The next day after sending Xia Fanglan away, Lin Youde put on a traditional long gown and attended the banquet prepared for him by He Shengtang.
Katerina, who had just joined Lin Youde's army, also wanted to follow her at first. After being rejected by Lin Youde and the others, the boss was unhappy - this Nordic girl thought it was an "Oriental dance party", but she didn't know that the East's dinner party was not dancing at all, which was very different from the West.
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Lin Youde threw the Nordic girl who lost her temper to Chen Haihui for cooking, and got into the carriage and set off first. As a result, Chen Haihui's face was a little blue when they met at Zuichun Tower.
"Damn it, that guy is a god girl." Chen Haihui said angrily, "It seems that because his ability is biased towards alchemy, he became an engineer, but he is not ambiguous at all when he beats people."
"Then you will be the promising profession of Shabao in the future." Lin Youde patted Chen Haihui on the shoulder, "I will give you a salary."
"You'd better ask me a doctor."
Lin Youde doesn't like fierce girls and cannot understand the "fun" of his barbaric girlfriend, so he is happy to give this burden to Chen Haihui, not to mention that he doesn't have the confidence to pick up girls with his own strength.
As soon as I entered Zuichun Tower, Lin Youde first remembered a joke circulating on the Internet that I saw before traveling through time: It seems that every time traveler went to in ancient times, there were Zuichun Tower everywhere. Now it seems that this joke is not groundless. Zuichun
Chunlou and other things really bloomed everywhere in this era - there is also Zuichunlou in Guangzhou, and Lin Youde had dinner there, so maybe other cities will also have it.
The boss of Heshengtang came to welcome Xiang Caiyi, and his intimate attitude was completely different from the night before yesterday.
Xiang Caiyi said polite compliments, such as Mr. Lin's bravery to kill the Qing court assassin himself, which was really a hero. Lin Youde was also happy to be flattered, and he smiled and took all these good words.
After the top floor of Zuichun Tower, Lin Youdecai found that the situation was not right.
Everyone on the top floor was watching Lin Youde, and they all looked like they were very identifiable. Many people were so old that they could be Lin Youde's great-grandfather. That style clearly shows what kind of clan elders are like, and they are bunkers.
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In addition, as soon as Lin Youde went upstairs, the entrance of the stairs was blocked by several strong men, looking like "an idle people cannot wait to enter".
"Brother Xiang, this is..." Lin Youde slowed down slightly if the situation was wrong.
"Safe and be at ease, this is to prevent the ghosts from entering our conference."
The explanation for the edict made Lin Youde secretly feel fortunately he didn't bring Katerina.
"However," although Lin Youde accepted Xiang Caiyi's explanation, he still had a question in his heart, "Brother Xiang, why is it like this to mobilize a large number of troops?"
It is impossible that Lin Youde killed the Qing Dynasty assassin and the local gangs in Hong Kong came out to celebrate for him. There must be other reasons here.
Seeing Lin Youde's doubts, laughed three times at the edict, then reached out and put his hand on Lin Youde's shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "The Great Wall will never fall, the Yellow River will surging thousands of miles away, and the mountains will be beautiful and colorful peaks will be ridges. I asked my country how it looks like a disease
, Is this the lyrics sung by Mr. Lin?”
Lin Youde was shocked and said that the news was too well-informed, and the power of the Hongmen was indeed terrifying in Hong Kong.
"This is a song that Lin is writing and playing when he is free. It is not worth mentioning, so it makes Brother Xiang laugh."
Xiang Caiyi still responded with a laugh when he was about Lin Youde's humility.
"Mr. Lin... No, Brother Lin, our family doesn't speak two words. As for me, I don't care about the country's destiny. I just want to make money and enjoy it myself. But in Hong Kong over the years, I have discovered something,
Even if the country is not doing well, I can’t be happy.”
Speaking of the latter, he raised his tone of Yingyi. He let go of Lin Youde and turned to the Chinese bosses in Hong Kong who were all over the floor.
"I, Xiang Caiyi, Tangtang and Shengtang's shopkeeper, have hundreds of horsemen in my hands. I'm not polite to see anyone in Causeway Bay. But at night, even Indian auxiliary police dared to come up to interrogate me.
, mother-in-law and mother were talking nonsense! Just because Hong Kong is in a curfew! Just because I am Chinese! Once again, I drank and lost my pass. When I asked the mama to go back to find her, the police came. I could only go into the brothel and called Japan.
Prostitute, the Indians saw that I had a Japanese accompany me, so they let me go. My dear and the Master Katsudo Katsura, are not as good as a Japanese prostitute!”
He beat his chest and feet to the righteous, and his anger was beyond words...
"I am not a gentleman. I don't care about the dangers of a country and nation, nor do I care about the great justice. However, now that the country is bullied, I am not happy! I'm not happy! So I understand, unless we in China, we are not happy.
As a whole, people are proud. Otherwise, how much money we make and how much horsemen we collect will be, in the eyes of ghosts, they are just a piece of shit, a piece of shit!"
After talking to Caiyi, the young people sitting at the tables at the very edge of the banquet were already excited, and the old men sitting near the tables near the host's seat in the hall also nodded slowly with their beards.
I don’t know who shouted: “Our Hongmen is a branch of the Tiandihui Society and was originally an anti-Qing Dynasty!”
This sentence attracted a lot of praise among the young people, but was suppressed by the respected old men.
"Come on!" Xiang Caiyi picked up a bowl of wine, raised it high and turned to Lin Youde, "Brother Lin, I know you have great ambitions and are not in the same direction as these Erwuzi's court, so starting today, you are our brother."
(Guangdong people like to call traitors and traitors, or stingy guys)
Seeing that the wine was definitely not allowed to be pushed away, Lin Youde was determined and took it to two gulps. Because the wine was too strong, his head almost stopped when it got hot - fortunately it was just almost done.
Then Lin Youde played the enamel and smashed it to pieces on the ground to enhance his courage to speak.
"Everyone, since everyone regards me as a brother, I will not hide it. I don't believe in the constitutionalists, nor do I trust the revolutionary party. The constitutionalists have fantasies about the Qing court, so they are destined to fail, and the revolutionary party is too
It is rash and passionate, but there is no plan to implement. Taking the Guangzhou uprising last year as an example, the revolutionary party has neither money nor people, and has nothing to do with his mouth to receive donations from overseas compatriots, while the revolutionary people are
My Hongmen and Mr. Yang Quyun’s Furen Wenshu provided it, and the last sacrifice was mostly my Hongmen brothers, but their party leader had already gone far away! Such a person is really not trustworthy!"
In fact, Lin Youde was not that unhappy Sun Yat-sen, but in history he was defeated so miserably. Lin Youde didn't want to hang out with him, nor did he want his own strength to be his - Oh, this is her, in short, Lin Youde didn't want to be her
Divide the power in your hands, so you try hard to discredit it at this time.
Unexpectedly, these words won a lot of applause. It seems that there are quite a few powerful people in Hong Kong who are dissatisfied with Sun Yat-sen. No wonder Sun Yat-sen raised funds everywhere in real history, but Hong Kong has not come many...
At this moment, a young man stood up in the venue, held up a note, and said loudly: "Sun Wen came to Hong Kong to give a speech last year, established the Xingzhonghui, issued revolutionary stocks, one stock of ten yuan, and promised that after the success of the revolution,
The stock returns of 100 yuan. At that time, our brothers subscribed a total of 10,000 shares. As a result, the uprising was like this bear. Before the spark was lit, it was extinguished by the Qing dog, and all the brothers who participated were killed and injured. I don’t know when this revolution was at that time.
It can be done!"
"Yes, maybe we will all die of old age by then!" The young man's speech attracted a lot of congratulations again.
Only then did Lin Youde realize that there was a reason why these people were unhappy with the Revolutionary Party. It was probably because his investment was wasted. However, Sun Wen was really brave enough to say that a short check such as ten times the rebate after the revolution was successful.
It was opened, worthy of being Sun Dapao.
He was also happy that the crowd was in high spirits in the venue, so this dinner continued in this state of excitement and did not end until after nine o'clock.
After the end of the show, Lin Youde was about to leave, but Xiang Caiyi was left behind.
A strong middle-aged man in his early thirties was also staying with him. Lin Youde stared at him for a long time, but he didn't understand what was going on.
The middle-aged man also looked at Lin Youde with serious eyes.
Xiang Chuangyi smiled and asked everyone to go to the wing room to discuss the matter. As soon as everyone sat down, Xiang Chuangyi hurriedly introduced to Lin Youde: "This is from the Hongmen North American Zhigong Hall, who came to Hong Kong to contact business at the end of February this year.
Situ Mei’s cousins.”
Lin Youde was surprised and said to himself: Damn, why did this big guy come to Hong Kong?
Situ Meitang Lin Youde met this through a novel called 1893. Later, he was shocked when he checked the information. This person can be said to be the godfather of the Chinese version, and is from Anliangtang, the largest radical group in the Hongmen Zhigongtang.
President Franklin Roosevelt, who later led the United States through the economic crisis and won World War II, served as a legal counsel under him...
How could this guy be in Hong Kong now?
Could it be that the history here is breaking away from the trajectory that Lin Youde knows and is moving in an inexplicable direction?
This is amazing, and it is related to the accuracy of Lin Youde's judgment based on the history of the previous time and space. If history has a large deviation, then it must be deduced again with dialectics and historical materialism in a new situation.
As for whether the deduction was correct, Lin Youde was not worried at all. Mao could basically deduce the entire process of the Asian battlefield in World War II in 1933 (except for whom the Soviet Union's large-scale aid was wrong, it was basically correct.
), Lin Youde, who has learned Mao's style in full, can also be. I have to say that the success this year has made Lin Youde a little arrogant.
Lin Youde decided to test to what extent history cheated, so he pretended to be casual and asked: "Situ Meitang? Could it be that Situ Meitang who established Anliangtang?"
"Of course, Mr. Situ's deeds of punching white hooligans in the United States are well known. Nowadays, there are very few such things that have a Chinese ambition."
Lin Youde avoided talking about how he knew An Liangtang, and used an incident that happened earlier and was more famous. Xiang Caiyi and Situ Meitang looked at each other, and seemed to be planning to investigate in depth on this point.
Chen Haihui looked at Lin Youde's back and thoughtfully.
"Mr. Lin." Situ Meitang said, "I came to Hong Kong. I heard from the revolutionary patriots who had been traveling to Honolulu that you risked your life to cover their retreat. I also heard that Mr. Lin was looking for guns in Hong Kong, so I came over to think about it.
Let’s see Mr. Lin’s view on the current situation. If you don’t want to come to Hong Kong, I will go to Guangzhou to visit you.”
Lin Youde was even more strange. He just covered up some progressive young people. This credit is small, but it is not small, but not big. How could this future boss come back to visit him?
Perhaps seeing Lin Youde still had doubts, Situ Meitang took out a letter from his arms.
"This is a letter from Mr. He Ziyuan. Before Meitang went to the United States, she was taken care of by Mr. He Ziyuan's father and always regarded Mr. He as her eldest brother."
Lin Youde said "Oh" and understood. After thinking about it carefully, there are so many people from Guangdong and Fujian in Hongmen, and those big guys are almost all from these two provinces, so it is not surprising that they have connections with each other.
And He Ziyuan has been taking care of him in Guangzhou, and he is watching what Lin Youde does.
While Lin Youde was thinking it through, he spoke to Caiyi: "Okay, now the Hongmen representatives from Guangdong, Hong Kong and America are all here, we can start discussing some specific things. The kind of conference just now cannot be done.
The more people there are, the less we can decide things. A few people with real power will be determined, and the matter will be settled. It is kept confidential and fast. This is my experience of being a big brother for so many years. The revolutionary party just likes a lot of people discussing things.
Only then will it be impossible.”
Lin Youde praised the statement of Xiang Yi. In history, the larger the conference, the more you can only act. The "meetings" that really play a key role are all the people who meet and whisper a few words to discuss.
A few words made a decision that was enough to shake the wheel of history.
But after hearing Xiang Caiyi's words, Situ Meitang waved his hands repeatedly: "No, I can't represent the Hongmen Zhigong Hall in America, at most I can only represent my Anliang Hall."
"Don't be humble, Brother Situ, I think you have a heroic appearance. You will be the one who will command the court in the future."
After Xiang Caiyi said that, he looked at Lin Youde, and Lin Youde naturally nodded repeatedly, because in Lin Youde's view, Xiang Caiyi's words had happened once - then it is likely to happen again.
What else Situ Meitang wanted to say was stopped by waves to the righteousness. The incense master of Heshengtang turned to Lin Youde and asked, "Brother Lin, you said it so excitedly, I wonder what is different from the revolutionary party's high opinions.
?How are you going to take this road to saving the country?"
While speaking, Xiang Caiyi's passionate affection just now faded away and turned back to the expression of the experienced businessman. Over the past year, Lin Youde has seen many such expressions. This is when the businessman wants to negotiate business and bargain.
and Situ Meitang opposite him did not hide his expectations. This future godfather was a chivalrous man, probably disdained those businessmen-like calculations...
"First of all, the fundamental reason for our success is to have an armed force that can expel the Tartars internally and fight against Britain and France externally."
Lin Youde was interrupted by Xiang Caiyi as soon as he started.
"We have heard enough of similar words from Sun Wen. To be honest, Brother Lin. Such an army requires a lot of money to support it. Where does the money come from? Will it raise funds? Or issuing stocks?"
Lin Youde smiled.
"Go to Nanyang to get it." Since meeting Dewey, the commander of the American Asian fleet on the night he first came to Hong Kong, Lin Youde has begun to seriously consider the possibility of going to Nanyang first. At this time, a bold plan has already been in his mind.
The prototype was formed.
"Nanyang has the best environment for growing natural rubber. Now the rubber price is rising, and controlling Nanyang, this alone can raise huge funds. We can also grow crops such as tobacco in Nanyang to make more profits. In addition,
There is also oil in the Dutch East India. In 1880, the Dutch named Zikel discovered oil that naturally oozed out on Sumatra and began to organize exploration. However, there has been no achievements so far, but I have a way to find the oil.
”
Xiang Caiyi and Situ Meitang looked at each other. Of course they knew the value of rubber and oil, but...
“How do we get these?”
"The United States of America has been coveting the Philippines for a long time, but if the United States directly starts war against Spain, which occupied the Philippines, it will not make sense. Moreover, the Philippine national independence movement is now rising. If the Americans want to occupy the Philippines, they will inevitably send large troops to suppress it after defeating Spain.
Filipino natives. This means high military expenditure and a large number of casualties. But there are a large number of Chinese in the Philippines. If the Chinese are armed in the name of "protecting themselves in the war" and then concoct a fake tragedy, we will have enough
Reason to raise an army to attack the Spanish defenders and indigenous independent armies that were fighting together…”
"When the Americans provide support to us, we can take the opportunity to control the entire Philippines, and the Americans only need to pay much less military expenses than sending troops directly to get the rights and interests in the Philippines." Xiang Caiyi is so smart
The person immediately guessed Lin Youde's intention.
As soon as Xiang Caiyi finished speaking, Situ Meitang took over the conversation: "We can divide a part of the rights that Americans should have, because the Chinese have shed blood. This transaction must be fair, and we must let the flow
I think it's hard to get blood."
"This is just the first step. After we take over the Philippines, we will form a Chinese special administrative region, then form troops on the spot, and then mobilize more Chinese people from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian to join the Philippines, and then..."
"Dutch East India."
Lin Youde nodded, and his view of the old fox Xiang Yi reached a new level.
"Spain is already at the end of its strength. We have the support of the United States behind us. Europeans will probably look at it on the wall. No one will go to war with the emerging country with the highest industrial capacity in the world because of a declining empire. But the Netherlands is different, the Dutch royal family and the English, Germany and France, etc. Europe.
Because the royal family of the great powers was related to each other, the United States was also afraid of it, so even if the military and industrial capacity far exceeded that of the Netherlands, it would not dare to make the Dutch East India. However, with the Chinese administrative region of the Philippines, the situation was different.
"We will instigate the locals in the East Indies to launch a war of independence with the Chinese, and then send troops to East India 'at the request of the Chinese Indonesians'. The Netherlands does not have many defenders in East India, and we are confident before the local expeditionary forces arrive.
Taking over most of East India. Because of the many conflicts between Europe, I don’t think they will directly send troops to help the Netherlands. They are likely to support the Netherlands in sending expeditionary forces with money and arms. At that time, we only need to go to the expedition with the Labor Division.
The Dutch can fight to the decisive battle.”
"I think it can be done," Situ Meitang said first, "Our compatriots in East India and the Philippines have more than one million, most of them are young and middle-aged men who go out to make a living. The Hongmen is widely distributed among Chinese people. As long as there are weapons, organize one
It is not impossible to build a large army. In addition, I, Anliangtang, can organize a battalion of volunteers from the Chinese in Boston."
"Oh, don't be anxious." Xiang Caiyi said as soon as he spoke, he really wanted to sing a bad face. These two people, one red and one black, were really right, "The plan is good. However, Brother Lin, there are two major problems, Xiang is not allowed.
I won’t remind you first. First of all, I think America is indeed interested in getting involved in the Philippines, but how can we ensure that we can talk to them together?”.
Before Lin Youde could answer, Situ Meitang volunteered: "I'll come to do this, and Zhigongtang still has many white friends in the United States."
This Zhigongtang is actually equivalent to the protective umbrella of Chinese in the United States. It is the same as the Sicilian mafia. It is a gang. There are no gangs who do not collude with politicians these days. Lin Youde and Xiang, who know this well, are naturally very good at eloquent.
Don't worry, leave this matter to Situ Meitang. More importantly, politicians and businessmen are the same type of people, and they can reach negotiations if they have interests.
The United States sends troops directly to war, and the risks are all borne by the United States. If the United States pays for the Chinese to fight, the risks are much smaller. Low risks and high returns are naturally attractive than high risks and high returns. Moreover, the United States is now worried about the world.
After the division is finished, there is no excuse or courage to go to war between Britain, France and Germany. Now there is someone who provides excuses and helps with war. How great is it.
All the United States needs is to provide much less arms and some military expenditure than direct dispatch of troops.
As for China represented by Lin Youde, there is only one thing to do, that is, to ensure victory.
As long as you win, you will be a win-win situation. If you lose, the Chinese will take the blame.
Lin Youde felt that the United States had no reason to refuse this.
Xiang Caiyi probably felt that the United States had no reason to refuse, so he didn't worry about this issue anymore, but turned to the next one: "The second is people, guns, and even wind armor and cloud machine, these are all easy to say. But what should the God Ji do?
?Although the Netherlands is a second-rate country among the great powers, there are still divine girls. Do you want our soldiers to use their flesh and blood to deal with divine girls who have installed amplification devices?"
"I will go to Japan within this year," Lin Youde answered with confidence as much as possible, "Meiji Hime from Ise Shrine is a pro-China faction that does not agree with the war between China and Japan. I will convince her to send a witch,
Come to support in the name of ronin witches or witches of practice.”
"Okay," Xiang Naoyi applauded, "As long as Brother Lin can bring back Shen Ji from Japan, He Shengtang and Hongmen in Hong Kong, he should help him with all his strength."
Lin Youde cursed secretly, "This old fox has set me up conditions."
But on the surface, Lin Youde looked happy and raised his glass and suggested: "Since the policy has been established, let's celebrate. For the rise of China."
In this way, in the wing room of Zuichun Tower, which is everywhere on the land of China, history deviates from its original trajectory and slides in an unknown direction while drinking.
A huge Asian empire sent its first cry in this wing room.