Chapter 32 See Yuan Shikai

Zhao Dongyun took Fang Ruolian and the guards straight home from the railway station, while the officers of Lin Yongquan and other machine gun battalions took their troops back to the barracks outside Dongguan, Baoding first.

Although Baoding City is not small in this era, it is actually not big. It didn't take long for everyone to return to their homes. Looking at the small buildings in the iron fence, Fang Ruolian was slightly surprised. She thought that officials like Zhao Dongyun would live in traditional houses, such as those big houses that entered several times, but she did not expect I will live in this kind of Western-style small foreign building.

gave her a feeling of returning home. When she lived with her parents before, she also lived in a similar small foreign-style building, but there was no wide courtyard, and it seemed that the house was not as big as the one in front of her.

But this is actually her illusion. Although Zhao Dongyun's house covers a large area, most of it is empty woodland. The small building in the middle actually covers a small area. However, against the large courtyard, the small building seems to be very large.

When you enter the courtyard door and follow the bluestone corridor to the door of the small building, you can see Housekeeper Xu and several servants bowing and waiting.

"Master, you have worked hard all the way!" Butler Xu came forward, then looked at Fang Ruolian behind Zhao Dongyun, and then said, "I've met Miss Fang!"

At this time, Fang Ruolian did not remind others as usual: I am a nun.

Because she was not wearing a nun's uniform at this time, and she didn't know when to start, she no longer insisted on defending herself as a nun.

In this way, Fang Ruolian lived in the name of temporary residence. Of course, she also said that she would only stay for a few days. She would go to the Catholic Church in Baoding tomorrow, but she didn't say whether she planned to stay in the church in Baoding or go to other places.

Since the moment he set foot in Baoding, Zhao Dongyun's mind is actually no longer on Fang Ruolian. It is his hobby to flirt with women when he has nothing to do, but now he is not in the mood to have sex with Fang Ruolian. As for saying anything, he just ran to Fang Ruolian's room to do husband and wife. , he is not so hungry and thirsty.

Women are like tea, and they have to make a cup of tea before they can taste the middle flavor!

Anyway, Fang Ruolian was abducted from Guangzong to Baoding by him, and Zhao Dongyun was not in such a hurry for a day or two.

Now Zhao Dongyun thinks about the situation of meeting Yuan Shikai and taking office tomorrow, which are related to his future career development and must not be relaxed.

The next day, Zhao Dongyun got up relatively late. After dressing, he changed his clothes and went downstairs. He sat down and picked up the newspaper after ironing it. The newspaper in his hand still emitted the smell of ink, but after the iron was ironed, it would no longer let the ink touch his hands.

These days, most of the newspapers are run by foreigners. Although there are also Chinese newspapers, they are still few and mostly concentrated in Shanghai. In Baoding, they are newspapers with little influence. However, Baoding is a Beiyang base camp and a veritable political and military center of North China. In the past few years after Gengzi, Bao The political influence is greater than that of Beijing.

At least Zhao Dongyun is quite concerned about Yuan Shikai's every move, but he doesn't care about what other senior officials in Beijing said.

There are also several tabloids in Baoding. Although they can't stand on the table in China, it is also a way to understand the current situation and people's conditions. When Zhao Dongyun comes to this era for a long time, he will basically have the opportunity to read the newspaper.

Today's tabloids did not say anything big, mostly gossip and interesting, and most of them introduced Western affairs. A very important role of Chinese newspapers in this era is to introduce Western political and military culture.

This kind of measure has played a great role in broadening the eyes of the Chinese people, but these open-minded Western things are of little use to Zhao Dongyun.

After breakfast, Zhao Dongyun took several guards straight to the governor's mansion. He was going to see Yuan Shikai!

Along the way, Zhao Dongyun found that there seemed to be some changes on the streets of Baoding. There seemed to be more soldiers in new military uniforms, the store seemed to be more enthusiastic, and people seemed to laugh more. However, these seem to be normal when they come together.

After arriving at the governor's mansion, although it was still early, Zhao Dongyun saw several people who were also waiting for Yuan Shikai's summons. Although these people were civilized and martial arts, they were all colleagues in the Beiyang system. Naturally, Zhao Dongyun would not despise himself as a young handsome man who was newly emerging in Beiyang. A group of civil and military officials pretended to be young descendants and talked to the crowd.

Most of the people present here have never heard of their names in later generations. Beiyang, as a system, descendants only saw a few warlords such as Yuan Shikai, Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui. Other Beiyang dignitaries were buried in the long river of history.

For example, several core bosses in Beiyang today: Liu Yongqing and Wang Yingkai. Because they all died before the 1911 Revolution, later generations are not familiar with them, but they are serious real power bosses in today's Beiyang system.

Although these people present today are not famous in later generations, they are also the backbone officials of today's Beiyang system. Naturally, Zhao Dongyun will not easily ignore them.

After saying a few words to the crowd, Zhao Dongyun saw a middle-aged man in a horse coat walking in with his head held high. He had never seen this person, but someone around him recognized him and immediately greeted him: "Mr. Zhou, how have you been here recently? I still want to see you before, but I didn't expect him to be able to See you here!"

A man standing next to Zhao Dongyun saw that Zhao Dongyun didn't seem to know this person and immediately said, "This is Zhou Xuexi, the God of Wealth of the Silver Yuan Bureau!"

"Zhou Xuexi?" Although Zhao Dongyun is not an expert and scholar in modern history and can only be regarded as a pseudo-military fan at best, since he knows some of the history of Beiyang, and when it comes to the history of Beiyang, he naturally can't avoid Zhou Xuexi, the great god of wealth of Beiyang. I remember that in history, this person seemed to be the financial housekeeper of Beiyang and relied on his own strength. It supports the countless military expenses needed by Beiyang.

Zhao Dongyun, who has this kind of vague memory in his mind, will naturally not let go of the opportunity to meet Zhou Xuexi. He immediately took the initiative to come forward. When the official who had talked to Zhou Xuexi saw Zhao Dongyun coming, he immediately introduced him interestingly: "This is Zhao Dongyun from the coach's office. The Guangzong Civil Change that has been booming recently He led the army to calm down!"

Zhao Dongyun's name is also a little famous in the Beiyang system. At least when others talk about Zhao Dongyun, most of them recall things as machine guns or rebellion against the Guangzong's civil uprising. Although Zhou Xuexi did not deal with the army, he was a foreign staff trusted by Yuan Shikai. He has been active in the senior management of Beiyang for a long time, so he has also heard a little about Zhao Dongyun, who has recently been heavily used by Yuan Shikai.

At this time, the man also introduced to Zhao Dongyun: "This is Lord Zhou, the General Office of the Silver Yuan Bureau!"

As a young descendant, Zhao Dongyun naturally had to say first: "I have heard for a long time that Lord Zhou is good at industry and has always wanted to see him. Now he has a chance to rebuild the silver dollar bureau in the ruins and made hundreds of thousands of yuan in just a few months, which is really admirable."

Zhou Xuexi heard a little flattery, and Zhao Dongyun mentioned his reconstruction of the Silver Yuan Bureau, which made him feel glorious.

The reconstruction of the Beiyang Silver Yuan Bureau is his outstanding political achievement. Since the destruction of the Beiyang Silver Yuan Bureau was destroyed by the Eight-nation Alliance, Yuan Shikai brought Zhou Xuexi last year and entrusted him with an important task to rebuild the Beiyang Silver Yuan Bureau. At that time, Zhou Xuexi started from his own. He rebuilt the Beiyang Silver Yuan Bureau in a piece of ruins and achieved Nissan copper. Hundreds of thousands of yuan, millions of copper yuan have been produced in less than half a year, and there is no problem to break 10 million copper yuan in the first year.

In this era, the profit of making copper yuan is not low, and the continuation of this silver yuan bureau is equivalent to being able to continuously transfuse blood to Beiyang.

In addition to the silver dollar bureau, he also set up a Tianjin official silver number.

After the year of Gengzi, the financial system in Zhili area almost collapsed. In order to save Zhili's financial system, Yuan Shikai, on the one hand, rebuilt the Silver Yuan Bureau to mint coins, and on the other hand, he founded Pingshi Official Bank to issue coins and regulate the financial market. However, Yuan Shikai had no money, and merchants refused to invest, and foreigners borrowed money. Yes, but the interest was so high that Yuan Shikai couldn't afford it. Finally, Zhou Xuexi gave him advice, saying that the official bank account should directly add savings business to absorb deposits and loans from commercial counter banks.

In this way, this official bank account has become a commercial bank with multiple functions such as currency issuance, financial control, deposit absorption, loan, discount, foreign exchange, etc., and the name has been renamed Tianjin official bank account. Zhou Xuexi naturally became the supervisor of Tianjin official bank account.

It is not too much for Zhou Xuexi, who holds the official silver account of Tianjin and the Beiyang Silver Yuan Bureau, to be called the Beiyang God of Wealth.

Zhou Xuexi's status in the Beiyang system is higher than that of the people present. Without staying too much, he went straight to Yuan Shikai's study, and others could only continue to wait.

After waiting for another half an hour, someone called Zhao Dongyun and said that Lord Yuan was going to see him!

At this time, Zhao Dongyun entered Yuan Shikai's study in the envy of others.

As soon as I entered, I saw that in addition to Yuan Shikai, Zhou Xuexi was also there. After entering, Zhao Dongyun gave Yuan Shikai a military salute: "The Ministry has seen you!"

Yuan Shikai, who was sitting on it, said directly, "Don't be polite. Sit down. It's okay all the way north!"

"For the blessing of adults, the Ministry of Service has been going north safely!" Zhao Dongyun also sat down. Of course, he didn't dare to sit full. He just made a small half, and he still straightened his waist and always maintained the appearance of a soldier.

Obviously, Yuan Shikai is very fond of Zhao Dongyun's young people who maintain a military style at this moment. At this time, he has left the desk, came down from the top and sat down on the next chair, and said, "Dongyun is still as energetic as before. Very good!"

Yuan Shikai didn't say much polite words to Zhao Dongyun, and immediately changed the topic: "This time I asked you to come back to supervise the machine gun business, thinking that since the machine gun has been done, and all countries are also handling this machine gun, you can't wait any longer. I want to build a few more machine gun camps. What do you think of Dongyun?