Guo Ye sent away Fitlet, who was already crazy with happiness, and called Jiang Shenghua, a military staff officer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Shenghua, immediately notify Premier Guo, Tang Tingshu, and Xue Fucheng and ask him to come over."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Jiang Shenghua agreed, and hurriedly went down to inform.

After a short time, the three of them came to the Qianqing Palace.

"Your Majesty, what is the important matter for you to summon us over?"

Guo Songtao asked.

"Hehe, it's nothing, today the British Minister Fitley came to me to make a fuss, and now the British government is under tremendous pressure from the House of Commons in the country, asking them to adopt a tough policy towards the Chinese Empire, and this Fitley is here to ask for benefits......"

Xue Fucheng frowned and asked, "Want benefits?" Why give them the benefits? Their interests are damaged because they are not strong, if we are weaker, we will be the ones who will lie down this time! ”

Guo Ye shook his head and replied, "Uncle Yun, we can't make the relationship with the British too stiff yet, there are still many places where they want to use them." For example, this time, we need to calculate the plan, don't they want benefits, well, let's give them a little benefit, but international exchanges are to be mutually beneficial, and while giving them benefits, they must also come up with corresponding ......."

Xue Fucheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Your Majesty, do you really want to give them benefits?" What are the benefits? ”

Guo Ye stood up and said slowly: "Brother Shuyun, you have been in the United States for so long, you should know how rapid the development of railways in the United States is, almost every year there are at least 5,000 kilometers of railways completed and opened to traffic, such a speed of 20 years, then the United States will have more than 100,000 kilometers of railway mileage, which will bring an extremely huge boost to the economic development of the United States, in comparison, our railway construction plan, it seems too stingy, and we lack the technology and industrial workers to build railways, Even if we want to speed things up, we can't do it, it's not enough to rely on ourselves and Prussia's help! ”

Forehead......

Xue Fucheng didn't expect Guo Ye to pull the matter on the construction of the railway!

"Your Majesty, the construction of the railway is important, but if you want to hurry, you also said that we do not have enough workers, nor do we have enough industrial base, and our steel production is too low!"

Guo Ye said with a smile: "Since our strength is insufficient, and the strength of Prussia is also insufficient, then we will use the strength of the British, I decided to hand over part of our railway construction plan to the British to complete, and complete it according to our requirements, big deal, we will share part of the profits to the British, but for us, once the railway is completed, the country's economy will take off, and now the financial revenue is close to 100 million taels of silver, after the completion of the construction of these railways, I believe that our financial revenue may exceed 500 million taels or even 1 billion taels of silver! ”

Burst......

Guo Songtao on the side was almost choked to death by the tea!

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

Guo Songtao's face turned red, he kept coughing, and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, you don't paint me a big cake, one billion taels of silver!" Even if Britain is now, whether the fiscal revenue is a billion taels of silver, it is still two words! Let foreigners build a railway for me, these guys are more shrewd than the other, if you don't do it, we will be pitted by them! ”

Guo Ye smiled: "Bochen, your courage is getting smaller and smaller, a billion taels of silver, is it a lot?" As long as we continue to develop at the current pace, I believe that this day will come, but only if we build our industrial system and public transport system, which is the basis of social and economic development! Don't worry, with me and you people, the foreigners want to fool us, and they are still a big step away! ”

"Your Majesty, what are you going to do?"

Xue Fucheng is very calm, after all, compared with Guo Songtao, Xue Fucheng has been in the United States for a long time, and he has a clear understanding of the railway construction in the United States, and a large part of the railway construction in the United States is from European investment, and even more than half of the investment in the United States itself! If the Americans could use European money, what could the Chinese Empire not? You just need to negotiate the conditions, and nothing can't be done!

"This, is the reason I want to discuss with you, my plan, in fact, is very simple, by our own funds to build the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Beijing-Guangzhou Railway two trunk lines, in addition, we also want to build a railway trunk line from Beijing or Kaifeng to Urumqi, with these two criss-crossing railways, our control over the entire national territory will reach an unprecedented level, no longer have to worry about the future powers invade us, because our heroes can quickly advance along the railway to the frontier in any direction! In addition to these two trunk lines, which must be in our hands, the rest of the branch railways can be handed over to the British and even the French to build, in the way of cooperation with Prussia, they build the railway, they operate the railway, we use the railway, the income from their investment can be allowed to earn back through the operation for a period of time in the future, after the deadline, we take over the railway, and at the same time give them a certain amount of financial compensation! ”

Xue Fucheng nodded and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, this plan is feasible, but even the British can't eat so much railway construction in one go, right?" Even if all their road construction companies come in, they can build two or three thousand kilometers a year, which is already very good......"

Yuan Xiao smiled and replied: "We can build 30,000 kilometers of railways for me in the next ten years, and the rest will be our turn to build ourselves. As for the mode of cooperation, we have two parallel lines, one is to borrow from British banks, through their loans, invest in the construction of railways, and hire their railway companies, so that the right to operate and own the railways are ours; The second is to directly let them invest in the construction of railways, in this case, it will require a huge amount of road construction companies in the United Kingdom, small road construction companies simply cannot come up with such a large investment, you know, a kilometer of railway investment is not 10,000 taels of silver, this thing is too expensive! Also, this matter is out of the wind, we can't hang ourselves from a tree in the British, and send invitations to road construction companies and banks in other countries in the world, whoever has money, we will hand it over! In addition, the steel plant in Zhili should be put into operation as soon as possible, and we must produce steel rails on a large scale, and this money cannot be made by the gringos! ”

(To be continued.) )