The sky is sunny and sunny, and it can be good. The fields are boiled green, and the road is divided into two parts, east and west, the east side of the road is farmland, planted with sorghum, and the west side of the road is also farmland, planted with soybeans and vegetables.

This is the southern suburb of Beijing, not far from the Nanyuan Aviation Base, as for the Payou Road that runs through the north and south, it is the Beijing-Tianjin National Highway that has just been completed and opened to traffic.

On the current Beijing-Tianjin National Highway, several cars with ordinary license plates are speeding, and in one of the cars is Xiong Xiling, the chief financial officer of the Republic of China. As a senior official of the central government, Xiong Xiling is qualified to have security personnel, all of whom are from the Gyeonggi Security Service, whose sole function is to provide security for all senior central officials, and is directly managed by the chamber of the Commander-in-Chief.

Xiong Xiling came from Tianjin, and yesterday he went to Dagu in Tianjin to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony of Dagu New Port. Later, he inspected the local imitation weaving industry exhibition in Tianjin, and went to Tianjin with Liu Jieyi, the general director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, but Liu Yuanyi is still in Tianjin to inspect the local light industry base. I didn't go back to Beijing with Xiong Xiling, and the most convenient way to get back to Beijing from Tianjin was by train. But Xiong Xiling wants to inspect the road situation of the Beijing-Tianjin National Highway by the way, to see if the data reported at the bottom is consistent with the real data, after all, the construction team that repairs the road is a private company, and it is the Ministry of Finance that pays for the road repair. Otherwise, the Supervision Office and the Ministry of the Interior would not give him a good look, and it was for this purpose that Xiong Xiling decided to rush back to Beijing by car, and he took the train when he went to Tianjin. Now these cars are borrowed from the Tianjin municipal government.

Along the way, Xiong Xiling is still satisfied with the construction quality of the Beijing-Tianjin National Highway. So, when approaching Beijing, Xiong Xiling's main attention has shifted away from the national highway. He began to consider the purchase of a few official cars for the Ministry of Finance.

Although the economic exhibition has been gaining momentum in the past two years, coupled with the amazing profits made by the anti-inflammatory drug sulfur limb sizzling and its derivatives in the international market, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of China has finally basically gotten rid of the embarrassing situation of the Beiyang era, although it is currently in order to support that. "Four industrial exhibition plans," the life of the Ministry of Finance is still tight, but due to Xiong Xiling's high financial management ability and financial savings over the years, the current Ministry of Finance can finally buy some cars for itself.

Speaking of which, the Ministry of Finance is in charge of the country's finances, but the current Ministry of Finance has only five cars, four cars, and one truck. Whenever there is a major official event or need to deal with foreign consortia, the Ministry of Finance is only scraping together with all parties, and all kinds of cars can give the Ministry of Finance some confidence, but this is not a long-term solution after all, as China's financial center. This kind of face work is indeed indispensable.

If Xiong Xiling had been put aside, Xiong Xiling would not have made up his mind to buy a car, but now it is different, because China can make its own cars, cars and trucks, although the performance may be mediocre. However, compared with foreign cars, Chinese cars still have an advantage in price, due to the introduction of assembly line production technology that has just appeared from the American Ford Company, and further optimized it, the price of Chinese-made cars is much lower than those foreign cars that come across the ocean, which is not only thanks to those engineering and technical personnel, but also thanks to President Zhao Da, without his "four industrial exhibition plan," Wuhan will not become China's current heavy industry base, There will not be many factories that are compatible with the automobile manufacturing industry. As the most brilliant pearl of modern industry, the automobile manufacturing industry is the most test of a country's industrial strength and organizational ability, after all. This weak country once needed to import even iron nails, but now the country's factories are able to imitate car motives.

But the exhibition of the automotive industry needs a vast market. At present, exports are not yet available, so the cars and trucks manufactured in the Wuhan factory need to be ordered by the government to maintain the normal operation of the factory. The reason why Xiong Xiling suddenly came up with the idea of buying more cars for the Ministry of Finance is also an important reason, China's market should best be occupied by Chinese abandoned goods, even if it is hung with a "Sino-US joint venture Sino-German joint venture" signboard.

As for the cars manufactured in the past, in addition to selling some of them to the civilian sector, the rest is still backlogged in the open warehouse, and Xiong Xiling plans to buy them in one go, not only to the Ministry of Finance. A few more cars were also allocated to other government ministries. Especially the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Ministry of Education are "cold yamen." "You can't say that Mr. Xiong has eccentric eyes. It is also impossible to give political opponents black material for attack.

Xiong Xiling sat in the car and pondered about buying a car for the government until the car stopped. He regained his mind and looked out the car window, and there were still fields on both sides, far away from Beijing.

"Why park?" Xiong Xiling asked the secretary sitting in front of him.

And the head of the traffic jam secretary replied.

"Traffic jams? I didn't see many cars along the way

Xiong Xiling pushed the car door in curiosity, stepped out of the car, and several attachés hurriedly followed, guarding the left and right.

After getting out of the car, Xiong Xiling saw that the national highway was full of horse-drawn carriages, mule carts and other civilian vehicles, but the things pulled were basically the same, all cotton bales, and the handlebars who drove the cars were gathering together to inquire about what was going on in front of them.

Xiong Xiling asked a few handlebar styles, but the other party was a little incoherent, helpless, so he only sent a guard to the front to investigate, and he himself took the attaché to chat with the cotton buyers who were blocked on the road, and inquired about the changes brought by the light industry exhibition in the area of Beijing and Tianjin to the people.

Beijing and Tianjin do not compete, "This is too close to Shanhaiguan." It is too close to the coast, considering that Japan's weight loss "catty to in that "four industrial exhibition plan scraping", the Beijing-Tianjin area is the same as other coastal areas, except for a small amount of military industry, the main light industry is here, and the cotton imitation weaving industry is the representative industry in the light industry, and now it is not yet time to harvest cotton, these cotton merchants are buying old cotton, but now the cotton imitation weaving industry is fast, especially in Jiangsu, where more than half of the country's imitation weaving factories are concentrated, and the old cotton in the north is in short supply, and Beijing, Tianjin is the cotton distribution center in the north, and the cotton here is mainly transferred to the south by train and ship.

Xiong Xiling was chatting with a cotton merchant who had turned back from the front of the national highway.

"Chief, there is Nanyuan in front, there is a group of young people at the intersection of the aviation base to give a speech, there are too many people at the intersection to see the excitement, thousands of soldiers, villagers, and irrigation canals on both sides of this national highway. As a result, the road was blocked. Now the gendarmes have passed. Coordination is underway

"I see.

Xiong Xiling was stunned. Recently, relations between China and Japan have been very tense, and in order to fight back against Japan, patriotic people from all over the country have organized, some have demonstrated and some have made speeches, setting off a fanatical patriotic anti-Japanese movement.

However, Xiong Xiling understands that Zhang Jiyang is just a figure standing in the foreground, and it is the president of the Republic of China who is really behind the scenes, and it is the president of the Republic of China who is in the anti-Japanese movement, and since the United Front came to power, President Zhao Da has been very enthusiastic about inciting the youth movement, and often inspects middle schools and universities in Beijing and Tianjin, and mingles with young students, so among the young people now, the president's prestige is not ordinarily high.

"Trouble, trouble. China's strength cannot be achieved by a few speeches, China needs doers

Xiong Xiling shook his head helplessly, no longer interested in this matter, sat back in the carriage, and continued to ponder his government official car purchase department.

Half an hour later, the Beijing-Tianjin National Highway, which was severely congested, resumed normal traffic, and Xiong Xiling urged the driver to speed up and rush to Beijing, because he had to catch a meeting, and it was not an ordinary government meeting. Rather, it was a diplomatic negotiation, and the "Northeast Asian crisis" was due to the strong mediation and intervention of Britain and the United States. At present, there is a gradual move towards détente, and today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to hold meetings with the special envoys of Japan. Since today's negotiations will involve the issue of patent infringement by Japanese businessmen and enterprises against Chinese pharmaceutical companies, it is necessary for Xiong Xiling to participate in the negotiations, because the production and sales of the drug and its derivatives are directly related to China's central financial situation, and the production and sales of the drug and the licensing of patents are directly managed by the Ministry of Finance, while the unscrupulous counterfeiting and dumping of Japanese enterprises have seriously damaged the Chinese side

Benefit.

When the car passed by that intersection, Xiong Xiling deliberately looked at the intersection, and now the young people who were speaking had left. Only a few gendarmerie and aviation officers lingered there, so they withdrew their gaze with a wry smile.

Xiong Xiling's motorcade soon drove into the south of Beijing, just in front of the Daqianmen Railway Station, Xiong Xiling finally met the group of young people who were giving speeches at the intersection of Nanyuan Aviation Base, and then he understood why the other party disappeared so quickly, because these young people were all riding bicycles, and judging from the marks on those bicycles. Most of these bicycles were awarded by the President of the Republic of China to those middle school and college students with excellent character and learning, so it is no wonder that they responded so enthusiastically to the president's anti-Japanese call.

"Did you come all the way from Tianjin?

Xiong Xiling paid attention to the flags planted on the bicycles by the young people, most of them seemed to be students of several technical schools in Tianjin, but his mind was not on this, and he quickly ordered the driver to turn around the car and bypass the other road, so as not to be stopped by the young people who were gathering in front of the train station.

However, Xiong Xiling's motorcade was still too eye-catching, and the young people certainly wouldn't let them go, so after Xiong Xiling's motorcade arrived in Beijing's northern city and stopped in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs compound, the outside of the carriages of these official cars was already plastered with colorful leaflets, most of which called on the people to boycott Japanese goods, and a few more radical leaflets even shouted "Down with the columns."

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"These stunned boys. I don't know how thick the sky is, and the Ministry of the Interior doesn't care. Can the slogan "Down with the Great Powers" also be shouted indiscriminately? If the British and American ministers heard about this, I was afraid that the Foreign Ministry would have another headache. ”

Xiong Xiling tore down a few leaflets from the carriage and looked at them, his evaluation of the young people was not very high, he sighed, threw the leaflets, and ordered the attaché to clean up the leaflets on the carriage, and then walked into the compound of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a confidential officer.

Seeing Xiong Xiling arrive, he hurriedly led him to the reception room, served tea, and asked Chief Xiong to rest here first, and now there is still about an hour before the official meeting is held. Even Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi has not yet arrived.

Zhou Xuexi, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and Zhu Qifeng, minister of agriculture and forestry, are both old acquaintances of Xiong Xiling, and Xia Shoutian, chief of internal affairs, and Rao Hanxiang, chief of communications, although they also know Xiong Xiling, but their relationship is very ordinary. In addition, these two people are alternate members of the United Front, and Xiong Xiling deliberately kept a distance from them, after all, he is now the same as Yang Du, both of whom are free people in the government, without party or faction.

Since they were all sitting in the same reception room, it was naturally not good not to say a word, Xiong Xiling and the four colleagues each talked a few words, and then threw aside the chief of internal affairs and the chief of communications, and had a long talk with the chief minister of industry and commerce and the chief minister of agriculture and forestry.