In the evening, Wang Yongan invited Yu Qiaqing to drink and listen to the play, because of the purchase of land in the French Concession, Yu Qiaqing owed Wang Yongan a favor, so he happily went to the appointment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Wang Yongan took the opportunity to propose that he hoped that Yu Qiaqing would serve as the president of the Industrial Bank of China, and fooled that only Yu Qiaqing could make the China Industrial Group develop and become the largest bank in the entire Qing Dynasty.

Yu Qiaqing drank wine, firstly, he couldn't stand the favor, and secondly, he was fooled by Wang Yongan, so he decided to serve as the acting president of the Industrial Bank of China. However, Yu Qiaqing also put forward a condition that once Zhang Muqun recovers from his illness, he will immediately resign from the post of head president.

"Senior Qiaqing, you should be old and strong, and you will definitely be able to live a long life and take on this heavy responsibility." Wang Yongan begged with a hippie smile, and then said with a straight face: "I, the gentry of the people in Jiangnan, finally built and supported the China Industrial Bank, and now the foreign powers are hostile, and even try to annex the China Industrial Bank. ”

Yu Qiaqing shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You kid, you will only lead me to be fooled, I have fallen into your trap, I knew that I shouldn't have helped you in the first place." ”

The development of the Industrial Bank of China and the Chinese currency is deeply feared by foreign banks, but among the many foreign banks, the Japanese have adopted a diametrically opposed attitude towards the development of the Industrial Bank of China and the West.

Naturally, the move was categorically rejected by Yu Qiaqing, and Wang Yongan, chairman of the Industrial Bank of China, and other directors such as Zhang Jian, Shen Yunpei, Xu Dinglin and others naturally did not want the booming Industrial Bank of China to be controlled by the Japanese. In the decades that followed, the Japanese continued to use various means to gain control of the Chung Hwa Industrial Bank, but with the support of the Chinese people, the Japanese plots did not succeed.

Interestingly, Wang Yongan's original intention of opening a bank was not to increase his wealth through the bank, but the development of history is like a ring of mandarin duck locks, when he decided to cooperate with Zhang Jian to build China's largest steamship group, encountered capital constraints, so he opened a bank to give his own China Shipping Group loans, and after he opened the China Industrial Bank, but got the support of the three giants of northern Jiangsu, Zhang Jian, Shen Yunpei and Xu Dinglin, Perhaps the reason for their initial support was that Wang Yongtai's identity and the Twenty-Four Mixed Formation used bloodshed and killing to deter the Jiangbei region, causing the three to have to befriend him and support the development of the Industrial Bank of China. Even for the development of the Industrial Bank of China, Zhang Jian transferred many financial talents from the account room of Dasheng to support the Industrial Bank of China. In the three giants of northern Jiangsu, the support of the Jiangnan gentry and business groups such as the representatives of merchants in southern Jiangsu and the business groups of Zhejiang Province made the Industrial Bank of China develop inexorably.

Wang Yongan never expected that his accidental move would eventually make the Industrial Bank of China the largest and most credible bank in the history of the Republic of China, and he became the richest person in China. Therefore, he is grateful to two people from the bottom of his heart, one is Zhang Jian, and the other is Luo Shitong. And having money does not necessarily mean security, nor does it necessarily mean peace, Wang Yongan's life has become a crisis because of a large amount of wealth.

Under the rapid development of the Industrial Bank of China, China Shipping Group, and Yanghua Real Estate Company, the Spring Festival of 1911 also arrived as scheduled.

After half a year of development, the 24th Mixed Association expanded to 13,000 people, and Wang Yongan cooperated with the Germans to buy arms, but this cooperation was very unpleasant, on the one hand, the Germans were warned by the Qing court not to sell weapons to local warlords on a large scale, and on the other hand, they knew that Wang Yongan needed their help, and hoped to continue to sell weapons at the highest price.

Wang Yongan thought of the Austro-Hungarian Manlisa rifle, the full name of the Manlisa rifle is M1895 Steyr-Manlisa rifle, its main characteristics are the overall structure is simple, light weight, reliable function, easy to use, can fire a variety of bullets, so the overall performance of this rifle series is first-class.

The bolt and receiver of the Manlisha rifle are made of special steel, and the volume of each part is relatively small and the weight is relatively light. The ammunition used is mainly Austrian M18958×50mm rifle cartridges, and M308×56mm rifle cartridges, German 7.92mm standard rifle cartridges and other rifle cartridges of the same caliber can generally be used. However, since the strength of the main parts on the gun (such as the chamber, etc.) was designed according to the Austrian M95 rifle cartridge at that time, the maximum chamber pressure of the required cartridge could not exceed the maximum chamber pressure of the M95 rifle cartridge when firing other bullets.

However, the most problematic problem of the Manlisa rifle also came, in one word, expensive!

Yes, the Manlicia rifle needs to be made of special steel, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was able to equip the Manlicia rifle on a large scale, mainly because of the support of Steyr AG, an Austrian military giant. From 1867, Steyr Manlischa Light Arms Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of Steyr AG, began to serve the Kingdom of Austria, and after the Austro-Hungarian Empire was founded, Steyr Manlischa Light Arms Manufacturing Company became the only selected arms supplier to Austria-Hungary.

Steyr special steel is not only purchased for its own country, but also exported to Germany, France and other places, and Manlicia rifles are also purchased and installed in Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and other countries. The Qing government initially purchased a large number of Manlixia rifles, because the Qing court believed that every penny was worth the goods, and the reason why Manlixia rifles were expensive must be expensive. It can be said that the Qing court at that time maintained a calm attitude under the management of Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Zuo Zongtang and others, so it purchased more than 20,000 Manlixia rifles and installed them in the Wuwei Army, the predecessor of the Beiyang New Army. However, the Wuwei Army was defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in the Gengzi State Incident, and with the death of Li Hongzhang and others, the Qing court was fooled by the Germans, saying that a big reason for the defeat of the Wuwei Army was that the Manlixia rifle was inferior to the Mauser rifle, which eventually led to the elimination of the Manlixia rifle, and the German weapon became the standard weapon of the Qing government and even the Republic of China government.

Expensive!

Wang Yongan was worried, but fortunately, someone made a match, saying that he was willing to help Wang Yongan purchase a batch of Hanyang-made rifles from the Hanyang Arsenal, which was so cheap that it was outrageous, and this person was the largest official and businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, Sheng Xuanhuai, the Minister of Posts and Communications of the Qing Empire. The reason why Sheng Xuanhuai is willing to help Wang Yongan is because Wang Yongan's identity is Yuan Shikai's son-in-law; Second, Sheng Xuanhuai is a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, and attaches great importance to Wang Yongan, a small villager in Jiangsu, and thinks that Wang Yongan may become a leader among the people of Jiangsu Province in the future; Third, Wang Yongan's China Industrial Bank was in full swing, and its fame shook the south and north of the Yangtze River, and even the Japanese had to be impressed, which made Sheng Xuanhuai, who had always been Hari, admire; Fourth, as the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications of the Qing Empire, he urgently needs the full support of someone.

Sheng Xuanhuai supports Wang Yongan, but he needs Wang Yongan's support even more.