After sending Yonggui away, Shi Shigege stayed up very late. She was thinking about it on the sofa, her mind was so messed up that she couldn't even figure out a clue in the middle of the night. She was usually smart and decisive, but now she had a kind of
The feeling of wanting to escape.
Along with her, there was Xiang Xiaoqiang who was pretentious and unable to sleep due to mumbling in the middle of the night.
Yonggui suddenly went to ask for a meeting with Shi Shi Ge Ge, and then Shi Shi Ge Ge called him up. After a long time, his eyes and ears heard that Yong Gui had come down again, so he didn't say anything more and asked the maid to take him back to his room.
He didn't have anything to do with Xiang Xiaoqiang during the whole process.
This made Xiang Xiaoqiang depressed. Not only was he depressed because he didn't know what was going on, he was even more depressed because he couldn't ask what was going on. He went directly to ask Shi Shi Ge Ge, and Shi Shi Ge Ge saw Yong Gui.
It's not me. It would be nice if Shi Shi Ge Ge took the initiative to tell him, but now Shi Shi Ge Ge has gone to bed directly. If he asks again, he will appear to be distrustful: Oh, you Xiang Xiaoqiang have been spying on me.
It would be even more inappropriate to ask Yonggui. This is tantamount to telling Beiqing: we don't trust the Fourteenth Princess.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was also so uncomfortable that he couldn't sleep at night. When he woke up the next morning, Xiu Xiu told him that the secret service maid had reported to her that the lights on the fourteen-pane window were on until midnight.
At the breakfast table, both Xiang Xiaoqiang and Shi Shi Ge Ge looked sleep deprived. They looked at each other and smiled at the same time. The difference was that Xiang Xiaoqiang’s smile was a little suspicious, while Shi Shi Ge Ge’s smile was
It has a bit of warmth in it.
After breakfast, Fourteen Gege stood up and said:
"Master Xiang, come with me. I have something to tell you."
"Why!"
Xiang Xiaoqiang stood up immediately, wiped his mouth with a smile, glanced at Xiuxiu, and followed him staggeringly.
In a small lounge, Shi Shi Gege told Xiang Xiaoqiang what Yonggui told him last night and what Guangwu asked Yonggui to bring her.
After Xiang Xiaoqiang finished listening, he pondered for a long time before saying one sentence:
"oh."
Shi Shi Gege didn't say anything, just looked at him.
Xiang Xiaoqiang coughed a few times, nodded, and then said:
"Well...then...what do you think about this?"
Fourteen Gege smiled and asked:
"After listening to what I said...what do you think?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at Shi Shigege's expression, slowly felt relieved, and said with a smile:
"Guang Wu and Yong Gui's analysis is basically correct. You are in such a situation in the Ming Dynasty. Their rhetoric is indeed accurate and ruthless. However... they ignored one factor, that is me, you and me.
The relationship is so close... so intimate that they didn't expect it. They may only know that you and I are relatively close, but they didn't expect that we are already so close, and we are already... fiancé and fiancée."
Xiang Xiaoqiang said, leaning forward with a shy smile, hugging Shi Shigege's waist, and kissed her on the cheek.
Shi Shi Ge Ge did not push him away like before. Since the "Pneumonia Incident", Shi Shi Ge Ge not only regarded Xiang Xiaoqiang as a political partner, but also as a lover, and even as a fiancé.
She smiled, leaned gently into Xiang Xiaoqiang's arms, and kissed him back. After a moment, she said:
"Don't be complacent. I decided to tell you this after careful consideration. There is no free lunch in the world. Although these properties were originally mine, Guangwu could have kept them for himself now. This is not a small amount.
.Since he has returned his property to me, it means that I have taken away his property.
If it is done, it means that the control is in their hands. I guess next, I will have to tacitly fight for their interests on Nanming's side at the negotiation table. Otherwise, they will retreat before long.
Secondly, if this gift is used as a means of alienation, relevant rumors will be released..."
Xiang Xiaoqiang chuckled and said:
"How much is that property of yours?"
Fourteen Gege glanced at him and said with a smile:
"What are you doing? What's your plan?"
"Hey, ask, ask."
Fourteen Gege smiled gently again and said:
"I haven't seen it yet, so it's hard to say. But my property in the north, excluding "movable property" other than real estate, including cash, securities, and other things, totals about 100 million yuan."
Xiang Xiaoqiang was startled, his arm holding her shook violently, and he stared at her face in disbelief.
Fourteen Gege smiled again and said softly:
"Why are you excited? This is measured in qingyang, converted into mingyang, which is more than 40 million."
"Good boy!" Xiang Xiaoqiang yelled, "That's a lot!... One hundred million oceans, do you know how much compensation was paid for the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-1894?"
Fourteen's index finger gently placed on his lips and chuckled:
"Shh..."
"And you got all this after being the top officer of the sticky pole department for several years?"
Fourteen Gege closed her eyes, smiled and nodded.
"God..." Xiang Xiaoqiang murmured and sighed, "***...standard ***..."
Fourteen Gege laughed softly:
"Don't get excited... I don't get much from people directly. Most of it comes from businesses I control and is all business income."
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said:
"Business? I'm afraid it's a monopoly business, right?"
Fourteen giggled, then closed his eyes and nodded.
"Among the top leaders, I'm really not that big..." She smiled, "The entire national economy, our big families used to divide their territory according to proportion... After the Guangwu coup, the whole thing was purged.
Most of the wealth has been gathered into his hands alone... Haha, compared with your precious Majesty, my tens of millions are just a poor girl."
"Haha, if you compare with her...most of her property is palace pots and jars, which cannot be touched..."
Speaking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang thought about it again and frowned:
"How could Guangwu be so generous with such a huge wealth worth hundreds of millions of silver and use it all for you as a favor? This is not a small sum of hundreds of thousands, but millions! He directly used this money to buy weapons, and did
Isn’t the army more cost-effective than using it to bribe you for this unreliable thing?”
Fourteen Gege lay in his arms, squinting her eyes and smiling:
"Of course he doesn't know how much wealth I have. The wealth I put on the surface is only a few million. Most of it I put in safes in three banks, respectively in Japan, Australia, and Switzerland. So Guangwu
When he ransacked my home, he only found three keys to the safe, except for a fraction of the millions of dollars. As for how much money was in the safe, he didn't know. He didn't have the password, and it was useless just to have the keys. He just brought them all together.
Do me a favor."
Xiang Xiaoqiang hesitated and said with a smile:
"Then...are you going to get it? Well, don't get me wrong, I'm just asking, I don't want it from you."
Fourteen Gege lay in his arms, looked at him and smiled:
"Do you want me to go get it?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said:
"You have to be willing to go to Europe to get it. After the negotiation is over, I will get you an armed escort ship and let you go to Switzerland to get it. It would be a waste to have such wealth lying in the bank. After you get it back, you can use your
I invested nominally in Zheng's Minerals Company. Now that I am a public official, I still invest in Zheng's Minerals secretly.
Red money is also sneaky and difficult to see. Your wealth is more than 40 million yuan, but no one knows how much it actually is. It can be used to launder money for me. Some of my illegal investment income can be recorded
It will be counted as your property in your account. As a princess, your status is much better than that of a mere public official like me."
The two discussed for a while, and Xiang Xiaoqiang thought that this matter should be "recorded" with Zhu Yourong. Because this is not an ordinary matter. Shi Shigege's identity is inherently sensitive, and he met with the enemy negotiator late at night. This matter
The matter must not be hidden from anyone. Yonggui generously and openly requested to see the Fourteenth Gege. It seemed that he did not intend to keep it very secret. He probably intended to make the matter itself a part of the estrangement.
However, as long as Zhu Yourong knows it in advance, it will be useless no matter how many articles the other party makes about this matter. Besides, Shi Shigege's huge wealth overseas must be sent back by ship, and it must be legalized after being retrieved. This process
It can't be hidden from anyone either.
Xiang Xiaoqiang is still very confident that the property of Shi Shigege will be legalized in the Ming Dynasty. Now the policy of the Ming Dynasty towards the upper-class figures who surrendered to the Northern Qing Dynasty is to recognize their vested interests. Even those senior Qing generals who surrendered on the battlefield, the Ming Dynasty
Protecting their vested interests, not to mention the Fourteenth Gege who was the first to surrender and made so many contributions to the Ming Dynasty?
…
After the Ming Dynasty proposed "media and migration" to the Qing Dynasty, it gained widespread support internationally, and public opinion in the United States was gradually turning in the direction of challenging the Neutrality Law. Opinion polls in several states showed that support
The proportion of voters who support arms sales to the Ming Dynasty has been rising. Among them
Michigan has the highest proportion, reaching 84%. Because Michigan’s pillar industry is automobile manufacturing, and the automobile city of Detroit is Ford’s hometown. Once the United States passes the arms sales bill to Ming Dynasty, Michigan will benefit the most, and the base can
Said it was immediate.
However, these two demands of the Ming Dynasty had side effects on the negotiation table. Once this high stance was made, it was difficult to take it back. The Ming Dynasty regarded these two requirements as hard conditions for withdrawing from Shanxi, and the attitude of the Beiqing Dynasty also changed.
You see, it is absolutely impossible to agree to these two items. Then we will be in a stalemate.
In the bottom of Ming's heart, he actually didn't want Beiqing to really accept these two clauses. Because then Ming would have to withdraw from Shanxi unconditionally, and there would be nothing to say. And Ming was unwilling to withdraw from Shanxi. The ideal state of Ming would be that Beiqing would not accept it.
Of these two, the Ming Dynasty also retained southern Shanxi, and the other
How should we divide the other territories outside Shanxi? In this way, Ming Dynasty has made a lot of money all over the world, and has a high-sounding reason not to withdraw from Shanxi. You, Beiqing, cannot accept these two things from me, and you must also insist on
Let me withdraw from Shanxi. That would be unjustifiable at the negotiation table.
…
The original tone of the negotiations set by the top leaders of Nanming was to resolve the negotiations in a short, smooth and quick manner. If they can reach an agreement, they would negotiate, and if they could not, they would fight. It should be done quickly and without delay. But now, they are still being dragged step by step by the Beiqing into the quagmire of negotiations.
Beiqing's approach is to "give you a little more every day." The benefits are squeezed out to Nanming little by little like toothpaste, and every time a little benefit is squeezed out, it has to go through a lot of back and forth at the negotiation table.
There is no point in fighting these people in Nanming, and there is no point in continuing to talk. If we continue to talk, we will see that time drags on longer and longer, and winter is getting closer and closer.
The closer. But if we don't talk about it and start fighting directly, we are very reluctant. Because negotiating bit by bit to get the land like this is slower, but it is better than fighting bloody battles on the battlefield and competing with the two million Central Plains Corps of the Northern Qing Dynasty.
It was much easier to come by. Especially among the 2 million Central Plains Corps, 800,000 were from the Eight Banners Division.
However, in recent days, after throwing out the "media and migration", seeing that the military vehicle procurement plan in the United States is approaching success step by step, Nan Ming has calmed down and is not so anxious. According to the development of the situation, it is very likely that this winter
Tens of thousands of military vehicles can be transported back. Even if the war resumes in the spring of next year, the balance of the war capabilities of both sides will be greatly tilted towards Nanming.
…
However, during these many days of negotiations, the Qing army was never idle for a moment.
In the southern part of Xuzhou, on the Central Plains Corps position, the Qing army was implementing increasingly stringent control measures in accordance with Guangwu's plan. Guangwu used all imaginable means to ensure that when the army faced Nanming bombers and tanks again, it would no longer
Mass surrender occurred.
Now, every division, every brigade, every regiment, every battalion, every company, every platoon is successively registering the family information of soldiers for the reason of "establishing death pension files."