Chapter 412: Doing Good
The news that the imperial court sent ministers to stabilize the market quickly spread on the streets of Songjiang, and although the specific regulations had not yet been seen, as soon as the news came, people's hearts settled down a lot. If www.biquge.info you want to come to the court to send people, you are always not ugly, and it is said that there is another edict not to harass the local government and not to apportion the people. That is to use the silver from other provinces to save the poor of Songjiang. This kind of thing is liked by everyone, and the hearts of the entire Songjiang people are also excited because of this news.
Unlike other places, the business community in Songjiang is very powerful and has its own armament. The merchant group armed guards numbered more than 1,000 people, and purchased foreign guns from foreign houses to be armed.
When the stock market crash came, the businessmen were too busy to take care of themselves, and armed was equal to nothing. Now that Zhao Guanhou has come forward to discuss with Zhou Baoru, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, to save the market, and pay for the hiring, this thousand-strong armed force was immediately mobilized and patrolled the streets to maintain order.
The other force was the disciples and protΓ©gΓ©s of the Songjiang Cao Gang, and Shen Baosheng came forward and invited more than a dozen Songjiang Dawen people to dinner. The bosses of the Cao Gang, who have to open more than a dozen tables every day to deal with the Jianghu people who eat idle meals, if not, how can they hold up the stage.
The silver comes and goes quickly, and the savings are not much. In this stock market crash, either the debts were reversed, or the stocks were turned into waste paper, and the losses were very large, and some of them were on the verge of bankruptcy. Zhao Guanhou saved the city, which was to save their lives, save the money, and save a trace of vitality for them.
Moreover, if you take the road of the governor of Shandong, you will have a way to make a comeback in the future, and through Zhao Guanhou, you can also make friends with the governor of Liangjiang.
Songjiang Li, the big two generations, and even the secluded churches, the Xingzi generation of the old generations who chanted scriptures and worshiped the Buddha all spoke, and most of the white-faced people of the Songjiang Cao Gang Nine Gang were organized and went to the streets to serve as vigilantes.
Although they don't hold firearms, they have the same deterrent effect as short axes and daggers, and the city fox and rats in the city, the underground forces, have something to do with them, ordinary people may not be afraid of police investigations and business groups, but they can't be afraid of these Liu Busy. As soon as these people come out, they can act as a deterrent. The order of the market is temporarily maintained and will not be corrupted any longer.
In the concession, the consul generals of various countries in Songjiang have reached a consensus that they must maintain order in the concession and not let the concession be affected by the stock market crash and fall into chaos. In order to achieve this step, it is necessary to borrow the strength of Zhao Guanhou, and the two countries have frequent exchanges, and the consul generals of several countries have greeted the banks opened in Songjiang by their own countries, and Shandong has tried to give preferential treatment in terms of money and loans. As long as the guarantee is provided, the loan will be disbursed in the fastest way to ensure the stability of the market and the people's hearts will not be too bad.
The news of the sinking of the Lady Liberty has arrived, and more than 100 people have died on board, including a colonel and a senator. It is said that the shipwreck, which has killed so many people, has caused an uproar.
But the strange thing is that the Yankees are not in a hurry to find the Jin Guo theory, but on the contrary, they actively cover the lid and limit the disclosure of information. Coupled with the impact of the stock market crash and the market, this news, as far as Jin Guo is concerned, was quickly covered up by the news of countless money banks closing down and the boss hanging. As for the domestic repercussions of the Yankees, they are not visible at the moment.
As for Zhao Guanhou, he believes that there is no monitoring technology at this time, and no one knows his timed fried eggs, so there is no need to worry about leaking the news. On the contrary, this plan was successful, so that Mai Bian would always become a member of the shipwrecked missing people, so he didn't have to worry about finding trouble for himself, and his mind was still used on Songjiang.
In Songjiang County, porridge sheds have been erected, and half-person-high tin cans are full of white rice porridge. People who are in a livelihood crisis due to unemployment have at least a place to eat.
Jiang Fengzhi was dressed in a short fight, running back and forth, shouting for a while, "All line up, whoever dares to add stuff will not have porridge." After a while, he shouted, "Give this child an extra bowl, and see how pitiful he is." I didn't feel tired at all, but I enjoyed the feeling of running around and running around to explain things, and Zou Xiurong was in charge of the overall planning, coordinating and scheduling, and laughed at Feng Zhi's appearance.
Outside the porridge shed, there were signs with the words "Zhao Guanhou, the governor of Shandong, helping the people", and taking advantage of the distribution of relief, his name was also passed out. There are a lot of people who know how to read and write here in Songjiang, not to mention that many of the people who queued up to receive relief were still running on the street of foreign banks and apprentices of Qianzhuang not long ago.
The name Zhao Guanhou gradually spread among the crowd. While drinking the hot rice porridge, people also remembered that it was the governor of Shandong who saved them, not the imperial court.
Several major streets have set up Shandong recruitment offices, and all unemployed workers in Songjiang can go to the recruitment offices to register. As long as the conditions are right and you are willing, you can leave Songjiang and go to Shandong to work. Shandong's textiles, yarn mills, and even arsenals all need a large number of workers. Songjiang's local textile industry used to be extremely prosperous, but the stock market crash caused a large number of textile factories to close down, and skilled workers lost their income.
Leaving home is obviously nothing compared to starvation, and there is a long queue in front of every recruitment office. Whether it's building roads or mining in mines, as long as it's a job to support their families, many people rush to do it. Even money banks, trading houses, etc., can attract the attention of some former elites. The Qian Zhuang guy, who suffered in the stock market crash, found his job again in Shandong.
Wang Wu sat in front of another office, where the queue was longer, but all the people in line were strong young men, and this was the Shandong Police Investigation Recruitment Office, which selected the strong in the name of recruiting police inspectors, but in fact, the selection criteria were recruitment.
Songjiang, like most provinces in Jinguo at this time, promoted Western-style education, and the atmosphere of private education was extremely prosperous. Sports schools, in particular, are blooming almost everywhere. The sports school of Jinguo imitates Fusang, and the so-called gymnastics taught is military gymnastics, from walking in line to fighting bayonets, the items are complete.
Most of these young men have studied in it, and they have a basic infantry foundation, and they can be used as supplementary troops when they train in Shandong for a few months. Even those who have not received military training can also serve as auxiliaries and masters, and then be uniformly trained by Shandong. According to the current trend, it is not difficult to recruit one or even one and a half standard soldiers in Songjiang, and the strength of Yu Shandong has also been greatly strengthened.
Zhao Guanhou can already foresee that after this financial turmoil, even if he handles it properly, there will still be chaos in Dajin's world. At that time, it was always up to the soldiers to speak, and whoever had a hard gun would speak loudly.
Before the flood arrived, Shandong had already begun to build dikes and store grain in preparation for the chaos that might come soon.
In Huajie, in a small hostel, more than a dozen young people chartered a cross-courtyard of the hostel, and they did not go out easily except to buy food. Not long ago, these men went out once, but they got into a fight with people, and when they came back, there were two more wounded. The innkeeper didn't care who they were, as long as they paid on time, he didn't care about anything else.
If Shen Baosheng was here, he would be able to recognize at a glance that there were several young people among them, who were the same outlaws who had clashed with his subordinates, and they were the ones who threw fried eggs at him.
The age of this cadre is not too big, and the spirit is also right, and when they get together, although they have recently suffered setbacks, their morale has not decreased. One humanitarian: "This is a good opportunity, Songjiang's economy collapses, and then it will inevitably spread across the country." We take the opportunity to raise the flag and raise our troops, and we will surely succeed. β
"Wuwei, you can't say that, our operation in Guangzhou has just failed, the blood of our colleagues has not yet been drained, now is not the time to be proud. Over the years, the price we have paid has been great enough, and now we can no longer be blindly impulsive. There is nothing to be done in Songjiang to raise troops, and there is no point in staying here any longer. I'm ashamed to say that if we could buy those foreign guns, the current situation would be much better. β
"What do you mean by that? Blame me? At that time, the funds were used to buy stocks, but everyone agreed that now it is all blamed on one person. β
"You are a big gambler, if you don't have to gamble once, how can you make such a fuss? I'm not blaming you, but I'm introspecting, we have to think about where we made mistakes. I have to bear the main responsibility for this operation, if it weren't for the conflict between me and Shen Baosheng's people, we could still continue to rely on his strength to develop members, and now, I'm afraid we can only leave Songjiang temporarily and make plans again. The special officer of the imperial court is Zhao Guanhou, he has powerful methods, and he has a deep relationship with the Cao Gang, so it is better for everyone to avoid some. It is too dangerous to stay in Matsue, and I recommend moving immediately. β
The young man named Wuwei shook his head and said, "You guys go, I won't go." Gan Geming was originally going to take risks, and he was afraid of death, so he didn't do this. As for Dajin, we are weak and strong, and if we do not have the determination to sacrifice, we will not have the hope of success. You say that I am a big gambler, but if I am a small gambler, how can I do this well? The Ge Ming you think of is either strategizing or bloody blades. The Ge Ming that I Chen thinks about is that he is drunk and lying on the knees of a beauty, waking up to the power of the world, and if he has money in the future, I will give orders in the Changsan Hall to drive the Tartars out of the Central Plains. If Ge Ming wants to succeed, he must first have military salaries and ordnance. Songjiang has the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and there are financial benefits, both of which are accounted for. So I want to stay, stay and preside over the overall situation, and in the future, Ge Ming will succeed, and Songjiang will be my foundation. β
"Okay, Wuwei, you want Songjiang, where am I going?"
"Huzhou is also very rich, it belongs to you."
"I don't think Hangzhou is ugly, I want it."
The slightest unpleasantness of the people has vanished, and like a joke, they have appointed themselves the governors of the capital, or the official positions of overseers. Although they were a group of remnants of the defeated army, the total amount of money on their bodies did not exceed fifty taels, and they lost tens of thousands of taels of organizational funds. But the ambition in my heart has not been shaken, and what everyone seems to joke in their words is a momentum: this world, it's time to change hands.
In the public concession, in Chen Yunqing's villa, the atmosphere of flowers and cooking oil in the past has disappeared, and has been replaced by a desperate atmosphere when the building is about to collapse.
Chen Yunqing, the head of the Chen family, was taken away by the patrol as part of Zhao Guanhou Songjiang's plan to rectify the economy and arrest the culprit. Shi Dianzhang was arrested not long ago, and then Zhengyuan Qianzhuang was unable to accept so many Zhuang tickets, and was involved in the Shi Dianzhang case, and it was reasonable for Chen Yunqing to be taken to the patrol room. Finally, Chen Yunqing is Lihua's comprador, and Consul General Yankee came forward to dredge. He was not taken to the Chinese realm, but was locked up in the trial office in the concession, and his personal safety was still guaranteed.
However, the angry depositors will not give up because of Chen Yunqing's arrest, and some of them have rushed into the concession and directly come to Chen's house to make trouble. In the concession, the merchant groups could not enter the armed group. The Concession itself was not strong enough to defend the banks, consulates or foreigners' residences. For this Chinese family, no force was sent to protect it.
Since most of the servants in the Chen Mansion have been dismissed, the few old servants left can't resist so many people at all. A large group of people claiming to be depositors burst into Chen's house, smashing and smashing everything they could.
The valuable things and antiques were pawned out when they paid Lihua's loan before, and there was nothing left for the family. The attackers received much less than they had imagined, and in the end they only took some clothes and bedding, but destroyed the entire villa.
When the two brothers, Chen Bailu and Chen Baiou, tried to stop them, they were both injured, and Chen Baiou's wife, Lu, cried and drugged her husband. Chen Bailu's wife had already returned to her parents' house, and Mrs. Chen could only rub the potion for her son. Seeing her son's handsome face being beaten blue and purple, Mrs. Chen couldn't help crying, "God, what did we do, why did we become like this?" With such a big family business, can it be said that it is defeated, and it is defeated? β
"Mom, don't cry, there's always a way, Dad has been working in the concession for so long, and he always has his own friends. We went to our friends for help and were always able to bail people out. β
As soon as Chen Baiou finished speaking, Miss Lu cried, "What's the use of friends? You nerd, you only know how to write your articles, where do you know the sinister world of things. How miserable my Abba died, so old, he was angry to death. His old man's bones were not cold, and my house was robbed. Say it's a depositor, but who knows who? My eldest brother also broke his hand and is still lying in the hospital. The current situation is that everyone looks after each other, and which one has the strength to control the others. I was also a sin in my last life, I married you as a wife, if I married someone who has the ability, why should I be angry now, the jewelry and clothes I bought were all taken away by them......"
At this time, a sound of footsteps sounded, followed by the old housekeeper's panicked voice: "You can't come in, this is the Chen Mansion, if you come in again, we will call the patrol room." β
"Patrol room? It's such a coincidence, this is the inspector of the patrol room of the public concession behind me, Ming Lou, someone is looking for you, you ask him what is the matter. β
The door was pushed open, and Shen Baosheng walked in with his head held high, and behind him were more than two dozen fierce-looking Cao Gang disciples. Mrs. Chen knew Shen Baosheng, and this big news person also had dealings with Chen Yunqing in the past, but when she entered the door at this time, it was not necessarily goodwill. Hurriedly motioned to his daughter-in-law to hurry back to the room with his eyes, and got up again and said, "Master Shen...... What are you doing here? β
"Old sister-in-law, don't panic, I heard that your family is in trouble, so I came to take a look, I have been friends with Master Chen for decades, how can I not save myself when I die. Look at it, are these people robbing your house? He commanded, and a group of people came in one after another, holding some bedding and clothes in their arms, and it was the depositors who had robbed the Chen Mansion just now.
Shen Baosheng pointed at them and said, "Put the things back and restore the villa within three days, if you can't do it...... You know what to expect. There are also those who hurt others, and break one of their own hands, so that I don't have to exert myself. He said to Mrs. Chen again: "A bunch of little deflated three, take advantage of the chaos to smash, don't be afraid." I've asked Minglou to patrol and guard your door to ensure that nothing like this will happen. β
Mrs. Chen didn't expect Shen Baosheng to come to help, she was both grateful and puzzled in her heart, and she didn't know what he was doing. But at this time, he didn't dare to wait slowly, so he hurriedly asked the servant to pour tea, and asked the two sons to thank him. Shen Baosheng said:
"You're welcome, I've heard about Master Chen, you've been friends for decades, I definitely can't sit idly by. Old sister-in-law, rest assured, I am responsible for bail, and Master Chen can go home at night. After his brother comes back, I still have a big business to talk to him, I have a good friend who wants to find a money bank to cooperate with, and I think Zhengyuan is very suitable. If this business is negotiated, I guarantee that it won't take long for Master Chen to make a comeback and still be a rich man in Songjiang. (To be continued.) )