Sheng Xuanhuai's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "I also have this intention, looking at Europe and the United States, the bank business is the right way, and the government is the wrong way, if I want to be rich and strong, the bank business is the fundamental!" If the Holy God gives me full authority to handle this matter, I will definitely advise the Northeast People's Bank as the main body to prepare for the establishment of the Daqing Bank. ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "If the Holy Lord agrees, I can change the name of the Northeast People's Bank to Daqing Bank, or I can let the Holy Lord send someone to supervise it." ”

Sheng Xuanhuai agreed, and Lin Yuan asked, "Is there anything difficult about Brother Sheng persuading the Holy Lord?" ”

Sheng Xuanhuai said with a smile: "Although there are difficulties, but the saint attaches great importance to the preparation of the bank, and relied on foreign experts before, if it is really as Brother Lin said, the saint wants to expel foreign experts, then the only person the saint can trust is me, and no one refutes what I say, and the saint will naturally listen." ”

Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction, the two chatted for a while, Sheng Xuanhuai took his leave and went back, as soon as he left, Shen Wanqing asked Lin Yuan: "You said that the Qing court will send someone to supervise our bank, isn't this handing over our power?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "No, even if they send someone to supervise it, the power will still be in our hands, you can rest assured." ”

The next day, the Guangxu Emperor issued an order to remove the shares of foreign banks in the Daqing Bank under construction, and the foreign experts were given rewards for travel expenses and allowed to return to China.

Many foreign factories and enterprises in Shanghai, due to the lack of bank backing, operating income has been greatly reduced, coupled with Lin Yuan's statement of abolishing consular jurisdiction, so that foreign factories and enterprises feel that they are thorns in their backs, and many of them plan to change hands at low prices, Lin Yuan instructed the Zhang's Industrial Company in Shanghai to take over all the factories and enterprises that foreigners want to sell over, and Zhang's Industrial Company soon took control of the vast majority of factories and enterprises founded by foreigners in Shanghai.

Lin Yuan also took the opportunity of closing down foreign banks in Shanghai to carry out the most thorough crackdown on opium smuggling in Shanghai and Guangzhou, destroyed a large amount of opium, and completely eradicated the smuggling force of foreign countries to smuggle opium into China.

In Beijing, under Sheng Xuanhuai's strong advice, Emperor Guangxu agreed to establish a central bank with the People's Bank of Northeast China as the main body, and the bank was completely run by businessmen, and the household department was not allowed to interfere, and the newly established bank was renamed the "People's Bank of the Qing Dynasty", with the right to issue currency, and the implementation of the joint-stock system, because Lin Yuan had the capital of 30 million taels of silver, so he instantly became the first largest holder, and the second largest holder, Sheng Xuanhuai, was only 700,000 taels of silver.

Under Lin Yuan's strong advice, the Qing court issued an edict to make the renminbi the only currency of the country, which was not pegged to gold and silver, becoming the first currency in this era to abolish the gold and silver standard system and adopt the credit standard system, which also ended the history of China's use of silver and copper coins for thousands of years.

At the same time as the development of the banking business, Lin Yuan arranged for people to carry out some inventions and creations, mainly radio stations, the experts of the Beijing ship developed radio frequency transmitting equipment, and then established a radio station, it is useless to have a radio station, but also need to have a radio, in Lin Yuan's era, when the radio first appeared, only the richest people could afford it, because the technical level was backward, and the cost of important components of the radio such as electron tubes and ore crystals was extremely high.

At this time, the cost of the tube was very low, so the price of the radio was not high, and low- and middle-income people could also buy one, so the radio sold a lot of units as soon as it was launched, but the Qing court did not realize that radio stations and radios were very important tools for controlling public opinion, they just felt that the radio was an interesting little box.

In terms of the content of the broadcast, Lin Yuan did not let the radio broadcast more political news and other content, the broadcast content is mainly entertainment programs such as storytelling, drama, and cross talk, in this era, people who are engaged in these things are looked down upon, but the emergence of the radio station has given them unprecedented social status and respect, and no one is grateful to Lin Yuan.

On the Mongolian side, herdsmen's settlements and state-owned pastures have been built, and the 7th Division, stationed in Kyakhta, is also actively engaged in economic and ideological infiltration of the Siberian region of Russia; In Europe, because the shipyard has been on the right track, the ocean cable laying ship has also been manufactured, and according to the agreement signed between Lin Yuan and France, communication cables have begun to be laid to France.

At the meeting, China, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries jointly signed the "World Radio Band Use Convention" drafted by Lin Yuan, which stipulates a common civil radio code for civil use in various countries, and Lin Yuan also signed a civil radio equipment contract worth one billion yuan with several countries. Basically controlled the market for civilian radio equipment.

On May 1, the Japanese government suddenly announced the "Japan-South Korea Protection Treaty" to the whole world, the official version of the treaty was very similar to the draft version that Lin Yuan had seen before, only a few wording was changed, and on the same day, the Japanese government announced that the king of Korea was crowned the prince of Japan, and asked the king of Korea to move to Tokyo.

As soon as the "Japan-South Korea Protection Treaty" was announced, European and American countries praised Japan and praised Japan as a model for Asian countries and made great contributions to helping backward regions. ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly ordered the Sino-North Korean border guards to raise the level of combat readiness, Lin Yuan knew very well that once this treaty was announced, there would inevitably be an anti-Japanese upsurge in North Korea, and someone would inevitably use force to resist, so that there would be a large number of refugees on the Sino-North Korean border.

Lin Yuan was looking for a resistance group in North Korea, but at this moment, someone suddenly came to report: "Beijing has sent an urgent telegram, asking Lin Shuai to discuss Beijing as soon as possible!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Didn't the Qing court say what it was?" ”

The entourage replied: "No, the Qing court said that this matter is extremely important, please Lin Shuai must rush to Beijing within one day of seeing the urgent telegram!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "This is strange, what could it be?" He rushed to Beijing within a day, could it be for the sake of Japan's swallowing of North Korea? It is absolutely impossible, they were not too touched when Korea was occupied by Japan, and now they will not be so anxious about this matter. ”

Although Lin Yuan wondered in his heart, he still prepared for it, went to Beijing, got on the train, and got off at Beijing Station more than ten hours later. It seems that this matter must be very significant! ”