I know this, although on the surface France in the south is eyeing Vietnam covetously.
However, according to my estimation, it will take at least two years before we face the French army with real swords and guns. I hope that when we have no strength, we can develop as secretly as possible to delay our exposure.
Time in front of the world.
I know this. We are focusing on development now, and we will talk about other things first. Liu Chengliang rushed to answer.
Haha! This puts me at ease. Here I promise you: within five years I will definitely bring an era of giant ships and cannons to you and the loyal army.
Zhang Long also added with a smile: Principal, what do you think our army will look like?
In my mind, the Chinese loyal and brave army is: an iron-blooded army that flies in the sky, travels on the ground, and sails in the water. It is a mixture of sea, land and air forces. It makes our enemies lose the courage to fight as soon as they see our army.
There is something flying in the sky, what is that? An eagle! Or the words of Liu Chengliang, a curious baby.
What flies in the sky, I call it an airplane. I have already conceived it. I will only invent it and equip it to the troops when the conditions are ripe.
It is a kind of weapon that is more terrifying than giant ships and cannons. When the technology develops to maturity, we in Beijing, China, can fly to the United States, thousands of miles away, and hit its homeland.
Everyone shouted in unison: Is there such a powerful army? Wouldn't it be invincible and conquer the world!
It is not invincible. First, it carries a small amount of ammunition. Second, it is powered by gasoline and other oils. Third, it requires a lot of scientific knowledge and precision machinery to manufacture. Fourth, its protection is relatively weak. Fifth,
He needs to cultivate a large number of driving talents.
According to my estimation, it will take at least about 10 years before we can equip the troops in batches.
For a while, everyone was talking about the new arms mentioned by Zhou Yu. Even Huang Shouzhong and Wu Fengdian, who usually didn't talk much, were filled with emotion: I really wish it would be ten years from now!
Zhou Yu couldn't laugh or cry. Was he a little too hasty?
After some discussion, planning and proper arrangements, Zhou Yu bid farewell to the officers and soldiers of the Zhongyong Army and set off for Shanghai to carry out his huge development plan.
Accompanying him were several law-protecting guards who were forcefully arranged by Liu Yongfu. While Zhou Yu was moved, he was also speechless. Who else in this world could hurt him?
But what Zhou Yu never expected was that his trip to Shanghai would really hurt him.
Needless to say, Zhou Yu, who was carrying the samples, was tired all the way. Even so, someone on the ship was not idle either. Instead, he was engaged in work such as conceiving and writing a book. He did not want to waste any time.
He didn't even bother to appreciate the scenery along the way.
When the ship just arrived in Shanghai, Zhou Yu, who followed the crowd out of the ship, was shocked by the scene at Shanghai Pukou Pier. What he saw was the dirty and messy Shanghai streets, and the numb and empty expressions of the people walking on the streets.
of the Chinese people.
Dock workers with sallow faces and thin faces came over one after another to snatch the passengers' luggage and compete for their little hard-earned money. The rickshaw driver shouted at the passengers to sit in his rickshaw, showing his big yellow teeth from time to time and making a forced smile.
Zhou Yu discovered that there was a ghost guy among them. He roughly pushed down the Chinese worker who was yelling at the business, and muttered in a foreign language, "Get away, you stupid pig, you dirty guy."
The Chinese worker stumbled on the suitcase next to him and his forehead was broken. He got up from the ground and wiped away the bleeding Chinese worker. He even apologized to the ghost man repeatedly;
Then he continued to shout to his target as usual: the next passenger.
Facing such a scene, none of the Chinese at the dock made even the slightest reaction or expression.
The soft part of his heart twitched fiercely, and he was bleeding secretly in his heart. Are these the people of my Chinese nation? Zhou Yu felt like he wanted to cry but couldn't. He clenched his fists.
, the knuckles were turned white from the grip.
Tian Ergou and Zhou Yu's group of guards also had angry expressions on their faces, as if they were ready to take action.
At this moment, Zhou Yu really wanted to get a big bell that could wake up the numb nerves and slavish mentality of Chinese people all over the world!
Zhou Yu really wanted to start overthrowing the Manchu dynasty now, the urge to rule almost cruelly...
However, reason tells him that it is impossible now. He does not yet have the strength to complete this large-scale initiative. The only thing he can do now is to endure it. Even his thought of killing the ghost guy is a luxury.
Because he knew that if he killed Gui Lao in the Qing Dynasty, it would be very possible for him to cede territory and pay compensation. In that case, it would be me, Huaxia, who would be unlucky in the end. Therefore, Zhou Yu could only watch helplessly.
Nothing can be done!
He has abilities but cannot use them. How can Zhou Yu not be depressed in this situation?
A kind of loneliness that was incompatible with this society, loneliness, desolation, sadness, coldness, powerlessness, and tranquility filled his mind.
Unless you are immersed in the situation, you cannot feel the oppressive atmosphere of the land of China at that time. Unless you are immersed in it, you cannot understand Zhou Yu's extremely complicated psychological activities at that time.
The great man Mao Zedong of later generations once said something when the People's Republic of China was founded. It was only at this moment that Zhou Yu in this scene truly felt the true meaning of that sentence.
The Chinese people have stood up!
Stand up! What an apt word!
Zhou Yu suddenly wanted to say: Chinese people stand up! I beg you to stand up! My dear Chinese compatriots, wake up! Open your eyes and see! You are the descendants of Yan and Huang, you are the descendants of the dragon, we
They are the most outstanding nation in the world.
Zhou Yu, who was as strong as a mountain, spat out a mouthful of blood angrily and sat down on the cold stone ground of the dock.
The surrounding passengers looked at this young man with a strange face curiously and pointed fingers.
This time, Tian Ergou and several guards were scared to death. They hurriedly helped Zhou Yu up and asked the principal repeatedly, "What's wrong with you? Wasn't it fine just now? If you feel uncomfortable, how about we go back!"
At this time, Tian Ergou's voice was choked, tears were streaming down his face, and he was completely helpless. He had never seen Zhou Yu so haggard. Even though he had not slept for several days and nights in order to conduct experiments, he was still in high spirits.
.
Now that Zhou Yu has done this, Tian Ergou even wants to die.
After a while, Zhou Yu recovered. His face slowly turned from frighteningly pale to a little red. He weakly waved his hands to Tian Ergou and others, "It's okay! Don't be nervous! I'll just rest for a while."
Got it!
Tian Ergou, you sent two people to follow the ghost guy just now. After he leaves China, kill him privately and let him know that the people of my Chinese nation are not the ones who can be insulted by just cats and dogs. They offend our country.
Those who are far away must be killed.
Immediately, two guards left everyone and went to perform their tasks. In fact, they were angry when they saw it, but they did not dare to mess around without Zhou Yu's order. The current military discipline of the Zhongyong Army is still very strict.
How thorough was the ignorant rule of the Qing Dynasty! My hard-working and brave Chinese people were reduced to a dying state by them. No wonder the later Chinese democratic revolution was so difficult and difficult. Zhou Yu's mentality was to hate this.
The evil old society and the evil Manchu rule.
This further motivated Zhou Yu's determination to overthrow the decadent Manchu Qing Dynasty and the rule of the ignorant people.
I want to make the Chinese people lively, cheerful, positive, progressive, energetic, pragmatic, confident, and a role model and pride for people all over the world, Zhou Yu secretly swore through gritted teeth in his heart.
Zhou Yu comforted Tian Ergou and the others. For convenience, he specially bought braided hats for everyone to wear on their heads.
In the territory of the Qing Dynasty, if you didn't have a hair, you would be beheaded. The situation did not get better until the late Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty could not even control its own political power, so it still had the energy to care about those stupid people.
Where is the slave's hair!
Next, Zhou Yu was no longer in the mood to visit Shanghai in the old days. He had to get down to business quickly!
I wanted to leave here as soon as possible. The air here seemed to Zhou Yu to be abnormally depressing and dull, making him feel like he was short of oxygen and had difficulty breathing.
He wants to speed up the pace of his development and strive to let the sun really shine on the land of China one day early, instead of like now, even when the sun shines on his body, Zhou Yu feels cold and trembles, and Zhou Yu's heart is broken.
With a heavy heart, Zhou Yu hurried to the Shanghai Peninsula Hotel, where he successfully held an on-site product investment meeting and introduced all the products that had successfully applied for patents except ** smokeless gunpowder ballistic explosives.
New products have found a large number of partners for production and sales....
After watching Zhou Yu's perfect demonstration of these new products in public, the businessmen discovered the huge profits contained in these products. They all asked to join.
Businessmen are as proactive as sharks when they see their prey. Businessmen themselves are profit-seeking people!
So they signed long-term cooperation contracts with Zhou Yu: the contract stipulated that all businessmen would form an alliance called the Chinese Alliance Chamber of Commerce, and unified arrangements for price, sales, and packaging would be made.
It stipulates that vicious competition is not allowed within the organization, and those who are promising will be boycotted and expelled from the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce will never cooperate with them.
Zhou Yu also no longer provides related product patent protection, machinery and product production contracts for subsequent inventions.
Zhou Yu will hold 51% of the products produced by all manufacturers, and 1% of the shares will be shared equally by Zhou Yu among the workers in each processing plant.
A 1% share dividend was also given to reward those who made outstanding contributions to the factory. Everyone was very surprised by Zhou Yu's free 2% share dividend.
Zhou Yu knew that these people would be his staunch supporters in the future, and he wanted to unite these workers to prepare for the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty.
Another point is to set an example of getting rich through hard work, and the most important point is that Zhou Yu wants to give more hope to those people who sell their sons and daughters for a few pennies.
He didn't want to wait until the day when he had the strength to overthrow the Qing government, and what he would see was a group of Chinese people walking dead.
During this period, Zhou Yu also met a group of outstanding talents and big bourgeois businessmen. They include:
Shanxi merchant gang, Huizhou merchant gang, Shaanxi merchant gang, Shandong merchant gang, Longyou merchant gang, Jiangyou merchant gang, Dongting merchant gang, Guangdong merchant gang, Ningbo merchant gang, Fujian merchant gang, etc. The businessmen of these merchant gangs,
It will be his pocketbook and profit sharing.
The most outstanding representative among them is Hu Xueyan, a native of Jixi, Anhui Province, from Fukang Bank.
He established more than 20 Fukang Banks in various provinces and engaged in traditional Chinese medicine and silk tea business. His capital was equivalent to more than 20 million taels in silver, which was a very scary figure in the world at that time.
Zhou Yu had a secret meeting with Hu Xueyan, and the specific content of the meeting was unknown. However, after the incident, Hu Xueyan secretly prepared the central bank for Zhou Yu, and he was the first governor of the central bank after Zhou Yu founded the country.
In Hu Xueyan's memoirs, there is something about the conversation between the two of them. Hu Xueyan recalled the conversation like this: At that time, Zhou Huang and I first exchanged polite greetings in the room, and then Zhou Huang's straight-to-the-point questioning style made me
Very surprised and embarrassed.
At that time, Zhou Yu asked him with a serious expression, I know that Mr. Hu is a very patriotic businessman. In 1866, you assisted Zuo Zongtang in establishing the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau. After Zuo Zongtang was transferred to the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, you took charge of the Shanghai shipping industry.
Bureau affairs. Belongs to the red-top businessman.
So, is the country you love so much the Chinese nation! Or the Manchu and Qing dynasties?
I love my motherland, but is there any difference between the Chinese nation and the Qing Empire? The corners of Hu Xueyan's eyes twitched fiercely twice in succession.
The Chinese nation represents 40 million compatriots, while the Qing Dynasty represents nothing more than a small ruling class that sucks the blood of working people and steals their wealth! How could it be the same? Didn't Mr. Hu think about it?