The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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At this time in the Republic of China, there were quite a lot of nouveau riche. Many nouveau riche held banquets from the first day to the fifteenth day of the lunar new year. Anyone who went there would be warmly entertained. Generally, Chinese people would not come to have a big meal if they were not invited by friends. I feel ashamed. [

Those foreigners, on the other hand, ate and drank everywhere throughout the Chinese New Year, having a great time.

Those nouveau riche are very welcome. After all, they are rich, and they are not short of food and drink.During the Chinese New Year, the more people come to the door, the more lively it will be, and the happier they will be.

In Shanghai, a group of foreigners who had just disembarked joined the team of eating and drinking.

Among them was a foreigner named 'Einstein' who had just come to China from Germany and soon saw the hospitality of China.

Einstein ate and drank in Shanghai, and ate big meals every day. He had seen what hospitality is, and at the same time, he also saw what is lively in Shanghai.

Lion and dragon dances on the first day of the new year, the upstarts scramble to pay for people, and opera singers sing from the first day of the new year to the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the new year.

The Shanghai Bund Great World Amusement Park is full every day. At this time, the Great World Amusement Park in Shanghai was built by Huadong Group in 1911. It is the largest amusement park in China and the world.

Since its establishment, the Great World Playground has always been very lively, but with the increase of Shanghai's population.And there is more money in the pockets of ordinary people, and the Great World Playground is even more lively.

The passenger flow during the Spring Festival in 1918 reached the highest peak since its opening.

The popularity of the big world has created many famous actors.If artists from all over the country want to be famous, the first choice is the big world.From Peking Opera to Kunqu Opera, from juggling to juggling, there is everything here.Westerners also have wooden horses, ferris wheels, and roller coasters.

Moreover, the Ferris wheel in the Great World Amusement Park weighs 2500 tons, which is equivalent to the height of a 33-story building, and can accommodate 2306 people. It is the largest Ferris wheel in the world.Sitting on it, you can overlook the whole of Shanghai.

The height of this Ferris wheel exceeds that of the Eiffel Tower and the 26-story height of the Pharisees Wheel in Chicago, USA, becoming the largest Ferris wheel in the world.

certainly.There is only one Ferris wheel in the country. This thing consumes more steel, and the consortium only built one at the Shanghai Great World Amusement Park.

Ferris wheels can only be built in cities across the country when the supply of steel is abundant in the future.

But this Ferris wheel made Einstein amazed.I also personally sat on it and overlooked the big Shanghai once.What he saw was the largest city in the world.

At this time, Shanghai has become the most populous city in the world. It is also the financial center of China, and its scale is naturally not small. The population of Shanghai comes from all over the country, forming a very prosperous city.

This made Einstein even a little reluctant to leave. You must know that he taught at a university in Germany before, and the material supply was very tight after Germany fell into war.Even if he is a university teacher, he cannot often eat meat.

After coming to China.Immediately eating and drinking for half a month, this situation made Einstein and the Germans who came with him very happy.

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Those apartments in Shanghai were not willing to be lonely, and ran out to participate in various activities. Some of these apartments were former warlords, some were revolutionaries who used to spit and flicker everywhere, and some were former high officials of the Qing Dynasty.

But those who come to Shanghai to work as apartments are definitely not out of breath.

However, although these old big shots have passed away, they have also formed a family in Shanghai Bund, and they are very bullish on weekdays.

For example, Sheng Xuanhuai's Sheng family has 2000 million silver dollars, and marriages are everywhere. Even the red x generations of later generations were created by the marriages of the Sheng family.However, since Japan surrendered, most of the Sheng family's assets were confiscated, leaving only less than 300 million assets.

There is also Feng Guozhang, who used to be invincible with the Imperial Guards of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and also became an apartment in Shanghai.

There is also Sun Dapao who is fooling around and was sent back to China by Japan in the end. However, Sun Dapao made contributions in the Japanese revolution, and he also made some contributions in the anti-Qing struggle. Jiang Yu gave him a sum of money and let him Went to Shanghai as an apartment.

Some of these people are arrogant, but also sad.

For the apartments, they are usually lonely, and if they go out for a walk during the Chinese New Year and show their face, if they can still be reported, it will be a good way for them to experience the 'sense of presence'.

When Yuping was collecting rent at home, the report was a selling point. A newspaper asked Sheng Xuanhuai in an interview: "How do you think the development of China's industry is now?"

"Very quickly, China's annual steel output used to be only 5 tons, but now it has become 2500 million tons, an increase of 500 times in just seven years. In the past, the shipping industry could only be carried out in coastal areas and rivers, and there was competition from foreigners. Now China even has a displacement of 500 million tons of ocean-going merchant ships." Sheng Xuanhuai couldn't help but said with emotion, and then changed the topic, "However, in our country, industry and commerce are too monopolized, and many fields are not accessible to ordinary people. of."

There was a lot of dissatisfaction in Sheng Xuanhuai's words. Although most of the family property was confiscated, with the contacts of the Sheng family, a lot of assets have been invested in the past few years, and Sheng Xuanhuai's capital has increased again.

But when the Sheng family wanted to invest in those lucrative industries, they were hit hard and couldn't get in at all.

The heavy industry field, as well as many light industry fields, are monopolized to death by several large groups and those from the East China Chamber of Commerce.

Although the state does not expressly stipulate that private capital cannot enter, it restricts various standards, which is called ensuring the quality of industrial products.

This is all a lie. How can private capital produce low-quality products?

"En! Thank you for your answer." The reporter nodded, and ended the interview very simply. In the content of the interview published in the newspaper the next day, the last sentence complaining about monopoly was directly deleted.Let Sheng Xuanhuai feel depressed.He finally understood that even public opinion was completely controlled by the rising East China faction.

Sun Dapao had dinner on New Year's Eve, and also went to the Shanghai Grand Square to watch the Spring Festival Gala.A group of reporters found him in the crowd and swarmed him.

Obviously Sun Dapao is more popular with reporters. Sun Dapao has more selling points than Sheng Xuanhuai. Interviewing Sun Dapao will definitely increase the sales of newspapers.

"Mr. Sun Wen, what do you think of the Russian Revolution?" A reporter asked Sun Dapao.

Sun Dapao said calmly: "If the people can't eat enough, they want revolution after all. It's just that the Russian revolution is a bit crooked."

"Mr. Sun is really insightful. Then do you think we will still have revolution in China now?" Net does not skip words.A reporter asked Sun Dapao jokingly, this guy in front of him is the main force of the revolution, and he has not stopped during his exile in Japan!

Sun Dapao didn't care.With a look of joy on his face, he said: "The Republic of China is now internally stable, all industries are prosperous, and the food is enough for the common people to eat freely. The common people can also afford food. This country does not need any revolution anymore. We should Keep in mind everything in front of you. It was created by Marshal Jiang and President Yuan..."[

Since Sun Dapao became an apartment in Shanghai, he has behaved very well and kept to himself, and he has not spread any revolution or made any speeches.

Now there is no market for Sun Dapao to give a speech, and people don't believe him anymore.

The more important thing was that Dapao Sun didn't dare to talk nonsense. Not far from him, there was a man in a fur coat smoking a cigarette silently.

If he dared to speak nonsense, the possibility of being killed was [-]%, so Sun Dapao naturally did not dare to act recklessly.

Most of these apartments are outdated.Although people like Sheng Xuanhuai can still make some money, it is still limited.And it may be encircled and suppressed at any time.

On the contrary, Cao Kun, who retired from the army and went into business, made a lot of money this year. This year, Cao Kun made a lot of money because he invested in iron ore in Australia.

Others, such as the Yuan family, also gained a lot of benefits because they joined the East China Chamber of Commerce.

Perhaps the most depressing thing is Yan Xishan, the governor of Shanxi Province who has just resigned. He has surrendered to the East China Chamber of Commerce several times, but it is a pity that they don't want it!

Because he is the 'big brother' of Shanxi Guanshang Capital.

Accepting him is tantamount to accepting the entire Shanxi merchants.

Moreover, at the beginning of the year, the central government suddenly cracked down on collusion between officials and businessmen, almost hitting Yan Xishan. Under the pressure of public opinion, Yan Xishan voluntarily resigned from the post of governor of Shanxi Province.

Shanxi merchants suffered a large number of casualties during the crackdown. After nearly half a year of trial, the final result was reached.

A large number of Shanxi merchants were confiscated and their properties were confiscated, and a large number of Shanxi merchants were fined, and they were punished into the "extremely poor" class.

Yan Xishan naturally understood that this was the East China Chamber of Commerce encircling and suppressing Shanxi merchants.

Shanxi merchants, as the imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty, and Jiang Yu, the leader of nationalism, were determined to liquidate the Shanxi merchants.In order to avoid harming Chi Yu, Yan Xishan voluntarily resigned and went home.

At this time, Yan Xishan was considered a big capitalist. During his entrenched in Shanxi, he built up a lot of industrial assets, including railways and coal mines.

With China's current situation, it is impossible for warlords to exist. Although Yan Xishan has a deep foundation in Shanxi, he is not enough in front of the consortium and the East China Chamber of Commerce.

In the previous competition, the consortium cooperated with the central government to monopolize the financial industry, and all Shanxi bank accounts were killed.

The traditional "pawn shop" industry was also squeezed in by the consortium. After Yuan Shikai joined the East China Chamber of Commerce, the Yuan family's pawn shop also expanded rapidly after capital injection from the bank.

The East China Chamber of Commerce even used gang power to 'intimidate', 'threat', and even smash Shanxi merchants' pawnshops, causing Shanxi merchants to close one pawnshop after another across the country.

Shanxi merchants also learned this trick, and were directly identified by the government as "colluding with gangsters and evil forces."

The pawnshops of Shanxi merchants who originally shrunk to Shanxi can still use their local advantages to form a defense line, but after the central government cracked down on "collusion between government and businessmen" and "criminal forces" in Shanxi, the pawnshops of the East China Chamber of Commerce swarmed in, and they were right under the nose of the government. Openly using the power of gangsters, it only took more than half a year, and the only remaining pawnshops of Shanxi merchants in Shanxi also closed down one after another. (To be continued. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)