Chapter 209: The Imperial Capital (8)
"Those who do the wrong thing will eventually be swept into the garbage heap by history. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info "Marshal Li Han's words made Zhang Cheng feel a lot better. With the help of the Navy, what seemed like a delicate situation would soon take a major turn.
"Thanks to the Navy for your help." After Zhang Cheng pondered for a while, he said softly, "It's wartime, and everything must be made of war as the first choice." I believe that all military factories and enterprises in the country should be transferred to the mode of arms control in wartime, and the army should be directly responsible for managing and organizing production. This will greatly improve work efficiency. After a pause, Zhang Cheng added, "Especially for shipyards with extremely high technical skills and long production hours. β
Daming is a country above capital, and what everyone is chasing is interests. Even in the case of such a world war, the various factories that were extremely important for the war were still in the hands of the forces of capital.
These factory owners do anything for profit. It is not uncommon for a warship to be sold to the Navy for tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions. And the right to allocate military expenses for the army is in the hands of the first assistant. Shousuke has been using military spending to constantly reach out to the army, and at the same time suppress the army to maintain his authority. This made the army very unhappy.
Zhang Cheng knew that if he wanted to get it, he had to pay first, and it was impossible for the army to choose to help him for no reason. He quickly threw out a good thing that the army was very interested in.
"As long as it is for the benefit of the country, the army is willing to do anything, especially the navy." A faint smile appeared on the corner of Marshal Li Han's mouth: "The army is the purest patriot." β
"What kind of power can the Navy provide?" Zhang Cheng raised important questions. What the Navy can come up with is what he is most concerned about at the moment.
"The Navy has an entire Marine Division in Tianjin Wei and a regiment in Qinhuangdao. As long as you need to, they can drive to the imperial capital at any time. Marshal Li Han's voice paused slightly, "It's just the garrison?" β
"I'll take care of it, and I'll let the Navy know if I need to." Zhang Cheng nodded and stood up. After putting on his military cap, he gave a military salute to Marshal Li Han: "No matter what, I want to thank the Navy for its support." β
Marshal Li Han slowly walked in front of Zhang Cheng, raised his hand with a solemn expression, and patted Zhang Cheng's shoulder, "Young man, do it well, the future of this country and nation depends on you young people." After speaking, Marshal Li Han took a step back, raised his hand and returned a military salute vigorously.
Throughout the night, Zhang Cheng kept visiting important departments everywhere, naturally he couldn't hide from other people's eyes, let alone those local snakes in the imperial capital. They soon came together to discuss what to do.
"I really didn't expect this guy to be so restless. Originally, I wanted to give him a decent end for the sake of his outstanding performance, but I really didn't know how to lift him. The man who said this was a middle-aged man with a handsome face and an extraordinary bearing. If Zhang Cheng was here, he would recognize that this was Murong Chong, who had a one-sided relationship. He is one of the leading figures of the family alliance in the imperial capital.
The so-called Saga consortium is actually a loose alliance. He has many members, and most of the high-end people with assets can join it to get a certain degree of protection. But what can really decide the fate of this huge group is only a small number of century-old giants.
The Murong family is not the Nan Murong in martial arts novels. His predecessor was the Xianbei Murong clan who entered the Central Plains during the Wuhu Rebellion. After hundreds of years of ethnic integration, it is no different from the Han people of the Central Plains except for the surname. As for the so-called revitalization of the Great Yan Kingdom, it may only exist in the deepest hearts of the Murong family.
As a huge family with such a long history. When the Ming Dynasty's Age of Exploration opened, the Murong family from which Murong Chong was born quickly seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to devote themselves to it, and won the family's first pot of gold.
Subsequently, after hundreds of years of inheritance and expansion, this Murong family became a powerful family consortium in the Ming Dynasty.
The main forces of the Murong family are concentrated in the north, which may have something to do with their origins. When he learned that Zhang Cheng began to be restless and ready to resist, Murong Chong, who had already coveted the factories that Zhang Cheng had established in the north, was very disdainful and despised Zhang Cheng's incompetence.
The strength of the Saga consortium is extremely large, and they are the behind-the-scenes operators of the entire Ming Dynasty. For this group of upper-class people who have been born superior from birth, there is nothing in this world that they cannot do. For a nouveau riche like Zhang Cheng, who suddenly became rich, he has always looked down on him very much. However, he was extremely angry at the huge wealth and power that Zhang Cheng had accumulated in such a short period of time.
"Huh." The group of people around grinned noncommittally, noncommittal to Murong Chong's words.
Murong Chong is very smart, but he puts himself in a very high position all day long. In essence, he is just a businessman, but he always dreams of restoring his family's royal years from a thousand years ago. Even in the circle of the Family Alliance, he Murong Chong is also a character who is not very popular.
"Don't underestimate him." An old man in a long robe with a goatee waved his hand, and an imperceptible gleam flashed in his narrow eyes, "How can he Zhang Cheng be an ordinary person who can quickly rise to his current status in such a short period of time?" Haven't you read the analysis of the experts and professors we raise? It is said that he is a resolute and determined person. Don't even think about this kind of thing. β
The old man who spoke did not have a good reputation on weekdays, and when he was young, he was only the director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for one more term. But he is the head of the imperial capital royal family, which is famous in the entire Ming political arena! was rebelled by Zhang Cheng and turned to Zhang Cheng's Wang Fan from the family consortium.
The Wang family is an evergreen tree in the Ming political arena, and the children and protΓ©gΓ©s of the family are all over the world, and it is a huge bureaucratic family group that the first assistant has to reuse. The tentacles of the entire family stretched to almost every corner of Daming.
The name of the head of the Wang family, who is over sixty years old, is Wang Jing, don't look at him as an inconspicuous little old man, but when he was young, he was able to kill his head from among the outstanding children of the Wang family and become the head of the family, which is enough to prove his strength.
Moreover, Wang Fan went to Europe a few years ago to lobby Zhang Cheng's marriage, which was proposed by Wang Jing. At that time, Zhang Cheng was just Xiaohe's sharp corners, and Wang Jing's ability to marry so quickly was enough to prove his vision and courage.
The ladies of the wealthy family are not big goods, they are scarce resources. Every investment has to be rewarded handsomely.
"Hmph." Murong Chong was arrogant again, he still didn't dare to be too presumptuous in the face of this old fox, so he had to snort coldly and sit back with his legs crossed.
"Since he wants to break the boat, we can't pretend not to see it." After considering his words, Wang Jing turned his head to look at a middle-aged man sitting on the side, and said, "How is the Imperial Capital Garrison going on?" β
"After Zhang Yue let go of his mouth, our actions in the garrison will be much easier. Although Gao Qi's guy still bites his mouth and doesn't let go, we have already opened up half of the troops under his command. After all, with Zhang Yue's acquiescence, the officers under Gao Qi had no worries about receiving things. A middle-aged man with fair skin and a polite face raised his hand and pushed his gold-rimmed glasses, and said indifferently, "As long as there is a need, we can mobilize at least half of the imperial capital garrison." After a pause, he added, "With Zhang Yue's acquiescence." β
"Hmm." Wang Jing, who had faintly become the leader, nodded, and turned to look at a gray-haired but meticulous old man sitting on the other side, "What about what we have in our hands?" β
"The military basically doesn't think about it. There are only so many troops that can be mobilized around the imperial capital. Zhang Yue didn't speak, and it was impossible for the army to listen to us. None of the men in the gendarmerie command should be mobilized. The royal guards that can be mobilized and the forces in our hands add up to about 10,000 people, and it is enough to deal with Zhang Cheng's power in the imperial capital. Ming Gongzi is the chief of police, and we can also use the police in the imperial capital. And now that we have Zhang Yue's tacit consent, we can quietly transport a group of people in as a backup. The old man with obvious traces of excessive wine on his face waved his hand, "Zhang Cheng can't support more than a hundred people around him, even if he hides in the naval headquarters, he can't hide." As for the Fifth Airborne Division, we have already mobilized our internal forces in the army to prepare for the transfer of the Fifth Airborne Division. The marines of Tianjin Wei naturally had the imperial capital garrison to stop them on the way over. He couldn't have succeeded. β
"Well, that's fine." Wang Jing nodded with satisfaction, "The beast is the most ferocious when it is injured, we must be careful not to be bitten by him when he counterattacks." After Zhang Cheng was eliminated, I took over the pharmaceutical factories and laboratories under his name. β
The reason why these people want to take such a big risk to promote a large-scale turmoil in the imperial capital is that the biggest and most fundamental purpose is driven by interests. It's like the pharmaceutical factories and laboratories that Wang Jing said.
Not to mention sulfonamides, which have earned back a huge mountain of gold. Penicillin, which was just launched not long ago last year, is a huge treasure trove that has made countless people blind to the point of blindness.
This miracle drug, which can be called to bring the dead back to life, is in short supply all over the world, and it is completely the price of directly exchanging gold. Not to mention some other important special drugs and those semi-finished products in the laboratory. The reason why Zhang Cheng was able to gather such a terrifying wealth in such a short period of time was that these medicines were a very important source of income.
"Zhang Cheng's heavy-duty vehicle factories are basically in the north, and I think it is most appropriate for me to take over." Seeing that the topic began to turn to accepting the loot, Murong Chong immediately couldn't sit still, and hurriedly demanded all the chariot factories and automobile factories under Zhang Cheng's name.
"Why? How much effort have you made? "When it comes to vital interests, the originally loose alliance collapses in an instant. Someone said they wouldn't do it on the spot.
Wang Jing's strength is extremely great, he snatched the most profitable thing, and others dare not speak out, after all, the strength of the Wang family is too strong. It's okay to even do such a traitorous thing as providing military intelligence to the Japanese, who can compete with the Wang family? But you, Murong Chong, are a! (To be continued.) )