April 1, the first year of Xuantong, 1909, Jinluan Hall, Beijing.
"Yuan Gongbao, I'll take care of you from now on."
After saying this, Queen Mother Longyu burst into tears.
"Please rest assured, Queen Mother, as long as the abdication edict is announced, the revolutionary army in the south will naturally cease."
Yuan Shikai said expressionlessly while holding the abdication edict he had just received.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"The little emperor Pu Ru was only a little over 12 years old at this time.
Although he was older than Pu Yi in the original time and space, he didn't quite understand the meaning of this edict.
He just saw a room full of acquaintances crying, so he just said Then he cried.
"That's it, I'll take my leave."
Yuan Shikai looked at the room of family dignitaries who were mourning for their heirs, sneered a few times in his heart, and left with a group of confidants.
As soon as Yuan Shikai and others left, the crying in Jinluan Hall became even louder.
An old prince knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Ancestor, my Qing Dynasty has perished like this.
Ancestor, ancestor, my Qing Dynasty has perished."
On the same day, Yuan Shikai, the Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty, sent a message to the whole country on behalf of the Qing Dynasty and issued an abdication edict.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had ruled China since 1644 AD, officially declared its demise on April 1, 1909 after 266 years.
This regime came to an end and withdrew from the stage of history.
On the same day, Neijiang, the headquarters of the Party of Science and Technology.
"Yuan Shikai was elected as Prime Minister by the Economic and Political Council.
At this time when the old and the new are changing, it is appropriate to unify the north and the south.
That is, Yuan Shikai will organize a provisional republic government with full power, negotiate with the civilian army to unify the method, and ensure the people's security for the entire period.
Haiyu'an still combined the complete territory of the five ethnic groups of Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Hui and Tibetan, forming a great Republic of China.
The emperor was able to retreat and relax, travel for a long time, receive the courtesy of the people, and see the completion of the Zhizhi rule. , Don’t you admire this?”
After Gu Xiaolu read the telegram, he smiled and said: "The Qing government still calls us the people's army."
"No, it's not the Qing court, it's Beiyang.
They still think they are the central government, haha."
Wen Desi smiled and asked: "What do you plan to do with the Qing court people?"
Artoria, who is in charge of affairs in North China, replied: "According to our information, it's probably like this.
Next month Yuan Shikai will let the deposed emperor and others move out of the Forbidden City, and they will allocate the original Prince Gong's Mansion to them to live in.
From now on, they will be given annual The royal family received 100,000 yuan for living expenses and nothing else.
Those royal princes only retained their titles, but all their salaries were gone.
The Summer Palace and various imperial estates were confiscated by Beiyang."
Wen Desi listened with a smile and nodded: "Haha, it seems that the boss still considered our opinions and did not go too far.
However, this approach still did not satisfy us."
Originally, according to Datou's idea, he was going to give more benefits to the Qing court, but of course it was not as much as in the original time and space.
However, the Socialist Party of Science and Technology strongly opposed it and demanded that all those people be demoted to ordinary civilians and undergo public trials.
Yuan Shikai had to consider the opinions of the Socialist Party of Science and Technology, and finally had to make some concessions.
In fact, Datou's approach was unsatisfactory on both sides.
The dignitaries of the Qing court would not be grateful to him.
The Socialist Party of Science and other revolutionary parties also felt that it was too advantageous to the Qing court and were very dissatisfied.
However, the Qing court is now in the hands of the big boss, and even if organizations such as the Socialist Party of Science and Technology are unhappy, they can only tolerate it for the time being.
"It doesn't matter, just let them live a good life for a few more days, and then we can settle the score after we fight over them," Wen Desi sneered.
The upper echelons of the Eight Banners in Manchuria must be thoroughly cleansed.
This is a matter of principle, and Yuan Datou and Xini cannot be tolerated.
Although Yuan Shikai cut down the Zongshe Party, there are still many people who are not Zongshe Party and have nothing to do.
Of course, there will definitely be losses in terms of money.
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When the Beiyang Army wants to make donations, they don't care whether they belong to the Zongshe Party or not.
Except for a few from the Qing Dynasty, everyone in the Qing Dynasty has a share.
But for Yuan Shikai, these people are not protected by him.
As long as the deposed emperor is left as a facade, the other Eight Banners princes have no business with him whether they live or die.
But he will not actively do anything against them, that is, he will let them fend for themselves.
Since the last time the information about the Qing government's preparations to win over Wen Desi was given to Datou by the Socialist Party of Science and Technology, Datou has become even more disgusted with this group of people.
He didn't turn against them and beheaded them all, which was already a great honor.
Wen Desi thought for a while and said: "Okay, let's inform Liu Yang that the money-grabbing operation is almost done, and their North China Bureau can prepare to close the Internet cafes."
Tianjin, Delong Bank Head Office.
"Hahaha, after so long arrangements, it's finally time to harvest."
Liu Yang looked at the instructions sent from the headquarters with a smile, and said to his secretary: "Immediately notify the branches and branch managers to close the network."
"Yes, Secretary Liu, I'll go down and notify you immediately," the secretary replied excitedly.
As mentioned earlier, Delong Bank is a bank established by Mr.
Wen that specializes in swindling the Eight Banners' powerful people, supplemented by other businesses.
It is the main agency for the "money-absorbing plan".
At that time, the Eight Banners' dignitaries also wanted to do business, and their business was very large.
Fur products and medicinal materials from outside the customs, silk, salt and other local specialties from within the customs were all within their business scope.
Because the plates are large, their liquidity is often insufficient.
At this time, they can only borrow money from banks and pay back after the goods are sold.
And banks charge very high interest rates for this kind of short-term lending.
Anyone who can open a bank in the capital without a big backing will not buy into these powerful people.
Their attitude is: if they don't like it, they like to borrow.
If they don't borrow, they will get foreign investment.
When banks enter China, the rich and powerful have an additional loan target, but foreign banks are even less willing to sell their accounts.
Moreover, it is not easy for these banks to lend money to them, because this is often the time when cash is most tight.
There are many people doing business in the world, and everyone needs money.
Banks and banks are having a hard time dealing with withdrawals.
There is no spare money to lend them, and the landlords have no surplus food.
Therefore, these powerful people often encounter the dilemma of having nowhere to borrow money, and they miss out on how much profit they have.
But the powerful need not worry, as this problem was solved in June 1906.
Delong Bank is listed in Tianjin.
It is said that this bank was opened by a British earl.
Although it is not well-known, it has a strong backend.
After the bank opened, bank manager Liu Yang got acquainted with some rich and powerful children through Desmond's former Beijing office.
These are customers who sell artificial gemstones.
Liu Yang first used extremely low-interest loans to attract the loan business of the Eight Banners' powerful people.
The daily interest rate was one thousandth.
At this time, the daily interest rate of short-term loans from other financial institutions was often as high as 5, and it was not easy to borrow.
There is a difference of 50 times between "one thousandth" and "five percent".
In the spirit of "don't take advantage of the bastard", the Eight Banners' powerful people immediately flocked to Delong Bank's loan business. .
Other financial institutions do not have much cash for lending at this time, so there is not much business conflict with Delong Bank.
This approach of Delong Bank is understood by other peers as a normal means for new merchants to attract customers.
As for the underworld forces who opened underground banks, although they were very angry about their behavior of stealing business, they did not dare to do anything.
Well, of course there were a few who were unconvinced at first, and they even came to threaten Liu Yang.
Liu Yang greeted them with a warm smile, saying that he would carefully consider their opinions and give them a satisfactory answer soon. .
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In the following days, the most arrogant ones encountered misfortune one after another.
Some encountered fires, others encountered gangs of robbers, and even were attacked by unknown beasts.
As for why there are such awesome bandits and beasts in Beijing, that is another question.
Anyway, most of these people's entire families were killed, and not a single person in the family was left alive.
There were a few less arrogant ones who had not encountered such natural or man-made disasters, but they were all visited by unknown armed men and then politely sent out of the city.
According to what the greeters told their family members, a certain big shot invited them to immigrate to "Haiti."
They will take a new type of vehicle that can dive, ensuring direct access to "Haiti".
If their families are willing, they can also go with them.
After doing this a few times, no one dared to jump out.
However, with Comrade Liu Yang's integrity, even if those underground banks don't come looking for trouble, he will still come.
In the next half year or so, all the underground banks in the Beijing-Tianjin-Zhili area, no matter how well-backed they were, suffered misfortunes one after another, including fires, banditry, animal disasters, and even insect disasters.
Didn't you see?
Yes, some people did encounter insect infestations.
There was a loan shark in Tianjin who was stung to death by a swarm of wasps.
There are also quite a few people who have been invited to “immigrate to Haiti” or “travel to Haiti”.
Some of the foreign banks, including big banks like HSBC and Citigroup, have had their responsible persons or people in important positions in the Beijing-Tianjin area subjugated by various means.
They no longer dare to provide services to these guys.
Although performance is important, their own small Life is more important.
Most of these people are part-time workers, so why should they work for the boss?
What’s more, the help is not in vain.
Delong Bank is very generous to its collaborators.
There is money on one side and a knife on the other.
Even a fool knows what to choose.
As for the few banks where they are their own bosses, they are not large in scale.
Under Liu Yang's various unscrupulous methods, they soon encountered various disturbances.
They either closed down and left China in despair, or were destroyed by the Germans.
Long Bank bought it, took the money and left.
By early 1907, all of Delong Bank's competitors in the Beijing-Tianjin-Zhili region had disappeared, and even most of its competitors in Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan had disappeared, so their business expanded rapidly like a balloon.
After having no competitors, the "loyal" Delong Bank quickly gained the recognition of the powerful people of the Eight Banners, and they all came to lend, lend, and recycle.
However, this kind of good life with low interest rates did not last long until the powerful people got used to it.
Got used to it.
Delong Bank changed its face and immediately raised the daily interest rate to 3, which was an increase of 30 times.
If you like it, borrow it, but if you don’t, leave it But at this time, there were no competitors, and the rich and powerful couldn't find one even if they wanted to change banks.
Moreover, although the interest rate had increased a lot, it was still lower than the original 5, which was acceptable.
After mastering the large amount of debts of those powerful people, Liu Yang used many honorable and dishonorable means to get most of the Eight Banners powerful people to take loans, deposits and keep valuables in Delong Bank.
It can be said that the current Delong Bank is a special bank for the Eight Banners' powerful people.
After the Beiyang Mutiny, more and more people came to Delong to deposit money or store valuables. 95% of the Qing court's powerful people became the "customers" of this bank.
By the end of 1908, the deposits of Eight Banners dignitaries in Delong Bank exceeded 5 billion.
At the beginning of this year, there was another peak.
Seeing that the Qing government could no longer survive, and Beiyang was looking for them to "raise donations" again, these bannermen simply handed over most of their wealth to Delong Bank.
The background of Delong Bank was too strong, and Beiyang did not dare to touch it.
After such news came out, Delong's business became even better.
As of now, the Eight Banners' deposits and valuables such as gold, silver, and gemstones have reached nearly 9 billion in silver dollars.
This does not include debts and mortgaged real estate, as well as antique calligraphy and paintings that are difficult to value.
Beijing, Delong Bank Beijing Branch.
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"President, business has been so good these days.
Is it too early to close the network?
Should we wait a few more days?"
Dongzhimen Business Director Sun Dianying asked in confusion.
Well, Dongzhimen Business Director is only one of his identities.
His other identity is the leader of the seventh team of the Beijing Station Operations Section.
Everyone knows that there are no secrets in the Qing court.
The abdication edict has not been issued yet, and the news has spread throughout the 49 cities.
The banner people are all panic-stricken.
The number of banner people who come to deposit money and take care of valuables is several times more than before.
Everyone has been busy these days.
As a result, during the meeting this morning, the superiors issued orders to close the network.
Not only Sun Dianying didn't understand, but other colleagues didn't understand either.
"Haha" Fan Han smiled and explained to the confused people: "I just watched the excitement these days.
In fact, the powerful people knew about the news earlier, and their money had already been sent in.
Those who have been depositing money these days , they are all middle- and lower-class bannermen, and they don’t have much luck.
You can also calculate how much money they have to pay for seeing so much excitement these days.”
He continued: "In our industry, you must learn to accept when you are good, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
If you wait for those powerful people to react, prepare to immigrate and run away, and come to our bank to withdraw cash, then you will not be able to give them."
"Oh, so that's it."
Everyone suddenly realized.
"Okay, let's get ready.
We will announce it in the morning the day after tomorrow.
We received a notice from the head office that at the request of the Southern China Autonomous Government, all bannermen's deposits and items in custody will be frozen from now on, and will be unfrozen after the founding of the People's Republic of China and the completion of relevant cases."
Fan Han showed a harmless smile.
"Xiao Sun" After everyone left, Fan Han left Sun Dianying behind and asked with a smile: "I heard that you were attending the Capital University Hall recently."
"Yes, webmaster."
Sun Dianying quickly replied: "Since the last time the organization gave me the identity of a student of the Capital University, I have gone there often.
I didn't study much before, but now that I have this opportunity, I Don’t want to miss it.”
"It's good that you think so.
Although that identity is just for you to cover, other comrades are not as diligent as you.
They really just use it as a cover.
Those boys don't even go to class.
What a waste."
Fan Han shook his head, looking like he hated iron.
After a few words of emotion, Fan Han then asked: "Xiao Sun, are you very interested in archeology?"
"Yes, webmaster.
I don't know why, but after reading those textbooks in the school, I felt that this was an interesting subject."
Sun Dianying replied seriously.
"Well, now you still have a choice."
Fan Han paused, took out a document from his desk, handed it to him and said, "Look at this, it was sent from the headquarters."
"This is" Sun Dianying opened it and immediately exclaimed: "Recommended quota for Southwest Army Academy" Fan Han smiled kindly and said: "Yes, the superiors recognized our work at the Beijing station very much, so they gave us a place for further training in the military academy.
Among the staff of this station who are of the right age, I think you are the most suitable.
If you If you are willing, I will put your name on it and you can think about it."
"Webmaster, can I really do this?"
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Sun Dianying said excitedly.
"Of course, I have always watched your work performance.
You are very qualified."
"I am willing to go to the military academy, I am willing to go to the military academy, Station Commander" Sun Dianying was so happy that she was a little incoherent.
"What about your archeology?
Your grades in the archeology department are also very good.
I heard from the professor at the Capital University that you are also very talented in this area."
Fan Han smiled.
Sun Dianying replied firmly: "Stationmaster, I would rather become a soldier.
Let archeology be my hobby."
"Okay, then fill in this form as you wish."
Fan Han took out the military academy recommendation form
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