Chapter 30 Wrath

On September 12, in the early morning, the newspaper delivery car stopped at the kiosk at the intersection of Guo'an Road and Minfu Road. At this time, the newsstand even opened in the future, but a thick bundle of newspapers was thrown to the door of the kiosk by the people in the car.

"It seems to be a little early today!"

Gu Panfu, who was sleeping in the sales booth, listened to the sound outside the door and muttered in his heart. He slowly put on his clothes and opened the small iron door of the booth with a crutch.

To some extent, newsstands in China are a kind of welfare, especially these newsstands set up on the sidewalks of the main road. On the main street and auxiliary streets of Nanjing and every city in China, when you often walk, you will see a well-decorated newspaper retail store, and it is regarded as a welfare only because it is operating The vast majority of the vendors in the newsstand are veterans, and they are disabled veterans. Not everyone is willing to live in the Invalides, especially for those soldiers who lead their families, and seeking a suitable job for these disabled soldiers has always been an important job for political axes and even the royal family.

In the end, Zheng Axe chose the street newsstand and chose to provide newsstands to disabled soldiers. As a kind of resettlement, the newsstand was provided free of charge and duty-free.

And Gu Panfu was the first disabled soldiers who got the newsstand in the second year of the empire. At the beginning, the income of the newsstand was not high. Even if there was no "military gift" of 15 yuan paid by the royal family every month, it was difficult for him to maintain his family's life even if he lived in "Rongmin Village". However, as the newspaper became more and more popular. The heart, especially the years of literacy has enabled tens of millions of people to make progress in literacy, and Chinese people have the tradition and habits of reading. Therefore, when many citizens go out in the morning, they first rush to the newspaper kiosk, buy a newspaper, and take the bus to work, which is their newspaper reading time.

In the past five or six years, although Gu Panfu's newsstand is not located on the main road, the location is also good. It can sell 2,500 newspapers every morning, and the sales volume of various newspapers and periodicals can reach 4,000 copies throughout the day. In addition, it can sell dozens of packs of paper cigarettes every day. Therefore, his newsstand can be sold every day. It can earn more than ten yuan or even more than twenty yuan, and with the rental of several advertising spaces in the newsstand, hundreds of yuan a month is also a "high-income group" in Nanjing.

In contrast, the monthly "military gift" paid by the royal family is more of a symbol and a personal honor for Gu Panfu. Therefore, when he receives the "military gift" with his left hand every month, he donates the money to the Invalides and the yi zu fund with his right hand, because he does not need that money.

For Gu Panfu, who amputated his left foot, reporting has never been an easy job. Each bundle of newspapers weighs dozens of pounds. In the past, he used to carry machine guns for hundreds of miles, but now, moving these dozens of pounds of newspapers has always been a heavy job. Who makes one leg unfavorable.

From 4 a.m. to 5:30 a.m., Gu Panfu was packing up the kiosk, opening the door, setting up the door, hanging the newspaper, and stuffing the newspaper. As in the past, when he finished all the preparations, some pedestrians had appeared on the street who had sold newspapers for so many years. He knew that those who went out at this hour often would not The people who buy newspapers, the people who really buy newspapers, are civil servants and office workers, and they will appear on the street in an hour.

As in the past, after setting up the newspapers, Gu Panfu took out a few newspapers and looked them through them. As a newspaper seller, he must know what big news are in these newspapers, so that he can recommend newspapers to guests. Sometimes, some news will make him make up his mind to add more newspapers. Although he has been guarding such a newsstand over the years, he has accumulated a deposit of nearly 20,000 yuan. It is based on this flexibility. One year, he sold 6,000 newspapers a day, just because of the big news above, but the kind of big news that he cares about is not available every day.

"There's still no big news!"

He muttered, Gu Panfu put the Qinhuai Morning Newspaper in his hand, and then picked up a copy of the Jinling Times. However, as soon as he opened it, his eyes suddenly opened the newspaper, without even considering whether the newspaper could be sold, and looked at the front page of the newspaper.

"10,000 yuan rebate - the first case of imperial corruption!"

Just looking at the title, Gu Panfu couldn't believe his eyes and embezzled tens of millions of yuan! Mr. Ge, who is so bold? Then he lowered his head and looked carefully at the content of the newspaper. Then he was completely in extreme shock. Finally, he looked at it, and even his cheeks trembled slightly, and he was completely in extreme anger.

After reading the article written by the reporter for "Shao Piaoping", Gu Panfu slapped the table excitedly and said loudly.

"It's really his grandma's gang of national worms. People like this deserve to be pulled out and shot. No, it's too easy for them to be shot. It's time to be pulled out..."

Gu Panfu scolded indignantly. Like many people, he also hated corrupt officials. Whenever he saw in the newspaper that the corrupt official was tried and sentenced to death, he would cheer up. In his opinion, if those corrupt officials were not eliminated, his majesty's country would be harmed by them.

As a retired Rongmin, Gu Panfu is like many people with military experience. In his eyes, His Majesty is above everything, and for Gu Panfu, the reason why His Majesty is above everything is very simple. After the implementation of the compulsory military service system, the military family was exempted from agricultural tax for life, which was late for him. Five years ago When the Military Preferential Law was amended, he had already retired, but in his eyes, without His Majesty, there would be no one today, so His Majesty is above all else, and His Majesty's country is also above all else.

This may be the biggest difference between the old generation of imperial guards and the young generation of guards. The old generation of royal guards is "fighting for your majesty", while the guards are "fighting for the country". That's why he has no good impression on many young soldiers, but fortunately, the army is still royal. Army, this is impossible to change.

And this will see that there is a country that harms your majesty, which is also his country, and he accepts bribes and asks for tens of millions of yuan. How can he not be angry?

"Kyuyu to kill their nine clans..."

When he said it with resentment, Gu Panfu immediately cleverly realized that today's article was indeed angry to read, but today's article attracted attention. The largest corruption case of the Empire Jianyuan, and the report was so detailed, and there were photos as evidenced by it, not to mention that this is an exclusive report, which means Taste... Gu Panfu suddenly made a bold decision. The newspaper may be able to sell thousands of copies. As soon as he thought about it, he hurriedly picked up his crutch and walked towards the public phone booth.

As soon as he turned around and left the community, Xu Chao took a big step and walked along the sidewalk towards the bus stop. At this time, there was no one on the street. Xu Chao worked in the Jinling Arsenal in the outer suburbs. The morning sun reflected on his face, as in the past, when he approached the bus stop. He came to a small newsstand at the intersection and bought a newspaper. He started to read the weather forecast on the head of the newspaper. It's sunny today.

It seems that the temperature is a few degrees lower than the previous days, which makes him feel much more comfortable. He works in the foundry workshop in the arsenal. Compared with summer, he prefers winter. It can be a few degrees, which is better than a few degrees higher.

At this moment, the front page of the Jinling Times suddenly came into his eyes. He only looked at the title and didn't need to read the content, which instantly made Xu Chao's mood a little dark.

"...Jinling Arsenal expansion procurement case... Damn it, six million machines actually received 500,000 rebates!"

At this time, he looked around. Most of the people around him were holding newspapers on the sidewalk, and their faces were full of resentment.

A few hours later, the shocking scandal spread all over Nanjing.

People are surrounded by newsstands and newspaper vendors. The Jinling Times became a newspaper snapped up by everyone. Everyone was stunned by the reports in the newspaper. If it hadn't been for the half-page printed photos of the German telegram, they wouldn't have believed what they saw at all.

"... The second phase of the expansion of Jinling Arsenal, the third phase of the Sandu Australian Naval Shipyard, the second phase of Dalian Shipyard, the third phase, the third phase, the first phase of Anshan Iron and Steel Enterprise Complex, the second phase, the first phase of Jiangnan Nonferrous Metals Company, the second phase of the Dexian Arsenal, Dasheng Textile, Taihe Flour..."

Almost every one that has made them extremely proud. Most of the mechanical procurements representing China's industrial progress involve power and money transactions. A huge rebate completely exceeds their imagination. What's more infuriating is that there are not only political axe investment enterprises, but also private enterprises, just because of them. With unified procurement rights, this kind of national unified procurement was originally to reduce procurement costs and facilitate the introduction of technology, but now it has become a tool for officials to seek personal gain.

The amount involved in the case is nearly 2 billion yuan, and more than 80 million rebates are asked for. How can this not make people angry? Almost every moment, everyone's anger was ignited.

"Go, go to the technical committee!"

"Go to Congress!"

Angry people shouted. One person, two people, thousands of angry people finally came together and walked towards the Congress, which was already full of protesters. When they converged with the young students, their words converged into a voice.

"Troughly investigate [***] and ban unified procurement!"

"The Cabinet resigned!"

At noon, the special extras of Nanjing and almost every newspaper in China came out. When people learned that the political axe procurement department was amazing [***], almost everyone was boiling in an instant. The press, which is more inclined to the Mingzhu Party and the Constitutional Party, pointed out directly on the extra.

"It's just one side of the iceberg! Guiding the economic axe will inevitably lead to extreme [***]!"

The ice side has made people so angry. What about the truth? As for this assertion, the natural people ** were even more turbulent. In the afternoon of the same day, the official residence of the prime minister was excited by the public.

"Removing national worms! It's still blood and sweat!"

The angry roar echoed all over China, and the people were completely stunned by the huge kickbacks and were also enraged.

(to be continued)