Lilith frowned and said, "First coal, then electricity, and electrical appliances, I'm afraid the capital investment won't be small, right?" In the first half of this year, nearly 10 million yuan was used to set up an airline alone, in addition to sponsoring your compulsory education project, and a lot of political donations to Sun Wen, Tang Shaoyi, Wang Zhixiang and others. ”

Sun Yuanqi couldn't help laughing: "As far as I know, capitalists will only worry about whether the project can make money, and will not worry about whether the project that makes money cannot find investment. How can you do the opposite now? ”

Lilith said dissatisfiedly: "You don't know that firewood and rice are expensive!" ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "To tell you the truth, coal and the power industry have a great relationship, and I must get involved." If you don't have enough money right now, sell some of your shares in Zhiyong Pharmaceutical, Bloomage Bank, China Broadcasting, China Airlines or China Industrial Machinery. I know these stocks are very sought-after in the market and it's certainly easy to find buyers. ”

"Don't!" Lilith hurriedly stopped, "None of these stocks can be moved. As for the funds for the establishment of the China Coal Company and the Power Company, I will find another way. ”

Sun Yuanqi was afraid that Lilith would be embarrassed, so he asked tentatively: "Isn't it a bit too much for us to occupy 49% of the shares of China Coal Company?" Why don't we reduce some of our stocks? Now there are many Shanxi gentry who come to ask if they can transfer part of their shares, and there are even rumors that someone will buy them at a premium of 20%, and it is not difficult to make a move. ”

"49% is too much? I was just about to ask you, why didn't you set it at 51% at that time? Lilith asked angrily: "Forget it, I'll take care of the China Coal stall myself." You don't care, anyway, you don't know anything about industry and commerce, so go busy with your education! ”

"......" Sun Yuanqi was a little speechless: except for the 25% held by the Shanxi military government. There are so many gentry in Jin Province who only get a total of 26%, and we have a lot of 49% of the shares, okay? If we have more than half of them, those old Xi'er will not have to rebel! Besides, didn't you just say that you didn't have any money on hand, why did you think there were fewer shares in a blink of an eye? A woman's heart is unpredictable! Well, I'm going to get back to my own business.

The next few days. Accompanied by Yan Xishan, Gu Ruyong, and others, Sun Yuanqi inspected the development of education and industry in Taiyuan Prefecture, and held discussions with members of the provincial assembly, famous gentry, and Shuode Qisu. Everyone naturally knows the true intention of the forum, and they all praise Sun Yuanqi's merits. Pat your chest and show your loyalty. But what they really think, that is the heart of the belly, it is difficult to guess. However, Yan Xishan privately asked Sun Yuan to vote, and the 10 senators and 28 representatives of Shanxi Province assured that more than eighty percent of them were members of the New China Party.

Here's the thing. Sun Yuanqi flew to the second stop of the campaign campaign. It is also Yuan Shikai's old nest: Henan.

Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan, is Yuan Shikai's cousin, and the irreversible relationship between the two is self-evident. I don't know whether he wanted to embarrass Sun Yuanqi, or to avoid the suspicion of Li Xia in the melon field, the day before Sun Yuanqi arrived, Zhang Zhenfang actually left the provincial capital Kaifeng in the name of encircling and suppressing Bailang bandits, leaving only Wang Zutong, director of internal affairs, and Li Shican, director of education, to come forward to receive them.

Although Zhang Zhenfang did not like Sun Yuanqi very much, Henan students gave Sun Yuanqi the highest courtesy, whether it was studying in Henan European and American Preparatory School (the predecessor of today's Henan University) and Henan Provincial No. 1 Middle School. Or in Henan Public Law and Political College, Henan Provincial Agricultural College (the predecessor of today's Henan Agricultural University), everywhere they went, they were welcomed and warmly cheered by teachers and students.

Yang Yongtai, secretary general of the New China Party, happened to be in Kaifeng at this time to reorganize the Henan Provincial Party Committee. Preparing to unite the forces of all branches of the province to deal with the upcoming congressional election, he has been by Sun Yuanqi's side. Seeing this scene, he smiled and said: "No wonder Zhang Xin'an wants to leave Kaifeng in a hurry, if he accompanies Lord Sun to see such a scene, you say you should eat more!" ”

Lin Boxiang is not only the principal of Henan Preparatory School for Studying in Europe and the United States, but also a member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Committee of the New China Party. He also smiled slightly when he heard this: "How can Governor Zhang Xin'an compare with Mr. Sun?" He is only a bureaucratic politician at best, and the teachers and students of the school naturally do not want to see him. Unlike Mr. Sun, he is not only the most outstanding scientist in the world today, but also the greatest educator in modern China, who has had a profound impact on the education community and the majority of teachers and students. Now that Mr. Sun is here in person, everyone can admit it in person, how can there be no ecstasy? ”

Yang Yongtai asked again: "Brother Boxiang, do you think Zhang Xin'an left the provincial capital in the name of encircling and suppressing the white wolf bandits this time, is it true or false?" ”

Now Duan Qirui has drastically dismantled the Hubei army in Hubei, and the army of the previous eight towns has actually only six towns, because the seventh and eighth towns have been forced to land by the Sichuan-Shaanxi coalition army before this and compressed into two integrated divisions, and it is very likely that they will free up their hands to deal with the Sichuan-Shaanxi coalition army stationed in Xiangyang and Yichang, and the various units of the Beiyang Army in Henan have not shown signs of retreating north since the center of gravity has shifted southward, and now Zhang Zhenfang has suddenly left Kaifeng, which cannot but make the New China Party extremely careful.

Lin Boxiang said: "It may not be true, it may not be all false, it should be a half-truth, right?" The so-called truth means that the white wolf bandits do have a problem. The white wolf's real name is Bai Lang, a native of Baofeng County, Ruzhou, because of the turbulent situation in the Qing Dynasty and the disturbance in the north and south, so he raised an incident in his hometown in October of the third year of Xuantong (1911). At first, there were only twenty or thirty people and a few guns, which was really a disease of scabies. However, the local county officials hid illness and avoided medical treatment, concealed and did not report it, and between the spring and summer of this year, more than 200 bandits had been robbed everywhere, raiding homes and houses, and becoming a serious problem for local henchmen.

"After the government of the Republic of China moved north, the president ordered the Henan garrison to carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of bandits on the ground in Henan Province, and Bai Lang was also among them. Unexpectedly, this thief was cunning, first set up an ambush, and then attacked at night, but repelled the Beiyang Army and patrol battalion that were attacking, and the momentum was shocking for a while. In addition, Henan Province has been in drought for many years, people's livelihood has withered, and there are many people who take risks; After the republic was established, both the north and the south were cutting out their armies, and Bai Lang sent people to recruit the officers and soldiers who had been retrenched. Continued acquisition of ordnance. In just a few months, the bandits reached thousands of people, becoming giants in western Henan!

"Bai Lang's bandits attacked the old tricks of the bandits in the late Qing Dynasty. Mainly riding mules and horses, you can run 300 miles in a day and a night, and your whereabouts are erratic; They made their homes everywhere, and they did not need to carry baggage, and when they captured the towns, they ate all the food and property, looted and burned them, and then took the strong men and left. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to encircle and suppress. At the beginning of last month, Duan Zhiquan was temporarily appointed governor of Hubei. The center of gravity of the garrisons of Henan then shifted southward, resulting in the emptiness of the defense in western Henan, and the Bailang bandits took the opportunity to go north to capture Yuzhou. Yuzhou is known as wealthy. It was only three or four hundred miles away from the provincial capital, and the whole province was shaken suddenly.

"Governor Zhang Xin'an's departure from the provincial capital this time should be because of Bai Lang's banditry. But his strength lies in financial management, and he has never been familiar with military affairs, so he does not need to personally go out to quell the Bailang bandits. At most, it is to urge the generals of the battalions to prepare salaries, silver, grain and grass. The reason why he left the provincial capital in such a hurry. In addition to the urgency of the war and the repeated urging of the president, the main thing is to avoid Mr. Sun, right? This is called fake. ”

In fact, what Lin Boxiang said was not accurate. In addition to the trick of the Bai Lang bandits, in addition to the fact that they were riding mules and horses, of course, the earlier originators of this technology should be the nomads of the northern steppes, rather than the original creation of the bandits. But the greatness of the twist bandits lies in the Han ification of this technology and its large-scale use in the vast hinterland of the Central Plains, and other major strategies are consistent with all the giant bandits in China since ancient times, and are not the patent of the twisters.

Since the Qin Dynasty, the root cause of peasant uprisings has been due to serious land annexation, a sharp gap between the rich and the poor, and the poor people have fled to their homes due to famine and labor. In the end, he was forced to rebel. But the vast majority of those who raised the banner of insurrection first were the ruffians, scoundrels, and lumpenproletarians, not the toiling masses who endured humiliation and were dazed. Nor are they Confucian believers who insist on starving to death and losing their temperance. Therefore, Taizu wrote in the "Report on the Investigation of the Hunan Peasant Movement":

"In fact, some of the leaders of the poor peasants used to gamble and play cards."

"When there are two opposing views on a thing or a kind of person, two opposing opinions arise." 'Very bad' and 'very good', 'riffraff' and 'revolutionary vanguard', are all appropriate examples. ”

"The most important result I have obtained from this inspection of the peasant movement in Hunan is that the hooligans and ruffians have always been spurned by society, and they are in fact the bravest, most thorough, and most resolute in the rural revolution."

After these demon kings of the mixed world rose up, there were often very few responders, because ordinary people always survived, but as long as they had a handful of noodles and a few grains of rice at home, they would never be willing to follow this group of heinous people to do the business of losing their heads. So how can you get the people to join the rebellion? Put the facts, give examples, move them with emotion, and know them with reason? Or use knives and guns, coercion and temptation?

Obviously, these methods are too complex and not very effective. Moreover, rebellion is not a dinner party, not a fuss, not a painting and embroidery, not so elegant, so calm, courteous, so gentle and frugal, those demon kings of the mixed world may not have so much leisure, they have their own unique tricks, that is, after capturing the town, regardless of rich or poor, they will eat all the food and property, rob it, burn it all, and then coerce the strong man to leave.

The strong man who was coerced must have been unwilling at first, but the family had no food, no money, the house was burned, and the land was barren. The Demon King of the Mixed World will also appear to say that he will be a thief for life, and you will be beheaded when you go back. Sometimes, it's not all a lie.

In this way, more and more strong men were coerced by the rebel army, and every place they arrived was like locusts crossing the border, thousands of miles of red land, and there were no chickens and dogs left. In the end, there are only two endings: they killed all the people in the world and succeeded in rebellion; They were killed by the people of the world, and their rebellion failed. In any case, the result was a sharp decline in the country's population, a redistribution of land and property, and a complete solution to the previous problems of land annexation and the gap between the rich and the poor. Then wait for the outbreak of the next big uprising. (To be continued......)

ps: On the last day of the National Day holiday, ask for a double monthly pass, ask for praise!!