"Your Excellency, this is Mr. Xu Shuzheng, Vice Minister of the Chinese Army," Kenji Dohihara very respectfully introduced Xu Shuzheng, who had come to visit, to the new Japanese Minister to China, Yukichi Kohata.

"Haha, Hello Vice Chief Xu, I heard about it in Japan, you are a good friend of the Japanese Empire, and I heard that you graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School" Xiao Fan Youji mentioned very politely.

Xu Shuzheng nodded and said: "In a blink of an eye, it was ten years ago, when it was still the thirty-first year of Guangxu, and now it is the Republic of China." Mr. Minister, our country has changed a lot in the past year, and I believe that your government has also seen it"

Xiao Fan Youji also nodded: "The empire has always been concerned about the great changes that have taken place in your country, and at the same time it is also very worried, we don't know that the rebels in the south of Weishenme Zuihou have been pardoned, and they have also organized their own government." We would like to know what the central government in your country thinks. Weishenme will be the current situation? ”

Xu Shuzheng spread his hands and smiled: "It's very simple, we don't have the money to continue the war." In fact, not only did the government continue the war, but it was also very difficult to spend on the existing army. And we don't know what the British and French governments thought, and under such circumstances, they actually chose to hand over the customs of the nine southern provinces to the rebellious government. This not only increases our burden, but also reduces our income, and in the long run, even without the need to send troops, the finances alone can deplete our government. ”

Xiao Fan Youji seemed to have known that Xu Shuzheng would say this, and he smiled and exchanged a look with Kenji Dohihara.

Kenji Dohihara hurriedly sat up straight and said, "Vice Chief Xu, the Great Japanese Empire has never been stingy with its friends, if you and Chief Duan need help, we will spare no effort." In fact, we have an idea to urge your government to enter this war and declare war on Germany, and if this can be achieved, we will ......"

Iron Lion Hutong Yuan Mansion, here is no longer the presidential palace of the Republic of China. In less than a month, Yuan Shikai's name was no longer mentioned, as if he had never come to this Shijie.

And his old Beiyang subordinates disappeared after the condolences, and Yuan Shikai's children suddenly changed from the pride of the sky to the feathered pheasants, and no one cared about them.

In order to avoid the separation of the family after his death, Yuan Shikai also made a special will: "The son will each share more than 10,000 yuan in cash, more than 8,000 shares of various stocks, and more than 20 rooms per person, a total of more than 200 yuan." The daughters each shared more than 7,000 yuan in cash, and no other property. Mothers live with their children and do not give money. ”

That is to say, the property that our classmate Yuan Jingxue can get now is 7,000 oceans, which is equivalent to more than 40,000 catties of flour on the market, and it can be eaten for 200 years. It's a pity that he didn't think about the so-called inflation, the problem of good and bad work, and the problem of bad children and grandchildren. As a result, the historical Yuan family appeared in the third generation to engage in the profession of beggars, who could imagine that the grandson of Yuan Shikai, who was in a prosperous situation, begged for a living, and who could imagine that Yuan Shikai's son starved to death on the street? Therefore, the significance of education should not be overlooked at any time, because knowledge can always be inherited, and wealth and power cannot be inherited.

Yuan Jingxue has been a little annoyed recently, since her father's death, the brothers in the family have begun to make trouble and separate, some have moved to Tianjin, some have moved to Henan, in short, the family is no longer a family. Although his father is a thief in the eyes of the people of the whole country, in Yuan Jingxue's heart, his father is a big tree and his dependence. And now that this reliance is gone, his current third aunt Taijin is an honest person. Yuan Jingxue now felt that her heart was very chaotic, so during these days, taking advantage of the fact that no one at home was in charge, she sneaked out to go boating in Beihai with the young lady of the Lu family, and there she accidentally crossed the boat with a young man.

Don't look at Yuan Jingxue's seventeen-year-old Fantasia, she knows a little bit about the relationship between men and women, she has seen the story of the West Chamber and the legend of the White Lady. So she could still read the eyes of the medium-sized, well-sensed young man on the other side, so after getting off the boat, she hurriedly pulled Miss Lu and ran away, not even knowing the other party's name. Dislike!

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard my mother Jin shouting, "Shuzhen, Miss Lu is coming to you." ”

Yuan Jingxue looked back, and sure enough, it was Lu Xiaoman's sister, who was one year younger than herself: "Sister, why are you here?" ”

Lu Xiaoman pretended to be mysterious and said: "Looking for you to play, someone wants to see you." ”

Yuan Jingxue was stunned and said, "Who wants to see me, mysterious and secretive." ”

Lu Xiaoman looked at Yuan Jingxue with a smile and said, "Hehe, my sister, just pretend to be confused, do you remember the last time you rowed in Beihai?" ”

Yuan Jingxue immediately blushed, she hurriedly covered Lu Xiaoman's mouth, and then said to the Jin family: "Mother, I want to go out for a while." ”

Kim was a native of Korea and was a concubine given to Yuan Shikai by the last king of Joseon. She gave birth to sons Yuan Kewen and Yuan Keliang for Yuan Shikai and this daughter Yuan Jingxue. Yuan Kewen has been sent to her aunt who has no children since she was a child, so after the separation, according to Yuan Shikai's will, she can only live with Yuan Keliang and Yuan Jingxue, so she doesn't dare to ask about Yuan Jingxue's affairs at all.

Yuan Jingxue followed Lu Xiaoman into the rickshaw and ran all the way to Beihai, only to see that Wang Zhenpeng and Wang Geng were already waiting there.

"It's you, you want to see me?" Yuan Jingxue's face turned red after asking this.

Wang Zhenpeng nodded hurriedly and said, "Last time, last time, last time you were lucky enough to be in the same boat with Miss, that, that ......"

Wang Zhenpeng was also dealing with girls for the first time, his face was red, and his speech was stammering.

It was still Lu Xiaoman's little ghost, she pulled Wang Geng over and said, "Let's go rent a boat and let them say it themselves, go!" ”

The younger brother over there is busy picking up girls, and the elder brother here is not idle. He had just severely punished Zhao Yuting who dared to seduce him in the office, to be honest, this woman was so seductive, especially her jade buttocks, which were as deeply attracted to him as an aphrodisiac.

Dressed neatly, I saw Wang Zhenbang coming in, holding the urban planning and construction map of Wuhan City in his hand. According to the agreement, once they entered the war, Britain and France would take the lead in abolishing the concession of Hankow. Maybe the concessions in Shanghai and Guangzhou are nothing, but Wang Zhenyu is somewhat uncomfortable at the thought of the existence of a fleet of foreigners around him. Therefore, in the terms of the negotiation of the expeditionary force, the Hankou concession was also added, and Britain and France also expressed a goodwill understanding of this.

It was in this spirit that Wang Zhenbang summoned a group of experts to plan Wuhan's urban construction, and many of these experts participated in the construction of Anjiang and Liuzhou new cities.

Wang Zhenyu looked at the drawings carefully and said: "This plan is not bad, but it is still a little stingy, I remember that I said hello to my father-in-law, and the 20 billion yuan was left for you to engage in urban construction." Wuhan is not the same as Anjiang and Liuzhou, it is a key transportation area, and it is close to the Yangtze River, which is easy to waterlog. Therefore, there are two most important things to do in the construction here, the first is that the road should be wide and the planning should be atmospheric, and the second is that the drainage facilities should be first-class, which should be grander and more practical than those of Anjiang. Is it possible to add money in moderation? This time, the steel alone, the elder brother earned 900 million US dollars from the British and the French (the transaction price was 300 US dollars a ton, which is six times the price in non-wartime, but it is not 10% less than Bethlehem in the United States, and the price in Bethlehem in the United States is seven times that of non-wartime), do you know how much it is? 1.35 billion customs silver, 13.5 billion Chinese dollars. And next year and the year after that, there will be at least more than 400 billion yuan of input every year. ”

Wang Zhenyu was refreshed at the moment, he stood up and said: "We not only want to build Wuhan, we also want to build railways from Luyang to Changsha, from Jiujiang to Ganzhou, and from Nanchang to Xiamen. It feels really good to be rich, so you have to change this jihua, to be more atmospheric, to call Wuhan the center of the entire Central and South China, a world-class metropolis, go ahead! ”

After Wang Zhenbang left, Liu Guojun, then the industrial director of the China Development Corporation, and Lieutenant General Ma Xicheng of the Ministry of Armaments came together, and they brought the latest industrial construction jihua with them.

Wang Zhenyu took a closer look, in the next five years, Liu Guojun's jihua is to build an annual output of 3 million tons of steel plants and 2 million tons of cement plants in Anjiang, Liuzhou, Wuhan, Ma'anshan, and also cover a package of jihua including chemical plants, if to be realized, the minimum investment is expected to be no less than 6 billion Chinese yuan. At present, the fiscal revenue of the national government, which controls the territory of the nine provinces, has basically come out, and the customs revenue is about 600 million yuan, and the land tax and commercial tax are about 1.5 billion yuan. In other words, once this jihua is implemented, the three-year fiscal revenue will be gone, and this also includes the investment after the six-year compulsory education bill of the nine provinces just passed by the National Assembly, which is expected to invest 600 million yuan a year in compulsory education. In a word, the government's current money simply cannot support the army under Wang Zhenyu's command, Wang Zhenyu is paying for the army by himself, and he has to pay for industrial construction by himself, and such a country is very deformed. But there is no way, Wang Zhenyu must be so perverted, otherwise who knows what inexplicable place the money will be thrown into once the finance is concentrated. Wang Zhenyu is very clear about what kind of virtue his compatriots are, and he does not want to believe in the character of politicians, because he himself is not a good thing.

Wang Zhenyu motioned for the two to sit down: "I think we have to change our thinking, the production capacity of these industrial projects is what we need, and it is very dangerous to rely on exports to digest all the products." We better make the people in our jurisdiction rich and have purchasing power so that our capacity has a chance to expand. And the essence of socialism in our country is to let our government play the role of regulator in this process, so we have to expand production, and it is inevitable that our army will become the biggest consumer. Do you understand what I say? ”

Liu Guojun and Ma Xicheng shook their heads......