Chapter 152: The Soaring Overseas Immortal Island
The quarrel continued into the evening and there was still no result, and of course, everyone did not think that a single negotiation would solve all the problems, so when it was time to eat, the meeting was adjourned for dinner.
The party went on harmoniously and beautifully, Zhang Jingyun, Zhao Xuechu and others discussed cooperation with the businessmen who came with the consuls of various countries, Jiang Fangzhen and other officers exchanged military affairs with the military attaches of the consulates of various countries, and naturally the artistic exchanges of cultural celebrities were indispensable.
Chen Xuan also picked up his glass and walked among the various dignitaries, everyone exchanged some topics without nutrition, and the whole banquet looked beautiful and harmonious, although the Dutch consul was very unhappy, but he still showed the professional demeanor of a diplomat, talking and laughing freely.
Chen Xuan saw Du Yuesheng give him a look, so he touched glasses with others a few times, and walked to the back of the banquet hall without leaking.
"Yiyang, I just got the news, the Qinggang boss Ying Guixin wants to be unfavorable to Brother Dunchu (Song Jiaoren), and now he is buying killers everywhere, it's really strange, isn't Ying Guixin the spy section chief of Brother Qimei, how could she conflict with Brother Dunchu?"
Chen Xuan's heart was shocked, and he was still here.
"Are we still responsible for the security of Big Brother Escape now?"
Chen Xuan didn't want to dwell on the question of who was behind the scenes.
"We sent more than 30 guards to Brother Dunchu before, because they were going to Shanghai to perform official business, so Brother Dunchu only brought 4 people over this time, and the rest stayed in the capital, and the security of Brother Dunchu is still in charge of our people."
"Pay close attention to this Ying Guixin, see who he is in contact with, and at the same time, this matter must be kept extremely confidential, no one can say anything except the necessary people, inform us of the people who protect Brother Dunchu, stay vigilant at all times, and give them five bulletproof vests, Brother Dunchu doesn't have to wear them wherever he goes recently!"
"Yiyang, you say, could this be done by Brother Qimei?"
Chen Xuan waved his hand and asked Du Yuesheng to stop talking.
"Ah Sheng, we have embarked on this road, naturally there will be a lot of dirty and dirty things happening, I don't know who is behind the scenes, and I don't want to know, in short, you have to mobilize all your forces, you must not let Brother Dunchu have an accident, I brought a few sharpshooters over this time, their camouflage skills and marksmanship and martial arts are first-class, I will hand them over to you too, remember, Brother Dunchu can't have an accident!"
"Yes! I understand! Then do you want to tell Brother Dunchu about this? ”
"You can mention it a little, but don't make it too clear, just say that you have received rumors that someone is going to be unfavorable to him, you must be careful when entering and exiting, and if something happens in the end, you will secretly send him to Nanyang."
Du Yuesheng is gone, Chen Xuan's heart still can't be calm, although there are many speculations about Song Jiaoren's assassination in later generations, but there is no clear statement, and Chen Xuan doesn't want to witness this historical secret.
With Song Jiaoren's great talent, if he can join the Baath Party, it will be of great help to Chen Xuan's career, and Chen Xuan also admires this eldest brother who is familiar with him at first sight, so he must not let him have an accident.
The negotiations in Nanyang lasted for more than a week, and Chen Xuan and the consuls of various countries would not come forward to discuss the details, mainly Gu Weijun and the subordinates of the various consuls, and after 7-8 days of arduous negotiations, the results were finally reached.
Of course, Chen Xuan also paid a great price.
1. European and American countries were allowed to do business freely from several port cities on the three large islands, but Chen Xuan insisted on treating everyone equally, not giving anyone any privileges, and must abide by local laws.
2. The Republic of Lanfang purchased three 7,000-ton new warships from Britain at a nuclear price of 4.5 million oceans, purchased hundreds of shore defense guns from France at a nuclear price of 3 million oceans, and imported a set of steel-making equipment from Knouber in Germany and a set of oil-refining and chemical plant equipment from the United States, which cost a total of 11 million oceans.
3. The European and American powers neither support nor oppose the conflict between Lanfang and the Netherlands, and leave everything to the two countries to deal with.
The Dutch consul was naturally extremely dissatisfied with this result, but he had nothing to do, he himself knew that it was impossible to send reinforcements at home when the situation in Europe was tense, and the existence of Nanyang was only for those nobles to profit, but it had become an existence that dragged down the country's finances.
This matter has been resolved, and other issues have been dealt with more or less the same, Chen Xuan picked up Zhang Youwei's mother and son, Xu Ruohan's mother and daughter, as well as Zhang Jian and hundreds of people from the cultural circles, and set off back to Nanyang.
During his time in Shanghai, President Yuan Da and Yang Du basically put all their energy and vision here, Chen Xuan was watched by countless people every time he traveled, and even Zhenhua's business activities were greatly affected, and Feng Guozhang, who is now in charge of the southeast, will not give Chen Xuan any face.
The opening of the Pacific Department Store has also achieved great success, Shanghai's wealthy gentry and ladies must choose a high-grade place for shopping, and this place is almost a place to eat, drink and have fun, in addition to big smoke, what do you want, cinemas, dance halls, Western restaurants, special snack streets have everything.
As for the import and export trade, not to mention, the whole of China or Asia, there is no goods more complete than here, almost all the products in the Shanghai market can be bought here, and importers and exporters need to seize business opportunities, naturally place an order, pull the goods and hurry to the next place,
So in the first week of opening, the turnover reached an astonishing 6 million oceans, of course, not all of this money is a department store, but just the lottery has earned more than 100,000 oceans, and this is just the beginning.
A large fleet of more than 20 ships did not go to Java, but disembarked at Pontianak, Zhang Jian and other literati were picked up by Bao Youting and Liang Luyi, and Luo Mingxuan and Li Yuchang arranged for tens of thousands of domestic refugees to go south with the ship this time.
Chen Xuan disliked the unpleasant names of many places in Nanyang, so at the meeting in Pontianak, Borneo was renamed Lan Fang Island in honor of Chen Lanbo and Luo Fangbo, and the other two large islands, New Guinea, were renamed Abbot, and Sulawesi was renamed Yingzhou, both after the overseas Three Immortals Island.
As for Java, Chen Xuan has already renamed it Penglai in his heart, but Java is still in the hands of the Dutch, so it is not good to blatantly call it so.
Chen Xuan appointed Zhang Jingyun, who came with the ship this time, as the governor of the abbot (New Guinea), Zhang Jingyun can be regarded as officially entering the official career, and Bai Xunjian was transferred to Yingzhou (Sulawesi) as the governor, and the strength of one army was stationed on each large island.
Lanfang Island is still in charge of Feng Gu, Abbot Island is transferred by Huang Xun, and Yingzhou Island is transferred by Wu Dongbo.
According to the marching habits of the Nanyang army, basically the corresponding map will come out after the end of the march, and there is also a map of the caravan as a supplement, so when Chen Xuan returned to China, Tang Shouqian had already begun to organize the engineering team to start building the road.
After the recovery of Lanfang Island, Feng Gu's team captured a large number of native army prisoners, so the labor force was also available, and under the care of the local militia, the road construction began according to the plan that Chen Xuan and others had already made.
In Chen Xuan's plan, Lanfang Island will be formed into eight large cities, including three coastal cities, which are the commercial and financial centers of Lanfang Island, and five inland areas, which are political and cultural centers, industrial centers and agricultural centers.
Lanfang Island is located at the southern tip of the Eurasian continent, the geological conditions are stable, the terrain is mountainous in the middle and surrounded by plains, because the north belongs to the Malay Peninsula controlled by the British, development is temporarily impossible, so the east and west are planned to be developed into countless agricultural planting areas, Nanyang and domestic Chinese have the right to invest and contract, if it cannot be sold, the Lanfang government also promised to buy the low price.
The southern part of the country is a large number of wetlands and sparsely populated, so the Lan Fang government decided to grow crops such as rice and sugar cane in suitable places.
Changjin (Pontianak) itself has some gold mines, and the history of development has been a long time, when Luo Fangbo came here to "pan for gold", and after Changjin (Pontianak), the gold mines were nationalized.
Although these gold mines have been developed for a long time, due to the backward technology and equipment, so the mine still has great development value, after the renewal of machinery and equipment, gold mining started with a bang, as usual many prisoners were sent here to serve.
Because the Netherlands refused to recognize Lan Fang, these Dutch soldiers were taken away by Yan Fu except for the navy, which was lucky, and the other armies were not so lucky, and they were all sent to various construction sites to serve. Let's get to work!
"Dashuai, those literati brought by Zhang Jilao can't look down on Lanfang's desolation and want to leave?"
Chen Xuan was writing and drawing on the map, and Bao Youting ran over panting and said.
"It's expected, there are a few useful literati who are willing to do a career after all, don't slack off them, we still need them, let them take a boat to Xiaochang'an, the conditions over there are much better!"
"Dashuai, why are we used to these people who are not diligent in their limbs and do not distinguish between grains and grains?"
"Zhiqian, do you know what is the most powerful of our Chinese nation?"
"Superb wisdom, industrious character!"
"Yes and no," Chen Xuan looked into the distance and said: "The most powerful thing in our Chinese nation is cultural inheritance, for thousands of years, the so-called four ancient civilizations, and now only we are left, why?" Could it be that our military strength has always been at its peak? Could it be that the Aliens have always been at a disadvantage in the war with us? No, our huge various cultures have been mixed and fused together to form a unique Chinese civilization, and we have re-inheritance, so those Huns, Turks, Khitans and other foreign tribes are now settled? Either they died out in the tide of history, or they were completely integrated by our culture. ”
"And we in Nanyang, if we want to have a long-term peace and stability, we must have our exclusive culture and pass it on, and these all need the help of literati, which is why I still insist on building the Martyrs' Shrine, the Temple of Literature, the Temple of Martial Arts, and a large number of libraries and museums under the condition of financial constraints!"