Jagged Warlord

Liandao, known as Yingyou Mountain in ancient times, faces Lianyungang Port across the sea. Liandao is like a natural breakwater, blocking the waves from the East China Sea, making Yingyou Gate a peaceful place even in stormy weather. Liandao is beautiful. As we all know, the beauty of Liandao is in the middle of the sea, surrounded by clouds and fog, like fairy mountains on the sea floating on thousands of hectares of waves.

The picturesque and picturesque Liandao, although it is a scene of Lianyungang, the aborigines on this island were transported out of the island one by one by the people patrolling the embassy, ​​and then they were arranged on land and replaced by a large number of workers and people in black police uniforms.

As early as when Li Mohan first became the envoy of Eastern Henan, he formed many paramilitary organizations under various names such as armed police, mine protection team, factory protection team, and urban security management team.At the same time, militia organizations and regular military training were formed among workers, students, and farmers. This strategy of hiding soldiers among the people prepared many reserve military forces for the SS.This method is not considered clever, but Yuan Shikai was obsessed with proclaiming himself emperor, and he was negligent in guarding against it, thinking that Li Mohan's army strength was only about seven or eight regiments.

Wu Tongju brought a large number of workers to Lian Dao, and began to expand the original small docks for fishing boats on the island into temporary docks that could accommodate large ships, ready to receive a large number of infrastructure materials on the island at any time.

In fact, Li Mohan doesn't have much time to use, because the Bethlehem Iron and Steel Company of the United States sent a telegram stating that in March or April next year, it can provide Li Mohan's steel plant with an ironmaking blast furnace with an annual production capacity of 80 tons. The piece weighs 500 tons. Therefore, Wu Tongju, the general manager of Haizhou Port Company who has just taken office and is in charge of the wharf project, must complete the construction of the industrial wharf by April next year and install a large crane with a lifting capacity of at least 5 tons.Due to time constraints, under Wu Tongju's suggestion, Li Mohan could only temporarily give up his plan to find a construction company from the United States, and entrusted the Dutch Hong Kong Company to start construction as soon as possible.

As long as sufficient manpower and material resources are invested, any problem can be solved in a short period of time.What Li Mohan lacks now is time, and the most important thing is money, manpower, and material resources.

The representative of the Dutch Harbor Control Company, Van Petesi, rushed to Shangqiu from Shanghai immediately. He patted his chest and said: "The Dutch Harbor Control Company has undertaken construction projects in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, the United States, Japan, and your country. There are more than 100 ports, all of which are world-class in terms of construction experience, construction ability and professional standards. In the words of the Chinese, if you leave things to us, you can rest assured."

Immediately after the construction company was finalized, Wu Tongju and Fan Petesi signed the "Contract for the Construction of Lianyungang Port", which stipulated the total project price and the completion time of each phase of the project.At the same time, the contract also stipulates that Haizhou Port Company will deduct 5% from the monthly project payment as a guarantee.When the project is completed and the warranty period expires, it will be paid to the contractor; the construction period of the entire project is three years, totaling 36 months, and it is limited to completion before August 7, 1918, the seventh year of the Republic of China.For every day of delay, the contractor must pay 8 Huashang tickets per day until the day when the work is completed.In case of natural disasters (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, wars) and other delays in the construction period, it can be extended appropriately, but the longest period should not exceed half a year; the undertaker can also get a reward of 31 Huashang tickets for completing the project one day ahead of schedule.

Van Petsy was pleased with the contract, as the Belgian franc plummeted as Germany invaded Belgium and many Belgians fled to neutral Holland for refuge.The Dutch Harbor Company can hire a large number of experienced Belgian workers to work for them at a very low price.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Hearing that Li Mohan has such a large investment but not looking for him, Strong came to Shangqiu from Tianjin after receiving the news. "Old friend, you have such a big investment project but you don't look for me? In the words of you Chinese, you really don't have enough friends."

Li Mohan shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and said, "Can you blame me? Who cares less about the Chinese market than you American businessmen and politicians?" Li Mohan poured Strong a glass of wine.

Strong was speechless. What Li Mohan said was indeed the truth. After finally setting up a cooperation project, he even concealed it with a private commercial contract such as the "Bethlehem Contract".

Li Mohan said: "You should go back and point your nose at those industrialists and reprimand them: Think about it, if China consumes US$10 of US goods per person in ten years, it will be US$40 billion! How many times is it equivalent to the current US national product value? That’s not counting the population growth rate in ten years!”

Stella nodded, expressing her approval of Li Mohan's statement.

Li Mohan said again: "If this goal is too far away, you just need to think that the population I rule now is nearly ten million, and you can see that their lives are getting richer every day. Isn't their spending power too big?" Is it worth digging for?"

"Okay, old friend, what you said is right. But you have already given the contract to the Dutchman." Strong was still a little annoyed

"Don't be sad, my old friend." Li Mohan said: "You Changsheng Foreign Firm can't afford such a large wharf construction project. However, building a wharf requires a lot of things. If you can provide them, I will still give you priority. Prosperity Foreign Firm."

In the end, Strong, who came from afar, still got a large order of 200 million US dollars and returned to Tianjin, and promised to advertise for Li Mohan in China as soon as possible, trying to attract more capitalists and consortia's attention for him.

"Let's go, don't send it off." Li Mohan raised his glass with a smile.

After seeing Strong off, Li Mohan returned to his desk, where a stack of not-too-thick official documents were waiting for him to sign.

Tuk Tuk Tuk

Li Mohan had just signed a few documents that were not too important, and his secretary, Shang Yifu, knocked on the door and came in. He said cautiously: "There is a document that was misplaced, and I am here to retrieve it."

"Which document?" Li Mohan flipped through the documents in front of him. Only the bottom one hadn't been signed. He opened the document casually and saw that it was the document for the newly established radio station to hire an announcer. "Huh? Isn't this Miss Shang's family?"

The personnel documents with the ID photo of Shang Yifu’s younger sister, Shang Yunzhi, were put on the first sheet, “Yo! Did Miss Shang also participate in the recruitment of the broadcasting station? Why didn’t I know?” Li Mohan asked Shang Yifu with a smile, “Shaw , you don’t want to get this document back, do you?”

Shang Yifu was a little embarrassed, and said: "Exactly. My father is a little dissatisfied with my younger sister's job as an announcer."

Li Mohan frowned slightly, and said half-jokingly: "Master Shang is willing to send his daughter to study, why is he still so conservative?"

Shang Yifu replied: "Actually, my brother and I think it's nothing. But what my father thinks~~ as children, we have to be scruples."

Li Mohan thought for a while and said, "Since your brothers have no objections and Miss Shang is willing, then it will be easy." After finishing speaking, Li Mohan signed Shang Yunzhi's personnel file, "Shaw, if your father objects again, I will go to have a heart-to-heart talk with the old man in person, Master Shang is not unreasonable, he will definitely listen to persuasion."

Shang Yifu felt a little relieved now.He loves his sister and fears his father, but he doesn't know how to deal with it.Right now, Li Mohan helped him think of all the excuses. If the old man objected again, he would ask the commander-in-chief to argue.

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"Everyone, listeners~ This is Huaxia Radio Station, this is Huaxia Radio Station. Hello everyone, I am the announcer Shang Yunzhi." When Shang Yunzhi's sweet voice passed through the radio waves and passed the broadcasting tower in Shangqiu At that time, almost all the people in the city gathered under several radios and public address loudspeakers on the street to listen to Shang Yunzhi's soft Mandarin.

The first successful radio broadcast recorded in human history was on Christmas Eve in 1906. Fessenden in the United States used an alternator with a power of 1 kilowatt and a frequency of 50 Hz to modulate and broadcast speech and music with the help of a microphone. , many areas, including ships at sea, can be clearly heard.Before World War I, many countries experimented with radio broadcasting.During the war, some regional radio programs appeared in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.But regular time broadcasts started in 1920.

In 1905, Yuan Shikai opened a radio training class in Tianjin, and at the same time purchased radio transceivers, which were installed on warships of Beijing, Tianjin, Baoding and Beiyang Navy. In 1906, the Department of Electricity was established to plan China's radio, telegraph, telephone, postal services and other businesses. In April 1915, Yuan Shikai promulgated the "Regulations on Telecommunications", which was also China's first radio and telecommunications regulations. The regulations clearly stipulate that foreigners are not allowed to privately set up radio stations in China; radio equipment is military supplies and cannot be imported without permission.

Because Yuan Shikai is currently the only legal leader of China, Li Mohan does not intend to make this experimental radio station too high-profile for the time being, so he only set up radio stations in Shangqiu, Xuzhou, Haizhou, Yanzhou and several subordinate counties. Just a few regional broadcasts.However, this has broken the original history that China's first radio station was founded by a foreigner, and it can be regarded as a harvest.