"My lord, the informant reported that the Japanese ship carrying arms set sail a few days ago, and some people who rebellious parties also left the port in batches a few days ago and went to Chaozhou." In the yamen of Li Zhun, the commander of the Guangdong Navy Division, the subordinates who were in charge of the wire report were in urgent report.

"Hmm. Do you see it all? Did Huang Xing also leave Hong Kong? "Unlike his eager subordinates, Li Zhun is not in a hurry at all, this time someone inexplicably reported that the revolutionaries will raise a righteous uprising in Chaozhou, which is very strange, but because the line report is not a general statement, but there is solid evidence, such as Huang Xing, Liangguang has launched many incidents by him, and this person is now presiding over a qiē in Hong Kong. Li Zhun believed this, and privately deduced that this must be a dispute in the chaotic party, so the news was revealed.

"Your Excellency, you can see it clearly, those wanted criminals are inside. However, Huang Xing, the leader of the rebellious party, did not leave Hong Kong. A letter came from Chaozhou saying that the civilian boats found by the chaotic party were ready to go to sea to pick up the goods on the 20th day. The subordinate said that Huang Xing was very excited, and after several moves, the reward for killing Huang Xing was already 20,000 taels, and in addition to other chaotic parties, it added up to 50,000 taels.

"Well," Li Zhun replied with the presence of the old god again, "Then do as you said." Remember, there are Japanese in the chaotic party, be careful when arresting, try to catch them alive, and don't cause any trouble. ”

The Chaozhou Uprising was concerned by the Revival Society at the beginning, and the League has always kept the matter of the uprising a secret lax, so the details of the entire uprising were revealed by the Revival Society to Li Zhun, the commander of the Guangdong Navy Division, and I believe that this bureaucrat, who already has a lot of blood feuds with the Alliance, will not let go of this good opportunity for promotion. The day after Yang Rui arrived in Honolulu, he received the news that Chaozhou had closed the net. It's just that things don't seem to be that simple.

"Sir, the net has been closed in Chaozhou, but there is some trouble." Chen Guangshou stood in front of Yang Rui as usual. Reporting on important matters. Among them, in addition to the encirclement and suppression of several Manchu soldiers and horses in Yanzhou, it was the uprising of the League in Chaozhou.

"Why, no one was caught, or no boat was arrested?" Yang Rui asked.

"No, it is said that except for a few backbones of the uprising, everyone else has been caught. Among them were quite a few Japanese, and the munitions were also seized by the sailors. However, the Japanese minister protested against this, and they argued. The Japanese on the shore only went to the local area to inspect business and visit famous places, and as for the arms ship, it was only when it passed through Guangdong. Because the rudder fails. That's why it strayed into Guangdong's territorial waters. Now they are beating a rake, saying that the removal of the flag by the Qing soldiers in accordance with the regulations is an insult to the Japanese flag. Chen Guangshou shook his head as he repeated the contents of the telegram, and he was very angry at the result.

"Oh. Little Japan has always been like that. "Yang Rui is not surprised by the reaction of the Japanese, this kind of back-to-back thing has been since the First Wu Dynasty, and until later generations, the little devils are also this virtue, as long as it is done by the Japanese, they have never missed it." So what's going on over there in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, do you want to compromise? ”

"I don't know yet. There is no news from the capital yet. Chen Guangshou said.

"What about the House? Didn't react either? Yang Rui asked again, in his feelings. If there is a parliament, there will be more angry youth, because it has always been very popular with public opinion to be tough on the outside world, such as those clear streams in the first noon, one by one, hiding behind, one by one full of righteous indignation.

"Sir, according to the outline of the Manchu Constitution, foreign affairs are decided by Guangxu, and the parliament has no right in this regard." Chen Guangshou remembered that he had already reported the authority of the Manchu Parliament to Yang Rui.

"I know. The army, diplomacy, these were all in the hands of the Manchus, but didn't that parliamentarian think this was a good opportunity to be famous? In particular, those elected legislators, once they speak out for being tough on Japan, even if they are disliked by the Manchus, as long as they have such prestige, even if they are suppressed, it will be easy to come up again in the future. "Since the Congress divided the Blue and White Party, Yang Rui has been very curious about the group of members of the Parliament, and now that this opportunity is so good, someone will definitely jump out." Let Yuanshi pay attention to it and see if he can instigate a few councilors to do something. ”

"What's the matter? What is the Cheng dù? Chen Guangshou asked.

"Don't see blood, just have a big fight. As for Cheng dù? Yang Rui tapped his fingers on the table and thought for a while before saying, "Let's see if we can come up with a boycott of Japanese goods." Now aren't you singing praises to Guangxu, saying that he is rare in the world, wise and martial, hehe, then give him a big stage and see how wise and martial he is. ”

"Yes, sir!" Chen Guangshou replied very loudly and went out quickly. Now under Liang Qichao's propaganda, Guangxu's image is becoming more and more magnificent, and he is described as a good emperor who fights against the Manchu Dynasty's rebellious ministers and thieves for the livelihood of the people. The Fuxing Society has been trying to find a way to discredit Guangxu's image, but there is still a Cixi in front of him, and all the dirty water splashed by Guangxu has been transferred to Cixi. This is still not the strictest, and what is even more annoying is that when many newspapers criticized Cixi, Guangxu still issued several edicts to refute his 'father', and made more grass people sing praises for a good emperor like Guangxu.

After Chen Guangshou left, Yang Rui went to the living room, and at this time, Cheng Weinan pulled some local business gentry to drink tea at home, in addition to the rules of the wedding, it also meant to introduce Yang Rui to the people of Honolulu. Among them were Liu Xiang, the manager of Yonghetai Grocery Company, He Kuan, the manager of the American Bank, Huang Huahui, the secretary of Yonghetai, and Li Chang and Zheng Jin, translators of the local government. These people, Cheng Weinan told Yang Rui that they were the backbone of the Xingzhong Association thirteen years ago, among which Liu Xiang was the chairman of the Xingzhong Society, and He Kuan was the vice chairman of the Xingzhong Society, Cheng Weinan was the copywriter of the meeting, and several other people were also the backbone of the meeting.

In Cheng Weinan's account, the Xingzhong Association was not founded by Sun Wen, and he has never been the chairman of the Honolulu Xingzhong Association, not even the manager, copywriter, and treasurer, he is just an ordinary member. Later, he saw that he could not get support in Honolulu, so he took some people to Hong Kong, and in addition to Deng Yinnan, who was one of the eight values, there were also Song Juren, Chen Nan, Xia Baizi and several other people, and the others were unmoved. Afterwards. The Honolulu Xingzhong Association had nothing to do with Sun Wen, because when Liang Qichao went to Honolulu, most of the members joined the royalist party.

Cheng Weinan is a literati. But he was a businessman, who had both the will to make a revolution and the willingness to compromise, and unlike others, he was quite supportive of the revolution. It's just that in the year of Gengzi, Sun Wen got the support of the Japanese and launched the Huizhou Uprising. The son was young, and he followed under the excitement of blood, but in the end the uprising failed. There were no bones left of his son, and Cheng Weinan was disheartened by the revolution from then on, until Cheng Ying brought Yang Rui home, and he was considered to be a gang again.

When Yang Rui arrived in the living room. Everyone drank almost all the tea. Seeing him come in at this time, Cheng Weinan stood up and said to him: "These uncles are all bigwigs in Honolulu, and you can ask them for help if you have something here in the future." This time I came to Honolulu, some polite rules have been learned, under the introduction of Cheng Weinan, Yang Rui hurriedly saluted everyone, and Cheng Weinan also introduced him to the seats one by one. After some politeness, he sat down at the bottom of the head.

Before Yang Rui entered the living room. Cheng Weinan has confessed to his fellow villagers that Yang Rui is the revolutionary party of the Fuxing Association, and the word revolution is a rebellion in everyone's eyes. Cheng Weinan knew what everyone thought, and the reason why he wanted to say that his son-in-law was a revolutionary party was nothing more than to give everyone the bottom line so that he could gain support.

The revival will be more majestic in the country, but for overseas Chinese, they are not their own people. In the past, the royalists were helped by them because they held the banner of Guangxu and were famous patriots, and Kang Liang was also a Cantonese person, so he could eat openly; And Sun Wen, although he is also from Guangdong, but he doesn't want to say that he is a person, he is not even a showman, and his speech is one in the sky and one in the earth compared to Liang Qichao, not to mention that he is a 'rebel', so everyone is far away from him, and in the end it was Huang Sande of Hongmen who thought of a way to let Sun Wen enter Hongmen, and then accompanied him to give a speech in the United States, in order to gain the support of the lower Chinese people, which can be regarded as having some influence. And Yang Rui, first, is not from Guangdong, second, he is not from the imperial examination, and his speeches are all vernacular - this basically boils down to illiterate illiteracy at that time, which is worse than Sun Wen's foundation.

Will the diaspora be important for revival? As far as the revival is concerned, it was not very important before the revolution, but after the revolution there were important places and troublesome places. According to the statistics of the International Finance Section of the Bank of Kanto, more than 100 million taels of overseas Chinese remittances flow to China from Nanyang and the Americas every year, although it is not enough to completely offset the loss of the trade deficit, but without overseas Chinese remittances, China's balance of payments will be even worse. The trouble is that overseas Chinese are all abroad, and as soon as they are bullied, the government will protect the overseas Chinese, and it will be similar to scaring Mexico at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention the Renaissance Society, as far as Yang Rui is concerned, whether before or after the revolution, overseas Chinese are important to him. Although he now has a descendant in the Revival Society, he actually has more prestige and less foundation. Although there is brainwashing by the political department, the concept of fellow villagers and factions for thousands of years still has a great influence, Beiyang has a small station faction, Sun Wen has a Liangguang faction, Chang has a Huangpu faction and Zhejiang faction, and then ...... The same is true. A closer look at history shows that the political situation in China after the end of the Qing Dynasty was circled around Beiyang left over from the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Hunan in the south. Guangdong originated from overseas Chinese, before opening up the atmosphere, Zhejiang in addition to its own cultural heritage, but also benefited from the prosperity of Shanghai, and Hunan, in addition to the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Wang Fuzhi, the academies everywhere, all rely on Zeng Guofan.

Yang Rui's weakness is that he is not from Guangdong, not from Zhejiang, not from Hunan, Zhejiang people are completely dominant in the Fuxing Association, if he wants to stabilize his position, it is necessary to balance, and the method of balance depends on Yang Rui's fellow villagers alone, and he can't support the beam at all, it's not that people are not excellent, such as Zhang Chengyue, Xu Jingxi, Wen Yongyu are all good, but compared with the three provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Hunan, the base is not enough at all, so the best way is to pull Guangdong people in as a son-in-law of Guangdong. At that time, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and other miscellaneous systems will have three major powers, so that the position can be stabilized, and although the political arena will be a seaweed at that time, it will also be a last resort.

This idea was not thought of by Yang Rui, but mentioned by Xie Zhangtai in a long letter in a vague manner, according to Yang Rui's judgment, he had both the meaning of planning for himself and the meaning of thinking about Yang Rui. But no matter what Xie Jintai thinks, this thing should still be implemented.

After Yang Rui sat down at the bottom of the living room, everyone present looked at Yang Rui. He had no choice but to smile humbly, "Uncles, this is not to bring everyone together in the revolution, let alone let everyone donate money, just to think about buying a house and studying with everyone, and nothing else." ”

Seeing Yang Rui doing things so easily, everyone present laughed. He Kuandao: "Cheng is also an overseas Chinese, or a Hakka?" ”

"Yes, I came to the United States with my parents when I was young. But then they all died, and then I wandered the American continent alone. Yang Rui said that he was born in life, and his face was full of affection, and everyone here was from the past. I know the pain of selling piglets. His expression was unmoved, but his heart softened.

He Kuan also sighed at this, and said: "Overseas Chinese drift across the sea, life is not easy, first Sun Yixian spoke against him, and then Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao advocated royalism, these two groups of people, we donated a lot of money. But one is a fool's dream, and it can't be done. The other is sweet talk, crossing the bridge and drawing the board, which is simply ungrateful. Revival will have an impact in China, but if we support you, how do we know that you will not be the next Kang Liang? ”

Yang Rui saw this shape, it should be that Cheng Weinan had almost said what he was going to say before, so his words would be so direct, in the face of He Kuan's questioning, he completely forgot Cheng Weinan's explanation, and asked rhetorically: "Then may I ask my uncles, if overseas Chinese want to change the status quo, who else can they support except support the Revival Association, and rely on those mountain halls in Hongmen?" Or is it Sun Wen who can't succeed by continuously doing things? The son-in-law's-for-tat only startled Cheng Weinan, but he was relieved to see that everyone present was pondered by his question. Now that Guangxu is out of the mountains, the National Assembly is convening, this is not to save the country, but to chaos the country, there is no official in the Manchu Qing Dynasty who is not greedy, and none of the governors in various places are obedient, such a China cannot become rich and strong, and China that cannot become rich and strong cannot protect the overseas Chinese everywhere. Therefore, revolution is the only way to save the country, and revival will be the only hope for the success of the revolution.

If you are worried that I will go back on my word, there is a simple and easy way, which is to let your children join the Revival Society," Yang Rui smiled at the people who were a little surprised: "It's not for them to go to war, but for them to study." Of course, if you want to fight, there will be a special military academy for revival, and people with ambitions can join, if you feel that it is dangerous, then you can not go back to China, but only study abroad, and after the completion of the revolution, the government will need new people, and these people will be the backbone of the country in the future. Even if the revolution is not successful, you have nothing to lose, and the money spent is also used on your own children. ”

Yang Rui only said that the revolution was as simple as eating, and everyone didn't believe it, and Liu Xiang, the big man who had not spoken, asked, "That's what Cheng wants us to do?" ”

"Hmm. That's all for it, but if you want to talk about the details," Yang Rui looked at everyone and said with a smile, "There are mainly a few things, one is to establish the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce to unite Chinese businessmen all over the world, the second is to establish the Overseas Chinese Bank, which should be spread all over the world where there are overseas Chinese, and the third is the Overseas Chinese Education Association, which in the case of limited funds in the early stage, in addition to a few middle schools and college preparatory classes in places with a high concentration of Chinese, mainly to guide the children of overseas Chinese to study abroad." ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, everyone looked at each other, only feeling that Yang Rui had the demeanor of Sun Cannon. He Kuan said with a smile: "There are only more than 20,000 overseas Chinese in Honolulu, and most of the others are in South America and other places. There are also banks, which are not small in profit, but they spend a lot of money, which is not something that ordinary people can afford. ”

"There are not many overseas Chinese in Honolulu, but the overseas Chinese in Honolulu are all Cantonese, and the overseas Chinese in the Americas and Nanyang are all fellow villagers, and the Chamber of Commerce is actually a large business group, which will be centered on the bank, as long as everyone sees that joining the Chamber of Commerce is good for their business, then they will join. As for the share capital of the bank, the Revival Society can solve it. Yang Rui said, took out a Citibank deposit certificate from his arms, and handed it to He Kuan.

He Kuan is the manager of the bank, and the authenticity of the deposit receipt can be known at a glance, and then he looks at the number on the deposit certificate, and his face is even more numerous, he can understand the reason why Yang Rui said not to donate money. He read the deposit slip and transferred it to Liu Xiang, but after Liu Xiang read it, he did not pass it on to everyone, but returned it directly to Yang Rui, and then said: "This money ......"

Yang Rui understood what he meant, and said: "This money is very clean, and there is absolutely no foreigner's money in it." ”

Hearing this, Liu Xiang glanced at He Kuan again, and then said, "What kind of charter is the Chamber of Commerce?" ”

Yang Rui saw that he wanted to read the charter, so he got up and let Chen Guangshou outside in. A simplified version of the charter written in advance was sent to everyone present, and then he said, "This is only a brief version, and the key points in the charter are listed on it......"

"Do you want to run a shipping company?" He Kuan, who had ten lines at a glance, saw that there were also freight discounts for joining the Chamber of Commerce. I couldn't help but guess that the Chamber of Commerce would have shipping companies in the future.

"Yes, to run a shipping company. We have now bought docks in Nanyang and other places. Yang Rui replied. The railway has been opened, and the Tonghua Steamship Company is now running routes in Northeast China, Shanghai, Wuchang, Guangzhou and other places, and the Jiangnan Shipyard has also begun to build merchant ships. The supply of goods from China and Europe and the United States is basically controlled by foreign companies in Shanghai, but the sources of goods and tourists in Nanyang and other places are not among them, and the overseas shipping plan of the Fuxing Association intends to break through from the overseas Chinese. Waiting for the fleet to reach the scale before attempting to sail to Europe and the Americas is the best way for shipping to develop.

"What is this information consultation fee?" He Kuan asked again. In general, only membership fees are collected, and the expenses during subsequent meetings are shared equally. However, Yang Rui also has an information consultation fee on the charter.

"This ......," Yang Rui thought for a while, "we will set up observation points in markets and production areas around the world, and collect information on various commodities, as well as information on various markets and production areas." It is then sold to merchants of different sizes in different industries. In this way, everyone will no longer be blind in business. ”

"Can that be done?" What Yang Rui depicted was completely unexpected by everyone, even Cheng Weinan, who didn't know much about it, was very curious. He looked at his son-in-law, who was confident, and forgot about his own position and asked.

Yang Rui smiled: "It can be done completely, we can also be faster than foreigners and Japanese." The Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce mainly has three advantages, one is the information advantage, which can make everyone no longer blind in business, and can predict the market before foreigners, such as sugar. Honolulu is one, and Cuba is one. There are also Qinzhou and Nanyang in Guangxi, if we have people in these places, then the prices everywhere will be clear at a glance, combine this information, and then analyze it year by year, then the law of sugar price fluctuations can be explored; Another is the capital advantage, there is a unified OCBC Bank, then the idle funds everywhere can be effectively mobilized, and after knowing the place and time period of the year to use the money, the bank can more effectively allocate funds, and spend a penny to the effect of two cents; Finally, the transportation advantage, if the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce is established, then the goods around the country can be better coordinated, the shipping company's ship will not run empty, the efficiency of the shipping company will be improved, then the freight rate will be lower. The Chamber of Commerce allows everyone to grasp the information faster and more accurately than foreigners, has more abundant capital and cheaper borrowing costs, and has faster and lower freight costs, how can this business not make money? ”

Yang Rui said more and more fanciful, if it weren't for his deposit receipt, such a beautiful thing would make everyone unbelievable, Huang Huahui asked: "Actually, this thing sounds like it's all beneficial and harmless, why don't you go to Nanyang to persuade everyone to join the club?" ”

Huang Huahui's question was to the point, and Yang Rui couldn't hide it, so he only said: "We are a revolutionary party, once we come forward, everyone will worry about whether the bank and fleet will be confiscated by the Manchus, so we can only find some Cantonese people who are engaged in business to operate this matter, so it can be convincing." Although the Renaissance Society has a revolutionary party of Cantonese origin, it does not have Cantonese nationality and is an influential businessman among overseas Chinese...... What we want is someone to take the lead, and someone who has nothing to do with the revolutionary party to take the lead. ”

As soon as Yang Rui's explanation came out, everyone felt that this was indeed the truth, interlaced like a mountain, and overseas Chinese were extremely particular about nostalgia, which was not something that ordinary people could enter. There are not many overseas Chinese in Honolulu, but this is the only way to go to the Americas. And the overseas Chinese businessmen in Nanyang and other places, with Honolulu to persuade with their hometown, and with the example of the Americas, it is definitely better than the revolutionary party to persuade directly.

After saying what should be said and what should be asked, Liu Xiang, He Kuan and others looked at it and smiled without saying a word, only when they were about to leave at the end, except for saying goodbye to Yang Rui, they all said the same thing to Cheng Weinan with a smile. Yang Rui didn't understand Cantonese, but looking at everyone's appearance, he knew that things should be done, and he laughed for a while. (To be continued......)