Chapter 32 The Trend
The model of agricultural supplies companies is to collect grain and local products in one store, and sell seeds and farm tools in one store. In addition to the store, it is divided into districts according to the size of the market's influence. Each district has a salesperson responsible for selling agricultural supplies and grain. These salesmen are basically farmers who fled from famine in Shandong. In addition to reliable standards, they are eloquent. When they fool their fellow villagers to buy seeds and sell grain, they also fool their daughters, which is considered to have completed the transformation from proletarians to proletarians.
Zhang Kun was not very clear about the inside story of the agricultural supplies company, but when he heard Du Yaquan say so carefully, he nodded and said, "Okay! If you really know so carefully about the countryside, you can get a loan for helping farmers, that is..." As he said, Zhang Kun was helpless, "It's just that agriculture is based on the weather. The risk is extremely high, if you are not careful, you will have to..."
Du Yaquan understood Zhang Kun's concerns and said with a smile, "You'll be relieved. Now the agricultural supplies company has hired a group of foreigners and is preparing to establish meteorological stations and hydrological stations in various places. Although natural disasters cannot be eliminated, pre-disaster warnings can still be achieved. In addition, the silk industry in Liaodong, such as the United States, France, production areas such as Italy, Japan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Huguang have sent people to collect local silk industry information. By then, I know the silk sales of all over the world and the production of silk cocoons. I know the high price and low price. I know it well when I sell it early and late." Speaking of this, Du Yaquan sighed, "I only know now that farming should be planted like this. Alas! Scientific farming, keeping up with the market. One of these two cannot be done well, so the agriculture cannot be done well."
Du Yaquan depicts a different agriculture like Zhang Kun. In his description, agriculture is no longer a business of digging food in the soil, but like a huge factory, with the people being workers and the agricultural supplies companies as managers, and what Kanto Bank has to do is provide funds to make this huge factory rumble and operate.
"Well! I understand." Zhang Kun said: "But there is another one in the end, in order to maintain the relationship between Kanto Bank and various money houses. It is best not to use the name of Kanto Bank for small-scale agricultural loans to be provided in the name of Kanto Bank. It is best to set up another agricultural money house and then use the name of this money house to lend to farmers."
"Haha. No wonder Jingcheng values you so much. You all want to go together." Du Yaquan laughed, "Jingcheng has already thought of all the names. This money house is called a rural credit cooperative money house. You are responsible for lending the money raised from Shanghai to them. Once you lose money, it will be the agricultural supplies company that will not affect your reputation of Guandong Bank. But there are also those under your command who will send a few people to teach them, otherwise when the money house is opened, their mud legs will be messed up."
"Okay, okay. Brother Qiufan, I will send someone tomorrow." Zhang Kun smiled. "But don't forget the official money and silver account. As long as we can get it, we can really print money by ourselves."
Zhang Kun and Du Yaquan had a happy chat. They were in the same city, but the Japanese consulate were very frustrated. Of course, this was not entirely because of the military vote case some time ago, but because of the reparations for the Russo-Japanese War. After the end of the naval war, both Japan and Russia wanted to negotiate to end the war. However, when Japan politely mentioned the reparations issue to Roosevelt in accordance with international practice, the news was known to the Western media. So all newspapers criticized the Japanese for being bargaining, and an American newspaper commented: "Does Japan want to use human blood as a tool for bargaining?" Some newspapers even abused the Japanese as "yellow monkeys" and the enemy of Christians.
"Tada-kun, do American newspapers really say that to us?" Tamura, Okabe Saburo's assistant, asked in tears.
After talking softly, Takeda Jun said: "Yes. Your Excellency Gaoping, referring to the reparations from the Franco-Prussian War, proposed that Russia needs to pay us 1.3 billion rubles of compensation, and hoped that Roosevelt could mention this point when mediating. But Roosevelt only said that he hoped that it was just peace! You know, peace! When we were asked to start the war, they said how evil Lu Country was and how greedy Lu Country was. Now we spent a huge price to defeat Lu Country. But they only needed peace. We offered compensation, and they said, "Using human blood as a tool for bargaining"! Our blood and our sacrifices have become worthless! We..." The Japanese named Takeda seemed to have drunk it almost, "The Empire was deceived by rice and animal and white-skinned pigs! The land captured could not be annexed, and we asked for compensation but did not support it. Empire! Hundreds of thousands of soldiers with broken jade!"
The emotions were so excited that with Jiro Takeda's words, the Japanese in the room started to cry. They tried their best to fight this battle, but after the fight, they found that they had been cheated. European and American countries, especially France, had seven billion Russian war debts. If Russia paid the giant Russian war compensation and waited for Russia to go bankrupt, then European and American bankers would lose all their money. Therefore, it was a consensus of the big man not to pay compensation to Japan or to pay less compensation to Japan; and Roosevelt really only had peace. Given the perfect performance of the Japanese navy, he cared about the security of the Philippines, the American colonial Philippines, which was not far from Japan, and he would stop anything that could help Japan's strength. In this political and economic context, and Asia has always been regarded as a barbaric place by Christians, so it is natural to scold and contempt for Japan.
Takayama Huitong cried miserably. He came down from the battlefield directly. He knew very well how tragic the war was. Although he had always been cautious about his words and actions by the big shots. But this time he couldn't help but say to Saburo Okabe: "Your Mai is too bullying people. Every time we do anything, they will destroy it. If the empire wants to occupy Nanman, he must beat Mizua out."
"Yes! Okabe Jun, the American power is becoming more and more stable in Liaodong. If they are not excluded, the empire's rights cannot be guaranteed." Murakami, the only one who was not drunk, said that he was the director of the founding of Zhangshu from the Masao Bank to Andong. After learning about the situation in Liaodong, he thought that his work prospects were extremely bad. With the support of Mizu and local gentry, he could not compete with Kanto Bank.
"No! Murakami-kun. You can't do this!" Okabe Saburo was drunk, lowered his head, and said in a daze, "If the empire wants to end the war, it needs the help of the Americans to mediate. The empire can't continue to fight. The world is now a world of white people. No matter what we do, we will be pointed at by white people."
As soon as Okabe Saburo finished speaking, the Japanese named Takemura rushed over with a "baga" and scolded while fighting: "Is this the diplomat of the Great Japan? Well. This is the diplomat of the Great Japan!"
The two men's fight made the room in chaos. As Okabe's assistant, Tamura, who wanted to persuade the fight, was wrapped in by Takeda. However, Takeda was also a wax-headed gun, but he suddenly fell asleep as he fought. Okabe woke up a lot of wine after making trouble. He shook his mount and shook his head and said, "If there were only such reckless men in the empire, then we would always be trampled by rice animals."
"Okabe-kun, what should we do?" Murakami asked.
"Participation! Only patience will allow rice and animal to help us. Japan is very miserable now, but what is even more miserable is that Poland and India. As long as the empire can firmly step on the Qing Dynasty and obtain the required raw materials and markets, I believe that the empire will rise one day!"
"But now rice and animal have completely occupied Liaodong. We now have only southern Liao, western Liaoning, Shengjing and other places. In this peace talks, as the mediator, won't rice and animal ced some of its interests? According to the rumors above, Harriman, the railway king of rice and animal, wants to buy the South Manchuria Railway..."
"What!" Okabe Saburo was shocked. If Russia did not pay compensation to Japan, the South Manchuria Railway would be the only spoil of war in the empire. If all this spoil was bought for the United States, those hundreds of thousands of soldiers would be in vain.
"Baga!" Okabe Saburo's black face turned red and his fists were raised high. He changed his style of gentle, elegant and civilized people in the past and began to become savage! "Damn rice beast! Damn rice beast! I must make them pay the price."
Murakami didn't care about Okabe's madness, but sang a wakame by himself:
Sifang (㈈も)の Sea (うみ)
Compatriots (はらから)と
Thoughts (おも)ふ(も)ふ(よ)に
...
"Murakami, maybe we can attack the rice and beast..." Nakabe Saburo calmed down and thought, and finally got a solution.
"What method?" When he heard Okabe say that there was a method, he stopped singing Kazuo, and Murakami's eyes stared at Okabe.
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The June sun was scorching on the grass in Zhangyuan. The grass and trees in the garden were wilted, and there were no pedestrians on the streets outside the garden, but the voices in the garden were crowded. An Kaidi Hall was crowded with people inside and outside. A voice said loudly on the radio: "The United States prohibits Chinese workers and abuses Chinese everywhere, which is nothing like black people, and is more popular than black people... Beauty is fake as a civilized name and is savage. It is really unreasonable! Our Chinese people must unite, not buy American goods, do not order American goods, and do not ship beautiful goods. If these three things are done, they can ask the United States to re-create the new contract, so that my overseas compatriots can not be affected overseas..."
The speaker was moved, but someone rushed up from the bottom of the station and snatched the microphone and said, "Brothers, we are just shouting here. Those rich people still buy American goods, order American goods, and transport American goods. Not to mention the distance, just say that the Tonghua Railway Company on Sima Road built a railway of 20 million taels, and there were American goods worth ten million taels. The engineer he hired from the United States was ten dollars a day, while our Chinese workers only cost two cents a day. Ten dollars to two cents a day. This is dozens of times. To resist American goods, we must fight the Tonghua Railway Company. Not only will we defeat the railway company in Shanghai, but we also have to go to the Northeast and win the Tonghua Railway Company!"
"Ten million taels of American goods!" "Ten dollars a day and two cents a day!" Such clear numbers made An Kaidi's exceptional patriots curse in an instant, and someone immediately shouted in the crowd: "Down with Tonghua Railway Company! Defeat Yu Huizu, the traitor,! Defeat the Tonghua Railway Company..."
The shouting was small at first, but then it became louder and louder. Finally, the whole Zhang Yuan was in full bloom. Seeing that the slogan was almost shouting, the man who first snatched up on the stage shouted again, "Brothers, let's go and ask Yu Huizu now, why he wants to buy American goods, and why he wants to give so much money to Americans..."
The excited crowd is always prone to impulsiveness. Under the leadership of some people, more than a thousand people from An Kaidi inside and outside left Zhangyuan and headed straight for the four roads. The team either shouted slogans or sang some miserable poems along the way:
Chemical industry is hard, Chinese industry is hard, and there is no way to tell
When I wanted to open up the new Hongmeng, I would like to recruit me to do hard work
At this time, the mountain forests are opened, and it is like walking away.
...
More than a thousand people left An Kai and swept in the people in Zhangyuan. There were nearly 3,000 people out of the street. These three thousand people were aggressive. The policemen along the street could not suppress the rush, and immediately ran to the police room like a rabbit. The office of Tonghua Railway Company was on Sima Road Church Street. This church street was originally a street for money shops. The company office was originally set up here to better raise funds in Shanghai. It didn't take much time to walk from the crowds who came out of Zhangyuan to Church Street. Although there were police checkpoints on the way, the people who rushed to the front were very strong, relying on the number of people.
The advantage of this was that it easily rushed the thin line of defense of the police officer aside, and rushed through two police cards in succession. The team finally arrived at Church Street. At this time, the Tonghua Railway received a message saying that a large slut was coming to make trouble. The manager of the office was about to call Yu Huizu, but found that it was useless to pick up the microphone. He was anxious and sent someone to send a message. But after not long after he went, he heard the chaotic voices outside, and a voice shouted: "Down with Yu Huizu, the traitor in the country!" Then countless voices shouted out, "Down with Yu Huizu, the traitor in the country!"
"Quick! Close the door." The manager had never seen such a situation before. His face was scary, but he knew that it was too late to avoid it. It was just right to close the door first and wait for the patrol officer to disperse it. Just as the door was about to close, a stone and brick suddenly flew out of the crowd outside, knocking the person who closed the door to death. The door was only half closed, and when the pain was about to close, a bunch of people outside rushed in.
No one knew how many people rushed into Tonghua Railway Company at that time. In the police station's question to the arrested personnel, no one admitted that they had entered the house and even admitted that they had nothing to do with the fire later. What they said most was that they were crowded with people at that time. They heard the chaos in front of them. After a while, they heard the shouts of "I beat people to death...". When they were about to run away, smoke came out from the front. At this time, everyone was panicked and they also followed the crowd back...
On that day, the Shanghai office of Tonghua Railway Company was destroyed by the crowds of people in the procession and set fire to fire. Two clerks inside were seriously injured and five were slightly injured. After the riots, newspapers everywhere did not stand on the side of the railway company, but praised the marching people for their patriotism and believed that such traitors should be punished so severely. Faced with such situations, the general manager of the railway company, Yu Huizu, had to publish a statement in the newspaper that only a small part of the goods purchased by the railway company were American goods, and the others, including steel, were all domestic materials, and the engineers hired were Chinese workers. They were Chinese workers who were abused in the United States.
Yu Huizu's statement is timely, but no matter how time it is, it is useless in the country's trend of boycotting American goods in a timely manner. Newspapers in various places have regarded Yu Huizu and Tonghua Railway Company as a model of selling the country who disregards the life and death of Chinese workers and only seeks personal gain. The Hankou Han Daily gave very detailed information, listing the American goods ordered by the highway company in the newspapers, and also revealing that the private agreement between Tonghua Railway Company and the Americans - that is, after the railway is completed, it will be handed over to the American company for management. As soon as this private agreement was released, the whole country was in an uproar. This private agreement was actually only in the internal process of the major shareholder. After all, Tonghua Railway, located in a war-torn place, must reassure shareholders. The nobility to reassure shareholders is to use the barbarians to govern the barbarians. The extremely effective financing guarantee in the past has now become a handle for boycotting the US goods trend.
Public opinion is not good for Tonghua Railway Company, but it is not one-sided. Although the newspapers of the Revival Society are not good at standing on the side of Tonghua Railway Company, they can only publish other news that boycott the trend of US goods, but the news newspaper of the Shanghai beauty Fu Kaisen and the Times of the Reformer Wang Kangnian and many tabloids, the Ta Kung Pao of Tianjin and the Beijing Ta Kung Pao of Beijing, Shuntian Times, and the Hanbao of Hankou is the dominant one in Wuhan. There are negative news about Tonghua Railway Company and Yu Huizu during the period. In addition, there are newspapers in Guangdong and Fujian who are criticized by Tonghua Railway Company because there are many local overseas Chinese.
"How could this Ta Kung Pao stand on our side and speak?" Since the smashing incident that day, Cai Yuanpei has been thinking about how to turn the situation around, but Wang Xiaolin has used all his strength and has no way to confront the entire public opinion. All he can do is try to divert the public's attention, but June was safe and the whole of China was boycotting American goods and the abuse of Chinese workers.
"Ta Kung Pao is a newspaper in Tianjin." Wang Xiaolin said, "Zhili Governor Yuan, does not support boycotting American goods. Moreover, according to the Beiyang jurisdiction, the northeast has always been his territory. Earlier, Li Hongzhang led Russia to reject Japan, and now Japan and Russia each account for half of the northeast. Inducing the United States to resist Japan and Russia should be the best strategy for Beiyang."
"Hey!" Cai Yuanpei couldn't help but sigh. He knew earlier that Japan would definitely not withdraw his troops, but the facts really came to see that he was still very depressed. The great place in Northeast China is now divided up with Japan and Russia. He said in annoyance: "Are you sure the Hanbao in Hankou is a Japanese newspaper, and there is also the Shuntian Times?"
Chapter completed!