Beiyang reactionaries

As for Juxingcheng Bank, it goes without saying.

As a private bank, Yang Cansan, the young master of Juxingcheng's Yang family, is definitely a genius financier.In a short period of time, Juxingcheng has become the number one bank in China.With this background, the development of Southwest Commercial Bank is also making rapid progress.

Soon he became famous in Shanghai Beach.

Although China is currently on a silver standard, the exchange rate in Sichuan or in the southwest is different from that in Shanghai.And Juxingcheng rose by earning this kind of price difference, and it relied on the exchange business.Since the establishment of Southwest Commercial Bank, these businesses have also been transferred to Southwest Commercial Bank.The volume of business is amazing.

As the general manager of Southwest Commercial Bank in Shanghai, Kang Xinru traveled in Shanghai's financial circle with a high status.Some time ago, a big bank in Sichuan mortgaged several high-quality assets to Shanghai and borrowed money from them.

The scale is huge.

There are rumors of tens of millions of loans.

But all through the Southwest Commercial Bank's channel in Shanghai.This made Kang Xinru's reputation growing.

Of course this is all on the surface.

As long as there are well-informed people in Shanghai, no one would know that Kang Xinru is from Sichuan, or that he is the representative of Duan Xun, the current border defense supervisor of the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Tibet.Kang Xinru is usually an excellent bank leader, but when Duan Xun has something to do with him, Kang Xinru will represent Duan Xun to carry out activities.Deal with people from all walks of life in Shanghai.The last time Duan Xun borrowed money from Shanghai's financial circle, it was Kang Xinru who took care of it.

That's why Kang Xinru was able to welcome so many people when she sent invitations to these big names in the Shanghai poster industry.

"Brother Jiaxiu (Shi Liangcai) is just in a hurry."

"Hahaha, of course. Our Boss Shi is money every moment, every minute and every second."

"Hahaha."

Everyone laughed.

Now most of the people here are just a pen in the newspaper industry, and everyone is a reporter with a very good pen.Although they are all reporters, most of them are editors of newspapers now, and they are very powerful.

The pen in hand is their strength and their influence.

But they are just that, they are just reporters.What they have is the influence brought by the pen.

But the amount of history is different.Shi Liangcai directly bought the "declaration" and became the boss directly.Moreover, under the operation of Shi Liangcai, the sales volume of "Declaration" is getting higher and higher, and it has become one of the highest-selling newspapers in Shanghai, and its profits are also getting higher and higher.

At present, in fact, many newspapers are losing money.It is estimated that among the ten newspapers, eight are losing money, one is barely able to keep its capital, and only one newspaper can make money.In places like Shanghai, new newspapers are born every day, and newspaper offices close their doors every day.And Shi Liangcai's "declaration" is the most powerful one among them, that is, the one that can make a profit.At present, Shi Liangcai's reported annual profits are in the tens of thousands of silver dollars.

This is definitely a legend in the press.

"Several, the reason why I invited everyone here today is because something big happened in the west."

"whats the matter."

Seeing that Kang Xinru became serious, everyone stopped joking.

Kang Xinru convened so many newspaper bigwigs in Shanghai today, everyone knew that there must be big news.If not, how could Kang Xinru summon everyone.If it was just playing tricks on everyone, then would Kang Xinru still want to hang out in Shanghai in the future?

"I received a telegram from Chongqing that the Tibetan army attacked Qamdo, and the 2000 frontier troops in Qamdo surrendered. The Tibetan army who captured Qamdo continued to march toward Batang and Litang."

"Oh?"

"How dare you be so bold."

"Damn."

Everyone was shocked at first, and immediately accused the Tibetan army.

In fact, some people here are aware of the seriousness of the matter, while others are not very clear.They didn't even know where Chamdo was, or the importance of Batang and Litang.But they only knew that the Tibetan army was making trouble.

"Several, Qamdo is the most important city on the Sichuan-Tibet border. It is also the place where the Sichuan-Tibet frontier army has been stationed. It is the base camp of the Sichuan-Tibet frontier army. Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, we have controlled Tibet by relying on Qamdo. As for Batang and Litang , is the necessary place for Sichuan to enter Tibet. Once the Tibetan army takes Batang and Litang, the Tibetan army will really have a chance to block our troops from Tibet. Especially once Batang is lost, relying on the Jinsha River Tibetan Army It will be able to build an insurmountable line of defense. And this time the Tibetan army is far stronger than before, the weapons used are the most advanced British equipment, and the number exceeds [-].”

"So serious."

Everyone was very surprised.

At first everyone just thought that the Tibetan army was causing trouble, but they didn't expect it to be so serious when it came out of Kang Xinru's mouth.

"Brother Baoshu (Kang Xinru), what does General Duan mean?"

Chen Bulei immediately asked Kang Xinru.

Everyone here, although influential, is the pen in their hands that has the greatest influence.At present, only Duan Xun can really stop the Tibetan army, or solve the situation in Tibet.

Because this is Duan Xun's responsibility.

If Duan Xun doesn't move, then it's useless for them to talk about it here.Chen Bulei is very pessimistic about the Beiyang Army. He is currently the most fierce critic of the Beiyang Army in the Shanghai poster circle.

The same is true for Duan Xun.

The war to protect the law broke out, and later Duan Xun's troops took Changde, Changsha, and Baoqing, and Chen Bulei criticized a lot.He even directly stated that Duan Xun is Duan Qirui's "minion" and an active implementer of Duan Qirui's "unification of force".

But at this time, Duan Xun was still the first thing Chen Bulei thought of, because only Duan Xun could solve this kind of thing.

"Our general has ordered the troops of the two brigades to go out to resolve the situation. But this time the matter is not that simple. Our general entrusts me to ask everyone for help."

Because everyone knows each other's details.

So Kang Xinru didn't hide it, and directly called Duan Xun "our general".Because even if Kang Xinru didn't say that, all the people present knew that Kang Xinru was Duan Xun's representative.

"Ask for help?"

"Boss Kang, if you have anything to say, speak up."

Shi Liangcai really didn't like Kang Xinru's constant detours like a businessman.Shi Liangcai already understood the meaning of Kang Xinru calling everyone today.There was a big incident in Tibet, and Duan Xun had to deal with Tibetan affairs.

But there are many embarrassing things, and I want to ask for the support of public opinion.

"Everyone, our general has three worries. First, as you all know, our general's troops have been fighting in Hunan some time ago. Not long ago, they captured Baoqing and occupied Lingling. In the process, they offended many people. There are few people. Now Tibet is unstable, and our generals are going to fight against the rebellion. But our generals are very worried about things in Hunan, Guizhou and other places. We are worried that after the army goes out, they will make trouble behind the scenes and affect the troops to fight the rebellion. So our general hopes that you can use With the pen in your hand, support our general’s move to suppress the rebellion against Tibet, and also warn those who want to do something behind the scenes.”

"Reasonable."

Shi Liang nodded.

"To suppress the rebellion in Tibet is to go out for the country. No one should delay General Duan's retreat at this time. On the contrary, the whole country should support General Duan's suppression of the rebellion. Boss Kang, continue."

"Second point, our general is a little hard to say. Everyone knows that the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou are all inland provinces, all of which are in the southwest, and their economy is not as good as that of the coastal provinces. But this year has been a year of melee, military expenditures Amazing, even the salaries of government employees are owed a lot. I think everyone has heard the news that I borrowed money from major banks in Shanghai. Those rumors are not fake, they are true. Our general mortgaged Sichuan Province The government has a lot of properties, and they are all good assets that are making money, and they are used as collateral for a lot of loans. But this money is still a drop in the bucket for our generals."

Sorry to say yes.

None of the people present knew why Duan Xun was short of money.That's because he helped Duan Qirui "unify by force" and mobilized too many troops. He fought in Hunan for almost a year, and the military expenses were too much.That's why I'm very short of money.

These people in front of them are basically opposed to war.

"Now that such a big event is happening in Tibet, our general needs to mobilize at least four brigades of troops. If the situation is not going well, we may need to mobilize more troops. But the road conditions in Sichuan and Tibet are very bad, and it will take several days to mobilize logistics supplies. times as many people to transport. It will cost several times more money than fighting in Hunan. This time, we need at least 600 million military expenditures for the Ping-Tibet. Therefore, our general hopes to issue Ping-Tibet public bonds in Shanghai, and hope to get the support of the people of Shanghai Donate money and use the money as military pay. I hope you can appeal to everyone in the newspapers."

To put it bluntly, it is asking for money.