Chapter 68: The Oath
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On the way back, Zhong Guanguan and Yang Rui walked together, Zhong Guanguan naturally knew Yang Rui better after getting along for a long time, so he asked: "Actually, I think you have something on your mind." β
Yang Rui didn't hide a lot of things from him, so he said: "Xian Fang, I'm wondering if I'm not good at cooperating. For example, just now, I felt that sooner or later I would be bullied by foreigners if I let it go like this, but I didn't know how to persuade it. If someone doesn't listen to advice and suffers a loss, it's hard for me to help him, and I'm even a little happy that he's suffered. It's not good! β
Zhong Guanguan originally thought that everyone objected to him because he was unhappy, but he didn't know that he was thinking about his own gains and losses as a person. So he asked: "After all, Bnemen is British, so you are really not afraid of conflict with them at all?" β
Yang Rui smiled at the corner of his mouth and said disdainfully: "What are the British, everyone says that China is the boss of the empire, but in fact, Britain is not." I think Germany and the United States still have some material, and the rest is not worth caring about. Now the use of electricity has just begun, and we have grasped this wave of technological progress, so we can be invincible. β
Zhong Guanguan was not impressed by Yang Rui's confidence, nor did he ask in detail what power technology was, he considered it something else, "Actually, why don't you persuade what you know is right?" If you persuade you, people won't necessarily think like that, right? β
"Really?" Yang Rui still sneered: "Our China, not only the imperial court is afraid of foreigners, but the people are also afraid, and even the scholars who have always claimed to be the most backbone have been broken bones, and even the ancestors are gone, and they want to be completely Westernized." What is there to say to these frightened birds, it's better to save your tongue. While talking, I don't know why, Yang Rui suddenly thought of the Boxers, although he didn't see it in person, but after all, the matter of Gengzi Year has not been long in the past, and there are still many newspapers and rumors. Maybe only the ignorant and hot-blooded can dare to face the foreigners, straighten up and have no fear, everyone else is kneeling in front of the foreigners. Yang Rui thought of it like this, and felt sad in his heart!
Zhong Guanguan didn't expect Yang Rui to think about this thing, he is a person who has seen the world and traveled abroad, and he still knows very well what these readers think in their bones. If it is said that before the First Sino-Japanese War, the scholars still maintained the superiority of the Celestial Empire, then after the Gengzi Incident, the Celestial Empire was just words in the mouth, except for those stubborn and resentful youth, the scholars from the soul to the bone marrow began to fear foreigners, and even some people have changed from the previous disdain to the current worship, hoping that China will also become a country like foreigners. The civilized hats and civilized sticks in the world have become popular, and even civilized dramas have begun to be favored by them, as if this kind of dress and behavior can make them change from a barbarian to a civilized person. For these, Zhong Guanguan had no choice, his knowledge made him powerless about it, so he simply avoided this melancholy thing and asked: "If you do this according to Hanzhang, how will the foreigners react?" β
"If we follow Hanzhang's soft response, the foreigners will think that they will take our handle when they break the hydrochloric acid, and then they will make demands," Yang Rui was very annoyed, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath and spit out a long smoke, "They will make some funny requests, such as buying us." β
"Acquisition?" Although Zhong Guanguan is not familiar with this modern economic term, he still knows the meaning of this word literally. "You mean, foreigners will buy our factory?"
"Yes. Buy us. Yang Rui thought about the mergers and acquisitions in later generations, and he didn't want the factory he had worked so hard to build to be acquired by others before it started production. If they think that if they take our handle, they will offer a very low price, and we will lose all our money. Later, if we don't have a handle on us, we will be annoyed and angry, and I don't know what we will do at that time. By the way, Xianfeng, there is going to be a patrol team in the factory, the number of people in the factory protection team before you is too small, add a few dozen people, and go to the foreign bank to buy guns for them, the kind of shotguns that can have more than a dozen bullets in a dozen, aren't there a few Nanjing 6 Army Academy in the school now, you privately find a few to go to the factory to train those people. β
6 lines because they have been engaged in construction, the construction site is all building materials, so the people in this vicinity are worried about here, before just a few nails and bamboo, to the back even the ash began to be buckets gone, Zhong Guanguan had to collect thirty innocent strong men from Zhabei to set up a factory protection team, patrol with spears every day, and catch a few thieves to see the official This wave of theft was suppressed. Hearing that Yang Rui was going to increase the number of people in the factory protection team, and he also wanted to buy foreign guns, Zhong Guanguan was very surprised, and said, "Actually, let's not talk about this number, it seems that foreign guns can't be bought." β
"You don't want this, that, if you can't buy a long gun, buy a short gun," Yang Rui always felt uncomfortable and unsafe in being remembered by foreigners, and he had to buy this gun no matter what. "The 6th line is not a concession, and the one who cares for the home is not carrying a gun or a cannon. Let's see if we can go to the yamen to apply for an application and spend money to dredge and dredge, after all, our gun is only used in the factory, and we don't bring it outside. Are foreigners really so easy to deal with, if the acquisition fails, killing people and setting fires is also a common thing. How can the British become the world's number one power, isn't it the world's number one power played by conspiracy. If we start to be tough and have a lawsuit with them, then they will retreat and endure it regardless of whether they win or lose, and now Hanzhang replies so softly, doesn't it show that we are easy to talk and bully, this result is not good. β
Zhong Guanguan still doesn't understand why Yang Rui is so pessimistic, in fact, he still doesn't understand the shamelessness of those so-called Western civilized people, and he doesn't understand the ambition of Bneimen in the chemical industry, which was established in 19o1 and has almost monopolized the chemical raw material market in China and even the Far East for half a century since its establishment, and has spared no effort to crack down on competitors. Yang Rui actually doesn't know much about the historical details of Bu Neimen's in the Far East market, only knows that this foreign firm is very good, has a great influence, and has cracked down on Chinese-funded companies - this is something that all foreign capital often does, but fortunately he knows that there are no good people in foreign capital at this time, and the business competition in this era is much more barbaric than in later generations. In this time and space, in addition to not having the Internet, the second thing he is not used to is not being able to see the police, especially after the shooting. Who would have known that the person that the traverser misses the most, in addition to his family, is actually the most unpopular policeman in the future.
Suspicion is suspicion, Zhong Guanguan will still do what Yang Rui wants. Recruiting people is the easiest, and it is easy to buy a gun, but it is very difficult to get permission from the Qing court. When discussing with Yu Huizu the next day, Yu Huizu was very much in favor of forming a foreign gun protection factory team, but he ran to the yamen, and after stuffing the silver, he still couldn't solve it, and in the end a certain master came up with an idea, so he didn't say it was a foreign gun, just said that it was a shotgun, and these people all changed their nationality to become hunters. This method is good, so it was another toss, of course, I didn't know how to toss Yang Rui, but the final result was that the eighty people in the factory became hunters on the side of Baoshan and could have hunting rifles.
Yang Rui didn't know how difficult it was for him to do things, and at noon the next day, he had already received Cheng Ying's letter. The content of the letter is similar to what Pepper said yesterday, it is nothing more than that her stepmother was grounded after she came, and her stepmother's attitude is highly consistent with her father. It's just that at the end of the letter, she told her that when her father came in late June, she would find a way to let her father meet Yang Ruiyunyun. Not to mention that the current marriage is based on the orders of her parents, according to the plan, she should be in Mozambique with a group of students next month, do you want to take her to elope. Thinking about his own revolution, Yang Rui denied it again. Although he likes her, he has no right to make a choice for her, not to mention that he is doing the work of killing his head, as a rich girl who naively thinks that the world is beautiful, he can't do this.
This letter made Yang Rui absent-minded for several days, not knowing how to reply, how to deal with the relationship with Cheng Ying, this is a problem, take her to the revolution together? Yang Rui didn't want to. She hung her head on her belt, and she was still shrunk in a cage with a canary. Besides, with her by her side, do you have the heart to revolution? Yang Rui doesn't know others, anyway, he doesn't have this kung fu.
The night after receiving the letter, the students returned, and the second-floor bedroom in the next courtyard was again crowded with students. Unlike what Yang Rui thought before, the number of people not only did not decrease, but increased. Looking at these red young faces illuminated by the lights, Yang Rui couldn't help but think of a slogan during the Anti-Japanese War in later generations: "An inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops." "It's just that compared with later generations, the youth of this era are too precious. There are forty-three students who came this time, according to the previous preparations, Yang Rui divided the three of them into three rooms, and each student did a simple interview in about ten minutes to understand their thoughts, personalities, abilities, family backgrounds, social relationships, etc., the procedure is very similar to the interview in later generations, but it has been reduced and improved, for Zhong Guanguan and Wang Jitong, many things are programmed, as long as it is carried out according to the text. This interview is actually a simple political trial, and there is a thorough investigation, if you want to wield the power of the organization, you must understand the social resources behind everyone and this person in the organization, especially some social resources are extremely important, these students' family backgrounds are good, and at the same time, in this era of the prevalence of clans, it is common for relatives and in-laws to produce some capable people.
Although the interview was simple, more than 40 people still spent more than two hours, and all of them passed the test smoothly. This time, the people were all students, and with the large number of people, the process was simplified. Moreover, the students here are all arranged to go to the Mozambique Military Academy, according to the previous assumption, Yang Rui will also go over together, and when the military academy is operating normally, he will come back, this one round trip should be close to half a year, and this half a year is enough to do ideological education work. After the interview, Yang Rui took them to take the oath together: "I volunteer to join the China Renaissance Association...... Strive for national rejuvenation for life, and be ready to sacrifice for the rejuvenation of the association and the nation. The neat and low sound of the oath echoed in the room, and Xiao Lou seemed to be shocked by this voice, and the words shook slightly. When the oath was completed, the time was already eleven o'clock, and it was about to be martial law, Yang Rui arranged for everyone to go back to school first, and hold another meeting tomorrow night to arrange follow-up matters.
It was very dark in the alley of the courtyard, a few lights in the house were taken out, the students lined up in several lanes, and the three of them said goodbye to the students on the road. Seeing the students walking away, Yang Rui looked up at the sky, only to see that there were only stars in the black night sky, and there was no moon in sight. Wang Jitong also looked up and said, "Today is the first day of the new year, and it will be the Dragon Boat Festival in a few days." Actually, you should go after the Dragon Boat Festival. β
Yang Rui doesn't have any concept of festivals, but people who know this era still pay attention to these festivals. said: "Even if you want to leave, you can't buy a ticket, this ticket is a flight every ten days, and the next one will be ten days later." "When he sent Leo back to Mozambique before, Yang Rui had already inquired about the ferry ticket, because the ship did not go through the Suez Canal, but through the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, so there were fewer flights. Of course, if they are in a hurry, they can get on the ship casually, but they still have to go to Africa to transfer ships.
According to the previous agreement with Leo, Yang Rui only needs to send a telegram to Leo when he gets on the ship, then he will calculate the time, take the sailboat to Zanzibar on the east coast of Africa and wait to meet Yang Rui and others - because everyone does not have passports, and at the same time, for the sake of secrecy, after all, so many yellow people are still very conspicuous - so the ocean liner takes the ocean liner to Zanzibar, and then takes Leo's sailboat not to stop at the port of Lorenzo Marques, but directly along the Delagua Bay to the south, along a river called Maputo upstream, you can reach the estate. This can be completely secrecy, even if people want to track down, they only know that these people have arrived in Zanzibar, which is an island and an important port on the east coast of Africa, and the ships coming and going from the north to the south make the personnel extremely chaotic, and this place is only a British protectorate, not exactly a colony, and it is still difficult to trace the disappearance from here.
Yang Rui thought about it, this trip is estimated to be more than 10,000 kilometers, and it is still very difficult to take a boat. I used to run around a lot, but this time I was still not used to being so far away, and I was most worried about these students, who were not old enough to be thousands of miles away from home for the first time, and I didn't know if they could stand it. After sending off the students, Wang Jitong went back to the instrument hall, and Zhong Guanguan returned to 6 lines - Wang Laosan no longer pulled the car and became a full-time boatman in the factory, specially responsible for the pick-up and drop-off of the factory's personnel, and Yang Rui went back to the pavilion. There are so many things going on that the interview is very energy-consuming, so let's sleep first and think about it tomorrow.
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Note: LorenΓ§o Marques is actually Matop in Mozambique. The specific location of the estate where the military academy was located can be considered to be near the southwest of what is now Bellavishta.