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Just after Christmas 19o3, the U.S. Consulate in Anton opened. Mr. Davidson was transferred to Anton as a consul, and he had been there since the Qing-Japanese War when he went to Taiwan, and the minister believed that with his knowledge and nine years of experience as a journalist in Taiwan, he would be able to handle all the affairs of Anton, a port of mixed Japanese and American influence, and at the same time, in order to better understand this newly included mountainous and forested land in the sphere of American influence, Minister Conger changed the rules of a consul in one place in the past, and sent another one named Frederick to Anton. Claire Vice-Consul, who is also a journalist. In the eyes of the Americans, there are too many unknown things in this mountainous and forested land, which accounts for half of the entire eastern part of Liaodong.

Henry, the driver of the Ford, happily drove to the American Consulate, where he could see Mr. Consul's beautiful daughter again. Although forced by the situation, he can only work as a driver for a yellow man now, but it does not mean that he will spend his life ordinarily, he believes that in a few years, he will also make a fortune in the Far East.

The guards at the entrance of the consulate did not stop them, but directly let the car drive into this luxurious courtyard that was actually purchased by the Tonghua Railway Company, but ended up being the American consulate. Zhang Kun's car was parked next to another red Ford luxury car, and when he got out of the car, the consul came out, he smiled at Zhang Kun and arched his hand, and then said in a half-baked polite language: "Mud howl mud howl, Mister Zhang Ni is really a distinguished guest, and the nest is sprayed here with raw ash." ”

Listening to the strange Chinese of the American consul, Zhang Kun and Bai Siwen were very unnatural. Zhang Kun arched his hand and said directly in pidgin English: "Mr. Da." I'm not a distinguished guest, but I didn't talk about it again after the last meeting, it's a pity, this time my friend brought some spring tea from Hangzhou, so I specially sent you some over, I want to drink tea with Mr. Da. ”

Like all U.S. consuls, James. Davis also took a Chinese name called Da Feisheng. Although the name chosen by this Chinese master has a feeling of being on the rise, the surname is Da, and there are too few people with this surname.

When Mr. Da Feisheng, the consul, heard that there was a new tea in Hangzhou, the beard under his nose curled up for a while, this place in the northeast is too cold, and it is far from the comfort of living in warm Taiwan, especially there is no tea in this place. There is no good tea, which makes this semi-Chinese American extremely uncomfortable.

"Thank you so much. Please! Please! Da Feisheng said happily.

After drinking the new tea three times, the business began, Zhang Kun cleared his throat, "Mr. Da, how is the battle between Japan and Russia in Mukden." It seems that it has been more than ten days, and the two sides have not yet decided the winner? ”

"Oh, it's over. Yes, yesterday was already over, the Japanese emerged victorious. Mr. Consul whispered. At the time when the telegraph office in Andong City was accused by the Japanese, only the foreigners were well-informed.

No wonder the Japanese are so arrogant today. Zhang Kun thought to himself, "Are the Russians retreating safely like they did in Liaoyang last time?" ”

"No, this time they achieved a decisive victory, the Russian ** team lost 100,000 people, of which more than 30,000 were captured by the Japanese." Mr. Consul shook his head as he spoke, as if he didn't believe the result, "Misty Zhang, does this have any impact on your business?" ”

"Nope! It won't make a difference. Zhang Kun said with certainty, the American consul in front of him is one of his clients, although he only keeps a small amount of money in his own bank, "I am just surprised by the current monetary policy of the Japanese." ”

"Oh, what's new with them?" Seeing the situation of the Japanese, Mr. Consul hurriedly put down the teacup and became colorful. Da Feisheng's nine-year experience in Taiwan has made him more aware of the situation in China, and he understands the strange cycle of "officials are afraid of foreigners, foreigners are afraid of the people, and the people are afraid of the government" that circulates among the Chinese, as these gentlemen and businessmen standing between the people and the government are the key force in it, and Zhang Kun, who is sitting in front of him, is the ultimate force that can influence all the gentry and businessmen, and this person's words have always been the focus of his report to the Beijing Legation.

Seeing that Da Feisheng's attention was attracted, Zhang Kun said: "Now that the Japanese have surrounded the Andong Chamber of Commerce, they hope that the businessmen will accept the Japanese military ticket. "Zhang Kun didn't say the word "Duty Guild", which is a foreigner, but used the name of the Chamber of Commerce, which Westerners know better, in fact, the Shahe Town Duty Guild is the Andong Chamber of Commerce, or the Dongbian Dao Chamber of Commerce, and most of the transactions in the mountains and forests of Liaodong are traded here." If the merchants were forced to accept Japanese military stamps, then they would have to buy Japanese goods, such as Japanese cotton cloth, in a situation where only the Bank of Japan could redeem them, and the merchants would have to buy Japanese goods, such as Japanese cotton ......."

Zhang Kun can stop talking here, he is actually just here to fan the fire, or officially, a little more literally, based on the deep friendship between the Chinese and American people, he is a kind reminder to Da Feisheng, an old friend of the Chinese people, and he can't say anything else. In fact, his goal was achieved, and at this time, Da Feisheng had already stood up with a stern expression.

For the later Americans, China's big pie has been almost divided among other countries, that is, the American concession in Xiamen, and it is also the time when the Qing government introduced the expediency adopted by the United States to balance Japan, the French in the Pearl River Valley, the Japanese in the Minjiang River Valley, the British in the Yangtze River Valley, the Germans in the Yellow River Valley, the entire China is convenient for business is almost occupied by various countries, that is, the sparsely populated Guanwai, which is also frantically robbed by Japan and Russia. In the face of such a situation, the United States can only pitifully sell some daily commodities, of which cotton cloth is a large piece, accounting for more than half of the entire trade volume, and the northeast, a place that does not produce cotton and is extremely cold, is naturally a large consumer of cotton cloth. Of course, this market was not so easy to obtain, but the American bankers and cotton merchants fought for more than ten years from the British through a fierce price war, but with the Gengzi Incident the Russians went south, the market that had paid a huge price in the past was about to be lost, so the United States began to support Japan, but when Japan gained a firm foothold in Liaodong. They also began to subconsciously reject the goods of other countries, which all Americans did not expect. If the rejection of American kerosene by the Russians is just asking for money. Then Japan's rejection of American cotton cloth is fatal.

The complicated and fierce struggle in the Far East has always been watched by the US State Department, and the war mediation that President Roosevelt has been preaching everywhere is also based on this background; it is unfavorable for the United States for Japan and Russia to monopolize the Northeast by anyone, and only if the two countries do not win the war will it be in the best interest of the United States, so that the interests of the United States in the Northeast can be ensured when both sides need the United States. Especially in the mountains and forests of Liaodong, which is based on Andong Port. The erection of the U.S. sphere of influence with the Antongfeng Railway as the backbone strengthened the U.S. State Department's determination to mediate the Russo-Japanese War.

Zhang Kun saw that Da Fei, who has always been hip-hop, got up and slipped away, and the rest was to see how Japan and the United States fight. He walked around the newly opened Qidaogou Market and then went back to the bank. On his way back to the bank, many of his shops on the street had already closed, and he patted the driver's shoulder when he saw the official sedan chair of the county magistrate. The car stopped. The official sedan chair across the street saw that the foreign carriage stopped, and it also stopped under the command of the officer, and when he saw the sedan chair stop, Zhang Kun asked the driver to drive over, and the car had not stopped steadily, and the county commander Cheng leaned out of the sedan chair, "Xingjian." Oops, damn damn bad! Those Orientals surrounded the guild, and said that the guild director would not be allowed to go home if he did not agree, and it had been closed for several hours now. ”

The county commander Cheng is a Mongolian white flag, although he has read some books, but it is still difficult to change the rough nature of Mongolian men. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was "fucking", but this county order was much better than his predecessor Gao Qin. To love money is to love money, but at least one is not afraid of things.

Looking at Master Cheng's big pie face, Zhang Kun said: "Master Cheng, the Japanese just arrived when I was in the guild in the morning, and they didn't say anything at that time, and now they are actually putting you under house arrest?" It's really humiliating. ”

"It's fucking. How can this Oriental ...... How can you do this? How is this different from banditry? It's unbelievable! "Master Cheng didn't understand the short confrontation between Zhang Kun and the Japanese in the guild, and thought that the Oriental people were polite when Zhang Kun left, as for how he had a falling out later and wanted to close people, then he didn't understand.

"The county still needs to check." Master Cheng said, "But now there are rumors on the market, and many shops have closed their doors and closed down." Xingjian, you are also a member of the guild, and at this time, you should be trustworthy and not strike the market, in case this matter becomes bigger and bigger, and changes arise in the chaos. ”

Hearing the order of the county magistrate, Zhang Kun immediately saluted and said: "Master Cheng is really worthy of being the parents of this county, who is sympathetic to the people's livelihood and has insight into the people's feelings, which is really admired by the students." ”

seemed to be very satisfied with Zhang Kun's sycophancy, and after a few polite words, Master Cheng retracted into the official sedan chair, and then hurriedly went to the God of Wealth Temple. As soon as he left, Zhang Kun also got into the car, it was already the sixth day of the new year, and someone should be coming from Shanghai. When Zhang Kun rushed back to the bank, Yu Ziyi had already waited for a short time.

Zhang Kun was shocked when he saw Yu Ziyi, he just said hello to Yu Ziyi in the living room very easily, and then took him to the study in the inside.

"How is sir?" Zhang Kun asked Wang Xiaoxu.

"Hmm. Very good! "Yu Ziyi is also a person with a tight talk.

"This ......"

"The plan you proposed last time has already come to fruition, and this time I brought a sample." Yu Ziyi took out the thing in his arms as he spoke, he didn't actually know what this thing was, he only knew that this thing was important, and the important thing was to let him, the first assistant of Mr., come to Liaodong in person.

Zhang Kun looked at the box he took out, quickly took it, and said, "Please go to the living room for tea, I'll ......"

Yu Ziyi nodded, and Zhang Kun sent him out.

Holding the thin box, Zhang Kun was very anxious, after Yu Ziyi left, he immediately locked the door, under the bright lamp on the table, after accurately entering the password, the box was opened - inside was a stack of common Japanese army tickets on the market, which contained six kinds of money, 2 money, Wu money, one yuan, Wu yuan, and one yuan, each of which had several sheets, two brand new ones, and three worn ones. Take a magnifying glass and carefully scan all the military tickets, Zhang Kun took out several sets of original Japanese military tickets from under the table, compared these kinds of military cards, starting from the Chinese characters on the top of the "military hand ticket", then the chrysanthemum representing the Japanese royal family under the Chinese characters, and then the crane below, all the way to the "Meiji 37th year" under the "Imperial Government of Japan", all carefully read it several times.

I spent most of the hour in the study. When Zhang Kun came out, Yu Ziyi's tea had been changed several times. He smiled and said, "Xiao Bing, I'm really sorry, I forgot the time when I was busy,"

"Hehe, no hurry, no hurry." Yu Ziyi said with a smile, he had already taken out a book to read while waiting, and he was actually like this. When you are busy, how can you have so much effort and politeness, Zhang Xingjian He knows, this person and Xie Taofu are considered to be a double wall in finance, and when they can't find talents for a while, the newly established Kanto Bank will be managed by the two of them, but because of the business, Xie Taofu went to the UK shortly after the bank opened, and now the Kanto Bank is being taken care of by him.

"Do you have any other instructions from there, sir?"

The gentleman also had some words to tell. He said that you sent some cloth samples, and now that you look at it, although there are several styles and patterns, they are all fine. It's that cotton yarn is not easy to choose, some cotton yarn is very poor, and some cotton yarn is very good. There is the worst cotton yarn in the commercial houses in Shanghai, but I am afraid that the best kind of cotton yarn cannot be found. The kind of cotton yarn that is not good or bad for you now, I don't know if it is good or not. In addition, the United States has found the best cotton yarn, but it has to be bought from there, then woven and reprinted, and finally shipped to the outside of the border. I'm afraid it's going to be half a year later, and now the weather is getting warmer. Is this cloth still sold? ”

Yu Ziyi didn't understand what he was talking about, but Zhang Kun understood it very well. Because of the rash printing of one or two hundred million banknotes, the printing houses in Japan were completely busy, so the large denominations, such as Wu Yuan and Shi Yuan, used good banknote paper, and the printing was also printed by the printing house directly under the state; And the small denomination, such as the four large amounts of money, 2 money, Wu money, and one yuan, are not so particular, and the paper is average and the printing is poor. In the code language, cotton cloth is a military ticket, style and pattern are layout and craftsmanship, and cotton yarn is banknote. Now Mr. means that the layout of various textures of military tickets, whether it is woodcut, slate or steel plate, he has solved it, that is, banknotes are difficult to do, the kind of banknotes with small denominations are available, but there are banknotes with large denominations, and now they are just printed with ordinary banknotes, see if you can use them? In addition, it is said that the best banknote is available in the United States, but it should be half a year later to buy and print it and then ship it to the Northeast, is it still useful at that time?

"There is no need to go to the United States to buy cotton yarn, the cotton yarn is enough now. Brother Xiao Bing, let's eat first, and when you go back, I can count the number of all kinds of cotton cloth, you can bring it over, and you can spin it according to the order in Shanghai. Zhang Kun was happy, in fact, it would be good to be able to counterfeit military tickets with small denominations, he did not want to make profits, but wanted to use countless fake military tickets to collapse the currency and credit of the Japanese in Northeast China.

Yu Ziyi carefully wrote down Zhang Kun's words, and the next day he said goodbye to Zhang Kun and went to the railway company.

Prepared for more than a year of Antongfeng railway finally started two months ago, of course, for the sake of auspiciousness, specially asked Mr. to calculate a date, that is, on the 28th day of the second lunar month, April 2 of the Western calendar made a huge groundbreaking ceremony, the celebration was presided over by the railway company Prime Minister Du Yaquan, at that time it was a sea of people, guests like clouds, especially spent 100,000 taels, by Li Lianying did not know how to get the Cixi Lafayette gave the word "Fu" came out, everyone in the audience knelt on the ground, this is a great thing, The "blessing" of Cixi Lafayette has always been rewarded to the members of the dynasty and the relatives of the emperor, and this time he was able to give "blessing" to a private railway, but the sun came out in the west.

Yu Ziyi was also in the Andong office of Tonghua Railway Company, and saw the golden characters poured out of the mold of the word "Fu" hanging in the high lobby, feeling a little unbelievable, Du Yaquan looked at Yu Ziyi's puzzled eyes and said: "People are smart people, and they have already shown their wind, saying that the reason for giving "blessing" is because the Antongfeng Railway was built in the mountains and forests outside the Guan, and it was given 'blessing' because it benefited the people outside the Guan. I see, last year's 70th birthday, Brother Hanzhang bought what giraffes, kangaroos, African lions, orangutans, so many overseas auspicious, rare treasures presented at that time, and then this railway was built on the border of North Korea, which can involve military affairs, especially now that the Japanese have defeated the Russians, this eastern road is eventful in the future, there is such a railway town here, there are many Chinese in the Changbai Mountain area, and the rights and interests of China are to be advantageous. ”

After listening to his explanation, Yu Ziyi was a little clear in his heart, but he didn't want Du Yaquan to see that there was no one around, so he said in a low voice: "Actually, this is a few words." ”

Yu Ziyi didn't know why, so he hurriedly looked carefully at the word "Fu" that was offered by incense and candles on the high offering table, but he didn't see anything, and was about to ask, Du Yaquan said again: "Look at that sign, is it written as clothes?" ”

With him reflected, Yu Ziyi understood that this show was really written as a word for clothes, he couldn't help laughing, and said: "Since it's another word, Brother Qiu Fan, you still ......" He stopped again when he said this, did he dare not hang the "blessing" given by Cixi in the most honorable place to offer it, "No wonder Brother Qiu Fan hangs so high, no wonder no wonder." ”

Yu Ziyi said a few strange things, but Du Yaquan smiled bitterly, "I have no choice, although no one dares to say that Cixi's words are other words, but if this matter finally reaches the ears of the old woman, it will be bad, and we will feel good if we make some stumbles in the future." Hanzhang was originally well-intentioned, but he caused me so much trouble,"