Zhang Kun's method is indeed good, even a layman like Du Yaquan can feel that this method is extremely important, he recorded Zhang Kun's suggestion, and then sent this idea to Yang Rui later. However, at this time, Du Yaquan remembered another thing, that is, the small amount of agricultural loans that Yang Rui confessed.

Tongguò capital penetrates into the countryside and binds the peasants with their own lending relationship, which is one of the basic strategies for Yang Rui to gain a foothold in the Northeast, which is actually the reason why the Kanto Bank and the agricultural materials company were opened, Zhang Kun as the general manager of the Kanto Bank can think of the expansion of his own strength and influence in the money industry, and Yang Rui as a revolutionary hopes that the bank and the agricultural materials company will cooperate to make the people in the area under its jurisdiction rich, of course, in this process, there will inevitably be "Tonghua Railway Company is good" But in general, the people are benefited. Especially in agriculture today, there are many natural disasters and floods, and as long as there are one or two poor harvests, the people will be trapped by usury, and the old debts will not be paid, and new debts will arise again, and so on until they lose their land and houses, and become tenant farmers.

What Yang Rui hopes for is what Zhang Kun doesn't want, or what Kanto Bank doesn't want. The current Kwantung Bank is the central bank of Liaodong, in addition to lending to some industrial and commercial households, its basic customers are money banks, and these money banks have some large and small landlords, grain stores, and cart shops under the branches of these money banks in various places, these three kinds of people are usurers, they generally use their own capital to lend to peasant households, but every time the money is insufficient, they will go to the money bank to ask for loans, and then transfer the money to the peasant households, because these people themselves are agricultural practitioners. I know the industry itself very well, coupled with the inconvenient transportation, poor information, and a narrow market. In times of good harvests, they often band together to suppress grain prices, reap huge profits and lead yeoman farmers to bankruptcy. If the Kwantung Bank wants to implement loans to help farmers, it will compete with the lowest landlords, grain stores, and cart shops for profit, which will not be conducive to the future development of the Kwantung Bank.

After Du Yaquan roughly finished talking about Yang Rui's small agricultural loan, Zhang Kun pondered for a moment and said, "If the Kanto Bank is to be directly involved in the countryside, then the bosses of various money banks will not be so polite to us." Let's not talk about this yet. If you really want to lend to the countryside, you must understand the countryside, how is the agricultural material company doing now? ”

"Kuandian, Huairen, Tonghua, Ji'an, Linjiang, Xingjing, Fushun. And the places for newcomers are doing very well. And Liaonan is worse, and Liaoxi is not very smooth. Dua Quan said. Liaodong is the nest of the Revival Association, and there is an army to suppress the formation, and the landlords and local tyrants have been cleared again, and the effect is the best. Liaonan borrowed the relationship of the old Zhang family. It can be regarded as a foothold, but the various forces in western Liaoning are intertwined and difficult to penetrate.

Just saying that Zhang Kun doesn't believe it, he has to have a real number, he said: "What kind of process are those regional salesmen familiar with the farmers in this area? ”

Hearing Zhang Kun's detailed question, Du Yaquan laughed, "They have already compiled a list of the people, acres, credit, agricultural technology, and gambling addiction of each village and village under their jurisdiction," he patted Zhang Kun's hand and said, "It's definitely more detailed than the Japanese." If there is a good salesman, he married a daughter-in-law in his jurisdiction, and he is considered to have settled in the local area. ”

The model of the agricultural material company is one set and one store. There are two stores in one store, one store collects grain and local products, and the other sells seeds and farm tools. In addition to the store, and according to the size of the market area of influence of the division, each district has a salesman, responsible for selling agricultural materials and grain, these salesmen are basically farmers who fled from the famine in Shandong, the standard of selection is not only reliable is to be able to speak, they fool the villagers to buy seeds and sell grain, by the way, the daughters of the people are also fooled, which is considered to have completed the transformation from the proletarian to the propertied person.

Zhang Kun was not very clear about the inside story of the agricultural materials company, but when he heard that Du Yaquan said it in such detail, he nodded and said, "Okay!" If you really know so much about the countryside, then the loan to help farmers can be released, that is, ......" Speaking of which, Zhang Kun was also helpless, "that is, agriculture depends on the sky for food, and the risk is extremely high, and if you are not careful, you will have to ......"

Du Yaquan understood Zhang Kun's concerns, and said with a smile, "Then you can rest assured." Now the agricultural company has hired a group of foreigners, ready to set up meteorological stations and hydrological stations in various places, although it can not be eliminated from natural disasters, but the pre-disaster early warning can still be done, in addition to the silk industry in eastern Liaoning, markets such as the United States, France, such as Italy, Japan, as well as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Huguang have sent people to collect local silk industry information, when the whole world of silk sales, silkworm cocoon production how I know, high prices and low prices, early sales and late sales are also well known. Speaking of this, Du Yaquan sighed, "I only know now that farming should be like this, hey! Scientific farming and keeping up with the market, if one of these two is not good, this agriculture will not be able to do well. ”

In his depiction, agriculture is no longer a business of digging in the soil, but like a huge factory, where the people are the workers, the agricultural material company is the manager, and what the Bank of Kanto has to do is to provide funds to make this huge factory rumble and operate.

"Hmmm! I understand. Zhang Kun said: "But in the end, there is another one, that is, in order to maintain the relationship between the Kanto Bank and various banks, it is best not to use the name of the Bank of Kanto for small agricultural loans, and it is best to set up another agricultural bank, and then use the name of this bank to give loans to farmers." ”

"Haha. No wonder Cheng values you so much, you all want to go together. Du Yaquan laughed, "Cheng Cheng has already thought of the name, this money bank is called the Rural Credit Cooperative Money Bank." You are responsible for lending them the money you have raised from Shanghai, and once you lose money, it will also be borne by the agricultural materials company, and it will not affect the reputation of your Kanto Bank. But besides, your cadres must send a few people to teach them, otherwise when the money village is opened, their gang of mud legs will be messed up. ”

"Good, good. Brother Qiufan, I'll send someone over tomorrow. Zhang Kun smiled. But if you don't forget about the official money and silver number, as long as you can take it, then we can really print the money ourselves. ”

Zhang Kun and Du Yaquan chatted happily, in the same city, but the people in the Japanese consulate chatted extremely aggrieved, of course. This is not entirely because of the case of military tickets some time ago, but by the reparations about the Russo-Japanese War, after the end of the naval battle. Both Japan and Russia were interested in peace talks to end the war, but when Japan euphemistically mentioned the issue of reparations to Roosevelt in accordance with international practice, the news became known to the Western media, so all the newspapers criticized the Japanese for their barbaric bloodshed, and an American newspaper commented: "Does Japan want to use human blood as a bargaining tool?" Some newspapers even accused the Japanese of being "yellow monkeys" and enemies of Christianity.

"Takeda-kun. Do the rice newspapers really say that about us? Saburo Okabe's assistant Tamura asked with tears in his eyes.

After talking softly, Takeda-kun said, "Yes." His Excellency Gao Ping, referring to the reparations of the Franco-Prussian War, proposed that Russia should pay us an indemnity of 1.3 billion rubles. And he hoped that Roosevelt would mention this point in his mediation, but Roosevelt only said that he wanted only peace! You know, peace! When we went to war. They say how evil Lu Guo is. What a greed, now we have spent a huge price to defeat the country of Lu, but they just want peace. We offered for reparations, and they said, 'Take human blood as a bargaining tool'! Our blood, our sacrifices, have become worthless! We ...... "The Japanese named Takeda seems to have drunk almost," and the empire was deceived by rice animals and white-skinned pigs! The land laid down cannot be annexed, and the demand for compensation is not supported. O Empire! Hundreds of thousands of jade soldiers! ”

Love xù was too excited, along with Jiro Takeda's words. The Japanese in the room all cried and fought the battle with all their might. But after the fight, I found out that I was trapped, and European and American countries, especially France, have 7 billion Russian war debts, and if Russia pays huge Russian war reparations, and Russia goes bankrupt, then European and American bankers will lose all their money. Therefore, it is the consensus of the big people not to pay reparations to Japan, or to pay less reparations to Japan; Roosevelt, on the other hand, really only wanted peace, and in view of the perfection of the Japanese navy, he was very concerned about the safety of the Philippines, an American colony not far from Japan, and he would stop anything that would help Japan become stronger. Against this political and economic backdrop, and the fact that Asia has always been regarded as a barbaric land by the Christian clan, it is not unreasonable to abuse and despise Japan.

Takayama Huitong also cried miserably, he came down directly from the battlefield, he knew very well how tragic the war was, although he had always been cautious in his words and deeds around the big man, but this time he couldn't help but say to Okabe Saburo: "Your Excellency." The rice animals deceive people too much, every time we want to do something, they will come to destroy it, and if the empire wants to occupy South Manchuria, we must beat the rice animals out. ”

"Yes! Okabe-kun, the power of the Americans is becoming more and more stable in Liaodong, and the rights of the empire cannot be guaranteed without excluding them. Murakami, the only one who was not drunk, said that he was the director of the Zhengjin Bank sent to Andong to open the Zhang Office, and after learning about the situation in Liaodong, he thought that his job prospects were extremely bad, and with the support of rice animals and the local gentry, he could not compete with the Kanto Bank.

"Nope! Murakami-kun. Can't do that! Saburo Okabe drank and hung his head, and spoke in a daze, "If the empire wants to end the war, it needs the help of the people of the United States to mediate, and the empire can't go on." The world is now a Caucasian world, and we, whatever we do, are dictated by the Caucasians. ”

As soon as Okabe Saburo finished speaking, the Japanese named Takemura pounced on him with a "Yaga", and scolded while fighting: "This is the diplomat of Great Japan? Well. This is the diplomat of Great Japan! ”

The scuffle between the two people caused chaos in the room, and Tamura, who was Okabe's assistant, was also coerced by Takeda when he wanted to fight, but Takeda was also a wax gun, and he suddenly fell asleep while fighting. Okabe woke up a lot after tossing and drinking, he shook his mount, shook his head, and said: "If the empire only has such reckless men, then we will always be trampled under the feet of rice animals." ”

"Okabe-kun, what should we do then?" Murakami asked.

"Patience! Only patience will allow rice animals to help us. Japan is now very miserable, but even more tragic are Poland and India, as long as the empire can firmly step on the Qing and obtain the necessary raw materials and markets, then I believe that one day the empire will rise! ”

"But now that Miju has completely occupied Liaodong, and we now only have places such as Liaonan and Liaoxi, as well as Shengjing, this peace talks, as a mediator, won't Miju let the empire cede some of its interests? According to rumors from the upper echelons, Harriman, the railway king of rice animals, wants to buy the South Manchurian Railway......"

"What!" Saburo Okabe was shocked if Russia did not pay reparations to Japan. Then the South Manchurian Railway would be the only trophy of the empire. If all this spoils of war were bought for the United States, then hundreds of thousands of soldiers would have died in vain.

"Yaga!" Saburo Okabe's face turned red and his fists were raised. changed the style of the gentle and elegant civilized people in the past, and began to be barbaric! "Damn rice animals! Damn rice animals! I'm going to make them pay. ”

Murakami didn't care about Okabe's madness, but sang the waka himself:

四方(よも)の海(うみ)

みなcompatriots(はらから)と

思(おも)ふ世(よ)に

……

"Murakami-kun, maybe we can fight the rice animal ......" and the song Saburo Okabe calmed down, he thought about it, and finally had a way.

"What's the solution?" As soon as I heard Okabe say that there was a way, I stopped singing waka. Murakami's eyes stared straight at Okabe.

*

The June sun was scorching on the grass of Zhang Yuan, the grass and trees in the garden were wilting, and there were no pedestrians on the streets outside the garden. But the voices in the garden were boiling, and the Ankaidi Hall was crowded with people both inside and outside, and a voice said loudly on the radio: "The United States prohibits Chinese laborers, and abuses Chinese everywhere." It's like a black man. And it's more dramatic than blacks...... The beauty pretends to be civilized and acts barbaric, which is really miserable! If we and other Chinese people must unite and not buy, order, or ship American goods, then we can ask the United States to renew the treaty, and only then can our overseas compatriots not be ...... overseas."

The speaker said emotionally, but someone under the stage rushed up. grabbed the microphone and said, "Brothers." We are only shouting here that those rich people still buy, order, and ship beautiful goods, not to mention far away. Let's just say that the Tonghua Railway Company on the Four Horse Road, when it builds a 20 million taels of railway, it has 10 million taels of American goods to buy, and the engineers he hired from the United States have a salary of 10 US dollars a day, while our Chinese workers only pay 2 dimes a day. Ten dollars is worth two dimes, which is dozens of times. If we want to boycott American goods, we must beat the Tonghua Railway Company, not only to bring down the railway company in Shanghai, but we also have to go to the Northeast and beat the Tonghua Railway Company! ”

"10 million taels of beautiful goods!" "Ten dollars a day and two dimes a day!" Such a clear figure made An Kaidi's exceptional patriots instantly scold, and someone in the crowd immediately shouted: "Down with Tonghua Railway Company!" Down with the traitor Yu Huizu! Down with the Tonghua Railway Company ......"

The shouting was small at first, but then it became louder and louder, and finally the whole Zhang Yuan was boiling, and seeing that the slogan was almost shouted, the person who first rushed to the stage shouted again, "Brothers, let's go and ask Yu Huizu now to see why he buys beautiful goods, and why he gives so much money to Americans......

The excited crowd is always impulsive, and under the leadership of some people, more than 1,000 people inside and outside An Kaidi left Zhangyuan and went straight to the four roads, and the team either shouted slogans or sang some miserable poems along the way:

The chemical industry is bitter, the Chinese workers are hard, and there is no way to talk about it

When he wanted to open up a new Hongmeng, he recruited envoys to do hard work

At this time, the mountains and forests of the road are open, and the lingering is like a contempt

……

More than 1,000 people out of An Kaidi put the people in Zhang Yuan in, out of the street has nearly 3,000 people, these 3,000 people are violent, the patrol along the street can not be suppressed when they see the bullet, immediately ran to the patrol room like a rabbit, the office of Tonghua Railway Company is on the church street of Sima Road, this church street is a street of Qianzhuang, the company office was located here mainly to better finance in Shanghai, the crowd from Zhang Yuan does not take much time to walk to the church street, although there are patrol cards on the way, But the people who rushed to the front were very tough, relying on the advantage of a large number of people, they rushed to the side of the thin line of defense of patrolling, rushed through two police cards one after another, and the team finally arrived at Church Street, at this time the Tonghua Railway received a message, saying that there was a large number of small people with people to make trouble, the manager of the office was about to give Yu Huizu a call for the telephone, but found that it was useless to pick up any sound in the microphone, anxiously as long as he sent someone to pass the letter, but not long after he went, he heard the voices of people outside in a hurry, and a voice shouted: " Down with the traitor Yu Huizu! Immediately afterwards, countless voices shouted out, "Down with the traitor Yu Huizu!" ”

"Quick! Shut the door. The manager had never seen such a formation, and his face turned white and scary, but he also knew that it was too late to avoid it, and it was only right to close the door first and wait for the patrol to disperse. This side was about to close the door, and a stone and brick suddenly flew out of the crowd outside, beating the people who closed the door to the point of bleeding, and the door was only half closed.

No one knows how many people rushed into the Tonghua Railway Company at that time, in the interrogation of the arrested people in the patrol room, no one admitted that they had entered the house, and frankly admitted that they had nothing to do with the later arson, what they said the most was that they were crowded in the crowd at that time, only to hear the chaos in front of them, and after a while they heard the shouts of "kill the ......", when they wanted to run, there was smoke in front, at this time everyone panicked, and they also followed the crowd to retreat......

On the same day, the Shanghai office of the Tonghua Railway Company was smashed and set on fire by the marching crowd, and two clerks inside were seriously injured and five were slightly injured. Faced with such a situation, Yu Huizu, the general director of the railway company, had no choice but to publish a statement in the newspaper that only a small part of the company's purchase materials were American goods, and the rest, including steel, were all domestic materials, and the engineers hired were all Chinese laborers, who were originally Chinese laborers who had been abused in the United States.

Yu Huizu's statement can be called timely, but no matter how timely it is, it is useless in the national boycott of American goods. Newspapers in various localities have regarded Yu Huizu and the Tonghua Railway Company as typical examples of traitors who disregard the lives and deaths of Chinese laborers and only seek personal gain. The information given by Hankow Han Pao was very detailed, listing the American goods ordered by the highway company in the newspapers, and at the same time, it was revealed that the Tonghua Railway Company had a private agreement with the Americans, that is, after the completion of the railway, it would be handed over to the American company for management. After all, the Tonghua Railway, which is located in a war-torn place, must reassure shareholders if it wants to obtain financing support, and it is better to reassure shareholders than to control the country with raze, which was extremely effective in the past, and now it has become a handle for thousands of people to resist the trend of American goods.

Public opinion is not favorable to the Tonghua Railway Company, but it is not one-sided, although the newspapers of the Fuxing Association are not good to stand on the side of the Tonghua Railway Company, and can only publish some other news to resist the trend of American goods, but the news newspaper of the Shanghai beauty Fu Kaisen and the Times of the reformist Wang Kangnian and many tabloids are opposed, Tianjin's Ta Kung Pao and Beijing's Jinghua Daily and Shuntian Times are opposed, and the Han Bao in Hankou is dominated in Wuhan, and there are negative news about the Tonghua Railway Company and Yu Huizu during the period. Because of the large number of overseas Chinese in Fujian, the newspapers in Fujian have criticized the Tonghua Railway Company.

"How can this Ta Kung Pao speak on our side?" Since the smashing incident that day, Cai Yuanpei has been thinking about how to reverse the situation, but Wang Xiaolin's side has no way to confront the entire public opinion, all he can do is to try to divert the attention of public opinion, but the whole June has been safe, and the whole of China is the news of boycotting American goods and Chinese workers being abused.

"Ta Kung Pao is the newspaper of Tianjin." Wang Xiaolin said, "Lord Yuan, the governor of Zhili, does not support the boycott of American goods, and according to the jurisdiction of Beiyang, the Northeast has always been his territory. ”

"Hey!" Cai Yuanpei couldn't help sighing, he knew earlier that Japan would definitely not withdraw its troops, but the truth really came to see that he was still very depressed, and the Northeast was a good place, and now it will be divided between Japan and Russia. He said with annoyance: "Are you sure that the Han newspaper in Hankou is a Japanese newspaper, and there is also the Shuncheon Times?" ”

"Yes, sir! We have analyzed the editorials and current reviews of the major newspapers in the past three years, and these two newspapers have always spoken on the side of the Japanese, so we can be sure that they are Japanese newspapers, or they are newspapers that have been accused by Japan. "Wang Xiaolin's work is very detailed, even though the Japanese control these newspapers are very secretive, but you can still see a lot of things from the continuous attitude of the newspapers for many years. (To be continued......)