Volume D Chapter 4 Underwriters
"There is a saying in the history of the Fangyu Dynasty: Yanzhou Prefecture is magnificent, with water and land dangerous. It is located on the upper reaches of Lin'an, and it is on the junction of the straits. In the Song Dynasty, Fang La advocated chaos in Muzhou (also known as Yanzhou), while Hang and She were all unable to be solid. South of the Yangtze River, gathered in abundance.'" Tao Junbao, the staff officer of the Ninth Town, was selling book bags to a group of illiterate children, with a sad face, but he was happy in his heart. "The defeat of ours is also due to the unfamiliar terrain. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng invaded Yanzhou, and Li Wenzhong ruled him outside the east gate, but asked the other generals to leave the small north gate, crossed the Baopo Ridge, and went around from Bijiwu to defeat him. This is with the Fuxing Army..."
Before Tao Junbao finished speaking, Ai Zhongqi, the enemy's 34th-Bianbiao, shouted: "Chief of Staff, don't say it. If you want to say it, you'll say it earlier, as it will cause us to be trampled by the Fuxing Army."
Tao Junbao was scolded by him, but Sun Ming, the governor of the 17th Association, said: "Brother Pu Qing, continue to say that since he is defeated, we must see where he is defeated."
Sun Ming is from Jiangning. He graduated from the third phase of the engineering department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. It is very difficult to achieve the position of coordination. Although those with backgrounds in Japan are easily regarded as revolutionary parties, Tao Junbao saw that he was not a revolutionary party at all. Seeing that Sun Ming asked him to continue talking, he didn't want to say it, but said, "Now the military strength is exhausted and his morale is also declining. I suggest that I wait for the tenth town to fight. Otherwise, there would be another ambush in the mountains and valleys and that commander would feel distressed."
The 34th and 35th Biao followed the Fuxing Army to the city of Yanzhou. He didn't want the locals in the Fuxing Army to use Li Wenzhong's plan to basically destroy the 35th Biao, which made Tao Junbao, who had been in a long-term depression, finally excited.
"This..." Sun Ming was a little at a loss. "The Tenth Town was already afraid of being beaten. When they came up, they didn't know where the Fuxing Army had gone. If they ran to Shezhou, Keke would have to be suppressed by the two provincial capitals."
"Yanzhou has been difficult to shoot since ancient times. Our cannons are not the navy's large-caliber naval guns. Isn't it impossible to bombard the Yanzhou city wall before? The wall is three feet thick and it was not collapsed in an instant. I suggest waiting for the tenth town. Even if they run away, they can't run there. Besides, we are all heroes who have recovered Hangzhou. But they were driven into this mountain... It's really..." Tao Junbao pretended to be helpless. Sure enough, Ai Zhongqi, who had previously advocated chasing the enemy, and Li Wensheng, who had suffered heavy losses, were both dissatisfied. In the past ten days, he had won Hangzhou and captured Cai alive. Zhong and the two of them had already received the rewards, but they were not as high as the sixth town. This made them very dissatisfied.
"Sir, let's wait for the tenth town first." Li Wensheng, who was still holding white gauze on his head, said. "This rebel party is not as good as when he was in Hangzhou. Now most of the artillery battalion has been lost. If there is no artillery, it will not be able to get out of the city."
Hearing Li Wensheng's words, Sun Ming looked at Tao Junbao intentionally or unintentionally. He knew that the ninth town had lost a new defeat and that he would really force the battlefield, and he would probably have internal strife. He said immediately: "Then let's rest first. It's not too late to fight when the tenth town comes to fight."
The brief military controversy ended soon. Tao Junbao was very taboo about Sun Ming's last glance, but he thought that nothing else had been exposed except for his fellow villager Zhao Sheng, and he felt a little relieved. However, Sun Ming's worries had just gone down, and the worries in Shanghai came up again. Mr. Cheng disappeared and Mr. Xiao Xu was imprisoned. Mr. Taiyan was expelled from the country, and Mr. Jimin was captured now. He didn't know who was commanding the Fuxing Society now. At the same time, what the Fuxing Army on the opposite side was going to do, so he kept wandering like this? He abandoned Yanzhou without placing a capital. That was really... He now especially hoped that there would be a set secret code to contact him, and then together with the Fuxing Army on the opposite side, the entire army of the Ninth Town was wiped out.
The problem that Tao Junbao was worried about was also something that Yang Rui was worried about. Although Yu Ziyi had already sent the secret box left by Wang Jitong, Yang Rui was in trouble before opening it. Although he had a secret key, he might not be able to recognize the words in it. However, some news brought to him by Xie Zhangtai.
"It turned out that they asked us to promise not to engage in the Yangtze River Basin, and at the same time, we asked us to hand over the arms traders in South Africa." Xie Zhangtai looked at Yang Rui who could already sit up and said the British's request. Bai Laile and Major Gawent were very familiar with him. With him, both sides had a bridge of communication.
"We can promise him. But if there is a condition, they will release Xiao Xu and Xiao Ye, and we cannot restrict our legal actions in the concession." Although we have a good relationship with Germany and the United States, Yang Rui has always wanted to get support from the UK.
Xie Zhangtai was surprised to hear that Yang Rui could agree. As far as he knew, the planned uprising place in the Yangtze River Basin was. He asked, "It's true. If you agree, what will we do in the future?"
Yang Rui smiled and said, "So all my conditions. Our conditions are that if there is chaos in the whole country, we will raise an army to stabilize the Yangtze River Basin. I think that the British would not say anything at that time."
When Xie Zhangtai heard this, he felt it was reasonable and relieved, but he said, "Will South Africa not affect it again? Are we now using the Boer MPs to rescue Chinese workers? I'm afraid it's not good to turn against them at this time."
"Then let them provide the names of their political enemies, or simply sell the Dutchman. The more his bullets are sold, the more expensive it will be. It will be just right for the British to rectify him." In addition to caring about the safety of Wang Jitong and others, Yang Rui also has something to do with the British.
"Okay." Seeing that both things were easily agreed by Yang Rui, Xie Zhangtai felt that the last time the headquarters was attacked was very unfair.
Yang Rui seemed to feel his mood and shook his head and said, "Brother Chong'an, you actually have to know the British. Zhuzhai's Axe Gang won't clean up all the Qing Gangs in Shanghai. In addition, the Hangzhou Uprising was a big deal, so they would not negotiate with us like this. Many times, if you want to be a good person, you have to be a bad person first. This is very helpless."
Xie Zhangtai understood what Yang Rui said. Seeing that Yang Rui was in good spirits, he asked again, "It turns out, what should I do with the Tongmenghui?"
"It is impossible to merge!" Yang Rui replied, "On the contrary, we have to attack Brother Chong'an. If we want to attack the Tongmenghui, then it should be better to do something from where?"
Yang Rui's words did not express Xie Zhangtai's surprise. However, he thought about Sun Wen from beginning to end, but found nothing good to deal with. As for killing Sun Wen, there seemed to be no need to do so at the moment, so he had to say: "The old man from Xingzhonghui, except Feng Zi is still following him. After everyone knows that he is a human being, they all stay away from him. I don't know if there are any loyal people in the Tongmenghui, but even if there are, there are not many. I think it is better to develop backbones in Nanyang and other places while raising funds from overseas Chinese."
Hearing that Xie Zhangtai had a plan to cut off food and pay, Yang Rui laughed, "I am still lucky to be in trouble with Brother Chong'an in Guangdong, Guangxi and Nanyang. But I think the strategy of Revival will be adjusted in the future..."
Before Yang Rui finished speaking, Xie Zhangtai interrupted: "How should we adjust? The group training we applied for now have been cancelled by the government. This road is really blocked."
Feeling Xie Zhangtai's anxiousness, Yang Rui smiled and said, "When the Qing Dynasty held a parliament, we should wait and see if it changes first. There will be no business in the past three or four years, or there will be no business such as seizing counties and prefectures. We should change our minds. When we go to the countryside, the Qing Dynasty has the weakest power, starting with occupying mountains and becoming kings."
"Take the mountain to be the king? This is not..." Xie Zhangtai wanted to talk about the bandits, but he held it back, but he was still curious. He has always been rebelling from the mountains to the city, and few people attacked from the city to the mountains.
"It's just to be a bandit first." Yang Rui did not avoid this word. "Just let the Qing Dynasty rule the city and we will occupy the countryside." After he said that, he thought that Xie Zhangtai was from an overseas Chinese and might not understand the situation in the countryside, so he said: "Brother Chong'an, 95% of China's population is farmers. If you want to change China, you must change them and let them participate in the revolution."
"But this will bring chaos in the world." Although I have never seen the revolution that Yang Rui said to launch a peasant, Xie Zhangtai still felt an unknown fear.
When Xie Zhangtai said that the world would be in chaos, Yang Rui couldn't help but think of Wang Jitong. When he was about to mobilize the people, Wang Jitong was worried that this would trigger another Hong Yang Rebellion.
"Brother Chong'an, now that the Qing Dynasty has held a parliament, not only the gentry has pulled them over, but many revolutionaries are also confused by them. We cannot even say that he faked parliament. At that time, he took out a timetable for delegating power for thirty or forty years, so we will have to wait until we die of old age. So the revolution that was like that before could no longer be successful, and even if it succeeded, it would not be able to change the status quo of China. We can only launch the revolution at the bottom and then turn the whole world over."
Yang Rui said calmly, but Xie Zhangtai felt something violent in his heart revealed from these languages. "It turns out that our army may not be able to defeat the new army of the Qing Dynasty. Why do we still have such a revolution?"
"Because our development plan was blocked by the Qing Dynasty." Yang Rui replied calmly, "The troops cannot fight without strict training. We cannot count on those people in South Africa. What if Britain and the United States do not support it? Let's hide troops in the mountains first."
Yang Rui did not explain the relationship between hiding soldiers in the mountains and mobilizing peasants. Xie Zhangtai did not ask for a while, so the conversation ended in a hurry. In fact, when Yang Rui talked about this, he suddenly thought of a question, whether the members who are now staying now can support the plan to mobilize peasants? Many of these members are scholars and have a wealthy family. I think that when Sun Wen proposed the equal rights of land when the Tongmenghui was established, he was greatly opposed by the congregation. The last one was vaguely covered. If he really proposed to defeat the local tyrants and divide the land, the revival meeting would probably be broken. If this is not the case, the revolution may not be able to succeed easily. Could it be that there would be a Wuchang Uprising if this time continues? Yang Rui was not sure, and he could not be sure. What he wanted was a foolproof success. If this was to be done, he would have to start from the countryside.
But how do you change the minds of these people? Especially those who are big landlords at home? Are you laying off employees? When Yang Rui was thinking hard, he suddenly saw a shadow coming. His eyesight began to recover, but he still blurred his sight. However, he could still see who the person was. "Have you gone home?" Yang Rui asked.
"Yeah." Cheng Xu replied subconsciously, suddenly thought of something, and asked: "Can you tell me and Xianfeng just by looking at the shadow?"
The relationship between women is very difficult to understand. They are obviously in love rivals, but they are like sisters. Yang Rui is hard to say, how can the sniper's behavior be compared with that of famous prostitutes? He had to say, "I guessed it."
Seeing that Yang Rui was the first to guess that he was not Han Xianfeng, Cheng Xu suddenly laughed, feeling sweet in his heart. Yang Rui seemed to hear her smile and said, "Didn't you scold me at home?"
"No!" Cheng Xu suddenly felt a smile at home. She disappeared for three years, and her cousin couldn't wait to retire the engagement. Without the support of her relatives, her father's sugar business suddenly plummeted, and her father grew old. The family business was unable to be entrusted with the old man's biggest heart disease.
"I think I should visit your father." Yang Rui suddenly grabbed her hand and said, then laughed again, "Although it's three years late, I still have to come to my house."
Hearing Yang Rui's words, Cheng Xu was stunned, and after feeling warm in his heart, he said shyly: "Then... what should she do?"
Cheng Xu was talking about Han Xianfeng, but in Yang Rui's concept, Han Xianfeng's image was still the dirty little girl next to the old man with Erhu three years ago. She didn't expect that a girl would change her life. As for her, she would become a famous prostitute, she also thought it was the song in Shanghai. So according to the modern thinking, "She is only seventeen years old, she should be a little sister."
Yang Rui's little sister made Cheng Xu laugh. She thought Yang Rui also liked Han Xianfeng. Moreover, Han Xianfeng was a good person and was suitable to be a concubine, but she didn't expect that Yang Rui had no idea of a concubine in her mind. She felt sweet in her heart, but she said, "But her heart is with you."
"I'm afraid that little girls are like this. Maybe they won't think like this when they get older." In Yang Rui's concept, women's feelings seem to be constantly changing. They are not as good as men. They will never forget their first love. They are often loyal to the present and content with the present. Han Xianfeng is less than seventeen years old. She now falls in love with a man who is a teenager older than her. I'm afraid that it will change later.
Seeing that Yang Rui really had no intention of marrying Han Xianfeng as his concubine, Cheng Xu felt that happiness surrounds him. Fang Junying often said, "From then on, the prince and the princess live a happy life" unconsciously surrounded him. Even if it is love, it often hopes to enjoy it exclusively.
When Cheng Xu lived a "happy" life, Han Xianfeng threw the pillow hard in her room. She saw Cheng Xu and Yang Rui leaning against each other, and even heard Yang Rui's last words. "Little girl..." She suddenly burst into tears with grievance, "Where am I? Where am I?"
Xiao Zan came in outside listening to the voice. Since she served Han Xianfeng, she had never seen the lady crying. Seeing this, she couldn't persuade her, so she had to stand aside. Han Xianfeng moved out of the apartment the next day, but Yang Rui did not forget her and asked Chen Guangshou to arrange for her and Xiao Zan to go abroad with her royalties. As for what she wanted to learn, it would be as she wished.
Han Xianfeng's departure did not make any nominal progress in the relationship between Yang Rui and Cheng Lu. In the eyes of the sugar merchant Cheng Weinan, his daughter finally returned home, but another revolutionary party got entangled. He was not angry. After briefly speaking, he restrained Yang Rui out of the house and locked Cheng Lu immediately. However, these could no longer stop Cheng Lu, so she ran out that afternoon.
Yang Rui had already started working at this time. Yu Huizu, Jiang Weiqiao, and Wang Xiaolin had seen each other. Although the Tianzi was stared by the government and foreigners and the financial review began, the previous accounts were burned by fire. Under the favoritism of the US consul and the huge bribery, the Qing Dynasty did not have a good solution. In the end, Yu Huizu promised to be filial to the fullest on the birthday of Guangxu. Although the caustic soda and soap that the British were taboo lost, it was just a production and price limit. It can be said that this level was bleeding, but it still passed.
"Did Guna give money?" When Guna thought of Su reporting the case, he was determined to extradite Zhang Zou and the others. His friendly attitude with the Qing Dynasty made Yang Rui feel that this time he had changed his mind.
"I gave it. But he only had 10,000 yuan." Yu Huizu knew Guna more deeply than Yang Rui: "He said that since Tianzia is listed in the United States, it is an American company. What he had to do was to ensure the interests of American shareholders. Most of Tianzia's profits were donated to the Education Association, which made him admire him, but he hoped that Education Association would send more students to study in the United States instead of Germany."
After all the calculations, it was still for the long-term plan of the United States. Yang Ruiben was surprised to hear that Guna only had 10,000 yuan, but he was very calm when he heard that he was studying in the United States. "What would he think about the revival?" Yang Rui asked again.
"He said that the Revival would be the real revolutionaries. They did not kill after they occupied Hangzhou. They convened parliament as soon as possible. He believed that this showed that the revolutionaries were selfless. If there was no Hangzhou uprising, the Qing government would not agree to convene a parliament. Although the uprising was suppressed, he was progressing towards China." Guna's statement was the same as that of Meijian more than a hundred years later. He only looked at political forms to determine likes and dislikes. Those who engage in democracy supported them, and those who dictated the dictator opposed them. At least in public opinion.
"Then how much will the harvest be reduced this year?" I know the reason for Tianzi. How much money is missing Yang Rui's concern.
"It has not decreased, it just didn't rise, it's still seven million. Compared with the annual growth, this is a few hundred thousand less." The coal mines in Taihu Lake have been increasing production, with an annual output of nearly one million tons, and an annual profit of more than two million. Yu Huizu was reluctant to sell it. "But it happened. You were not there at that time. I decided on a big thing in private. Thinking about this matter now, I can't sleep at night." Yu Huizu's voice was a little trembling because the scope of this matter involved was too wide, and he was a little panicked.
When Yang Rui heard his voice, he began to raise his heart and said, "Brother Hanzhang, there is nothing that cannot be overcome. Tell me. I'll listen."
"This time, the Tianzi was preserved, and in addition to the American Consul, Sheng Xuanhuai also made a lot of efforts..." When Yu Huizu mentioned Sheng Xuanhuai, Yang Rui could basically guess what happened, but he remained silent and heard Yu Huizu continue to talk, "He had an objection to us in the establishment of an iron factory before, but at that time he took into account the railway tracks of the Anhui Railway and our relationship in the North Korea. After I promised that the domestic iron price would not be sold lower than Hanyang, he agreed. This time, seeing us in a dilemma, Zhang Meiyi came to persuade us, saying that he could help us keep the Tianzi, but we would merge the Ma'anshan Iron Factory and the Hanyang Iron Factory to form a completely commercial Daqing Coal and Iron Factory Mine Co., Ltd...."
When Yu Huizu said this, the tea Yang Rui was drinking was spitting out with a "pop". He asked, "Hanyang is not run by the official, why has it become a commercial one now?"
"Hanyang is an official supervisor of the commercial office. Now Sheng Xuanhuai wants to completely form a company in Hanyang Iron Factory and Pingxiang Coal Mine, count the investment of the imperial court as shares, and then all the companies are commercial offices. As for our merger, he said that internal management will never interfere. It is just that everyone will hold the same company sign." Yu Huizu didn't know what Sheng Xuanhuai was going to do, but he thought that he could keep the Tianzi size without interfering. In the crisis, he agreed. For Yang Rui, the merger of Hanyang and Pingmei was a routine that had been in history, but what did Sheng Xuanhuai want to pull Ma'anshan? Will it be annexed?
"How did the business side analyze it?" Yang Rui had no idea why he had to ask.
"There is no problem when I read the documents drafted by Sheng Xuanhuai on the business side. However... But there is a saying by Kanto Bank." The loss of Tianzita, but Kanto Bank was not affected. After all, Tianzita is just a major customer.
"What is Xingjian's saying?" Yang Rui asked.
"Xingjian said that Sheng Xuanhuai was engaged in M...BO acquisition, so..." Zhang Kun said a lot of things. Yu Huizu was not a business student and could not understand at all. In the end, he only remembered such a foreign article.
Hearing that MBO acquired Yang Rui was almost going to tea again, I really don’t know if this routine has existed since ancient times or Sheng Xuanhuai’s extremely smartness, he guessed that: “If it were this routine, then Han Yeping would definitely do asset appraisal before the commercial office. According to what I knew before, it had about 20 million taels of assets on the books and owed more than 10 million taels of debt (note). If it was a little more ruthless and reduced its assets to 1,500 taels, then his net asset ratio would be only 33%. If such a company found that there was no one in stocks, he would not be able to take Han Yeping from the court.
But if it can merge with Ma'anshan, the total investment of Huainan coal mine, railway and iron plant will be 15 million taels. These are real money and all net assets, then the entire company's assets are 30 million, owing 10 million debts, and the net asset ratio is 66%, which is doubled compared to before. At the same time, Ma'anshan is a Tianzi investment, and with the name of Hanzhang Brother Yu Caishen, this company will issue 20 million taels of stocks, and it will accept no less. If you get these 20 million, Sheng Xuanhuai can pay back that 10 million, and this company has nothing to do with the court."
"That means, Sheng Xuanhuai sold us and then paid back the money to the court?" Yu Huizu originally wanted to say, 'If you sold us, you would help Sheng Xuanhuai count the money', but this felt too stupid.
"That's right, that's why he would say he would not interfere with our internal management." Yang Rui said a lot, but was tired.
"Then what should we do?" Yu Huizu asked.
"Sell. But I have to tell him that we will underwrite these 20 million shares and then sell them to the United States." Although Yang Rui was tired, he suddenly became happy when he thought that this was another way to make a fortune.
"Go to the United States again." Yu Huizu didn't understand why Yang Rui packed the company to the United States for listing. He actually didn't know how many Chinese companies would cry and shout to go to the United States. How easy it is to go to the United States now.
"Well. Tell him immediately that we are stock underwriters, and we can be underwriting for 20 million yuan, but the procedures for the imperial court will be completed by the end of September. The agreement will be invalidated after this year." Yang Rui did not understand what the collapse of the US stock market next year, but the sooner it passed, the less people were suspected of being speculating. He thought about this and felt a little sympathetic to the poor American stock investors. Tonghua Railway Company does not count, Tianziha has made more than 7 million yuan in the US stock market. He wants to take the "Daqing" Coal and Iron Factory and Mining Co., Ltd. to the United States to list, and 20 million taels away. Will American stock investors cry at that time?
Chapter completed!