Li Songchen hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Everyone, please be careful not to be irritated. Please listen to me."

After hearing this, everyone stopped listening and shouting, looking at Li Songchen.

Li Songchen then said: "Everyone, we are a press conference, not a military fight. There is no need to shout and kill here. Besides, the crime was committed by the Japanese army. They are just journalists, and there is no need to withdraw them all. If you are angry, you can choose to support our People's Army. This is the best way."

Someone asked immediately: "How can we support it? We really can't fight a war."

Another person said: "If you can't fight, you can pay money. Isn't it just to spend money when fighting? Therefore, paying money is also to support the People's Army. I am willing to pay 5,000 taels to support the People's Army, recover Liaodong, teach foreign devils a lesson, and express my feelings."

Immediately someone said, "It's easy to say, I'll pay 10,000 yuan. As long as I can defeat the foreign devils, I'm willing to lose everything."

With two leaders, someone immediately followed, so there were endless quotes of 5,000 or 10,000 yuan. Most of the people invited by Li Songchen were well-known in Shanghai, and their net worth was at least tens of thousands of taels of silver. On the one hand, it was indeed out of righteous indignation, and on the other hand, in such an atmosphere, it was really impossible to get out of Taiwan without paying some silver.

However, the foreigners present looked different, some were surprised, some were surprised, some were happy, and some were alert.

Li Songchen did not expect that the press conference would be a fundraising meeting, but he was also a quick reaction, and this effect was of course beneficial to the East China government. Therefore, he said: "Okay, since you are so loving to us, we will accept all of this money, and we will definitely live up to everyone's high expectations and recover the country. However, we will not collect this money in vain. In a few days, we will issue bonds in Shanghai. Even if this money is the advance payment for the bonds you purchased.

The atmosphere in Shanghai is becoming more and more familiar with the modern financial concepts of stocks and bonds. We know that bonds will not only return the principal in full, but also pay a certain interest every year. Of course, the premise is that the East China government must win this battle. However, everyone is willing to think that the money they donated will be donated, but they did not expect that not only the money is their own, but also certain returns. Therefore, they also have a little more admiration for the East China government. In fact, most people don’t care much about the profits of these hundreds of taels of silver, but the East China government’s attitude of not greedying for small profits is indeed valuable. Since the founding of the Shanghai New District, the East China government has made public its image of being honest and abiding by the rules, and now it is indeed a tradition.

So Li Songchen immediately ordered someone to record the amount, name, address and other information donated by each person. Of course, everyone would not carry so much money with him. Many people promised that they would arrange for their family to send the money immediately after they went back. The Shanghai New District did not ask for payment, and just said there was no hurry, and it would not be too late to pay it after the bonds were issued.

Finally, the total registered silver was 1.472 million taels, which was a huge sum of money. And just afternoon of the same day, Shanghai New District received 627,000 taels of cash.

The press conference was successful, and Li Songchen was also very happy. Of course, the press conference was just the first step. The East China government needs to maintain the heat of this incident for a long time to arouse the unity of all Chinese people towards Japan. Only in this way can the role of the East China government at this time be highlighted and the incompetence of the Qing court can be further highlighted. This sensational effect must not be allowed to end in just a few days.

Li Songchen also prepared two follow-up plans for this. One is to publish articles in major newspapers in Shanghai to criticize Japan and support the East China government, further hype this incident. The other is to organize students from various schools in Shanghai to hold a parade to further promote the influence of this incident. Most Chinese people do not develop the habit of reading newspapers, so the spread of newspapers is actually limited, generally limited to middle and upper classes, and parades are the best way to promote this incident to middle and lower classes.

Now the Shanghai New District has attracted a group of news writers from Shanghai through means such as pulling, buying, and funding. They can publish the news, editorials, etc. they need in major newspapers. In addition, the Shanghai New District has extremely high prestige in Shanghai schools, because most of the students are young, passionate, and passionate. The actions of the East China government are obviously more in line with the students' appetites. Therefore, organizing a march is not difficult. Moreover, the Shanghai New District's status in Shanghai is now important, with both official and private sides, black and white. Both Chinese and foreign parties have to give some face, and they are not afraid that anyone dares to destroy it and cause bloodshed. So Li Songchen also ordered and immediately began to implement it.

At this moment, the investigation results of Yang Yuxin were also released and sent to Li Songchen.

Li Songchen went to work in Shanghai New District. In addition to restoring the stability and economic vitality of Shanghai New District as soon as possible, dealing with Yang Yuxin's problems is also one of the main tasks. Moreover, after Li Songchen took office, the Qingdao Executive Yuan immediately formed an investigation team composed of security, judicial, financial, administrative and other personnel to go to Shanghai to investigate Yang Yuxin's problems.

Although Li Songchen is not a member of the investigation team, he is the highest person in charge of the Shanghai New District. Moreover, what the investigation team wants to investigate this time is not just Yang Yuxin’s personal matter, but a comprehensive inspection of the management personnel of the entire Shanghai New District. Therefore, Li Songchen was also granted by the Qingdao Executive Yuan the power to first review the investigation results and participate in the preparation of the investigation report.

After Li Songchen took office in Shanghai, many people reported to him that Yang Yuxin, such as having millions of dollars in personal deposits in foreign banks; having a large number of trusted personnel in administrative agencies; and using their power to seek personal gain for themselves, and giving the uniform orders of civil servants in Shanghai New District to his clothing company opened by his wife Jiang Yi at a high price, making high profits from Shaohuo; and in addition to the four wives on the surface, Yang Yuxin also secretly raised more than a dozen lovers; some people even said that Yang Yuxin had known Bai Liusu's identity for a long time, but deliberately helped Bai Liusu conceal it, and colluded with foreign countries, bought a large amount of confidential information from the East China government, and even had a foreign passport, so he could escape at any time, etc. In short, there were all kinds of crimes, and they were all very good.

Li Songchen did not trust these reports and turned them to the investigation team for verification. However, according to the investigation results, most of these reports were groundless. The financial personnel in the investigation team conducted a detailed investigation of the accounts of Shanghai New District and Yang Yuxin's personal financial accounts, but basically no major financial problems were found. If there is a problem, Yang Yuxin did package the uniforms of civil servants in Shanghai New District to Jiang Yi's clothing company.

The civil servants of the East China government all have a unified style, materials and specifications. They are calculated in spring, summer, autumn and winter, two sets per season and are replaced every two years. Work uniforms are generally uniformly made by Qingdao clothing factories.

Now there are more than 1,000 civil servants in Shanghai New District, and the total number of uniforms required can reach more than 8,000. Even if one uniform is worn for two years, there are at least 4,000 orders per year, and the number of civil servants is still gradually increasing, so this is indeed an order of considerable amount.

However, it is a normal behavior to support the development of local enterprises. In addition, this clothing company is not controlled by Jiang Yi personally, but is run by five time travelers. Although Jiang Yi is the largest shareholder, she only accounts for 30% of the shares, and it also complies with the regulations of the East China government. The East China government does not prevent the relatives of civil servants from running enterprises, and must mainly support companies run by time travelers. Therefore, this business is also recognized by Qingdao. The price of each uniform is only about 10% higher than that of Qingdao, but the labor and land rent in the Shanghai New District are higher than that of Qingdao, so this price is within a reasonable range.

In addition, in terms of employment, after detailed investigation by the investigation team, there are indeed great problems in the appointment of middle and lower-level civil servants in Shanghai New District. A considerable number of people are incompetent or do not have the ability to serve at all. However, this cannot be considered Yang Yuxin's responsibility. Therefore, the appointment of middle and lower-level civil servants in Shanghai New District is basically decided by the heads of each department, and then the personnel department will review it, and finally report to Yang Yuxin for approval. Generally speaking, Yang Yuxin will approve it based on the review opinions of the personnel department. First, Yang Yuxin cannot conduct detailed investigations of each grassroots personnel, and secondly, it is necessary to take care of the face of the heads of each department. After all, although Yang Yuxin is the general manager, he also needs the strong support of the department heads to carry out his work. There is no need to offend people because of the appointment of several grassroots personnel. However, Yang Yuxin is the highest person in charge of the Shanghai New District, so the responsibility for failing to observe is inevitable.

During the work of the investigation team, it was found that some officials had major problems, such as Zhu Min, director of the Investment Promotion Department; Cao Jianhui, director of the Customs Department, Qi Yuanyi, director of the Industry and Commerce Bureau, Liu Changmin, director of the administrative office, and others reported to Yang Yuxin for crimes, such as embezzlement of public funds, accepting bribes, nepotism, corrupt life, etc.; almost all of them were. After further investigation, the investigation team found that these people had a common characteristic, all of which were married to local large families or wealthy families, and some of them did not return a marriage, so they also tended toward their own in-laws in terms of employment, policies, business, etc. In daily work, there were naturally some bad phenomena, but because the time was still short and there was no atmosphere, and the Shanghai New District was still in the process of upward development as a whole, so there was no major negative effect.
Chapter completed!