Shang Zhen understands that looking at today's formation, it must not be good, if it is not handled well, the students will smash his provincial political axe, which is also a normal thing.

Therefore, Shang Zhen couldn't care much anymore, and immediately called Kong Wei and Xiao Guodong in person, asking them to send someone to protect the safety of the provincial political axe.

In response to Shang Zhen's request, Xiao Guodong told Shang Zhen very bluntly that the guns of the Fourth Route Army would never send troops to unarmed students and ordinary people.

However, Kong Wei agreed very happily, and soon personally brought more than 200 policemen to the provincial government axe.

But as soon as Shang Zhen saw the people brought by Kong Wei, he almost crooked his nose, and the embarrassed and angry Shang Zhen asked Kong Wei in public: "Why don't the police bring weapons?" Isn't there a baton either? ”

Kong Wei told Shang Zhen with an innocent face that the weapons of the police were all in the garrison headquarters, and there was no way to do it, unless Chairman Shang went to the garrison headquarters to come back. As for the batons, there are, but these policemen also have more or less Jin money at home, and the depreciation of Jin money also makes them hold their stomachs, and the police are now very unstable, in case there is a policeman with evil intentions, it is not good to hurt the person who injured the provincial political axe with a baton, so they didn't dare to let them carry anything.

In order to reassure Shang Zhen, Kong Wei also said that he would never let the marchers hurt Chairman Shang, and he would personally accompany Shang Zhen.

In fact, Shang Zhen has been on fire for the past few days, and he doesn't care about Kong Wei's overt and covert resistance to him.

Song Zhewu's sudden counter-attack allowed him to be released from de facto house arrest, and he was able to continue as chairman of Shanxi Province with the support of Zhang Xueliang through his student Liu Duoquan, much to the excitement of Shang Zhen, who had been under house arrest by Yan Xishan for a year. However, just as he was happily preparing to follow in the footsteps of Yan Xishan in the past, wanting to show his strength and become a freshly baked new king of Shanxi, Xu Yiqing poured a basin of cold water on his head and made his dream come to naught.

Without money, Shang Zhen would not have been able to reorganize his Thirty-Second Army; Without money, he could not secure the support of the remnants of the Jin Sui army; There was no money, and he couldn't even command the officials of any state or county.

Don't say that the state and county officials in the areas that Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army now occupies, he can't command, because they are all so-called "military management" and are almost deprived of all rights, even the state and county officials in Datong, Jinnan, and Wutai who are now in the hands of the Jin Sui Army do not listen to him, in the hearts of these people, he Shang Zhen is an outsider after all, and he has long been automatically excluded from the Jin Sui Army system, and Xu Yongchang and Yang Aiyuan are the real leaders of Shanxi in their minds.

Even in Taiyuan, where the provincial government axe is located, he Shang Zhen is only nominally the supreme ruler, but in fact, not only the police he can't control, but also the taxes, and the departments under his Finance Department can't collect a cent, and those taxes are taken away by the people of the Fourth Route Army. The CMC firmly controlled almost all the organs under the various departments, and several of his subordinate departments were effectively emptied.

He Shang Zhen has been swallowing his anger these days. But that's it, don't let him, the provincial chairman of the empty shelf, worry, let's just talk about the depreciation of the Jin banknote that is making a lot of noise now, the culprit of the depreciation of the Jin banknote is obviously Yan Xishan, but now they are all coming to him for trouble as the provincial chairman who has just taken office for a few days.

What made him even more angry was that although Datong, Jinnan and Wutai refused to obey his orders, they were not ambiguous at all when they opened their mouths to ask for money. He also said that now due to the addition of more than 100,000 Northwest Army, the Jin Sui Army now has no food and no salary, and even began to borrow money from local merchants.

After receiving Xu Yongchang's call, Shang Zhen was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, and said in his heart: "I, Shang Zhen, am almost too poor to open the pot, so I still have money left for you Xu Yongchang." Don't say that the Jin Sui Army is not my Shang Zhen's troops, let alone under the jurisdiction of my Shang Zhen's provincial political axe, and there is no obligation to give you food and salary. Moreover, even if there is, I Shang Zhen will never give it to you. It was Yan Xishan's fault that there was no food, who asked him not to go into the field earlier, so that Jin Suijun accepted Zhang Xueliang's reorganization. ”

In the past few days, newspapers such as "Bingzhou Yuebao" and "Shanxi Yuebao" have not only successively published such market rumors as "the reasons for the depreciation of Jin banknotes and Yan Xishan's takeaway of Shanxi bank deposits," but also published articles by a person named "Bingzhou Crazy Birth" many times, and this "Bingzhou Crazy Birth" not only bitterly criticized Yan Xishan in the article for ignoring the lives of the people in Shanxi, indiscriminately issuing Jin banknotes, imposing heavy taxes, and brazenly provoking a civil war. He also repeatedly criticized him for not taking on the responsibility of saving the Jin money and safeguarding the interests of the people of Shanxi, and the only way is to shirk the responsibility, and will only put all the responsibility on Yan Xishan, who has abandoned the people of Shanxi.

Nonsense, this is obviously a "good thing" done by Yan Xishan, how can it be said that it was me Shang Zhen who pushed it on Yan Xishan?

Shang Zhen, who was furious, instructed Kong Wei to send someone to seal down the newspaper and arrest this crazy student.

But Kong Wei told him that the closure of the newspaper and the arrest of people had to be approved by the garrison command, and he could not do it.

The furious Shang Zhen called Song Zhewu directly, but it was Zhao Pilian who answered the phone, and Zhao Pilian told him lukewarmly on the phone, "As long as these newspapers do not publish [***] remarks and incite redness, no one has the right to interfere with press freedom." In a word, the garrison command doesn't care about this matter.

Shang Zhen now completely understood, he robbed Song Zhewu's position, Song Zhewu is now eager to squeeze himself away immediately, where will he help him.

However, anger is anger, this hurdle in front of him must be crossed, the slogans outside are shouting loudly, if he, the provincial chairman, is still shrunk in the provincial political axe, then he will no longer have to be the provincial chairman.

Moreover, Shang Zhen is not unprepared for such a thing as today, at least he has a shield in his hand now-Xu Yiqing.

Since being forced by Shang Zhen to finish printing Jin banknotes, Xu Yiqing came to resign from Shang Zhen. If you want to resign and leave, how can there be such a cheap thing, Shang Zhen is still counting on Xu Yiqing to help him Shang Zhen on the issue of Jin banknotes. So I insisted on it, and clearly told Xu Yiqing that it was okay to resign, and I would have to wait until the Jin banknote turmoil subsided.

This Xu Yiqing is also very "single", as far as Shang Zhen knows, Xu Yiqing saw that Shang Zhen did not agree to his resignation, so he sent his family to Jia Jiying's house when he returned home. After settling his family, Xu Yiqing ran to the provincial political axe by himself, eating and living here, which obviously showed that he was a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.

Shang Zhen understood that Xu Yiqing was afraid that someone would smash his home again and scare his family. And sent to his old friend Jia Jiying's house, it is absolutely safe, during this time, Jia Jiying's house is resident with a platoon of heavily armed garrison commanders, and in case of an accident, a large number of reinforcements from the garrison headquarters will arrive immediately, you must know that Jia Jiying is now a celebrity in front of Song Zhewu.

However, Xu Yiqing did this in line with Shang Zhen's intentions, so that Shang Zhen would not be afraid that Xu Yiqing would run away secretly, and he would have to send someone to watch him.

Finally, after taking a look at the surging crowd outside the window, Shang Zhen asked people to call Xu Yiqing, and then took 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, the director of the police department who had just arrived, surrounded by guards, to the gate of the provincial political axe.

Standing on the steps of the provincial political axe, Shang Zhen held a loudspeaker in his hand, and in the face of the surging crowd of marchers on the street, he was not too wordy, and immediately spoke.

Shang Zhen first told the marchers that he was as deeply saddened by the depreciation of the Jin banknotes as everyone else, and that Yan Xishan, in order to realize his own ambitions, ignored the hardships of the people of Shanxi, and insisted on going his own way, provoking a civil war. In order to cope with the military expenses required for the civil war, it not only increased the tax burden of the people in Shanxi, but also indiscriminately issued 148 million Jin banknotes, which was the most direct reason for the depreciation of Jin banknotes.

Shang Zhen is telling everyone that the depreciation of Jin banknotes has nothing to do with my Shang Zhen, and the culprit of the depreciation of Jin banknotes is Yan Xishan, don't be mistaken.

Secondly, Shang Zhen said that as the new chairman of Shanxi Province, he Shang Zhen wanted to help the people of Shanxi very, very much, and also wanted to restore the original value of the Jin banknotes, but he Shang Zhen had no money, and Yan Xishan had already spent Shanxi's finances on the dry stones, otherwise he would not know that the Jin banknotes were depreciating, but he still had to print a large amount of Jin banknotes.

Shang Zhen also said that there is another point that he must say, that is, the finance and taxes of the entire Shanxi and the provincial government axe cannot collect a penny now, and these taxes have been collected by the local garrison......

Shang Zhen's words are to tell everyone, you are looking for me Shang Zhen to solve the problem of depreciation of Jin banknotes, it is useless, because I Shang Zhen really has no money, I can't help with this, this is not my Shang Zhen's inaction.

And Shang Zhen didn't forget to take the opportunity to explain his printing of Jin banknotes, which was a last resort he really had no choice.

Of course, Shang Zhen did not forget to put Song Zhewu and Xu Yongchang together, who asked you to intercept the financial and tax of my provincial political axe.

Then, Shang Zhen clearly told everyone that the rumors in the market that Yan Xishan swept away 12 million oceans from Shanxi Provincial Bank were true, of which 1 million was handed over to Xu Yiqing, who was divided by Xu Yiqing to all the senior officials of the provincial political axe except him, 5 million was personally distributed by Yan Xishan to the generals at all levels of the Jin Sui Army, and 6 million oceans were taken away by Yan Xishan himself.

said and pointed to Xu Yiqing behind him: "If you don't believe it, you can ask Xu Yiqing, the manager of the provincial bank, he knows these things best." ”

(To be continued)