Radio stations have developed rapidly in the Pingjin area. In a short period of time, the number of radio users has reached close to 0,000. Moreover, many radios are listened to by the whole family. As for public places, a radio can be listened to by dozens or hundreds of people, blocking alleys and alleys.
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Zhou Hexuan's "7pm Gossip" column was heard by at least tens of thousands of viewers, and the effect achieved was terrifying.
This is different from newspapers. Even the people at the bottom who are illiterate can understand clearly.
Those women who like to gossip will talk about the arrests and beatings in China when they meet, treating it as something they can show off, and talk about it with joy.
"Did you know? Those Chinese police officers stole things and beat people, and then released them after a few days. They also tied the clerks into the patrol room and beat them severely!"
"Is there such a thing? His aunt, where did you hear about it?"
"It's a radio station. Let me tell you, there is a radio station at the entrance of our alley, which is very interesting. It has storytelling, cross talk, Peking opera, everything. You can also listen to Western music."
"That's strange. I'll go and listen to it another day."
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Just like this, word of mouth, radio, radio and "Hua arrests and beatings" have become hot words in Peiping and Tianjin recently. If you don't understand these things, you will be embarrassed to talk to people when you go out.
The topic of Hua's evil deeds stirred up by Zhou Hexuan has also become the focus of public opinion.
Major newspapers have discussed this issue one after another. As for Chinese arresters, Chinese patrolmen are not foreigners anyway. If you criticize them, you can just criticize them. It doesn’t matter who they offend. Therefore, many newspapers have opened up their criticisms, denounced the abhorrent behavior of Chinese arresters everywhere, and also called for
The phenomenon of punishing Chinese captives for doing evil in the concessions of various countries.
Nowadays, there are thousands of southern spies and political workers in the northern region. These guys take the opportunity to fan the flames and say that the Beiyang government is a dog raised by foreigners. As long as the Beiyang government exists, the people will be bullied. Only when the Northern Expeditionary Army comes to kill can the warlords be driven away.
and foreigners, everyone lives a good life.
In the following days, the incident of the Chinese arrests and injuries became widespread. The Japanese Consulate General in Tianjin received hundreds of letters of protest, and students in Tianjin even organized a small-scale demonstration.
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Japanese Concession, outside the Consulate General.
Hundreds of students held slogans and banners and stood on the roadside angrily shouting slogans:
"Severely punish the murderer and give me justice!"
"I will not give up until I fire Hua for hurting people!"
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Arita Hachiro's face was gloomy, standing behind the window and looking at the situation below.
The secretary suddenly knocked on the door and reported: "Sir, Mr. Sakai, the police chief of the patrol room, wants to see you."
"Let him in." Hachiro Arita closed the curtains.
A middle-aged man wearing glasses pushed open the door and walked in. It was Sakai Jiro, the police chief of the Japanese Concession Patrol Room. He walked up to Hachiro Arita and lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, Consul General, I'm late."
Arita Hachiro said sarcastically in a deep voice: "Sakai-kun, are you an idiot?"
"Hi." Jiro Sakai bent down and stood at attention.
"I asked you if you are an idiot?" Hachiro Arita's voice was a little higher.
"Hi!" Jiro Sakai bent down a little more.
Arita Hachiro pointed outside: "Look, it's all your fault. They're just a few Chinese patrol officers, why don't they get rid of them?"
Jiro Sakai argued: "Even if they are Chinese police officers, they are Chinese police officers in the Japanese Concession. If they are fired just because they stole a few pairs of leather shoes or injured a few Chinese people, how can we, the Empire of Japan, lose face?"
"It seems you are really an idiot." Hachiro Arita laughed angrily.
Sakai Jiro added: "These students are not very popular. They hold demonstrations every three days, and they disperse after two days of trouble."
"What about these newspapers?"
Hachiro Arita grabbed a stack of newspapers on the desk, threw it at Jiro Sakai's face, and said angrily: "Do you know how embarrassing this incident is for the Consulate General? At the dance last night, the British Consul General also
Make fun of me with this!"
Sakai Jiro was silent for a moment and whispered: "Sir Arita, if we make a compromise, we will be considered weak. We cannot let the Chinese lead us by the nose just because of a little public opinion."
"Haga!" Arita Hachiro became even more angry after being contradicted, "Do you know what diplomacy is? Do you know what international image is? Go back right away and solve this matter for me! I don't want to hear any more explanations.
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"Hi!" Jiro Sakai was full of curses. After returning to the patrol room, he called the head of the Chinese arrest team and cursed him.
The next day, the patrol office published a public statement, announcing that the seven Chinese arrests who made trouble would be fired, and that in the future, patrol officers would be recruited strictly, and those with bad records would not be hired.
Other concessions also launched actions to expel all the Chinese prisoners with the worst reputation. Of course, the expulsions were all minors.
Even so, the common people applauded and regarded this as a great good thing to eliminate harm to the people.
One of Zhou Hexuan's radio programs actually caused such a big stir that even the Japanese Consulate made compromises.
People at the time commented: "Broadcasting is an advanced product of the West. Its public opinion value is not inferior to that of newspapers, magazines, and is easily accepted by illiterate people. Mr. Zhou Hexuan pioneered radio commentary, inviting cultural celebrities, famous folk actors or actors every week.
Common people serve as guests and talk freely about many phenomena in today's society, which can be described as an 'electronic essay'."
Zhou Hexuan was also speechless. The talk show he ran called "Seven O'clock Gossip" was actually called "Electronic Essays" and was highly sought after by intellectuals and grassroots people alike.
Many listeners no longer care about cross talk and Peking opera, and just wait to listen to Zhou Hexuan's nonsense every night.
They talk about not only social phenomena, but also interesting foreign stories, celebrity anecdotes, historical events, academic science... everything.
For example, Zhou Hexuan invited Meng Xiaodong to talk about the secrets of the theater industry, and Xu Zhimo, who happened to come to the north to give lectures, to talk about poetry creation. The two most sensational ones were when he invited Wen Xiu to talk about life in the palace, and once when he invited Yuan Kewen to talk about President Yuan Shikai.
There was really a crowd of listeners. Even the old and young who hated Zhou Hexuan were scolding and listening at the same time, for fear of missing something.
The cheapest mineral radio only costs 5 yuan, which is affordable for working-class people. As for university professors with a monthly salary of several hundred yuan, that is even more trivial. Well, professors from Peking University are an exception, so we won’t mention them.
Some universities and middle schools even purchase radios specifically for students to listen to in their spare time.
Students from the Department of Physics are even more aggressive. They use scrap materials to make their own machines, and some of them have better sound quality than genuine store products.
In just over a month, the number of radio and radio users increased dramatically, and advertising fees naturally increased accordingly. The radio station was barely able to maintain balance.
In the blink of an eye, it was May, and the Northern Expeditionary Army had already invaded Shandong. In order to protect their own interests in Shandong and Northeast China, the Japanese brazenly sent troops regardless of international law. In the name of protecting overseas Chinese, they sent troops to Jinan, Qingdao and along the Jiaoji Railway.
