By the pragmatic nature of Americans, Destiny is only what politicians and pastors are passionate about, and John Rockefeller Jr. could hardly be right. Yang Rui's statement that he didn't want war but was not afraid of war made him rest his mind of advice. So, how to benefit Standard Oil is the next part of the conversation.

"Your Excellency, can Standard Oil be involved in the development of this field?" Get rid of the previous dryness, the Rockefeller who talks about business is the Rockefeller who is free. "I don't think you'll let your old friend suffer."

"Hehe......" Yang Rui wanted to laugh but held back, knowing that there might be a war, but he had to come together to invest, this is probably the essence of American businessmen who regard money as their lives. After all, this oil field is in the Northeast ......, so it can only be the next oil field. ”

"The next oil field?" Rockefeller couldn't see through the chess pieces in Yang Rui's pocket, "Your Excellency, with our friendship ......"

"Of course I mentioned the next oil field because of friendship." Yang Rui interrupted, "If there is no war in the whole world, then I think Standard Oil can monopolize the world's oil supply market, somewhere in the Mediterranean, where the oil content is not less than that of the United States, and it is also close to Europe, once Standard Oil exploits the Mediterranean oil fields, Shell Oil will be completely defeated." It is a pity that the war will bring uncertainties, who will dare to mine? ”

Europe, which lacks oil fields and has developed industries, is a big consumer of oil, and when he heard Yang Rui say that somewhere in the Mediterranean, Rockefeller's eyes were straight, and he 100% believed in the ability of the mysterious person behind Yang Rui to find oil fields. "Your Excellency...... where is the oil field? Standard Oil can be mined with CNPC! ”

"It's not the time yet, if one day it's really developed. I'll definitely make an appointment with Standard Oil. Yang Rui smiled lightly, and then began to think about how to get something out of Rockefeller. But he couldn't remember what he wanted for a while - American businessmen in the economic crisis shouted to their fathers when they saw money, just give money. Anything will be sold.

"John, are the money strings in the association thinking of going to war?" While Rockefeller was pondering where the Mediterranean oil fields would be, Yang Rui turned to ask about the situation in the Foreign Affairs Association. Money skewers are his nickname for Wall Street bankers.

"Some people do have plans to do so." Rockefeller responded vaguely, and he was not very good at saying who those people were. "Since May, everyone has lost a lot, while East Asia is growing rapidly, and many people fear that this will threaten the Philippines."

"It's not the Philippines, it's the Pacific." Yang Rui corrected, "It seems that the Pacific Ocean is still too narrow to accommodate two powerful countries." ”

"Yes. The Navy has this view. "Rockefeller tried to say something that everybody knew." China and Japan built too many heavy cruisers, and of course Britain built a lot, and the United States built almost no ships after the Washington Treaty. ”

"China has only built 12 new heavy cruisers, 38 destroyers, that is, light cruisers, and its submarines are still the same, basically no new ones, which is far worse than any other country. Even with the addition of Japan, we are only a fraction of the Anglo-American cruisers. Yang Rui said about the current situation of the Chinese Navy, very unimpressed. At present, representatives of the Chinese and Japanese navies are discussing the plan for building ships in London, but the Chinese heavy cruisers have already been built. The destroyer is also mostly completed, and it is impossible to dismantle it.

"Yes, China's approach to disarmament has been praised internationally, but politicians with ties to the military have always liked to exaggerate the military power of their neighbors. In order to reap the benefits of the expansion of weapons, they preached that in the event of war, Japanese samurai would be on the West Coast within a few months......" Rockefeller at this time only regarded conversation as small talk. The Mediterranean oil fields are still in my mind.

"John, I need you to tell those who are bent on going to war. Even if the United States had a strong industry, the war would only be a lose-lose situation for everyone. No one will benefit. After being silent for a while, Yang Rui still told him bluntly.

"Of course, that's always been Standard Oil's position. Don't forget, China is the country that has invested the most in Asia, if not one of the countries in Asia. Rockefeller laughed, trying to prove that he was a pacifist through and through.

"I would also advise the Japanese that in this London Naval Treaty they would be expected to adhere roughly to the ratio of the Washington Treaty, which is roughly ten to six for cruisers and ten to seven for submarines." Yang Rui said firmly, but did not mention the second Washington treaty.

"I will also convey this message to the gentlemen in the government." Rockefeller agreed, and then stopped.

Yang Rui understood what he meant by what he wanted to say, and said with a smile, "John, let's limit it to seven years, and then if the situation allows, we can jointly develop the Mediterranean oil field, and I guarantee that there is enough oil there to build a European Standard Oil Company." ”

The seven-year covenant was made entirely because of the fact that the second Washington naval agreement was taken into account, and Rockefeller was only stupid about it. When he politely said goodbye, Yang Wuming, who was serving tea on the side, said: "Father, is there really an oil field in the Mediterranean?" ”

"Of course there are oil fields." Yang Rui knows about overseas oil fields, in addition to Saudi Arabia, that is, Libya, in order to aid Chiang's War of Resistance, a certain book not only has undersea treasures, but also gives the coordinates of Libyan oil fields. I don't know if the information checked by the author is correct, and whether the oilfield data is true.

"Is this Master Y's divine judgment again?" Yang Wuming, who has become an adult, has become more and more respectful to the Trinity Sect, not knowing that the initiator of everything is in front of him.

Yang Rui didn't say anything about this, and the laptop was only said by him as a scientific experiment, and that thing had already broken down and became a treasure in the laboratory. "God has God's decision, and man has his own effort. This kind of thing is always half against half, believing in God too much, is foolish; It is arrogant to believe in oneself too much. You must grasp this degree and not be demanding or slack. ”

"Understood, father." When his son is older, Yang Rui can only admonish, but fortunately, with his prestige, his son will not be able to go in one ear and one ear out, not like himself back then.

Thinking of himself back then, Yang Rui raised his head and was silent for a while, and then asked, "Those sons and buddies didn't make any changes, right?" ”

"Ah......" Seeing his father ask those aristocratic sons and buddies, Yang Wuming was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he blushed and said, "No!" No! Ever since he whipped that kid from the Li family with a whip last month. Everyone is very peaceful. Besides, now the discipline of the school is becoming stricter, and nothing can happen. ”

"For the nobility. Virtue is the best armor. Thinking that someone in the aristocratic school was molesting the folk girl last month, Yang Rui's expression was very serious. As a noble head. Institutions similar to the Zongren Mansion are in his charge, and the whip for whipping people and the sword for slashing people are all in the mansion. Although the matter last time was not serious at all, it was nothing more than a certain son who had drunk and fainted and whistled and touched his little hands to the female middle school student, but Yang Rui's punishment was extremely severe, and he asked Yang Wuming to lead someone to take a whip on the street and beat Li Liezu's youngest son half to death.

"Another is to abide by your duty. Especially those who are soft-hearted and stupid, and want to use the cheap to commit the expensive and bully the rich because of poverty, they must be strictly prohibited, understand? Yang Rui added.

The previous Yang Rui repeatedly taught and advised. Yang Wuming remembered it very well, but he didn't understand the young people behind him, he said: "Father, isn't it right to provide disaster relief to the victims?" He wondered.

"You memorize the fifth chapter of the Tao Sutra." Seeing that his son was puzzled, Yang Rui had to be patient and re-educated.

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs; The saints are unkind, and they use the people as dogs. Between heaven and earth, is it still like a slurrel? Void but not curved, winter more and more. Too many words are poor. It's better to keep the center. "The sons of the pre-Qin Dynasty, Confucianism, Taoism, and famous soldiers are mixed with yin and yang, and the primary school students of these nine families have to memorize them, and the Tao Te Ching ranks first. Therefore, Yang Wuming memorized it very naturally in one go.

"Got it?" Yang Rui saw that he finished reciting, looked at him and asked again.

"Ming ......, I still don't understand!" Yang shook his head. "Even a saint should love others. It is unkind to use a dog to the people; And the saint is not heaven and earth. The people could not denounce heaven and earth, but they had a way to take revenge and denounce the saints. ”

"And then just for the sake of self-preservation, the saint must use himself as a dog to sacrifice to the people?" Yang Rui asked with a smile.

"This ......" Yang Wuming's eyes rolled, and then said, "But Mencius has a cloud: if a gentleman is poor, he should be good to himself, and if he is good, he will help the world, and also: the old and the old, the young and the young; And Zhang Ziyou also said: A gentleman should set up his heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations, so I should be ......"

"What bullshit!" Yang Rui was a little unhappy, "Which sour Confucian?" The father was unhappy, and Yang Wuming had to stop looking at him. Seeing him like this, Yang Rui only said: "Just now I said that the saint is not heaven and earth, and now I want to help the world and open peace for all generations, this is not what heaven and earth are, this is almost a god!" This Confucianism has been seriously crooked since Mencius, and it was also crooked before, although it has brought some popularity, but it does not care about the avenue of heaven and earth at all, and what it does is just those sour Confucians who want to make contributions and pass on their fame in history.

What is a gentleman? The mighty cannot be bent, and the poor and lowly cannot be moved, but more importantly, morality cannot be forced, and blood and tears cannot be bent. The stars in the universe are like stars, they have their own orbits, their own qualities, and they never live for anything else. Without this kind of heart, you can't be called a gentleman, just a repeated politician who pleases the small people.

The mind needs to be like this, and it is also necessary to understand that the evolution of history has always carried iron and blood, or to borrow the words of the Bolsheviks, the development of history is materialistic, and it is not subject to human will and benevolence. It is utterly evil, and it must devour human flesh and blood in order to move forward. Max made this very clear in his book, but the Bolsheviks were confused when they did it, thinking that by emancipating the workers, they would advance history without paying the cost, and in the end they rescued the workers who should have been sacrificed and sent the peasants who were not sacrifices. Anyway, it's all sacrifices, but the effect of this is not as good as not changing. You people who live in rich families think that you can save those who are not doing well, but the result of doing so will be the same as that of the Bolsheviks, which looks like saving people, but in fact you are harming people. ”

"Isn't there a compromise?" Yang Wuming remembered every word his father said, but he didn't delay in asking.

"Nope! There's no such thing as a free lunch. Yang Rui shook his head. As long as the rules of competition are fair, and no one relies on rent-seeking and cheating by officials and businessmen, or makes profits by relying on unfair competition, the result will naturally be to reward the lazy and punish the good. There can only be two reasons why they will starve to death: either they should die - the progress of history must be sacrificed by flesh and blood; Either he deserved it - it wasn't his turn, he was stupid and looking for death, and nothing else. ”

When Yang Rui said this, he suddenly glared at Yang Wuming and asked in surprise: "Someone is preaching the idea of Our Lady in school?" ”

"Nope!" Yang Wuming hurriedly shook his head, "It's nothing." ”

"It's good if you don't, those who preach this kind of thinking should be hanged!" When he saw his son, he said no. Only then did Yang Rui take his eyes off his son - in order to cultivate the children of the nobility, the Revival Association specially invited famous Chinese and foreign teachers to set up aristocratic schools. The campus is located in Tonghua, and Yang Rui is the honorary president and professor of philosophy, economics and management. I have to give a few lectures when I have free time.

"Father, you haven't finished talking about disaster relief or not?" Yang Wuming asked again.

"All we can do is give disaster relief porridge, and it would be wrong if we went any further." Yang Rui said. "The idea of the Virgin, the eight-hour workday, May Day, the sanctity of labor, and the messy welfare, these are all things that should be strictly forbidden. Workers are only human resources, they are resources, although they should be cared for, but they are only for use, not for the sake of being a god card. I can't see the blood and tears of the workers, and I can't stand the moral kidnapping. To stand up for those who are suffering, it is either brainless or has another purpose. Do you understand now? ”

"Probably understood." Yang Wuming knows that Yang Rui's way of education is never to say the answer directly, and he only says something after a circle, but it is not complete, and the rest has to be pondered by himself, this kind of learning is the most brainy.

"Just probably?" Yang Rui looked at him and pointed at the fan. Wen said angrily: "If you still don't understand, go back and flip through the book to see how the beer game collapses." Systems Thinking! Systems Thinking! You're really going back and more, get out! ”

When Lao Tzu was angry, his son panicked. Yang Wuming hurriedly ran out of the greenhouse. almost bumped into Lu Mei, who just came in, and after greeting Lu Mei, he went far away.

"Why did Nameless make you angry again?" Lu Mei came to deliver the telegram. I don't want to be scolded by Yang Rui for nothing.

"There are some people, the bigger the smarter. Some, on the contrary, eat more. But the dumber the brain. Yang Rui sighed, he saw the telegram in Lu Mei's hand, and asked, "Where did it come from?" ”

"Zhang Xingjian from Shanghai," Lu Mei was extremely happy that Yang Rui allowed him to help deal with affairs, which Cheng Ying did not have. "The main thing is the borrowing of the Bank of Japan, and the new Japanese Minister of Finance, Junnosuke Inoue, needs to borrow 400 million yen to pay off the war debts borrowed from the United States and Europe during the Russo-Japanese War and the Sino-Japanese War, which is only a small part, and it is the accounts payable discounted by the earthquake, which is the bulk of the money. These debts are due in the next year, and if they do not borrow new debts to pay off old debts, they will default by then. ”

Although Japan had increased its military spending on the Sino-Japanese War, it had basically flattened its accounts and had a slight surplus during World War I, and its international expenditures began to be black in the penultimate year of the war. At the same time, because there was no large-scale intervention in the Russian Revolution, most of the hundreds of millions of military expenditures spent in history were saved; In the aftermath of the Great Tokyo Earthquake, the loss of human life was almost zero, and the damage to property was only a billion yen, mainly the loss of buildings that could not be moved, and the financial situation was much better than the original history.

But the devastating Tokyo earthquake frightened the Japanese, and since the new Japan was advertised as an imperial paradise, the Japanese flocked to the northwest like locusts. However, the development of the new colonies was an extremely expensive undertaking, and the money that had been saved was quickly spent on the new Japan. After the impact of the economic crisis, foreign trade fell sharply, and the export value of raw silk, a major profit, dropped sharply from 800 million yen to 300 million. As soon as the Hamaguchi Cabinet came to power, it suddenly discovered that a number of war debts and earthquake bills were about to default, so they borrowed money. In the past, when the Japan-Britain alliance was in place, the British asked the British to borrow money, but now the Sino-Japanese alliance naturally asks China to borrow money.

"****!" Yang Rui scolded angrily. If it weren't for the fact that raising dogs and losing bones would have been lost, he would have left Japan to fend for itself. But if this is the case, the pro-British and American internationalists will again talk about non-alignment. "What did Xingjian say? Did Japan accede to our request? ”

"Only some of them were agreed, such as the Customs Union, but they were very vague about the formation of the Bank of Asia and the future issuance of the Asian dollar." Lu Mei looked at the telegram, "The negotiator is Junnosuke Inoue's deputy Ogawa Township, and he said that he can't call the shots at all." ”

"Then find someone who can do the Lord." Yang Rui said. When everyone comes to borrow money when life is tight, then what price does it have to pay?

"It's useless to find anyone." Lu Mei stuffed the first telegram to Yang Rui, "Xingjian thinks that the Japanese don't want to talk about Asian banks and Asian dollars at all, and they should have found a place to borrow." ”

"What!" Yang Rui picked up the telegram with a serious expression and looked at it carefully, and found that Zhang Kun had indeed discounted everything that could be discounted, and now it is the Japanese twisting and pinching, I am afraid that it is not a matter of conditions - it was roughly agreed internally that the ratio of shares between China and Japan in Bank of Asia was basically five to three. The concession to the Japanese is no more than 3.5 at most, but now it seems that the Japanese mean that it is 5 to 4.5.

Xingjian said that the intelligence bureau reported that Takahashi was Kiyoshi and mixed with people from the Rothschilds. News from Europe is that some people are willing to lend to Japan on a preferential basis, and the interest rate on bonds is only 4% per year. Ninety-eight fold delivery, ten years, the amount is about 100 million pounds, no mortgage, underwriting. Lu Mei frowned. Obviously, she also saw that there was some trouble this time.

"There should be some other political deal behind it, right?" Yang Rui put down the first telegram and asked lightly.

"There is a guess on the move, but the intelligence bureau can't find any evidence." Lu Mei said. "Do you want to send a telegram to Zhang Shi to ask ......?"

"You don't have to. There is news that Zhang Shi will send it. Yang Rui said, he took the second telegram in Lu Mei's hand and read it again, and then began to think about the other party's intentions and how to deal with this matter.

Between China and Japan, first the coal and iron joint venture established mutual trust, then unified weapons and became a coalition force, and then the plan was to take advantage of the world economic crisis to establish a customs union, and at the same time finalize the Asian Bank and the subsequent issuance of the Asian dollar. In this way, it will really become the Asian League. Compared to the EU in later generations, I really don't know whether it should be considered fast or slow. However, I thought that the thing that was nine out of ten was actually stabbed by the Jews - during the Russo-Japanese and Sino-Japanese wars, Japan raised funds through the Rothschilds issuing war bonds in the British and French capital markets. At that time, it was Takahashi who was in charge of the negotiations, but I didn't expect that now the Rothschild family with joint eyes has emerged again.

In the end, this is Takahashi is after the Qing Dynasty stepped down (the Hamaguchi Cabinet was preceded by the Kato Takaaki Cabinet, and Takahashi was the Tibetan minister. And Takaaki Kato is a well-known internationalist who has always opposed the Sino-Japanese alliance) because of disobedience. the Jews who went to find themselves; Or Rothschild, in order to break up the Sino-Japanese alliance, deliberately lent money to Japan at this level. To prevent further economic integration between China and Japan?

"How many people know about the Bank of Asia and the issuance of the Asian dollar?" Yang Rui suddenly asked.

"This ......" Lu Mei didn't want Yang Rui to ask herself this question, although she didn't know it completely, she still guessed: "You, I, Xingjian, and Mr. Min Yuan, and then ......, even if you know, there are not many people." Are you worried about the leak? ”

"It can't be said to be a leak. Even if the Hamaguchi cabinet now privately agrees to this matter, the treaty will still be brought to the Japanese parliament for discussion and voting, and it doesn't matter whether the secret is leaked or not. Yang Rui pondered, "But it seems that to promote this matter, we can only come step by step in the future, and it is no longer possible to jump to the Bank of Asia and the Asian dollar at once." ”

"How do you report back from Xingjian?" Lu Mei likes to see men thinking, this kind of powerful man who is at every turn fascinates her, not to mention that she is also involved, although it is only typing and receiving and receiving telegrams.

"Tell him that now is not the time to mention the Bank of Asia, and that there will be a chance when the economic crisis worsens, and that it is good to negotiate a customs union this time." Yang Rui said word by word. "In addition, we must pay close attention to the operation of Japan's economy, cooperate more closely with Zhang Shi's side, and thoroughly understand what various factions in Japan think."

"Hmm." Yang Rui said while Lu Mei remembered, and when Yang Rui stopped, she pulled her hair down very delicately.

"North Korea's accession to the Customs Union is not yet time, some issues can be put on hold first, if not, then protective policies should be implemented in certain industries, but the protection period should not exceed five years; And the Japanese side has repeatedly mentioned that the protection period of Japan's heavy industrial products such as automobiles, aircraft, and trucks should not exceed five years......" Yang Rui was suddenly stunned when he said this.

-- China is an economy with a GDP of 40 billion Chinese dollars, while Japan's GDP is only 19 billion yuan in Chinese dollars, and this does not take into account the sharp decline in Japan's economic data after the economic crisis. In this way, the two markets will be abolished and become a large market under the same customs union, and it is natural that Japan will take advantage and China will suffer. Although many Japanese products are not enough to compete with domestic products, once the tariffs are lifted, the owners of light industry factories that directly compete with Japanese products will have to scold their mothers.

The correct way is to package the Bank of Asia, the Asian dollar, and the Customs Union together, and for the sake of the national pride that is not worth a dime, it is possible for public opinion and the representatives of the Auditory Yuan to agree to the passage of this bill.

"Forget it, since the Japanese can't be the master, let's talk about it when they want to be the master." Yang Rui, who had been silent for a long time, said. (To be continued.) )