Republic of China game

Back at the Yingbin Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luo Yaoguo still had some things to arrange.They are the Pacific Trading Company and the Chahar Trading Company. The former is a cooperation project with the Feng Faction. The purpose is to compete with Japan for the northern industrial product market and rely on it to build a northern intelligence network.The latter was to raise funds for the leftist army of the Kuomintang, and at the same time provide a channel for the south to obtain resources and markets on the Mongolian plateau.

Among the two companies, the Pacific Trading Company was mainly operated by personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau, and Luo Yaoguo temporarily assigned Wu Zhong to be in charge of finance.Jin Puxin and Wan Yanhao are in charge of the business, and the company's current task is to sell the properties purchased at a low price in the early stage to raise funds.Of course, if you receive the coupon issued by Zhang Zuolin, you can't keep it in your hand, and you must convert it into cash and deposit it in a reliable bank.

After discussing with Liao Zhongkai, another Chahar trading company was handed over to the leftists of the Kuomintang to be responsible for its establishment and operation. The Intelligence Bureau only distributed dividends and provided funds, and the funds were allocated directly from the proceeds from the sale of Beijing real estate.

After finishing these trivial matters, it was already the end of March. During this period, the Communist army had already retreated to Suiyuan, captured Guihua City, and expelled Ma Fuxiang's army.After arriving in Guihua City, the Central Committee of the Communist Party held a meeting of the Central Executive Committee immediately. Chen Duxiu, who had committed the mistake of right-leaning capitulationism in the 3.12 Beijing counter-revolutionary coup, was removed from the positions of secretary and member of the Central Bureau, and Qu Qiubai was re-elected as the secretary of the Central Bureau. Mao Zedong was a member of the Central Bureau.Chen Duxiu was demoted to be the Secretary of the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and together with Tan Pingshan, Zhang Shenfu and others, went to be responsible for the work of the Communist Party in the southern Kuomintang-ruled areas.

Hu Jingyi, the capital commander, succeeded the Communist Party in ruling Chahar. His 21st Division was the first to enter Zhangjiakou after the Red Army withdrew, which can be regarded as a "first achievement".In order to maintain the stability of Chahar, Hu Jingyi, Deng Yanda and others did not change the land ownership relationship formed after the Communist Agrarian Revolution, but retained the fruits of the Agrarian Revolution.At the same time, a large number of cadres left over from the Communist Party, or possibly traitors, were also appointed.

An earth-shattering event also took place in Beijing, that is, the raid of the Soviet embassy.After the Feng army ended the war with the Red Army and occupied the entire territory of Chahar, it ordered the troops surrounding the Soviet embassy to force their way in and arrested a large number of CCP leaders who had taken refuge in the embassy, ​​including Li Dazhao, a member of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China. .However, unlike in history, Li Dazhao was not killed by Zhang Zuolin in the end, but saved his life with the efforts of the Kuomintang and Liao Zhongkai, was sentenced to imprisonment, and was not freed until a long time later.

Chapter 0149 money bag problem

In the chaotic times of the Republic of China, if you want to be king and hegemony, you need a pistol, a money bag in one hand, and hard hands in both hands.Of course, the Communist Party is an exception, and their requirements for money bags are relatively low.

The Kuomintang's guns are already a bit hard. There are forty divisions plus twelve security headquarters, six security headquarters, and three arms headquarters, with a total of nearly 50 troops!There is also a "famous general" like the protagonist Luo Yaoguo, so he was already the boss on the ground in China in the 20s, and now no one dares to touch Sun Yat-sen's tiger's butt.

But the money bag of the Kuomintang seems to be a little deflated, uh, isn't it?Is it worthless to earn one hundred million silver dollars a year?Then Feng Zhang, Luo Wu, and Duan Wan couldn't live a better life?

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Sun Yat-sen, who was sitting in the Qinglu Garden of Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou, put down the ledger in his hand, frowned, and asked calmly, "Ziwen, it's been a few months. Why can't this legal currency be promoted? This is the job of your central bank. of?"

Fiat currency?This notorious guy was born ten years earlier than in history, and is now the most important purse project of the Kuomintang.The purpose is to eliminate all kinds of banknotes circulating in the Chinese market, except for foreign exchange, and finally to kick out the banknotes, so as to achieve the goal of monopolizing the right to issue banknotes.With the money printing machine of French currency and the money collection machine of the southern customs area, the Kuomintang regime will probably not be short of money in the future.But now, the issuance of this legal currency seems to have encountered a lot of problems.

Song Ziwen stood in front of his brother-in-law like a primary school student, his head was covered with sweat, and he was anxious because of the difficulties encountered in the issuance of legal currency.Taking out his handkerchief and wiping his sweat, Song Ziwen replied with his head down: "Prime Minister, in fact, our issuance of legal currency is not that bad, it's just that we encountered a little resistance in Shanghai."

Is it a little resistance?Obviously it can't be sent out at all!The financial industry in Shanghai has already shouted the slogan "The Kuomintang can get in, but the legal currency can't get in".Now the entire Shanghai banking industry has collectively stopped accepting legal currency, and even the entire Shanghai industry and commerce has also stopped accepting legal currency.

"Hmph! These lawless capitalists! They are really abominable, relying on the protection of the concession, openly against me! Challenge the authority of the national government, they must not be spared lightly!" Sun Yat-sen was still sullen, furious, he said again : "Jieshi! Is there anything your Military Commission can do?"

Military Commission?Are you going to grab money with guns?Standing aside, Chiang Kai-shek was taken aback by Sun Yat-sen's question. He didn't know how to answer for a moment, and after a long while, he murmured: "Prime Minister, they are all in the concession, and the army cannot enter."

Sun Yat-sen looked at Chiang Kai-shek and shook his head in disappointment: "Kai-shek, who told you to send the army? I asked your Military Commission to find a way! Do you know how to find a way? Use your brain to see how you can let the gang in Shanghai The Gods of Wealth support us. Alas, with their support, this legal currency will be successful, so that our party’s country will be strong, and I can go there with peace of mind. Cough, cough, cough..."

"Father, are you alright?" the eldest son Sun Ke who was waiting on the side asked nervously when he saw his father coughing.

"I won't be able to die for a while! Hmph, I'm making these so-called bankers angry. These guys are short-sighted. What else can they do besides issuing banknotes and exchanging money?" Sun Yat-sen shook his head and sighed. : "Ziwen, you are going to take a boat to Shanghai to meet them. Jieshi, ask Luo Fuwen to be the commander-in-chief of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang police, and go find out who is their backer? Hmph, I don't believe that the gang who opened the bank will Fight us, they must have a backstage behind them."

"Yes, Prime Minister." Lao Jiang and Song Ziwen responded immediately.

In this way, Luo Yaoguo, who was just about to board a ship in Tianjin and return to the south, received a new official position as the commander-in-chief of Jiangsu and Zhejiang police!Such a big official, but in fact, he only manages the police and security regiments in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and other troops cannot control them.The Kuomintang now has six such garrison headquarters, namely Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, Lianghu, Anhui and Jiangxi, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, and Sichuan.These general headquarters will be upgraded to theater general headquarters in wartime, responsible for commanding the troops in the area under their jurisdiction, but in peacetime, they are only in charge of the police, security, etc. Premier Sun.

In fact, there are still some such people in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, especially in Shanghai.This ten-mile foreign field where fish and dragons are mixed together seems to be out of the reach of the Kuomintang's military strength. Various factions and forces that are excluded by the Kuomintang have their bases and activities here, and the Shanghai Bank Association is one of them.

Unlike those progressives and left-wing writers, the reason why the tycoons of the Shanghai Bank Association were dissatisfied with the KMT’s reactionary rule was not because of their dictatorship, but because the KMT’s economic policy seriously hurt their economic interests. That is, they are not allowed to print money.

Printing money is probably the most lucrative business in the world, but this business is state-owned in most countries, and China in the 20s was one of the few countries in the world that had private money printing machines. The country is, uh, maybe the only one.At that time, the most profitable main business of China's financial industry was printing banknotes, followed by exchanging banknotes. In short, they all revolved around the transfer of banknotes, silver coins, silver taels, copper dollars, etc., while the foreign exchange business was mainly monopolized by foreign capital, and the loan business was a sideline business. .

And now, the person who broke the job has finally come!This person seems to be Sun Yat-sen!His Kuomintang is now going to issue legal currency, which is actually nothing. You can issue legal currency, and it doesn’t matter if multiple people print it.But the problem is that the KMT wants to be dictatorship now. What is dictatorship?Dictatorship in the financial industry means that only I am allowed to print money, and no one else is allowed to print money!Do you think the KMT is bad?

In this way, the troubles of the major banks will be endless immediately, because the banknotes they print cannot be circulated, and if the banknotes cannot be circulated, people will naturally not use it as a painting for collection, and will soon take it to the bank cash.Well, cashing means exchanging bills for silver dollars.The banknotes at that time could theoretically be cashed in silver dollars, although in history, incidents that could not be cashed often occurred. For example, the Bank of Communications made such a fool of itself. The Bank of Communications and the Bank of China, which are controlled by the Beiyang government, overdrafted tens of millions of yuan. Then, the emperor failed to make it, and the banknotes were spent, so they ran out.This incident is known as the "Beijing Banknote Incident" in history. At that time, the Bank of Communications stopped the exchange due to too much deficit, but the Shanghai Branch of the Bank of China opened the exchange under the command of Song Hanzhang and Zhang Jiaao, overcoming this trend and establishing a reputation.I don't know how many of those banks can withstand the cash-out trend this time?

By around 1925, the banknotes issued by the Bank of China had reached as high as 1 million yuan. The 1 million yuan banknotes should theoretically receive 1 million silver dollars, and no interest should be paid on this money.For Bank of China, this is millions of profits per year!If the legal currency is to be robbed of the job now, can the Bank of China agree?

And there is also a banknote exchange business that will be ruined because of legal currency. The so-called exchange of banknotes of course includes the exchange between banknotes, silver taels, various types of silver dollars, and copper dollars.Hehe, it's so troublesome!It is a cost for industrial and commercial people, and it is a handling fee for bankers. You can make money once you change it!This kind of business has no risks and high profits. If the banknotes are unified into legal tender in the future, and silver dollars and silver coins are all withdrawn, wouldn't the business of exchanging banknotes be worthless now?

In order to keep their golden jobs, it is a conspiracy to boycott the rightists of the KMT by the way. The financial industry in Shanghai united and elected Song Hanzhang and Li Ming as leaders to boycott the entry of legal currency into Shanghai.At that time, Shanghai was like the heart of China's financial industry, and banknotes and silver dollars were blood. If legal currency cannot enter Shanghai, it is like blood cannot enter the heart, so it cannot enter all aspects of the Chinese economy.

Of course, the Kuomintang cannot tolerate this kind of situation. Even Sun Yat-sen, who is recovering from illness, is furious, so the protagonist Luo Yaoguo has no choice but to cooperate with Song Ziwen and Zhang Jingjiang to negotiate with Shanghai's financial tycoons!This meaning, of course, is self-evident.

Chapter 0150 people are not young and Dangerous

In 1925, there were no row upon row of high-rise buildings on the Bund in Shanghai, such as the Sassoon Building, the Bank of China Building, and the Broadway Building.At this time, there are some long wooden passages extending towards the river on the bank of the Bund. These are used by ships to board and disembark passengers. Luo Yaoguo and Lin Yiyao led a few bodyguards down the ship's gangway to these passages, and then walked again. To the shore of the Bund.

A handsome and slender man walked towards Luo Yaoguo and bowed deeply: "Mr. Fu, student Dai Li has met Mr. Fu."

It turned out that he was Dai Li, the most feared spy chief in history. Luo Yaoguo made an exception and entered Whampoa Phase I the year before last, so he respected this vice principal very much.Now he is the new director of the Operations Division of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and this time he is in charge of operations in Shanghai.

Uh, what do you mean by action?Hehe, it means that people who don't know how to move can no longer move. In short, with the advancement of political training, the Kuomintang is showing more and more authoritarian side.

"Jun Zuo, Chen Cheng, Commander of Shanghai Garrison and Commander of the No.11 Division of the National Revolutionary Army. Here comes his heavyweight.

"Brother Cixiu, Yu Nong, thank you for your hard work." Luo Yaoguo smiled and nodded at them as a return of courtesy.

The Shanghai Garrison Headquarters was located in Longhua, Luo Yaoguo and Dai Li were in the same car at the Shanghai Station of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and Lin Yiyao was given a ride by Chen Cheng to go on the road together.

On the way, Dai Li took out an envelope and three letters of appointment from his pocket, handed them to Luo Yaoguo, and said with a smile, "Mr. Fu, this is what the principal asked me to bring to you. The three people on the letter of appointment are the key to the entry of legal currency into Shanghai. As long as the three of them nod their heads, the tycoons of the Banking Association will not dare to lose face."

Uh, it turns out that in this era there are still people with more face than Sun Yat-sen!Luo Yaoguo quickly took over the three-point appointment letter and took a look, hehe, the three names are really impressive, Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, Zhang Xiaolin, aren't these the three young and Dangerous boys on the beach?Now Jiang alone has appointed them a naval and army adviser and a major general of the Military Commission to participate in the council!

Luo Yaoguo was slightly taken aback, shook his head and said, "These bankers may really have something to hide, we still have to treat each other with courtesy, how can we use the underworld?"

"Underworld?" Dai Li shook his head suspiciously: "Fugong, don't get me wrong, they are not underworld, they are all good people, and they are very reasonable people. In Shanghai, if you want to be reasonable, you have to stand out from them. Back then, our principal If there is any difficulty, just go to the Huangmen, and then ask Mr. Huang to come out and reason."

Oh, it turns out that they are all reasonable people, and even Lao Jiang is a disciple of Huang Jinrong!Luo Yaoguo was stunned again and again, before he opened his mouth for a while: "Yunong, tell me, who among the three of them is the most reasonable? Let's go find him first."

Does this count as doing as the Romans do?The dignified commander-in-chief of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang police does not want to arrest the underworld elements, but instead asks the underworld to come forward and speak the truth.However, thinking about it is also true, Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng seem to be more reasonable than those warlords, politicians and Soviet Russia.

"Among the three, Mr. Huang is the most powerful right now, but Du Yuesheng must be the most powerful in the future." Dai Li smiled and introduced: "This Du Yuesheng is known as the contemporary Chunshen Lord. Hero, he also entertained Li Yuanhong in Shanghai last year. People like Yan Fu and Yang Du are on good terms with him now, and the first thing we need to gain a firm foothold in Shanghai is his support."

"Du Yuesheng." Luo Yaoguo nodded. I have heard of this person's name in his previous life. He is the biggest young and Dangerous boy on the beach, and he has the best relationship with Dai Li. Going to visit, do you want to prepare some gifts?"

Dai Li heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Mr. Fu's visit in person is enough to give Du Yuesheng face. This letter of appointment is enough as a gift. I will contact brother Yuesheng when I return to the security headquarters."

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The commander-in-chief of Jiangsu and Zhejiang police wants to visit a young and Dangerous boy, hehe, of course this face is big enough.Before this, Du Yuesheng's friends were all warlords and politicians who had stepped down, but those who were still on stage did not come to visit in person.Therefore, Yue Sheng, a tycoon in Shanghai, did not dare to neglect. The mansion on Dumei Road in the French Concession is decorated with lights and festoons, and the disciples who come and go are all disciples with bunts and sleeves rolled up. Ten steps and one whistle, it seems quite heavily guarded.

Getting off the car, Luo Yaoguo immediately saw a middle-aged man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, dressed in a blue cloth gown, standing respectfully outside the gate of the mansion, followed by three or two doormen to clean up the guests.

Dai Li pointed to the gentle man in a long gown and smiled, "Mr. Fu, this is the well-known and well-known Mr. Du Yuesheng."

I saw Dai Li standing neatly next to a tall and handsome young lieutenant general, introducing himself.Du Yuesheng naturally knew that the other party was Luo Yaoguo, commander-in-chief of Jiangsu and Zhejiang garrison and member of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government.How dare he be negligent now, he immediately took a step forward with a smile on his face, cupped his hands and said: "My humble servant is Du Yuesheng, I have met General Fuwen."

Looking at the thin and gentle man in front of him, Luo Yaoguo said heartily, it seems that Du Yuesheng is really not a young and Dangerous boy, and he can't pretend to be a robber with his body.So imitating Du Yuesheng's appearance, he clasped his fists and replied: "Mr. Du, I have long admired you, I have admired you for a long time."

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries, and Du Yuesheng invited a decent-looking man in his fifties to come forward, and introduced him: "This is the famous Mr. Yang Xizi, who has been staying in Shanghai for a while. Here is a guest." In order to prove that he is not a young and Dangerous boy but a gentleman, this Du Yuesheng liked to make friends with celebrities at that time, such as Yang Du next to him.

"Mr. Xizi, the junior Luo Yaoguo is very polite." Luo Yaoguo gave a respectful military salute to Yang Du, not daring to be arrogant at all. Yang Du is an old man of Sun Yat-sen's generation, and now he is also a member of the Kuomintang. Uh, maybe he is still A member of the Communist Party, he helped Yuan Datou become the emperor in the past, but no one was left behind.

Yang Du can still be active for a while in another time and space, but now because of Luo Yaoguo's butterfly effect, he is living a happy otaku life ahead of time, without worrying about food, drink, and money, so he is naturally quite satisfied.He smiled slightly, and nodded his head as a salute. He said, "Luo Fuwen, hehe, it's a lucky moment for Sun Yat-sen to get someone like you. Fuwen came to Shanghai this time to deal with Song Hanzhang and Zhang Gongquan who don't know what to do. ?”

Luo Yaoguo frowned slightly, shook his head and said, "No, no. Yaoguo is just here to help Mr. Ziwen get to the front line and find out about the situation. It is definitely not to embarrass a few banking tycoons. Our Kuomintang has great influence on the national financial industry It still needs to be supported.”

"Come inside, please come inside." Du Yuesheng seemed to let out a sigh of relief, and immediately invited Luo Yaoguo and Dai Li into the Dumei Road mansion with smiling faces.

When they came to the living room, several people sat down according to the guests and hosts, and the servants brought tea and pastries.Everyone chatted about the major events in Shanghai while sipping tea, and the atmosphere was relaxed.