Prince Qing Yikuang is really a fool. This can be said to be recognized by the whole city. He is extremely greedy for money and lustful, and lives a luxurious life, but he has no ability!
He has lived by his identity all his life. After all, he is the great-grandson of Emperor Qianlong!
Eating, drinking, and having fun is something that Quan Gualuo only knows, and running a country and economy is something he doesn't understand at all. However, Xiao Letian didn't offend someone like him and instead asked Fu Qing to give him some distribution rights to gain some advantage.
After all, there was still a comforting thought in it, but Yikuang couldn't see through this, so he thought Fu Qing was cheap and rushed to flatter him.
Fu Qing's current official position in the imperial court is Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister's Yamen, ranking second only to Prince Gong Yixinkan in the Prime Minister's Yamen. Fu Qing's actual errand is to repair telegraph lines and reorganize the post station system for the Qing Dynasty.
Fu Qing is really a capable minister. With the economic and technological support of his brother-in-law Xiao Letian, and the political support of his lover Ci'an, he has been very successful in promoting telegraph lines in the Qing Dynasty over the years.
The telegraph line from Guangzhou to Beijing has long been installed. At present, the telegraph lines in the three provinces outside the customs have also been repaired. The telegraph line to the west has been laid to Xi'an, and the submarine cable to the east has been connected to the Chinese Telegraph Company.
Even important towns in the northwest such as Chengdu, Chongqing, and Guiyang were connected to telegraph lines!
Not only the construction of telegraph lines, Fu Qing also took over the management of hundreds of thousands of post station soldiers in the Qing Dynasty. He completely reformed these backward post station systems.
You will not be laid off. Wherever the telegraph lines are laid, all the post soldiers will be immediately trained and become road guards who maintain the telegraph lines.
If you don’t understand high-tech things, just look at whether the wooden telegraph poles are broken or whether the wires are broken. You can figure it out!
This was truly an achievement that the Manchu and Qing court had never imagined. Many corrupt scholars still wanted to see Mr. Qing's jokes. They naturally believed that the downfall of the Ming Dynasty was due to Chongzhen being so full that he had to reform the post station.
If Li Zicheng is not laid off, can he rebel? There are even people who are maliciously waiting for millions of postmen in the world to cause trouble or even rebel!
But Fu Qing was not fooled at all. He was not that stupid. Xiao Letian had already thought of a way out for him, turning all the postmen into workers who maintained the telegraph lines.
Not only was the job not lost, but the salary was also increased a little. Now everyone inside and outside the reform circle was stupid!
At present, in the Qing Dynasty, telegraph lines have covered all the Central Plains and provinces outside the customs. Only Tibet and the war-torn Xinjiang, Gansu and Shaanxi have not yet been repaired.
Fu Qing's plan goes far beyond that. He also wants to use telegraphs to connect various prefectures and counties and completely build a telegraph network!
This was a big project, and the little money Mr. Qing had in hand was not enough. As a last resort, he came up with the old method of raising funds, borrowing money from all over the world with interest, especially the princes and ministers in Sijiu City who had made a fortune in the past few years!
But unexpectedly, Yi Kuang took the lead and gave Fu Qing a shame. It cost Prince Tangtang Qing 120,000 yuan to build a theater. The Red Prince raised nine theater troupes in his family, but he finally spent 30,000 yuan!
Fu Qing was so angry that he immediately returned the money and threatened, "Although the Qing Telegraph Bureau is a poor government office, it is not enough to say that it is short of these thirty thousand taels... Prince Qing is poor, so he still keeps this money." Buy some sorghum rice and eat it!”
Good guy, just because of these words, Prince Qing Yikuang went straight to the Prime Minister's Yamen to fight with Fuqing. Third Master Qing was still afraid of him. The Manchus gave Yikuang three somersaults and then walked away.
It was at that time that the relationship was forged!
How could Yikuang suffer this loss? According to the rules of the Eight Banners, he is the great-grandson of Emperor Qianlong. Your ancestors in Fuqing are Fu Heng and Fu Kang'an, who are the slaves of Emperor Qianlong!
Is there any reason for a slave in the Eight Banners to dare to attack his master? This Yikuang went straight to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and also to his two brothers, Yixuan and Yixin.
rule? What kind of rules does the Qing Dynasty have now? Fu Qing was the leader of the Manchu reformists who was extremely popular in the imperial court, and he slept with Ci'an in the same bed.
Who dares to punish him? Everyone is in harmony, even Prince Gong is being careless!
"Yikeng, don't think that we don't know about your private business... Have you thought about it? If you really have a lawsuit with Fu Qing, do you still want to get the goods from this business?"
"Who are you fighting against? With money?"
As soon as Qian Yikuan was mentioned, he immediately lost his temper. He didn't make any noise or get angry. He went home and held his family-raised actor in his arms to calm down the anger.
Everyone in the entire Four-Nine City knew about that conflict, and it was that conflict that made Fu Qing give up the idea of raising funds from the Eight Banners palaces.
In the end, he raised five million taels in Jiangnan and began to expand the telegraph network in various economically prosperous provinces along the coast.
For more than a year, the Daqing Telegraph Bureau under Master Qing has at least ensured that all prefectures and counties along the Yangtze River have telegraph access. Not only can news about military and state affairs be conveyed, but merchants in the south of the Yangtze River can also quickly convey product information through this network. .
Today, the fifth master Yi Pei mentioned this matter again, and Yi Kuang immediately blushed!
"Oh...my fifth brother, you are not going to pick up the pot! Anyway...even if I am wrong, there is no reason for a slave to fight against his master!"
"Cheng Chengcheng, can't you just turn the page? Can't you do it if I promise not to pursue any further charges? Just give me an idea. Why don't you tell Fu Qing that you are a chivalrous prince? Little Fifth Master, you have such face..."
Yi Pei felt sick just looking at this brother, what was he thinking? You are still being arrogant at this time. You are obviously asking for help, but you are still saying that you will not pursue it. How dare you pursue it!
The guards around Fu Qing were all personally selected by Master Long and Xiao Letian. Even the imperial guards dared not get close to arrest people. Do you expect the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Ministry of Punishment to take care of this bad thing?
Even if you are wrong, what do you mean... Bah, why am I related to you!
But he couldn't express the curse in his heart. For the sake of the overall interests of the court, he had to think about it. "Okay, don't beg me anymore. To tell you the truth, if you want to ease this relationship, you have to pay for it..."
"Fuqing is about to issue the fourth bond issue for the Northwest Telegraph Network... I guess he won't even talk to us in Sijiu City this time!"
"He didn't say anything, so you have to say it! He took the initiative to come to the door and gave three to four hundred thousand taels of silver, saying that he would help the Qing Dynasty repair the telegraph line and help Zuo Jigao fight..."
"Ah? Three to four hundred thousand..." Yikuang cried out in distress.
"I spat in your face... Bah!" Yi Pei couldn't bear it anymore. "You are such an idiot! You already said it's a national debt, so who wants your money for nothing?"
"If the interest is less, just less! In the past few years, you have earned one or two million from underwriting industrial products in Northwest China, right? You are still not satisfied, why are you so greedy!"
"You are Pixiu! Are you just eating or not? With your virtue, you still want to get involved in the arms business... Just go and have fun!"
"Brother, don't be angry, don't be angry. Isn't this a family discussion? It's all easy to discuss, easy to discuss... Do you think it would be okay if it was less!"
Yi Kuang pulled Yi Pei's arm to prevent the five of them from leaving. He smiled playfully and wanted to bargain. Yi Pei was so angry that he was speechless. He drank three glasses of wine and finally suppressed the anger in his stomach.
"Let me tell you clearly! Long live the Lord is about to come back, and then all the water will be muddied... Do you still want to make money? I don't know whether Fu Qing will pay attention to you in the future..."
"A rat's eyes are short-sighted, a rat's eyes are short-sighted..."
Just as he was talking, suddenly there was a rapid but low knock on the door, "Master... I'm Dexi! Something big has happened, something urgent..."
