Beijing ushered in the Lunar New Year in the midst of a harsh winter, and the successive victories in the battles of Singapore and Sumatra added a bit of joy to the new year. For the first time in two years, the National Wartime Management Committee cancelled the New Year's overtime work in order to maintain the machinery and equipment that had been running at full capacity for two years, and also to allow the workers and masters to take a good rest. Wuhan, known in the United States as the heart of China's Great Lakes, is also in a festive mood, with businesses struggling to promote their products, the streets are crowded with people, red lanterns are hung on the bridge across the two rivers, and government schools are closed except for the staff on duty. Even Yang Qiu returned to the Wuhan courtyard after a busy year of work to start the annual presidential holiday and spend the festival with his family.

This small courtyard was given to him by Shen Shukai back then, saying that the small courtyard is actually not small, and it has become a Chinese-style courtyard villa after several transformations, and across the river is the famous Hanyang Industrial Group. Today's Hanyang is actually not the huge but chaotic Hanyang of the early days, Lu Bicheng according to Yang Qiu's meaning, only retains a number of core manufacturing industries such as military industry, new materials, strategic equipment manufacturing and engines, and the rest of the downstream industries including steelmaking and oil refining have all been stripped and sold. Not only Hanyang, but also all the enterprises owned or controlled by the Yang family, such as Jiangnan, Meteor, Huachen and Gulf Oil, have been divested in large quantities, which not only makes the much-criticized Yang's industrial and commercial empire look less exaggerated, so that it can be integrated into the tide of the economic market that has doubled in a few years, but also concentrate financial and material resources on core manufacturing and new technology industries.

Returning to his hometown in Wuhan for the New Year and participating in some of the family's welcome activities is a habit that Yang Qiu insists on. In fact, the Yang family is very large, and Yang Qiu's father's line is only one of them. Driven by him, every year at this time, the children of the Yang family will rush back from all over the country and even the world to welcome the Spring Festival. Yang Qiu himself is not opposed to clan traditions, as long as they do not violate the law and do not set up private halls, they are basically allowed to preserve, after all, clans also mean the inheritance of culture from generation to generation.

Although it is deliberately taken care of quietly, the beginning of the new year is still full of people. Li Yuanhong and Cai Yi's son, Shi Xiaolou Ma Kui, several of them who have integrated into the Yang family's industrial and commercial circle, have brought their children to visit the New Year, Miao Luo's brother and Lu Rongting's son, Lu Yuguang, the second generation of the Lu family, also came from Guangxi with his family. Yue Peng and Song Ziqing, who also came back for the New Year, and Cai Jimin, He Xi, An Guoliang, Jiang Tai, Wang Guangxiong, Yan Xishan, Wu Peifu and others who broke away from the military and politics, drank and talked happily, Chen Haohui, the father of intelligence who had been closed for many years, and Zhang Wenjing, who had faded out of the political arena, also came to Yang Qiu to catch up, and even the "hob meat" Lei Meng and Yang Qiu's second uncle and his family who went to South America for development also rushed back from thousands of miles away, and also brought back a whole boatload of South American specialties, which made the children happy everywhere.

Yang Qiu's children are also rare to gather, the twenty-seven-year-old eldest son Yang Tianlei has always been steady, although the military rank is colonel, but it has been determined to enter the theater command after the year. The new wife is the niece of Huang Yuansheng, an independent ** official, and a middle school Chinese studies teacher. The fiancée of the second Yang Tiancheng also came, the youngest daughter of Bai Yutang, chief of staff of the Navy. After receiving the last experience, he was much less energetic, and after the New Year, he was officially promoted to lieutenant colonel and went to an aircraft carrier as a deputy captain. He has a natural temperament, which makes young people like to gather around him and listen to his braggart, so Yang Qiu has always felt that he is his true heir. The eldest daughter Yang Sisi is becoming more and more like Rui Yao in her gestures, and she is twenty-six years old like her second brother, but she has already managed two influential electronic technology companies in the world, Global Tong and Lenovo. She also used military orders to spur the two companies into a competition. As a result, last year, the two companies made great progress in radar communications, computers, and microelectronics technology, and also recruited a large number of experts from Longmeng (a domestic unofficial scientific institution) and the 3010 program to set up two laboratories respectively. Listening to her mother Rui Yao, she fell in love with Zhuo Fan after a sorority. But because Zhuo Fan didn't want people to feel that they were clinging to Yang Qiu, they both hid it from Yang Qiu.

Eighteen-year-old fourth Yang Tianhui has just entered college, and he is also the most headache for Yang Qiu. Because this kid completely combines the advantages of Yang Qiu and Miao Luo, he is tall and handsome. is an athlete in school, and his eloquence is also very good, so when he went to college, his girlfriend changed a lot. Yang Qiu has already decided. After graduating from university, he immediately asked someone to be sent to the army to guard the frontier for a few years to see how he could cause trouble. As for the youngest daughter, Yang Siyu is also seventeen years old, slim and slim, and she is still a talented girl in the school. In this regard, even Yang Qiu felt that she should have inherited the genes of her mother Lu Bicheng. After the country promulgated the new marriage law in 1937, Lu Bicheng and Rui Yao, who gradually lived in seclusion behind the scenes, were also very happy to see their children return.

After a few horns, three official vans stopped at the entrance of the small courtyard. Suddenly an official car came during the Chinese New Year, and everyone was a little stunned, and Yang Tianlei immediately went out to greet him. After the car door opened, Vice Foreign Minister Zeng Qi walked out with two young men, followed by a middle-aged man. "Foreign Minister Zeng, Happy New Year."

"Isn't this Tianlei, you're back for the New Year?"

"There was nothing to do on the front line, so I took a leave of absence and came back to accompany my mother."

"Hehe, it's still hello, it's not like that kid in my family, I don't know where the wild has gone for the New Year." Zeng Qi held Yang Tianlei affectionately, and after chatting a few words of homely things, he introduced the three people behind him: "Come, I'll introduce you." This is King Rama VIII of Siam, this is his younger brother, and this is the Cabinet Regent, Mr. Tan Ka Lok. ”

A few days ago, Yang Tianlei heard from his father that several VIPs would come to the house during the Chinese New Year, so when he saw the three of them, he immediately invited them into the house. When Rama VIII entered the house and saw so many people, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, but Bhumibol Adulyadej opened his eyes wide and looked curious.

After passing through the large living room, Yang Tianlei led the four of them to the small study on the second floor. Compared with the outside, it was very quiet here, and when he saw a few people, Wu Han of the presidential guard immediately knocked on the door and invited everyone in. "Your Royal Highness, are you still having fun during this time?" Seeing Rama VIII, Yang Qiu hurriedly greeted him, and after a while, Yue Peng and Song Ziqing were also invited to the study by Yang Tianlei.

"Thank you President for your hospitality, my brother and I have visited many places during this time, gained a lot of knowledge, and had a great time." Yang Qiu's kindness made Rama VIII gradually calm. During this time, he did visit many places in China, from the big cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, to the remote areas of Guizhou, Lanzhou, and Kulun, and even to Lake Belga. I not only saw the old city that was specially preserved by Yang Qiu, although it has been renovated but still has an original flavor, but also saw Shanghai, which is known as the Oriental New York with high-rise buildings, as well as the prosperous Guangzhou and Kunming, and the economically backward northwest provinces. Speak from the heart. Compared with Europe, which has gone through a century of industrial revolution, China still has many backward places, dirty and messy places are not uncommon, and there are many poor people. But the flaws are not hidden, he has seen a kind of vitality in this country that is difficult to see in Europe, airports, roads, power stations and other infrastructure construction has not stopped even in times of war, pension and medical care are also developing from first- and second-tier cities to county-level small cities, and agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry projects are improving. In 1935, Yang Qiu proposed the grand construction blueprint of "every household has electricity and village access roads", which is unfolding at an unprecedented speed, if it were not for the delay of the war. He believes that in another 10 to 15 years, China will take on a new look.

What impressed him the most was the rise of industry and commerce, and the popularization of education and medical care. In almost every county-level city, you can see a large number of newly opened shops and small processing factories, and the goods are many times richer than Siam, and many families have walk-behind tractors. As for education, he was most envious, with tens of millions of students benefiting from the mandatory National Free Basic Education Act in 1914, and he met parents who wanted their children to drop out of school but were afraid to do so because of the huge fines and imprisonment. Of course, these are just a few. After all, in traditional Chinese thinking, only by reading can you get ahead, so after the state has the favorable conditions of free education and free lunch, the vast majority of people will grit their teeth and send their children to school even if life is difficult. Even if you have to walk dozens of kilometers to go to school in remote areas, parents will get up early and send their children to school in the dark.

In Siam, on the other hand, although a national free education bill was proposed by King Rama VI as early as the last war, it was due to the lack of state finances. The exploitation of officials and the economic colonization of Europe and the United States have led to a very poor implementation. Only a few cities, such as Bangkok, can implement it. In fact, China also has these problems, but Yang Qiu cleverly separates the government, the military, and education, and then lets those literati who are always talking about the government go to the parliament to focus on the construction of parliamentary education and appropriation every day. These days, the guys who are not afraid of the ground but who are pretentious and cherish their feathers have indeed played a role in supervising the popularization and implementation of education. On many occasions, he saw literati and celebrities organize themselves in newspapers to accuse a local government of being in a bad way about education and health care. And those opposition people's parties who know that they are not capable of coming to power for the time being have also begun to take a pragmatic path, focusing millions of eyes on trivial matters such as governance, education, and medical care, and constantly looking for fault with local governments.

Sometimes these things can make things seem very confusing, but it is undeniable that this kind of supervision may not bring much benefit to the country, and may even bring constraints to governance, but it has played an indelible role in promoting education and medical care, and has also forced the powerful national community to carefully deal with the counterattack of the opposition parties.

After comparing Europe with China, he found that the European model was not necessarily suitable for the East, and the man in front of him, who had spent more than 30 years forcibly pressing the ancient chaos into orbit by disguised dictatorship and force, and making it inertial and inert, understand this path better than himself and all the politicians of all Asian countries, so he has led China out of a different path. He didn't dare to underestimate Yang Qiu, who was in front of him, smiling and speaking kindly, and reminded himself all the time that the bloody and cruel road that Yang Qiu had walked was not much worse than those cool officials in Chinese history. In order to implement the "Cheng Cheng Act" alone, more than 100,000 corrupt officials and gentry who stood in the way of reform were shot and exiled for various criminal reasons. But such a "cool official" president has won unprecedented support and love, because he has indeed changed the face of China's poverty and backwardness, let 600 million Chinese enter modern society, and the "Cape Town Conference" has established the status of the world's three major powers! So there are also newspapers that propose to amend the constitution in order to keep "their president" in power for a long time.

Rama VIII spoke softly to Yang Qiu, and what the narrator saw and heard, compared with his caution, Chen Jiale was noticeably more positive: "Mr. President, the king has already thought about accepting your country's help, but he also has some ideas of his own. ”

"Oh? Hehe, it's a holiday. Yang Qiu and Zeng Qi glanced at each other, made a joke, walked to the window, and asked, "I don't know what trouble the king has and needs us to solve it?" ”

"I would like to ask you to help me implement your country's system and education law in Siam." Rama VIII blurted out eagerly.

Yang Qiu remained calm, thought about it and said: "Your vision is very sharp, and I admire the ideal of a strong country, but you should know the recent news of the war, and my ** team has been staying off the coast of Bangkok." It's not that I don't have the ability to enter, it's that I've been waiting for you. I am willing to help you, and I am willing to help any neighboring country, because we China do not want to have bad relations with our neighbors, so when dealing with the issue of neighboring countries, I have always handled every detail carefully, and just like now, I never hastily send troops in! But with all due respect, there are some situations in Siam that I am not optimistic about. And Foreign Minister Zeng should have told you how China's current system and government operations have come to this day. Looking back at Siam, the current situation is almost the same as in our country for 30 years, like a bad clock, and some parts must be completely replaced if it is to be restored! Establish the authority of the king and the government! There is no other way. ”

Rama VIII was cowardly by nature, but he was clever enough to quickly understand the meaning of this cryptic statement. He looked at Chen Jiale, then raised his head and looked into Yang Qiu's eyes for the first time: "So what does Mr. President think we should do?" ”

Yang Qiu thought for a moment and spread out his five fingers: "I have five suggestions." First, to end colonization once and for all, whether it is real or implicit, or economic, you and Siam need to be truly independent. Second, it is necessary to eradicate stubborn diseases, solve the hidden danger of the current military junta, and establish a new government that is universally representative. Thirdly, your country needs a completely new financial system, and white Europeans will not give you Siam in this regard, nor will they give us any country in Asia, only we can help Siam at the moment. Fourth, roads and circulation are the foundation of prosperity, and Asian countries need to strengthen their ties and promote the flow of goods from other countries, so we need a better Asian rail network. Fifth. He paused and waited for Rama VIII to look more intently at himself before continuing: "There can be no more wars like this in Asia, and we need a new Asian security mechanism to jointly promote regional stability and economic development." (To be continued)