Radio stations have developed rapidly in the Pingjin area, and in a short period of time, radio users have approached 2,000. In addition www.biquge.info many radios are listened to by the whole family, and in public places, there are even dozens or hundreds of people listening to one radio, blocking the alleys and alleys.

Zhou Hexuan's "Gossip at Seven O'clock in the Night" column has been heard by at least tens of thousands of viewers, and the effect achieved is very terrifying.

This is different from newspapers, even the illiterate people at the bottom can hear it clearly.

Those women who like to chew their tongues talk about the Chinese arrest and beating incident when they meet, and treat this as a talking point that can be shown off, and they are dancing with their eyebrows.

"You know what? Those Chinese patrolled and stole things and beat people, and they were released after a few days, and the clerks were tied up in the patrol room and beaten up! ”

"Is there such a thing? Auntie, where did you hear that? ”

"Radio. Let me tell you, there is a radio station at the mouth of our alley, which is interesting, storytelling, cross talk, Peking opera, everything. You can also hear Western songs. ”

"That's weird, I'm going to hear about it another day."

“……”

In this way, word of mouth spread, radio, radio and Chinese arrest and beating people have become hot words in Beiping and Tianjin recently. If you don't know about this, you're embarrassed to talk to people when you go out.

And the topic of Hua Hunting and evil provoked by Zhou Hexuan has also become the focus of public opinion.

Major newspapers have discussed this, Chinese arrest, Chinese patrol, anyway, they are not foreigners, they will be scolded if they are scolded, it doesn't matter who they offend. Therefore, many newspapers have openly scolded and denounced the hateful acts of Chinese arrests in various places, and also called on the concessions of various countries to punish the phenomenon of Chinese arrests as evil.

Nowadays, there are thousands of southern spies and political workers in the northern region, and these guys have taken the opportunity to fan the flames, saying that the Beiyang government is a dog raised by foreigners. As long as the Beiyang government exists, the common people will be bullied, and only by waiting for the Northern Expeditionary Army to kill them can they drive out the warlords and foreigners, and everyone will live a good life.

In the days that followed, the Chinese arrest and wounding incident became so loud that the Japanese consulate general in Tianjin received hundreds of letters of protest and Tianjin students organized a small demonstration.

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Japanese Concession, outside the Consulate General.

Hundreds of students stood on the side of the road holding signs and banners, shouting slogans angrily:

"Punish the murderer severely and give me justice!"

"If you don't expel and hurt people, you won't give up!"

“……”

Hachiro Arita had a gloomy face and stood behind the window looking at the situation below.

The secretary suddenly knocked on the door and reported: "My lord, Mr. Sakai, the police director of the patrol room, asks to see you." ”

"Let him in." Hachiro Arita closed the curtains.

A middle-aged man with glasses pushed the door in, and it was Jiro Sakai, the police director of the Japanese Concession Patrol House. He walked up to Hachiro Arita and bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency Consul General, my subordinates are late. ”

Hachiro Arita said sarcastically in a deep voice: "Sakai-kun, are you an idiot? ”

"Hey." Jiro Sakai bent over and stood upright.

"I ask you if you're an idiot?" Hachiro Arita raised his voice a few points.

"Hey!" Jiro Sakai bent down a little more.

Hachiro Arita pointed outside: "Look at it, you caused it." It's just a few patrols, why don't you get rid of them? ”

Jiro Sakai defended: "Even if it is a Chinese patrol, it is also a Chinese patrol in the Japanese concession." If we had to expel them for stealing a few pairs of leather shoes and injuring a few people, how would we have the face of the Japanese Empire? ”

"Looks like you're an idiot." Hachiro Arita laughed angrily.

Jiro Sakai also said: "These students are not in the climate, they hold demonstrations at two ends in three days, and they disperse after two days of trouble." ”

"What about these newspapers?"

Hachiro Arita grabbed a stack of newspapers on the desk, threw it in Sakai Jiro's face, and said angrily: "Do you know how embarrassing this incident is for the Consulate General?" At last night's ball, the British Consul General used this to laugh at me! ”

Jiro Sakai was silent for a moment and whispered, "Lord Arida, if we make a compromise, it will be considered weak. We can't be led by the nose by the people because of a little public opinion. ”

"Yaga!" Hachiro Arita was even more angry when he was bumped, "Do you know what diplomacy is?" Do you know what an international image is? Go back and get this out of here! I don't want to hear any more explanations. ”

"Hey!" Jiro Sakai was full of slander. After returning to the patrol room, he called the head of Huazhu to scold.

The next day, the patrol room publicly published a statement in the newspaper, announcing the dismissal of the seven troublesome Chinese arresters, and that in the future, they would strictly recruit patrol arresters, and those with bad records would not be hired.

Other concessions also took action to expel all the worst-rated Chinese arresters – of course, the minions were all minions.

Even so, the common people applauded and regarded this as a good thing to eliminate harm for the people.

Zhou Hexuan's radio program really made such a big move, so that the Japanese consulate made a compromise.

The people of the time commented: "Broadcasting is an advanced product of the West. Its public opinion value is not inferior to that of newspapers and magazines, and it is easy to be accepted by illiterate people. Mr. Zhou Hexuan pioneered the radio commentary, inviting cultural celebrities, famous opera actors or ordinary people as guests every week to talk about many phenomena in the current society, which can be described as 'electroacoustic essays'. ”

Zhou Hexuan was also speechless, the talk show he engaged in called "Gossip at 7 o'clock in the evening" was actually called "electroacoustic essays", which was unanimously sought after by intellectuals and grassroots people.

Many listeners don't care about cross talk and Peking Opera now, and they wait every night to listen to Zhou Hexuan's nonsense.

It's not just about social phenomena, it's about foreign anecdotes, celebrity anecdotes, historical events, and academic science...... The whole nine yards.

For example, Zhou Hexuan invited Meng Xiaodong to talk about the secrets of the theater world, and invited Xu Zhimo, who happened to come to the north to give lectures, to talk about poetry creation. There were two of the most sensational, one was to ask Wen Xiu to talk about palace life, and the other was to ask Yuan Kewen to talk about President Yuan Shikai.

It was really a crowd of listeners, and even the widows and young who hated Zhou Hexuan listened while scolding, for fear of missing a paragraph.

The cheapest ore radio costs only 25 yuan, and the working class grits their teeth and can afford it. As for university professors with a monthly salary of a few hundred yuan, that's even more trivial, well, Peking University professors are exceptions, so let's not mention them.

There are even some universities and middle schools that have specially purchased radios for students to listen to in their spare time.

The students of the physics department are even more aggressive, looking for waste materials to make their own machines, and the sound quality is better than that of genuine store goods.

In just over a month, radio and radio subscribers skyrocketed, and advertising costs rose with it, and radio stations were barely able to break even.

In the blink of an eye, it was May, and the Northern Expeditionary Army had already invaded Shandong. However, in order to protect their own interests in Shandong and Northeast China, the Japanese brazenly dispatched troops in disregard of international law, and in the name of protecting overseas Chinese, they sent troops to Jinan, Qingdao, and along the Jiaoji Railway.

The May Third tragedy is about to happen.