Lin Yuan said: "That's what I said, ruin their reputation first, and then you come out to earn our reputation, understand?" ”

Chen Fei agreed, and Lin Yuan said, "I'm going back to Beijing, and I will be notified at any time if there is any situation." Chen Fei agreed, Lin Yuan came to the newspaper office, and was much relieved to see that the outside was the same as before, and found Shen Wanqing inside, and said: "Give me the information of foreign banks that I have collected these days, and I will go to Beijing to carry out the final decisive battle of this financial battle." ”

Shen Wanqing said, "Do you want me to follow you?" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "In Beijing, there are agents of Zhang's Industrial Company and the personal guard team led by Liu Yufeng, and the strength is okay, but Wanqing actually doesn't need to go." But he said, "All right, let's go back together." ”

Lin Yuan came to the train station and got on the train to Beijing, on the train, two messages were sent to Lin Yuan's communicator, Lin Yuan opened it, and his face was full of anger, Shen Wanqing hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It was our banks in Wuhan and Guangzhou that had an accident, they were all seized, and all assets were confiscated!" ”

Shen Wanqing said in surprise: "What? Is there such a thing? ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said: "Emperor Guangxu is talking about 'checking' the affairs of the People's Bank of Northeast China, as for how to check, the people below understand it themselves, go in and see if it is 'check', and confiscating the property is also 'check'!" ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "Then why did they want to close down the banks in Wuhan and Guangzhou?" Who did it? ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said: "The person who banned the Bank of Shanghai is Xu Yingqi, he is the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, I think Wuhan and Guangzhou should also be the governor's hand, Wuhan is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Huguang, and Guangzhou is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Liangguang." ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "Then who are they?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The Governor of Liangguang at this time is Tan Zhonglin, this person is not very famous in history, but the Governor of Huguang is different, he is the famous Zhang Zhidong in history, have you heard of it?" ”

Shen Wanqing nodded and said, "Who hasn't heard of Zhang Zhidong, it's all in the textbooks!" But do they have a grudge against you? ”

Lin Yuan said silently: "Do you remember the matter of Zhang Xiaofeng, the prefect of Fengtian, who was punished by me for corrupting the law?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Of course I remember, didn't you use that incident as an excuse to replace the officials of the three eastern provinces with the people we cultivated?" If future generations want to write history, that thing is an unavoidable stroke! ”

Lin Yuan said: "Zhang Xiaofeng is a relative of Zhang Zhidong, and Chen Qingyun persuaded me at that time: 'Punishing Zhang Xiaofeng will offend Zhang Zhidong', and there has been no movement for so long, I didn't expect to meet here." ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "What about Tan Zhonglin?" Also have a grudge against you? ”

Lin Yuan shook his head and said: "I don't know, Xu Yingqi still has no enmity with me, isn't it the same to bring people to trouble me, I think Yuan Shikai is making trouble behind." Lin Yuan said and took out a map of the whole country from his bag, pointed to it and said: "You see, now there are nine governors in the country according to the region, among which Fujian, Zhejiang, Huguang, and Liangguang have made it clear that they are against me, and Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, and Sun Yuwen, the governor of Zhili, have a good relationship with me. ”

"The remaining three governors, Yang Changjun, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Liu Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan, and Wei Guangtao, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, have no dealings with me, and their attitudes are unclear, so if I want to enter Beijing, maybe there will be a situation of confrontation between the north and the south! So now I have to find a way to win over these governors, so that when I come to Beijing, I will not let them be loyal to the Qing court. ”

Shen Wanqing nodded, and suddenly asked, "Didn't you say that there are nine governors?" That's just eight of them. ”

Lin Yuan smiled helplessly: "The other one is me, the governor of the three northeastern provinces." ”

Shen Wanqing smiled embarrassedly and said, "These are all things in the future, what should we do when we return to Beijing?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The first thing I did when I returned to Beijing was to investigate what decisions were made within the Qing court. The information I know now is only a few words, not very complete, and there will be many deviations. Emperor Guangxu ordered to investigate the bank I founded, but he didn't greet me, the connotation of this matter is too rich, does he completely distrust me and want to attack me? We also need to find out before deciding what to do. ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "Then how do we go back and investigate?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Let's go to Guan'er first, she is the closest to the ruling core of the Qing court, and she should get some decision-making information at the highest level; There is also the housekeeper Liu San, who is very familiar with Beijing and can hear a lot of rumors in the market, from whom we can learn about the decision-making process in many ways; There is also Li Jingfang, the Qing court must let officials prepare for the establishment of banks, and he is familiar with those officials, so he can get a lot of information from him. ”

In the evening, Lin Yuan and Shen Wanqing returned to Beijing, first went home to find Guan'er, and entered Guan'er's house, Guan'er was still sleeping, the matter was urgent, Shen Wanqing woke her up quietly, and Guan'er was surprised when she saw them: "Sister-in-law, brother, why are you back?" Hurry up and sit down, I'll pour you tea. ”

After Wan'er finished speaking, she put on her clothes and got up, and Shen Wanqing whispered in Lin Yuan's ear: "You see that Guan'er is getting more and more beautiful, especially her breasts, I only had a B cup when I saw her, but now there must be a D cup." ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said in her ear, "Then what kind of cup are you?" ”

Shen Wanqing's face flushed, and she said "I hate it", Lin Yuan smiled: "It's okay if you don't tell me, I'll know it by myself after a while." Shen Wanqing was just about to beat him, but Wan'er turned around, held two cups of tea, and asked, "My brother and sister-in-law must have something important to come to me so late, right?" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Do you know about the emperor's ban on my bank?" ”

Guan'er nodded and said, "I heard about it, but the emperor didn't say ban, what he meant: investigate my brother's bank, and then let my brother's bank merge into the Daqing Bank that is being built!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that the affairs of Wuhan and Guangzhou are my enemies making their own claims." Lin Yuan then asked: "How much do you know about this Daqing Bank that is being built?" ”

Wan'er shook her head and said: "The emperor and the queen mother usually don't talk about this matter, and I don't know about it, but I know about it, a few days ago, the emperor held a banquet in the imperial garden, and invited several foreigners, I heard that they are all experts in the bank, and they have no precedent since the founding of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that they attach great importance to the experts of these banks!" Lin Yuan asked again: "Then who are these bank experts close to?" ”

Guan'er said: "Yuan Shikai! It turned out that these experts all lived in the post house, and later Yuan Shikai said that the post house was too dilapidated, so he took them to his own house, and the emperor also rewarded Yuan Shikai for this matter! ”

Lin Yuan couldn't help but say, "Yuan Shikai? It's him again! ”

Wan'er said angrily: "That's right, he is necrotic, and he often opposes you, brother!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked, "Do you still know what to do?" ”

Guan'er shook her head aggrievedly and said, "Brother, I'm sorry, Guan'er only knows so much. Lin Yuan saw that she was about to cry, hurriedly comforted her, and coaxed her for a while, and then the two came out.

Lin Yuan said: "I now know that the Qing court is going to prepare for the establishment of the Daqing Bank, and when I was in Shanghai, I heard them say that foreign banks want to buy shares, I don't know if Lu Dao is true, we will go to Liu San now to ask." ”