His Majesty the Emperor and his prime minister, while talking, stepped into their special car, and under the protection of the guards and military vehicles of the brigade, drove in the direction of Chaoyangmen, where a towering building stood in the sunlight.

Yang Feng's Empire State Building was completed.

This skyscraper, which took nearly 10,000 workers and took more than a year to build, used more than 60,000 tons of steel alone, has become the object of the attention of the whole world from the day of construction, and is regarded as a miracle for the Chinese.

Although the architectural structure is a copy of the original historical Empire State Building in New York, but the decoration style is completely different, in addition to being more in line with the oriental aesthetics, it is also far more luxurious than the Empire State Building, as for the original aluminum tower, this time it was directly replaced with a gold-plated one, which looks as dazzling as a golden sword in the sky, and is more in line with the identity of this building as the headquarters of the People's Bank of China.

The decoration of the exterior wall, then a large number of marble, of course, is genuine marble, from Yunnan directly to Beijing, its outrageous is no less than the Sui Yang Emperor, but there are railways and sea transport has nothing to do with the labor and money, even white marble, especially the bottom part of this precious stone can be seen everywhere, and the vast majority are equipped with the Chinese style of carving, of course, these are the same as the labor and money, all the investment is Yang Feng's own, and for these originally the most labor-intensive stone processing, He even specially developed stone machinery, the original economic underdeveloped Dali area, countless people are now selling stones to make a fortune!

"Yes, that's what I want." Emperor Yang said contentedly, of course, what he said was definitely not the Empire State Building, and this building was not completed all at once. For a whole year, he had been accustomed to seeing it every day, and he was talking about the two-hundred-ton mountain of gold in the hall on the ground floor.

This gold mountain is hundreds of workers spent a night here to pour the whole thing, there is no shape at all, is on a pre-installed, half a meter thick stainless steel base, take the molten gold water to pour it up at will, the final thing out has no artistic beauty at all, if it is not too big to say that it is a lump of golden stool is not an exaggeration, but anyone who walks into the hall of the headquarters of the People's Bank of China, see this thing will have a dizzy feeling. Immediately afterward, the awe of wealth arose.

Such a mountain of gold does not even need any special protection, it is placed directly in the hall, anyone can look at it casually or even touch it casually, of course, if you go up and cut a piece with a knife, it will definitely not work, and this will be a symbol of the wealth and credibility of the People's Bank of China in the future, and there is nothing more effective than the most direct gold.

Today, as the day of the inauguration of the Empire State Building, it is not only the emperor and the prime minister who have been invited to attend the ceremony, but also the ministers of various countries in Beijing who are also shocked and envious. Jealousy and the like stared at this huge mountain of gold, they all knew very well where this mountain of gold came from, especially the American Minister Conger, not to mention the loneliness on his face.

This is the Minister to China who has been in China for many years. It can be said that it has witnessed almost the whole process of the rise of this empire, and of course, the whole process of the rapid decline of the United States, from the time of the First Spanish-American War to the present full eight years. In eight years, the empire has gone from dying to the rightful hegemon on both sides of the Pacific, and the United States, which was once able to reach out and touch this position in eight years, is now divided. Struggling in chaos and even turmoil, His Excellency had mixed feelings for a while.

"Your Excellency, has President Bryan recovered from his injuries?" At this time, a familiar voice came from behind him.

Conger took a deep breath, suppressed the sadness in his heart, put on a diplomat-like smile again, turned his head and bowed, and said: "Thank you for your concern, Your Excellency's injury, under the careful treatment of the doctor you sent, it is basically fine, and I thank you for your friendship on behalf of the United States government and people." ”

"It's not a big deal, it's just a gesture, a great man like him, suffered this calamity for no reason, whether it is me or the Chinese, they are very willing to help." Yang Feng said with a smile that it is undoubtedly happier to see the Americans appear on such a happy occasion, especially when the United States has paid the last war reparations to China, but the United States is indeed unable to repay this indemnity with gold, so His Majesty the Emperor generously allowed them to repay it with grain and cotton.

"It's terrible to hear that the murderer is only sixteen years old, why would a child do such a murder to His Excellency the President? Could it be that there is someone behind him? Yang Feng asked with a curious gesture.

"At present, the case is still under trial, and the specific situation is not very clear." Conger said somewhat embarrassedly, he was telling the truth, the assassin was very hard-mouthed, and did not admit that he was the mastermind of others, coupled with the particularity of this case, it was impossible for the FBI to punish him, so there was no result until now.

"Ah, it's really regrettable, if the result of the interrogation is really behind the scenes, this person must be punished by the law, this kind of behavior is too outrageous." Emperor Yang said indignantly.

What he didn't know was that while he was saying this, a team of FBI agents arrested the current Ohio senator Mark Hannah, a well-known Republican political godfather, on suspicion of masterminding the assassination of President Bryan.

This news caused an uproar in the United States, you must know that this old guy is not an ordinary person, the US presidential election with money smashed started from him, he and Rockefeller's Ohio gang almost completely controlled the Republican Party, McKinley defeated Brian to win the election, it was he who manipulated, American cartoons even portrayed him as McKinley's coronation of cardinal, including the Spanish-American War was also promoted by him behind the scenes, his arrest means that the Brian government is serious this time.

"Mark Hannah? No, he is just a front desk, behind him are those business predators, it is Morgan and Rockefeller, Brian wants to use this to warn these real manipulators behind the scenes, and at the same time to tell them that this time is over, not only to let them know that it hurts, but also not to jump over the wall in pain, I have to say that His Excellency the president Yan zhòng lacks courage. Sitting in the luxurious hall on the top floor of the Empire State Building, His Majesty the Emperor said lightly while holding a teacup while enjoying the night view outside the window.

Brian is indeed very disappointed in him, maybe His Excellency the President is indeed a moral model, even if he is forced to this point, he still does not take more radical measures, Mark Hannah is indeed an important person, but he is just a political broker, a real front-office manager pushed out by the bigwigs behind the scenes, arresting him can indeed play a certain deterrent role, but now the situation in the United States is no longer a deterrent can be solved, it needs a stormy purge, For example, arresting both Rockefeller and Morgan Sr., of course, the harm to the United States is not something that Emperor Yang needs to consider.

In fact, several major predator-level figures in the United States, after all these years of tossing, especially the terrible kidnapping and ransom in New York and after Brian came to power, after a series of measures against monopoly conglomerates, they are no longer what they used to be, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt, who rely on the support of crude oil and rail transportation, can gradually recover a little bit of vitality, and the old Morgan can only survive with hard work, and it is not difficult to deal with them with tough means with Brian's current popularity.

Of course, arresting is just an adjective, after all, they can't personally participate in this kind of assassination, but they take some tougher measures such as forcibly splitting Standard Oil like they did later, anyway, they already have the Sherman Act, but no one has been paying attention to this bill since it was passed.

Then nationalize the railroads, print a lot of stock and give them to the Vanderbilt family and those railroad giants, deprive them of the right to manage the railroads and let them retire, and the American farmers will fully support His Excellency the President, these railroad giants are the most hated by the American farmers, and if His Excellency the President comes to an American-style campaign to fight local tyrants, the American farmers will be happy to die.

"This is a smart person, he knows that it is enough to stop, and the politics is nothing more than compromising with each other, and he almost took a life, so he must have something to say, but this expression will control him in such a way that the other party can accept, and take an important, but non-damaging core figure to bear the anger, so that the other party also knows that he is not fasting and reciting Buddha, so that it will be okay, and the United States will be in chaos if it goes further." Zhang Zhidong said very deeply, this old guy has just recovered from the discomfort of sitting a few hundred meters in the elevator.

Now there is only one of the three old guys left alive, Li Hongzhang died of illness last year, Liu Kunyi was a year earlier than Li Hongzhang, but Zhang Zhidong was the first to withdraw from politics, anyway, if his son Zhang Quan has no accident, he is basically the prime minister after Xue Fucheng's two terms of office, and the wealth of the old Zhang family is completely guaranteed.

"It's hard to say, his move also told those big crocodiles that he is not ready to compromise on the issue of principle, and now it depends on whether Rockefeller and old Morgan can tolerate this president to continue to play them to death." Yang Feng said with a cruel smile. (To be continued......)