Three days later, Batista finally arrived in Shanghai.

He was accompanied by the Frenchman Adrian.

Their indifference to the French Concession seemed to have been prepared, and Adrian, as the new French vice-consul, went to the consulate to report on his own, while Batista and his attaché went directly to the Shanghai branch of the Industrial Bank.

Dewitt did not shy away from it, and he received his uncle in the conference room.

Batista, who is now sixty-one years old this year, tried to greet his nephew warmly, but Dewitt was indifferent.

He took a business-like attitude and said that he was doing well, because if Danielle hadn't foolishly angered the board of directors, he would have even been able to rest forever.

Then he put the recent newspapers of the French Concession and a large pile of evidence in front of his uncle.

"You know that I am very good friends with them, and I have lost their friendship and your trust in this kind of thing." Dewitt was angry and got straight to the point: "So I officially resign to you." ”

Battista was enraged by his actions: "What do you mean by that? Don't you even have the most basic patience, you have forgotten everything your family has given you! ”

"What did the family give me? Uncle. ”

Dewitt asked him with confidence: "Mr. Batista, I first obtained Charlie's friendship in Tianjin, and then obtained a huge order from the Qing court, and I even put the BNP Paribas for my family, and then I obtained the title of chief officer of the Far East branch of the Industrial Bank, but when I obtained this title, it was just an empty shelf. ”

He looked at Batista coldly: "The promotion and issuance of coinage rights are inseparable from my efforts!" Because you have earned more than 3 million taels of silver from this business, and you have also made a huge profit from the Shanghai mortgage business of the branch, I would like to ask Mr. Zongdong, how much has the family given me, how much have I given to the family, am I worthy of your gift? ”

“。。。。。”

"Mr. Batista, I am no longer the child of the past, I don't need to prove myself now because I have proven myself, in fact, it is you who have no patience and foresight, you may not have imagined that Fevoli will wake up."

At this time, Battista suddenly said: "Fivoli's coma is a trap, isn't it?" ”

Dewitt was really stunned when he heard this, he looked at his uncle in a daze, and suddenly felt that this person's face was hateful.

Dewitt shook his head: "Who would make such a joke!" Pitfall! This is a good excuse to shirk your own judgment error! ”

Batista took a deep breath: "Well, I did misjudge, and it really won't be a trap, because it's impossible for Fivoli to take risks." ”

Listening to the strong conceit in his words, Dewitt really had enough.

He directly exposed his state of mind and said: "Mr. Batista, you may not know enough about the situation in Shanghai, and the situation in New Rome, but I guarantee that if you still approach them according to this gift or think that you can influence others, you will lose even more." ”

At this time, several of Batista's attachés stood up and rebuked him: "Dewitt, you have more respect! ”

Dewitt smashed the teacup directly: "Get out, what are you!" Lao Tzu let go of your hands and feet and let you take over, you see if you can do what I do! ”

The heavily armed White Russians immediately poured in and dragged the men out, and Batista was stunned by this change, and he looked at Dewitt in surprise: "How dare you do this!" ”

"It's better for me to do these things than for them to do this to you!"

Dewitt went and closed the door, this time he sat down next to Batista, handed him a cigar, and said in a slower tone: "Today's new Rome is no longer something you can arrange a consul to squeeze out. ”

Then he told Han Huaiyi what he had told him, as well as all the things in New Rome that were all over the Shanghai class, and told his uncle who was relatively obscured with information.

Then he asked Batista: "Have you asked me, you are high, you stubbornly believe that the position of Fivoli is based on you, in fact, if it were not for the new Rome to promote the seigniorage to benefit, they could not go your way, in fact, New Rome and the Societe Generale are mutually fulfilling allies, but you have to think that you can control the new Rome, so can you still think so?" ”

After listening to his expression, Batista understood that this was a counterattack against him by his nephew and the new Rome alliance.

But he's a realistic person.

If the new Rome really did what Dewitt said, he had to salvage the situation.

So he calmed down and asked, "What is Charlie's attitude?" I know he's back. ”

Dewitt did not answer the rhetorical question: "Do you think you are comparable to the president of the United States, the generals of the Military Council, the Morgan consortium, the Ford Company, etc., and the combined power?" ”

"It's incomparable."

"Charlie is their collaborator, their allies, their representatives of interests in China, and their pioneers in the United States! By the way, you know the aircraft, Charlie's PTR company in the United States has designed products, and has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in orders from the US government. ”

Speaking of this, Dewitt said to Batista: "Uncle, people don't want to break the agreement at all, because you will get more by doing things properly, but you have made a calculation to betray the agreement. ”

The veins in Batista's neck that were taught by his nephew were about to explode, and he gritted his teeth: "What do they, or you want?" ”

"Forty-nine percent of the minting rights benefit distribution scheme! Otherwise, New Rome will choose other banks to cooperate, and they have enough access to get around you to get through the French high-level, but they don't want to bother. ”

"It's blackmail!"

"That's right, it's as if you pinched the position of Fivoli and unceremoniously fell into the well when someone was seriously ill, this is retribution."

Dewitt threw out another sweet date when he said this: "If you agree, New Rome will give Mr. Batista the exclusive right to represent the aircraft." ”

"I'll open up territory for him?" Batista looked dismissive.

Dewitt was amused: "If you have to think so, then I can't help it, send someone to the United States to see the national tour in full swing over there, the Germans and the British are already contacting the PTR to apply, and the French will have to react sooner or later." ”

"They're going to be so kind?"

"No one wants to be in trouble, but if trouble insists on being trouble, Mr. Batista, then they will be your trouble too! You have to admit that in some ways New Rome already has the strength to threaten you. ”

After speaking, Dewitt got up: "You rest for a while, ponder what I said, I can also arrange someone to take you to Shanghai to see, although you have broken my heart before, but as a member of the Pondit family, this is my last kindness to the family." ”

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