It is not possible to get in touch with Chen Jiongming in a short period of time. In this era of extremely backward transportation, it is not easy and convenient to go from Guangzhou to Zhangzhou.

In fact, from now on, Zhong Yang has decided to hide behind the scenes. With the manufacturing authority of producing mechanical servants and land soldiers, Zhong Yang has already possessed a guard that is absolutely loyal to him. The underground palace organization, as a private armed force that obeys Zhong Yang, also has core force in the true sense.

Zhong Yang actually had such a plan a long time ago, but his ideas at that time and now have changed a little. But no matter what, they are still consistent in the general direction. In order to safeguard their own safety and interests, strong force is necessary. The purpose of the establishment of the Underground Palace organization is definitely not to take care of the elderly and help out-of-school children. It is a pure killing institution.

Zhong Yang never thought of giving other political missions or lofty ideals to the Underground Palace organization, and the minions only need absolute obedience. As a violent institution, it is naturally impossible for the Underground Palace to be placed in the sun to let outsiders know. This is also the reason why Zhong Yang named it "Underground Palace".

Chen Ze, Liu Jinyang and Yi Zhongming, although they are now core members of the Underground Palace Organization, are just Zhong Yang in order to enable them to have enough confidence in safety.

In Zhong Yang's plan, the first step is to earn a certain amount of start-up capital. This goal has been basically achieved. The more than 8 million silver dollars obtained from the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce greatly supplemented Zhong Yang's private treasury. As long as the French purchase enough ore resources from the iron ore opened by the French in Vietnam, a new round of large-scale production construction can be carried out again.

According to the steps that Zhong Yang had planned before, the second step was to slowly start to fade out of the sight of all outsiders. Whether it is a company established in the real world, a factory or a school, Chen Ze and the others were responsible for hosting it, and Zhong Yang only gave the necessary support behind them.

The biggest problem at present is that you must first build the underground base. As long as the construction team of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce completes the factory building, the construction of the underground base must be started immediately. As long as the construction of the underground base is initially completed, many equipment in the smart factory can be used in the real world. Machine servants can also appear in the underground base factories in a noble manner to carry out various arms production.

In addition to the underground palace, Zhong Yang also plans to start a new organizational management organization. After all, the underground palace is just a violent organization and cannot complete the management of the group, so Zhong Yang must also consider forming an administrative unit. Of course, not participating in the political stage is a established principle, and this original intention will not change at all.

The exploration and absorption of talents are still the primary goal. Human beings have been living in groups since ancient times, and the power of groups has always surpassed that of individuals. After the industrial age, this characteristic has become more obvious. Whether it is an organization or a country, its overall scientific and technological, economic, political, and military strength cannot be supported by some geniuses, but by the power gathered by the gathering of teams.

It is absolutely unrealistic to rely on Zhong Yang to operate alone. A person's energy and knowledge are always limited, while the development of scientific and technological civilization itself has infinite possibilities. In order to do all this alone alone, besides arrogance, there are only naiveness left. Zhong Yang is no longer a child, and he still understands these principles. Although human nature is still selfish and greedy, interests and ideas can solve most problems, and violence can solve all the remaining problems. Zhong Yang has such confidence and the courage to confess.

It is now mid-June 1919, and the hot summer has begun to come. The moist air is burned by the high temperature, making the whole city of Guangzhou full of a stuffy atmosphere. Although the people walking on the streets are only wearing single clothes, they are all sweating profusely. Some wealthy ladies dressed in dresses and dressed in ladies, and were shopping leisurely with parasols.

Xiguan, located west of Guangzhou City Gate, is a bustling commercial area. It is also the gathering place of the Guangdong Sea Chamber of Commerce. Large houses and arcade buildings, as well as many shops and industries are under the name of the Guangdong Sea Chamber of Commerce. Xiguan and Dongshan are the two most famous places here. Xiguan is outside the west gate of Guangzhou City, and Dongshan is outside the east gate. The two are far away. Historically, the cultural characteristics formed by the two places have obvious differences. Xiguan is low-lying, with water towns, rivers and surging like nets, with dense populations, and is a prosperous downtown area.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was collectively known as the area outside the west gate of Guangzhou City. Xiguan was divided into Shangxiguan and Xiaxiguan. Among them, Shangxiguan was higher in terrain and Xiaxiguan was lower in terrain. Shibafu was built at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Thirteen Links were opened. From the middle and late periods, Xiguan successively built residential areas such as Baohua Street, Fengyuan Street, and Duobao Street. Xiguan was the old city of Guangzhou, named after it was located outside the west gate of the city during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This was the commercial center of Guangzhou during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Even now, Xiguan is still the economic center of southern China.

There is a saying in Guangzhou, "The Young Master Dongshan, Miss Xiguan", which means: Dongshan is a place where prominent officials of the powerful family are mostly children of officials. Dongshan Western Building was a fake Western villa built by some overseas Chinese and military bureaucrats in Xinhepu, Dongshan, Guangzhou City, and other places in Xinhepu, Dongshan, Guangzhou City, and attracted dignitaries to live in. "The Young Master Dongshan" came from this; and Xiguan is a prosperous commercial area, a lady from a wealthy business family, with flowers flying butterflies dancing. The girls here are authentic ladies, with slender figures, soft Cantonese, well-educated, some of them can be handmade, respecting their elders, and possessing traditional Chinese virtues. Garden-style villas and Xiguan houses, power and wealth, modern and traditional, are divided into different places and complement each other.

As early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it was the only trade port for China's foreign trade; Shamian Island was the concession of Britain, France and other countries, and is one of the most European-style places in China today. The island has hundreds of buildings with the style of European and American countries in this era, with ancient trees standing in front of the Pearl River White Etan, and it also has a sense of vast rivers and a vast atmosphere.

When did Xiguan rise? I can’t find any clear statement after checking historical records, but Xiguan’s most glorious and most impressive should be in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. In that era, all the economic factors in Guangzhou were concentrated in the western part of Guangzhou. There were import and export trade terminals, various warehouses and warehouses, as well as commercial institutions and foreign companies from various countries. The famous comprador base Thirteen is here. China’s earliest customs and Guangdong’s largest post office were also set up. There is also the “sand surface” at the southern end of Xiguan, which is the British concession.

Before Westerners came to Guangzhou in large numbers, Xiguan was only the urban-rural fringe of the ancient Guangzhou city. At that time, Lizhi Bay and Pantang in the western suburbs were a water town. The villagers planted lotus roots and fragrant lingons in the pond. At the base of the west wall, some migrant workers who served the ancient cities lived. They entered the city to sell vegetables, clean the streets, and clear the manure, just like today's "migrant workers", doing all kinds of rough work in the city.

Xiguan stands out in the urban development of Guangzhou, which is entirely due to the economic invasion of the West and its geographical location. To the south of Xiguan is Baietan, the widest inland river in the Pearl River. Since the city in Guangzhou was established, it has been an important place for water transportation. The coastal defense in the Qing Dynasty was looser than in the Ming Dynasty, and the business travelers of Western powers mostly entered the south of China through Baietan. There was no foreign trade policy in the dynasty era. Qianlong, an old thief, had long answered the British, saying that China is vast and has everything, and there is no need to communicate with Britain at all. This blocked contacts with Westerners from the perspective of national policy.

However, whether it was the sea ban in the Ming Dynasty or the country locked up by the Qing Dynasty, the coastal people could not resist contact with the outside world. When the Ming Dynasty borrowed Macau to the Portuguese, the business of Guangdong and foreigners never stopped. Foreign merchants used civil channels to conduct various illegal transactions, and Xiguan was an important port. On the one hand, the senior officials of the Qing Dynasty did not want to do business with foreigners, but also favored Western things. Therefore, Qianli Miles, Time Bells, Women's Fittings, Mauser Pistols used by senior officials to protect themselves, etc., were sent to the capital continuously, and Western treasures became good products for southern officials to respect the high-ranking officials of the court.

Later, due to the current situation, the Qing government agreed to do business with foreigners, but was not allowed to do it in the city. So foreigners built a shopping mall and a wharf on the shore of Baietan, which Chinese merchants called "Yiguan". In order to facilitate dealing with foreigners, those merchants also built a shopping mall around the Yiguan in order to facilitate their dealings with foreigners, which led to the thirteen lines later. Qianlong, the old thief, was arrogant and rude to the British, and later proved that it was not without reason. How could Britain, 20,000 miles away, communicate with China?

After China's slightly openness, the facts proved that the British sold China not a good thing, and the most harmful goods were opium. Some merchants in Guangzhou risked their lives to do such business with foreigners under the power of profit. Officials had to close their eyes and open their eyes to this situation, and some even colluded with officials and businessmen. However, as the only trading port at that time, Guangzhou also attracted export goods and commercial talents from all over the country, thus promoting the development of Guangzhou's economy and creating the prosperity of Xiguan.

But unfortunately, less than a hundred years from Xiguan to its decline, after the Opium War, the court ceded Hong Kong and allowed five ports to trade. Xiguan was no longer the only port in China. However, because it was close to Hong Kong and Macao, Chinese merchants took the lead in moving from Xiguan to the international community, and some wealthy businessmen even went to Hong Kong and Macao colonies to cooperate with foreigners. Although Hong Kong is now highly prosperous and modern, the birthplace of some of its famous foreign businesses is in Xiguan.

In the Republic of China, Guangzhou's industry and commerce were still based on Xiguan. Although there was an anti-Qing uprising in Huanghuagang in Guangzhou, it was time to overthrow the Qing government. Guangzhou's "anyway" was quite peaceful. Several literati announced that it would be fine before the Consultation Bureau, because the governor of Guangdong and its military government were supported by the business community. However, after the Republic of China, the military government changed very frequently like a lantern. The people of Guangzhou served the new government that was constantly changing, just like following their mothers who were constantly remarried to serve different fathers. The merchants in Xiguan could no longer tolerate the knocking of these lantern governments, so they contacted the British in the Shamian Colony. Instead of constantly remarrying with their mothers, it would be better to find a reliable godfather in the concession.

Compared with interests, patriotism is just an optional thing. This is the essence of businessmen's pursuit of interests. With the support of the British, the merchants of Xiguan learned from the Hong Kong business community to establish armed organizations and form business groups or chambers of commerce. After Hong Kong became a colony, merchants from various countries established merchants to protect their interests in Hong Kong and with the support of the British Hong Kong government, they established merchants to fight against bandits and suppress local people who were dissatisfied with colonial rule. These armed merchants were later named "Judges of the Peace".

The chamber of commerce in Guangzhou had armed organizations, so they did not sell the military government's accounts everywhere. Sometimes the merchant group was stronger than the military government's army, and the government's food sound was unsustainable. When Sun Dapao was a very big president in Guangzhou, the chamber of commerce and the merchant group actually opposed Sun Dapao, inciting the masses to oppose the government and even launched a rebellion.

According to the information collected by Zhong Yang and Liu Jinyang through analysis, they learned that Sun Dapao was driven out of Guangdong last year. In addition to the Guangxi warlords interfering, there was also the shadow of the Guangdong Sea Chamber of Commerce. In fact, for the Guangdong Sea Chamber of Commerce and other large-scale business groups and chambers of commerce gathered in Xiguan, Sun Dapao's nature is not much different from that of other warlords. They all asked for money, food, and people, but had no new ideas. What's more, Sun Dapao never thought about managing a base area well, but was full of unrealistic Northern Expedition and unification of the whole country, completely ignoring the stability of his own strength and foundation.

Sun Dapao's ideas and practices were completely incompatible with the interests of major chambers of commerce in Guangdong, and the unhappy separation was an inevitable ending. However, Zhong Yang knew with vague historical information that Sun Dapao finally relied on the Huangpu team to suppress the rebellion launched by these merchant groups entrenched in Guangdong. After all, the latter's armed forces were really inequality.

After all, the armed forces of the Chamber of Commerce can only bully the common people and fight bandits. If they really meet a real regular army, they will be a scumbag. Later, the Whampoa Group and the Governor-Eighth Army of the Social Democratic Party, the fighting style of the terrifying and fearless battle was not comparable to those of the Chamber of Commerce armed personnel who thought they were old men after taking up weapons.

But no matter what, for Zhong Yang now, the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce is quite valuable, and it is not harmful to make friends with him. Although the chamber of commerce is not very good at dealing with Sun Dapao, it is not very opposed to revolutionaries. Many revolutionaries even came from these chambers of commerce. According to later generations, the contradiction between these business groups and chambers of commerce and Sun Dapao was obviously a contradiction among the people.

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