After receiving the telegram from his son, Kong Xiangxi was so angry that he knocked over all the furnishings in the study, including his favorite pair of blue and white porcelain vases.
"Shameless and unscrupulous! Your conscience has been eaten by dogs!" Kong Xiangxi smashed the ornaments in the study while cursing, "I have never seen such a shameless person! He has obviously signed the transfer agreement.
, to be so shameless and openly extort blackmail, yes, this is blackmail!"
The secretary stood aside and said, "Yes, this is blackmail. Minister, we can't let him do whatever he wants. This matter must be exposed. Xu Rui's greedy villain must be exposed, so that all Chongqing people can see it."
Stock investors, oh no, let all the people in China see what kind of person he is!"
"What do you mean?" Kong Xiangxi looked at the secretary in surprise, "Expose him?"
"Yes, expose him!" the secretary said decisively, "let his ugly face be exposed to the public."
"Exposing your sister, are you stupid, or do you think I am stupid?" Kong Xiangxi slapped the secretary on the back of the head and cursed angrily, "Can this kind of thing be exposed? Do you want to expose all the shady secrets of stock trading?
Are they all exposed to the stock investors in Chongqing and the people in China?"
The secretary was stunned when he heard this and said calmly: "Minister, that's not what I meant."
"If you don't mean this, what else do you mean?" Kong Xiangxi roared, "Get out, get out!"
The secretary rolled out of the study in despair. Kong Xiangxi smashed a few more vases. Suddenly he heard footsteps behind him. He said angrily: "I asked you to get out and you came back?"
"Master, why are you so angry?" A soft voice came from behind.
"Ah?" Kong Xiangxi's body suddenly stiffened, then he turned around and put on a smile that was uglier than crying, and asked, "Madam, why are you here?"
"That's what you said." Mrs. Kong said angrily, "This is my home, why can't I come?"
"Uh, that's not what I meant." Kong Xiangxi slapped his forehead and said, "Look, I'm so angry."
Mrs. Kong asked distressedly: "Who is this? Is it because Ling Kan made you angry again by making you so angry?"
"It's not Ling Kan." Kong Xiangxi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It was Xu Rui, the anti-Japanese hero, who did me terrible harm."
"Xu Rui?" Mrs. Kong said, "I heard from my eldest sister that this man is quite good. Not only is he a good fighter, but he also cares about the interests of the whole nation. Last time he ran to the Soviet Union regardless of his personal safety and reopened the Baotou Tea Road.
I don’t know how many Baotou tea merchants and Guanzhong tea farmers have benefited, how could such a good person harm others?"
Kong Xiangxi didn't know how to explain it to Mrs. Kong.
…
Mrs. Kong does not need to explain this, but Chairman Chiang must explain it.
Otherwise, the Kong family would have to pay for the 72 million price difference out of their own pockets.
After listening to Kong Xiangxi's report, Chairman Chiang was so angry that he yelled on the spot: "Mother Xipi, that's not how things are done. Everyone signed the agreement, and then they set up a trap behind their backs, and then extorted money to death? Like this?"
What's the difference between Zigong and green-skinned gangsters and those local gangsters?"
"Yes." Kong Xiangxi nodded, "He is just a gangster."
Chen Bulei, who was standing next to him, retorted: "No, Xu Rui is worse than a gangster!"
"We can't let him mess around with this matter." Chairman Jiang slammed the table and said in his unique accent with a strong Ningbo accent, "Human desires are endless. If you satisfy him this time, who knows?
Will he come up with something new next time? Who knows whether he will ask for more money next time?"
Kong Xiangxi kept saying yes, but he didn't think so in his heart.
Speaking of which, Xu Rui is actually very trustworthy. This time, Ling Kan was too shady. When he bought stocks from the Chahar Independent Group, he lowered the price to death, which was why the independent group retaliated. However, Kong Xiangxi was very convinced that if
If he can make up the full price difference this time, Xu Rui will definitely abide by his promise and stop causing trouble.
But it was difficult for him to say such words, otherwise Chairman Chiang would have suspected whether he had colluded with Xu Rui to make money from the accounts of the Nationalist Government? This matter could not be explained clearly.
Therefore, Kong Xiangxi could only start from other aspects.
At that moment, Kong Xiangxi said: "Commissioned, but if Xu Rui is not satisfied, the negative impact of the Miller Review article cannot be eliminated, the negative impact cannot be eliminated, and the share price of Baotou Tea Trading Company will not be able to rise.
There is no way for the auction board to make profits by selling stocks, so you see..."
Chairman Chiang frowned and said, "Are there really no other countermeasures?"
Kong Xiangxi smiled bitterly and said: "I have tried publicity and propaganda, but it has no effect. I have also tried political means, but it has no effect. Military means cannot be used, so I really can't think of any way. Otherwise, we will use these seven
Make up the price difference of 12 million? Maybe Xu Rui will keep his promise this time, after all..."
"What the hell? I don't believe he can't be cured." Chairman Chiang jumped up and said sternly, "Public opinion, political and military means are all ineffective, so aren't there economic means? The economic blockade will immediately put an end to those under the control of the CCP.
The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and all base areas including Baotou will implement a more severe economic blockade!"
"Tougher economic blockade?" Kong Xiangxi and Chen Brai looked at each other.
The economic blockade is actually not new. It has been implemented as early as the beginning of this year. However, the actual effect is not ideal. Because the factions within the Kuomintang are too serious and local officials only care about enriching their own pockets, it is difficult to truly implement it in actual operations.
If the top and bottom are united, the entire blockade network will be riddled with holes.
But this time, Chairman Chiang clearly wanted to take action.
This incident just provides an excellent opportunity!
"This time it was Xu Rui who did not cooperate first, so even if we go to the US and British ministers, he will be unreasonable." Chairman Chiang continued, "So we can boldly take countermeasures. Yes, he is
He controls the Baotou Tea Road. Whether the Baotou Tea Trading Company's stock price rises or falls, we really have to see if he acts with dignity, but Xu Rui is not without weaknesses, and Baotou is not without weaknesses!"
Kong Xiangxi said: "What does the appointment mean?"
Chairman Chiang touched his head and said: "Yongzhi, I know that you, the Minister of Industry, have ideals and ambitions, and you hope that China's industry can prosper and develop, but some things can only be done slowly! Political economy, political economy, from this
It can be seen that politics always comes before economics, and it is useless to talk about economics before political problems are solved."
Kong Xiangxi pretended not to understand and stared blankly at Chairman Chiang with his big eyes.
Chairman Chiang continued: "From now on, not a single worker, a piece of wood, a bag of cement or even a grain of grain is allowed to enter Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and Baotou. I want to see what Xu Rui can do without the wood and cement."
What can we rely on to build the Baotou Industrial Zone? If there are no workers, even if a factory is built, who can we rely on to produce?"
"Ah?" Kong Xiangxi said in surprise, "Commissioner, will this anger the Soviet government?"
"Annoy the Soviet government?" Chairman Chiang said angrily, "When the Soviet government decided to assist the CCP with equipment, did it communicate with me in advance? What's more, we were only coordinating materials in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and it was not considered an economic blockade. Even if
The Soviet government had nothing to say when it asked about it."
Obviously, Chairman Chiang's staff had already thought of countermeasures.
However, there is another problem that cannot be circumvented no matter what.
At that moment, Kong Xiangxi said again: "But, Commissioner, if this happens, the shares of Baotou Tea Trading Company may be ruined..."
"If it's bad, it's bad." Chairman Jiang waved his hand and said, "Yongzhi, you don't know, but we just got the good news that the U.S. government has completed all the procedures for the $50 million loan, and now the amount has been
After entering the Ministry of Finance's account at Citibank in New York, we no longer care about the small amount of money from Baotou Tea Trading Company."
Kong Xiangxi's face fell. He thought to himself, Baotou Tea Trading Company's stock is really going to go bad. If the stock goes bad, it will go bad. The key point is that the Kong family has advanced three million oceans for this. The National Government will not repay this money.
Give it to them. Thinking of this, Kong Xiangxi's face immediately turned into a bitter gourd. Why bother?
…
It's night in Baotou.
Liu Mei hurried in with a telegram and said to Xu Rui and Wang Husheng: "Old Xu, Old Wang, this is the urgent telegram just forwarded by Yan'an Teco!"
When Xu Rui and Wang Husheng heard this, their expressions changed slightly.
Yan'an Teko is the intelligence department of the Chinese Communist Party.
After reading the telegram, their expressions immediately changed.
Because according to the intelligence sent back by special agents lurking in Chongqing, the Nationalist Government was about to comprehensively strengthen the economic blockade against the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and various anti-Japanese base areas including Baotou. Shaanxi Provincial Chairman Hu Zongnan even couldn’t wait to start secret deployments.
action.
In a speech, Hu Zongnan said this: Except for tea, never let a needle, a piece of cloth, a grain of rice or even a worker enter Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia! The Communist Party in Yan'an will have no food to eat, no clothes to wear, let alone
A skilled worker went to Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia or Baotou to operate machinery and equipment aided by the Soviet Union.
Wang Husheng said in a deep voice: "I never thought that Chiang Kai-shek would do this!"
Wang Husheng did not expect that Xu Rui had known it for a long time. Counting the time, in another time and space in history, the Kuomintang strengthened the blockade of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia at about this time.
However, the Kuomintang's economic blockade did not have any effect, and also forced a large-scale production movement. The Communist Party relied on its own hands to reclaim the barren and barren Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region into the fortress of Xiaojiangnan, Yan'an's Five
Not only did more than ten thousand party, government and military cadres not starve to death, they even had a surplus of food to support the front line!