With the pragmatic nature of Americans, destiny is just a content that politicians and pastors are passionate about, and John Rockefeller Jr. is hard to say. Yang Rui's statement that he did not want a war but was not afraid of war made him stop his advice. Therefore, how to get benefits for Standard Oil is the content of the conversation.

"Your Excellency, can Standard Oil participate in the development of this oil field?" Rockefeller, who was talking about business, was the Rockefeller who was free and easy to do so. "I think you will definitely not let your old friends suffer."

"Haha..." Yang Rui wanted to laugh but held back. He knew that a war might occur, but he insisted on investing. This is probably the essence of American businessmen regarding wealth as their lives. "This oil field is in the Northeast after all... so it can only be the next oil field."

"The next oil field?" Rockefeller couldn't see through the chess pieces in Yang Rui's pocket, "Your Excellency, with our friendship..."

"Of course I mentioned the next oil field because of friendship." Yang Rui interrupted, "If there is no war in the whole world, then I think Standard Oil can monopolize the oil supply market in the world, which is somewhere in the Mediterranean, where the oil content is not less than that in the United States, and it is also close to Europe. Once Standard Oil exploits the Mediterranean oil field, Shell oil will be completely defeated. Unfortunately, war will bring uncertainties, who dares to exploit it?"

Europe, which lacks oil fields and is also a well-developed industry, is a major oil consumer. When Yang Rui heard that somewhere in the Mediterranean, Rockefeller's eyes were straightened. He believed 100% of the mysterious man behind Yang Rui's ability to find oil fields. "Your Excellency..., where is the oil field? Standard oil can be mined with China Petroleum Corporation!"

"It's not the time yet. If it is really developed one day, I will definitely have an appointment with Standard Oil." Yang Rui smiled slightly, and then began to think about how to get something from Rockefeller. But he couldn't remember what he wanted. American businessmen in the economic crisis called him father when they saw money, and they would sell anything as long as they gave money.

"John, are the Qian Chuanzi in the association thinking about the war?" When Rockefeller was thinking about where the Mediterranean oil field would be, Yang Rui turned to ask about the situation in the diplomatic association. Qian Chuanzi was his joke to Wall Street bankers.

"Some people do have such plans." Rockefeller responded vaguely. He was not very good at saying who those people were. "Since May, everyone has suffered heavy losses, while East Asia is developing rapidly, and many people are worried that this will threaten the Philippines."

"It's not the Philippines but the Pacific Ocean." Yang Rui corrected, "It seems that the Pacific Ocean is still too narrow and cannot accommodate two powerful countries."

"Yes. The Navy has this view." Rockefeller tried to say something that everyone knew. "China and Japan built too many heavy cruisers, of course there were many of them. The United States had almost no ships built after signing the Treaty of Washington."

"China has only built 12 new heavy cruisers, 38 destroyers, that is, light cruisers, and submarines are still the same, and there are basically no new ones, which is far from any country. Even if Japan is added, we are only a fraction of British and American cruisers." Yang Rui said of the current situation of the Chinese navy and was very disregarded. Now the representatives of the Chinese and Japanese naval forces are discussing a shipbuilding plan in London, but the Chinese heavy cruisers have been built long ago. Most of the destroyers have been completed, and it is impossible to dismantle them.

"Yes, China's attitude towards disarmament is praised internationally, but politicians who have a relationship with the army always like to exaggerate the military strength of their neighbors in order to gain benefits from expanding their weapons. They advocate that once a war breaks out, Japanese samurai will appear on the west coast within a few months..." Rockefeller only treated the conversation as a chat at this time. He was thinking about the Mediterranean oil fields.

"John, I need you to tell those who are full of thoughts about going to war. Even if the United States has a strong industry, the war will only hurt both sides. No one will get any benefits." After a while of silence, Yang Rui still told him frankly.

"Of course, this has always been the position of Standard Oil. Don't forget that China is the country with the most investment in Standard Oil in Asia, no doubt about it." Rockefeller smiled, trying to prove that he was a pacifist.

"I will also advise Japan that in this London Navy Treaty, the proportion of the cruisers is roughly ten to six, and the submarines may reach ten to seven." Yang Rui said firmly, but did not mention the second Washington Treaty.

"I will also pass this message to gentlemen in the government." Rockefeller agreed, and then stopped talking.

Yang Rui understood his intention to speak but stopped, and smiled, "John, let's limit it to seven years. By then, if the situation allows, we can jointly develop the Mediterranean oil field. I promise that the oil there is enough to build a European Standard Oil Company."

The seven-year agreement was entirely because Rockefeller was disappointed in considering the second Washington Navy Agreement. When he said politely, Yang Wuming, who was serving tea on the side, said: "Father, do there be oil fields in the Mediterranean?"

"Of course there are oil fields." Yang Rui knew about overseas oil fields, besides Saudi Arabia. In order to aid Chiang's war of resistance, a book not only had a seabed treasure, but also gave coordinates of Libya's oil fields. I don't know if the information the author checked is correct and whether the oil field data is real.

"Is this the divine punishment of Master Y?" Yang Wuming, who had grown up, became more and more respectful to the Trinity Sect, and he had no idea that the initiator of everything was right in front of him.

Yang Rui didn't say this, and he only said that the laptop was a scientific experiment. Besides, that thing had long been broken and turned into a treasure in the laboratory. "God has God's decision and people's efforts. This kind of thing is always half-to-half. Believing in God too much is ignorance; believing in yourself too much is arrogant. You must grasp this degree, not demanding or slacking off."

"I understand, father." When his son grew up, Yang Rui could only advise him. Fortunately, with his prestige, his son would not have one ear in and one ear, which was not like himself back then.

Thinking of himself back then, Yang Rui looked up and was silent for a while before asking, "These young men and brothers didn't move any abnormalities, right?"

"Ah..." Seeing his father ask about the nobles and young men, Yang Wuming was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he blushed and said, "No! No! Since last month, he beat the boy from the Li family with a whip, everyone has been very peaceful. Besides, the school's control has become more and more strict, and nothing can happen."

"For nobles, morality is the best armor." Thinking of someone teasing a folk girl in the aristocratic school last month, Yang Rui's expression was very serious. As the leader of the noble family, he was in charge of the institutions similar to the clan mansion. The whip and the sword that killed people were all in the mansion. Although the last time the matter was not serious, it was just a young man who was dizzy when drinking and whistled to the female middle school student and touched his hands, but Yang Rui's punishment was extremely severe. He asked Yang Wuming to take someone to use the whip on the street to slap Li Liezu's youngest son half to death.

"Another one is to abide by one's duty. Especially those who are soft-hearted and stupid, who want to be a lowly person and bully the rich because of the poor, they must be strictly prohibited. Do you understand?" Yang Rui added.

The previous one, Yang Rui, repeatedly taught and reminded him. Yang Wuming remembered very carefully, but the young people behind him did not understand. He said, "Father, is it wrong for the disaster victims to provide disaster relief?" He said inexplicably.

"You memorize the fifth chapter of the Taoist scripture." Seeing his son puzzled, Yang Rui had to patiently educate him again.

"The heaven and earth are not kind, and treat all things as straw dogs; the sages are not kind, and treat the people as straw dogs. Between heaven and earth, is it like a beating? It is empty but not crooked, and the winter is getting more and more out of the air. It is better to keep the middle." The pre-Qin philosophers, Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism and Law, famous soldiers mixed with yin and yang. All the students of these nine schools had to recite the classics, and the Tao Te Ching was ranked first. Therefore, Yang Wuming recited it very naturally in one breath.

"Do you understand?" Yang Rui saw that he had finished memorizing it, and looked at him and asked again.

"Ming..., I still don't understand!" Yang Wuming shook his head. "Even a saint, a benevolent person should love others. Using straw dogs to the people is unkind; and a saint is not a heaven and earth. The people cannot denounce the heaven and earth, but they have ways to revenge and denounce the saints."

"Then just to protect yourself, the saints must treat themselves as straw dogs to pay tribute to the people?" Yang Rui asked with a smile.

"This..." Yang Wuming's eyes turned and said again, "But Mencius said: A gentleman should be self-careful when he is poor, and a prosperous man should help the world. He also said: He respects the elderly and the elderly and the young man, and his young man should be young. Zhang Ziyou said: A gentleman should establish his mind for the heaven and earth, establish his destiny for the people, inherit his unique knowledge for the past sages, and open peace for all generations, so we should..."

"What a shit!" Yang Rui was a little unhappy, "Which sour Confucian said?" His father was unhappy, and Yang Wuming had to keep looking at him. Seeing him like this, Yang Rui said, "I just said that a saint is not a world, but now I want to help the world and bring peace to the world for all ages. This is not a world or something. This is almost a god! This Confucianism has been a serious crooked building since Mencius, and it was also very crooked building before. Although it brought some popularity, it simply ignored the great way of heaven and earth. What he did was just those sour Confucians wanted to make achievements and were famous in history.

What is a gentleman? Power cannot bend, poverty cannot be moved, but more importantly, morality cannot be forced, blood and tears cannot be curled. The stars in the universe have their own orbits and their own character, and they are by no means living for anything else. Without this kind of mind, they cannot be called a gentleman, but just a repeated politician who pleases the common people.

The mind and nature need to be like this. In addition, it is necessary to understand that the evolution of history has always carried iron and blood, or borrowed from the words of the Bolsheviks. Historical development is materialistic and not transferred by human will and mercy. It is a complete evil and must devour human flesh and blood to move forward. Max wrote this very clearly in the book, but when the Bolsheviks were doing it, he was confused. He thought that the liberation workers could advance history without paying the price. As a result, the workers who should have been sacrificed and the peasants who were not sacrifices were given. Anyway, they were sacrifices, but the effect of doing so was not as good as those of you. You are living in wealthy families, comparing your heart to yourself, thinking that you can save those who have not lived well, but the result of doing so will be the same as the Bolsheviks. It seems to be saving people, but in fact it is harming people."

"Is there no compromise?" Yang Wuming remembered every word his father said, but he did not delay asking questions.

"No! There is no free lunch in the world." Yang Rui shook his head. "As long as the competition rules are fair, no one relies on officials and businessmen to seek rent and cheat, and rely on unfair competition to make profits, the result is naturally to reward hard work and punish lazy, reward good and inferior. There are only two reasons for starving to death: either the damn historical progress must be paid flesh and blood; or it deserves not his turn, and he is stupid and seeking death, and there is nothing else."

When Yang Rui said this, he suddenly stared at Yang Wuming and asked in surprise: "Someone promotes the thoughts of the Virgin in school?"

"No!" Yang Wuming quickly shook his head, "It's nothing."

"It's good if there is no, those who promote this kind of thought should be hanged!" Seeing that his son said no, Yang Rui then turned his eyes away from his son. In order to cultivate aristocratic children, the Revival Association specially invited famous Chinese and foreign teachers to set up aristocratic schools. The campus site is in Tonghua. Yang Rui is an honorary principal and professor of philosophy, economics, and management. He has to give several lectures when he has time.

"Father, have you not finished talking about whether you should provide disaster relief?" Yang Wuming asked again.

"All you can do is to provide disaster relief and porridge. If you go further, it will be wrong." Yang Rui said. "The thought of the Virgin, the eight-hour work system, May Day, the sacred labor, and the messy welfare of labor, these are all prohibited. Workers are only human resources, both as resources, and although they should be taken care of, they are only for use, and they are not for the sake of being a god card. They cannot stand the blood and tears of workers and cannot stand moral kidnapping. They must stand up for those suffering. This is either brainless or has other purposes. Do you understand now?"

"I probably understand." Yang Wuming knew that Yang Rui's educational methods never directly said the answer. He fooled him around and said something, but it was not complete. He had to think about the rest himself. This kind of learning is the most brain-oriented.

"Just probably?" Yang Rui looked at him and pointed at him. Wen said angrily: "If you still don't understand, go back to read the book and see how the beer game is broken. System thinking! System thinking! You are really getting back to life, get out!"

When I was angry, my son panicked. Yang Wuming hurried out of the greenhouse and almost knocked Lu Mei who happened to come in. After greeting Lu Mei, he went away.

"Why did Wuming make you angry?" Lu Mei came to send a telegram. He didn't expect Wuming to be scolded by Yang Rui.

"Some people are the older they are, the smarter they are. Some are the opposite. The more they eat, the more stupid they are." Yang Rui sighed. He saw the telegram in Lu Mei's hand and asked, "Where did it come from?"

"Zhang Xingjian from Shanghai," Lu Mei was extremely happy that Yang Rui allowed him to help with the affairs, which Cheng Xunyu did not have. "It is mainly about Japanese bank loans. The Japanese new cabinet Minister of the Tibetan Tsang Tsunosuke needs to borrow 400 million yen to pay for the US and Europe's war period during the Russo-Japanese War and the Sino-Japanese War period. This is only a small part, and the account payable for the earthquake disaster discount is the big part. These debts will expire after the year. If they do not borrow new debts to repay the old debt, they will definitely default at that time."

Although Japan had more military expenditures from the Sino-Japanese War, it was basically settled the accounts in the first world and had a slight surplus. International expenditures began to be blacklisted since the second to last year of the war. At the same time, because there was no large-scale interference in the Russian Revolution, most of the hundreds of millions of military expenditures spent in history were saved. In the subsequent Tokyo earthquake, due to the preparations in advance, personnel losses were almost zero, and property losses were only hundreds of billions of yen, mainly the losses of buildings that could not be moved away. The financial situation was really much better than the original history.

But the tragic Tokyo earthquake scared the Japanese. Since New Japan was promoted as a paradise of imperial power, the Japanese rushed to the northwest like locusts. However, the development of the new colony was an extremely expensive job, and the money saved was quickly spent in New Japan. Later, the economic crisis hit, foreign trade fell sharply, and the export of raw silk from 800 million yen to 300 million. At that time, as soon as the Hamaguchi cabinet came to power, it suddenly discovered that several due war debts and earthquake-disaster notes were going to default, so it arranged to borrow money. In the past, when the Japanese-British alliance asked the British to borrow money, the Sino-Japanese alliance was naturally borrowing from China.

"Oh!" Yang Rui cursed angrily. If it weren't for the sake of raising dogs, he would have let Japan die on its own. But if this is the case, the pro-British and American international factions would have to murmur not to form an alliance again. "What do you say on Xingjian? Did Japan agree to our request?"

"I only agreed to a part of it, such as the Customs Alliance, but their attitudes on forming an Asian bank and issuing Asian dollar in the future are very vague." Lu Mei looked at the telegram report, "The negotiation was Ogawago, the deputy of Inoue Junnosuke, who said he could not make any decision at all."

"Then find someone who can make the decision." Yang Rui said. When everyone is living a tight life, they have to pay a price.

"It's useless to find anyone." Lu Mei sent the first telegram to Yang Rui. "Xingjian believes that the Japanese don't want to talk about Asian banks and Asian dollar at all. They should have found the next one to borrow."

"What!" Yang Rui looked serious and picked up the telegram and found that Zhang Kun had indeed given discounts to all the discounts. Now the Japanese are sluggish, afraid that it is not a condition. Before, the internal agreement had generally agreed that the proportion of shares of China and Japan in Asian banks was basically five to three. The maximum concessions to the Japanese should not exceed three to five, but now it seems that the Japanese are actually five to four to five.

"Xingjian said that the Intelligence Bureau reported that Takahashi was Kiyoshi and the Rothschild family were mixed with people. News from Europe said that someone was willing to lend preferentially to Japan, and the annual interest rate of the bonds was only 4 cents. 98% off, and the ten-year period was about 100 million pounds. There was no need to mortgage or underwriting." Lu Mei frowned. Obviously, she also saw that this time the matter was a bit troublesome.

"There should be other political transactions behind it, right?" Yang Rui put down the first telegram and asked lightly.

"Xingjian speculated that there was, but the Intelligence Bureau could not find any evidence." Lu Mei said. "How about sending a telegram to Zhang Shi for asking..."

"No need to send it. Zhang Shi will send it if there is any news." Yang Rui said. He took the second telegram from Lu Mei's hand and read it, and then began to think about the other party's intentions and how to deal with this matter.

China and Japan first established mutual trust in coal-iron joint ventures, and then unified weapons and became a coalition force. The plan was to establish a customs alliance during the world economic crisis, and at the same time finalized all the Asian banks and subsequent issuance of Asian dollar. This was done, and it really became the Asian Alliance. Compared with the later EU, I really don’t know whether this should be considered fast or slow. However, I thought that the matter was almost certain, but the Jews were stabbed by Japan and Russia. During the Sino-Japanese War, Japan used the Rothschild family to issue war bonds in the British and French capital markets to raise funds. At that time, it was Takahashi Shiqing who was in charge of the negotiations. Unexpectedly, the Rothschild family emerged again.

Is this the Jews he went to find after the Qing Dynasty stepped down (the Hamaguchi Cabinet was Kato Komemy's cabinet before, Takahashi was Tibetan Prime Minister. Kato Komemy's famous international faction and has always opposed the Sino-Japanese alliance) because he was dissatisfied with the Jews he went to find; or is it that Rothschild deliberately lends to Japan at this level in order to break up the Sino-Japanese alliance to prevent further economic integration between China and Japan?

"How many people know about Asian banks and the issuance of Asian dollar?" Yang Rui suddenly asked.

"This..." Lu Mei didn't expect Yang Rui to ask her this question. Although she was not completely clear, she still guessed: "You, I, Xingjian, and Mr. Minyuan, then..., even if you know, there are not many people. Are you worried about the leak of this matter?"

"It cannot be said that it is a leak. Even if the Hamaguchi Cabinet has agreed privately, the agreement will still be taken to the Japanese Parliament to discuss and vote. It doesn't matter whether the secret is leaked or not." Yang Rui said, "But it seems that it can only come step by step in the future and jump to the Asian Bank all at once. The Asian dollar can no longer do it."

"How can Xingjian repay him?" Lu Mei likes to see men thinking. This kind of power is in control, and her tremendous pounds fascinates her, let alone she is involved, although she is just typing and sending and receiving telegrams.

"Tell him that it is not the time to mention Asian banks. There will be a chance when the economic crisis further deteriorates. This time, we will be able to negotiate the customs alliance." Yang Rui said word by word. "In addition, we must pay more attention to the situation of Japan's economic operation, and we must cooperate closely with Zhang Shi, and thoroughly understand what the various factions in Japan think."

"Yeah." Yang Rui said, Lu Mei remembered, and when Yang Rui paused, she pulled her hanging hair very delicately.

"It is not yet time for North Korea to join the customs alliance. Some problems can be shelved first. If not, then some protection policies should be implemented in certain industries, but the protection time should not exceed five years; while the protection period for Japanese heavy industrial products industries such as automobiles, aircrafts, trucks, etc. that Japan repeatedly mentioned before should not exceed five years..." Yang Rui was suddenly stunned when he said this.

China is an economy with 40 billion Chinese dollar GDP. Japan is calculated by 40 billion Chinese dollar GDP, which is only 19 billion Chinese dollar. This has not been considered. Japan's economic data declined sharply after the economic crisis. In this way, the two markets cancelled tariffs and became a big market under a customs alliance. Naturally, Japan took advantage of the benefits while China suffered losses. Although many Japanese goods are not enough to compete with domestic goods, once the tariffs are cancelled, those light industrial factory owners who directly compete with Japanese goods will be cursed.

The correct way is to package the Asian Bank, Asian Yuan and Customs Alliance together. For the sake of the national self-esteem that is worth a penny, the representatives of the Public Opinion and the House of Skeletons may agree to the passage of the proposal. Now that the Asian Bank and Asian Yuan are separated from the proposal, only the Customs Alliance that suffers losses will be left, it will cause criticism.
Chapter completed!