"Ever heard of the City of London?"

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A figure like Xie Guanhui would indeed be a joke if he didn't know about the City of London, the world's largest financial center.

Yang Chao smiled: "I'm not joking. You should know that in order to support the financial development of the city, the Queen of England has given the city a high degree of autonomy, and even the mayor of the financial city will not be able to enter here if she does not allow it. ”

The City of London is a part of London, but retains its own mayor, parliamentary system, municipal, police and court institutions, which is equivalent to a special area of London, similar to the kind of free cities that developed in Europe in the Middle Ages.

Xie Guanhui said: "I've heard of this below. ”

Yang Chao said: "That's what I'm going to say. Shanghai will also become the City of London in China, and you will be the first mayor of Shanghai! ”

Xie Guanhui was stunned for a moment: "Adults are joking? ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "Shanghai is China's financial center, this is an indisputable thing, the geographical location here is too superior, controlling the Yangtze River estuary, thousands of miles of Yangtze River goods gathered, how other places develop, it is impossible to catch up here." ”

Xie Guanhui said: "Shandong under the rule of adults is different. ”

Yang Chao waved his hand and said: "Shandong can be an industrial center, but it will never become a business center, finance is an inseparable business and trade, which cannot be compared with other places, and Shandong cannot be compared." London controls the Thames, New York controls the mouth of the Great Lakes Canal, and in terms of industry alone, London may not be able to catch up with Birmingham, and New York is not as good as Pittsburgh. ”

Xie Guanhui said: "The villain is taught!" ”

Yang Chao said: "I have already discussed with President Yuan Da that Shanghai will be autonomous, just like the City of London, but the region is not the big place of the City of London, but the whole of Shanghai, including Shanghai, Huating, Jiading, Baoshan, Chuansha, Nanhui, Fengxian, Jinshan, Qingpu, Chongming and other 10 counties into a large autonomous region. It's called Shanghai Free City, and you're the mayor. In fact, it is also an experiment, only give you five years, and if you can't manage this place well in five years, it will be abolished. ”

Xie Guanhui believed that Yang Chao was not joking, but really planned to make him the mayor of this free city, and it seemed that he had a lot of power, so he immediately became solemn, did not dare to speak, and listened carefully to Yang Chao's explanation.

"You, the mayor, are now appointed. But it's only temporary, you have to form a city council, and the city council will be the biggest authority in the future, you can refer to the leased Ministry of Works. As for how to govern it, I won't teach you, even if you let your hands and feet do it, you can even introduce local regulations to manage here. Anyway, it's just an experiment, of course it's good if you do it well, but if you don't do it well, you can't change it. I do have a proposal, Shanghai has always been very open, there are a lot of talents, not only Chinese, but also a large number of foreigners, you can also hire foreigners freely. ”

Yang Chao explained, Xie Guanhui broke out in a cold sweat, this is no rules, even their own laws can be decided, and foreigners can be hired, is this still a place for Chinese.

"But there is one thing you have to listen to me, in five years I want to see Shanghai prosperous and stable economy. Otherwise, you, the mayor, will be the end of it. ”

Xie Guanhui Alexander, but he decided to give it a try, after all, such a thing is really difficult for him to refuse, as long as he agrees, from today onwards, he will be the most powerful person in Shanghai.

Then Yang Chao, accompanied by Xie Guanhui, inspected many places in Shanghai, and the traces of Chen Qimei's group are still there, Chen Qimei is still the overseer of Shanghai, because Brother Pao has not yet announced his resignation, and Yuan Shikai cannot hand over this place to Yang Chao.

These young gangsters can choke Shanghai enough, and they dare not go into the concession of foreigners to make trouble, but they have no scruples in the Chinese realm outside the concession, and they dare not touch the property of foreigners, so they can rest assured that they will boldly extort money.

Shanghai and other counties, whether it is money villages, ticket numbers, or grain shops and cloth shops, all pay taxes according to their requirements, and the green gang scoundrels go to ask for guns and hold the orders stamped by the Shanghai overseers in their hands, who dares not to give them? Even the families of the rich did not let go, and they also came to the door to force them, resulting in a depression in Shanghai, many shops were closed, and the owners and shopkeepers hid in the concession.

Yang Chao met a few revolutionary soldiers who were holding women in their arms and swaggering through the city on the street, and they saw Yang Chao with a plainclothes man with a big waist and a round waist, and they felt bad and glared twice and left.

"Mayor Xie, I think you need to have an army in your hands, I can lend you 10,000 people. The military salary will be distributed in Shanghai, and they will completely listen to you, and they will do whatever they want, even if they let them rush into the concession to fight foreigners, they will not disobey. In this way, the market in Shanghai should be under control. ”

Xie Guanhui is also distressed about these great revolutionary soldiers, Chen Qimei, who was originally a big smoker and a woman, was lazy because he was the boss of the Green Gang, so he was accepted into the alliance by Brother Pao, and I don't know what kind of meeting this is.

"Lord Yang has been promoted, he is not a mayor now, and Lord Yuan is not a big president yet."

Although he believed in Yang Chao very much, before the implementation, Xie Guanhui did not dare to be careless, so as not to tell the truth, after all, the situation in Shanghai is still very chaotic.

Yang Chao smiled: "Don't worry, it won't be long." ”

Because Brother Pao never agreed to punish Yang Chao, he dragged himself in Nanjing and refused to resign, and Yuan Shikai actually kept a low profile for a while, stopped marching to Nanjing, actively negotiated with Brother Pao's representatives, and put on an attitude of hoping to solve the problem peacefully, which made some foreign countries worried about the collapse of China praise and received a round of applause.

But Yang Chao didn't believe that Yuan Datou was so honest, he must be waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to put Brother Pao to death, Yang Chao didn't want to care about these people's deeds, just watch the show honestly.

I also looked at a few Shanghai enterprises with Xie Guanhui, and they were also forced by the alliance, and many capitalists were complaining, saying that the factory could not be opened, and many of them were secretly looking for buyers, and the price was very low for a while, but no one dared to take over.

Industry is the most in need of a stable environment, I have never heard of a country in chaos, but industry is developing rapidly.

During the economic growth of the so-called golden decade of the Republic of China, the output of steel became almost zero, and the Hanyang Iron Works, which could still make steel during the Jangzhidong period, were suspended for more than ten years.

"Stabilizing these industries is also your main job!"

Yang Chao said to Xie Guanhui. (To be continued.) )