Li Songchen hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Everyone, everyone, please be calm for a while, please listen to my words." ”

When everyone heard this, they all stopped listening and looking at Li Songchen.

Li Songchen then said: "Everyone, we are here for a press conference, not a martial arts meeting, there is no need to shout and kill here, besides, the crime was committed by the Japanese army, they are just reporters, and there is no need to withdraw all of them on their heads, if you are not angry, you can choose to support our People's Army, this is the best way." ”

Someone immediately asked: "How can we support it, it is true that we cannot fight a war." ”

Therefore, I am willing to give 5,000 taels to support the People's Army, to recover Liaodong, to teach a lesson to foreign devils, and to show a little bit of my heart. ”

Immediately, there was another humane: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, I'll pay 10,000 white taels, as long as I can subdue the foreign devils, I'm willing to go bankrupt." ”

With two people taking the lead, there were people who followed immediately, so the quotations of 5,000 and 10,000 yuan were endless, and most of the people invited by Li Songchen were people with heads and faces in Shanghai, and their net worth was tens of thousands of taels of silver.

However, the foreigners present had different expressions, some were surprised, some were surprised, some were happy, and some were alert.

Li Songchen didn't expect that the press conference would turn into a fundraiser, but he was also a person who reacted quickly, and this effect was of course beneficial to the East China government, so he said: "Okay, since you love us so much, then we will accept all this money, and we will definitely live up to everyone's high expectations and recover the country." But we will not collect this money in vain, and in a few days we will issue bonds in Shanghai, and this money will be considered an advance payment for the bonds you buy.

Shanghai's atmosphere is civilized, and it is no stranger to modern financial concepts such as stocks and bonds, and knows that bonds will not only return the principal in full, but also pay a certain amount of interest every year, of course, provided that the East China government wants to win this war. However, everyone wanted to think that the money they donated would also be donated, but they didn't expect that not only the money was their own, but also had a certain amount of income, so they also had a little more admiration for the East China government. In fact, most people don't care much about the profits of these hundreds of taels of silver, but the attitude of the East China government that is not greedy for small profits is indeed commendable. Since the establishment of the Shanghai New Area, the East China government has made public the image of honesty and compliance, and now it is indeed a lineage.

So Li Songchen immediately ordered people to record the amount of silver donated by each person, name, address and other information one by one, of course, everyone would not carry so much money with them, many people promised that they would arrange for their families to send the silver immediately after they returned, and the Shanghai New Area did not call for payment, only said that there was no hurry, and it was not too late to pay after the bond was issued.

In the end, the total amount of silver registered reached 1.472 million taels, which is a huge amount of money. And in the afternoon of the same day, Shanghai New Area received 627,000 taels of cash.

Of course, the press conference is only the first step, and the East China government needs to maintain the heat of this incident for a long time, so as to arouse the common hatred of all Chinese against the enemy, only in this way can the role of the East China government at such a time be highlighted, and the incompetence of the Qing court must be further highlighted, and this sensational effect must not be allowed to last only a few days before it ends.

Li Songchen also prepared two follow-up plans for this purpose: First, he published articles in major newspapers in Shanghai condemning Japan and supporting the East China government to further stir up the incident, and second, he also planned to organize students from various schools in Shanghai to hold a parade to further promote the influence of this incident. Bi Jing Now most Chinese do not have the habit of reading newspapers, so the spread of newspapers is actually limited, generally limited to the middle and upper classes, and the march is the best way to promote this event to the middle and lower classes.

In addition, the Shanghai New Area already has a very high prestige among the schools in Shanghai, because most of the students are young, enthusiastic, and passionate, and the actions of the East China Government are obviously more in line with the students' appetites, so it is not difficult to organize a demonstration, and the status of the Shanghai New Area in Shanghai is already very important. Both black and white, Chinese and foreign, must give some face, and they are not afraid that someone will dare to sabotage it and cause bloodshed. So Li Songchen also ordered to go down and start implementing it immediately.

And at this moment, the results of the investigation of Yang Yuxin also came out and were sent to Li Songchen.

In addition to restoring the stability and economic vitality of the Shanghai New Area as soon as possible, Li Songchen is also one of the main tasks of properly handling the issue of Yang Yuxin. Moreover, immediately after Li Songchen took office, the Qingdao Executive Yuan immediately formed an investigation team composed of security, judicial, financial, and administrative personnel to go to Shanghai to investigate Yang Yuxin's problem.

Although Li Songchen is not a member of the investigation team, he is the top person in charge of the Shanghai New Area, and this time the investigation team is not only investigating Yang Yuxin's personal affairs, but also conducting a comprehensive inventory of the management personnel of the entire Shanghai New Area, so Li Songchen is also given the power of the Qingdao Executive Yuan to first review the investigation results and participate in the preparation of the investigation report.

After Li Songchen took office in Shanghai, many people reported Yang Yuxin to him, for example, that he had millions of dollars in personal deposits in foreign banks; that he had installed a large number of cronies in administrative organs; and that he had used his power to seek personal interests by giving orders for the uniforms of public servants in the Shanghai New Area to his wife, Jiang Yi, at a high price, and that he had made high profits in the midst of a small fire; and that Yang Yuxin had more than a dozen lovers in secret in addition to his four wives on the surface; some people even claimed that Yang Yuxin had known Bai Tassel's identity for a long time, but he deliberately helped Bai Tassel conceal it and colluded with foreign countries, bought a large amount of confidential information of the East China government, and even handled foreign passports, and can escape at any time, etc., in short, there are all kinds of strange crimes, and they are all said to have noses and noses.

Li Songchen did not believe these reports, and they were all transferred to the investigation team for verification. However, judging from the results of the investigation, most of these reports were groundless, and the financial personnel in the investigation team conducted a detailed inventory of the accounts of the Shanghai New Area and Yang Yuxin's personal financial accounts, and basically found no major financial problems. If there is a problem, Yang Yuxin did contract the uniforms of public servants in the Shanghai New Area to Jiang Yi's clothing company.

The civil servants of the East China government all have uniform uniforms of uniform with uniform style, material and specification, which are calculated according to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, calculated as two sets per quarter, and replaced once every two years. The work uniforms are generally uniformly made by garment factories in Qingdao.

At present, there are more than 1,000 public servants in Shanghai New Area, and the total number of uniforms required can reach more than 8,000 sets, even if a set of uniforms is worn for two years, there are at least 4,000 sets of orders per year, and the number of public servants is gradually increasing, so this is indeed a large amount of orders.

However, the public business gives priority to local enterprises, which is a normal behavior to support the development of local enterprises, and it is understandable, in addition, this clothing company is not Jiang Yi's personal holdings, but by 5 traversers to operate jointly, although Jiang Yi is the largest shareholder, but the shares are only 30%, and it is also in line with the regulations of the East China government, the East China government does not prevent the relatives of public servants from operating enterprises, and to mainly support the companies and enterprises set up by the traversers, so this business is also recognized by Qingdao. The price of each uniform is only about 1% higher than that of Qingdao, but the labor and ground rent in Shanghai New Area are higher than that of Qingdao, so this price is also within a reasonable range.

In addition, in terms of employment, after a detailed investigation by the investigation team, there are indeed big problems in the appointment of middle and lower-level civil servants in Shanghai New Area, and a considerable number of people are incompetent or do not have the ability to serve at all, but this is not all Yang Yuxin's responsibility, so the appointment of middle- and lower-level civil servants in Shanghai New Area is basically decided by the heads of various departments, and then reviewed by the personnel department, and finally reported to Yang Yuxin for approval. Generally speaking, Yang Yuxin will be approved according to the audit opinions of the personnel department, firstly, it is impossible for Yang Yuxin to conduct a detailed investigation of each grassroots personnel, and secondly, it is also necessary to take care of the face of the heads of various departments, after all, although Yang Yuxin is the general person in charge, he also needs the strong support of the head of the department to carry out his work, and there is no need to offend people because of the appointment of several grassroots personnel. However, Yang Yuxin is the top person in charge of the Shanghai New Area after all, so the responsibility for negligence is inevitable.

However, in the course of the investigation team's work, it was discovered that some officials had major problems, such as Zhu Min, director of the Investment Promotion Office, Cao Jianhui, director of the Customs Department, Qi Yuanyi, director of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce, and Liu Changmin, director of the Administrative Office, who reported to Yang Yuxin on charges of embezzlement of public funds, accepting bribes, cronyism, and corrupt life. Moreover, after further investigation, the investigation team found that these people had a common characteristic, that is, they all had marriages with local big families or wealthy families, and some of them were not just marriages, so they were also biased towards their own in-laws in terms of employment, policies, and business. In daily work, there will naturally be some bad phenomena, but because the time is still short, there is no atmosphere, and the Shanghai New Area is still in the process of upward development as a whole, so it has not produced a large negative effect.

And Yang Yuxin's most important question is naturally about the white tassel, but after a detailed investigation by the investigation team, it can be basically determined that Yang Yuxin does not know the true identity of the white tassel, so it is also ruled out that Yang Yuxin colluded with foreign countries and bought intelligence. However, although Yang Yuxin subjectively did not buy intelligence, because of his special identity and lack of sense of confidentiality, Bai Tassel did get a lot of information through Yang Yuxin. Fortunately, Yang Yuxin was in Shanghai after all, far away from the center of the East China government, which avoided major losses, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.