143 returns

Under the dark blue, there is a turbulent roar. Above the blue sky is the high singing of seabirds. In the distance of the waves, there is a faint white line. At the end of the sky, only the shadow of the continental shoreline can be seen. There is no end from south to north. In a place that can't be seen, I don't know how many mountains and rivers there are magnificent scenes.

On the sea ship, Song Que hurried into the cabin, and there were tears in the eyes of such a rough man: "Marshal, we're home!"

Li Xiang's face was full of boredom. He lay drowsily on the couch. Hearing Song Que's call, he got up and said, "Are you home?"

Li wanted to push the door and walked out of the cabin. When the housekeeper saw his behavior, she had no choice but to put down the manuscript he was sorting out and follow him out. A piece of paper accidentally fell off, like the paper on the book cover with the words "My Struggle" written on it.

Shanghai is already far away.

Many of the young people who followed Li want to return home this time are overseas Chinese born and raised in Nanyang. Many of them are the first time to return to their hometown. They just stretch their necks and look at the land in a daze. This is just the home of the ancestors and gods. Compared with the beautiful island scenery of the Southern Ocean, it is vast, desolate, and unimaginable.

Li Xiang sighed with emotion. During this boring time on the sea, he began to talk about business with Chen Jiageng and other overseas Chinese businessmen who were invited to visit Ezhou, and talked about the ideal of saving the country with Zhang Tiejun, the son of Zhang Bishi, and other hot-blooded young people in the South. Soon Li Xiang was tired of such a boring life. He was so bored that he wrote an autobiography during this period, named My Struggle.

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Wusong's fort fired tribute, and the troops lined up on the dock raised their guns to salute.

There was a sea of people on the shore. I don't know where the people gathered from. Everyone saw Li Xiang and there was a burst of applause.

"Sai Li's boat is coming!" I heard the people shouting loudly on the dock crane. As soon as the shout came out, there was a wave in the crowd.

The firecrackers in the official pavilion have not been lit yet. The firecrackers prepared by the people outside sounded. Shanghai is one of the main battlefields of Xinhua News Agency. The legendary Marshal Li's every move has long been known through radio and newspapers and overwhelming publicity! The most lacking thing in modern China is the national hero. Now that there is such a person, who is not as crazy? There are all kinds of people who come here. Young students, small workers, can't reach the gentry standing next to those adults, and the people in the countryside around. Even the school books of the company have come a lot!

The crowd surged forward. The military and policemen who were crowded to maintain order stumbled until the heads of the family around the adults were all gone. This is barely enough to maintain such an empty place in front of the dock.

The ship with a five-star red flag, spewing black smoke, slowly appeared in everyone's sight under the leadership of the diversion ship.

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Li wanted to deal with all this, but he was exhausted.

Li wants to stay in the Ally Garden, the garden of the enthusiastic Jewish rich man. After dealing with those people, now you have to deal with this enthusiastic Jewish old man.

"... Li Shuai is willing to stay in Aili Garden, and our friendship has been widely spread. Newspapers generally think that this is a high honor for me personally, and it is a sign of China's trust in ordinary Americans. I thought that I would be able to serve my friends or the customers of my choice in the big plan to develop China. Ha Tong glanced at Li and thought, "Therefore, a few days before Li Shuai returned to China, I received many applications from people for various plans."

Li wanted to take a sip of tea, tried to raise his mind, and smiled, "What's the plan?"

Ha Tong hurriedly said, "Some of these plans are very implementable, but others are completely fantasy."

Foreigners have a keen sense of smell!

Li wanted to murmur, "Tell me about it."

"Everyone knows that the Ezhou military government issued a large number of bonds in the Western Expedition, and in the five-year economic development plan, it also needs a large amount of money and must be borrowed. So a major financial firm in New York - they are quite related to the capitals in Europe and have known me for many years - came to tell me that they are willing to negotiate about such a debt and ask me to use their telegram code book..."

Ha Tong said, and Li wanted to wake up. Has the New York banking group begun to change its strategy? However, the intention is still the same. I want to be a creditor in China. It's just that the bet was all on Yuan Shikai in the past, and now I also want to bet on him.

"If China wants to develop, it must introduce foreign investment." Li wanted to follow his mind and said, "And we need to introduce a large amount of foreign capital. When I was in Nanyang, I had the honor to meet Paul, a banker from New York. I had an in-depth conversation with him on this issue and reached some consensus with each other. More issues will continue to be discussed at the Pacific Rim Economic and Trade Forum to be held in Hankou next month. If your friends are really interested in in-depth cooperation with Ezhou, please be sure to participate in this forum.

Li Xiang said, looking at the dark sky outside the front window for a long time.

Ha Tong's eyes flowed and said, "I heard that Li Shuai has built the Changfeng giant ship. Although it is only a commercial ship assembled with foreign components, there is still a popular impression in the American business community that Li Shuai will need a lot of shipbuilding in the future, because the Chinese naval industry has stagnated since the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, and also knows the Japan of neighboring countries. Most of the compensation for the First Sino-Japanese People's Republic of China was used to strengthen the navy and form a strong oppression of China. A representative of a major shipyard in our country asked me to give them information and give me a telegram cipher. The president of another shipbuilding company - if you say his name, you will immediately know that he is a financial giant..."

Li wanted to hear this, clasped his fingers tightly, took a breath, and said urgently, "What does he mean?"

Hatong laughed and said, "He wrote to me for help and said, "I know how highly our Asian friends think of you are. If you recommend a few words, you can achieve any purpose that you agree with." Attached to his formal proposal in a confidential letter, he wrote: "I will be happy to pay a reward commensurate with its value for the results obtained, and I am willing to leave this reward for you to decide."

Li thought and said, "Similarly, for the results obtained, I will be happy to pay a reward commensurate with its value, and I am also willing to leave this reward to you to decide. But don't fool me with the old things that have been eliminated in Europe and the United States!"

His voice was very low, and the secluded ground seemed to come from a distance, which looked clear and gloomy.

Hatong shivered and said, "TheSparowPointBesemerStelandShipyard near Baltimore is going to be transferred. Although the shipyard equipment is not the most advanced in the world. But they can provide technical services for equipment upgrades.

Li wanted to see it at the same time and asked, "How much is it?"

Hatong felt that Li Dashuai, who was shrewd and comparable to that of a Jewish businessman, was so wise that he seemed to be able to see through everything. He could only honestly say, "The original price was seven million yuan, and it was in US dollars. He thinks he can definitely buy it for 1.5 million yuan. It can be fully shipped to China or set up anywhere for the construction of China's modern navy. This is a rare opportunity for him and me to make a fortune.

"Okay, I won't bargain with you. I'll give you 1.5 million! US dollars! But you have to ship it to China! I don't care what you think." Li wants to make a slate.

Li Xiang doesn't want to be a big man. The great powers have a technical blockade on China, and he can't buy anything with money. As long as this shipyard can move to China, 1.5 million US dollars will definitely be worth it.

Ha Tong's white face was covered with a trace of blood and excitement. This also made him feel that he would never lose if he wanted to do business with Li.

Hatong added: "Another person living on the Pacific coast, proud of knowing me, wrote me a long and secret letter, saying that he could supply a wide variety of military weapons, including large-caliber artillery, Markham machine guns... In order to show his sincerity, he gave me a formal proposal for China..."

Li Xiang smiled faintly and said, "I need a production line, a rifle production line, and various military equipment production lines..."

"This..." Ha Tongdao." It may be a little difficult, but I will try my best to communicate.

"What else?" Li wants to ask.

"In addition to borrowing and shipbuilding, the best applicants are the people who make railway plans for China." Ha Tong Dao.

Everyone is thinking about China's railways, one of the most profitable industries in this era.

Li Xiang stared at the window grid gloomyly and said a little warily, "Say it."

Ha Tong raised his face and smiled, "It's enough to give an example. The person who wrote to me, at the beginning of a long letter marked "personal" and "confidential", wanted to arouse the self-esteem of my hometown and said, "I guess you have forgotten many people in Indiana, but the people in Indiana have not forgotten you." After describing his life, especially his experience in railway operations, with the signatures of many senators and other well-known people, he said that he was "a thirty-three-year-old, diligent Indian who is willing to participate in railway planning in China and make friends with his government officials." After the construction of China's railway system, he will develop its gold mine, because he is "proficient in mining and can meet the requirements." All the needs to be done to complete these big plans, "It's just your sentence. I have these characteristics, and I can definitely make myself and make some of your Indiana friends you sent me rich."

China's road mines are money in the consciousness of foreigners.

However, whether it is a black cat or a white cat, it is a good cat to catch mice!

Li Xiang said without hesitation, "There is Zhan Tianyou in China to build railways, but there are really no talents in this field to manage railways. You tell your friend that he helped me manage the railway well, which is more promising than his "maturity with mining"! I promise him!"

"Certain." Ha Tong nodded and said, "Finally, a staff member of Mobil Oil Company wrote to me saying that they may need my attention for some matters, and their agent in Shanghai will come to Ailiyuan to visit Li Shuai. The Shanghai agent really came to see me, but he just asked to arrange a meeting with Li Shuai during his stay in Ailiyuan. I don't know Li Shuai..."

"See you!" Li wanted to say, " How can you not see it?"