Chapter 87 Ancillary attributes of Jiangnan National Academy

The money to be spent on the Zhejiang Jinhang Canal Project is not a lot of money for Hu Chuyuan. His goal is to try his best to improve the raw silk industry and tea industry in Zhejiang, and also to let Mei Qizhao and Qu Hongji obtain political capital from it.

Even if the project money of nearly six million taels of silver is borrowed or not repaid, he can't get a penny back, he will still earn it back after all.

In order to ensure the smoothness of the project, the magistrates and prefectures in various places will not be unable to get through the project because the project has been entrusted to the Jiangnan Water Conservancy Bureau, and there is no opportunity to get money from it. Hu Chuyuan and Mei Qizhao secretly discussed for several hours, quietly moving the magistrates of Jinhuafu and Yanzhou Prefecture, using Mei Qizhao's cronies and Hu Chuyuan The young officials recommended before.

In this way, there will be another secret contact between Qu Hongji, so that these magistrates can secretly help each other, and Hu Chuyuan's sending people to acquire the fields along the canal will also be carried out more smoothly.

The governor of Quzhou is already Liao Zhongshan from Jiangsu. This is the person recommended by Hu Chuyuan last year. He is upright and there must be no problem. Naturally, there is no need to change it.

The magistrate of Jinhua will be replaced by Liu Hongxi from Jiangxi, and the magistrate of Yanzhou will be replaced by Huang Jiaju, a native of Hunan.

"Huang Jiaju".

Really, every time he saw the name, Hu Chuyuan couldn't help but be a little excited and trembling.

After talking about these things, Qu Hongji and Hu Chuyuan talked about Fuzhou again and said, "Do you still remember Zhang Baixi from my hometown in the same year? After being recommended to Zhongtang by Qiwei, he was appointed by Zhongtang in Fuzhou Ship Administration Office together with his hometown Tu Renshou. He served as the meeting office of the Tongyuan Bureau of the Yamen, and Tu Ren's code. The affairs of the Audit Office.

"Oh, I remember!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly. At the beginning, when Yan Shizhang and he recommended these people, he specially listed seven of them, namely Qu Hongji, Zhang Baixi, Tu Renshou from Hunan, Dai Hongci from Guangdong, Liao Zhongshan from Jiangsu, Tang Jingsong from Guangxi, and Liu Hongxi from Jiangxi.

Yan Shizhang once said that all seven people have the talent of governors, and Qu Hongji is even better. The meaning is that he can be the one who can be the governor.

Therefore, Hu Chuyuan specially recommended Qu Hongji to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, and also wanted to observe it closely.

In fact, few of these seven people really became governors. Only Qu Hongji was the military minister. During the period when Prince Qing Yiqi and Yuan Shikai were in power, Qu Hongji was the last boss of the Qing school, and only he could fight with these two people.

Unfortunately, the defeat was defeated by Zhang Baixi.

Before the new policy is about to start, under the recommendation of Ronglu, Qu Hongji and Zhang Baixi were invited by Cixi together. The bottom meaning is that one of them should be the minister of military affairs. The two of them are from the same county, fellow villagers, classmates, and the same year. They have a strong personal friendship, so they meet in private. No matter who is the minister of military affairs, they must try their best to protect others. One other person served as the governor of the two rivers.

As a result, because Zhang Baixi's words about the New Deal were too fierce, Cixi was not happy, so she used Qu Hongji as the military minister.

Finding that Cixi didn't like Zhang Baixi, Qu Hongji chose his surname to forget the original agreement, not to mention the governor of Liangjiang, and he did not even assign the position of governor to Zhang Baixi.

In anger, Zhang Baixi formed an alliance with Yuan Shikai.

Later, Qu Hongji attacked his political opponents, Prince Qing Yiqi and Yuan Shikai in the name of anti-corruption, while Zhang Baixi repeatedly contacted other officials to help Yuan Shikai and Qu Hongji oppose him.

Hu Chuyuan does not know these things. He is more familiar with Rockefeller, Yataro Iwasaki, Qiao Zhiyong, Sheng Xuanhuai... than Qu Hongji and Zhang Baixi...!

However, Hu Chuyuan also saw a clear point - few people in politics are really clean, and so is Qu Hongji. He calculates everything, and what he wants is still his official position.

In the minds of these people, nothing in the world is more important than the official position, followed by the rise and fall of the country and the life and death of the people. They are still much better than some officials. For example, they rank money in third, not first or second.

At this moment, Qu Hongji still cared about his friendship with Zhang Baixi very much, so he recommended to Hu Chuyuan: "Zhang Baixi is a very good person with outstanding talent and is famous for his intensive study of Western studies, so he can be sent there by Zhongtang. Now think about it, Lord Zhongtang had a plan for a long time and sent him there in advance. When he heard that Lord Qiwei was about to be transferred to the ship administration, he also wrote a secret letter and forwarded it to the cavalry lieutenant.

Since he is a talent, of course Hu Chuyuan wants to use it.

He took the letter from Qu Hongji's hand and opened it. He couldn't help frowning.

Zuo Zongtang's strength, the literacy of knowing and using people, and the ability to control the overall situation... There is no need to talk about it in detail. In short, it is extremely powerful. One year in advance, Zhang Baixi from Hunan and Tu Renshou from Hubei Province were sent to Fuzhou Ship Administration Office. One served as a meeting office in the Tongyuan Bureau, and the other served as a secretary in the audit office, and strangling the ship administration office. The financial key of the door.

As for the situation inside the ship's government, as long as two people have a private breath, they can basically touch each other.

In this letter, Zhang Baixi and Tu Renshou first of all want to thank Hu Chuyuan for his recommendation. Both of them and Qu Hongji are in the same year, that is, the 13th year of Tongzhi. Their qualifications are very shallow. Without the help of Hu Chuyuan, how can they get the real fat difference in the place?

In addition, Zhang Baixi informed Hu Chuyuan of what he had learned in the government office. In short, the situation was quite bad. He had to make sufficient preparations in advance and show his loyalty and gratitude by the way. As soon as Hu Chuyuan took office, they would be the only one of Hu Chuyuan.

Looking at the whole letter, Hu Chuyuan lamented that the situation of the ship's government was indeed very difficult, and the second was that the benefits of his cronies were really real.

Before he took office, Zhang Baixi and Tu Renshou had already stated that they would follow him and inform him to prepare him.

With internal annihiretion help, why worry about not major events?

Hu Chuyuan couldn't help laughing and said to Qu Hongji, "Thank you, Lord Huo. This letter really helped me a lot!"

In front of Mei Qizhao, Qu Hongji did not hide at all. He arched his hand and said with a smile, "This is the responsibility to do. If there is any difference in the future, the captain will say it bluntly, and Huo will do his best!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly.

Large and small things have been discussed. After leaving the two adults to have dinner, Hu Chuyuan sent them out of the Hu family's compound.

When he returned to Leng Qiutang, he showed Zhang Baixi's letter to Yan Shizhang, and then secretly discussed with Yan Shizhang. He decided to deploy in advance and first transferred a few shrewd shopkeepers from Jiangnan Commercial Bank to place them in Fuzhou to wait.

In addition, for the people mentioned by Zhang Baixi in the letter, also find out one by one to see their cards and network.

He always felt that the employment in Fuzhou would be more nervous. Hu Chuyuan also asked Yan Shizhang to try his best to recruit some people for him and do great things together.

There are many people. Yan Shizhang himself has the habit and responsibility of collecting talents to recommend to Hu Chuyuan. He soon recommended three people, all of whom are in Jiangnan National Academy.

The first one was Miao Tsuensun, a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. He was a scholar in Guangxu for two years. Because of his discord with Xu Tong, a bachelor in charge of Hanlin Academy, he left his job and went home leisure.

He is famous for his good at gold and stone science and bibliography. He is also a master of collection and appreciation in Jiangyin. At the invitation of Yu Yue, he is currently studying ancient books with Yu Yue at Jiangnan National College.

When he was in Shanghai, Yan Shizhang often went to the Jiangnan National Academy. He was very familiar with the people in it. He always felt that Miao Tsuensun's ability was not simple, and it was useless to study ancient books and paintings.

Since Hu Chuyuan wants to collect more staff, the first one recommended by Yan Shizhang is Miao Tsuensun.

The second person is Niu Yugeng, a person from Zhejiang Huiji. He has been a Jinshi in Tongzhi for four years. He is very old, but he is not very old. He once served as a student in Shandong, and then left home because of Ding You. After Ding You finished, he wanted to make up for the gap and return to Beijing, but the officials of the Ministry of Officials wanted to take him 30,000 taels of silver as a bribe. In anger, he no longer served as an official and stayed in Zhejiang to make a living.

The third person is also Gu Jiaxiang, a member of Zhejiang Huiji. He was 26 years old. He was a scholar in Guangxu for two years. He was not very lucky. At the beginning of the year, he was worried about his mother. He went home and kept filial piety for a few months. At the invitation of his fellow countrymate Niu Yugeng, he went to Jiangnan National Academy to study.

This person attaches great importance to the theory of foreign affairs. He often goes to the Western Academy and Gezhi Academy, and has a good personal relationship with Xu Shou and others.

Yan Shizhang's eyes are still very accurate. Almost all the people he like have good value.

Hu Chuyuan immediately agreed and wrote a letter in person (the level of calligraphy and the foundation of Sinology are too sparse, so I still have to let Yan Shizhang revise it again, and copy it once before taking it out to meet people) to the three people, and hired them to serve as his staff and discuss major matters together.

When he "writed" the letter, Yan Shizhang personally took the letter to Shanghai to find them.

This incident gave Hu Chuyuan another inspiration, that is, the talent recruitment of Jiangnan National Academy belongs to the surname. I have to admit that many of the talents in this era are proficient in articles, gold and stone studies, calligraphy and painting, catalogues, etc. These are the real Chinese studies.