After arriving in Shanghai, Song Biao still moved into Yuyuan. Although he had given the East Garden to Zhang Kangren and the West Garden to Rongxingqiao, the total scale of Yuyuan is still very large after all, Rongxingqiao and Zhang Kangren are also

Both of them are rich and wealthy, and both of them have repeatedly invested money to renovate and build the royal garden.

After settled in Yuyuan, Song Biao, accompanied by Yu Qiaqing, visited the Jiangnan Shipbuilding General Factory. Whether it was Tang Shaoyi or Ouyang Geng, both of them relied on and supported the Far East Consortium, and were full of worries.

The same choices made greater support to the Jiangnan Consortium led by Yu Qiaqing, Rong brothers and others, as well as the Nanyang Consortium of the Guangdong-Fujian Business Gang, and the Shanxi Merchants Consortium of the Qiaoqu Family, trying to form a situation where the four major consortiums were mutually restrained in China.

It is precisely in this decades of favoritism that the Jiangnan Consortium has developed extremely rapidly, and the Jiangnan Shipbuilding Corporation and the Jiangnan Iron and Steel Corporation are the pillars of the consortium's heavy industry.

The Jiangnan Manufacturing General Administration, which started with Li Hongzhang, has a history of 66 years so far, especially in the past twenty years, and has developed extremely rapidly. It is now the second largest shipbuilding group in the empire, and Shanghai Shipbuilding Corporation is also the empire's first.

The three major ship shipping groups.

Affected by the Great Depression and the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, the world's naval shipbuilding has fallen into an unprecedented trough in recent years. Only the Chinese Navy's shipbuilding plan is still continuing, and it is in various technologies.

After a major breakthrough, the two Yuzhou-class battleships built in 1928/1929 were also in service. The Imperial Navy rebuilt a new Yuzhou-class battleship at the Jiangnan Shipbuilding General Factory and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding General Factory, although in the data

The parameters are generally the same, but the equipment use of these two battleships with the A015B type is still quite different from that of the A015 Yuzhou class.

The biggest difference between these two battleships and the previous class is that they are officially equipped with the first generation of carrier-based radar. The perforation calculator and optical aiming device used for the 16-inch main gun have also been further upgraded, and the electrification of the entire fleet is as follows.

Further expand.

In terms of manufacturing technology, with the further maturity of the welding process, the defense effect of the entire ship has also been enhanced to a certain extent compared to the past.

While building the third and fourth Yuzhou-class battleships, the Empire also began to seal off two joint force-class battleships compensated by Austria to retire and use them as reserve ships.

According to the existing shipbuilding plan, by 1932, the Empire will have 4 Super Fearless Treaty Battleships, 2 Super Fearless Battleships and 4 Deathless Battleships. The total displacement of the main battleships will reach 270,000 British tons, officially reaching the main force of the Imperial Navy.

Ship upper limit.

In the field of cruisers, the Empire has 24 10,000-ton treaty cruisers and 40 lightweight cruisers, which completely surpasses the Japanese Navy in total. This leading and breakthrough in the naval field made the Japanese Navy crazy, and Yuyuki Hamaguchi was in a hurry to find out the rescue

The decision of the Japanese economy to significantly reduce the military expenditure of the navy directly led to the loss of rationality in the assassination of Prime Minister Yuyuki Hamaguchi, which also led to the resignation of the Japanese constitutional party. After the opposition party's constitutional community came to power, it immediately promised to increase the military expenditure of the navy.

Spending continues to ensure the absolute advantage of the Japanese Navy over China, and at the same time claims to hold reciprocal negotiations with "China" to further protect the advantages of the Japanese Navy by limiting the development of the Chinese Navy.

It is under this premise that after the newly appointed Prime Minister Inukai Tsubasa, the newly appointed Prime Minister of Japan's cabinet, immediately dispatched his son-in-law, Yoshizawa, the newly appointed Prime Minister of Japan.

Ji took the opportunity to visit Shanghai and seek an opportunity to meet with Emperor Hua.

Song Biao is actually quite aware of the embarrassment of the newly appointed Japanese Prime Minister, so he agreed to Yoshizawa Kenki's request for an interview. He had some impression of Yoshizawa Kenki. After Japan invaded China and occupied Manchuria, Yoshizawa Kenki

As the foreign minister, Japan attended the meeting of the League of Nations, and finally protested with withdrawing from the League of Nations, and strongly rejected the proposal of withdrawing troops requested by various countries.

That scene was called the dignity of the Great Japanese Empire by the Japanese right wing.

Dignity Nimalegebi.

It is precisely because of this annoying that Song Biao decided to meet these people more. Of course, Yoshizawa Kenyoshi and Inuyaki both belong to the moderate and gradual faction of the Japanese right wing, or the rational faction, not as crazy as the Japanese military.

, irrational and crazy, especially the madness of Japanese middle and lower-class officers, they are already an irrational generation, just like Al Qaeda and Taliban in the 21st century, the so-called beliefs make them have no reason at all.

They are no longer simple loyalty and the spirit of Bushido, but crazy religious worship.

At least in Song Biao's opinion, the more people there are, the better. Although it is very troublesome, you only need to kill them in order to deal with them. Time is always beneficial to the empire, and it is delayed until it must be resolved in a war way.

When all the issues between China and Japan are concerned, the empire will truly let Japan know what His Majesty’s dragon power is.

Song Biao had already thought that if he really wanted to throw an atomic bomb or hydrogen bomb in Japan, the first one would be called Genghis Khan, to complete Genghis Khan's unfinished cause and wipe Japan clean. The second one would be called Dragon Power and the third one would be

It is called Pure Land.

The fourth one...he hasn't thought about it yet.

At Jiangnan Shipbuilding General Factory, Song Biao saw many very novel new equipment, including floor boring machines, universal cylindrical grinders, gear hobbing machines, special gantry milling machines, heavy gantry planer, 12,500 tons hydraulic press, 23,000 tons vertical cold forging rolling mill

, machine-controlled cutting machines, underwater cutting machines, electrode electrofusion welding machines, argon arc welding machines... are all new equipment that has been gradually added in the past five years.

Therefore, warship manufacturing can effectively stimulate domestic demand and industrial level. Jiangnan Shipbuilding General Factory purchased these new equipment in large quantities for building Yuzhou-class battleships. Many of these new equipment are for building Yuzhou-class battleships and other heavy industrial technology development.

, It was only gradually developed in the 201 project and 125 new industrial plans.

Large shipyards such as Japan, the United States, Britain and France generally have these equipment, but the technical level is still quite obvious. The special welding equipment is basically only available in China, including 10,000 tons of hydraulic press, 10,000 tons of cold rolling mill, and machine-controlled cutting machine.

Only the United States and China can produce it.

Many devices are not available in Japan, but Japan can be purchased from the United States and the United Kingdom.

In other words, although Japan can now build fearless, super fearless, treaty battleships earlier than China, the gap between China in the overall industrial level, especially in the heavy industry, is already very large.

Maybe Japan will say, what's so great about China? Didn't you develop these things with the help of white people?

Yes, isn’t you in Japan relying on the help of white people?

Yes, the empire has ambition, courage and ambition to accept these foreigners and make them part of the Chinese. Can you Japan do it? Can you tolerate it?

China is a multi-ethnic country. When the Slavic people come, they can be Chinese. White, black, and Jews can be both, and Indians and Southeast Asians can be equally fine.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, many people from the Western Regions moved into China and became citizens of the Tang Empire.

There are many nations in our world, and it is not a big problem to have dozens of new nations. Everyone lives in harmony and unite and friendship.

Emperor Song was definitely at the level of Emperor Taizong of Tang in this regard, and he was also open-minded. He was even willing to establish such a more free and open China, just as it was more tolerant in the Tang and Song dynasties.

After inspecting the Jiangnan Shipbuilding General Factory, Song Biao's mood can be said to be very good, very good, with no desires or demands.

In twenty years, China has been able to develop to this scale and level today. What else is there to be dissatisfied with?

Of course, the empire's growth space is still infinitely beautiful, and it is not difficult for the total economic output and per capita income to double again within ten years.

After inspecting Shanghai for a few days, Song Biao had not yet waited for the visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Kenyoshi Yoshizawa and Kanajigoro. Chen Guangfu, president of the Far East Consortium, happened to return to Shanghai from San Francisco on the China Star luxury cruise ship.

This President Chen happened to come.

After Song Biao inspected the Xujiahui National Stadium in Shanghai, there was no other arrangement that afternoon. Although Japanese Foreign Minister Kenyoshi Yoshizawa and Judo's father Kanajigoro arrived in Shanghai on the China Star cruise ship at the same time, the time to arrange the meeting was

Tomorrow morning, Song Biao will use this afternoon to let Chen Guangfu meet in Yuyuan.

Just so happened that Rong Xingqiao and Zhang Kangren, two retired old ministers, were also in Yuyuan. They were idle, so Song Biao called Chen Guangfu over and the four of them gathered together to play mahjong.

Mahjong.

This is the true national treasure movement in China, and everyone knows it and everyone can’t do it.

Mahjong, like bridge, is also a sport of intellectual development. Small gambling is a state that directly bans gambling in the constitution. Each province will legislate to decide whether to ban gambling. Of course, even if gambling is allowed, you need to obtain a franchise license.

There are many international casinos in Hongkou District in Shanghai.

The royal family is also a very normal family.

Before Chen Guangfu arrived, Rong Xingqiao and Zhang Kangren had already arrived. Song Biao asked Concubine Qiao to resist and gather the four of them to fight first.

There is Shanghai Mahjong in Shanghai, which is called Shenbiao Mahjong. There are national standards in the country, which is called national standard mahjong. There are 156 national standard mahjong, which is 8 more versatile cards than Shenbiao. It is easier to play.

Among the four, except for Song Biao who occasionally plays one card, the other three are veterans, especially Rong Xingqiao and Zhang Kangren. These two are cards for many years. They know what the other person means when they look up. They are

I am studying with the prince and playing mahjong with the emperor and the concubine. Isn’t that just thinking of a way to let the emperor and the empress touch the cards?

Of course, it would be better to make the emperor proud.

The emperor likes to win, but does not like to give in, so he has to grasp the standards. He has to stick cards even if he can catch himself, and he cannot hide it.

Just after playing around, Song Biao took three consecutive games. Although they were all small cards, he was in a good mood. He knew that his level was not high, so it would be nice to be able to stick cards.

At this moment, Chen Guangfu hurriedly wore a formal outfit and entered Yangshan Hall accompanied by Chen Jiayou's eunuch. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Emperor Song, Concubine Qiao and Rong Zhang playing mahjong. The first-class eunuch Major General Zhang Futian was still sitting in Emperor Song.

Chen Guangfu was a little surprised after making suggestions behind his back.

Song Biao looked up and saw that Chen Guangfu was here, so he smiled with Concubine Qiao and said, "The person who took over your class has arrived. You can't help but not let the wise."

Concubine Qiao sighed with a roar, "Your Majesty, I am not interested in doing anything yet. You will let me get out of here."

Song Biao smiled and said, "Go and see if the children have woken up!"

Concubine Qiao responded slightly, then got up and left. Rong Xingqiao and Zhang Kangren hurriedly stood up and bowed to see him. Chen Guangfu also bowed and greeted Concubine Qiao and left Yangshan Hall.

After Concubine Qiao left, Chen Guangfu remembered a little rudely and hurriedly stepped forward to meet Emperor Song.

I won’t rush to play cards for the time being. Song Biao also got up and took a cup of tea and said to Chen Guangfu: “You have been in trouble in the past two years. You have been working hard on the east and west sides of the Pacific. Recently, things have been going well in the United States.

Is it?"

Chen Guangfu replied: "Report to the emperor, everything in the United States is still going well. Now the US economy is extremely depressed. The Morgan consortium has suffered a heavy blow. The only thing that the entire US local consortium still has the strength to be left is the Vanderbilt consortium.

Failure to merge JPMorgan Chase as originally intended has no resistance to further mergers between California Petroleum and Gulf Oil. In the electrical industry, we reached an agreement with the Morgan Consortium to merge Westinghouse Electric and General Electric into a new one

General Electric Corporation of the United States, we and the Vanderbilt consortium occupy an absolute controlling stake, and in the automotive industry, General Motors' controlling stake will also be further controlled by the Far East and Vanderbilt consortiums. Mr. Conns and I reached a conclusion.

The consensus was to establish a larger and prosperous General Group Corporation around the Bank of America, including General Electric, Automobile, Machinery, Chemical, Ship, Aircraft, Metallurgy, Electrical and Electronics, and

Far East Shipping Corporation and the US Shipping Company merged into the new Sino-US Ocean Shipping Group. However, the Vanderbilt family did not make concessions regarding our further increase in stake in Bank of America, considering the long-term friendship between the Royal Family and the Vanderbilt family.

, I have also failed to continue to stick to this position. The current consideration is to re-merge several medium-sized banks of the United States as sub-bank companies of Far East Bank in the United States."

Song Biao nodded slightly, used this break to lit a Yuxi cigar, sat at the desk for a while, and then said to Chen Guangfu: "Your consideration is quite appropriate. In the business operations in the United States, we

We still cannot interfere. We are foreign businessmen in the United States, and it is appropriate to maintain long-term Pacific cooperation with the Vanderbilt consortium. Even in the oil field, we must join hands with other consortiums to cooperate in operation."

Chen Guangfu said: "During this time in the United States, I lived in the mansion of Mr. John Rockefeller for a few days, and my conversations with each other were still very in-depth. Although the Rockefeller Consortium was not greatly affected by the crisis, Mr. Rockefeller was very willing.

We have expanded cooperation with our Far East consortium to jointly operate the petrochemical industry, especially in the financial field. There is a lot of room for cooperation between the two parties. However, Mr. John Rockefeller told me some other things, which I think is more important."

Song Biao asked, "What did he say?"
To be continued...