"Just stop here. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. "Here? The driver glanced at the Prime Minister's Palace, which was close at hand, and frowned, I don't know why Li Xiufeng chose to park here, according to his current status as the royal governor, let alone park the car at the door of the Prime Minister's Palace, even if he drove in directly, I am afraid that no one will stop him.

Li Xiufeng didn't care, although his identity was special, and he could even go to meet the prime minister directly, but he was not an official after all, and the emperor had always disliked the people around him to be too public, especially after ascending the throne, even Fang Boqian, who was the abbot, resigned from the post of naval supervisor, lived behind the scenes and started a chain of hotels called "Joy" with his help.

So he still chose to stop a few steps away from the Prime Minister's Office and walk in as a sign of respect for the Prime Minister and state organs.

The Prime Minister's Mansion is not far from Huayuan" is a huā garden house that was rebuilt and expanded on the basis of a huā garden house given to Li Lianying by Xishang filial piety, and it is said to be rebuilt, but in fact, the internal buildings are basically built" beyond the thick black iron fence gate, which is a large huā garden full of Chinese garden atmosphere.

The asphalt road goes around a large circle along the small artificial lake in the middle, and the road surface is cleaned by craftsmen, and although the surface of the lake next to it is frozen and looks a little dull, the few tall green pines transplanted to the lake are becoming more and more green in this monotony.

As the core of the national government, the vermilion gate, the green tiles and stone sorghum, and the high raised eaves are all full of oriental style, but in terms of structure, they have a lot of Western-style buildings.

As soon as he walked into the door, the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office recognized the young chief of the royal family, and hurriedly smiled and poured tea and water for him, this enthusiasm made Li Xiufeng a little cramped, originally wanted to see Li Enfu as soon as possible to do the things explained by the emperor, but he didn't expect that the prime minister was in a meeting, so he had to find a place to sit quietly and wait.

His approach "made many staff members of the Prime Minister's Office who came in and out of the palace can't help but have a lot of good feelings for the big celebrities around the emperor."

In the banquet, Li Enfu didn't know that Li Xiufeng was waiting for him outside, but even if he knew, he probably didn't have the heart to see him immediately, because he was going crazy with this telegram from the south, and even the other two people in the conference room kept sighing "with sad faces at the telegram".

It has been two months since the recovery of the southeast, and the countdown to the United States has begun, but this good period is approaching "the moment when the country is about to be unified", and the prime minister's office is full of gloom.

Two months ago, "The Emperor" we, stood up. After the article was reprinted by newspapers around the country, it not only stabilized the old and young in the south, but also inspired the morale of the people of all ethnic groups in the country.

But seeing these more and more review documents, not to mention Li Enfu, even Rong Yu and Liang Dunyan, who were sitting in the conference room at the moment, were a little big, and it was a good thing that the country was about to be reunified in the southeast, but these plans and documents really overwhelmed the three of them.

After sending away batch after batch of young officials who had been trained in the past few years, he "did not expect that in addition to getting the provincial, county, and municipal government agencies in various places to improve day by day," he also brought back telegrams such and such as the railway plan and the urgent need for such and such a project, and these telegrams almost without exception asked for money.

Although the three people present here are the prime minister, the speaker of parliament and the minister of finance, and they seem to belong to different countries, after Hua established the constitution, "according to the constitution, "the financial power belongs to the parliament, and the government has no money", but the parliament does not have the right to money, and even the annual expenses of the parliament must be reported to the government first, and the government proposes a general budget every year and the parliament approves and approves.

This regulation was summed up by Li Mo on the basis of the experience of financial management in the United States in later generations, that is, one uses money and the other manages money, and the two must be combined to be implemented, so that officials in both the provincial government and the prime minister's office "have no money in their hands, and the opportunity to tap into the state's property to enrich their own pockets will be reduced."

Of course, this is just a means, and it cannot completely eliminate corruption and bribery in the future, but something is better than nothing, the real thing is Tan Si and the **** official is establishing the ** judicial system supervision and the future of the two parties to check and balance each other, plus Li Mo's thinking is very clear, being an official belongs to high welfare, but don't think about getting rich, you can go into business if you want to get rich.

However, because the country has just been reunified, many things are not perfect, and in order to concentrate on the use of the few resources at hand, it is basically necessary to use money that the three of them discuss it, but the three of them are all people who are dedicated to the country.

But the problem is that "the three of them are not tricksters, and they can't make money empty-handed!"

A collection of telegrams, in the eyes of the three of them have become a reminder, so that the three of them are afraid to go out, because as soon as they go out, they will definitely meet the heads of the Ministry of Construction or the Ministry of Industry and other departments, all of whom are debt collectors!

"Prime Minister, why don't you stop the two follow-up battleships first, so that you can get about 30 million out of it, and start the construction of these railways first." Liang Dunyan really had no choice, so he had to focus on the next two battleships of the Navy that had been allocated.

"No."

Rong Kui took the lead and shook his head, he is known as the nephew of Rong Kui, known as the "father of Chinese students", and is also the first batch of young children to study in the United States, but unlike Li Enfu, his career is relatively smooth, after graduation, he worked in a magazine and newspaper in New York for a few years, and married an American girl who had been in love for ten years, and later entered the Consulate General in New York.

But he is different from Li Enfu, "not so upright, plus he has been dealing with Americans and diplomacy for a long time, "very familiar with American laws and the political systems of various countries", and he did not agree with Li Mo at first, until the Chinese army entered the three northeastern provinces, and after building a lot of construction and developing industry and commerce, showing a lot of vitality, he came to China with Lin Lianhui, "and because he was familiar with the political systems of various countries, he entered the Legislative Committee of the Government House at that time, and played a key role in drafting the constitution." (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

The difference between him and Li Enfu is that he has a relatively mild personality, and although he often advocates a diplomatic solution, "but he is a staunch supporter of the navy, and also attaches great importance to the research and development of various technologies, and one advocates that China should build a large navy, so he is the speaker of the House of Lords, and the military welcomes it."

Therefore, when he heard Liang Dunyan say that he wanted to reduce the military expenditure on the construction of battleships, he hurriedly shook his head: "Because in the recent war, it can be seen that although China has technological advantages in some aspects, the first generation of equipment is basically under construction, and it is not yet possible to turn technological advantages into victories, not to mention that it will face the Russians in a few years, so the speed of replacement cannot be stopped."

Li Enfu also did not approve of the cost of cutting and building ships, not only because it was his pro-general staff. promised, because the European talk has sounded that "China must not be weak at this time, even if it grits its its teeth, it must maintain a capable navy."

Those who manage the money and those who use the money do not agree" The Minister of Finance has no problem, so Liang Dunyan can only continue to meditate with his fingers crossed, and he can still dig money out of there.

But the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, the profits he had obtained when he speculated in the south were basically exhausted by the ten capital ships of the navy, and now China's annual taxes are only 60 million" plus the emerging industrial and commercial income in the north, "the total income is about 100 million", several large overseas enterprises controlled by the government can bring about 200 million yuan a year, "the gold income is also 80 million, but the deficit is still very large" If it weren't for the small treasury of the Manchu magnates that year, they saved some money, plus they also reserved some in Honolulu a few years ago, Maybe the government is bankrupt by now.

It is feasible to reduce the annual financial investment of 500 million yuan, but the problem is that this is basic investment, China is originally an agricultural country, and infrastructure construction has been stagnant for hundreds of years.

What's more, infrastructure construction and industrial and commercial construction are different, only when the infrastructure is perfected, "can well guide the development of industry and commerce, or you let a northerner take the Shu Road to the resource-rich four "investment" It is estimated that people will retract when they see the road, "not to mention the distant Yunnan and Guizhou provinces."

Therefore, the investment of 500 million yuan is not much, if it is really counted, the three of them even feel that it is too little, if they are being cut, let alone them, I am afraid that those young officials who have just arrived in the place "have been instigated by the emperor to do a good job and have been working hard for ten years, will roll up their sleeves and come to force the palace."

Bitter, it's not good to have no money!

"By the way, do you think Borneo can use your brains?" Li Enfu's eyes lit up," he said.

What is the brains of "Borneo"? Enfu, you don't want to sell the above mineral resources to private individuals, right? This can't be done, the emperor said that you can't move those things if you don't have money! ”

Liang Dunyan also looked at Li Enfu with a surprised face, you must know that in terms of mineral resources, Li Mo has made strict instructions, and when Li Enfu swore in to become the prime minister, he was required to make strict guarantees, that is, all scarce, related to the national economy and people's livelihood, or resources that can have a significant impact on the international market must be state-owned, and must not be allowed to be operated by individuals!

Although Borneo is far away, it has a large number of gold, "oil, coal, diamond", copper and other resources, except for coal, pot soil and so on, all others are listed as important resources, especially copper, gold and diamond "are scarce resources, can never be moved, so Hui Rong stood up anxiously, but Li Enfu saw that the two of them were anxious, and hurriedly beckoned him to sit down, and said with a smile: "Brother Zanyu, don't worry" Listen to me finish speaking. ”

After Rong Yu sat down, Li Enfu said slowly, "Do you remember the land turmoil that we just took over Borneo? I mean, now that the army has basically controlled the situation, "the remaining natives are not much of a threat, so we might as well ...... Old"

Rong Kui and Liang Dunyan looked at each other, and immediately exclaimed loudly, "When Borneo first started the war", many plantation owners came to ask if the local land would be sold, and although the army was still there to clean up, "the natives have been greatly weakened, and it is time to go on a large-scale colonization."

Borneo is not rich in land, but it is attractive because it is used to grow rubber, tobacco and sugar cane, and if you can burn a few handfuls of sharp points in newspapers, the landlords who have lost large tracts of land in the country will definitely look at it.

Not only did buying and selling land bring back a lot of money, but the important thing was that these plantation owners and ranchers would not go alone at all" so that a large-scale transfer of people from the country was almost certain, and so that a wave of immigration was formed, and as long as the number of Chinese reached a certain level, Borneo could no longer be separated from China!

After all, it is far away from China, and the Chinese people love the land, especially the people in the interior are rarely willing to leave their homes, so it is not enough to absorb so much land on the Luzon side, and when the landlords in China begin to pay attention to "After the inspection is over, it will be another year or two, but at the moment, it will be a lot of money, and I can't afford to wait!"

"Then issue Treasury bonds!" Rong Yu suggested.

This is a good solution, but the last time the country issued it, if it continues to be issued, it will definitely cause the people to worry about the government's finances, which is not good.

After thinking about it, the three of them didn't have a good way" Li Enfu had to knock on the table, first let people pour a glass of water to continue to think of a way, after the secretary poured the water and went in again, he saw that there was no sign of the meeting, and thought of Li Xiufeng, who had been waiting outside for a long time, and hurriedly said: "Prime Minister, the head of the royal family has been waiting outside for a long time, do you want to meet him first?" ”

"Xiufeng? What is he here for? "I don't know" just said that the emperor asked him to bring you something from the well. ", the secretary said immediately.

"Something? Could it be .......

"Liang Dunyan and Rong Kuo's breathing suddenly became short, that is the largest concubine in Hua" PS Could it be that the emperor knows about the financial difficulties and wants to subsidize them.

When Li Xiufeng came in, the three of them were immediately disappointed: "The emperor did send wealth, he handed over the Taiwan shipyard and steel factory to the Prime Minister's Office in the form of donations, and prepared to merge them into the southern industrial system, but the problem is that this is a factory, not cash, what is the use?"

"Xiufeng, where is the emperor now?"

Seeing the sad faces of the three of them," Li Xiufeng faintly guessed something, and said, "The emperor is probably in Shanghai at this time, and he is discussing the formation of Jiangnan Industrial Group with Lord Huang Chen. ”

Seeing that a few people were getting more and more sullen, Li Xiufeng smiled and continued: "In addition, the emperor asked me to tell you, "Don't always focus on gold" The gold standard does need gold to be able to issue enough currency, but the index of whether a country is rich is not only how much gold it has.

The emperor said that "whether private capital can grow" is an important indicator of whether a country's economy is active, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty left a thin foundation, but it does not mean that there is no bottom, "there are still many landlords and rich people all over the country", and the prime minister's office should find a way to guide them to industrial and commercial investment, and can use the method of splitting shares to distribute some money-making projects and ordinary resources to them, so that they can see the benefits and bring more people to participate, and the government only needs to ensure some large and important state-owned enterprises.

As for bonds, there is no need to stick to the domestic market, Germany and Italy both gave some messages during the last emperor's foreign visit, saying that they can give us a certain amount of government bonds in their countries for financing, "The country is poor, but there is money abroad, so we can't keep staring at gold mines, these things" Only by flowing capital, the economy can be developed. Li Enfu is the only one who secretly guessed the reason why Li Mo went to Shanghai to engage in an industrial group despite this financial crisis, he still wants the Prime Minister's Office to learn as much as possible, and he can't always rely on him to help" But he also has to admit that at this stage, Li Mo still has more opinions and methods than them, such as going abroad to issue bonds, they didn't think of it, and it seems that the matter of raising money just now with a sad face "When it comes to the emperor's mouth, it seems to be a trivial matter."

It's just that he knows that although Young Master Li doesn't know much about finance, he has seen a lot of capital games beyond this era in his previous life, and these are just small skills.

When Li Enfu and the others began to study the messages and methods brought by Li Xiufeng, Li Mo had already lived in the former British Club on the Bund, "This large building full of British style has now been bought by him and has become a property of the royal family in Shanghai."

Of course, Li Mo did not think of building this place into a private residence, but planned to make it a luxury hotel, but now he can go and enjoy the usual leisure and entertainment of English gentlemen.

But when I got off the boat and slept peacefully, there was already a shouting outside.

"Your Majesty, the old dragon has given you an early greeting!"

"Your Majesty, you have greatly increased my prestige, a sonorous remark that shook the four fields!"

"Stand up, Luo Zhonghua finally stood up again!"

"Haha......."

"And ah, even those head shaving masters are full of praise, saying that you wrote an article, but it made them rich."

Early in the morning, "Long Guozhang took Zhao Long out of nowhere, followed Li Mo's side, dodging left and right to avoid a strong sycophant" Especially the latter sentence, Huang Chen, who came to discuss the formation of the Southern Industrial Group, couldn't help but laugh "Sure enough, when Long Guozhang wanted to say more, Young Master Li had already turned his head with a black face.

What does it mean to make the head shaving master praise.?

Is this a compliment?!

Yes, my own sentence, "a braid" bound for hundreds of years", it has indeed caused a lot of resonance, and even set off a craze for braiding in various parts of the south, even many old people have cut off their braids, and now they go to Shanghai and Guangzhou Street to see, full of bald heads.

This is a good thing", but the question is, what does this have to do with the young master?

When the head shaver gets rich, he will be able to contribute to the finances?

"Long Guozhang, I didn't see that you, the commander of the navy, are quite eloquent." Li Mo asked with a black line hanging from his forehead: "This is the New Year, and your navy doesn't have a show?" If you're really fine, you can oversee the construction of those warships! By the way, I didn't give me the summary report after the last war, is it out? ”

Long Guozhang didn't seem to see Li Mo's face, and continued to ramble: "How could there be no show!" After the New Year's goods were purchased, they had already been sent to the troops on the ship, Chen Ping and Yan Fu sent a telegram of condolences to all the troops, and Xiaozeng also personally took people to Daxia "As for those warships, isn't it still early" My old dragon is not the kind of person who is in a hurry. "Come on! Zhao Long smiled" and said: "Last time I was there, didn't you still nag that the Prime Minister's appropriation was not timely, and the two battleships in the back arrived a month late." ”

"Who said that? Says who! Long Guozhang's face turned green, and he hurriedly waved his hand: "Your Majesty" You can't listen to Zhao Long's nonsense, he married his daughter-in-law and forgot his mother, and he was well fed by his own army, "Who cares about the life or death of our navy!" "Look, we have suffered a lot of losses this time, and we haven't reaped any benefits" Your Majesty, can you consider building us another seventeen or eighteen submarines? This thing is not expensive, the price of a maximum of two destroyers "and the effect is great, think about it!" "Don't think about it! ”

Li Mo directly kicked away the commander of the navy who wanted to climb up the pole, "Seventeen or eighteen, it's a shame that he dares to speak, and in fact, submarines are not cheap, especially the thing called pressure-resistant shells" It's hard to get, in order to build submarines, there were no less than dozens of hydraulic presses and other large forging machines of 5,000 tons alone.

But that's good, the machines that were bought everywhere back then are now almost eaten by the equipment department, and several machinery factories are now starting to imitate, but this can't be your cheap borrowing. Yes!

Moreover, just four battleships and four heavy cruisers have already made the Prime Minister's Office sad, "The important thing is that these eight big guys are very steel-consuming, and at the moment when the domestic construction continues to be steel, it will already make people feel sorry for PS, if it weren't for the start of the Maoshan Iron Mine, if it wasn't for the construction of blast furnaces and steel plants everywhere in the past two years, it would be able to afford such consumption!"

I knew that this guy didn't have a good heart, "I ran to Shanghai and pulled Zhao Long to offer his hospitality early in the morning, saying that he wanted to pay tribute to his early years, and he really had a plan."

Li Mo didn't pay attention to him, and continued the topic just now and asked: "Chen, ignore him, continue to say how are you going to deal with the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant?" ”

Seeing that the goal was not achieved, Long Guozhang, who was a little bored and was just about to pull Zhao Long away, heard these two names, and his ears were erected again, and he hurriedly said: "Yes, these are two treasures, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has always been a good shipyard in the Qing Dynasty, and it can also build naval guns, and it has built thousand-ton cruisers before, and Hanyang Ironworks is a large steel plant in the south, if it can be quickly integrated, hehe......." ”

"Hehe,!" Li Mopi twitched the corners of his mouth twice without smiling: "Then how many ship-building bases does your navy have?" Isn't that what you think? "No, of course not, if the country is initially decided, it is a critical moment when it is necessary to develop the economy, how can our navy embezzle so many resources!" Seeing Li Mo and Huang Chen looking at him at the same time, "Long Guozhang hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, which made Zhao Long on the side cry and laugh" But to be honest, he also admires this guy, at least the officers and sailors below like this commander who puts everything in the bowl.

"What Commander Long thinks, only you know." After several years of training, Huang Chen is already the Minister of Industry and Commerce, and he is an old acquaintance with Long Guozhang, so he can't help but smile: "But there is one thing Commander Long, you are not wrong, the integration of resources in the south is imminent, there are three manufacturing bureaus on the southeast coast, Jiangnan "Fujian and Guangzhou, in addition to Hanyang" is not as large as the north, but the layout is already very good. ”

"Your Majesty, what you said in the article is right, although Li Hongzhang and they were unsuccessful," but at least they left us a southeast that was not very good, which was much stronger than the three northeastern provinces at that time. ”

Huang Chen's words made Li Mo nod his head constantly, it seems that this young minister of industry and commerce really did not choose the wrong person, although the several provinces under the mutual protection of the southeast have been blackmailed by Britain and France, but the bottom is still there, compared to the three northeastern provinces that he entered back then.

"In my opinion, since the emperor has a northern heavy industry, it is better to eat these few and build a southern heavy industry, which will also facilitate the allocation of resources." As soon as Zhao Long finished speaking, Long Guozhang also nodded greatly, "Instead, Li Mo shook his head."

You must know that the royal family's property is enough, if you get these few in the south to get down, "basically monopolize China's heavy industry, although he can guarantee himself, but not can guarantee Sun, not to mention that monopoly is not a good thing, the rampant plutocratic trust in the United States has already explained the problem, but if these few are scattered, it is undoubtedly a waste of resources that are not abundant at present, not to mention that the thinking of building a super enterprise with world influence has been influencing him in the future."

So he immediately said: "Zhao Long's idea is good, but I think it's better for me not to interfere, and it's better for your Ministry of Industry and Commerce to take over." ”

"With the state holding, the three major manufacturing bureaus in Jiangnan, Fujian, and Guangzhou and the Hanyang Ironworks will be integrated together, and in addition, I plan to take out the Taipei shipyard and the steel mill as well, and build three other steel plants in Changxing Island, Hainan, and Guangdong in Shanghai, and merge them all to form the Jiangnan Manufacturing Group.

"That's great" so that the resources of the south can be used to a large extent without wasting, and the iron ore we get from Borneo "Luzon" can also be directly transported to the south for smelting without having to be transported to the north for processing, which not only saves freight, but also improves efficiency. ”

"Still." Huang Chen glanced at Li Mo and looked embarrassed: "Your Majesty, the two enterprises in Taiwan are enterprises under the name of the royal family, and the construction of three steel plants and the three shipbuilding bureaus also have to carry out technology and expand the scale, which is a relatively large expense." ”

"Well, I've thought about that."

"It's okay in Taiwan, I have more properties under my name, and I don't care about those two, I have asked Li Xiufeng to bring the land deeds and transfer procedures of the two factories to Li Enfu, as for the money." Li Mo thought for a while and said: "I will ask Xiufeng to help the Prime Minister's Office take out the money that Jiangnan Industrial Group needs in the form of a loan, and then return it to me when the government has money in the future." ”

"Your Majesty, can our navy also borrow some from you?" , Long Guoping saw the opportunity and hurriedly got on the donkey.

"Fuck off. You think I'm a landlord! Do you know how much I spend in a month? The monthly maintenance fee for the huā garden, the summer palace and the Forbidden City alone is no less than 100,000! ”

"It's only 100,000."

Long Guozhang muttered in a low voice, Young Master Li is indeed not a landlord, because he has only encircled some land in Australia, Borneo, Luzon and other open seas, and there is not a single acre in the country, but there is no arable land and he is not poor, and the fifty tons of gold brought back by the three major gold mines alone are eye-popping and death" And I heard Fu Bo say that Ren was not only making a lot of money in rubber speculation, but also sent people to Myanmar and Thailand to mine gem mines, "Recently, a diamond mine was discovered in Australia!"

Grandma, gems! Diamond!

He Young Master Li dug east and west before, "he got a lot of treasures from overseas and Manchu treasure houses, and now he is digging treasures all over the world", I don't know if the warehouse at home is enough.

"Muttering about what?" Li Mo glared at Long Guozhang, who was full of grievances, and spread his hands: "I'll tell you" Don't even think about it, for your eight capital ships, the Prime Minister's Mansion is bankrupt! After driving Long Guozhang away, Li Mo immediately threw himself into the plan to integrate the Southern Industrial Group with Huang Chen, until Duan Fei knocked on the door with a telegram, and suddenly found that he had put the chaos in his work.

The century has quietly arrived in the day of lack of money.

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