This is very short-sighted, Rao is Li Hongzhang admires Yan Jingming for presiding over the central finance, and he has fully supported the Beiyang Naval Division before, but at this time he is still very annoyed, "What is the military strength of the Beiyang Naval Division, Yan Zhongtang is probably not clear, if it is in front of the vassal states, it is naturally standing up to the sky, but if it is in front of the Western countries, it is not enough, Lord Yan, you probably don't know why the battle of Vietnam was able to win completely?" He took the bowl to the Empress Dowager Cixi and threw it away, "Naturally, the most important thing is that thanks to the Empress Dowager's strategizing, the work of going south to supervise the war, and the fighting spirit of the new army sailors is high, which is also the reason, but you are afraid that you have forgotten one thing, I live in East Asia in the Qing Dynasty, far away from the French mainland, and the legal person cannot come to attack me with the strength of the country, which is also a factor in victory, have you seen this?" The strength of our Beiyang Navy Division is not higher than the French navy, just because we go all out, and the French prefer the division to attack, if we thought so before, it would be fine, we have the French warship technology, and we know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, hehe, can Lord Yan still think like this now? ”

Yan Jingming turned a deaf ear to Li Hongzhang's sneer, he just said lightly, "How big a person's belly is, how big a meal to eat, all the undertakings of the imperial court, are to be weighed and planned, although I am not as proficient in military affairs as Lord Li, so many things in the world, so many departments, are to reach out from the household department to ask for silver, you are not in the center, naturally I don't know, the center is to be balanced, if you give the silver to the Beiyang sailors, how can all the errands go hand in hand?" The knife in his hand is heavy and sharp enough, but if the person holding the knife is weak, what should it be? What's more, isn't the household department just going to the Beiyang Sailor on an errand! ”

Li Hongzhang's face flushed, "You! ”

The two of them went toe-for-tat and did not back down from each other, and they made a real fuss, Li Hongzhang was about to ridicule each other, and the Empress Dowager Cixi hurriedly said, "Okay!" ”

The two immediately stopped talking and listened to the Queen Mother, "They are all high-ranking officials of the national dynasty at the level of prime ministers, why are they still bickering?" Such a good dragon well before the rain, why can't you stop your mouth? ”

"The ministers are out of order, please ask the Queen Mother to surrender. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "Yan Jingming has the qualification to satirize Li Hongzhang is not in the center, in the past, Bao Jun was a capable person in the household department, but he himself was not clean, so he always turned a blind eye to the behavior of stealing chickens and dogs from the people below, but Yan Jingming was different, when he arrived at the household department, he repeatedly sang against Bao Jun, and later joined the direct military aircraft and became Zaifu, and acted more vigorously, Su Shun is the most terrifying, but among the people who are on an errand in the household department, Yan Jingming's nickname is "King Yama", this reputation is much more difficult to listen to than Su Shun, He is also the kind of technical bureaucrat, who only looks at the direction and dynamics of money, has little interest in political disputes, and is fearless in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi, he has always said something, he just looks at how the silver in the treasury is used best, how to use it best to play a role, this is the principle that he adheres to the direction of all appropriations, in his words, "whether it is a railway or a sailor, whether it is important or not, I don't need to care, these specific things, the relevant person in charge cares about is, I only need to examine whether the appropriation is appropriate." ”

Li Hongzhang is naturally not inferior, in his opinion, Yan Jingming is just proficient in financial planning, he doesn't know what the overall situation is, if the sailor is not important, I am afraid that Jiangnan has been in ruins, even if there is more silver at that time, it will not be able to make up for the loss here, Yan Jingming is the kind of person who is short-sighted. The two of them were originally very vigorous, faintly facing each other in the Dongnuan Pavilion, although they did not look at each other angrily, they were divided into courts, and they were evenly divided, but suddenly the Empress Dowager Cixi spoke, but it was just a few idle words, and the momentum of the two people suddenly disappeared without a trace, and they leaned over together to obey orders.

"Here, the difficulties of the center also have to take into account one or two, Shaoquan," Yan Jingming said for so long, the Empress Dowager Cixi did not refute, Li Hongzhang could probably guess the attitude of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and she probably also thought that the Beiyang Naval Division needed to suspend the investment of funds, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but lose his words and said, "Xisheng ....."

"You listen to me first," the Queen Mother waved her hand, "The difficulty of the center is temporary, and you can't have both, this truth, you don't need me to say that you also understand, the difficulty of the center," she held her leg and stood up, "It's that there is not much silver, originally there were several banks in Britain and France that wanted to lend us money, the first one, we lacked a lot of silver, and they were afraid that they would not be able to help; Second, their intention to borrow money is not simple, not to make interest with us, but, "The Empress Dowager Cixi stood in front of a pot of orchids, placed the leaves of the orchids, her movements were gentle, but her eyes showed a very cold light, "You want our lifeline." ”

Westerners go there, when they are the same virtue, this era is like this, the future plane era is also like this, there has never been a simple economic aid, this is of course normal, but there is no normal economic loan borrowing behavior, this is really too much to say, Western countries, especially Britain and France, these countries not only need to pay high interest, but also have to pay a lot of diplomacy or tariffs as a price, it is possible to borrow and loans, And will take the opportunity to meddle in internal affairs, pointing at domestic affairs, please, the Empress Dowager Cixi just wants to borrow money, not for a few emperors to come back and serve them.

What the British want most is the right to build railways around the country, and this right to build is nothing, what the British want is to use British loans to pay for these British companies that build railways, so that Britain is equal to the actual money, but China is in debt, of course, this kind of trick will be used by every country, and in Africa in the future, a country will use it very easily, but there should be no additional conditions for construction, such as reducing the width of the track without authorization, changing it to the width of the British standard, or only using the steel rails produced in the United Kingdom, and the need to piggyback on separate trading rights at some ports and special approval procedures for lower tariffs, which are very objectionable.

It's really not wrong to take other people's hands and soft mouths, so the government has never borrowed, and the private side has heard that the cost of borrowing is also very high, and there is no prohibition on the business side, after all, when it comes to opening up, the access to the banking industry still has to be agreed.

In addition, if all their money pours into China, it will be a repeat of the story of the US imperialists printing US dollars. (To be continued.) )