Hearing that the degradation of U.S. cotton was such a reason, Li Guangyi was very stunned. Doesn't this mean that those local cotton and American cotton hybrids have turned other people's good seeds into bad seeds? Seeing him like this, Yang Rui said again: "This is always in... The experience of other places shows that only when the whole area is planted will there be a good harvest, but if it is planted at intervals and not managed in accordance with the appropriate method, the harvest will naturally be bad. Speaking of which, thinking of Yizhou cotton with a yield of 12 catties per mu, Yang Rui was anxious for a while, China's industry is backward, but agriculture is even more backward. It is scary to produce 12 catties of cotton per mu, but the output of native cotton in general areas is only about 30 or 40 catties.

Yang Rui turned to look at the two young people in the room who were recording the content of the meeting, and shouted, "Go ahead and explore, Qian Tianhe." ”

As soon as he shouted, the two young people stood up in a daze, Yang Rui pointed at them and said to Li Guangyi: "This is an agricultural expert sent by the association, Comrade Qian Tianhe was specially transferred from Yanzhou, and Comrade Guo Tanxian is still a student, they are all from Tongji University Agricultural College in Shanghai, this time they will stay in Yizhou to inspect Yizhou's agriculture everywhere, you must pay attention to ensure their safety." ”

Among the 50 or 60 people Yang Rui came here, half of them were technicians, including personnel in agriculture, mining, metallurgy, machinery, construction, military industry, commerce, and water conservancy. The problems of agriculture and water conservancy in Yizhou are the most prominent. In addition to letting Wu Keqing, who is in charge of water conservancy, come out and introduce the Yizhou flood to everyone, Yang Rui also introduced the two backbones of agriculture to Li Guangyi and others.

"I'll keep them safe!" Yang Rui rarely introduced these people he brought, and more when he talked about a certain issue. Only then did he pull one or two people out, and Li Guangyi was very happy to hear that two agricultural graduates from Tongji University were going to settle down in Yizhou.

"Sit down." Yang Rui said to the two young men. Li Guangyi was pleased with the arrival of these two people, but Yang Rui had the trouble of not having enough manpower, and both of them were second-year students of Shanghai Agricultural College, and they knew all about textbook knowledge, and the experts were still far behind. But there are important people in the base area, so they have to be sent over.

After the cotton issue is discussed, the summary meeting will be over. As for the more specific action plan, it will not come out until later. After Yang Rui announced the dismissal of the meeting, Li Guangyi said another problem when there was no one around, that is, according to the news, someone will do something in the near future. "It is said that they are the remnants of the army. They are going to do something at the junction of Fei County and Yi County. ”

Yang Rui of the banner army knew that it was the local party in Lunan Province, advocating killing the rich and helping the poor, using a large piece of cloth as the banner, which was called the banner army, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had already raised righteousness and made trouble before, and later got together with the twisted army in that chaotic ten years, and the ending of the twisted army was the same. was killed by the Manchu and Qing gentry, but he didn't want to be caught in Lunan.

"Can't you take it? It's all rebellion, what's not to talk about? Yang Rui asked.

"No, it's Song Bin's subordinate general in the past, called Song Si, and besides, the various departments of the army have always been self-contained, and they don't belong to each other, so it's still difficult to integrate them." Li Guangyi had already had the idea of fighting the local party, but the army was traditionally like this, and it was difficult to integrate it.

"How many of them are there, and what weapons? What is the righteous law? Yang Rui asked.

"According to the news, it is three or five hundred people, and the weapons are ...... The weapons are probably some earthen guns, earth cannons, broadswords, and spears, and there must be no quick grabbing. How's that? It is estimated that it is to raise the flag and sacrifice to the sky, and then start killing the rich and helping the poor. Li Guangyi said.

"Since they refuse to be co-opted, let's wait and watch the Manchus fight with them." When Yang Rui heard that there were three or five hundred people, he was relieved that at least these few hundred people would not make the Manchus increase their troops in Yizhou on a large scale. "Do you want to send someone to co-opt them, or do you want to convince them not to do it right away?" Seeing that Li Guangyi was a little reluctant, Yang Rui asked again.

"Sir, I only think about why the revolutionaries can't unite, how can their broadswords and spears be against the cannons and muskets of the Manchus?" What Li Guangyi said was very emotional. It's just that his words offend Yang Rui's rebellion a bit, and the unity of the revolution can only be the unity under the leadership of the Revival Association, not the unity of different revolutionary organizations. For example, in the case of the Revival Society and the Confederate Society, there is no question of unity, only a question of non-interference.

"If the revolution wants to succeed, there can only be one organization, one doctrine, and one line," Yang Rui said in a deep voice: "Any different organization and different propositions will only disperse the forces of the revolution." Solidarity is not just about people coming together, but also about ideas. No matter how revolutionary the army is, it's just an old idea, you better do the job at hand, and when they are broken up by the Manchus, they can be saved, and if they can't, they can ask for more blessings. ”

After Li Guangyi finished speaking, he only felt that Yang Rui's aura changed, and after Yang Rui replied, he realized that his words were somewhat ambiguous, the Revival Association and the Alliance Association were completely incompatible, and Mr. Cheng Cheng in front of him was an admirer of this concept. After sticking out his tongue in private, he took his leave.

It is true that the Revival Society has strict exclusivity in its revolutionary ideas and practices, but this is most evident only in its treatment of the League, which is known not only to those in the Society, but also to the Manchus. At the beginning, the two associations only blamed each other, but now there is a tendency to scold. Of course, this invective was first started by the members of the League, and at first it was not aimed at the Fuxing Society, but at Liang Qichao's royalists, and their struggle with the royalists was not only to scold in the newspapers, but also to give speeches when the royalists were encountered, and Ma Junwu, one of the four major thugs of the League, would come to the door with a wooden stick, and throw the stick away after beating Liang Qichao's people away, and without changing places, he began to give a speech at the venue.

However, this was all before Guangxu left the mountain, after Liang Qichao left the world, the entire revolutionary public opinion circle was left with only the Fuxing Association and the League of Nations, and now these two associations scolded each other's foreign slaves. One scolded the other party's merchant slaves, and there was a lot of trouble.

Yang Rui waited for Li Guangyi to leave, and only walked to the inner room. Cheng Ying looked at him frowning, so he handed over the herbal tea, and then said with a smile: "What difficulties have you encountered again?" ”

As a former member of the alliance, Yang Rui was not good at talking to her about the dispute between the two sessions, and after sitting down, he drank tea and said: "It's not a big deal, the problem can always be solved." ”

Seeing that Yang Rui said that it was not a big problem, Cheng Ying breathed a sigh of relief and said that she was in trouble: "The women's newspaper in Shanghai is on fire. A lot of things have been burned, when will we be able to go back? ”

Yang Rui was shocked when he heard this, and said, "It's not a fire set by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, right?" ”

"It's not. The telegram said that the main thing was that the house was old and in disrepair. Someone next door accidentally burned it with a fire. Besides, why burn the women's newspaper if you want to burn it, isn't it better to burn your China Times? Perhaps under the education of Qiu Jin and others, once the word "female" is mentioned, Cheng Ying will not say "we" but begin to divide "you and me".

Yang Rui is also used to her doing this. Thinking that the burning of the Chinese Women's Newspaper will indeed not hinder the revival of the meeting. It is reported that there is a section chief named Zhu Zhixin in the second hall of the Manchu Qing Military Advisory Office, who is recruiting troops and horses in Shanghai, and has attracted many young gang thugs to prepare for the axe gang to fight to seize a piece of territory in Shanghai, anyway, the situation is beginning to be a little chaotic.

"When are we going back?" Cheng Ying thought that this women's newspaper was the hard work of his own group of women, and now that it was burned, he didn't know when it would be rebuilt.

"Isn't Uncle Shanghai here? When the time comes, he will be based on the incineration. appropriations for reconstruction. "Yang Rui's itinerary Cheng Ying also didn't know, according to the plan. He stayed in Yizhou this time, and then went west to Caozhou, although he did not plan to be a base there, but the people were fierce, and the landlords and tenants were in the same situation, so there were also peasant associations and workshops of the Fuxing Association, but this was only for the sake of Xinhai; After Caozhou went, he went back to Shanghai along the canal. At the end of the year, the expedition teams of the base areas will gather in Shanghai to discuss the development of the base areas next year.

"But Mr. Taiyan has never supported our women's newspaper, so you should send a telegram over and talk about it." Cheng Ying saw Yang Rui's contemplative appearance and knew that he couldn't go back in a short time, so he had to think of another way.

Women's newspapers, like the women's federations of later generations, are all decorations except for family planning. Yang Rui hopes that his women will only think about themselves, instead of filling their minds with revolutionary or feminist ideas, but when this newspaper comes out, the group of women's rights activists will rush to it, only regard it as the sacred stronghold of the feminist revolution, with Qiu Jin as the leader, it is very united a large number of female sisters tigress, and the female newspaper has all kinds of everything, I remember that once Yang Rui actually saw a woman named Duguwen publishing women's wolf prevention techniques on it, of course, The name of the article is not called this, but the content is this content, which only made him shake his head for a while, fortunately, Cheng Ying left that place before he got married.

As soon as Qiu Jin and Cheng Ying left, that place was the tigress's den, Chen Chufen, Wu Zhiying, Xu Zihua, Zhang Hanying, Du Wen, Sun Xiaoyun, etc., as well as Lu Bicheng, the deputy editor of Tianjin Ta Kung Pao, was also - after the Hangzhou uprising was suppressed, because she and Qiu Jin wrote a letter, so she was implicated, in history she passed this pass because of Yuan Shikai's guarantee for her, but now Yuan Shikai himself is difficult to protect, so she fled from Tianjin to Shanghai under the condition of the government's half-release of water, and lived for a period of time. Later, after Qiu Jin left Shanghai, she became the editor of the China Women's Daily.

"That's going to have to be said first. Just restore the newspaper, and what else will be said when the appropriation is allocated next year. Yang Rui knew Zhang Taiyan's preferences, but he didn't want the peripheral newspaper of the women's newspaper to cost too much money, so he added such a sentence. He remembered that the newspaper also set up a women's art center.

"You! If you want to restore it, you will restore it together, not to mention the rest, now the newspaper hall and the house have been burned, and everyone has no place to live, they are all women's homes, in case something happens, how bad it is! "After Cheng Ying was kicked back to Shanghai from Liaodong by Yang Rui at the beginning of last year, he stayed in the women's newspaper for a period of time and had feelings for many sisters.

Seeing that Cheng Ying said those tigresses so pitifully, Yang Rui just wanted to laugh, the whole of China knew that there was a female revolutionary Qiu Jin who liked to pick a knife and scare people, Chen Fanfang, the daughter of Chen Fan, who dared to scold the Guangxu Emperor's newspaper, and then there were the female sisters Wu Zhiying who dared to go to Shaoxing alone to help the revolutionary party collect the corpses, and then there was the spicy Hunan girl Zhang Hanying. There is also Du Wen, who is proficient in women's wolf prevention techniques, and Sun Xiaoyun, who escaped from marriage and became famous, not to mention Lu Bicheng in the end. What will happen to these people? Shanghai is all the territory of the Revival Society. The women's newspaper is also one of the key points of special care.

It is better to fight with the Manchus than with foreigners, and it is better to fight with foreigners than with feminists. With such thoughts, Yang Rui quickly signed the telegram and told Zhang Taiyan to handle it with great effort, at least let those female tigers have a nest first. Others don't say. At least people like Xu Zihua and Wu Zhiying have really done a lot of things for the revolution.

Yang Rui is afraid of the tigress of the China Women's Daily, but Zhang Taiyan is annoying, not to mention Shanghai. Qiu Jin and Cheng Ying, who got the news, had already sent him several telegrams, but he received Yang Rui's telegram and added an extra hundred yuan without authorization, and then with a stroke of the pen, five hundred yuan went out. This money is enough for them to set up a new women's newspaper and art school.

Shanghai Hongkou Houdeli China Women's Newspaper House. Du Wen and Sun Xiaoyun just stood outside the charred room, watching a few men rummage through the half-burned gray beams and black walls, which was actually just to see if there was anything that could still be used. The China Times has already approved a note and approved 500 yuan for the women's newspaper to start a new one, in fact, the things to buy are nothing more than some stationery, and there is a new lease of office, which does not cost much, even if it is more than enough to add the woman's art center.

"Zhang Hai! Did you find it?! If you can't find it, don't look for it?! Du Wen shouted. People who are only exposed to the sun are dizzy in their brains. She was getting impatient. After withdrawing from the League in Tokyo, Du Wen did not return to Baoding, but followed Qiu Jin to Shanghai to run a school. But she did not join the Revival Association like Qiu Jin and Sun Xiaoyun, but seemed to want to be involved in politics anymore and only advocated women's rights. But in the women's newspaper hall, her poetry and reputation are low, so she, like Sun Xiaoyun, came to do such a dispensable job.

Hearing the woman shouting to herself, Zhang Hai, who was checking things, took a few dirty magazines and ran out again, saying, "It will take a while to find it, do you want to go back first?" He said and then wiped the magazine vigorously on his body before handing it over. Then he took out the seals of the two newspapers from his pocket and said, "Fortunately, this is still there, so we won't engrave it again." ”

Zhang Hai was careful, the magazine was wiped clean, but the letter was not completely wiped clean, Du Wen felt that he had touched the stolen goods as soon as he took it, and his face was angry and his iron claws stretched out, and he pinched him hard. Zhang Haigang wanted to cry out for pain, but saw Sun Xiaoyun standing next to him talking to a man, he knew Du Wen's rules, so he didn't dare to scream at all, and only stomped his feet there. Only when Sun Xiaoyun looked at it curiously, Du Wen withdrew her hand, and then looked through the broken magazines casually.

"Who is this woman?" The man who was talking to Sun Xiaoyun was wearing a white European-style flat hat with a gray cloth on it, and a Langyi suit and military leather shoes on his body, which was very weird. Sun Xiaoyun didn't see the scene just now, but he did.

"She? The pen name in the newspaper is the female hero Duguwen, who specializes in punishing evil and promoting good, and fighting grievances for women all over the world. Sun Xiaoyun looked at the man and said.

"Oh...... It's her! The man had such an expression, obviously he knew about this not very famous woman, and even more screamed for pain from the man named Zhang Hai. He glanced at Du Wen a few times, and then lowered his voice and said, "The newspaper has been burned down for two days, won't your backstage boss come and take a look?" ”

Hearing that the flat hat said that the backstage boss, Sun Xiaoyun's hairs all over his body rose, and said, "Let's go to Danguixuan later." With that, she turned around and went to the pile of ashes to pick things up. The flat hat only saw Sun Xiaoyun gone, smiled very inactively, and then also left Houdri and went outside.

Danguixuan is the Dangui Tea Garden, this place is at the intersection of Guangdong Road and Hubei in the British Concession, it is said that it was opened by Ningbo people in the early years of Tongzhi, and then changed its owner several times, and the name was changed several times. Because it is an old teahouse, there is a theater, this place has long been the place where Peking Opera went south to perform, because Peking Opera performed here early, to the end of Guangxu, here is already a very influential Peking Opera tea garden in Shanghai.

Sun Xiaoyun came here alone after a busy day, she didn't really want to come, but thinking of the kindness she owed that person, she had to come, if it weren't for him, she was afraid that she would have taken off her clothes and picked up guests in that private door.

"You're not too late." When the man in Houdri saw Sun Xiaoyun during the day, he only asked people to lead her into the private room, and at this time, Peking Opera Changbanpo had already sung several times, and he was just sarcastic about Sun Xiaoyun's late arrival.

"I ......" There was Du Wen next to her in the box like Bai Ri, but Sun Xiaoyun still couldn't say anything.

"Don't forget about jì. How did you join the Revival? The man only said viciously. If it wasn't for the second brother helping you, how could you get out of the hands of those white-faced people? If it weren't for the second brother's money, how could you study in Japan? ”

The man's topic was like a fist, as if he wanted to knock Sun Xiaoyun to the ground, but the man suddenly stopped after saying this, and said: "Now the cause of the republican revolution is in danger, there is the iron-blooded suppression of the Manchu Qing Dynasty outside, and the people of the Huaxing Society are separated from morality, and then Yang Jingcheng, it seems that he is born with a hatred with the alliance, and constantly suppresses us, if we don't find a way to change this situation, then tens of thousands of people in China will still suffer from that enslavement!" The man suddenly became excited, waved his big hand and said such a big sentence, which only made Sun Xiaoyun stand on the spot.

The box was quiet for a while, and the two only heard Liu Bei outside singing: "There are Cao soldiers on all sides, persuading me to surrender and desperately escape from the net......" This lyric and the words that the man just said are very appropriate, and only after this one is sung, the man said: "After the fire, did Cheng Ying come to Houdri?" ”

Maybe it was because the words just now had an effect, Sun Xiaoyun was silent for a while when he heard this, and then said under the man's coercion: "I didn't come." ”

"Didn't come? That means that Cheng Ying is not in Shanghai? With the importance she attaches to the women's newspaper, the newspaper hall is on fire, if she is in Shanghai, then she must go back to have a look. The man seemed to ask Sun Xiaoyun again, and as if he was talking to himself, he turned his head and saw that Sun Xiaoyun did not speak, and said, "Have you been in Houdri every day these days?" ”

The woman didn't say anything, but the man asked again, and she said, "I didn't see her coming." ”

Seeing that the woman said yes, the man still looked at her and said, "That means that Yang Jingcheng is not in Shanghai?" ”

"I don't know! I do not know! Don't ask me! Sun Xiaoyun said hurriedly: "That Cheng Ying has long stopped working in the women's newspaper, and now half of the people in the newspaper are not members of the Revival Association, and it is completely impossible for you to find Yang Jingcheng from here!" You'd better go somewhere else and figure it out. The money I owe to my second brother will definitely be repaid to him, and I will remember his favors......"

"Niang Xipi!! Now is the time for you to repay the favor of your second brother! Don't you forget, what did you say when you were agreed to join the revival meeting? It was for you to call Yang Jingcheng to investigate the secrets, what do you mean by shrinking in this women's newspaper now? Do you want to break away from the Alliance? Do you want to find an obedient man to live with like that Du Wen? I sue you, there is no door! You were a member of the League one day, and you will be a member of the League for the rest of your life! Seeing that the woman wanted to jump out of the net, the man suddenly became angry, only to feel that this woman did not look like a revolutionary party at all, and the previous revolutionary oath was forgotten and clean. If he hadn't thought that she would see someone tomorrow, he would have wanted to slap her twice.

"When was the last time Cheng Ying came to the women's newspaper?" Trying to calm down, the man asked.

"I don't remember." Sun Xiaoyun replied, and then saw that the man was only staring at him, and seeing that he couldn't escape, he had to say, "A few months ago, it was about April and May. ”

"Do you know where she lives?" The man said.

"I don't know. She probably came from the French Concession, and every time she came, she took a carriage with a car donation sign on the carriage. The woman seemed to be submissive, and only answered the question in detail.

"Good!" The man nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Didn't you apply to be transferred to another department at this time last year?" Why hasn't there been any movement until now? ”

Glancing at the man in horror, Sun Xiaoyun said: "I'm a person who came back from Tokyo, and the Fuxing Society is not very relieved about the people in Tokyo, so the report transferred to other departments has not been communicated." ”

"Then apply again. You just came back from Tokyo before, but now it's different, you've been in Shanghai for two years. The man said. (To be continued......)