But this fellow Huang Honglin has some ideas about how to improve people's livelihood and how to make the country prosperous and strong, and some sense. He can talk to King Kong, not just talk the talk.
King Kong told him two points. First, it is much more difficult for you to bring the existing big gang into the Hong gang than to recruit new people. Second, if you develop new gangs around the existing ones to the point where the old ones feel threatened and you yourself are still weak, you may be crushed and devoured by them.
King Kong is trying to persuade them to stop being so delusioned. Huang Honglin also took to heart what King Kong said and thought it made sense, putting on an air of being taught. But when Huang Honglin and Qu Guoliang returned, they studied how to improve the methods to achieve the goal instead of giving up!
Now that Huang Honglin has heard that Ping An Combined Transport is going to develop northern shipping, he has come forward and said that he will handle it!
It's true that Huang Honglin is really capable of doing this! He's like a fish in water, adept at opening up new routes and dealing with various forces. He has friends all over the place, and with the abundant funds of Ping An Interline, the result is that wherever he goes, it works!
Some of the boat owners in the north have joined Ping An, and some have sold their boats to Ping An.
The company is larger and the local forces are more lenient, so the development cost is lower.
There are also some who are not satisfied with the routes they have opened, and there are some who make wild claims. Since there were plenty of security guards, King Kong put a few on each fleet to deal with the thieves. In this way, the water security team was formed, with Qu Guoliang as the captain.
Safe Union has the economic strength, but the armed strength is even higher! Huang Honglin is supported by these two conditions, and the development speed is faster. King Kong knew that he was taking advantage of the opportunity to develop shipping routes while also developing his "Hong Gang's great cause". But as long as it was good for Ping An Interline's development, King Kong would not bother with him. And the two are so busy that they seldom grind the King Kong in Shanghai.
After that, Ping An Combined Transport continued to expand, from the Grand Canal all the way to Peiping in the north and to Fujian and Jiangxi in the south. In addition to the combined transport with the Yangtze River, shipping routes in Anhui, Hubei and other places were also developed.
Guan Liqing and others were in awe of Huang Honglin!
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There is a bumper harvest of early rice in Jingang, and the area of late rice will be expanded. Now his farming is mainly in Quzhou, but there are also some in Shanghai. The headquarters of the Institute of Agricultural Technology is still in Shanghai, so he also grows some plots, which are experimental fields. Now the fields in Shanghai are going to be expanded.
Guan Liqing introduced him to a piece of land in his hometown.
Guan Liqing is from Xiaogang Village, Fengxian District, Shanghai. There is a village called Xiaogang on the coast of Fengxian, which is close to Hangzhou Bay. There is indeed a small fishing port in Xiaogang, and the villagers are both farmers and fishermen. The transportation to the village is also convenient. From Xiaogang Village, there is a small river that leads to a large river called Jinhui Port. This Jinhui Port goes north and meets the Huangpu River, which is not far from the shipyard in Jingang.
The land was about two hundred acres, five li to the west of the village, exactly the size that King Kong wanted.
The land was originally along the sea. A new seawall was built a year ago to guard against the tides. Locals call the seawall a seawall, or simply a seawall. Between the new and old ponds, a half-moon-shaped plot of land was formed, stretching more than two thousand meters from east to west and five hundred meters at its widest point from north to south. Since it was originally mudned, it is now saline-alkali land, so no crops can be grown there, only a kind of reed grass. This kind of land was sold at a very low price, just to bring back a little cost for the village to build ponds, but no one wanted it. King Kong saw it and bought it too. Cheap, and King Kong needed a shooting range.
On August 16th, Huang Qixiang came to see King Kong again. It turns out that Deng Yanda, a fellow Guangdong fellow of Huang Qixiang and Ye Ting, a classmate from Baoding Military Academy and a good friend who had also been wandering together in Germany, returned to Shanghai a few months ago. Deng opposed Jiang Zhongcai, but also disapproved of the Labor Party, so he wanted to form a third party. Now, with the military and political anti-Chiang situation at home on the rise, Deng, upon his return, established a party called the Provisional Action Committee of the Congress Party, with Huang Qixiang as a member of the military committee of this third party.
Huang Qixiang came to see King Kong, hoping that he could join this Congress Party's temporary action committee and serve as a member of the party's economic committee.
Although King Kong had some impression of the name Deng Yanda, he didn't know exactly. This "Congress Party Provisional Action Committee" was not to be joined, and King was most afraid of getting into trouble. This third party, now opposing the Congress Party, is surely having a hard time. This is in the name of the Congress Party and disagrees with the Workers' Party, and it will have a hard time in the future. Joining would surely be detrimental to the development of his business.
Since it's newly established, it's bound to be economically difficult. If Huang Qixiang comes occasionally to seek sponsorship, it's not a big problem; If he becomes an "economic committee member", he doesn't know how much money he will have to pay in the future! It's not worth it. So King Kong was determined not to join the Third Party.
Huang Qixiang brought with him Deng Yanda's "Political Proposition", which is the platform document of the Third Party. Its basic proposition is to carry out a "civilian revolution", overthrow the rule of the Nanjing government, establish a state of "civilian regime", and thereby "realize socialism". The foreign policy it stipulated was to abolish all unequal treaties and to establish a new covenant of complete equality; On the premise of "complete equality between the two sides and non-interference in the Chinese revolution", restore diplomatic relations with Romania; Form an anti-imperialist alliance with the weaker nations. The economic policy is: "Eliminate the economic dominance of imperialists in China, eradicate the remnants of feudalism, and build state capitalism under the two principles of concentration and interference." The social policy is to improve the lives of workers, establish an eight-hour workday and the right of workers to strike, and gradually involve workers in production management.
The Third Party is very concerned about farmers' land. Its land policy is: "In principle, it advocates for the state of land, with farmers owning their own land as a transitional approach." The specific plan and procedure are: the National Assembly formulates the land law, which stipulates the maximum and minimum amounts of cultivated land occupied by farmers; The state issues 50-year long-term land bonds, and acquires private land and land from public bodies outside the state beyond the maximum amount as state-owned, etc.
Huang Qixiang was very disappointed. He had just hyped up Jin in front of Deng Yanda and others, and had thought that Jin would join their organization and had prepared a position for him as a member of the economic committee. I didn't expect King Kong to be so ungracious! Did King Kong support Jiang Zhongcai? No way. Is it for the Workers' Party? It doesn't seem so either.
This incident has distanced the relationship between King Kong and Huang Qixiang.
Since July and August, the Central Plains War has reached its climax, with fierce battles between the two sides. The weakest in combat were Han Fumu's troops, which were completely defeated by the Jin army. And the central army went up and defeated the Jin army.
The reason why the Jin army was defeated was also inconceivable to King Kong: because of the rain, the match could not be struck, so the soldiers could not smoke opium! He couldn't smoke opium, so he had no spirit to fight and thus lost the battle!
What kind of army are these? It would be strange if such an army did not lose.
The Central Army and Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army were evenly matched. The Central Army was better armed, while the Northwest Army was better at being more hardworking and courageous.
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There is no improvement in the economy of Shanghai. This year, there is a shortage of cocoons, the price of cocoons is high, and 40 percent of silk mills are operating. There are more unemployed workers.
The Shanghai stock market plunged and gold prices soared as the situation of the central Army was uncertain and there was a possibility of the Nanjing government falling. Some stock traders have committed suicide by jumping off buildings.
Guan Liqing and a few others also traded stocks. Every day, their faces were crowded like bitter gourds, saying that if the Northwest Army attacked, or if this war dragged on for another year, they would also jump off buildings. King Kong felt that this war was somewhat similar to the Central Plains War he had heard about in another time and space, so he guessed that the war would not last so long and that the Northwest Army would not come, so that Guan Liqing and his men could keep their stocks in their hands. In order to stabilize the minds of these people, he also wanted to support the stock market and, of course, to make money. So when he saw the stock market was so low, he took out 500,000 yuan and bought a lot of stocks. Anyway, the money was given by the East, so he didn't have to worry about losing money.