Johnson left quickly. Although Chairman Chiang repeatedly invited him to stay for tonight's family dinner, Johnson still excused himself and left, saying that he had urgent matters to deal with.
Normally, Johnson would be happy to attend the Chiang family's family dinner, because it is an excellent opportunity to get in touch with Chairman Chiang's complicated political family, and it is also easy to gain the friendship of this huge political family. This is for someone like Johnson.
For a professional diplomatic envoy, it is an extremely valuable political resource.
However, considering the U.S. government's warning to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, it could only reluctantly give up.
Jason is not embarrassed to do this. As a diplomat, he has long developed a thicker skin than the city wall. If necessary, he can even lick the enemy's spit on his face, and he can
Pretending to be very delicious, so shamelessly staying to attend the Chiang family's family banquet is really nothing.
What really made Johnson give up the family dinner was that he was afraid that Chairman Chiang and members of the Chiang family, especially Mrs. Chiang, who was both beautiful and witty, would make demands beyond his ability at the banquet, such as asking him to come forward to persuade the United States.
He really couldn't change the government's tough attitude towards China, so he could only avoid it.
Johnson insisted on leaving, and although Chairman Chiang was full of regrets, he could only see him off.
After seeing Jason off, Chairman Chiang returned to the living room and changed into a home gown. He practiced in front of the mirror for a while, trying to make his smile look kinder and more natural, and then hurried to the banquet hall.
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When Chairman Chiang came in, the small banquet hall of the official residence was already full of people.
At this time, Chairman Chiang had already converted to Christianity along with Mrs. Chiang, and the entire Song family were all Christians, so the family banquet in the official residence was also arranged according to Western etiquette. It was not a Chinese-style Eight Immortals table, but a Western-style long table.
The main seat to the north is empty, but a dozen seats on both sides are already occupied.
At the end of the long table, on the seat far away from the main seat, Kong Lingkan sat impressively.
It can be seen that even if it is a family banquet of the Jiang family, Kong Lingkan, the eldest young master, also has privileges.
In contrast, Mr. Jiang, who had just returned from studying in the Soviet Union, and Kong Lingkan's eldest cousin, could only sit in an inconspicuous position on the side, and several cousins sitting next to Mr. Jiang could not sit there.
How to talk to him? It seems that Mr. Jiang is an outsider.
In fact, Mr. Jiang is actually an outsider.
Because among the family members participating in today's family dinner, almost all other members have direct or indirect blood relationships with them. They are not as good as aunts, cousins, or nephews. Only Mr. Jiang is the only one.
, has no blood relationship with most of the members. He only has blood relationship with Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.
So at the dinner table, Mr. Jiang was isolated by other members.
Seeing Chairman Jiang walking in, Mrs. Chiang immediately stood up and went forward to greet him. Mr. Lin was half a step too slow and could only sit back on his chair unhappily.
"Darling, why did you come here? Everyone is waiting impatiently." Mrs. Jiang said angrily.
"I'm really sorry." Chairman Chiang complained repeatedly, "I kept everyone waiting for so long."
After finishing speaking, Chairman Chiang ordered the attendant standing next to him: "What are you still waiting for? Hurry and start the banquet."
Immediately, the attendants in the official residence brought steaks, vegetable salads and other Western-style meals to the table. Chairman Chiang also pulled up his chair and sat on the main seat. Kong Xiangxi, who was sitting on the left side of the main guest seat, lost no time in asking: "Commissioner, what's your seat?"
If the ambassadors of the United States and Britain to China come to see you at this time, I'm afraid it won't do anything good, right?"
Kong Xiangxi didn't have any good intentions, but he still spoke strategically so as not to offend anyone.
Speaking of the American and British ambassadors, Chairman Chiang's face fell again.
At that moment, Chairman Chiang cursed: "Mother Xipi, how can you do anything good? This is simply too much!"
"Darling." Mrs. Jiang said angrily again, "There are so many juniors here, it's true."
"Look at me." Chairman Jiang smiled mockingly, his eyes passing over the faces of Kong Lingyi, Kong Lingkan, Kong Lingjie and several juniors from the Song family, and then said, "Don't imitate my swear words."
Kong Lingkan asked directly: "Uncle-in-law, are Jason and Stephen looking for you for the public bidding of Baotou Tea Trading Company's shares?"
As soon as Kong Lingkan said these words, the atmosphere in the entire banquet hall immediately changed.
Not only Kong Xiangxi and Song Ziwen's expressions became unnatural, but the expressions of Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Jiang also became serious in an instant, because just now Kong Lingkan had already revealed his intention to get involved in the shares of Baotou Tea Trading Company through family members' chat.
The matter was passed on to all family members.
Therefore, this is not only a national matter, but also a family matter.
However, Kong Lingkan's way of cutting in is really too rough.
Kong Xiangxi winked at his son repeatedly, telling him not to be impatient and to be patient.
Because Kong Xiangxi knew very well that among the members attending the dinner tonight, there was someone who was more anxious than the Kong family. This person was Mrs. Sun. In order to promote Western public opinion and prompt the US and British governments to put pressure on Chairman Chiang, Mrs. Sun made a lot of noise in the middle.
It has a great effect and the results are about to come out now, how can she not be anxious?
In fact, this was the main reason why Mrs. Sun agreed to attend the Chiang Kai-shek family banquet.
Otherwise, Mrs. Sun would not have stepped into the official residence, let alone attended the Chiang Kai-shek family banquet.
Kong Xiangxi was cunning and did not want to stand out, but Kong Lingkan ignored his hints. Regardless of Chairman Chiang's expression becoming embarrassed, he continued: "Uncle-in-law, the US and British governments have interfered with us so violently.
What is the difference between China's internal affairs and the Japanese government? Therefore, we must not listen to them!"
After hearing Kong Lingkan's words, Chairman Jiang's face brightened slightly, and Kong Xiangxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his precious son was not really a fool. At least he still had a sweet mouth, just like when he was a child, and he was still very good at pleasing him.
It is no wonder that his sister-in-law likes him because of his joy.
However, it pleased Chairman Chiang, but offended Mrs. Sun.
Mrs. Sun frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter what the American and British governments did in other matters, but regarding the Baotou Tea Trading Company, I think they still upheld justice and spoke fairly.
If so, the proceeds from the auction of the shares of the Baotou Tea Trading Company should be given to the Chaha Independent Group to purchase weapons."
After a pause, Mrs. Sun continued: "In the final analysis, it is not that after the Baotou Tea Road is dredged, there will be no more dangers. The little devils will not just watch such a tea road that makes money every day and remain indifferent. They will definitely
They will try every means to destroy it, so it is absolutely necessary to arm the Chahar Independent Regiment to better protect the Baotou Tea Road."
"The second aunt is wrong," Kong Ling said, "It is absolutely true that money is being made on the Baotou Tea Road every day. The little devils will definitely try their best to cause damage. This is also true, but the second aunt said that it is necessary to investigate
The Har Independent Regiment is armed to better protect the Baotou Tea Road. This is really wrong."
Mrs. Kong immediately reprimanded: "Lingkan, what are you talking nonsense about? Hurry up and apologize to your second aunt."
But Mrs. Sun smiled slightly and said, "Sister, if you let Ling Kan talk, I want to see what he can say?"
Kong Lingkan immediately became interested when he heard this. He simply stood up and said impassionedly: "Second Aunt, I don't know if you have ever calculated how valuable Baotou Tea Trading Company is?"
Mrs. Sun said: "I've probably heard people say that the annual turnover is about 10 million national currency."
"That's the most conservative estimate." Kong Lingkan shook his head and added, "In the late Qing Dynasty, Baotou Tea Road's annual turnover was as high as hundreds of millions of taels of silver, which is nearly 200 million yuan in national currency!"
"Two hundred million yuan?!" Many family members looked surprised.
Even Mrs. Jiang was a little surprised. She only knew that the Baotou Tea Trading Company was a big deal, and she also knew that the Baotou Tea Trading Company was very profitable, but she did not expect that it was so profitable!
Kong Lingkan waved his arm and continued: "A tea trading company with an annual turnover of 200 million yuan and a profit of possibly hundreds of millions of yuan, but Xu Rui, together with the Baotou Chamber of Commerce, set the total number of shares of the Baotou Tea Trading Company at one thousand
Ten thousand shares, and the price per share is only one yuan. If there is no transaction in the middle, no one would believe it!"
Mrs. Sun said: "That's the data from the late Manchu Qing Dynasty. Now the Baotou Tea Road has long since declined."
Kong Lingkan said: "The reason why the Baotou Tea Road declined is because of the rise of the Vladivostok Tea Road and the transplantation of tea trees by British tea merchants in India and Southeast Asia. But now the Vladivostok Tea Road has been completely interrupted, and the quality of tea in India and Southeast Asia is not good, so the Baotou Tea Road
The future is promising, and it will not be difficult to equal the prosperity of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties."
It must be admitted that Kong Lingkan’s analysis still makes some sense.
Mrs. Sun was silent. She could not find a strong reason to refute.
Kong Lingkan went on to say: "For a company with an annual turnover of 200 million yuan and an annual profit of nearly 100 million yuan, according to the practice of Western countries, the company's valuation must be at least 2 billion yuan. If the original stock price is calculated
If it is one yuan, then the total number of shares should be two billion shares, but how many shares are decided now?”
"There are only 10 million shares." Mrs. Jiang couldn't help but said, "This is a huge difference."
"So!" Kong Lingkan waved his fist again and said forcefully, "There must be some hidden behind-the-scenes operations, for the sake of the country and the nation, to prevent the loss of state-owned assets, and to prevent these silverfish from taking over the country.
How can the party and state sit idly by and ignore the people’s wealth?”
"But the Baotou Tea Road was dredged by Xu Rui." Mrs. Sun said weakly, "Moreover, most of the proceeds from his public auction of tea trading company shares were used to build Baotou's industry, and a small amount was used to purchase weapons and ammunition.
It is also to form a strong armed force to protect the safety of Baotou Tea Road."
