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Before leaving, tens of thousands of people in Nanjing came to see them off, they knelt on the ground at the train station, and a large number of old masters wearing robes and green shirts knelt on the ground and shouted long live, asking Yang Chao to be in the right position.

How many of these 10,000 people were invited by some local people, Yang Chao didn't know, but these old masters definitely came by themselves, of course, there were organizers, in recent years, the national strength has improved, the international status has improved, there are two classes that are the most excited, one is these old masters, and the other is a new-style student.

On the contrary, it is the middle class that is neither Chinese nor Western that is more resistant to Yang Chao becoming the emperor, thinking that this is perverse.

The old masters want to see the grand occasion of the coming of all nations.

The students cheered for the military victories.

Yang Chao did not expect that in this kind of thing, old-fashioned ideas and new-style nationalism were combined.

Of course, the young nationalists were still different from the old masters, they preferred a constitutional monarchy, they believed that if China implemented a British-style system, it could also dominate the world, and the old masters demanded that the emperor monopolize power, and then promoted ancient learning.

Yang Chao even gave interviews to some newspapers with ethnic tendencies, saying that it would be better if China had an emperor.

But he denied that he had any idea of becoming emperor.

However, Yang Chao connived, and even created this kind of public opinion atmosphere, so that the whole country was discussing this issue.

Yang Chao deliberately pushed this kind of public opinion to the peak, and now at this time, in addition to Yang Chao, who is more qualified to be the emperor, but when this public opinion is pushed to the highest peak, if Yang Chao does not express his position as the emperor, then who will dare to have the idea of being an emperor in the future.

Just as there can be no king in the United States when Washington is not king.

Yang Chao doesn't want to get a false name like Washington, he just wants stability and the overall situation.

Earlier let the Chinese break the idea of the dynasty, the country does not need an emperor, all he needs is stability.

How to push public opinion to the highest place, conniving public opinion is only the first step, and Lin'an Palace is the highest peak.

At the end of December, New Year's and Christmas were approaching in the West, but Osbourne did not think about it, and he hurried south with a team of several hundred people and their archaeological harvests.

He not only led people south, but also sent invitations to some colleagues in the United States, and he had been authorized by the Chinese government to let him form an archaeological team.

In addition to receiving financial support from the Chinese government, Osborne also received a large number of voluntary donations from Americans, including the Colgate family who sponsored Osborne to Mongolia to find evidence of human origins.

Osbourne's team in China was funded by the Chinese government, and the American archaeological team of more than 300 people he invited was sponsored by American millionaires.

Yang Chao had already arrived in Shanghai at this time, and took the Jinpu Road from Nanjing to Shanghai.

Tens of thousands of capitalists greeted Yang Chao at the train station, waved various slogans and flags, got into a Mercedes-Benz car specially leased by the Shanghai Municipal Government, and stayed directly at the Shanghai Licha Hotel.

Banners and slogans along the streets continued, and students and businessmen lined up on both sides of the street, shouting incessantly.

Although Yang Chao felt very cool, he still rebuked Xie Guanhui: "Mayor Xie, this kind of formalism must be put an end to in the future." ”

Xie Guanhui said with a smile: "The common people are spontaneous. ”

Yang Chao didn't believe it when he was killed: "It's okay to liar ghosts." Maybe I died, and so many people spontaneously buried. Lao Tzu is alive, and it is impossible for so many people to miss him. ”

This kind of thing is too empty, and it is easy for those in power to lose themselves and become extremely inflated.

Why did Yuan Shikai want to be the emperor, it was not that a large group of people gathered around him all day long and repeatedly preached, and Yuan Shikai felt that if he was not the emperor, the common people would not agree, and the result was that he became the emperor, and all places opposed it.

Yang Chao is sure that his strength is much greater than Yuan Shikai, and his prestige is much stronger than Yuan Shikai, but if he wants to be the emperor, there will definitely be people who will rise up to rebel, which is more than worth the loss.

"But Shanghai's development is still worthy of recognition."

Looking at the streets everywhere, it has been out of the concession, although there are still some low brick shops on both sides, but the streets are extremely neat and tidy, sewers, street lamps and other public facilities are also very complete, in the past, in the newspapers of foreigners often see praise for Shanghai, many people think that Shanghai is better developed than Shandong, although Shandong is grander, but Shanghai is more free.

"The lowly position does not dare to take credit, in fact, the lowly position has not done anything, and today's development has made the lowly position a little unexpected."

Xie Guanhui is honest.

All he did was to set up the government agencies, provide modern service institutions, and then Shanghai's capital development began to frenzy, after the start of the European war, the economic data here are soaring at a rate of more than 20 percent, and it has tripled in just five years.

"Actually, we don't have much credit. The geographical conditions of Shanghai are too superior, there are not many places in the whole world with such conditions, and all those with such conditions, as long as the government is not a bastard government, are all world-class economic centers. To be honest, the conditions here are similar to London and New York, but the scale is much larger than London and New York, because the Thames River in the UK is a small canal compared to the Yangtze River. New York is simply close to the canal, and it is not as good as the golden waterway of the Yangtze River. The only thing that can barely be compared is the great rivers of Europe, the Rhine can barely be compared, and the Seine is not good. ”

Yang Chao commented, and Xie Guanhui said yes again and again.

Yang Chao felt that his words seemed to hit Xie Guanhui, and hurriedly encouraged:

"You don't have to be presumptuous. In the end, you have a huge credit, Shanghai is so good, why can't the Qing Dynasty people do it well, and Yuan Shikai can't do it well. You Xie Guanhui is done. In the final analysis, a set of modern government institutions is still quite important. For that reason your name should be written in the history books. You've heard about the medal I'm going to issue a medal, and I'll tell you very clearly, you must have a share. And it's the superlative. ”

"President Xie Da cultivated."

Xie Guanhui was overjoyed, and hurriedly said that he had heard about Fan Wenxun, with Fan Zhongyan and Wen Tianxiang as benchmarks, all literati with traditional consciousness would not be on the road.

"It's not about cultivation, Shanghai is a free city, and it is Shanghainese who cultivate you. I've heard that there are a lot of people who support you, and there is basically no problem with being re-elected. ”

In recent years, Shanghai has issued more than 30 billion bonds alone, which is already the third largest bond market in the world, and there are already 50 banks with a scale of more than 100 million, and the concentration is even more terrifying than that of New York.

"I've heard that the Brazilians have arrived. This time, I'm going to meet them, you can arrange it. ”

Xie Guanhui was quite surprised, Brazilians came to Shanghai to talk about borrowing, this kind of foreign borrowing, the government has always been opposed, Yangzi Bank does not borrow, no one dares to borrow, so far, that is, the Russians have been given a mineral mortgage, and other countries have not borrowed.

And this time the Brazilians begged for help and went to Shanghai, Yang Chao agreed unprecedentedly, and even wanted to meet these Brazilians, which made Xie Guanhui a little surprised, because these Brazilians were not big characters at all, just a group of Brazilian coffee merchants, and they couldn't borrow money in the United States, so they asked for Shanghai, after all, during the war, they could only choose Shanghai except New York.

But a few businessmen, worth seeing Yang Chao?

How could Xie Guanhui know the energy of these silk merchants, maybe they don't have much energy in the world, but in Brazil, they have a lot of energy.

It was a group of coffee businessmen who banded together to form the Brazilian coffee cartel, or monopoly.

They have mastered the acquisition channels of Brazilian coffee, which is uniformly sold all over the world, and almost controls the price of coffee in the world.

It was only at the beginning of the war that business in Europe was greatly affected, the price of coffee plummeted, and in order to maintain the monopoly, they limited production, which caused many cartel members to suffer an economic crisis, and in order to maintain the existence of the cartels, several of the largest coffee merchants provided loans to members who were in trouble.

But they weren't strong enough to cope with a years-long market depression, and they were the first to go to the Americans when they were mired in debt since last year.

But the U.S. government refused to lend to them, and neither did Morgan, and the U.S. ****** opposed lending to the Brazilian coffee cartel on the grounds that the proceeds of the loan would be used to raise world coffee prices, to the detriment of American consumers. The United States also declared that it was opposed in principle to lending for unproductive targets, which would complicate diplomatic relations if other countries were unable to pay off those debts.

Obviously, the U.S. government's control over the U.S. consortium has increased, and through this war, U.S. President Wilson's power has been further enhanced, and Yang Chao understands that during World War I and World War II, it was a critical moment for American political forces to completely overwhelm economic power.

Before World War I, the consortium was the undisputed largest force in the United States, and through the war relationship, the president's power expanded, and he began to interfere in the American economy, and the Morgan consortium could not cooperate with the government, but they had to consider their debt to Europe.

Of course, Wilson did not make concessions to the consortium, but mainly the concessions of economic interests, they acquiesced to Morgan and other financial consortiums, and quietly converted the very unstable European bonds into US government bonds by stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix into US government bonds, and in this process, as long as Wilson interfered slightly, Morgan could not calmly withdraw from the European debt. (To be continued.) )