The journey starts from the Titanic

"It is said that it came from Guangdong. The bank in Guangdong proposed to invest in the construction of the Guangdong-Han Railway to connect Guangzhou to Wuchang. They have already applied to the Ministry of Communications, and they have also contacted the gentry in Hunan and Hubei to raise funds." Song Weichen Tao, he also has some expectations.

"Cantonese guys are so rich? Want to build railways?" Liu Hongsheng was a little surprised, and immediately shook his head, "The Ministry of Communications has no money, and Guangdong banks should not be able to support so much funds. Moreover, the railway relationship is complicated, as evidenced by the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. "

"Why is it impossible? Isn't the Guangdong section built by Guangdong merchants to raise funds? The Changsha-Zhuzhou section of the railway has also been repaired in Hunan. At least it is not a big problem to connect Huguang from Shaoguan, but no one will do it. It's just deserted."

Song Ziwendao.In his opinion, the Chinese people of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway are fully capable of self-construction. It is only that the Qing Dynasty is mediocre, faint, and savagely nationalized, will the project be interrupted, otherwise it will be repaired and opened to traffic.Thinking of this, he scolded that ah, Yue Zhang Sheng Xuanhuai again in his heart.

"Ziwen makes sense. People everywhere are eager to open to traffic, but it's just a lot of trouble and foreigners are involved, so... Anyway, wait and see!" Song Weichen sighed.

Song Ziwen thought about Guangdong Bank, faintly feeling that the matter was related to Meihua Company.He suddenly remembered that the Guangdong Bank was going to take a stake in Hanyang Iron Works, but then nothing came of it. Situ Nan once said that they had another investment. I wonder if it was referring to...

Thinking of this, Song Ziwen's heart flew to Shanghai thousands of miles away. He wanted to ask Situ Nan the answer.

Song Weichen really eats well in Hankou. He has served as the chairman of Hankou Chamber of Commerce several times and has a close relationship with Hankou businessmen.Under his recommendation, Song Ziwen met Liu Xinsheng, the real estate king of Hankou.Liu Xinsheng has a large amount of land in the Hankou circle. In order to develop the land and build civil engineering, a large amount of steel is needed.

Song Ziwen happened to catch up with him. He received an order for 1,000 tons of pig iron and 50 tons of steel from Liu Xinsheng, which opened up the building materials market in Hankou.

At this time, it was Situ Nan in Shanghai who had originally left Shanghai, but was delayed by the Guangdong-Han Railway.As the railroad matter is so extensive, he had to stay for a while, and then return to the United States after the incident.

Chapter 137 Renewal of Guangdong-Han Railway (Part 1)

In Hong Kong, Li Yutang’s family came to a familiar but not-so-welcome guest. He was Chen Shaobai, and Sun Yat-sen, You Lie, and Yang Heling were called the "Four Bandits" by the Qing government and an important figure in the late Qing National Revolution. .

He is a good friend of Li Yutang. He used to go to Li's house very often to prepare funds.However, since he abducted the only young master of the Li family and sacrificed himself in the revolution, he had fewer visits.

That was more than ten years ago, but now that I think about it, Chen Shaobai feels sorry for Li Yutang. The huge Li family has a wealth of wealth and does not have an heir. It is a pity.

He looked at Li Yutang with a silent face, with a lot of emotion in his heart, picked up the tea, and put it down heavily.

"At the beginning, I was young and vigorous, and I was thinking about overthrowing the Manchu Qing without thinking too much. Now that I think about it, I still feel a little guilty!" Chen Shaobai sighed.

Li Yutang raised his head, his squinted eyes opened a lot, glanced at Chen Shaobai, then lowered again, Chen Shaobai's words aroused his inner pain.After a pause, he said solemnly: "I can't blame you completely for this matter. Everyone has his own life. Didn't I stop him at the time? It's been so long, let him go!"

"Yeah." Chen Shaobai nodded, took a sip of tea, and stopped talking.

"What are you doing this time?" Li Yutang asked.

"I heard that you are going to build the railway? Is there such a thing?" Chen Shaobai asked.You are referring to the Bank of Guangdong. Recently, there have been rumors that the Bank of Guangdong organized gentry merchants to raise funds to build the Guangdong-Han Railway to connect Guangdong Province and Hunan. This has attracted public attention.

"Yeah. It's true!" Li Yutang nodded, somewhat curious as to why Chen Shaobai suddenly asked this question.

"Is the funds enough?" Chen Shaobai said again.

"Fortunately!" Li Yutang looked at Chen Shaobai with some caution.Every time I talk about money, this guy takes money away from him. Although he is greedy for a penny, Li Yutang feels like an undefended cash machine for a long time. Chen Shaobai can withdraw it without his account password. Take the money, because he has the word revolution written on his head.

Seeing the alert look of his old friend, Chen Shaobai was slightly abrupt, feeling that his image was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.He smiled bitterly and said: "Don't worry, this time you are not asking for money, I am sending you money."

"What do you say?" Li Yutang was stunned, raised his head, and looked at Chen Shaobai with a little astonishment, as if this guy was a little abnormal today?

"I just sold the shipping company and I have some money in my hand. I just heard that your bank is going to invest in railways. I thought about spending a lot of money, so I also see if I can help?" Chen Shaobai said, sighing lightly. , "I owe you, I won't pay it off in this life. It can be regarded as my little care!"

Chen Shaobai took a cheque from his pocket and handed it to Li Yutang.

Li Yutang took a look, good fellow, 500,000!Li Yutang had to admire Chen Shaobai's generosity.

"Who did the company sell to?" he asked.

"The British wanted it too, but I sold it to a Nanyang businessman, and now even the Xidi Dock has become the property of the Southern Star Shipping Company." Chen Shaobai said.After the success of the Revolution of 1911, he resigned from his official position, devoted himself to the cause of transportation, and founded Guangdong Airlines.

"South Star Shipping Company?" Li Yutang felt bright. Chen Shaobai unknowingly sold the company to Meihua, and it was a coincidence that his Guangdong Bank was also a partner of Meihua.

Li Yutang smiled slightly and put down the check, "I can't ask you for this money! You'd better save it to do something else!"

"Why? I know that although your bank has developed well in the past few years, building railways is not an ordinary thing. Naturally, the more funds the better. The big deal is my investment!" Chen Shaobai became anxious when Li Yutang refused. .

"Your kindness is appreciated, but this investment is not trivial. It may not make money for several years, and you may lose money, so thank you." Li Yutang insisted.

"Then your bank is going to do something that is not profitable? This is not..." Chen Shaobai said, stopped here, this has already involved commercial secrets.

"Don't worry! We will pay part of the money, but most of the money is from others." Li Yutang smiled.Then he asked, "Are you still mixing with those people?"

"Do you mean?"

"Don't you always think about brain revolution?" Li Yutang reminded.

Chen Shaobai immediately understood that it turned out to be those people in the Tongmenghui.He smiled, and said: "These years have been disturbing. I have seen you come and go, but I am not that important. Besides, I'm very old now, you said it is possible to press my finger. Are you loyal to someone? When you are old, I am ready to go back to the country when I come to see you this time. Over the past few decades, I have received a lot of help from the villagers, but unfortunately I have not done anything for them. Right!"

Chen Shaobai smiled faintly, feeling suddenly open.He is a native of Jiangmen, Guangdong. Before the revolution, he ran around to prepare funds and raised a lot of funds from folks in Xinhui, Taishan and other places.It was the funds of overseas Chinese that contributed to several vigorous revolutions in the late Qing Dynasty and laid the foundation for the subsequent Revolution of 1911.

"Can you do me a little favor?" Li Yutang looked at Chen Shaobai, feeling like "Brothers are here, we will meet each other with a smile."

"Please speak!"

"Help me contact the construction of the railway. We have established the Guangdong-Han Railway Preparatory Committee. We need a person with a wide network, agility, and prestige to run and contact." Li Yutang said, "The current chairman of the Guangzhou Guardian Military Government is Cen Chunxuan. With a wide range of others, with his support, railway matters will be more certain."

"What? You want me to find the butcher Cen Chunxuan? Forget it, you should kill me!" Chen Shaobai shook his head repeatedly.The three most important feudal officials in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai, and Cen Chunxuan, were respectively called Qiantu (very good at spending money, no bottom), Rentu (suppressing the Boxer riots), and Guantu (severely cracking down on corruption).

Cen Chunxuan's sea of ​​ups and downs, several times of ups and downs, have been with him like hatred, most of the officialdom is corrupted.When he was governor of Sichuan, 300 officials were impeached at once!Almost all the directors of Renjia's street office have been impeached.

When I was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, it was even too much. 1,400 officials followed his way and went home to farm.Therefore, the officials under his rule will not talk about the change of color.Such a person is really a big alien in the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty!It was terrible, and the name of official tutor came from this.(If he is allowed to be in charge of the party whip in a hundred years, it is estimated that half of the officials of a certain party will die, and the remaining half will defect to foreign countries.) As for why Chen Shaobai should be afraid of Cen Chunxuan?That's because someone in Hong Kong offered a reward of 1 million taels of silver for Cen Chunxuan to step down.The charm of silver has a fatal temptation for Chen Shaobai, who has worked so hard to raise funds for the revolution. He used the retake technique to make a photo of Cen Chunxuan, Kang Youwei, and Liang Qichao as if they were enjoying each other.

Although there is no computer, Chen Shaobai's ps technology is quite powerful and vivid.At that time, it was when Cixi killed Guangxu and the Reformers. Chen Shaobai sent the photos to the Shanghai newspapers, and immediately put Cen Chunxuan on the cusp, um, mainly because of Galeries Lafayette.Who doesn't know that she hates royalists the most. Fortunately, Cen Chunxuan managed to deal with her brother Li Lianying (brother to the eunuch?), and Cen Chunxuan saved her life, otherwise...

Although Cen Chunxuan is not easy to pursue after so many years, he still has a guilty conscience for Chen Shaobai to come to Cen Chunxuan.Now that people are in control, who knows if the mood is bad...

Thinking of this, Chen Shaobai felt tight and looked at Li Yutang sadly.But this is the first time in decades that an old friend needs his own help. He can't bear to refuse.

"Yutang, you better let me go! I am most afraid of two people in this world, one is you and the other is him, you are all my nemesis." Chen Shaobai said pitifully.

"Haha! I didn't expect you to be afraid too?" Li Yutang laughed openly, "Don't worry! Guangzhou City is about to fight, and Cen Chunxuan will be beautiful in a few days. The railway officials will come forward to deal with it, so you don't need to worry about it. . Just joking with you."

"That's fine!" Chen Shaobai felt relieved, and he almost agreed to the request that made him "horrified" just now.Listening to Li Yutang's tone, it seemed as though he knew that a major event was about to happen in Guangdong's political arena. Chen Shaobai immediately became sensitive. This old friend had rarely asked about these things before. This time it seems a little different.

"Yutang, are you hiding something from me?" Chen Shaobai asked.

Li Yutang looked at Chen Shaobai’s clear eyes, and pondered for a moment: “The Guangdong and Guangxi are about to go to war, the Cantonese army is about to fight back, and the Gui army is about to withdraw from Guangdong. Then the whole of Guangdong will be controlled by us."

"We? Who are you?" Chen Shaobai asked, he discovered the secret.

"It's similar to what you did before, but it's quite different. We are going to experiment with something on our own site." Li Yutang said, "Remember Situ Meiden? You used to go to the United States to ask someone for money. Yes. You know it after seeing him, but I hope we stand together this time."...

After a night of in-depth discussions, Chen Shaobai sighed again and again."I'll just say why Jiangmen has developed so fast in the past few years. At the same time, there are a large number of young people going abroad every year. They were all organized and left. When they came back a few years later, they either had a hair or a strong body. I was also secretly surprised by the change. You are in the next big chess game! I didn't expect that I was running for half my life, and when I was old, I knew that my pattern was still small."

"Yeah! I only have this interest now, let's talk about being a teenager!" Li Yutang sighed.The light in his eyes shone, he had no children, no worries, instead of waiting for his old age, he might as well be vigorous.

"Okay! Count me, let me go crazy with you! I may not be able to help with the railway, but my old bones are still useful for running the revolution. I hope this old face is still useful. Count what I owe you." Chen Shaobai smiled.

Situ Nan wittily referred to Li Yutang's actions as a "sunset revolution."After a generation of wealthy businessmen from Nanyang and Guangdong joined as Meihua's partners, many people joined the Zhi Gong Party. Under the influence of Situ Nan, some people had a positive attitude, and they were both busy with revolution and making money.