Chapter 4 Underwriters

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"Reading the history of the public opinion on the clouds, 'the mountains and rivers of Yanzhou Mansion are magnificent, the water is 6 dangerous, according to the upstream of Lin'an, when Qu and She's rush. In the Song Dynasty, Fangla advocated chaos in Muzhou (another name for Yanzhou), and Hangzhou and Shezhou counties could not be solidified, south of the Yangtze River, gathering precariously. Tao Junbao, the staff officer of the ninth town, was selling bookbags to a group of illiterate people, his face was sad, but his heart was happy, "We were defeated, but also because of the unfamiliar terrain, Zhang Shicheng Kou Yanzhou in the early Ming Dynasty, Li Wenzhong was outside the east gate, but he made the general out of the small north gate, passed through Bao Po Ling, and went around the battle from Biji Dock, and broke it." This is ...... with the Baath Army"

Before Tao Junbao finished speaking, Ai Zhongqi, the commander of the enemy's 34th standard, shouted: "Chief of staff, don't say it, if you want to say it, you can say it earlier, so that we will be copied by the revival army." ”

Tao Junbao was stunned by him, but Sun Ming, the co-leader of the 17th Association, said: "Brother Puqing, go on, since you are defeated, you have to see where you are defeated." ”

Sun Ming is a native of Jiangning, graduated from the third phase of the engineering department of the Japanese 6th Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and it is not easy to achieve the position of co-unification. Although anyone with a background in Japan can easily be regarded as a revolutionary party, Tao Junbao sees him as not a revolutionary party at all. At this time, seeing that Sun Ming wanted him to continue, he didn't really want to say anything, but said: "Now that the army is tired and morale is declining, I should wait for the tenth town to come up and fight." Otherwise, in this ravine, I am afraid that there will be another ambush and the big man will be distressed. ”

The 34th and 35th Biao Xing followed the Fuxing Army all the way to the city of Yanzhou, not wanting that there were locals in the Fuxing Army, so they used Li Wenzhong's plan. The thirty-five standards were basically abolished, so that Tao Junbao, who had been depressed for a long time, finally cheered up.

"This ......" Sun Ming was a little overwhelmed. The Tenth Town had long been frightened, and when they came up, they didn't know where the Baistera had gone. If they run to Shezhou, Coco will be suppressed by the two provincial capitals. ”

"Yanzhou has been difficult to fight since ancient times, and our artillery is not a large-caliber naval gun of the navy. The walls were three feet thick, and they didn't collapse all at once. I'm better to build yì or wait for the tenth town. Even if they did, they wouldn't be able to get there. Besides, we are all heroes of the recovery of Hangzhou. But they were driven into the mountains...... It's really ......" Tao Junbao pretended to be very helpless, and sure enough, Ai Zhongqi, who had previously pursued the enemy, and Li Wensheng, who had suffered heavy losses, were both dissatisfied, in the past ten days, the reward for conquering Hangzhou and capturing Cai and Zhong has come down, but no matter how you look at it, it is not as high as the sixth town. This made them very dissatisfied.

"My lord, let's wait for the tenth town first." Li Wensheng, who was still holding white gauze on his head, said. "This chaotic party is not as easy to fight as it was in Hangzhou. Now most of the artillery battalion has been lost. If you don't have a cannon, you can't get down to the fortified city. ”

Hearing Li Wensheng's words, Sun Ming glanced at Tao Junbao intentionally or unintentionally, he knew that the Ninth Town was newly defeated, and he really wanted to force himself to go to the battlefield, for fear that there would be infighting. At the moment, he said: "Then let's rest first." It's not too late to wait for the Tenth Town to come up and fight. ”

The brief military discussion soon ended. Tao Junbao was very taboo about Sun Ming's glance at the end, but he expected that he had not exposed anything other than being a fellow villager for Zhao Sheng, and he felt a little more at ease. However, Sun Ming's worries have just gone down, and the worries in Shanghai have come up again. Mr. Jing Cheng disappeared, and Mr. Xiao Xu was imprisoned. Mr. Taiyan was deported, and Mr. Xiao Min was now captured in a big disaster, he didn't know who was commanding the Revival Society now, and what was the Revival Army on the other side going to do, so it kept flowing? Abandoning Yanzhou without a base, that's really ...... He was now desperate to contact him with a predetermined code, and then, together with the Renaissance Army on the other side, to wipe out the entire Ninth Town.

Tao Junbao's concern is also Yang Rui's concern, although Yu Ziyi has sent the secret box left by Wang Jitong over, but Yang Rui made a mistake before opening it, although he has the key, but he may not be able to recognize the words inside. However, Xie Jintai brought him some news.

"Yes, they want us to promise not to make a move in the Yangtze River basin, and at the same time they want us to hand over the arms dealers from South Africa." Xie Jintai looked at Yang Rui, who was already able to sit up, and said the requirements of the British. Berry and Major Gawin were very familiar, and with him, the two sides had a bridge of communication.

"You can promise him. But there are conditions. They also want to release Xiao Xu and Xiao Ye, and they can't restrict our lawful actions in the concession. Although he is friendly with Germany and the United States, Yang Rui has always wanted to gain the support of the United Kingdom.

Xie Zhangtai was taken aback when he heard that Yang Rui said that he could agree, and as far as he knew, the planned place for the uprising in the meeting was the Yangtze River Valley. He asked, "Actually, if we agree, then what will we do in the future?" ”

Yang Rui smiled, "So I have all the conditions." Our condition is that if the whole country is in turmoil, we will raise troops to stabilize the Yangtze River valley, and I think the British will not say anything at that time. ”

When Xie Jintai heard this, he felt reasonable, but he was relieved, but he said again: "Won't it affect South Africa again?" Aren't we now using the Boer parliamentarians to rescue the Chinese workers, and I'm afraid it's not good to turn against them at this time. ”

"Then let them provide the names of their political enemies, or simply sell the Dutchman, whose bullets will become more and more expensive the later he goes, just in time for the British to clean him up." In addition to Yang Rui's concern about the safety of Wang Ji and others, he also has a relationship with the British.

"Okay." Xie Jintai saw that Yang Rui easily agreed to both things, and only felt that the last attack on the headquarters was very wronged.

Yang Rui seemed to feel his mood, and he also shook his head and said: "Brother Chong'an, in fact, you don't know the British. If the Axe Gang on the Zhuzhai side doesn't clean up all the Qing gangs in Shanghai, and the Hangzhou uprising is big, they won't negotiate with us like this. Many times, if you want to be a good person, you have to be a bad person first. It's very helpless. ”

Xie Zhangtai understood what Yang Rui meant, he saw that Yang Rui was in good spirits, and asked, "Actually, what about the alliance over there?" ”

"It's impossible to merge!" Yang Rui replied, "Instead, we have to strike." Brother Chong'an. If you want to fight the Alliance, then where is it better to do it? ”

Yang Rui's words were not Xie Zhangtai's surprise. However, he thought about Sun Wen from beginning to end, but there was nothing to deal with, as for killing Sun Wen, it didn't seem necessary at the moment, so he had to say: "The old man of the Xingzhong Society, except for Feng Freedom, who is still following him, after everyone else knows that he is a person, they all respect him." I don't know if there are any loyal to him in the Alliance, but if there is, there are not many. I think it's better to show the backbone in Nanyang and other places by yourself, and at the same time raise donations from overseas Chinese. ”

Hearing that Xie Zhangtai came up with a desperate plan to cut off food and salary, Yang Rui laughed, "Here in Liangguang Nanyang, I still have to be fortunate and regain my brother." However, I think the Revival Society's strategy will need to be adjusted in the future......"

Yang Rui hasn't finished speaking. Xie Jintai interrupted: "How should I adjust?" Now the group training we applied for has been canceled by the government. The road is really blocked. ”

Feeling Xie Jintai's eagerness, Yang Rui smiled and said: "The Manchu Qing Dynasty opened the Congress, then we should wait and see what happens, and there can be no action in the past three or four years, or there can be no such thing as seizing the county and occupying the state." We should think differently. To the countryside, where the Manchu power was the weakest, began with the occupation of the mountains as kings. ”

"Occupy the mountain as the king? It's not ......" Xie Jintai wanted to talk about bandits, but he held back, but he was still curious. Historically, rebellions have been fought from the mountains to the cities, and rarely from the cities to the mountains.

"Just be a bandit first." Yang Rui does not shy away from this word. "Let the Manchus rule the cities, and we will occupy the countryside." After he finished speaking, he thought that Xie Jintai was born as an overseas Chinese, and he might not understand the situation in the countryside, so he said: "Brother Chong'an, ninety percent of China's population is peasants, and if we want to change China, we must make China rich and strong, and we cannot help but change them, and we cannot prevent them from participating in the revolution." ”

"But then the world will be in chaos." Although he had not seen the kind of revolution that moved the peasants as Yang Rui said, Xie Jintai still felt a fear of the unknown.

When Xie Jintai said that the world would be in chaos, Yang Rui couldn't help but think of Wang Jitong. At that time, when he wanted to mobilize the people, Wang Jitong was worried that this would lead to another Hongyang rebellion.

"Brother Chong'an, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has opened the Congress, not only the gentry have pulled them over, but even many revolutionaries have been confused by them, we can't even say that he is a fake Congress, when he came up with a 30-year or 40-year timetable for delegating power, then we people will have to wait until we die of old age. Therefore, the revolution like the one before can no longer succeed, and even if it succeeds, it will not change the status quo in China. We can only start a revolution at the bottom and turn the whole world upside down. ”

Yang Rui said calmly, but Xie Zhangtai felt a violent thing emanating from these words in his heart. "Actually, our army may not be able to defeat the new army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, why do we need such a revolution?"

"Because our exhibition plan was blocked by the Manchu Qing Dynasty." Yang Rui still replied calmly, "The troops can't fight without strict training, and we can't count on those people in South Africa, what if the British and American countries don't support it?" Let's hide in the mountains first. ”

Yang Rui did not explain the relationship between the Tibetan soldiers in the mountains and the peasants, and Xie Zhangtai did not ask for a while, so this conversation ended hastily. In fact, when Yang Rui said this, he suddenly thought of a question, that is, can these members who remain now support the plan of moving farmers? Many of these members are scholars and come from well-to-do families. I think that when Sun Wen proposed equal land rights when the alliance was established, it was greatly opposed by the congregation, and in the end, this article was vaguely passed, and if he really proposed to fight the local tyrants and divide the land, then it is estimated that the revival association will be shattered. But otherwise, the revolution may not be able to succeed lightly, could it be that there will be a Wuchang uprising if this time and space goes on like this? Yang Rui is not sure, and there is no way to be sure, what he wants is foolproof success, if so, then he must start from the countryside.

But how do you change the thinking of these people? In particular, what should be done with those whose families are big landowners? Layoffs? When Yang Rui was thinking hard, he suddenly saw a shadow coming, and his eyesight began to recover, but his vision was still blurry, but he could still see who the person was. "Have you gone home?" Yang Rui asked.

"Hmm." Cheng Ying replied subconsciously, suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Can you tell me and Xianfeng just by looking at the shadow?" ”

The relationship between women is very incomprehensible, and it is obviously a relationship between love and rivalry. But they're like sisters. Yang Rui can't say, how can a sniper's demeanor be compared to a famous prostitute. I had to say, "I guessed." ”

Seeing that Yang Rui guessed himself first instead of Han Xianfeng, Cheng Ying suddenly laughed, only feeling sweet in his heart. Yang Rui seemed to hear her laughter, and said, "The family didn't scold you, did they?" ”

"Nope!" Cheng Ying suddenly smiled when he thought of his family. She disappeared for three years, and her cousin couldn't wait to withdraw the marriage contract, without the support of relatives, the sugar business on her father's side suddenly plummeted, and her father became old. The lack of family business is the biggest heart disease of the old man.

"I think it's better to visit your father." Yang Rui suddenly grabbed her hand and said. Then he laughed again, "Although it is three years late, it still has to come to the door." ”

Hearing Yang Rui's words, Cheng Ying was stunned for a moment, and after his heart warmed up, he squirmed and said, "Then you...... And what about her...... What to do? ”

Cheng Ying is talking about Han Xianfeng, but in Yang Rui's concept, the image of Han Xianfeng is still the dirty little girl next to the old man who pulled the erhu three years ago. I didn't expect that there would be a female college student eighteen years old, and as for her becoming a famous prostitute, I also thought that it was the tune of Shanghai Shangtan, so she said according to modern thinking: "She is only seventeen years old, she should be a little sister." ”

Yang Rui's little sister made Cheng Ying laugh, she thought that Yang Rui also liked Han Xianfeng. And Han Xianfeng is both "jinv" and good, and it is also suitable to be a concubine, but she doesn't want Yang Rui to have the concept of a concubine in her mind, she is sweet in her heart, but she said: "But her heart is here with you." ”

"I'm afraid that little girls are like this. Maybe she won't think like this when she's older. Yang Rui's concept. Women's feelings seem to be constantly changing, and they are not like men. First love never forgets, they are often loyal to the present and content with the present. Han Xianfeng is less than seventeen years old, and she now likes a man who is more than ten years older than her, and she is afraid that she will change in the future.

Cheng Ying saw that Yang Rui really had no intention of marrying Han Xianfeng as a concubine, and even felt that a kind of happiness surrounded him, and Fang Junying often said that "Since then, the prince and princess have lived a happy life" unconsciously surrounded his ears. Even love is often something you want to be exclusive.

When Cheng Ying was living a "happy" life, Han Xianfeng was smashing the pillow hard in her room, she saw Cheng Ying and Yang Rui leaning together, and heard Yang Rui's last words. "Little girl......" she suddenly cried out aggrieved, "where am I small?" Where am I small? ”

Xiao Zan came in listening to the voice outside, since she served Han Xianfeng, she had never seen Miss cry, and it was not easy to persuade her when she saw this, so she had to stand aside. Han Xianfeng moved out of the apartment on the second day, but Yang Rui did not forget her, and asked Chen Guangshou to arrange for her and Xiaozan to go abroad with his manuscript fee, as for what to study, it is up to her.

Han Xianfeng's departure did not make any nominal progress in the relationship between Yang Rui and Cheng Ying, in the eyes of sugar merchant Cheng Weinan, his daughter finally returned home, how could another revolutionary party be entangled, he was not angry, after a brief speech, he invited Yang Rui out of the house with great restraint, and then immediately locked Cheng Ying, but these could not stop Cheng Ying, and she ran out that afternoon.

Yang Rui had already started working at this time, and Yu Huizu, Jiang Weiqiao, and Wang Xiaolin had seen them one by one. Although Tianzihao was stared at by the government and foreigners, and the finances began to be reviewed, the previous accounts were burned by a fire, and under the favoritism of the American consul and the huge amount of bribes, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have a very good way, and finally Yu Huizu promised to pay a good tribute to Guangxu on his birthday; Although the caustic soda and soap that the British taboo have lost, this is only a production and price limit, so to speak, this pass is a bit of blood, but it is still passed.

"Did Guna send any money?" Thinking that when Su reported the case, Gu Na was bent on extraditing Zhang and Zou, and that kind of friendly attitude with the Manchu Qing made Yang Rui only feel that this time he was a change of sex.

"Sent. But he only wanted 10,000. Yu Huizu knows Guna better than Yang Rui: "He said that since Tianzihao is listed in the United States, it is an American company, and what he has to do is to ensure the interests of American shareholders." He admires that most of Tianzihao's profits are donated to the Education Association, but he hopes that the Education Association will send more students to study in the United States instead of Germany. ”

After all, it is still for the long-term plan of the United States, Yang Ruiben was very surprised to hear that Guna only had 10,000, but he was very calm when he heard that he was studying in the United States. "And what would he think of revival?" Yang Rui asked again.

He said that the Fuxing Society was a real revolutionary, and that they did not kill after they occupied Hangzhou. And the parliament was convened at the first time, which he believed showed that the revolutionaries were selfless. If there was no Hangzhou uprising. Then the Qing government would not have agreed to convene a parliament, and although the uprising was suppressed, it was progressive for China. Guna's statement is the same as that of Meili Jian more than a hundred years later, judging likes and dislikes by only looking at the form of politics, and those who practice democracy support and those who dictatorship oppose it, at least in terms of public opinion.

"And how is this year's harvest, and how much is it going to be reduced?" I know the origin of the number of days. Yang Rui cares about how much less money is missing.

"It's not going down, it's just not rising, it's still seven million, which is hundreds of thousands less than the annual growth." The coal mine in Taihu has been increasing production, with an annual output of nearly one million tons of coal and an annual profit of more than two million. Yu Huizu was reluctant to sell it. "However, it turned out, you were not there at the time, I decided a big thing in private, and now that I think about it, I can't sleep at night." Yu Huizu's voice trembled a little when he said this. Because the scope of this matter was so wide, he was a little panicked.

Yang Rui's heart began to lift when he heard his voice, and he said, "Brother Hanzhang, there is nothing that can't be overcome, you can say it." I listened. ”

"This time, the Tianzi number was preserved, except for the American consul. Sheng Xuanhuai also contributed a lot......" As soon as Yu Huizu mentioned Sheng Xuanhuai, Yang Rui could basically guess what was going on, but he didn't move, and only listened to Yu Huizu, "He had an opinion on our iron factory before, but at that time, he took into account the railroad money of the Anhui Railway and our relationship between the DPRK and China, and after I promised that the domestic iron price would not be sold lower than that of Hanyang, he agreed." This time, when he saw that we were in a dilemma, he sent Zhang Meiyi to persuade us, saying that he could help us keep the Tianzi brand, but we wanted to merge the Ma'anshan Iron Works and Hanyang Iron Works together to form a completely commercial Daqing Coal and Iron Works and Mines Co., Ltd......."

When Yu Huizu said this, Yang Rui spit out the tea he was drinking, and he asked: "Hanyang is not governmental, why has it become a commercial now?" ”

"Hanyang is an official supervision and commercial office, and now Sheng Xuanhuai wants to completely form the Hanyang Iron Works and Pingxiang Coal Mine into a company, and count the investment of the imperial court as shares, and then all the companies are commercial. As for the merger on our side, it is a merger, but he said that the internal management will not interfere in the slightest, and it is just that everyone hangs the same company signboard. What Sheng Xuanhuai was going to do, Yu Huizu didn't know at all, but he thought that he could keep the Tianzi number without interfering in the slightest, so he agreed under the crisis. For Yang Rui, the merger of Hanyang and Pingmei is an early routine in history, but what does Sheng Xuanhuai want to do with Ma'anshan? Annexation?

"How does the business side analyze it?" couldn't think of a reason, Yang Rui had to ask.

"The business side has seen the text drafted by Sheng Xuanhuai, and there is no problem. But...... However, Kanto Bank's Xingjian has a saying. "Tianzihao was lost, but Kanto Bank was not affected, after all, Tianzihao is only one of its major customers.

"What's the point of Xingjian?" Yang Rui asked.

Xingjian said that Sheng Xuanhuai was engaged in m... Bo acquisition, so ......" Zhang Kun said a lot of things, Yu Huizu is not a businessman, he can't understand it at all, and in the end he only remembers such a foreign language.

Hearing that mBo acquired Yang Rui and was almost about to spray tea again, I really don't know if this routine has existed since ancient times, or Sheng Xuanhuai is extremely smart, so he guessed himself: "If it is this routine, then Han Yeping will definitely do asset appraisal before the business office, according to what I have learned before, it has about 20 million taels of assets on its books, and it owes more than 10 million taels (note), if it is ruthless and shrinks the assets to 1,500 taels, then his net asset ratio is only 33%, and there is no one in such a company. There is no way for him to change Han Yeping from the imperial court to his own. But if it can be merged with Ma'anshan, Huainan coal mines, railways, and iron factories will have a total investment of 15 million taels, which are all real money and silver, all of which are net assets, then the entire company has assets of 30 million, debts of 10 million, and the net asset ratio is 66%, which is double that of before. With 20 million, Sheng Xuanhuai can return the 10 million, and this company has nothing to do with the imperial court at all. ”

"That is to say, Sheng Xuanhuai sold us and then returned the money to the imperial court?" Yu Huizu wanted to say, 'Sell us and help Sheng Xuanhuai count the money', but this feels too stupid.

"That's right, that's why he said he wouldn't interfere in our internal management." Yang Rui said a lot, but he was tired.

"Shall we ...... What to do? Yu Huizu asked.

"Sell. But I want to tell him that we will underwrite these 20 million shares and sell them to the United States. Although Yang Rui was tired, he suddenly became happy when he thought that this was another way to make money.

"I'm going to the United States again." Yu Huizu didn't understand why Yang Rui packaged his company to go public in the United States, he actually didn't know how many Chinese companies were crying and shouting to go to the United States in later generations, and how easy it was to go to the United States now.

"Hmm. Talk to him immediately, we are a stock underwriter, and 20 million can be underwritten, but the procedures on the side of the imperial court will be completed by the end of September. After this year, the agreement will be null and void. Yang Rui doesn't understand what the U.S. stock market will collapse next year, but the sooner it passes, the less people will suspect that he is here for speculation. He thought about this, and he had some sympathy for the poor American stockholders, not counting the Tonghua Railway Company, Tianzihao had already made more than 7 million yuan in the US stock market, and if the 'Daqing' Coal and Iron Works and Mines Co., Ltd. was to be listed in the United States, and 20 million taels would be taken away, and the American stockholders would cry at that time.

ps: Note: The number of jΓΉ comes from Sheng Xuanhuai's "Hanyeping Coal and Iron Works and Mines are now preparing for the merger and expansion of the method", February 34 of Guangxu