Chapter 56: Four Things

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Zhong Guanguan's hobby is chemistry, and he has no concept of bank money at all, but his belief in Yang Rui makes him accept his explanation very lightly. He said, "Well, I'll plan for 300,000 people." In this way, the number of people and the distribution of food on the ships and at the various points will increase. ”

Yang Rui nodded, "Well, that's why I said that we would only set up points in Dongying and Huangxian." Next year's 300,000 immigrants will be undercounted, and there is no problem in increasing the number of 108,000 if the operation is good; there have been floods and droughts in Shandong in the past few years, and the people will not be able to survive. We must be prepared for an increase in the number of people, especially since there must be no shortage of ships. "Many of the helpers sent by Dong Laodao have been back to Shandong, so Yang Rui knows more about the situation over there.

Zhong Guanguan also read the report made by the information provided by these people, and knew that many places in Shandong were indeed already struggling with people's livelihood and mourning. Thinking that with their own strength, they can't save many people, especially if they only set up points in the two ports of Dongying and Huangxian, the hungry people in the interior can't reach the beach hungry, and their end up is starving to death on the way to escape the famine.

Thinking of this, Zhong Guanguan said: "It will be done, we ...... Hey" There is an indescribable helplessness between the words.

Yang Rui knew what he was thinking when he looked at his face, and he was also a relative in his heart. In the past, it was okay in the concession, and I couldn't see any human tragedy, but in the past six months, I have gone out of Tianjin to Tonghua, and I often run around in the mountains and forests of the northeast, so the poor people have seen a lot, and among the mountains and forests of Changbai Mountain, many slopes and feet by the river are set up with scattered thatched shacks, and there are some ragged and skinny people living in the customs who come from the desert in the pass. These people didn't run away at all when they saw the beard, and they just looked at them numbly and stupidly when they were old. The woman and the child huddled in their thatched huts and watched. Whenever he sees this, Yang Rui's heart will be cooler, in modern times, where have I seen a person living in a shack, where have I seen such a black, thin and numb person, the more determined he is in his heart to join the revolution, he wants to smash this evil old society. Although immigrants are said to save people and strengthen themselves, there are still countless people who cannot be saved.

He sighed, "It's not that I'm ruthless. Now if you want to save more people, this is the only way. Who let us have such a court that only knows how to collect and scrape, and only knows how to flatter. For now, the more immigrants there are, the more stable we will be in the Northeast; The more stable we are at Tohoku Station, the more stable Kannai will be in the future. Xianfeng, save those who can be saved. ”

The meeting between Yang Rui and Zhong Sightseeing ended quickly, and the next day. Du Yaquan, who came from Shanghai, came to visit alone, after all, Zhong Guanhua left a year ago, and he had to take over many things in Tonghua, and the cooperation between him and Yang Rui in the future was very crucial to the affairs of the Northeast, as the head of the business line parachuted into the Northeast. It is necessary for Yang Rui to run in and cooperate.

In the mind of Yang Rui, who can only understand the end of the Qing Dynasty through history textbooks and travel novels, the name Du Yaquan is very unfamiliar, and at the beginning, Yang Rui was very unimpressed. After all, this is Cai Yuanpei's recommendation, and Yang Rui knows Cai Yuanpei's criteria for selecting people. Character is higher than talent, so this person is not very important. But later, I heard that Wang Jitong also admired him very much, and planned to let this person take over the business affairs in Shanghai, so he paid more attention to him.

Du Yaquan's information has long been sent, as Yang Rui, who once aspired to be an hR, there are three ways to understand people without seeing people, one is personal experience, this is the most real, and it cannot be faked, as long as a person's life is compressed, then the person's ideological changes, what he wants and wants will be clear, of course, except for spies; Then there is the late Qing Dynasty version of the mBTI professional personality test, as long as the rules are strictly followed, this test is spectrum, especially in this era when the test answers are not known, it is not easy to fake, and finally there are some crooked ways, such as blood type, constellation, genus, etc., half accurate and half inaccurate, can only be used as a reference.

This Du Yaquan was sixteen years old in Xiucai, after the first day he gave up the imperial examination to study arithmetic, and later served as a teacher in Shaoxing Chinese and Western School, Cai Yuanpei was familiar with him at this time; Gengzi founded the Yaquan Academy and Yaquan Magazine in Shanghai, and all the funds were suspended; o2 years because of learning. Chao became the principal of Xunxi Public School, and then because of the re-study. resignation; In the spring of last year, the Shaoxing Education Association, a subsidiary of China Education, set up a Yuejun Public School, which was almost suspended due to lack of funds, and finally came back to life with the help of the China Education Association.

It is not difficult to see that this is a patriotic person, although the method he approves of is to save the country through education, but as long as he is a patriotic person, there is nothing to worry about. The result of the professional personality test is IsTJ civil servant type, Yang Rui smiled when he saw this result, when he was studying the personality test in the school library, he made this result himself, but later when he was looking for a job after graduation, he often adjusted his answers according to the recruitment requirements on the basis of understanding the entire test - if it is sales, let the results show that he is extroverted, if it is administrative and internal management, let the results appear introverted - in the graduates who have no actual work experience, the grades are good, and the personality is "fickle." He got a lot of offers......

Du Yaquan's test results couldn't help but make Yang Rui think of the chaotic but happy time in the second half of his senior year, how can I not travel back to my student days, if that is the case, how beautiful the days should be, leaving the unfinished files, Yang Rui, who was sitting on the seized tiger skin chair and holding the back of his head with his hands comfortably, thought so crookedly. Before he could officially start to be crooked, someone outside shouted a report, but it was said that Du Yaquan had arrived, so he had to pack up his thoughts and go to the living room.

Du Yaquan walked from Tonghua, walked dozens of miles of mountain roads, and his eyes were full of wild land, and when he arrived near the camp, he was very familiar with the sentries who appeared from time to time to check the road strips. Finally, as soon as the mountain road turned, I saw the entire Hongtuya camp. Although Hongtuya was a bearded camp earlier, it was expanded several times after the occupation of the army, and the scale was huge, and because Yang Rui attached great importance to camp planning and strict internal affairs, the camp area was neat, tidy, and orderly, and it was completely impossible to see that this was a bandit village in the past.

Seeing such a camp, Du Yaquan couldn't help but be taken aback, he was surprised not that the camp was big, but that the camp was so orderly, the roads and the houses on both sides, and the soldiers who came and went to clean up. has such a capable and concise taste, although he has not gone abroad. But Du Yaquan has seen a lot of things, and at a glance he feels that this soldier is not comparable to the scourge of the Qing court, even if it is a foreign soldier in the concession, it may not be higher than this, and he has achieved this result in less than a year, and he can't help but be full of curiosity about Yang Rui, the president of the Revival Association, who is about to meet.

The first meeting between Yang Rui and Du Yaquan in their lives was in the corridor outside the living room - no matter what, as the high-level of the airborne, the important left and right hand of the future. When I met Yang Rui for the first time, he still had the politeness that this era should have. Yang Rui walked out of the living room, and saw Du Yaquan who was surrounded by several people after getting off the horse, he was actually a middle-aged man who was not tall and about thirty years old, dressed in a black gentry attire, wearing a round glasses under a black melon skin hat, fine white skin, and bright eyes.

When Yang Rui saw him coming, he arched his hands and shouted, "Brother Qiufan." If you miss the distance, forgive your sins. He laughed.

At this time, Du Yaquan had already seen Yang Rui in the corridor, and was about to walk in to greet Yang Rui when he saw Yang Rui speak, and he smiled at the moment, but he didn't dare to say no, and then Yang Rui greeted him and entered the living room.

After the ceremony was served, the tea was served. The parlor was gone. Both of them didn't have the heart to drink tea, and after a while, Yang Rui saw that he was still very calm, so he said first: "Brother Qiufan, this is here in the Northeast." How does it look and feel, and are you used to it? ”

Although Yang Rui's age was already known. But Du Yaquan still sighed a little at his youth, perhaps, this is the so-called born knower. He smiled, "It's okay." Although the north country is not the south of the Yangtze River, it has a unique scenery. Besides, it's just over Chongyang now, the weather is not too cold, and there is not much difference from Jiangnan. ”

When the frost fell, the autumn in the northeast was already a little cold, but it was not too cold, and the daily morning exercise time of the troops was not adjusted, but by the end of November, the day was cold when the snow fell, and in this era when there was only a fire pit and no heating, the days were indeed very difficult. When he first came at the beginning of the year, although the temperature had warmed up at that time, Yang Rui was still choked by the cold.

Thinking of the snow in the northeast, Yang Rui said: "Hey, it's still more difficult here, especially in winter, and it's hard for southerners to get used to it." Especially in winter, when you go out to Gong, you have to bring a stick," Seeing that Du Yaquan was a little puzzled, he explained: "The weather is too cold, and it will be frozen halfway out, and it will not be broken with a stick, and the back cannot be pulled out." ”

After staying in the army for a long time, his speech naturally became more vulgar, Yang Rui's joke made Du Yaquan couldn't help laughing, and laughed out loud, Yang Rui also laughed. After laughing, Du Yaquan said: "I will prepare a stick when I go out in winter, 'if you come, you will be safe', since you come, you don't need to pay so much attention to it." If it happens, you can say, what I want to do, what I need to do, I have a good idea. ”

Maybe it was the joke just now that shortened the distance between the two, Du Yaquan was not polite, and went straight to the point.

Yang Rui said: "This northeast land, although it is outside the pass, but it is the foundation of the association, but also the wings of my Huaxia, this northeast is unstable, the Great Wall is unstable, and the Great Wall is unstable. What we have to do is to gain a foothold here, not to compete with the Manchus for the world, but to protect our China. That's what we're ultimately doing here, and to get there, there are four things to do. ”

Before he came, Du Yaquan had already learned a lot about the high secrets of the Revival Society, and he had some knowledge of the opportunities of the Revival Society in the Northeast, but he only understood it, and the meaning of the real plan was not yet known. At first, he thought that Yang Rui was going to follow the old road of the Manchurians and raise troops from outside the border to take Beijing, but now it seems that this is not the case. Although he was puzzled, he was conservative by nature, and he didn't ask anything, but said: "What are the four things, please tell them one by one." ”

The previous plan never summarized how many things there were, but as he learned more about the Northeast, the more Yang Rui knew what he had to do.

"Four things: one is agriculture, the second is labor, the third is business, and the fourth is education." Yang Rui explained: "The so-called agriculture in the Northeast is two things, and now Xiao Xu has built a new agricultural reclamation company in Shanghai, which is mainly for breeding and selecting seeds and improving agricultural technology, but the main job is to organize and arrange immigrants, these immigrants will be recruited in a cooperative way, how to manage these farmers, so that they become our people; In addition to the agricultural reclamation company, there is also a agricultural trading company, which is mainly engaged in the trading of agricultural materials and agricultural products, and according to the plan, he will open all over the three eastern provinces, and the ultimate goal is to control the grain market in the entire northeast. ”

The plans are grandiose. But the reality is cruel, and Yang Rui also thought of this. Fu said: "Of course, this is only a long-term plan, but the agricultural materials company at least we have to ensure that we control the grain market in the district, and only close economic integration can control the countryside well." ”

After talking about farming, it is work. Yang Rui said: "Industry is industry, and in Tonghua, light industry has oil mills, silk reeling factories, and mills, but these are basically operated in partnership with the local gentry. The main thing is that they are in charge, and we are only in charge of the model factory. "In a new place, it is an iron rule that everyone earns money without eating alone, these factories are all to win over the local gentry, in order to let the local gentry have a learning object, Zhong Guanguan has established some model factories to provide management and management training to these partners." Regardless of light industry, heavy industry includes coal mines, iron mines, and copper mines. There are also steel mills, copper smelters, machinery factories, and military factories. It's just that the mine is already open, but the factory equipment will not arrive until next year, and this year it will be mainly responsible for infrastructure. As for the military factories, they will not be in place until the year after then. ”

Yang Rui said a lot, and Du Yaquan remembered it quickly. He was listening to Zhong Guanguan about the affairs of the military factory in Tonghua. At that time, I was taken aback, in ancient times, it was just a matter of privately building weapons, but now the army uses guns, and the Qing court has to ask foreigners to help when it runs a military factory.

Don't wait. Yang Rui began to talk about business again, "The center of business is in Shanghai. For Tonghua, the focus of business is on the trade routes, namely the Antongbong Railway and the Andong Seaport, which will be built next year. This is our northeast artery, as long as this artery is broken, then we will bleed nonstop, and after a long time, it will be a big loss. ”

Du Yaquan knew the importance of railways and ports, but he also knew the shape of present-day Tohoku, and asked: "What if Japan wins the railroad and prevents us from building the railway?" ”

"We have to rely on the United States only to fight for our own strength." Yang Rui said, "It was because of the support of the United States that the Qing court finally allowed this railway. Half of Americans' business in the Qing Dynasty is in the Northeast, and after the full reclamation, immigration will increase, and the market for cotton cloth and kerosene in the United States will be even larger, and the Americans will not give up here. ”

In the relationship with the United States, Yang Rui has always been the most important job. A few months ago, during the World Expo, Yu Huizu and Yu Zixun, in the name of the Tonghua Railway Company, visited the All-American Cotton Spinning Association and the Mobil Oil Company with gifts and market analysis reports, and talked with them in a friendly and pleasant conversation about their views on the situation in the Far East and the future Manchurian market. Both organizations have large networks in the United States, and constantly reminding them of the importance of the Manchurian market will make them more frequent in pushing the U.S. government to support the construction of the Antongbong Railway.

Yang Rui did not say how to operate the United States' support for the Antongbong railway, not for the sake of secrecy, but in his view, it is a matter of common sense, and in so-called democracies, business interests are the center of gravity. Although he had been in the Foreign Affairs Newspaper, he did not understand how the American business community and the government interacted. After all, in China, the empress dowager is in power, and ordinary businessmen don't say that they can connect their relationship to Cixi, even if they know the chief eunuch Li Lianying, it is also the smoke on the ancestral tomb.

However, when he heard that there was support from foreigners, he wanted to speak and stopped, and finally asked: "Actually, this right of way ......."

Seeing that he could understand what he was thinking so completely, Yang Rui said: "Don't worry about the right of way, it won't be given to foreigners." At most, we let the foreigner contract for a few years, and if he wants to propose to buy, then we will say that the tradition will not let it, and if the court finally agrees, we will mobilize the people to assemble and march, and we can say that the people will not let it. ”

Yang Rui later said that Du Yaquan understood the rally and parade, but he didn't understand the specific meaning of this "contract", and asked: "Actually, does this contract mean that it is completely handed over to foreigners?" ”

Yang Rui explained: "It is like a tenant, handing over the land to others to plant, as for how long to plant and how much rent to pay every year, it is up to both parties to discuss." The railway will be leased for a maximum of 10 years, and we will take it back after 10 years. "Contracting is something that everyone knows in later generations, but now to make Du Yaquan understand, he has to cite the example of tenant chartering.

When it comes to railways and mines, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always lost more than won less, and at present, Yuan Shikai has taken back the railway cup inside and outside the Guanwai. As for the north-south arteries, Luhan, Jinpu, Shanghai-Hangzhou and other important arterial routes, the rights were all seized by foreigners. Du Yaquan was very happy to hear that not only could the railway be built, but also the right of way would not be lost, because after all, as a member of the Renaissance Society, he did not want to become a traitor - even if such a traitor was only forced to do so.

Overjoyed, he didn't wait for Yang Rui to say the fourth thing before he said it himself, "This fourth teaching, whether it is a large and small school under the Education Association in various counties, we must gain a foothold in the Northeast, it may not be feasible to rely on people from the south of the Yangtze River alone, and it is right to set up education in the local area and take talents on the spot; In addition, I saw that the agricultural reclamation company has a technical station, which is supposed to teach the people how to improve their techniques and increase their income, right? ”