The information contained in this sentence is very large, but when you think about it, it is enough to make people scared. Zhao Guanhou did not respond, but focused on eliminating a duck in front of him, nodding while eating.

Zhou Xuezhao said at this time: "Guanshuai, you have built river workers, built railways, mined shafts, and lived in Shandong in the past two years. However, I have published articles in the newspapers of Fusang people, remembering the suffering of the people in Jiangbei, and the ten days of hell, and thousands of miles of white bones. I have read a lot of articles like this. The first time we have established, all industries have withered, and we should rest and recuperate, and we should be sympathetic to the people's strength. Now the economy of Thailand is weak, our goods are difficult to export, and the financial report of each province is insufficient, and the finances are becoming increasingly difficult. Your local life is a little better, and it is difficult for Beijing to pay. The interest that foreign debts should be paid cannot be delayed. At this time, you have to tighten your belt and live a life without extravagance. If you do it again, you really can't afford to pay for major projects like the dredging of the Huaihe River. Now, we should still focus on the industry."

"Today, China can no longer implement policies that keep the countryside and emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce. The pure small peasant economic model will inevitably lead to the country's backwardness and the stagnation of social development. If our country wants to develop, it must break this shackles and give way to industry. The funds we have limited, and when we fill agriculture, the industry will not invest money. Everything is prioritized. Now, it is time to concentrate our efforts and develop industry. The weak economy of Taisie is our opportunity. Taking advantage of the weakening of the power of foreigners, we should raise funds, redeem the mines occupied by foreigners, open factories, and develop our own industry and commerce. When we have enough funds in ten or twenty years, we will have enough funds before doing water conservancy projects."

After he finished speaking, he laughed and punished himself for a cup, showing that he was just gossip and not just a justification. Even if Zhao Guanhou heard that Zhou Xuezhao's words could not be completely wrong. He established a conservative financial system as the Minister of Finance, which was in line with his identity.

In Zhou Xuezhao's view, even if the Zhou family's land is abandoned, from the perspective of the common finance, the Huaihe dredging project will be a waste of money and will not benefit the country. From the expenditure level, tens of millions of yuan of funds will be taken out at once, which will lead to the displacement of a large number of people and artificially created refugees.

The number of people who lost their ancestral graves and resisted, were beaten to death, exhausted on the construction site, and died of death due to the Huaihe River water conservancy project was quite considerable. Whether in terms of finance or public opinion, this time the Huai River control left a lot of messes. Although the overall project was successful, the benefits brought by this were very limited in Zhou Xuezhao's opinion.

The combined agricultural tax of the main body is no longer the main item of fiscal revenue. It is not that the land rent is low, but that all provinces have intercepted this part of the income and used it as military pay. Shandong has a bumper harvest of grain and no floods, which is not very meaningful to Zhong Yang. It is nothing more than that Zhao Guanhou’s own rule has increased the amount of food, and the people will not cause trouble because of shortage of food. This interest belongs to Shandong, not to the official palace.

Shandong's tax revenue is not up to Jie Zhengfu, but instead requires Zhong Yang to allocate funds to help Shandong solve the problem. No matter how you look at it, it is a loss-making transaction. If you want to repair it, it should be the provinces who raise funds to repair it themselves, which has nothing to do with the Ministry of Finance.

As for the issue of not repairing water conservancy and the issue of relief after the flood... In fact, Gonghezhengfu has basically given up the option of providing relief to the victims. The province where the victims go, the problem of which province they go to is solved by themselves and wandering to the capital... You can think about what Lei Zhendong is doing now and you can understand.

Zhou Xuezhao is the Minister of Finance and an industrialist. He has a good set of business methods when opening factories and mines. He can be the Minister of Finance and has his own opinions on the economy.

In his opinion, refugees are not necessarily bad things, and it can even be said that the more the better. Developing industry is inseparable from manpower. In order to survive, these people can do heavy work with just one bite of food. They are ready-made cheap labor and China's advantage.

How can we rely on to develop industrialization if we don’t drive these people into factories? In his opinion, the more natural disasters are, the better. Natural people may suffer from this, but from the perspective of the country, it is actually beneficial. At least for industrialization, these cheap consumables, like ore or cotton, do not need to be pity. What we need is that they contribute their value, and in order to achieve the country's take-off, there will always be a generation who will sacrifice.

Zhao Guanhou wiped out most of the duck before replying: "Mr. Zhi'an (Zhou Xuezhao's name), you are right, at least from the perspective of the country, I also support it. But I want to ask a question, what should I do if the specific person is? I am a parent, and when the flood comes, I will have countless more refugees under my rule. I have to find food and clothing for them. If I can't do it, it is my dereliction of duty. So, you are looking at the world, and I am looking at the front of me.

One acre of three cents of land, in my opinion, such projects as dredging of the Huaihe River are much more important than factories and mines. It costs money to redeem the mine from foreigners. If you have no money in the future, you have to borrow money and you have to be entrusted out. Sooner or later, you can't keep it. It's better to use this money to eat it yourself. That's the benefit. Just like when we chat, when you talked about so many reasons, I had already eaten half of the duck. To be honest, I can't tell you, but I'll leave the benefits of this duck myself."

Yuan Weiting smiled and shook his head, "Guanhou, you have become a man of great commanders, but your temper has not changed, and you are still so narrow-minded. Zhi'an is a gentleman, not as joking as you, so you can talk carefully. The economy has been bad in the past two years, and everyone has been having a hard time. I rely on Zhi'an to manage it, barely maintaining the situation without breaking down. He has made great contributions. Shandong is where I started, and I know the situation very well. The economy relies on trade with foreigners. Now the money of foreigners is hard to make, so where can you maintain it?"

Hearing Yuan Weiting's question, Zhao Guanhou said seriously: "I don't lie in front of the president. The life in Shandong has been difficult in the past two years. I have to rely on borrowing money to live. Huabi Bank and Zhengyuan, if I don't lend money to Shandong, I don't know how to maintain it. How to repay these debts in the future, I can't think about it, and in the end I might have to sell land. However, the more this happens, the more I have to focus on agriculture. It's easy to deal with when I have money. When I have no money, how to find food for the people is an extremely important thing. If I can't do it well, it will be a civilian change. I take advantage of the money to clear the river and minimize the flood crisis.

Beware of the bad future, and when there is no water, I am afraid that I will not even be able to provide disaster relief funds. As for things like developing industries, it is a good thing, but the premise of doing good things is to try to bleed as little as possible, and it is best not to bleed. People died on the river work, but most of them are prisoners of war, and they will die. It is better to die than to silence the kind people. I have a saying in Shandong: If you want sheep, don’t wolves. If you are a sheep, I will try every means to find a way out for them. If you are a wolf, you must be prepared. If you are a wolf, you will be able to pull your teeth and cut your claws and then do cattle and horses. So they are all dead people, but there is a big difference who dies."

"Oh, so, Shandong's grain harvest this year is good?"

Zhao Guanhou nodded, "Trust President Hong Fu, Shandong will have a great harvest this year. The government has collected a lot of food, enough to deal with a famine. If this continues, there will be a few more harvests, and you won't be afraid."

Yuan Weiting nodded and said, "If you have food in your hands, you are not panicked. Among the three armies, food is the basis. Military pay is of course important, but if you don't have food, grass, and weapons, you can't fight. You can't owe three penalties a day when you serve in the army."

He looked at Zhou Xuezhao again, "Zhi'an, it's good to do industry, but agriculture cannot be underestimated. If you are hungry, what kind of work you have to do, how can you have the strength to get a gun? In the past two years, we have insufficient investment in agriculture, so you have to change your policies. Let's draw up a plan and let the consultants take a look."

The meal was 9:30 in the evening. Zhou and Lu said goodbye, while Zhao Guanhou was left. Tang Tianxi brought tea and then retreated. Only Yuan and Zhao were left in the room. Yuan Weiting pointed to the tea in front of him.

"This is the new tea in Hangzhou this year. In the first gold medal, even the emperor can't drink it. This is the palace rule that Xiao Dezhang told me. The emperor cannot drink new tea when he is not allowed, otherwise he will become addicted to drinking it and do not know how to control it. Those who buy it below will be unlucky. Now that the co-organization is being done, the people below dare not play this trick anymore. I finally have new tea here. This is a bit of the enjoyment that the emperor can raise with the world. If there is not even this, the position of the president will not be enjoying happiness, but purely suffering."

Zhao Guanhou smiled and said, "Foreigners have kings who call themselves the first public servants, which is probably the same. It is considered that they suffer in this position, not a pleasure."

"That's his own stupidity. Life is like a long time, and the grass and trees are all over the autumn. If you don't enjoy it when you get to this position, what's the purpose of living this life?" Yuan Weiting shook his head disdainfully. "So I said, the Thais are stupid, and their minds are often hard to turn around. I don't admire them. If we don't mention him, we will only have them here, and there are some things that are hard to say. Do you think the business the Prussians are talking to us can do?"

This time, Zhao Guanhou went to Beijing to celebrate his birthday, the main purpose was actually the transaction between the Communist Party of China or Shandong and Prussia.

Since the Shaanxi War, some tacit understanding has been reached between Zhao Guanhou and Prussia. In the past two years, the Shandong Daxing project has also been inseparable from the help provided by Prussia. This help includes funds, equipment, and expert guidance. It is precisely because of foreign experts and foreign equipment that the project can be established in this way.

Of course, this kind of help will not be free. In Shandong, Zhao Guanhou recruited migrant workers and built countless military ports, fortresses and fortifications for the Prussians. The iron plants and mines jointly established with Prussia almost included all known unowned mineral deposits in Shandong. In specific contracts, Prussia also unilaterally gained benefits. If the specific terms of these contracts were all exposed, the sales volume of the newspapers would probably be more than a few hundred.

The Prussian official's appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and he is preparing to cooperate with Shandong. Because the numbers involved and the interests are too great, Zhao Guanhou can no longer decide. In other words, even if the one who really plays the role is his signature, he must ask Yuan Weiting to take the blame.

Before entering Beijing, he also considered whether Yuan Weiting would take the blame, or even whether he would directly reject the cooperation. Until he chatted with Sai Jinhua, he firmly believed that no matter what the outcome of his big bet, the gambling game would definitely be formed successfully, and Yuan Weiting would definitely come to help him share the responsibility.

Prussia's appetite is getting bigger and bigger. With the development of the situation in Tessi, Prussia is no longer satisfied with only obtaining current benefits in Shandong, and its eyes are on the part of the concessions owned by Albion and the minerals controlled by it.

This cooperation is almost to demand mineral deposits and sovereignty in the entire Shandong. At the cost, the Prussian Mansion will provide Shandong with a total of about 160 trillion state loans. The main body of the lending is not a certain bank, but the Prussian Mansion.

This loan is huge, especially in this tight monetary policy, which can be called a timely help. However, the conditions are also extremely harsh.

First of all, this loan is not allocated in the form of funds, but gives Shandong a virtual credit line. This credit only allows enterprises and scope designated by the Prussian government to purchase designated goods. Among them, arms and military equipment are the main body, and some industrial equipment are secondary.

In terms of price, no bargaining is accepted and corporate quotations are accepted, and Shandong can only accept it. The interest rate for this loan is as high as one cent and three points, and the repayment method is Shandong's agricultural and sideline products, as well as strategic materials including mineral products and boar bristles.

In order to ensure that Shandong can repay the loan on time, Prussia will send a group of economic experts to Shandong to guide development, and at the same time supervise Shandong's capital flow to avoid bad debts and other phenomena.

In addition, Shandong must also sign a strategic mutual assistance treaty with Prussia. According to the treaty, the Prussian Association provides Shandong with all-round military assistance, sends military advisers, guides troops training, and supervises the Shandong Army to maintain a suitable scale and weapon equipment.

Once a war breaks out, Prussia will protect Shandong by force to prevent it from falling into a state of war. On the contrary, Shandong also needs to provide camps, supplies and other related treatments for Prussian soldiers.

Compared with the Fusang people, the Prussians were slightly inferior in conspiracy, or in other words, they were too lazy to use any conspiracy when facing China. The content of this treaty was actually to fully control Shandong's integrity, economy, and military before Shandong paid off this huge loan. It turned the entire Shandong from China's territory into a colony of Prussia.

According to the consistent style of the great powers, they will definitely not leave after paying off the debt. At that time, it will be a situation where it is easy to ask God to send him to God. This situation is a situation where drinking poison to quench thirst, and using a short-term seemingly considerable loan to sell their sovereignty.

This is also why Shandong's acquisition of agricultural products was so smooth before. In addition to Zhao Guanhou's own good credit among the people, another important factor is that the influence of the Prussians has caused the destruction of other foreign companies to decrease. In the eyes of the Prussians, most of these agricultural products will be their own property in the future, so naturally, outsiders cannot be involved.

Unlike Albion, Prussia has little commercial interests in China. Most foreign companies do arms business, but not many civilian areas are involved. If you purchase these materials yourself, you will definitely not compete with the Albion people. They are inefficient and have no obvious results. If you can remotely control a puppet supervisor to serve you, referring to Shandong's economic foundation and rich mineral deposits, this business will obviously be extremely beneficial to Prussia.

The Prussian Minister Rex regarded this loan as a good opportunity, and God gave a shining pearl from the East to the Prussian Empire. Therefore, he actively ran around and finally made a round trip for this matter. In front of Zhao Guanhou, his tone was very firm, saying that he could convince the president. Looking at Yuan Weiting's expression now, it also proved that Rex's words were not bragging.
Chapter completed!