Jagged Warlord

Li Mohan was still wearing a white suit, wandering around among the crowd.Suddenly, a person walked up to him. This person was in his 40s, with a lean and strong body, with a short shaved head, and looked very energetic.He was wearing a double-breasted jacket, dark blue trousers, and a pair of cloth shoes.Although the dress is ordinary, the materials and workmanship of the clothes are very exquisite.

The man stopped in front of Li Mohan, and asked Li Mohan with a smile: "My friend, can I borrow a fire?"

"Yes." Li Mohan took out a match from his pocket and lit one to help the other party light a cigarette.

I saw that the other party took out a cigarette, but it was not that kind of foreign cigarette, but rolled out by himself with tobacco leaves.After burning, the smell is strong but not choking.

"Thank you." The man squinted his eyes and smiled, then clasped his fists and said to Li Mohan, "I'm the boss of Jinan Hongju Dyeing Factory, and my name is Chen Shouting. What's your name for this friend?"

Li Mohan smiled, feeling that the Chen Shouting in front of him was nothing like Hou Yongchang in "Daranfang", Li Mohan replied: "I am Li Mohan, the governor of Shandong."

Chen Shouting was taken aback for a moment, then grinned and laughed heartily, "Young man, this kind of joke is not easy to say, be careful if someone listens to it, it will cause trouble."

Li Mohan also laughed, and said: "Now it's not the Qing Dynasty, and there is no literary prison, so can you still be punished for speaking?"

Chen Shouting looked helpless, and said: "What is the Republic of China, what is the former Qing Dynasty, the officials are still those people, changing the soup but not the medicine. By the way, what business do you do?"

Li Mohan smiled wryly, and said, "Boss Chen, I am really Li Mohan, the Governor of Shandong."

Chen Shouting's expression froze, he frowned and looked at Li Mohan carefully from top to bottom, "Are you really the military governor?"

Li Mohan asked back: "Is there something I don't look like?"

"Young~ You are so young~!" Chen Shouting still had a face full of disbelief, "Although I heard that this Dujun Li is a young man with great ambition and good looks, but you are still too young."

While talking, I saw Shi Shaoxian and a middle-aged man coming over, and the middle-aged man who came with Shi Shaoxian said to Chen Shouting: "Hey, little six. You have already met Lord Governor? That's good, save us Recommended for you."

"Ah~? Brother Miao, why didn't you say it earlier." Chen Shouting quickly threw the cigarette in his hand on the ground, twisted it out with his foot, then stroked the back of his head, smiled at Li Mohan with a straightforward face, and said, "I don't have eyes. Know Taishan, Lord Governor, you make atonement." Saying that, he was about to salute Li Mohan.

"You don't need to be too polite." Li Mohan grabbed Chen Shouting

Shi Shao walked over first, pointed at the middle-aged man who came with him, and said, "Overlord, let me introduce you to a man, Miao Shihou, the owner of Jinan Jiyuan Grain Store."

Miao Shihou, courtesy name Deqing, was born in Huantai County, Shandong Province. In 1894, Miao Shihou and Rong Zhongsen, a big oil shop owner in Suo Town, jointly opened a Juheng oil shop. By 1898, they had made a profit of 3000 taels of silver. The dividend is 1000 taels of silver.At this time, there was a saying in Suozhen that "if you want to make a fortune, you have to go to Jinan". Miao Shihou and Miao Shiyuan were quite moved. Miao Shiyuan set up a grain store in Luokou, Jinan.

In 1906, Miao Shihou and Rong Zhongsen decided to use the 6-year bonus of 4000 taels of silver from Suozhen Hengjuyoufang as the base fund to open another Hengjuhe grain store in Luokou, with Miao Shihou as the manager and Miao Shiyuan as the deputy. manager.Since then, the two grain warehouses have exchanged information and cooperated with each other, and they have always been in a favorable position in the competition. In a few years, the Miao family has made a profit of 5000 taels of silver. In 1910, with the 5000 taels of silver as the base fund, the Miao family-owned enterprise Public Polygrain Store was opened in Luokou, with Miao Shiyuan as the manager.This was on the eve of the Revolution of 1911 and the current situation was unstable. The Rong, Zheng, and Yang families of the joint venture were afraid of the loss of the grain store and asked to split or withdraw their shares.After negotiation, the oil mill in Suo Town was owned by Rong's family, and the grain store in Jinan was owned by Miao's family. At the same time, Zheng and Yang's shares and dividends were refunded.In order to facilitate the operation, the Miao family canceled the Gongjuhe and Hengjuhe Liangzhan, and only kept the Gongjuhe Liangzhang in Luokou.This is, the trading center of Jinan has shifted from Luokou to a commercial port. The Miao family seized this opportunity and built 1912 business buildings on Jingyiweisi Road in 30, and changed the charcoal warehouse into a grain warehouse.As a result, the grain store business of the Miao family entered a glorious period.Two years later, the Miao family's grain store has made nearly 50 times the profit!As a result, the Miao family became the overlord of Jinan's grain store industry, and monopolized the Guangbang raw rice business for 22 years.

Li Mohan looked at Miao Shihou for a while, and there was a taste of a Confucian businessman between his brows. It is said that this person is the prototype of Miao Handong in "Daranfang".According to the novel, this Mr. Miao has also stayed abroad.Therefore, Li Mohan reached out to shake hands with Miao Shihou. "Mr. Miao, I have been admiring you for a long time."

Miao Shihou naturally reached out his hand to shake Li Mohan's hand, and said with a smile, "It's a pleasure to meet you, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Li Mohan suggested finding a place to sit down and drink tea, the other three naturally had no objection, so the four found a teahouse, entered the private room upstairs, and ordered the waiter not to disturb anyone.

After everyone was seated, they began to talk freely about some ideas about this exhibition, chatting, and unknowingly talked about politics.Li Mohan took the opportunity to promote his nationalist political views.

Miao Shihou said: "For the book "My View on Nationalism" written by the Warlord, Miao also read a few chapters later, but felt that everyone is talking about a republic these days, but the Warlord advocated the centralization of power in the book. Wouldn’t it be a risk to the world? In addition, Yuan Shikai wanted to proclaim himself emperor and centralize power, and you, the warlord, also launched an army crusade. Why do you make such contradictory statements in the book? I doubt it. If a country is controlled by a country with absolute In the hands of the leader of power, what is the difference between this and the feudal emperor??"

Li Mohan said: "The old order that the general public has been accustomed to is suddenly disrupted, and the public morality of the public is almost gone. Of course, troubled times are inevitable. The current Republic of China needs a strong leader, but it is by no means a dictatorship. A leader who is powerful does not mean dictatorship, and an authoritarian leader does not mean that he is "strong". character, not just a dictatorial leader."

Shi Shaoxian is a traditional intellectual, and he doesn't quite understand Li Mohan's rhetoric, but he can understand the basic truth.He said: "In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also cut off the princes and kings who were ready to move before starting to fight back against the Huns. Now that China is going to resist foreign captives, we need a person like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and then cut down all the princes and kings from all walks of life. Do it with your own strength. Is this what the Lord Overseer wants to say?"

"Yes." Li Mohan nodded, then changed the subject, and said, "Let's get down to business, let's discuss the development plan of Shandong. As the saying goes, if you are not far away, you must have near worries. It means that we must have a plan in life and things. The same is true for the economic development of a country and a province. There must be a plan and step-by-step implementation. I call this a planned economy. Nowadays, most of the businessmen in Shandong are independent and do their own thing. Now I want to gather them together. Only by uniting and forming a group can we fight against rich and powerful foreign businessmen, what do you think?"

"It makes sense." Chen Shouting said loudly, "Now just a few rich locals from the countryside get together and start a dyeing workshop with a few big vats, and they also try their best to lower the prices of each other, making a mess, and the bargains are taken by outsiders. .”

Miao Shihou glared at him, and said, "Xiao Liu, why are you swearing in front of Lord Overseer?"

Chen Shouting scratched his head, and said with an aggrieved face, "Brother Miao, didn't I get mad at those bastards?"

Li Mohan said: "At present, the advantages of using planned economic policies are: first, we can concentrate the necessary human, material and financial resources in the whole society for key construction; second, we can forecast and plan the economy and formulate national The economic development strategy optimizes the allocation of resources on a macro level, adjusts the major structures of the national economy and rationally distributes productivity; thirdly, it can reasonably adjust income distribution, taking into account both efficiency and fairness. According to the needs of construction, various departments of the national economy are arranged in a planned way Proportional relationship between development, rational distribution of productivity, effective use of human, material and financial resources, a good balance between production and needs, and promote the coordinated development of the national economy to meet the country's construction and the people's growing material and cultural life needs."

There are a lot of new terms, Shi Shaoxian, Miao Shihou and Chen Shouting have some difficulty in understanding them completely.

Li Mohan knew that he couldn't get them to accept all his views immediately, so he changed the subject and started talking about the recent situation of Shandong's printing, dyeing and textile industry.

Chen Shouting said: “The supply of German dyes has been cut off due to the recent war in the West, and the price of a small number of German dyes in their hands is rising every day. Now the most arrogant is Little Japan. The quality of Japanese dyes they produce is not as good as German products. The price is not cheap at all, it's fucking."

Li Mohan said: "The Japanese are ambitious, do you know? The dye industry and the arms industry are called the twins of modern organic chemistry. First of all, from the perspective of raw materials, the raw materials for preparing dyes mainly come from aromatic compounds, namely benzene, toluene, and xylene. etc., and any raw material that can make dyes can also be used to make trinitrotoluene and picric acid; and picric acid itself is a yellow dye for wool and silk; as dye raw materials, dimethylaniline and dinitrochlorobenzene are both It is easy to make high-performance explosives. Secondly, from the perspective of manufacturing technology, dyes are almost exactly the same as explosives. Such as nitrification, sulfonation, chlorination, hydrolysis, waste acid recovery and other technical links and processes, etc., are used in the manufacture of arms The technical process and equipment are also available in the dye factory. From this we can see that the dye and explosives, the dye industry and the arms industry are very close, or even the same. It can be said that the dye factory can be transformed into an arms factory at any time for Produce explosives."