Looking at Rong Hong, who was full of resentment, Guo Ye replied lightly: "Chunfu, we can discount everything else, but education, we must not discount, the development of the empire is far behind the West, if we don't invest more energy and financial resources, when will we be able to catch up with others?" Compared with an illiterate laborer and a laborer who has undergone knowledge and education, the gap is too great, and the study of guns and artillery requires talents, the study of gunpowder requires talents, and the study of machinery also needs talents. You must know that these Western experts in our country are all invited at a great price! If we have such talents, why should we spend such a large price to hire people from other countries? Moreover, the real top scientists, even if we go to invite them with gold in our hands, people may not be willing to come! ”

Rong Hong said helplessly: "Your Majesty, I understand what you said, I also came back from studying in the United States, and I know all about this, but our steps are a bit too big, you know, even the current United States, there may not be two hundred universities!" ”

Guo Ye glanced at Rong Hong disdainfully, and replied: "There are no two hundred in the United States, so can't we have two hundred?" You know, we have a population of 40,000,000, and what about the United States? They are only a few tens of millions of people! Far from us! In addition to these schools, it is necessary to train technicians for various industries in various places, and establish special technician schools, which industries such as machinery, textiles, steel, weapons, etc., do not need to have skilled apprentices and technicians? However, these schools are to be run by the merchants, who can run faster than rabbits if they are profitable! ”

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"As for the railway plan, it is purely Chunping fooling you again, it is true to build so many railways in a year, but these railways are not just the central government to take money, Western countries have direct investment, take our railway lines, and the local government and the people also have to invest considerable financial resources to participate, the Ministry of Communications invested a year, but only fifteen million silver dollars, the rest have already dispersed the pressure, not to mention, we have borrowed so much money from the foreign powers, It's enough for us to complete a huge railroad construction project, what are we afraid of? Let go of the dry! In this year, support the bold and starve the faint-hearted! ”

Guo Ye continued.

Rong Hong said astringently: "Your Majesty, what do you say, so many loans, I think about it is terrifying, it has exceeded 60 million pounds, equivalent to 400 million silver dollars, such a large loan, just the interest, a lot of silver every year, do you know how tired I am as the chief financial officer, I can't sleep well every day, and even in my dreams, someone ran to my house to force debts......

"Haha, or that sentence, what are you afraid of? I, the emperor, are not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry? ”

Guo Ye humored and took Rong Hong and said.

"Haha, Chunfu, the so-called emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry, it's you......"

Zhang Chunping laughed insolently, and the others burst into laughter.

"Chunping! You're a eunuch! ”

Rong Hong is a scholar, where is his face as thick as Zhang Chunping's old fritters? was made red-faced by Zhang Chunping, and scolded hatefully.

Your Majesty's mouth is poisonous enough, how can you put on such an unreliable emperor......

Guo Ye continued: "Chunfu, what are you worried about? You also said that the annual fiscal growth is 10 percent, and in 10 years, our finances can reach 300 million silver dollars, and after 20 years, we can reach 600 million silver dollars. Won't we go out and rob other than paying off our debts? Why are we not allowed to rob only the nations of the West? ”

Rong Hong was stunned and said, "Your Majesty? Are you still going to grab it? You know, we just robbed Japan once, and we have already made the countries of the world indignant against us, and if we still want to rob it, wouldn't it be to attack it en masse? ”

"Of course you have to grab it! However, our current robbery is not a blatant robbery, but the export of capital or military force to some places, enhance influence, and use the advantages of capital to open up the local market and grab resources! And, I already have a goal! ”

Guo Ye replied.

"Which target?"

Guo Ye replied lightly: "Chunfu, now the trend of the currencies of international powers is almost all moving towards the gold standard currency, silver will gradually withdraw from the world market, and we will establish such a monetary system in the future, but such a monetary system, we need a large amount of gold as reserves, relying on our current gold reserves, it is far from enough, so our next goal is gold, find a way to get a large amount of gold, it is not enough to buy and sell from the international market, then we have to grab!" ”

Everyone was stunned one by one, this majesty actually wanted to go out to grab gold, the most sought-after item in the world, gold, which country would easily give such fat to others? It's simply impossible!

"Your Majesty, you're not talking in your dreams, are you? Gold, that's gold! Who's going to let it out like that? ”

Chen Hai asked blankly.

Guo Ye smiled mysteriously and replied, "Of course, of course, you can't get a lot of gold without some means, but I just have such means!" ”

Guo Ye turned around, looked at the world map on the wall, poked his fingers into a corner of the southern hemisphere, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, here, this is the location, the southernmost part of Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope, here is the richest gold deposit in the world, and the gold deposit here may exceed half of the world's total gold!" My goal is to get all the gold and diamonds in this place back to the Chinese Empire! ”

"Here? This ......"

"Yes, this is it, when the eunuch Zheng He of the Three Treasures went to the Western Ocean, the farthest place he reached was the location here, the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa!"

Others were dizzy for a while, just by looking at the distance, they knew that it was too far! I'm afraid it's twenty or thirty thousand miles away......

Xue Fucheng on the side was puzzled: "Your Majesty, I heard that Black Africa is the poorest place in the world, even poorer than the Ganshan region of the empire, where is there still gold?" If there were, it would have been robbed by the Western powers a long time ago! It's impossible to think about where we are going to dig for gold......"

(To be continued.) )