Chapter 92 If you don't have this ability, how can you be in this position?

After reading the folds that He Jing was going to send out, Hu Chuyuan couldn't help admiring He Qigong and said, "Your Excellency is really shrewd!"

"If you don't have this ability, how can you be in this position?"

He Qigong raised his eyebrows proudly and looked very proud. It seemed that he also had his contribution in those proposals, but he then sighed: "Unfortunately, my uncle still felt that these three reasons were also lacking in strength, which may not be able to reverse the situation. Therefore, he asked me to come and discuss with you immediately and take advantage of his time in the capital. If he waits at the end of hisxu qi, it will be extremely difficult to win back the situation after leaving the capital.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly, thought carefully for a moment, and then said to He Qigong, "When you go back, tell the governor to add these two proposals to the folds. First, Fujian ship administration half bought and half built, took the opportunity to buy ships to buy equipment and technical patents from the West to imitate new ships, and sent ship administration students to learn from various shipyards in Europe to gradually improve our shipbuilding level. Ten years later, we can build the world's first-class ironclad ships. Second, when the number of ships of the Fujian Marine Division increases, the old ships will be moved to the Nanyang Marine Division, and the Nanyang Marine Division does not need to add additional military expenses to buy new ships.

He Qigong smiled and said, "Wonderful, the virtuous brother is really not an ordinary person. As long as these two items are added, the court will not be able to refute, at least a military expense for us.

Hu Chuyuan said, "It's true. We buy half and half build. If we can't buy a boat, it's difficult to imitate a new boat."

"There is another thing...!"

He Qigong has a lot of things to discuss. After saying the memorials, he lowered his voice and said to Hu Chuyuan secretly, "In previous years, when my uncle returned to Beijing to resign, he would secretly bring a sum of funds to dredge the members of the Beijing Normal University and internal diplomacy. There are a lot of things to dredge this year, and it is not easy to compete with Li Hefei for military expenses, so... Uncle wants to withdraw money from you.

With these words, he also quietly watched Hu Chuyuan's look. I don't know if Hu Chuyuan would agree.

Hu Chuyuan didn't say anything and asked, "How much is it?"

He Qigong stretched out three fingers and said, "I'm afraid it will take 300,000 taels of silver. First of all, you have to pry open Prince Gong first. It's not so easy."

Hu Chuyuan said, "I'll write a letter to you. You can go directly to Jingshi Rongbaozhai to find my big shopkeeper Shen Furong, and he will be ready for everything. As long as the personnel is dredged in the capital, within 500,000 taels of silver, the uncle can transfer at any time.

He Qigong was overjoyed and said with a smile, "Thirty thousand taels of silver is roughly enough. If 500,000 taels of silver are smashed, this matter can be settled directly. We smash 500,000 yuan here, and we can increase the military expenses by at least one million taels every year in the future."

After a pause, he said, "I'm afraid there is no gain from these things. I'm afraid that these 500,000 taels of silver will go and never return, and I will damage my family for the affairs of the court. Brother... Sure enough, there is a wind of your father's urgency and righteousness."

Hu Chuyuan said, "Brother, don't think too much. I'm also for my own official career. If the Fuzhou Ship Administration has sufficient funds, I will do things much more smoothly. Spend as much as you need, no need to care!"

He knew that, like Mingjing, half of the silver was to dredge the funding problems of Fuzhou Ship Administration and Fujian Marine Division, and the other half was He Jing himself to work in the capital.

He immediately laughed a few times and said, "Well, I understand... In fact, the virtuous brother can rest assured that his uncle will definitely not let his family suffer losses, but there is an uncle who sits firmly in the position of governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the virtuous brother's family makes a profit in business, that's it...!"

There is no need to say that these words are too innocent, and both of them are very clear in their hearts.

Hu Chuyuan's business went so smoothly that at most 30% of the credit belongs to him, and he relied more on the secret support of Zuo Zongtang and He Jing. Although the two governors did not come forward, the governors, Taoist and magistrates below broke their legs.

At present, it can be said that as long as Hu Chuyuan secretly contributes money and matters in officialdom for Zuo Zongtang and He Jingmou, he will be more shrewd and cautious and camp step by step, there will be no problem in the Hu family in business, and the speed of making money is even more amazing.

As for the future, we have to see who is the new governor of Liangjiang and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, but that must be after 1885.

In the past few years, Hu Chuyuan believes that he has enough time to operate. To put it bluntly, if he can decide the candidate, he will definitely be willing to contribute millions of taels of silver at a time.

As long as this kind of business is done well and well done, the investment of millions of taels of silver can be recovered in a year.

At least, he has to help Mei Qizhao find a position as governor. Now, he and Mei Qizhao have long been tied to the same boat.

Develop backwards... Hu Chuyuan understood that he had to rely on himself at that time.

At this moment, 500,000 taels of silver were smashed out. If he could run the affairs of Fuzhou Ship Administration, it would be the basis for him to control a strong fleet.

Thinking about these things, he sneered in his heart.

It's not a good thing to go to Nanyang to develop a navy. He still wants to control a navy under Man's eyes. If it works well, he can not only protect himself, but also control the people, and can play the role of pulling out the pot at the critical moment.

He was thinking about it. He Qigong also gave him another secret letter and said, "When I went south, Lord Shen Baozhen, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also asked me to send you a letter. I don't know what to say to you!"

"Oh?"

Hu Chuyuan was slightly surprised. He had nothing to do with Shen Baozhen. Immediately, he opened the letter and took a look.

The content of the letter surprised Hu Chuyuan. It turned out that Shen Baozhen directly told him that there was a private money in the ship's government, that is, the legendary small treasury.

When the ship's government office was first founded, because there was always a surplus of funds from the imperial court, it was impossible for Shen Baozhen to send the money back to the capital. He intercepted the money and distributed it to Ye Wenlan, entrusting him to use the public funds to run the business and distribute profits and loans.

When Shen Baozhen was transferred from the governor of Liangjiang to the Ministry of War, a total of 1.94 million taels of silver were privately collected, which had been painstakingly operated for many years, with a total amount of about 3.44 million taels of silver.

This was a year ago.

This year, Ye Wenlan privately used 200,000 taels of silver, and the total amount was exactly how much. Except for Ye Wenlan, no one else could explain it clearly.

Shen Baozhen meant to give Ye Wenlan 20% of the dividend according to the original oral agreement, and the rest will be taken back for public use. He also said, "The virtuous nephew is very good at commerce. If he has the strength, he should be self-employed. If the money is tight, he will take advantage of the shipping government."

After reading the letter, Hu Chuyuan folded it and hid it in a secret bag between his clothes.

He Qigong asked curiously, "What did Lord Shen say? It seems to be very serious!"

Hu Chuyuan took a look at him and said, "It's not very serious. It's just that there is a private money inside the government office."

He Qigong said, "Many people know this matter. Ye Wenlan has often misappropriated the public funds of the government office to do business over the years. When Ding Yuechang became the Minister of Ships, he received a huge bribe of more than 100,000 taels of silver from Ye Wenlan. As a result, he was defeated by the Huai people. Probably because of Shen Baozhen's protection, nothing happened to Ye Wenlan. After my uncle also served as the Minister of Shipping, he was more afraid of this, just as if this private money did not exist.

Hu Chuyuan said yes.

He knows that He Jing is a very "miscuous" person. He is good at the world and will not easily offend people. If it hadn't been for his goal of being promoted to "Lord Zhongtang" and the guarantee of his richest-level treasury, He Jing would never have quarreled with Li Hongzhang.

Hu Chuyuan weighed it in his heart and wrote a reply to Shen Baozhen.

First of all, he told Shen Baozhen that he would deal with this problem properly. He would not be greedy for a penny or let more people know.

In addition, he has another proposal, hoping that Shen Baozhen would strongly recommend the imperial court to set up a Fujian sailor, buy a new ship, and imitate a new ship. In order to solve the funding problem, the imperial court can allocate a part more every year. Fuzhou Ship Administration Office can also invest in the joint share with Jiangnan Commercial Bank to establish Nanyang Commercial Bank, mainly from Nanyang to China. Import and export trade.

Secondly, in order to further improve the shipping administration in Fuzhou, to become a first-class shipyard in Asia within ten years and a world-class shipyard within 20 years, it is necessary to carry out internal structural reform. It must also be funded by the shipping administration of Fuzhou, and the official stock merchants run a number of shipyards, and use commercial shipyards to train talents and accumulation. Experience.

A commercial shipyard can build 6,000 tons of merchant ships, an official factory can build 3,000 tons of warships, a commercial shipyard can build 10,000 tons of merchant ships, and an official factory can build 7,000 tons of warships.

At this point, he couldn't help but stop writing.

He suddenly found that Shen Baozhen was the only person who was proficient in ship administration and coastal defense in the late Qing Dynasty. Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang were both half-time monks, while Peng Yulin, Yang Yuebin and others were too conservative and could only handle traditional sailors and forts.

He knew that the imperial court also knew that the current strategy of "mainly the Beiyang and Nanyang sailors, supplemented by the Yangtze and Fujian sailors" was laid by Shen Baozhen.

Hu Chuyuan believes that although Shen Baozhen does not have much time, only by gaining the trust and support of Shen Baozhen can he build a real world first-class shipyard in Fuzhou shipping administration and cultivate the world-class ship engineers and admirals.

He put the pen aside and said to He Qigong, "This letter is very important. I want to be careful and make a final say after discussing with the staff in the evening. Cousin, you have a night's rest in Fuzhou first. I'll bring you the letter tomorrow!"

He Qigong smiled and said, "Of course, I happen to go home!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled and got up to see him off. Then he invited Yan Shizhang to discuss with him how to write a reply to Shen Baozhen.

After the two discussed it, Hu Chuyuan decided to write down his whole plan and let Shen Baozhen see his ability and ambition.

Before coming to Fuzhou, Hu Chuyuan had a whole set of ideas in his mind.

First of all, he will spend two sums of money from the Fuzhou Ship Administration Office to set up a Nanyang Commercial Firm, and cooperate with local traditional shipbuilders to build a Fuzhou Shipyard in the name of the official stock firm.

Nanyang Commercial Bank solves the funding problem of Fuzhou Ship Administration, and Fuzhou Shipyard solves the problem of personnel training and distribution. With these two foundations, he can vigorously increase the enrollment of the manufacturing class of the Ship Administration School, and use the ship purchase contract with the three countries of Britain, France and Germany to continuously send students to study in various countries to absorb Britain, France and Germany. The country's shipbuilding technology.

Third, he will transfer iron factories, coal mining and other affairs to Jiangnan Commercial Bank, using the commercialization and large-scale operation of Jiangnan Commercial Bank to reduce the shipbuilding costs of Fuzhou Ship Administration and Fuzhou Shipyard.

Fourth, he rectified the shipping administration of Fuzhou. There are four people under the Minister of Shipping Administration: transfer, economic transfer, director, and general teaching. There is a general affairs department, a finance department, and a supervision department in the shipping administration. There is a shipping bureau, a machine ship bureau, a military industry bureau, a chemical industry bureau, a metallurgical bureau and a metallurgical bureau. The bureau has a factory under the bureau, and a meeting office in each of the three departments and six bureaus.

After the transfer of the manager, after the management of the money and account, the director of the engineering management process and acceptance, the general teacher of the ship administration school, these four people are all four-grade titles, the three divisions and six bureaus are five-grade titles, each bureau has one to three principal supervisors, and the technical bureau has another five to ten chief supervisors, all of which are six-grade titles, which can be added to five-grade titles due to merit.

Only these people belong to the official officials within the scope of the appointment of the imperial court, and the rest of them adopt the employment system, which is no longer an official system. The official system of the whole ship's government is also more inclined to technicians, and the number of administrative officials is only a small part.

In addition, Hu Chuyuan believes that if the Fujian Marine Division wants to further develop, it must be transferred to the name of the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, under the direct management of the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the Minister of Shipping of Fuzhou is only responsible for co-organizers.

The imperial court originally intended to directly control the Fujian Marine Division through the Minister of Ship Administration of Fuzhou, so as not to let the fleet be subject to the local political axe, but the actual effect was so unsatisfactory that Li Chengmou, Peng Chuhan and other famous generals of the Hunan Army Marine Division refused to serve as the leader of the Marine Division.

In the case of insufficient funds in the court, the surname Suo will be directly supervised by the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the tax will be levied on the spot and used on the spot.

Even, Hu Chuyuan will open a railway in the future, and write down the plan to transport coal mines and iron ore from central Fujian. With the development of the whole plan, he will build a new shipyard and naval base in Luoqing Bay, make Luoqing Bay the final naval base of the Fujian Marine Division, and open a sub-base in Ningbo.

Hu Chuyuan wrote tens of thousands of words and quoted a large number of materials and research to prove that his vision was completely achievable, and only Shen Baozhen's full support was needed.

Hu Chuyuan wrote this letter, which was re-modified and copied by Yan Shizhang before sealing it with red lacquer. Then he sent someone to He Qigong and asked him to take it back to the capital and transfer it to Shen Baozhen.