The emperor's ideas are always unexpected, and only in this way can the important officials and the unthinkable

Zai Ze originally refused to agree to the so-called dispatch of a salt administration inspector, nor did he advocate the emperor's agreement. In his opinion, this was a naked interference in the imperial finances and a restriction on the imperial finance minister. However, the emperor did not refuse, but instead expressed his intention to agree conditionally after considering it. This made Zai Ze very anxious. He tried to persuade Lin Guangyu to change his mind, but in the end he only smiled faintly: "Don't argue, do as I said."

Even Xu Shichang, who had been immersed in the officialdom for many years and had a good understanding of the emperor's temper and nature, could not tell the reason when facing this situation.

Is the emperor's head rust? On the surface, it seems that this is true. It is a matter that any wise man would not care about to limit himself to borrow a loan that he can or cannot. Didn't Lin Guangyu often describe this as "the interference of imperialism in China's economic sovereignty" in the era before time travel? Didn't Lin Guangyu, who had been familiar with history books, know 5,000 or 100 years ago?

Back to the day, the emperor's intentions are always extraordinary. It is the ability of foreign devils who support Lin Guangyu to make decisions. If we want to give so many bureaucratic institutions in the empire, the yamen with the highest degree of integrity and the highest office efficiency is not any department of the cabinet, nor other departments directly under the jurisdiction of the court. On the contrary, this department is in the hands of foreign devils - customs.

For decades, the British Hurd served as the General Taxation Department of Customs. He has been committed to building the customs into an efficient and modern institution. Although the customs has the strongest colonial color and its existence value is to seek a reliable collateral for the compensation of various countries rather than for the integrity of China's economic system, it is undeniable that the customs is the cleanest and efficient in the various institutions of the empire. On the one hand, the customs continuously and steadily increases the annual tariffs. On the other hand, the customs absorbs a large number of knowledgeable and capable Chinese staff, who play an active role under the requirements of various instructions.

This is the most international and civilized agency. Although there are ethnic oppression and ethnic discrimination, it is difficult for Chinese employees to be promoted to senior positions after all their hardships. But this test also tempers their ability and quality of work.

In sharp contrast, the situation on land where Chinese officials are often chaotic and dark. This is not the difference between personal qualities, but entirely because of the differences brought about by the system. Lin Guangyu is not superstitious about foreigners, but in this era, once foreigners make promises, they are often credible and reliable. He clearly remembers that after decades ago, European-style buildings built on the Bund of Shanghai, after more than half a century of storms, their internal quality is still better than some newly built buildings. Not to mention the shame of "scrambled projects"...

Therefore, as a breakthrough and entry point for the imperial financial system, he did not want him to go back to the old path. If he still adopted the administrative methods of the past, he spent a lot of effort this time and used a lot of people to make a lot of reform results that he had finally made would be lost in a few years. Corrupt officials were killed. That was just a replacement for another group of corrupt officials; the unscrupulous businessmen were shocked, which was just a flash in the pan. Without long-term guarantees, it would always be a vicious circle that could not be dispelled.

As for increasing the number of salt administration officials and reducing the number of customs staff and having to be replenished by Chinese people, it is entirely the emperor who is preparing for the future power layout. He believes that after decades of hard work, Chinese employees who serve in customs have already possessed considerable administrative capabilities and administrative experience, and they are fully capable of taking the lead in the future. What they lack is nothing more than an opportunity. In any case, customs sovereignty will eventually be reclaimed. The basis for a strong and powerful country depends only on its own determination and strength, and never on the help or supervision of any outsider. The colonized customs will one day completely reclaim the state-owned property!

In addition to customs, the emperor also planned to send young officials to various concessions such as foreign devils to learn the management of municipal and social public affairs, so that they could understand what social welfare is and what public health is. Perhaps, learning from foreign invaders in their own country how to make effective management is an embarrassing decision. But in terms of significance and effect, Lin Guangyu insisted that if he did not make up for this lesson, China's municipal management would always be from the 18th century!

Between face and affordability, smart people know what to choose.

People often make mistakes in this, and the emperor is determined to regret it with his own insights.

Of course, Christopher could not interpret the profound and strategic significance behind the emperor. He regarded him as a concession and expedient measure for the Chinese. He smiled, but his mind turned quickly: among the five items, the first and the second are actually linked together, which is equivalent to a discount required on the framework of the static rest period. He believed that countries could agree; the third item was okay to agree; the fourth item was a bit weird, but since the ranks were not required to be equal, it didn't matter that countries could withdraw low-level staff in customs and instead add senior officials in salt administration supervision; the fifth item was a bit scary, but in principle, it was true and there was nothing to refute.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but his face made a look of embarrassment: "This reply also needs to be submitted to the joint discussion of the three countries."

Zaize also pretended to be relaxed: "I believe that if you give up such generous conditions, the gentleman who made this decision will regret it for 30 years."

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Is this implying that the loan will be 30 years? When Chris confirmed, Zai Ze smiled: "This can be negotiated, but Congress reserves the right to pay it off in advance."

"What about the Ombudsman?" This is the most concerned topic and it is also a place where countries are not easy to compromise.

"They should be kept." Zaize was a little reluctant, but this was what the emperor meant, "but their remaining term will be decided by the court to ensure that it will not violate the principle of fairness."

What kind of logic is this? Christopher didn't figure it out, he only focused on recording the previous conditions. Zaize didn't figure out why the emperor insisted on using mark as the benchmark currency so much that he did not hesitate to use gold and silver as tricks. Moreover, the German side has not made any public statement on this matter at all, why should he take such a big risk?

The emperor's intention was to be unable to see or guess thoroughly. Not only Zai Ze was worried about it, but even the Three Kingdoms Bank Group found it strange. They vaguely felt something was wrong in this matter, but they just couldn't tell the reason. In order to report on abundant capital output, various countries involved too much energy and had no way to consider what China was doing.

“We’re out 2.

"3!" Christopher held a stake on behalf of Citibank.

Before a package agreement was reached, major banks had already fought for the corresponding shares. The emperor's policy of determining the number of inspectors based on loan shares greatly stimulated the ambitions of various countries. The number rose all the way, and it actually rose by 1.5 billion. Three rounds of arduous negotiations finally jointly proposed to the imperial government: a package of 1.5 billion loans, including more than half of the old loans of the Three Kingdoms, were all exchanged for Mark.

This is really a good deal! Lin Guangyu smirked, as if he had seen Mark's wealth for 10 years.

I know that 100 feels so good!

In order to reward their stupidity, the emperor put forward an additional reward plan - hiring people from various countries as consultants for currency reform, at the cost of countries having to bear the salary of consultants and an exchange of customs personnel. If one consultant is added, the country's rank of the same rank in the customs will have to reduce one person and be replaced by the Chinese.

People's hearts are full of flesh. Even if they have various opinions about the empire and the court, the Chinese who serve in customs are generally loyal and patriotic. When they worked hard in the customs for many years and found that the promotion channel had been opened, they were extremely excited and cherished the steps that the imperial government had exchanged for through other concessions.

Once upon a time, this institution that was centrifugal was closer to the empire.

They may never understand the significance and purpose of the emperor's series of measures, but they will always remember that in the second year of the Reformation, the imperial government made a series of negotiations and concessions in other places, which caused cracks to the once solid customs. The Chinese who performed outstandingly and had excellent levels were finally able to enter those senior positions and be on par with the foreign devils. This was an amazing achievement in an oppressed country.
Chapter completed!