Chen Jinghai seemed a little nervous about his cousin, who was the governor, and was slightly stunned before replying: "Ah, yes, I have graduated from the University Hall of London!" ”

"Oh, how is the Fuding Textile Factory doing now?" Chen Jingyun asked casually, but Chen Yu's words came to mind: "Your brother Hai is also married now, it's not good to stay like this all the time!" ”

Chen Jingyun naturally knew that the reason why Chen Yu said this was because of the news from the third uncle's family, because the reason why Chen Jinghai came back in a hurry at the beginning of the year was because the telegraph office was sent by his family, Chen Jingyun had already revolutionized and become the governor, and it was precisely when he needed the help of the children of the Chen family. However, after he came back, because the Fuding Textile Factory had just had a winter coat turmoil, and rashly reusing the words of the clansmen was easy to cause the plans of his subordinates, so Chen Jingyun sent him to the Fuding Textile Factory to learn first. But this busy time forgot about this cousin, and after Chen Yushi mentioned it again, he learned that Chen Jinghai had been staying in Fuding Textile Factory to do things.

"It's good over there, Manager Li taught me a lot!" Chen Jinghai replied.

Chen Jingyun asked again: "Since you are here today, I will ask you, do you plan to join politics or the army!" Chen Jingyun plans to settle this matter today, so that Chen Yu will ask again in a few days.

Chen Jinghai was slightly stunned and then remembered his father's instructions a few days ago, and then said, "Join the army!" ”

Chen Jingyun frowned a little when he heard this, how reluctant he said this! immediately frowned and said: "If you don't like to join the army, don't go, I can also arrange it when I go to the military and political axe!" ”

Chen Jinghai gritted his teeth, and finally said, "I want to do business!" ”

Chen Jingyun was a little puzzled when he heard this, this was not the answer he wanted, and he was very sure that this was definitely not the answer that the third uncle wanted, if he wanted to do business, the third uncle would not plead with Chen Jingyun through Chen Yu's family. Not to mention that there are so many properties under Chen Jingyun's name, you can go casually, even if the third uncle has a lot of property in his own family, he can't come to Chen Jingyun specifically.

Although he had some doubts in his heart, he was not good at making decisions about this matter, so he had to ask the third uncle what he said first, and he couldn't act rashly and let his family have any contradictions, so he immediately said: "I know!" ”

happened to see the third uncle coming in from outside the door at this time, and immediately walked over to the third uncle, and first shouted respectfully: "Third uncle!" ”

The third uncle looked at Chen Jingyun with a smile and said, "I was busy outside just now, and I didn't talk much, come, go inside to talk!" ”

After the two of them entered the inner room, Chen Jingyun didn't plan to hide or delay anything, and said directly: "Third uncle, I don't know what you think of Jinghai's future!" ”

Hearing Chen Jingyun ask about this, the third uncle was slightly stunned, and then the corners of his mouth showed joy: "Since Brother Yun asked today, the third uncle is also afraid of your jokes, this Jinghai is smart and studious when he is a child, and he is also a teenager like you, and after graduating from the University of London this year, I have been worried about his future!" ”

Speaking of the education of the children of the Chen Mansion, based on the fact that Chen Jingyun's father is an official under Li Hongzhang's account, he is regarded as an old Beiyang faction, and he is also engaged in foreign affairs, and the uncle and the third uncle are both in business, so the family has a tradition of sending the children of the family to study abroad in the early years, such as Chen Jingyun studying in Lushi, Chen Jinghai studying in the UK are all products of this background, and the uncle's two sons are also studying abroad.

Since Chen Jingyun became the governor of Fujian, there are not a few people around Chen Jingyun who have come out in this way, such as Yu Ruofei and Chen Jingsheng. The third uncle was naturally anxious when he looked at it, his eldest son had no study abroad experience, he learned the Four Books and Five Classics in his early years, and he was in business early and was in charge of the family business, so the third uncle didn't count on the eldest son, but he had great expectations for his younger son Chen Jinghai, and hoped that Chen Jinghai could join the army like Yu Ruofei, and then rely on Chen Jingyun to rise step by step. That Yu Ruofei is also not a military student, but he can still be a general, and he Chen Jinghai can also be a general.

After seeing Chen Jingyun arrange him to Fuding Textile Factory, the third uncle was depressed for several months, and then he lowered his face and went to see Chen Yushi in person, and tactfully expressed his desire for Chen Jinghai to join the army, so that today's dialogue was possible.

"Now that the country is in a state of suffering, I also hope that the third uncle can contribute to the country and go into battle to defend against the enemy!" The third uncle said what he wanted.

Chen Jingyun also has a little understanding of the third uncle's thoughts, and even understands that after all, it is normal to hope that the child can get ahead, but it also depends on whether he is willing or not.

"When I asked him, he said he wanted to do business!" Chen Jingyun directly said what the problem was.

In fact, there is no difficulty in arranging Chen Jinghai, if you want to join the army, you can directly arrange to go to the Fuzhou Military Academy to study for three months, and then the troops below will experience a period of time, and you will soon be able to rise. If he wants to enter politics, Chen Jingyun is also willing to let a high-achieving student who graduated from the University of London and is also his cousin quickly climb up and quickly seize power. This mainly depends on Chen Jinghai's own wishes. As for him wanting to do business, Chen Jingyun didn't bother to care.

Hearing Chen Jingyun say that his second son actually wanted to do business, the third uncle's face immediately changed, and then he took a deep breath and said: "Brother Yun, don't worry, I will send him over after the new marriage, and I must let him enter the Fuzhou Military Academy!" ”

The third uncle's attitude is like this, Chen Jingyun doesn't plan to take care of their family affairs, let it be as if people love it! immediately said goodbye, and then went to find Lin Yun.

The third uncle's face became a little dark at this time, and then he went to Chen Jinghai angrily, obviously, this wedding did not have as many festive colors as imagined.

After coming back from the wedding, Lin Yun's interest was a little high, and she kept talking about various things around Chen Jingyun, such as which girl's Sichun fell in love with a certain son, such as a certain month, a man with a strict wife was kicked out of the house by his wife, such as a new batch of new French perfumes in Fuzhou.

Chen Jingyun was lying on the recliner, slightly closing his eyes and enjoying the rare peace, opening his mouth slightly from time to time, and then Lin Yun would pick up a glass of juice and hand over the straw.

But after a while, Lin Yun didn't give him the juice, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Lin Yun holding a fan to cool himself, and said: "It's evening now, why is it still so hot!" ”

"It's the height of summer, and it doesn't get cool until the evening!" Chen Jingyun replied casually.

Lin put down the fan, then stared at the grass in front of the courtyard, and said after a while, "Why don't we dig a pool here?" ”

"Pool?" Chen Jingyun looked at the open space in front of him, thinking that the place should be big enough, and immediately said, "Okay!" Get one if you like, but do you know how to swim? ”

"Nope! What about you! Lin Yun didn't care about being barefoot, stood up and walked to Chen Jingyun's side.

"Well, it's okay!" Chen Jingyun replied.

"When the time comes, you can teach me!" Lin Yun walked over and half-squatted, and then looked at Chen Jingyun with big eyes.

"Hmm!" Chen Jingyun thought: "Okay, I'll let the secretariat arrange it, and it will be done in two days!"

The evening heat in Fuzhou is unstoppable, and the rest of China is the same as the stove.

Shanghai Songhu Merchant Marine School, Sa Zhenbing held a fan to fan the cool, while holding a small teapot to pour a cup of tea, and after drinking it full, he could be regarded as suppressing the heat in his throat.

At this moment, a servant came in from outside: "Master, the Admiralty from the north is calling!" ”

Hearing that it was a call from the north, Sa Zhen Bingyu frowned slightly, what did the Admiralty do to send a telegram to himself? You must know that since the Xinhai Revolution, Sa Zhenbing, who was in a dilemma at that time, was unwilling to suppress the revolution on the one hand, but on the other hand, he was unwilling to betray the imperial court, so he simply made a speech, so there was the aftermath of Tang Qianming's uprising of the naval fleet. Later, the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe invited him to serve in the Admiralty many times, but Sa Zhenbing never let go of the knot in his heart, even if Liu Guanxiong in the later Beiyang Political Axe sent a telegram to invite Sa Zhenbing to serve in the Admiralty, he also did not agree.

Now that the Admiralty of Yanjing has sent him a telegram again, I'm afraid it's still the same old thing.

However, after reading the telegram, he was a little surprised, because this time the Admiralty was not talking about inviting him to go north to take up a post, but about the Navy's expenses.

Everyone knows that the navy has had a miserable life after Xinhai, and as an old man in the navy and one of the few influential people in the naval circles today, Sa Zhenbing has always paid attention to the situation of the navy and knows that the navy is very difficult now.

"Selling the Phillips?" Sa Zhenbing looked heartbroken after reading the message.

Fei Hong was one of the three training cruisers ordered in the Qing Dynasty's naval reorganization plan during the Xuantong period, two of which were built in Britain, and the remaining one was snatched by the United States from the Germans after fierce competition, but the Xinhai Revolution broke out shortly after the reorganization of the navy was launched, and now the navy does not even have normal funds, let alone continue to implement the previous plan. Most of the warships ordered by the former Qing Dynasty from foreign countries have now been built, and they are waiting to be returned to China after paying the final payment.

However, now China's central political axe Beiyang itself is poor, there is money there, and the balance of more than 10 million yuan cannot be taken out at all, so Liu Guanxiong and others in the Admiralty have gray hair.

Among these ships in arrears, the two cruisers built by the British are fine, but they are only tens of thousands of pounds, but the one built in the United States only gave a deposit of tens of thousands of pounds, and there are still more than 100,000 pounds left.

The Chinese navy in the late Qing Dynasty was the early Republic of China, basically as a whole, and some admirals did not have the ability or capital to occupy the territory or the like, what they wanted was to rebuild the navy, in other words, whoever paid them military salaries and built warships for them, then the navy would support whom, to put it mildly, it was a mother.

The current Yuan Shikai is temporarily giving money to support the navy, so the navy still listens to Yuan Shikai for the time being. Now the Admiralty can't scrape together the money to pay the final payment of the Phihong, and if you don't want to sell it, you have to find a way to do it yourself.

Because the circle of China's naval circles is too small, after Chen Jingyun in Fuzhou allocated 800,000 yuan to the Navy Department for the construction of ships, several bigwigs in the Navy heard the rumors one after another, and Tang Qianming of Yanjing inspired Lin Ying, a veteran of the Navy who was still in Fuzhou, to inquire about the telegram.

This kind of thing is naturally not good, just send someone to the door or send a telegram, you have to go other way. Therefore, as soon as Liu Guanxiong and Tang Qianming pondered, they sent a telegram to Sa Zhenbing in Shanghai, asking Sa Zhenbing to take a trip to Fuzhou to find out from Chen Jingyun.

Although Sa Zhenbing is not serving in the Navy now, as a Navy veteran, he is still concerned about the Navy and the future of the Navy, so he is naturally unwilling to sell the Feihong because he has no money, and after receiving the telegram from the Admiralty, he also intends to put aside his previous prejudices.

"That's it, I haven't been back to my hometown for some years, I'll go back to Fuzhou in two days!" Sa Zhenbing closed the message and took a sip of tea before talking to himself.