Chen Qiang took Esther's hand and walked out of the gate of the hospital, their faces full of sweetness.

Esther is pregnant!

Things came so suddenly, until now Chen Qiang felt as if he was in a dream.

In this kind of thing, foreign women's bodies are more porcelain than Chinese women, foreign women are pregnant, and they still have all kinds of fitness with a big belly, while Chinese women have to stay at home honestly to have a baby; Foreign women swim and ski after giving birth, while Chinese women have to be confined; Foreign women can give birth to a glass of ice water, and Chinese women who dare to do this will definitely be beaten by their mothers.

It is an indisputable fact that there are differences in physical fitness between different races.

So Esther doesn't have the slightest concept of "safe fetus", she still has to do what she should do after pregnancy, as a swimmer, she will also run to the indoor warm water swimming pool with a big belly.

Chen Qiang can only let this go, after all, the culture is different, and it is difficult for you to get an American pregnant woman to follow the Chinese fetal culture.

Sitting in the car home, Chen Qiang opened a newspaper with the headline of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's visit to the United States.

Yesterday, Churchill visited Westminster College in Missouri, the alma mater of US President Harry S. Truman, where he delivered a speech entitled "Pillars of Peace."

This speech is better known as the "Iron Curtain Speech." Later generations generally believed that Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech" was the beginning of the "Cold War."

"What needs to happen is going to happen, and the Cold War cannot be avoided. It's just that the British are now too busy to take care of themselves, but Churchill still came to the United States to stir up trouble! Chen Qiang sighed lightly in his heart.

After World War II, the national independence movement in Asia began to rise, and those colonies that originally belonged to Europe began the process of national and national independence, and this trend of national independence gradually spread to Africa, especially after the Bandung Conference in 1955, the struggle of the Asian and African people against colonial rule and for maintaining national independence became more and more intense, and the momentum of the national liberation movement became stronger and stronger.

Britain, as the former "empire on which the sun never sets", has the largest number of colonies in the world, so it has also been hit the hardest by the national independence movement. After experiencing the Second World War, Britain's national strength has weakened a lot, and it is no longer enough to maintain the rule of the colonies on a global scale, and the independence movement of the colonies has made Britain anxious, but the British do not want to give up the interests of the colonies, so they can only be in a passive state.

At this time, Churchill, who lost the election, also did not have a boil on himself, and ran to the United States to sell his clothes.

As soon as Chen Qiang returned home, he received a call from Mr. Situ, so Chen Qiang immediately rushed to Mr. Situ's home.

The housekeeper brought tea to Chen Qiang, and Chen Qiang asked, "Mr. Situ, what are you looking for me?" ”

"The war is over, so I'm going to go back home. In fact, at the beginning of the year, I wanted to return to China, and this time I was going to hold the Wuzhou Hongmen Cordial Conference in Shanghai, and I also took this opportunity to go back to my hometown to have a look. Mr. Szeto said.

"Sir, although we have beaten the Japanese, the situation in the country is still not peaceful! If you are going to return to your home country, you should also pay attention to your safety. Chen Qiang said.

"I understand what you mean, and I also know that the situation in the country is a little tense, and it is unknown whether there will be war or peace next, so I plan to go back as soon as possible while the situation has not reached the worst point." Mr. Situ paused, and then asked, "You have been in the United States for some years, do you want to go back with me?" This is the Hongmen Earnest Conference, Hongmen disciples from all over the world will gather in Shanghai, and both black and white have to give me Hongmen a face, so in terms of security, you don't have to worry. ”

Chen Qiang shook his head without hesitation: "Sir, I can't go." ”

"Don't think about it anymore, and refuse it so directly?" Mr. Szeto asked.

"Sir, I also want to go back to China, but I really can't get out of it lately, I just accompanied my wife to the hospital, she is pregnant, so I can't go far." Chen Qiang said.

"That's a good thing!" Mr. Situ was also happy, and then he stood up and said, "You wait for me here." ”

Soon after, Mr. Situ returned, still holding a small wooden box in his hand, he handed the small wooden box to Chen Qiang, and said: "I will return to China this time, and I will return to my hometown to worship my ancestors, I may have to stay for a year and a half, I am afraid that I will not be able to drink your doll's full moon wine, here is a pair of silver bracelets, count me as a gift to the child." ”

"Then I'll thank you, sir." Chen Qiang was not polite, and directly accepted the silver bracelet. He knew that Mr. Situ regarded him as a junior, and if he was polite to Mr. Situ at this time, it would be a shame.

I only heard Mr. Situ continue: "There is one more thing, I will return to China this time, I plan to buy some food by the way." As you know, the war has just ended, the country is in ruins, this season is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and there is famine in many places, and the United States has grain, so I want to buy some flour and ship it back, although this flour cannot solve the urgent needs of the country, but it can save some people. ”

Chen Qiang immediately understood what Mr. Situ meant, Mr. Situ said this, he must have asked Chen Qiang to help, so Chen Qiang said: "What Mr. said is reasonable, although we drove away the Japanese, but the people's livelihood in China is still difficult, and I am willing to help Mr. in the matter of purchasing flour." ”

Mr. Situ nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "In fact, the domestic people's livelihood situation is worse than we imagined, I heard that since the end of last year, domestic food prices have been rising, many people can not afford to buy food, a few days ago, tens of thousands of people in Hangzhou went to 'rice shops', I heard that the entire city of Hangzhou 500 rice shops, have been robbed. ”

"Rice shop" is a special word that appeared in that era, and it is actually a large group of people robbing rice shops. However, the vast majority of those who looted the rice shops were not robbers and thugs, but poor people. Due to the lack of grain profiteers to raise the price of rice, the common people could not afford to buy rice, so there was such a thing as "rice shop", at that time, such as Shanghai, Chongqing, Changsha, Wuhan and other important cities, there were large-scale "rice shop".

Mr. Situ's introduction made Chen Qiang slightly stunned, he knew that in the next few years, the domestic inflation was serious, and Nanjing's finances would also collapse, but he didn't expect that this was just 1946, and the price was already uncontrollable.

Thinking that Mr. Situ would have to stay in China for a long time, Chen Qiang immediately said: "Sir, if you go back this time, you still have to bring more dollars and gold, as for fiat currency, exchange as much as you want, but don't exchange all the dollars and gold in your hand for fiat currency as soon as you return to China." ”

"What? Are you worried about financial problems at home? Mr. Szeto asked.

Chen Qiang nodded: "Over the years, a lot of fiat currency has been issued in China, plus the bank bills issued by Japan in the occupied areas back then, the current domestic financial order is very chaotic, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the same every day." On the contrary, the US dollar, no matter how the fiat currency changes, the US dollar will not depreciate. As for gold, it is pegged to the US dollar. ”

"Okay, I know you've made a lot of money trading stocks in the United States, and I listen to you for this kind of financial thing." Mr. Szeto agreed.

In March, the Nanjing Provincial Committee promulgated the "Interim Procedures for the Management of Foreign Exchange" and the "Detailed Rules for the Trading of Gold," implemented the policy of opening up the foreign exchange market and stipulating the free trading of foreign exchange official prices and gold, and sold off a large amount of gold and foreign exchange from the state treasury in an attempt to stabilize the market and legal tender.

Before the opening of the foreign exchange market, the exchange rate of fiat currency against the US dollar was 20 to 1, and after the opening of the foreign exchange market, the exchange rate of fiat currency against the US dollar skyrocketed to 2020 to 1, an overnight increase of 1000 times! A thousand-fold profit is more profitable than drug trafficking, not to mention that this is not a head-killing business, who doesn't want to do it. As a result, the entire financial and foreign exchange market collapsed instantly, and it was not ordinary people who profited from it, but those bureaucrats who held US dollars.

As for the free buying and selling of gold, it caused officials to sell a large amount of gold from the treasury, so as to transfer the price difference, such as Kong Dagongzi, who fought for his aunt's relationship to exchange gold from the treasury, and then sold it in the market, making a lot of money.

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Chen Qiang accompanied Mr. Situ to lunch, and after lunch, the old man needed a lunch break, so Chen Qiang took the opportunity to leave.

When Chen Qiang returned home, Esther leaned lazily on the recliner and flipped through fashion magazines, posing as a pregnant woman. After seeing Chen Qiang come back, Esther said: "Mr. Zhang called to find you, I told him that you went out, and he said that he would call again later." ”

"I'd better call him." Chen Qiang said and walked to the phone.

The "Mr. Zhang" in Esther's mouth is Mr. Zhang Pengchun, the younger brother of Mr. Zhang Boling.

Mr. Zhang Pengchun is also one of the founders of Nankai, he used to teach at the University of Chicago, and has been devoted to education for the first half of his life. In 1940, when the country was at its most critical, Zhang Pengchun began to officially serve as a diplomat, and after the founding of the United Nations, he became a Chinese official to the United Nations, and in 1946, he served as China's representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, in 1947, he served as China's representative to the United Nations Security Council, and in 1948, he served as the vice chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and participated in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

At this time, Mr. Zhang Pengchun had just returned from the United Nations General Assembly in London, England. Since the United Nations is based in New York, Mr. Zhang Pengchun also moved to New York.

Chen Qiang immediately called Zhang Pengchun back.

"Sir, it's me, Chen Qiang, did you call me just now?" Chen Qiang said.

"Big brother sent a telegram that Nankai University is going to reopen!" Zhang Pengchun said excitedly.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Nankai University was forced to move south, and merged with Tsinghua University and Peking University to form Changsha Provisional University.

Now that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has ended, the three universities are also preparing to reopen, in May, the Southwest Associated University in Kunming will hold a graduation ceremony, and in July, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University will officially move back to their distant sites and officially resume school.

Chen Qiang was also a student of Nankai University, and he was naturally very excited when he heard that Nankai was going to reopen.

"Sir, I heard that the Japanese bombers smashed the school to the ground, and now in Nankai, I'm afraid there is no school building anymore!" Chen Qiang asked.

"The original campus is basically gone, and it has to be rebuilt, but after the resumption of Nankai University, it will become a national university, and I think the government will pay for it." When I received the telegram from my eldest brother, he had already returned to Tianjin from Kunming to prepare for the reconstruction of Nankai. Zhang Pengchun said.

"It will definitely take a lot of money to build a new school, and the government funding may not be enough. Sir, you should have a safe channel where you can send money to sir! Chen Qiang asked. The second "Mr" in Chen Qiang's mouth is naturally Zhang Boling, president of Nankai University.

"What you said seems to be that I deliberately asked you for money, if the eldest brother finds out, I'm afraid he will reprimand me." Zhang Pengchun said with a smile.

"I'm from Nankai! Now that the school is going to be rebuilt, I should give back. Chen Qiang replied.

"Okay, I'll help you find a way to remit the money, and I guarantee that it can be handed over to the eldest brother without a penny." Zhang Pengchun replied.

Zhang Pengchun knows the relationship between Chen Qiang and Nankai, and even knows that Zhang Boling regards Chen Qiang as a nephew, these are not things that money can measure, Chen Qiang's donation for the reconstruction of Nankai is really like a crow feeding back.

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General strikes continue across the United States, and on the last day of February, strikers at GE even clashed with the police, with the strike gradually blending with violence.

The day after Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, France signed an agreement with Vietnam, promising to grant Vietnam some autonomy.

Also in this month, British troops withdrew from Iran and Lebanon, and the new British prime minister promised to give India independence if there was an agreement on a constitution within India.

At the end of the month, a new country in the Middle East gained its independence: the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan (the future Jordan).

In April, the British tried to form a federation of Malaya in order to maintain their colonial rule in Malaysia, and it seems that the British are still unwilling to give up their interests in Asia easily. Perhaps the French know very well that after World War II, France is no longer the number one land power in Europe, and it is difficult for France to maintain a huge colony now.

The Americans on the other side of the world only see themselves, and they don't care about what happens outside the United States, and the same is true of Chen Qiang in the United States, and the national independent industry of the Asian people has nothing to do with him.

At this time, Chen Qiang was concerned about the formation of a new league called the East Pennsylvania Basketball League.

Competitors have appeared!

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