Volume D, Chapter 75, One Day
Since his arrest, all the internal affairs of Wang Jitong's responsibility were taken over by Yang Rui. Although he was released from prison, he was followed by detectives from the Qing Dynasty to Europe, when he wanted to return to Shanghai, he was arranged by Yang Rui for research and development. The reason was that Zhong Guangui was unwell and needed his help. However, this arrangement was not told from the beginning, but was told so after he stayed in Germany for a while and asked Yang Rui how he arranged it. ()
In addition to the three extremely huge systems of conference affairs, military affairs and business, the R&D system of the Revival Association is gradually getting bigger and bigger. Earlier, there were only radio laboratories, daily chemical laboratories, battery laboratories, metallurgy laboratories, electrolysis laboratories, and internal combustion engine laboratories. However, now, the optical experimental city, petrochemical and coal chemical laboratories, power laboratories, magnetic laboratories, sensor laboratories, polymer laboratories, atomic laboratories, refrigeration laboratories, and submarine laboratories. These laboratories have dozens of people and hundreds of people, and the fewer are more than a dozen people. They are all key confidential units, mainly distributed in Germany, the United States, Shanghai and Tonghua. Because the most developed science and technology is in Europe, the German laboratories are the largest, fortunately there are students in Tongji University and many international students in Germany, so many laboratories can support it.
The R&D management was handed over to Zhong Guanguang, Wang Jitong and Xu Huafeng, and the business work was handed over to Yu Zixun and Yu Huizu. The conference and military affairs were handled by Yang Rui, Zhang Taiyan and Xie Zhangtai, but Xie Zhangtai himself was half a member. Because he joined late, he was always in charge of diplomacy. Zhang Taiyan was devoted to studying the theory of national quintessence, and often he did not care about the world. Not to mention checking and balancing Yang Rui, even if he made notes and paid, he often made mistakes. After all, he was not clear about the specific work. Since that is the case, the conference and military affairs were all in Yang Rui's hands.
Wang Jitong was very worried about this situation. Before the Hangzhou investigation, Wang Jitong was worried that Zhejiang people would have the advantage in the Revival Association, which would lead to internal imbalances, so he strongly supported Yang Rui to marry Cheng Xu. However, since Yang Rui and Cheng Xu got married, he found that many overseas Chinese were arranged to be trained by the Revival Association or studied abroad in various countries. Few of these people entered military academies, and most of them were in business or politics. In this way, Yang Rui wanted to borrow these overseas Chinese to build his own team. Although he still went to the research and development site.
The association is in the hands of Xu Huafeng and him, but the business affairs of the Zhejiang Group will be slowly transferred by these overseas Chinese, and Yang Rui himself has the advantage of military affairs. After his revolution, he will be held together with the conference, government (business) and military affairs. Although the seven-member committee of the Revival Association has a restraining mechanism, when the backbone personnel below are Yang Rui's people, even if the committee is six-on-one, there is no way to deal with Yang Rui. At that time, the people below will definitely obey Yang Rui's orders rather than the committee's orders.
Although Wang Jitong had never been an official, nor did he study Western law in New York City's ** College like Yu Zixun, he was born in the family of officials and had known about the checks and balances of power. Once the meeting, politics and army were all Yang Rui's people, he would be one step closer to Napoleon and one step further away from Washington. Is Napoleon not good? Wang Jitong did not think Napoleon was bad. Instead, he thought he was a hero, although he was short. But Washington was really short compared to him. However, Napoleon's greatness lies in himself, while Washington's greatness lies in the country itself. If it is said that because of the foreign expansion of the French Revolution, other European countries formed an anti-French alliance and fought with France many times, the patriotism promoted by the Revival Society and the research projects in the current laboratory can fully prove that Yang Rui has been focusing on preparing for a war.
Wang Jitong is the manager of the laboratory. According to the research task table, compared with the previous laboratories, the laboratories established later mainly studied military technology, such as jet engine blade metallurgy, infrared sensors, laser rangefinders, magnetrons and imaging tubes. The most terrifying thing is a bomb that ruins the world in the atomic laboratory. These things are not used to govern the country, but mostly for war. After the success of the revolution, China must rest and work hard to govern, rather than to be a personal soldier. Feeling Yang Rui's plan, Wang Jitong was extremely worried about Yang Rui, and it was crazy.
To make the country rise, but it will even destroy the country. Wang Jitong would rather Yang Rui be as short as Washington than China start continuous wars like France after the revolution. With this thought, he persuaded Zhong to visit. He came to New York in the name of managing the American laboratory. After talking to Yu Zixun, he wanted to do Yu Huizu's job. However, Yu Huizu was too old after all, and he was a scholar. He could not accept the theory of separation of powers of the Western Republic, and he was not familiar with China's extremely ancient and dark balance technique. Therefore, the plan to win support for business was considered a waste.
In the quiet study, when Wang Jitong said "I can't do it even if I succeed", Yu Zixun, who was helpless, asked: "Xiao Xu, what should we do? Should I go to Berlin in person and have a good chat with Xian Qian?"
"I can't grasp Xianhua's mind thoroughly." Thinking of Zhong Guanguang's words in that conversation, Wang Ji had no idea. "At that time, I said everything, and even said that this was not a fight for power and profit. I also promised that if everyone would be able to restrict it together and only let him manage military affairs, then I would rather go to the temple to become a monk and never come out to be an official, nor do I care about any affairs in the meeting. But he just didn't respond and just told me he knew."
"Hey! Xianyun has this temper. He makes quick decisions in small matters and hesitates very much about big matters. Even if he thinks things are right, he will have to make an idea before he can make a decision." Yu Zixun was just regretful when he heard this. He and Zhong Guanguang were fellow villagers. He knew his personality very well. He only felt that Zhong Guanguang was an old problem. "Hey! Our strength is still too little, and Jimin is still in prison. If he can come out safely, then things will be easier."
When Yu Zixun mentioned Cai Yuanpei, Wang Jitong thought about it and just shook his head. After all, there were two principals of the Revival Society. One was the principal of the Patriotic Society. This was Jimin. He dropped out of Nanyang Public School with many students, which was very popular. Then the principal of the South African Military Academy and Shanghai Training Class was successfully formed, leading everyone to carry out a revolution, and construct the Revival Society from scratch, with outstanding reputation. Several other people, such as him, Zixun and Mei Shu, were just the men of the Patriotic Society. If they wanted to make a balance, Jimin was the best candidate. But he is now in the prison of the capital, and although he is exempt from death, who knows what will happen next. Once the Revival Society is in great power, the army will come to the capital, and it is unknown whether the Qing Dynasty will kill him to sacrifice the flag.
"For the sake of the present, we still have to find solutions from two aspects." Wang Jitong thought about it in his heart and said, "First, when the committee meets next time, I will propose to set up a working group specifically for rescue of Jimin. Not to mention that Jimin can be rescued, but at least it must be protected safely."
Only Jimin can check and balance, which is the consensus between Wang Jitong and Yu Zixun. Yu Zixun nodded after hearing this and said, "Okay! I can propose this matter and urge the association to select people to organize a rescue team."
"No, you have other things. I'll suggest you do it." Wang Jitong said: "One other thing is that I can only count on that child. You are always in New York and you can get closer to him."
Seeing Wang Jitong talking about Zhu Kuansu, Yu Zixun said, "The eunuchs and palace maids from North Korea are teaching him. I will visit him from time to time. After he was scared last time, he is now obedient. He is a smart and sensible person."
"Is he scared him?" Wang Jitong also met Zhu Kuansu, but he didn't know what happened to Yang Rui and this child.
"Yes. At that time, he kept asking to go home to see his parents, but we couldn't persuade him. He even said he was disobedient to him and threw him into the sea to feed the fish. He was shocked and learned things with the eunuchs and palace maids." Yu Zixun had always been friendly to this real former royal nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, but unexpectedly, Yang Rui just treated him as a pawn, which surprised him very much.
"Oh..." Wang Jitong didn't expect that there would be something else, so he thought for a while and said, "Zhu Kuansu is the second lock. If the people are unpredictable, only he can check and balance. But to achieve this, he must have extraordinary reputation."
Yu Zixun was a little confused and said, "What is reputation?"
"When the revolution is successful, we will turn Zhu Kuansu out of the corner. If he has no reputation, he will have no contribution to the revolution, and he will just enjoy the success. So we need to change the plan, and it is best to put the entire Revival Association in his name..." Wang Jitong finished speaking, only saw Yu Zixun's surprised face and said in detail: "That is, the revolution of the Revival Association was planned by him. The Revival Association was founded according to his will. The Revival Association can have so much money to support the revolution, which is because he used the treasures left by his ancestors..."
The more Wang Jitong said that Yu Zixun was more shocked. This was completely to let Zhu Kuansu erase all the achievements of Yang Rui. Without waiting for Wang Jitong to finish speaking, he interrupted: "If you promote this, you will definitely not agree. Besides, how can the members of the Fuxing Society explain? They now think they will become leaders, but how do you know that there is a King Min behind? How do you accept it?"
Yu Zixun felt his head hurt as he spoke. This was a complete subversion of the revolutionary history of the Revival Society. He couldn't accept this in his heart. He could not take any contributions, but he had to admit his contributions. Wang Jitong looked at him indifferently. After a while, he said: "Only with a leader behind the leader, the current leader will not be deified and will be famous, but he cannot have power, power, but he cannot have reputation. Otherwise, the whole country will go crazy. The Revival Society can be founded, and the revolution was also done by him with everyone, but all this must be said to be with Zhu Kuansu's support. Only in this way can Zhu Kuansu have the prestige not be lower than that of becoming."
"But I paid for Zhu Kuansu's meals. Why did he contribute to the revolution?" Yu Zixun could not accept it in his heart. He came to take the credit for some inexplicably. After walking a few steps in the room, he still said angrily.
"Did you forget the batch of things in India? There are more than 20 tons of gems. Now the British are pursuing the world, and even if they remelted, they cannot take action. The best way now is to say that these things are left over from the former Ming Dynasty royal family. After the revolution, we pretend to dig them out from Nanjing. With this batch of things, before the revolution, the source of funds for the Revival Society was provided by the former Ming Dynasty royal family, and there will not be many people doubt it. This not only found an explanation for the source of these things, but also increased Zhu Kuansu's reputation, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone." Wang Ji Tongdao.
After hearing Wang Jitong's words, Yu Zixun calmed down slightly and said, "Xiao Xu, are you not afraid that someone who is interested will push Zhu Kuansu to the throne again?"
"No. No matter how high Zhu Kuansu has a high reputation, he will never ascend the throne. He will not be able to ascend the throne. This is the same as what we planned in the past. I just want him to have a great reputation, so that the world can be conquered by everyone. But it can also be said that His Highness Min supported the Revival Society and then conquered the world. In the future, he has great power, but no matter how powerful he has, he cannot be more prestigious than King Min. In this way, even if he has any ideas, he will definitely have a concern." Wang Ji. "Also, the South African army was actually classified as the Imperial Guard, and then all the political commissaries in it will be abolished. Or it will be taken over by people from non-Imperial Guards. He cannot obey the orders of Jingcheng and become a real Imperial Guard."
"This...will the order the Imperial Guard heard?" Wang Jitong was very worried, and Yu Zixun really couldn't imagine how to arrange this army.
"Listen to the parliament." Wang Ji said: "Or it is called the parliament. This army is only responsible for the security of the parliament and the royal family. It does not obey the general staff under the military committee. The capital will be its defense zone in the future. If the military committee is to be detrimental to the parliament or the royal family, these tens of thousands of people will not be taken down at least. If the guards want to usurp power, they must also be concerned about the Revival Army outside the capital."
Yu Zixun was stunned when he looked at Wang Jitong. He shouted: "One country and two armies, aren't you afraid of chaos in politics?"
"Not afraid! Foreigners say that the three powers are separated, and I say that power is checked and balanced. This is like the way of Yin and Yang, which becomes the place of Yang. Then I will guard Yin and yin and yang can be harmonious so that all things can be complementary. Besides, the two armies are so big and small, but in fact there is nothing to be confused. To be honest, I am not afraid of chaos in politics, I am only afraid of coups." Wang Ji, who looked at him very deep when he talked about the coup.
"What if he was caught by the Imperial Guards when he entered Beijing?" Yu Zixun laughed for a long time and suddenly asked back.
"The Imperial Guards only protect the royal family and the parliament. What's the matter for arresting? Once arrested, the Fuxing Army outside the capital will be attacked immediately. Besides, it's not that he cannot have a personal guard. Once there is a change, those people can always protect him and send a telegram. The Fuxing Army surrounded the Imperial Guards, and the Imperial Guards surrounded the Imperial Guards, so it should be foolproof." Wang Ji Tongdao.
The conversation was interrupted for a while. Yu Zixun felt that what Wang Jitong said was reasonable, and some were unreasonable, especially the arrangement of the Imperial Guards he said was even more incredible. But when he thought about it, he felt that Yang Rui would have great power in the future. He was the president of the Revival Society and the president of the newly established Military Commission. Once he became a national leader, it can be said that all the power was in his hands. Wang Jitong only thought about Chinese checks and balances, that is, Yang Rui had some concerns, but can't the separation of powers according to the Western world? Or he forced the head of state to be able to do for many years. When Yu Zixun thought of this, the conclusion of the example of queuing up for dinner last time that Yang Rui told him last time last time: In a country where people cannot be independent of each other, procedural fairness cannot guarantee actual fairness.
"It is necessary to save the people. It is necessary to help Zhu Kuansu improve the people's expectations, but the achievements of the Revival Association cannot be erased. As for the Imperial Guard, I will still think about it." In the end, Yu Zixun said this.
Yu Zixun and King Jitong continued to plot in the study, but Yu Huizu returned to his room to rest. Although the cruise ship was comfortable, he still felt that it was better to be down-to-earth. As he said in the study, he completely forgot about what happened yesterday when he woke up. During the day of the next day, he asked Yu Zixun to arrange a ticket to Detroit. He wanted to go to the car company called Ford with Zhang Kun to take a look. According to the briefing, the company sold more than 8,000 cars last year, ranking among the top among car companies in the United States. Of course, according to the information in the briefing, the reason why this car company was so successful was because its cars were cheaper than other companies, and the price of each car was less than 1,000 US dollars, not 2,000.
"We are his supplier now, and we make the dry batteries used in his cars." Liu Hongsheng was not at all reserved when facing the big shopkeeper, and was very proud of the dry battery business he managed. "If you want to visit, I think Mr. Ford will agree, but he probably doesn't have time to receive us, and he has always been very busy."
"Actually, I just want to see it." Yu Huizu said that he had seen railway construction, large iron factory, and match factory, but he was still very curious about how the car was built.
"Then I'm going to make arrangements." Seeing that the shopkeeper insisted on going to see it, Liu Hongsheng had to make arrangements immediately. As far as he knew, Ford moved a new factory this year, he didn't know if construction was started there now.
Zhang Kun has been working on Ford's cars for a long time. He is also quite interested in building cars, but there are more important things to talk about now. "Taofu, let's talk about the situation here. The plan has already started in Shanghai. But the funds are still about 6 million taels away, so the money can only be found from your side."
"Six million taels?" Xie Taofu said. In 2004, the Japanese and Russian bonds, and in 2006, two speculative businesses sat down. He was addicted to it. Now he has a big plan after so long, which only makes people anxious to wait. However, what is even more anxious is to speculate on rubber stocks this time. There is not much money at all. "Can't the banks in Shanghai solve this problem? After the New York stock market crash last year, the funds in the United States were very tight, and it was still a bit difficult to borrow six million taels/. And so much money. The move is too big, and those foreigners are afraid they will follow the trend."
"Shanghai will also raise money, but the money must be invested in the stock market in the early stage, and it also needs to use money to open a plantation in Nanyang. The six million are mainly reserve funds. Once the situation changes, we can be invincible. Foreigners are not afraid of following the trend. This money was not taken from the beginning. By the time they know that the money was used there, the matter has been basically completed." Zhang Kun said.
"Then say so..." Xie Taofu thoughtfully: "Why should two companies borrow from that? If we want to look for Morgan in terms of relationships with the government, we should look for Rockefeller. But Xingjian. I always worry that our plan will conflict with those foreign bankers. Nanyang has always been the territory of the Dutch and the British. When we hype Nanyang stocks, we always feel strange and very furious."
Xie Taofu has been traveling abroad and has seen many financial tycoons. He is very worried about this speculative business. Japan and Russia's bonds are related to the situation. As long as the situation can be judged, the result will naturally be grasped. In the New York stock market crash last year, the stock market crash was speculated on his own, and the stock market plummeted was not triggered by himself. It was also considered to take someone else's ride-sharing and enjoying his success. The current plan is to speculate on others, or most of them are other people's stocks, and they are involved with the Netherlands and the British, and they are even more involved in the stock market. This is more than ten times more difficult than before. Once those rubber companies play tricks, or the stock prices plummeted before they detonate, the losses will be huge.
"Your worries are also mine." Zhang Kun looked calm. Nothing could come as planned. There would always be a parliament of one kind or another. "We have already brought the Dutch Bank in Shanghai. Of course, the specific details have not been mentioned yet. I just asked the Dutch Bank to meet with their chief deacon, but there was no news back there. If the Dutch Bank will meet us, we can do this deal with them."
Seeing Zhang Kun’s words so free and easy, Xie Taofu whispered, “This is a traitor!”
"Well. I've known it for a long time and am willing to admit all the consequences." Zhang Kun was still calm, "Even if he was scolded, he had to continue to do this. This is not my private matter, but a major event related to the revolution."
"Hey!" Xie Taofu sighed and said, "Then I'll meet someone from Morgan. There is also rumors that Morgan really wants to talk to us, but Mr. Cheng is not here, so he can only talk to us about an intention first."
"What's the intention?" Zhang Kun was very surprised when he heard that Morgan was actually talking to him.
"The last time Mr. Jingcheng came to New York, he found a man named Homer Lee and asked him to help him get a loan of 50 million US dollars. The person he was looking for Homer Lee finally took this plan in front of Morgan. Morgan was very unclear about our situation, so he did not agree. But now Morgan has roughly investigated us. It is said that if we can survive the next Qing Dynasty encirclement, he is likely to have a loan." Xie Taofu said.
Zhang Kun knew about Yang Rui coming to the United States to seek a loan, but he didn't expect that this matter was still obvious. Zhang Kun said: "What are the conditions of the other party? How much is the delivery? Are there any additional terms? Do you need any franchise? And..."
Money is the most urgent thing for the revolution. Revival will define the big move so late. In addition to talents and the international environment, there is another more important thing. Now, when Zhang Kun heard that there was a loan of 50 million, he suddenly became quiet and slightly excited. Seeing him like this, Xie Taofu smiled and said, "You were also excited. Haha. I just heard this loan by chance two days ago, and the specific content is not known. Homer and Lee's side have been afraid that the situation will be sent to the country early. Alas, compared with investing in the country, our speculative stocks are still too small."
Chapter completed!