"It seems to be easier than it seems." After sending everyone off, Cheng Weinan sat in the living room, watched the next person clean up the tea cup on the table and said, he thought that everyone should hesitate, but the result was unexpected.

"They have no choice." After Kang Liang returned to China, overseas Chinese were completely abandoned, and Kang Youwei's royalist company also suffered frequent losses, and many of the share capital in it was not donated by overseas Chinese free of charge, but raised in the name of partnership wealth.

"So what's next? Overseas Chinese are also fighting endlessly, and it is still a little difficult for everyone to join the Chamber of Commerce. Cheng Weinan couldn't figure out what his son-in-law thought, all he could do was to fully cooperate.

"Let's go to various parts of Nanyang America to lobby first, and at the same time start to establish branches of overseas Chinese commercial banks, and then use the bank as a base point to promote overseas Chinese businessmen to join the association. This is not something that can be done in a year or two. Yang Rui also knows that without the promotion of the government, it is very difficult to establish such a system, after the opening of the Overseas Chinese Commercial Bank, it must be supported by the Kanto Bank in the early stage to maintain, and it is a fool's dream to make an overall profit in two or three years.

"Good!" Cheng Weinan nodded approvingly, "That's how things are done, you can only be comfortable with gradual progress, and sooner or later you will suffer if you are impatient and rash." "A son-in-law and a son-in-law, he now treats Yang Rui completely as a son.

Seeing Cheng Weinan's appearance as an elder, Yang Rui didn't have any disgust in his heart. After the two discussed for a while, Cheng Weinan went out to see the preparations for the wedding. At this time, it was already 19o8 in the new calendar, and the day of great joy was four days later, in order to expand the influence. Cheng Weinan only chartered the China Grand Theater in Honolulu, which can accommodate several thousand people, and will hold more than 600 tables of banquets at that time, and even invite overseas Chinese to watch the play. Fortunately, the price of the banquet was within ten yuan, and Yang Rui could still afford it. Everyone went to help, and Cheng Ying lived elsewhere and was not allowed to meet, except for dealing with official business, he could only hide in the study and entertain himself.

From this day until the evening, Chen Guangshou led two people over, and one of them hugged Yang Rui when he saw him. He was very happy, and Yang Rui was also very happy, just looking at him and Yu Zixun and said: "Jizan, Zixun." Why did you get there early? ”

Yu Zixun looked at Situ Meitang, who was silly on the side, and said helplessly: "I booked a ticket one day later, but Gizan bought a ticket one day earlier, and it was still the fastest boat." So I arrived early. ”

"I can't help but see you! Now the Revival Army has won another big victory in Yanzhou. After killing thousands of Tartar soldiers, overseas Chinese everywhere were lively, and more and more people donated money. Situ Meitang couldn't imagine the changes in the revival in the past few years, no matter how he thought about it, it felt like a dream, and when he heard that Yang Rui was married to an overseas Chinese child, he couldn't wait to fly to Honolulu.

I heard that Situ Meitang said that there were more and more overseas Chinese donating money, but Yang Rui did not have the slightest joy. He knew that most of the people who donated money were poor overseas Chinese with a daily salary of less than one dollar, and it was not easy. He said, "Can the list of donors be kept?" ”

Seeing Yang Rui ask about the list of donors, Situ Meitang Meitang and Yu Zixun shook their heads together, Yu Zixun said: "Most of the overseas Chinese who donate money will still return to China in the future, and they are afraid that the list will be known by the Manchus, so there are still a few who dare to register their names." Later, we changed a little, that is, for every yuan collected, there will be a donation coupon, and if the revolution succeeds in the future, we can return the donation twice with this coupon. ”

Seeing that Yu Zixun said that it was a double return, Yang Rui asked with a smile: "I heard that the Alliance's donation is ten times the return, is it too stingy for us to double it?" ”

Listening to Yang Rui's joke, Situ Meitang preemptively said: "Ten times back? When it comes to sounding good, they don't even think about paying it back. We returned it double, but we really plan to pay it back, so far, the donation has been 110,000 US dollars, and if we really want to return it ten times like them, how will we pay it back in the future? ”

Yang Rui was just joking, in the final analysis, overseas Chinese donations were due to compete with the Alliance for the source of funds, which was not an important part of the financial system of the Renaissance Association. After he laughed, he asked Situ Meitang, "Has there been any change on the big guy's side?" ”

"I'm still working on the Hongmen General Hall, but I have donated a lot to Sun Wen in the past two years, but I haven't done it all at once. It makes the hall masters everywhere very complaining, this Hongmen main hall, I am afraid that it will be half bad for a while. Speaking of Huang Sande, Situ Meitang shook his head very much, only feeling that he had pressed the wrong treasure.

"Oh...... So this time, everyone in Chaozhou also donated a lot of money, right? Yang Rui asked again.

"Hmm. This time, Sun Wen sent one of his cronies over, promising that this time it would be successful, and remitted a lot of money, but now the move failed, and it was deduced that someone in Japan had colluded with the Manchus and calculated the alliance. "It's a mess over there in the Alliance, and Situ Meitang really doesn't want to think about that mess." I think we can still talk to the big guy and ask him to stop supporting Sun Wen and support us. The big guy actually has this meaning. ”

"It's hard!" Yang Rui also wants to do this, but if he wants Hongmen to support him, then he has to join Hongmen, no matter what he is blocked, he is a member of Hongmen, and he must be restricted by the rules of Hongmen, and Hongmen is bound to gain a foothold in China in the future, which he does not want to see. No matter what kind of party it is, it always supports it when it fights the world, and it is banned when it fights the world. The American Hongmen can't help themselves much, so it's better not to provoke them, so as to save an unrighteous reputation.

Hearing that Yang Rui said that it was difficult, Situ Meitang also knew that his words had been said, he didn't expect that Yang Rui didn't like the rampant party in China, he only knew that it was impossible for Yang Rui to join Hongmen, and he was silent at the moment. Yu Zixun next to him observed his words and looks, knew where the knot between the two was, and deliberately asked: "Actually, what about the bride?" I'm not here to see you, but I'm here to see my sister-in-law. ”

"The bride is hiding, I can't see it, can you still see it?" Yang Rui smiled, but he still turned the topic to Situ Meitang, he felt that some things should not be too vague, it was better to make it clear, at least, to make Situ Meitang clear: "Kizan, now we and the League are two completely different revolutionary parties, and the big guy has always been extremely supportive of Sun Wen." I don't have a problem with that. The bigwigs supported the revolution, in addition to overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and also wanted to strengthen the Hongmen in China? This one is the hardest. Hongmen is growing in the country, and when the time comes, local officials will definitely collude with the underworld, which is not conducive to the stability of the country, and now the gangs are rampant in the United States, which is chaotic enough, and China cannot become like the United States. ”

Seeing Yang Rui confess to himself, Situ Meitang listened and said, "That's all that makes you worried?" For no other reason? ”

"What else?" Yang Rui looked at him and asked. "What I mean is that Hongmen should not break the law and discipline, even if I enter Hongmen, I also adhere to this view. If the existence of Hongmen is not conducive to social stability. Then even if I am a member of Hongmen, I must resolutely ban Hongmen; If Hongmen is an association purely for business, like the Chamber of Commerce, then even if I am not a member of Hongmen, I will support him. Anyway. In the future, there will be no more Hui parties in China. ”

"The big guy won't agree." Situ Meitang shook his head and said. "He wants to make Hongmen stronger. In the future, if the revolution succeeds, the Hongmen branch will definitely be built in China. ”

"He can build anything, as long as it doesn't break the law, I support it. Can Hongmen not break the law? Yang Rui asked.

Situ Meitang, who thought of Hongmen, shook his head and said, "No." ”

"No matter who violates the law, the patrol police will arrest people, otherwise the law will be empty talk, and the law will become empty talk, then the society will be chaotic." Yang Rui emphasized. "If you help the revolution, you can be extrajudicially benevolent. Then those of us who do revolution will be lawless. ”

"I see." Situ Meitang said. "In addition to not breaking the law, what other conditions are there for Jingcheng?"

"It's not a condition, it's a principle." Yang Rui said. "That's my principle."

At the beginning of the Hongmen Society of America, the vast majority of people supported the Alliance, and only a few churches such as Situ Meitang supported the Fuxing Society, but with the Hangzhou Uprising and the Fuxing Society began to pay attention to the movement of overseas Chinese in the Americas, the number of churches that supported the Renaissance Association began to increase. However, Yang Rui is not from Hongmen after all, and he has never made unbridled promises like Sun Wen's gang, so Huang Sande still has some concerns about completely turning to the Revival Society. After the uprising in Hangzhou, he thought about merging the two sessions, Sun Wen was the elder brother, and Yang Rui was the younger brother, and the two revolutionary parties were packed into Hongmen, but the relationship between the two associations changed abruptly, and now they have been openly debated in the newspaper, which made Huang Sande's plan fall through again. He is now passing the word through Situ Meitang, in addition to throwing stones to ask for directions, he also has the meaning of reconciling the contradictions between the two associations, but Situ Meitang is not optimistic about the alliance, so he only mentioned the matter of obtaining the support of Hongmen, and did not mention the reconciliation of the two associations. However, Yang Rui emphasized that Hongmen must also abide by the law, which means that throwing stones to ask for directions is not successful.

Situ Meitang's expression was heavy, and after sitting in the study for a while, Yang Rui called Chen Guangshou to arrange for him to go to his residence, and only Yu Zixun stayed in the room to continue to talk about some things in the United States.

"Before I came, Mr. Yung asked me to bring you a letter." Yu Zixun said as he opened his suitcase and took out a letter.

"Did he say anything?" Yang Rui took the letter from his hand and asked.

"What else can I say, except that we should unite with the Alliance." Yu Zixun said with a smile.

"Huh. If you unite with the alliance, it is better to form an alliance with Yuan Shikai, although he is only hanging fish in Hengshang Village now, he has a deep influence in Beiyang and the gentry......" Yang Rui said while opening the letter. However, when the letterhead was opened, he focused on reading the letter. In his letter, Yung Hong only said two things, one was the issue of cooperation between the League and the Revival Society, and the other was the issue of the Americans wanting to support the revolution. Yu Zixun was mainly in charge of business in the United States, and it was the Americans who found Rong Hong and hoped that he would contact the Revival Society.

The letter didn't last long, Yang Rui put the letter back after reading it, and asked, "What else did Mr. Rong say?" ”

"He said that there are Americans who want to support the Chinese revolution, and he wants you to think about it." Yu Zixun could probably guess the content of the letter, because when Rong Hong handed the letter to him, he repeatedly said these two questions. "Actually, the only thing between us and the Alliance is that something will happen. Even if it's not a collaboration, don't make it like that. ”

"That is going to happen?" Yang Rui asked rhetorically. "The controversy in the newspapers was definitely not provoked by the Revival, but by the Alliance. The current situation is just that everyone is arguing and arguing about escalating. ”

"But this will only make the Manchus laugh." Even in the United States, Yu Zixun could still feel that the dispute between his side and the League made the royalists look at the joke, and he felt that Yang Rui had the intention of deliberately provoking the dispute.

"How many years will the Manchus live? Just smile before you die, what's the big deal. Yang Rui was not surprised by the evaluation of the world. Public opinion can only be guided by him, but not by public opinion. "What's the situation on the U.S. side? Looking at the report is much better than last year. Silk chain stores are also rare not to lose money. ”

Seeing that Yang Rui avoided talking about the affairs of the alliance, Yu Zixun sighed and said: "From this year, the sales of ghee have doubled compared with the same period last year. The silk chain store is almost Christmas, and it will take some time to completely turn a profit. But now some silk weaving companies have seen us open chain stores, and they have learned to open them. ”

"Oh, so? But this is also something that can't be helped, the United States is commercial, and there are new things that are imitated much faster than China. Yang Rui was surprised and a little relieved at the same time. Newspaper advertisements tell you how a city or country is thriving. To not be imitated in the United States. That's impossible.

"And that tractor, which is now selling more and more. If you want to enter this market in China, it is better to be faster. Yu Zixun added one more thing. He remembered that this was also something that Yang Rui wanted to focus on.

"Hmm. It's not going to be fast. Yang Rui said with a smile, "Factories are under construction in China, and some equipment ordered abroad has not been delivered." I don't think the product will be available until mid-O9 at the earliest. ”

"How long?" Yu Zixun remembered that at that time, the equipment of the chemical plant could be produced as soon as it was debugged.

"Hmm. It's still fast. Although this iron guy is stupid and thick, he doesn't have many accessories. The technology is also not high. But it's not so simple to produce. At present, most of the manpower and material resources in the real yàn room are busy with this, but there are not enough manpower. Some accessories, such as bearings, still need to be used abroad first, and then use their own. I've put the degree to the fastest. "The tractor market is a key focus of the market, in order to be able to ship quickly, Yang Rui has reversed the normal model, not to ask all the parts to be produced by themselves, but to sell assembly goods first.

"Then there will be a wait." Yu Zixun heard that this thing was so complicated. Very disappointed.

"Heavy industry is not that simple." Yang Rui said.

"By the way, the helium I mentioned last time has been found in the United States. It's a bit of a hassle though. "Tell me what matters. Yu Zixun thought of something before. Although he didn't know what Yang Rui wanted helium for, he saw that its marking was extremely important, so he paid attention. Revival has a newspaper reading group in the United States, and newspapers and magazines all over the country subscribe to it, and then dozens of people read through the news every day, mainly focusing on science and technology. The helium that Yang Rui was looking for was found through this method.

"What's the trouble?" Yang Rui hurriedly asked, no matter how he looked at the hydrogen balloon, he wanted helium, but helium can only be naturally stored instead of synthetic, and even if there is helium in the synthetic ammonia exhaust gas, it is pitiful.

"There is a high level of helium in the natural gas in the Kansas oil and gas fields in the United States, which is about 1.8 percent. However, these heliums are difficult to separate, and only a small amount of them are separated in the scientific chamber using cryogenic technology. If we want to separate the oil field on a large scale, we should buy the oil field, and we should set up a special cryogenic technology research laboratory to separate these heliums, and turn the technology in the real room into a cryogenic technology that can be used in industry, so we will have to invest a lot of money and spend a lot of time. Yu Zixun has a comprehensive understanding of cryogenic technology, but he doesn't understand the role of helium, he only thinks that if it is not important, there is still no need to get any helium, this is a permanent gasification of the gas, and it has not been liquefied in the real room until now, let alone industrial liquefaction.

"Is it possible to liquefy?" Yang Rui asked. Helium equals airship, airship equals national self-confidence and pride, just such a simple logic.

"It's hard to say. Now the minimum temperature that can be manufactured in the real yàn chamber can reach as low as 7K, which is shown by a number of jù, but theoretically it can reach 3K, but what if helium is not liquefied at 3K? Although it is not necessary to liquefy helium to separate it, the temperature at which it is separated is not low. Yu Zixun said.

"If so, how much will it cost?" Yu Zixun's meaning Yang Rui understands quite well, in fact, he thinks that it is worthless to get such a gas, and it is an economic account, while Yang Rui is a political account. Flying such a big thing in the sky, while making the grass people afraid, it will definitely make the angry young people proud.

Besides, in fact, he also has an economic account, to build a battleship of the same size, it will cost more than 10 million taels of silver, but to build an airship, as long as it costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, even if the cost of helium is added, it is only one million taels, at most only two million taels, which is a difference of ten to one; And the airship is not like a battleship that can only be driven at sea, it can penetrate deep into the interior 6 places, and the impact is more than ten times that of a battleship. In this way, the value of the airship is one hundred, and the value of the battleship is one. However, from the point of view of national defense, the two are opposite, the value of a battleship is a hundred, and the value of an airship is one. But for those in power, their enemies are not only abroad, but also at home, and the national defense account is only an external account, not an account of both internal and external considerations, so it can be seen, but it does not have to be taken seriously.

Moreover, China really can't afford to buy battleships, because it is impossible to buy only one, and even if it is only one, then it will not be able to get off the stage without 50 or 60 million taels of supporting ships. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yang Rui could afford to play with airplanes, airships, tractors and submarines, and for this reason, Germany was already talking with Zeppelin about patent transfer and technology authorization.

"At least half a million dollars upfront." Yu Zixun said a number, and said: "I still build yì in the real room to study the industrial application first, and then buy the gas field over there, so that I can have some money left." ”

"Hmm. Let's buy it first. "Yang Rui is afraid that this kind of helium gas field is only this one, if he waits for the value of the airship to be noticed by everyone before buying it, it will be too late.

"Really?" Yu Zixun was dumbfounded, "There is an oil field below the gas field, and the price must not be low if you want to buy it." ”

"Then tell people that we don't want a drop of oil, just gas." Yang Rui said: "Is the oil field Rockefeller's?" ”

"It's not clear, you can telegraph tomorrow to ask." Yu Zixun said. Yang Rui's solution made him breathe a sigh of relief, now that there are more and more places where revival will spend money, and then to buy an oil field, it makes him feel that he shouldn't be.

"After a while, there will be people from the country." After talking about business matters, Yang Rui took a few sips of tea to ease his breath, and after letting Chen Guangshou go out to be on guard, he began to talk about the most important things. "How's he doing?"

"Very smart. At school, both the teachers and the students liked him, and he was homesick. Yu Zixun was also drinking tea, and the person Yang Rui said was his key work in the United States after Zhang Taiyan left.

"He doesn't want to go home, but the Hunan side will make a fuss after the people raise the flag and rebel, and in the end, if it weren't for their seal and spectrum in our hands, I'm afraid we would have to sue the official." Yang Rui sighed when he thought of Hunan, and now Zhu Changlin has already held a funeral for Zhu Kuanji, for fear that the revival will make a big deal and implicate the Zhu family.

"I've heard that. But are we going to show him out now? He's only twelve. Yu Zixun still has a good impression of Zhu Kuanji, although he doesn't see the child much.

"It's not now, it's not time for him to be fully played. The main thing is that the miners on the South African side want him to go over and go through the motions and stabilize the morale of the army. Yang Rui said, "But this has to be after he has been trained, otherwise the appearance of the royal family will not be able to be put on a show, and no one will be coaxed." In the past, we didn't understand the set of things of the former Ming royal family, but now that the problem is solved, the people who got it from the Joseon royal palace can do the whole thing well. ”

"Are people reliable?" Hearing that the person was brought from the North Korean side, Yu Zixun was a little uneasy, "Besides, let the North Koreans teach it, this ...... It's a bit twisted to sound like this. ”

"What's so twisted about this. The set of things in North Korea was copied from the Ming Dynasty, and now it is nothing more than exporting to domestic sales. Even if the teaching is not completely correct, it doesn't matter, who will dare to say that it is wrong at that time? Yang Rui said with a smile, "As for whether people are reliable, these people will come out of the Korean palace, either loyal to the monarch or patriotic, the North Koreans still want to wait for us to help them fight the Japanese, at most one or two Korean spies, it can't be Japanese spies." ”

"Does that really mean it?" Yu Zixun said: "I mean really want such a person? ”

"Hmm. As far as I can see now, this person is still necessary. But it's still been three years since Xinhai, and if I think his appearance is not good, then you can not show up, it depends on the situation at the time. Yang Rui looked at Yu Zixun a little strangely, because he hadn't questioned it after knowing about it before, but now he began to question it, is it because he has been in the United States for a long time? (To be continued......)

Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!