Chapter 249 248 [Rival in Love]

While the Ministry of Agriculture and Mining was helping to promote human harvesters, Chang Kaishen, Wu Zhihui, Zhang Jingjiang and others finally returned to Nanjing from Beiping—the Fifth Plenary Session of the KMT Central Committee was about to be held.

At this moment, Yu Qiaqing was also having a meeting in Shanghai.

Representatives of the Shanghai business community gathered together to hold a joint meeting of all walks of life to plan a petition in (Nanjing) Beijing.

As Chang Kaishen's largest funder of the Northern Expedition and a die-hard supporter, Yu Qiaqing wanted to make trouble this time. He said at the meeting: "This trip (to Beijing to petition) is called a petition, but it is actually supervision. When the revolutionary army came to Shanghai , we business people do our best to help. Now that the Northern Expedition has won, they ignore the pain of the merchants and people. This is contrary to the original purpose of the revolution...Now the tax on foreign goods is light, the tax on domestic goods is heavy, the protection of foreign ships, and the seizure of national ships. In the past, every The tax on vehicles and goods is 30 yuan, and now it has been increased to 900 yuan. The highest loan interest rate in various countries is 6%, Japan is as low as 4%, and China is at least 1 cent... The national government takes the people as the main body, and the interests of our business people also need to be protected. This time The more petition representatives, the better!"

These businessmen are crazy, they want to fight Chang Kaishen.

There are many reasons, which can be summarized into two points: first, the Shanghai Party Headquarters, with Chen Dezheng as the vanguard, is attacking the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce recklessly; Businessmen belong to the dog-jumping-wall.

During the last two or three months of the Northern Expedition, due to insufficient military expenditures, Chang Kaishen actually played extortion and forced the financial circles headed by the Bank of China to raise funds. Zhang Junmai's fourth brother, Zhang Gongquan, is now the president of the Bank of China, and was kept awake at night by the matter of raising military expenses.

Last month, Chang Kaishen's blackmail tactics even made it to Peiping. He forced a private bank in Beiping to take out a loan, but the other party refused to agree. As a result, he directly ordered a fine of 100,000 yuan—without any charges.

When the capitalists supported the Northern Expedition, they hoped to overthrow the warlords who extorted money, and at the same time they wanted to play political investments to earn greater returns. But what Chang Kaishen rewarded them was to occupy the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and extort money time and time again to fill the vacancy in military expenditure.

"Brother Ad, I wish you success!" Song Ziwen said with a smile.

"Thank you Jiyan!" Yu Qiaqing said.

That's right, it was Chang Kaishen's brother-in-law Song Ziwen who supported and encouraged the Shanghai businessmen to petition.

It's absurd to say that Chang Kaishen's brother-in-law encouraged Chang Kaishen's biggest benefactor to make trouble at the critical moment of the Fifth Plenary Session of the KMT.

What is the situation?

Very simple, if Song Ziwen wants to rectify government finances and financial markets, he must obtain the support of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Consortium. The interests of both parties are consistent, so they join forces to force Chang Kaishen to make concessions.

Do you think Song Ziwen is sincere for the country?

Hehe, it's just for personal interests, he wants to truly control the power of the country's finances in his own hands.

In another ten years, Song Ziwen will join forces with Chang Kaishen to use currency reform and other means to seize several major banks of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Consortium.

The financiers and big businessmen thought they could control the national government, but in the end they were controlled by the government, and in the end they had no right to speak at all.

Song Ziwen supported the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium and Shanghai businessmen at this time, and he didn't even have any scruples. He actually walked with the petition group and took the train to Nanjing together-Song Ziwen was going to the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Zhou Hexuan and Zhang Leyi happened to be on this train as well.

The moment Song Ziwen saw Zhang Leyi, his face darkened. He likes this woman very much, whether it's her looks, her thoughts or her conversation, she is very appetizing to him, and Zhang Leyi's parents are also matching, this is a surefire marriage.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Leyi actually ran away from home!

Zhang Leyi was quite surprised to see Song Ziwen, but quickly calmed down, and greeted with a smile: "Uncle Song, hello."

"Hello," Song Ziwen forced a smile, pointed at Zhou Hexuan and asked, "Who is this?"

Zhang Leyi took the initiative to hold Zhou Hexuan's arm and introduced: "This is my fiance Zhou Hexuan. Brother Xuan, this is UncleSong, my father's friend."

Zhou Hexuan smiled cheaply and said, "Mr. Song, hello."

Song Ziwen finally knew who had "cuckolded" him. He suppressed his depression and anger, shook hands with Zhou Hexuan and said, "It turned out to be Mr. Zhou, who has admired his name for a long time!"

"To each other." Zhou Hexuan said.

Yu Qiaqing was obviously unaware of their conflict, and praised with a smile: "Mr. Zhou is a great inventor. The human harvester he invented is really a good thing that benefits the country and the people."

Zhou Hexuan said modestly: "I will come up with ideas, and the specific research and development work is all in charge of the research department of Peking University."

"That's amazing too. Inventions, the most important thing is to have new ideas." Yu Qiaqing had a very good impression of Zhou Hexuan.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "I'm flattered by brother Ade's praise."

Yu Qiaqing laughed and said, "What I admire the most is that Mr. Zhou dared to confront Chen Dezheng, and even forced the surnamed Chen to make concessions."

An enemy's enemy is a friend. From this perspective, Zhou Hexuan and Yu Qiaqing are definitely friends.

Chen Dezheng has scolded Yu Qiaqing several times, making Yu Qiaqing very angry. Of course, the two sides haven't completely broken their faces yet, and it will look good until the end of the year, when Yu Qiaqing can't wait to strangle Chen Dezheng to death.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Brother Ade is really admirable. He has made a huge career from scratch, and he has not forgotten to serve the country and the people."

"Where is it?" Yu Qiaqing said with a smile, "I just have a few stinky money, and I can't compare to Mr. Zhou thinking about saving the country."

The two praised each other one sentence at a time, which made Song Ziwen angry. He finally couldn't help asking: "Mr. Zhou, is there anything important you want to go to Nanjing this time?"

Zhou Hexuan said: "I went to Mount Lu to discuss marriage with Le Yi's parents."

Well, it's okay if you don't say anything, Song Ziwen was even more aggrieved when he heard it.

Song Ziwen was emotionally hurt. Back then he fell in love with Miss Sheng Qi bitterly, and the two hit it off to the point of discussing marriage. Mrs. Zhuang (Mother Sheng) also had a very good impression of Song Ziwen.

Ever since, Mrs. Zhuang sent a housekeeper to inquire about Song Ziwen's situation. The housekeeper came back and reported: "The Song family is originally from Cantonese. His father used to play the piano in the church and made his fortune by running errands for foreigners. How can Sheng Gongbao's daughter marry? Such a family?"

The door is wrong, the household is wrong, and the marriage fails.

Song Ziwen has always pretended to be Miss Sheng Qi in his heart, so much so that he has not married yet in his thirties. After finally falling in love with Zhang Leyi, and then encountering this kind of thing again, how angry do you think Song Ziwen is?

Zhou Hexuan thought to himself: Mr. Song, you should go back and find Miss Sheng Qi. Miss Sheng Qi is still waiting for you. She is almost 30 years old and has never been married because of you.

For Ms. Sheng Qi, Song Ziwen in history was also a heartbroken man: he promised to have a successful career and come back to marry me, but in the end he waited for eleven years, and what he waited for was the news that you married someone else.

After arriving in Nanjing, Zhou Hexuan and Zhang Leyi left by boat.

Song Ziwen looked at the surging river, and suddenly remembered his former lover.

On the day of parting, Miss Sheng Qi took out a handful of gold leaves and stuffed them into the hands of the impoverished Song Ziwen. She said, "I'll wait for you to come back!"

However, until now, Song Ziwen has not returned.

Now the Sheng family is arguing about the division of the family property, the three Sheng sons united to exclude Seventh Miss and Eighth Miss.

Song Ziwen knew about this, and he already had a new love in history, so he asked his sister to come forward to help Miss Sheng Qi in the lawsuit. But now...

Maybe it's time to go back after this meeting.

Leaving aside the relationship between the two, Song Ziwen planned to go back and help Miss Sheng Qi fight for the family property.

Unintentionally, Zhou Hexuan did a big favor to the miserable Miss Sheng Qi, so that her 11 years of waiting were not in vain—in history, she waited for 15 years, and Song Ziwen married four years after she got married.