"... Since I was 15 years old, I have lived independently without any support. I have no brothers and sisters, and I have no other relatives. I left China when I was very young, and I didn't even have any impression of China....I am very similar to the rootless grass that flutters in the wind..."

On the spotless deck, Li Zicheng and Mu Xiangyue walked side by side. When Mu Xiangyue asked about her life experience, Li Zicheng said half-truely, while Mu Xiangyue listened quietly.

"Then why do you want to go back to China?"

"Because I am Chinese, this will never be changed!"

Mu Xiangyue smiled and nodded to admit it.

"Although I wear a dress, my heart is still the Chinese heart. My ancestors have long branded everything about me with Chinese seal..."

Li Zicheng stopped, walked to the side of the river, and looked at the vast Yellow River. This was the sea of ​​China! In less than three days, he would set foot on China's land, China in 1912!

What would China look like in 1912?

Poor and white, the country is weak, the people are poor, the soldiers are weak, the people are weak! This is the China you are about to face!

"From San Francisco, until now, many people have asked me why I returned to China, but why not?"

Holding the boat's side and turning his eyes to the sea, Li Zicheng's eyes showed a look of excitement. Why not go back to China? Now China is so poor and weak, isn't it the time for him to struggle? If he doesn't do it, he may regret his whole life and live in endless annoyance for the rest of his life.

"Zhiyuan, many people in China now regard you as Tang Monk's flesh..."

Looking at Li Zicheng, Mu Xiangyue couldn't help but sigh.

Where is Yang Du?

Guan Zhenming, who walked to the first class deck, looked around, but could not find his shadow.

"...If China wants to be strong, it must first develop industry!"

At this moment, a voice suddenly came over. Listening to this sentence, Guan Zhenming, who was originally looking for someone, immediately praised him in his heart.

"Someone has some insight!"

As he sighed, Guan Zhenming began to look for where the sound came from. He was in the direction where the sound came from, and saw two people standing by the side.

"... Others often say that only when the country is rich can the people be strong. For decades, we all have known people and have devoted ourselves to the path of "the country is rich and the people are strong". But how can we know that from the beginning, we were wrong. The only way to truly strengthen the country is to "the people are rich and the country is strong". Only when the people are rich can we have a country strong!"

Looking at the vast sea, Li Zicheng said to Mu Xiangyue beside him.

Although he had long been convinced by Li Zicheng's dream of "Iron Empire", Mu Xiangyue, who had followed Li Zicheng from the United States, still had some doubts in her heart.

"Zhiyuan, why did you choose to run a factory there!"

There……

Li Zicheng's eyes looked to the other side of the sea, where was there, Baotou, where he used to work.

“There is iron ore there!”

After pondering for a moment, Li Zicheng began to explain his intention to choose where.

"Ouchu, half a month ago, Yuan Shikai had already taken office as president. Although the Guisui area is located outside the pass, it is not far from the capital, so overall, it is basically stable, and the resources there are much richer than you and I imagine."

When talking about the mineral resources in Baotou, Li Zicheng's expression became excited. It was his experience working in Baotou that no one knew better than himself how rich resources there were in this time and space. The area with an area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers was almost full of mineral resources, with rich underground mineral resources, wide distribution, large storage, high quality, and easy to mine.

Iron ore, oil, coal, and natural saline are all large ore sites with considerable reserves. The most rare thing is that there are various non-ferrous metals that are rare in the northern region, such as chromium, copper, lead, zinc, gold, bismuth, tungsten trioxide, tin, and nickel, which can be said to be extremely complete.

More importantly, Ordos' coal proven to be recoverable reserves can reach hundreds of billions of tons, and most of the coal resources are advantageous coal with low ash, low sulfur and low phosphorus, which are advantageous thermal coal and chemical coal, which fundamentally solves the fuel and power problems of the factory.

"The iron ore in the north has solved the raw material problems of the steel plant, and the coal mine in the south has solved the fuel problem. We can choose the central part of the two places as the factory location and use the Yellow River water to solve the water source problem. The future development of the factory can rely on the rich and complete mineral resources in the local area to achieve further development!"

When Li Zicheng was explaining it from the perspective of close to the resources, he was silent for a moment and his voice became a little helpless.

"The most important thing is that you and I understand that the great powers have long defined their sphere of influence in our country. The southern Manchuria is Japan, the northern Manchuria is Russia, Shandong is Germany, the Yangtze River is Britain and the United States, Yunguang is France, and the Guisui area is barely considered the sphere of influence. However, Russia's influence is only to Mongolia. Relatively speaking, there are few foreign forces invading the Guisui area, and it is appropriate to establish a large industrial complex there."

Li Zicheng's eyes looked at the undulating sea. In fact, in the past month, he has been thinking about where to go. Ma'anshan along the river may be the most suitable and has convenient transportation. Anshan has the largest iron ore in China, Tangshan and Qian'an, which is also good. However, in the end, considering various domestic and foreign factors, he finally chose Baotou. On the one hand, he is familiar with it, and on the other hand, it is because it is far away from foreign spheres of influence and even from warlords' interference.

"Ten years! At most ten years, whenever people mention it, they will think of Ruhr as if they mention Germany, know that there is an industrial city built on a wasteland in China."

Everyone has their own ambitions and dreams, and for Li Zicheng, perhaps his greatest ambition is to spend ten years building Baotou into China's Ruhr.

"Ouchu, maybe you and me, and many knowledgeable people in China, will embark on the road of saving the country in order to save the country in order to save the country, but in the end, if you don't seize the opportunity, everything will go back to the starting point, because from the beginning, what they chose was not the way to save the country, but the way to enrich the light industry. Only heavy industry can strengthen the country, and only heavy industry can prosper. This is the only way."

Listening to this person's words, Guan Zhenming was shocked. He had always been practicing the purpose of saving the country and enriching the people in the industry. He was shocked by this high opinion. At this moment, he vaguely saw the appearance of that person through the railing. The man seemed very young. Could it be that... he, he is... he is not on this ship?

"Make...Zhiyuan"

Mu Xiangyue hesitated and asked a question he was most concerned about now. After Li Zicheng revealed his thoughts for the first time on the train from New York to San Francisco, he began to collect relevant information.

"The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway has not even been built to Datong. If we want to build a factory in Baotou, then the traffic problem..."

"Then we will build a railway ourselves!"

What a big tone!

Zhiyuan! Li Zhiyuan! Li Zicheng!

That's right, that person!

As soon as Guan Zhenming contacted the newspaper's report on this person, he immediately realized that the person standing by the side was the so-called Li Zicheng who disembarked from Xia Weiyi.

Building a railway... Although he was surprised by Li Zicheng's ambition, Guan Zhenming began to think about it. Perhaps it was also an opportunity for him to build a railway!

If you...

Thinking of it, Guan Zhenming raised his legs and wanted to walk towards Li Zicheng, but just as he took two steps, a sound came from behind him.

"good!"

The voice was not loud, and there was a Hunan accent in his voice! Just as he heard the sound, Guan Zhenming knew that the person behind him was the Yangdu he was looking for. It seemed that he was also here to look for Li Zhiyuan! Maybe he was still following the orders of the President!

"Zhiyuan is indeed the best among the young people this year! With this heart alone, if you are a big China, you will not be able to find a second person!"

While praising her, Yang Du looked for Li Zicheng. If he hadn't heard these words, he would have been afraid that he would not have found the young man mentioned in the telegram, "about six feet tall, with a white appearance, and twenty-one or two years old."

"Who are you?"

Hearing the praise, Li Zicheng couldn't help frowning when he turned around. The reason why he spent $1,000 to bribe the captain in Hawaii and pretended that he had already got off the boat was because he saw it in the newspaper that he had become the flesh of Tang Monk in the eyes of all parties before he returned to China. This Tang Monk is not easy to be aware of!

What a handsome young man!

Almost when Li Zicheng turned his face, Yang Du couldn't help but praise him in his heart. Yang Du had seen many handsome young people, but this was the first time he had seen a young man as handsome as a scholar, fair skin and slightly curled lips as a slight curl of his mouth.

Moreover, he could not see the expression of either humble or high that is unique to the Chinese people. There was only a kind of indifference that was neither humble nor arrogant. If it were more than ten years earlier...

Thinking of her mind, Yang Du noticed that there was suspicion on Li Zicheng's face, so he clasped his fists and bowed.

"Let's go Yang Du!"

Yang Du!

When Li Zicheng heard this name and contacted the Hunan accent, his eyes were slightly closed. It was him! It was the Yang Du who "praises" Yuan Shikai with others!

Without waiting for Li Zicheng to speak, Mu Xiangyue, who was standing next to her, listened to Yang Du's name and quickly bowed respectfully.

"So it's Mr. Xizi!"

Mu Xiangyue's respect made Yang Du very helpful. He looked at Li Zicheng again, but saw that he still maintained the indifferent attitude of neither humble nor arrogant.

"Mr. Yang!"

"This kid..."

Yuan saw that Li Zhiyuan just nodded slightly to Yang Du, and Guan Zhenming admired his indifference. Seeing the three of them seemingly wanting to speak, Guan Zhenming leaned over and half hidden behind the three of them.
Chapter completed!