240 Wind, Bull and Horse (Part 1)
"Stone?" Anqi was stunned.
"Shitou? Mr. Zhong, you are the number one person in Western learning in the empire. Is it so difficult this time?" Yi Cheng was also surprised.
Zhong Jialiang sneered and said, "The meat is too big, all surrounded by red-eyed wolves. Without stones in his hand, you can't break a bloody road. Haijing is full of gold, but none of them can be picked up for free!..."
Then he turned his head and looked at An Qi and said, "This time is different than before. Tiehe is always considered an economic field. In this field, our big businessmen were arguing with the court, but this time the army suddenly rushed in with great momentum, and it seemed that they were about to turn against Xu Chengyue's civil servant group.
They seem to have kept all the contributions to promoting the railway industry on their own, and they always say Prussia…………….”
Angel slapped her thighs and shouted: "This group of scumbags in my grass army! Prussia defeated France is their bird business! Did they go to Europe to participate in the war or what? Do they dare to gild their faces? The French-Prussian war fought to hold French thighs tightly. How come they crawled along the pole and hugged Prussian thighs? Do they have a little knightly ethics?"
Based on his professionalism, Yi Cheng asked Zhong Jialiang: "Mr. Zhong, do you see the Army have a chance this time? Xu Travel and Industry Department has been operating the railway industry and has a deep foundation."
Zhong Jialiang snorted disdainfully and said, "Deep? What's the deepest? Isn't it just a 500-kilometer railway? Or was it just a few years ago that he barely even connected to Ganzhou. When he bragged, he only dared to say that the East Asia Railway was the longest, not Asia: because even compared with Russia and India, our railway mileage could not even be followed. This time, no one expected that His Majesty's heart was so strong in building a railway, and he spit out the "Iron River"
The Great Leap Forward, five words. These five words appeared for the first time at the imperial meeting. I heard that all the participants were shocked. Then the army quickly intervened and promoted the construction of railways. The civil servants of the court began to divide the mountain into groups around this piece of fat. In other words, this was an unexpected event. Everyone was not prepared enough and there was no one in advance. "So this situation is now where various groups are crazy about fat."
"Yes! The national policy is tilted into railways! 10,000 liang of investment! How dare Your Majesty think?! There was no wind at all before!." Yi Cheng said in shock. Although he heard Zhong Jialiang mention this just now, his long-term experience and accumulation quickly made him know what happened and what would happen in the future.
"Your Majesty's thoughts are too difficult to guess. Now I think about it." He had long been thinking about doing railways, otherwise why did he ask me to help Weng Jianguang? Who doesn't know that Weng Jianguang is a country gangster?! You know, no! If I were to do railways, the mileage would now be four times more than Songyou's ferroelectric powers! The reason why he remained silent was that he had no money and was afraid that the great powers would control the railways, and the folk culture hated the railways. Therefore, he let Weng Jianguang, the idiot, not raise funds for his own selfish interests, slowly move forward, and help him repair all the way and fight lawsuits and suppress them. Ten years have passed." The people finally understood that "the idiot Weng Jianguang did not raise funds for his own selfish interests.
What is this Western thing? It turns out that the east wind of the French-Popular War is coming. "The balanced pattern of the original powers has completely broken down, and the great powers have rebalanced their influence around the world. This will help the empire to carry out large-scale international lending without having to sell out sovereignty. At this time, he revealed his true thoughts. Now the people will no longer be afraid of railways! The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also has more bargaining chips to bargain with France, Britain and Prussia..." Zhong Jialiang said with admiration: "For cultural identity, the day of sovereignty and security." Although our Majesty has long been ambitious to follow the infrastructure of the powers, he can endure it for ten years without hesitation!"
"But you're so fat, Weng Jianguang! In this kind of dark and bright pot, how could he kick us out like this ingratitude!" Yi Cheng roared angrily.
"I'm still fat for the army's corrupt officials!" An Qi shouted quickly, then put her head in front of Zhong Jialiang, and asked seriously: "The group of civil servants in the Ministry of Works is not easy to deal with. How do the Army plan to grab meat?"
Zhong Jialiang leaned his body slightly backward, and the back of his head was almost touching the balcony copper railing. He was afraid that he would be left with his limbs again. He looked at An Qi and said, "The Army seems to have received guidance from experts this time. Their excuse is that the project is too large, and the construction of the Songyou Railway Electric family is afraid that it will not be able to achieve the strength. "Impact efficiency: Moreover, the court seeks Qian Weng Jianguang to repair it, and this time is wasted. The dying Song Zuo and Song Bei should restart the dying two railway companies, "not the court will mobilize and deploy funds, but more people will participate in this project together." More channels will be used to find money, and the flowers must bloom together, and go hand in hand, with multiple sources and strengths."
Speaking of this, Zhong Jialiang raised his finger and turned around in the air, saying, "This reason is very reasonable, very powerful, enough to affect Tianting. This is breaking Xu's plan to cross the road. They don't say that your plan is not good, but that this plan has some problems and needs to be considered from another direction. This is robbing the dominance of the Gods. So I come to the Navy. After all, you are equally important to the Army in the eyes of His Majesty. Do you have such an excuse..."
Angel was still blinking, and Yi Cheng next to him interrupted urgently: "Mr. Zhong, have you contacted Song Bei and Song Zuo? Can you enter through them?"
Zhong Jialiang sighed: "Yiliang! They have already taken the Army's elephant legs. Do you care about my little slim legs like me? Alas..."
Yi Cheng also lowered his head and sighed silently. Zhong Jialiang didn't need to explain it thoroughly. He understood everything: In fact, when talking about the railway just now, Zhong Jialiang's words were true and false. Even if the foreign medicine guild came to build the railway for Weng Jianguang, it might not be able to reach 2,000 kilometers. This work was definitely a dirty job at the beginning. It was necessary for the underworld to bully the weak. It was really difficult for the scumbags who had worked in the underworld to deal with those unruly people. It was really hard to deal with the unruly people. It was really embracing "As long as I get rich, I can dig your ancestors."
Tomb, it has nothing to do with destroying your Feng Shui. I am working. Those who are a little kind often resign in tears. In traditional culture, building a railway is a sin. Zhong Jialiang foresees in the railways also underestimated the emperor's ambitions. He always thought that one section after another, ten kilometers and ten kilometers of squeezing forward like acne was correct. Therefore, Zhong Jialiang devoted himself to Weng Jianguang, who was more favored in the three major railway companies, and wanted to get some benefits from him.
Doing this way will definitely offend the other two railway companies. They see that Zhong Jialiang is Weng Jianguang's dark backstage. Facing the shameless and despicable Weng Jianguang, the two of them are too late to hide from Zhong Jialiang, so how could they have a friendship?
Now the emperor suddenly revealed his true intention: the intention of the alliance is not to squeeze acne, but to jump forward! Everyone was stunned: but some people were shocked and stupid. Some people were laughing and stupid: Zhong Jialiang is the former, but Weng Jianguang is the latter: With a bigger financial backer, he of course immediately kicked away Kaizi Zhong Jialiang, who wanted to make some money, and devoted himself to Xu Zhiyue's arms: the other two railway companies also held the army's thighs, and wanted to share the pie. Only Zhong Jialiang was kicked away alone.
Two guys who understand the dirty political activities of Jinquan looked at each other and sighed. An Qi next to him was stunned. He reached out to hold Zhong Jialiang's thin shoulders and asked with a shake, "Mr. Zhong, what excuses are you talking about? Can you explain more, as long as the navy has them, I will give them to you!"
Zhong Jialiang was helpless and embarrassed to acknowledge that this guy had learned bad things from foreigners, and liked to catch people's limbs at any time. He patiently explained: "Excuses" that you can say that the two plans of Army or Xu Shiyue have wrong or lack of consideration, and you should do this. "Anyway, just make Your Majesty's eyes lit up..."
"We are the navy! The railway is here!" An Qi let go of Zhong Jialiang and shouted helplessly.
Zhong Jialiang and Yi Cheng looked at each other and calculated their shoulders at the same time.
"Is war okay?" Hearing that the boss wanted to find the Navy to be an alliance, Yi Cheng began to consider the responsibility and asked tentatively, his eyes swept at An Qi and Zhong Jialiang at the same time.
Zhong Jialiang curled his lips and said for An Qi: "Even if you are fighting," the railway really has nothing to do with the navy. Even if it can be broken, it is also the basis for the railway to improve the national strength of the empire. I heard that someone in the Army Command is recording a lot of money. Have your navy heard of this news?"
"What is the treasury?." Seeing An Qi fucking her temples in pain, without any intention of answering, Yi Cheng asked.
"It is just to cut and paste all kinds of newspapers and news. What preachers died unexpectedly in the Qing Dynasty? The Song people and the Qing people launched cross-border complaints, and the Song businessmen were treated unfairly in the Qing Dynasty. The army intends to provoke a new round of land conflicts against the Qing Dynasty within three years to hedge against the influence of the crown prince over the navy, and at the same time establish the authority of the second son of the emperor in the army: they will distribute these things to the newspaper industry when they want to do something, creating a classic theory."
Later, he used these excuses to demand a ruling by force to be decided by the court. He even directly fired. Just like two years ago, the garrison of Song Xiang Province used the excuse of Qing soldiers stealing the commander's horse and injuring the negotiating groom as an excuse, and suddenly shelled the west bank of the Xiangjiang River across the river, "pushing several other fort positions on the other side. What horses can swim across the Xiangjiang River? Isn't this nonsense? But the group of untouchables among the people really believe it, it's so easy to deceive! They all want to go to war against the Qing Dynasty in a fierce manner..." Zhong Jialiang replied.
"That was caused by the fact that the Zeng Guocha Zheng brothers" insisted on introducing Krupp and refusing to upgrade the backward fort position. The arms dealer just wanted the Hunan Army to see how far our artillery range was, so it was convenient for them to sell arms..." An Qi finally spoke. This was his professional field, so he spoke indifferently, and then lamented and said, "Do you think we can't see the ambition of the army's boys trying to go abroad to cause trouble? Are we fools who don't know that while the prince is guiding his work in the navy, he also has a great reputation for coming to the navy war. 7."
"It's easy for the army to provoke a war. For example, the time Zeng Guocha you mentioned was beaten for nothing, and it did not cause a major conflict. Zeng Guocha admitted it and sent back eight horses, and ordered forty-eight new cannons: But if you really want to find trouble, the army directly crossed the west bank of the Xiangjiang River. The Hunan Army must fight: But we seem to underestimate the virtues of our Qing colleagues. Because our Qing neighbors are too peaceful, we have strictly ordered the protection of maritime trade this year and strictly enforce the terms of international treaties. As long as the Qing army is found on the coast, the Qing army must interfere! Even if he harassed him, the merchant ships in Jiangxi, Fujian, can still be managed. Even if the merchant ships with the Huanglong Banner are hung, we are of course looking for trouble! However, even if the guns and fires are fired every day, it will not cause a war between Song and Qing."
As she said that, Anqi pointed to the powerful new lord Zhang Yiyuan under the balcony with a painful face and said, "Do you know how he made his contributions recently? He was originally the lord of an old two-layer sail warship. When he was carrying out regular patrol missions from Haijing to Dinghai three months ago, he encountered a Qing warship near Taiwan. The Qing warship Jingyuan is affiliated to the Nanyang Fleet. Like the Feiyuan ship today, it is a large warship with full power of sails and steam, because the shipyards of our two countries bought French Siyi.
The Jiaohai, which was made of a drawing, was a total of one larger than Zhang Yiyuan. But after Zhang Yiyuan approached, he fired the Jingyuan, which was more advanced than him and had stronger firepower than him. Because according to the international contract, the Qing army did not have the right to inspect the passing and abandon the ship! When Zhang Yiyuan reported the situation, he said that because the ship-based beer given to him by the Logistics Department was all bad, the soldiers complained about corruption, and he was in a bad mood. "I was disgusting when I saw the Huanglong Banner, so I got closer to the enemy ship to attack without any warning. The first shot broke the opponent's main mast."
"Then what do you think?" Then Anqi shouted with a look of regret, "The Jingyuan turned his head and ran! His steam warship was full of horsepower and had a speed of up to 2 knots per hour. The old sailing ship Jiaohai couldn't chase it at all without strong winds. That's it." Zhang Yiyuan chased his butt and kept firing with only one head gun, and hit two more guns on the deck: the old sailing warship heavy guns were concentrated on the side. The head gun was actually a small cannon. According to Zhang Yiyuan's telescope visual inspection, he did not even penetrate the opponent's thick deck. However, the opponent did not dare to fight back from being beaten several times to running so far that he ran away. "Damn, the power of the Prussian Krupp breech tail gun on the butt" could hit Zhang Yiyuan's sailing warship with one shot! These pigs! They dared not fight back against the provocative small wooden warship!"
Angel gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, "I hope that the Jingyuan dares to injure or sink the Jiaohai. In this way, our navy takes advantage of the great opportunity of the crown prince, and the horse can go out to seek revenge in the Nanyang Fleet. If Xiamen and Fuzhou are turned into scorched earth, they will not give up! The Royal Navy will become famous again, and the Navy commander of the crown prince will become famous. You can appease Your Majesty's anger at the Xiaodao Legion. However, the Qing people are too smart, and it is the strategy of tigers in the mountains.
The sky hid in the nest and played with us. I had tigers, but I just couldn't go out. "How many tables of mahjong do so many tigers have to gather?! And I knocked down the front teeth and swallowed blood, and didn't give us any excuses! We are all so shameless, but they just walked away silently with tears in their eyes, not even a diplomatic protest. "We really have no idea how to start! I swallowed so much and loved peace, alas," I actually felt very sorry for the Qing Dynasty Navy... What a simple group of people..."
"Because beer is not warned to shell the Qing navy? Do you promote such people?" Yi Cheng asked in surprise. Like the boss Zhong Jialiang, he thought that Qiu Ba, who could speak English and French, was not as careless as the navy.
"Of course we are not all for trouble, nor are he just for beer. We can't let the Qing army interfere in the inspection of the apricot merchant ships. They just need to interfere in our shipping, blackmail or robbery! Do you get them this round? We are the first in the combat power of the Chinese Sea, and the second in the pirates, and the third in the Qing Dynasty. If you want to eat ocean meals, you have to ask our two people's intentions first? Don't think that if you have a few foreign steamships, you will be qualified to reach out! And then our sea merchants will immediately let the Haijing Newspaper industry mock me.
We have failed to implement the law. After all, the nephew of the marine tax is definitely given to us. "The merchants keep the navy" is what His Majesty said. And Zhang Yiyuan has already admitted his mistake and said that he should not vent his anger on the Qing army. If you really want to have fun, you should look for pirates. The pirates will fight to the death when they meet the royal navy, because the navy will kill them all, and they are more interesting. You can spend a day and play with them slowly. Zhang Yiyuan admits that his behavior is contrary to the Bible. A sage should not vent his anger on his own. He will definitely warn him first when he meets the Qing army next time.
Given that he is sincere in admitting his mistakes, and he bullies ships that are stronger than him, rather than bullying the weak, it is enough to give the navy a face. After all, it is not easy to meet an advanced ship like the Jingyuan. They are all huddled in Fujian Port to play mahjong. If they can't come out, they can be tied up by Zhang Yiyuan's shells. It means that it is the grace of the emperor, so we will still remember him. When our navy encounters Qing ships that are weaker than him, they usually won't take action, which is very shameless. Of course, if the beer is broken, no one knows what will happen. Because the old sailboat has low education level, the sailors regard beer as a day, and there is no alcohol to rebel. You can only whip the soldiers or just find a foggy egg to vent their anger. "An Qi said indifferently after counting her shoulders.
"You are total hooligans!" Zhong Jialiang was stunned when he heard this, and after a while, he asked: "So you have fought with the large Qing warships? Why is there no news in the newspaper?"
Anqi sniffed and said, "Frequently, since the Crown Prince arrived at the navy, the morale of the navy has been greatly boosted. After the sea met the Qing army, as long as they dared to see us for more than five minutes, our shells would be tied up. In a good mood, we fired after warning: In a bad mood, we fired directly. For this reason, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs scolded us to shame, saying that we have a hegemonic tendency and bullied the Qing country without following international law." It damages the international image and causes chaos for them, and naturally suppresses the news: As for the Qing country, you always know that they said that Taiwan has encountered a typhoon recently. As a transportation ship, the Jinghai was blown by a typhoon! Damn, these seas are calm, where are there typhoons?! Only our Royal Navy does whatever it wants like a typhoon!!!"
Speaking of this, "Anqi's passion on her face faded, and her skin returned to fairness." She shouted: "No, no, no, I was wrong! The Nanyang Fleet is very terrible! It is necessary to increase investment in the Royal Navy and quickly increase the tonnage, firepower and technological level! Otherwise, it may affect the leading position of our Navy in the Chinese waters! Then "it will directly affect our country's life-and-death maritime trade...".........
Yi Cheng interrupted the officer who said "no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no matter how hard it is, he said helplessly: "I think if it is a naval battle, I can't get involved in the railway."
Zhong Jialiang nodded in a heavy mood. An Qi looked at this and that in a daze, and shouted in anger, as she was both embarrassed and angry, and she shouted: "Oh! I really didn't expect so many traitors in the court! Damn, our navy was in the wind and sun, and we held our heads to defend our country. As a result, we couldn't get some railways! By the way, that Weng Jianguang was a scumbag. He used to hold the army's thigh and quarreled with us, saying that we bought a boat and robbed his railway money." Until now, Song You TieDian has not given us free rides to the officers!! Did he go to sea? When he went to sea, he notified us that we would crush this grandson into the sea to feed the sharks!"
After frowning for a while, Zhong Jialiang suddenly raised his head and asked, "Sir Anqi, I saw the little Annan royal family at the ceremony." I heard that they were seeking a marriage tribute?"
"His Royal Highness Ruan? But I can't tell you his specific identity yet. This is a top secret." For the sake of the face of the two royal families.
"When I heard this, An Qi nodded and said, "But I would like to mention that he is the cousin of our Lord Luo Qianjie. His father-in-law Ruan Jiang is committed to promoting the common prosperity of Song Nan and intends to marry His Majesty's children. You must know that we use God as the unchanging national policy, which itself has potential requirements for royal marriage: in order to maintain the purity of faith, the royal family must not marry non-Christians. However, it is a bit too difficult to accept to marry foreigners. Among the Asians in the Far East, only Prince Annan Ningjiang is the highest-ranking Catholic believer, and he continues to preach to Emperor Annan, hoping to learn from our country. If we do not marry Annan, our country's royal family can only marry non-Christians."
After saying that, Anqi clenched her fists and smiled: "European royal families are in harmony with each other. Since our country has established a country with God and studied Europe and the United States, of course we must learn from Europe. Our navy strongly hopes to promote this marriage."
Then he changed his face and said with a little concern: "This marriage will also help us maintain the back gardens Annan and Yunnan. You must know that although France was defeated by Prussia and changed its dynasty, its national strength is still strong and trembling. The so-called loss inside the wall and the outside the wall, they will definitely strengthen their colonization efforts in the Far East to win back their national self-esteem. We are familiar with the group of people in France. To put it nicely, they are passionate and unrestrained, but to put it badly, they are tragic. Annan must be their first goal, because they control the southern Annan and we control the north. If Annan belongs to France, Yunnan will not be able to hold on. France has regarded Yunnan as their belongings since Napoleon III, and thinks that we are just guarding the house for them. We should avoid Farlan.
Such a powerful country in the West colonizes Yunnan and is our neighbors and robs us of potential spoils, and must gather half of Annan in the north and south to form a strategic buffer zone. If you want to seize Yunnan, you must first control Annan! Therefore, although Annan seems to have little short-term benefits, it is very huge for the long-term strategic and diplomatic interests of the empire. Moreover, it is not a Christian country, and Christians naturally have the mission of preaching. If they can join Annan and use their faith to radiate to the other side, it will also bring huge folk prestige and the orthodox value of the sacred empire. Although France is strong, we have a distance advantage over Annan, and diplomatic struggles will not lose to France. It depends on who can fully control the Annan royal family and the court. There is no plan that is more powerful than the royal family and marriage............ 2 "
The Navy seemed to be strongly trying to make a marriage kinship. Zhong Jialiang nodded and kicked the comment that he was dissatisfied with the emperor's own reduction of his worth, because he suddenly had an idea. Compared with the benefits this idea brought to him, even if the Haisong royal family and foreigners were married, he looked at Anqi and said, "If the emperor agreed to marry Annan, then we really have a stone to enter the railway robbery."
Chapter completed!