Chapter 183 Yuan Shikai's subordinate

Hu Chuyuan just arrived in North Korea and didn't want to say a lot of things rashly on the first day. After briefly explaining his intention, he asked Li Xi and Concubine Min to leave.

That night, he left Yuan Shikai behind and talked a little, and more he felt that Yuan Shikai was really not simple.

This person's ambition is too ambitious to be easy to control.

Hu Chuyuan does not intend to reuse it, but in front of him, he still has to use it.

Yuan Shikai was extremely tough on the Japanese in the early days. Later, he was also assassinated twice. Fortunately, he escaped his life and slowly reached some agreements with the Japanese side. He no longer drove the Japanese businessmen in North Korea, and he no longer caused trouble in North Korea.

Therefore, he has done a good job in preventing his assassination of Hu Chuyuan. After all, he has had personal experience and has always attached great importance to his own safety.

After a few days, after getting familiar with various factional issues and struggles in North Korea, Hu Chuyuan invited Concubine Min to negotiate alone.

After several negotiations, Min Fei agreed to most of Hu Chuyuan's proposal to allow Shanghai Phu Quo Investment Bank and CITIC Bank to enter North Korea and issue North Korean baht and North Korean silver dollars.

Hu Chuyuan is not a domineering businessman and official. He left enough room for Concubine Min and the Korean regime. The silver yuan and copper baht were cast by North Korea himself, but he sent people to help him.

CITIC Bank injected 60 million taels of silver at a time, issued a reading monetary system in North Korea, and lent a loan of 40 million yuan to the Li Dynasty to solve domestic problems, and invested in the construction of railways and the establishment of a technical school.

As a condition, CITIC Bank has the sole right to issue money in the Kingdom of Korea for a period of 20 years. Shanghai Fuguo will also jointly operate a North Korean commercial bank with North Korean officials and members of the Min family, and operate various industrial and mining officials in North Korea.

As one of the benefits, Hu Chuyuan will help the Li Dynasty establish a new army, which is lower than the possible invasion of Russia. The number is about 10,000, divided into three battalions.

In addition, in Haizhou, South Hwanghae Province, the Qing army will station a North Korean fleet to protect North Korea.

After reaching these agreements with North Korea, on the evening of that day, Hu Chuyuan re-entered Yuan Shikai into the house for discussion.

North Korea has heavy snow like goose feathers. The sky is dark, and you can't see the outline in the distance. You can only see the vast snow.

Yuan Shikai came in a hurry and entered the stone hall. He couldn't wait to say to Hu Chuyuan and said, "Your Excellency, you are in a hurry all the way. If you let me wait for a long time, please punish me."

Hu Chuyuan didn't say anything. He asked him to get up and sit down and let people warm up the wine and vegetables again.

After drinking two glasses of wine, he asked Yuan Shikai, "The consolation has been in North Korea for more than ten years. I am well aware of the situation here. From your point of view, there is still room for a slowdown if there is a little rectification of North Korea now?"

"This...?

Yuan Shikai didn't expect Hu Chuyuan to ask such a big question as soon as he came up. He thought about it a little and then replied cautiously, "Mr. Senior Minister, with all due respect, whether it's Russia or Russia or Russia, there will be a big fight here after all. The big event has not been decided yet. If you build a factory here and invest a lot of money, I'm afraid it won't be a big deal, but it will be cheaper for others.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and said, "I have always had this judgment, so I haven't invested in North Korea for a long time. Unfortunately, we can't help it. At present, we still have to try our best to give some support to North Korea and help them reorganize their politics. Although I promised to support them an army, after all, it could not be elite, but to transfer the old cannons of the Hunan army. It's with you. I want to place three other camps. Before leaving, I had already told the emperor about this. However, your qualifications in the army are still shallow. I plan to assign another brave and skillful general of the Huai Army. Here, I will supervise and train three battalions, equipped with elites, and your Huaizi battalion, all of which belong to you. What do you think?

Yuan Shikai was overjoyed and immediately left his seat and knelt down. He said, "Thank you for your appreciation. I will be loyal and filial to you and swear to serve you."

Hu Chuyuan hummed and asked him to get up first, but said, "This is the matter of the court. You have to understand this."

Yuan Shikai didn't mind so much. He smiled and sat down again.

This person is a smart man. He saw very early on that a figure like Hu Chuyuan may not be able to live under people for a long time. Both Xianghuai departments can't accommodate his giant. Sooner or later, he will have his own large military department.

When Yuan Shikai sat down, Hu Chuyuan looked at him strangely and more carefully, with cold eyes, which scared Yuan Shikai into a cold sweat and didn't know what he had done wrong.

Yuan Shikai stood up again in a hurry and arched his hand and said, "Without your permission, the subordinate sat down privately. It's really a crime to die...!"

Hu Chuyuan waved his hand and said, "Sit down, I just think you are a little special. Since ancient times, heroes do not ask where they come from. You are both a source and a hero. It's rare and rare. The future is still far away. No one can predict what will happen in ten years. I just want to remind you that China is so big that one or two people can't decide. It's a good thing for people to have ambitions, but they also need to be measured.

Yuan Shikai was very surprised and didn't understand what Hu Chuyuan meant. He thought to himself, of course I have some ambitions, but these words are too heavy. What's more, how can I see that I want to do something big?

Yuan Shikai hesitated and didn't know whether to sit down or not.

Hu Chuyuan said, "Sit down. Don't be so constrained with me. I'm also a businessman, and I don't like the complicated etiquette in the court very much. But all my subordinates who come to me want to sit and run away. They are very casual.

Yuan Shikai just sat down slowly and tremblingly, and his heart was still not so secure.

He knew that following the senior government, it was naturally promising. The problem was that he met the senior senior senior later, and he didn't know how many literary and martial arts talents there were in other people's accounts.

Although he has always been in North Korea, he still knows something about domestic affairs.

Far away, Niu Yugeng, a master of classics in the practical school, known as the first person to learn from China and the West, is the guest of Hu Chuyuan. The two popular people around Emperor Guangxu are Gu Jiaxiang and Zhang Baixi. The former is Hu Chuyuan's staff, and the latter is the old department that has served for ten years.

Taiwan Governor Huo Hongji and Prime Minister Lu Chuanlin, Prime Minister of Staff, are all first-class subordinates and famous ministers with outstanding reputation.

Speaking of generals, everyone knows in their hearts that the East China Sea Division are all Hu Chuyuan's people, as well as Sun Kaihua and other Hunan generals.

In today's Qing Dynasty, when it comes to the "Hu Party", it accounts for a large proportion in the imperial court.

Hu Chuyuan didn't care much about Yuan Shikai's worries and trembling. He casually asked people to open a bottle of ginger yellow wine and drink it to warm his stomach. Yuan Shikai scolded and followed Hu Chuyuan to drink yellow rice wine alive.

The two seemed to talk about the political and economic issues of North Korea over the years. Inadvertently, Hu Chuyuan also asked Yuan Shikai to choose a few people who could control the situation in North Korea.

At the end, Hu Chuyuan put down his chopsticks and told Yuan Shikai, "Min Fei, a woman, is very big and wild. Don't mess with her. It's okay to let her take power, but you should help her take care of the government, collect public opinion in the place appropriately, and give her some advice. How to make a decision is her business. Don't interfere too much.

Yuan Shikai nodded slightly.

Hu Chuyuan continued, "This woman only has the right to ask. If we want to get over her, we will probably cause a lot of unnecessary trouble. Therefore, it can't be committed."

Yuan Shikai said, "Then we won't prepare a back road?"

Hu Chuyuan shook his head and said, "No, if Concubine Min herself defeats the situation and harms North Korea, we will withdraw our troops and leave at worst. In this way, we will inevitably suffer great losses, but it doesn't matter. If we win the war, we can directly send Min Fei and other people back to the capital when we come back... In the final analysis, this is just a chessboard for us, and we can break up and start again at any time.

Only then did Yuan Shikai understand and praised, "Your excellency is wise, and the subordinate officer will understand. I will let Concubine Min take power by herself. What she wants to do, what should she do, as long as she can't get along with us. She is happy and we are satisfied. If she is not happy, if we are not satisfied, we will take this plate and put it down again.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly.

North Korea is still very important. It has richer mineral resources and is definitely stronger than Shandong. In particular, the number of gold and silver mines is very rich. If the development is intensified, it can fully support the expansion of domestic banks.

Yuan Shikai... Smart is smart, and his ability is a little lacking. Hu Chuyuan has decided to send a few other people to control the whole situation in North Korea after returning to China.

He didn't tell Yuan Shikai about this.

After sending Yuan Shikai away, Hu Chuyuan paced alone in the stone hall, thinking about the development of the whole situation in his heart.

The current situation is already very chaotic. The British reaction is too strong. A warship with a displacement of 50,000 tons was sold to China, and it will be completed by 1892.

Even considering that the British themselves are still building the royal power class on a large scale, and at the same time building two battleships close to the 10,000-ton class for Japan... It can be seen how powerful the British shipbuilding industry is.

If the British are really pushed, everyone will feel uncomfortable.

The Russians and the French are absolutely scared and will not act rashly for the time being. They say that they are still afraid of Britain after all, saying that I... It's hard to say.

There are many cruisers in Japan. There is no doubt about this. In the past two years, if it is a decisive battle in the ocean, the winning rate of Japan is very high. The army of Japan has completed the new reform in 1888, and it will definitely defeat the Huai Army and the Xiang Army in the small-scale decisive battle.

Hu Chuyuan believes that the British's statement is a double-edged sword, which may not only make Japan dare to move, but also make Japan fight once before 1892.

(to be continued)