But Yang Chao was completely relieved, he knew that war was inevitable. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past, Yang Chao had frequent activities all over the world, and naturally had the most frequent contacts with virtue, but he also had a lot of contacts with Britain and France, such as allowing France to preside over the construction of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, allowing Britain to build the Yunnan-Burma Railway, and even cooperating with the Netherlands to build Yantai and Dongying ports, and allowing the Belgians to build the Jinghan Railway double line, but he has always had no contact with the country of Austria-Hungary, and seems to have forgotten this country.

It is precisely because of the fear of affecting the country, what if Archduke Ferdinand does not go to Bosnia to review the army because of a delay in China, so Yang Chao has almost no communication with Austria-Hungary over the years, and he has no contact with high-level figures in Austria-Hungary.

Sure enough, history still develops according to inertia, which makes Yang Chao breathe a sigh of relief, as for the world media only reported on this assassination very simply, so low-key, Yang Chao didn't care too much, because he knew that Archduke Ferdinand was already very unpopular.

Archduke Ferdinand was not the son of the current Austro-Hungarian Emperor Joseph II, but only the nephew of Joseph II.

Joseph II is the husband of the famous princess Sissi, and the two gave birth to a son named Rudolph, who is the first heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Habsburgs, but Rudolph fell in love with a baroness with a married woman, and the two fell in love with each other, but Joseph strongly opposed this kind of extramarital affair that degraded the royal status, and finally Rudolph became depressed and became neurotic and committed suicide.

After Rudolph's suicide, his mother, Sissi, could not bear the grief and left Vienna to travel around the world, but on September 10, 1898, he was stabbed to death by Italian anarchists in Geneva with a sharpened file.

Joseph II, who lost his son and wife in the year of the sixtieth year, was a huge blow that can be imagined, and he said at the time that only responsibility to the country was the only motivation for him to live.

Because Joseph II was contaminated with syphilis when he was young, he could not have children after giving birth to a son with Princess Sissi, so his succession to the throne fell to his nephew, Archduke Ferdinand.

But this Archduke Ferdinand was also a restless fellow, like his cousin, he also made it difficult for the traditional Habsburg emperor Joseph II to accept the marriage issue, his cousin Rudolph had a crush on a baroness, and Archduke Ferdinand directly fell in love with a maid, and in order to marry this maid, he had a stalemate with the emperor's uncle Joseph II, and finally gave up the inheritance of his children in exchange for Joseph's concessions.

However, Joseph II was extremely dissatisfied with this nephew just like his own son, and also thought that his nephew was a disgrace to the royal family, and for his nephew who had always hoped to reorganize the Austro-Hungarian Empire and turn the Austrian and Hungarian dual empires into the Austrian and Hungarian Gasslavic triadic empire, hoping to give some power to the Slavs in the country (the Serbian nation is the Slavs), so as to alleviate the national contradictions, and the nephew's political proposition was not recognized by Joseph II.

The death of such a nephew, Joseph said, was God's will to restore everything to order. He believed that his nephew had messed up the traditions and order of the Habsburgs.

Moreover, Joseph refused to bury the murdered Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in the royal cemetery, and he did not attend the funeral of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, nor did the royal family and dignitaries of any European country attend the funeral, because the Emperor Joseph did not send invitations to other countries at all.

The British Times correspondent reported that the crown prince of Austria-Hungary, the heir to the Habsburgs, was buried like a dog.

In this case, with the exception of the territory of Austria-Hungary, some nationalists made a fuss, and soon it calmed down, and Austria-Hungary did not even carry out war propaganda.

Yelena, a French female journalist who came to interview Yang Chao, only got a protest against the assassin from Yang Chao, and the two protested to bed.

Yang Chao was in a happy mood, and chatted with this female reporter who had stayed in China almost all the time and was in charge of interviewing him.

In addition to Leonie, Yang Chao slept with a Western female reporter.

But Elena, who was born in the fashionable city of Paris, is too different from the Bavarian country chick Leonie, of course, she is definitely not in the middle, but she is more open and crazy, so that Yang Chao plays with her whole body from top to bottom, including her bright red mouth.

And Yelena is not as dedicated as Leonie, Yang Chao remembers that the last time she went around the world with her, she was still a reporter for the French Gazette, and this time she became a reporter for Le Figaro.

I heard that it was because after the last round, she took a lot of photos, returned to China and moved an exhibition called '10,000 meters above the ground', and gained a lot of fame in Paris, but she is not a woman with constant prosperity, and soon stopped working as a reporter, and worked as a full-time photographer for a while, went to Africa to take a lot of photos, and when the money was spent, she thought of being a reporter again, so she entered Le Figaro and came to China to interview Yang Chao.

After the two rolled over the sheets, the woman lived in the bedroom in the center of Yang Chao's big stone house, and went in and out of the core places of the four eastern provinces every day, and was intimate with Yang Chao without hesitation, and without scruples, she took Yang Chao's silver to buy many handicrafts in Yantai, such as straw flower baskets, and went to Shanghai to buy some luxury goods, perfumes, silk skirts, etc.

A week passed in an instant, Archduke Ferdinand's death really did not react like a dog, and Austria-Hungary was calm.

Yang Chao had just walked out of the door with Yelena, and Zhang Nian walked over with a person in the circular aisle.

Yelena was very enthusiastic to lift the skirt to Zhang Nian and salute, Zhang Nian bowed shyly, and the other person was very enthusiastic.

"Yelena, you're prettier!"

"Thank you, you're prettier too."

After a little greeting, Elena wore a white silk dress, red high heels, a top hat, white silk gloves on her hands, and a parasol, and walked out.

Yang Chao wears a green shirt, Yang Chao likes this kind of cyan gown, it feels very republican atmosphere, it looks simple and elegant, and it has a scholarly temperament.

"Mi Qing, what's going on?"

The person who came was called Mi Qing, and he was the propaganda minister who succeeded Wang Qiu, but this person was strange.

Because she is a woman, it is not strange for a woman, it is strange that she is a student studying in Germany, it is strange that she studied mathematics and psychology, it is strange that she is very enthusiastic about politics, and it is strange that she still has no intention of getting married.

Mi Qing is a Cantonese person, but she is different from ordinary Cantonese women, she has fairer skin, more like a Jiangnan woman, because her ancestors are from Jiangnan, and after making a fortune in Guangdong, she has settled in the local land for three generations.

"Chairman. It's not a big deal, it's just to report on the recent public opinion situation. ”

The Japanese-style term "chairman" is the title given to the party's top leader in recent years, and later generations of Chinese adopted Russian-style names such as chairman and secretary.

The two of them said as they walked into an empty conference room.

Mi Qing, as the Minister of Propaganda, is much more active than Wang Qiu, as a woman, it is not easy to convince a group of arrogant returnees, and the achievements she has made are indeed impressive, the rich and strong newspaper is in her hands, and now it is one of the top three newspapers in China in terms of circulation, and there are branches all over the country, and there is even a lot of profit, so there is no need for Yang Chao to throw money into it.

Yang Chao then asked: "What public opinion is there recently?" ”

Yang Chao was not curious at all, Mi Qing came to report to work, this is not the first time, she will come before holidays, obviously she knows how to deal with the relationship with her superiors, that is, to let her superiors know that she is active in her work and has achievements.

Mi Qing said: "Public opinion is very normal, and all walks of life agree with our party's philosophy. ”

Yang Chao said again: "What about foreign public opinion? ”

Mi Qing said: "Foreign public opinion is also mainly praised, but some newspapers have also put forward some criticism, saying that China's industry will definitely collapse. ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Okay, is it just a collapse, I heard that there are still scolding us." ”

Mi Qing sighed: "It's not about scolding, it's just mocking." ”

Yang Chao said: "Okay, it's a mockery. So that's it? ”

Mi Qing shook his head: "There is an article written about you, I think it's a little interesting, so I'll show it to you." ”

As he spoke, Mi Qing squatted down, opened the briefcase he brought with his slender hand, and took out a very ordinary impurity from it.

"The Economist?"

Yang Chao saw it clearly, and Mi Qing flipped to what she wanted Yang Chao to see.

"Keynes?"

It turned out to be a professional review written by Keynes.

This is the Keynes of the famous Keynesianism.

Born in Cambridge, UK, Keynes entered Eton College at the age of 14 on a scholarship to study mathematics, and was awarded the Tomlin Prize to King's College, Cambridge University on a scholarship in mathematics and classics. He graduated in 1905 (at the age of 22) with a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge. He then spent a year at Cambridge, where he studied economics with Marshall and Pigou in preparation for the English civil service examinations. In 1906, he passed the civil service examination with a second place and was elected to the Indian Office.

But look at this person's background, he was an absolute honor student when he was in school, and he was at least a prodigy in China, and he received a Cambridge Master of Arts at the age of 22, proficient in mathematics and economics. As for going to India to do public office, this is a typical scholar-type bureaucrat.

During his tenure in India, Keynes had a very good understanding of India's economic situation, and wrote a book "Indian Currency and Finance", with a good educational background, academic qualifications, academic research, and public service experience, Keynes has become famous.

However, Keynes was the originator of state intervention policies in later generations, and now he is a thorough advocate of free economy, and it can only be said that people have a position, before the First World War, Britain was strong, he advocated free trade, after the First World War British industry declined, he advocated trade protection.

Yang Chao carefully read this article by Keynes, in which Keynes used mathematical methods to argue that China's Shandong economy is about to collapse!

After reading it, Yang Chao asked Mi Qing calmly.

Yang Chao knew that this delicate-minded female propaganda minister asked him to read this article, not without purpose, and he must have come to persuade himself, not to mention that experts like Keynes saw it, even some members of the rich and powerful party with economic and management backgrounds had already seen it, thinking that Shandong's investment was too much, and there would definitely be problems.

There have been many people who have dissuaded Yang Chao, but Yang Chao still goes his own way, telling them that there is still so much to consider in the development of industry, Yang Chao's answer is considered by many people to be reckless, and some people are even disappointed to retreat.

At this time, Mi Qing obviously wanted to use this foreigner's article to persuade Yang Chao.

"What do you think?"

Yang Chao asked rhetorically.

Mi Qing sighed: "I thought that what Keynes said also made some sense, but it was a little alarmist, and the collapse should not be achieved." ”

Mi Qing is a very smart girl, she heard from Yang Chao's tone, it seems that Yang Chao did not agree with Keynes, so there is no need for her to twist Yang Chao's meaning.

Yang Chao smiled: "Actually, he is right! ”

Mi Qing was stunned, she didn't understand it at all, it turned out that Yang Chao knew these truths very well. (To be continued.) )