The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Yang Yueran, Gu Hegao's classmate and partner, rushed back to Chongqing after receiving the news. They were afraid that Zhou Hexuan would regret it, so they completed the contract in one day - Zhou Hexuan held 51% of the shares and was the legal representative of the company; Gu Hegao held 34% of the shares and served as the general manager of the factory, responsible for operations and sales; Yang Yueran held 15% of the shares and was responsible for Production management and technical supervision.

Both of them graduated from Beijing University of Technology. They were a few years younger than Zhou Hexuan and were considered elites in the business circles of the Republic of China. Especially Yang Yueran, who originally studied chemical engineering and is very proficient in paint and ink production.

Due to the huge profits from the contraceptive condom and sulfonamide business, and the profits were still dollars and pounds, Zhou Hexuan couldn't spend enough money. From the net profit dividends (after tax) of these two industries alone, he can get more than 3 million US dollars every year. Now, the deposits lying in overseas accounts are close to 20 million US dollars.

By the way, the cheap father-in-law Ornis is preparing to list his pharmaceutical company, and Zhou Hexuan's assets will increase sharply by then. In contrast, the Zhang family is much more cautious. Neither the father-in-law nor the uncle has ever thought about listing the condom company (Harmony).

In addition, with the popularity of Chaplin's "Modern Times", United Artists Pictures, invested by Zhou Hexuan, has officially joined the top eight in Hollywood and is about to usher in a round of crazy business expansion.

Counting the value of deposits and overseas company shares, Zhou Hexuan is not far from a billionaire. The unit is of course US dollars.

The Daxigou paint and ink factory is about to resume production, and more and more victims are coming to Chongqing. Bodies of starved people lying on the road can be found every day. Historically, the two crematoriums built in Chongqing were not enough, but now it seems to be much better, because Zhou Hexuan has been providing disaster relief food.

A total of seven fleets transported more than 1,000 tons of grain, all of which were used for disaster relief in Chongqing. Counties and cities further away were not taken into account for the time being. Today, Chongqing has gathered more than 100,000 hungry people from surrounding counties. Each person consumes 6 taels of grain a day to cook porridge, and the daily consumption is close to 40,000 jins (in the Republic of China, 1 jin was equal to 16 taels, which was equal to 600 grams).

The grain purchased by Zhou Hexuan from Lianghu and Jiangxi was barely enough to keep the victims alive. In this situation of not having enough to eat, it is impossible to provide work-for-work relief to the victims. We can only slowly wait for the 500,000 tons to be shipped from the Americas.

The effect is still very obvious. At least in Chongqing (in the urban area), more than 500 people did not starve to death every month, nor did they bury nearly 4,000 people in two months at the peak. Now Chongqing's professional corpse collection team can find an average of two or three corpses every day. Most of them did not die of starvation, but died of malnutrition and illness.

Not only is Zhou Hexuan saving people, the Chongqing Municipal Government has also allocated 30,000 yuan to purchase food, and all walks of life have actively donated money and materials.

Meng Xiaodong returned to his old career and sang on stage, raising funds for disaster relief through charity performances. She is very busy these days. Although Peking Opera is not very popular in Sichuan, many theater fans still come to support her performance with the brand name "Mrs. Zhou". Meng Xiaodong has raised more than 10,000 yuan for charity.

The disaster relief situation in Chongqing is excellent, and Zhou Hexuan's reputation is at its peak. If you ask anyone on the streets of Chongqing, they will give a thumbs up when mentioning Zhou Shenxian.

In other places in Sichuan, it is very bad. There is no need to go to see it on the spot, but the news in the newspaper is difficult to read——

"Fuling Newsletter": "Tan Jiufeng, a resident of Wangjiagou in Heyouping, this county, originally owned more than 40 acres of fertile land, which he cultivated by himself. Years of natural disasters have resulted in no harvest, and the source of life has been cut off. All the grass roots and bark have long been taken away. There are three daughters. The two sons were both childish and ignorant. The eldest and second daughter starved to death in the first month of the first month, and the youngest son starved to death in early February. The couple was strange in their fifties. They were hungry and cold, and had difficulty moving. They hugged each other and cried. It was so miserable. He hanged himself from a hanging beam."

"Chengdu News": "This year, after all the bark and grass roots have been eaten, I think of the dead. I heard that the meat of dead bodies is sold for 500 Wen per catty, and the flesh of living people is sold for 1,000 Wen per catty. Wang Kuangchu, the special commissioner of the Provincial Relief Association, arrived on June 6 During the inspection at the entrance, we found female hungry villagers Zhang Peng, He Zhang and others in a house with the same surname surrounding the dead bodies... There was a woman named Yang Zhang in Maliuping, Tongjiang, who had a difficult life, and her two children, aged six and nine, The daughter fled the famine. Unexpectedly, the woman fell to death on the roadside not far away. The two daughters were so hungry that they bit their mother's face and body flesh to satisfy their hunger."

"Chongqing Express": "Recently, Qiu, a poor woman from Tongmudong (Linshui County), was forced to starve and killed and ate her three-year-old daughter to prolong her life."

Zhou Hexuan no longer wants to read the newspaper because he just saw a piece of news two days ago and was so uncomfortable that he couldn't eat anything all day long.

The news content is this: In Yuchiwan, Puji, Yang Chuanxing’s family of five, including his wife, son and daughter-in-law, all starved to death, leaving only a few-year-old granddaughter. Yang Chuanxing was so hungry that he chopped up his granddaughter with a knife and ate the meat. While he was chopping, a neighbor heard his granddaughter crying: "Grandpa, please don't chop me. I will collect firewood for you when I grow up!"

There are reports of cannibalism everywhere throughout Sichuan, and it is getting more and more serious. In some places, the price is even clearly marked, with dead human flesh priced at 500 Wen per catty and live human flesh at 1,000 Wen per catty.

In mid-November, the first batch of grain shipped from America, totaling 200,000 tons, arrived in Shanghai.

Minsheng Shipping Company was so busy that Lu Zuofu went there personally to take charge, but there were too many messy things along the way.

First, someone came to collect business taxes and withheld the grain without paying the taxes. Zhou Hexuan wrote an article and scolded the tax collectors until they were bloody. Then the Yangtze River became dry in winter. In some places, even river ships could not pass, so they had to rely on small boats to transfer people one by one, which wasted a lot of time and money.

November 18th.

Yin Changling came from Chengdu to Chongqing to visit Zhou Hexuan. As soon as they met, the old man knelt down tremblingly on crutches: "Mr. Zhou, I kowtow to you. Please save the people of Sichuan!"

Zhou Hexuan was so frightened that he quickly helped me: "Mr. Zhong, please get up quickly. You are trying to shorten my life."

However, Yin Changling refused to get up and begged: "Mr. Zhou, don't just focus on Chongqing, save other places too!"

"There is only so much food. I can't even take care of Chongqing. How can I save other places?" Zhou Hexuan sighed. "The food shipped from abroad is already on the Yangtze River. If you wait a little longer, it will arrive soon." .”

"I can't wait, I can't wait," Yin Changling said anxiously, wiping away tears. "I ran out of the disaster relief funds and relief food allocated by the provincial government last month. As the president of the Sichuan Disaster Relief Relief Association, I am being urged every day. The door to my house is blocked. If there is no more food, I will have no choice but to quit my job! Give me some of Chongqing’s disaster relief food, 5,000 dan, no, 2,000 dan!”

Zhou Hexuan smiled helplessly: "Where did I get 2,000 dans of grain? There are only more than 1,000 dans left in Chongqing, and we will soon run out of food."

"Well, let's do it!" Yin Changling sat on the ground, his eyes blank, and his whole body was lost.