Another news came from Japan, but it was sent back by Xia Sipain.

After returning to Japan, the delegation of revolutionaries who visited Qingdao last time wrote down what they had seen and heard in Qingdao into a booklet, which was widely disseminated among the Chinese revolutionaries in Japan, and led by Huang Xing, together with others, once again set up the National Salvation Volunteer Brigade to recruit Chinese revolutionaries from Japan to Qingdao to participate in the work of saving the country and strengthening themselves.

Originally, the East China Government had a certain degree of knowledge in Japan, but most people did not know much about it, and the delegation of revolutionaries who visited Qingdao were all people with a certain reputation among the Chinese revolutionaries in Japan, so they came forward to recruit 3 or 400 people in less than two months, and many people did not join because they could not get away for the time being, but they also asked people to sign up, or sent telegrams and letters saying that they wanted to sign up.

Seeing that they had recruited 3 or 400 people, and there were still people signing up, Huang Xing and Xia Si decided to organize a group of people first, led by Chen Tianhua, Xu Xilin, and Qiu Jin, to go to Qingdao, while Huang Xing and Xia Si Wei still stayed in Japan and continued to recruit personnel. So Xia Si immediately sent a telegram to Qingdao to inform the East China government of the situation on the Japanese side.

After receiving Xia Sipain's telegram, the East China Government also agreed with their suggestion, because now was the time to employ people, and the Japanese Chinese revolutionaries could be regarded as people with cultural knowledge, and they were the most lacking talents in the East China Government at present, so the East China Government immediately sent a telegram back to Huang Xing, Xia Sipain, and others to determine the number and list of the first batch of people to come to Qingdao. Qingdao will remit the ticket money and arrange for pick-up.

Three days later, Xia Si sent another telegram, confirming the list of 278 people who came to Qingdao this time. However, Qingdao did not have a direct route with Japan, so it had to transfer ships from Shanghai, so the East China government issued an order to the Shanghai New Area to receive the Japanese Chinese revolutionaries and arrange for merchant ships to send them to Qingdao. At the same time, they are officially called Japanese returnees.

When Yang Yuxin, the person in charge of the Shanghai New Area, received an order from the Qingdao Executive Yuan, the Japanese returnees had already booked a ticket for their return trip and would arrive in Shanghai three days later to transfer ships, but the problem was that the shipping company in the Shanghai New Area could not send a ship now.

It turned out that the East China government had prepared a large amount of supplies for the war, most of which were purchased through the Shanghai New Area and then transferred to Qingdao. Because Shanghai is not only the commercial center of China in this era, but also has the convenience of the Yangtze River waterway and shipping, so the meeting point of economic exchanges between the north and the south, and most of the materials needed by the East China government such as grain, medicinal materials, timber, cloth, iron ore and other materials need to be purchased from the south, Shanghai New Area naturally becomes a transit station, and Shanghai New Area is not only responsible for ordering, bargaining and other work, but also arranging ships to transport materials.

Although the business of the shipping company should not be Yang Yuxin responsible, but the transfer of materials are in charge of Yang Yuxin, so Yang Yuxin is also familiar with the operation of the shipping company, because the East China government has purchased too many materials, now there are a large number of personnel between Qingdao and Shanghai every day, and as the time for the East China government to participate in the war is approaching, the materials can not help but be more and more, and they must be transported to Qingdao as soon as possible, so that they can be deployed, so now the shipping company has been somewhat overwhelmed, and the flight schedule of the ship has been scheduled to 6, 7 days later. And in the next 2 to 3 months, a large number of materials will arrive in Shanghai New Area.

After receiving the order of the Qingdao Executive Yuan, Yang Yuxin also immediately negotiated with the shipping company, asking them to strive to be able to squeeze out a passenger ship, but the shipping company was also very difficult, because the shipping lines have been determined, once there is a change, it will involve the whole body, and the flight plan involved in the back needs to be adjusted, so it is difficult for the shipping company to work, so after the shipping company has been inspected, it is believed that at least within five days it will not be able to squeeze out the flight, and after five days, it depends on the situation of other flights. Compared with railway transportation, the biggest disadvantage of shipping is that the instability is too great, one is that the sea transportation is greatly affected by the objective environment, and the other is that the maintenance and repair of ships are too variable.

And now the main business of the shipping company is still mainly freight, passenger transport only accounts for a small part, there are not many special passenger ships, but most of them are passenger and cargo ships, so that the ships are mainly to transport goods, the passenger capacity is not large, generally about 300 people, so to send this batch of Japanese returnees to Qingdao, it takes a whole ship. But it was also a hassle to leave this group of people in Shanghai waiting for the ship,

Although the last visit was also received by the Shanghai New Area, and it stayed in the Shanghai New Area for 2 days, but the last visit group was only 20 people, but this time it was nearly 300 people, and it was also a troublesome thing to take over, because the standard for receiving these Japanese returnees should not be too bad, and we can't let these nearly 300 people go to crowd the Chase Shop. Moreover, the acceptance fee is paid by the Shanghai New District Government, which is not a small number.

Yang Yuxin, as the person in charge of the Shanghai New Area, is not only responsible for the purchase of materials for the East China government, but also for the economic interests of the Shanghai New Area government, but in the past few years, he has made great achievements in developing the economy of the Shanghai New Area. But strictly speaking, Shanghai New Area is not a city, but only a district, so it is very rare to achieve such an achievement.

Of course, Shanghai New Area itself is backed by the big platform of Shanghai, and at the same time, it is a transit station for the foreign economy of the East China government, which are all favorable conditions for the development of the economy of Shanghai New Area, but Yang Yuxin's implementation and decision-making power are also indispensable. At present, there are more than 100 travelers who have settled in Shanghai New Area or lived in Shanghai for a long time, and the density is second only to that of Qingdao; among them, there are 32 administrative and public officials, including 7 people from the Shanghai office, and the rest are all travelers who have invested and started businesses in Shanghai New Area, plus a group of people who do not live in Shanghai for a long time, but also invest in Shanghai New Area, and the number of people who have actually invested in Shanghai New Area is more than 100, and the number of companies and enterprises registered by the travelers has reached 76, and these two density figures are the first in the East China government.

Although this is less than 300 Japanese returnees' reception fees, Shanghai New Area is not unaffordable, but Yang Yuxin is not willing to spend this unjust money. On the other hand, there is a new group of guests to be received in the Shanghai New Area, and if Japanese returnees stay in Shanghai, they may squeeze out some of the tourist resources.

After a day of discussion at the shipping company, there was no result, and Yang Yuxin had to give up his plan to send the Japanese returnees away immediately, and instead considered how to settle them.

Back at his residence, at dinner, Yang Yuxin also talked about this matter with his wives and concubines, and inevitably made a few complaints, such as "a sentence above, a tired lie down below", "the Executive Yuan moves its mouth, and he wants to break his leg" and so on.

The others didn't say anything, and Bai Tassel suddenly said, "Chief, our own ship is too busy, we can rent another ship." ”

Jiang Yi also said: "Yes, your usual brain is very flexible, why is this a bull's horn, Shanghai is not the only shipping company that runs Qingdao, there is also the steamship China Merchants Bureau, and the Swire Steamship Company, rent their ships, and save an emergency." ”

Yang Yuxin said: "Do you think I haven't thought about chartering a ship? But the price of chartering a ship is too high, and it's not easy to say in Qingdao, I have been working in Shanghai for 3 or 4 years, and the shipping company is also one of my political achievements, but when it comes to using it, the ship is not enough, doesn't this make my face have no light?"

Bai Tassel said: "Chief, I think the price is easy to say, because two days ago I saw in the newspaper that the business of the Tianjin route of the Swire Steamship Company is very bad, and now there are 5 or 6 ships vacant, if we go to rent a ship at this time, we should be able to rent a good price." ”

When Yang Yuxin heard this, his heart moved, if it was really like what Bai Tassel said, if he went to Swire Steamship Company to charter a ship now, he could indeed lower the rent. And it can also alleviate the dilemma of insufficient ships of shipping companies.

At this time, Jiang Yi said: "I also think there is nothing to be ashamed of chartering a ship, now is an extraordinary period, it is not a normal state, so the lack of shipping strength is also reasonable, if the ships are prepared according to the current shipping volume, then after the end of the war, a large number of ships will be vacant." And now Shanghai's primary work is to ensure the purchase of the materials we need, and send them to Qingdao in a timely manner, as long as this goal is achieved, the others are secondary, and how to achieve the means of this goal is not important, now we seem to have a backlog of materials, and do not want to find a way to solve it as soon as possible, this is the biggest mistake, if you still have scruples, you may wish to charter a ship as a suggestion, sent to the Executive Yuan, I estimate that the Executive Yuan will definitely agree, so that the Executive Yuan will endorse you, and your responsibility will be much less。 ”

Yang Yuxin nodded and said, "This is a good way, I will draft it immediately, and send it to the Qingdao Executive Yuan overnight." After a pause, he turned to Bai Tassel and said, "Tassel, you go to Swire & Co., Ltd. tomorrow, and talk to them about your intention to rent a ship first." ”

Although Bai Tassel is Jiang Yi's assistant now, due to his strong ability to do things, Yang Yuxin has a lot of things to do with Bai Tassel, after all, he is his own person, and he is more reliable. And Jiang Yi didn't care too much, anyway, the meat was rotten in the pot.

Now that the operation of the clothing company is on the right track, the development momentum is also very good, and it has begun to make profits, so Jiang Yi's work is also a lot easier, and he doesn't need Bai Tassel to help him, but Yang Yuxin has more things, so he simply asked Bai Tassel to help Yang Yuxin. As for the things in his hands, he selected some and handed them over to Su Wenxiu, and Su Wenqi did it, firstly, she didn't want the sisters to be idle and had nothing to do, and secondly, she wanted to train them too, so that there would be more people in the family who could do things, and there would be enough manpower to expand the family's industry in the future.