Entering December, Lin Youde has been in a good mood. Because of the current situation, the civil war seems to be impossible to fight.
Lin Ji's business success enabled Chinese businessmen who were good at learning to learn many advanced capitalist management methods and concepts, and Lin Ji's business penetration caused a huge impact on China's traditional feudal economy.
Now that the tariffs have been restored, tariffs can be used to provide certain protection for national capitalism. It is basically a certainty that China's capitalistization will be faster than in the previous time and space. The basis of the warlord separatism is the feudal economy, a capitalist economy.
It is difficult for a country to carry out warlord separatism like China in the past time and space: a capitalist economy requires a broad market and sources of raw materials. The more developed the capitalist economy is, the more difficult it is to achieve warlord separatism, which is equivalent to artificial division of the market.
What's more, in the current situation, the military equipment level of each province is definitely inferior to that of the federal army of the Ministry of War. As long as there are no problems with this system, the civil war will probably not be fought.
At first, when Lin Youde heard the news about the domestic republic, he was really unhappy and felt that he had been tricked. Yuan Shikai's timing of this move was indeed accurate. At that time, Lin Ji had just finished fighting a war, and there was such a big Japanese enemy.
After slowly digesting it, at that time, I had no ability to start a war with the country. If I didn't want the country to be divided and have a civil war, I had no choice but to agree to a republic.
But now, Lin Youde feels that the Republic is not bad. Without spending a single soldier, he has achieved the two major goals of the Nanyang Ticket being used nationwide and no cards and taxes on trade routes. Apart from anything else, the Nanyang Ticket alone is
If it is used nationwide, the benefits will be huge! This Nanyang Bank will be the Chinese version of the Federal Reserve Board in the future, and Lin Youde will be China's Greenspan.
If you can't be a great dictator, it's not bad to be a great plutocrat.
Moreover, Lin Youde's original idea was to be a behind-the-scenes dictator, supervise the country by himself, and then on the surface have a democratically elected president or something to take charge. If something went wrong, the president would take the blame and leave. Lin Youde's rule will last forever.
It's good now that the democratically elected president doesn't seem to have to worry about him anymore. He can concentrate on controlling the political situation with money and troops behind his back. Perfect!
Lin Youde has already thought about it. When the situation stabilizes, he will give up the position of Minister of the Navy to his cronies on the small books, and he will sit firmly in Helanggabo as the big boss behind the scenes and concurrently serve as the president of the Helanggabo Comprehensive University.
He's a naval adviser or something like that. If he's in a good mood, he can run for president or something. He's so carefree.
The more Lin Youde thought about it, the more he realized it was true, and the happier he felt.
On the morning of December 9th, Lin Youde, who was in a happy mood, was leading a large number of followers to the gate of the camp. A confidential officer rushed across the road and stood at attention in front of Lin Youde and saluted.
"Report, Tokyo Express."
"read!"
"Madam gave birth to a boy. Mother and son are safe."
The bun in Lin Youde's hand suddenly fell to the ground.
"real?"
The confidential officer was stunned and didn't know how to answer - wasn't the news sent by the urgent telegram true, or could it be fake?
Lin Youde also realized that the news couldn't be false, and immediately grinned, rubbing his hands while laughing. Before, Lin Youde couldn't understand why many people were so happy to be a father, but when he became a father himself, he was very uncreative.
I also started to have silly fun, and while I was having fun, I was also wondering: What am I having fun with?
At this moment, the second confidential officer came running.
"Urgent telegram from Helang Yabo."
"What? Uh, read."
"Miss Sophie left in the newly built Yunzhou. As she left, she radioed that she was going to Japan to see her brother."
This time it was Lin Youde's turn to be stunned.
"We...when did we build Yunzhou?" Lin Youde looked at his chief manager Du Qifeng...
Du Qifeng had a wry smile on his face.
"In the middle of this year, Sophie asked me for a large sum of money in the name of ordering scientific research equipment, which was probably what was used to make it."
Lin Youde's doted daughter, the whole Lin family, all know that Sophie has her own laboratory, a factory that listens to her orders, and has hundreds of force-guiding technicians, thousands of engineers, and nearly 10,000 skilled workers, and she can call them at will.
Zhu Rong, as long as you have the money to quietly build a Yunzhou, it's really not a problem.
"You approved such a large amount of money without notifying me?" Although he didn't hear the specific amount of money reported by Du Qifeng, Lin Youde knew that building a Yunzhou was not cheap.
At this time, Chen Haihui came up and pushed Lin Youde: "Come on, you will approve it if I submit it to you. It's just a matter of Sophie acting coquettishly."
"My daughter never acts like a spoiled brat, thank you."
Lin Youde said this, but then shook his head and stopped pursuing it. He was in a good mood today.
"The intelligence department pays attention to the movements of air forces around Sophie's route." When giving the order, Lin Youde sounded very relaxed, because there was actually nothing along the way that could immediately intercept Sophie's air forces. Although Shen Ji had air combat capabilities,
But they can't pursue Yunzhou over long distances. Only floating battleships can do this. The British floating battleships are deployed in Burma, and the French battleships are in French Indochina. They can't catch up even if they set off now. The American floating battleships
The warships were all deployed in Florida, peeking at Spain's Cuban colony.
"In addition," Lin Youde continued, "I sent a telegram to express that I am very happy. After the matter here is over, I will rush to Tokyo as soon as possible to see the child. No, when Josephine's condition recovers, I will let Sophie take her with her.
She and her children will return to the Horanggabo base camp first."
The reason why Josephine was kept in Tokyo was because Lin Youde weighed it up and decided that it would not be a problem to take the mother to the north. Josephine was allowed to return to Langgabo without anyone watching closely - Ba Yaoliu
Dealing with various things in Japan, so that Helangyabo would have no other guards who could serve as Josephine's guard. Finally, Lin Youde decided to let Josephine give birth to her first child in Tokyo. If Joseph
Fensheng is over, and his physical strength and fighting strength are almost restored, so he can naturally go back to Helang Yabo. After all, it is his home base, so he can feel at ease.
After watching the confidential officers take the order and leave, Lin Youde looked back at the large number of followers behind him.
Luo Tianyi, who had a naughty smile on his face, rushed to Lin Youde first, bowed his hands and said, "Congratulations to Brother Lin on the birth of his son."
When Lin Youde saw the little girl's naughty look, he immediately got excited and replied: "When are you going to help me give birth to a baby?"
"I'm still young, brother, can you wait a few more years?" After speaking, Luo Tianyi glanced at Xun beside him, "This big sister here looks like she is ready at any time."
Xun's face turned red instantly, while Lin Youde laughed heartily.
At this time, Chen Haihui stabbed Lin Youde in the waist again.
"Don't just laugh. You haven't made up your mind yet on what the young master should be called."
Lin Youde said "Oh" and slapped his head. He and Josephine had already discussed it before. His mother would be responsible for the English and French names, and he, the father, would be responsible for the Chinese name.
"That's right, one of you can run to the confidential room and report it. Add to the telegram that the child's Chinese name will be 'Lin Shenhe'."
Chen Haihui frowned and commented: "The name you gave me, it's better to imitate your name and call it Lin Youcai, Lin Zhengdao, etc..."
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After arriving at the venue, Lin Youde deeply realized the benefits of mastering communication technology.
No one in the entire venue came up to congratulate him on the birth of his son. Even Yuan Shikai, who was leading a large group of people at the entrance of the venue to wait for Lin Youde to arrive and enter the venue with him as usual, just said a few polite words to Lin Youde and finished.
….
Upon seeing this, Lin Youde specifically ordered not to make any noise, so as to test the efficiency of other domestic factions in collecting and transmitting foreign intelligence.
As a result, when the meeting ended in the afternoon, Yuan Shikai led the important ministers of the War Department to congratulate Lin Youde. At this time, the heads of other factions looked like they were just waking up from a dream, and Lin Youde instantly felt something was wrong.
As soon as Yuan Shikai finished his congratulations, representatives from various provinces lined up to approach Lin Youde. Seeing that Lin Youde was about to be overwhelmed by endless polite words, a very familiar voice came from the gate of the Jinluan Hall, which is the venue of the Congress.
sound.
"Master Lin, congratulations."
Lin Youde took a look and saw that it was Yuan Shikai's sister Yuan Weiting.
Yuan Weiting has been in the capital for a while, but she has never met Lin Youde. Originally, Lin Youde was known to be good at picking up girls, and was especially good at picking up high-level goddesses. Yuan Weiting was also closely related to Lin Youde.
Of course Yuan Shikai did not dare to let her meet Lin Youde again.
Lin Youde squinted and saw that Yuan Shikai had a sad face. But Yuan Weiting came to congratulate Lin Youde on the birth of his son. It was just as it was. Yuan Shikai couldn't refute Lin Youde's face, so he could only watch his sister walk through the crowd and arrive.
In front of Lin Youde.
Seeing Yuan Shikai's depressed look, Lin Youde just wanted to laugh.
He turned his attention to Yuan Weiting again.
Yuan Weiting was dressed in a red and black Western-style dress, with her breasts exposed in the cold weather. Her appearance was as wild and evil as ever, especially her one eye that shone with a coquettish red light, which revealed her beautiful face with a sinister look.
"Long time no see, Miss Yuan, you are still as beautiful as ever."
"Where, Mr. Lin, you are so high-spirited and radiant. By the way," Yuan Weiting turned her sharp eyes behind Lin Youde and fixed on Xun, "It is the tradition of the Shenji Camp Headquarters to hold a martial arts competition ceremony every New Year's Day, coinciding with the founding of the new country.
The ceremony of the Guimao Year is coming soon, and it is bound to be grander than in previous years. I wonder if your concubine, Miss Kaoru, the former Japanese martial artist, would be honored to fight with me?"
Lin Youde almost wanted to say, "My giant cannon is also looking forward to fighting with you," but in the end he suppressed the impulse. He looked back at Xun, and the girl nodded without hesitation and said that she could fight.
So Lin Youde smiled at Yuan Weiting and replied: "No problem, we have no reason to refuse such a grand ceremony. Then I will let my Xun fight with you happily."