the line of the revolutionary party, there will absolutely no room for big compradors and big capitalists like Sheng Xuanhuai in the future, and the economies controlled by him will inevitably be nationalized or controlled by the state for a period of time. Cutting grass and eradicating roots is naturally the easiest and most labor-saving method, and he is not afraid of it.

Yang Hao did not hesitate and resolutely agreed: "The world is so big, Shanda can go to any country freely, and it is not impossible to establish himself as a king on an overseas island." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai thanked again and again.

In the next few days, the Qing court launched a new round of large-scale loan negotiations with the great powers, and in Yang Hao's arsenal, countless customized weapons were continuously manufactured from the assembly line, ready to drain the real money of the Qing court. (To be continued......)