The news about Song Zhewu, a national hero who resisted the Soviet Union and recovered Outer Mongolia, is enough to attract the attention of the people at any time, not to mention that he fought back and took Yan Xishan's lair, thus actually ending the Central Plains War that caused heavy losses in national strength.

Since the news that Song Zhewu had resisted the joint attack of Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang in the major newspapers was published, it immediately aroused great concern among the people in various places, and public opinion reacted enthusiastically, and the sales of the major newspapers also increased significantly. Therefore, for the sake of sales, the newspapers have never stopped reporting on Song Zhewu in recent times.

However, before Yan Xishan went into the wilderness, the news obtained by these newspapers outside Shanxi was not the first-hand information obtained by their own reporters, but through the local newspapers in Taiyuan.

It was not until after Yan Xishan went into the wilderness that the war stopped and the traffic to Taiyuan was restored, and the major newspapers in other provinces had the opportunity to send reporters to arrive. Some small newspapers were not willing to be replaced, and they sent their own competent reporters to Taiyuan as soon as possible, all wanting to be the first to get the scoop and increase their newspaper sales.

The news that attracts readers the most, of course, is about Song Zhewu, but what disappoints them is that Song Zhewu does not accept any interviews at all, and these reporters all hit the nail in the Northern Frontier Chief's Office, and they only see Wang Xinggang, the propaganda director of the Northern Frontier Chief's Office.

Fortunately, Wang Xinggang, the new director of the Propaganda Department, is very competent, and Wang Xinggang has always answered questions about Song Zhewu and the Fourth Route Army, but as soon as he mentioned the current Jin banknote matter, Wang Xinggang refused to answer on the grounds that the depreciation of the Jin banknote was a local government affair in Shanxi and it was inconvenient for Commander-in-Chief Song to interfere.

A reporter asked: "Does the Northern Investment and Development Bank really have the shares of Commander-in-Chief Song Zhewu?" Some time ago, the Northern Investment and Development Bank gave the people of Shanxi a quota to exchange Jin banknotes, was it Song Zhewu's order? If yes, then for what purpose did Song Zhewu do? What is the reason for stopping the exchange of Jin banknotes now? ”

Wang Xinggang, the director of the propaganda department of the new section, because the team of his propaganda department is still in preparation, he is basically the commander of the light pole, and now he is actually playing the role of Song Zhewu's spokesman, for these questions, he has obviously been prepared, and he has already communicated with Song Zhewu about many things, so there is no problem in answering.

Regarding the question of whether the Northern Investment and Development Bank has Song Zhewu's shares, Wang Xinggang told reporters, "The parent company of the Northern Investment and Development Bank is the North American Brother Investment Bank, and this bank is a joint-stock bank founded in Canada by Song Zhewu's brother Song Zhewen in the United States. ”

Because Song Zhewu's brother's career in the United States was developed with the property left by the two brothers' fathers, he gave Song Zhewu some shares, so the Northern Investment and Development Bank is really a foreign-funded bank with Song Zhewu's shares.

For the second question, Wang Xinggang's answer was even more affirmative.

Wang Xinggang also told reporters that although Song Zhewu had shares in the Northern Investment and Development Bank, he could not do whatever he wanted, and his doing so was completely unacceptable to the other shareholders of the head office, and it was only after Song Zhewu made a promise that all the losses arising from the exchange would be borne by him personally before the bank agreed to start the exchange.

Regarding the third question, Wang Xinggang unceremoniously asked: "May I ask Mr. Reporter, does it still need a purpose to help the needy?" ”

In the end, Wang Xinggang told reporters with a heavy face: "Now it seems that the millions of oceans that Commander-in-Chief Song cashed out should be a complete loss, and these money will be repaid to the bank by the profits of his own Xinghua Company." ”

"Because the main task of the Fourth Route Army is to defend the northern frontier for the country, and there is still Soviet Russia in the north, which always covets our great rivers and mountains, it must maintain a large army and build a large number of defense fortifications, so the military expenditure is huge. However, the national political axe was unable to pay in full, and the military expenses of the Fourth Route Army had always been made up by Commander-in-Chief Song Zhewu out of his own pocket. The money lost now is almost a month's salary for the Fourth Route Army. ”

Wang Xinggang then said with regret: "There is another reason, that is, Commander-in-Chief Song Zhewu is only responsible for the northern border defense, and cannot interfere in local government affairs, Commander-in-Chief Song lost some money, so that the people can reduce some losses, that is the greatest dedication he can do for the people of Shanxi, and the restoration of the value of the Jin banknote has to be done by the Shanxi Provincial Political Axe, for this, Commander-in-Chief Song is very regretful, although he still wants to help the Shanxi fathers, but ......"

For a time, all major domestic newspapers, including local newspapers in Shanxi, devoted a lot of space to reporting on Song Zhewu's report that "in order to solve the urgent needs of the people in Shanxi, he exchanged his private wealth for Jin banknotes and suffered heavy losses." Song Zhewu's name was once again talked about by the Chinese people, and in addition to the national hero, he also had another title -- charity general.

As for Wang Xinggang's obviously unfinished regrets, major newspapers have also deduced their own speculations.

"Bingzhou Daily" pointed out, "...... According to well-informed sources, the Northern Investment and Development Bank is strong and fully capable of helping restore the value of the Jin banknotes, but it is a private bank, and shareholders will not agree to do so without strong guarantees that can convince shareholders. And their most convincing guarantee is undoubtedly Song Zhewu, but it is a pity that Song Zhewu is not the chairman of Shanxi Provincial Political Axe, which cannot but be said to be the sorrow of Shanxi people! ”

On the fourth day of Yan Xishan's downfield, which was also the fourth day when the Northern Investment and Development Bank stopped exchanging Jin banknotes, Taiyuan college and middle school students, who have a tradition of resisting taxes and complaining about grievances for the people, finally shouted "Restore the value of Jin banknotes and ensure the livelihood of the people in Sanjin." slogan, bravely took to the streets.

As a result of Yan Xishan's vigorous promotion of education, Shanxi's education is very developed, and there are more than 20,000 college and middle school students in Taiyuan, and as soon as these students take to the streets, the huge procession is far from being comparable to the scale of thousands of citizens, not only because the number of students is larger, but also because the students' organizational surnames are stronger.

These students were very experienced, or the organizers of this march were very experienced, and they did not go straight to the provincial political axe, but after coming out of their respective schools, they shouted slogans calling for the provincial political axe to come forward and take responsibility for stabilizing the money, and at the same time walked around the city along their planned routes around the city and marched along their own planned routes.

Because the students shouted out the voices of the people of Taiyuan, the parade attracted bursts of cheers from the people everywhere they went, and ordinary citizens continued to spontaneously join the procession, and the processions of various schools were like snowballing in scale and number, and when the processions of various schools finally converged in front of the provincial political axe, the number of people was nearly 100,000.

By this time, it was not only students, teachers and ordinary citizens who participated in the march, but also many businessmen and some public officials, as well as many journalists from all over the world.

The most conspicuous in the team are dozens of county mayors from all over Shanxi who have been escorted by police.

These county mayors are very comfortable living in the Taiyuan Hotel these days, not only eating and drinking, but Zhao Pilian also comes to "talk" with them every day, although they already know what Zhao Pilian means, but no one wants to leave.

The county mayors who served in the areas controlled by the Fourth Route Army did not dare to go, but they did not dare to go, they knew that if they left, they would be at the end of their work, although they were county mayors appointed by the provincial political axe, and they had no administrative relationship with Song Zhewu, but even if Song Zhewu was not the governor, because of the local garrison, their officials would not be able to do it.

And the officials in Datong and Jinnan, although they are not very afraid of Song Zhewu, but the restoration of the value of Jin banknotes is also something they are very happy to see. Therefore, none of the mayors of these dozens of counties left Taiyuan, on the contrary, these people called one after another, asking their subordinates to tell the local people that they were fighting for the municipal government in Taiyuan, and they would never go back if they did not solve the problem of Jin Bank, which the people were most concerned about.

As soon as the students took to the street, Zhao Pilian personally led the police to the Taiyuan Hotel and told them, "The young students have taken to the streets, shouting for the livelihood of the people of Sanjin, how can you, the parents and officials from all over Shanxi, sit still?" You, the representatives of the people from all over Shanxi, today is the best time to reflect the people's will to Shang Zhen, who is ignoring the people's livelihood and suffering in Shanxi. ”

Of course, Zhao Pilian will not forget to tell them that those police are here to protect their "safety", and as long as they go to the streets to "shout" for the people, their personal safety will definitely be guaranteed. Then these people involuntarily took to the streets and joined the march under the one-on-one "protection" of the police.

And their appearance made the mood of people from all walks of life in the march even higher, and some famous gentry even joined the procession.

Led by more than a dozen young students holding iron horns, the processions gathered in front of the Provincial Government Axe Gate filled several streets near the municipal axe, shouting slogans over and over again, asking Shang Zhen to come out and answer the demands of the people from all walks of life in Shanxi.

There were already hundreds of policemen lined up in several rows in front of the provincial government axe gate to "guard", but what is strange is that although the policemen are standing in order, they are all bare-handed, not to mention weapons, even batons. Although the weapons confiscated by the Taiyuan garrison commander have not been returned to them so far, there are always batons?

It turned out that as soon as the students took to the streets, the provincial chairman Shang Zhen learned the news through the seniors of some schools, and the students in Taiyuan were very powerful, which Shang Zhen knew very well.

When resisting the deed tax, not only did they smash the homes of Yang Yongtai, the then director of the Provincial Department of Finance, Jia Jingde, the secretary general of the Overseer's Mansion, and Xu Yiqing, the manager of the Provincial Bank, but even because the student negotiators who entered the Overseer's Mansion did not come out for a long time, the students actually smashed the sign of Yan Xishan's Overseer's Mansion, and Yan Xishan didn't have a temper at all......

(To be continued)