Chapter Ten is very hurt

  Zhou Yu returned: "I know this, although on the surface, the French in southern Vietnam are eyeing the northern tigers."

  In my estimation, it will take at least two more years before we can engage the French army in a real battle with live ammunition.

  "In our powerless state, let's develop in secret as much as possible and delay the time we expose ourselves to the world."

  "I know this, we are now mainly developing, and other things will be put aside for the time being." Liu Chengliang hastily replied.

  "Haha! Now I can rest assured. Here, I promise everyone: within five years, I will bring the era of giant warships and cannons to everyone, and to the Zhongyong Army." said Zhou Yu.

  Zhang Long also chuckled and interjected: "Principal, what kind of army do you think we should have?"

  The Hua Xia Zhongyong Army in my heart is: "Flying in the sky, marching on land, sailing in water, a iron-blooded army of sea, land and air, making our enemies lose their courage to fight as soon as they see our troops."

  "What's flying in the sky? Is it an eagle?" It was Liu Chengliang's curious words again.

  "In the sky flying, I call it an airplane"

  Once the idea is ripe, it can be invented and equipped to the troops. It's a more terrifying breed than giant warships. When technology matures, in our Huaxia Beijing, we can fly thousands of miles away to America and strike its homeland." Zhou Yu's yearning reply.

  Everyone shouted in unison: "Is there such a powerful soldier? Wouldn't that make them invincible under the heavens?"

  "It's not invincible, one, its ammunition capacity is small, two, its power source is gasoline and other fuels, three, it requires a lot of scientific knowledge and precise machinery to manufacture, four, its protection is relatively weak, five, it needs to cultivate a large number of driving talents. In my estimation, at least we need around 10 years' time to mass-produce and equip them in the troops."

  For a time, everyone was discussing the new type of soldier mentioned by Zhou Yu, and even Huang Shouzong and Wu Fengdian, who usually didn't speak much, exclaimed: "I wish it were ten years from now!"

  Ling Zhou Yu couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time, wondering if he had been a bit too hasty.

  After some discussion, planning and careful arrangement, Zhou Yu bid farewell to the vast number of officers and soldiers of the Zhongyong Army and set off for Shanghai to carry out his grand development plan.

  There were also a few bodyguards arranged by Liu Yongfu. Zhou Yu felt touched but also speechless at the same time.

  Is there anyone else who can hurt themselves?

  But what made Zhou Yu extremely angry was

  This Shanghai trip really hurt me a lot.

  Zhou Yu, carrying samples, went through a lot of hardships. It was just like that. On the steamship, someone else wasn't idle either, but instead, engaged in conceptualization and writing. He didn't want to waste any time.

  He didn't even have time to appreciate the scenery along the way.

  When the cruise ship had just arrived in Shanghai, Zhou Yu, who followed the crowd to get off the ship, was shocked by the scene at Shanghai Pudong Terminal. What he saw was a dirty and chaotic Shanghai street, and the Chinese people walking on the street with dull and empty expressions.

  Pale and thin dockworkers, one after another, came to grab the luggage of travelers, competing for that little bit of hard-earned money. The rickshaw pullers shouted to let travelers ride their vehicles, occasionally revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, making a forced smile.

  Zhou Yu found that one of the foreigners roughly pushed down a Chinese worker who was shouting for business, and muttered in a foreign language: "Get out of here, you dirty guy."

  The Chinese laborer stumbled and fell onto the suitcase beside him, his forehead cracked open. As he struggled to get up from the ground, he wiped away the blood and apologized repeatedly to the foreign devil; then, as if nothing had happened, he continued to shout at his next target: the next passenger.

  In the face of such a scene, all Chinese people on the dock did not make any reaction or expression.

  His heart's soft part was severely hurt, and in his heart, he was secretly bleeding. Is this the people of my Chinese nation? Zhou Yu had a feeling of wanting to cry but couldn't, he clenched his fists tightly, his finger joints were white from the grip.

  Tian Ergou and Zhou Yu's guards also had angry faces, looking like they were about to make a move.

  At this moment, Zhou Yu really wanted to grab a big bell and ring it loudly to wake everyone up.

  The numb nerves of the Chinese people! The slave mentality of a big clock!

  Zhou Yu really thought; now he would overthrow the Qing dynasty with that almost cruel impulse.

  Reason told him that it was impossible for the time being, and he didn't have the strength to accomplish this grand undertaking. All he could do now was endure, even the thought of killing that ghost man was a luxury.

  Because he knew: if he killed the foreign devils in the Qing Dynasty, it would be very likely that ceding territory and paying indemnities would happen at that time. In that case, the ones who would ultimately suffer would still be us Huaxia. Therefore, Zhou Yu could only stand by and watch, unable to do anything!

  Having the ability but unable to use it, how can Zhou Yu not feel depressed!

  A sense of desolation, loneliness, bleakness, sorrow, coldness and powerlessness filled his mind.

  It's not being there in person, it's impossible to feel the oppressive atmosphere that pervaded the land of China at that time. It's not being among them, it's impossible to understand the extremely complex mental activities of Zhou Yu at that time.

  A great man of later generations once said a sentence at the beginning of the founding of the country, and now, Zhou Yu truly felt the truth of that sentence.

  "The Chinese people have stood up!"

  It's risen! What an apt phrase!

  "China, stand up! I beg of you, stand up! My dear fellow Chinese, wake up! Open your eyes and take a look! You are the descendants of Yan and Huang, you are the inheritors of the dragon's legacy, we are..."

  The best nation on top.

  Powerful as a mountain, Zhou Yu spat out a mouthful of blood and sat down on the cold stone ground of the dock with a thud.

  The surrounding travelers looked curiously at this strangely-colored young man, pointing and gesturing.

  This suddenly scared Tian Ergou and several guards to death, they hastily helped Zhou Yu up and repeatedly asked: "Principal, what's wrong with you! Weren't you fine just now? If you're not feeling well, let's go back, okay?"

  Tian Ergou at this time

  His voice was choked, tears streaming down his face, and he was disheveled. He had never seen Zhou Yu look so haggard before, even when they were up for several nights running experiments, he was still spirited.

  Now Zhou Yu has made a mess of things, Tian Ergou is so angry he could die.

  It wasn't until a while later that Zhou Yu recovered, his face slowly regaining some color from its terrifying pallor. He weakly waved his hand at Tian Ergou and the others: "I'm fine! Don't worry about me! I just need to rest for a bit!"

  "Tian Ergou, send two men to follow that foreign devil from earlier. After he leaves China, take care of him privately and let him know that the people of the Chinese nation are not to be trifled with. Those who offend China will be punished no matter how far away they are."

  At once, two guards left everyone and went to execute their tasks. In fact, they were also angry in their hearts.

  Without Zhou Yu's order, no one dares to come recklessly. The military discipline of the Zhongyong Army is still very strict now.

  The stupid governance of the Qing dynasty was so thorough! My hardworking and brave Chinese people were made to be on their last breath by them, no wonder the later Chinese democratic revolution was so difficult and painful; Zhou Yu's mind was filled with hatred for this evil old society, the evil Manchu rule.

  This further strengthened Zhou Yu's determination to overthrow the corrupt and decadent Qing dynasty and its rule of ignorance.

  I want to make the Chinese people lively, cheerful, positive, upward, spirited, pragmatic and confident.

  The people's model and pride, Zhou Yu gritted his teeth in his heart and secretly vowed.

  Zhou Yu'an comforted Tian Ergou and the others for a while, and in order to be convenient, he even specially bought a hat with braids on it for everyone to wear.

  In the Qing dynasty, having no hair meant being beheaded. It wasn't until the late Qing period that things got slightly better. The late Qing dynasty couldn't even control its own regime, so how could it have the energy to care about the hairstyles of those ignorant commoners?

  Next, Zhou Yu

  There's no mood for it, let's go take a look at old Shanghai; he has to hurry up and get the formalities done!

  He wanted to leave this place as soon as possible. The air here seemed to be abnormally oppressive and depressing to Zhou Yu, giving him a feeling of hypoxia and difficulty breathing.

  He wants to speed up his development, striving for an earlier day when the sunshine truly shines on the land of China, rather than feeling cold and trembling even under the sun's rays, with Zhou Yu's heart shattered.

  With a heavy heart, Zhou Yu rushed to the Shanghai Peninsula Hotel, where he successfully held a product launch and recruitment meeting for all products except xiao smokeless gunpowder.

  New products that have successfully applied for patents have found a large number of cooperative merchants for production and sales.

  Merchants watched Zhou Yu's public perfect demonstration of these new products and discovered the huge profits hidden in them, and they all asked to join.

  Businessmen are as proactive as sharks seeing prey, businessmen themselves are profiteers!

  They then signed long-term cooperation contracts with Zhou Yu: the contract stipulated that all merchants would form an alliance called the Chinese Alliance Chamber of Commerce, and uniform arrangements were made for prices, sales, and packaging.

  It is stipulated that there shall be no malicious competition among the members internally. Those who are capable will jointly boycott and expel them from the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce will never cooperate with them.

  Zhou Yu also no longer provides patent protection for related products, mechanical and subsequent invention product production contracts.

  All production manufacturers and products produced, Zhou Yu will hold 51% of the shares, with 1% of the shares distributed by Zhou Yu to be shared equally among the workers of each processing plant.

  He also took out 1% of the shares to reward those who made outstanding contributions to the factory. As for Zhou Yu's move to take out 2% of the shares without compensation, everyone was extremely surprised by this action.

  Zhou Yu knew that these people would become his firm supporters in the future. He wanted to unite these workers and prepare for the overthrow of the Qing dynasty.

  Another point is to set an example of getting rich through hard work, and the most important thing, Zhou Yu wants to give more to those who sell their children for just a few coins.

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  He did not want to wait until he had the power to overthrow the Qing government, only to see a group of listless Chinese people.

  During this period, Zhou Yu also got to know a group of outstanding talents and big bourgeoisie businessmen. They were:

  Shanxi merchants, Huizhou merchants, Shaanxi merchants, Shandong merchants, Longyou merchants, Jiangyou merchants, Dongting merchants, Guangdong merchants, Ningbo merchants, Fujian merchants, etc. These merchant groups will be his money bags and beneficiaries of shared interests.

  The most outstanding representative is Hu Xueyan, a native of Xi County, Anhui Province, who founded the Fu Kang Money House.

  He set up more than 20 Fukang Silver Houses in various provinces, and operated Chinese medicine, silk and tea businesses. The funds converted to silver were as high as over 200 million taels at that time.

  It's a very scary number.

  Zhou Yu had a secret meeting with Hu Xueyan, but the specific content of the meeting is unknown.

  Afterwards, Hu Xueyan secretly prepared for Zhou Yu's central bank and he was the first president of Zhou Yu's central bank after the founding of the country.

  In Hu Xueyan's memoir, there is a record of the conversation between the two. Hu Xueyan recalled: At that time, I and Zhou Huang were in the room, first exchanging pleasantries, then Zhou Huang asked directly, which made me feel very surprised and embarrassed.

  At that time, Zhou Yu asked him seriously: "I know that Mr. Hu is a very patriotic businessman. You assisted Zuo Zongtang in establishing the Fuzhou Shipyard in 1866 and took charge of the Shanghai Customs after Zuo was transferred to Shaanxi-Gansu Governor-General. You are a red-top businessman. So, which country do you love, the Chinese nation or the Manchu Qing dynasty?"

  I love my motherland,

  "What's the difference between the Huaxia nation and the Great Qing Empire?" Hu Xueyan's eyes narrowed sharply, twice in a row.

  "The Chinese nation represents 400 million compatriots, while the Qing dynasty only represents a small ruling class that sucks the blood of laboring people and steals their wealth. How can they be the same? Has Mr. Hu not thought about this?"