Chapter 18 Shanghai's Golden Decade is coming
Back in the French Concession, it was already 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The five of them found a restaurant that cooked Shanghai's local cuisine and ate it happily.
"Young Master! If we buy a car, can we drive it? Zhang San, a bodyguard who never spoke much, suddenly opened his mouth.
Zhang San is the most calm of the four, and the one with the highest kung fu among the four, and a set of Bajiquan is even more superb. It's just a little wooden, not as clever as pockmarks.
It's strange today, Zhang Sanye, who is usually taciturn, actually took the initiative to speak? Unusual! It seems that cars, a big toy for men, have a fatal attraction to men regardless of that era.
"Of course you guys! You don't think that your young master will go to be a coachman, do you? When you learn it, I'll open it to you. ”
I replied while chewing on the fried buns, and at the same time looked at Comrade Zhang San carefully with some curiosity.
Speaking of which, of the four bodyguards sent by my mother, I am most satisfied with Mako. He has a flexible brain, quick legs and feet, and accurate calculations, and the work assigned to him can be completed very closely with your heart, so that you are very satisfied and comfortable.
But it's just that the curiosity is too heavy. And I'm a man with a lot of secrets, and he's really not fit to stay around.
And the taciturn Zhang San is just the opposite of him. Never curious and talkative, people are also calm and capable, if you add professional training to the code of conduct of bodyguards in later generations, then you are a good candidate for a personal bodyguard.
"That's great, we'll learn hard." Apogo is the most active every time.
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"Sister Hua! Horseback riding is so much fun! I'm like I'm flying, let's go play again tomorrow? The little tail Xu Yating said excitedly. She and my third aunt are too Li Yulan, and they have been herding sheep these days.
Follow Sister Hua who can play, either shopping or dancing and horseback riding, and I've been crazy these days.
"Sister! The girl can't ride a horse every day, and her thighs will be calloused! ”
Sister Hua is from the past, she knows what it means to a woman with white and smooth skin! So kindly reminded the playful Xu Yating.
The third aunt of the beauty also understood it as soon as she heard it. Think of someone who has to touch their thighs and butts every night to fall asleep. His cheeks flushed instantly.
"When you get out of the cocoon, you get up! Anyway, no one can see it, there is a skirt in the way! The little girl said disapprehantly.
Li Yulan saw that the little girl still didn't understand, and sighed in her heart. Ay! It's really a little girl who hasn't grown up. The little man who complains about himself can't look down on him.
"Now no one can see it. But, women always have to get married, right? It's not good when you get married. ”
"Why?" Xu Yating's eyes widened inexplicably.
"What does it have to do with the cocoon and my marriage?"
"Of course it does! The cocoon is up, and the hand is not smooth to the touch. Li Yulan subconsciously said casually, she remembered with shame the words of her scoundrel little man, "Your skin is delicate and smooth, and it feels so good to the touch!" ”
Giggles! ~~~ Sister Hua burst into laughter in an instant, and Li Yulan also covered her mouth and smiled shamefully.
Xu Yating was laughed inexplicably, thinking suspiciously······ What the hell are the two eldest sisters laughing at? Thighs, calluses, marrying, touching ~~~~~~???
"Oops~~~ Sister-in-law Xiaolan! Die to you! "I understood it in an instant. The little girl is no longer heartless, and she can think of something from the previous little sisters' private words.
"Okay~~~ Yating, don't make trouble! Just listen to Sister Hua. Tomorrow we're going to Café Yipinxiang. Try those foreign things too? Li Yulan persuaded this fun-loving young lady.
"What's so good to drink! I tasted it in Tianjin, and it was like a medicinal soup. You don't know! I threw up. ”
The little girl pouted, looking disdainful. There was still a blush on the little face that had not dissipated.
"Your young master, aren't you done yet? Isn't he going to take us to make clothes? Sister Hua asked.
"By the way~~~ I thought about what we're going to do tomorrow!" Li Yulan said suddenly.
Due to Sister Hua's reminder, she suddenly thought that her little man had said that she would buy a car in the past two days.
"How about we go to the car shop tomorrow?" Li Yulan looked at the suspicious eyes of these two people, and hurriedly added:
"My grandfather said it! I'm going to buy a car these days! Let's go and see what kind of buy is good? ”
"Don't go! That's the stuff of the stinky men. Besides, if you buy it, you won't let us women open it. They buy whatever they like. Let's not that idleness! ”
Xu Yating pouted and said arrogantly, with a deep resentment. It seems that when I was at home, I was not less affected by the idleness of the car. Also, it is impossible for Old Man Xu to let her be a young lady to learn to drive such a dangerous thing.
"Who said that? Ye said······ As long as I want to learn how to drive, let them learn it! "Li Yulan is very smelly and arrogant.
"Second brother really let you learn? Can I learn it? The little girl looked at Li Yulan hopefully.
"I guess it's fine!" Li Yulan said uncertainly.
"That's great! Let's pick up the car tomorrow! When Xu Yating heard this, she jumped three feet high in surprise. She didn't hear it at all, and the uncertainty in Li Yulan's tone hesitated.
"Okay! Great! Don't jump! Jump again! ~~~ I don't have to jump to the ground! Sister Hua looked at this jumping girl with a headache.
Xu Yating paused and asked suspiciously.
"What's missing?"
"The breasts are all for you, you don't have to dance~~~~" Sister Hua said angrily.
"Oops! Sister Hua, you bully me too! ”
Three women in one play, there is nothing wrong with this. Zhang Muzhi's mansion was full of chicken feathers and dogs jumping for a while.
They didn't expect it to be ······· Their plans for tomorrow's trip have been put on hold. By this time, I had returned to the Sassoon Hotel in my latest Ford car.
After consultation with the hotel manager, I parked the car in the backyard of the hotel. I have to say that in this era when cars are not assisted, driving is really a hard job.
"The third aunt hasn't come back yet?"
When I returned to my room, I saw Vanilla, the maid who was packing my underwear for me, and I asked casually.
Although the hotel has a laundry service, the three little maids said that they would not let me and Li Yulan's underwear be washed by other people's hands.
So at this time, the little maid Vanilla was tidying up my and my third aunt's underwear that had been dried.
"Second Young Master, you're back! Aunt Lan, they haven't come back yet! You do it first, and I'll make you tea right away. ”
When Vanilla saw that I was back, she said as she sped up the work in her hands.
"I'm not thirsty yet. You do it slowly, don't rush! ”
I sat on the couch and picked up a newspaper. The eye did not read the contents of the newspaper. It was late May 1914, and the First World War was about to start in July. The First World War, this window period, was the best opportunity for development and must not be missed.
Now that I have enough money to build an army, the next step is to think about where to build my power!
The place must be:
1. All forces do not pay attention; In order to develop indecently and safely through their childhood.
2. There must be a population base; No one, where are you going to recruit troops?! How can you develop an economy without people?
3. There must be food output; Only with food and grain can the army be fed.
4. There should be various minerals; in order to build their own military-industrial system. Prevent Western countries from getting stuck.
Fainted! The conditions I listed for myself, there is no such place in China, right?! The only place that comes close to the above conditions is China's Xinjiang region.
But Xinjiang has two biggest drawbacks. It's sparsely populated and deep on the continent. transport and its inconvenience.
But there is no choice for the best development cradle of my current life.
Another biggest advantage of developing in Xinjiang is that it can prevent the infiltration of Tsarist Russia's forces into Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia. It is now 1914, three years before 1917, the October Revolution in the USSR.
With this three-year grace period, I was able to do a lot of things. As long as I develop myself well during these three years, and I can make trouble for the revolution in the Soviet Union, I can take advantage of the fact that the countries of the world have no time to take care of anything else. I can take Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia as my sphere of influence.
At that time, it will be possible to prevent a handful of dangerous elements engaged in ethnic separatism in Outer Mongolia from engaging in so-called democratically elected independence with the intervention and support of foreign forces. In my sphere of influence, you draft independent? I can't kill you!
This kind of thing that has cut off Outer Mongolia from the territory of the motherland will not happen again. I have come to this era, and this has always been the biggest obsession in my heart!
It's Xinjiang! I was clear about my goals at this point.
No one? Let's recruit from the Central Plains, and we should go to the mountains and the countryside in advance to support the frontier. In this era, there are many people who don't have anything to eat, and I give high wages and benefits. I don't believe no one came!
Inconvenient to transport? Then we'll spend money to build a railway. What the? What the? There was no technology to build railways over the desert in this era? You stupid! My railway line is from Outer Mongolia, and I am building a railway on the grassland, what kind of sand control technology do you want! Now Outer Mongolia is Chinese territory, all right!
The government of the Republic of China now has a weak grip on Xinjiang, and this period is the best time to intervene in Xinjiang.
Time is running out, I want to gain a foothold in Xinjiang. It is necessary to eradicate the local forces in Xinjiang. You have to have your own army first, and after a circle, you have to turn back again. In the final analysis, you must first have your own army.
To build an army, it is necessary to start with Zhang Mazi and Zhang Muzhi's eldest brother, who is the best choice for military training instructors.
He went to a military school, had connections in the army, and it was convenient to recruit officers. He has been on the battlefield again and has actual combat experience. It's not just on paper.
It's him, I'll have a showdown with him tomorrow! Although Zhang Muzhi is very disappointed with the current government of the Republic of China. But I believe he is patriotic. It can be seen from the fact that he has been going to the northeast to investigate the situation in Japan in the past few years.