Chapter 612: Tolerate, Tolerate, and Tolerate Again; It’s over, It’s over, It’s Really Over

After returning to Qing City, Ye Luo immediately reviewed the homework of his apprentice.

With the help of Xiao Aqiao, the twelve-year-old Kong Lingjun successfully acquired a large piece of land and houses around the Qing City Hotel.

Before Ye Luo returned to Qing City, the demolition of the building was completed, and the construction of the food city that Ye Luo envisioned had begun, and various advertisements were flying everywhere. Everyone in Qing City knew that the second young master wanted to open a food city here that everyone could go to.

Although he took advantage of Ye Luo's name, Kong Lingjun's series of business operations really looked like that.

Especially the publicity and promotion first, all kinds of advertising, deeply grasped the essence of Ye Luo, and Xiao Aqiao praised it.

Don't think that Lu Zuofu and a group of old-fashioned businessmen will hold back in business competition because of Kong Lingjun's status.

In the face of money, all beings are equal.

At most, when competing with Kong Lingjun, they will take into account her teacher Ye Luo and her father who is the Minister of Industry and Commerce, and will not use some despicable means on her.

But there will be no less competition.

This is also the healthy competition atmosphere in the future business circle of Qing City that Ye Luo promised Pan Wenhua.

But even so, Kong Lingjun still fought his way out among a group of old-timers. Even with the help of Xiao Aqiao, it is enough to make people feel amazing.

In the past, it was because of her lawless appearance when she grew up, and Ye Luo reluctantly agreed to accept her as an apprentice because he didn't want this little girl to go down the road of no return, nor did he want those people in the future to be poisoned by her.

But after this incident, Ye Luo finally faced up to this problem.

The future of Ye's investment will surely develop like the top chaebols in later generations, and even have the possibility of transnational operations.

In this way, a single chaebol family will always decline.

At that time, allies who can help will be very important.

According to the course of history, the Kong family will go to Taiwan with the principal, and finally slowly fade into the crowd, no longer reproducing the glory of the four major families in the past.

But if Kong Lingjun takes over his mantle, perhaps a new chaebol family can be created.

It may not be a bad thing for the Ye family.

After all, Ye Luo's allies in the United States are foreigners, and those who are not of our race must have different hearts!

Kong Lingjun, the little girl, has been waiting for the teacher's praise, but she didn't know that in just a few days, Ye Luo had arranged her second half of her life clearly.

Maybe she will be full of emotion when she looks back on today in a few years.

Compared with Ye Luo's interesting days in Qing City, Zhang Hanqing has been living a very anxious life recently.

Since the beginning of this spring, Japan has slowly started to create disputes in the north.

In order to invade the north of China, Japan has been conducting espionage activities in the north in various forms.

On June 26, Captain Nakamura Shintaro of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters who were engaged in espionage activities in the north were arrested by the Third Regiment of the Colonization Army stationed there.

Due to the conclusive evidence of espionage, according to international practice, the regiment commander Guan Yuheng ordered Nakamura and others to be executed.

The Japanese government concealed the truth about Nakamura and others' espionage activities in China and announced that they were executed by the Chinese army, in order to escalate the situation, incite the war frenzy of aggression against China, and prepare public opinion for the upcoming September 18th Incident.

To put it bluntly, the Japanese invaders have no basis at all and there is no reason to speak of.

But they have figured out the subsequent invasion, so they can reverse black and white without any bottom line.

Facing the north, they can even clamor to Zhang Hanqing to severely punish Guan Yuheng and others, and refuse to plead guilty to the espionage of Nakamura and others.

Facing the country, these military fanatics confused right and wrong, incited public opinion, and took advantage of Hamaguchi Yuyuki's increasingly poor health to try to seize power and start a war.

These Japanese invaders have gone crazy.

However, it involves diplomatic disputes. Even if the north has all the reasons, Zhang Hanqing still has to negotiate with them again and again.

Who made the principal's policy not to resist?

Not long after the Nakamura incident, the even bigger Wanbaoshan incident broke out again.

On April 16, 1931, Hao Yongde, manager of the Wanbaoshan Village Rice Field Company, rented 500 mu of wasteland from Xiao Hanlin, Zhang Hongbin and others near Wanbaoshan.

The last clause of the lease stipulated: "If the county government does not approve, the contract will remain invalid."

However, Hao Yongde sublet the land to Koreans such as Li Shengxun without the approval of the county government. In order to divert the water of the Yitong River into the fields, the Koreans dug trenches and built high dams. The land they dug was the cultivated fields of local farmers. Once the high dam was built, a large number of cultivated fields would be submerged. Therefore, local farmers rose up in opposition and filed a complaint with the local authorities.

On June 7, the government sent personnel to mediate. The Japanese consul Tashiro Shigenori took the opportunity to escalate the incident and instigated nearly 100 Koreans to build the dam. In addition to sending Japanese plainclothes police to mix in, the Japanese consul also sent Japanese military police to "protect" them.

The county government negotiated with the Japanese consul, but the Japanese side ignored it and urged the Koreans to speed up the dam construction and ordered it to be completed by July 5.

On July 1, more than 500 farmers in Wanbaoshan gathered to fill the trenches.

The next day, the Japanese police openly opened fire, killing dozens of farmers, and then sent more than 40 Japanese police to suppress the protests, inciting hatred between the Chinese and Korean peoples, causing anti-Chinese tragedy on the peninsula.

On July 19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing National Government sent special envoy Zhong Yu to negotiate with Shi She, the Japanese consul in Jilin and Changchun, and others. Because the Japanese side made unreasonable demands, the negotiations were fruitless.

This incident was caused by a land dispute. The Japanese invaders' actions seriously damaged the interests of the farmers and shot and killed dozens of people.

At the end of the month, the Japanese invaders were still conducting open military exercises on the streets of Fengtian, giving Zhang Hanqing a solid disincentive.

This series of shameless acts immediately aroused public outrage.

Newspapers and periodicals from various places published editorials and issued special issues to introduce the "two cases", condemn the crimes of Japanese imperialism, and express solidarity with the suffering overseas compatriots.

Anti-Japanese aid rallies were held spontaneously in many areas.

On July 3, the Shanghai business community held an anti-Japan rally.

On July 22, the Jinling business community held an anti-Japanese rally.

On July 23, a meeting was held in Shanghai to commemorate the deceased compatriots.

On July 30, an anti-Japanese rally was held in Peiping.

In this regard, Ye Luo took the lead and sent ships from Tianjin Port several times to pick up the injured overseas Chinese and return them to China.

Organizations such as diplomatic associations were also established in many regions to engage in anti-Japanese propaganda, calling on people to boycott Japanese goods and urging the Nationalist government to engage in tough diplomacy against Japan.

An anti-Japanese upsurge gradually formed across the country.

For some businessmen, this is a good thing.

They just like Japanese products to be boycotted so that their domestic products can occupy the market in the name of patriotism.

Therefore, the businessman group became the main force in the anti-Japanese movement, but it is not clear whether they really did these things because of the tragic experience of their compatriots.

Zhang Hanqing and the principal don't think this is a good thing.

They were afraid that the anti-Japanese movement would anger Japan and prevent the Kwantung Army from actually invading with force.

The principal sent a telegram to Zhang Hanqing: "The anti-Japanese movement across the country may be exploited by underground organizations. Therefore, the government and the people need to work together to suppress the anti-Japanese movement."

He also stated in his "Message to the People": "The anti-Japanese movement has poisoned the country and only damaged it."

Afterwards, the principal severely banned anti-Japanese activities in Jinling and other places in an attempt to ease relations with the Japanese invaders.

This caused Yu Qiaqing and others who led the charge to suffer a hidden loss.

Although Zhang Hanqing's approach was gentler, his thinking mode was the same, that is, he should not anger the Japanese invaders.

In fact, both of them are not fools. The Japanese invaders have made repeated provocations in the north this year, and Ye Luo warned them before. It is obvious that they really have the idea of ​​​​invading, but Zhang Hanqing and Zhang Hanqing are still engaged in domestic problems and really have no energy to fight.

So I can only tolerate, tolerate, and tolerate again. (End of chapter)