The meeting is about to be held, and Yan Shao, who has already memorized the content of the meeting, is taking advantage of the last bit of time to rest, and at the same time, he is also taking this opportunity to consider a little problem.

Half-lying on the bed, looking at the four Elaline people who were gathering over there, chatting about fashion or some other things, Yan Shao was thinking about a question in his heart.

"Those girls are making a lot of trouble right now, do you want to do that monogamy..."Feeling that his face was a little itchy, Yan Shao pulled out his hand, which was already a little numb, from under the pillow, and thought to himself after scratching his face.

It is now 1915, and the situation in the country has become very stable after more than a year. Thanks to the efforts of the provincial garrisons, there are even a lot fewer bandits and robbers that can be seen in ordinary times, and if you really want to see them, you can only go to some deep mountains and old forests to find them, and the few are just like protected animals.

The only difference is that precious animals like pandas or white-sided dolphins are to be protected and enjoy the treatment of national treasures, while those bandits and bandits will be killed when they see them, and they enjoy the treatment of the four evils...

As a result, there are fewer and fewer car bandits and roadblocks in China, and law and order is getting better and better. Coupled with the fact that the European war was in full swing, the capitalists earned enough money and the ordinary laborers got jobs. Of course, the workers of this era must not be able to compare with the later generations, not to mention that the workers of later generations are also very tired from work, so being a worker in this era is actually a very torturous thing. However, during this period, in order to promote the development of domestic industry and commerce, the national government not only set taxes very low. Even tariffs on exports have been reduced to a very low figure. So at least compared to the same period in history, the current life of the workers in China is still very good, although the work is very tiring. But when they go out, they also have some spare money in their wallets, so that they can do something else...

If you can eat enough food and clothes, you can barely dress warmly, plus what kind of compulsory education the government wants to implement, so that children can go to the school (school) for free. In the eyes of some old people who have experienced many chaotic periods, the so-called peaceful and prosperous era is just that.

But because of this. So trouble followed.

Full of warm thoughts and lust, what the ancestors said is still very reasonable. The country is too peaceful, and the common people will naturally think about something that they did not think about in the past. Or maybe it's something you don't dare to think about. Among them, the first to stand up are some young female students who have received Western-style education and some progressive women.

In fact, the feminist movement in China started very early, and if you count the way department stores adopted the popular Western method of selling women's goods, maybe you can advance the time to 1900. Even if it's a late model. It was also in 1903. At that time, a man named Jin Tianyu in China. She once wrote a book called "Women's World Bell" and shouted the slogan "Long live women's rights" for the first time.

And the slogans they shouted this time are actually nothing new, basically no different from those slogans in history, if there is anything special, that is, the monogamy they demand.

In Yan Shao's time, except for some remote areas in China, the status of women in cities has basically surpassed that of men. If anyone dares to look down on women, they are guaranteed to be drowned in spittle.

But in this day and age. It is true that the female ones are very low. As for that, what is monogamy? Monogamy was actually enforced in history nearly twenty years later. At this time, China already had such claims. But in fact, the people should still marry a few and marry a few, which is why some people in the society criticize Yan Shao, thinking that he married three wives at a time and gave the people a bad head.

And because of the relationship between a lover, Yan Shao has been criticized among some female students or progressive women―――――― in this era, progressive women are not a derogatory term, and in later generations, progressive women are some...

And it's not just the number of wives, even Yan Shao's behavior of marrying three wives at a time is regarded as disrespectful to women by these women. The end result is that although Yan Shao's support rate among the 'new women' is far less than that among men, fortunately, the countries that gave women the right to vote in this era did not even have a single slap in the face, so Yan Shao did not need to worry.

However, after such a long delay, there are many people in the government who have not yet passed the new "Marriage Law" that includes 'monogamy', and there are some objections.

Yan Shao also has his own troubles about this, although he has married Elano and them, but after all, there is still one Otsuki Kaoru left. If it was said before, it would have been forgotten, but now that he has eaten Otsuki Kaoru into his stomach, it is always not delicious, and he pretends that nothing has happened, and this is not his habit as a person, so Yan Shao has been waiting, waiting to marry Otsuki Kaoru in.

However, now that the Shandong Campaign has just passed, the atmosphere between China and Japan is also quite tense. Kaoru Otsuki's identity is a little embarrassing, and if you marry her at this time, it will be a little troublesome after all. According to Yan Shao's meaning, it is to wait for a period of time, and wait until the world's eyes gradually shift to other directions.

Who would have thought that those girls were so anxious, which caught Yan Shao off guard.

Coupled with the role of the pillow wind, if it weren't for the fact that there was a large group of people standing with Yan Shao within the government and forming a 'conservative' in the mouth of women, under the pressure of these girls, it would be difficult to say how long Yan Shao could last.

But now, the time has almost passed, and Yan Shao feels that it seems that it is time to marry Kaoru Otsuki.

"Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm really going to be criticized, and maybe in a few years, I'll become a negative example set up by those feminists..."

It wasn't clear what Yan Shao was thinking, Elano and the others were still there chatting about the topic of women. Although they each have their own jobs or careers, there are many topics that women can talk about after all, as if they are talking about some new clothes right now.

They say they are new clothes, but they actually designed them themselves.

Some time ago, Yushi Group sold a lot of properties. However, textile mills, which are one of the main sources of profit and are also large employers, have stayed, even while expanding. It has also added spinning, silk reeling, hemp making and other businesses, and has become the largest textile group in Asia.

Now that the textile mills have stayed, it is only natural that the clothing factory that was originally in charge of them has also stayed, even the clothing design studio.

Although there is very little free time now, when there is time, the four women still get together and study how to make some beautiful clothes.

And Yan Shao. It's their opinion advisors.

Yan Shao doesn't know anything about clothing design, but he has a hundred years of knowledge beyond this era, and he can still distinguish between beauty and ugliness. After his guidance, I won't talk about whether the costumes look good or not. At least it's not so 'dirty'...

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Seeing Yan Shao lying there not knowing what he was thinking, Otsuki Kaoru glanced at him a little strangely. "What are you thinking?"

It's hard to say that he is thinking about when to go to you, so Yan Shao can only speak. "Nothing. Just thinking about something else..."

Heard Yan Shao say this. Although he understood that this was definitely not the case, Kaoru Otsuki didn't ask much.

Since eating Kaoru Otsuki whole, Kaoru Otsuki has lived in Yan Shao's bedroom, and even the wardrobe and dresser have moved in. As for Fumiko, as I once said, after agreeing to many conditions, I finally agreed to live on my own.

Happily, Yan Shao's bedroom is large enough. It can fit 4 dressers and wardrobes in a light way, so the room doesn't need to be changed. His bed was also big enough. You can lie down to 5 people and let 5 people roll on it, so you don't even need to change the bed.

"Speaking of which..."Glancing at the clock on the side, Caterina glanced at Yan Shao. It's almost time for the meeting, right? ”

Hearing Caterina say this, Yan Shao also looked up, there was still an hour left.

Although an hour may seem like a long time, this meeting is not a trivial matter, and an hour may not be enough to prepare for it.

"Then I'll go first..."Jumping up from the bed, Yan Shao faced the four people. As he spoke, he took off his underwear in full view of everyone, then changed into his usual clothes and walked out. And Elano and the others are completely surprised, after all, they have been together for so many years, and they have already seen everything they should see, even if they are really shy, it was more than ten years ago.

However, as soon as Yan Shao left, Elainor, who was still lazily chatting about clothing and fashion, suddenly became energetic.

After somewhere to get a table, Caterina pulled out a box and placed it on the table. There was a loud bang, and a large number of small rectangular objects landed on the table.

Mahjong...

The quintessence of China...

In the beginning, Elanon's main interest was Chinese games like Go. But after living in China for a few years, they became interested in mahjong―――――― they couldn't help it, the attraction of this thing was too great.

But after all, they are all members of their own family, so they usually gamble very small, that is, one dime or two cents, one piece and two pieces, all of which are their usual pastime.

This is also something that can't be helped, who called there so few entertainment programs in this era.

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After leaving the bedroom, Yan Shao, who had already changed into new clothes, walked towards the work area. And there, Li Liang and Fu Xiuming had been waiting for a long time.

Perhaps because of Yan Shao's promise not long ago, Li Liang became much calmer in his expression.

Although many people are now eyeing him as prime minister, including Li Yuanhong, an outdated politician who is going around with the credit of the 'first righteousness'. However, Li Liang knows very well that as long as there is Yan Shao's support now, no one can get him down from his current position.

But on the other hand, Li Liang was somewhat worried in his heart.

After all, Yan Shao said not long ago that he does not intend to be just a two-term president.

Although no country has set a limit on the number of times a president can be re-elected, even in the United States, the so-called two consecutive terms are only an unwritten rule for Washington. In fact, if it can be done, it will be no problem for the president to be re-elected as many times as he wants.

Only then there was an extra Roosevelt. Everyone's mind was raised, and after Roosevelt, this ordinance became law completely...

But even so. Li Liang still felt that something was wrong in his heart.

Just when Li Liangxin felt that something was wrong, Yan Shao, who was neatly dressed, also appeared in front of everyone. Seeing Yan Shao who appeared in front of him, all the people in the conference room looked over, and then greeted him one after another.

"Everyone, sit down..."

Nodding with a smile, Yan Shao spoke to the others after walking to his own position.

In fact, where does this need to be said by Yan Shao. But at the moment, Yan Shao was the master after all, so the others didn't say much, but sat in their place according to Yan Shao's words.

After seeing that a qiē is almost there. Yan Shao looked at Wu Qianqiu, who was standing aside.

Yan Shao once promised him to wait until the end of the war in Shandong to give him a different position, lest he always be an adjutant―――――― although this position is not bad, but after all, it is difficult to get ahead.

Although the leaders of this age usually claim to be 'impartial'. Never 'favoritism'. But in fact, there may be people who do not show favoritism. But you can't climb to such a high position. This non-favoritism can only be said to be relative, that is, to maintain a fair attitude in some major matters, and to deal with some small things flexibly.

In Yan Shao's opinion, Wu Qianqiu has followed him for so many years, even if he has no credit, he has hard work, and he should arrange a future for him. It's just that things have been busy recently, and I can't find a good position for a while, so I can only let Wu Qianqiu continue to follow me for the time being.

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I saw Yan Shao look over. Wu Qianqiu also nodded, and then said to everyone. "Now that you've arrived, you've arrived. Then, the meeting can begin..."

At the same time, Yan Shao is the interface. "The first one, Minister Liang will come first, so let's see how many achievements we have made in the past year..."

Hearing Yan Shao's words, Liang Shiyi stood up from his original position, holding a document in his hand with information from the past year.

"According to the statistics of the Ministry of Finance, this year's fiscal revenue has reached 637.81 million yuan, which is more than 227 million yuan more than the fiscal revenue in 1911, a year-on-year increase of ..."

Listening to Liang Shiyi's report, Yan Shao couldn't help nodding, and did not question his comparison with the number jù in 1911 at all. This is also something that cannot be helped, because since 1911, China has never reached substantial reunification, until the establishment of the Kuomintang government...

The problem is that when the Nationalist government was established, it was already the end of 1913, and there were only a few months left before 1914, and at that time the Nationalist government had not completed the unification of the localities, and the financial situation had not been completely recovered, and at the same time there were all kinds of problems to consider, so basically there was no statistics at all in 1913, and only 1914 could be counted, and only 1911 could be compared―――――― at least at the end of 1911. Theoretically speaking, the Qing government still exists, relatively speaking, since 1912, China has not been unified, the so-called Beiyang government is only unified in a few provinces in the north, and the south, it is simply divided into N warlords, in this case, if anyone can count the financial revenue, it is really a thing worth admiring...

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Listening to Liang Shiyi's report, the others couldn't stop nodding.

In the past, the people here basically knew what China was like, so they didn't care, and they were very happy with the extra income of more than 200 million yuan. After all, being able to sit here and you know the importance of money, and you basically need money for everything right now. Money is needed for the government's administrative operations, for the army's salaries, for the procurement and maintenance of military equipment, for the construction of railways, and for a number of other projects, plus the recent 'six-year compulsory education' that the government has just agreed to, so it can be said that each of these requires a lot of money...

But they are happy, but it doesn't mean that Liang Shiyi is also happy...

"In addition, this year's fiscal expenditure is about 710 million, and the government's deficit has reached about 80 million..."

Hearing this, everyone who was originally happy turned their eyes to each other.

It's obviously gone up a lot, but why is there so much deficit all of a sudden?

While noticing the eyes around him, Liang Shiyi said with a wry smile.

"This is also something that can't be helped, first of all, some of our arrears must be returned, and this part is as high as more than 100 million..." Soon Liang Shiyi continued. "In addition to this part, there are also military spending, the daily expenses of the government, in addition to the large amount of materials consumed in the Shandong campaign, the resettlement of the people, and the construction of the railway......... The local government is responsible for the reconstruction of the city, so this part of the expenditure can be removed, but the construction of the railway, as well as the problem of the road, this part is a big spender..."

The Shandong campaign is not much to say, although it did not take too long, but it also cost a lot of money, and the railway madman Zhan Tianyou, now with the support of Yan Shao behind him, is now constantly building railways outside, especially after the initial exploration, there are five or six railways in the country at the same time, the scale is large, it is rare, in this case it is natural to spend money like running water.

"Now I, the Minister of Finance, am most glad that we don't need to return German reparations after the outbreak of the European War, and the victory in the Battle of Shandong has given us some surplus income, otherwise, this year is really ..."

Speaking of which, Liang Shiyi's face already showed a large bitter color...

Obviously, his heart is really bitter... (To be continued......)