Almost at the same time when Huang Xing and Ma Fuyi's armed uprising leaked secrets and aborted, Yang Du's activities to take back his own affairs for the Guangdong-Han Railway were also in full swing.
On the second day after leaving Puji City, Yang Du returned to his hometown where he had been away for a year.The mother Li Shi welcomed her son's return after being pardoned, and the newly married wife who had been away for a long time looked forward to the return of her husband whom she missed day and night with a little shyness, and she was very happy in her heart.Seeing that his mother was in good health and his wife kept the house in order, Yang Du was also happy in his heart.What made Yang Du especially gratified was that the Huang family had given birth to a son for him, and it has been more than three months.Yang Du named his son Gongshu, implying that the country will be prosperous soon.
Yang Du told his mother that his brother, sister, brother-in-law and little nephew are doing well in Japan, so don't worry about it.
Compared with last year, the atmosphere of studying abroad has taken a big step forward, which is mainly due to the imperial court's vigorous promotion of rewards.At the same time, the imperial court advocated reforms, and various new schools, such as teachers' training, law, finance and economics, medicine, and mining, sprung up like mushrooms, and various industrial companies were also established one after another. These schools and companies needed a large number of new talents.Yamen at all levels are also widely recruiting foreign students to serve as staff.As for the new army and military schools established by the provinces following the example of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army, they even recruited a large number of foreign students studying military affairs.All international students who return to China can quickly get fame and a generous salary.In addition, there is another important reason.The imperial court has clearly announced that this year's Jiachen Enke is specially set up for Lafayette's 70th birthday, and the imperial examination will be abolished forever from then on.This decree blocked the career path of scholars who had been practiced for more than a thousand years.Reading the Four Books and Five Classics, writing stereotyped essays and poems, there will no longer be a golden house with thousands of bells.If a scholar wants to be successful, he can only read useful books, and if he wants to gain fame, he can only study abroad.
Therefore, not only the gentry in the city, but even the farmers in the countryside knew that those who studied abroad were the most valuable.Li's two sons and one daughter and even her little grandson are studying in Dongyang, so she has become the old lady with the highest status in the eyes of the villagers.Everyone complimented her on her good fortune and good fortune, and she will get a first-class seal in the future.Mrs. Li is a widow at the age of twenty-nine, and she is very pleased to see that the three children whom she has worked so hard to bring up are now in the situation they are in today.She smiled and said to her son, "Don't worry, mother. You brothers and sisters are together and take care of each other. Is there any concern for mother?" Then she asked, "Uncle Ji has always been weak. Is she used to eating in Dongyang?"
Yang Du replied: "My uncle is still used to eating oriental food. Even if you are not used to it, you can cook it yourself. Anyway, the rice, vegetables, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are all the same, but the taste is different."
Mrs. Li said: "Mother is old, otherwise I will go to Dongyang and cook Xiangtan food for you!"
Yang Du smiled and said, "That would be even better." Then he said, "Mother, Peng'er has only been there for two months, and she can speak a lot of Japanese."
"Really?" Mrs. Li was even more delighted to hear that her grandson was so smart. "It's easy for a child to learn a language, and it won't be long before he can speak Oriental dialect. However, you still have to teach him to speak Xiangtan dialect, otherwise, when we return to China in a few years, neither our grandparents nor grandchildren will be able to speak."
The whole family laughed.
Huang said to her husband: "A few days ago, Master Xiangqi sent someone to ask if you came back from Changsha."
Yang Du said, "I'll go see his old man in a few days."
Yang Du enjoyed a few days of warm family happiness at home, feeling very comfortable.He is a person who is restless in his small family and is always looking forward to a big career. He is always thinking about the Guangdong-Han Railway and wants to make it happen.He believes that doing this matter, from a large perspective, is a diplomacy related to the dignity of the country. From a small perspective, it is the first practical thing he has devoted himself to politics. Success or failure is related to his reputation. At the same time, it is also a touchstone for whether you really have the political ability.Thinking of this, he became anxious and couldn't stay at home anymore. He was going to visit Master Xiangqi, firstly to talk about the teacher's and student's farewell, and secondly, he wanted to pay homage to this generation of masters who had experienced the vicissitudes of the world and embraced the genius of governing the country. Ask for advice.
In the golden autumn season, the Xiangqi Building on Yunhu Bridge is full of rich autumn poetry.
When the building was built six years ago, Qi Baishi planted ten Osmanthus osmanthus plants for his husband. All the plants grew vigorously, and some branches had surpassed the railing on the second floor.In the past few days, osmanthus has bloomed one after another in the face of the autumn wind. The small yellow flowers are sandwiched among the dark green leaves, making the whole tree bright, especially the fresh and fragrant fragrance, which is refreshing and refreshing, which makes people feel refreshed and happy. .
Fifty pots of chrysanthemums are placed around the fish pond. Bazhidutuo, who went to Zhejiang Tiantong Temple as the abbot the year before last, asked his disciples to bring flower seeds to cultivate.The chrysanthemums of Tiantong Temple are famous in Buddhism, especially its black chrysanthemums.Wang Kaiyun invited a gardener to carefully cultivate more than 200 pots of chrysanthemums. He kept fifty pots for himself, and distributed the rest to the visiting guests.
These fifty pots of chrysanthemums have bloomed for the second year this year, and the number of flowers bloomed more than last year.The flower colors are golden yellow, tender purple, pink white, light red, etc.Especially the eight pots of black chrysanthemums, the dark green petals really seem to be soaked from the thick ink, they are indeed extraordinary.The flower shapes of these fifty pots of chrysanthemums are also colorful.There are large flowers with double petals like Luoyang peonies, long petals drooping like flowing springs and waterfalls, golden sunrises on Ruotai Mountain, and snow-white and round ones like Mid-Autumn Moon.It is really a cluster of flowers, which brings infinite vitality to Xiangqilou.
The leaves of the few maple trees in front of and behind the building have gradually turned red these days, so red that it is mouth-watering. I really want to pick one off and store it in a book, so as to evoke the good memories of autumn in all seasons.
Recently, the owner of Xiangqi often looks at the gorgeous autumn scenery by leaning on the railing, with a sense of self-satisfaction in his heart.He felt that this intoxicating golden autumn was a reflection of himself at this time.He is seventy-two years old this year, and he is still solid, with sharp eyes and ears, and the black and white braids on the back of his head are drawn long.After seventy, he likes to wear robes and shoes made of maroon fabric.He thinks so spiritually.Even the straps that tie the braids, Zhou Ma also likes him to choose the maroon ones.He couldn't live without Zhou's mother for a day, and even if he occasionally went to the city for two days, he had to bring Zhou's mother with him.He doesn't care whether his juniors call him "old pervert" or "old romantic" behind his back, or his peers make fun of him in front of him as "old and handsome" and "old and strong".He admired those unrestrained celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and felt that they were truly courageous and insightful heroes.The world is long, the passer-by is in a hurry, and the sorrows and troubles in life are enough to make people uncomfortable. Why bother to restrain yourself, suppress yourself, why choose yourself uncomfortably, and why not walk in the world in a cool and unrestrained way?What's more, the Wei and Jin people lived in troubled times, and their lofty ambitions and innocence were worthless. If they still stick to etiquette and righteousness, they will suffer alive!Wang Kaiyun thought that he was also in the end of troubled times all his life. No one appreciated his ambition and ability to help the people in his early years, and the years were faltering. Now he is old, and only Feng Tangzhitan is left. It is obviously impossible for him to mend the sky with his own hands. up.Although Jiang Taigong was also seventy-two years old when he went down to Kunlun Mountains, and finally made a great cause of destroying Yin and Xingzhou, but that is a legend after all. Mr. Jiang, if this is the case, he simply doesn't think about it, and cherish the life bestowed by God, and be a happy traveler in a leisurely tour according to his own wishes.
Although Wang Kaiyun admired the open-minded demeanor of Wei and Jin celebrities, followed Lao Zhuang's theory of quietness and inaction, and wanted to live in a happy life; even though he also learned a lot in appearance: such as arrogance to the powerful, relying on the old and selling the old in front of official figures, and Zhou Ma and others. The maid got along badly, dressed younger, and spoke playfully and casually, but after all, Wang Kaiyun was not from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, nor was he from Geng Sang Chu or Jie Yu. The ambition of running the world that he had set since he was young has always been firmly in his heart. After taking root, even in his old age, he still could not forget his keen attention to state affairs and persistent pursuit of knowledge.He takes discovering and cultivating talents as his duty, and enjoys writing books and promoting academics.Now peaches and plums are all over the world, his works are as good as his body, and he is well-deserved for the reputation of being a master of writing and a master of a generation.Coupled with the fact that his body is as strong as before, most people at his age think that they have reached the end of their lives and that it is the end of winter, but Wang Kaiyun does not think so.He felt that at this moment, he was like a golden autumn full of fruitful harvests, and he could live comfortably for ten or twenty years.
When Qi Baishi planted the Osmanthus osmanthus, he said to his husband, take ten trees to live a long life, and when my husband celebrates his 100th birthday in Xiangqi Tower, I, Qi Huang, will bring my grandchildren to ask my teacher for birthday peaches.Wang Kaiyun liked Qi Baishi's words. He believed that he could live to be a hundred years old.
He has many proud disciples, Qi Baishi is one of them, and others such as Bazhi Toutuo, Zhang Tiejiang, Zeng Tongjiang, etc., are all extremely talented people who are beyond the ranks of scholars. They have all become famous writers with high achievements in poetry and prose.At present, this has been passed on as a good story in the literary world.He believes that after a hundred years, these good stories will still be passed down.
Among the many disciples, Xia Shoutian, who is currently serving in the Hanlin Academy of the Imperial Academy, is Xia Shoutian, who is the second best student in the Eighth Movement Division, and he is often proud of it.However, he knew that Xia Shoutian was just an intelligent and diligent scholar, not yet a powerful figure, and there was only one disciple who could really pass on his knowledge of emperors and possibly put his youthful ambitions into reality, and that was Yang Xizi.This kind of prospect can be seen more clearly from Yang Du's achievements in the past year of studying in Japan for the second time.
This year, Wang Kaiyun received more than ten copies of "Xinmin Congbao" from Yang Du.He saw "Hunan Youth Songs" and "Golden Ironism" published by his disciples from "Xinmin Congbao", and he appreciated them greatly after reading them.
What pleased him most was that Yang Du stopped talking about tumultuous progressivism, and instead talked about constitutional monarchy.Although there is a difference between the constitutional monarchy and the study of emperors in Wang Kaiyun's mind in his early years, today, under the influence of the surging reform thoughts, his study of emperors has also been revised. The revised study of emperors is not much different from constitutional monarchy. difference.He believes that Yang Du is still loyal to his teacher.If he turns from the turbulent progressivism to the revolutionary party advocating a democratic republic this time, he will completely betray his master, and he will follow the example of Confucius and call on his disciples to attack him.
The recently sent "Guangdong-Han Railway Discussion" made him especially happy.Yang Du can use the western legal knowledge he has learned to analyze one of the most difficult diplomatic matters clearly and logically. If he is allowed to handle this matter by himself, he will definitely not have the ability of a disciple.Dai Lin also wrote to tell his father that his brother-in-law is the director-general of the Japan International Students Association and has a high prestige among overseas students. "Zhezi has made a lot of progress, the future generations are awesome, the future generations are awesome!" These days, he often sighs like this, and he often brags about his greatness in front of visiting people like this.After arriving in Changsha, Yang Du entrusted someone to bring a letter to the teacher, reporting the approximate date of returning to Xiangtan.Wang Kaiyun looked forward to it every day after receiving the letter.
In a particularly good mood these past few days, Wang Kaiyun reviewed the ancient poems of the Han and Wei Dynasties again.The more I read, the more I feel that the poems of the Han and Wei Dynasties are better. Although the modern style poems of the Tang Dynasty are known as the peak, they are not as simple and profound as the poems of the Han and Wei Dynasties.In particular, later generations commented that it was the pioneer of a new generation, and also said that it was thrilling, and every word was critical, which is really the best comment.It's a pity that many of the later imitations were imitations.There is no other reason for this, but because their talents and knowledge are not enough for it.If you talk about both, the millennium poetry world, who else can I have!
Wang Kaiyun is determined to compose a poem for each capital, not only to overwhelm the previous generation, but also to put an end to the idiotic imagination of future generations, and add another good talk to the current poetry world.He has already written ten pseudo-poems, and wrote two more last night.At this moment, he was sitting by the railing on the second floor, and the autumn sun was shining brilliantly on the flowers and trees in the courtyard.He softly hummed last night's new work:
Indistinct Dongting waves, curling Xiangshan trees.
Lingling, the emperor's son, is on Xiaoxiang Road.
Shen Yin often plays alone, who can play with a thousand years old.
When I heard it in Qingqiu, I couldn't complain about it.
The lonely sky is full of Han Heng, and he secretly returns to himself.
He is very satisfied with this song "Altair in the Far Away", and even thinks that the cold and lonely artistic conception of Xiaoxiang and late autumn in the poem is better than the original poem, and there is no need to move a single word.He hummed another song:
This song is also good, but some words and sentences can be considered further.Wang Kaiyun got up and wandered in the corridor, groaning bitterly.
"Old man, Xizi sees you coming!" Zhou Ma shouted happily in the garden.
"Sir, how are you, old man!" As soon as Zhou's mother finished speaking, Yang Du stepped into the gate.
"Hey, Xizi, it's you! When did you return to Xiangtan? I sent someone to ask your mother a few days ago!" Wang Kaiyun was very happy when he saw Yang Du, and went downstairs while talking. Come.
Yang Du quickly stepped forward to support the gentleman who was going down the stairs, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you in a year, and you are healthier than last year!"
"It's thanks to her!" Wang Kaiyun pointed to Zhou's mother standing aside, and said without any scruples.Mother Zhou was a little embarrassed to say that, so she turned around and went to collect tea.
Wang Kaiyun led his disciples into the living room on the first floor, and after they sat down, the nephew of Huang's natal family brought in gifts.
Yang Du said to his husband: "If you are traveling across the ocean, you can't bring more. It's a little interesting. This bottle of wine is for Dai Yi and Uncle Ji to honor your old age. This bag of cherry blossom tea was given by me and the third child. This pair of Oriental socks and the headscarf to Mother Zhou."
For wine and tea, Wang Kaiyun did not express any particular interest, but he was particularly interested in the socks and headscarves given to Zhou Mama.
"Mum Zhou, come in quickly, Xizi has brought you something again!" He still remembered the last time Yang Du gave Mama Zhou cloth, so the word "you" was highlighted in the call to Mama Zhou.
Zhou's mother hurried in with her little feet on her feet, and Wang Kaiyun picked up the socks and scarf and handed them to her, saying, "These are all given to you by Xizi and the others."
In front of Zhou's mother, he intentionally added the word "they" after "Xizi", which meant that Dai Yi and Shuji's intentions were also contained in it.Mother Zhou took it after rubbing her hands together.The socks are woven with fine white thread, and there are a few gold laces sandwiched between them, which look expensive.The headscarf is black, with a hollow pattern in the middle. A geisha is singing and dancing with an umbrella in one hand and a fan in the other.Mother Zhou was overjoyed, and said with a smile all over her face, "This Japanese product is good, please don't worry about it." Then she said, "Young Master, congratulations on giving birth to a good cub, it looks so much like you, so cute. I'll make you some tea!"
After a while, Zhou Ma brought two cups of Lei Cha and said with a smile, "Master, let's drink tea!"
Lei Cha is called tea, but there are no tea leaves.Combine sesame seeds, cooked soybeans, and ginger and put them in a cup. Rinse them with boiling water and add a spoonful of brown sugar. It tastes fragrant, sweet, ventilating and cold. a kind of courtesy. The local dialect of the word "mashed" is "lei", so this kind of tea is called Lei Cha.
Yang Du took a sip, it was delicious, and said with a smile, "I haven't had Lei Cha for a long time, but this tea is still delicious."
Mother Zhou brought a few more plates of melon seed cakes and said, "Master, please drink a few more glasses, and I'll prepare meals for you."
"I'm tired of you." Yang Du got up and said.That way, just like to the teacher's wife.
Most of Zhou's mother's prejudice against Yang Du was eliminated as early as last year.In the past year, he often heard the old man praise Yang Du for his promise.She also heard people say that those who return from studying abroad will become high-ranking officials, and she felt a little in awe of Yang Du in her heart.Now that Yang Du understands etiquette, she was moved even more, and hurriedly said: "Young master, I can't afford you to be so polite!"
Wang Kaiyun is most happy to see others being polite to Zhou Ma, he thinks it is giving him face.He said cheerfully, "Xizi, sit down, my family, how can you be so polite!"
"Have you seen Zhang Xiangtao and Lu Yuanding?" After a few gossips, the conversation between teachers and students turned to the main topic.
"Zhang Zhitai went to Wudang Mountain to recuperate, and he will return to Wuchang in mid-September. Lu Futai saw him and talked for a long time, but he didn't come up with a single opinion."
"Lu Yuanding is a useless person." Wang Kaiyun said with contempt. "He came to Xiangtan this spring. In order to gain the reputation of being a virtuous corporal, he took a sedan chair to visit me at Yunhu Bridge. I think of a governor first." , there is always a bit of talent, and after talking for a few words, I found out that this guy turned out to be an idiot."
Yang Du laughed happily.
"This guy is really lucky. I don't know which generation of ancestors buried him in a good place, and he is a treasure. The governor has been acting for several months, and he hasn't done a single big thing. He knows that he is welcome and sent off all day long. Go, get some gifts and pay tribute. A small official from the capital came to say something, and he held it as an imperial decree. He didn't know if he could do such a big thing by abolishing the contract on the Guangdong-Han Railway. It's all in vain, Zhang Xiangtao is the only one who can make up his mind."
Just as she was talking, Mama Zhou handed over a copper snuff bottle.Wang Kaiyun took it and started smoking a hookah.
"Yes, Lu Futai is exactly what Mr. said. I didn't know about it before. I won't go to him next time. I will go directly to Zhang Zhitai. As long as Zhang Zhitai agrees to this matter."
"Xizi, I read your "Guangdong-Han Railway Discussion", and you have improved a lot now." Wang Kaiyun exhaled a few puffs of white smoke, and immediately felt refreshed and very comfortable. "You brought up international conventions and private law, and cited many foreign cases. You justified the abolition of the treaty so well. I feel ashamed to see it. Xizi, you are better than blue."
Wang Kaiyun clamped the paper twister on his left finger, freed his right hand to comb his long and sparse beard a few times, and looked at the student with eyes full of approval and smiled.
"Mr. praised you. What is this little thing for a student in front of you, and you need to ask him to teach you a lot." Yang Du was very happy to hear the praise from his heart.
"I can't teach you these new Western learnings." Wang Kaiyun admitted frankly.He blew on the paper twister again, lit the cigarette, and with a pipe in his mouth, squinted his eyes and said, "However, I want to point out to you that doing things and writing articles are two different things. Although your articles are colorful, the reason is It must be watertight, but it is something on paper after all. As the governor, Zhang Xiangtao has to do practical things. If you want to persuade him to agree to come forward to abolish the contract and handle it himself, you must have practical and feasible measures.”
"Sir, that's what you taught me." Yang Du humbly accepted verbally, but didn't take it seriously in his heart. "I will explain to Zhang Zhitai the various feasible measures to withdraw the self-management."
"Choose the ones that are important." Wang Kaiyun stopped smoking and listened attentively.
"First of all, it is legally feasible to abolish the contract." Yang Du talked eloquently. "Second, from the imperial court down to the national public opinion, it is appropriate to take back the self-management. Third, the conditions for our self-management are to have Yes. The first condition is capital, the second is technology, and the third is management..."
"Okay, let's talk about funds first." Wang Kaiyun waved a paper twister, interrupting the students' high-spirited speech.
"Funds are divided into two types: equity capital and loan capital." Yang Du replied in the tone of an economist, "Every country in the world that raises large funds to start a big business will use a combination of equity and borrowing to raise funds. Among them, the share capital is a minority and the borrowing capital is the majority. Bonds can be issued if there are two or three tenths of the share capital. Obtained by means of borrowing."
"Where did the three million taels of silver come from?" Wang Kaiyun asked persistently.
"Students think, given the size of Hunan, Guangdong, and Hubei provinces, it is not a problem to collect three million taels of silver." Yang Du replied carelessly.
"Not a problem?" Wang Kaiyun asked back, "Where did it come from? Officials, gentry, or people?"
"As for where to start, that's up to Zhang Zhijun to decide."
"Hahaha!" Wang Kaiyun laughed loudly. "You bookworm, you haven't taken off your bookworm's true colors yet. You think Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong provinces are not a problem to collect 3 million taels of shares, and you think Zhang Xiangtao will accept your lobbying, and let him decide how to pay the money?"
Facing the rhetorical question from his husband, Yang Du didn't know how to answer it.
"Xi Zi, do you know what was the biggest difficulty for Zeng Wenzheng in running the Hunan Army?" Wang Kaiyun didn't need the students' answers, he continued, "One is not lack of courage, the other is not lack of generals, the biggest difficulty is the lack of Money. The imperial court has no salary allocation, so he has to raise it entirely by himself. He often gets into trouble because of this, and laughs at himself, saying that he is a beggar who begs everywhere. Hunan’s commerce is underdeveloped, and the income of the whole province is not as good as that of a big one in Susong area. County, forced to do nothing, he had no choice but to set up a card to draw a profit, bite the bullet and be reviled by thousands of people. Think about it, if the money was easy to raise, would a face-saving person like Zeng Wenzheng do this? When I was editing " Hunan Army Chronicles, a special column to prepare for the sound, and made statistics on the three years from the sixth to eighth years of Xianfeng's Hunan Xieji Jiangxi Army, a total of 2,915,000 taels. This is all thanks to Zuo Wenxiang This money can only be obtained if you have great talents. So I said in "Xiang Jun Zhi" that Zeng Wen was fighting in Jiangxi for three years, but he had no merit to speak of. This is also one of the problems that "Jun Zhi" suffered from the Nine Commanders."
These past events of entanglement with the Hunan Army are the history that Wang Kaiyun is proud of, and when he talks about it, he is particularly energetic and eloquent.
"Three million is distributed in two or three provinces, and Hunan can also get one million. It was a war back then, and the fire was imminent. To save your life, you had to take out all the money you could get from top to bottom, plus five miles a card and ten miles a card." The sentinel draws lijin, and there are talents like Zuo Wenxiang who are dedicated to doing things, 2.9 million in three years, less than one million a year. Now based on one sentence, can Hunan get one million? ?”
Yang Du studied law and finance in Japan. He understood the theory and had a lot of ideas, but all of these were discussions of scholars shut in the room. Things are just based on patriotic enthusiasm, and they see the world's affairs as simple and easy, as if as long as they play the "patriotism" card, everything will be solved.Hearing what my husband said, Yang Du was really embarrassed.Yes, one million taels of silver, can Hunan afford it?
"Sir, according to what you always said, the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Guangdong don't have the financial capacity to run their own railways?"
"You can't say that. What I said just now, after all, happened fifty years ago. There is a big difference between now and the past." Wang Kaiyun stood up and took two or three steps, with his back straight.He continued to speak in a spirited manner, and the expression of lobbying the public minister back then was faintly visible. "Fifty years ago, in Hunan, the officials were poor, the people were poor, and the gentry were poor. Now Hunan's government treasuries and private warehouses are still poor, but some gentry have become very rich. There are two types of people. One Lei is an upstart in recent years. They have made a lot of money by doing business. At present, there are two major companies in China. One is Jiuda Company in Tianjin. The manager of the company, Fan Xudong, studied salt production in Australia. After returning to China, he set up a refinery in Tianjin Salt, the salt produced is as white as snow, and is sold all over the country. Fan Xudong is from Hunan, and it is said that his cousin Fan Jingsheng is also in Japan..."
"Fan Jingsheng's cousin opened a big company?" Yang Du said excitedly, "Fan Jingsheng and I are classmates at Hosei University, and he and I are good friends."
"Okay, this is a good relationship." Wang Kaiyun nodded. "The other one is Huachang Company, which smelts antimony. The company was co-founded by Liang Piyuan, Huang Xiuyuan, and Yang Shuchun. Liang Piyuan's name is Qingjiao. He likes to write poems. He asked me to be his teacher several times, but I haven't accepted him yet. No. The second category is the descendants of the generals of the Hunan Army in the past. When they fought Wuchang, Anqing, and Jiangning, they robbed a large number of gold and silver treasures and brought them home to buy fields and houses. Some children were worthless, eating, drinking and gambling, and ruined their family property Yes, there are also some children who are capable, and now their property has doubled that of their fathers and grandparents. I heard that the descendants of Brother Li Di’an in Xiangxiang and the descendants of Xiao Fusa’s uncle and nephew are very good. If these people are willing, the family will get one hundred and eighty thousand question."
Yang Du understood.He said happily: "Sir, you always mean that the silver in Hunan is with them."
"Yes," Wang Kaiyun said with a smile, "Xi Zi, before you meet Zhang Xiangtao, I advise you to go to these Gods of Wealth first, and tell them about the righteousness of the country, and seduce them with personal interests, and persuade them. If these people If you can come up with 700,000 or 800,000 yuan, Hunan’s one million yuan will not be a problem. You, Yang Xizi, can come up with a guarantee of one million yuan in Hunan, which is equivalent to giving Zhang Xiangtao a reassurance. Zhang Xiangtao was the leader of the Qingyi faction when he was young. He is also very interested in doing foreign affairs, this kind of fame and fortune does not require him to spend a lot of effort, why would he not do it?"
Wang Kaiyun's advice really opened Yang Du's mind.He stood up and said respectfully to Mr.: "Thank you for your old teaching. The students are young and don't care about worldly affairs. Fortunately, I didn't see you last time, otherwise I might have a bad nose."
"Xizi!" Wang Kaiyun patted Yang Du on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Do you understand who you are today? You go to Wuchang Governor's Mansion to meet Zhang Xiangtao, just like Su Qin and Zhang Yi lobbying the princes of other countries, you are today's Strategists. Don’t think that strategists can persuade princes and princes with just one mouth. They are commoners in the court and officials in the evening. Strategists are very knowledgeable! I advise you to read "Warring States Policy" again before you leave, and learn what I taught back then. Give your vertical and horizontal skills a good review."
Seeing that his disciples are about to use the knowledge he taught to continue his past career, Wang Kaiyun was very excited in his old age.He drank a sip of lei tea, and passionately taught the opportunity to his disciples on the eve of departure: "When I was young, people often said that I was crazy, or even delusional. In fact, they didn't know my difficulties. I was young at that time, and there was only one scholar who had achieved fame. I am not from a wealthy family. In a society that values hierarchy, I am a person with no status. If I hide my edge and keep my promises, then there is no place for me in the world. So I want to show my edge, I want to be arrogant, This is the true meaning of Mencius's "If you talk about adults, you will despise me". It is a pity that many scholars can't find this pearl. Xizi, although you made a splash in the special economic examination, you are still in the limelight. I drank some sea water in Dongyang, but in the eyes of people like Zhang Xiangtao, you are still just a young man after all, very slight. You went to see him this time, not like the last time. Last time he was a senior official Recommend you, he is at the top, you are at the bottom, he can put on an elder demeanor who loves and cherishes talents in front of you. This time is different. You are lobbying him as a representative of overseas students, you and he are On an equal footing, you must fully demonstrate your worth and your undeniable position in his mind before you can hope to succeed, understand?"
Wang Kaiyun's enlightenment can be described as open-hearted and heart-to-heart. He analyzed the temperament that a strategist should have with vivid language. Yang Du was deeply grateful for it, and said: "Mr. "
Wang Kaiyun showed a satisfied smile on his face: "Xizi, this time you are handling the railway case, it is actually your first attempt to devote yourself to state affairs, just like Kong Ming who is just a fledgling, Bowangpo must be well lit."Press "Left Key ←" to return to the previous chapter; Press "Right Key →" to enter the next chapter; Press "Space Bar" to scroll down.