Beijing, December 25, 1921.

Yang Shuoming, who was sitting in the car, looked at the snowflakes outside the car window and the bustling crowd on the street, and realized that in a few days, the year would pass again.

"You came back so quietly," Liang Qichao, who was sitting next to Yang Shuoming, said with a smile, "Actually, you should arrange a grand triumphal ceremony for you generals who have won battles." ”

"It's better to keep a low profile, not to mention, it's too expensive." Yang Shuoming smiled, "Besides, I didn't win the battle." ”

Yang Shuoming said, unconsciously looking back behind him, behind his car, was the car of Fu Zhuoyao, Xi Xueliu Xiangyun and others.

He did not tell Liang Qichao that the presidential palace had proposed to hold a triumphal ceremony, but he and Cai Yi and others invariably refused.

And the reason for this is mainly security issues.

Several attempted assassinations in Chengde and on the road had raised his vigilance.

"By the way, you should know better than us about the peace talks, what are the behind-the-scenes deals with the Japanese? Can you reveal a thing or two? Liang Qichao asked half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Does this involve national sovereignty and territory?" Otherwise, the uninteresting ones in Congress will bring up a hearing or something, but it's enough for you to drink a pot. ”

"For the Japanese, in order to save face, it can be called a behind-the-scenes deal, but for us in China, it is a fair and honest thing." Yang Shuoming said with a smile, "There are many conditions that I have set." ”

"Oh?" Liang Qichao's face showed a look of concentration, "What are they?" ”

"In addition to the agreement to recover all of Japan's rights and interests in China, it is," said Shuo Ming, "that is, how to divide up the Central and Eastern Siberian regions." ”

"How's that divided? Tell me about it? Liang Qichao's words concealed excitement and anxiety.

"We, China, have acquired the Siberian land of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, the Primorsky Zone, south of Magadan and west of the Yana River, north to the Arctic Ocean, and west to the Khatanga-Irkutsk line. Japan was given land north of Magadan, east to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and west to the east bank of the Anna River. Yang Shuoming said, "Of course, as a price, Japan will give up all rights and interests in China and return Taiwan to China." We will also host the northern part of the Korean Peninsula and the Ryukyu Islands. ”

"This is a good deal," Liang Qichao patted his thigh and said excitedly.

"I was going to bring North Korea over as well, but it didn't work out." Yang Shuoming said, "And I also considered that there should be a buffer between my country and Japan, so I made concessions in this area." ”

"Only when there is contention and concession can the peace talks be successful, otherwise the peace talks will break down, and then blindly fight will not be the way." Liang Qichao nodded, expressing his understanding of Yang Shuoming's thoughts, "Our China's participation in the European war this time has been quite criticized, and it is better to say that it is better to fight Japan and take over the country's rights, coupled with the attack on Soviet Russia, the war has been protracted, and the people have already complained a lot." ”

"After so many years of fighting, the common people are really tired of it," Yang Shuoming said, "but now, the war is actually over." ”

"It's over?" Liang Qichao asked with some surprise, "Isn't it still advancing into Soviet Russia?" ”

"Most of the main forces of the Soviet Russian army are along the railway, which has been basically cleared, most places in Siberia are no man's land, whether it is us or the Japanese, and now it has entered the stage of 'enclosure', and there is not much fighting." Yang Shuoming explained to Liang Qichao with a smile.

"This time, many countries sent troops to Soviet Russia, but it still couldn't fight for a long time, and it seems that this Soviet Russia is still very vigorous." Liang Qichao listened to Yang Shuoming's words and couldn't help but sigh.

"There are many reasons why Soviet Russia can exist. In fact, the European powers only wanted to make trouble for them, and did not go all out to interfere in Soviet Russia**, and even our country and Japan were unwilling to fight to the death with Soviet Russia. At the same time, because Soviet Russia was very sympathetic to the middle and lower classes and anti-war forces in the international community, and because Lenin's declarations were very demagogic and deceptive, the West had just experienced a world war, and the people of European countries were generally full of war-weariness, so they were given a chance to survive. Yang Shuoming said, "In addition, the White Russian Army is indeed relatively wasteful, and the political commissar system, the supervision team system and the Zhulian system of the Soviet Russian Army have forced the front-line soldiers to fight to the death, so they can survive until now." ”,

"I see." Liang Qichao nodded, "In fact, now we have conquered most of Siberia, which is the limit of what we can do under the existing circumstances." ”

"Not bad." Yang Shuoming said, "Although Soviet Russia is a great threat to our country, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and I don't expect to be able to join forces with Japan and kill Soviet Russia at once, because only when the deceptiveness, cruelty and predatory nature of Soviet Russia itself are exposed, and the internal contradictions accumulate enough, can we hit this monster." ”

After Yang Shuoming saw off Liang Qichao and returned home, it was already late at night.

Before he came back, the chief guard had already sorted out the important items he brought back from Chengde at home, and returned to their respective places, Yang Shuoming came to his office room, and saw that everything had been arranged, and he couldn't help but be very satisfied.

"The lady and the son have already slept, and according to the master's orders, they have not been alarmed." Yinfeng, who came to greet Yang Shuoming, said.

"Let them get a good night's sleep." Yang Shuoming heard that his wife and children had already fallen asleep, and nodded, "You have also worked hard, go and rest." ”

Regarding the "death without changing her mind" of the girl brought by his wife from her hometown, Yang Shuoming is now accustomed to it.

"It's so late, isn't the master resting?" Yinfeng saw that Yang Shuoming's face was a little haggard, but he didn't mean to rest, so he couldn't help but ask.

"I've got some things to take care of, so I'll go to bed later." Yang Shuoming said, and sat down at the table.

"Do you want to call Miss Xixue over?" Yinfeng asked again.

"No need." Yang Shuoming smiled and waved his hand at her slightly, and Yinfeng said goodbye, turned around and retreated.

After Yang Shuoming finished reading a few documents that needed to be read, it was already the second half of the night.

At this time, the surroundings were silent, and the night sky was full of stars, and Yang Shuoming noticed that only the light in his room was still on, and then he realized that it was very late.

But at this time, for some reason, he was extremely awake and had no sleep.

Yang Shuoming put the documents in the box and locked them, and was about to go back to the bedroom to rest, but his eyes somehow fell on a large safe in the corner.

He had been customizing this large safe for some time, and the contents stored in it were a record of the trajectory he had left behind since he came to this era.

Yang Shuoming walked to the safe, took out the key and inserted it, turned the password, opened the cabinet door, and took out some thick documents inside.

A document file bag was prominently marked with the words "1916, Outline of the Qingdao-Northeast Operational Plan."

Seeing this document, Yang Shuoming's thoughts suddenly returned to the days and nights of the hard battle with the Japanese army in Qingdao.

It was through that war that the foundation for today's complete expulsion of Japanese troops from Chinese mainland was laid.

On the other document file bag, it reads "Report on the Work of the Nanzhili Patrol Envoy".

This thick document records everything he did when he was the patrol envoy of Nanzhili (under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui provinces).

It was during that period that he penetrated his forces into the Huguang region (Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi).

Again, I saw several materials from the steel company.

That was when he was still in the south, the relevant information of the iron and steel enterprises such as Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company and Baoshan Iron and Steel Company were established. And now no one knows that he is the ultimate controller of these major steel companies in China.

It was during that period that the "Renhe Company" he founded acquired the Hanyeping Company, thwarting Japan's attempts to control China's steel industry.

After gradually mastering the iron and steel enterprises in southern China and laying the foundation for heavy industry, he gradually expanded the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the shipyard and Mawei Shipyard. And in Yangshan Island, Changshan Island, Chongming Island began to build giant shipyards.

His goal is to build Yangshan Deepwater Port into the largest port of more than 300,000 tons in Asia, so that this port can berth 50 ships of more than 300,000 tons. Changshan Island, on the other hand, is the site of the second phase of the Jiangnan Shipyard under his control, which he plans to build into six 300,000-ton docks. Chongming Island is the first phase of the new Jiangnan Shipyard plant, and his goal is to build six 300,000-ton docks and two 500,000-ton giant docks here.

Yang Shuoming took a few documents with English printed on the surface.

These documents are very thin, although they are written in English, but Yang Shuoming does not need to look at the contents of them to know what these are.

These are the relevant information of some "offshore companies" and "shadow companies", which are registered in the Bahamas and Bermuda. ,

These documents look very inconspicuous, and even a little incomprehensible to outsiders, but Yang Shuoming knows what these mean to him.

That was his tool to snipe the dollar-gold futures in the United States and to attack the huge gains of the Fed's first reform.

Somehow, in front of Yang Shuoming's eyes, the smile of the beautiful girl who was far away in the United States appeared, and his heart couldn't help but feel hot.

Thinking of the two pregnant ladies who had slept peacefully (Fu Zhuoyao was already happy) and Xi Xue, who always appeared beside him, and the many beauties of the Yang Mansion, a wry smile appeared on the corner of Yang Shuoming's mouth, he shook his head, and tried his best to make the seductive figure disappear in front of him.

At this moment, a contract document and a form filled with dense numbers appeared in front of his eyes.

That was his contract with DuPont to jointly develop potassium phosphate-synthetic nitride technology, as well as short-selling saltpeter futures in Chile and other countries.

Before his actions, because of the First World War, the price of saltpeter on the international market was more than thirty times higher than in peacetime. And that sniper operation made him earn an astonishing fortune in the price war of saltpeter.

It was these wealth that enabled him to invest in iron ore and copper mines in Brazil and Chile during this period, and entered Western Australia, established large ore loading and unloading terminals in Huron, Darwin and other places to develop Western Australian iron ore, and it was precisely because of his early arrival that Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, Vale, which made the Chinese suffer a lot in later generations, never had the opportunity to appear on the stage of history.

And it was precisely by virtue of these astonishing wealth that he was able to order 12 50,000-ton capital ships for China, and was also able to allow China to send naval cadets to study in Britain and the United States, and at the same time recruit a large number of young intellectuals who are interested in the navy to join the Chinese navy in China, and send them abroad together, and after studying, they will fight with the British and American navies and serve as mercenaries to accumulate combat experience.

And it is precisely by relying on this "quick" method that he has rebuilt a powerful navy for China in a short period of time

And without such a navy, China would not have been able to completely withdraw Japanese forces from Chinese mainland

A few more contracts came into view.

Most of these contracts, signed between 1917 and 1918, record his arduous journey to expand into the civilian chemical industry, synthesize potash fertilizers and nylon stockings, begin to produce large quantities of various materials for export to the participating countries (mainly on credit from the British), and accumulate funds into American bond funds.

He still remembers the staggering gains he made in that unprecedented arbitrage trade.

From the end of 1917 to March 1918, he began to buy and sell short British war bonds-gold futures (Bank of England gold futures), when the British government sold 580 tons of gold around the world in exchange for war military expenses, and the global gold price plummeted, and Yang Shuoming quietly began to entrust agents in the United States to hedge and sell short. He buys gold futures before they get close to the lowest point and then sells them after the price of gold moves sharply higher. His timing was astonishingly accurate, and the staggering gains from these arbitrage activities sustained China's participation in the Entente through the days and nights of World War I.

Of course, these funds also played a huge role in the resettlement of Chinese workers who returned to China.

Due to the short-sightedness and self-serving behavior of some states in the United States, the US Congress extended the Chinese Exclusion Act, and a large number of Chinese workers were forced to return to their hometowns, and these skilled workers, who were extremely valuable in Yang Shuoming's opinion, were absorbed into the factories of the enterprises under his control.

Thinking of the behavior of the Americans lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot, a sneer appeared on the corner of Yang Shuoming's mouth.

Due to the return of a large number of Chinese laborers, the widening of the American Pacific Railroad and the Panama Canal was forced to be postponed. Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and New York City Bank under Morgan have successively had the problem of broken capital chains, and US President Wilson signed the "Financial Antitrust Act", so that Yang Shuoming has the opportunity to attack New York City Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank at this time.

In this unprecedented financial sniping battle, Yang Shuoming took the opportunity to acquire about 40 percent of the Federal Reserve's shares, which were worth about $3 billion at the time

By that time, the total income in his hands had reached a considerable $12 billion

This is also the reason why, during this period, the Chinese government was able to train an army of 30 to 50 new integrated divisions, which had the strength to defeat Japan and march into Soviet Russia to complete real reunification. ,

And the navy, known as the "Gold Swallowing Beast", has also been growing during this time.

Under Yang Shuoming's arrangement, the Chinese Navy has been receiving training from the US Navy in Hawaii and Guam, and because of its thorough preparations, after the war with Japan, the Chinese Navy returned to China and performed an outstanding job, cutting off Japan's sea transportation to Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan in one fell swoop. And it was precisely because of a strong navy that the Chinese Army was able to cut off the foreign aid of the Japanese Army, inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army in China, and successfully infiltrate Korea.

A piece of paper with a few words fell out, Yang Shuoming looked at it, and some items were written on the piece of paper in simple words, and behind these items, most of them had been marked with a red check mark indicating completion.

"To ensure that Korea will eventually be divided between the north and south of Japan on the Cheongchon River."

"Strive to end the war with Japan in 1921 and recover Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands."

"Start the comprehensive industrialization and transportation construction of the country."

"Forming an intervention army with Britain and the United States, marching into the Far East of Soviet Russia, and targeting the operational objectives: to recover the area east of Lake Baikal and the Balkhash region in Central Asia."

"The Navy began its first large-scale expansion, and the warship artillery was uniformly replaced with American-made K5 406 mm 45 times diameter twin naval guns."

"The Paris Peace Conference negotiated, formed an alliance with the United States, and eventually withdrew from the League of Nations with the United States."

"Abolish all unequal treaties and recover the concessions."

"In exchange for penicillin, the 'Spanish flu' epidemic was used to force countries to cede their interests in China."

"Trade gold for penicillin injections."

"Cooperate with the four major consortia of Rockefeller, Mellon, Boston and DuPont to jointly develop the oil of the Dutch East Indies."

"Taking advantage of Germany's defeat in the war, the mark began to depreciate on a large scale, and German industry was facing the crisis of dismantling by the occupying forces, and the German industry bought basic industries such as 'Blom-Foss', 'Royal Wilhelm Shipyard', 'Kiel Shipyard', 'Volken Shipyard', 'Krupp Military Industry', and 'Farben Chemical'."

"Recruit talents from German and Austrian-Hungarian universities, and introduce all kinds of talents, including technicians, highly educated people and special skills."

"Try to buy Micronesia and the Bismarck Islands to appease Britain, and at the same time start building large naval and air bases in Truk Atoll and Rabaul to expand naval forces into the southwest Pacific."

Seeing that the last few items were still blank and not marked with a red check mark indicating completion, Yang Shuoming took a deep breath and put the piece of paper into the file bag.

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