Three days before the company's annual meeting on January 15, the auditorium of the factory on Yatiana Road gathered guests from 26 counties and middle-level cadres of the company. When Hu Wenkai walked into the venue, the venue sounded "The Song of Tianfen", and hundreds of people sang "The Song of Tianfen" in unison, which was really magnificent.

Hu Wenkai stood on the rostrum and pressed down with both hands on the god of singing, and abruptly stopped, and a famous flickering speech began.

"I know you have doubts in your minds, Hu Daoyi, you are going to stop until that step, and I can tell you clearly that I didn't think of starting at all. If it weren't for the bandit army, I wouldn't have acted at all. Now we have agreed with the Jiangsu Overseer Qi Xieyuan Qi Overseer, so we have to focus on development. Those fights are very demoralizing and costly, and I don't think we can continue. ”

"We must always understand one thing, we are a county in Jiangsu Province, and we must obey the Jiangsu overseers and obey the central government in Beijing, otherwise we will be a rebellious ......."

Sprinkled with tens of thousands of words, the whole article is to obey the higher-level government, Jiang Qiuming lowered his head and covered his mouth and snickered, Dai Jitao kept kicking him beside him to remind him to pay attention to the impact.

"In order to show our allegiance to southern Jiangsu and some counties in northern Jiangsu, on behalf of Huhaidao and Suchangdao, I handed over 100,000 yuan of financial funds to Qi Xieyuan, the overseer of Nanjing."

There was thunderous applause in the audience, it turned out that a county needed to pay 30,000 yuan, but now it is better to pay 100,000 yuan directly by the two Daoyi, can you not be happy.

After Hu Wenkai's speech, Wu Hongxia paid the governor's annual salary on behalf of the company, and by the way, there was also a contract for the Industrial Bank to settle in various counties. The entire southern and northern Jiangsu provinces are part of the industrial company, and there is no hesitation, and the governors happily sign contracts to receive annual salaries.

Hu Wenkai was happy, the company was happy that the dinner was held in the auditorium, Hu Wenkai hugged the Carrotta at each table to toast, there was no place to stand up, there was no toast, Liang Qichao and Governor Wang Hu, Speaker Liu sat at the top table, saw Hu Wenkai come over and said: "My closed disciple is my third generation of practice, to have literary talent, to have courage, to have courage, to charm and charm, to money, I will not say, there is no one in China to compare with him." With that, he stood up.

"Wen Kai pays attention to his alcohol consumption today, Carotta, you have to persuade him."

"Teacher, how can you stand up? Do you want students to kneel? Governor Wang and Speaker Liu, you have tormented me by doing this. Hu Wenkai said and was about to kneel.

"Wen Kai, don't be too modest, the speaker and I can have today's status all up to you."

"Okay, Wang Shan and Lao Liu sit down, don't scare my closed disciples into kneeling." Liang Qiyue looked at Hu Wenkai more and more happy, and directly pulled him to his side.

"The three of us here toast a glass with your daughter-in-law, and then have a drink collectively even if you complete the task"

"Okay, Carrotta will fill me, come and pay homage to the teacher as a husband and wife."

Hu Wenkai was happy in his heart, he didn't expect to subdue Qi Xieyuan so easily, and Carrotta also knew that his man's excitement accompanied him to finish the wine.

"Wen Kai is Zhang and relaxed, you didn't see Nanjing is a piece of meat in his mouth, he controlled himself and didn't go any further, my students have a rough plan." Liang Qichao said proudly.

Wen Kai's move is more modest, preserving Qi Xieyuan's face and the Beijing government's reassurance about the situation in Jiangsu, standing on the moral high ground. I think if Qi Xieyuan goes against the grain again, Hu Wenkai doesn't mind completely eradicating Qi Xieyuan by the end of next year. Wang Hu said casually.

"Governor Wang, Hu Wenkai pays special attention to loyalty, righteousness and filial piety, he will not send troops to cause trouble for no reason, and will only speak for the interests of the public when he can't bear it." This Speaker Liu was supported by Hu Wenkai.

Liang Qichao nodded and said: "Speaker Liu said well, Wen Kai is too loyal and filial piety, and someone else would have driven Qi Xieyuan out of Nanjing a long time ago." Let's not talk about it, we drink. "Don't give Wang Hu a chance to speak at all.

The banquet was dispersed, and several core figures of the company were waiting for Hu Wenkai at the meeting, and Hu Wenkai paid special attention to sending each governor to the factory gate, and instructed Wang Xihai to arrange accommodation, and more than a dozen cars of the company picked up the governors in front of the gate.

Hu Wenkai returned to the conference room, and Carrotta took out a few American cigarettes from the car and put them on the table for everyone to enjoy.

"You must have questions, why don't you take advantage of the situation to seize the whole territory of Nanjing and Jiangsu?" Hu Wenkai looked at the people present, and many people couldn't stop nodding.

"It's easy to seize the whole territory of Nanjing and Jiangsu, I can do it in three days when I pick up the phone, but have you ever thought that in this way, we are directly opposed to the Beijing government, and the north of Nanjing and Yangzhou has little strategic significance for the company."

Hu Wenkai pointed to the map: "Our stop in exchange for a short period of tranquility, we must seize this period to build and expand the oil refinery, weaving mills and steel mills, next June we will eat half of Zhejiang, in the second half of the year Nanjing and northern Jiangsu all into the bosom and Shandong territory as a whole." ”

"So for half a year, you must keep a low profile and make every effort to open up the traffic and checkpoints in each county, as long as I can authorize the use of force to deal with the cards and double taxation in our jurisdiction, and the governor will be directly imprisoned."

"You can only move on to the next step if you manage your inherent territory well, otherwise it will be empty talk."

Jiang Qiuming took the lead in applauding, and of course Lao Yi didn't let him make the deployment. Yang Siliang's Tianfen center is the focus of the company's center, before June next year, an iron-making blast furnace and eight steel-making furnaces will be built, the expansion of the textile mill must be completed and put into production before the end of the year, the oil refinery in Jiading should speed up the progress to complete the trial production in June, the oil depot will expand its business capacity from the current 4,000 tons of oil storage to reach 6,000 tons by the end of March, and the three highways will increase personnel investment and strive to complete all in April.

Hu Wenkai proposed that a 10-day spring training be launched after the Spring Festival, focusing on rectifying party style and party discipline, with Dai Jitao, Wu Hongxia, and Chen Jiaxiang in charge. Party affairs work is the focus of the future, and purifying party personnel is a top priority.

Wang Xihai was in charge of the company's New Year celebration next week, and Hu Wenkai was ready to get up and leave.

"The boss has an important matter, who is responsible for Yangzhou side? Now that the army is under military control, this is not a long-term solution. ”

Hu Wenkai thought for a while and said: "Let Qin Xuefeng from Haimen go, there is no need to invest much for the time being, cultivate life and recuperate, reduce taxes, and open up the circulation link." The only thing he wanted to do immediately was to build the highway from Nantong to Yangzhou. ”

The territory was bigger, and manpower began to be short again, so he glanced at Wu Hongxia.

Wu Hongxia immediately explained: "There is no need to send many people to southern Jiangsu for the time being, the key is that there is a large cadre gap in Yangzhou and Taizhou, and more than 400 cadres will be sent over in Tianfen and Nantong after the year." ”

In No. 3, Lane 181, after more than ten days of high-intensity and intense work, Hu Wenkai and his clothes were lying on the sofa in the living room, and the soft light of the floor lamp shone on his face. Carrotta occupied the long table to revise the manuscript sent to the American newspaper, and the agarwood gave off a refreshing fragrance. He snored lightly, Carrotta went upstairs to hold the bed, covered him, leaned over and kissed his forehead, twisted his nose mischievously, he rolled over and dodged and continued to snore.

When he woke up the next morning, he found himself lying on the couch with Carotta curled up like a kitten on the couch opposite, asleep.

Boil hot water and fill the bathtub, humming a little song and go upstairs to change clothes and prepare for a beautiful bath. When he was about to push the door, Carrotta's cheerful laughter came from inside: "Wen Kai, I waited all night and you finally boiled the water." ”

Throw the change of clothes on the couch and sit down: "Carrotta, you scoundrel, you woke up when I boiled water." ”

"Good! Go and take me down for a change of clothes, it's not too late for you to practice for a while and then wash it. You haven't practiced calligraphy for many days, and I don't know how Teacher Liang accepted you as a lazy disciple. ”

Angry and itchy, I still obediently came up to help her change her clothes, and lay on the long table to practice calligraphy.

The official meeting with Wilton was scheduled for 9 a.m. at the French Consul, with seven members of the French side seated on one side. Dewey glanced at him, and Hu Wenkai knew that it was an official meeting, and everything was recorded.

"Hu Daoyi is glad that you accepted our invitation to come here." Wilton spoke French.

"Mr. Wilton, I have always had a good impression of France, and I am willing to cooperate with your country in every possible way on the basis of cooperation and mutual benefit."

The person next to Wilton interjected: "Mr. Hu, how strong do you think you are to cooperate with us?" ”

"It is precisely because of my lack of strength that I hope for your help, don't you want a China that has a favorable attitude towards the French side?"

"Although my strength is insufficient, the territory I already have is more than the size of the Japanese mainland, and I have the richest region in China."

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"Hu Daoyi, what kind of help do you hope the French government can give you?" The man finally asked.

"My request is very simple, fully open the market to each other, provide our much-needed scientific and technological support, you need to protect the safety of our navigation, and firmly support our country's request for Japan's withdrawal from Qingdao."

"That's all?"

"One more thing, regarding France's support for the provisional government of the Republic of Korea, we have decided to train the soldiers of the Republic of Korea on behalf of the French side, and ask the French side if it can pay some expenses or military funds."

"I need to report this situation to China and then give you an answer, where did you train? How many people? ”

"You can send people to inspect the first batch of 500 people, and it is estimated that there will be more than 1,000 people next year."

The man nodded incessantly and said, "Navigation safety, I can reply to you now, all your merchant ships can use the French flag free of charge and are protected by France." I will inform you of the rest of the requests from the country and after receiving a reply. ”

When Dewey sent Hu Wenkai out, he whispered, "It was Mr. Ambassador just now." ”