"Tick! Backbite! ”

On the asphalt road, which was repaired only last year, dozens of the latest cars made in China are lining up, and on the sidewalks on both sides of the asphalt road, countless passers-by are also moving in the same direction.

On the sidewalk, from time to time, there is also the sound of greetings between acquaintances.

Of course, with so many people rushing in one direction, accidents are inevitable.

At least on this road alone, many people collide with each other on the bicycle path today to play "bumper cars", but fortunately, the bicycle lane is also slow, so there has been no major incident.

Sitting in a domestic car and watching the flow of people outside the window, Ju was facing Lin Sendao who was sitting next to him.

"But there are so many people today..."

"yes." Lin Sen nodded, then glanced at a small car that was driving past them. "We haven't been back for a few years? What a change here..."

"Yes, it's been more than ten years, and it's been a lot of change here..."

When he said this, Ju Zheng sighed very emotionally.

By this time, it was already 1925, two years after Sun Yat-sen's death.

When Sun Yat-sen had just died, the Kuomintang, which had always been centered on Sun Yat-sen, was in chaos for a while.

However, after the Kuomintang's First National Congress was held and more than 30 members of the Central Executive Committee were elected, this confusion finally came to an end.

Moreover, because of the death of Sun Yat-sen, the Kuomintang members who originally had a very stiff quarrel with the Japanese headquarters and belonged to the Huang faction also began to ease their relations with the Sun faction, and many Huang Kuomintang members also began to contact the headquarters again, which also improved the cohesion of the Kuomintang a lot.

Although because of Sun Yat-sen's death, the influence of the Kuomintang has decreased a lot. But the easing of relations with the Huang faction can be regarded as a loss of horses.

At the same time, after the easing of relations with the Huang faction, after many meetings of the Central Executive Committee. The Kuomintang, who had regrouped together, also made a decision. That is more to ease relations with the Kuomintang and enable the KMT to develop as much as possible at home, after all, the KMT is fundamentally at home and not overseas.

Even if there were many Kuomintang members in Japan, the United States, or the South Seas, it would be impossible if they could not gain a foothold in the country.

This posture towards the Kuomintang. The Nationalist Socialist Party was not resistant.

After all, it is difficult for the position of the Kuomintang to be shaken at home, and overseas because the Kuomintang government is trying its best to fight for the rights and interests of overseas Chinese. In this case, the Kuomintang does not mind the development of the Kuomintang in China―――――― after all, there are already dozens of political parties in the country, and the Kuomintang does not mind that the Kuomintang will become a larger one among these dozens of vases.

So it took two years. Relations with the National Socialist Party were greatly eased. At the same time, after the Kuomintang was also acquired, the Kuomintang has become the largest political party in China after the National Socialist Party.

And today, at the inauguration ceremony of the Empire State Building, Yan Guang also invited Ju Zheng and Lin Sen, who are members of the ruling committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, to attend the ceremony.

So after a lapse of more than ten years, Ju Zheng and Lin Sen, two Kuomintang people who had never set foot on the mainland since the Second Revolution, finally returned to their homeland again.

However, just like Ju Zheng and Lin Sen said.

"There are so many people..."

That's right. There were a lot of people this time.

If just one street is already a flow of people, then what will become when countless people come together?

"Crowded"

"Is this the Empire State Building?" ..., when there are still more than ten minutes to go from the Empire State Building. Ju Zheng and Lin Sen could already see the Empire State Building in the distance in the car. However, it is not surprising that after all, the 110-story Empire State Building is too tall in today's Shanghai, so tall that there is not even a building in the whole of Shanghai that can reach half the height of the Empire State Building.

So when the distance is far away, Ju Zheng and the others can already see the Empire State Building in the distance at a glance.

"What a miracle!"

Looking at the Empire State Building in the distance, Ju Zheng and Lin Sen's faces were amazed.

On the side of the road, those walking on foot or on bicycles are equally amazed by the towering structure.

Many of these people are both Chinese and foreign, and many foreigners even calculated the time and came to Shanghai by boat to see the world's tallest building―――――― when the construction of the Empire State Building had just begun, many foreign media had ridiculed this project, because in their opinion, the huge building with a height of 110 floors and a height of 530 meters was definitely not something that Chinese could build, because even they could not build such a tall building. What's more, the architect in charge of the project has said that he will build the building within three years.

However, when a year passed and the entire project was halfway underway, the cynicism disappeared completely. Because even if only half of the Empire State Building was built, it was already taller than the tallest building in the world at the time.

You must know that the world's first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is only ten stories high and 42 meters high. Later, in 1890, two floors were added, and the height was increased to 55 meters. Moreover, the lower 6 floors are made of wrought iron beams, and the upper 4 floors are steel frames, and the walls only bear their own weight.

The Flatiron Building on Manhattan Island in New York City is only 22 stories tall and 87 meters high. However, the building was a prominent early landmark in New York City, and by 1989 it had become one of the national historic landmarks.

As for the Woolworth Building in New York City, which began construction in 1913 and was surpassed by the Trump Building in 1930, it was only 241.4 meters when it was completed, less than half the size of the Empire State Building.

In the end, many people were discussing whether this magnificent building, which was said to be taller than the second and third combined, could be completed in three years.

For many Chinese and foreign people who come to Shanghai to work, visiting this magnificent building, which is already half completed, has become an indispensable part of their itinerary.

(The world's first skyscraper was the 1885 Home Insurance Building in Chicago, with 12 floors.) It is 54.9 meters high. Then there is the World Building in New York in 1890, with 20 floors. If you count the spire, it is 106.4 meters. Then there is the 1894 Manhattan Life Insurance Building, also in New York. It has 18 floors and a roof height of 106.1 meters. Then there was the Park Street building in New York in 1899, thirty stories and 119.2 meters high. The Singer Building in 1908. Forty-seven floors, 186.6 meters high. MetLife Insurance Building in 1909. It has 50 floors and 213.4 meters. Woolworth Building in 1913, with fifty-seven floors. It is 241.4 meters high. And then there's the Trump Building in 1930. It has 71 floors and is 282.5 meters high, and the Chrysler Building, also built in 1930, has 77 floors, with a spire height of 318.8 meters and a roof height of 281.9 meters. Finally, there is the Empire State Building, built in 1931, with a total of 102 floors. It was the first building with more than 100 floors.

It must also be said, in addition to the first building in Chicago. The rest of the buildings were all in New York, and the tallest was the Empire State Building, a glory that lasted until 1972, when One World Trade Center was completed. New York's top accolades lasted until 1974 with the completion of the Willis Group Tower in Chicago, followed by the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, 101 in Taipei and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai... ）…,――――――――――

Although the Empire State Building was only half completed at that time, just looking at the half-built building that is still the tallest building in the world, many Chinese people have already felt a sense of pride in their hearts. At this time, coupled with the trust in Yan Guang himself, although the building has not yet been completed, the occupancy rate of the building's offices has reached half, and there is a new increase almost every day.

In another time and place, many of the offices of the Empire State Building in New York were vacant before 1940, and the Empire State Building was even nicknamed the "Empty State Building" at that time, but at the moment there is a steady stream of people ordering in Shanghai...

There are two reasons for this.

One is that construction began and was completed in 1929 and 1931, respectively, during the Great Depression in the United States. Of course, this is of course nothing to the real rich, because the appearance of the Empire State Building itself was built by the rich American man at the time, Rascob, in order to show his wealth.

And Lascob was not the only one building building at that time, and the Trump Building and the Chrysler Building were also the result of this competition.

The Trump building was originally planned to be 41 meters taller than the nearby Woolworth Building, and more importantly, 2 feet taller than the Chrysler Building's planned height of 282 meters.

However, the Chrysler Building secretly changed the height of the planned construction after the completion of the Trump Building, and a 38-meter-high spire was placed above the Chrysler Building. Chrysler dreams of having the world's tallest building.

Of course, this dream was not long surpassed by the Empire State Building, because Lascob was afraid that Chrysler would steal the limelight, so when he first announced the construction plan, he claimed that the height of the building was "close to 300 meters", in order to avoid accidents...

It's just that although these "damn rich people" are rich, and rich enough to squander them at will, this does not mean that ordinary Americans are also rich. At least during that period, there were quite a few people jumping off buildings in the United States.

At this time, the Empire State Building was completed in 1925, four years before the historical financial crisis, and was in the best period of economic development.

And this is also related to the second point, that is, the development of industry and commerce by the national government.

In the two years following the outbreak and end of the First World War, the government maintained a policy of developing industry and commerce, even at its most financially constrained.

Thanks to an interest-free loan of 20 million pounds (about 205 million silver dollars) from the British and Yan Guang's personal financial support, the Nationalist government survived this difficult period.

Thanks to Kolchak's more than 1,000 tons of gold and the Middle East oil fields, the Commune government became the richest country in the world after surviving this period. With a balance of nearly one billion silver dollars every year, I don't know what to do with it, and the government of the state government during this period can be said to be almost the happiest government in the world.

It was at this time that the Third Five-Year Plan of the National Government was launched.

The Third Five-Year Plan is mainly concerned with various aspects, such as the expansion of the scope of "free and compulsory education". Strengthen and increase infrastructure and medical resources, and catch up with the United States in industry and other aspects.

One more point. And most importantly. That is to stimulate domestic industry and commerce.

The specific measures are mainly to raise the upper limit of personal income tax, and to reduce a large number of industrial and commercial taxes and other taxes, so as to make China a country with the lowest tax rate with the least tax types, so as to stimulate the development of industry and commerce―――――― anyway, relying on the income from oil fields. The Nationalist government has a fiscal surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars every year, and the burden of military spending has been greatly reduced by the Washington Naval Treaty. At present, it is mainly focused on the army and air force, since it is better to reduce miscellaneous taxes and reduce the burden on the people and enterprises......

Because of this, although the fiscal revenue of the national government in 23 years was only the same as that in 22 years. But the economic growth is by leaps and bounds. In the private sector, there are even three shipyards that can produce 10,000-ton cargo ships―――――― although these three are almost insignificant compared with the few owned by Yan Guang, but considering the word "private enterprises", these private entrepreneurs are still worthy of praise.

At the same time, due to the reduction of taxes, the consumption level of the common people has also increased a lot (there is no real estate at this time), and new factories and enterprises have appeared all over the country.

Benefit from the new policy, according to the latest statistics. In 24 years, China's GDP growth rate reached 13%, and the growth rate of fiscal revenue also reached 10%. Naturally, the fiscal revenue of that year exceeded the 300 million pound mark.

At least one-tenth of the offices rented out by the Empire State Building were rented by these new businesses.

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In order to build the Empire State Building, Yan Guang not only bought the land needed to build the building, but also bought all the land around the building and built a huge square.

Because I heard that Yan Guang wanted to buy it, almost all the landowners were very cooperative, and even a few people who regarded these lands as ancestral inheritance, and others refused to sell them, nodded very voluntarily after hearing that Yan Guang was going to buy them, and were even willing to give them for free.

At this time, this newly built square has long been densely packed with guests from all over the world.

Among these guests, there were even many dignitaries from various countries―――――― of course, all of whom came privately.

In fact, at least so far, these people are happy with everything in Shanghai, except for the tedious security checks that need to be carried out before entering the plaza to make sure they don't have any dangerous weapons with them...

However, this feeling of displeasure was quickly dispelled by the huge building in front of him.

"When I look closer, it's unbelievably big..."

Looking at the building in front of him, Lin Sen exclaimed.

"yes..."

Not only Ju Zheng and Lin Sen, but also everyone else in the square felt this way.

Of course, in addition to the unbelievable feeling, most people have more pride in their hearts, and they are proud that their country can build such a huge building.

And at this time, the builder of the later Empire State Building, the famous architect William? Ram was equally amazed at the building in front of him.

"How the hell did these Chinese do it..."

William? Ram went back and forth in his mind a dozen options, but none of them could build the building to a height of 110 floors.

And most importantly, of course, William? Ram didn't know what to do to persuade the American capitalists to invest tens of millions of dollars to build a building...

While the people below were still amazed by the building, Yan Guang and the others on the rostrum were talking and laughing.

The people below saw Yan Guang's smile on his face, and thought he was talking about the building or something else to be happy about.

Well, that's true, it's just a little bit wrong in terms of content...

“……… How's the progress going on Vietnam's side? ”

While smiling and waving his hand to the crowd below, Yan Guang asked Xu Shichang, who was attending with him.

"According to sources from Vietnam, Nguyen Ai Ai is progressing smoothly, and at least 70 percent of Vietnam's resistance groups and guerrillas have been integrated, and many of the remaining 30 percent are moving closer to him."

"Okay." Yan Guang nodded. "The integration of anti-Western forces in Indochina is key, as long as the forces there can be integrated. Then it will be smoother to expand the power to Indochina in the future..."...,"Understood. ”

"But there's one thing to be aware of..."

Xu Shichang, Yue Chang and the others glanced at Yan Guang and did not make a sound.

"Be sure to pay attention. Let those Chinese who were born in Indochina. Holding real power in the Resistance, and cultivating people in these organizations who are inclined to us, I don't want to drive out the British and the French, only to end up raising a pack of white-eyed wolves..."

For people like Yan Guang who come from the afterlife. This is simply a lesson in blood...

A lesson from the past, a teacher for the future.

Yan Guang didn't want to work so hard to drive out the British and French. In the end, a group of white-eyed wolves like the Vietnamese were raised on the Indochina Peninsula. Although Yan Guang is confident that as long as he lives for one day, he will not let any problems arise in the Indochina Peninsula, but he is now almost forty years old...

Age in his thirties. Yan Guang is confident that it will be no problem to hold out until the end of World War II.

But what about the end of World War II?

Sometimes. Yan Guang would rather trust the Slavs in the Caucasus than those monkeys in Indochina, because if someone chooses to support those monkeys in the Southeast Peninsula, even if Yan Guang can suppress it, I am afraid that he will suffer heavy losses like the United States in another time and space.

Therefore, Yan Guang had to make the so-called National Socialist Party of Vietnam and the Siam National Socialist Party an organization with real power in the hands of the Chinese. The rest of the posts should also be filled by pro-Chinese elements, so that nothing goes wrong...

Then again. The British and the French have been driven crazy by the Communist government in recent times. Because with the influx of weapons into Indochina, the resistance groups that suddenly appeared were simply innumerable―――――― who called the British and French in the past so fond of oppressing the colonial people...

And this is one of the reasons why Yan Guang signaled Ruan Aiguo and others to integrate local resistance organizations, because with the flow of a large number of weapons into Indochina, a considerable number of the armed groups that suddenly appeared were not controlled by the Kuomintang...

Although Yan Guang likes to see the British and French in a hurry, this does not mean that he likes his soldiers to be shot by his own weapons.

Vietnam is by far the most integrated of all regions.

In addition to the fact that the Kuomintang government sent a lot of people to Vietnam, another reason is that Yan Quang's precious chess piece Nguyen Aiguo...

As a revolutionary who had participated in secret anti-French activities since the age of 15, Nguyen Aiguo had extremely outstanding abilities and outstanding personality charm, which made Nguyen Aiguo's activities in Vietnam extremely smooth.

Another reason is that at the Versailles Peace Conference in early 1919, Nguyen Ai Pat, on behalf of the Vietnamese patriots in France, handed over a memorandum to the delegations of various countries, putting forward the famous eight-point demand for the rights of all nationalities, asking the French government to recognize the freedom, democracy, equality and self-determination of the Vietnamese nation.

However, the Paris Peace Conference focused on dealing with national self-determination in Europe, ignoring the demands of the colonial people, and even less seeing Ruan Aiguo.

As for President Wilson, who once proposed the "Wilson Peace Fourteen", when Nguyen Aiguo, dressed in a half-cut suit, stopped US President Woodrow outside the venue? When Wilson hoped that the United States would help Indochina secede from France, Wilson was dismissive of him and walked away.

And this also made the future United States pay a great price, because Nguyen Aiguo has another name, that is, "Ho Chi Minh".

Nguyen Ai Nguyen is just one of Ho Chi Minh's many pseudonyms, and it was also the name he gave when Ho Chi Minh traveled to France to seek help from the heads of state who convened the Paris Peace Conference in Paris.

It's just that the heads of state at that time, including Wilson, were dismissive of Ho Chi Minh, and it was for this reason in history that Ho Chi Minh participated in France in 1920, and went to the Soviet Union in 1923 to attend the International Peasant Congress and the Fifth Congress of the Communist International...

But now Ho Chi Minh has a better choice.

That is the National Socialist Party, led by Yan Guang...

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Nguyen Aiguo is, of course, Ho Chi Minh.

Otherwise, it can't be called the title of the most precious chess piece ^o^!