There are some things that the people below say are useless. If Xu Jie wants to really change something, he can only face Li Hongzhang, the supreme ruler of Beiyang, as for the others? Even a character like Zhang Peilun has no effect. Especially in industry, don't look at Zhang Peilun as younger, but in terms of understanding of the West, Zhang Peilun is far less strong than his father-in-law. To say that Lao Li's understanding of the West was absolutely outstanding in the Qing Dynasty at that time, and the Westernization Movement of that year was also aimed at "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth". Lao Li, Shen Baozhen and others were also fully aware that the agricultural civilization of thousands of years was no longer suitable for the whole history, but in the stubborn center and the background of Chinese society at that time, the "pursuit of wealth" was never done, and the "self-improvement" represented by the military industry also slowly changed its taste, under the feudal yamen-style management and the weight of the decadent bureaucratic system, the military industry of the Qing Dynasty has always been unrelated to efficiency. In the end, the entire Westernization movement became just paste. More than 20 years have passed since the Westernization Movement, but the Qing industry's industry is still fragile. "Anyway, at least we have to bear the catastrophe of Jiawu first, right?" Xu Jie thought in his heart. For this purpose, what the Qing industry's industry needs, he probably has a plan.

One day after class, when Xu Jie just walked out of the teaching area, a carriage was already waiting at the door. As soon as the owner of the carriage appeared, Xu Jie was taken aback. How did Zhang Peilun of Y find here? Seeing that this posture is not talking about it in his own home, it seems that he has to go out. However, Xu Jie obviously doesn't have too many choices. So he quickly boarded the carriage, and then the carriage left the Tianjin Sailor School.

"Where are we going?" Feeling the bump of the carriage, Xu Jie asked a little depressedly.

"Meet someone you want to meet." Zhang Peilun smiled mysteriously, and Zhang Peilun also had an inexplicable pride in his heart at this time. In front of Xu Jie, Zhang Peilun is far from being good in terms of knowledge and technology. There is even a faint sense of inferiority complex in my heart, but now, well, this sense of mystery makes Zhang Peilun very useful.

"It can't be Li Zhongtang, right?" Xu Jie said half-jokingly.

"How do you know?" Zhang Peilun was taken aback, and his eyes were as big as eggs.

"If it were someone else, I wouldn't have asked you to bring me to the meeting place myself." Xu Jie was also very shocked in his heart, but after experiencing so many winds and waves, he still did a good job of hiding his surprise. On the surface, it appears to be quite calm. "I'm finally going to see Lao Li." A considerable part of the preparation work that I spent for more than half a year after I came back was to convince this actual leader of Beiyang that this opportunity came so suddenly. To say that you are not nervous is definitely false. But in any case, today will be a day that will change history.

An hour later, Xu Jie finally arrived at the meeting place, a manor outside the city of Tianjin. If you want to ask Xu Jie, what was his first reaction after seeing Lao Li. Xu Jie used 4 words to describe it in his diary. "I'm a little scared!". I can't help but be afraid, Lao Li sat on the main seat. staring sharply at Xu Jie, who had just entered the door, Li Hongzhang's sense of coercion accumulated over the years in a high position distributed his tall body, which suddenly made Xu Jie's heart a little hairy. Half-ringing, Xu Jie remembered the luggage.

"Hou Sheng, you can really play with a big hand. In less than a month, I put Beiyang in a desperate situation. Li Hongzhang sneered.

"I don't know what Lord Nakado means?" Xu Jie also heard a little creepy.

"With just a few of your books, I Beiyang has signed such a large order with Italy." Lao Li also regretted it somewhat at this time, and he was really hasty when he bought the boat.

"It turned out that I had no money, and I had a stalemate with the center again, and I couldn't find an Italian, so I was angry with myself." Xu Jie finally understood a little bit.

"It doesn't matter, if Beiyang doesn't want it, this ship can be sold to other countries, as for the breach of contract fee? I don't have to spend money on Beiyang, and the 40+ taels of silver I donated to Beiyang should be enough. Xu Jie said a little scoundrelly.

"Huh?" Li Hongzhang was taken aback, and Zhang Peilun next to him was even more surprised and couldn't say a word.

"If you're still angry, I'm not going to go back to Italy and be my rich man. What do you think? Since Xu Jie can't grasp the point of the talks, it is not a bad idea to pretend to be stupid first.

"Why is this man such a scoundrel?" Li Hongzhang couldn't help but roll his eyes. He is known as the bandit Hanlin, and when he started, he used rogue means to poach people from his teacher. As a result, today I met a man who was even more scoundrel than he was back then. …,

"Li Zhongtang doesn't have to care about the loss, the ship sold to you by Italy is 280,000 pounds, and if it is sold to other countries at a parity price, it will be at least 340,000 pounds, according to the sharing agreement, I won't lose much." Xu Jie said with a serious face.

"Want to go? You poked such a big basket in Beiyang for me and wanted to leave? Li Hongzhang snorted coldly. The matter of ordering a ship has been spread, and if you don't buy a ship, how will you let me end up in Beiyang? If you don't give an explanation, I'm afraid you can't leave Tianjin. ”

"Actually, the younger generation thinks this basket is not too big. Compared to a few years later, when the Beiyang Fleet collapsed and the Zhongtang adults were ruined, this basket is really not big. Xu Jie smiled weirdly.

"I'm afraid that's alarmist, isn't it?" Li Hongzhang said expressionlessly.

"Is it alarmist, Admiral Ding in the Beiyang Naval Division, Lord Liu knows it. Li Zhongtang doesn't believe it, you can ask. If you still don't believe me, you can take a gamble and bet that what I said is false. It's nothing for me to have a life on my own. But Lord Zhongtang is reluctant to gamble with more than 50,000 soldiers in Beiyang and the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty? Xu Jie became more and more bold, because he already felt that Lao Li just wanted to suppress him, and he wouldn't play really. Lao Li Yiqiqi's behavior of looking for nothing is to deter himself as a newcomer, that's all.

"Housheng, now is not the time to say this, you are also serving in my Beiyang now, how do you plan to raise this vacancy of 3 million taels of silver? This annual appropriation from the imperial court has never been in place. I'm afraid that this second division of water and land will not be able to come up with such a large sum of money. Lao Li sighed and said.

"Although the 3 million taels of silver are a little more, it is not difficult to raise them, but this only 3 million taels of silver is far from enough. The annual expenses of the Japanese people and the scale of the naval and land divisions should be known to Lord Nakado, and after 5 years, only the land division and the Japanese people can mobilize at least 150,000 troops to participate in the battle, and if Lord Nakado uses the only 50,000 army in his hands to fight against it, the result is probably quite not optimistic. Xu Jie said in a low voice.

"It takes silver to raise the army, and I can't make up the 3 million silver in Beiyang, and it is even more impossible to expand the army." Lao Li stared at the silver vigorously and said without letting go.

"Since this center can't come up with any money, why don't we consider another way? If you are poor, you will change. Whether I can pass this hurdle in Beiyang depends on whether there can be some changes. Xu Jie said.

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