Super Dictator

At night, Su Zhiniang was busy in her room, preparing a ceremony for Wei Jichen for his long journey.

In fact, Wei Jichen didn't need it at all. He had a super space and could just throw it in at will. However, Su Zhiniang's affection did not let him say anything.

Instead, he sat at the table and watched quietly as she carefully folded her clothes and put away her shoes.

"Ms. Zhiniang, isn't Zhiniang very useless? She can only do what ordinary women do." Su Zhiniang raised her head and suddenly said this in a confused manner.

Wei Jichen was stunned and confused.

Su Zhiniang neatly collected the package, placed it on the table, and continued: "I heard that Miss Nie has practiced martial arts since she was a child and has outstanding martial arts skills. She can help you a lot, and even saved your life."

Su Zhiniang has been with Wei Jichen for so long, and she often hears the soldiers around him talking about Nie Cairong, who loves military uniforms but not red makeup, so naturally she compares herself with her.

Wei Jichen stood up, walked forward, gently picked up her soft waist from behind, and said seriously: "How could it be possible? In my heart, each of you is a fairy above the nine heavens. To be favored by you, that is I, Wei Jichen, have gained the blessing in my previous life."

"But..." Su Zhiniang wanted to say more.

Wei Jichen interrupted softly: "Cairong is carefree, like a little sister, who needs my care, but you are as gentle as water, always able to take care of everything, and always take good care of my life. Both of them have their own merits. Regardless of superior or inferior, I can’t live without anyone.”

"Then why doesn't your husband take sister Cai Rong over?" Su Zhiniang smiled sweetly, and then asked with some confusion.

Wei Jichen sighed and said distressedly: "If your name is not right, your words will not be right. If you stay by my side all the time, it will damage her reputation. Unless we get married, she can stay with me for a long time. But now that my power has increased greatly, I have already It has aroused the jealousy of some people in the court, and Nie Shuai has trained more than 20,000 Wu Yi troops in Tianjin. Once Cai Rong and I get married, some people will not be able to sleep, so I have to feel sorry for her for the time being. "

Su Zhiniang persuaded: "Ms., I don't understand military and state affairs, but I know what it's like for a woman to wait hard."

Wei Jichen felt a pain in his heart, as he pictured the little girl looking forward to him day and night to marry her.

I just received a letter from the little girl a few days ago. Although the letter didn't mention a word about this, Wei Jichen could imagine that she must have been thinking about it day and night, otherwise she wouldn't write letters from time to time to talk about herself. How boring at home.

Nie Cairong is a woman who dares to love and hate, and can't hide anything.

He must think of a best-of-both-worlds solution to this matter. Wei Jichen made up his mind and felt relaxed.

Seeing Su Zhiniang motionless in his arms, Wei Jichen smiled bitterly and said: He is really a passionate person. He is holding one in his arms and thinking about another in his mind. The other is far away from the capital. Yes, now, it is better to pity the person in front of you.

Wei Jichen lowered his head and whispered in Su Zhiniang's ear: "Zhiniang, aren't you afraid that Cai Rong will separate me when she comes?"

Su Zhiniang blushed and murmured: "Zhiniang knows that my husband is not a person who likes the new and hates the old."

Wei Jichen suddenly sighed and said softly: "I suddenly realized, Zhimiang, there is one thing you should not do better than Cai Rong."

Su Zhiniang's body trembled, and her face turned pale.

Wei Jichen laughed slyly, then bit Su Zhiniang's ear and whispered a few words: "Although Cairong didn't actually take her body from me, she..."

Su Zhiniang's face immediately turned from gloomy to extremely bright red, her beautiful eyes widened, she wrinkled her pink nose and said coquettishly: "Zhiniang, Zhiniang doesn't know how, my husband, you are too..., how...how can you let others use your mouth. "

"It doesn't matter if you don't know. I'll teach you how to do it." Wei Jichen hugged Su Zhiniang and fell on the bedside.

The next day, Wei Jichen felt refreshed and took dozens of followers from Lushunkou to Jinzhou.

Wei Jichen began to inspect Liaodong, but a bloody storm broke out in western Liaoning.

Since several heads of Dujiabao were assassinated, the heads of Longtoushan, Qingfengzhai, and Shilibao were killed one after another. Some people on the road rumored that it was for revenge, some for money, and some even said that they were sent by the Qing court. The killer was specifically designed to kill horse thieves and bandits like them.

For a time, people in the green forest were panicked. All the leaders on the road were afraid of themselves. They stayed at home and strengthened the security forces around them.

However, this mysterious force seemed to have the power to reach the sky. Several heads of the family even died on their own bedsides, and were not discovered by their subordinates until the next day.

Of course the government applauded this matter. They wished that more people would die. However, during this storm, no one noticed or counted. Most of the new leaders of the horse thieves and mountain bandits were freshmen. A newcomer who has not long been involved in the green forest industry.

Moreover, these newcomers each have extraordinary skills and outstanding abilities, and can quickly stabilize the situation after the storm, so that the green forest immediately returns to calm after the storm.

If it hadn't been for the death of so many heads of family, all the people in the Green Forest would have thought it was a dream.

Of course, the happiest person was Wei Jichen. He earned a large amount of merit points almost every day. By the time he arrived in Haicheng, his merit points had skyrocketed from more than 80,000 points to more than 180,000 points.

However, Wei Jichen knew that this was a one-and-done deal. After all the mountain bandits and horse thieves in western Liaoning were subdued, his income would only become less and less unless he sent more troops to the other two provinces.

As for the field personnel sent to the other two provinces, the current manpower is simply not enough. Those field personnel who have become bandit leaders, Wei Jichen will naturally not let them go out again. Now is a good time to clear their names and become regular members. , because Iketanga has already controlled the political situation in Fengtian Province, the next step is to stabilize the situation in Fengtian Province.

For these mountain bandits and horse thieves, Yiketang'a was well prepared. To deal with the tough bandits, he naturally focused on extermination. To deal with ordinary bandits, he turned thieves into good people and private groups into public groups.

And Troop A is even less likely to go undercover to cover up mountain bandits. They have a more important role. Troop A now has 556 members, and more than 50 of them are veteran members who have already taken action. Some have gone to Guangdong and Guangxi, and some have gone to Beijing. Some from the Tianjin area, and some even went to North Korea.

Except for a few necessary old team members staying behind in the secret base, the others are all newcomers. The current task of these newcomers is to pass the test of suppressing bandits. In the next step, they will continue to train various skills until they pass the test of loyalty, and then the headquarters will They will be dispatched to various places and lurked as undercover agents.

Haicheng has now become a hub center, with various factories and mines springing up like mushrooms after a rain.

Although Guangxu wanted to reform and reform, and the imperial court encouraged private companies to build factories and companies, support was one thing, and there were no rules for specific operations, which discouraged many people because the imperial court's excessive levies and miscellaneous taxes were excessive. You become an official and businessman, otherwise you will suffer a lot just by being filial to local governments.

As for Liaodong, which is vast and sparsely populated, the local power is not very complicated. Wei Jichen was able to make bold reforms. In addition to necessary taxes, he exempted many miscellaneous taxes and formulated the articles of association of reward companies. In terms of government approval, as long as he did not touch Wei Jichen gave the green light to all matters related to military and political secrets.

You must know that in the Qing Dynasty, it was not that some enlightened landowning gentlemen did not want to start industries, but that all walks of life needed official approval to start a new economy. The government often set up monopoly privileges and did not allow private capital to enter freely.

The reason why Wei Jichen dared to do this was because in July, the imperial court issued an edict: "According to the work regulations of the Chinese and foreign ministers, current affairs...such as building railways, minting coins, making machines, opening various mines, and diverting the southern canal." , reduce the number of troops, create postal services, train the army, reorganize the navy, and establish schools; raising pay for military training should be the priority; and the principle should be to support business and workers. "

The last sentence shows that the direction of the court has changed. From suppressing private capital, it is striving to protect and support private capital. This is also impossible. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1894, the Qing government was financially strapped and borrowed massive foreign debt, and the economic aggression of various countries became more and more serious. furious.

Not to mention that there is no Chinese bank in China, they are all foreign banks. Even in terms of transportation, the great powers are sharpening their knives and want to contract and build railways in China.

If the imperial court continues to remain uncompromising, in the end, the great powers will completely control China's economic lifeline, and the Qing government is not far from being destroyed. Therefore, life and death forces this autocratic government to relax its control and allow the people to gain a certain degree of economic freedom.

At the Fengtian Coal and Iron Bureau, Wei Jichen was sitting in the main seat, Zhou Fu and Yan Dunyuan were sitting in the second place, and they were talking about coal and iron.

"I didn't expect that General Wei also studied iron smelting. It's really rare." Zhou Fu said with emotion at first.

The Hanyang Iron Works operated by Zhang Zhidong has been in operation for more than seven years, but it has been losing money every year. Zhang Zhidong lost all his money and still owed a huge sum of five million taels, so he asked Sheng Xuanhuai to take over.

Apart from the fact that it was originally run by the government and officials had their hands on it, the most important thing was that it was deceived by foreigners.

Daye iron ore contains high phosphorus. In foreign countries, Martin furnaces with phosphorus removal method are used for smelting. Zhang Zhidong bought the wrong furnace. The iron produced was substandard. It was brittle and easy to break. The quality was substandard and could not be used as rails. When it was put into use, the stove was tricked by foreigners as soon as I bought it.

Then, even if you are cheated when buying a stove, you can just replace the equipment immediately. However, since it is a new thing in the Qing Dynasty, no one understands this at all, so you have to rely on foreigners. Countless foreign technicians were hired in Hanyang Iron Works. This matter is not a problem at all in foreign countries. Wei Jichen believed that even if one or two of those foreign technicians were mediocre, they would still have some talents, but they insisted on not pointing it out for seven years.

Because once the Hanyang Iron Works smelts good iron and steel, it goes without saying that first of all, rails will no longer be imported from foreign countries. Other iron and steel, such as shipbuilding and bullets, etc., will no longer be imported. Everything will be changed. Because it is made domestically, foreigners will suffer heavy losses, so they all receive high salaries and turn a blind eye.

This incident is very famous in history. The steel industry is a pillar industry of the country, but because the Chinese people themselves do not understand it, the Chinese steel industry has "lost more than ten years of time and spent tens of millions of dollars", resulting in extremely heavy losses. , so Wei Jichen remembers it very clearly.

Therefore, when he thought of setting up an iron factory, he remembered this matter and immediately sent a telegram to Sheng Xuanhuai, who had just taken over the Hanyang Iron Factory. Although Sheng Xuanhuai had doubts about Wei Jichen, a layman, he still sent people to investigate abroad, and it was finally proved that This is indeed the reason.