Aaron.Yu is the English name of Yu Zixun, the patriarch of the Renaissance Society, because of some events in the Xinhai year, he was elected to the Standing Committee of the Third National Congress of the Renaissance Society, and he himself had the idea of completing his studies, and then returned to the United States to study for a doctorate in law, but this time he attended the school of New York City, but Yale under the care of someone with a heart.

The Xinhai Year is the third national congress of the Renaissance Association, and this year is the fourth national congress of the Renaissance Association, and Yu Zixun, as a nominal member of the committee, also wants to attend, which is the primary reason for him to leave the United States, and the second reason is because of his friendship with the American upper class, especially with the Roosevelt family, Xie Zhangtai, who is in charge of foreign affairs, hopes to have an in-depth conversation with him in order to revise the direction of diplomacy with the United States again.

It's just that there is a difference in principle between him, who believes in the friendship between China and the United States, and Yang Rui, who believes that China and the United States are destined to be bad. Yu Zixun believes that the Pacific Ocean is extremely vast, and the United States has had few ambitions for China since the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Qing Dynasty, and has often tried its best to protect China's territorial integrity, so China and the United States should jointly build good relations and return to the normal Sino-US relations in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. As for Japan, he believes that China should not meddle in the contradictions between Japan and the United States, nor should it deliberately befriend Japan, so as not to arouse the disgust of the United States.

Yu Zixun's views represent the general views of overseas Chinese, and they are also what he has realized in the United States in recent years, and Xie Zhangtai agrees with most of them; However, Yang Rui, Zhang Taiyan, Qiu Jin, Yu Huizu, and Xu Huafeng did not approve of this. Zhang Taiyan and Qiu Jin believed that China and Japan were of the same language and species, and that it was a great blessing that they had turned enemies into friends, and that it was China's own business to make friends with Japan. Why is the United States pointing fingers? At the beginning, the United States reversed course and sided with Britain and France to support Japan, and the previous friendly relations between the two countries came to an end.

And Yu Huizu and Xu Huafeng support the friendship between China and Japan more because of practical problems. The shipping industry, which is now partnered with Japan, earns 80 million Chinese dollars a month. Although the two countries share the profits, China can also share more than 50 million yuan. The annual shipping revenue is as high as 600 million Chinese dollars. This is only the fifth year of Shenwu, and the total merchant ships of China and Japan are only 5.6 million tons, but the total amount of merchant ships of the two countries is estimated to be 8.2 million tons in the sixth year of Shenwu, and if the United States really wants to send troops to Europe, the freight rate will have to increase by at least five or six times, and the profits of the merchant ships of the two countries will also be five or six times that of the current one, and China can get at least 60 percent of this money, and the amount will exceed 3 billion Chinese dollars.

This is true of shipping, and shipbuilding and steel are also quite profitable. The cost per ton given by the state to the state-owned private shipyards is already 100 yuan, and if the freight rate rises by five or six times next year, the cost of shipbuilding will also rise to three or four times before it is reasonable, based on the annual shipbuilding volume of 1.2 million tons and the cost of 400 yuan per ton, this is 480 million yuan; The limit of steel production is 3 million tons, and if the steel plate is sold for 500 yuan a ton, the profit will exceed 1.2 billion yuan a year, but this will be the last thing in the war.

The profits of steel, shipbuilding, and shipping are the bulk of the entire European war. Selling tungsten sand, selling arms, selling nothing without shipping to make money fast! And with the current situation of China's pro-German abuse of Russia, it is difficult to make money so smoothly if it does not get involved with the Japanese, who have already joined the Entente. Billions, nearly 10 billion Chinese dollars. This large sum of money will be an important foundation for the country's rejuvenation, and it will be at least until the two countries have completed this partnership deal.

Zhang Taiyan Qiu Jin is based on being emotionally pro-Japanese; Yu Huizu, Xu Huafeng, and Du Yaquan are pro-Japanese based on practical interests. However, although Yang Rui, who has the final decision, is extremely disgusted with Japan, he can take into account both immediate and long-term interests. He began to dimly feel that relations with Japan should be above relations with the Soviet Union, and relations with the Soviet Union should be above relations with the United States. It's just that. This is a strategic geopolitical analysis of the premise that China's military is stronger than Japan's, and in his view, Japan must become China's new Korea, not America's new Hawaii.

However, from the point of view of economic interests, it was the United States first, the Soviet Union second, if Comrade Stalin's five-year plan could be brought forward to replace the United States and China to help build Soviet factories, even if the industrial drawings were only charged for paper, this business would not be small; In Japan, in terms of MSG sales at the beginning, the market is not only small, but also extremely grouped in China, which is really not easy to enter, that is, to enter, the market under the pattern of the rich country and the poor people, there is really nothing to do.

Although he knew that his Jianyi might not be able to convince everyone, the indifference that Yu Zixun felt during the entire Four National Congress really made him sad. He has been traveling abroad since the founding of the Renaissance Association, and although he showed his face in the three major areas after the founding of the country, he was in a period of 'making mistakes' at that time, rarely had contact with the delegates, and then went abroad, and over the years, except for the members of the business line, few delegates had an impression of him. Or, rather, he has been marginalized.

Unlike Zhong Guanguan and Wang Xiaoxu, Zhong Guanguan studied chemistry in Germany because of his poor health, and finally inexplicably cultivated botany; Wang Xiaoxu entered the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of the University of Berlin, dealing with the machine and the motor every day, neither of them wanted to enter politics, from Wang Xiaoxu's letter, he has studied Buddhism in the past year or two, and he has a lot of experience, and he will finally find a temple monk as he joked before.

Of course, the reason why they are like this is also to see that the state affairs are becoming more and more stable, without external troubles and internal strife, and Yang Rui has been excellent in governing the army, the country, and the world for several years, whether it is people who like him or people who hate him, they have begun to turn from trust to inertial dependence on him, thinking that as long as the country has a prime minister, the revival is just around the corner.

It is not surprising that everyone will react like this, but perhaps it is influenced by Zhang Taiyan, or perhaps it is the rejection of the West, and the whole country is now not taking the road of being close to the West, but the road of rejecting the West. This is what Yu Zixun does not understand and worries the most. Pro-Japanese, hostile to Russia, alienated from the United States, and playing the tricks of foolish people that have lasted for thousands of years, constantly emphasizing the quintessence of the country rather than modernization and science, this country really doesn't know if it will be taken to which old pit by Yang Rui and Zhang Taiyan.

There is also the King Min who picked up, although he did not ascend the throne, he is no different from the emperor. With this person, when will China be able to sweep away the old poison of Confucianism? Before, it was said that the country needs to be stable, and the people do not understand the revolution but only understand the emperor, and they do not obey the constitution and only recognize the king's law, so they must wear an emperor's hat on the head of the government. What now? Once you put it on, you can't seem to take it off, or you don't want to take it off at all.

Although the government does not respect Kong. However, in the countryside and among the people, Confucianism, patriarchy, clans, superstition, gambling, binding small feet, belief in traditional Chinese medicine, human trafficking, arranged marriages ....... Those vices that bind people and do not regard them as human beings still exist; The Chinese people are still numb and ignorant, although they all say that life is a hundred times better than before, but they are still grateful to God for sending a good emperor to sit in the world, and grateful to the court for having Lord Yang, he only rejected the foreign Yi with one hand, and swept away the inferior gentry with one palm, which made our dynasty have today's prosperous times......

Yu Zixun returned to China this time, and deliberately walked around his hometown and the countryside in the suburbs of Shanghai, and talked a lot with the people in the fields at the head of the village. In addition to feeling more hopeful than before. Aside from being more wary of strangers, he found no change in the people. They called the fertilizer the god fertilizer, saying that it was given by the Jade Emperor when the emperor came to the world, remembering that the people were living in poverty and hungry; They call China the Ming Dynasty, they don't know that they are citizens, they only think they are subjects, and the emperor and the prime minister write on wooden signs, put incense on the table, and worship incense in the morning and evening. Pray for the emperor and the prime minister, the emperor is blessed with great fortune, and the prime minister is a long life.

The most outrageous thing is that in the second year of Shenwu, Ningbo was flooded, and Huang Amao of a certain village had already escaped, but he didn't take the tablet on the incense case. thought that it was a capital crime to let the emperor and prime minister be drowned, and actually ran back, but this time he never returned. There is an old mother, a wife, and three children waiting to be fed at home. The Township Peasant Association specially asked Xiucai for this matter to write a tearful article to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court could commend this person in the name of martyrdom.

For the sake of two broken brands, one life died. Yu Zixun's hands and feet were cold when he heard this, and the revolution he hoped for was not such a revolution. His ideal China is not such a China. Compared with the Americans with a deep independent spirit and a high chest, the Chinese people are humble, cowardly, ignorant and superstitious, which is not only the aftermath of more than 2,000 years, but also the consequences of the government's choice to continue to ignore the people.

The spiritual situation of the rural people is so bad, but the cadres of the peasant associations who have the opportunity to speak at the four major congresses still blow the countryside to the sky, like a fairyland on earth, Yu Zixun doesn't know if Yang Rui, who has always paid attention to the countryside, has been to the countryside since he entered Beijing, and whether he has really done 'from the people, to the people', but I think that only Tao Huanqing, who often wears straw sandals, will do this, and other adults are used to being in the court and the days when the official residence is of high quality.

In the Chinese Science Club of Columbia University in New York, Yu Zixun, who had just returned from China, was standing in front of the glass window on the second floor looking at the scenery outside, and below was a troubled street, with black dexterous Ford cars, trams rampaging along power lines, high-cap tuxedo gentlemen, tuxedo ladies in hula hats, and the spider-web-like wires, only filling the entire street to the brim, every qiē was fast-paced, even those elegant ladies seemed to be a few points faster than those in China.

"Sir, Mr. Hongsheng is here." Ren Hongjun, the president of the Science Society, broke the silence in the house and woke Yu Zixun up.

"Oh. Please. "When he was in Xinhai, because of his own mistakes, Liu Hongsheng was also implicated, he was transferred back to China from the American branch for several years, and this time he finally came back.

"Hongsheng!" Yu Zixun didn't expect Liu Hongsheng to come to see him, and before he could come in, he went out of the door to greet him.

"Hello Mr. Zixun!" After several tosses, the more mature Liu Hongsheng bowed to Yu Zixun, he went to Yale University first, and finally found out that Yu Zixun was here.

"It's good to come, it's good to come." Yu Zixun welcomed Liu Hongsheng in with a smile, and only after others served tea and retreated, did he smile and said: "After all, I let you out, okay!" Tell me, what are you selling this time? ”

"Mr. Annoyance is worried, and he is grateful." Liu Hongsheng is dressed in a suit, and his hair is oiled like an American gentleman, if it weren't for his black hair and black eyes, everyone would think he was an American.

"Hongsheng, you and I don't have to be so polite. Tell me, what are you doing in the United States this time? What were you doing in the past few years? Yu Zixun took out a box of cigarettes from the coffee table and opened it to Liu Hongsheng, he remembered that he smoked, saw him take one, and put the cigarette box back, he no longer smoked. And after Liu Hongsheng lit it, he saw that Yu Zixun didn't smoke, so he secretly extinguished the cigarette.

"After returning to China, Keding entered Tongji University for further study, but his previous studies were too low, and he was not very good at mathematics, so it took him four years to get a master's degree in business administration." When Liu Hongsheng said that he got his degree, his spirit was slightly fluttering, but his heart was bitter. It's too hard to get. "Because Keding often comes into contact with automobile companies when he sells batteries in the United States, his graduation thesis is about research on the American family car market from the perspective of product differentiation. After the paper was passed, the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Industry Xu read it. It's... That brought me to the United States again. ”

"Sent you to sell cars?" Yu Zixun smiled kindly, and he saw that Liu Hongsheng's cigarette was quietly extinguished. Again: "Smoke, it's okay, I just smoked too much today." ”

"No, send me to sell movies." Liu Hongsheng was addicted to smoking, and he lit the extinguished cigarette again as he spoke. "For those of us who are management trainees, the Ministry of Engineering will re-evaluate and then compete for positions in the name of professional managers, and the salary and stock options will also be redrawn in the new contract......

"I know that this is called the professional manager of state-owned enterprise cadres." Yu Zixun has participated in the Big Four. I know that according to the Company Law, state-owned companies will comprehensively adjust the corporate governance structure, and the original general office will all become general managers, that is, the chief treasurers, and they will be managed by the shareholders' meeting, in fact, because most of the companies are not listed, that is, by the mother-in-law of the state-owned enterprise committee under the Inspectorate.

"Yes, it's the professionalization of managers." Liu Hongsheng nodded and said, he couldn't say in detail what kind of professionalism and managerization this was, he only thought of the assessment criteria that were almost blank. It's not that his scalp is numb, but that his heart is empty.

"Then why are you selling movies again?" Yu Zixun didn't quite understand what a professional manager was, but he was just curious about why he said that the car was selling movies again, "It's not that the movie sold too well last time." Do you want to come back? ”

The English alphabet of the Great Ming Tribulation in David. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was previously filmed in San Francisco, but this cross-era film has been honed by a century of cinematic skills. It ended up being a national sensation. It's not just about the box office, it's about the technology and art of the film. Because before this time, the movie had never been made like this. The entire film swept $1.38 million at the box office. After the share is minus taxes, the final repatriation is $374,000.

This immediately stunned the country! In recent years, although the film is new, the cost is small, although the film is not as good as the German Cross only the American Kodak, but the PE made in the real room has been used to produce photography and film film because it does not want to produce such a lowly product as water pipes, which has reduced the price of film by half.

A film negative costs only four cents a foot, a copy only costs two cents and a foot, and a copy is printed for only about three hundred dollars; Shooting is also rarely used in exterior scenes, either indoors or canvases, and natural lighting can be shot; Others such as labor, but the heroine's salary is higher, but it can be at most three to five yuan a day, ten days and half a month; The actor is even cheaper, either negligible, or like extras and supporting roles, played by relatives, friends or onlookers, just a few meals, without money at all. All in all, a movie can be shot with a maximum of 2,000 yuan. [Note]

As for the revenue, even if it is not issued abroad, half of the cost can be recovered in Shanghai alone. If it is copied abroad, the price is frighteningly high, such as the Malay islands of Singapore, the price can be sold for more than 1,000 yuan, and the United States is stimulated by 370,000 US dollars in sales profits, and it is a place of gold in everyone's hearts. Now that the Film Bureau has been restructured into the Film Corporation, with Yu Zixun's understanding of Yang Rui, this is another money-making weapon.

"Yes, sir, there is such a thing in the country." Liu Hongsheng said. "It cost 200,000 taels to shoot the film, and I thought it would lose money, but the United States made the electricity bureau profitable. Now the film company has specially invited a few foreigners to be stars, and has made a few good films, ready to be sold in the United States. This time, I was supposed to take people to inspect the American auto market in advance, but there were not enough people in the United States, and they said that I was empty, so I ......."

"Oh, that's right." Yu Zixun smiled, he no longer paid attention to the movie, and only said: "So, the Ministry of Industry is going to set up an automobile company?" ”

"Yes. I have already met Mr. Xu, and China is ready to invest 50 million Chinese dollars to establish Great China Automobile Co., Ltd. It is said that the prime minister means that if you want to build a car, you must first learn to design a car, and if you want to design a good car, it is not only necessary to comprehensively investigate the American automobile market and sales channels, but also to transport the car to the American highway to run a run, so that the customers targeted by the model can drive and listen to their opinions......

When selling batteries, Liu Hongsheng wanted to sell cars, so his graduation thesis was also about cars, and he didn't want the Ministry of Industry to have this plan, so he wanted to designate him as the general manager of the Great China Automobile Company. The domestic R&D and production teams are ready-made, which will be adjusted from the post-war truck production line, and only sales and general managers are missing. Liu Hongsheng's paper happened to be sent to the pillow, and Xu Huafeng took a fancy to it, thinking that he had to use this person to run a car company.

"Will the Americans let our cars in?" Yu Zixun knows that Yang Rui's product requirements are harsh, and he is afraid that there are no domestic things that will not sell well, but he is very worried about sales, especially now that Sino-US relations are not good.

Mr. Xu said that the automobile company, like the tractor truck, will set up a joint venture sales company with the Rockefeller Company to use its relationship to open up sales; According to the judgment of the CIA, the US economy will develop rapidly after the war, and the annual sales of automobiles will soon exceed 4 million. Our market should not occupy too much, two or three hundred thousand vehicles a year. The Prime Minister also meant that the profits could allow Rockefeller to take some more, but the reputation and scale of our cars should be improved. Liu Hongsheng said.

"Hey......" Yu Zixun sighed unconsciously, this is what he sighed to himself, although he strongly hopes that China and the United States will be friendly, but just like Yang Rui said in his previous report, if American goods are really not able to compete with China's high-quality and low-cost goods, then no matter how friendly the two countries are, they will be cold because of economic and trade relations. At first, he thought it was just alarmism, but in fact, in his subconscious, he recognized it. But the more this happens, the more he thinks China should be friendly with the United States and distance itself from Japan.

Yu Zixun suddenly sighed, which made Liu Hongsheng a little inexplicable, although he was tossed because of Yu Zixun's affairs, but in his opinion, Mr. Zixun was also kind; And the Prime Minister, his vision and skill are top-notch. That matter, Mr. Zixun's wish was good, but the prime minister's decision was right, so a few years later, he could only think that it was his fate to have this catastrophe, and even he thought that it was because of this incident that he could be appointed as the general manager of the automobile company.

With such a mentality, Liu Hongsheng came here to reminisce about the past, and then hoped to listen to Yu Zixun's opinion, after all, he has now integrated into the American high society circle. To do a good job in the automobile company, it is extremely important to have a relationship with those superior people, but I don't want Yu Zixun to sigh inexplicably......

Feeling Liu Hongsheng's doubts, Yu Zixun said: "I'm just worried about Sino-US relations." However, it's okay, you need my help here, so just say ......" Speaking of this, Yu Zixun suddenly thought of something, and he smiled: "President Wilson's re-election thank-you reception will be held in Washington the day after tomorrow, I can take you there and introduce you to a few people, as long as you have time to ......"

"I must have time." Liu Hongsheng said slightly excitedly, he felt that he had come to the right place this time, even Lu Zhengxiang, the ambassador to the United States, might not be able to give him such an admission ticket, let alone introduce people.

"Then you come here to me early tomorrow morning, and we'll go to Washington together." Yu Zixun said, he had seen Ren Hongjun at the door at this time, and there seemed to be something wrong. He said: "Hongsheng, I still have something to do today, you can come to me at half past eight tomorrow morning." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Zixun!" Liu Hongsheng also saw Ren Hongjun outside the door, bowed and left.

"Sir," Ren Hongjun was followed by Hu Shi, who hurried after seeing the letter.

"Appropriate, sit down." Yu Zixun stayed in New York, first, to see the development of the members of the China Science Society, and secondly, to meet Hu Shi before returning to China and have a long chat with him.

"Yes, I have already told Mr. Xiao Min that he will arrange for you to teach at Peking University." Wait for Hu Shi to sit down. Yu Zixun began the topic, "But what you have to know is that although Mr. Xiao Min is a scholar of the school, according to the prime minister, even if it is a demon or a monster, every intangible thing is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, so there are not many things that he can help you over." If you really want to open up a new culture, you can only rely on your own efforts. However, Mr. Xiao Min read your doctoral dissertation and appreciated it very much, and he hopes to see you soon! (To be continued......)

PS: Note: The History of the Development of Government-run Films in the Republic of China, p12. Because the full price is taken from 1927, it has been converted to the silver price.