On June 17, 1914, Zhongnanhai sounded the usual drums and trumpets, Yuan Shikai's time for dinner came, his mood was much better these days, the doctor prescribed him sulfonamides, although it could not cure his uremia, but the resulting bacterial complications were lessened, and his spirit was a little better, at least he was able to get out of bed, but his feet were still swollen and he couldn't wear shoes.

Accompanying him to dinner were Yang Shiqi, Xu Shichang, two old friends, and Cai Yi served as the head of the welcome group, and sent a telegram back from Anqing, informing Yuan Shikai that Chai Dongliang had taken out one million silver dollars from his private money and transferred it to Yuan Shikai's personal account through HSBC, and at the same time took out 2% of the equity of Guanghua Group from his personal shares and gave it to Yuan Shikai, which is equivalent to Chai Dongliang spending a huge amount of money to buy the throne of the president. This cash plus equity, the market value is more than 12 million, and the current stock price has skyrocketed, and there is still a lot of room for growth.

"Xingcheng, chrysanthemum, you all eat, what are you doing watching me? This time the matter is done, I can be relieved, with such a large amount of money, I can't starve even if I die these few beasts that don't grow up! Yuan Shikai's words were a little gloomy.

Yuan Shikai's family background is really not rich, he has been the governor, governor, minister of Beiyang, prime minister and other high-ranking officials in the Qing Dynasty for decades, his total family assets are less than 500,000, and he has a generous hand and generous, so he can't save money at all. At that time, there were millions of savings, which were used to bribe the Manchu nobles and the generals of the Beiyang when they were fishing in Huanshui. Including the houses where Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang lived, they were all donated by Yuan Shikai. Now Lao Yuan has more than 1,000 acres of land in addition to his hometown, and he really doesn't have much living money on hand.

"Chai Dongliang's arrangement is still proper, now the silver is handed over to you for your own disposal, how to distribute the equity to your son, you can also arrange it yourself, but you can't buy and sell, you can get dividends every year, now Guanghua Group dividends are more than 30% every year, this 2% of the equity, there are three or four million dividend income a year, and the long stream is really good!" Yang Shiqi also felt that the arrangement was good.

Yuan Shikai sighed: "People see through my sons, they are afraid that they will sell the stocks as soon as they get them, so they are only allowed to take dividends, and they are not allowed to sell stocks??? This kid surnamed Chai does things without leakage, and the favors are all in the bones! ”

Xu Shichang interjected: "President, how to arrange this handover ceremony? No one has ever seen this etiquette, and I'm afraid it's not appropriate if this ritual is too slow! ”

Yuan Shikai shook his head and said: "It's just the acting president, he won't care, the Kuomintang and the Democratic Constitutional Party are all in his hands, and next year's general election is a matter of holding the handle, and then that kid will be the official president??? Chai Dongliang won't care about this handover ceremony, you just look at the arrangement, it's almost done! ”

Xu Shichang thought about it and felt reasonable, and nodded yes.

Yang Shiqi ate two mouthfuls of food and said with a wry smile: "I'm old, my appetite is gone!" After a few bites, I felt panicked??? By the way, yesterday I received a telegram from the Anqing Military Advisory Office, asking you to grant amnesty to Sun Wen, Huang Xing, Bai Wenwei, He Haiming, and other war criminals. ”

Yuan Shikai waved his hand: "Chai Dongliang will be the acting president in a few days, let him order an amnesty himself, and he will do it himself, I don't deserve to be a good person!" ”

Yang Shiqi said with a smile: "People are sending you a favor, why should you bother?" I'm afraid that Chai Dongliang also has a hard time, why do you bother with the favor? ”

Yuan Shikai pondered for a moment and said: "It's okay, this is my last order as the president, damn, I personally designated Sun Wen as a war criminal, and now I personally pardon him, it's really depressing!" ”

Yang Shiqi said with a smile: "Sun Wen is long gone, his most powerful thing is his prestige, no matter how many times he fails, as long as his prestige is still there, he can make a comeback, but this rebellion, he ruined his reputation with his own hands!" You, the great president, resigned due to illness, and are still admired by the world, he is a war criminal of the rebellion, and it is you who have magnanimously pardoned him, and it will not hurt you! ”

Yuan Shikai said disdainfully: "Sensei poured me [***] soup, I'm not old and confused!" Why didn't Chai Dongliang order a pardon for Sun Wen? He will be the acting president in a few days, he has this power, why bother with me? ”

Yang Shiqi smiled again: "The president really sees everything, Chai Dongliang is from the revolutionary party, this time he is the president who succeeds you, which is equivalent to inheriting the legal system you created, if he comes forward to pardon Sun Wen and others, it is equivalent to admitting that the former leader of the Kuomintang committed the crime of rebellion, so how can he be embarrassed to inherit your legal system?" If he hadn't ordered the pardon of these people, he would now be the leader of the Kuomintang, and there was a first-class war criminal He Haiming by his side, how could he explain to the Kuomintang and the people around him? ”

Yuan Shikai sneered: "You think about him thoroughly!" Don't think that I didn't know about the tricks you gave him in Anqing at the beginning, if you hadn't reminded him, he would still be confused at the time, and he didn't know how he died. ”

Yang Shiqi sighed: "I saw that he was a talent at the time, and I wanted him to inherit your mantle and become the successor of Beiyang??? It's a pity that now he has taken over your position, and Beiyang has collapsed! ”

Yuan Shikai thought of Duan Qirui, Cao Kun and others, rushed up angrily, gritted his teeth and said: "Treacherous, they are all bastards with no conscience!" ”

Yang Shiqi and Xu Shichang both smiled bitterly, if it weren't for the Qing court to send Yuan Shikai to Huanshui to fish, the three years of kung fu Beiyang people would become bigger, if Yuan Shikai could still command Beiyang like he commanded the new army of the small station after the Xinhai year, Chai Dongliang would not have a chance to become big at all.

But now it's too late to say this, once the son of heaven and a courtier, after Chai Dongliang entered Beijing, he naturally had to use his own team, except for Tang Shaoyi, who was the leader of the Democratic Constitutional Party, Gu Weijun's father-in-law, who could continue to be proud, I am afraid that the rest of the people will have to go back to their hometown to hold their children.

Yang Shiqi is no longer ambitious, Xu Shichang and Wang Shizhen are old, and the reputation of other civilian personnel in Beiyang is insufficient.

Yuan Shikai ate two bites of food, put down his chopsticks and said, "Xingcheng, you say hello to Cao Kun and Meng Enyuan, and let them live in peace??? These bastards are responsible for me, I can't be responsible for them! ”

Yang Shiqi was sour for a while, and two lines of turbid tears flowed silently. He had already heard that Cao Kun was among the Beiyang generals, trying to bargain with Chai Dongliang with the force in his hand, and Meng Enyuan also jumped up and down.

Yang Shiqi has been to Anqing in person, and he knows Chai Dongliang's strength very well, not to mention that Beiyang is already a plate of scattered sand, even if they work together now, it is not enough to stuff the Jianghuai army's teeth! Cao Kun wanted to follow Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun and make a governor of a province, while Meng Enyuan wanted to keep his position as the governor of Jilin, but at this time, Chai Dongliang was just a Jianghuai patrol envoy at that time, if he sent troops to fight against Feng Guozhang and Lei Zhenchun, it would be tantamount to turning his face with the central political axe, which was equivalent to rebellion!

At this moment, Chai Dongliang is about to succeed as president, he occupies the name of the central government, if Cao Kun, Meng Enyuan and others make a mistake, there will be no other end except to be exterminated! It is said that Cao San is a fool and shrewd, but he was blindfolded by the fly-headed Xiaoli at a critical time, and he couldn't get along with Chai Dongliang at this time, what is it that he is not looking for death?

Yuan Shikai's body has collapsed, uremia is incurable, and it is difficult to say how many days he can live. At this time, he also wanted Cao Kun to have a good end, even if these people had betrayed him!

Yang Shiqi secretly said in his heart, Yuan Shikai betrayed Li Hongzhang back then, but in the end, Li Hongzhang's heir was still him, and now all the generals in Beiyang have betrayed Yuan Shikai, but he still can't bear it??? In the final analysis, Yuan Shikai is just the second Li Hongzhang!

Xu Shichang was already crying silently: "Comfort Pavilion, Comfort Pavilion, you are still planning for them at this time!" Let me say what is good about you! ”

Yuan Shikai said gloomily: "No matter how bastard they are, I also pulled them up, just like a son who made a mistake, when a father can beat and scold, but I can't ask for their surname!" Back then, I was blinded by lard, coaxed Li Zhongtang in Xianliang Temple, and did things that were not as good as pigs and dogs, but Lao Zhongtang didn't care about me??? That's it, there's only so much I can do at this moment! If they know things and are reasonable, then they can still keep their lives and surnames, if they can't see through the form, and they want to act arbitrarily, then I can't control much! ”

??? Dividing line ???

A group of accounting personnel from the Anqing Military Advisory Office, the crackling of the abacus beads, and after three full days, Wu Jintang opened his panda-like eyes and took a car to Chai Dongliang's private residence. He is Chai Dongliang's brother-in-law, and he is also the God of Wealth of the Military Advisory Office, so he can go straight to the back house without passing on it.

"Dudu, this is a freshly picked mulberry, it's sweet! Try! ”

Wu Meiqi picked up a dark red mulberry fruit and held it in the air like a child, Chai Dongliang was half-lying on the chair, comfortably closing his eyes and opening his mouth, just waiting for the fruit to fall into his mouth.

"You slacker!" Wu Meiqi poked Chai Dongliang's forehead with her fingers stained with red juice, and Chai Dongliang smirked innocently.

Wu Meiqi picked up another mulberry fruit that was still a little green, and handed it to Mo Xiaolian, who was embroidering on the side: "Sister, you can eat one too, this is sour!" ”

Chai Dongliang immediately agreed: "Yes, yes, sour and spicy girls, it's good to eat sour!" ”

Mo Xiaolian's face was sallow, and he frowned and put it down after barely eating one: "I don't want to eat anything these days, I vomit whatever I eat!" ”

Chai Dongliang smirked: "Even if you don't eat it, my son has to eat it." ”

Mo Xiaolian smiled: "How do you know it's a son?" ”

Chai Dongliang said arrogantly: "It must be a son, I said that it is a son, he is a son!" ”

Wu Meiqi also laughed with her: "This son is a troublemaker, those who are pregnant with their daughters can eat and drink, and those who are pregnant with their sons are uncomfortable, my mother said that when she was pregnant with my brother, it was like this." ”

Mo Xiaolian's pregnancy made Chai Dongliang ecstatic, and a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground. Mo Xiaolian's pregnancy fully proves the theoretical error of Huang Yi's "Xun Qin Ji", Xiang Shaolong did not have offspring because of crossing, he was born with a dysfunction.

Chai Dongliang originally made a decision, if the crossing does not affect the function of the male surname, and he has offspring, then according to the original plan, step by step to implement the constitutional monarchy, if it is determined that he cannot have children, then continue the republic!

If God knew that this guy pinned the fate of the Chinese nation on a woman's belly, would he kill this guy with a thunderbolt?

History is full of accidental surnames, especially any small thought of the superior, it may be a nightmare for the small people of Shengdou, at this time Chai Dongliang's sneezing, maybe for ordinary people, is a bolt from the sky!

When Wu Jintang broke in, he accompanied his two wives to drink tea in the small flower hall Chai Dongliang was dumbfounded, when he saw the numbers on the account book, he was stunned, he had already known that he was a rich man, but he never thought that he had so much money, and a large string of zeros behind the numbers was spent on his eyes.

260 million?

According to the latest price, a silver dollar can be exchanged for one hundred and sixty copper yuan, in the tavern, two taels of rice wine, a plate of peanuts, a plate of pig's head meat, a dozen copper yuan, a silver dollar can eat a large plate of shark fin or abalone in a big hotel, fifty catties of foreign noodles is only three yuan, and eight hundred yuan can buy a courtyard house in Anqing.

260 million silver dollars is equivalent to about 150 million taels of standard silver, which is about twice the national tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty before the year of Gengzi, and half of the national tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty in the Xinhai year!

Rich enough to rival the country! Of course, this is the market value in the Shanghai stock market, and if Chai Dongliang dares to sell, I am afraid that it will cause turmoil in the national financial market, which is just wealth on paper.

Chai Dongliang never thought that he had so much money, but after thinking about it clearly, he was relieved, the business he has done in the past three years has been a money-grabbing business, relying on technology that has been leading the world for more than ten years or even decades, almost every business is the only one for scorpions, especially dapsaplamide and artemisinin, which almost monopolize the market in the world. In all the transactions, they occupy more than 20% of the shares, and more than 40%. In other words, having done so much business, all shareholders together have earned less than a billion silver dollars, which is not considered a success, and a large part of it is still at a premium in the financial market, on the contrary, it shows the failure of their own team in operation.

Yu Qiaqing, Wu Jintang and the Jin Shang team are already the most experienced businessmen in China, and they also feel that the results are very gratifying, but if Carnegie, Rockefeller and others have so many high-tech products, I am afraid that the profit will be ten times or even a hundred times, right?

Talent is scarce!

After Chai Dongliang let out a lament, he also figured out a truth, or the people are too poor, and the domestic purchasing power is insufficient! It's not just the ability of the sales team, but more importantly, the lack of domestic demand, it's not that people don't want to buy, but they don't have the money to buy! A large country of 450 million people has an incomparably huge domestic market, but potential is not equal to strength after all. Guanghua Group's products, except for munitions, domestic orders are less than 30% of the total output.

At the same time, there is also the prejudice of foreign markets against Chinese products, always feeling that China is a very backward country, and even if Chinese products are advanced, they will think that they are not as good as those produced in European and American countries. The most typical example is bicycles, which are exported from China to the United States for eight dollars, German-made bicycles for twenty dollars, and American-made for fifteen dollars. The same is true of Guanghua Shipyard, the cost of the same 10,000-ton cargo ship is only 60 percent of that of Germany and 70 percent of that of the United States, which is 15 percent lower than that of the other party. If it weren't for the implementation of assembly line production and China's low-cost labor, I am afraid that Guanghua Shipyard would have closed its doors long ago.

The common people in Europe and the United States generally believe that it is okay for Chinese to sell tea and porcelain, and it is not reliable at all to sell mechanical and electrical and industrial manufactured products. Most of the products exported by Shanghai Guanghua Group to Europe and the United States are machinery and equipment such as vertical kilns and long tube mills, and the sales volume of civilian products is negligible. After the foreign agent got the goods exported to Europe and the United States, the aminobenzene sulfonamide exported by Sanyi Pharmaceutical Factory was repackaged and pretended to be a German product, and it was sold at more than three times the price. Many European and American agents have been disqualified because of such things, but this kind of thing is still repeatedly banned.

But this is no way to do things, want to reverse the prejudice of foreigners is not an overnight thing, in Chai Dongliang's memory, said that after World War II, export products have also been discriminated against by European and American countries, but they through long-term efforts, to create a high-quality brand of this product.

Chai Dongliang believes that as long as the current high standards are adhered to, Chinese products will inevitably create a high-quality image in the world. What you can do is to advocate this spirit, first of all, in Guanghua Group, Sanyi Pharmaceutical Factory, such leading enterprises to promote this high standard of quality management, and then affect the upstream and downstream enterprises, and then promote this atmosphere to become the consensus of the business community.

Of course, this also needs timing, and the imminent outbreak of the First World War will be a godsend for China's industrial development! War is the strictest test, any prejudice and arrogance will be shattered by the cruel reality, the whole world knows that war is about to break out, but no power can meet the scale of this battlefield, no power is ready for a long war??? And Chai Dongliang was already planning for this war three years ago, which is a huge advantage!

Although there is a long way to go, it also contains great opportunities!

Chai Dongliang thought in his heart, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was probably within these ten days and eight days, right?

His thoughts drifted to distant Serbia, the gunshot in Sarajevo, Chai Dongliang was extremely expectant!

It's time to enter Beijing, and before the war breaks out, it is necessary to do a good job of handover with Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai, who is riddled with diseases, will also become a page in history!

(To be continued)