Chapter 202 201 【Electronic Essay】

The radio station developed very fast in the Pingjin area. In just a short period of time, there were nearly 2,000 radio users. And many radios are listened to by the whole family. As for public places, dozens or even hundreds of people listen to a radio, blocking alleys and alleys.

Zhou Hexuan's "Gossip at 7:00 P.M." column was heard by at least tens of thousands of viewers, and the effect achieved was terrifying.

This is different from newspapers, even the illiterate people at the bottom can understand clearly.

Those women who like to gossip talk about the incident of Hua arresting and beating people when they meet, and regard it as something to show off, and they are very happy.

"Did you know? Those Chinese patrolled for stealing and beat people, and they were released after a few days, and the shop assistants were tied into the patrol room and beaten!"

"There is such a thing? His aunt, where did you hear it?"

"Broadcasting. Let me tell you, there is a radio station at the entrance of our alley, which is very interesting. It has storytelling, cross talk, Beijing opera, everything. You can also hear Western music."

"That's so strange, I'm going to listen to it some other day."

"..."

Just like word of mouth, radio, broadcasting, and Hua arresting and beating people have become popular words in Beiping and Tianjin recently. If you don’t understand these things, you’ll be ashamed to talk to people when you go out.

And the topic of Huazuo doing evil, which was provoked by Zhou Hexuan, has also become the focus of public opinion.

All the major newspapers started discussing this one after another. Chinese arresters, Chinese patrolling arresters, they are not foreigners anyway, so if you scold them, you will scold them, it doesn't matter who you offend. Therefore, many newspapers opened their mouths to criticize, denounced the hateful acts of Chinese arresters everywhere, and called on the concessions of various countries to punish the evil behavior of Chinese arresters.

Now there are thousands of southern spies and political workers in the northern region. These guys took the opportunity to fan the flames, saying that the Beiyang government is a dog raised by foreigners. As long as the Beiyang government exists, the common people will be bullied. Only when the Northern Expeditionary Army comes over, can the warlords and foreigners be driven away, and everyone will live a good life.

In the next few days, the Hua arresting and wounding incident had become a scene of publicity. The Japanese Consulate General in Tianjin received hundreds of letters of protest, and Tianjin students even organized a small-scale demonstration.

...

Japanese Concession, outside the Consulate General.

Hundreds of students held signs, pulled banners, and stood on the side of the road angrily shouting slogans:

"Severely punish the murderer and give me justice!"

"If you don't fire the arrester for hurting others, I will never give up!"

"..."

Hachiro Arita looked gloomy, standing behind the window and watching the situation below.

The secretary knocked on the door suddenly and reported: "My lord, Mr. Sakai, the police director of the patrol room, please see me."

"Let him in." Hachiro Arita closed the curtains.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses pushed the door in. It was Jiro Sakai, the Police Director of the Patrol Office in the Japanese Concession. He walked up to Hachiro Arita and bowed his head, saying, "Master Consul General, my subordinates are late."

Hachiro Arita sarcastically said in a deep voice, "Sakai-kun, are you an idiot?"

"Hi." Sakai Jiro bent over and stood at attention.

"I asked you if you were an idiot?" Hachiro Arita raised his voice a little.

"Hi!" Sakai Jiro bent down a little more.

Hachiro Arita pointed outside: "Look, you provoked it. It's just a few Chinese arrests, why don't you fire them?"

Sakai Jiro argued: "Even if it is a Chinese police patrol, it is also a Chinese police patrol in the Japanese Concession. If you have to fire them for stealing a few pairs of leather shoes and injuring a few Chinese people, what is the face of our Great Japanese Empire?"

"It seems that you are really an idiot." Hachiro Arita smiled anxiously.

Sakai Jiro said again: "These students are not good at anything. They hold parades every three days, and they break up after two days."

"What about the newspapers?"

Hachiro Arita grabbed a stack of newspapers on his desk, threw it fiercely at Sakai Jiro's face, and said angrily, "Do you know how embarrassing the Consulate General is by this incident? At the ball last night, the British Consul General also Use this to make fun of me!"

Sakai Jiro was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Master Arita, if we make a compromise, we will be considered weak. We can't be led by the nose just because of a little bit of public opinion."

"Hachi!" Hachiro Arita became even more angry when he was contradicted, "Do you understand what diplomacy is? Do you understand what international image is? Go back immediately and settle this matter for me! I don't want to hear any more explanations .”

"Hi!" Sakai Jiro cursed. After returning to the patrol room, he called the leader of Huabu to scold him.

The next day, the patrol office publicly published its statement, announcing the expulsion of the seven Chinese arresters who made trouble, and that they would strictly recruit patrol arresters in the future, and those with bad records would not be hired.

Other concessions also launched operations to expel all the most notorious Chinese arrests-of course, the expulsions were all small ones.

Even so, the common people applauded and regarded this as a great deed for the people to eliminate harm.

A radio program by Zhou Hexuan actually made such a big noise that the Japanese consulate even made a compromise.

People at the time commented: "Broadcasting is an advanced product of the West. Its public opinion value is not inferior to that of newspapers and magazines, and it is easy to be accepted by illiterate people. Mr. Zhou Hexuan pioneered broadcasting commentary, inviting cultural celebrities, folk artists or celebrities every week. Small people from the market are the guests, talking freely about many phenomena in the current society, which can be described as 'electro-acoustic essays'."

Zhou Hexuan was also speechless. The talk show he made called "Gossip at 7:00 P.M." was actually called "Electronic Essays" and was unanimously sought after by intellectuals and grassroots people.

Many listeners don't care about cross talk and Beijing opera anymore, and wait to hear Zhou Hexuan's nonsense every night.

It’s not just about social phenomena, there are foreign interesting talks, celebrity anecdotes, historical events, academic popularization...everything.

For example, Zhou Hexuan invited Meng Xiaodong to talk about the secrets of the theater world, and Xu Zhimo, who happened to come to the north to give lectures, to talk about poetry creation. There were two most sensational ones, one was to ask Wenxiu to talk about life in the palace, and the other was to ask Yuan Kewen to talk about President Yuan Shikai.

It was really a crowd of listeners, even the elders and children who hated Zhou Hexuan all listened while scolding, for fear of missing a passage.

The cheapest ore radio is only 25 yuan, and the working class can afford it even if they bite their teeth. As for university professors with a monthly salary of several hundred yuan, that’s even more trifling. Well, Peking University professors are an exception, so we won’t mention them.

There are even some universities and middle schools that specially purchase radios for students to listen to in their spare time.

The students in the Department of Physics are even more aggressive, looking for waste materials to make their own machines, some of which have better sound quality than genuine store products.

In just over a month, radio and radio users increased sharply, and advertising costs naturally followed, and the radio station was barely able to maintain a balance of payments.

In a blink of an eye, it was May, and the Northern Expeditionary Army had already invaded Shandong. In order to protect their interests in Shandong and Northeast China, the Japanese brazenly sent troops in disregard of international law. In the name of protecting overseas Chinese, the Japanese sent troops to Jinan, Qingdao and along the Jiaoji Railway.

The May 3rd tragedy is about to happen.