It was common for people with different political views to criticize each other in the court. Li Guolou didn't take it to heart. He was the first to leave the study and hurried to the Prime Minister's Yamen. He ate a few biscuits in the morning and was so hungry that his stomach growled.
Li Guang thought about the delicious food in the Prime Minister's Yamen restaurant.
"Lord Li!" Xiao Dezhang at the gate of the palace called out with his head in his head.
Li Guolou looked strange and felt a little uneasy. He hadn't done anything wrong for a long time. He touched his nose and approached and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Dezhang, what's the matter?"
Xiao De smiled playfully, stretched out his hand and said: "Master Li, you have been promoted again, don't forget your little brother."
Li Guolou touched all over his body and gave away the dozens of banknotes he brought into the palace. He apologized and said, "I'm sorry, Xiao Dezhang. All my banknotes have been given away. I'm sorry."
Make up for it every time."[
"Oh! It's okay, just remember me next time, little brother." Xiao De Zhang doesn't care about this kind of small money, but the rules in the palace must not be broken. He ran from the Old Summer Palace to the Forbidden City without getting a single copper coin, which is a bit of a loss. Seriously.
Said: "The Empress Dowager orally ordered Mr. Li to go to the Old Summer Palace to pay an audience with the Empress Dowager tomorrow."
"Oh! I understand. After the meeting at the Military Aircraft Department tomorrow morning, we will immediately go to the Old Summer Palace to meet with the two empress dowagers. Xiao Dezhang, please go back and pay your respects." Li Guolou did not kowtow to thank him, just like a master sending away a slave.
He waved and left.
Xiao Dezhang still had a smile on his face and said loudly: "Let's go, Mr. Li. I will take a few friends to Baozhifang for a meal and go back to work in the evening."
The other eunuchs all call themselves slaves, but Li Guolou is Xiaode Zhang's eldest brother. He has the upper hand and will use it for the rest of his life.
Li Guolou didn't even look back and said, "Xiao Dezhang, don't exceed one table of people."
"It's your order!" Xiao Dezhang said in a strange tone. Now he is a famous man in the palace, with great power. He can move around in front of the three masters, and money is rolling in. He is no longer the shabby little eunuch in the past.
His background is Li Lianying and Li Guolou, and now he no longer has to practice walking on the "Wufu" toilet.
Li Guolou grunted in a low voice: "How can we deal with so many women? It's going to cost me my life."
Li Guolou left the Forbidden City with a lot of worries. Family affairs and state affairs were mixed together. For the rise of the nation, personal enjoyment should be abandoned. Gou Jian lived a hard life on salary and hardship. And behind him, he had a fat horse and a light fur coat, and behind him were a group of well-armed Ghosh.
Ha, how can you behave like a low-key person?
Thinking of working hard for the country and the people, Li Guolou should not marry so many women. Li Guolou was riding on the horse and actually calculated which "grandmothers" to kick out? At the family banquet in the evening, he had to pay public food.
Both happy and sad, he is born to work hard. The perfect combination of power and sex is the goal he pursues, or should he
Spend his energy on Empress Dowager Ci'an and Empress Dowager Cixi to lay a good foundation for the next career. Women have to be coaxed, so how can he have time to deal with so many she-wolves? Li Guolou was thinking wildly and didn't notice him
More than a dozen riders were surrounded by people watching the excitement. They were unable to move and were blocked on the street.
"Come and see Master Li!" "We are Zhao Zilong of the Qing Dynasty!" "Master Li, we support you!"
Everyone is everywhere on the bustling Chang'an Street. The patriotic people in the capital worship Li Guolou as a national hero. The dense crowds are gathering more and more. Traffic is jammed on a wide street. People with old and young people are rushing out of the house.
, all came to see the peep show.
Li Guolou's ten personal guards hurriedly surrounded Li Guolou's horse in the middle, hoping to break through the encirclement, but there were too many people. Countless hands were stretched out, just to get the glory of a national hero.
Li Guolou had nowhere to escape, so he tried to persuade the people to disperse, but instead attracted a large number of onlookers, cheering loudly, "Master Li, please say a few words. Where is our road to the Qing Dynasty? You are the guide."
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"Yes! Yes! Mr. Li, please say a few words. I have deposited all my family's money in the bank. Our whole family supports your restructuring."
The crowd became even more crowded, and if they continued to squeeze in, someone would be killed. Li Guolou dared not say anything, so he wanted to escape from Chang'an Avenue. He regretted that he should not have ridden in the capital, swaggered across the street, and was watched like a monkey, but he did not dare to get angry.
Now that his words and deeds represent the interests of many people, how can he lower his worth?
Some people were crying, some were laughing. Finally, they saw the world-famous Li Guo Tower. As expected, the people and horses were in good spirits. The Goshiha around them were all heroes. The dark crowds along the way shouted patriotic slogans, "Recover the land of the Qing Dynasty and defeat the Eight Kingdoms."
Coalition forces!”
"The Qing Dynasty's victorious general, ten thousand victorious!"
It was only a quarter of an hour's journey from the Forbidden City to the Prime Minister's Yamen. Li Guolou and his party could not walk even a single step. The walk was ten times more difficult than visiting a temple fair. Finally, the patrolling Yamen officers discovered a problem and the traffic on Chang'an Street was paralyzed. They hurriedly took care of the long journey.
Anjie Yamen transferred a team of government officials, and then they safely escorted Li Guolou into the Prime Minister's Yamen. After walking for more than an hour on such a short journey, Li Guolou and the ten Goshiha were sweating profusely, fearing that
Save lives.[
Fan Dahui was already waiting impatiently at the Prime Minister's Yamen. He pointed at his pocket watch and said, "Mr. Li, take a look at what time it is. Prince Gong, Mr. Fu Xiang is still waiting for you to eat."
Li Guolou said angrily: "Why are you waiting for me? We have to die together."
Seeing that Li Guolou had a bad temper and no complacency, Fan Dahui knew that the morning in the study was not going well and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong, Mr. Li? Who made you angry?"
Li Guolou waved his arms and said: "Let's go in and let's talk. If you step on us Westernizers as shit, I was almost killed by Mr. Fu Xiang! Why didn't you inform me in advance? You will be attacked from all sides. I will suffer."
Li Guolou complained all the way into the State Guest Room, still complaining that Li Hongzhang was dishonest and did not reveal any information in advance. He could just be the traitorous envoy. He could still afford to betray a little national interest.
There is a conspiracy behind it
, if he had not been cool-headed, had no respect for his teachers, and dared to speak up, perhaps Emperor Tongzhi would have had a hot-headed attitude and ignored the conditions proposed by the British Empire, and the war would have started, and the coastline of the Qing Dynasty would have been unrest.
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Li Guolou was a good talker and told Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang everything about the strange things that happened in the morning meeting. The banquet turned into a meeting to denounce the Westernization faction, and they all denounced the Qing faction for causing trouble and the Tianjin religious case.
The mob knows it too.
"Hey! People who are too upright are not suitable for officialdom. Li Hongzao and Weng Tong are suitable to be the crown prince's guardians. Being emperor's advisors will make a country suffer disaster. The national humiliation is caused by Lin Zexu's seclusion. To put it nicely, the import of opium is prohibited.
Did the Qing Dynasty just ban opium? That was an unwillingness to cooperate with the British
Trade led to the first Opium War. How can a scholar govern the country? Can he explain the great principles in the book to foreign devils?" Li Hongzhang was full of complaints. This time he was reprimanded by Emperor Tongzhi, so he knew that something was wrong.
Unexpectedly, behind the scenes, the Qing faction and the conservatives were working together to overthrow him as Prime Minister Fu.
Prince Gong drank it all in one gulp and said with a bitter smile: "Master Fu Xiang, they are not trying to mess with you, they just want to get rid of the Prime Minister's Yamen. This kind of despicable trick will only cause pain to the relatives and happiness to the enemies. It will lead to the Qing Dynasty."
Come to greater shame."
Li Guolou echoed: "Yes, Prince Gong, what you said is very good. I also advise the emperor to take a step back and endure the calm for a while. Our Qing Dynasty has a vast land and rich products. We are the most industrious nation. As long as we restructure steadily, in ten years
In the future, the gross national product will double, then hum!"
Prince Gong said scornfully: "Li Guolou, you drank too much, and you started talking nonsense when you came back. It will take eight years for our country to repay the war reparations. After ten years, it will be great to be light on debt. The country's annual income is conservatively 1.5
Ten million taels of silver, if you double it, it will be 150 million taels of silver. Where can you dig out so much silver? It would still be doubled, if you hadn't doubled it, it would be a burden on Qiuxiang."
Fan Dahui, Xu Qian, and Zhang Jingtian laughed evilly, clinked glasses with each other, and drank the whole drink in one gulp. Li Guolou was talking nonsense again. This man has a thick skin and dared to set a historical precedent, as if he was mocking Li Guolou.
, in fact, they all listened with their ears pricked up, and they all knew that Li Guolou advocated practical and feasible solutions, directly using doctrine and transforming it into a Westernizationist idea.
Li Guolou rolled his eyes at the people sitting there, sneered in his nose, and sighed: "You guys are still short-sighted and only see the small profits in front of you. The big train of the Western-style building has almost been built. I let you
Your Majesty, the Queen Mother will travel a few times first. The Queen Mother and Queen Mother of the two palaces will also like to take the big train. This is a hundred times more luxurious than the luxury carriage. Your Majesty
He and Fujin will also like to play in the Western-style building. When the train rings, gold is golden. Have you heard of this Western proverb? I saved the country through a curve, and put the Qing Dynasty on the road of strong industrial salvation. This time
You can't take my credit, forget about the fact that I wrote a book about it. This matter is shining in the annals of history, and Li Guolou rewrote the history of the Qing Dynasty."
Li Hongzhang's slender eyes widened and he yelled angrily: "Li Guolou, don't be greedy for other people's credit. Building the train is a trick on the governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong. He wants to build the Beijing-Hankow Railway, and he is a serious Tanhualang."
, what you are doing is working hard, how can you govern the country through small ways."
Li Guolou was speechless and was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while.
How could the Manchu nobles be so easy to talk to? Otherwise, how could the Qing Dynasty not see a train route? Besides, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong were not on good terms. Li Hongzhang specially made Zhang Zhidong wear small shoes. Even if the Beijing-Hankou Railway passed the bill in the court, the court would not
We will allocate enough money to Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and the Beijing-Hankow Railway will definitely be built.
It has become an unfinished railway. Now that he is talking about it, Li Hongzhang obviously wants to grab the credit. If he wants to "meddle" in the railway industry, he will definitely be stripped by Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang spoke implicitly, and even exposed his dirty background.
He was said to have cheated in the Jinshi examination, but he was not on the same level as Zhang Zhidong, the man who deserved the title.
"Oh! I have also heard of this Western proverb. It turns out that this gold is real gold, not gold excreted from the train."
Prince Gong was happy to hear this. His right-hand man and his right-hand man were all capable ministers. One was good at using roundabout strategies, and Li Guolou was willing to betray his appearance. He could imitate others and catch them all at once. He was indeed his favorite disciple. The other
Even more outstanding, Li Hongzhang was able to put aside his personal grudges and speak for Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, to create momentum for the first Beijing-Hankow Railway in the Qing Dynasty.
Everyone laughed, Prince Gong was actually able to enjoy the hardships, and did not get depressed because of the Ma Jiali case and joke around at the dinner table.
Li Guolou had a bitter look on his face and smiled awkwardly. He couldn't tell the true meaning of this Western proverb. He must have been told by Prince Gong that this gold is not that gold. As soon as the train started, the country borrowed heavily and its finances became more difficult. The Westernizationists
They will hand over the task of building the railway to foreigners, and finally hand over the management rights to foreigners, and betray the national interests.
He hurriedly reminded: "Prince Gong, Mr. Fu Xiang, I am not joking. The construction of the train cannot be separated from the help of foreigners, but the future jurisdiction must not be handed over to foreigners, even if foreigners invest, this is our Qing Dynasty's
The main arteries are controlled by foreigners, and our sex
If your fate is handed over to foreigners, you will never be able to recover. If you don’t have enough funds to build a railway, you can raise private funds and be granted the right to operate it for a few years. If foreign banks and businessmen are willing to invest in railways, they will also follow this policy, and the profits can be
We will share profits and never sell our sovereignty."
Li Hongzhang had no place to vent his evil anger. He was called a traitor for a day or two, and was scolded by Emperor Tongzhi again. His descendants dared to expose his scars, pretended to be elders, and were not afraid to break the precious folding fan.
He hit Li Guolou on the head and scolded: "Li Guolou, who are you talking about? I don't understand Westernization, who else in the world does?"
Li Guolou winced, rubbed his forehead, and said anxiously: "Yes, yes, yes! What Mr. Fu Xiang taught is, I just said it to remind everyone here. When I serve as the special envoy for the negotiation of the Ma Jiali case, I still follow the instructions of Mr. Fu.
As bargaining continues within the framework discussed, I will act like a grocery shopping grandma, picking out the rotten vegetable peels from the British baskets and throwing them away.”[
Hearing Li Guolou's statement, Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang's faces improved a lot. If they want to fight for this, they must not fall because of the Ma Jiali case. Sacrificing a little national interest is nothing! The "Ma Jiali Case" is a hot hand.
We already have the sweet potatoes in our hands. If we have done this embarrassing thing, we cannot start over again. We must save face and suffer the consequences, and we must also recognize this treasonous treaty.