Chapter 290: The Industrial Age (4)
June 1 is the legendary International Children's Day, but at this time the big brother of socialism is still under the rule of the reactionary and decadent tsarist family, and the so-called militant Russian nation does not know what the so-called hunger is. Naturally, there is no such festival in this era, and the leaders don't have to spend time putting on a show, and the children don't have to dance hard to show the leaders to show their happiness.
Wang Zhenyu returned to Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government, on this day, but this time he only stayed in Nanjing for a short time, and he got off the ship and stayed for one night before going to Shanghai, so both Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen were told that because they had no time, they would go to see their uncle Wang Longzhong, and would not visit others, and Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen could only express their understanding of this.
However, there are two people in Nanjing who will definitely come to visit Wang Zhenyu, one is Zhang Taiyan, who feels a little excluded recently, and the other is Wang Jingwei, the mayor of Nanjing.
Zhang Taiyan came to visit because he lacked sufficient support from the Nationalist government, and he, the speaker of the National Assembly, began to move towards a state of marginalization of power. He did not have Wang Longzhong's good mentality of having no desires and no desires, and even more because of his historical grudges, and he was unwilling to coexist peacefully with Sun Yat-sen's faction, so less than a month after the establishment of the Nationalist Government, there were constant conflicts between the government and the parliament, and a budget review bill took more than 20 days, and it was barely passed under the mediation of Huang Xing's efforts. The problem is that even if Huang Xing has a relationship with Sun Yat-sen, it is a trivial matter, in essence, he will still consciously or unconsciously stand on Sun Yat-sen's side, which makes Zhang Taiyan have to be at a disadvantage in the struggle between the government and the parliament. So as soon as the news of Wang Zhenyu passing through Nanjing came, Wang Zhenyu moved into his uncle's official residence on the front foot, and Zhang Taiyan on the back foot came to visit.
The official residence that Wang Zhenyu chose for himself was located in the Jiangning Weaving Mansion in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the former residence of Cao Yin, a weaver in Jiangning during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is also the Nanjing Office of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government. Across the door from the newly widened cement road is the private residence of Huang Xing, the chairman of the Nationalist Government, part of the Daxing Palace of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, which was used by the Supervision Yuan and the Chairman's Palace, and where Sun Wen and his wife Song Qingling also lived. The Nationalist Government is less than 500 meters away from Wang Zhenyu's residence.
But Wang Zhenyu doesn't plan to go back to live today, because this good place is too far away from the dock. On the contrary, the residence of Wang Longzhong, the full-time vice chairman of the Nationalist Government, who paid little attention to government affairs, was in a sunset villa in Qingliang Mountain by the Qinhuai River. It is almost a dozen miles away from the national government, which is just enough to give himself a reason not to go to the mountain.
Dinner was eaten at his uncle's house, Wang Longzhong has two sons and three daughters, the eldest son Wang Zhenen is seven years younger than Wang Zhenyu, eighteen years old this year, these years have not followed his father to enjoy any happiness, living in Beijing for three years is also worrying. Finally, when I arrived in Nanjing, it seemed to be safe, and it was too late to learn from him. Seeing that the clan brother was still a little shy, Wang Longzhong could only smile bitterly at Wang Zhenyu: "This child's personality follows his mother, and he is a little gentle, originally I planned to let him apply for Wuhan Army University, but this child wants to study medicine, so I will follow him." Recently, I was busy reviewing and preparing to take the entrance examination to the Shanghai German Medical Hall, oh, recently the Ministry of Education put forward a bill, saying that it was to draw a pen to upgrade this German Medical Hall to Tongji Medical University. The Government Council disagreed, so Hu Hanmin and Cai Yuanpei had a very unpleasant quarrel. It's far away, speaking of which, your second brother Zhenyuan's personality follows me, although he is only fourteen years old, he likes to play with guns, and he shouts every day that he wants to lead soldiers to fight. Zhen'en, let your brother come and meet your brother. There are also three girls who also come out, don't learn what women are popular every day, my Wang Longzhong's daughter doesn't rely on men to eat. ”
Wang Zhenyu laughed when he heard this, since Wang Longzhong became the full-time vice chairman of the National Government and a general in the army, his aunt felt that her family was beautiful, and several daughters were strongly asked to learn to be a female celebrity, so that they could marry a famous family in the future.
A few children came, Wang Zhenyu naturally wanted to give a gift, a English-Chinese dictionary for the eldest brother Zhenen, and a model airplane for the second brother Zhenyuan, Wang Zhenyuan, who was a little chubby, immediately ran out to play with the model airplane. As for the three girls, the eldest is only six years old, and the younger one is only three years old.
Wang Zhenyu was also interested, and originally planned to tease a few more words, but at this time, the porter came in and reported that Speaker Zhang Taiyan asked to see him (this is Zhang Taiyan's habit, whether it is a name post or a self-proclaimed one, anyway, he does not mention the position of vice chairman of the National Government). Wang Longzhong naturally let the children and female dependents go down (Wang Long has a total of one wife and four concubines): "Wenzheng, this Zhang Taiyan has been in conflict with Sun Wen and them in Nanjing recently, you see this matter." ”
Wang Zhenyu glanced at his uncle, it seems that time has passed, things are not people, in his memory, this uncle was a very domineering person in the past, and he never asked too much about himself. Now, it seems that the people's temperament has been smoothed out by the house arrest life in Beijing for several years, and it is good.
Wang Zhenyu said with a smile: "Uncle don't have to be taboo about these things, you are now the number two of the national government, and many times you need to make some noise, not only for yourself, but also for my nephew and my youth army." The nephew is still the nephew you pulled out at the beginning, and the uncle is still the uncle who stood up to the sky back then. The situation in Nanjing can't be chaotic, otherwise the nephew won't be able to let go in Wuhan. On the political shili and lineage here, Zhang Taiyan is not the opponent of Sun Wen's family at all without the support of our uncle and nephew, but Zhang Taiyan's prestige in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is definitely above Sun Wen. So uncle, what we want is not right and wrong, what we want is balance, and whoever can break this balance, we will support the other side to fight him until the balance is reached. Only in this way can the position of our uncle and nephew be stable, and the military power can be firmly in the hands of our uncle and nephew. ”
Hearing this, Wang Long seemed to understand something in the center, and he nodded silently and said, "Uncle understands, in the future, our uncle and nephew will work together to control this situation." ”
After a while, footsteps sounded from a distance, and Wang Longzhong led Wang Zhenyu out of the middle hall to greet Zhang Taiyan, which made Zhang Taiyan very flattered......
When Zhang Taiyan left, he thanked the Wang family's uncle and nephew again and again, which is very rare for a person who is famous for his arrogance. And Zhang Taiyan's relaxed steps when he left could see that the problem he was worried about had been solved.
And the second person to visit was actually Wang Jingwei, which made Wang Zhenyu very surprised, this phenomenon is not normal.
However, as the backbone of Sun Wen's family, Wang Jingwei doesn't care about this, as the mayor of Nanjing, the future star of the national government, his understanding of politics has surpassed Hu Hanmin's half-bucket of water after being dormant in France for several years. He understands that his future achievements are inseparable from the support of Sun Wen and others, and major events need the support of a powerful faction like Wang Zhenyu. So he came with the Nanjing City Planning Map a few days ago, and the reason was naturally to ask Wang Zhenyu for guidance (Wang Zhenyu Khan, brother, you are more than me, how embarrassed am I to point you out).
"Chairman (Wang Zhenyu's exclusive title), this is the planning map of our municipal construction in Nanjing, please take a look." Wang Jingwei has been fighting for this drawing for half a month, and even his wife Chen Bijun complained that he had never seen Wang Jingwei so concerned about his work (that is, everything he does is more attentive than your wife).
Wang Zhenyu took a closer look at this planning map, well, it's a bit high-grade, the library, and the stadium have all been included in this map. However, if Wang Jingwei saw Wang Zhenbang's finalized Wuhan municipal construction plan, it is estimated that he will vomit blood, the area of the entire urban area is three times the size of this Nanjing map, the supporting housing is 20 times that of this Nanjing, and what is even more terrifying is the underground drainage plan, although this Nanjing also has a drainage plan, but it is obviously still primary.
"Brother Zhaoming, this plan is second to none in China, but I don't know what your budget is?" Wang Zhenyu praised it first, and then quickly understood where the problem with Wang Jingwei's plan was. Wang Zhenbang's plan was to directly allocate 1 billion yuan by the Military Commission, but Wang Jingwei naturally only allocated funds from the Nationalist Government, and after the Nationalist Government paid the salaries of the army, the remaining funds were only more than 600 million yuan, which was not as much as the allocation of Wuhan City.
Wang Jingwei said with a unchanged face: "After the efforts of my comrades and I, we won 100 million, and my cousin had a big dispute with Mr. Sun. ”
No wonder, Wang Zhenyu thought, but if it is built according to this plan, Nanjing, as the capital, will be a bit embarrassing.
Wang Jingwei leaned over and said, "Chairman of the Committee, I heard that you have allocated 1.5 billion yuan to Minister Cai of the Ministry of Education to invest in higher education?" ”
Wang Zhenyu and Wang Longzhong glanced at each other and said, "It's true, but I heard that Zhantang wants to divert this money for other purposes?" ”
Wang Jingwei nodded and said: "In fact, Nanjing wants to be built, 100 million is not enough, and the government has just been built, the finance and taxation are tight, where there is no shortage of money, but now the county is governed by the county, and half of the finance and taxes are left in the place." The Nationalist Government's annual tax revenue of 1.35 billion yuan also has to pay 720 million yuan in military expenditure (375,000 field troops, 120,000 local troops, and 105,000 security forces, which is 600,000 army forces, in addition to 10,000 navy, the monthly basic salary ranges from 80 to 800 yuan, 100 yuan per capita, and the monthly military expenditure is 60 million yuan). Cousin Zhan heard that Cai Yuanpei had a huge sum of money of 1.5 billion, how could you not let him blush at this time? ”