Poincaré smiled cryptically and was about to answer, but he stopped talking and continued to think deeply for a while before speaking again: "General Yuan, before I left for Luanzhou this time, I heard that
A piece of news related to General Yuan. Of course, I hope General Yuan will not misunderstand. Neither I nor my company have any other intentions regarding the news itself, but I can be sure that General Yuan will be in great need of our help at the moment."
Yuan Su frowned and asked coldly: "Oh? What news have you heard about me?"
Poincaré said straightforwardly: "It seems that General Yuan hopes to develop in Luanzhou for a long time. Just as we have received another news, your country's Ministry of War is preparing a plan to reorganize the Kinki army, and twenty towns have been identified.
He was transferred back to his previous station in Fengtian Province. I believe that if General Yuan really intends to stay in Luanzhou for development, we will definitely be able to help him."
Regarding Poincare suddenly changing the subject and talking about this matter, Yuan Su suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. It was obvious that the other party was planning to use this matter to "blackmail" him. He naturally knew that Poincare was capable of finding out
His plan to escape from Twenty Towns has now spread not only among the Seventy-nine Biao people, but also in the Biaobu compound.
Since he is Poincare's first choice for cooperation, Poincare will of course make all preparations beforehand and find out his details clearly.
The reason why he wants to escape from Twenty Towns is that he does not want to be ordered by others. In order to survive in this chaotic era, he must firmly control his destiny in his own hands. Now Poincare intends to use this
Threatening him with something was exactly touching the bottom line of his principles.
"Mr. Poincaré, I might as well be honest with you, do you really think I need your help on this matter?"
"Everything is unpredictable, isn't it, General Yuan?"
"I can tell you without any secret that the reason why you were able to find out this news is because I deliberately spread the news. And the reason why I did this is that I believe that Mr. Poincare is a sensible person and should be very careful.
I know the reason for this." Yuan Su said expressionlessly, his mood seemed very cold, and he also showed a confident aura.
The purpose of what he said was to remind Poincaré that he was not a small warlord without strength.
Since Poincare knew about his relationship with Zhang Zhenfang, the Governor of Zhili, he should also have heard about his relationship with Yuan Shikai. It would be easy to establish his own business in Luanzhou with these two connections alone. Why would he need foreigners?
To give some advice?
Of course, all this is just a bluffing trick. If he was really sure, he wouldn't bother to prepare so many things. After all, his relationship with Yuan Shikai, Zhang Zhenfang and others is not reliable. He expected Peng Jia
Le and others do not know all the details about themselves. No matter how powerful these foreigners are, it is absolutely impossible for them to understand the relationship between the Yuan family members layer by layer.
"General Yuan, obviously you still misunderstood me. In fact, General Yuan, you should be very clear about what you want. What you want is definitely not just a dutiful army. As long as you accept our help, in the future
What you can get will far exceed your expectations." Poincare said meticulously.
"I know you will use various ways to convince me, but I still have to tell you that the best way to convince me is that I can accept what you do. If I can't accept it, no matter how much you propose,
The conditions are of no avail. Mr. Poincaré, you can now tell who Dr. Smith is and what his purpose is?" Yuan Su did not care about Poincaré's inducement and continued to ask the key to the question.
Poincaré's expression changed for a while, and he looked a bit solemn. Only now did he truly understand that the young officer in front of him was not as easy to deal with as he thought.
"If General Yuan insists, I can only tell you that Dr. Smith is not only an authoritative scholar of geology, but also a well-known archaeologist in the West. In addition, even if you want to ask about other things, I cannot answer
.You should know that as a middleman, I shouldn’t know too much, let alone say too much.”
"He is an archaeologist?" Yuan Su said with some clarity.
Although this is just an introduction to an identity, anyone with a little bit of savvy can understand what it means.
It is obvious that Poincare had no intention of opening a mine in Luanzhou from the beginning to the end, but was preparing to excavate local antiques and cultural relics in Luanzhou under the pretext of opening a mine.
Mining itself is a good cover. It is both digging and beneficiation. Even if it is done in broad daylight, it will not arouse the suspicion of outsiders. And as long as we win the support of local bureaucratic forces, it will be more than just
Such covert actions, even if they tear through this layer of window paper and do it with open swords and guns, who dares to say a word?
Yuan Su couldn't help but think of what Poincare said this afternoon. These foreigners still hope that he or Wang Litong will start a transportation company to contract the so-called ore transportation business. Now it seems that this is really not a good thing. The foreigners are taking advantage of him and Wang Litong.
Smuggling antiques and cultural relics as a public official saved a lot of trouble and avoided inspections. However, he and Wang Litong would be stigmatized as real lackeys.
Even if not many people know about these things today, there will eventually be people who will investigate and study them in future generations!
"In other words, the mining thing is just a cover? You won't invest in setting up a factory in Luanzhou at all, and you just use the excuse of mining to cover up your so-called archeology?" Yuan Su asked coldly, his tone gradually becoming stern.
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"No, no, no, so we have indeed discovered mineral vein resources in Luanzhou, but to be honest, our experts assessed that the mineral vein resources here are not of high quality, and the quantity is not even large. But no matter what,
, the mine will still be opened, and all equipment, funds, etc., will be arranged step by step according to our plan. Of course, due to the mineral vein resources, the scale of the mine may not be as large as you imagine."
Poincaré explained slowly.
Yuan Su secretly sneered: Of course you failed to discover the big veins here. If foreigners like you were to get there first, how could the Sijiaying Iron Mine appear in the future?
Of course, the problem before him now is not the mine, but the attempt of these foreigners to smuggle antiques and cultural relics in Luanzhou.
"Smuggling" is just a academic adjective. A more straightforward term is "stealing".
He knows very well that in the 21st century, the Chinese people have gone to great lengths and exhausted all their assets to retrieve stolen national treasures and antiques from the British Museum, the Louvre, the Boston Academy of Fine Arts, etc., but in the end they can only
achieved minimal results.
When Chinese scholars can only study the history of their country in foreign museums, this is not only a very sad thing, but also an unforgettable shame!
From a Chinese identity standpoint, Yuan Su really does not want to become an accomplice of foreigners stealing Chinese antiques. Antiques are the cultural heritage of the nation, and cultural value is by no means just some descriptions in this document. Culture is a civilization.
The foundation of society is the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth of society. Losing culture is like losing the soul.