However, it was useless for Chairman Chiang to get angry.
Because, Western media are completely unrestricted in China! They enjoy super-national treatment!
It's hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. During the war years, these Western media out of sympathy for the weak and out of a desire to check and balance Japan, the strong one, will definitely spare no effort to help China. Once the times change and China becomes stronger, these Western media will definitely do their best to help China.
Western media will immediately become an obstacle and threatening force to China.
For example, in the era when Xu Rui traveled through time, Western media spared no effort to smear and attack China.
In fact, even press freedom is difficult to define whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, because press freedom sometimes divides ethnic groups and drags down the country. Therefore, even in the United States, which is known as the beacon of Western democracy, there is no real
Press freedom, for example, no media dares to openly criticize Washington.
Some people may say that after serving two terms as president, Washington retired sharply and became almost perfect. Why should he be criticized?
However, is this really the case? In fact, it is not. In fact, Washington was a large plantation owner and a large slave owner, and there was a huge moral stain! Not only the black slaves, but also Washington's contempt and cruelty to the Indians were even more disturbing.
Fazhi, he once told his subordinates: Indian skin can make high-quality boots!
And Jefferson, yes, that’s right, the American president who claimed that all people are created equal and have natural human rights, actually openly declared that Indians should be exterminated!
But in the United States, almost no one dares to mention this matter.
Therefore, true press freedom does not actually exist.
Don't think that journalists are noble or great. Under the iron heel of the capital consortium, Western journalists are actually no different from ****. It's just that the price is high and the price is low. As long as the capital consortium can afford the price,
There is no public opinion in this world that cannot be controlled.
For example, the Occupy Wall Street movement was so large in scale, but it failed to make even a small splash in the public opinion circle controlled by capital. Is this true press freedom? Obviously not! That’s why we say that only political correctness
, there will be freedom of the press. If it is not politically correct, there will definitely be no freedom of the press!
Closer to home, Chairman Chiang actually knew that public opinion must be controlled by himself.
Regrettably, Chairman Chiang has never really controlled public opinion in his own hands. His Central Party Committee, not to mention the Western media controlled in China, cannot even control the public opinion of the democratic parties. If it were not for
This way, he wouldn't be so angry that he would resort to such dirty tricks as assassination.
After losing his temper for a long time, Chairman Chiang finally calmed down.
From the current point of view, the spread of public opinion is inevitable. Now, the only thing he can do is to strike preemptively.
However, he still didn't have a clear idea in his mind about what to do. He immediately asked the Chief of Guard Wang Shihe to call his close aides one by one. After thinking about it, he also called the Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Chonghui, the Minister of Industry Kong Xiangxi and the Minister of Finance Song Ziwen.
Three senior officials were also brought along to attend a work meeting at his official residence.
…
When Wang Shihe received a call, Kong Lingkan was in the study, arguing with Kong Xiangxi.
Originally, according to the itinerary, Kong Lingkan should have boarded the passenger ship to the United States by this time, and might have passed Honolulu by this time. However, since discovering the fat piece of Baotou Tea Trading Company, Master Kong has taken matters into his own hands.
, decisively changed the itinerary. In his words, he had to complete this ticket before he could go to the United States.
"Dad, just say something!" Kong Lingkan talked for several days. Seeing that Kong Xiangxi still refused to agree, the eldest young master immediately lost his temper. He became impatient and hummed, "Why don't you go and find me?"
Aunt-in-law? If you go, do it as soon as possible and don’t delay it any longer. You don’t know that the nights are long and the dreams are long, right?” After a slight pause, Kong Lingkan said again: “If you don’t go, I will go find my aunt by myself.
Already."
"Hey, don't mess around." Kong Xiangxi stopped her quickly, "You mustn't cause trouble for your aunt at this time."
"Dad, I don't like to hear what you are saying." Kong Ling said, "What do you mean by causing trouble? Can I make trouble for my aunt? I took over the management of Baotou Tea Trading Company, not only to share my uncle's worries, but also to serve the government.
Think about it, if the matter is done, won’t my aunt also have face with my uncle?”
Kong Xiangxi was also a little angry, and said angrily: "Tea trading company, tea trading company, you know tea trading company, I said, can you say something else? Can you not mention this tea trading company?"
Kong Lingkan was young after all, so it was easy to think about problems after all.
But Kong Xiangxi has been working in shopping malls and politics for half his life, so he knows very well how much interests are involved in Baotou Tea Trading Company. This involves not only the entire Shanxi merchant group, the tea merchant group in Guanzhong, and the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai people who fled to Chongqing.
Those red-top businessmen are even more involved with the interests of the Communist Party and the West.
Therefore, this piece of meat is definitely not something that the Kong family can devour alone.
That is to say, only Kong Lingkan, a fledgling young man, dared to think about eating alone.
But then again, Kong Xiangxi actually wanted to take a bite from the tea trading company. Who wouldn't want to buy such a big fat piece of meat and it was a sure-profit business?
Seeing that the father and son were about to quarrel, Mrs. Kong walked in from the door angrily.
"Can't you two, father and son, talk to each other well?" Mrs. Kong glared at Kong Lingkan, and then said angrily, "They always quarrel as soon as they meet. People who don't know, think you two are enemies.
"
Kong Lingkan snorted, stood up and walked away angrily. Kong Xiangxi could only shake his head and smile bitterly.
After rubbing his somewhat swollen forehead, Kong Xiangxi asked: "Madam, is something wrong?"
Mrs. Kong hummed slightly and said, "I just got a call from the attendant's office and asked you to go to the chairman's official residence."
"Go to the chairman's official residence?" Kong Xiangxi's expression changed when he heard this, and then asked, "Did anything happen in the attendant's room?"
"I didn't say it." Mrs. Kong shook her head and added, "However, my younger sister also called me just now. Although there were many hesitations in her words, I could still tell that she seemed to have some opinions about her.
So I think that this time the attendant’s office asked you to go to the Chairman’s residence, it may have something to do with my eldest sister.”
Mrs. Kong’s eldest sister is naturally Mrs. Sun.
"Sister?" Kong Xiangxi said clearly, "Nine times out of ten, it's Smedley's business!"
Two days ago, Smedley took a plane from the Chahar Independent Regiment and flew directly from Baotou Airport to Chongqing. This was no secret among the top officials of the government. After that, she entered Sun's mansion, and then Mrs. Sun came out in person to continuously invite Western countries.
It is not a secret that media people in Chongqing hold dinner parties.
Even the topic of the dinner party was semi-public. Based on the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War, Mrs. Sun contacted all democratic parties, and then through media reporters from Western countries, she wanted to put pressure on the National Government and Chairman Chiang to force Chairman Chiang to
The public bidding for shares of Baotou Tea Trading Company was released.
Mrs. Kong was very embarrassed and said: "The head of the family has the younger sister on one side and the eldest sister on the other. I, the eldest sister, am caught in the middle. Why don't you just stop going? We won't get involved in this matter.
.”
"Look at what you said, this is a state matter, not a family matter." Kong Xiangxi stood up quickly.
"Then you must persuade her carefully." Mrs. Kong took the fox fur for Kong Xiangxi and warned, "Don't hurt the harmony between the three sisters because of this matter."
"Don't worry, madam, I know it well." Kong Xiangxi put on a fox fur coat and a velvet hat, took the crocodile skin briefcase worth 20,000 pounds from Mrs. Kong, turned around and left.
…
Kong Xiangxi was the last one to arrive. When he walked into the study, he saw He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, Chen Buley, Wang Chonghui, and Song Ziwen. However, the seats in the study were limited, so except for Chairman Chiang, the other officials and
The staff could only stand and talk. After Kong Xiangxi came in, he quickly saluted.
"Hello, Chairman, colleagues." Kong Xiangxi took off his velvet hat and bowed slightly.
Chairman Jiang waved his hand and said calmly: "Okay, everyone is here, let's start."
"Okay, everyone." As the secretary-general of the Attendant's Office, Chen Brai immediately took out a stack of documents and distributed them to all the staff and senior officials attending the meeting. This was produced by him overtime, about the case of Baotou Tea Trading Company.
From beginning to end, there is a paragraph at the end of each document that is handwritten, but it was just added by Chen Brai.
After distributing the documents, Chen Brai added: "Today, the committee summoned everyone to come to the official residence for a meeting. There is only one topic, which is how to handle the public bidding of Baotou Tea Trading Company's shares." After a slight pause, he added, "Before the formal discussion.
Let me tell you something first. Ms. Smedley, who once served as Mrs. Sun’s full-time secretary, has just returned from an interview in Baotou. According to reliable information, it can be basically confirmed that Ms. Smedley will return to Chongqing this time.
They came with the mission of Xu Rui, or the Communist Party, with the intention of inciting public opinion and forcing the National Government to make concessions."
After Chen Brai briefly introduced the situation, Chairman Chiang tapped his fingers on the armrests of the rocking chair twice to attract the attention of the staff and senior officials attending the meeting, and then said: "This is the situation. Now please express your opinions on this matter.
How should the party-state respond?”
However, no one commented.
After Chairman Chiang finished speaking, the entire study immediately fell into dead silence.
With the party-state and committees on one side, and Mrs. Sun and the Western powers on the other, it is better to just shut up and pretend to be dumb.
Seeing that no one took the initiative to speak, Chairman Jiang immediately frowned, then his eyes fell on Chen Cheng's face, and he said with a dark face: "Ci Xiu, you speak first."
PS: It’s the weekend and I have to go to Beijing to study next week, so I can only guarantee two updates.
