readx; Of course, some people are not small, such as Zhejiang Road Company was forced to hand over the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway to the political axe, they are using part of the bonds and some other stocks to replace several machinery companies, and then on this basis in Nanjing set up Nanjing Machinery Company, mainly to produce textile-related machinery, and at the beginning of its establishment signed a million-dollar supply contract for Zhejiang's textile giant Fuhang Textile Company, and is now preparing to import a lot of equipment, and at the same time is already planning to once again expand the share capital to domestic wealthy businessmen. It is expected that the share capital will be as high as 3 million, making it one of the few large-scale heavy industry enterprises in China. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This can be regarded as an ancillary product of the nationalization of the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway, but the nationalization process of another important section of the railway in the area controlled by the Nationalist Army is not easy, that is, the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, which was built with a loan from the British Jardine Matheson in the pre-Qing Dynasty and is a veritable foreign-funded railway. If you want to nationalize, you have to face the British directly.

Therefore, it is difficult to have a last resort, and the Ministry of Transportation is worth putting it on hold for the time being.

In fact, for Chen Jingyun personally, the boundary between nationalization and nationalization of railways is not strict, and as long as the railways can be built according to the national development plan and the transportation dispatch can be subject to military arrangements, then it is okay to transfer the right to operate to foreigners.

In these years, the right of way is often related to some other things, such as the right to mine on both sides of the railway, the land production area, and of course, the garrison persuasion that makes the people scold! The most fundamental source of the loss of sovereignty in the Northeast region step by step was the right to garrison troops along the railway. With the extension of the railway, the Russian and Ben armies were justifiably stationed in the interior of Chinese mainland.

However, China's other railways are fine, although the right to operate is in the hands of foreigners, but there are no troops, as long as it can meet Chen Jingyun's military transportation needs, it is not intolerable at present. As for the future, there are naturally future tricks, anyway, Chen Jingyun has never heard that when a war breaks out, the army of that country will not be able to use the railway because the operation right of the railway company is in the hands of foreigners.

Even on the Jinpu Line and the Shanghai-Nanjing Line, although nominally the right to operate these railways is not in their own hands, they still use the railway facilities for military purposes.

In any case, the word right of way is still an extremely sensitive word in advanced China, just like the Americans of later generations will jump up when they hear terrorists, and the Chinese of this era consciously equate this word with reparations when they hear the right of way.

"Alas, it's not easy to get half the truth!" Ye Gongxuan said: "Those people don't care how many opportunities we will bring to the areas along the line after we build this railway!" ”

Shi Zhaoji said: "That's right, didn't the president tell you and me some time ago, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads!" You and I both understand this truth, but those citizens don't care about that, as long as they borrow money, as long as they let foreigners build roads, they will definitely scold you and me as traitors! ”

Ye Gongxuan said: "If it can be done, it doesn't hurt to let them scold a few words!" Our colleagues in the north have signed a contract with Belgium to build the Longhai Railway, and although our position is different, it is a good thing! And we can't just get to the south and have nothing to do for our colleagues in the north to see the jokes! ”

"Hehe, no matter what, those of us who run business are better than those who run diplomacy! Regardless of whether Lin Changming or Wu Tingfang are here in the north, they are scolded as traitors by the newspapers every day outside, especially in the case of Guan Yu, they don't look at how hard Brother Lin and Brother Wu have worked hard to get back the customs surplus of the southern provinces, and they say one by one that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot recover the tariffs, not to mention that signing and extending the preferential period of the economic development zone is a traitorous move! Shi Zhaoji wanted to laugh as he spoke, he was right, no matter which political axe it is, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will always be the most aggrieved department, because no matter what these diplomats do, they will be scolded as traitors!

After a few idle words, Shi Zhaoji turned the conversation back to the railway: "It is not easy to continue the construction of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway and the new Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway this time. However, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway is a little nervous, and I don't know if the president can negotiate with the Americans! ”

"The Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway stretches for nearly a thousand miles, and it is difficult to build many mountains along the way, and it is difficult for us to build it on our own, so it is a last resort to build it with the help of the Americans. Although I heard that this negotiation only talks about borrowing and does not involve the right of way, I am afraid that the Americans will not do it! Ye Gongqiu said worriedly: "Without the right to operate and manage, how can they be willing to invest heavily in us!" ”

Shi Zhaoji said: "Although it is difficult, but you know the ability of the president, some time ago, I just got tens of millions of dollars from the Americans!" ”

"I hope so! But I've heard that this time Britain and Germany are saying, 'I'm interested in these two railways, and I don't know what the president means!' Ye Gongqiu was a little depressed.

The construction of the railway was supposed to be a matter of his railway department, but because it involved loans, it became a foreign affair, and because of the importance of the matter, even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not make the decision, so Chen Jingyun could only talk about it himself.

What he can do now is to do his essential work, plan the railway route, consider it from various perspectives such as industry and military, and then propose a suitable railway line. As for how to repair it, it's not something he can manage, maybe the future railway department can manage it, but now it can't.

Shi Zhaoji said: "I heard that the Germans are very interested in the Guangdong-Hanzhou line, saying that they want to build a railway, as for saying, 'I and the British are thinking about building the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line!'" And I heard that it said, 'I also want to follow the example of the Northeast Railway and claim the property rights of minerals along the railway!' ”

"Hmph, it is said that 'it is the ambition of the wolf, and it is okay to borrow, but the right of way must not be given to them, let alone the right to mine minerals and the right to garrison, etc., Zhejiang and Jiangxi are important in the southeast of our country, and they cannot be allowed to become the same existence as the northeast!" Ye Gongqiu obviously didn't have a good impression of it.

"What I say is, 'My mind is known to passers-by.'" However, the Germans and the British are not fuel-efficient lamps even if they are Americans, and if nothing else, this business right will definitely be wanted! Shi Zhaoji said: "Even according to what the president said, it is okay to give up this management right to sovereignty, but now the people in the country are staring at it, and if you don't do it, you and I will be ruined!" ”

"Alas, don't talk about that!" Ye Gongxuan sighed and took a sip of tea, and then said, "I heard that your lady is happy again?" ”

Shi Zhaoji smiled and nodded: "Well, please see it, it's indeed a happy pulse!" ”

Ye Gongxuan's attention was obviously not on Mrs. Shi Zhaoji's pregnancy: "Congratulations, I'll let Neiko bring a gift to visit!" After that, he changed his head: "I heard that your lady's uncle Tang Gong also arrived in Nanjing a few days ago?" ”

Hearing Ye Gongqiu's words, Shi Zhaoji frowned: "Not many people know about Tang Gong's visit to Nanjing, how did you know about Brother Ye?" ”

Ye Gongxuan shook his head and smiled: "I also heard it from a friend!" After saying that, he said a little mysteriously: "This time Tang Gong came to Nanjing, is it ......?"

Shi Zhaoji said with a straight face: "Tang Gong came to Nanjing just for the commercial affairs of the insurance company!" ”

Although he said this, he remembered many things in his mind, the Tang Gong in the mouth of the two of them was no one else, but Tang Shaoyi, who was famous in the early years of the Xinhai Republic of China, this person was already a well-known important minister in the late Qing Dynasty, the official was the Minister of Posts and Communications, and the plenipotentiary representative of Yuan Shikai after Xinhai, and Wu Tingfang, the representative of the South, presided over the North-South talks, and after the North-South peace talks, he became the prime minister of the first cabinet of the Beiyang Army. But after a long time, he was unwilling to be the rubber stamp prime minister, and Yuan Shikai turned his face and resigned, and then absconded in Shanghai.

After Tang Shaoyi's resignation, Shi Zhaoji, who was the husband of Tang Shaoyi's niece, naturally could not continue to be his chief of transportation, so he followed Tang Shaoyi south to Shanghai, and Ye Gongxuan, who was Shi Zhaoji's friend, also resigned as the director of the Road Department of the Ministry of Communications and the director of the Railway Bureau of the Beiyang Cabinet, and arrived in Shanghai soon after.

At that time, when Chen Jingyun established the Southeast Xuanfu Embassy, it was natural for these former high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty and important political figures in Beiyang to be wooed if they could, and these two people were indeed worthy of Chen Jingyun's wooing. Although Shi Zhaoji and Ye Gongqiu took the initiative to resign from the Beiyang cabinet because Tang Shaoyi and Yuan Shikai turned their faces, one of them was only thirty-six and the other was only thirty-two years old.

In addition, there were no talents in the Ministry of Communications of the Southeast Xuanfu at that time, Chen Jingyun promised the same position as them at the beginning, that is, the post of the Minister of Communications and the Director of the Railway Department, in this case, they also happily accepted Chen Jingyun's invitation and entered the Southeast Xuanfu Envoy to serve.

The two of them accepted Chen Jingyun's invitation to take up the post, but their former boss, Tang Shaoyi, stayed in Shanghai and did not accept Chen Jingyun's invitation.