Gu Hegao's classmate and partner Yang Yueran rushed back to Chongqing after receiving the news. They were afraid that Zhou Hexuan would regret it, so they got the contract in one day - Zhou Hexuan accounted for 51% of the shares and was the legal representative of the company; Gu Hegao holds 34% of the shares and serves as the general manager of the factory, responsible for operation and sales; Yang Yueran holds 15% of the shares and is responsible for production management and technical supervision.

Both of them graduated from Beijing University of Technology, a few years younger than Zhou Hexuan, and they are also considered the business elites of the Republic of China. Especially Yang Yueran, who studied chemical engineering at the beginning, is very proficient in paint and ink production.

Due to avoiding (harmonious) pregnancy condoms and sulfonamide business profits, and earning US dollars and pounds, Zhou Hexuan couldn't spend all his money. The net profit dividends (after tax) of these two industries alone add up to more than $3 million a year, and now the deposits lying in overseas accounts are close to $20 million.

By the way, Ernis, the cheap father-in-law, is preparing to list the pharmaceutical company, and Zhou Hexuan's assets will skyrocket at that time. In contrast, the Zhang family is much more steady, whether it is a father-in-law or an uncle, they have not thought about listing the avoidance (harmony) pregnancy condom company at all.

In addition, with the hot screening of Chaplin's "Modern Times", Lianmei Pictures, invested by Zhou Hexuan, officially ranked among the top eight in Hollywood, and is about to usher in a round of crazy business expansion.

Counting the value of deposits and shares in overseas companies, Zhou Hexuan is not far from a billionaire, and the unit is, of course, dollars.

The Daxigou paint and ink factory is about to resume production, and more and more victims are pouring into Chongqing, and corpses can be found dead of starvation every day. Historically, the two crematoriums built in Chongqing were not enough, but now it seems to be much better, because Zhou Hexuan has been providing relief food.

A total of seven fleets carried more than 1,000 tons of grain, all of which were used for disaster relief in Chongqing, while more distant counties and cities could not be taken into account for the time being. Today, Chongqing has gathered more than 100,000 hungry people from surrounding counties, and each person has six taels of grain per day to make porridge and hang their lives, and the consumption of one day is close to 40,000 catties (1 catty in the Republic of China is equal to 16 taels, which is equal to 600 grams).

The grain that Zhou Hexuan bought from Lianghu and Jiangxi was barely dragged to keep the victims from dying. In this kind of situation, it is impossible to carry out cash-for-work to let the victims work, and only wait slowly for the 500,000 tons to be shipped from the Americas.

The effect is still obvious, at least Chongqing (in the urban area) did not starve to death more than 500 people per month, and at the peak nearly 4,000 people were buried in two months. At present, Chongqing's professional corpse collection team can find an average of two or three corpses a day, most of which are not starved to death, but died of malnutrition and disease.

Not only Zhou Hexuan is saving people, but the Chongqing Municipal Government has also allocated 30,000 yuan to buy grain, and all walks of life have enthusiastically donated money and materials.

Meng Xiaodong returned to his old business and sang on stage, relying on charity performances to raise funds for disaster relief. She has been very busy for a while, although Peking Opera is not popular in Sichuan, but with the signboard of "Mrs. Zhou", there are still many opera fans who come to cheer, and Meng Xiaodong has raised more than 10,000 yuan in donations.

Chongqing's disaster relief situation is very good, and Zhou Hexuan's reputation is also in full swing, you can ask anyone on the streets of Chongqing, and you have to give a thumbs up when you mention Zhou Shenxian.

In other parts of Sichuan, it's very bad, you don't have to go to the field to check, just the news in the newspaper is difficult to read-

"Fuling Communication": "Tan Jiufeng, a resident of Wangjiagou in Heyouping, this county, has more than 40 acres of fertile land, and he cultivates himself. In successive years, there has been no harvest of natural disasters, life is cut off, and the bark of grass roots and trees has long been exhausted. There were three daughters and two sons, all of whom were naïve and ignorant, and starved to death the eldest and second daughters in the first month of the first month, and starved the younger son to death in the first half of February. The couple was in their fifties, hungry and cold, difficult to move, hugged their heads and cried, and were so miserable that they hanged themselves from a beam. ”

"Chengdu Newsletter": "This year, the bark of the tree is eaten, and the grass roots are also eaten, so I think of the body of the dead, and I heard that the meat of the dead corpse sells for 500 wen per catty, and the flesh of the living sells for 1,000 wen per catty. Wang Kuangji, a special commissioner of the Provincial Relief Association, inspected Liuchangkou and found the dead bodies of female starving women Zhang Peng and He Zhang in a house surnamed Xiao...... A woman named Yang Zhang fled with her six and nine-year-old daughters because of the hardships of her life. Unexpectedly, when she walked a short distance, the woman fell to the side of the road, and the two daughters were so hungry that they gnawed on their mother's face and flesh to satisfy their hunger. ”

"Chongqing Express": "Recently, Qiu Shi, a poor woman in Tongmudong (Linshui County), was forced to kill her three-year-old daughter and eat her because of hunger, so as to prolong her life. ”

Zhou Hexuan was no longer willing to read the newspaper because he had just seen a piece of news two days ago, and he was so uncomfortable that he couldn't eat all day.

The content of the news is like this: Puji Yuchi Bay, Yang Chuanxing's family of five, his wife, son and daughter-in-law all starved to death, and only a granddaughter of a few years old remained. Yang Chuanxing was so hungry that he chopped his granddaughter with a knife to eat meat, and when he was chopping, the neighbors heard his granddaughter crying: "Don't cut me, I'll pick up firewood for you when I grow up!" ”

There is news of cannibalism everywhere in Sichuan, and it is getting more and more intense, and some places even clearly mark the price, 500 wen per catty of dead human flesh and 1000 wen per catty of living human flesh.

In mid-November, the first batch of grain from the Americas, totaling 200,000 tons, arrived in Shanghai.

Minsheng Shipping Company was busy in the dark, and Lu Zuofu went to the town in person, but there were too many messy things on the way.

First of all, someone came to collect business taxes, and if they didn't pay taxes, they directly withheld the grain. Then there is the bitter water of the Yangtze River in winter, and in some places even the river ships cannot pass, so they can only rely on small boats to transfer one by one, delaying a lot of time and money.

November 18th.

Yin Changling came from Chengdu to Chongqing to visit Zhou Hexuan, and as soon as they met, the old gentleman knelt down tremblingly with a cane: "Mr. Zhou, I kowtow to you, please save the people of Sichuan!" ”

Zhou Hexuan was so frightened that he hurriedly helped: "Zhong Gong, please get up, you are going to break my life." ”

Yin Changling refused to get up, and begged: "Mr. Zhou, don't just take care of Chongqing, you have to save other places!" ”

"There is so much grain, I can't take care of Chongqing, where can I save other places," Zhou Hexuan sighed, "The grain shipped from abroad is already on the Yangtze River, and wait, it will arrive soon." ”

"I can't wait, I can't wait," Yin Changling said anxiously, wiping tears from his eyes, "I ran out of disaster relief funds and relief food allocated by the provincial government last month." I, the president of the Sichuan Disaster Relief Committee, have been urged to die every day, and even my door has been blocked. If there is no food, I will have to quit my job! You give me some relief food from Chongqing, 5,000 quintals, no, 2,000 quintals is fine! ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled helplessly: "Where did I get the 2,000 loads of grain, there are more than 1,000 loads left in Chongqing, and I will run out of grain soon." ”

"Then let's do it!" Yin Changling sat on the ground, his eyes were blank, and his whole person lost his soul.