25. Chain Reaction (5)
Zhang Peilun was grateful, and thanked him again and again, Li Hongzhang shook his head, "No need to do this, please sit down," he smiled at Zhang Peilun, "I'm not in a hurry here, I always want to go first, take the big seal, look at the situation of Zhili, and then ask for you to be transferred, so I asked you what you mean first." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Now there is a difficult thing for you to do," Li Hongzhang said, "Since I agreed to come to Zhili to help and call you to be young, it is naturally a matter of course." ”
"If the boss has an order, the student will not disobey," Zhang Peilun only felt full of ambition at this time, "Please show the boss." ”
"This matter was originally still confidential, but since I want your help, I naturally want to tell you that you are on an errand in the Ministry of War, and in the next round of North Korea's ordnance, I will ask the Ministry of War to allocate a part more, and I just don't care about the Hades or ghosts in the Ministry of War, and I will hand it over to you to deal with."
"Yes," this matter is not very difficult, but it is not easy, the armament allocated to the provinces has a fixed number every year, if it is not an emergency, it will not be increased, the situation in North Korea is a little troubled, but it is not enough to suddenly increase the dispatch, Li Hongzhang is obviously unwilling to directly trouble which former robe, now the big Sima Ronglu, just let Zhang Peilun come out, Zhang Peilun is on an errand in the military department, and he will deal with this matter, but it is also difficult, just Li Hongzhang said so, Zhang Peilun really couldn't think of why he wanted to increase his armaments, "It's just that the situation in North Korea, the students think that it is still stable, the Japanese dare not do anything to China, and now they are arrogant in Korea, but it is only the disadvantage of the chief officer's errand, the students read the Di Bao, Yuan Shikai, who had previously quelled the civil strife in Korea, went to Seoul again after recovering -- the old subordinates of the Huai Army of the old man are indeed very capable, and with him in Seoul, he will definitely be able to curb the arrogance of the Japanese." What's more, the boss is in charge of the Beiyang Naval Division, the Beiyang water giant boat is connected to the sea, the tonnage is the first in Asia, the fourth in the world, there is such a heavy weapon in the Beiyang, the Japanese can't make any big waves. ”
"Youqiao, you don't know anything," Li Hongzhang shook his head, "You said that the Beiyang Naval Division is powerful, but I have to tell you one thing, within three years, the Beiyang Naval Division will not add a warship!" ”
"What!" Zhang Peilun stood up in shock, "How can this be?" The list of warships compiled by the Ministry of War in the Beiyang Naval Division every year is to increase the number of warships, so how can it be possible not to add warships? He suddenly understood something, "Could it be that this old man entered the university just to inform him of this?" ”
Li Hongzhang nodded, and Zhang Peilun's angry voice was several tones higher, "Nonsense!" What a nonsense! Is it possible that the princes of the court and the central government are all wine bags and rice bags? The Nanyang Naval Division is far away in the sky, but what is the use of this Beiyang Naval Division at the door of the house, after so many years, the princes of the DPRK and the Central People, is it not as good as the storyteller there in the overpass to see it thoroughly? Guarding Gyeonggi, remotely controlling the East China Sea, and guarding the Yellow Sea, this is the task of the Beiyang Naval Division, and it is also the credit of the peace of the sea and frontier for so many years. This must not be left alone! ”
"I know your young temper, so I'll tell you first, so that you can be a little prepared," Li Hongzhang had already accepted this fact at this time, and his tone was very indifferent, "Don't make any impeachment because you don't know who brought this up." ”
Zhang Peilun looked at Li Hongzhang's expression, "What does the boss mean, you brought up this matter?" ”
"It's the old man's meaning, it must be the old man's meaning, young Qiao, do you understand?"
Zhang Peilun's mouth opened wide, and he looked at Li Hongzhang in disbelief, how could there be such a ridiculous thing, it actually happened in front of him, a non-yet ambitious governor of Zhili, the minister of Beiyang, actually wanted to take the Beiyang naval division with the heaviest authority in his hands first, and there would never be any new warships in the next three years!
This is really shocking, and this idea was proposed by Li Hongzhang himself, which is something that is even more difficult to accept.
Li Hongzhang didn't care about Zhang Peilun's expression, but he continued happily, "How to play this matter, and you have to work a lot of money, this time while the iron is hot, there is no need to invite you in the next post." ”
"Boss, this," Zhang Peilun was dumbfounded, he keenly grasped Li Hongzhang's sentence "It must be the old man's own idea", "Your excerpt is your original intention?" ”
"Naturally, it is my original intention, the DPRK and the Central Government lack a lot of finances, the Beiyang Naval Division is the bulk of the military spending, so naturally we have to reduce it slightly, and take the surplus silver to the South Seas to build our own warships, and after a few years, the new military police have been developed, and naturally it is used by the Beiyang first, but it is just difficult for two or three years, the difficulties in the DPRK and China, the old man is not considerate, who understands? Gong Zhong Tiguo, I asked myself if I commented on these four words, but I just can't let the other things of the Beiyang Naval Division," Li Hongzhang smiled, and didn't talk about it carefully, "Leave other things to Xingsun, since you are willing to go to Zhili as an errand, this is the first errand, but you have to help me do it." ”
Since it is a matter set by the upper peak, Zhang Peilun can only obey orders, although he does not think that the Beiyang Naval Division is already strong enough to not need new warships to join, he is the head of the four admonitions of the Hanlin Academy in the past, and the writing is the first in the Hanlin Academy, not the excerpt of his own intention, and he sprinkled thousands of words at once, of course, the Beiyang Naval Division is not the most powerful, nor does it mean that it does not need new warships to join, but according to Li Hongzhang's meaning, it is a little difficult to do without new warships to join this excerpt, Fortunately, there are Japan's 90 million tons of jumbo new warships that can be painted, and this can be used as a reason why the Beiyang Naval Division does not need new warships for the time being. There is a secret sarcasm in this excerpt, especially the Spring and Autumn Yin and Yang penmanship of the household department that is unwilling to squeeze the money and allocate money to the Beiyang Sailors, Li Hongzhang was originally very unhappy with Yan Jingming, and Hu Xueyan who made money, so that he even eliminated and beat, Piri Yangqiu, which was very much in line with Li Hongzhang's appetite, and he nodded again and again, "Okay, Youqiao, your pen is much more powerful!" ”
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