Although Song Zhewu had been mentally prepared for Xu Yongchang's attitude as a good person, he was still very surprised by Xu Yongchang's decision to give up the provincial chairman to Yan Xishan, he definitely didn't expect that Xu Yongchang would not do the most powerful position in Shanxi with the dignified chairman of Shanxi Provincial Political Axe and the leader of the Jin Suijun, but he was willing to give away these things that many people dream of?

Song Zheyuan was also stunned in surprise, and opened his mouth to persuade Xu Yongchang, but in the end he didn't say anything. After all, he is the one who wants to benefit from Song Zhewu's plan, and if he talks too much, Xu Yongchang will see his thoughts, and he will even feel unhappy.

Song Zheyuan's expression, Song Zhewu naturally saw it all in his eyes, thinking about the future situation of these two people, Song Zhewu admired Xu Yongchang's personality more and more.

This kind of thing that surprised many people is probably only Xu Yongchang, who has no ambition at all, is very far-sighted, has no selfish thoughts, and sincerely thinks about the country and the people.

Song Zhewu's memory of his previous life is very clear, Xu Yongchang's personality is very valued by Chiang Kai-shek, since Xu Yongchang left Shanxi to serve in the Nanjing Central Political Axe, he was appointed as the director of the General Office of the Military Commission with real power, and during the eight-year War of Resistance against Japan, he has been serving as the director of the Military Command Department of the Military Commission, in charge of operations. Together with He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, and Chen Cheng, they were merged into the four giants of the Military Commission.

Before Xu Yongchang's death, Chiang Kai-shek not only gave Xu Yongchang the honor of representing China and signing the surrender document with representatives of nine countries, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, on the USS Missouri parked in Tokyo Bay. After his death, Chiang Kai-shek even awarded the "Sympathy Liangsuke" to mourn.

Xu Yongchang helped Yan Xishan twice when Yan Xishan was in the most difficult time, and he can be called Yan Xishan's benefactor, and Yan Xishan also knows him best. After Xu Yongchang's death, Yan Xishan not only personally made the sacrificial text, but also sent "people are loyal and strict with themselves; If you have a deep attainment, you will see far. Couplet.

Yan Xishan's elegy can be used as a true portrayal of Xu Yongchang's bright and upright life.

For Xu Yongchang's decision, Song Zhewu was not only disappointed, but also helpless, but he was not easy to persuade people like Xu Yongchang.

That night, Song Zhewu wanted to entertain the two of them, but both of them were in no mood, so Song Zhewu had to withdraw the banquet he had booked in the restaurant outside, and found Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Jia Jingde and Zhao Pilian, and simply feasted the two of them in the Zhonghe Zhai in the Northern Frontier Governor's Office.

Early the next morning, Song Zhewu stood in the courtyard of the office, and after seeing off Song Zheyuan and Xu Yongchang, who were in a hurry to leave, he was about to go back to the south hall to say hello to Li Rujuan, so that he could inspect the construction site of the Taiku Railway, which was in full swing.

But before Song Zhewu could turn around, he saw a postman wearing a uniform similar to the color of the Fourth Route Army's uniform, under the surveillance of a guard on duty, pushing a bicycle with two large cloth bags full of newspapers hanging on the back seat to the guard booth, according to the number, after picking out various newspapers one by one and handing them to the guards on duty, he turned around and left the office.

The appearance of the postman suddenly reminded Song Zhewu of something, and Song Zhewu was a little annoyed that he had forgotten such an important thing.

Song Zhewu thought for a while, and said to Ye Qing, who was following behind, "Ask Wang Xinggang to come to my office." ”

Wang Xinggang has been in a very comfortable mood since he became director of the Propaganda Committee of the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, and as a college student, he is also very comfortable in doing propaganda work, which is much happier than doing the work of the Political Training Office in the army.

When he was in the Political Training Department, his work would receive "attention" from many people, intentionally or unintentionally, so he was very careful in his work. In particular, the political training work is very boring, and it really makes him feel very bored to do it as a young man like him.

However, the situation is different now, and his propaganda committee has jurisdiction over all the news media in Taihang Administration, Suiyuan, and North and South Mongolia. Not only did he approve the distribution of all newspapers and magazines in these places, but even his content was largely subject to his control. In particular, his propaganda committee's own "Northern Morning Post" wants to publish what he wants, and he has the final say.

Of course, the content of the article must also be limited, but as long as it is not an article that promotes redness, abuses political axes, or insinuates attacks on Song Zhewu and the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, he can publish it at will, which allows Wang Xinggang, a graduate of Peking University, to show his strengths.

Wang Xinggang has long been very disgusted with the fact that most of the current newspapers, in order to attract readers, publish some low-level things that are not nutritious, although he, the director in charge of propaganda, cannot force other newspapers not to publish these things that are not nutritious, but the "Northern Morning Post" is absolutely up to him. Therefore, from the very beginning, the "Northern Morning Post" gave people a refreshing feeling, in addition to publishing and publicizing the policies and orders of the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, it also reflected the demands of peasants and workers in large numbers, and also had a special column on domestic and international news and current affairs. Of course, Wang Xinggang is inevitably making some comments on current affairs.

Song Zhewu was generally satisfied with the newspaper and Wang Xinggang's work, but he made some suggestions to Wang Xinggang, such as opening up new columns such as popular science columns, popular voice columns, and anti-corruption columns.

The purpose of Song Zhewu's opening of these columns is to better enlighten the people's wisdom, reflect the people's opinions, and supervise the behavior of officials at all levels of the administrative system.

Among these columns, especially the livelihood and anti-corruption columns, the reaction in society has been particularly strong.

After Song Zhewu took control of the Taihang Administration, Suiyuan, and Nanbeimeng, because the cadres led by Chu Feng were limited, almost all the old officials in various places were retained, and there were many officials who were tainted with old habits, and the way of working was still the same as before, which made Song Zhewu very dissatisfied.

As long as someone reports to the "Northern Morning Post" about the corrupt and disorderly behavior of these officials, once it is verified, the "Northern Morning Post" will be exposed in the newspaper as soon as it is verified, and as long as it is exposed in the "Northern Morning Post", the government affairs organs at all levels will naturally not dare to slack off and will immediately deal with it.

Because the heads of these departments all know that Song Zhewu has to read this newspaper every day, and if they don't deal with those subordinates who violate the law and discipline, then their own black yarn hats will not be able to be saved. Therefore, as long as it is exposed, no matter who it is, it will be immediately dismissed, and the justice that should be handled will have an immediate effect for the people to see, and in the past few months, hundreds of officials have been pulled off the horse.

Because of the tremendous role of this newspaper, Song Zhewu also proposed that the "Northern Morning Post" should widely solicit the people's satisfaction with the political axes at all levels and various departments in the society once every six months, and that the results of the solicitation should be published in the "Northern Morning Post" as the basis for various departments to improve their administrative behavior and promote officials.

Because of the existence of this newspaper, the atmosphere of officialdom in the areas controlled by the Northern Frontier Governor's Office has changed greatly, and the people who wear gold watches and smoke foreign cigarettes have been extremely restrained, and the officials have taken their work seriously and in a down-to-earth manner.

At present, the "Northern Morning Post" is not only widely distributed in Taihang Administration, Suiyuan, Nanbeimeng, but also in other parts of Shanxi, and even in Henan, Shaanxi, and Pingjin in Hebei.

In order to expand his influence, Wang Xinggang also established close business ties with Tianjin's Ta Kung Pao and Shanghai's Shanghai Declaration, two extremely influential newspapers in China. The three parties not only exchange news with each other, but even exchange some advertising space with each other. This also makes the advertising in the three newspapers more valuable and more impactful.

Due to the influence of the "Northern Morning Post", many businesses were willing to spend a lot of money to advertise in the "Northern Morning Post", but Wang Xinggang did not agree at first because all his funds were paid by the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, and he was not short of money. He believed that the newspaper could only develop in its present state, and that it would never be tainted with any copper stench, which would tarnish the sanctity of the newspaper.

For Wang Xinggang's attitude, the merchants reacted very strongly, not only Qiao Yingxia, president of the Taihang General Chamber of Commerce, came to Song Zhewu on behalf of the businessmen, but Li Rujuan also gave Song Zhewu a lot of pillow wind. In the end, it was Song Zhewu who personally told Wang Xinggang about this, and Wang Xing had just reluctantly agreed to publish a commercial advertisement in "his" precious newspaper with only a very small page.

However, this also caused a lot of trouble for Wang Xinggang. Because of the small layout and fierce competition among merchants, the advertisement every day gave Wang Xinggang a headache, and it was Song Zhewu who gave Wang Xinggang an idea to solve this problem.

Song Zhewu's idea was very simple, that is, to imitate the method of CCTV in his previous life when bidding for the king in prime time, and divide the limited advertising space on the "Northern Morning Post" into three categories for bidding, and the highest bidder will get the advertising position.

As soon as this policy was introduced, it immediately detonated the enthusiasm of the merchants, and the businessmen who are good at calculation know that as long as their enterprises and products appear in this newspaper, their corporate popularity will immediately rise, and the sales performance will definitely rise.

Therefore, merchants have come to bid at any cost. So much so that the advertising department of the "Northern Morning Post" is overcrowded every day, and now the worst advertising position has risen to 100 oceans a day, and the first-class position is more than 1000 oceans a day.

Because the funds of the "Northern Morning Post" are all paid by the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, the "Northern Morning Post" now receives more than 10,000 oceans of advertising revenue every day, which makes Wang Xinggang feel deeply embarrassed, and he sent nearly 400,000 oceans to Song Zhewu in the first month.

Compared with Wang Xinggang's surprise, Song Zhewu was prepared and completely handed over the money to Wang Xinggang. Song Zhewu told Wang Xinggang that they would settle the expenses for running the newspaper by themselves in the future, and that the surplus funds could be used to run a pure magazine.

Because Song Zhewu believes that for a country to be strong, it is not only the strength of science and technology and economy, but also the awakening of the national spirit.

(To be continued)