"Damn it!" Yuan Shikai laughed three times and continued to say to Tang Shaoyi, "This excuse of the Nanyang King is really amazing. You should really look at the expression of the old Buddha when he heard this word, haha."
"So, is the military expenditure going to be released?" Tang Shaoyi guessed while laughing.
"Not yet, the old woman asked Ronglu to attack from the western front, and we were waiting to watch the show. When they fought smoothly, we went south to grab the merits. If the fight was not smooth, we would not leave until the treasury gave the money." Yuan Shikai said
When he said this, he was so proud, "I think Ronglu won't be successful. Before, we put pressure on the revolutionary army. Now the revolutionary army has recovered. Huang Xing and his sister are still very capable, on the western front side.
I'm afraid I'll lose some rice if I can't steal the chicken."
Seeing that Yuan Shikai was in a good mood, Tang Shaoyi's face was relaxed. He said to Yuan Shikai in an understatement of family style: "Just just now the assessment of the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang Army's Dagu Task Force has been sent."
"Oh, how about it?"
"Uh..." Tang Shaoyi was a little hesitant. He confirmed Yuan Shikai's expression again, and then made up his mind to report, "After reading the complete report, I believe that the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang Army can be summarized in sixteen words: excellent weapons and well-trained.
, with high fighting spirit and strict discipline."
When he heard that Tang Shaoyi had such a high evaluation of the Nanyang Army, Yuan Shikai's joy began to fade. He glanced at Tang Shaoyi, raised his hand and touched his shiny forehead and said, "What a good weapon, well-trained."
,The fighting spirit is high and the discipline is strict. In your opinion, which Nanyang Army is better than the Beiyang Army I trained?"
"This issue can only be determined when the two armies actually fight one battle." Tang Shaoyi was so smart that he decisively started to practice Tai Chi.
Yuan Shikai curled his lips and snorted softly, but it was obvious that the joy brought by the huge harvest today was not so easily affected, so he quickly regained his initial interest: "It seems that Lin Youde is not a
There are only people with false reputations, and that girl Weiting is quite accurate in her eyes. So, Shaoyi, what do you think Lin Youde is planning now?"
The Qing court announced that it had been preparing for constitutional establishment for almost half a year. Lin Youde had been given the title of Minister of Navy as acting governor of Guangdong and Guangxi for more than three months. However, the Nanyang faction had basically no other than sending a 6,000-person contingent to Tianjin to defend the rear of the Beiyang Army.
action.
Of course, it was not completely unstoppable. Everyone could see that Lin Ji was making great money in war and reselling various wartime materials very quickly. Nanyang Ticket also took this opportunity to continue to expand its influence.
But in the eyes of politicians like Yuan Shikai, who were born in the feudal landlord class, this kind of commercial expansion is meaningless. Their thinking is still on the traditional routine of occupying land and scraping the land to make money, and there is no concept of the power of capital.
In fact, at least half of the reason why Wan Qing suffered from diplomacy was that Wan Qing's ministers had no capitalist concept at all.
Therefore, Yuan Shikai could not understand the actions of the South China Sea forces to remain unmoved. If he had been the leader of the South China Sea Army, he would have been landing in Yantai and Qingdao long ago with the help of the Americans and French people, and began to seize credit.
In the face of Yuan Shikai's doubts, Tang Shaoyi shook his head quietly - of course, this action was not seen by Yuan Shikai, who was facing Tang Shaoyi. Tang Shaoyi was born in Guangdong. When he was born, it had been 20 years since Guangzhou opened a port for trade, and the feudal economic system had collapsed.
Almost all, the capitalist atmosphere is naturally much stronger than other parts of the country. In 1874, Tang Shaoyi studied in the United States and studied at Columbia University for more than six years, so his understanding of capitalism is far beyond what Yuan Shikai could compare to.
….
Tang Shaoyi knew the power of capital very well, but he couldn't tell Yuan Shikai, so he could only pretend to be stupid.
Fortunately, at this time, he happened to have a piece of information sent back from Nanyang, which can be used to deal with Yuan Shikai's questions.
"Master," Tang Shaoyi said, "The English newspaper sent back from Nanyang published news about Lin Youde on the headlines, and it seemed that he built the only machine in the world called 'Shenjuku'."
"Huh?" Yuan Shikai turned around and looked at Tang Shaoyi, as if he was interested in the news. "Divine calculation? What kind of machine is that? Could it be that it is a tin Zhuge Liang who can see through all our movements?"
"No, Dashu, that's a machine for counting and counting."
"Mathematics?" Yuan Shikai frowned, "Those who are Xiao Jiujiu?"
When Yuan Shikai was in school, the reform of Westernization Party education had begun, and he also received a certain degree of "mathematical" education. But after all, he was different from the officers from regular Western military academies under his command. The so-called "Mr. Sai" is here.
The future warlord leader has no place in his mind.
When Tang Shaoyi faced Yuan Shikai's obviously disregarded attitude, he could only agree: "Yes, it's almost the same, but it's a little more complicated."
Yuan Shikai stared at Tang Shaoyi for a long time before saying in a deep voice: "Shaoyi, haven't I told you? If you have anything to say, just tell me. We are friends, not the relationship between the master and the slave, right?
So, tell me, that God’s calculations, say whatever is amazing.”
Tang Shaoyi nodded and said "Yes" three times, Fang Zheng said, "When I was studying in the United States, I heard classmates in engineering complaints that there are too many things that need to be calculated during the research process, and the time spent on experiments is used to fiddling with logarithm.
It's a ruler."
"This is a few feet..."
"It is a Western computing tool."
"Like our abacus?"
"Almost..." Tang Shaoyi could only smile bitterly in his heart, "And the report in the English newspaper, Lin Youde's machine can be completed in a blink of an eye even if it is a very complicated calculation. Therefore, this machine should be extremely large.
The speed of research by Lin Youde's scientists."
"So that's it." After saying that, Yuan Shikai showed explicit contempt on his face, "Hmph, Lin Youde, who has not learned anything from foreigners, just wants to do research by himself? But he just dug up a university from foreigners.
With a little sweetness, he plans to make a fortune by relying on this kind of side-minded way. Don’t he know the allusion of waiting for the rabbit?”
"Maybe, he has his considerations." Tang Shaoyi replied.
Yuan Shikai did not agree with Tang Shaoyi's vague answer. He raised his head and looked at the still desolate branches of the apricot blossom tree in the yard. Although the blooming flowers seemed weak in the cold wind, the steps of spring were
There is no doubt that it has arrived.
This is the first spring of the magnificent 20th century.