In the middle of the night, Chen Qiang was also very tired, he didn't want to deal with this Kong Gongzi, and Chen Qiang was not interested in a nightclub like a Fengyue place. However, considering that he was now cooperating with Prince Kong, and that Prince Kong had also come to Washington, he must have gone to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so Chen Qiang still went to the nightclub to meet with Prince Kong.

As soon as Chen Qiang walked into the nightclub, the manager on duty came over and asked politely, "Are you Mr. Chen?" ”

"Yes, my surname is Chen." Chen Qiang nodded.

"Mr. Kong is waiting for you, please come with me." The manager on duty took Chen Qiang to a private room, where Mr. Kong was there, along with a few fox friends and a few beautiful blondes who accompanied him for wine.

After Chen Qiang sat down, he asked directly, "Why did Gongzi Kong come to Washington?" ”

"It's not because TV is coming to Washington too." Master Kong said with an unhappy face.

“TV？” Chen Qiang was slightly stunned, and secretly said in his heart what it had to do with the TV.

One of Kong Dagongzi's subordinates next to him hurriedly explained: "TV is Mr. Song." Mr. Song's English name is Tse-ven-Soong, or TV for short. ”

"I see." Chen Qiang nodded. He remembered that at the dinner just now, Truman had mentioned that Mr. Song, as a representative of Chongqing, had attended the negotiations in Washington.

Mr. Song is the uncle of the prince of Kong, according to the traditional Chinese saying, nephews and uncles are relatively close, in the ancient clan society, the relationship between nephews and uncles, better than the relationship with uncles with the same surname, a powerful uncle, but also the nephew's biggest backer.

The reason is very simple, the uncle is a person with a foreign surname and will not share the property of the nephew's family, while the uncle is a person with the same surname and can share the property of the nephew's family.

In the ancient clan society, if the man in charge of the family died, the brothers could also come to get a piece of the family property left behind. If there is a male left in the family, and he is already an adult, the situation is better, if there is a successor in the family, the uncle is not so easy to get involved in the family property, but if it is the kind of orphan and widow, the situation is more miserable, and the brothers with the same surname in the clan, and even the elders with the same surname will jump out to divide the family property. If there is not even a male in the family, it will be even worse, basically the family wealth will be divided by the clan with the same surname, after all, the woman is going to marry, and the elders in the clan do not want the family property to run into the hands of people with foreign surnames. Therefore, in ancient times, there were often women who were kicked out of the house by their uncles after their fathers died.

This kind of uncle jumping out to divide the family property exists even in modern society, and it is often reported in the news, but now there are legal constraints, and the inheritance rights come in order. However, there are also some uncles who will ask for the inheritance in the name of their grandparents, and the law stipulates that parents also have the right to inherit the inheritance.

Under the ancient clan system, the relationship between the nephew and the uncle was not necessarily very close, because he was worried that the uncle would come to divide the family property in the future. On the contrary, since the uncle is a foreigner, he is not qualified to divide the family property, and there is no conflict of interest between the two parties, so the relationship is naturally closer.

And when it comes to dividing the family property, the uncle will help the nephew fight for the family property, and the family property will fall into the hands of his nephew, and the total score will be given to other irrelevant people. In the case of orphans and widows, or if there is no male heir in the family, as long as there is an uncle of Niu Cha, the family property can still be kept.

This is like Lin Pingzhi in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", after his parents were killed, the first thing he thought of was to go to his grandfather's Golden Dao Wang's family and find his mother's family.

It is precisely because the uncle can help him fight for the family property that in the ancient clan society, the uncle is a relatively noble existence. Nowadays, when wedding banquets are held in many places, the uncle of the mother's family is placed in the first place of the distinguished guests, even higher than the status of the mother-in-law.

Mr. Song is the uncle of Prince Kong, and he is a high-ranking and powerful person, so he is definitely an uncle of Niu Cha. It is said that Mr. Kong should be very close to Mr. Song, but this is not the case, and the relationship between Mr. Kong and Mr. Song is very bad.

Although the Kong family and the Song family are in-laws, there has always been a contradiction between the two families.

Both were businessmen, the Kong family was originally from Shanxi, started with kerosene, and later got involved in the banking industry; The Song family is a well-known comprador in Shanghai, mainly engaged in imported machinery agents, and has strong financial resources. Originally, the Shanxi kerosene seller and the Shanghai machinery and equipment comprador could not fight each other, and it was impossible for the two sides to have an entanglement of interests. However, both Kong and Song were supporters of Mr. Zhongshan, so they gained great political benefits after the establishment of the Nanjing government, and as their political status increased, the business of the two families began to be involved in various fields and spread throughout the country.

When the business of the Kong and Song families is bigger, it will inevitably intersect, and there will be contradictions when there is an intersection. For example, the Kong family takes a fancy to a business, and the Song family also wants to do it, but the Kong family definitely wants to eat alone, how can they share the profits with the Song family. On the contrary, the Song family made money in the business, and the Kong family also wanted to intervene, but of course the Song family would not agree. The constant competition between the two sides in business naturally produced many contradictions.

Especially after the Kong family produced the second ancestor of the eldest son of Kong, the contradiction between the Kong and Song families became even more intensified.

Kong Dagongzi is very business-minded, when he was in China, Kong Dagongzi valued the bristle business can make money, and decided to buy a large number of bristles to sell to the United States, but Mr. Song's business vision is not bad, and Mr. Song also has a relationship with the United States, so he took the lead in buying pigs. Mr. Kong couldn't receive the bristles, so he was naturally annoyed and angry, and commanded his subordinates to fight against the compradors who bought the bristles of the Song family, Mr. Song was not an idle person, how could he tolerate a junior riding on his head to, so he also committed violence against the comprador of the Kong family. In the end, it was the mediation of Mrs. Jiang that made the Kong and Song families not turn their faces.

It was also after this incident that Mr. Kong did not recognize this uncle, and before that, Mr. Kong still called Mr. Song "uncle", and after this incident, Mr. Kong directly called Mr. Song's English abbreviated name "TV".

This incident was just the beginning, and then Mr. Kong's wife fell in love with Mr. Song's wife's sister, that is, Mr. Song's sister-in-law, and after the two fooled around a few times, Mr. Kong had to marry Mr. Song's sister-in-law home, which was a hornet's nest. Let's not talk about the ethical and moral relationship, just say that if Mr. Kong really marries Mr. Song's sister-in-law, then he will become Mr. Song's brother-in-law, which is equivalent to being a generation with Mr. Song, and Mr. Song is inexplicably a generation with his nephew, which shows that Mr. Kong deliberately embarrassed Mr. Song, which is unbearable!

Although in the end, Mr. Kong did not marry Mr. Song's sister-in-law, but the relationship with Mr. Song has broken down, Master Kong does not regard Mr. Song as an uncle, and Mr. Song does not regard Mr. Kong as a nephew.

The contradictions between the Kong and Song families are not only in business, but also in politics. When the old man of the Kong family was the minister of industry and commerce, he had no money in his hand, so he went to his brother-in-law Mr. Song, hoping that Mr. Song could give support. At that time, Mr. Song was the Minister of Finance and had an overview of the country's financial power, but in the face of his eldest brother-in-law, Mr. Song was an official and publicly stated that he could not talk nonsense in finance. The brother-in-law refused to help, and publicly said that he was very embarrassed by Master Kong, and he was quite embarrassed in the officialdom at that time.

In fact, Mr. Song's Ministry of Finance had no money at that time, and the money was used by Nanjing to fight the civil war, and it was all spent in Hunan and Jiangxi.

Chen Qiang knows a little about the contradictions between the Kong and Song families, of course, Chen Qiang does not know from historical records, he is not so deep in history as a sportsman. What Chen Qiang knows are some folk rumors. The two families of Kong and Song are both wealthy families of the Republic of China, and ordinary people are still happy to spread the gossip of wealthy families, and there are many rumors about the two families of Kong and Song, some of which are true and some are false, and it is really wonderful to listen to them as stories. Chen Qiang also learned about the grievances and grievances of the Kong and Song families from folk rumors.

To get back to the point, Prince Kong's appearance looked very unhappy, but Chen Qiang was a little puzzled, even if Prince Kong didn't treat Mr. Song as his uncle, but Mr. Song came to the United States to participate in the negotiations, and it had nothing to do with him Prince Kong, and Prince Kong was so indignant.

So Chen Qiang spoke; "Mr. Kong, I just had dinner with Senator Truman in Congress, and he said that Mr. Song is only here to participate in the negotiations, and he is only to observe, and the specific negotiation process cannot be the master. I estimate that this negotiation will be over in a few days, and Mr. Song will return to China by then, so why bother about this! ”

"Negotiations? Hehe, if only he really came to negotiate! Master Kong snorted coldly and continued; TV came this time, nominally to negotiate, but in fact to cut off my financial route! ”

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Qiang asked.

"These days, TV frequently visits U.S. trade officials and meets several businessmen who do international trade! I heard that the thing that TV talked to the Americans about is that after the Yunnan-Burma highway is reopened, it will import goods into China in a big way, which shows that they want to control international trade between China and the United States, isn't this a robbery of money in my hands! Master Kong said indignantly.

Chen Qiang instantly understood what was going on.

During Madame Chiang's visit to the United States, Mr. Kong used his status as Mrs. Chiang's secretary to make a lot of acquaintances with the American political and business circles.

However, Mr. Kong can see that Mr. Song can naturally see the big fat meat of Sino-US trade, so he took advantage of the opportunity to negotiate in Washington and began to make layouts, preparing to monopolize trade between China and the United States in the future.

There is no doubt that the Kong and Song families thought of going together again, and they both planned to use Sino-US trade to plunder the wealth of the common people and wantonly loot the people's fat and ointment.

At this time, the Yunnan-Burma Highway was still under the blockade of the Japanese army, but with the change of the war situation, the Allies gradually gained strategic advantages in various battlefields, and the Axis powers had begun to shrink their forces, so Chongqing decided to send an expeditionary force to open up the supply line on the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

Once the Yunnan-Burma Highway is reopened, then American supplies can continue to flow into China, and long-interrupted Sino-American trade can be resumed. For big compradors like the Kong and Song families, whoever can monopolize Sino-US trade will make money faster than printing money, so no one is willing to give up this piece of fat.

In terms of political status in the country, Mr. Song is definitely better than Mr. Kong, and Mr. Song is also the representative of the negotiations in Washington, with official status, and the Song family is in an advantageous position in terms of monopolizing Sino-US trade.

And the advantage of the Kong family is probably this Young Master Kong.

Although Mr. Song is also very business-minded, he is in a high position after all, and as a high-ranking official, he still needs face, and many times he has to consider political influence, so he will have some scruples about doing things.

But Young Master Kong is different, his talent in speculation is stronger than Mr. Song, and he is originally a gentleman, and he is also lawless on weekdays, and he does not play cards according to common sense, let alone take care of face, as long as he can make money, he can do anything shameless.

At this time, Chen Qiang secretly wanted to laugh in his heart, he wished that the Kong and Song families would break their heads and bleed for this matter, these two families were moths of the country, and their behavior did not know how many people had suffered, and it was the best thing to let them bite the dogs.

The eldest prince of Kong on the other side didn't know Chen Qiang's gloating mood, he opened his mouth and said; "I can't let TV get its way! The day after tomorrow, TV will hold a banquet and invite many American political and business circles to get to know each other, and I will go too. When the time comes, you come with me and help me! ”

Now Chen Qiang, to be worthy, to have a career, to have a business, to run a business, by American standards, Chen Qiang is also a relatively successful capitalist, so the prince of Kong decided to take Chen Qiang to the banquet to give himself a strong momentum.

"Okay, I'll be respectful and obey." Chen Qiang nodded without hesitation and agreed.

Chen Qiang didn't really want to help Gongzi Kong strengthen his momentum, he just hoped that Gongzi Kong and Mr. Song, the two giant rats, could fight with their heads and bleed, and it was best to lose both.

In the United States, whether it is political status or economic strength, Prince Kong is inferior to Mr. Song, and Mr. Song's connections in the United States are incomparable to that of Prince Kong. Therefore, Chen Qiang has to help the weaker side and try to narrow the gap between the two sides, so as to make the struggle between the Kong family and the Song family more intense.

The eldest prince of Kong on the other side didn't realize that Chen Qiang was going to add fuel to the fire, he saw Chen Qiang agreeing so happily, and immediately overjoyed, only to see him raise his wine glass, drink it all, and at the same time said excitedly; "Chen Qiang, you are still a friend enough, you are angry, I really didn't say it, I will do it first as respect!"

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Now that I am in Tibet, altitude sickness is really uncomfortable, and this chapter has been written for three days, so I apologize to you.