It's the beginning of the month in a blink of an eye, Luo Luo's struggle continues, and the story of the dream of the Celestial Empire continues. Everyone, let's make the monthly pass more intense!

Nanjing Imperial City, Cabinet Office Conference Room.

Zuo Zongtang, who had just returned from Fort Maria, said to Luo Zenan, Chang Dachun, Liu Rong, and Xu Gengshen, director general of the Donglin Party, who had just been elected to the Constituent Assembly: "The emperor is going to spend a lot of money to build railways and run industries...... An additional 200 million will be added before the 13th year of the liberation, and 1.5 billion will be invested from the 13th to the 17th year of the liberation. It's really a big deal, my court's annual income is only 300 million a year! Do you have any thoughts? ”

Xu Gengshen is now the head of the three gentlemen of Donglin, and he also served as a county magistrate in Zhejiang before, so he knows how powerful the royal consortium and the industrial consortium are in Jiangnan. Naturally, he can't show any good feelings about this kind of imperial businessman who "competes with the people for profit" now, not to mention that more than half of the executives and engineers of these two consortia are members of the Jishi Youth Party. He was the first to say in a cold voice: "Xiangye, in economic matters, we must compete with the Youth Party, otherwise my Donglin will be expelled from the court by them sooner or later." ”

Zuo Zongtang took a look at the other three Xianghu bigwigs. Luo Zenan nodded and said: "It's to fight, not for the party, but for the world!" In fact, the strongest of the Shabaab is not party struggle but the economy, and now we are not afraid that they will make trouble in the streets, nor that they will oppose us in the parliament, but that the emperor will take a fancy to their economic talents. ”

Chang Dachun also stroked his beard and nodded, talking about the dispute between the Donglin Party and the Youth Party, his position was actually a bit **. He's a bad old man after all, how many days can he be on stage? The future of his children and grandchildren is what he cares about most. And several of his grandchildren. Not to be classmates with the prince at the Imperial City Public School. I studied at Jeshi University. In fact, he is also a classmate of Jishi, and he is also the emperor's brother-in-law, and he may become the leader of the Youth Party like Pan Zuyin in the future - who is Pan Zuyin? Aren't you the descendants of the Pan family, a famous family in Jiangnan? When his grandfather Pan Shien was there, he was the leader of Jiangnan Shilin.

In fact, this Jishi Youth Party and the high-level Shilin are not mortal enemies, but their descendants! Now the children and grandchildren of Shilin bigwigs, who is not a scholar of both Chinese and Western? Even Zuo Zongtang's son Zuo Xiaowei is now studying at Huangcheng Public School, and his learning is also "based on middle school, mainly Western learning". I also made friends with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. In the future, you will either be a minister or a general!

Only a group of poor scholars who do not have a few acres of land at home will regard the Jishi Youth Party as an enemy who does not share the sky...... Even the Xu Gengshen in front of him is not a nerd, he has studied astronomy, arithmetic, and geography, and can speak a little English and French. Moreover, his uncle Xu Naipu (Jiaqing 25th year Jinshi, former Qing minister) is now contacting a group of Zhejiang gentry to prepare for Qiantang University. Even the professors were poached from Jeshi University.

Thinking of this, Old Man Chang smiled, shook his head and said: "Economic talent is not unique to the West, and I also have a learning in China, even if there is something that is not as good as what they learned from the West." We can also take advantage of the best of the best. The old man always thought that this knowledge was indistinguishable from Chinese and Western. ”

"What the gentleman said is very true." Xu Gengshen hurriedly agreed, "I, the sage of Donglin, said that Shinong industry and commerce are all their own business, if it is peaceful today, I am equal to the youth party, and the battle is focused on economic skills." If we abandon it, there will be no place for us in the future court. ”

But how can this economy be contested? Now that the royal consortium and the industrial consortium are their territory, and the Industrial Promotion Association is controlled by King Zheng and Liu Muwen, how can we get into it? ”

Liu Rong, the secretary of the ministry, shook his head again and again, now there are not only two forces in the Ming Dynasty, the Jishi Youth Party and the Donglin Party, but the royalist society led by Zheng Hong and Liu Peng is still there! Although its power is declining, the industry promotion association will not be lost casually. Behind them, after all, there is a group of martial artists with guns.

Xu Gengshen said with a smile: "Why do we want to seize the power of the Industry Promotion Association? This industry promotion will always be a troublesome place, not only to plan the industry, but also to figure out how to make money. I haven't been in the mall for many years, but I can't do this errand. So, the idea of the late generation is to compete with Al-Shabaab in the matter of spending money! ”

Zuo Zongtang stroked his beard, with an interested expression on his face, "Uncle Xing, if you have any ideas, just say it." ”

Xu Gengshen arched his hand and said: "Since my Donglin's slogan is 'the king does not compete with the people for profit', then the court and the official should not directly operate industry and commerce, and the lower officials feel that most of the court officials are not familiar with industrial and commercial affairs, and if they are forced to operate, they will inevitably lose public funds, and then it will be the handle of the Youth Party to attack us." However, the fact that the government does not operate industry and commerce does not mean that it cannot run the city. ”

Zuo Zongtang subconsciously asked: "Running the city?" Uncle Xing, what do you mean......"

Xu Gengshen said with a smile: "It has long been no secret that the government runs the city in Shanghai, Yingtian and Guangzhou. The original prefect of Shanghai Prefecture, the current Yin Shengxu of Yingtianfu is one of the masters, the road is widened, the city is expanded, the water pipeline is laid, and the whole Shanghai has not stopped work all year round. And...... So many projects never cost the imperial court, and they did not levy taxes and donations to the people. ”

"And where did he get the money?" Liu Rong asked with interest. He had only been in Nanjing for a short time, and he did not know much about the affairs of the southeast.

"Land Sale!" Xu Geng said a little proudly, "This Sheng Xu person has a nickname in Shanghai, called 'Sheng Xiucheng', I don't know if the two Xiangye, Zhen Weng and Xia Weng have ever heard of it?" ”

Who doesn't know the name of "Shengxiu City"? Since this Shengkang became the county magistrate of Shanghai seven years ago, this Shanghai has become a large construction site that has been constantly expanding, and the city has not stopped work for seven years, and the scale of the city has expanded more than ten times. Moreover, it did not cost the government a copper plate, and it was greatly wealthy, leaving a large amount of urban construction funds (not included in the imperial court taxes) to his successor Pan Zuyin, and all these funds were obtained by pounding land - in fact, this set was not invented by Sheng Kang, before he took over the administration of the whole county of Shanghai, the Shanghai concession under the jurisdiction of foreigners did so. In Hong Kong and Tianjin, the British also used the method of running cities to drive up the price of land to obtain funds for urban construction.

The magistrates in the southeast know this routine, and they all want to follow suit, but not many of them really learn it decently. After all, China's industry and commerce have only just started, and the land in most places does not have much room for appreciation.

"Shanghai's prosperity is so fast, I'm afraid you can't learn it from other places, right?" Zuo Zongtang frowned and replied.

Xu Geng shook his head: "It may not be impossible to learn." The reason why Shanghai can develop is nothing more than because of the convenient transportation and smooth flow of goods, and it occupies a geographical advantage. And now, I, Daming, am building a railway. As of the end of last year, the railway has been put into operation more than 10,000 miles, in the next three or four years, there will be thousands of miles of railways put into operation every year, to the recovery of 12 years, my Ming railway will be more than 30,000 miles! There are hundreds of towns and cities passing through, and there are many towns and cities that circulate and people come and go, and I really don't know how many towns will rise because of this! ”

Zuo Zongtang stroked his beard and fell silent. Now Daming's party struggle is different from the past, it is not better than the complaint than the backstage, better than the article, or even more than the conspiracy, but than doing things! The reason why Emperor Zhu supported the Jishi Youth Party was not that he felt that those Jishi students had already made a name for themselves in the industrial and commercial circles and the legal circles, and showed strong ability to do things? Or is there a little bit of dissatisfaction with the courtiers who can't do things? There are 400,000 court officials in the Ming Dynasty! But in terms of doing things, can it really be compared with 10,000 Jishi classmates? If they are really allowed to let go of their hands and feet to repair the city, will they end up with a bunch of bad debts and tofu scum projects?

Seeing that Zuo Zongtang was silent, Xu Geng bowed his hand again, "Xiangye, Sheng Xu is also from reading sage books!" He paused, and then said, "Only by doing this thing can it be successful, and it is possible to accumulate experience, and things will get better and better in the future." And this world belongs to the Zhu family, and the one who wants to do things well the most must be the emperor. If we want to do things and develop the place, the emperor must support it, and not only support, but also find a way to let the royal consortium and the industrial consortium help us. If the classmates of Jishi in these two consortia try to obstruct it, the emperor will definitely find out! (To be continued......)