Chen Zikun sneered: "Are you talking about the Soviet district where you killed your comrades until the heads were rolling?" ”

Liu Ting said: "I have never been to the Soviet area. But based on the feedback from all sides, the people at least carried out the land reform work vividly, which can also explain why they can cope with the four encirclement and suppression, the people who adhere to the faith are invincible, Zhao Dahai could have escaped, but chose to sacrifice, it is precisely because he firmly believes that the path he is taking is the right one, we might as well look at the matter of the rebellion dialectically, under such a large-scale purge, the Soviet area can still insist, does not show the tenacity and firmness of the people. ”

Chan said: "But this does not explain the superiority of the system. ”

Liu Ting said: "How to explain the success of the Soviet Union, the tsar's legacy is not much, and the Bolsheviks have built Russia with great vigour, which is a vivid example." ”

Chen Zikun said: "I do not deny that the Soviet Union is carrying out a great political system experiment, the experiment always has to have a cycle, the current success does not confirm anything, I want to ask you two questions, first, is the current system of the Soviet Union theoretically fully grounded, is there any possibility of realization? Second, is the method of the Soviet revolution universally applicable to the whole world, in other words, can China copy the experience of the Soviet Union? ”

Liu Ting said: "You must not have read "Capital", the communist doctrine has a sufficient theoretical basis, as for whether it can be realized, I think if we live long enough, we will see red flags planted all over the world; The history and culture of the Soviet Union and China are different, the social composition is different, the method of revolution can not be copied in its entirety, but it can be used for reference, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China has not been trying to improve the political system, the constitutional monarchy has failed, the restoration of the dynasty has failed, the presidential parliamentary system has made a bribe to elect the president, a group of pig parliamentarians, and now it is the Kuomintang to train the government, **dominant, the new warlord Wufu**, are they all failures, I think it is necessary for China to learn from the success of Soviet Russia, at least for the people, One more option. ”

Usually Liu Ting always has a gentle image, but when it comes to politics, Chen Zikun can't say that she can't say it, he lowered his head and smoked violently, thinking hard, but he had too little ink in his stomach to take it out, and suddenly remembered a past, so he said: "I once read a cartoon in a British newspaper, the street is lined with paper-cut high-rise buildings, factory buildings, and visitors sit on motorcycles and look at the flowers, which is the true portrayal of the Soviet Union." ”

Liu Tingwan smiled: "I have also read this cartoon, the British are very good at satire, but I think no one's one-sided words can be trusted, what is the Soviet Union, the people who have been there, and the people who have lived and worked have the right to speak, we have never been to the Soviet Union, nor have we been to the Soviet Union, just talking on paper, it is meaningless, don't talk about it." ”

Chen Zikun also felt that it was really boring to argue about this issue, so he said: "Don't mention it, I'm going to take stock of how much wealth I have in my hands in the past two days, and it's more appropriate for you to do this." ”

Liu Ting said: "Actually, it's very simple, it won't take two days, the factories and mining enterprises you have shares in have a balance sheet every month, just make a consolidated statement, and the working capital and fixed assets are clear at a glance, but the real estate and acres in your private name and the gold and silver of the ladies and the soft private money, it is troublesome to calculate, and it is not convenient for me to count." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Then you can do it." ”

Liu Ting took out a payment slip and said, "I almost forgot, this month's special expenses, please sign." ”

Chen Zikun took it and browsed it, and it read: 200 pistols, 10,000 bullets, 20 boxes of medicines, 10,000 yuan, whereabouts: Shanhaiguan.

This is his private sponsorship of the Northeast anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese guerrilla materials, after 918, the Northeast has emerged countless anti-Japanese heroes who can sing and cry, the people in the Guannai enthusiastically donated money and materials to support the compatriots to resist Japan, Zhang Xueliang has also been secretly supporting the anti-Japanese forces, Chen Zikun is naturally unwilling, every month there are materials smuggled to the Northeast through Shanhaiguan, silently supporting the anti-Japanese heroes who shed their blood.

Chen Zikun signed the slip, Liu Ting picked it up and went downstairs out of the study, and when she saw Xiaobei coming over, she called Aunt Liu very sensibly.

Xiaobei hid a piece of chocolate in his hand, which he secretly hid and was reluctant to eat, the Chen family was rich and rivaled the country, so he naturally didn't care about a few pieces of chocolate, but his father said that children can't eat more sugar, it's not good for their teeth, and they send such a piece every week.

He planned to give this chocolate to Yang Shugen to eat, Yang Shugen was his good friend, no father, and his mother made a living by washing other people's clothes, which was very pitiful.

Yang Shugen is the gardener of the Chen family, the weeds grow wildly in summer, he hoeed all morning, his hands were worn out, and he was scolded by the housekeeper as a foreign worker, and returned to the gardener's room full of stinky sweat, and saw Xiaobei sitting on the steps waiting for him, khaki shorts, snow-white socks and pull-back shoes, spotless short-sleeved tops, and then look at himself, his clothes are ragged and his feet are muddy.

"Give." Xiaobei handed over the chocolate, and the colorful wrapping paper was printed with foreign characters, this black foreign sugar was very delicious, and the poplar root could never forget it after eating it once.

But this time he didn't eat it, took the chocolate and threw it on the ground: "It's not rare to have your sugar!" ”

Xiaobei was anxious: "No matter how you throw it, I can't even bear to eat it." "I'm going to pick it up.

Yang Shugen saw him bend over and kicked over, Xiaobei had practiced martial arts in the end, and he dodged in a flash, raising his hand and hitting Yang Shugen.

Yang Shugen is like an angry tiger cub, swooping over and fighting with Xiaobei, don't look at his malnutrition and thin body, and he fights with a lifeless momentum, and the adults are afraid when they see it, but they suddenly stop fighting, and cry.

Xiaobei said: "Why did you beat me? ”

Yang Shugen sobbed and said: "Whoever told you to take foreign sugar lumps to feed me, give me a piece at a time, I drool in my dreams, your family can afford to eat if you are rich, but my family is poor and can't afford to eat, aren't you determined to be bad." ”

Xiaobei stopped talking and walked away silently.

Poplar Root kicked the chocolate into the grass.

The next day, the housekeeper of the Chen Mansion came to the gardener's room, knocked on the door and said, "Yang Shugen, pack up your things and follow me." ”

Yang Shugen knew that he had beaten the young master, and the errand would definitely not be saved, so he had already packed his luggage and glared at the housekeeper stubbornly: "Just go." ”

The old man who worked together pleaded: "Housekeeper, this child has a hard life, can you take care of him and let him work for two more months." ”

The housekeeper smiled: "You kid is lucky, Mrs. said to send you to school, food and accommodation are all-inclusive, if you have a conscience, you can repay the young master and Mrs. when you grow up." ”

Yang Shugen didn't expect this to be the result, and looked at the white building in the distance in shock, his eyes blurred with tears, and he suddenly ran into the grass, looking like crazy, found the piece of chocolate, and carefully hid it in his arms.

"This kid, hysteria, right?" The butler muttered.

When Yang Shugen followed the housekeeper to leave Chen's mansion, Liu Ting came with the accounting statements, Chen Zikun's property was clear at a glance, the total shares of Chuntian Foreign Bank were 3.5 million yuan, the total shares of Jiangdong Railway were 5 million yuan, six iron ore mines under his name, more than 10 real estates, and some cash, with total assets of about 10 million, of course, this is only a number that can be counted, and the strength of the army, gangs and other forces that he has that cannot be digitized is not counted.

10 million assets, equivalent to the total assets of 10,000 middle-class families, I have to say that Chen Zikun's ability to accumulate wealth is far stronger than those Beiyang warlords in the past, the warlords and warriors only know how to expropriate and expropriate, loot people's wealth, treat local financial revenue as their own private wallet, get a few money and deposit it in a foreign bank to eat interest, once you sit in the wilderness and eat empty, you can still be a rich man, if you are used to spending lavishly, it is not enough to spend.

Chen Zikun was much more shrewd, when he was a warlord, he used the financial income to do business, and the money made money, and after returning to the central government, he used a large number of construction projects to build railways and build factories, using public funds, but the shares were privately owned, and the money was poured into his own pocket as soon as he came and went.

And Chen Shou and them, with tens of thousands of acres of land under their names, seem to be quite a lot, and compared with Chen Zikun, they are rich people in the countryside.

Chen Zikun sighed: "When the Republic of China was eight years old, I went from Fengtian to Beijing, I brought a knife and fifty yuan on my body, and now I have a large group of wives and children, and my family has a huge amount of money. ”

Liu Ting said: "It seems that you are planning to use Nantai as a political test field, I support you, but I don't know what the opinions of the ladies are." ”

Chen Zikun was about to answer, when Shuangxi came in and said: "Nanjing telegraph, the tax police corps was surrounded by troops sent by Liu Zhi, chairman of Henan Province, at Zhengzhou Station. ”

The telegram was sent by Song Ziwen, the tax police corps originally planned to be transferred to Beiping to join the anti-Japanese camp, but was discovered by Chiang Kai-shek halfway, and it was a taboo to transfer troops privately, not to mention that it disobeyed Chiang Kai-shek's policy of compromise with Japan, and the contradiction intensified, Soong Ziwen planned to resign as Minister of Finance in protest, and invited Chen Zikun to resign together to put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek.

"What are you going to do?" Liu Ting asked him.

Since he returned to the central government, he has expected today's situation, Jiangdong is not Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangzhou, and does not have the conditions for secession in geography, and he does not have the ambition and ability to compete in the world, and it is not easy to get to this point, how can there be capital and Chiang Kai-shek.

"That's it, even if the tax police corps goes north, it will be used as a burning stick in Han Qing's hands." Chen Zikun said indifferently.

"Do you think North China is not guaranteed?" Liu Ting said.

"First Rehe, then Pingjin, the Japanese will use all kinds of tricks to encroach on China's territory, or in less than five years, the war will burn to Jiangdong, instead of cheapening the Japanese, it is better to distribute the land to the people, by the way, take out some of the funds to exchange for dollars, go to New York to buy some stocks, last time I heard Mu Yichen say, the bottom has been formed, you can enter."

Suddenly, the phone rang on the table, Liu Ting answered, hung up the receiver after saying a few words, and said with a smile: "Miss Lin is at the gate." ”

Chen Zikun hurriedly stood up and walked to the window, and saw a car parked at the gate from a distance, a slender figure with a suitcase at his feet.

Lin Wenjing returned to China.

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