As if we were finally at our destination, the American Ball, the guide at the front, turned around and said in his gushing words: "Listen, guys, the one you're going to see is Percival. Mr. Farquhar, he's a big guy, a graduate of Yale University in Pennsylvania, USA, he was a member of the New York State Assembly, but now he is more important than a member of the Congress, and he has his business all over Brazil, no, all over South America. Gentlemen, since you have a large number of laborers, you can do business with him, and the railroad that is being built now will require many, many workers...... Oh, forget it, Mr. Farquhar comes from a Quaker family and knows what Quaker is? It's ......"

The American guide who was hired at a low price in Rio was a cripple, and he claimed that he used to be a steward on the Madaila-Mamoree railway, of course, why the steward was crushed by the rail was not a matter for Yu Huizu to consider, the key was that he could bring himself here, and then let the professional railway builders judge when the not too long railway could be completed.

"Is it necessary for us to meet that Farquhar?" Zhang Kun has no good impression of the American guide who loves to blow his year and shouts, but a beggar who looks like a beggar is always a big man himself, which is really laughable.

"It's necessary." Before Yu Huizu could answer, Ji Runzhi, who came with the two of them to explore the progress of the railway construction, spoke first. "Building a railway in the rainforest is a very difficult task, and all kinds of diseases, wild animals, native people, and floods can slow down the construction of the railway. I had to go check it out. Talk to the workers to find out how long it will take for the short railway to be completed. At the end, he looked at Yu Huizu and Zhang Kun again and said, "The two masters are still waiting here." But talk to that Farquhar first. It's best to find an excuse so that I can take someone to the railway construction site to have a look. ”

Ji Runzhi is an overseas Chinese, and he actually studied architecture, but the Chinese architect has never been recognized by foreigners, because he only designed a public toilet for the San Francisco City government, and then he was ruthlessly fired by foreigners, and he could only defect to Chen Yixi's railway company after being humiliated. In China, where talent is scarce, he, an unpopular architect, has finally found a place to use. I don't know what the bosses are going to do, but I want to find out the progress of the entire railway construction and determine when the railway will be completed. It is not difficult for him, not to mention that there are many Chinese workers in the railway construction team, and the villagers can find out any news.

"No, my men are going to Guayalamirin. Only start with rubber groves. They can calculate the true cost of South American rubber, "Unlike Yu Huizu who came to make soy sauce out of pure curiosity, Zhang Kun, who is cautious, has to go to the production area to take a look and calculate it before he can rest assured." He looked at Nanyang, and he couldn't let it go of South America.

"If you want to see it, let's go and see it." Yu Huizu was only in his early forties, and he was in his prime, so when he arrived in Baoshan, how could he not go in to see, he said to go and see, and suddenly saw Bauer in the front running among several Americans. To say to an American in his forties, such a person is in his forties. Looking at his momentum, as well as the heavily armed guards around him, Yu Huizu suddenly understood that this should be the big man Mr. Farquhar.

As soon as Bauer and Farquhar finished speaking, they pretended to wave their hands at Yu Huizu and motioned for Yu Huizu and them to come over. Yu Huizu and the others did not pay attention to it, and after making an introduction, Faquhar, a big man from New York, said: "Gentlemen, you have come at the right time, I want people, I want many, many laborers. I hope you can get people here as best you can. Not only will these workers be well paid, but they will also get land along the railroad, you know, land, and if they are willing and industrious enough, they will become a wealthy manor owner. Farquhar did not concentrate on saying this to the Chinese in sight and left, but in order to let the Chinese call the laborers, he left another sentence before leaving, he pointed to another white man next to him and said, "This is Mr. Wells, you can talk to him about specific problems." ”

Yu Huizu and his family, who were regarded as nothing by Farquhar, did not react excessively, and since they went abroad, they had understood that as long as they were yellow-skinned and had a Chinese with big braids that were different from those of the Japanese, then they would be treated extremely badly. As soon as Farquhar left, Ji Runzhi stepped forward to negotiate with Mr. Wells and offered to take a look at the construction site in person, Mr. Wells did not agree to this at first, but then suddenly agreed. Because he found that these Chinese really wanted to go to the scene to see, even if he refused they could go secretly, the railway was built along the Madeira River, because the river was turbulent, so he could only build a railway to connect the port of Veliu, which could go to sea, and Guayaramirin on the border.

According to official statistics, nearly 30,000 railway builders died due to various diseases, accidents, attacks, etc., but the actual number of deaths is unknown. Although the railway has only been in operation for more than a year, the tragic situation still scares Yu Huizu and others, even on the cruise ship in New York three months later, the nameless graves in the secluded places along the railway still make everyone's hearts palpitate.

"Even if the construction of the railway continues, it will be difficult to complete it without more than three years." In the independent cabin of the cruise ship, Ji Runzhi came to such a conclusion after introducing the information he knew. In fact, he was right, the public toilets in San Francisco are not representative of his professional standards, in fact, they were opened to traffic in 1912.

"Three years?" Zhang Kun listened to his judgment and knew that Yang Rui's inference in the plan might not be correct. In the plan described by Yang Rui, the rubber stock market will collapse in two years, combined with this situation, that is, the market will not collapse because of the construction of the railway. Of course, as long as the railroad has been built, speculators can also create some fake news to make the stock market bearish, and thus eventually collapse the market. In fact, Yang Rui, who only reads time-traveling novels, doesn't quite understand the origin of the rubber stock trend in the late Qing Dynasty. In fact, it was the Chinese people's gambling nature, high expectations, and the infighting of the Manchu government that ultimately contributed to the collapse of the market. The imminent construction of the Madaila-Mamorey railway and the 1910 U.S. policy to restrict rubber consumption caused by the decline in rubber prices were merely inducements.

"Yes. It does take more than three years, or even four to five years. In addition to the inefficiencies caused by the mass deaths of workers, the long rainy season in the rainforest is also a major reason why railways are difficult to build. In the event of a flood on many repaired railways, the roadbed is often destroyed in a single flush, and then the construction team has to go back to refill the roadbed, or even choose another route. This railway is really ......" Ji Runzhi shook his head vigorously, although he also wanted to do that kind of grand project, but even if this railway in the rainforest was handed over to him. He can't fix it either, it's too miserable.

"Alright. We will take your opinion into consideration, and we will study these materials again. Will ask you again if there are any questions. Zhang Kun said. Seeing that the little boss accepted his point of view, Ji Runzhi nodded and went out.

"If you want to do it as planned, you still have to rely on the frenzy of the market itself." After Ji Runzhi left. Zhang Kun said after contemplation. "Especially Sheng Xuanhuai's side. It is necessary to prevent him from protecting the market afterwards, otherwise the market will not collapse completely, but will only decline slightly, so that the plan will be difficult to realize. ”

"By virtue of his operation in the stocks of the iron works, we may be able to pull him to our side and make a fortune by investing in the shares of the rubber company, but we will ask him to sell the stocks later, in his current capacity as the secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. There is also the financial part of Zaize Control, I'm afraid it's difficult to do this, right? There's no reason for them to shoot themselves in the foot? Although Yu Huizu does not manage the specific business of Tianzihao. He has only been mixed in the government and businessmen for a long time, but he is very clear about the situation and sphere of influence of the various factions in the DPRK and China.

"Xingjian. Isn't it enough that we have built a few leather bag companies on the Nanyang side now, and we are immediately hoarding rubber company shares? Why do rubber stocks have to crash? Yu Huizu thought of the difficulty of the plan, and couldn't help but repeat the old words, he just wanted to pull up the stock market, but it didn't have to be a crash.

"Mr. Hanzhang, in fact, when the time comes, the silver speculating in rubber stocks will not only be from the major banks, but also the silver from the Manchu court. Also, if those money banks are not destroyed, the financial system after the founding of the People's Republic of China will not be able to control it. Only when the stock market completely collapses and most of the money banks go bankrupt can we take this opportunity to clean up the financial market and then fill the financial loopholes. Only by plugging the loopholes will the foreigners' banks be blocked in the concession. Zhang Kun was very decisive and made a fundamental change to Yang Rui's plan, that is, to destroy all the money houses outside the Revival system, because most of these money houses were potential branches of foreign banks, except for relying on the Manchu Yuanfeng Run Money Village and Yishanyuan Ticket Number, and it was with them that foreign banks such as HSBC could operate Chinese mainland.

"Xingjian! It's going to die. There are also those serious people who came in by the way, once the stock crashes, they will have no way to live, and I really don't know how many people will die when the time comes. Yu Huizu shook his head and sighed, more than 20 years ago, Hu Xueyan was in the debt trend, there were not a few people who died, he was young at that time, but he still remembered.

"Mr. Hanzhang, it is better to cry in one country than to cry in one place, and it is better to cry every year than to cry in a year. Even if it's a dead person, there's no way around it. Zhang Kun had a cold face, he fully understood the consequences of the matter, but there were many reasons for him to carry out the plan.

"Alright! Say, what should be done? Yu Hui Zu said.

"After the rubber companies in Nanyang and the stocks in our hands were almost exhausted, we speculated on rubber stocks, let the major money banks enter the stock market, and then let the U.S. government and the company of Farquhar release some unfavorable news when the stock price was at its most frenzied, and suppressed the rubber stock price to cause turmoil in the stock market. In order to prevent Sheng Xuanhuai from protecting the market, in addition to making the foreign-funded banks in Shanghai cut off their aid, it is more important to join forces with the Zaifeng and other imperial parties to strictly check the accounts of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Ministry of Household Affairs at this time, and cut off the follow-up funds of Sheng Xuanhuai and others, so that he has no money to protect the market. A new operation plan was shown in Zhang Kun's words, which made Yu Huizu look at Zhang Kun a few times, he didn't understand whether this was the only way, or if Zhang Kun did it on purpose, he knew. Zhang Kunzhi's father died because of Hu Xueyan's incident, and Hu Xueyan's downfall was because of Sheng Xuanhuai.

Seeing Yu Huizu's doubts, Zhang Kun said, "Mr. Hanzhang." If Zai Ze becomes the prime minister, then in order to stabilize the economy, Sheng Xuanhuai will not be indifferent to the stock crash. Only by letting the powerful people of the imperial party crack down on Zai Ze and strictly inspect the accounts of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and the Daqing Bank from within in the name of taking power over the central government, will the stock market collapse. ”

"But Zai Ze and others are pro-American, but people like the Imperial Party are pro-German, what if the US government doesn't release unfavorable news? And even if we paid off American officials. What policies have been launched that are unfavorable to rubber, aren't you afraid that those banks in the United States will lend money to Sheng Xuanhuai to stabilize the stock market? Even if he couldn't collect money in the Manchu government, didn't he still have an iron factory? It is not difficult to borrow money from any bank as collateral. Yu Huizu finally came to his senses. Pointing out the many loopholes in Zhang Kun's plan, he wanted to see how Zhang Kun made up for these places.

"The U.S. government is not worried, let's not say who the president is, but judging by Roosevelt's current popularity. The next president must have a close relationship with him. Zai Ze can promise the Americans, and Guangxu and Zaifeng can do the same. Even if everyone can't buy it, the half-built railway on Farquhar's side can start operating halfway, and we can ask reporters to take pictures of the train full of raw rubber, so that Farquhar can publicize that the railway has been opened. The loans of American banks to Sheng Xuanhuai can also be intercepted, and this kind of loan has no other income for the bank except for high interest. Especially when they found out that Sheng Xuanhuai was about to fall, they would not lend him money for emergency relief. And finally. If Sheng Xuanhuai uses the shares of the iron factory as collateral, Mr. Hanzhang, what if we just let Sheng Xuanhuai fall into a huge lawsuit at this time? When the time comes, if the court decides that the assets of the iron works cannot be mortgaged, this last road will be cut off. The plan had been in Zhang Kun's mind for a long time, and he said it in one breath with these measures, and then looked at Yu Huizu without speaking.

"The yamen of the Qing Dynasty can also issue a restraining order like a foreigner's court?" Yu Huizu still felt that things were very difficult to handle, so he asked again.

"Mr. Hanzhang, let's not forget, there are foreigners' shares in this iron factory, and according to the practice of extraterritoriality, this lawsuit will not be tried by the Manchu Qing Dynasty's yamen, but will be tried in the public office in the concession, where the foreigner's law will naturally be used. Once the public office issued a restraining order, Sheng Xuanhuai would not be able to take out the stocks and assets of the iron factory as collateral, and even if the case was serious, his other properties would be prohibited by the court. Zhang Kun said.

"Other possessions?" Yu Huizu asked again, "What excuse are you going to use to ban Sheng Xuanhuai's other properties as well?" ”

Seeing that Yu Huizu finally asked this question, Zhang Kun had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "I can only sue him for embezzling shareholders and Manchu government property, and turning the iron factory from scratch from the public to his own." However, when this case is really investigated, I don't know if Sheng Xuanhuai will say it in court about speculation in the New York stock market the year before last, and once this happens, the millions of dollars that the iron factory took out from the New York stock market will also be tried. ”

Seeing that Zhang Kun actually mentioned the matter of arbitraging money in the New York stock market the year before last, Yu Huizu immediately stood up and said hurriedly: "In this way, wouldn't that Tianzi number be implicated?" ”

"Mr. Hanzhang, don't worry," Zhang Kun said busily: "Tianzihao and Tonghua Railway have long been listed on the US stock market, and the iron factory was listed in the United States late, and it was re-registered with a brokerage company to help the iron factory underwrite the stocks." Even if Sheng Xuanhuai braved the world's condemnation and told us about calculating Americans, it would not involve Tianzihao's side. Moreover, judging from the actual situation, he will not make things go so far, once this matter is said in court, Sheng Xuanhuai is a traitor, although he is old, but his family is in Shanghai. Even if the Manchu Qing confiscated the shares of the iron works in his name, considering that he had indeed increased the profits of the country in the New York stock market, the most he could do was to dismiss him and investigate him. Once the New York stock market incident detonated the year before last, then he would ......"

Zhang Kun's words have come to this, Yu Huizu has completely understood what Zhang Kun meant, if you want the stock market to crash, in addition to hyping up some unfavorable news, it is more important to kill Sheng Xuanhuai, who may protect the disk, and to kill Sheng Xuanhuai, that is, how he used to empty gloves and white wolves to shake off the Hanyang Iron Works from public to private, and provide the imperial party with shells to suppress Zai Ze. Yu Huizu remembered that Zhang Kun strongly agreed with Sheng Xuanhuai's MBO to acquire the shares of Hanyang Iron Works, and the operation was also done jointly by him and Xie Taofu. Wasn't he already planning today's event at that time?

The more Yu Huizu thought about it, the more he felt that Zhang Kun was sinister, so he only glanced at this weak young man a few times, and then let him out. He is now very clear about this plan, codenamed "Seven Wounds". Seven wounds, seven wounds. Isn't it the novel published by the Propaganda Department of the Fuxing Society, which said that the seven wounds in the department, everyone was hurt by this punch, but it was so good that the foreigners and the Fuxing Association, as well as Zhang Kun, in this way, his family feud can be regarded as revenge, and Sheng Xuanhuai, who was convicted of embezzling the property of the imperial court. Even if you don't die, you're not far from death.

The journey from Brazil to the United States was not far, and a week later, Yu and his family arrived in New York. At this time, Yu Zixun, who was sitting in the United States, and Wang Jitong, who came from Europe, both went up to the dock to meet them. After a brief exchange of pleasantries on the dock. I drove to the New York headquarters of Tianzihao, an incomparably imposing office building on Fifth Avenue.

Yu Huizu had been to New York before, but it had been several years, and he came back this time. I saw skyscrapers everywhere. He poked his head out of the carriage and looked very emotional, but after a short rest, his joy when he first arrived in New York was replaced by the solemnity of Wang Jitong and Yu Zixun.

"Brother Hanzhang, now that the success of the revolution is in sight, we are very worried that we will become Napoleon instead of Washington." In the quiet study, looking at the silent Wang Jitong and the somewhat inexplicable Yu Huizu, Yu Zixun started the topic like this.

"Ah......" Yu Zixun's words surprised Yu Huizu very much, he didn't expect to be invited to the study to discuss this matter. Self-honored, turned out to become... It's not like that, right? ”

"It doesn't matter what kind of person it is. Whether or not he is leading the Renaissance Society, the president's authority is subject to restrictions. Absolute power leads to absolute corruption. Now because the revolution has not yet succeeded, all the members still have a positive and enterprising spirit, but once we win the world, the government without checks will eventually become as corrupt as the Manchu court. Yu Zixun has obviously graduated from law school at the City University of New York, and he already knows a lot about the checks and balances of foreigners.

Yu Huizu glanced at Wang Jitong, who didn't speak, and then looked at Yu Zixun and said: "Zixun, now it has become a revolution, but it is suffering in the ravines and ravines of the country, we can't do this kind of thing behind our backs, this, once this is not good, we will destroy the Great Wall!" ”

Seeing that Yu Huizu completely misunderstood what he meant, Yu Zixun was about to speak, but Wang Jitong spoke, "Brother Hanzhang, we don't want to usurp power, we just feel that the power that has become now is too great, and we need to check and balance him." The reason why Washington is Washington is because of the external environment in which he became Washington, and it is impossible to rely on people's morality and faithfulness, and we are now in a revolution, for the rejuvenation of a country, and even if he has great merit, he must be supervised by something, otherwise we are not saving the country, but in chaos. ”

Wang Jitong's words made Yu Hui Zu feel a little relieved, but he still felt that his back was cold, and he felt that his hands and feet were weak, he only complained about Yu Zixun, a fellow villager, why do you have to pull him for such a thing, he is not the seventh standing committee member of the Revival Association, he is just a nominal shopkeeper in charge of Tianzihao, he can have this position, it is just an arrangement within the association, except for the management team arranged in the association, he cannot effectively manage the daily affairs of Tianzihao at all.

Perhaps knowing what Yu Huizu thought, Yu Zixun said: "Brother Hanzhang, you are in charge of the industry in the association, and the successful revolution in the future will also be in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, which is not trivial." As long as you agree with us, the checks and balances will be easy to handle. ”

Seeing that Yu Zixun was looking at him very eagerly, Yu Huizu lowered his eyes, and then asked, "What do you mean by Xian Hu?" If he agrees, then I agree. ”

Knowing that Yu Huizu would ask Zhong Guanguan, Yu Zixun smiled and said: "Although Xian Feng did not explicitly agree, he did not express his objection. His meaning is very clear, as long as what he does is to do it wholeheartedly for the good of the country, then we agree with everything he wants to do, and if he wants to do things that will harm the country, or think of being arbitrary, then the constitution will be as opposed as we are. ”

Yu Zixun is still too young after all, and his words only made Yu Huizu think of the "Seven Injuries" plan in his hand, which is actually a plan that damages the country and the people, but intellectually speaking, if you want to paralyze the financial system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and cut off the money of the Manchu court, this is the only way. Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "Then how do you judge what is good for the country and what is bad for the country?" There is no intention to arrange flowers, and there is no intention to plant willows and willows. Everyone and Jingcheng have been together for so many years, which incident did he do not do for the revolution? What is there that can be handled with common sense? Born to happen, and revolution is expected! Born to do it, and China is hopeful! As long as the country can be revived and the people have food, even if they become emperors? I don't believe that Cheng will be more mediocre than Guangxu, and I don't want to believe that he will engage in the autocracy of the Manchurians, and the world will have a constitutional monarchy after all. You ......, I don't know about today's events, so you can do it! ”

Yu Huizu went out after saying this, and saw him so Yu Zixun was at a loss for a while, but Wang Jitong let out a long sigh and said: "I'm worried that it's Brother Hanzhang's incomparable trust in Chengcheng, if everyone is this group of people who blindly believe in Chengcheng, then the country will definitely be chaotic, because no one can guarantee that they will always be right, and they can't." (To be continued......)