Winter temperatures in Jiangnan are much warmer than in the north, but the winter in the early 1930s seems to be much colder than usual.

Yu Chen, who has only reached the age of 50 in a few years, sat in the empty mansion, his vitality seemed to be exhausted, in addition to describing the withered tree, Yu Chen's posture was more like an extremely frightened animal, any wind and grass seemed to alarm him, but the whole reaction was numb and sluggish.

Yu Chen, the governor of Jiangsu, couldn't understand what the changes in the past two months meant, and the full moon turned into a miserable ghost crying wolf. The hot factories, the buildings in the new city that Nanjing and Zhenjiang in Jiangsu Province began to imitate Shanghai a few months ago, were once the objects of much sought-after. How many people rush these places in order to get a chance to live a new life, and people who buy real estate in Zhenjiang and other places in Nanjing even have to queue up a few days in advance. The mighty dragon can be discharged far away. Now most of the factories are shut down, and the property is not being cared for. No, to be more precise, everyone is trying to sell these properties for cash.

Jiangsu's financial center used to be a transit point for foreign capital to acquire RMB, and after Jiangsu used the foreign exchange in its hands to cope with the wave of foreign exchange withdrawals, they faced a heavy wave of RMB withdrawals. Jiangsu is still part of China, but its local currency is not the renminbi. Everyone outside Jiangsu has RMB in their hands, and RMB in Jiangsu is already extremely rare.

Yu Chen's groggy thoughts were mixed with indescribable remorse, and in Wang Youhong's last policy, Wang Youhong proposed that Jiangsu give up its own currency and apply to the central government for the use of the renminbi. After Wang Youhong's death, the proposal met with great resistance in the Jiangsu parliament, coupled with the people's party's indifferent rejection, and then disappeared. Yu Chen did his best to implement Wang Youhong's policy, before encountering today's devastating blow, this monetary policy was a plan that Yu Chen himself could not fully accept, in Yu Chen's view, it was tantamount to surrender in disguise, and when he was rejected by the People's Party, Yu Chen even felt a sense of relief. Now Yu Chen knows how far he is worse than Wang Youhong, and if Wang Youhong's policy can be realized, Jiangsu will not come to such a desperate situation now.

If Jiangsu is now in a state of actual independence, there is still a way to forcibly raise renminbi locally through taxation and other methods. The People's Party has never allowed the renminbi to be exchanged with Jiangsu's local currency, and Jiangsu's private exchange is simply not enough to raise renminbi cash. Recently, the repayment of renminbi debts has been extremely huge, and people in various parts of Jiangsu have long hidden these renminbi like treasures, where are they willing to circulate in the market.

Someone walked in from outside, and when Yu Chen, the governor of Jiangsu, heard this voice, he was beaten as if he had been whipped by a whip, and he couldn't bear more blows. When I looked up, I saw that it was Li Rui, the current commander of the Jiangsu National Defense Force. Li Rui said to Yu Chen with an angry face: "Governor, you have caught a few more profiteers who are reselling RMB, you have to call the shots and kill them!" ”

"Kill whom?" Yu Chen asked with some confusion.

Li Rui is the person promoted by Yu Chen, he is shrewd and straightforward, and his character naturally has nothing to say. Yu Chen made great efforts to eliminate the bullies on various business channels a few years ago, and was privately considered to be a strong contender for the governor of Jiangsu after Yu Chen. This is not completely groundless, since Wang Youhong would rather send his family back to his hometown in Tianjin and let himself die alone, and also hand over the position of governor to Yu Chen, Yu Chen felt that he had no reason to choose his relatives as the successor of the governor of Jiangsu. Li Rui is indeed one of Yu Chen's preferred successors.

Li Rui didn't think about it so much, he said angrily: "Governor, we have ordered that private individuals are not allowed to hide foreign exchange and renminbi privately, and they must be deposited in the national bank. However, there are some profiteers who secretly hide renminbi and sell them at high prices on the black market. After receiving the report, I smashed a black market, and it turned out that there were several legislators with heads and faces. Governor, these people must not be spared! ”

"Hehe, Councillor......" Yu Chen smiled bitterly. When have these councillors done good deeds? When it comes to profitable things, they are always indispensable. When encountering the difficulties of the country, they ran away without a trace, and as for this kind of private buying and selling, there was no shortage of things when Wang Youhong was alive. Yu Chen also read various newspapers and periodicals of the People's Party, and the People's Party did not revise the history of the Qing Dynasty, but there was an article called "Resolution on Certain Historical Events Since Chongzhen", although the signature of the article was not Chen Ke, but it was the People's Party's evaluation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The "Resolution" said that the most corrupt gentry in the late Ming Dynasty controlled the government and led to the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus colluded with the decadent gentry to create a rotten system of authoritarianism and autocracy, and pushed it to its zenith. The People's Party has always taken a consistent attitude towards the gentry and the gentry system, believing that nine out of ten kills will slip through the net. In the BJP-controlled areas, the gentry have been uprooted. So no one dared to come out against such a blatant and blanket denial.

Yu Chen also didn't like the gentry, but after reading the People's Party's article, he also felt that the People's Party was a bit excessive. Now when he was experiencing great difficulties, Yu Chen realized that the People's Party's view was actually correct. This gentry system, which was born under the idea of completely feudal theory, does have original sin, and it is not a pity to kill it.

In his heart, he thought that it was a pity to kill him, and Yu Chen had no way to kill like this, Jiangsu's system was built on the combination of the gentry and the industrial and commercial people transformed from the gentry.

But seeing Li Rui's murderous expression, Yu Chen ordered, "Lock them up first, and you will be responsible for this matter." Whoever intercedes with them shall be locked up together. ”

finally sent Li Rui away, and Yu Chen returned to his original state. What Yu Chen needs now is to find a solution to the problem, if the debts are only owed by the people or the stock market, then they can be left to fend for themselves. Now the Jiangsu government is also involved, with a large amount of debt. When the creditors come to the door, will the Jiangsu government also fail to go out of business?

In the midst of his hesitation and fear, a soldier ran in, and he whispered, "Governor, someone has sent information." ”

"Oh?" Yu Chenden regained some of his spirits, and he got up and ordered: "Send it in quickly!" ”

What was sent in was a letter, and Yu Chen's face turned a little angry when he looked at it.

In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Wu Xiangyu asked the comrades in the office to archive after reading the latest information. The news is simple, some private enterprises in Shanghai are ready to huddle together for warmth and inject capital into Jiangsu. At the same time, the comrades of the People's Party in Shanghai also passed on the news, and the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce held a meeting, hoping to keep Jiangsu. The chamber of commerce is full of private entrepreneurs, and a few leaders believe that if Jiangsu fails, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce's investment in Jiangsu will be lost. Since what Jiangsu lacks now is cash, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce will raise cash for Jiangsu to alleviate Jiangsu's urgent needs. I'll settle it out later.

Wu Xiangyu belongs to the impatient type, and since he got married, Wu Xiangyu has improved a lot with the help of his lover. Looking at the national capitalists who were trying to warm up and tide over the difficulties, Wu Xiangyu actually said to them, you should rest anyway, don't do this useless work.

Now that Wu Xiangyu has finally officially become the governor of Zhejiang Province, his old boss Li Shouxian has been promoted to vice premier, and there are rumors that Prime Minister Li may become the country's prime minister in the next term. But Wu Xiangyu didn't expect that there would be no Li Shouxian in the 12-member meeting in Beijing to decide the general direction of China in the future.

Wu Xiangyu himself doesn't care about this matter, this is his personality. Wu Xiangyu never thinks that the official position represents anything great, the official position represents the work is the responsibility, as a revolutionary, the organization needs the revolutionaries to do what they do, the revolutionaries will do. Of course, Wu Xiangyu knew that he had entered the ranks of the future leadership echelon of the People's Party, and his attitude towards this was limited to the state of "knowing". There were three young comrades attending the meeting, and Wu Xiangyu found that the other two comrades behaved exactly like himself, they thought that they were here to work, and there was no other meaning in attending such a meeting except work.

Therefore, Wu Xiangyu still continued to serve as the governor of Zhejiang Province and continued to be responsible for the work of Jiangsu. The party has long seen Jiangsu thoroughly, and Wu Xiangyu thought that Jiangsu was likely to make something different. Unexpectedly, Jiangsu staged a classic textbook-style economic crisis. In the face of the party's forecasts, economics textbooks, and Jiangsu's intelligence, Wu Xiangyu found that Jiangsu's changes were not even a little surprising.

First the stock market collapsed, then the debt market was in jeopardy, and the depletion of cash led to a sharp drop in the prices of industrial goods, and then the prices of industrial equipment in factories. After the unemployment rate climbed sharply, the people lost their jobs in large numbers. In order to solve the problem, the government began to "straighten out the economic order" by coercive means, and at the same time prepared to raise taxes. In short, all actions are aimed at resolving the chaos, but the more it is resolved, the more chaotic it becomes. Of course, it is not yet at the stage where the social unrest is in full swing. But it's only a matter of time before such a vision is forthcoming.

The central government has predicted that the economic crisis will last for several years. Since the central government is so sure, it makes sense. In the absence of external funds and orders, Jiangsu is bound to lead to a comprehensive collapse. Wu Xiangyu's job is to record this process as an important material for the People's Party's social research.

When he returned home after work, Wu Xiangyu talked about these things with his lover, not revealing secrets, but simply sighing. "Chairman Chen never seems to make a fuss, no matter how terrible things are, they seem to be normal in Chairman Chen's eyes."

Wu Xiangyu's lover put a chopstick green vegetable in Wu Xiangyu's bowl, "That's the height of Chairman Chen's standing, in his opinion, the thing itself certainly has various characteristics, it is worth paying attention to surprise and the need for research, but it is normal to give birth to anything." ”

Listening to his lover's words, Wu Xiangyu suddenly felt something. When attending a meeting in Beijing, the People's Party discussed specific things that would happen in the future, and everyone had their own emotions. All participants were unafraid of good or bad things happening in the future. Although his lover did not attend such a meeting, it was as if he had seen it with his own eyes. Wu Xiangyu sandwiched a small piece of meat for his lover, and continued to eat without saying a word.

After that, things developed exactly as predicted by the Party Central Committee, and Jiangsu temporarily stabilized its position after receiving RMB cash support from Shanghai. However, the external situation has become even worse. The People's Party's chemical fiber products have gradually occupied the market of short yarn in recent years, and the economic crisis has come, and foreign consumption of raw silk has shrunk rapidly. Jiangsu's biggest export commodities are raw silk and silk, which can only be sold at a reduced price. In the early days, there were some foreign speculators who wanted to hoard raw silk and silk at low prices and make a profit when the market recovered. Foreign markets continued to languish for more than half a year, and these speculators eventually disappeared.

Cutting off the external market will be a fatal blow to Jiangsu. Shanghai's private sector has also been hit by this terrible economic cold, and external demand is declining, and they have to sell their products at a reduced price in order to survive. However, this kind of price reduction sales is half a beat slower than that of foreign counterparts. Foreign factory owners and businessmen, who have experienced a lot of economic crises, have long been selling at frenzied prices. Chinese private enterprises have not gone through such a tragic stage, and the United States can sell at one-half or even one-third of the cost of production, and Chinese businessmen cannot do such a thing. By the time they had made up their minds to do so, they had already lost the opportunity to sell at a reduced price.

While the private sector was in a depression, China was unexpectedly in the majority at this stage with a steady income, and state-owned enterprises in the People's Party-controlled areas continued to operate as normal, and rural life was not affected. The factory still distributes the cash that the private owners crave. The premise is that you must be a worker in a state-owned enterprise. For several years, the private owners have been "peacocks flying southeast", and they have to come to Jiangsu to operate and live in Jiangsu. Now they are running to the People's Party area again, making money is one of the purposes, and avoiding debts is also another very important purpose.

In September 1930, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce applied to the mayor of Shanghai, Lin Shenhe, for government assistance several times, but to no avail, so he simply marched on the streets. Under the banner of "anti-hunger and anti-unemployment", a large number of privately owned people with a lot of debts blocked the door of the Shanghai municipal government and demanded government relief. These people knelt on the ground and cried loudly, and in addition to the big slogans, there were also small slogans, such as "Government banks discriminate against private industry and commerce" and "State-owned enterprises adopt unfair competition". All kinds of banners that have nothing to do with ordinary people vent the indignation of private entrepreneurs.

Of course, Lin Shenhe knew that this kind of thing would happen, and as a former patrol in Shanghai, Lin Shenhe was well aware of Shanghai's underground financial industry. A few years ago, Lin Shenhe was ready to sweep up these people, but was stopped by the central government. When he saw that these people couldn't get along anymore today, Lin Shenhe's heart was full of malicious pleasure.

Seeing that the People's Party did not confiscate their property and enterprises, these deflated people thought that they could continue the good life they had in the new era, and they also made a lot of ridicule of the socialist system. Now retribution is coming! The good days of these guys under the global economic crisis have finally come to an end.

"What's the reaction of the crowd?" Lin Shenhe called the comrades of the National Security Bureau after finishing his heart.

"I don't see anyone from the crowd supporting them." The National Security Bureau has always been very concerned about mass incidents, and has long arranged a comprehensive investigation, "These people have always felt that they are great, and they do not have any mass base. But they blocked the door of the government without applying for it, do they want to rectify it? ”

Lin Shenhe leaned comfortably on the chair and replied, "No! As long as the masses do not support, let them continue to kneel there. Kneeling tired and hungry, they naturally left. These old men are delicate. In addition, there must be people among the civil servants who invest in the trading of these people, and if the investment fails, some people will jump over the wall in a hurry to give advice to these people, and they have to ask the comrades of the Security Bureau to help investigate it. ”

"You can rest assured of this, this is one of our jobs." The comrade from the Security Bureau on the opposite side replied.

Putting down the phone, Lin Shenhe stood up and looked condescendingly at the crowd outside from the window, then returned to his desk and continued to work with satisfaction.

In the past, these people were the idols of the masses in Shanghai, and they had money, although they did not have their previous status, but according to the customs of Shanghai, being rich is status. At present, these people are so mixed up, although the Shanghai masses are very surprised, "When they made a lot of money, they didn't expect today's day!" "Schadenfreude is naturally indispensable.

Not long after, the newspapers published news that a group of government civil servants had been dismissed from public office and held legally accountable for colluding with these wealthy men in an attempt to influence government policy. At this time, the people of Shanghai have completely understood one thing, and what is really powerful in Shanghai is the People's Party government that can allow the people of Shanghai to have jobs and eat. The rich seem to be glamorous when they are proud, and they are nothing compared to the benevolent enough BJP government.

The performance of the People's Party in Shanghai made Yu Chen, the governor of Jiangsu, completely desperate. He had thought that even if the propertied people united and could not overthrow the People's Party government for the time being, they would be able to keep Jiangsu. Now the propertied people who have been hit by the economic crisis are unable to protect themselves, and all of them have dispersed, and there is no sign of bankruptcies to protect Jiangsu. The People's Party has not only adopted an attitude of indifference to Jiangsu, but also to the bankrupt and propertied people under the rule of the People's Party.

The state-owned enterprises under the People's Party are standing, like no one. The cruel truth has made a lot of ideas appear in Jiangsu. Jiangsu can be said to be in danger so far, and it can also be said that it has stabilized its position. The comprehensive imitation of the People's Party's rural land reform has stopped the economic impact in the rural areas, and even if the peasants have no business, they still have their own land to plant. If you grow food, you can still protect yourself. The water conservancy societies that the People's Party helped to build performed well, and the impact of natural disasters was minimized. Even when all industry and commerce fell into a state of closure during the economic crisis, Jiangsu's agriculture had a bumper harvest for two consecutive years.

In fact, one of the recent trends of thought in Jiangsu is that Jiangsu simply gave up its independent status and defected to the People's Party. Now the businessmen owe a lot of renminbi debt, and the Jiangsu government has publicly announced that it will delay the repayment of the debt. If Jiangsu sells all the precious metals in its hands, the money raised can probably barely pay off the debt. It's just that after doing so, Jiangsu's currency has become a completely uncollateralized banknote. If Jiangsu can vote for the People's Party, after the renminbi replaces Jiangsu's local currency, Jiangsu's flowing economy will not have a chance to repay its debts.

The land reform, which was once deeply hated by the propertied people in Jiangsu, has now become a lifesaver for Jiangsu, which the people in the Jiangsu Council could not have imagined before. So the Jiangsu parliament quickly reached an agreement to cede some autonomy to the central government in exchange for the renminbi becoming the official currency of Jiangsu.

In this context, Yu Chen went to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province to meet with Wu Xiangyu, the governor of Zhejiang Province.

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