Seeing Yang Shuo's fierce killing intent released by Yang Shuo's red pupils, Jiang Chaozong couldn't help but shudder.

Although he was the commander of the infantry army, he was in charge of the security of the capital, and it was also his business to interrogate prisoners, but at this time, in front of this murderous young man, he didn't dare to say anything.

The redness in Yang Shuoming's eyes gradually faded, and he quickly returned to normal. Probably realizing that there was something wrong with what he just said, Yang Shuoming turned his head and smiled at Jiang Chaozong, and said, "These assassins, Brother Lao Jiang will bring them back and ask about them." ”

"That's, that's, I'll definitely find out the mastermind behind Brother Yang." Jiang Chaozong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and replied busily.

"Annoying Brother Jiang, ask who their mastermind is, and whether it has anything to do with the murder of Zhang Braidshuai." Yang Shuoming thought of Zhang Xun, who had passed away, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, "These people are very fierce, and they want to prevent them from committing suicide." ”

"Brother Hanzhi rest assured." Jiang Chaozong promised, "I'll give you a letter early tomorrow morning." ”

The next day, early in the morning, Zhongnanhai, Jurentang.

"What happened last night?" Yuan Shikai, who had used it earlier, came to his office, and when he saw that Jiang Chaozong was already waiting there early, he couldn't help frowning and asked.

"Some assassins assassinated Yang Gong, most of them were killed, and the rest of the party were captured." Jiang Chaozong remembered Yang Shuoming's admonition last night, and tried to avoid the important and trivial.

"Oh." After listening to Jiang Chaozong's report, Yuan Shikai's spirit was really much soothed, he took the report delivered by Jiang Chaozong and put it on the table, and did not open it immediately.

"Did the Japanese do it?"

"According to the designation, only one of the assassins was Japanese and has now died." Jiang Chaozong replied, "The rest are Chinese. ”

"Did the Japanese instigate it?" Yuan Shikai asked.

"It's not." Jiang Chaozong said, "At first, they wanted to rely on the Japanese, but they said that the donkey chún was not in the horse's mouth, and after many tortures, they told the truth, the main messenger was actually Chinese, and the Japanese spy came to kill people with a knife." ”

"Who is the messenger of the Lord? Did they say it? Yuan Shikai asked.

"It's hard to say who the specific main messenger is." Jiang Chaozong said, "But what is certain is that it is related to the Sichuan-Han Railway Company." ”

Listening to Jiang Chaozong's answer, a sneer appeared on Yuan Shikai's fat face.

"I see. Hehe, they're finally jumping off the wall now. ”

After listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Jiang Chaozong cautiously chose to shut up.

"Does Yang Hanzhi know?" Yuan Shikai asked.

"I don't know yet." Jiang Chaozong replied.

"You immediately forward a copy of this report to him." Yuan Shikai thought for a while and said.

"Yes." Jiang Chaozong replied.

"The founding ceremony is being held, don't make any mistakes." Yuan Shikai looked at Jiang Chaozong and said, "You go." ”

Jiang Chaozong only retreated, and Yuan Shikai no longer looked at him, but turned his head, and his eyes fell on a brocade box on the table.

Yuan Shikai stretched out his hand to open the brocade box, took out the contents inside, and placed them on the table.

Looking at this model of the "Land Cruiser" made of gold and silver, Yuan Shikai stretched out his hand and stroked the golden dragon logo on the model's body, his eyes full of pride.

"Unexpectedly, this time it was Chinese who came to harm me." Yang Shuoming threw the report sent by Jiang Chaozong on the table, his eyes full of angry flames, "Patriotism is the last refuge of hooligans, this sentence is really right. ”

Huang Yunzhi looked at Yang Shuoming with some surprise, not understanding what he meant by his last sentence, Xi Xue, who was standing beside Yang Shuoming, also flashed the same suspicion in her eyes, but she seemed to understand the suspicion in Huang Yunzhi's heart, and stretched out her hand to take the report and give it to Huang Yunzhi.

"Is it the people from the Sichuan-Han Railway Company who want to kill us?" Huang Yunzhi glanced at the content of the report a few times, and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yes." Yang Shuoming nodded, and quickly regained his composure, "These guys are afraid that our people will check the accounts and expose their old secrets." ”

"What bad things do they have that we are afraid of being exposed?" Huang Yunzhi asked a little puzzled.

"Of course, it's the ink-grubbing who has caused a huge deficit." Yang Shuoming slammed his fist on the table fiercely, and became moved again, "Textbooks are not shallow!" It's just a reversal of black and white! What the fuck is this patriotic movement?! Revolutionary precursor?! ”

Hearing the sentence "Textbooks are not shallow" and the following words, Huang Yunzhi and Xi Xue were stunned again, they both thought that he was confused, and began to talk nonsense there, and their eyes unconsciously showed a worried look. ,

"Hanzhi, what kind of textbook are you talking about?" Huang Yunzhi asked.

His beloved wife's question made Yang Shuoming realize that his mind had fallen into the error of time and space again, and he sighed, shook his head, and did not explain.

How could he explain to his beloved wife in front of him that the so-called "Road Protection Movement" that was high-profile in the textbooks of later generations was actually an evil incident created by "rogue patriots" who took advantage of public opinion to turn the clouds and rain?

After the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, the Chinese people gradually understood that the train had many benefits, and the Qing Dynasty government at that time realized the importance of the railway in national defense. Subsequently, the construction of railways began in China. The Qing Dynasty's initial railway policy was to "jointly run the government", but because it was difficult to raise private capital and official funds at that time, the first few railways built were mainly foreign investment, which also caused many problems such as the management and operation rights of the railways. Fearing the loss of the right of way, the Qing government also tended to encourage private fund-raising and the Chinese themselves to build railways. By 1904, with the rise of economic nationalism in China, "rejecting foreign debts, abolishing treaties, and collecting the right of way" became a clear slogan that resounded throughout the country, and the resumption of the right of way became a conscious movement among the Chinese people.

Taking advantage of this "reform" trend, commercial railway companies in various provinces of China were also established, such as the Guangdong Cháo Shantou Railway Company, the Hunan Provincial Branch Road Corporation, and the Sichuan-Han Railway Co., Ltd. However, the Chinese also have great drawbacks in building railways on their own, because the construction period of railways is long, the investment is huge, and commercial railways often fail to achieve any results after many years of construction. What is even more chilling is that the managers and staff of the railway company are full of corruption, the most ironic of which is that Sichuan established a railway company in 1903, and an inch of railway has not been repaired, but more than 10 million taels have been spent in a few years, and all kinds of bad debts are piled up and cannot be calculated. And if the "business run" continues in this way, the opening of the Guangdong-Hanzhou and Sichuan-Han railways will not be until the Year of the Monkey (Sichuan has never had a train before the founding of the People's Republic of China). On the contrary, most of the railways built with the help of foreign capital are well-funded and fast, such as the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway, the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and the Bianluo Railway, which have been completed one after another within a few years since their establishment, which is in stark contrast to those commercial railways that have been in operation for many years but have not started at all.

Under the entanglement of economic nationalism that swept the country, the decision-making of the Qing Dynasty at that time fell into a dilemma: if the policy of commercial operation continued, it would be detrimental to the urgent requirements of railway construction and the long-term development of the country; However, in order to implement the policy of nationalizing the main railway lines, although the construction of the railway can be completed at a relatively fast speed, it will inevitably meet with strong opposition from the people in the country, triggering strong nationalist sentiments. The reason is very simple, there is no free lunch in the world, and the nationalization of railway trunk lines is, to put it bluntly, the state monopolizes investment and construction, but the Qing Dynasty government has no money in its hands, and the last resort must be to borrow foreign debts, resulting in the loss of the right of way (when Russia built the Trans-Siberian Railway, the tsarist government insisted on self-financing in order to ensure that the right of way would not be lost, and resolutely refused to intervene in foreign capital).

For a country, railways are the lifeblood of the national economy, and there are indeed many inappropriate things in private construction and management. Objectively speaking, the policy of nationalizing the main railway lines adopted by the Qing Dynasty at that time did not attribute the rise of the "Road Protection Movement" to the "advance of the country and the retreat of the people" of the Qing Dynasty, as the mainstream of later historiography always said. The policy repetition of the Qing government on the issue of railway construction is by no means what mainstream historians later believed, "the greed, arrogance and prejudice of bureaucratic capital, which expropriated itself by depriving private capital". The real reason is that the 18 so-called private railway companies in the country are actually unable to continue due to internal ** and consume a lot of social resources, so they have adopted a tough policy of nationalization.

On May 9, 1911, under the auspices of Sheng Xuanhuai, the Qing Dynasty government issued an official document on the state-owned railways, deciding that all railway lines in the country should be nationalized, leaving only branch lines to be built by merchants and people, but the Qing Dynasty still refused to pay for the shortcomings caused by the corruption of the Sichuan-Han Railway Company, which damaged the interests of the railway executives. Therefore, on June 17, 1911, the shareholders of various social organizations and the Sichuan Road Company in Chengdu gathered together to hold a general meeting of shareholders and announced the establishment of the "Sichuan Baolu Comrades Association", officially launching the "Baolu Movement". Sichuan's road protection movement soon turned from an economic dispute to a political struggle and even an armed insurrection. ,

Now Yang Shuoming understands why Sun Yat-sen, who was ambitious to build a 200,000-mile railway, disappeared in a short time after being appointed by Yuan Shikai as the "National Railway Supervisor".

And Yuan Shikai is now holding this position that Sun Yat-sen has done to himself, on the one hand, to express his support for himself and believe in his own ability, on the other hand, he also has a certain fear that the "road protection movement" may appear again.

"Before we can do anything, they're sending men to kill us?" Huang Yunzhi said.

"It's not hard to understand." Yang Shuoming said, "If we take action, they won't have a chance." For example, Sheng Xuanhuai was chased down by them as a traitor, and they felt that it would not work to deal with me in the same way, so they played a game of assassination with me. ”

Huang Yunzhi understood, and her originally ruddy face couldn't help but become a little pale.

For Sheng Xuanhuai, who has been doing foreign affairs for a long time, it is easy to label him a "traitor" and let him roll up and leave, but for a famous anti-Japanese national hero like Yang Shuoming, the same method is obviously not available, and it is a good choice to introduce Japanese spies to carry out assassination. Because afterwards, the Japanese can carry this black cauldron.

"I'm afraid it's hard to find out about them." Huang Yunzhi thought about it and said.

"Of course." Yang Shuoming nodded and sneered, "This is originally a matter of death without proof. ”

"Then we'll be extra focused on the railway." Huang Yunzhi said, "We must not fill the deficit caused by them, it is bottomless and can never be filled." ”

"The bad thing of the Chinese is bad in this corruption **." Yang Shuoming said viciously, "In fact, whether it is official or civil, embezzlers are the real traitors. ”

Listening to Yang Shuoming's last words, Xi Xue's eyes lit up suddenly, and she quickly returned to normal.

"Regarding this matter, I have to discuss it with Lao Wu." Yang Shuoming said.

"Dad and Mom will come to Beijing to see us in two days, just ask Dad." Huang Yunzhi remembered that she came to Beijing to visit their parents a few days ago, and said, "Dad also funded the construction of the railway back then, listen to what he has to say." ”

"It's fine." Yang Shuoming nodded, "Jiang is still old and spicy, I happen to learn from him." ”

"Don't learn badly from your father, your father was a famous ...... back then" may have felt a little embarrassed to expose his father's "shortcomings" in front of her husband, Huang Yunzhi smiled and shrank the words behind.

"That's not called bad learning." Yang Shuoming said to his beloved wife seriously, "Saints are all dead, if you want not to die, don't think about being a saint." ”

Listening to Yang Shuoming's words, Xi Xue, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but smile.

For Yang Shuoming, he has traveled to this era, although he has the help of the scientific and technological power brought by the "supercomputer eye", but not everything can be done with high technology, and many times, he also needs to learn more from the people of this era about their strengths.

In this day and age, a dark bat is easier to flap its wings and survive than a sunny butterfly.

Just then, a mén walked in.

"Sir, General Cai Songpo is here." Mén reports from Fangtong.

Yang Shuoming got up and followed the mén room to the living room, Cai Ye saw Yang Shuoming's unharmed appearance and relaxed demeanor, obviously seemed to be relieved, and got up with a smile to greet him.

"When I came, I was afraid to see you lying on the chuáng." Cai Ye said happily, "It's great that you're fine." ”

"You weren't in any trouble last night, were you?" Yang Shuoming smiled and asked Cai Ye to sit down, and asked with concern.

"No, no one bothered me last night, and besides, I didn't go home last night." Cai Ye saw Xi Xue who served fragrant tea to the two of them, smiled and said.

"Didn't go home? Where have you been? Yang Shuoming immediately understood the meaning of Cai Yi's words, and he asked knowingly with a smile.

"I'm not as wealthy as you, and I brought the future huākui nòng to my home," Cai Yi looked at Xi Xue, whose face was slightly red, and nodded meaningfully, "Besides, the two Hedong lions in my family don't have the xiōng bearing of Mrs. Zun." ”

Listening to Cai Yi's joke, Yang Shuoming couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Although it is said that he redeemed Xi Xue, this beautiful girl still maintains her innocence with him.

Xi Xue blushed shyly, lightly blessed Cai Yi, turned around and left the living room.

"Thank you Hanzhi for sending someone to protect me last night." Cai Ye sighed and said to Yang Shuoming, "I owe you a favor, but there are more and more, so I can't pay it back." ”,

Yang Shuoming knew what Cai Yi's words meant, smiled, and said, "As long as you Songpo brother is alive and healthy, I don't care about anything else." ”

"What do you want me to live so long? Supporting the new emperor? As a generation of founding fathers? A bitter smile appeared on Cai Yi's face, he lowered his head, and the fingers of both hands were wrongly together, "Maybe as the old mother said about me, I'm too dead-eyed." ”

Yang Shuoming knew what was uncomfortable in Cai Ye's heart, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

He already knew that just yesterday, Yuan Shikai had sent Jiang Chaozong and Yang Du into the Forbidden City, and forced the Qing Dynasty to depose Emperor Puyi and announce that he would give up the imperial title.

If it weren't for this "important matter", Jiang Chaozong would not have arrived so quickly last night after hearing the gunshots in his mansion.

This move shows that Yuan Shikai's heart to be the emperor has been determined.

Of course, Yang Shuoming knew that Cai Ye had always been very uninterested in China's abolition of the republic and the restoration of the imperial system, although through his contact with Cai Ye, he knew that in the standard of "division of historical figures" in later generations, Cai Ye should be more of a "constitutionalist" component, and the characteristics of "revolutionary" were not prominent.

"I've heard that you might be made a first-class marquis." Probably aware of his gaffe, Cai Ye raised his head, looked at Yang Shuoming and smiled, "You should have a lot of money, right?" ”

"I really don't have a penny." Yang Shuoming said with a smile, "Brother Songpo might as well learn from me, don't pay for a big son, and see what title is awarded in the end." ”

"I just want to pay for it, and I don't have any money," Cai Yi said with a smile, "Don't forget, I use yào for medical treatment now, and I pay the account with you." ”

"If my guess is right, Brother Songpa's title will definitely be above me." Yang Shuoming said with a smile.

"Maybe, for me, these are meaningless things." Cai Ye said, "I know that the president treats me well, and he will definitely not treat me badly this time, but what I want is not these." ”

"We all think the same way." Yang Shuoming looked at Cai Yi's eyes, and his emotions suddenly became a little moved, "What we want is nothing more than the word 'strong country'." ”

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