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Chapter 74 Visiting the Pier

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    The news was surprising. Even General Cai was wondering, when did Zhang Hanqing get involved with these two old men?

    General Cai estimated that with Zhang Hanqing's eloquence, it would be much easier to encourage the honest old Xiong to do these practical things that can really benefit the country and the people than to encourage Liang Shiyi, and this is indeed the case.  But how Liang Shiyi was inspired, he was very curious.

    In fact, Zhou Xuexi is also very curious.

    Zhang Hanqing visited Lao Xiong, who had resigned as prime minister, early the next morning after accepting Han Linchun.

    Originally, Xiong Xiling was known as the "cabinet of first-class talents in the Republic of China" and was determined to do something big. However, he was only used as a political pawn by Yuan Shikai. After the initial crisis was resolved, Lao Xiong, who was not of the same mind as Yuan, naturally  Can't beat Lao Yuan who is good at politics.  In February of a year ago, Lao Yuan instigated the press to revive the case of treasure theft from the Jehol Palace. Lao Xiong was forced to resign because of the suspicion and was immediately ordered to organize the national oil mine affairs.  After his career failed, Lao Xiong turned to charity and education.

    No matter what, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.  Compared with Zhang Hanqing and even Zhang Zuolin, Xiong Xiling's influence is several heads higher, especially in the financial field.  Zhang Hanqing was able to strike up a conversation with him because they had a common understanding of China's strong military.  Zhang Hanqing made no secret of his plan to support the army with industry in Fengtian, which won praise from Lao Xiong.  He looked at Zhang Zuolin, the legendary boss, with admiration - he still thought that Zhang Hanqing was entrusted by Zhang Zuolin to invest in the preparation of the Shenyang Arsenal. He thought that Zhang Hanqing was young and did not have the courage to do this even if he had the knowledge.

    As far back as the autumn of 1896, from the moment Xiong Xiling joined the Hunan Reform Movement, he was entrusted with the important task of preparing to build a firearms factory.  At that time, Hunan's finances were tight, and building an arsenal was a resource-intensive undertaking. However, the top priority was to improve the Hunan army's outdated equipment.  At this moment, Xiong Xiling thought of Liu Kunyi, a senior member of the Hunan Army who was the governor of Liangjiang. After repeated communication and negotiation with Xiong Xiling and others, Liu Kun once or twice allocated guns and ammunition to Hunan Province, which was equivalent to a silver price of 200,000 taels.  Although Hunan failed to establish a firearms factory in the end, such huge support laid a good foundation for the training of the new army in Hunan, and Xiong Xiling took the most credit for this achievement.

    Now, in order to strengthen the army, Fengtian wants to complete his unfinished business, which moved Lao Xiong.  When Zhang Hanqing used data to explain in detail the disadvantages of the Chinese army's purchase of foreign weapons and the grand vision and feasibility of Fengtian's upcoming self-reliance and hard work to establish its own arsenal, Lao Xiong was moved.

    Of course, Zhang Hanqing changed the topic and brought up the conclusion of saving the country through industry: "Xue Liang believes that with China's current weak national strength, it is extremely unwise to invest limited capital in the construction of arsenals that only consume and produce no output. Arsenals are  A long-term and slow investment without strong industrial support is destined to have no development. Xueliang and my father believe that using the development of industry, especially heavy industry, to promote the improvement of military production capacity is a way to treat both the symptoms and the root cause. Only industrial development  Only by doing so can we be able to continuously build better weapons, and the development of industry is based on coal and iron, which is why Xueliang wants to raise funds to build the Fushun Coal Mine this time."

    Speaking of this, he also made a false shot: "As for the iron ore, Xueliang has agreed with Mr. Zhou Xuexi to build the Nanfen Iron Mine in Benxi, Fengtian. Xueliang has worked with several American exploration companies to mine the mining sites in detail, both in terms of reserves and  The ease of mining and the conclusions are very promising.

    Can there be no future?  The Nanfen Open-pit Iron Mine is the largest open-pit iron mine in Asia. It is also one of the origins of "Ginseng Iron". Zhang Hanqing, who has a wealth of information for later generations, knows this clearly.  As for U.S. exploration companies, God knows where?  When brazenly encouraging the honest man Xiong Xiling, Zhang Hanqing cleverly made a time difference: that is, he released false news to first use Zhou Xuexi to influence Xiong Xiling, and then used Xiong Xiling's true news to influence Zhou Xuexi, and then the true news became true, and the false news became true.  It is the principle of information asymmetry.

    But this is enough.  Fengtian has such a feasible plan to strengthen the country and the army, which has already impressed the old bear who still wants to give it a try. What's more, the "Northern Industrial Giant" Zhou Xuexi also "approved", which is unmistakable.  Therefore, Lao Xiong readily agreed to contribute money and efforts to inject capital into Fushun Coal Mine and Benxi Nanfen Iron Mine, and promised to use his reputation to attract some industrial people to sponsor Fengtian La.  The guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

    It was not so easy to meet Liang Shiyi, because he was Lao Yuan's right-hand man at this time and had a high official position.  As the leader of the old Transportation Department, he was a powerful figure in Yuan's political circles. After he was appointed Prime Minister of the Bank of Communications and Deputy Minister of Finance in May of that year, he became Lao Yuan's "money bag", and Lao Yuan also trusted him more.  .

    He is not fighting alone.  When he was the chief copywriter of the Beijing-Hankong and Shanghai-Nanjing railways, and later served as the postal and communication department of the Beijing-Hankong, Shanghai-Nanjing and Zhengtai railways,During his promotion to the Fifth Road, Bianluo, and Daoqing, and as an assistant at the Bank of Communications, he placed party members everywhere and cultivated his own power to form the Communications Department. Important figures include Zhou Ziqi, Ye Gongchuo, Wang Youling, Zhu Qiqian, etc.  The Transportation Department used Yuan Shikai's political power as its shelter at home and the British and Japanese imperialists as its backing abroad. It controlled the leadership of railways, steamships, telephones and telegraphs, and postal services. It also controlled the Bank of Communications, Jincheng Bank, China  Huiye Bank, Salt Bank, Zhengfeng Coal Mine, Zhongxing Coal Mine, Beipiao Coal Mine, Liuhegou Coal Mine, Longyan Iron Mine, Wutong Navigation Company and other large banks and enterprises.

    Liang Shiyi is not only known as the "Five God of Wealth", but also serves as the Secretary-General of Yuan Shikai's Presidential Office, and is known as the "Second President".  The combination of the transportation department and the Beiyang Army's civil and military forces became the two pillars of the Beiyang Warlords' rule, and they became prominent during the Beiyang Warlords' rule.

    You have to pay homage to this pier too.

    If you get his permission or support, it is best to have practical support, and you will basically be successful in raising funds in Beijing.  With the help of these big guys, it goes without saying that they have credibility. The key is that they have real money in their hands.

    At this time, Liang Shiyi was also vigorously raising funds to support Yuan Shikai's proclaimed emperor, and also initiated the formation of a national petition federation to petition the Senate to change the state system to invite favors.  The reason why it is said to be an invitation to favor is because there are too many people who express their determination to Lao Yuan, and Yang Du is the leader among them.  As the founder of the constitutional monarchy system, Yang Du prided himself on being Lao Yuan's number one think tank, which could not but make Lao Liang wary.  Because once the success is achieved in the future, this first achievement of support will be very coveted.

    What Zhang Hanqing took advantage of was the conflict between Liang Shiyi and Yang Du and his speculative mentality of worrying about gains and losses.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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