"Yuan Gong, people say that the stones of his mountains can attack jade, and the People's Party has risen so rapidly that it must have its strengths. And I don't think the BJP is without sincerity in cooperating. At least I see that the People's Party is proposing to share the Beiyang with me, and is not asking to wait until the loan is repaid to talk about it. We in Beiyang can see how the People's Party operates the wool industry, second, we can get a part of the share, and third, we can deal with the Gengzi indemnity first. It's not impossible to make them proud for a while. "Yang Du was in charge of negotiating wool spinning with the People's Party, and he had his own ideas about the wool industry at that time. However, Yang Du knew that it was impossible for him to meddle in the seemingly lucrative industry of wool spinning. Now that he can exert influence on it, Yang Du is quite concerned in his heart.

Yuan Shikai was silent, he actually didn't want to care about such a trivial matter. He was concerned about the seventy million taels of silver. However, the BJP apparently did not take this matter as a trivial matter. Yang Du had also calculated an account for Yuan Shikai before. If a pound of wool can earn ten yuan, 10,000 tons of wool, that is, 20 million catties, can earn 200 million yuan, which is only 200,000 taels of silver. It's just a small amount of money. Compared to the 70 million taels of silver, it is not worth mentioning at all.

But if the People's Party has taken root in Inner Mongolia, it will want to eliminate things that can never be settled with 200,000 taels of silver. That's what politicians think. Yang Du's enthusiasm for new things is completely at odds with this kind of cold politician calculation. It's just that politicians know very well that it is absolutely impossible to have no money, since the People's Party is willing to pay, Yuan Shikai can only temporarily accept the difficulties in the future, "Huchan, you ask Tang Shaoyi to ask Chen Ke what his plans are." ”

"Comrade Zhang Yu, Comrade Qi Huishen, which of the two of you is willing to be responsible for the negotiation with Tang Shaoyi." Chen Ke is also explaining the work arrangement. Negotiations cannot all be handled by Chen Ke alone, and a professional diplomatic department will be responsible for this matter in the future.

Zhang Yu and Qi Huishen glanced at each other, and Zhang Yu said: "I'm not very confident, or let Comrade Qi Huishen be responsible." ”

"Why don't you have faith?" Chen Ke did not easily let go of Zhang Yu's intentions.

"Chairman Chen, the economic work arrangements you proposed are too complicated, and I can't study them thoroughly in the short term." Zhang Yu is very frank.

Hearing Zhang Yu say this, Qi Huishen also said: "Chairman Chen, I can't study it thoroughly in the short term. ”

"Very good, then you two comrades will divide up and work together to study this thoroughly. This in itself involves the problem of modeling a complete economic system, and it will be very beneficial for you to study it thoroughly. Chen Ke replied.

Zhang Yu's eyes lit up, "Chairman Chen, are you ready to develop your strength in Mongolia?" ”

"Then it depends on the change of the situation, can we believe what Yuan Shikai said?" Chen Ke did not deny the point made by Zhang Yu.

"But we are not familiar with the situation in Mongolia."

"The more I go, the more familiar I am. I still say that revolution has always been nurtured among the people, but it depends on how we find the needs of the people, and it is certainly impossible to make a revolution by relying on illusion. ”

This is what Chen Ke has said many times, if it was before, Zhang Yu and Qi Huishen would still feel helpless, but now they don't feel this way anymore. The two looked at each other, both speculating about who Chen Ke would send to Mongolia.

"Don't think so much about it first, settle the negotiation matter." Chen Ke said.

Tang Shaoyi didn't expect Chen Ke to play the trick of changing generals halfway, and the people in charge were two guys younger than Chen Ke. In terms of paying money to the British, the terms put forward by the BJP are interesting to play. The People's Party divides the middle year of the payment period into two phases, and in the second six months from the day after the first payment date, the People's Party will decide whether to continue the cooperation according to the cooperation method of Beiyang. Whatever the outcome, there will be a four-month negotiation period for both sides. The People's Party would inform the British two months in advance whether they would pay the bills for Beiyang.

Such a moral method of paying the bill made Tang Shaoyi feel a little surprised, and the serious attitude of the People's Party was beyond Tang Shaoyi's imagination. After all, if this is done, Beiyang still has a chance to make a deal from the Black People's Party. But that thought quickly faded. Zhang Yu made it clear to Tang Shaoyi that the real formal negotiations would not begin until after the fall of the Manchus. If the Manchus were still alive at the end of this congressional session, the People's Party would have to use force to overthrow the Manchus. As for borrowing money, it doesn't have to be considered.

"In order not to make the various forces in the country misunderstand the attitude of our BJP, thinking that we are just twisting and intimidating everyone. We, the BJP, are about to start a new round of conscription, bringing our total strength to more than 400,000. Mr. Tang is also requested to explain this to the Beiyang side. Qi Huishen said with a deep smile.

Faced with this naked threat, Tang Shaoyi narrowed his eyes slightly. Not to mention the 400,000 troops, with the BJP's existing strength of more than 100,000, the provinces bordering the BJP have no ability to resist at all. If the army is expanded to 400,000, it means that the BJP is really ready to fight. As long as there are 200,000 troops left in the four provinces, Beiyang Mo said that if he attacks the People's Party, he can protect himself from Amitabha. In other provinces, it is impossible for Beiyang to come to the rescue.

"Don't you think the revolution is a bit aggressive?" Tang Shaoyi asked.

"We, Chairman Chen, have said that revolution is not about inviting guests to dinner, not making a fuss, not painting and embroidering, and it cannot be so elegant, so calm, so polite, so gentle and frugal. Revolution is a violent action by a class to overthrow a class. Mr. Tang, I don't know what you think of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the suffering that the Manchus inflicted on China should have rolled into the garbage heap of history a long time ago. Zhang Yu's answer was quite elegant and refreshing.

Tang Shaoyi has heard of the style of the People's Party's negotiations, which is said to be lawless. If Tang Shaoyi felt that he had learned a lot when negotiating with Chen Ke, then when he negotiated with Zhang Yu and Qi Huishen, he really felt the tough side of the People's Party.

Regarding such a situation, Tang Shaoyi thought of something completely different from negotiation. From his careful observation over the past few days, the organizational model of the BJP is quite peculiar. Chen Ke never "put on a score", which Tang Shaoyi has never seen. Including the exchanges with the "revolutionary comrades", Chen Ke did not have any condescending attitude. Zhang Yu and Qi Huishen probably didn't notice that their attitude towards Chen Ke was not the habitual face of the courtiers to the emperor, nor was it the starry moon-like following when Beiyang treated Yuan Shikai. In both cases, there is a clear distinction between the leader and the led.

Between Chen Ke's subordinates and Chen Ke, it feels like a master and apprentice. Chen Ke tried to teach everything about himself to other revolutionary comrades, and other revolutionary comrades also tried hard to learn everything about Chen Ke.

In order to negotiate with Chen Ke, Tang Shaoyi has studied Chen Ke, read Chen Ke's books, and knows that the Nobel Prize means a considerable degree of status and recognition in the scientific community. When a scholar who is already much more than ordinary people stands above everyone else, he has great influence. When Chen Ke imparted all his knowledge to the comrades of the People's Party, he gained the transcendent status of a teacher. In Tang Shaoyi's view, the leadership of the People's Party is more like the legendary model of "the monarch and the teacher are one".

In terms of rationality, the morality, knowledge, discipline, and even equality of status between the disciples, and the emotional aspect, the teacher must protect and tolerate the students, all of which have been most thoroughly satisfied in this model.

Such an opponent is quite difficult to deal with, and the one in the North Ocean is completely inapplicable to them. The internal differences of the BJP will yield to the system of "unity of the monarch and the teacher", while their attitude towards the other forces is completely the same, and there is no opportunity to take advantage of it.

Thinking of this, Tang Shaoyi didn't want to bother to say more, "Then let's adjourn the meeting." I will convey this to Beijing. ”

After Yuan Shikai saw the news that "the People's Party will expand its army to 400,000," his first feeling was neither fear nor shock, and he felt a kind of confusion in his heart. The Beiyang Army is now only 70,000 people in six towns, and it has already eaten the Beiyang finances to the point of almost collapse. Are the 400,000 people of the People's Party ready to live by drinking the northwest wind? No matter how you look at it, the BJP shouldn't have so much money. That's 400,000 troops, and in the Manchu Qing Dynasty's unfinished and unfinished New Army construction plan, the new army in the whole country is only 36 towns and 450,000 people. The People's Party has to support 400,000 people in the four provinces, so Yuan Shikai just sees this as a statement by the People's Party, which is a statement that the Manchus must be overthrown. That's all.

Yuan Shikai has long been on the record for the people's party's prevarication, and if he still had a trace of doubts about whether to keep the Manchu Qing skin, the financial pressure has completely dissipated this doubt. Raided the Manchu family, including getting the emperor's treasury, and got a lot of jewelry and antiques, but those things were not worth much in their hands. The real money that is really used is relatively limited, and the financial crisis faced by Beiyang has not been reversed at all.

"Let Tang Shaoyi formally invite Chen Ke to participate in the Congress to be held in May." Yuan Shikai said.

"Yuan Gong, don't you really care about what the People's Party says?" Yang Du asked.

"Don't worry about this kind of bluff stuff." Yuan Shikai replied, "Please come over to the Minister of War." ”

Yang Du still wanted to say something, but seeing that Yuan Shikai had no intention of participating in the discussion at all, he had no choice but to follow Yuan Shikai's order to invite Wang Shizhen.

After Wang Shizhen read the news delivered by Tang Shaoyi, he was silent. Yuan Shikai was a little surprised, he thought that Wang Shizhen would also talk about the People's Party's conscription.

"Hireqing, I want to ask you. Do you think Chen Ke is a person who sells fame and reputation? Yuan Shikai asked. In fact, he also has an evaluation of Chen Ke as a woman's kindness. But thinking about Chen Ke's ferocity in killing the gentry, Yuan Shikai didn't say so.

In this negotiation, Yuan Shikai naturally couldn't say all his thoughts, he just determined one thing. Chen Ke is quite afraid of warlord scuffle, which is a puzzling thing. The heroes of the troubled times all hope that the situation is as chaotic as possible, Chen Ke is definitely not the kind of guy who can't see this, at least in the "Hebei Horse Thief Rebellion" that helped Yuan Shikai seize central power, Chen Ke accurately grasped the essence of "chaos". But when it came to creating a nationwide chaos such as "warlord scuffle", Chen Ke's opposition was more resolute than Yuan Shikai's.

When it comes to this loan, Yuan Shikai was forced to have no choice, and secondly, he also wanted to try Chen Ke's attitude. If Chen Ke really wants to make trouble, but the opportunity does not come, he will take the opportunity to do something to Beiyang. However, although Chen Ke talked about it complicatedly, on the whole, he still wanted to cooperate in business. The most important thing is that he still wants to lend money to Yuan Shikai.

For Yuan Shikai, a rebel who is afraid of warlord scuffle, wants to find a reasonable explanation for this unreasonable approach, then there is only one explanation left for Chen Ke to be a "fame and reputation" person. Fame and reputation do not mean that Chen Ke is naïve, but that Chen Ke tries to seize the moral high ground, and then stand on this commanding high ground to seize the ultimate power. This is a guy with a great evil intention.

Wang Shizhen was not in a hurry to answer this question. It doesn't matter whether Chen Ke is a fame or not. In this negotiation with Chen Ke, the real mastermind is still Wang Shizhen. Wang Shizhen knows a lot more about these internal situations than Tang Shaoyi. Including the amount of negotiations between the People's Party and the British, 100 million pounds is the British lion's mouth, and the amount proposed by the People's Party is only 40 million, which will be increased year by year.

After a long time, Wang Shizhen said: "Yuan Gong, as far as I see Chen Ke, he has a far-reaching vision. It is absolutely impossible to sell fame and reputation. If he is afraid of chaos, I will never believe it. What he does best is take advantage of the chaos to make a profit. The more chaotic it is, the more Chen Ke is like a fish in water. It's just that Chen Ke saw an opportunity that made him not care about everything. I don't know. Only the people in the BJP know what they think. ”

Since Yuan Shikai seized central power, Wang Shizhen has become more and more reticent. Yuan Shikai knew Wang Shizhen's temperament, he must have something else to say, he asked: "Pingqing, just say what you want, what tricks do you think Chen Ke has?" ”

Wang Shizhen is really not sure, but as one of the people in Beiyang who is not interested in the power grab, Wang Shizhen does feel a strong uneasiness, "Yuan Gong, the People's Party opens its mouth to the people and closes its mouth to the people. I have given myself a name and called it the People's Party, but I am afraid that they may not think that the will of the people can be used. ”

"People's hearts?" Yuan Shikai was very puzzled by this word. As a "people's slaughter" in the late Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai never had a good impression of the people's heart. Whether it is the gentry or the common people, they only think about themselves and never take the affairs of the country to heart. After this "popular will" is used, it can only be the collapse of the country. Therefore, the people's hearts can use such beautiful words, and Yuan Shikai felt ridiculous when he heard it. It's ridiculous.

Wang Shizhen didn't think it was ridiculous at all, "Yuan Gong, Chen Ke saved the people from fire and water, and the people of the four provinces had to be rescued by him, so that they could survive." Therefore, the hearts of the people in the four provinces, Chen Ke really used it. I'm afraid that Chen Ke thinks that the hearts of the people in other provinces can also be used in this way? ”

"You mean, Chen Ke can predict the future time?" Yuan Shikai said in a mocking tone.

The people like to wear chisels for capable people, and there are too many peculiarities in what Chen Ke has done over the years. As time passed, a lot of things flowed into the people, and it became terrible. Chen Ke is already a demon Dao, Zhuge Kongming, Gongsun Sheng and others are in one body. However, ten years ago, everyone was still drinking talisman water and drawing talismans with the "elder brothers", and firmly believed that by doing so, they would be invulnerable. It's all too common to believe in these things. Thanks to the Manchu princes who frantically confiscated "Cixi's Life", the queen mother and the emperor read an article written by Chen Ke and died.

What is the identity of the queen mother and the emperor who have been in power for decades, "Chen Ke casually wrote a talisman to curse the two to death", and the princes searched for talismans from house to house. Such events that the masses like to see have shrouded Chen Ke in a layer of mystery. And the feeling of the people is also infiltrating the officialdom. Many people in Beiyang also have a strong fear of Chen Ke in their hearts.

Even people like Yuan Shikai are a little worried that Chen Ke can predict the time of day. Otherwise, why was Chen Ke able to effectively grasp the disaster situation in various places, and he rebelled and did not go to other places, but went straight to Fengtai County? Although he was laughing in his mouth, Yuan Shikai was also a little uneasy in his heart.

Wang Shizhen said truthfully, "Yuan Gong, I only have this feeling, and I can roughly conclude what tricks Chen Ke is doing." As for how Chen Ke acted, I really couldn't think of it. ”

Seeing Wang Shizhen say this, Yuan Shikai no longer asked, and he also spent money to buy people within the People's Party, with little effect. It's not that these people are loyal to the People's Party, but that many things in the information collected are completely outside the scope of Yuan Shikai's understanding. The demand for "equal distribution of land" has been shouted for many years by the rebels and the common people, even by the literati who are not rebels. As for light conscription and thin conscription, this has reached the point where the ministers treat these as political correctness.

If some slogans can be shouted for thousands of years, it means that this thing has not been done for thousands of years. What the People's Party cannot understand is that it took a group of hairy boys to implement all these things in five or six years. With the ability of Yuan Shikai and those people in Beiyang, they knew very well that killing local tyrants was never the way to achieve such a result, and dividing the land could not even achieve such an effect. How did the People's Party achieve such a result, Beiyang is really puzzled.

No matter what conspiracy Chen Ke had, it was completely impossible to do it without dealing with it. Whether it's hypocrisy or sincerity, when the money is in Yuan Shikai's hands, it can solve countless problems. Since Chen Ke was willing to cooperate in this regard, Yuan Shikai decided to see how famous he could be behind this.

The next day, Tang Shaoyi received a notice from Beiyang Telegraph. An agreement was reached with Chen Ke in this regard.

A memorandum of understanding was signed in the nature of a document. The signatories were Tang Shaoyi from the Beiyang side, and Zhang Yu and Qi Huishen from the People's Party. The memo is tantamount to putting both sides in the trap, and once this memo circulates, the results will be explosive.

When Tang Shaoyi left, Zhang Yu asked, "Chairman Chen, will Beiyang abide by the agreement?" ”

"Victory depends on internal factors. External causes only induce internal causes. Beiyang does Beiyang's business, let's do our business. "Chen Ke is still a cliché.

"But our base is strong enough, and this internal factor can overwhelm Beiyang." Zhang Yu was not interested in Chen Ke's answer.

"Powerful enough? Haha......" Chen Ke couldn't help but laugh.

Qi Huishen and Zhang Yu glanced at each other, and Chen Ke's reaction was really puzzling.

"Powerful enough? The masses in the base areas barely had enough to eat by eating rice, flour and grains. I can't change a few new clothes all year round. Without a canteen, workers starved to death in the cities on their wages. Everyone came out, just a few overalls, and old clothes from before. We export so much raw silk, and it will be good to export silk in the future. However, there are a few people in our base area who can afford to buy silk clothes with the wages we give. Is that powerful enough? Chen Ke smiled happily.

This is indeed the status quo of the base area, not to mention ordinary laborers, even Zhang Yu and Qi Huishen can actually mix and eat and have military uniforms to wear. In terms of money, the two of them don't say that they have nothing, and they don't have much accumulation.

"If the base areas say what they have done, in terms of life, the base areas can ensure the stability of grain prices. In terms of management, we are the first time in thousands of years that China has extended management to the real grassroots. It not only manages the existence of the people, but also manages the distribution of society. That's what we do. As for being strong and building for thirty years, it might be said that way. ”

When Chen Ke said this, Qi Hui smiled a little bitterly, but Zhang Yu looked like he should be. With the ferocity of the squeezing ratio alone, the People's Party is estimated to rank first in Chinese history. However, this is also a more advanced method adopted by the BJP. In the past, the government relied on collecting taxes in kind. The People's Party did not collect in kind, but by collecting labor, combined with a completely new system, and accumulated to the greatest extent.

This kind of social change, which can be said to be earth-shaking, is the glory of the People's Party!