Just when Yang Wangye was a boy of loose wealth in his own territory, wantonly bribing the hearts of the people, and making the people of several surrounding provinces yearn for Fujian and Zhejiang infinitely, Guangxu in Beijing and his reformers were so worried that their heads were almost white.

There is no money, the household department and the palace treasury are so empty that even the rats are crying, and now the emperor can't even make up the money for the meals of the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, not to mention the salaries of officials, this is not counted, Yang Feng also dug a lot of traps for him when he left, such as the hospital for free treatment of wounded soldiers, and the nursing homes and orphanages for the families of the children of the Eight Banners who died in battle.

Nima, how can the emperor be rich? Qian Quan let King Zhennan run away when he left, but no one believes your explanation? Besides, the king of Zhennan is in Fujian, we can't go hungry and travel thousands of miles to find him, right? These days, those orphans and widows who have no food and clothing, the old coffins that have been cut into the ground half-cut into the ground, the wounded soldiers who are mummified with crutches, crying outside the palace every day, crying that Lafayette is in the spirit of heaven, and those who actually crying and begging the king of Zhennan to come back, have made everyone look sideways to those foreign envoys who have just returned to Beijing, and even appeared in foreign newspapers.

But Guangxu really can't help it, he is not a smart emperor in the first place, not to mention the green worms under his command, it is just a bunch of mouth cannons, the only minister with some ability is now left Zhang Yinhuan and Yixuan, Zhang Yinhuan thought of a trick for him, sell the real estate of those ministers who were raided and destroyed, in theory, this is indeed a good idea, but unfortunately no one buys it.

Beijing has been opened twice in two years, and who knows how many days the third time will be in between? Who would dare to live here? Even if you have money, you can't live here even if you go to Baoding, even if you buy it, the price is so low that it makes people cry, even to feed the idlers outside the palace, plus the repair in Beijing, in short, this money must be a drop in the bucket. Yi Liang gave him a move or sold his official. Now that so many official positions have been vacated all of a sudden, maybe you can get some money from selling these, anyway, this thing is the most sought-after commodity, maybe there are some rural rich people who are not very flexible in their minds will take the bait, but unfortunately this has a conflict with the reformers, and they are now thousands of people following the emperor, isn't it just for those official positions? What do we do if you sell it?

Kang Youwei, who had been appointed as the Minister of Military Aircraft, righteously reprimanded Yixuan for being greedy and contemptible, confusing the Holy Monarch for injustice, making Yixuan's old face red, and immediately after returning to his son, he arranged for thousands of soldiers to block the outside of the palace to make money. Now Kang Youwei and his gang are also stupid, in the end, there are no soldiers in their hands, and everything is in vain, and finally Guangxu twisted and began to learn from Cixi to sell officials.

Of course, this is just an urgent solution, and you can't rely on selling officials to maintain finances in the future, right? Fujian, Zhejiang, and Taiwan provinces were given to Yang Feng as a fief, and the taxes of these three provinces were gone, and Li Hongzhang had completely lost illusion with Guangxu since the death of Devil Six and Cixi in Liangguang, and the latest batch of taxes that should be solved in the capital were deducted by him casually. The household department even urged several times to no avail.

These five provinces, especially Guangdong and Zhejiang, can be said to be the main source of tax revenue for the imperial court, and without these normal circumstances, they would have to be sharply reduced by one-third, let alone continue like this. Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong are also very difficult to say, and Yiketanga in the northeast was extremely angry after Cixi's death, and now he doesn't care about the imperial court at all, and he is completely disheartened. and even united the other two generals and Rehe to unify Guixiang. He publicly published a statement in the newspaper, saying that the northeast is a close neighbor and a strong neighbor, and each will be a minister of the country. Only guarding the country, the affairs inside the customs are unheard of, which means that he and the generals outside the customs will no longer participate in the struggle for power and profit in the customs area.

This is actually farther than Liu Kunyi and these people, but Guangxu is helpless about this, he didn't expect that killing Cixi would cause him such a big trouble, so that he has few obedient provinces left, and most of them are so poor that they need subsidies from the imperial court, but now he is really short of money, if he wants to revitalize, if he wants to realize his emperor's beautiful ideals, he needs to expand the army, he needs to run a factory, he needs to run a school, and each of these needs a steady stream of investment, In this case, it seemed that borrowing money from the Great Powers became his only option.

"Looking for you to borrow?" Yang Feng said with a look of surprise.

"Yes, Your Highness King Zhennan, your Emperor wants our government to provide him with a loan of fifty million pounds, and Your Excellency the Prime Minister would like to consult you." Bulkle said.

"What about your additional conditions, don't tell me that there are no additional conditions." Yang Feng said with a sneer.

"It's just the right to build the Luján Railway, which of course includes some privileges attached to the railway, as well as the right to operate for a period of time, and the other is the matter of deepening cooperation between the two sides in politics and militarily." Hawkle said casually.

"Your Excellency, I must give you a word of advice, neither I nor any other governor will agree to this loan." Yang Feng said, it is conceivable what an uproar this news will cause, for foreigners to build railways in China, the people have always been very sensitive, especially the Luhan railway is the main artery connecting the Yangtze River and Beijing, Zhang Zhidong is worried about the construction of this railway has not been a day, from the construction of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant is with this purpose.

In the past two years, because of the steel mill driven, Wuhan around the industry has developed very fast, in fact, the industry, as long as there is a basic thing, you just don't care about the rest, it will also develop on its own, Zhang Zhidong was influenced by his son, knowing that foreign countries are playing free economy, he doesn't understand industry anyway, so he simply takes a way of doing nothing, but greatly promotes industrial development. Even the wealthy businessmen of the two lakes were already thinking about raising funds to build this railway, after all, with such a railway, Wuhan suddenly became the core of the entire China's water and land transportation, and now if Guangxu exchanged it for loans, what a big blow to Lao Zhangtou and those businessmen who were waiting to repair the railway and make a lot of money.

As for the other things that strengthen cooperation, not to mention, it is nothing more than to strengthen the control of China and transform China in the way they want, although this does not seem to touch Yang Feng's interests, but with his cunning at a glance, he understands that this is the British are thinking about themselves.

This is not surprising, his development speed is too fast, no one knows what kind of freak will be gained by continuing to indulge him, but openly restricting Yang Feng, but he is afraid of his retaliation, especially this guy has been so good with the Germans that he is about to wear a pair of pants, the Russians are also desperately trying to win him over, the Russian Empress even openly invited him to Moscow to catch up, if Yang Feng completely falls to these people, needless to say anything else, as long as he stops supplying diesel engines to Britain and turns to fully support Germany, it will not take five years, The German navy was capable of challenging Britain's maritime supremacy, so it was only possible to take this most subtle way, and it was necessary to come and see his reaction first.

"Your Excellency, I don't think it can be justified in any country to hand over the most important railway lines of a country to foreigners, right?" Yang Feng said lightly.

Bao Kele shrugged and said, "I really don't think there is anything wrong with this, of course this is just an intention, your emperor will definitely ask the governors for their opinions first, it is too early to talk about the results." ”

That's still early, as soon as the news was made public, Zhang Zhidong immediately became anxious, he had already made preparations for this railway, the merchants of the two lakes had raised 15 million taels of silver for him, and the governor of Sichuan, Tan Zhonglin, raised another 10 million taels for him in Sichuan, and then the two of them partnered to set up a railway company, and in addition, he got a low-interest loan of 10 million from the People's Bank of China, and the Qianzhuang group in Shanghai also gave him a loan of 10 million, and according to the budget made by the Swedish railway engineer he hired, this money was enough to build the railway to Lugou Bridge, It can be said that as soon as it is ready, it is waiting for the official start, but the imperial court is ready to hand over the right of way to the British at this time, aren't you bullying people?

Because the news was poked out tomorrow, he and Tan Zhonglin, Tan Jixun, and Hunan Governor Chen Baozhen jointly wrote to ask, Guangxu was in a bad mood at this time, and naturally he didn't have a good attitude towards these old things, and besides, I want to borrow a loan, you are all crooked, what do you want to do? Are you going to starve me?

He unceremoniously replied to Zhang Zhidong and these people, telling them that the imperial court's finances are tight now, which is also a helpless move, and there is no way to continue without borrowing, so you just shut up!

Zhang Zhidong, who was extremely disappointed in him because of Cixi's death, was completely angered by him, and repeatedly asked to stop the loan negotiations, otherwise he and the people of Lianghu and Sichuan would not allow the British to build the railway, and he also directly found Bao Kele and told him that even if the imperial court signed a loan agreement, the people of Lianghu would not agree, and he was qualified to speak like this at this point, anyway, he was inland, no matter Yang Feng and Liu Kunyi, they would not allow the British to run upstream into the Yangtze River to beat him.

Moreover, the old fellow also used his son's personal friendship with the Archduke of Hesse to make a big deal of it in the European newspapers, and together with the fact that tomorrow's newspaper and Germany and France, who could not eat grapes, added fuel to the fire, the British domestic consortium began to hesitate.

At this time, the king of Zhennan, who had not spoken, finally spoke in the unanimous appeal of the people of the whole country, very simply, he is the prime minister and minister of state affairs, this kind of thing is in his charge, it is not right for your court to do this, if you want to ask the attitude of this minister, then this minister will definitely not agree, even if the court signs this agreement, without the seal of the prime minister, this agreement does not have legal effect.

And regardless of whether his crooked reasoning is right or not, since he has publicly stated his attitude, then London needs to think carefully, at this time, even if the British government agrees, those consortiums do not agree with them, and the British government wants to pay for it, these consortiums are willing to pay, these people do not want to provoke a Tyrannosaurus rex for a business with uncertain prospects, and finally the British had to refuse Guangxu's loan request, but this incident made Guangxu's image in the folk completely slide to the bottom (to be continued......