Chapter 455: Characteristics of Nanyang (first update, please subscribe)
After returning to the official residence, it was completely dark, but Li Yian did not rest immediately. He still needed to seize the time to deal with other matters.
First of all, there are government affairs that must be handled every day. These matters cannot be delayed. Although each department can handle most affairs by itself, and the Secretariat has also shared many tasks, there are many matters that Li Yian still needs to handle it personally.
After all, most of the time, the things that can be sent to this desk need to be handled by him personally.
After the major national affairs were dealt with, Li Yian compiled a list of things that came to mind during the inspection of BMW cars today, such as the three-point seat belts just now, which also need to be reported to Porsche and Alfa Romeo. After all, they are all In one's own industry, one must not favor one over the other. Now Alfa Romeo is also producing cars. Before the war, this company was famous for producing sports cars. It has just completed the design of the 1900 sports car and will soon put it into production. It will use seat belts. It's simply not too suitable for a sports car. And luxury cars are essentially for export to make money. Those rich people couldn't care less about their lives. With just this advantage, they can probably sell more cars.
Li Yian thought about car air conditioners again. Although air conditioners are already available in cars now, their performance is single, either only air-conditioning or heating. Although only air-conditioning function is needed in Nanyang, BMW wants to establish its own brand of luxury cars. It was necessary to install an integrated heating and cooling air conditioner, so BMW was given the task of developing an on-board integrated cooling and heating air conditioner.
Finally, after working for half the night, Li Yian took a rest. Even this kind of rest was done by himself. After all, it was more honest to sleep alone.
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The next morning, the waves kept lapping at the coast, making a roaring sound. The sea breeze blew gently across the sea, rustling the palm trees along the coastal road. ring.
On the track beside the avenue, several people were running.
Although he slept very late last night, Li Yian still started his morning exercise at 5:30 in the morning. As in the past, I was used to jogging during exercise, so I ran along the seaside.
In addition to the few close agents, there were two cars following behind. There was also a car driving in front, and several agents were jogging beside the car.
Nanyang people have long been accustomed to such a scene. After all, this coastal avenue facing Taiping Bay was not built for Li Yi'an alone. In fact, there are people exercising on this road every day, but few people like Li Yian, who run ten kilometers at a time. For him, ten kilometers is just a simple warm-up.
People are different. Not everyone has abnormal physical fitness. This can be regarded as a sequelae caused by time travel. Of course, no one would reject such sequelae.
“You can go kayaking on the sea another day.”
Occasionally, Li Yi'an would turn his attention to Taiping Bay. Although it was early in the morning, people were already practicing rowing on Taiping Bay. With the development of the economy, various sports have also become popular in Nanyang, except for those with the best public base. In addition to football, basketball and tennis are also very popular, and even baseball has some audiences. Like kayaking, although the audience is not wide, there are still some high schools and colleges that have established kayaking teams.
While Li Yian was thinking about this, a black Ford car speeding along the seaside avenue, when it saw the people exercising on the roadside, braked suddenly and stopped on the road. .
Then, a middle-aged man opened the door and jumped out of the car with a smile on his face. Wearing cloth and rubber shoes, he looked at the people running in the distance and faced the running people without hesitation. Li Yian walked away.
The agents who were on alert saw someone running towards them and immediately formed a defensive circle from the sides. After seeing the person coming, Li Yian smiled at him and nodded, signaling the agent to let him in.
The person who came was none other than Li Dijun, Tangshan’s new ambassador to Nanyang. Jinling, no, it should be Taipei who wanted him as their ambassador. Naturally, they had their own intentions.
Li Dijun is an old acquaintance of Li Yi'an. He did help him a lot as the ambassador to Cuba when he was in Cuba. Moreover, he is also the uncle of Li Guoren, the director-general of Nanyang Foreign Affairs.
"Your Excellency, I didn't expect to meet you here..."
Li Yian said before Li Dijun could speak.
"When running, don't talk about business."
This sentence actually means to dispel the other party's idea of continuing the conversation.
Yes, then run!
Actually, it was a chance encounter, but intentional. Li Dijun kept running with him, but soon, he was out of breath and gasping for air.
Seeing this, Li Yian had no intention of stopping and just said to him.
"You take a break first and wait for a meal later,"
After signaling the other party to wait, Li Yian quickened his pace. Although he was not running wildly, his speed was already very fast. .
Li Dijun, who was standing there waiting, couldn't help but secretly smacked his lips when he saw the speed of the group of people running, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it's great to be young.
But even if he goes back another twenty years, he can't run that fast.
After all, people are different.
After running the last few kilometers, Li Yian was still not out of breath, and seemed to have just warmed up. Returning to Li Dijun, Li Yian wiped the sweat on his forehead with a towel and said.
“Let’s go, there is a nice tea restaurant nearby, let’s go there together,”
"Okay!" Li Dijun said with a smile on his face.
Li Yian wiped his sweat with a towel as he walked.
"I know why you came here, arms?"
Li Yian shook his head.
"Arms are not abundant in Nanyang. Besides, we have sold a large amount of arms in the past two years."
"You are not wealthy, so why don't you also abandon a shipload of arms in Shanghai?"
There is never any so-called secret in this world. As long as some things are done, there will always be some rumors.
Li Dijun's directness made Li Yi'an hesitate and said dissatisfied:
"That was to save people. There were tens of thousands of people there at that time, unable to move forward or retreat. You are throwing people away." I didn’t care about them there, I went there to save people.”
In order to save people, I dropped more than 100 million rounds of bullets. How easy is it for me! In the future, the peninsula will only use 100 to 200 million rounds of ammunition.
Although those bullets are Japanese-style ammunition shipped from Japan, they are still money!
Seeing this, Li Dijun smiled slightly and continued:
"That's why they hope to rent some ships from you so that all the troops that should be withdrawn can be withdrawn. This is also for the purpose of Save people.”
Rent a boat?
Li Yian understood what the other party meant. Originally, they hoped to buy arms from Nanyang, although he refused. But in the end, the Japanese troops stationed in Japan solved some problems - a large number of Japanese-style weapons and ammunition were collected in the warehouse of the Japanese troops stationed in Japan. After all, almost half of Japan's ammunition was stored in Nanyang and was sent to Tangshan.
However, they are just the captain of the transportation team, and now they want to rent a ship. It's not easy for those guys to recognize this reality clearly.
Rent a boat...
Thinking in his heart, Li Yian did not agree immediately. He just wiped his sweat casually and continued to move along the seaside, asking casually:< br>
“This kind of thing is just a commercial matter. You can go and talk to the shipping company directly!”
Without waiting for the other party to speak, Li Yian pointed to a tea restaurant in front of him and said.
“We’re here, the morning tea here is good, let’s go and try it together.”
“The place you introduced is definitely right,”
Li Dijun smiled , who was slightly half a body behind, walked into the tea restaurant together. The restaurant was not big, but it was very lively. Following the president into the restaurant, Li Dijun found that everything seemed different from what he had imagined - no one Cheering or jumping for joy, at most just taking a look, and then started eating on his own in surprise.
Nanyang is really different!
In fact, this is precisely the most special place in Nanyang. In the past few years, what Li Yian has been committed to breaking is the "official-based" mentality. This kind of thinking has penetrated into the blood of this nation since Shang Yang's reform. Although this tradition cannot be said arbitrarily It is the root of all bad habits, but in Nanyang, Li Yian wanted to break this tradition and break the tradition of only obeying the superior.
Sometimes habits are formed little by little, and this habit is that the president is not a big deal.
But such a scene is simply unbelievable to many people.
While feeling deep in his heart, he saw Li Yian found a dining table, sat down, and ordered and ate like ordinary people.
While ordering, Li Dijun even unexpectedly saw a few acquaintances. When he saw a middle-aged man reading a newspaper in the corner, Li Dijun was surprised.
"Hey, isn't that Judge Mei? Isn't he in Tokyo? When did he come to Chang'an?"
Looking over there, Li Yian said.
"He was invited to give lectures..."
When Judge Mei looked at Li Yi'an who was having a meal, he was stunned for a moment, and then nodded in greeting. Everything was as ordinary as water, and the tea restaurant was still as lively as ever. , there are only shops and diners here.
Feeling this atmosphere that was not experienced in Tangshan, Li Dijun had a thought in his mind... This is Nanyang!
(End of this chapter)