The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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When Jiangyu was organizing the peasant association, the domestic situation also changed a lot. First, the North and the South held peace talks under the mediation of the United Kingdom in early December.

Yuan Shikai sent Tang Shaoyi, and the South sent Wu Tingfang. The differences between the two sides were a bit big. Just as Jiang Yu expected, Yuan Shikai initially intended to adopt a constitutional monarchy. [

In this way, Yuan Shikai has many advantages. First of all, he does not need to bear the infamy of devouring the ruler, and after the constitutional monarchy is established, he does not need any elections.

But the Southern Revolutionary Party refused to accept this proposal, but insisted that the Manchu abdicate and establish the Republic of China.

In order to instigate Yuan Shikai, a powerful faction, Sun Wen promised Yuan Shikai that as long as he supported the republic, he would let Yuan Shikai be the president.

Yuan Shikai then faced two problems. One was what would he do if the peace talks collapsed?

If the Southern Revolutionary Army is wiped out by force, first all the birds will hide their bows, and the cunning rabbits will die.Second, he has no money to play, and the British do not support him to play.

After the 10-year stock market crash in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, due to the financial turmoil, the bankruptcy of the bank caused the Manchu Qing to lose a large amount of public funds. In addition, when the revolution broke out, it was the autumn harvest, and the southern taxes could not be collected, so there was no money at all.

You can't even fight, and you don't have the money to fight.

Yuan Shikai saw this, and at the end of December Tang Shaoyi also recognized the republic and no longer insisted on a constitutional monarchy.

Since Sun Dapao returned to China, he immediately fought for power with Wuchang. Because Sun Dapao has been active for many years and is good at advocacy, he quickly suppressed the Wuchang government. On December 12, representatives from all provinces were called to elect the president of the Republic of China.

Representatives from Anhui Province were absent, and representatives from Jiangsu Province were distributed by Cheng Dequan. In the end, Sun Dapao was elected as the interim president of the Republic of China with 15 votes.

Sun Dapao was successfully elected as the president, that is, he borrowed money everywhere.

First of all, he borrowed money from the Japanese and said: If I don't have millions of silver, then I can only run away when I become the president.

The Japanese said: We can't change so much money for a while.

In the end, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce gave out 800 million taels of silver to support Sun Dapao's appointment as the interim president of the Republic of China.

Jiang Yu became jealous when he received the news.

"Damn, if you have money for Sun Dapao to eat, drink and have fun, why don't you come to Anhui and Subei to invest?" Jiang Yu was upset. As soon as the farmers' association was completed, they were non-stop preparing to hold an 'Industrial Development Conference', intending to attract national capital and form a joint venture. Start a factory.

As for foreign capital, Jiang Yu is determined not to lure wolves into the house.

Looking back on future generations, foreign capital grabs 60% of China's gp every year, thereby kidnapping the economy, politics, and diplomacy, leading to the overall collapse of the middle class and chronic undernutrition for the bottom class.

After all, foreign capital is foreign capital, and it is not our own. [

There is an effect in the economy called the 'trickle-down effect', that is, high-income groups consume, thereby passing nutrients layer by layer to low-income groups.

If foreign capital invests in a lot of industries, it is equivalent to a 'leakage', and it will continue to leak. Although it will prosper on the surface, it will not be the case in reality. Instead, it will cause very violent internal conflicts, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, Jiangyu does not introduce any foreign capital at all, but is extremely repelled by foreign capital. The Lianghuai Administration sets a high industrial and commercial tax, but there is a tax rebate policy for ethnic capital businessmen.At the same time, I notified the administrative staff below, what procedures to do for foreign capital, and so on.

In order to cultivate a group of ethnic businessmen who can serve the nation, Jiang Yu does not accept Chinese businessmen, but selects among these Chinese businessmen, those messy foreign comprador businessmen and those immoral businessmen are excluded. Those who can enter Jiangyu's eyes will be drawn into the "East China Chamber of Commerce".

The East China Chamber of Commerce is a disciplinary chamber of commerce organized by Jiangyu. Members who join the East China Chamber of Commerce must abide by various regulations.

First of all, you can't buy foreign luxury goods. If you want to buy them, you must apply to the chamber of commerce. If those luxury goods are really needed, and they are not produced in China, you can buy some.

At the same time, capital must have national boundaries, and cannot be borderless like international capital, which means that businessmen who join chambers of commerce cannot withdraw funds out of the country.

Furthermore, businessmen who joined the East China Chamber of Commerce should not be too extravagant in life, and should not over-occupy society's scarce resources, so as not to cause internal conflicts.For example, a house cannot exceed three buildings, and the floor area cannot exceed 150 square meters.Women are also a scarce resource in society, so they are forbidden to have three wives and four concubines. They can't help but go to brothels, and they can also marry a few foreign girls back home.

The last point is also the most important. All capital is focused on serving the nation, and must obey the command of the president of the chamber of commerce. When the nation faces difficulties, it must give money.

In return, Jiang Yu will open the door to them, give them great support, and carry out financial hunting and investment with them.

The establishment of the East China Chamber of Commerce is similar to that of the American Freemasons.

In addition to absorbing national capital businessmen with national consciousness, the Chamber of Commerce also absorbs various social elites. At the same time, it will also establish overseas branches to develop overseas members.

The Chamber of Commerce is divided into core members and peripheral members, and only the core members have access to the decision-making layer.

The larger the chamber of commerce, the wider the network and the wider the channels.Once a goal is set, a large number of contacts can be mobilized immediately, and professional elites will immediately come up with a complete implementation plan.

When the size of the chamber of commerce reaches a certain level, whoever wants to die in the market will die, and will definitely go bankrupt, thereby crowding out those merchants who are not used by the chamber of commerce from the market, and allowing more emerging merchants to flock to join the chamber of commerce.

This model is similar to that of the American Freemasonry, which is composed of various consortiums, and the system is basically the same as that of the East China Chamber of Commerce.

Zhang Jian, You Xianjia, Zhu Baosan and others became the first batch of members of the East China Chamber of Commerce developed by Jiangyu, and they participated in the Industrial Development Conference in Huaiyin.

During the conference, they visited the administration, army and factories of Huaiyin.

There were many things that shocked them. Jiang Yu had only returned to China for two years and made such a huge achievement, which made them, the older generation of businessmen, feel ashamed.

At the same time, I also realize that this young young man will be the master of China in the future.

In terms of economic strength, the economic strength controlled by Jiangyu is already the strongest in China, and the industrial capabilities are beyond the reach of Yuan Shikai or the Southern Revolutionary Party.

In terms of administration, they also saw a different atmosphere from the Nanjing government. [

After the establishment of the Nanjing government, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce supported Sun Dapao with 800 million taels of silver. As a result, the group of revolutionaries fought for power and profit all day long, and there were very few people who did practical things. , On the contrary, it makes the common people miss the days of the Manchu dynasty.

It is different in northern Jiangsu and Anhui, where the administrative atmosphere is clean, the officials are pragmatic, diligent, fair and law-abiding, and there is hardly any old bureaucratic atmosphere.

In the development of industries in northern Jiangsu and Anhui, the government has nothing to worry about.There will never be anyone to make trouble, and there will be no hooligans to blackmail.

At the same time, Jiangyu has also issued a lot of industrial and commercial support policies, but most of them are only available to members of the East China Chamber of Commerce.

For example, technical support, Jiangyu has a lot of advanced technology in hand, and has a network in Germany, which can exchange technology with German factories.

With a good administrative environment and social security, coupled with strong technological competitive advantages, today's northern Jiangsu and Anhui are gradually becoming a paradise for industrial and commercial development.

Jiangyu's various policies have changed the difficulty of developing industries in China and made everything easier.

At the same time, in terms of military strength, although the scale of the revival army is not large, it is definitely elite, and it also has its own arsenal. In addition, Jiang Yu has a lot of money in his hands, and he can expand the army at any time if necessary. The construction cost of the army is not high. high.

In contrast, both the Revolutionary Party and the Beiyang Army are very short on military expenditures.Moreover, Jiang Yu did not invest all his money in the military, but paid more attention to the development of the economy and industry, which would make Jiang Yu's power in his hands stronger and stronger.

After conducting some inspections, Zhang Jian, Zhu Baosan, You Xianjia and others joined the East China Chamber of Commerce one after another and became the first batch of core members.

Zhang Jian has a high reputation and connections in the business world, and Zhu Baosan, as the chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, also has a high reputation and connections. Although You Xianjia is not as good, he is also the chairman of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce.

They led the well-behaved businessmen from their respective chambers of commerce to the East China chamber of commerce one by one.If you want to enter the East China Chamber of Commerce, you must be guaranteed.

After joining, there will be a period of investigation.

Only after meeting the requirements in all aspects can you enjoy the benefits of the chamber of commerce.

The skeleton of the East China Chamber of Commerce began to take shape, and a business group under Jiang Yu's command was gradually born.

Zhang Jian, Zhu Baosan, You Xianjia and others who joined the East China Chamber of Commerce began to invest in industries in northern Jiangsu and Anhui.

Jiang Yu and Zhang Jian co-founded "Liangjiang Textile Company", and a trust-based textile group was born. Jiang Yu held 90% of the shares, Zhang Jian held 6% of the shares, and the remaining 4% were held by several other textile merchants. .Zhang Jian became the chairman of the board, integrated the textile mills owned by the shareholders of Liangjiang Textile Company, replaced them with the advanced textile equipment of Huadong Textile Factory, and began to merge other textile factories.

When all competitors are merged, a monopoly can form, which means excess profits.

However, there is no rush to merge local textile factories, because the cotton cloth market in China is flooded with a large amount of foreign cloth, with the most foreign cloth in Britain and Japan.

The first step is to defeat these foreign cloths and regain the local market.

The second step is to merge other textile factories.

With the textile technology controlled by Liangjiang Textile Company, it has a huge advantage in production cost, and it is not too difficult to defeat foreign cloth.

Zhu Baosan has cooperated with Jiangyu in many projects, and banking and insurance are the two most important ones. Zhu Baosan has previously opened "Commercial Bank" and "Hua'an Water and Fire Insurance Company". The most important cooperation project is that Zhu Baosan worked for Jiangyu. Guaranteed, loans from Bank of Shanghai and Qianzhuang.

Zhu Baosan is a gold-lettered signboard in Shanghai's financial circles. He is famous for his trustworthiness. He can borrow large sums of money with just a word from him.

You Xianjia and Jiangyu jointly established a sericulture base, silk reeling factory, and raw silk export.

After this industrial development conference, a total of 300 million national capitals were raised, and these national capitals were registered with the Lianghuai State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and hundreds of industrial companies were established.

Although these capitals are not much, the number of enterprises is quite large. With the support of Huadong Group, many enterprises have become stronger and bigger, showing a situation of blooming everywhere.

The industrial development of the Huaihe River and Huaihe River has already far ahead of the other provinces, and the gap has widened rapidly.

At this time, the provisional government of the Republic of China was established in Nanjing, and Yuan Shikai was also determined to force the Qing court to abdicate. However, the Qing court failed to abdicate for a long time.

It was not so easy for the Manchus to abdicate. The resistance came from the Young Man faction headed by Liang Bi.

Since January, Duan Qirui and more than 1 military officers have threatened the Manchu Qing government with two telegrams in succession, and moved the headquarters from the front line of Hankou to Baoding.

Baoding is very close to Beijing, and the threat is obvious.

The betrayal of the Beiyang army made Man Qing realize that it was possible to extinguish the southern revolution.But Liangbi believed that the Manchu Qing could still keep most of the north as long as they got rid of Yuan Shikai and then hijacked the Beiyang Army.

In the hands of Liangbi and the others, there are [-] imperial guards in their hands.The Imperial Guard Army is an army composed of many officers and Manchurians. They are well-equipped, and Yuan Shikai is also very afraid of the royal family and nobles who are responsible for defending the capital on weekdays.

Soon, the Imperial Guard launched a mutiny in Beijing.