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    Beijing welcomes the Lunar New Year in the harsh winter. The successive victories in the battles of Singapore and Sumatra add a bit of joy to this New Year.  The National War Administration Commission has canceled overtime during the New Year for the first time in two years in order to maintain the machinery and equipment that have been operating at full capacity for two years and to allow the workers and masters to take a good rest.  Wuhan, known as the heart of the "Great Lakes of China" by the United States, has also entered a festive atmosphere. Merchants are trying their best to promote sales. The streets are crowded with people, red lanterns are hung on the bridge across the two rivers, and all government schools are on holiday except for those on duty.  .  Even Yang Qiu returned to his small courtyard in Wuhan after a busy year of work and began his annual presidential vacation to spend the festive season with his family.

    This small courtyard was given to him by Shen Shukai. It was said that the small courtyard was actually not small in size. After several renovations, it has become a Chinese-style courtyard villa, and across the river is the famous Hanyang Industrial Group.  Today's Hanyang is actually no longer the huge but messy Hanyang in the early days. According to Yang Qiu's wishes, Lu Bicheng only retains a number of core manufacturing industries such as military industry, new materials, strategic equipment manufacturing and engines, while the rest including steelmaking, oil refining and other downstream industries.  All have been divested and sold.  Not only Hanyang, but also Jiangnan, Meteor, Huachen and Gulf Oil, which are wholly owned or controlled by the Yang family, have carried out a large number of divestitures. This not only makes the much-criticized Yang's industrial and commercial empire look less exaggerated, but also makes it integrate into the Yang family.  In order to digest the economic market trend that the country has doubled every few years, it can also concentrate financial and material resources on core manufacturing and new technology industries.

    I went back to my hometown in Wuhan to celebrate the New Year and participated in some family welcome activities.  This is a habit that Yang Qiu insists on.  In fact, the Yang family is very big, and Yang Qiu's father's lineage is just one of them.  Under his leadership.  Every year at this time, the Yang family¡¯s children come back from all over the country and even the world to celebrate the Spring Festival.  Yang Qiu himself is not opposed to the clan tradition. As long as it does not violate the law and does not set up private halls, it can be preserved. After all, clan also means the inheritance of culture from generation to generation.

    Although they were specifically asked to be quiet, there were still people coming and going at the beginning of the new year. The sons of Li Yuanhong and Cai E, Shi Xiaolou, Ma Kui and several other elderly people integrated into the Yang family's business circle all brought their children to pay New Year greetings. Miao Luo's brother and Lu Rongting's son  , Lu Yuguang, the second generation of the Lu family, also came from Guangxi with his family.  Yue Peng and Song Ziqing, who also came back for the New Year, drank and chatted with Cai Jimin, He Xi, An Guoliang, Jiang Tai, Wang Guangxiong, Yan Xishan and Wu Peifu who had left the military government.  Chen Haohui, the father of intelligence who had been closed to the public for many years, and Zhang Wenjing, who had retired from politics, also came to Yang Qiu to reminisce about the past. Even the "hob meat" Lei Meng and Yang Qiu's second uncle's family, who went to South America to develop, came all the way back and brought back a whole  A boatload of South American specialties made the children run wild with joy.

    It is rare for Yang Qiu¡¯s children to gather together. The 27-year-old eldest son Yang Tianlei has always been stable. Although his military rank is colonel, he has already decided to work at the theater headquarters after the year. His newlywed wife is the niece of independent justice Huang Yuansheng.  A middle school Chinese studies teacher.  The fianc¨¦e of Yang Tiancheng, the second eldest brother, is also here. She is the youngest daughter of Naval Chief of Staff Bai Yutang.  After the last experience, he lost a lot of his carelessness. After the new year, he was officially promoted to lieutenant colonel and went to an aircraft carrier as the deputy captain.  He has a natural temperament that makes young people like to gather around him and listen to his bragging and nonsense. Therefore, Yang Qiu has always felt that he is his true heir.  The eldest daughter Yang Sisi behaves more and more like Rui Yao.  She is twenty-six years old like her second brother, but she has already managed Global Communications and Lenovo, two influential electronic technology companies in the world.  She also used military orders to stimulate competition between the two companies, resulting in both companies making great progress in radar communications, computers and microelectronics technology last year. She also recruited a large number of experts from Longmeng (domestic unofficial scientific organization) and the 3010 Project.  Two major laboratories were established respectively.  Listen to what her mother Ruiyao said.  She fell in love with Zhuo Fan after a sorority party, but Zhuo Fan didn't want others to think that he was clinging to Yang Qiu.  So both of them kept it secret from Yang Qiu.

    Eighteen-year-old Yang Tianhui, the fourth child, has just entered college. He is also the biggest headache for Yang Qiu.  Because this boy completely combined the advantages of Yang Qiu and Miao Luo, he was tall and handsome, an athlete in the school, and very eloquent, so he had a lot of girlfriends when he went to college.  Yang Qiu has decided that after he graduates from college, he will be sent to the army to guard the frontier for a few years to train to see how he can cause trouble.  As for the youngest daughter Yang Siyu, she is also seventeen years old. She is a tall girl and is a talented girl in the school.  In this regard, even Yang Qiu felt that he should have inherited the genes of her mother, Lu Bicheng.  After the country promulgated the new marriage law in 1937, Lu Bicheng and Ruiyao, who gradually retreated behind the scenes, were particularly happy to see their children back.

    After several horn blasts, three official vans stopped at the entrance of the courtyard.  An official car suddenly arrived during the Chinese New Year. Everyone was a little shocked. Yang Tianlei immediately went out to greet it.  After the car door opened, Deputy Foreign Minister Zeng Qi walked out with two young men, followed by a middle-aged man.  "Foreign Minister Zeng, happy New Year."

    "Isn't this Tian Lei? He's back for the New Year?"

    "Forefather"Nothing happened. I took a leave of absence and came back to spend time with my mother.  "

    "Haha, it's better for you. Unlike that boy in my family, he didn't know where he went wild during the Chinese New Year." Zeng Qi affectionately held Yang Tianlei's hand, chatted for a few words about daily life, and then introduced the three people behind him: "Here, I'll give you  You introduce. This is King Rama VIII of Siam, this is his younger brother, and this is Mr. Chen Jiale, the cabinet regent."

    A few days ago, Yang Tianlei heard from his father that several distinguished guests would come to the house during the Chinese New Year, so when he saw the three people, he immediately invited them into the house.  After King Rama VIII entered the house and saw so many people, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. But Bhumibol Adulyadej opened his eyes wide and looked curious.

    After passing through the large living room, Yang Tianlei led the four people to the small study room on the second floor.  Compared with the outside, it was very quiet here. When he saw a few people, Wu Han from the Presidential Guard immediately knocked on the door and invited everyone in.  "Your Highness, are you having fun during this time?" Seeing Rama VIII, Yang Qiu quickly stood up to greet him. After a while, Yue Peng and Song Ziqing were also invited to the study by Yang Tianlei.

    "Thank you for the hospitality, President. During this period, my brother and I visited many places, gained a lot of knowledge, and had a great time." Yang Qiu's kindness made Rama VIII gradually calm down.  He did visit many places in China during this time.  I have visited big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, as well as remote areas such as Guizhou, Lanzhou and Kulun.  Even visited Lake Baiga.  We not only saw the old city that was specially preserved by Yang Qiu and although it has been transformed but still retains its original flavor, we also saw Shanghai, known as the New York of the East, with its many high-rise buildings, the prosperous Guangzhou and Kunming, and the economically backward northwest provinces.  To be honest, compared with Europe, which has gone through a century of industrial revolution, China still has many backward places. Dirty conditions are common, and there are many poor people.  But the flaws do not hide the virtues.  He has seen a kind of vitality in this country that is rarely seen in Europe. Infrastructure construction such as airports, roads, and power stations have not stopped even during the war. Elderly care and medical care are developing from first- and second-tier cities to county-level towns. Agriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry projects are also developing in this country.  Complete.  In 1935, Yang Qiu put forward the grand construction blueprint of "every household has electricity and village access roads", which is being carried out at an unprecedented speed. If it were not delayed by the war, he believed that it would take another ten to fifteen years.  China will surely take on a new look.

    What impressed him most was the rise of industry and commerce, and the popularization of education and medical care.  In almost every county-level city, you can see a large number of newly opened shops and small processing factories. The products are many times more abundant than in Siam. Many people have walking tractors.  As for education, what he envied most was the mandatory "National Free Basic Education Act" formally implemented in 1914, which benefited tens of millions of students.  He also met some parents who wanted their children to drop out of school but were afraid to do so because of heavy fines and jail terms.  Of course, these are just a few people. After all, in traditional Chinese thought, only those who study can get ahead, so with the favorable conditions of free education and free lunches provided by the state.  Even if life is difficult, most people will grit their teeth and send their children to school, even if they have to walk dozens of kilometers to go to school in remote areas.  Parents will also wake up early and stay in the dark to send their children to school.

    On the other hand, in Siam, although King Rama VI proposed a national free education bill as early as the last war, due to insufficient national finances, official exploitation, and the oppression of European and American economic colonization, the implementation was very poor. Only Bangkok and other  Only a few cities can implement it.  In fact, China also has these problems, but Yang Qiu cleverly separated government, military and education, and then let those literati who always love to talk about the government focus on the parliament's education construction and appropriation every day.  These guys who are fearless but claim to be noble and cherish their feathers have indeed played a role in supervising the popularization and implementation of education.  He has seen many times that some literati and celebrities organized themselves and accused a local government in newspapers of treating education and medical care in a double-edged manner.  And those opposition parties, knowing that they are temporarily unable to come to power, have also begun to take a pragmatic approach, focusing millions of eyes on trivial matters such as governance, education, and medical care, and constantly finding fault with local governments.

    Sometimes these things can make things seem very confusing, but it is undeniable that this kind of supervision may not bring much benefit to the country, and may also bring constraints to governance, but it has played an indelible role in promoting education and medical care.  , and also forced the powerful National Socialist Party to carefully deal with counterattacks from the opposition parties.

    After comparing Europe with China, he found that the European model was not necessarily suitable for the East. The country in front of him had spent more than thirty years relying on disguised dictatorship and strong force to force the ancient chaos into orbit and create inertia and inertia.  The man understands this path better than himself and the politicians of all Asian countries, so he has led China on a different path.  He did not dare to underestimate Yang Qiu, who was right in front of him, smiling and speaking kindly. He always reminded himself that the blood and cruelty on the road Yang Qiu walked on was no worse than those cruel officials in Chinese history.  Just to implement the Cheng Cheng Act, hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials and gentry who stood in the way of reform were shot and exiled on various criminal grounds.  But it happens that such a "cruel" president has received unprecedented support and love, because??He has indeed changed China's poverty and backwardness, allowing 600 million Chinese to enter modern society. The "Cape Town Conference" also established the status of the world's three major powers!  That¡¯s why some newspapers proposed amending the constitution to allow ¡°their president¡± to be in power for a long time.

    King Rama VIII talked softly with Yang Qiu. What the narrator saw and heard was that compared to his cautiousness, Chen Jiale was obviously more positive: "Mr. President, the king has already made up his mind to accept your country's help, but he  I also have some ideas of my own.¡±

    "Oh? Haha, it's a holiday now." Yang Qiu and Zeng Qi looked at each other, made a joke, walked to the window, and asked: "I wonder if the king has any trouble that we need to solve?"

    "I would like to ask you to help me implement your country's system and education bill in Siam." Rama VIII blurted out eagerly.

    Yang Qiu kept calm, thought about it and said: "Your vision is very sharp, and I admire your ideal of a strong country, but you should know the recent war news. Our army has been staying off the coast of Bangkok. It's not that I don't  ability to enter, but I have been waiting for you. I am willing to help you, and I am willing to help any neighboring countries, because we in China do not want to have bad relations with our neighbors, so when it comes to dealing with neighboring countries, I have always handled every detail carefully, and  Just like now, we never rush to send troops in! But with all due respect, there are some situations in Siam that I am not optimistic about. And Foreign Minister Zeng should have told you how our country¡¯s current system and government operations have come to today. Let¡¯s look back  Looking at Siam, the current situation is almost exactly the same as our country has been for thirty years. It is like a broken clock. If you want to restore it you must completely replace some parts! Establish the authority of the king and the government! In addition  There is no other way out.¡±

    Rama VIII was timid by nature, but he was very smart and quickly understood the meaning of this obscure words.  He looked at Chen Jiale, then raised his head and looked into Yang Qiu's eyes for the first time: "So what does Mr. President think we should do?"

    Yang Qiu thought for a while and spread out his five fingers: "I have five suggestions. First, completely end colonization, whether it is actual or hidden, or economic. Both you and Siam need to be truly independent. Second  , eradicate stubborn diseases, solve the hidden dangers of the current military government, and establish a new government that is generally representative. Third, your country needs a brand new financial system. In this regard, white Europeans will not give you Siam, nor will they give it to us.  Of any country in Asia, only we can help Siam at present. Fourth, roads and circulation are the foundation of prosperity. Asian countries need to strengthen their own connections and promote the circulation of goods in various countries, so we need a more complete Asian railway network. Fifth  " He paused and waited for Rama VIII to look at him more intently before continuing: "There can no longer be such wars in Asia. We need a new Asian security mechanism to jointly promote regional stability and economy.  develop."
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