Chapter 3: The Sound of the Wind (1)

"Dear Fang, the German Business Alliance will hold a reception in Beijing tomorrow night, and on behalf of all Chinese businessmen, I pray for your presence." When Victor used the word "pray", Fang Jianxiong's expression changed. The smile slowly disappeared from the face of the first person in the Republic of China, and the solemn expression showed that Fang Jianxiong was restraining his anger.

The other four German businessmen all had a flustered look on their faces, they didn't mean to complain about Victor, but the uneasiness was certain. Inviting Fang Jianxiong to attend the reception was the opinion of all the people of the German Business Alliance. In the past month, especially after the end of the war in Europe, foreign orders have dropped sharply, and some low-tech private enterprises developed during the European war have begun to decline, and the economic development of all parts of the country has stagnated. Compared with low-tech private enterprises, the enterprises invested by German businessmen in China are obviously at a relatively high level. German capital, which is mainly concentrated in the machinery industry, mining, railways and other industries, has not been greatly affected by the current situation.

The advantages of German companies are highlighted, although they are only the first to appear, but they are enough to make them the target of public criticism. Some local legislators even shouted in the local councils, "The Germans who defeated the war on the European battlefield won the war in China."

"Victor, come with me." Fang Jianxiong stood up, nodded slightly at several other German business representatives, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Victor and I need a long talk, please rest assured, Victor and I are old friends." ”

There were not many people who could talk to Fang Jianxiong alone in the study of the Marshal's Mansion, and even fewer foreigners. It's a very special treatment, and it means this honor. However, at this time, the German businessmen did not have much sense of glory, and the mainstream feeling was uneasy.

Having stayed in China for a long time, German businessmen are well aware of Fang Jianxiong's status in this country. It was precisely because they knew this that they thought of taking the liberty of asking Fang Jianxiong to attend the reception. After four years of war in Europe, the treatment of German businessmen in China has not been reduced too much. However, with the defeat of Germany, some local bad signs against the Germans gradually grew.

The Germans who are in it are naturally much more sensitive to touch than Fang Jianxiong, who is outside.

As a traverser, Fang Jianxiong quickly realized a very fatal problem from Victor's secretive words. That is the "rule of officials". Throughout the ages, two thousand years of Huaxia Ming. No matter how many dynasties rise and fall, they can't get around this problem.

At the beginning of the Republic of China, this problem was covered up because of other problems, although Fang Jianxiong did a lot of precautions, and the same was true of the choice of the political system. But this qiē does not change the quality of some things.

After walking into the study, Fang Jianxiong ordered coffee, beckoned Victor to sit down opposite, and said with a smile: "Old friend, here with me, you can talk freely." ”

Victor stood up and bowed, and said with a solemn face: "Thank you, boss." "The title of the boss. Let Fang Jianxiong smile slightly, wasn't this how Victor was positioned in Wuhu back then?

Victor was encouraged by Fang Jianxiong's smile and slowly sat back. Calmed down and said, "Boss, in the past month or so, a lot of disturbing things have happened. ……。 Victor methodically recounted what he knew, none of which seemed too big. It was all the difficulties of some local government departments against German businessmen.

Something like this would have been unimaginable before. This can also be regarded as Fang Jianxiong's blind spot in thinking. I would never have thought that the government departments would make things difficult for foreign businessmen. It was thought that it was just some commercial means, so the exception allowed German businessmen to have dual citizenship to deal with the past. Now it seems that the situation is far from what they think, and some people are already eyeing the huge profits of German-funded enterprises in China, such as the German-funded Wuhu Desheng Diesel Engine Factory, the German-funded Wuhu Shipbuilding Company, and even some German-funded enterprises in the Huangpi Special Economic Zone, which are also coveted by other foreign investors and some domestic businessmen, and various forces have covertly colluded in an attempt to carve up such a big cake. Due to the covert connivance of the local government, last month there was even an incident in which the Huangpi branch of the Desheng Diesel Engine Factory was forcibly sold at a low price.

It's a shame to waste the boss's time, and when Victor talks about these things, he simply says that there is such a thing. Fang Jianxiong didn't seem to have the intention of pursuing it, but listened to him patiently for ten minutes.

Victor finally stopped, and although it was very simple, it is not difficult to see that there are many problems with local government today. In particular, the Republic of China inherited the rules of many bastards in the former Qing Dynasty, and despite the threat of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, in most cases, the Independent Commission Against Corruption can play a limited deterrent role.

Obviously, this is not a problem of the system, it is a problem of execution, and it is a problem that needs to be improved in the overall national quality. To give two very simple examples, India and the Philippines. These two countries completely copy the West in terms of political system, but corruption is still rampant in these two countries. It's not that the system is bad, it's that the system may not be able to solve the problem. Parliamentary constitutionalism is not a panacea, and it does not take root in any soil.

After seeing these problems clearly, it is easy to find a helpless thing, that is, in the Republic of China in this era, many times many things are so helpless. What Fang Jianxiong can do is to follow a path that he thinks is right. As long as you keep at it, there will be hope. In this process, a lot of problems arise. In a certain sense, whether it is the West or the East, it is essentially a society governed by man, but it is not the proportion of the legal system in the system.

As far as the Republic of China is concerned, the whole su zhì is placed in that place. Fang Jianxiong once again thought about the importance of education.

Victor didn't know that Fang Jianxiong's thinking had run far away, and when he saw the boss holding his chin in one hand and falling into deep thought, Victor was a little nervous, and he didn't dare to say what he said next. Taking out a copy of the writing material from his bag, Victor gently placed it on the table, Fang Jianxiong smiled, picked it up and looked at it, and the more he looked at it, the more he frowned.

The materials are all lists of some German companies in China, Fang Jianxiong raised his eyes and looked at Victor and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Victor swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva nervously, and said in a low voice: "Boss, these companies all want Eurasia Group to take shares, and some joint ventures can give out some shares. ”

Who is the Eurasia Group? This problem is very clear in domestic industry and commerce, this behemoth can be said to represent the eighty percent of China's heavy industry, and its subordinate sub-groups include Eurasian Iron and Steel Metallurgy Group, Eurasian Machinery Manufacturing Group, Eurasian Chemical Group (including petrochemical), Eurasian Military Industry Group, and Eurasian Aviation Group, which can be said to be the benchmark for the development of China's national industry today.

Fang Jianxiong understood what Victor meant, and the assets invested by German businessmen in China ranked second among foreign investors, and the first place was the United States. Sadly, before the outbreak of World War I, Germany had a period of close relations with China and provided many loans to China. These German capitals have been very profitable in recent years. For example, Hanyang Military Industry is a Sino-German joint venture, and the railway from Chengdu to Chongqing is also a joint venture. There are a large number of wholly-owned German-funded enterprises in the Huangpi Special Economic Zone, including diesel engine factories, shipyards, machinery factories, sulfuric acid plants, automobile factories, train and locomotive factories, and so on.

Fang Jianxiong closed the material with a wry smile, and slowly handed it to Victor and said, "Victor, I'm too worried." In a few days, I will go south to inspect foreign-funded enterprises in various provinces along the Yangtze River, focusing on some high-tech enterprises and German-funded enterprises. As I said, opening the door to welcome foreign capital is not just a matter of talking. Anyone who wants to find trouble with a law-abiding company depends on whether his neck is hard or my knife is fast. ”

With such a simple sentence, the eight-foot-tall Victor's eyes instantly became hot, and he couldn't control the overflow of heat. Then he covered his face with his hands, bent down and pressed his face to his knees, and whimpered in a low voice.

At night, the lights come on. The American Hotel under the name of the Jewish businessman Sassoon was chartered, and German businessmen from all over the country gathered here. The price of land in Beijing has not been so outrageous this year, and the value of the renminbi is still very strong despite several years of small inflation. The Meiya Hotel, which cost 5 million yuan to build, is worthy of the most luxurious hotel in China today.

The six-storey hotel was placed in the 21st century, which was a very ordinary building, and in the Republic of China in 1920, it was a benchmark building in Beijing. The most outrageous thing is that there is a lawn of about three acres outside the hotel gate next to the road. Tonight, the road in the middle of the lawn is lit up on both sides, and the hotel entrance steps are covered with a red carpet all the way inside.

The hall on the first floor is even more colorful and gorgeous, with a bit of vulgar luxury of a big dog. In these years, the vulgar luxury piled up with money is also a very shocking thing.

The hall on the first floor was naturally carefully prepared as the scene of the reception tonight. The hall is flanked by rectangular tables filled with a variety of delicacies. The hotel hostesses in uniforms and vests were all handsome young men, standing solemnly in the hall at the moment, lined up in two rows. From the entrance of the hall, on both sides of the red carpet to the door, the carefully selected greeters were tall, long-legged, fair-skinned, and wearing cheongsams, which made them even more convex and backward. In fact, the cheongsam is a thing that is difficult for Yanmar to wear out of the taste, but Chinese women in these years, especially in Beijing, let a female baby stand in front of everyone wearing a cheongsam with her thighs exposed, and the girl will not be able to survive when she goes back, and she will definitely have to find a skipping rope to break herself. So at this stage, I can only go to foreign girls, but fortunately, in the Russian Revolution, there was a large influx of Russian girls, and there was really no shortage of girls with such good figures.