Song Zhewu is not only ready to let the Northern Investment and Development Bank bail out the Jin banknotes, but even uses his own money to pay interest for the people of Shanxi, where can such a provincial chairman go to find?

The excited crowd shouted loudly over and over again, and the huge sound spread throughout Taiyuan City, and many people shouted hoarsely in their throats and didn't care.

"Be quiet, be quiet, everyone will listen to me Zhao Pilian again."

Zhao Pilian shouted several times before the excited crowd gradually calmed down.

"General Song Zhewu is not a warlord, he is our national hero and the savior of our Shanxi people. Because the chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Political Axe was recommended by Zhang Xueliang and approved by the Nanjing Political Axe, it was not our Shanxi people who said that General Song Zhewu should be the provincial chairman, and when Jia Junchen and I went to ask General Song Zhewu to make a decision to save the Jin banknote as soon as possible, General Song Zhewu personally put forward several conditions for me and Jia Junchen, as long as these conditions were met, he would take action to restore the value of the Jin banknote. ”

"Say it! Mr. Zhao say it quickly! We agreed to all the conditions. ”

The huge cheers of the people who rekindled their hopes were deafening, and Zhao Pilian tried to speak several times, but found that his voice seemed too small in front of more than 100,000 people, and his several attempts to calm down the boiling crowd failed without any suspense.

Finally, Zhao Pilian seized a brief opportunity and said loudly: "In order to be responsible for the shareholders and to relieve the hardships of the elders in Shanxi as soon as possible, General Song Zhewu's conditions are: First, General Song Zhewu does not care whether he is the chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Political Axe, but the property of the Shanxi Provincial Political Axe must be controlled by him. ”

Before Zhao Pilian finished speaking, the excited crowd let out a huge shout, "Yes, yes." ”

Zhao Pilian continued: "Second, the Shanxi Provincial Bank must be controlled by him, and the issuance of Jin banknotes must be decided by him. If the central government does not agree with his control of the Shanxi Provincial Bank, then the central government must ensure that the Shanxi Provincial Government will never be able to issue paper money again, let alone Jin banknotes. ”

"Agreed, agreed, agreed!" Zhao Pilian's voice was once again drowned out by a huge wave of sound.

"Third, General Song Zhewu solemnly promised that if the central government finally wants him to take responsibility for the Shanxi fathers, all the expenses incurred in saving the Jin banknotes will be borne by him alone, and he will never pay a penny from the Shanxi fathers and elders."

"Good! Good! Good! Long live General Song Zhewu! Banzai! ”

Facing the excited crowd below, Zhao Pilian then said loudly: "The prerequisite for General Song Zhewu to save the Jin banknote is that this matter must be officially approved by the Nanjing Central Political Axe, otherwise he will not take any action. ”

Facing the anxious people, Zhao Pilian continued: "But the central political axe does not understand the actual situation in Shanxi, which has to rely on our Shanxi people to work hard, I propose, we set up a committee for the aftermath of the Jin banknote, this committee is composed of representatives from all walks of life, after the formation of a resolution, by this committee on behalf of the people of Shanxi, send a petition to the central government, do you say okay?" ”

"Good! Good! Good! ”

"Since everyone agrees, then I suggest."

Zhao Pilian turned around and pointed to Qiu Zengyi, director of the Department of Finance, Feng Sizhi, director of the Department of Education, Qiu Yangjun, director of the Department of Civil Affairs, Wen Shouquan, director of the Department of Construction, Director of the Department of Political Affairs, and Kong Wei, director of the Department of Police, and said: "These directors of the provincial political axe represent the Shanxi Provincial Political Axe. ”

Kong Wei and Qiu Zengyi didn't say anything, and the other people didn't dare to hesitate in the face of the surging crowd, and nodded in agreement. Their attitude immediately drew a round of enthusiastic cheers.

Then, Zhao Pilian motioned to the dozens of county mayors standing in front to come up to the steps, and these county mayors, who were still a little hesitant, all came to the steps involuntarily under the push and shovel of the police who "protected" them.

"They were all entrusted by the fathers and elders from all over Shanxi to come to Taiyuan to reflect the people's opinions to the provincial government, and I suggest that they be the representatives of all parts of Shanxi. In addition, people from all walks of life, such as education, students, chambers of commerce, industry, gentry, workers, and ordinary citizens, should also send representatives to participate, so as to truly reflect the public opinion of Shanxi, and these representatives hope that everyone will step up their efforts to promote ......"

Under the agitation of Zhao Pilian and the threats, the Jin Banknote Aftermath Committee was soon formed.

In addition, there were also big businessmen in Taiyuan City, as well as representatives of the industrial circles of Shanxi Province headed by Lan Chengrong, chairman of the Shanxi Mining Bureau, and Li Shumeng, director of the Shanxi Arsenal, representatives of Shanxi's educational circles headed by Wang Luxun, president of Shanxi University, and Qu Yongshan, president of the First Normal School, and representatives of the newspaper industry headed by Li Tongsheng, manager of Bingzhou Daily, and Zhao Xifu, manager of Shanxi Daily, as well as dozens of students and citizen representatives.

The committee held a meeting in the auditorium of Shanxi University that afternoon, and in order to expand its influence, Zhao Pilian asked Li Tongsheng to bring all the foreign journalists who had come to Taiyuan to attend the meeting as observers.

Those articles of association are ready-made, and they are naturally necessary to save the Jin bank, and there is no need to discuss them at all, and everyone unanimously votes by a show of hands. Then, Qu Yongshan and Zhao Pilian, the principals of the First Normal School, drafted and sent two petitions to Zhang Xueliang and Chiang Kai-shek respectively.

The petition message to Chiang Kai-shek read: "...... The warlord Yan Xishan's surname was difficult to change, and he was reckless in his military force, opposed the central government, and brazenly provoked a war in the Central Plains, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of millions of lives, the displacement of the people, and the unspeakable misery of the people. And Shanxi has been poisoned by Yan Xishan for a long time, and the people's disasters are even worse......"

"Jin banknotes are burdened by Yan Xishan, and they are depreciated more than once, and there is no doubt that they are related to waste paper, and there is no way to recover them unless they take decisive measures. However, Shang Zhen, chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Political Axe, turned a deaf ear and was helpless in the face of the chaos, causing the situation in Shanxi to collapse and be ......"

"General Song Zhewu couldn't bear to see the people of Shanxi in distress, and used millions of private property to relieve the panicked people, he was really a model of a soldier, a rare warrior in the ages......"

If the central political axe is unable to help, then the two million people of Shanxi will implore the central government to appoint General Song Zhewu as the chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Political Axe, and General Song Zhewu will lead the people of Shanxi to solve the predicament. For this reason, the people of Shanxi implore the central government to make the following decisions: First......"

"In order to relieve the hardships of the people of Shanxi as soon as possible and save tens of millions of people from fire and water, I implore General Zhang Hanqing to give up the selfish thoughts of each person and take the suffering of thousands of people in Shanxi as a great thought, and Chairman Jiang of the Central Political Axe will take the restoration of the people's livelihood in Shanxi as his own responsibility, and hand over the rights of Shanxi's civil affairs to General Song Zhewu as soon as possible, so as to restore the value of the Jin banknotes. Cut! Cut! Tens of millions of people in Sanjin wept blood and looked forward to it! ”

At the same time that the petition was sent out, reporters from all localities also sent back reports on the petition and procession and the contents of the petition telegram to their respective newspaper offices as quickly as possible; the next day, almost all the major newspapers in Shanxi, Beiping, Tianjin, Jinan, Qingdao, Shanghai, and Nanjing published the petition telegram in full and made a large number of reports on the situation of the petition and procession.

In just a few days, Song Zhewu once again became the protagonist of domestic news and public opinion, and Shanxi once again became the focus of public opinion.

Beiping, Tianjin, Zhengzhou, because these three places also had a large number of Jin banknotes in circulation, so far there are still a lot of Jin banknotes that can not be exchanged, therefore, these places also took place small-scale demonstrations and petitions, but also attracted the attention of domestic public opinion, Jin banknotes, the local currency of Shanxi, has also become a national surname discussion topic at the same time, various large and medium-sized cities are talking about Song Zhewu and Jin banknotes everywhere.

Contrary to the heated discussion among the people, Nanjing Zhengaxe and Zhang Xueliang, who had already been stationed in Beiping, did not move at all, and even the newspapers controlled by the central government, including the "Central Political Axe", did not mention anything about the Jin banknotes, which made all walks of life puzzled.

On the third day, an article signed "Bingzhou Crazy" about the great suffering brought by the Jin banknotes to the people of Shanxi once again attracted heated discussions among the Chinese people about Shanxi and the Jin banknotes. For example, an ordinary citizen of Shanxi Province who had worked hard to accumulate Jin banknotes for many years almost disappeared because of the depreciation, and committed suicide in anger, but fortunately was rescued and was spared.

The report of this article has caused the public opinion of the major newspapers, which mainly actually reported on the Shanxi protests and petitions and the situation of the Jin banknotes, to begin to change the direction of the spearhead of public opinion in the past few days, and the two major newspapers, "Declaration" and "Ta Kung Pao", the two major newspapers in the south and the north, have taken the lead in publishing condemnation and commentary articles.

condemned Zhang Xueliang for "putting personal interests first, ignoring the suffering of the people in Shanxi, and refusing to give up Shanxi." The "Declaration" even unceremoniously pointed out that Zhang Xueliang's warlord habit is difficult to change, and he uses state land as private property, completely ignoring the suffering of the local people.

Chiang Kai-shek also unceremoniously pointed out that "as the supreme leader of the Republic of China, he blindly tolerated and connived at warlords in various places, and arbitrarily granted the country's public property to others, and had no demeanor as a national leader......

The next day, Zhang Xueliang finally issued a telegram on the petition of the people of Shanxi, saying: "...... This time the troops were mobilized to enter the customs, but it was actually to mediate the war in the Central Plains by force, and I hope that the war in the Central Plains will subside as soon as possible, and there is absolutely no personal selfish intention......"

After Xueliang changed his banner, he became the deputy commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army on the orders of the Central Committee. Now the people of Shanxi have elected General Song Zhewu as the leader of the people of the Three Jin Dynasty, and Xueliang has no intention of obstructing and obstructing him, and now I implore the central government to meet the wishes of the people as soon as possible and relieve the suffering of the people of Shanxi......"

(To be continued)