"I didn't expect my Lu Rongting to have today, haha!" Lu Rongting directly handed the telegram to his subordinates: "You see, not only did Chen Jingyun personally send a telegram to solicit me a few days ago, but now even the president has sent a telegram to solicit me!" This kind of thing would have happened there when we were still in Guangxi! ”

If it is said that after the Guangzhou incident, who got the biggest benefit, then it must be Lu Rongting, there is no doubt that the Gui army not only recovered Wuzhou, but even marched all the way east along the Pearl River, controlled a large area of western Guangdong, and completed the first large-scale expansion of the Gui army.

Lu Rongting's number one strategist, Tan Haoming, said: "This president is willing, and he is the governor of Guangdong with one mouth!" ”

Lu Rongting said with a smile: "The title of the governor of Guangdong is not so easy to get, Long Jiguang also wanted to take it before, but if you look at what Long Jiguang has become now, according to me, it is at most the head of ten days of kung fu." This Guangzhou is the place where Beiyang and the Nationalist Army are fighting, and it is easy for us to get into it rashly! Not to mention anything else, the Third Division of the National Army alone is enough for us to drink a pot! ”

Tan Haoming sighed and said, "Is this kind of great opportunity just let go?" Governor, the reason why Chen Jingyun is so strong now and has so many troops under his hands is entirely because he has conquered Zhejiang, and he controls Zhejiang, a province with great wealth, if our Gui army can also completely take Guangdong, with the financial and material resources of our two Guangzhou, it may not be weaker than Fujian, Zhejiang and Yunnan! ”

When Lu Rongting heard Tan Haoming say this, he also had all kinds of thoughts in his heart, but he quickly shook his head: "This matter has to be talked about later, we still have to cooperate with Chen Jingyun first, and clean up Long Jiguang first." As for the matter of the governor of Guangdong, we will consider it in the long run! ”

People are selfish, Lu Rongting doesn't have the same ambition as Chen Jingyun in his heart, since he Chen Jingyun can influence the domestic situation in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces with his hands, why can't he Lu Rongting compete for hegemony in the world?

Now that Shenzhou is in chaos, it is uncertain who the Kyushu artifact will fall into, and who can guarantee that I, Lu Rongting, will not have this opportunity.

Of course, it's one thing to have ambitions, but it's another thing to do how. If Gui Jun is now turning against the Nationalist Army, then the one who regrets it the most must be Lu Rongting, and the happiest is Yuan Shikai. So Lu Rongting had to find a way, a way to avoid conflict with the Nationalist Army as much as possible and at the same time control Guangdong.

But Chen Jingyun can give him Guangdong! The answer is no, Guangdong has an important surname for the national army, not only has an important military position, but more importantly, Guangdong is China's financial province, in previous years, the financial revenue is side by side with Jiangsu, this year, although Guangdong's income has been greatly reduced because of the military rebellion, but at the same time Jiangsu is not much better, but even so, this Guangdong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang together have become the top three in China's financial revenue, but in the first year of the Republic of China, this will lack effective statisticsIt is difficult to calculate the specific financial income and ranking of these three.

In any case, this important surname in Guangdong is something that Chen Jingyun can't ignore, if Chen Jingyun can still accept it if Hu Hanmin or Chen Jiongming controlled it before, it is because these two people were busy fighting at the beginning, and they couldn't use Guangdong's financial resources to threaten the security of the national army, but if someone else controls Guangdong, such as Long Jiguang, or Lu Rongting, then it is not acceptable to Chen Jingyun.

He didn't want another huge military force like the Nationalist Army or the Dian Army to appear around him.

Of course, now Chen Jingyun doesn't know that Yuan Shikai has secretly started to communicate with Lu Rongting, he is now paying attention to northern Zhejiang and Guangzhou, but these military and political events are not something that can be quickly determined in a day or two, northern Zhejiang is ready to take corresponding actions at any time according to various situations, and on the Guangdong side, Shen Gang has launched corresponding tactics after receiving reinforcements from Yu Ruofei, and the battle has begun on the frontal battlefield. However, there was no news for a while, and Chen Jingyun could only wait patiently.

Although he was thinking about the affairs of Guangdong and northern Zhejiang, Chen Jingyun had a lot of things on hand, not all of which were military, and there were also civil affairs waiting for him to talk about.

On October 4th, Chen Jingyun had a rare day without military affairs to deal with, but he was not idle, and according to the itinerary drawn up by the secretariat, he Chen Jingyun had to attend an opening ceremony today.

The company that held the opening ceremony was part of a series of cooperation agreements reached between Southeast Iron and Steel Company, Chen Jingyun, and the United States some time ago. According to the aid treaty signed between Chen Jingyun and the Americans, 15 million of the $15 million will be used freely by Chen Jingyun, and then $15 million must be used to purchase American industrial products or transfer technology. Therefore, at that time, in addition to purchasing two regiments of 75-mm guns and one battalion of 105-mm guns, Chen Jingyun used the remaining more than $10 million to purchase all kinds of machinery, equipment, and technology, including a project to build a steel plant.

Originally, these technical cooperation were carried out by the Fuzhou Arsenal, but after more than a year of merger and investment, the Fuzhou Arsenal has many subordinate departments, and the scale has become extremely large, and many departments are dual-use, and the original management system is already a little inadequate.

It is foreseeable that after the large number of machinery and equipment purchased from the United States returns to China, the scale of the Fuzhou Arsenal will be further expanded, so under such circumstances, Chen Jingyun instructed that the steel plant of the Fuzhou Arsenal should also be used as a basis for the expansion of the large-scale steel plant aided by the United States.

However, even if these departments are split, but it is only a split in the management system, the shares have not changed, Mawei Shipyard, Fuzhou Aircraft Factory, Southeast Iron and Steel Plant are still wholly-owned subsidiaries of Fuzhou Arsenal, and this Fuzhou Arsenal currently maintains Chen Jingyun occupies 30% of the shares, and then the political axe occupies 70% of the shares.

However, this situation will change dramatically in the near future, and the reason for this is the loan from the United States. After signing the agreement, Chen Jingyun didn't care much about how and how the money was used, but Chen Jinghai didn't agree with it, Chen Jinghai, who studied finance, saw the opportunities at a glance and persuaded Chen Jingyun.

According to Chen Jinghai's idea, that is, the Chen family set up a wholly-owned bank by themselves, and then underwrote the recovery bonds issued by the military and political axe, and resold them to the United States, which is basically similar to the previous Fuzhou Bank, the only difference is that the Fuzhou Bank is a wholly-owned enterprise of the military and political axe, and this sole bank is the Chen family's own bank. With Chen Jingyun in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, the Chen family's bank wants to underwrite the recovery bonds, which is basically a matter of one sentence.

However, this is too obvious and complicated, and now there is a Fuzhou Bank, so you can't let the Fuzhou Bank fall for your own business, so Chen Jingyun took a compromise approach, using the family's main industries, such as Fuding Textile Factory, Hademen Tobacco Company, Tower Cement, Sanshi Chemical, Fule Electric as capital, and invested in Fuzhou Bank, which is not counted, Chen Jinghai also used Chen Jingyun's name to borrow a large amount of funds from wealthy businessmen in Fujian and Zhejiang to acquire Fuzhou Bank. Originally, as a bank under the national army system, the main role of the Bank of Fuzhou was to issue paper money and play the role of a central bank, but its own capital was not abundant. In the case that the Chen family has gathered a large amount of capital, the Fuzhou Bank will be surnamed Chen.

Just after the successful acquisition, Chen Jinghai announced that Fuzhou Bank would be renamed Huaxia Bank.

Things have gone on to this point, and this has to be said to be Chen Jingyun's selfishness, in fact, he didn't have any ideas, thinking that the money would be used when he took it, and how to use it didn't belong to the scope of his care. But Chen Jinghai, who used to work in the Fuding Textile Factory and later said that he didn't want to join the army and wanted to do business, said that this money could come in handy, and if the Chen family was able to control many industries under the Fuzhou Arsenal in one fell swoop after a few years.

And Chen Jinghai said it carefully, Chen Jingyun also understood, it was nothing more than a white-glove wolf thing, this kind of commercial thing Chen Jinghai said one by one, Chen Jingyun felt that it was okay after listening to it, anyway, now Chen Jingyun regards the military and political axes as his own, and the left and right are just the right hand and left hand, if it can bring some benefits to the family, it is not impossible.

Therefore, after this back and forth, the Bank of Fuzhou became Huaxia Bank and became the main industry of the Chen family, which can not only issue paper money, make silver dollars, copper dollars, act as an agent for military and political axes, and the traditional deposit and loan business of some banks, but also have many industries of the original Chen family, which is more sufficient in the capital chain.

With this premise, Huaxia Bank, as the only cooperative bank, controlled all the funds of this cooperation in the subsequent U.S. aid treaty.

Except for the $15 million for the military expenses of the Nationalist Army, which could not be moved, everything else had to be used to purchase machinery and equipment from the United States, and it was naturally impossible for the military and political axes to personally carry out these business cooperation, so they directly lent the money to Huaxia Bank without interest, and Huaxia Bank then invested the money into the Fuzhou Arsenal, which then purchased it.

It can be said that this money went around in Huaxia Bank, but after such a circle, Huaxia Bank completely controlled Fuzhou Arsenal by increasing its capital.

To put it simply, the military and political axe owes money to the Americans, and the Huaxia Bank owes money to the military and political axe, and then the Huaxia Bank uses the money to invest in the Fuzhou Arsenal, and the arsenal uses the money to buy the Americans' machinery and equipment technology.

Anyway, going around and around, this money helped the Chen family completely control the Fuzhou Arsenal and many of its subordinate business departments.

After such an experience, Chen Jingyun directly promoted Chen Jinghai to become the president of Huaxia Bank, which allowed him to manage his family business and also let him enter the official career.

Therefore, today, Chen Jingyun is not only attending the opening ceremony of the Southeast Iron and Steel Plant as the leader of the political axe, but also attending the opening ceremony as the boss of the steel plant.