"Hey, it's always the common people who are unlucky. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIt's not easy for these people who do business in Japan either! ”

Yang Chao told him about the interview with Elena, who is now based in China on behalf of Le Figaro and is in charge of interviewing Yang Chao.

"I call on all expatriates in Japan to return to China, and at the same time ask embassies to help China evacuate its nationals. We will hire cruise ships and merchant ships from the United States and Germany to evacuate overseas Chinese. I call on the Chinese people to cut off diplomatic relations with the Japanese economy, and no one should sell Japanese goods, even Japanese goods shipped by the British. ”

As soon as Yang Chao's call was issued, hundreds of companies in Shandong and thousands of enterprises under construction responded one after another, saying that they would no longer use Japanese cement materials.

Japan's cement industry has developed greatly in recent years, and it is already one of the top two industries in China, second only to the textile industry, and larger than the shipbuilding industry.

But they are too dependent on the construction of factories promoted by Yang Chao, cement, Japanese ordinary people do not have the habit of using it, and the Japanese economy has not yet developed to the time of building skyscrapers, so the Japanese cement industry suddenly lost 7% of the market, and many factories faced disasters at once, especially those small cement factories that took advantage of the hot wind to build, they closed down in less than a month, a large number of workers lost their jobs, and the Japanese cement industry was the first to break out of the economic crisis.

The second surprise was in the textile industry.

"Champion Gong, I heard that the sales of your Dasheng Yarn Factory have been a little stagnant recently."

Zhang Jian's yarn mill has expanded too violently, doubling the growth in a year, who can stand it, this year the tenth branch of Dasheng Yarn Factory was put into operation, Dasheng Yarn Factory suddenly has 400,000 spindles, employing 100,000 workers.

However, the crazy expansion made Dasheng's products also unsalable, because the expansion of other yarn factories was also fierce, especially in the years of the Northeast War, more than 50 large yarn factories were built in the Dongying area, employing more than 600,000 female workers.

"Isn't it, there are too many yarn mills!"

Zhang Jian smiled bitterly.

Dongying is now not only Dasheng, Rong's and other four major textile companies, many capitalists from Shanghai have come to Dongying to set up factories, of course, the scale of their yarn factory is not as large as Dasheng, but Dasheng did not use the scale to squeeze them, on the contrary, Zhang Jian made a very surprising move, vigorously support these juniors, send technicians to help them, and also built a textile school to recruit young girls, train them to be qualified workers, and allow other yarn factories to recruit workers in Dasheng's school.

Why did Zhang Jian do this?

"Do you remember my bet with you?"

Yang Chao said with a smile.

Zhang Jian glanced at him: "Of course I remember." However, the old man can't hold it anymore, the old man doesn't have the face of Lord Yang, and he can borrow billions of taels of silver from Yang Chao at every turn. ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "Don't worry, I believe that you will be able to live a good life for a few years in the next few years!" ”

Zhang Jian's face became heavy: "Is there going to be a war again?" ”

He came to Yang Chao for this matter, seeing the current confrontation between China and Japan, as a scholar doctor with the world in mind, Zhang Jian could not be concerned, he was worried about this, he was not afraid of Japan, but he felt that now was the time for various undertakings to make great strides, how could he fight with the Japanese at this time.

Although Yang Chao united with Japan to fight the Russians last time, Zhang Jian did not think it was very necessary, although it turned out that Dasheng's business was very good in those years, and the Northeast was almost monopolized, but this kind of practice of waging war to transfuse blood to industry, Zhang Jian really found it difficult to agree.

As soon as he heard Yang Chao say that they could live a good life for a few more years, Zhang Jian couldn't help but think that Yang Chao was going to fight again.

Yang Chao shook his head: "Why is the champion so afraid of war?" ”

Zhang Jian said: "The people are suffering, the people are suffering, a war is the displacement of the people, Japan is not as good as Russia, Japan's navy is powerful." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Don't worry. This is not a military war, but an economic war. To be precise, the industrial war with Japan, my army is useless, and I have to look at the yarn factory of the champion. ”

Zhang Jian asked, "What's the explanation?" ”

Although Zhang Jian didn't say it, he was actually quite shocked by Yang Chao's various methods, without a certain concept of the overall situation, he couldn't do those things like Yang Chao, at least Zhang Jian sighed to himself, so I don't know when he started, he was used to listening to Yang Chao's opinions, but he was a little unconfident about the worries in his heart.

Yang Chao said: "As long as we are nervous with Japan, Japanese textiles will not be able to enter China, whether it is the north or the south, whoever dares to buy Japanese goods, those who read will dare to smash his house, which shop dares to sell Japanese goods, and students will dare to burn his shop." ”

Even if the students are not so radical, Yang Chao will make them radical, even if they spend money to hire a few little Liu hooligans to pretend to be students, as long as it causes a sense of social tension, whether intentionally or unintentionally, no one dares to have a relationship with Japanese goods, this is not the future generation, and someone will come out to scold when they smash a few cars.

This is a fierce era when you wear a Japanese kimono and you will be stripped naked when you go out on the street, an era of revolution, an era when national consciousness is awakening, and some people are too fierce.

"Will the Japanese give up? Really won't fight? ”

If it was the market that those soldiers fought for him with their lives, Zhang Jian was really a little uneasy, but if he could get the market without fighting and boycotting Japanese goods, he would be happy to fill it.

Yang Chao smiled: "Champion Gong thinks that the Japanese are stupid? ”

Zhang Jian shook his head: "Not only is it not stupid, but it may be much smarter than the adults in our dynasty." ”

Zhang Jian is talking about Yuan Shikai, Zhang Jian and Yuan Shikai are enemies, the reason is that both of them worked together under Wu Changqing of the Huai Army, Zhang Jian was a senior, Yuan Shikai went later, Wu Changqing felt that Yuan Shikai did not learn and had no skills, so he asked him to learn from Zhang Jian, who was known as a talented man at that time.

At the beginning, Yuan Shikai was extremely respectful to Zhang Jian, and held a disciple ceremony in front of Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian also regarded Yuan Shikai as a student, and was strict with him and taught him carefully. But later Yuan Shikai went to North Korea and became more and more developed, and his attitude towards Zhang Jian began to change, and Zhang Jian heard that Yuan Shikai was flying in North Korea, and he was very disdainful of Yuan Shikai's approach, so he wrote a letter to reprimand him as a teacher. Where did Yuan Shikai have a good temper, it was when he was complacent, so he sneered at Zhang Jian, and the two broke off their relationship.

In the original history, when Yuan Shikai was active in the constitution, Zhang Jiancai wrote another letter to Yuan Shikai and reconciled. But in this history, due to the emergence of Yang Chao, Yuan Shikai confronted Zaifeng very early, and he had no chance to participate in court politics at all, but supported the army in Zhili and self-respect, which made Zhang Jian despise.

Even if Yuan Shikai is now the president, Zhang Jian despises him even more, so behind his back, Zhang Jian even has a lot of activities with the GM Party, and even wanted to help the GM Party purchase arms, but Yang Chao politely refused, and had a little unhappiness with Yang Chao for this, so Yang Chao made a bet with him.

After Brother Pao disregarded the overall situation and launched a war against Yuan, Zhang Jian realized that this was a merchandised person who only wanted to fight for power by any means, and compared with Yuan Shikai, it was a good thing, so he reconciled with Yang Chao again.

"That champion thinks that Japan is stronger or weaker than my Republic of China?"

Yang Chao asked again.

Zhang Jian said: "Xu is slightly stronger in Japan. ”

The changes in Shandong in recent years have increased Zhang Jian's confidence a lot, and those arsenals and shipyards are the source of confidence.

But the shadow of perennial failure made Zhang Jian not optimistic.

"Therefore, the Republic of China will never take the initiative to attack Japan!"

Yang Chaodao. Zhang Jian nodded.

"Which is stronger or weaker than the United States and Germany?"

Yang Chao asked again.

Zhang Jian said: "Nature is strong in virtue. ”

This time, Zhang Jian's answer was very firm, everyone knows that the US economy is the first in the world, and the German Army is the first in the world.

Yang Chao smiled: "Since the Japanese are smart enough and know that they are not the opponents of virtue, how can they risk going to war with virtue?" ”

Zhang Jian is not unaware of the Sino-American and German alliance treaty, but he does not think that the United States and Germany will go to war with Japan for China, and the treaty has no meaning in the eyes of a traditional Chinese scholar like him, just like China abandoning Vietnam is like abandoning a dog.

But if you don't bear obligations, you lose power, and Westerners are very clear about power and obligations.

"Don't worry, international treaties are meant to be observed, and some of the things in our minds should be thrown away."

Of course, Yang Chao is not so naïve, the reason why Western countries respect the treaty is not because of morality, but because of interests, they know that the harm of not abiding by the treaty is far greater than the harm of abiding by the treaty, if they find that they can benefit more from not abiding by the treaty, they will not hesitate to tear the treaty, as if they were obviously allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I, but they sided with Britain, France and Russia, because they felt that Britain, France and Russia could win.

The Russians even say that treaties are meant to be torn up, and there has never been a tradition of abiding by treaties, but at the same time the Russians have the lowest international reputation.

However, Yang Chao knew that Germany and the United States would never announce in advance that they would not fulfill their treaty obligations, and the British would not encourage Japan to go to war, so the Japanese would not dare to take risks if they gave Japan a guarantee in advance.

So this war can't be fought.

Even if there is a real fight, Yang Chao is confident that he will block the Japanese, this is an era when defense is better than offense, and the defense is still defended.

Zhang Jian is still not at ease.

Yang Chao smiled: "Put your heart in your stomach." As long as the champion remembers our gambling contract, the others have us, and if they are not in their position, they don't have to worry about it. ”

Zhang Jian snorted coldly, people like him always felt that he should take care of the affairs of the world and not let him worry about it, he was scolding him.

"The old man will remember!"

Then he brushed his sleeves away, and after the war with Yuan, his good impression of Yang Chao that had just risen dissipated a little.

Bet, what bet?

Yang Chao made a bet with Zhang Jian that when Zhang Jian's textile industry could employ 3 million workers in Shandong, it would be the time for China to gain the status of a world power.

The sign of the attainment of great power status was the abolition of all unequal treaties and the recovery of all concessions occupied by foreigners.

Of course, the bet between the two is only limited to Shandong, that is, Yang Chao wants to take back Qingdao.

If Zhang Jian and his team succeeded in employing 3 million workers, and Yang Chao had not yet abolished these treaties, then Yang Chao would have gone to Zhang Jian's yarn factory to work as a sweeper for a month.

And if Yang Chao abolished those unequal treaties in advance and recovered the colony, then Zhang Jian would give Yang Chao a month's pen post to help Yang Chao draft and polish ink!

In order to achieve this goal, Zhang Jian established the Textile Chamber of Commerce, called on the capitalists in Jiangnan to come to Shandong to set up factories, and then sent his own technicians to help.

In fact, where does Zhang Jian care about Yang Chao going to clean the toilet for him, he just needs a goal, a goal that can be seen and touched, and then strive for this goal, instead of blindly groping in the dark night. (To be continued.) )