With no one to disturb him, Yang Rui talked with the Japanese for a long time this time, so that the day's visit had to be postponed.

The future is beautiful, the road is tortuous, and such language makes the young devil look excited, and as for the troubles caused by the match experiment of Kiichiro Toyoda, it is also eliminated because Yang Rui agreed to add a management training course specifically for Japan. For Hirohito, what he cares about is whether Japan can expand again in his hands. He doesn't understand problems such as industrial competition, as long as it can be solved theoretically, he is not worried;

As far as Yang Rui is concerned, hunters must always raise dogs, dogs must always be trained, and in the name of cultivating Japanese entrepreneurs, cultivate a group of pro-Japanese entrepreneurs, and at the same time their markets and raw materials are required from China, then these high-level compradors will definitely do their best to maintain Sino-Japanese friendship. But like all big men, when he thinks he is calculating others, he is being calculated by others, and when one day he finds that his elite has been largely infiltrated, the choices he can make are really limited.

Both China and Japan were satisfied with Hirohito's trip to China, because they both believed that a bright future awaited them, so much so that Hirohito specially composed a waka song as a gift when they parted. Yang Rui didn't know how to compose poems, but just gave him a copy of the "Introduction to Production Management" that he summarized and transcribed in recent years. Whether Japan can change its extensive production and management mode before the world economic crisis depends on their luck; enterprise management is like sailing against the current, and if it does not progress, it will regress, and the result of regression is elimination.

After the gift, the Japanese were almost at the end of the year, and thinking that he would have to face Zhang Taiyan, who was elected vice premier due to the difference of three votes, Yang Rui kept beating his head on the way back to the Forbidden City. Zhang Taiyan always makes some troubles. Such as moving. He always thought that it was extremely inappropriate to place the Prime Minister's Office in the Guogong Mansion, that is, the palace of Prince Zheng in the former Qing Dynasty. The silver palace is the private residence of the national prince. At least nominally it is the private residence of the Guogong, even if Yang Rui does not want this reward; And the Prime Minister's Office is a state institution. But it was placed in Yang Rui's private residence, which was absolutely impossible in his opinion, because the office of the third cabinet was moved back to the place of the former Ming cabinet more than two hundred years ago, that is, the area of the Wenhua Hall in the Forbidden City.

From the train station into the Forbidden City, Yang Rui did not take the noon gate, but by virtue of the privilege to walk the Donghua Gate, enter the gate and walk hundreds of meters across the bridge to the Wenhua Palace, at this time Zhang Taiyan has been under the installed air conditioner to blow hot air and fan paper fans.

"Did you fool that kid?" Zhang Taiyan smiled when he saw Yang Rui appear. He is warm enough here, not like Yang Rui, who is not cold enough to choke, even if he enters from Donghua Gate, he has to walk in the wind and snow for three or five minutes.

"Cut! The little devil is shrewd enough, you think he's a good mallet! With the help of the eunuch, Yang Rui took off his coat, and while they helped sweep the snowflakes off his hat, he washed his hands in the hot tub brought by the eunuch, and then applied a hot towel to his face with the other eunuch, and finally took the cup of hot tea. This kind of service made him very uncomfortable and unaccustomed. He looked at Zhang Taiyan who was smiling, and couldn't help but say jealously: "Uncle Mei." You're going to enjoy it. In these days, if there are more singing and dancing, Meiji, then you can be shoulder to shoulder with the eight big beards. ”

Hearing that Yang Rui compared the enjoyment here to the Eight Hutongs, Zhang Taiyan leaned on the chair and immediately sat upright. The fan he was shaking was also 'whooshing', and he said: "This is the center of the world, the head of the ministry, how can it be compared with the wind and the moon?" Again. These eunuchs are also raised, rather than let them be bored and fight crickets to bask in the sun. It's better to let them do something they can do. After he finished speaking, he saw that Yang Rui wanted to say something, and immediately waved his fan to stop him. said: "Don't worry about confidentiality, these people have been selected and educated, and they can't know anything." ”

"Hmm." In addition to not being suitable for this kind of service, Yang Rui is also worried about whether these eunuchs will leak secrets, as soon as Zhang Taiyan said, he will not delve into it, at least his office will be used by the old man, and there is no need to serve like this. He smiled and asked, "Premier Zhang, where are you working?" Is there an air conditioner? ”

Zhang Taiyan laughed when he was slapped by this sentence of the prime minister. Although this person strives for the people, but there are a lot of vices of mortals, compliments and patting on the back are also extremely useful, but after all, if there is a tiger's wife in the family, he is the most dazzling in the Qinglou, and he does not dare to mess around. Therefore, the painful struggle between enjoying the beauty and fearing the evil wife is the best joke to make people happy.

Zhang Taiyan laughed, and suddenly felt that he was laughing too presumptuously, so he immediately changed his serious expression and said, "I'm not the prime minister, I'm the vice premier, and you are the prime minister." Then he said, "Didn't you say that the room should be big?" I've put your office in Wenyuan Pavilion. It has been completely renovated, with electric lights, telephones, electric air conditioners, electric heaters, and radio broadcasts, because it is big, and the second floor has also made you a bedroom, with a bed and hot water - didn't you say that it is too troublesome to go home for a nap from the office here, so that you don't have to run home after eating at noon. However, it is big there, but it has not been inhabited, and it is not only broken but also infiltrated...... panic."

In the Yin'an Palace, the front is the office, and the back is the inner house, so it is very convenient to do anything. It is very inconvenient to move to the Forbidden City, and it is even more inconvenient to take a break at noon, and of course you can go home, but the safety of going back and forth is another problem. Now that Zhang Taiyan is arranging like this, Yang Rui doesn't feel that it is inappropriate, and he is not taboo about breaking the palace, so he only said: "During this time, I accompanied the Japanese, and I was fortunate to have Uncle Mei to move." ”

"I proposed the move, and I proposed to do it myself, isn't that your motto?" Zhang Taiyan saw that Yang Rui did not dislike the old hall of Wenyuan Pavilion, so he was relieved. He added: "Although there are still some things to sweep up, but after all, I have moved over." The Prime Minister's Office has moved over, when did your Imperial Governor's Mansion start moving? ”

This side of the Wenhua Hall is the Prime Minister's Palace, according to Zhang Taiyan's idea, the Taiwei Mansion is also going to move to the right Wuying Palace, so that all the civil and military officials get together, not only strict and tidy, but also convenient to work. According to the newly amended government organization law, the prime minister concurrently holds the post of lieutenant is clearly determined, which is the same as prying the National Security Bureau from Yang Rui in the second cabinet, and it is also a great victory for Cai Yuanpei, at least, assuming that Yang Rui is no longer the prime minister one day, and the military power is no longer in his hands.

There is no way to make such a concession. It is the spirit of the constitution that the prime minister is also the concurrently lieutenant, and it is also the consensus of all previous members, because if it is not set up like this, what will happen to the confrontation between the military and the government in the future? When the time comes, it will be the prime minister who dismisses the lieutenant in writing. Or did the captain mutiny and kill the prime minister? Neither is something that everyone wants to see. Before, everyone didn't dig into it because they didn't pay attention to this issue when they first came to power, but once Cai Yuanpei mentioned this issue at the second enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee. The result was natural. However, this is only a victory in Cai Yuanpei's eyes, and it is worthless in Yang Rui's eyes. As long as he is prime minister, there is no obstacle to him, and as for stepping down in the future - why worry about something that has not happened and cannot happen?

"It's going to be the New Year." Yang Rui also agreed to move over the Taiwei Mansion, at least he didn't have to go all the way to the Beizi Mansion to have a meeting with Bei Shou with them, as for the Xishan Command, that was another matter. He then asked, "There are so many people, is there enough room here?" ”

"How can it not be enough? There are empty houses south of Qianqingmen, even if there are twice as many people, they can live in it. The Ministry of Rites spends a lot of money every year on the repair of the palace, and it is better to make the best use of it for office. Zhang Taiyan said. It's done, it's not difficult to move at all, what should you do between you and me...... Cooperate. During this time, you have been accompanying the Japanese, and we, the vice premier, should find a time to talk about it, after all, this is a country, not the original revival association. ”

Yang Rui originally wanted to go to Wenyuan Pavilion to have a look, and the conversation with Zhang Taiyan was planned to be put in the next few days, but he took the initiative to pull the topic out. His dangling ass had to sit down again, and he took a sip of tea before saying, "Okay, Uncle Mei is in such a hurry, so it's okay to talk about it today." Make everything clear, and there will be no contradictions in the future. ”

"Exactly." Zhang Taiyan stretched out his hand and waved the people in the hall back. He has been thinking about this matter for more than half a month, and he hopes to reach a certain consensus with Yang Rui. At the very least, it is necessary to seek common ground while reserving differences, so that things will be smooth and the country will be stable in the future. "What do you think of the Red Russia?"

Zhang Taiyan doesn't talk about the United States. As soon as he opened his mouth, he said Red Russia, and Yang Rui understood his thoughts at that moment. He smiled: "The ideal is very good, and the means are also clever, but it can't be done, it's a pity!" ”

"How can it be said that it can't be done?" Zhang Taiyan asked with a smile, and his fan began to fan again.

"Hehe, why can't it be done?" Yang Rui smiled again, he felt that the atmosphere of the conversation with Zhang Taiyan this time was more harmonious than any previous time. "Philosophically speaking, since they insist on materialism and affirm the progress of the productive forces, they should not pity and save the laborers who are exploited by the capitalists. Because it is the flesh and blood of these laborers that promote the development of history and the progress of productive forces, just as the fighting of war promotes the progress of science and technology.

The overthrow of the capitalist system would be equivalent to the locomotive of history running out of fuel. Without burning the bones of laborers, how can the train have the power to move forward? Now they are having fun, that is because everything has a reference, when everything in the existence of capitalism is imitated, the building in the air that has lost its lift will fall, and one day it will fall to the ground. What smashes the chains of the toiling masses and saves the proletariat is nothing but empty words. ”

"Hehe, is it just an empty word to serve the people?" Yang Rui confessed like this, Zhang Taiyan was very excited.

"Of course, it's empty talk, and it doesn't make much of a big deal about serving the people, so how can we come to power?" Yang Rui is also happy to open the skylight and speak brightly, he feels that he doesn't like to tell lies more and more, and he just feels too tired to do so. "This is actually the difficulty of the contradiction of the Bolsheviks, who will support them without mentioning the realization of communism, how can they come to power? But now the Russian workers and peasants all know what the Bolsheviks are, but what can they do? The guns are in the hands of the Bolsheviks, they are not tsars who want to be autocratic and can't be autocratic, like last year's Kronstadt sailors' uprising, what else can they do except be suppressed? By the way, isn't the Ministry of Rites planning to make this movie? ”

"It's filming." Zhang Taiyan didn't want to divert the topic, so he continued to ask: "So you don't like Sun Yat-sen and Xiaomin?" Because the republican democracy they advocated was the same as the communism preached by the Bolsheviks, it was only a means to co-opt and deceive the ignorant people. ”

"Exactly!" Yang Rui nodded, "Communism is good, and democracy and republic are not bad, but the problem is that everyone wants bread, who will do it?" Can communism increase production efficiency and produce more bread? Or can a democratic republic increase production efficiency and produce more bread? Neither! In Max's words, the bloody bourgeoisie has created more productive forces in less than a hundred years than in all previous centuries, and this creation has nothing to do with communism and democratic republicanism. ”

"So the people I advocated before can't improve production efficiency and produce more bread?" Zhang Taiyan stroked his beard and laughed at himself. Now both sides are painted with Russia. Reasoning in the scene, the confrontation began.

"Of course!" Yang Rui said disdainfully: "Humanism is just a beautiful reverie of literati and artists. We really need to develop the economy. Far from being unhelpful, it will cause trouble. "It's like he's correcting himself. Again: "In the past few years, I have realized a lot of things, so much so that what I think now is diametrically opposite to what I thought before." I don't know if it's a problem with my brain or my ass. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, what I'm thinking now is that as long as we can increase production efficiency and produce more bread, it doesn't matter how many people die?" Zhang Taiyan was a little silent, this is the essential difference between him and Yang Rui.

"Exactly!" Yang Rui nodded heavily, "The previous generations were not angry, lagging behind European and American countries, and now they don't throw their own people into the boiler to push the locomotive forward." Then the foreigners will eliminate us, and then the country will be wiped out. In this case, whoever is useful to this country and who is useless to this country must be eliminated once, and if this elimination is not done, then the useless people will drag down the whole ......"

"But uselessness and usefulness are often not in oneself, but in one's family history. Some people may be just a straw bale, like those Beizi Belle in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but because of their illustrious family background, they can make a difference; Some people are like geniuses like you. If there is no revolution and no chance, then it will be thrown into the boiler to burn and push the locomotive. Zhang Taiyan retorted.

"There is this, so ......" Every time they came here, the two of them couldn't continue, and Yang Rui's previous rhetoric Zhang Taiyan had refuted it. It can't be another noisy quarrel if it continues, but today's Zhang Taiyan is different from before.

"Actually, I want to ask you. You used to preach to serve the people wholeheartedly, but now you have taken a 180-degree turn. To throw useless people into the boiler and burn them as the driving force for the train to move forward. Aren't you afraid of national chaos? Zhang Taiyan asked.

"Huh. Absolutely no mess. Yang Rui smiled, "The key to the problem is ......" He suddenly became alert and said, "Uncle Mei didn't help the people ask them, right?" ”

"Absolutely not!" Zhang Taiyan stood up suddenly, he knew that it was a little difficult to win Yang Rui's trust, so he said: "Although they pushed me up to supervise you, I have always opposed their set of foreign things. I can see very clearly what these people want to do -- we have an army, in the name of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Han Dynasty, overthrowing the Manchus, living in Beijing, and moving into the Forbidden City; As for them, they don't have an army in hand, so they plan to conduct a constitutional petition in the name of democracy and republic, just like the former Qing gentry. ”

Speaking of this, seeing that Yang Rui was still suspicious, he laughed and said again: "Fortunately, I'm not from them, so some things are done." Actually, let's be honest, the people are very restless......"

"What's the Restless Law?" Yang Rui became interested.

"I don't know how restless it is." Zhang Taiyan just showed the clue and didn't continue at all. "Why don't you tell me about your 180-degree turn, why can you keep the country from chaos?"

"How can we keep the country from chaos?" Zhang Taiyan didn't see the rabbit and didn't scatter the eagle, Yang Rui had no choice but to say, "Twenty years later, the agricultural tax can be abolished." According to the constitution: no taxes, no votes, and at the same time the guns in the hands of the peasant associations were collected, and the turn was reversed. ”

"What if they make trouble?" Zhang Taiyan didn't expect things to be so simple, and he had to punch himself in the head a few times. In fact, people in the peasant associations also raised this issue, but at that time, they deceived the peasants by saying that they would levy personal income tax on the peasants as a remedy. However, the IRS will not be under the control of the peasant council after all, and once the agricultural tax is abolished, there will be no peasant business in the next election. And the 'people who are useful to the country' will set the personal income tax threshold at the farmers' income line? When pigs fly. When the time comes, the peasant associations that have no guns in their hands and have completed their 'historical mission' will come to an end.

"How did you suppress the landlords in the beginning, but how you suppressed the peasants later!" Yang Rui Huo Ran said. "Uncle Mei, I've answered the question of the two of you in a row, and you haven't told me what kind of reputation those people are doing?"

"Okay." The confrontation turned into an exchange of information, and Zhang Taiyan smiled: "You are so stingy!" Then he said: "Zixun has been in the United States for many years, and the people have also spent a lot of time in the United States, and I have never found the difference between those students studying in the United States and those studying in Japan and Europe......

As soon as Zhang Taiyan mentioned the students studying in the United States, Yang Rui's face changed several times, and his face immediately sank, and after a while, he exhaled and said, "Uncle Mei, how did you find out?" ”

"The students below me said that many students studying in the United States help each other and have a close relationship with each other than their classmates in the same year." After Zhang Taiyan finished speaking, he said, "It's time for me to ask." When you co-opted the peasants to suppress the landlords, how did you suppress the peasants who made trouble in the future, and did you rely on the landlords who could not make things happen? ”

"Suppression by the constitution does not need to rely on anyone." Yang Rui replied calmly, but he still concealed the specific method in his heart. He also asked, just like Zhang Taiyan just now: "Are they all the students studying in the United States, or are they just the students who have been recruited by Zixun and the people after they went to the United States?" How many of them are there? What is the strategy? ”

"Hehe......" Zhang Taiyan smiled and sat down. He found that Yang Rui didn't tell the truth, and of course it was impossible to spread out the words, for example, after the peasant association lost the right to vote, what should the revival association that had always relied on the peasant association do was enough to talk for three days and three nights, but he still replied: "You'd better ask Zhang Shi this question, I just suspect that there is a problem." Think about it, how can the international students in the United States have a better relationship than their classmates in the same year? The only explanation is that they belong to the same organization. He replied, "It's my turn to ask." What about the previous land reform? It is impossible to return the peasants' land to the landlords, right? ”

"Of course not. For the peasants, the compensation for not being able to vote is that they no longer have to pay taxes, but the land can be recovered, but the world is in chaos. Yang Rui said. The landlord ...... that in addition to the compensation for the land price, a passbook was also issued when the land was repossessed, and after everything was settled, the compensation could be made in installments, but this was only a formality, and the government was not short of the money at that time. If the landless landlord had not declined, he would have been able to take power at that time; If it falls, it will be a charcoal in the snow. People always look forward, who have nothing to think about when they are old. ”

After saying this time, he didn't continue the previous question, but said, "Uncle Mei, you better open the skylight and say something." What do you want? ”

"You've been here for a short time, I've thought about it a lot," Zhang Taiyan stood up again, kept fanning his fan, and said, "I can become the prime minister...... and said" He smiled when he said this, "...... I said it wrong, it's the Deputy Prime Minister! Totally unexpected. Sitting here, meeting with ambassadors and officials of various ministries, receiving letters from home and abroad, feeling the demise of other countries, and sighing at the rebirth of China, I suddenly feel that what you said before is not wrong, but the position is different. ”

Zhang Taiyan said that he became the prime minister unexpectedly, but Yang Rui was surprised that he would say such a thing, so he waited for him to continue.

"If you blindly take care of the present people, the future generations will suffer bad retribution, and this is the case in Russia today. I think that those Russian peasants must miss the tsar very much, although the tsar's rule was unequal and undemocratic, but after all, he was still an individual and could still eat enough, but now...... "sitting in the position of prime minister, carefully reading the detailed report of the Russian revolution, Zhang Taiyan has not slept for several nights." “…… It's worse than raising a domestic animal! ”

"Nostalgia for the Tsar?" Yang Rui smiled, "Now the Bolsheviks are implementing the New Economic Policy. In Bukhara's words, it was to make the peasants rich, and those who did not die were grateful to the Bolsheviks. ”

"Hehe, don't laugh at me." Zhang Taiyan sensed the irony in Yang Rui's words, and he said, "The purpose of the new economy is only to better slaughter in the future, once the Bolsheviks close the net, the money earned by the peasants will not only be confiscated, but they will also be executed." Won't they miss the tsar when they die? ”

This time Yang Rui did not be ironic, he fully understood that after the new economy, there would be collective farms. Zhang Taiyan continued: "Like Russia, the democracy of the people will only call out the Bolsheviks; The people I advocate are not right, too heavy and small people will not be able to improve production efficiency, they will not be able to make more bread, and when the time comes, if they can't beat the foreigners, they will still destroy the country and destroy the species.

Actually, I promise you, as long as I am in office, everything will come according to you, but you also have to promise me one thing......"

"Hehe......" Yang Rui knew that it was not so cheap, although Zhang Taiyan said that he denied the so-called people-oriented. He smiled and said, "Say, Uncle Mei, what do I want to promise you?" ”

"It's very simple, it's to use the set you promised Yang Zengxin to implement in Beiting to the provinces of Guannai." Zhang Taiyan said. His eyes lit up, and it seemed that all his strength was devoted to this sentence.

"Which set of the North Garden?" Yang Rui was very inexplicable, and he didn't know what he wanted in exchange for supporting himself. (To be continued.) )