Don’t ask about the profits and losses of the ages, and sigh that it is difficult to repair the golden mirror after being slowly polished.

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To be honest, impeachment of Li Deshun is not just a false accusation, but there is real evidence everywhere. From the perspective of public opinion, it also has a vague taste of asking for the people.

Li Deshun is a Guangdong native. He is humble from a background and is smart and capable. He learned German and joined the Beiyang Ocean Affairs Bureau as a translator. Later, he married a German woman by fluent German and by chance. He has been hanging around Jiaozhou Bay. After the Boxer, Yang Shixiang climbed Yuan Shikai's big tree and became a governor of Shandong. In two years, he became the governor of Shandong from Zhili. Shandong is the sphere of influence of the Germans. After being introduced by someone, he met Li Deshun.

Li Deshun came from the bottom and entered the upper class gradually, and his performance was remarkable. In addition to his talent, his ability to flatter and flattery also made great contributions. He flattered Yang Shixiang, who was extremely capable of being accustomed to German affairs because of the Germans' popularity in Shandong. Li's talent, Li's temperament, Li's German background, and the intricate relationship between Li and German officials all made Yang Shixiang look at him differently and often entrust him to be responsible for handling negotiations related to Germany.

Li Deshun was extremely concerned about the errands assigned by Yang Shixiang. After he ran around and lobbled the upper and lower levels, his relationship with German officials in Shandong became closer and more flexible. Among them, many German officials could not resist and defeated the Chinese sugar-coated shells, and even forced the German local area to shorten the term of office of his foreign officials in Shandong to avoid being corrupted by the Chinese. Because he had been in peace with the Germans in Shandong, Yang Shixiang actually won the title of Westernization in the court. After Yuan Shikai transferred military aircraft, Cixi thought that his talent was of great use, so she asked him to replace Old Yuan and become the direct governor and the Minister of Beiyang.

After Yang Shixiang became rich, he naturally would not forget Li Deshun's help. At this time, China borrowed Britain and Germany to build the Jinpu Road. The contract clearly stipulated that the two sections of the north and south should be hired separately for British and German chief engineers. Although Lu Haihuan, who was the minister of the then supervisor, was from Germany, he did not understand German at all, and the situation was difficult to open up. Yang Shixiang recommended Li Deshun as the general office of the northern section of the Jinpu Road, who was fully responsible for negotiating with Germans.

After Li Deshun took office, he relied on his proficiency in German and support from the Governor of Zhili, not only took power in the northern section of the project, but also did not even take his immediate superior Lu Haihuan seriously. In construction, he changed the construction supervision procedures without authorization, from collecting civilian land to purchasing materials and hiring workers, doing everything, and doing everything. The land originally worth 200 taels of silver might not be worth 20 taels after he evaluated it. If the landlord had a slight objection, Li would use the magic weapon of "obstructing public affairs, slandering diplomacy, and insulting the court's official position" and defeated it. If someone knew the way and took care of it first, the wasteland that was not worth 100 taels could be estimated to be 500 taels by him, and the difference would be equal to him and the landlord.

What is even more unbearable is that in addition to private fraud, Li was extremely flattering to the Germans and almost regarded himself as the Germans' bad guy. Some people commented that when Sheng Xuanhuai was the governor of the Railway Corporation, he only borrowed money and mortgaged the right of road for the sake of the loan. The comprador foreign slaves were very good at selling the country - but at least they sold openly, they were discussing selling, and there was a little shame. After Liang Shiyi took over, he changed Sheng Xuanhuai's comprador style and fought with all his might, advocating the mortgage of the railway management rights. Although it was difficult to guarantee sovereignty under the strong conditions of foreigners, the situation had greatly improved - the loans of Jinpu Road were not bound by the contract except for hiring one chief engineer of the British and German engineers in the north and south sections. Due to the lack of railway engineers in China, hiring foreign engineers as chief engineers is actually imperative, and it is not considered a stolen country.

Li Deshun was so good that he gave up all the preferential conditions that Liang Shiyi had worked hard to win. Not only did he place the railway construction funds in Dehua Bank to collect low interest loan interest but high interest, he also set up positions such as deputy chief engineer, secretary, and medical officer without authorization, and hired more than 60 Germans who did not work and only received money. If he had real talents and knowledge, he would be considered redundant at most. What is unbearable is that these Germans had no knowledge at all, and one of them was even German. The clown in the circus wanted to come to China to make money, but Li Deshun fooled him into the deputy inspector general. He pretended to be on the construction site for 30 minutes every day to receive 1,000 taels of silver per month - of course, 400 taels of which should be respected by Mr. Li. If Li was a stubborn and stubborn person with a dark eyes, no one would say anything. The Chinese were deceived by foreigners, and it was not surprising that he was one more Li Deshun. He was known for his proficiency in German affairs, which was ridiculous.

If things only develop at this point, then people will not have extreme opposition if they are dissatisfied. Which official in China does not seek benefits for themselves? The bad thing is that Li Deshun is insatiable and intends to set up the Tianjin General Station of Jinpu Road in the south of the city.

At that time, the gathering places of Chinese merchants in Tianjin were all in the north of the east city of the city. Not only was there a developed trade, but it was also dense in population and a superior geographical environment. Even if the railway terminal did not consider prosperity, it should be located in Hebei, which had convenient water and land transportation alone. Although the Nanguan area was empty, it was purely a barren land. At the same time, since Jinpu Road also had to undertake the task of entering Beijing and Feng Road, the station of the latter line was already in Hebei. If the new terminal was located in Henan, it would be necessary to lay an additional railway to detour directly, which was the Tianjin urban area. Not only did the cost increase, but it was also a great difficulty to transfer. Yuan Shikai insisted on the main station in Hebei when he was appointed as the direct supervisor. When Yang Shixiang took over, Li De overturned the original proposal and demanded to abandon the north and go to the south.

Did Li Deshun consider environmental protection issues so early 100 years ago? He foreseeed that railway stations would cause noise pollution to densely populated areas so early? Nothing, but for personal gain!

It turned out that the German Concession was not far from the east of the South Kwan. Once the railway station was established here, the location advantages of the German Concession would be fully demonstrated, firmly occupying the key points of land and water. He insisted on abandoning the north and going south and there were Germans pushing behind it - but this was not the most important.

The most important thing is that Li bought thousands of acres of land at an extremely low price when he was scheduled to build the main station in advance, but when he submitted it to the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce for registration, he quoted a price of 650 taels per acre, which is nearly 30 times the purchase price. In the future, either it will be purchased by the state at this price, or Li will naturally occupy all the land near the main railway station - imagine, if the land within 5 kilometers of Tianjin Railway Station belongs to one person, what a shocking thing would it be?

In this way, no matter how good the temper and the strong endurance of the people could not control it. The gentry of Zhili was in a big uproar, believing that although the Jinpu Road was built with foreign debts from Britain and Germany, part of it was the price increase of salt pounds in Zhili, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, which was "the road to the lives of the people in the four provinces, and Li Chou would not allow him to steal sovereignty and harm the public and private." He decided to attack and even prepared to go to Beijing to file a lawsuit.

Yang Shixiang originally planned to suppress it, but later, seeing that the public was angry, he agreed to turn the limelight and scold Li Deshun. Unexpectedly, without waiting for him to straighten out the relationship, Gao Runsheng's impeachment and Cen Chunxuan's impeachment had already followed one after another.

In order to completely kill the tiger, Zaize threw out his biggest ace - the "Financial Cleanup Regulations".

The "Financial Cleanup Charter" is very open, but there are three core principles: Article 1. Each province has a financial cleanup bureau, mainly composed of the vassal department or the new Du Branch Department, and the Du Branch sends two supervisors to supervise the cleanup; Article 2. The fiscal revenue and expenditure situation in previous years are divided into three parts. The first part is the revenue and expenditure of previous years before the end of the 33rd year of Guangxu, called the old case, and the second part is the revenue and expenditure from the 34th year of Guangxu to the second year of the Restoration, called the current case, and the third part is the revenue and expenditure after the three years of the Restoration. Because the income and expenditure of the state and each province must be reviewed by the parliament, it is called a new case; Article 3. The new case, the current case, and the current case is handled in accordance with the new charter, and the old case is handled in accordance with the old charter - "For all those who have not been reported to the department in previous years, the list will be made in each year and the case will be eliminated."

In the Palace of Peaceful Heart, everyone held their breath and listened to Zai Ze's speech quietly - "According to the requirements of the "Nine Years Preparatory Constitutional Preparation Outline", the national budget will be prepared in the third year of the Reform Commission and reviewed by the Congress. National taxes and local taxes must be divided in annual income, so it is imperative to clear the finances! If the income and expenditure situation of each province is still as chaotic as before, not only will the goal of this outline be unable to be completed, but with the new policy, constitutionalization will become empty talk. If the nine-year outline is not completed, the emperor will chop my head, but before that, I will first ask the emperor to cut off the heads of those who obstruct the financial cleanup of each province, so that I can set off with peace of mind!"

He has a generous attitude of not going to hell who will go to hell? When did Zaize be so arrogant?

"Of course, you have to eat one bite of food and the road must be taken step by step. Since the time is not ripe for the implementation of the whole country, let's take the pilot first. The emperor has clearly set aside the eight places to take the first step, and I am determined to choose one of these eight places to take the pilot first. Everyone, I will throw my words here today - if this imperial meeting can pass my plan, I will pass, but I will not do the Secretary of the branch tomorrow - I want to live two more years!"

Although Zaize was kneeling there to report, his head was raised higher than anyone else.

Everyone thought: What a courage! Who supports him? He is so awesome?
Chapter completed!