A group of young people wearing red armbands, like hounds searching for prey, immediately rushed to smash the door of a closed shop when they saw it.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Open the door, open the door! If you don't open the door, the shop will be sealed!"
I kept knocking on the door for several minutes, but no one answered because the boss, shopkeeper and shop assistants all went home to celebrate the New Year.
The leader angrily ordered: "Post the seal! Go to the next house."
One young man carried a small bucket filled with paste and dipped a brush into the paste to smear it on the door. The other young man took out a seal and affixed it. The seal was signed "Kuomintang Tianjin Party Headquarters".
After putting up the seal, these people immediately rushed to the next store, knocked several times and finally opened the store door.
"What's going on? It's early in the morning." The store clerk opened the door, rubbing his sleepy eyes, and asked, "Who are you?"
A young man replied: "Kuomintang Tianjin Party Headquarters Action Team, this is our Captain Liu!"
Captain Liu asked: "The government has repeatedly issued orders that no holidays are allowed during the Spring Festival and all shops must be open. Why don't you implement it?"
"Spring Festival? Oh, you mean the New Year." The store clerk finally responded.
Before the Republic of China, there was no such thing as the Spring Festival.
After Yuan Shikai came to power, he moved New Year's Day (the first day of the Lunar New Year) to January 1 of the Western calendar, resulting in the traditional Chinese New Year's Day losing its official name. In order to take care of the feelings of the Chinese people, the government coined the term "Spring Festival".
But the "Spring Festival" is not popular, and many Chinese people don't know what the "Spring Festival" is.
It was not until this year that the Nanjing National Government legally designated the New Year as the "Spring Festival". This gave the Spring Festival official endorsement and was gradually accepted by the Chinese people.
This is the first Spring Festival after the Nanjing government "unified" the whole country. The enforcement is very strong, and it is mandatory that all shops are not allowed to close for the holiday, otherwise they will be severely punished.
Captain Liu read out the government regulations and said to the store clerk: "Your store violates the policy and will be fined 50 yuan. Call your boss or shopkeeper!"
The shop assistant was also a smart guy. He rolled his eyes and complained: "Oh, sir, our shopkeeper is sick and asked me to open the shop on time today. You see, I'm just snoozing and delaying all important things. I'll open the shop right away."
,immediately."
"Stop making excuses and pay the fine quickly!" Captain Liu said sternly.
The store clerk argued: "The government only stipulated that businesses should be open during the Chinese New Year, and it didn't say what time it would open. I just got up late, so I'll open the store right away."
In any case, this explanation is very reasonable, and it can be regarded as exploiting a loophole in the policy.
But these are not the days of reason. Captain Liu was too lazy to say anything and said directly: "Arrest them and contact their boss. If you refuse to pay the fine and defy the central government's decree, you will be fined 20 oceans!"
"Sir, I'm wronged!" the store clerk shouted loudly, but he was dragged away indiscriminately by the Tianjin Party Action Team.
Sitting in the car, Zhou Hexuan could only shake his head and sigh when he saw this scene. During the Republic of China, Westernization was too much, and it seemed that all traditional customs were backward and decadent.
Taking Chinese etiquette as an example, there is nothing wrong with abolishing the kneeling ceremony. What makes people laugh or cry is that even the bowing ceremony has been abolished. The bowing ceremony is equivalent to the Chinese handshake ceremony. What is there to abolish? Nothing.
I’ve seen the Japanese abolish the bowing ceremony.
The government's control is a bit too broad.
Government officials are not allowed to call each other's "character" or "number", but must call each other's position. Folks generally call each other "Mr." or "Jun", and within the group, they call each other "comrade", and women are called "Mrs."
, "Ms.", "Miss".
Corrupt titles such as master, lord, and master shall be abolished.
Of course, this kind of regulation is not strict, and even Yuan Shikai and Chang Kaishen call each other's font names variously.
The car continued to move forward and stopped at the entrance of the "Ta Kung Pao" newspaper office.
Zhou Hexuan took Liao Yaquan to personally distribute Spring Festival condolences to the members. As for the China Radio Station, Zhang Leyi handled it.
"Happy Spring Festival!"
"May you be happy and prosperous!"
Everyone greeted each other cheerfully. Although there was no holiday during the New Year, they were still full of joy.
However, some people had evil spirits. Zhu Xiang came to the newspaper office in the middle of the morning and said to Zhou Hexuan: "I hope the education fund corruption case has been investigated clearly."
"What's the specific situation?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
Zhu Xiang said with a cold face: "Those people are very secretive. I hired an old accountant and a Western-style accountant. After checking for four months, I found that there is no problem with the account books. How do you guess these morons committed corruption?"
Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "Tell me about it."
Zhu Xiang said: "They colluded with businessmen to build school buildings, purchase teaching supplies, and purchase nutritious lunch ingredients. They passed off inferior quality and lied about high prices. Not only that, they also falsely created teacher quotas and relied on empty wages to make money. I and these few
In the past month, I visited 62 Hope Primary Schools and found that there were as many as 87 fake teachers. In addition, they also arranged for relatives and friends to serve as vice principals of the newly built schools, but these vice principals did not have to work and received no salary. According to me
According to rough statistics, at least 180,000 yuan was spent last year, which is an unreasonable expenditure. Although Vice President Wenxiu worked hard to raise funds in many ways, he could not withstand the consumption of those moths. Now, the Hope Education Foundation only has 63,000 yuan in funds left.
Diversity.”
Zhou Hexuan asked: "How do you think we should deal with it?"
Zhu Xiang's eyes showed a ruthless gleam and he said: "I hope the secretary-general of the fund committee will be held responsible for the prosecution and will have to spend at least 20 years in prison. There are also those responsible for procurement and personnel arrangements.
All must be severely punished! All relevant personnel will be given a warning, the stolen money will be automatically refunded, and half a year's salary will be deducted from them. Those who unconsciously hand it over to the court for processing!"
"How many people are involved in the case?" Zhou Hexuan asked again.
Zhu Xiang said: "The main beneficiaries are just a few people on the committee. But there are at least 40 people who benefit from it!"
Zhou Hexuan frowned. Throwing away various temporary workers, the total number of regular employees of the Hope Education Foundation was less than 70. If Zhu Xiang's approach was followed, the foundation would definitely be paralyzed and would not be able to operate normally in the short term.
"Catch the big ones and let the small ones go," Zhou Hexuan sighed. "As long as the several masterminds actively return the money, they should stop reporting to the government. If the matter gets serious, it will damage the reputation of the Hope Education Foundation, both privately and Shaoshuai Zhang.
It doesn’t look good over there either.”
"President Zhou, you disappoint me so much!"
Zhu Xiang couldn't get rid of the sand in his eyes, and he burst into anger: "This is a donation from the people, and every penny must be used in the right way. Those corrupt people are certainly hateful, but what you do is not selfish? As long as I return the favor.
As a supervisor of the foundation, this matter must be severely punished to the end. Even if you remove me, I have evidence of their corruption in my hands, and I will report it to the official and disclose it in my own name!"
Zhou Hexuan finally understood why Zhu Xiang always offended people wherever he went in history. In the end, he was impoverished, his wife and children were separated, and he committed suicide in sorrow and anger with two collections of poems in his hands.
This gentleman is completely unemotional and only recognizes the word "reason".
But the problem is, sometimes just being reasonable and completely ignoring the overall situation will make things wrong.
Zhou Hexuan is now being grilled by Zhu Xiang on the fire. He has no way out at all. He can only say helplessly: "Do it according to your idea, and try to be gentler. I will send a telegram to the young marshal to explain the situation. After all, everything is fine."
