Emperor Guangxu was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "I still love the concubine to understand my intentions, and after a few days, the queen mother is in a good mood, and I will re-crown your sisters as concubines." ”

Concubine Jin lowered her head and muttered: "The concubine's body is already ugly, and now there is no fat powder to embellish it, and the long live lord will hate the concubine even more." ”

Emperor Guangxu hugged her in his arms and said with a smile: "No matter how ugly you are, I will always come to you." The palace maid and eunuch next to him retreated in amusement.

The next day, Emperor Guangxu ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to allocate the fat powder money from the harem and the money for making clothes, totaling 110,000 taels of silver, to Lin Yuan.

The railway that Lin Yuan wanted to build was specially approved by Emperor Guangxu, so the procedures of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household were done without any hindrance, and when Lin Yuan came to Zhan Tianyou with the approval of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, Zhan Tianyou was completely stunned!

What surprised him even more was still behind, Lin Yuan handed him a complete set of information, writing the location of the railway in detail, Zhan Tianyou had long wanted to build a railway through the three provinces of Kanto, so he also paid more attention to the layout of the railway, he knew as soon as he saw Lin Yuan's information, the location of this railway is particularly good, even if he asked him to take someone to the field, I am afraid it will not reach such a level.

In Lin Yuan's world, there is a Beijing-Shenyang railway connecting Beijing and Shenyang, and the site selected by Lin Yuan to Zhan Tianyou is a copy of this railway, and the location of this railway was obtained through the painstaking efforts of countless technicians in New China.

Zhan Tianyou felt that the young man named Lin Yuan in front of him was simply unfathomable, and he had a little more respect for him in his heart, and he couldn't help but say: "Lord Lin, please rest assured, I will definitely complete the design of the other parts as soon as possible, but I don't know how you plan to transport the piers of the Ludao Railway Bridge to the Daling River?" ”

Lin Yuan didn't explain much, and said, "I have my own way." ”

As soon as Lin Yuan went home, someone came to report: Li Jingfang and Master Li held a banquet in Huaiyang Tower to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Lord Lin.

Lin Yuan didn't want to go, but after thinking about it, Li Jingfang must have come on behalf of Li Hongzhang, and he might get a lot of useful information if he went to take a look, so he went to the Huaiyang Building.

After arriving, Li Jingfang greeted him with a smile and said, "Brother Lin Xian, it's been a while since I returned to Beijing, and now I'm just washing the dust for Brother Xian, and I hope that Brother Xian is not strange." ”

The two exchanged a few polite words, the wine and food were put on the table, and the glass was changed a few times, Li Jingfang put down the wine glass, smiled heartily, and said: "Brother Lin Xian, it's not that the foolish brother intends to flatter, the foolish brother has lived for more than 40 years, and he has never seen such an immortal talent as you!" ”

Lin Yuan knew the way of humility in the officialdom, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Brother Li Xian is too modest, and he has the ability to ...... at this point."

Without waiting for Lin Yuan to finish speaking, Li Jingfang pressed his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Xian, your talent is above tens of thousands of people, but you have a little ......."

When Li Jingfang said this, he pointed to the door with his hand, and when Lin Yuan came, he saw that there were two attendants standing at the door, and Li Jingfang continued: "You are not as good as them." ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly said, "Isn't that what it is?" Brother Wangxian made it clear! ”

Li Jingfang said: "I heard that in order to repair the railway, you insisted on asking the emperor to take out the money in the palace and use it, when did we use the silver in the palace in the Qing Dynasty, you are amazing!" However, even if you build the railroad, there is nothing for you to transport. ”

Lin Yuan heard it in a fog, and he asked, "What does this mean?" ”

Li Jingfang said: "When you built the railway, didn't you want to transport grain and ammunition? But this grain from the thirteen warehouses of Jingtong, you can't transport a grain to the front line! ”

Jingtong thirteen warehouses refer to the thirteen large granaries in the capital and Tongzhou, the grain transported into Beijing by Jiangnan Cao in the Qing Dynasty will be transshipped in Tongzhou, so there are also granaries in Tongzhou.

Lin Yuan asked, "Why can't it be transported?" ”

Li Jingfang said: "This falls to the place where you are not as good as those subordinates, virtuous brother, this is the way of officials, you don't understand it at all!" Those officials who are jealous of you can let you get your grain out of the country? ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I was thinking about this problem when I came back, just right, let's see if Li Jingfang can give me some good ideas today." ”

Li Jingfang said: "It stands to reason that they shouldn't be jealous of you!" You won the battle, long live the lord is happy, this is a good saying, a companion is like a tiger, this tiger is happy, we are all at ease, but there is one point, Lin Yuan, you are too clean, they are afraid of you! ”

Without waiting for Lin Yuan to speak, Li Jingfang picked up a pair of ivory chopsticks, the chopsticks had not been used yet, they were white and bright, Li Jingfang looked at the pair of chopsticks and said: "Our Great Qing Kingdom, this ivory chopsticks are clean, and the rest, up to the first-class master, down to the master's soap, turn over the old accounts, which one doesn't have a mess?" ”

After speaking, Li Jingfang pointed at Lin Yuan with chopsticks, looking like he hated iron and steel, and said: "But you, as clean as this chopsticks, this Qing Dynasty, no one can tell where you came from, where your hometown is, what you have done before, you said that you have stayed abroad since childhood, so the previous things are naturally clean, after you came to the Qing Dynasty as an official, you will not accept gifts, visitors will all refuse, and you will not support your own power, just like the Qing official said in the play, exactly the same!" ”

"Think about it, can everyone not be afraid of you? The appearance of this official of the Great Qing Dynasty, can the saint not know the way? Of course, Zhilu Dao is just pasted with a layer of window paper, and no one pierces it. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Isn't there a speech official?" ”

Li Jingfang smiled: "Didn't I say it just now? No one is clean, so no one dares to poke that layer of window paper, but you are different, turn over the old accounts, only you are not afraid! If you say a few words in front of the Holy One, the seats that many people have worked so hard to climb for decades will be gone, and you say, can they make it smooth sailing for you? ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then if they don't transport food to me, wouldn't they have committed the mistake of dereliction of duty, and won't they also be punished?" ”

Li Jingfang said with a smile: "You don't understand this, there are more ways to prevaricate, for example, they said that when walking on the road, there is a big stone blocking the road, and you can't send someone there to see the stone!" Even if it is stabbed to the Long Live Lord, the Long Live Lord Long Yan is furious, but this Long Live Lord has a lot of opportunities, he can't see the sky and stare at this matter, this matter will fall to the Three Law Divisions, isn't there such a sentence? The emperor also has three poor relatives, this is said to be reversed, some of the poor people's relatives are emperors, mixed in the officialdom, who doesn't have a hand behind their backs! ”

"Your three law divisions are powerful, but you may be planted in the hands of others one day, so you have to keep a way back all the time to do things, and the three law divisions will change the case file when the time comes, and the big things will be small, and the small things will be turned into small things."

Lin Yuan asked, "Then according to Brother Xian's intentions, what should I do?" ”

Li Jingfang said: "You have to be a big corrupt official!" ”