After the parade ended with the expected enthusiastic response from the crowd, everyone on the tower moved to the Temple of Heaven to watch the Shenji Camp's annual martial arts competition.
The highlight of the conference was of course Yuan Weiting's battle with Lin Youde's maid Chang Xun. The two fought for almost an hour. In the end, Lin Youde saw that both sides were a little bit superior and decisively stopped it. The duel ended in a draw. The next day, the newly established China Daily
On the first page, Zhang Taiyan wrote an article and commented: "This is like the current competition between the North and the South, where the two sides are tied."
The China Daily has a background in the revolutionary army, and Zhang Taiyan has a dual background in the former revolutionary government and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang plutocrats, so naturally he will not have anything good to say about Beiyang and Nanbei.
Immediately, Lianhe Zaobao, which also had a new hair style, retorted, saying that Sun Wen's central government was being used as a puppet by Yuan Shikai and was a puppet of the Ministry of War.
Lianhe Zaobao is a publicity agency established by Chen Tianhua after integrating Lin Ji's media mouthpieces in Tianjin, Beijing and Tang Dynasty. Its full name is "Nanyang United Press Group", which is fully controlled by Lin Ji. Lianhe Wanbao is their first product, and they plan to
It publishes a series of products such as Lianhe Wanbao, which is biased towards market entertainment, and the current political commentary magazine "South Wind Window". Lin Youde also personally ordered the construction of printing plants in Tianjin, Beijing and Tang Dynasty, and standardized and systematized the newspaper sales by newsboys.
Children who sell newspapers for a newspaper group only sell the group's newspapers. Not only do they get paid, but they are also provided with breakfast. After buying the newspapers, the children can go to the school invested by the group to take classes, take care of lunch, and go directly to sell evening newspapers after class in the afternoon.
Now all the cleverest newsboys came to Lin Ji's side. The number of newsboys at China Daily who left the newspaper office in the morning saw fewer and fewer newsboys day by day. Later, there were no more newsboys at all, and there were only a few.
But at this time, the revolutionary military government, Jiangsu and Zhejiang plutocrats were all busy fighting political conflicts at the Federal Assembly, and no one cared to allocate funds to Zhang Taiyan to deal with it, so Tianjin, Beijing and Tang Dynasty suddenly became Lin Ji's talking point, Lianhe Zaobao Evening News
It's all over the streets. Especially the Evening News. Lin Youde's order to Chen Tianhua is that the Evening News takes it as its own duty to spread gossip and confuse the public, and to carry out the gossip to the end.
The Chinese people love to hear and hear gossip stories. For a time, rumors about representatives from all walks of life were all over the streets.
Of course the representatives were not happy about this, but Lin Youde stood behind Lianhe Wanbao, so they could only crush the bitterness into pieces and swallow it in their stomachs, while urging their pens to fight back quickly.
Unfortunately, Lin Youde was a marketer in a previous time and space and was a proven marketing warrior. The skills he mastered may not even be possible in this time and space even by propagandists like Goebbels and Shaqiu.
Of course, people in this time and space don't quite understand the need to control the direction of public opinion. Everyone talks about people's support, but few really pay attention to it.
For example, the Yuan Shikai Group, most of whom were former bureaucrats, simply did not even run a newspaper, and only relied on a few imperial literati to deal with these verbal disputes.
In addition to these current affairs-related reading materials, United Newspapers also followed Lin Youde's instructions and prepared to publish the first fashion publication in China and even the world. Although the color printing technology is so poor now, even Lin Youde himself is worried about how effective a fashion publication can be.
It doesn't make sense, but Lin Youde doesn't lack the money and can afford it, so it doesn't matter.
In addition, Lin Youde also ordered the establishment of Xinhua Bookstore. According to Lin Youde's vision, this will be a non-profit organization that is responsible for compiling, printing, publishing and nationwide chain sales of books.
If you control young people, you can control the future. In the past, Lin Youde had to prepare for a civil war, but now the civil war will not start for a while. He can finally free up financial and material resources to do these things that may take ten or twenty years to see results.
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While Lin Ji was making frequent moves internally, he adopted a wait-and-see attitude at the Federal Congress. In the Federal Congress, in addition to his own vote from the Navy, Lin Youde also held three votes from Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian. Lin Ji had almost infiltrated Jiangxi and Hunan provinces.
The two votes were actually controlled by him, and they were quite weighty in theory. However, Lin Youde showed an obvious tendency to follow the crowd. He only appointed a director of the Propaganda Department for Chen Tianhua, a minister of education for Cai Yuanpei, and then a minister of education for Situ Meitang.
He won a plenipotentiary ambassador to the United States, but not even the Minister of Railways and the Minister of Mining, whom everyone thought Lin Youde would fight for...
When the final cabinet list was released, two of the 12 ministers were from Nanyang forces.
Seeing how unenthusiastic Lin Youde was, other provinces also came to their senses: Anyway, the federal parliament is responsible for the money, and the army, army and navy are responsible for it, so there is really no need to fight over the cabinet.
Unexpectedly, when the conference entered the stage of nomination and voting of members of the Federal Parliament, Lin Youde simply voted in favor without closing his eyes. There were only about twenty votes in total. Lin Youde voted six in favor at once, and as long as there were six or seven more votes in favor,
Then the matter is settled, so no matter which party nominates the candidate, as long as he passes the qualification review and enters the voting stage, he will definitely pass. The composition of this parliament suddenly becomes complicated.
In fact, Lin Youde just wants all parties to come to the parliament to quarrel. Anyway, his money is not controlled by the parliament. If there are really major issues, such as passing any key bills, they have to be decided by the federal assembly. Without the parliament, nothing can happen.
So just choose whatever you want. The more complicated the ingredients you choose, the happier Lin Youde will be. The snipe and the clam are competing against each other and the fisherman will get the benefit.
With such quarrels, a month has passed, and the Lunar New Year of 1903 is about to arrive. Lin Youde's Wanshou Mountain camp began to prepare for the Spring Festival, and Lin Youde started his favorite money-spreading action again - but this time he sprinkled
Not silver, but Nanyang notes.
Although it has been confirmed as the national currency, it does not mean that the market will suddenly become dominated by Nanyang Banknotes. This has to have a process, especially when the provinces will not sincerely promote Nanyang Banknotes. This process is doomed.
It will become longer.
Lin Youde's response was to throw money.
Just after New Year's Day, Lin Kee's purchasing team set off to various parts of the country with bundles of Nanyang stamps to "make New Year's goods" for Lin Youde. They bought whatever was good or expensive. The price was not an issue, but they were all paid for with Nanyang stamps.
At that time, Lin Youde's reputation came into play: If you can defeat the Russians and turn Japan into a bank note guaranteed by the master of our province, what's the problem? Maybe some people don't know about Nanyang notes, but it's impossible that anyone doesn't know Lin Youde.
In this way, a large number of Nanyang tickets have entered the circulation field. And people are so weird. The more people use Nanyang tickets, the easier it is for more people to accept Nanyang tickets.
A side effect of promoting Nanyang Tickets was that a mountain of supplies was quickly piled up in the temporary warehouse near Wanshou Mountain, and they were all good things that had been supplied from various places in the past.
So during the period before the Spring Festival, Lin Youde distributed gifts widely and was very generous.
A week before the Spring Festival, Lin Youde sent Sophie's All-Domain Nirvana to pick up Ba from Tokyo.
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After the usual discharge, Yunzhou slowly lowered its altitude.
In order to facilitate the take-off and landing of Yunzhou these days, Lin Youde asked the troops to specially build a support suitable for the shape of the All-Field Annihilation next to Wanshou Mountain, so that the ship finally does not have to be stranded in Kunming Lake every time it takes off and lands.
After the ship stopped, the gangplank was extended from the ship's deck.
The first one to fly down was Sophie, and then Tomoe wearing a pure blue kimono appeared in Lin Youde's sight.
The goddess will never grow old, but when Lin Youde saw the familiar girl, he felt that time had passed and his youth was no longer there. He opened his arms and stepped forward to meet him, but he stopped when Lin Youde came within two feet of each other.
, folded his hands in front of him, and saluted Lin Youde.
"Okay, don't be so formal." Lin Youde sighed, shook his head, and then grinned at the girl, "Do you remember our agreement back then? Now that I have occupied the four islands of Japan, and New China has been established, when are you going to do it?
Come into my bowl?"
Ba looked a little surprised. She stared at Lin Youde for two seconds, then turned her dark eyes to the side...
At this time, Lin Youde spoke again: "Don't look at Xun, she has been eaten up, but she can't get through if you don't."…
As he spoke, Lin Youde took a step forward and forcibly held Ba into his arms.
This time, the girl who always faced Lin Youde with a stern face did not push Lin Youde away.
She lay in Lin Youde's arms, pressed her face against Lin Youde's chest, and murmured in a low voice: "Actually, you don't have to care so much about giving me a status. I heard that someone in the Federal Assembly has proposed to legislate monogamy in the country.
Now, taking a concubine at this time..."
"I want to take a concubine, who can stop me?" Lin Youde sneered, "As long as I am here, even if someone formally submits the bill to the General Assembly, it will not be passed."
"But, as a woman, I personally hope that this can pass and that I can become the only one for each other with my lover. For girls, this is a very happy thing." Bar paused and gently touched Lin Youde's military uniform with his hand.
After a while, he continued with a weak tone, "But, I also want... and want to have a status, even if I am just a concubine... I, I can't understand my own thoughts."
Although Ba's words were spoken in a low voice, Lin Youde felt loving and warm in his heart. He tightened his arms and gently stroked Ba's back.
"So," he whispered in Ba's ear, "it's better to choose a day than to hit it. For this year's Spring Festival, China pays attention to double happiness. If you include the founding of New China, it will be triple happiness. It's auspicious."
Ba's face was buried in Lin Youde's chest, so Lin Youde couldn't see her expression, but from her silence, he could still feel the girl's hesitation.
Finally, the girl spoke.
"Does... Madam know?"
"I've told her and she totally agrees."
"Xun..."
"She knows it too."
"Then Sophie..."
"calls me?"
Sophie suddenly appeared next to the two people who were hugging each other sweetly. She had a confused expression on her face and spoke in a loud voice.
Lin Youde looked at his daughter and asked, "Sophie, do you want Baye to be your mother?"
"Yeah, okay." Sophie nodded, then she glanced and suddenly said, "Strong male lions have more female lions. This is the law of nature and the inevitable necessity of species reproduction."
After saying that, the little girl - now the eldest girl - ran away quickly, and when she came to Josephine, she happily reported: "Mom, my mission is completed."
Lin Youde looked at Josephine, and his wife responded with gentle eyes.
Lin Youde lowered his head to look at Ba again, only to find that Ba also stretched his neck to look at Josephine. After noticing Lin Youde's gaze, she lowered her head again.
"Then..." Halfway through his words, Ba switched to Japanese, and what he said was also the standard speech of a Japanese newlywed woman, "This little girl is not talented, please give me some advice in the future."