The bad impact caused by the stock speculation turmoil will not end in a short time, and the rupture of merchants' working capital has led to the cessation of commodity circulation and the stagnation of economic operations, and the rural areas and peasants under the conditions of the small-scale peasant economy have not been affected much. The middle and lower classes in the cities, those employed by the upper classes, will face unemployment, the goods of the petty traders and vendors will not be able to sell, and the city will enter a state of semi-paralysis. It is foreseeable that in a few months, the situation north of the Yangtze River will be out of control, and civilians, businessmen, and even soldiers will take risks to fight for living expenses, and then it will be the best opportunity for Lüliang.

Now, what Lu Liang needs to do is to welcome Jason and others back with a full load, in the port of Zhoushan, Lu Liang's anxious mood is like the European shipowners in the Age of Discovery, looking forward to the smooth return of their ocean-going ships, looking forward to their ships carrying gold and silver stuffed in the cabin.

"Chief, it's windy outside, so let's wait at the port office." Lu Yi said to Lu Liang. Such a huge fortune is definitely a booster for economic development for Huaguo, which has temporarily implemented the silver standard, of course, its use needs to be carefully considered, and now it is only necessary to cheer.

It was late autumn, and Zhoushan, south of the Yangtze River, also entered the cold season, coupled with the cold sea breeze, Lu Liang felt an itch in his nostrils, and then sneezed firmly. But he didn't want to hear the concern from the gene man Lu Yi, and looked at him with some surprise, this kind of care is rarely reflected in the gene person.

"When did you learn to care about others?" Lu Liang asked jokingly.

"The brain of a genetic person is not static, it will adapt and learn according to the changes in the environment in the process of experience, even if it lacks human feelings, but always knows to say the right thing at the right time." From the very beginning, Lu Yi acted as a big housekeeper, and then from Huizhou and Guangdong. Until the end of the Northern Expedition, Lü Yi was in the overall management of economic affairs under his jurisdiction, and later Song Jiaoren, Zhang Zhidong and other talents joined the system, Lü Yi played more of a role as a guide, and then asked Lü Liang for instructions when encountering major matters. In this process, the interaction between people is indispensable, and Lu Liang estimates that Lu Yi is now stronger than himself in terms of human sophistication. Of course, most people are better than themselves in this regard.

"One thing I have been forgetting to ask you, do genetic people have sexual needs? I think you can be paired with men and women even if you lack emotional cells, if you have that kind of need. ”

"Yes, chief, we can do that kind of exercise in the setting, and I think the idea of pairing is good." Lu Liang always felt awkward when discussing this aspect with the gene people, but he also knew the matter. It's time to provide convenience for the genetic people's subordinates in this regard, and in just a few decades of life, they can't always work for themselves all the time. But thinking about Lu Min's angry figure and cold temperament, Lu Liang's heart was hot, the original origin of this topic should be his evil thoughts, hehehe.

The slightly awkward conversation quickly moved on to other aspects, Lu Yi: "Chief." After the first few batches of wealth arrived in Zhoushan, they were all stored in the ammunition warehouse of Zhoushan Military Port, and it was impossible for such a large amount of wealth to be kept here forever. It still needs to be shipped to Wuhan, after all, our central bank is over there. ”

"Well, let's go over there when this matter gradually subsides, I don't know how many people are staring at this wealth now, if we let the people know that we deceived them, we don't want our prestige." That being said. Lu Liang still felt excited, just like the time when he intercepted the treasure of the coalition forces, it seems that there is an evil side in human nature, and it is addictive!

In addition, the German delegation departed on 15 October. It is expected to arrive in Guangzhou in two days, and the reception and negotiation matters still need to be decided by you. ”

Seeing a transport ship jumping out of the sea and gradually approaching the shore, Lu Liang waved his hand and said absentmindedly: "Lu Min has already reported this matter, and I will talk about it later, now let's welcome the hero!" ”

The transport ship on which Jason and others were on successfully docked in Zhoushan also marked the successful end of the rubber stock operation, during which the action team obtained 300 million taels of gold and silver worth 305 million taels from the north, and no one was killed or injured during the operation, and no one was aware of it.

The significance of this action can be divided into two aspects: First, it hollowed out the wealth of the north, including the Manchu court, the Beiyang clique, the Manchu nobles, and the traitorous merchants, so that it lost its greatest reliance on the unified action against China, and caused heavy losses to the foreigners in China, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the foreigners, and could be regarded as recovering a little interest on the wealth plundered by the foreign powers in China.

On the other hand, Huaguo has obtained a large amount of wealth, and this money will be used as a construction fund for infrastructure construction, improvement of people's livelihood, disaster rescue, road construction, etc., which will be completely taken from the people and used by the people, which is also the basis for Lu Liang's bold implementation of actions.

For a long time, Lüliang has been expanding vigorously, building factories, building infrastructure, and expanding the army, and most of the wealth needed has relied on gold and silver minerals brought by seabed mining vehicles to find a balance between money supply and demand, in addition to the income from factories and tax revenues from economic operation. With the expansion of economic scale and the construction of heavy industry, the production capacity of the steel base is not enough to provide enough wealth, and Lu Liang, who is used to squandering, of course, needs to find a new source of wealth, so there is this fraud.

Jason, William, Rhodes and others were hidden, and several secret villas of the Investigation Bureau in Shangri-La, Yunnan Province would become their recuperation locations, and the specific recuperation time would depend on how quickly the incident subsided. The headquarters of the Investigation Bureau investigated and analyzed the matter of being discovered in the final stage of wealth transfer, and the responsible person Wu Jinzhong was offset by merit and continued to serve as the stationmaster of Tianjin Station.

At the end of this side, I didn't pay attention to the chaos in the north, the time was close to the low of November, and there were two major things that Lu Liang needed to deal with personally. The delegation to San Francisco in the United States to participate in the mediation negotiations had already left Shanghai in early November, where Lu Liang had the support of the San Francisco consortium owned by Lu Er, and Lu Liang did not need to worry much. The head of the delegation was Zhang Taiyan, and Zhang Zhidong, who was old and serious, went together. The 68-year-old Zhang Zhidong has lived a leisurely life in Wuhan for more than a year, and he did not want to continue to participate in the political affairs of China, but he did not expect that Lu Liang would come to visit him many times and ask Zhang Zhidong for advice on many things.

There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, Lu Liang knows how naïve he is in politics, he can get to this point, it is nothing more than the strong plug-in ability of the steel base, like Zhang Zhidong, a person like Zhang Zhidong, in many things to see more thoroughly than Lu Liang. Moreover, Lu Liang brought Zhang Zhidong the best genetic doctors, as well as super era drugs produced by the steel base and specially used for Lu Liang and other high-level people, so that Zhang Zhidong relieved his worries about illness, and after careful conditioning, he was refreshed, and he did not look like an old man at all.

The spirit was so high that Zhang Zhidong could no longer be idle, just as the San Francisco negotiations were imminent, Zhang Zhidong took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the United States together, and everyone dissuaded him on the grounds of high risks at sea and long distances, how could Zhang Zhidong insist on going his own way, even if Lu Liang's persuasion did not listen, just like a stubborn old man in a big family, he could only order someone to take care of him carefully and let him follow.

Another major event is the German delegation mentioned by Lu Yi, which is a big piece of fat and is also related to China's long-term strategy, which must be taken seriously, and its importance is not much lower than that of the San Francisco negotiations, and Lu Liang decided to personally greet those Germans.

On the afternoon of 23 November, a German merchant ship docked at the port of Guangzhou, and the port personnel deliberately cleared out a wharf and set up a separation zone on the periphery; after disembarking, the German delegation of 50 people immediately entered three luxury coaches and went to the No. 1 Guest House of the Army in Guangzhou under the escort of more than a dozen armed military vehicles.

The importance that Kaiser Wilhelm II attached to China was reflected in various aspects, as can be seen from the composition of the members of the delegation. The head of the delegation is the current German Chancellor Hohenlohe, the deputy head of the delegation is Wilhelm II's eldest son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, and the rest include people from the political, military, and business circles, including Moltke Jr., the chief of the German General Staff during World War I, a Prussian nobleman, and a lieutenant general in the army, Gustav, the new controller of the Krupp family, and Karl Benz, the owner of Germany's largest automobile company, and the inventor of automobiles, all of whom are now the elites of Germany.

But on the passenger car, these elites can not see the appearance of the deserved, it may be that the long-term drift at sea is tiring, after all, the environment of the merchant ship is not as good as the super cruise ship of the International Shipping Company (owned by Morgan), these people are pampered, it is difficult to endure the slightly harsh environment of the merchant ship, which is also the price that must be paid for secrecy.

Old Mr. Benz, who sat in a row with Gustav, was more tired, but his weakness came more from the uneasiness of seeing things with the naked eye, and the mysterious ancient country of the East, since the giant ships and cannons of the great powers knocked on the door of the country, no longer seemed so mysterious, giving people the impression of being more backward, backward and backward. Benz knew that the country he was in was different, but he didn't expect that the gap between reality and his imagination was so big that it was shocking! (To be continued.) )

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