"So the Jin merchants are only afraid and unreliable, if they can take it out, it won't be much, we are competing with them for business," the Empress Dowager Cixi saw clearly, this national debt matter is the first test in China, although there is a risk, but it has to be on, otherwise the silver like the water of the Yangtze River flows out every day, but I am afraid that it will not be long before the treasury will be exhausted, and then like the Daoguang Emperor, because there is no silver, so I have to compromise in the foreign war? This is the reason why the Empress Dowager Cixi is most unhappy to see a compromise, she would rather compromise and sign a contract because of the defeat in the war, rather than say that she was forced to stop the war because of lack of money, which is really enough to laugh until the next century's joke, and the defeat of the Sino-French war in actual history is also largely due to the lack of money to continue to support the front-line operations. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"So take a look first, see how the big guy's posture is, and then make a decision, three articles in a row in the daily newspaper, one is a great victory, the second is Feng Zicai's heroic story, and the third is the sale of treasury bonds, these three things, layer by layer, must be able to cause a little wave, "Linking the purchase of treasury bonds with serving the country, the Queen Mother is really very insidious and vicious, at least in the eyes of ordinary people, spending some money to buy bonds, you can support the country, and you can earn some interest on yourself, it is really a win-win situation of the best of both worlds, why not?"

When the two of them were talking, Xia Shouzhong entered the Heart Cultivation Hall with a telegram in his hand and sent it to the Empress Dowager Cixi, "Guangdong emergency telegram." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi took the telegram, opened it, looked at it, her eyes froze, and then closed it, "Okay Yan Jingming, you kneel down, what's the matter, you just go straight to play." ”

Yan Jingming retreated, the Empress Dowager Cixi stood up, and instructed Xia Shouzhong to call Li Lianying, she went to Xinuan Pavilion by herself, sat behind the big case of rosewood, and opened Zuo Zongtang's telegram, and read the above two sentences softly, "The minister Zuo Zongtang asked Xisheng to save Hu, Hu did it, if he rescued him, he will be used by the court." ”

"Hu?" The Empress Dowager Cixi pondered slightly, and even the palace maid sent the white fungus soup to moisten her throat, but she suddenly didn't know, "Hu? Who is it? Hu Xueyan? ”

Li Lianying arrived in a short time, standing in front of the throne with her hands down, the Empress Dowager Cixi raised her eyebrows and raised her head, "Where is Shanghai, what is the situation with Hu Xueyan?" ”

"Japan and Italy have a bumper harvest of silk, and the silk purchased by Hu Xueyan is pressed in his hands and cannot be sold, his ticket number is tight, and now it has been squeezed?"

"Run?" Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't help frowning, "Although he donated 500,000 taels of silver to Zuo Zongtang and borrowed 1 million taels of silver to Guangdong, this bit of silver is nothing to him, right?" Besides, the ticket number is a lot of money, and it will not be unable to support it, how can this be? Could it be that his stall is too big? ”

Li Lianying replied, "There are French people here who are making trouble, and they want to take back the pricing power of silk, so they will try their best to defeat Hu Xueyan and not turn over completely; Italy's silk harvest is conclusive, but Japan's silk harvest is just a posture, and the silk that is ready to be shipped to Shanghai is only stockpiled by Japan over the years, which is to make Hu Xueyan look good, so he sold it hard. As soon as these two news came out, it did have a great impact on the silk business. ”

Empress Dowager Cixi sneered slightly, "So, the Japanese are going to join the French to fight against Cao?" Leave him alone for the time being, the Japanese are only afraid that there will be a future, and we will see that the move is to dismantle it, but even so, presumably Hu Xueyan should have a way to resist it, otherwise his name as a silkworm god can be obtained lightly? I'm just afraid," the Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Li Lianying, "There are other people mixed in there, right?" ”

"There are two more," Li Lianying said bluntly, "one is Baojun," he raised his head slightly and glanced at the face of the Queen Mother, "and the other is Li Hongzhang." ”

"Oh?" The Empress Dowager Cixi was very surprised at first hearing, thinking about it carefully, but it was very reasonable, the former minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs who was in charge of money, regarded Shanghai as the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian who was forbidden by herself, one was a local snake, and the other was a dragon crossing the river, and it was indeed the most suitable to pick up Hu Xueyan as a businessman, Cixi was not too surprised by these people to deal with Hu Xueyan, she was just very surprised by one thing, "In this way, these two people are mixed with the French, and they want to make Hu Xueyan unlucky?" ”’

"According to the news of the Xuanli Office, it is just that all parties are following the trend, and there is no connection with each other, Baojun was originally just to embarrass Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang ......" Li Lianying said this, stopped talking, and stopped talking.

"It's to deal with Zuo Zongtang, right?" The Empress Dowager Cixi nodded knowingly, "I heard that what is it, the left is the first to pour the Hu?" ”

"In addition, these two people themselves are not dealing with each other, including the Nanyang Navy Division and Yang Bai case, Hu Xueyan is high-profile and jumps against Li Hongzhang."

"Maunshi," the Empress Dowager Cixi picked up the silver spoon, lowered her head and slowly drank a sip of white fungus soup, which was personally boiled by Zhang Fu, the old eunuch in the small kitchen of Chuxiu Palace, the Empress Dowager Cixi had to drink a bowl every day, the jade Biluan Lingzhi hairpin on her flag head was shining, and the cyan Ganoderma lucidum in Biluan's mouth was dressed into a long string of rice tassels, gently swaying in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi's forehead, she drank a few sips, took the handkerchief from the hands of the palace maid, wiped the corners of her mouth, waved her hand, and asked the palace maid to take the white fungus soup out, The Empress Dowager Cixi shouted the name she personally gave Li Lianying, "How much silver do you usually receive from Li Hongzhang." ”

"Lord Li will send 10,000 taels of silver to the minions in the third festival and two Qin." Li Lianying said bluntly, "There are about seventy or eighty thousand silver every year. ”

"He's also generous," the Empress Dowager Cixi asked, and she didn't comment on anything more on this matter, she nodded, "These people, the kung fu of looking at the limelight is really powerful, but as long as someone shows a little flaw, they can't wait to pounce on the throat of the prey and put the prey to death, the political sense of smell is still very sufficient, in this regard, although Baojun is old, it is not far behind, but there is one," the Empress Dowager Cixi looked at the caisson on the ceiling, put her right hand on Zuo Zongtang's telegram and patted it," At this time, I was still thinking about these bullshit things, blindly infighting, I was upset when I looked at it! ”

"We can't go on like this," the Empress Dowager Cixi stood up, "The soldiers in front are still fighting bloodily, and the people behind are now starting to drag their feet, if they continue to fight against the French in the future, this must be adjusted inside!" ”

At the end of the month, I will ask for a monthly pass... (To be continued.) )