The journey starts from the Titanic

What a proud guy!

Lv Bihua heard Situ Nan's voice without any respect, and thought to himself, she glanced at Situ Nan, and Situ Nan faced it calmly.

Lu Bihua has a wide range of knowledge. From her, Situ Nan knows that there are many Chinatowns in Japan. In addition to overseas students, there are also many Chinese businessmen in Japan.

"As early as the Ming Dynasty, there were Chinese businessmen going to Japan to do business. For example, there are thousands of Chinese businessmen near Tokyo, most of whom are from Wenzhou." Lu Bihua introduced.

"Wenzhou native?" Situ Nan was taken aback for a moment, and quickly relieved, then smiled, "It's a pity."

"What a pity?" Lu Bihua asked.

"Nothing!" Situ Nan said.I thought, could he tell Lu Bihua that in the great Tokyo earthquake in the near future, North Koreans and Chinese were massacred, and the deceased should be the Wenzhou businessman named Lu Bihua?

It’s just ridiculous that the Chinese are still donating money and materials to the Japanese who slaughtered their own compatriots. The first material ship in Tokyo came from Shanghai.

There is no way to be cheap.

Situ Nan shook his head.Get rid of these absurd things.

"Thank you Miss Lu for the report written to Hanyang Iron Factory. It is very well written and aroused the confidence of the people in the steel industry." Situ Nan praised.Although he has more than a hundred years of knowledge than others, he can even talk about some topics such as "The Rise of Great Powers". When it comes to Wubi and Wenwen, he is far inferior to Lu Bihua.

"Mr. Situ has a good reputation. I'm just icing on the cake. An industrialist like you is admirable." Lu Bihua said modestly.At this moment, she suddenly thought of Yu Mingyu, the reckless, bold and hot engineer.

"The rise of Japan reminds me of the story of the rise and fall of European powers in modern times. I hope to discuss some topics with Miss Lu. It would be best if they can be compiled into a book." Situ Nan looked at Lu Bihua expectantly.

It is a long journey to think about it. If you can write the CCTV version of "The Rise of a Great Power" and your own feelings that you have seen in your previous life through Lu Bihua's wonderful pen, it will be a good thing.

In the following days, Situ Nan and Lu Bihua had a very happy conversation, and occasionally his secretary He Yongyuan and Laura also participated in the discussion.However, Situ Nan's thinking is the main focus.

Lv Bihua was very interested in this work. After listening to Situ Nan telling the stories of major countries, she felt that this trip to Europe and America couldn't be more correct.

The long journey gave them plenty of time to devote themselves to creation, especially the large number of books collected by Situ Nan on the boat provided Lv Bihua with abundant materials.When they were from San Francisco, this Situ Nan version of "The Rise of the Great Powers" was roughly finalized.

Of course, a lot of Situ Nan's private goods have been added, such as saving the country by industry.

"Mr. Situ is a great talent! I think that after the publication of "The Rise of Great Powers", it will definitely cause a sensation, and Mr. Situ will become famous." Lu Bihua said.

When she walked into the Situ Nan William, she realized that Situ Nan was even bigger than she had imagined...Perhaps she could only be described as a talented person!

"Publishing? No, no, no!" Situ Nan shook his head. He didn't plan to publish this book, but only let the senior executives of Meihua Company circulate within a small range of the Communist Party.

"Oh!" Lu Bihua was disappointed.Although it was her ghostwriter, the original Situ Nan did not intend to be published publicly, and she had to recognize it.

Chapter 141 The Past of Guangdong and Guangxi-Digging the Wall

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Time went back to half a year ago, March 1920.Zhangzhou, Fujian.It was a bright spring.

In the disturbed China, here seems to be a pure land.A middle-aged man dressed in military uniform with a calm temperament was walking on the tattered and tidy street with a man of the same age, long beard and green robe, talking from time to time.They have a smile on their faces and the atmosphere of the conversation is good.

They are Chen Jiongming, commander of the Cantonese Army, and Situ Meiden, the leader of the Zhi Gong Party.Very early, the two met when they were fighting against the Qing Dynasty, and they also took on a deep friendship.

"King, you practice in Model County here, the effect is good! If everyone is like you, just have this kind of mind." Situ Meiden said.

"It's just a little bit of effort. Now that we have knocked down this place, we have to manage it well. Speaking of it, I still have your support from Jizan." Chen Jiongming shook his head after smiling lightly, "Alas, Guidian is in Guangdong. Fighting will bring disaster to the village. Whenever we can fight back to our hometown, it will be fine."

In mid-December 1917, Zhu Qinglan, then governor of Guangdong Province, returned the guards of the 12th Battalion of Chen Jiongming and reorganized them into the "Aid to Fujian and Protect the Guangdong Army" and marched into Fujian to resist the offensive of Fujian Governor Li Houji.To a certain extent, it was also pushed out by the Southwest warlords such as Guangxi and Dian.

Chen Jiongming also served as the supervisor of Hui Chaomei. He set up a local financing bureau, built a bomb factory and other facilities in Shanwei, and assisted the locals in building roads, developing economic education, and reforming bad habits.

In 1918, Chen led his army into Zhangzhou again. After the armistice with the Beiyang Army in Fujian, Chen Jiongming began to practice his political ideal-local autonomy in Zhangzhou.

Zhi Gong Dang and Meihua Company have been paying attention to Chen Jiongming's Cantonese army, and have provided financial support to Chen Jiongming since he was squeezed out of Guangdong.

At the request of Chen Jiongming, Meihua invested in small factories in Shantou, Zhangzhou and other places on the border between Guangdong and Fujian. It was a bit of cooperating with Chen Jiongming's model construction, but it actually made some money.

This is not the first time Situ Meideng has visited Chen Jiongming. Every time he comes, this old friend will bring great help to Chen Jiongming.

What Chen Jiong was secretly grateful for was that during the most difficult time for the Cantonese army, he had to rely on weapons funds funded by his old friend Situ Meideng several times.After more than two years of "nourishment", the Cantonese army not only did not disband, but also expanded slightly to maintain the level of 20,000.

Knowing that Situ Meideng had something to discuss, Chen Jiongming and Chen Jiongming walked into an ordinary yard after a short walk.The yard is small, and it doesn't match Chen Jiongming's identity, but Situ Meideng admires Chen Jiongming's simple style.

"Are those lads of mine okay? Do you need to take advantage of it?" Situ Mei Deng asked with a smile.

Last year, Situ Meideng brought a group of arms and some military personnel to Chen Jiongming to help the Guangdong Army train soldiers.The Guangxi army controlled the Guangzhou regime, and Chen Jiongming's Guangdong army was also excluded. In order to strengthen Chen Jiongming's military strength, the Zhi Gong party successively sent 100 low-ranking non-commissioned officers to the Guangdong army, which greatly enriched Chen Jiongming's originally thin Guangdong army.

These military personnel are either Nanyang children or Guangdong workers who have gone abroad. Some have also been trained by security consulting companies and have commanding capabilities at the platoon and company level.Taking into account the quality of the Chinese military, these non-commissioned officers who have returned from abroad should be qualified for higher-level positions.

Chen Jiongming is also relying more and more on these non-commissioned officers. In his opinion, the non-commissioned officers sent by the Zhi Gong party are young and vigorous, with flexible minds and better quality than domestic officers. More importantly, they do not have bad habits such as prostitution, gambling, and drugs. Can serve as the backbone of the Guangdong Army.

"Very good. They are all pretty good. They are skilled in business and have helped me a lot. They are all rare seeds in the army. Especially the staff system they are preparing to establish is very good, which greatly improves the combat capability of our army." Chen Jiongming praised not Exclaimed.

In fact, the current staff system in the Guangdong Army is very low-level, but it also has its advantages for the chaotic domestic warlords.

Zhangzhou is poor and weak, and it is not difficult to recruit troops, but the lack of qualified military cadres gives him a headache.However, since he secretly introduced a group of military instructors from Nanyang, he now has a lot of relief and can concentrate on planning the strategy of the Guangdong army.

"There is also the munitions my brother previously provided. The quality is also good. The officers and soldiers like it very much. It's much better than those old brass sets. Thank you, brother." Chen Jiongming smiled.

In the past two years, Situ Meideng and Chen Jiongming have moved more and more frequently, the cooperation between Zhi Gong Party and Chen Jiongming has also been deepened, and the relationship between the two parties has also become closer.At least in terms of human and material resources, the Cantonese army can maintain its current level without the support of Situ Meitang and Zhi Gong Dang...

Chen Jiongming knows that the Nanyang Zhi Gong Party represented by Situ Meitang has reached a relatively unanimous view on many issues and tends to get closer and closer.

"Our Nanyang secretly trained troops. After introducing a group of officers from Germany, the quality of the army improved rapidly. In order to accumulate experience, some seeds were secretly sent back to China to participate in the next Guangdong-Guangxi War. This time, my brother is going to help You are here. You know that the peace in Zhangzhou will be broken right away!" Situ Meideng said straight to the point.This is one of the purposes of his coming today.

"I can't ask for it! Now that the Gui family wants to dominate Guangdong, the Gui army and the Yunnan army have become nasty and have already started fighting. There are also many generals in the army clamoring to fight back, and I am annoyed. The opposite is hundreds of thousands. Gui Jun, I am not sure of victory!" Chen Jiongming said, "Furthermore, I quarreled with Sun Wen. There were a lot of complaints in the army, and some people also left the army. Fortunately, there are people you brought, Sun Wen's people left quietly."

After speaking, he sighed quietly.Relying on the barren Zhangzhou Chaoshan to maintain the Cantonese army that grandma doesn't care like grandpa doesn't love, Chen Jiongming is exhausted.The bitterness is difficult to tell outsiders.Now Zhi Gong Dang has become the biggest support of the Guangdong Army. At least in terms of funds and munitions, the Guangdong Army cannot do without Zhi Gong Dang for the time being. In addition, many non-commissioned officers of Zhi Gong Dang have been added to the army. The military's influence is growing.

In this regard, Chen Jiongming knew very well that the two sides cooperated happily and there has been no conflict.Compared with Sun Wen and the Kuomintang, who commanded random orders, Situ Meideng and Zhi Gong Dang were much more pragmatic, and often considered the interests of the Guangdong army.

Chen Jiongming, who is supported by the Zhi Gong Party, is not without reason, but also with the consent of Situ Nan.Looking at China, there are countless warlords, and only two of them are truly farming, one is Yan Xishan in the north, and the other is Chen Jiongming in the south.

Chen Jiongming is not very ambitious, he has no idea of ​​being a king and hegemony. His greatest wish is local autonomy, quietly nesting in Guangdong, building the place well and realizing his ideals.

Although he had followed Sun Wen, the two were essentially too different to get along.Sun has prestige, but he has no strength, so he has to rely on other people's troops. Naturally, Chen Jiongming has become his most important force.

Later generations thought that Chen Jiongming betrayed Sun Wen, but it sounds reasonable, but it is not.After all, the army belonged to Chen, not the surname Sun, but just borrowed Sun's name temporarily.

Just like the Foxconn foundry, although it produces Apple mobile phones, Foxconn does not belong to Apple, and it may not be possible that Foxconn will cooperate with Samsung in the next moment.

In Situ Nan's view, Chen Jiongming's Guangdong army is in such an awkward situation, so Zhi Gong Dang has always wanted to promote Chen Jiong Ming to cooperate with Zhi Gong Dang, self-employed, and branded its own brand.Otherwise, it would be a pity to be used up and thrown away like history.

"Jingcun, last time you separated from Sun Wen, he didn't embarrass you?" Situ Meideng asked with a smile, and nodded again. "It's good to leave early, and now we can cooperate more deeply."

"It's nothing, it's just a few words of scolding. I am used to it. Compared with him, it is always someone else who is wrong. Last time Xu Chongzhi took 2,000 people from me. I didn't say anything. The military is willing to follow him. I won’t stay either. Well, how should I say? Sun Wen and I are easy to say, but each has its own ideas, he has his stubbornness, and I also have some persistence. After all, I can’t get along. It’s better to separate friendly. "

Chen Jiongming sighed faintly.silence.Last year, during a strategic discussion on the Guangdong Army, Chen Jiongming accidentally raised the plan of inter-provincial autonomy, which was scolded by Sun Wen.After criticizing Chen Jiongming, Sun Wen also asked the Guangdong army to expedition to the north and crusade against the northern warlords in Jiangxi, but Chen Jiongming refused.The reason is that the Cantonese army is now nesting on the border between Guangdong and Fujian, and it is hard to save a little strength. It is absolutely inevitable to consume with powerful enemies.