The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

The calm sea stretches as far as the eye can see, and the sky and the earth turn into a blue world.

Song Ziwen lay on the bed and read for a long time, then looked at the sea through the porthole in a daze, and suddenly asked: "Kang Qi, what time is it?"

Attendant secretary Chen Kangqi said: "September 27th."

"Should we be arriving in the United States soon?" Song Ziwen asked.

Chen Kangqi replied: "According to the estimated voyage, we will arrive in San Francisco tomorrow morning."

"What are Zhou Hexuan and Fan Heyan doing?" Song Ziwen threw the book aside.

Chen Kangqi said: "Mr. Zhou is on the deck, accompanying his two wives to bask in the sun and watch the sea view. Mr. Fan played mahjong for half the night last night, and he probably hasn't gotten up yet."

"Haha, two ladies, he does have some leisure time." Song Ziwen sneered.

To be honest, Zhou Hexuan's snatching of Zhang Leyi was at best a quick victory, not even a fight for love. After all, Song Ziwen was just shaving off his head and picking a hot one. But he just felt uncomfortable in his heart, as if he had been cuckolded, no matter how unhappy Zhou Hexuan was.

Our Mr. Song’s love life is very bumpy!

At the beginning, Song Ziwen liked Sheng Aiyi very much, and they were so in love with each other that they were talking about marriage, but they were beaten by the Sheng family because they looked down on her.

Immediately afterwards, Song Ziwen fell in love with Zhang Jingjiang's daughter Zhang Yunying. Once while swimming at the beach, Song Ziwen suddenly knelt down on one knee to give a ring as a sign of love. Zhang Yunying was so embarrassed that she threw the ring into the sea and returned to Shanghai to marry someone else.

A few years ago, Song Ziwen fell in love with Zhang Leyi again, but was inexplicably intercepted by Zhou Hexuan. This incident has spread and become a joke.

After all, Song Ziwen felt that Tang Ying was a pretty good girl, and the two quickly entered the stage of passionate love. As a result, Tang Ying's brother was suddenly assassinated - the assassin identified the wrong person, and the original target was Song Ziwen. Tang's father originally did not want his daughter to have anything to do with politicians. Now that his son is dead, he is even more opposed to the relationship between Song Ziwen and Tang Ying, and the loving couple broke up.

It wasn't until last year that Song Ziwen finally got married, and he married the daughter of a small businessman. The relationship between husband and wife is barely okay, and his wife is well-educated and reasonable, but Song Ziwen feels unhappy!

Regardless of his status as a "love rival", Song Ziwen actually admires Zhou Hexuan very much because the two have the same views on many things.

For example, during the anti-Japanese war, Song Ziwen was the most famous "anti-Japanese" among the senior officials of the Nanjing government. He had fierce arguments with Chang Kaishen more than once, and he firmly disagreed with the policy of "Anti-foreign aggression must first pacify the domestic situation."

Song Ziwen considered the issue purely from a financial perspective. He felt that before China and Japan started war, we should seize the time to develop the economy and people's livelihood, and save enough money to have enough money to fight Japan. In his opinion, Chang Kaishen's endless "suppression of bandits" plan has almost brought the country's finances to collapse and lost a great opportunity to develop the economy. It is simply stupid.

Only with money can we have confidence, only with money can we make guns and buy artillery, only with money can we recruit soldiers and horses, and only with money can we pay salaries to civil servants. As long as you have money and an army, you can gather people's hearts. At that time, whether it is fighting Japan or the Red Army, we can sit back and relax.

In Song Ziwen's eyes, it's easy to do things if you have money, but you can't do anything if you don't have money. This was the fundamental reason why he resigned four times. His political philosophy was seriously inconsistent with Chang Kaishen's, and he felt that he could no longer work.

As for the Minister of Finance, whoever wants to do it can do it. Anyway, I don’t want to play anymore. So Kong Xiangxi got a big deal, got the national finance into his hands, and made a lot of money in vain.

Song Ziwen walked slowly to the deck. The sun was a little hot. He squinted his eyes and stretched, and suddenly felt much better.

Not far away, Vivien Leigh and Meng Xiaodong were holding the railing side by side, smiling sweetly in front of the camera.

Zhou Hexuan held up the camera and said, "Yes, that's it. Here's another picture from the side."

Vivien Leigh and Meng Xiaodong immediately stood back to back, looking at the camera with their faces tilted. The two women were one tall and one short, one in the west and the other in the middle. The radiant light attracted the attention of the men around them.

"Smile, eggplant!" Zhou Hexuan pressed the shutter with his finger.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

After taking several photos in a row, Song Ziwen teased: "Mr. Zhou is so excited."

"Hey, Brother Song." Zhou Hexuan took out a cigarette and handed it over.

Song Ziwen shook his head: "I don't smoke."

"It's better if you don't smoke, you can live a few more years." Zhou Hexuan ordered it himself.

It is true that Song Ziwen does not smoke, but he likes to hold a pipe or cigarette when taking photos. It is said that he is trying to show off.

Some people say that the four major families in the Republic of China are full of personal wealth and have committed countless corruptions, but this statement is unfair to Song Ziwen. There was definitely corruption in the Song family, but Song Ziwen himself, until decades later, still no one could come up with definite evidence of his corruption.

In fact, with Song Ziwen's economic ability and the huge resources at his disposal, he can make a lot of money from any business. Why should he commit corruption and ruin his reputation?

Song Ziwen is not Kong Xiangxi...

Song Ziwen looked at Zhou Hexuan puffing away his breath and became a little angry: "Are you really so confident?"

"It's up to people to plan things, and it's up to God to make things happen." Zhou Hexuan smiled in disbelief.

Song Ziwen shook his head helplessly. He felt that it was too childish. His unreliable brother-in-law actually handed over such a big matter to a historian who did not understand economics at all. He asked, "Do you know Henry Morgenthau?"

"Who is Henry Morgenthau?" Zhou Hexuan is not a god, so how can he know everyone.

Song Ziwen held his forehead with a headache: "Henry Morgenthau was Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury, and like you, he was a layman who didn't understand economics at all."

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Roosevelt can do it. He dares to appoint a layman as his finance minister during the world economic crisis."

Just after finishing speaking, Zhou Hexuan immediately remembered who Henry Morgenthau was. That guy was the convener of the "Bretton Woods Conference". It was in his hands that the US dollar's world hegemony was established.

Song Ziwen actually said that the person who would establish the hegemony of the US dollar in the future did not understand economics at all?

In fact, Henry Morgenthau became the U.S. Treasury Secretary mainly because he had a good relationship with Roosevelt and had strongly supported Roosevelt's campaign for governor. Not only that, as a second-generation rich man, Morgenthau also made friends with many powerful people and had a wide range of connections.

But professionally, Morgenthau was indeed terrible. He claimed to be an apple farmer, had little education, and had no interest in economics.

In the United States, many people share the same view as Song Ziwen. They feel that Morgenthau's position as Finance Minister will not be long, and what level can a guy who gets to power through flattery and political investment achieve?

However, it was such a rich second generation who did not understand economics, but he made the U.S. dollar become the world currency, and he was the first to propose the economic plan to deal with post-war Europe...

Reality is often less reasonable than fiction.

Song Ziwen reminded: "Roosevelt had great trust in Morgenthau. The breakthrough in this trip to the United States is likely to be Morgenthau."

"Understood." Zhou Hexuan smiled, showing a pair of strong white teeth.