Chapter 101: Hunting Dogs

At the end of October 1859, Deputy Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the Southern Dynasty, Zhang Youcun and I Naosuke, the shogunate, signed the Sino-Japanese Treaty Treaty in Nagasaki. In addition to invoking the Japan-US Treaty, China obtained all the benefits obtained by the United States in ***, such as four-port trading, tariff rights, consular judgment rights, etc., it also obtained the right to use the military port and the power to garrison in Nagasaki. Nagasaki Customs is jointly managed by China and Japan, and established a five-person committee, three Chinese and two Japanese. At the same time, the residents of Nagasaki are autonomous under the rule of the emperor. The autonomous committee is elected by the people. Each term is five years. The chief committee must be approved by the shogunate and the emperor. The first chief committee member Tozu Kojiro, Torizu, has been approved.

Although this move has certainly protected the face of the Emperor and the Shogunate to a certain extent, Zhang Youcun is very cunning, but he really puts the committee on a very legal cloak.

At this time, You are doing these technical research and developments, and should you start building a new armored ship like the Guangzhou ship?

The new ships built now are much higher than the Guangzhou tonnage, about 3,000 tons. Although technical absorption may not be easy for Chinese shipping technicians and technical workers, it is an excellent opportunity to train and learn.

Ye Zhao approved it as feasible and reviewed several other notes, such as the special tax rate adjustment of the railway, which was changed to a pure profit percentage calculation, which was more transparent. This is also because Ye Zhao, a big railway owner, had a personal experience that the more complicated methods were too vague. The cost, train number, profit, etc. were taken into account. Almost a section of the railway could have a deviation of more than ten times, and all of them were explained. Although it is arbitrary, it is unfair to some remote sections of railway owners, but the national conditions are limited, and the tax system cannot be improved. So, tax officials have developed the bad habit of vaguely filling their personal pockets by relying on terms and conditions. Otherwise, over time, habits and unspoken rules will be formed, and it will be difficult to manage them again. Moreover, there is no remote route in the South Railway today, and the main lines of the north and south are far from completed. How about the branch lines?

Looking at the time, it was already past twelve o'clock and was about to get up, the Interior Office of the Secretariat sent an emergency telegram from Tianjin. It was a secret message sent by the Tianjin team of the Interior Office.

The telegram said that Shi Dakai's main force collapsed in Henan, and Shi Dakai was defeated and captured. It was heard that not only did the Northern New Army hire hundreds of Rakshasa instructors, but this time, the Rakshasa people even dispatched a thousand infantry to cooperate in the battle. It was also said that from Beijing's intelligence analysis, it is very likely that the Rakshasa people were obsessed with obtaining the right to build a military port on the Liaodong Peninsula, and they might even reach a preliminary agreement with the Northern Dynasties.

Looking at the telegram, Ye Zhao was very godly for a while. One was sighing at the fate of the Wing King, and the other was the battle between the north and the south, but gave the people of Rakshasa people an opportunity to take advantage of. The connection between the northern country and Rakshasa is getting closer and closer.

While thinking about it, I got on the carriage and made an appointment with Zhu Sisi for dinner at noon this day. In fact, I met my parents and my brother and sister-in-law.

In the afternoon, I was going to Taiping Prefecture to inspect the Guangzhou Iron and Steel Branch Branch that was being prepared. In fact, I mainly wanted to let the reporters take a photo and spread the news of the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway survey project, the expansion of the Taiping Port, and the inclusion of Taiping Prefecture in the Nanguo Post Road project, which made the Nanguo industrialists firmly believe in investing in heavy industry in Taiping Prefecture. Taiping Prefecture is also one of the heavy industry bases in Ye Zhao's southern country blueprint.

Taiping Prefecture is the area around Ma'anshan, more than 100 miles away from Nanjing. Although the north-south railway trunk line is not connected, the expansion of the port and the promotion of the Nanguo Post Road project will make it more and more closely connected with the mainland of the South and the transportation conditions will become better and better.

The "Nanguo Post Road Project" is actually about building roads and building bridges and improving traffic between important towns. In addition to the allocation of the treasury, it also receives donations from local gentry and encourages local gentry to raise funds for road construction on their own. Although it is not a matter of fundamental improvement in the current traffic conditions, it is the best way to improve the "provincial and municipal highways" when the railway trunk is nowhere to be long before construction, but the current highways are still loess roads, at most, they are more solid and stable.

Jinyun Garden, the Qingzhu Fei Pavilion on the banks of the Qinhuai River, has an extremely elegant environment and is a top-notch restaurant in Nanjing today.

It was already past one o'clock when Ye Zhao arrived at Cuiyunxuan, the second floor that he had booked early. Zhu Sisi was anxious when she saw Ye Zhao coming in, and she said angrily: "I'll wait for you for an hour!"

Brother Zhu and Zhu Sisi's sister-in-law Li Shi Cuixiang both smiled and stood up, saying that it might be okay. Li Cuixiang even said: "Mr. Ye, you are a wealthy and busy person. Our family has a bad temper, so it's hard for you."

Zhu Sisi looked at her brother and sister-in-law helplessly, but what can she do?

Zhu Sisi told her brother and sister-in-law that Li Cuixiang was the first to object after she had a marriage partner. Although she was in a free relationship with Zhu Da, she couldn't stand her sister-in-law looking for her husband's family. She was also very concerned about Zhu Sisi's marriage and introduced many young masters from wealthy families. Who said that she was a beautiful fairy and a director of the Police Bureau. If she found a good husband's family, it would be a big loss? But according to her sister-in-law's own personality, she would definitely find a stubborn bull with the same temper as hers. That's a poor boy.

Therefore, when Zhu Sisi just said that she was in love with someone, Li Cuixiang immediately jumped to object. However, although Zhu Sisi was good to her sister-in-law, she even helped her to do a lot of things to wipe her butt. How could she listen to her interfere in her life?

Although Boss Zhu was reluctant, he asked his sister what kind of family this family was. When Zhu Sisi said that it was Shaodong from Taihexing, Boss Zhu and Li Cuixiang immediately became straight. Zhu Sisi didn't know much about the business world, but Boss Zhu changed his job last year and worked for a construction company. Taihexing had a shareholding in this construction company. So Boss Zhu gradually learned about the name of Taihexing. He heard that many factories and mines have shares, with assets of over one million taels, and there are even legends that his family's foundation is as high as five or six million taels, even Wu Chongyao, the first person in the Thirteenth Company, could not compare.

As for the master family of Taihexing, it is extremely mysterious. I only heard that the surname is Ye.

Li Cuixiang likes to hear her husband say this, especially after her husband entered this one of the best construction companies in Guangzhou, he gradually heard more about the needles and threads of the upper class. Her knowledge also increased, and she remembered her major shareholder Taihexing, who was behind her construction companies.

Boss Zhu found out more carefully. Zhu Sisi was frank and had nothing to hide. She said that the pervert's family should be quite rich, and said that she had 50 silver dollars a month, etc. Li Cuixiang's eyes were staring straight. What kind of family is this? I thought that her husband gradually became a foreman after he changed his job, and his salary was already quite high, but a concubine's pocket money could easily be worth the husband's one year of hard work.

The wife and concubines have a total of six houses. Even if the money is the same, then the pocket money costs three or four thousand silver dollars a year. How much does it cost? The expenses of the whole family cannot be tens of thousands? Oh my God, this family has no million silver to support, who has the confidence?

For the first time, Li Cuixiang felt that this little sister had done something she could like, so she whispered to Zhu Sisi for a while and told her how to compete for favor as a sixth wife while knowing how to advance and retreat, which made Zhu Sisi laugh and cry.

Now that he saw Ye Zhao, Boss Zhu and Li Cuixiang naturally smiled. The more he looked at this brother-in-law, the more he liked him. When Boss Zhu saw Zhu Sisi's attitude towards Ye Zhao, he even stared at him, and put on his brother's airs: "There is no rules! Why don't you apologize to Mr. Ye?"

Zhu Sisi still respects the eldest brother very much, especially outside, with others around, and she would not give up the eldest brother's face, so she had to say sorry to Ye Zhao. Ye Zhao was amused, but Zhu Sisi was also funny. Why can this pervert always bully him unknowingly, but her heart was sweet.

Ye Zhao bowed and apologized: "Brother, sister-in-law, I'm really sorry. I suddenly received a telegram, which wasted time."

Boss Zhu and Li Cuixiang said it was okay, but Zhu Sisi ordered the dishes there, which were all ordered by Ye Zhao yesterday, with delicacies and delicious food, which was extremely rich.

While helping Ye Zhao and Zhu Boss pour the fragrant Zhennian Xinghua Village Fenjiu with wine, Li Cuixiang smiled and said, "Mr. Ye, I heard from Sisi that your family runs Taihexing. I don't know which Taihexing is?" He also said, "Sizhong works in Yongdingxing."

Ye Zhao said, there are now several commercial businesses in Guangzhou that specialize in construction, among which Yongdingxing is the largest, gathering skilled craftsmen, Feng Shui masters, and fortune tellers in the South, and equipped with new construction equipment such as steam cranes. From the graceful style of Jiangnan gardens to small western-style buildings with full of ancient oriental charm, they can be built, and even four or five-story buildings. The construction of Qianwang Palace has also drawn a group of people from Yongdingxing.

"Yongdingxing, it seems that my family has invested money," Ye Zhao said with a smile.

Li Cuixiang no longer had any doubts and smiled: "Speaking of this, Sizhong is still your friend. Mr. Ye, you have to take care of him more."

Ye Zhao hurriedly said, "It must be." He laughed at Mr. Zhu and said, "Brother, we have drunk together, I am still your matchmaker."

Boss Zhu suddenly realized, and then he remembered that no wonder he felt familiar. Although he hadn't seen him for a long time, Mr. Ye was the most stylish person he had ever come into contact with, so he remembered it clearly.

Zhu Sisi forgot about the matchmaker. Seeing her sister-in-law winking, she blamed her for not saying it, and she could only pretend not to see it.

With the relationship between matchmakers, Boss Zhu and Li Cuixiang became more intimate with Ye Zhao, and there was another reason for intimacy, right?

"Don't my elder brother and sister-in-law work in the printing factory?" Ye Zhao felt a little surprised.

Li Cuixiang rushed to say, "I quit my job. The printing factory's wages are mean, so Sizhong changed his career."

Ye Zhao nodded slightly. Both of them were printing factory workers and were in love freely, but traditional ideas were deeply rooted. Women no longer do things when they get married, and men support their families. That's great. The couple thinks it's okay and don't need to interfere. Later Koreans were not allowed until the end of the 20th century. In fact, many families were like this. East Asian civilization, which started from China, was the most severely damaged in China.

The atmosphere was quite good at the table. Although Zhu Sisi was helpless, she was very happy to see her brother and sister-in-law "like" perverts. Although she always looked like she was a pervert, her brother and sister-in-law had such a temper, it was nothing. Even if her sister-in-law, except for being more vain, she was actually very good.

As for perverts, they never care about these things. Although others are not tempted, they are extremely warm. When dealing with others, even if they are arrogant and joking, they actually have no concept of wealth and poverty. They will not underestimate their brothers and sisters-in-law just because they flatter him. Perhaps, if the pervert is not such a person, he will not be bullied by him.

Boss Zhu explained that he would go to Taiping Mansion with the construction team on the same day. Ye Zhao had been drinking with Boss Zhu for fun, and sent him and Li Cuixiang away, and then told Zhu Sisi about going out in the afternoon. While there was no one around, Zhu Sisi gently kissed Ye Zhao on the face. This was the first time she took the initiative to kiss Ye Zhao. She was very shy, and Ye Zhao laughed: "I finally captured the heart of a beautiful woman!" Zhu Sisi was so angry that she bit him hard, and watched him leave proudly, but couldn't help but chuckling.

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Ye Zhao went to Taiping Prefecture. As the actual ruler of the southern country, he said that he was the one who was the one who was light, but in fact he was accompanied by more than 100 guards and more than 1,000 battalions, and Zheng Zewu, the general of the Jiangsu and Anhui patrol officer.

Zheng Zewu is Ye Zhao's old acquaintance. His original name was Zheng Gouzi. Ye Zhao defeated Chen Yucheng and Zheng Zewu was in charge of the team. He cursed the women in the female hall who refused to go home. When Ye Zhao saw it, he was kicked by his boss's whistle. Later, although he asked the husband to give him a loud name and abandoned Zheng Gouzi, the name he had accompanied him for many years, he was still the same person and the rough man.

When the matchmaker had just broken Taiping Prefecture, Zheng Zewu was the Dushi of Taiping Prefecture on the land patrol of southern Anhui and the highest commander of Taiping Prefecture during the military control of Taiping Prefecture.

In Nanjing, Ye Zhao began to lay off the reorganized patrols. Township yongs, each province was deregulated to 8,000 people, and firearms were replaced at the same time. Basically, among the eight thousand patrol soldiers, musketeers accounted for more than half. In strategic provinces, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, 20,000 patrols were patrols, and Yunnan and Guizhou were rated at 15,000, and firearms accounted for more than half.

Jiangsu, Anhui, Yunnan and Guizhou also retained a few powerful militia groups. The weapons were not handed over for the time being. If they were sent out, they would serve as soldiers, and if they returned, they would serve as people. They would protect their families and manage their homes and easily manage them. In fact, the hot-headed troops with more than a dozen people were the most likely to disturb the villages, so they would naturally be abolished.

This is not the case with the navy. The Southern Infantry Regiment had a total patrol force of about 200,000, which was to maintain strong combat effectiveness without causing huge burdens on the finances. In fact, the total force was about 400,000 before the disintegration of the late Qing Dynasty. Later, the warlords fought in a melee, arrested strong men everywhere, and carried guns and became soldiers. Today, when the army was reorganized and the army was reborn, they surrendered to this mountain and tomorrow they would surrender to that mountain. Many troops could not be called regular troops at all. The number of people was there, but the combat power was really worrying.

As the general of the Jiangsu-Anhui patrol officer, Ye Zhao would naturally choose someone he trusted and finally chose Zheng Zewu, the powerful general of the Pingyuan Army. From then on, Zheng Zewu lived up to his responsibilities and followed Ye Zhao as the commander of the garrison area, suppressing the conspiracy of the fair revolutionary party with his iron-blooded skills. In the eyes of those who hate Ye Zhao, Zheng Gouzi is a truly loyal hawk and hunting dog.

At this moment, Ye Zhao was sitting by the bonfire, watching Ulden, deputy general manager of the guard roast sweet potatoes for him.

Although the infantry team followed the carriage and marched quickly, Ye Zhao was polite and could not make the carriage and horses go too fast. Therefore, after half a day, he only traveled fifty or sixty miles. When night fell, he camped in the wild.

There was a village in front of me, and there were streams flowing beside the loess road. There were already cavalry scouts running around. Because they were not far from the Yangtze River, they also encountered patrol river defense posts.

"Dog, come!" Ye Zhao waved to Zheng Zewu, and Zheng Zewu grinned and hurried over.

Ye Zhao pointed to the seven or eight big sweet potatoes scattered beside him and said, "You can also bake them with a piece, sit down and chat."

"Zhe!" Zheng Zewu knelt down on one knee and then sat down cross-legged, straightened his waist, picked up the sweet potatoes and skewed iron wire, and carefully placed them on the iron rack of the bonfire.

"I heard you have a new son?" Ye Zhao asked with a smile.

Zheng Zewu was stunned, but he didn't expect the prince to know this. He scratched his head, giggled, and said restrainedly: "Yes, it looks quite like me, with a big head."

Ye Zhao laughed and said, "When I go back to Nanjing, I will take a photo with him."

Zheng Zewu was startled and said, "Prince, this is not OK. That boy is so stinking. Yes, how can he take a picture with you?"

Ye Zhao stared at him and said, "What do you mean? Our Pingyuanjun's children will change their taste in your mouth? I wish they could grow up quickly and learn more culture, which is better than us."

Zheng Zewu was so scared that he scratched his head and did not dare to speak.

Ye Zhao took the sweet potato handed over by Ulden, broke it into three pieces, threw it to Ulden and Zheng Zewu each, and said, "I share the blessings."

Ulden and Zheng Zewu held the sweet potato and wanted to kneel down to thank him. Ye Zhao frowned and said, "Everyone squatted and sat down, and I said as if my words were in my ears, right? I kowtowed at any time, and how many people were sincere?"

Zheng Zewu and Ulden stared at each other with big eyes and said with a sad face: "Master (prince), slave (small) is sincere."

Ye Zhao couldn't help laughing and said, "Sit down!"

Seeing that the prince was in a good mood, the two of them felt relieved. They slowly sat down by the bonfire and started eating sweet potatoes with the prince.

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Alas, I found that I will always be late to realize it. It was a waste of time for several years. Today I only learned about the selection of the most popular works and authors after reading the comments.
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