Longyuan Pavilion's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is still going on as usual. This kind of planned appearance event cannot be terminated just because the shopkeeper fell on his butt. Rather, it is precisely because of the loss due to Yuan Weiting's surprise attack that it was decided.
Put on airs to remind some people that Lin Ji is still a new kid in Guangzhou.
But it was impossible not to take any precautions. Du Qifeng issued an order to raise the already high level of security to another level. The number of guards in Longyuan Pavilion was doubled, and everyone brought a basic amount of ammunition.
With the training and fighting will of Lin Ji's foreign gun team, if he immediately launched an uprising, he might be able to overthrow the Qing government's conventional force in Guangzhou.
If compared with mountain bandits and horse bandits, Lin Youde, who had thousands of people to rob, was already at the level of a giant bandit.
Tomoe, who accompanied Lin Youde to welcome the guests, hid a complete set of equipment under the miko uniform. Other high-level mikos were fully armed and deployed around the banquet hall and the moon-viewing terrace. Even Kutsuhime, who was not very powerful in combat, also came in the afternoon.
Use the magic method to set up a barrier throughout the house. Although the barrier has little effect on powerful goddesses, it can effectively weaken the combat effectiveness of ordinary goddesses.
"With my strength, I can maintain a barrier of this size for six hours after it is activated. This is the limit. My ability is limited and I can't help much. I'm really sorry."
Facing the apologetic Jiu Jinji, Lin Youde repeatedly said "don't worry".
The duration is not long, and the range is not very large. It also requires a lot of preparation in advance. Once the preparation is completed, the activation location cannot be changed. This enchantment with so many flaws is honestly not very useful, but it can be used to deal with it.
The situation in front of me is more than enough.
After making preparations, Lin Youde opened the door boldly to welcome guests, and soon Longyuan Pavilion was full of guests and bustling.
The first person to come was Li Xiefei, the U.S. Consul in Guangzhou - the Chinese name was naturally due to the translation habits at this time. Along with Li Xiefei, there were also Commander Dewey of the U.S. Asia Fleet and an unknown American.
people.
When Dewey saw Lin Youde, he immediately came up and gave him a hug. In the Battle of the Philippines, Dewey's fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet with negligible losses. This made his reputation in the American military unparalleled for a while, so Lin Youde was also natural.
He became this American's "best friend". Americans didn't realize that without Lin Youde, the United States would have gone to war with Spain sooner or later, and his honor would never have been lost.
After the hug, Dewey pulled Lin Youde and left his classmate, the American Consul in Guangzhou, aside.
"Lin, I want to introduce you to an old friend, my old friend." As he said this, Dewey had already dragged Lin Youde to the unknown American. This man seemed to be about the same age as Dewey, and he had a military temperament.
Unlike Dewey, he had the unique cunning energy of an old fox, and the look he looked at Lin Youde was also full of scrutiny.
Lin Youde suddenly realized who this old friend of Dewey's was.
Theodore Roosevelt, the current Vice Secretary of the Navy, the future 26th President of the United States of America, and the cousin of Franklin Roosevelt, who later led Americans out of the most difficult environment since the founding of the country. Historical researchers generally call him Roosevelt Sr.
, and calls Franklin Roosevelt Jr. Roosevelt.
In the history of the last time and space, this Theodore Roosevelt was the staunchest supporter and advocate of the United States' occupation of the Philippines, and the big boss behind Dewey. Now this big boss came to meet another big boss Lin Youde in person.
This is faster than Lin Youde expected, but overall it is within expectations.
"Mr. Lin," Roosevelt held the hand extended by Lin Youde after Dewey pulled the strings, "General Dewey often mentioned you in his letters. He believed that you are a powerful ally of the United States in Asia, so I have always wanted to make peace with you."
Please meet."
"Haha, each other."
Lin Youde is telling the truth. Lin Youde wants to meet these powerful people in history. This is probably similar to the desire of martial arts practitioners to meet famous warriors. He, a guy studying social sciences, also wants to meet those who made history.
Great men "face to face" last time.
After finishing his polite remarks, Roosevelt looked at himself and saw that there were no other guests behind him, so he continued: "Before coming to Guangzhou, I went to the Philippines for an inspection. I am very interested in Mr. Lin's new policy in the Philippines. This is
A very interesting strategy. In the past, our economists and financiers tended to have reserves before issuing banknotes. You are doing the opposite and using the issuance of banknotes to accumulate reserves. This is very interesting, hmm.
, very interesting."
Lin Youde smiled. He still has more interesting things to play with in Nanyang Bank. If he is asked to create a new system, he can't do it. Is it still okay to copy the "old" system? Implement the copycat system on a small scale.
To prevent acclimatization, and after adjustment is completed, it can be promoted on a large scale. Lin Youde will never be able to escape the title of financial genius.
Seeing that Lin Youde didn't say anything, Roosevelt continued: "In addition, I also saw an interesting phenomenon in the Philippines. In the area controlled by Nanyang Second Town, prices soared and inflation was serious - just like other areas that had just experienced war.
The areas are exactly the same. And in the areas controlled by your Nanyang Army’s First Town, none of these situations have occurred. It’s no exaggeration to say it’s a miracle.”
In this era, the observation and research on the modern economic system has just started. Most people are still stuck in the ideas of classical economics, and new economics are still being explored. What Lin Youde brought back is almost a hundred years advanced.
Economic concepts. Lin Youde's economic control over the occupied areas was actually very simple. His Lin Ji controlled the circulation of most commodities in the occupied areas. For many commodities, the entire production chain from raw material production to finished products was in the hands of Lin Ji.
, this is a veritable monopoly. Any commercial entity in a monopoly position will charge high prices and seek huge profits because of its profit-seeking characteristics. However, due to the existence of Lin Youde, Lin Ji's profit-seeking characteristics have been suppressed, and instead it has the characteristics that belong to it.
Public functions of government agencies.
Therefore, Lin Ji used his monopoly in the occupied areas to manually control prices and forcibly stabilize them within a more reasonable range. At the same time, due to the sufficient supply of goods, the desire of people in the occupied areas to purchase goods also eased, and panic buying behavior dropped sharply.
, so the difficulty of controlling inflation has been greatly reduced, and even the newly established Nanyang Bank can easily cope with it. In the past half year or so, Nanyang Bank has greatly increased its strength, making it even easier to deal with inflation.
The stability of economic life has brought about economic prosperity. Corresponding to the prosperity is the increase in tax revenue. These taxes were collected by the Nanyang Army, but in the end they returned to Lin Ji's capital flow, which to a certain extent made up for the loss caused by forcibly suppressing prices.
Lost profits. In fact, Lin Ji realized the trinity of tax agency, national bank, and commercial monopoly trust in the Philippine occupation zone, and actually completed Lin Youde's basic concept of state capitalism.
The biggest problem with such an institution is the balance between the profit of the institution itself and the welfare of the people. Under normal circumstances, this kind of institution will develop into a monster that squeezes the people, and eventually collapses due to internal resistance. But in Lin Youde, a time traveler, he comes from above.
Under the supervision and control of the government, Lin Ji, an increasingly large organization, seems to have found a balance between profit and people's welfare, and is becoming a blessing to the people in the occupied areas.
Now Lin Youde has a kind of expectation in his heart, looking forward to how far Lin Ji, a state capitalist machine that is currently only in its embryonic form, can run under the control of him, a time traveler.
Of course, he would not explain this to Roosevelt in detail. After some polite exchanges, new guests arrived. Roosevelt and Dewey bid farewell to Lin Youde for the time being and went into the courtyard to eat the "Chinese cake" they had wanted to eat for a long time.
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At eight o'clock in the evening, Ba checked the guest list and reported to Lin Youde that almost all the guests had arrived.
At this moment, a large array of cars came into Lin Youde's field of vision.
Lin Youde couldn't help but smack his lips, whatever was supposed to come would come.
At first glance, it looked like a newly purchased carriage stopped in front of Lin Youde's Longyuan Pavilion. Then the maid dressed in Western men's clothing jumped out of the driver's seat and opened the door.
"Miss, we are here."
The scene that happened next left a very deep impression on Lin Youde. In fact, it was not a big deal, it was just that Yuan Weiting, who was dressed up, got out of the car. In the morning, she gave people a very strong impression of a martial artist. This impression is different from this impression.
At that time, her style formed a sharp contrast in people's perception, resulting in an extremely strong sense of gap.
Lin Youde felt that Yuan Weiting's extremely aggressive beauty had a sense of déjà vu. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly realized. He also had this feeling when he first met the French-Spanish mixed-blood knight leader, and the two of them
Their beauty is breathtaking, they all have a strong sense of presence that no one can ignore, and they are both full of aggression.
However, a decisive difference is that Josephine appears to be more restrained in dressing up. She seems to be deliberately dressing herself in a conservative direction. The decorations on the dress are very simple, with not much ruffles and lace -
- There is almost nothing to show off except for the large area of ​​​​white on her bare chest; Yuan Weiting tried her best to show off herself. The pure black dress was decorated with bright red lace and ruffles. The number was breathtaking, and it seemed that she wanted to deliberately
As if to go against the image of Josephine in Lin Youde's mind, she covered her breasts tightly - no, Lin Youde realized at this moment that she had made a fatal mistake. This guy's breasts were so strong that they were only b!
Can't we expose it and use it as a weapon?
Speaking of which, Josephine, as a European girl, does have the feeling of being tall and tall, which fits well with the established impression given by the nickname "Yangma". Although Yuan Weiting is aggressive, it is easy for people to think that she is tall, but in fact
The figure is very Chinese. Although it is not small and exquisite, it is not as exaggerated as that of Europeans. According to Lin Youde, it is moderate.
Especially now, this complicated and extremely gorgeous dress made her look even more petite.
But that ferocious, vulture-like temperament is still difficult to conceal.
But a beautiful girl is a beautiful girl, and a fierce beautiful girl is also a beautiful girl.
Roses with thorns are more interesting when picked.
"What's wrong? Are you fascinated by my beauty?"
Her usual tone of not knowing what politeness meant, after she put on this outfit, this tone became cute in the eyes of Lin Youde.
"Yuan Dutong, you are really amazing."
"Humph, of course. I am also a woman, and I also have the vanity of being a woman. To lose to other women in terms of beauty is intolerable in my opinion." After saying this, Yuan Weiting revealed a look that reminded people involuntarily of a weasel greeting a chicken in the New Year.
With a smile, "I love winning the most, no matter in which aspect."
Lin Youde curled his lips. Now he was sure that Yuan Weiting and Josephine were like a pair of mirror images, the pure white knight princess and the black devil. With this sharp contrast, the images of the two people became
Unprecedentedly vivid.
Lin Youde ignored Ba's whisper to stop him, stepped forward, and held Yuan Weiting's hand like a Western gentleman.
"Then, your pure black princess, let me show you the most glorious victory." Lin Youde also smiled like a chicken preparing to eat weasel meat, and said to Yuan Weiting.
Chapter completed!