"Xiao Wan, you just said that Cai Gong came over? Where are the people? ”

After not staying at Yu Qiaqing's side too much, and discussing the arrangement of relief materials and other related matters, Cheng Nuowan refused the other party's invitation, took a rickshaw by himself, and returned directly to the hotel.

As soon as the front foot entered the hotel hall, and before the back foot was withdrawn from the door, he saw Wan Laiming anxiously dangling in the rest area of the hall.

As soon as the other party saw Cheng Nuo's figure, he immediately greeted him.

"Brother Cheng, you are back, Gong Cai has been waiting for you here for a long time, and it seems a bit urgent to find you."

"Did you say something? What about people now? Cheng Nuo took off his coat and put it on his arm, and asked.

"I didn't say anything specific, but my face was very anxious, I have been inquiring about your news since I saw me, and I don't want to inquire about your adults, so I didn't ask, and invited him into our private room first, and now Second Brother Jiang is there to accompany me." Wan Laiming took the initiative to bring the things over and told the scene just now.

"Then why don't you go over, you're alone here, you have to stand up when you get old, you always have to be rickety, you have to start participating in some things, and it's not a way to escape." Cheng Nuo put his left hand on the other party's spine, and supported his shoulder with his right hand to make him straighten up: "Hold your chest up and raise your head, that's it, that's it, this is a bit manly!" ”

Wan Laiming stiffened his body, his arms were like wooden sticks, he was stunned to carry things, he didn't dare to move, his face wanted to laugh, but it turned out to be like crying.

"Brother Cheng, it's not that I don't go out, but Cai Gong is not only a teacher, but also a principal, although he always smiles when he looks at people, I always feel that he has a breath of energy, especially those eyes, which are more scary than when my father beat me, and I don't dare to come out, I really can't stand it, so I hurried out to breathe, so I can welcome you."

"As long as you have a lot of ideas, it's good to come out and go around." Cheng Nuo scolded with a smile on his lips, and patted the other party on the back: "Okay, don't be like a wooden man, it's too ugly to dry the pestle, have time to teach you gymnastics, practice your spirit well, and you will all be the cards of our Academy of Sciences in the future." ”

"What cards are not cards, I can always follow Brother Cheng to do animation, I am satisfied." Wan Laiming was relieved, and habitually straddled his waist again, but thinking that Cheng Nuo was still by his side, he quickly shrugged his shoulders high.

Looking at this slightly funny look, Cheng Nuo really couldn't cry or laugh, and helplessly touched the other party's head and diverted the topic: "When you came in just now, I saw you chewing something in your mouth, what were you eating?" ”

"Is that what you're talking about?" Wan Laiming put the things on the coffee table, took out the things from the paper bag on the other side, and there was still steaming on it: "Roasted white potatoes, they taste very fragrant, they were hot just now, and they are just right to eat now." ”

As he spoke, Wan Laiming broke the roasted white potato in half, put the bite he had bitten in his hand, and handed it to Cheng Nuo intact.

Looking at the fragrant white potato, Cheng Nuo hesitated: "Xiao Wan, did you buy this sweet potato or did we bake it ourselves?" ”

Wan Laiming didn't know why, so he smiled stupidly: "I bought it, if Brother Cheng wants to eat our roast, I'll borrow the hotel kitchen and make one later." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, this is good, I have to let you toss again, it's really troublesome." After taking the roasted white potato, Cheng Nuo immediately took a big bite, and ate it until it was glutinous and fragrant in his mouth, which was called a satisfaction.

The reason why I asked so much just now was that in addition to not being able to eat enough at Yu Qiaqing's house and wanting to eat a piece of roasted white potato and then pad my stomach, I was also worried about the previous "white potato" brand soap.

Three times five divided by two, Cheng Nuo squeezed the roasted white potato into his mouth in two bites, and after eating, he was still unsatisfied, and took out some change to stuff it into the other party's hand.

"It's money for baked sweet potatoes, if you don't want to go in for a while, buy food outside and eat it yourself."

"Brother Cheng, this ...... I have money. ”

"Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao, let's one yard to one yard, I don't know your situation yet? By the way, there are a few tea cakes in the things I brought, and they were given by others, you take two directly, and when you want to drink, you can pry a little bit of it yourself, drink as much as you want, and don't waste it.

I wanted to continue to explain a few words, maybe I heard the movement here, the door of the private room rented by Cheng Nuo suddenly opened, and the two of them slowly walked out of it.

When I looked closely, it was Cai Yuanpei and Jiang Jiangzuo, who were looking at this side with a smile.

Especially Cai Yuanpei, his hands crossed and naturally hung down in front of him, and he smiled: "Zhiyuan, what good things are you hiding, when you were in Beijing, you didn't come to me to rub tea, and the inventory was all made by you, and now that you have good things, you can't eat alone." ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo also took the opportunity to fall into the well, jokingly: "Yes, Cai Gong, you have to talk about him, he has done a lot of this, look at the oil on his mouth, I don't know what he has stolen just now." ”

Cheng Nuo lit up the white potato skin, and said angrily: "Well, Lifu, your favorite white potato, I bought it last time and I'm still eating it, do you want me to bake it for you personally, it's quite fragrant." ”

Thinking of what happened before, Jiang Jiang Zuo felt that his face was dull, how could he really let people bake white potatoes for him, and said with a smile: "It turns out that this is it, I have eaten a little too much recently, and I have heartburn, and I feel uncomfortable when I see it." ”

Cai Yuanpei looked at Jiang Jiang Zuo beside him, and then at Cheng Nuo not far away, and immediately understood that there were some ulterior secrets between the two, but who could not hide something in their hearts, so they did not continue to dwell too much on this topic.

"Forget it, you two can solve the matter yourself, I won't get involved." Cai Yuanpei smiled and shook his head, and turned half of his body sideways: "There are many people outside, so if you have anything to say, let's go in and say it." ”

Then the three of them entered the house together and closed the door again.

took out a telegram document from the document bag he was carrying, and Cai Yuanpei handed it over.

"At present, the floods in Zhili are raging, and the heavy rain continues, and millions of compatriots are affected. The public attaches great importance to this catastrophe, and President Feng Guozhang has convened a meeting to discuss disaster relief matters, and decided to allocate 300,000 taels of silver for disaster relief. ”

Cheng Nuo took the telegram, and before he had time to read it, he replied first: "This is a good thing, compared to our personal strength, the public can do too much, coordinating materials, mobilizing the army, etc., it is better than fighting alone." ”

After Cheng Nuo read the telegram, Cai Yuanpei nodded and continued: "Approaching the national capital, in the face of the big right and wrong, there are many fewer little monsters than before, in order to strengthen the disaster relief efforts, the president also specially ordered the former premier Xiong Xiling, who also suffered from floods in Tianjin, to supervise and coordinate the disaster relief work.

And he is directly accountable to the president, and he has mobilized the power of the whole country to supervise the disaster relief work. ”

Cheng Nuo looked at the telegram and said: "I see that it has measures such as the unified distribution of disaster relief funds, the construction of public housing, the leveling of grain prices, and the liaison with social forces. ”

But in the end, Cheng Nuo found that there was something wrong with the taste, and read the telegram twice, and the taste behind the words was finally tasted: "Cai Gong, this telegram ...... I don't think it's good. ”

As the fourth state minister of the Beiyang government, Xiong Xiling was a well-known politician, educator, industrialist and philanthropist during the Republic of China. Born in the Manchu Dynasty, he was dismissed as a young man for participating in the Wuxu Rebellion, and followed Zhang Jian and Liang Qichao to support Yuan Datou during the Wuchang/Uprising, and began to slowly approach the power center of the Beiyang government.

Later, he successively served as the chief financial officer and the commander of Rehe, and worked all the way to the position of state/prime minister, but unfortunately when he reached the peak of power, he was forced to resign because of the treasure theft case of Rehe Palace, and gradually retired from the whirlpool of power, until 1917, where Cheng Nuo is currently located, began to show up in front of the world again in the way of charity.

Because he has lived in the poor and backward mountainous areas of Xiangxi since he was a child, he has long understood and understood the suffering of the people, Xiong Xiling also handled disaster relief matters in the early days, but it was limited to this area of Xiangxi, and the scope and extent of the disaster were not enough to shock him.

At this time, he was in Tianjin, and he witnessed the tragic situation of the victims, especially the orphaned children who had lost their parents and homes, and only then did he really have a spiritual shock and realize the suffering of the poor society.

Since then, he has begun to do his best to adhere to charity relief and charity education to help the suffering people living at the bottom of society.

treats such a rare philanthropist, Cheng Nuo naturally has respect, and does not have a negative attitude at the beginning.

"It stands to reason that he is an official, I am a citizen, and there should be no mutual interference in disaster relief, and now he sends such an ambiguous telegram, and there is something in the words, it is not as simple as it seems!"

Jiang Jiang Zuo looked over, glanced at the telegram, and directly picked out the words: "He has taken a fancy to our materials and wants to hand them over to the public for management, but they are purely cheap for nothing, and it is difficult to find them with lanterns." ”

Cai Yuanpei sighed, and said with some bitterness: "You also know the situation of the public family, Yuan Xiangcheng's restoration cost 60 million yuan, and the treasury has long been weakened.

But even so, it is a drop in the bucket for the catastrophe that ravages the whole of North China. After the disaster, autumn and winter are approaching, the victims will not be able to survive the severe cold, winter relief is urgent, winter clothing alone needs millions of yuan in funds, they can hit us with the idea, it is reasonable. ”

Cheng Nuo was silent for a moment and asked, "Besides this, is there no other way for the public to do it?" ”

Cai Yuanpei hesitated for a moment and replied: "The Ministry of Finance also borrowed 700,000 taels from HSBC, Citigroup and other banks in seven countries with the balance of the salt tax as a guarantee, and at the same time borrowed 5 million yen from 10 Japanese banks with the income of Changguan in Duolun and Shandong and Shanxi as a guarantee.

However, due to the flood in Zhili, the price of materials remains high, and it will take more time to mobilize, so it is even more precious that the materials you have raised are more precious. ”

"Mortgage loans with customs duties and salt taxes are really drinking water to quench your thirst." Jiang Zuo also let out a long sigh, his eyes blank: "With the current economic situation of the government, it is difficult to repay the loan in a short period of time, and in the long run, our tariff autonomy will be handed over to foreigners, and they will be slaughtered by others.

When this kind of natural disaster happens, what else will we have to pledge? Tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, when is it a head. ”

Cheng Nuo patted Jiang Jiang Zuo on the shoulder to show comfort: "As long as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta region have independent tariffs, the public will still have the power to spare, as for the actual effect in the future...... Forget it, let's talk about the current matter first. ”

Historically, although Jiang Guangtou was inferior to Yan Laoxi in the development of industry, his overall strength exceeded that of the comprador class in these places and the tariffs generated by the import and export of commodities and materials, and he developed and grew step by step.

Imagine that I can easily earn money in my hands, why bother to gnaw the hard bones of industry, especially heavy industry, the cost is high and the effect is slow. As for the sluggish development of domestic industry, the dumping of foreign goods, and the people struggling on the line of life and death, these are all trivial matters, and they will not delay people to drink coffee at all.

Then again, now that Liang Qichao is the chief financial officer, his ass has not been hot for two days, and he has caught up with such a trip. It is estimated that he is now emaciated, no wonder he will resign at the end of the year, and he has no intention of asking about politics from now on.

When I return to Beijing, I must first find out the bottom of the situation, find out the situation, and strive to resign here, and join the Academy of Social Sciences under the Academy of Sciences.

Cai Yuanpei took off his glasses, picked up the handkerchief he was carrying, and slowly wiped it: "I just came here to be a microphone, as for Zhiyuan, what do you do, I completely respect your opinion." But I still want to add that Bingsan (Xiong Xiling) and I are old friends, and this time I made a promise.

In the process of disaster relief, we will crack down on corruption and distribute the limited supplies to the extremely poor and sub-poor farmers who are the most severely affected by the disaster, so as to help them tide over the difficulties and survive. ”

Cheng Nuo shook his head and put his point of view out: "The public has hundreds of thousands, millions of funds at every turn, and our little material is nothing in front of others, one more is not more, and one less is not less." ”

Jiang Jiang Zuo blurted out: "So do we want to be independent in disaster relief?" ”

"Autonomous but not independent." Under the suspicious gaze of the two, Cheng Nuo said word by word: "The road from Shanghai to Tianjin will ......be completed by Mr. Yu Qiaqing's Sanbei Wheel Port Company."

Jiang Jiangzuo had never known about this company before, and now when he heard it for the first time, he was confused, so he interjected: "Zhiyuan, this company is ......."

didn't let the other party finish speaking, Cheng Nuo directly interrupted him, nodded seriously, and said: "Lifu, I understand what you mean, but the disaster relief matter is more important now, and I will talk to you about the ship when I have time to turn around, and he is also what I just negotiated, so I didn't have time to tell you." ”

"It's good that with the steamship company, disaster relief will be much easier, Zhiyuan continued." The matter of transportation has made him distressed for a long time, but now that it has been resolved, Jiang Jiang Zuo smiled happily.

"If you think so, I'm relieved." Cheng Nuo nodded again and turned the topic back again: "When I arrive in Tianjin, I am ready to unite the teachers and students of Peking University and let them participate, which will greatly encourage their patriotism." ”

Cai Yuanpei's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said with a smile: "Zhiyuan, you shouldn't have deliberately 'kidnaped' Peking University to deal with the public, if you really want to do this, it's not authentic." ”

Cheng Nuo explained with a smile: "Of course not, the so-called 'autonomy' means that we are responsible for disaster relief, and as for 'non-independence', it is to cooperate with the academic circles in Beijing and Tianjin to participate in disaster relief activities."

Let these students get out of school and know what they are learning for. ”

I'm sorry.,The number of updates has dropped a lot during the Chinese New Year.,When the author is busy with these two days.,I will definitely increase the amount of updates.,Please bear with me.。

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