Lin Shuo was reselling scarce supplies in the international market and promoting industry in the country. He was very successful. In addition, he reorganized the Chinese Renaissance Party and lived a very satisfactory life. However, something made him increasingly unhappy.
Since the Kuomintang rebellion was put down, Yuan Shikai began to dream of becoming emperor under the instigation of a group of subordinates.
In August 1915, Yang Du and others organized a "security meeting" to openly advocate imperialism.
Lin Shuo was busy negotiating with the Japanese at this time and had no time to talk to him.
In order to force Yuan Shikai to accept the "Twenty-One Articles", the Japanese sent troops to occupy Xiamen. Lin Shuo asked Huang Shengji to lead the Fujian Army's 3rd Division to confront the Japanese soldiers, saying that if the Japanese did not retreat, they would start fighting, which temporarily made the atmosphere tense. .
Later, Lu Zhengxiang signed a simplified "Twelve Articles" with the Japanese, which also caused a surge of public anger across the country. The Japanese got an advantage and withdrew from Xiamen, and finally no real fight broke out.
In October, Liang Shiyi took the lead in organizing a nationwide petition meeting to send electricity to all provinces and contact them to petition Lao Yuan to become emperor.
Lin Shuo then became really anxious. He threw away the telegram and cursed: "These bastards are afraid that the world will not be in chaos! The old man is really stupid. He stays in Xinhua Palace all day without looking at the situation in the world!"
Lin Shuo took the people on the warship Haichen in Fuzhou and arrived in Beijing.
When he arrived at the door of the National Petition Federation next to the Ministry of Transportation, without saying a word, he first asked his guards to smash the sign, then broke into the Ministry of Transportation, caught the chief of transportation, Liang Shiyi, and beat him up.
"Whatever I can do, it's all because of the prince!" Liang Shiyi could only cry and said that Yuan Keding caught him embezzling public funds and forced him to submit.
Lin Shuo entered Xinhuamen, first found Yuan Shikai, took a stack of Shanghai newspapers and threw them on his desk: "I heard that the president wants to be the emperor, please kill me with one knife first, so as to save you the time." A rebellion!"
Yuan Shikai was so angry that he threw the cup down: "Damn it, this is unreasonable, this is really unreasonable! Who said I want to be the emperor?!"
"It's good to have the president say this, but I know there are some villains behind the scenes!" Lin Shuo said, gave a military salute, turned around and left.
After leaving Jurentang, I happened to bump into two brothers, Yuan Keding and Kewen, and Keliang coming out of Ziguang Pavilion.
So he used to angrily accuse him of "deceiving his father and harming the country!"
Yuan Keding was scolded by Lin Shuo. His face turned red and his neck became thick, so he replied bravely: "You can't control it! I'm afraid you are jealous and want to be the emperor!"
"What a bastard! I can't care less about you!" Lin Shuo grabbed Yuan Keding and punched him. He was a martial artist, so Yuan Keding was no match for him. He fell to the ground and was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was covered in blood.
Yuan Kewen was gloating at the misfortune and watching with cold eyes, but Keliang started to cheer: "What a move with two peaks to fill the ears. This move is called the black tiger pulling out the heart and the tiger's tail kick. Hey, what is this move? Brother-in-law, you have to teach me!"
Lin Shuo punched and kicked him, getting more and more angry until Mrs. Shen who was here came out to start a fight, and then he stopped.
Afterwards, he left the Xinhua Palace in a rage, called the guards, and left the capital without looking back.
Yuan Keding covered his eyes and complained to Lao Yuan. Yuan Shikai was reading the newspaper brought by Lin Shuo. The more he read, the more frightened he became. Seeing Yuan Keding come in, he couldn't say anything. He took out his belt and covered his head and face again. Yuan Keding felt resentful in his heart. I Who did you offend today?
"Lin Anhua is going to rebel. If you don't kill him, the Yuan family will die in his hands one by one!"
Yuan Shikai was even more angry, "If he beats you now, at least I won't kill you after I die. The most terrifying thing is the villain who walks around you with a smiling face all day long! You, a brainless thing like you, still want to be the emperor?"
If he could kill me, he would have killed me long ago. Why would he use it as a reminder? It is easy to kill a son-in-law, but
After killing the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, why don't you go and deal with it?!" As he said this, Old Yuan stopped his hand and made a noise. Why didn't he notice that this kid had so many troops under his command? If he really rebelled,
I'm just afraid that I won't be able to become the president, and I'm breaking out in cold sweats just thinking about it.
Lao Yuan gets scared just thinking about it.
His daughter was also scared, "What if Daddy really dares to kill you?" In Fuzhou, Ci Zhen, who heard about this incident, put her arms around her husband's waist and cried.
"Shit, if he had the guts, he would have become the emperor during the Xuantong Dynasty, and there is no need to make such an afterthought now!" Lin Shuo said with some disdain, Lao Yuan was more than capable of being a powerful minister, but he didn't have the courage to be the emperor.
Courage and courage.
What kind of courage? To put it bluntly, he kills without blinking an eye and is ruthless.
This is called the power of the emperor! He is moody and his subordinates may have said something wrong and their heads will fall to the ground immediately.
The emperor's approach to his ministers is sincere and fearful, and accompanying them is like accompanying a tiger.
Now that Duan Qirui is passive and sabotaging his work, Lao Yuan has no choice but to kill Zhang Zhenwu and sell Li Yuanhong. How can such a soft-handed person become the emperor? It's a joke. At best, he can only use some tricks to win people's hearts.
President Yuan dreams of becoming emperor, and Lin Anhua makes a fuss in the Forbidden City.
For a time, the newspapers were full of jokes.
Yuan Keding mustered up the courage to reorganize the National Petition Federation and sent another text message to ask the governors of each province, but there were only a few responses. I don't know why. Later, the secretary submitted a copy of the "Declaration", but only a red advertisement appeared on the front page of the newspaper: Again
Anyone who dares to advocate the monarchy will be regarded as a traitor to the country, and everyone in the world will punish them together. Someone will send troops to the north, vowing to eliminate this beast! The inscription is: Army General Lin Anhua, the southeast patrol envoy of the Republic of China.
Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Li Chun, Wang Zhanyuan, Dong Yuntang, Lin Jianfan, Zhang Weicheng and Zhang Shaozeng all signed up.
Then there were Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei, Tang Shaoyi, Xiong Xiling, Zhang Jian, Tang Shouqian, Tan Yankai, Cen Chunxuan and other celebrities who responded.
Lin Shuo has made it very clear, if anyone continues to make noises and advocate imperialism, I will kill you first!
It's important to get promoted and make a fortune, but the things you need to eat are even more important. Which one is more important, everyone can carry it clearly.
It turns out that the "talented people" who encouraged the imperial system collectively lost their voices and regarded the prince as a god of plague, hiding away as much as possible.
When Lao Yuan saw this announcement, he was stunned and beat his chest in anger. These people are threatening me, old man! But they really don't dare to continue the imperial system.
What a farce ended hastily.
"There is nothing wrong with the world. When there is trouble, it is only those shameless literati who start it. If you scare them, everything will be fine again."
"That makes sense." Xu Shuzheng raised his glass and drank it all. Now that the deputy army chief had gone to Fuzhou, did he also want to come and learn from it? Lin Shuo was alarmed.
It's a pity that although you, the "little fan strategist," have many ideas, you have neither soldiers nor money!
These days, the most important thing is to keep your head down and make money.
The Fuzhou Shipping Bureau actually received an order for two destroyers subcontracted from the Newport News Shipyard in the United States. It turned out that the Greeks were in urgent need of escort ships, but the American shipyard no longer had empty slipways, so they had to subcontract to foreign shipyards and asked for quotations.
Later, the order for two warships was given to Fuzhou Shipyard.
Starting from 1905, Fuzhou Shipyard had not built ships for ten years. Lin Shuo did not want the workers to waste their craftsmanship, so he added almost no profit when quoting. After inspection, the Americans approved the marine steel plates produced in Hanyang.
The two destroyers, later known as the "Ramirez" class, had a displacement of 1,175 tons and adopted the unique American flat-deck ship type. They were powered by 4 heavy oil boilers and 2 Curtiss-type steam turbines, with a maximum power of 27,500.
Horsepower/29 knots, endurance 3200 nautical miles/14 knots, armament of 4 single-mounted 105mm guns, and 4 triple-mounted 21-inch torpedo launchers amidships.
Even for such a small warship, its armaments and power need to be imported from the United States. China lacks the metallurgical technology for artillery of medium caliber and above, and cannot produce the alloy steel needed for high-pressure turbine impellers.
The shipbuilding industry is a place that pays attention to technology and requires strong metallurgical and large equipment manufacturing capabilities in terms of materials and large bearing manufacturing.
But in essence, shipbuilding is a manual labor. Hundreds of workers drill the cut steel plates on a scaffolding slipway or dock, and then splice them together with rivets. It is much like building a building with a boiler room on the bottom. There is no shortage in China.
Cheap labor and if heavy industry technology can keep up with the world, the competitive advantage in the shipbuilding industry will be very obvious.
Lin Shuo controls the steel complex that is now second only to Japan's Hakkashin Steel in Asia. It owns five modern shipyards, Hudong, Fuzhou, Haimen, Xiamen and Wuhu. Although each shipyard is different from the British in terms of scale,
Large shipyards in the United States, Germany, France and other countries cannot compare
By comparison, in 1915, orders for 27 ocean-going cargo ships totaling 120,000 tons had been received. By 1916, this figure was 58 ships with 230,000 tons. Lin Shuo's shipyard was not only busy building ships, but also busy expanding the shipyard.
New, larger slipway and dock.
The money-making effect caused by the huge profits in the steel, metallurgy and coal industries has attracted more investment into this field. Fortunately, Lin Shuo has now provided some large-scale mining machinery and imitated medium-sized iron-making blast furnaces for the country, and can provide some coking equipment.
, allowing some newly established enterprises in the country to start operations without having to wait until the war to import these equipment from abroad.
Due to the huge investment in steel, mining, metallurgy, electric power and other industries, some consortiums with obvious regional characteristics have gradually formed, such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Ningshao, Fujian, Anhui and Jiangxi, North China, Shanxi, Chaoshan, and Hongjiang. Most of these consortiums are strong.
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There are tens to hundreds of millions of assets, among which the Fujian Consortium and the Chaoshan Consortium are mostly overseas Chinese businessmen living in Nanyang. The gradual formation of the consortium has made the domestic economy begin to transition to a monopoly form, which has also enabled domestic enterprises to gradually possess a certain degree of international competitiveness.