Chapter 335

After the banquet, Zhu Yuyan continued to place advertisements in the newspaper for another ten days to celebrate the success of the charity foundation, successfully keeping the name of the charity foundation in people’s eyes.

Zhao Shuli urged Su Chunjun to bring Mrs. Su to the office as soon as possible, and even willing to create another position to invite Mrs. Su to be the Minister of Publicity.

Zhao Shuli: “Now Mrs. Su has a good reputation, she is also a university-educated woman, and she is married, so she can please the public by becoming the Minister of Propaganda.”

Zhao Shuli thought there was no better candidate than Mrs. Su.

Su Chunjun understood what he meant.

What his government was like now, the people outside had no idea, they all watched and speculated.

Although the difference between an official and an official may not be as big as the difference between a green-headed fly and a red-headed fly, people still care about what kind of skin the government is wearing.

Mrs. Soo would make a perfect appearance.

She is an educated, married woman who now heads a charitable foundation. Being female, educated, and married yet able to come out and work are all things to be complimented on.

And it was Mr. So, Mrs. So’s husband, who received the compliment.

If he were not such an enlightened man, how could he have married a modern, educated woman? If he hadn’t been true to his word, Mrs. Su wouldn’t have been able to come out and work even after she was married.

Zhao Shuli: “Your support for civic charities and concern for the toiling masses is also good for our image. Ah ah, it’s all because of Yan Yan, you’ve really married a good wife.”

It was indeed as Zhao Shuli had said. The moment Su Chunjun hit the newspapers holding up the signboard of the charitable foundation, he became the spokesperson of enlightenment and advancement. Many newspapers began to tout him, and even the fact that he became the head of a city at such a young age became a sign that our government is unconventional and a symbol of enlightenment because of his open-mindedness and advancement.

Zhao Shuli even personally caught the knife to write a few articles to be published in the newspaper to guide the speech.

The newcomer Su Chunjun’s image has only been established.

Zhao Shuli: “At this point in time, you will be able to bring Yan Yan to the government, entrusted with important tasks, then your reputation will be even better.”

Su Chunjun hesitated when he heard this. He was willing to bring Yan Yan in for her safety, but did not want to use her to glorify his own reputation.

Zhao Shuli prodded him a few times and realized what he was thinking, and laughed and cried, “Fine, fine, in the end, it was me who said the wrong thing. Alas, why do you think so much? You are for Yan Yan’s safety, I am for the government’s reputation, the two are not conflicting ah. If your reputation is good, Yan Yan will also benefit, you’re husband and wife, you’re supposed to be one.”

Zhao Shuli asked Su Chunjun to tell Zhu Yuyan what happened.

He said, “Yan Yan is not an ordinary woman, she is very level-headed. I think you’re going to take the bull by the horns. Why don’t you just tell Yan Yan about it and let her make the decision, okay?”

Su Chunjun then complied and went home to report to the Taiza, asking Lord Taiza to show him what to do.

After dinner, the Taiza was lying on his bed writing in his diary, while Mr. Su was at the end of the bed trimming Mrs. Su’s toenails.

After listening to the cause and effect, Mr. Su said, “I don’t mind to do this what propaganda minister, but propaganda what? I haven’t done it before.”

Su Chunjun: “There’s not much to publicize. It’s just to write some articles, and we have some cooperative newspapers, so we’ll get the articles on there. There is also a radio station that broadcasts a four-hour news program every day, and sometimes it is necessary to write some articles and send them over.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Then do you need me to find someone?”

Su Chunjun: “No need. There have been people doing this for a long time, Zhao Shuli just put these people together and turned it into a propaganda department.” He smiled, “He said it’s probably not possible to invite you over without giving a minister a go. If you’re only allowed to be a small secretary and officer, it wouldn’t be good for everyone to make Mrs. Su. When you’re a minister, you’ll only have to take orders from me, and you don’t have to care about what anyone else says, so that’s just right.”

The thing that got him the most was that the minister would be able to have a car with a driver.

“The driver also carries a gun and can be used as a guard. I’ll pick a trustworthy person for you, and you’ll ride in his car when you come out and go in, so the security is high.”

Zhu Yuyan thought about it, but still shook her head, “Forget it. I think this is too formal and not good. It’s better to let me be your little secretary. Just be an ordinary little secretary, but only listen to you alone, okay?”

Su Chunjun shook his head and sighed, “If I could I would have done that a long time ago. But the secretary who serves me now has a class with a secretary general to take them to work. If you become a secretary, you can only go to the secretary class. I wouldn’t know how to position you if I put you in the office alone.” He looked at her and said, “That would be too condescending, Yan Yan, I do think you can be of great use.”

Zhu Yuyan thought to herself, “It’s all the romance novels that are wrong, it turns out that a big man like Su Chunjun uses secretaries according to his plan, which makes sense, as the overbearing president is a multinational company, and the company is so big, how can the secretary finish all the work with only one? Of course, we need to prepare a few more to be able to use ah.

Although Zhu Yuyan is also willing to commute with Mr. Su, she doesn’t want to be the publicity minister.

“It’s troublesome as soon as I hear it. I still have things to do with the foundation, I really don’t have the time to be this publicity minister again.” She said, “And Big Brother Zhao must have other plans, he won’t allow me to eat for nothing and not work.”

Su Chunjun laughed, “You guessed right. Zhao Shuli was chanting every day about pulling you in so that you could grab money. He said that you seem to be housekeeper’s wife material and have a pair of natural money grasping hands.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Hmph, he’s thinking beautifully.”

She is really to get money for the government, up and down a deduction, I do not know how much into the wallet of corrupt officials, the real benefit and the bottom do not know how much money left.

Thanks to the bombardment of newspaper advertisements, everyone in the city knows that there is another charitable foundation.

Zhu Yuyan took advantage of the heat and widely publicized the main idea and action plan of the charity foundation. Including the fact that all staff members are volunteers, she is more than willing to accept like-minded people – they must not be paid to work for her.

She also hopes that people from all walks of life will reach out to help the Foundation, as a little kindness from anyone will go a long way in helping others.

To reinforce the impression of “a penny’s worth of goodwill,” she customized a charity table.

It was inspired by the charity clothing donation boxes she saw in the United States when she was studying abroad in her previous life. The box was similar to a garbage can, except that it was full of old clothes. People who wanted to donate their clothes would just wash them and drop them into this box, and those in need could take them themselves.

The good thing she sees about this donation box is that it saves on labor. There is no need for someone to collect the clothes and give them to those who need them.

Just a box standing on the street can complete the whole process of collecting and donating clothes, relying only on people’s self-awareness.

In fact, her purpose was to identify charity points that could be used later.

When she needed to administer medicine and food in the future, it would be too late to inform the people on an ad hoc basis about the places where they could receive medicine and food, but by putting the locations of these charity points into people’s hearts now, then when she wanted to administer medicine and food in the future, she would only need to put up an advertisement or publicize on the streets, which would have a very good effect.

Considering the need to administer medicine and food in the future, she chose the location in a place with convenient transportation and relatively empty surroundings.

For the first time, she only set up one such charity spot first to see the effect.

So, on a sunny day, reporters once again flocked to the entrance of a closed elementary school.

Su Chunjun once again stood with a one-person-high box and posed for a photo, smiling with eight teeth in the flash.

After the journalists had taken enough pictures, Zhu Yuyan explained to the journalists on the other side of the podium what this clothing donation box was all about.

The box itself is very simple. Four legs below, a box on top, and a peaked roof on top of the box, at first glance it looked like an enlarged version of a small Japanese shrine.

Hirata Yoshiko thought it was very similar.

But Zhu Yuyan had a reason for this design, and it wasn’t all the result of manga influence.

First of all, the four legs underneath the box were to keep it off the ground, so that the clothes in the box wouldn’t get damp and moldy due to the rainy season and humidity.

Secondly the peaked roof eaves are also for protection from the eyes.

The box was two doors with no locks.

Zhu Yuyan deliberately pointed to the unlocked door and repeatedly announced to reporters that this is for “free access”.

She said: “Charity is a good thing, so we should try to consider for the people who are helped. There are a lot of people who are just suffering from temporary poverty, it’s not that they don’t work hard, it’s not that they’re lazy or incompetent, it could just be an accident that causes them to need help. They may feel ashamed when reaching out to others, and it is to avoid this kind of psychological pressure that we make such a decision. The donor puts the clothes in a box so that those in need can take them without having to face anyone. The good person who puts the clothes in the box knows that they will help someone else and that they have done their job, and the person who receives the donation can help someone else in the same way if they have the means to do so later on. There is no need for anyone to feel sorry for this; the goodness of all is completed and elevated in this box.”

Her words received a round of applause from the onlookers present!

–Onlookers and applaud for ten cents a head.

The two listeners and the two grannies in charge of finding people stood aside to take note of all those who had applauded well, and in a few moments they were to be paid to see who dared to be lazy!

After Zhu Yuyan finished expressing her own merits, she began to give Mr. Su a high hat, she smiled and said, “It’s all because of Mr. Su’s support that I was able to achieve such tiny results.”

Mr. Su then takes the stage again and contributes himself to another round of photos for the reporters.

In order to get the clothing donation box off to a red-hot start, after it made it into the newspaper, Zhu Yuyan had her listener and matron go there every day to stuff the clothes.

These old clothes are collected from the garbage dump, washed and dried, and then sent to the donation box.

This expenditure alone costs several hundred dollars.

But the publicity effect may be really good, because the clothes stuffed in every day are really picked up by people, and when the listeners go there the next day it is empty.

Su Chunjun asked, “When will you send the clothes like this?”

Zhu Yuyan: “Until someone stuffs clothes into it.” As long as some people started to donate clothes, she could stop stuffing clothes.

She thought for a moment and added, “If not enough people donate, I’ll have to keep stuffing.”

This clothing donation box is like a pilot, like a model home for a real estate company, like a flagship store for a milk tea franchise, a living sign, a billboard. All expenditures are necessary.

Suzuki Saburo asked Hirata Yoshiko, “Has Yanji been sending clothes to that clothing donation box out of her own pocket?”

Yoshiko Hirata nodded, “Yes. She said she would keep doing it so people would believe the charitable foundation was real.”

Suzuki Saburo pondered for two days and said to Hirata Yoshiko, “Yoshiko, you can run that foreign trade company of yours. I will support you.”

Yoshiko Hirata said excitedly, “I won’t let you down!”

Suzuki Saburo looked at her thoughtfully and said, “Learn more from Yanji. She is a very intelligent woman. If I had wondered before why her teachers all held her in very high esteem, believing her to be a talent needed by my great nation of Japan, I won’t wonder anymore in the future. She does deserve such praise.”

Hirata Yoshiko calmed down a little as she said in a complicated voice, “Saburo, do you …… appreciate women like Yanji?”

Suzuki Saburo smiled and said, “Yoshiko, don’t misunderstand. You are the right woman for me, I just feel that I was the one who underestimated women in the past. Even Chinese women have wisdom and talent not inferior to Japanese women.”

Yoshiko Hirata said firmly, “I will not lose to Yan Ji.”

She must make her company more than a charitable foundation.

Summer had come and the streets began to be filled with vendors carrying boxes selling popsicles and sodas.

But the problems in front of Su Chunjun were serious.

A number of factories had not opened, the bosses had run away, and the workers, without jobs, began to gather and stay on the streets.

Zhao Shuli: “The wharf now has boats sailing in the middle of the night, with at least four to ten boats leaving a day. Intelligence said that there are also ships picking up in the outer sea, and some ships have to stop in the outer sea when their draft is too deep to enter the harbor.”

Su Chunjun took a deep breath, “About how many?”

Zhao Shuli: “There is no exact number, but there should be 30,000 to 50,000 per day.”

Su Chunjun drew a cold breath, “That many?!”

Zhao Shuli: “Those are slave ships, do you think they are passenger ships? Each floor is stuffed like a livestock ship, with only air vents and blocked windows, so it’s so dark that you can’t even stretch your legs straight unless you get off the ship. There are no beds, no dining tables. Some ships run for too short a time and don’t even give you anything to eat or drink. They charge 3,000 to 4,000 dollars per ship, and half of the dead ones make a profit. A passenger ship can hold a few hundred guests, but a slave ship can hold four or five thousand; if it were a big ship, it would be easy to hold seven or eight thousand, or tens of thousands of people on one ship.”

Su Chunjun finally made up his mind, “We must get the factory started as soon as possible!”

The people didn’t think so much, all they wanted was to make money to feed their families, and he dared to sell himself for as little as a few dollars.

If we don’t find them work, they’ll be sold out by the slave ship.

Zhao Shuli: “Do you want to go see Mr. Zhang first?”

Zhang Gongzi brought a lot of merchants here to prepare to open factories for business, but they knew very well that Su Chunjun was in desperate need of support right now, so these guys dared to sit tight and wait for Su Chunjun to come begging for them to start their business with a lion’s share of the money.

These businessmen are too cunning.

Zhao Shuli thought he could only ask Mr. Zhang to talk to this businessman.

Zhao Shuli: “They have to open even if they don’t!”

Zhao Shuli slapped the table and cursed.

The hallowed national government was being held by a group of businessmen, asking for this and that, how can there be such a thing!

Zhao Shuli had dealt with those merchants a few times and was so angry that he was in a rage.

Zhao Shuli: “Hold a gun on them and see if they do it!”

Su Chunjun had another idea.

He said, “No, let’s go to the Japanese first.”

Zhao Shuli: “Find the Japanese?”

Su Chunjun: “The Japanese want to open a factory too. It’s just such a big place, whoever opens it first can occupy the territory, and those who come behind can’t open the factory, so they have to get lost.”

Although Zhao Shuli scolded those businessmen, he still preferred to let Chinese businessmen open factories than the Japanese, other than that, it was good to manage. He could take the Chinese businessmen to jail, but he couldn’t take the Japanese. When the government needs money, Chinese businessmen are invited to sit down and donate money to the military or something very convenient, but the Japanese can do this? No.

Zhao Shuli: “Wouldn’t that be a bad idea? Your reputation just got a little better.”

Thanks to Mrs. Su’s blessing, Mr. Su hasn’t done a single bad thing in the short time he’s been in power, and all he’s done is to show up in charity reports, either donating 800,000 yuan or donating clothes boxes, which has been denounced as a show, but it’s better than being scolded for incompetence.

If at this juncture then rumor also Su Chunjun help the Japanese to open factories, then just saved the good reputation will be all gone.

Zhao Shuli: “Those businessmen don’t have many hearts. They will buy articles in the newspaper to scold you and that’s the end of the story.”

The mouths of the people are not to be guarded against.

“Besides, there’s still the face of Mr. Zhang to look at.”

These merchants had come along with Mr. Zhang, and since ancient times, money and the army were inseparable. Duke Zhang had to rely on these merchants to shell out money to support the army, so he would definitely be toward them.

Zhao Shuli: “We still need to rely on Mr. Zhang in order to talk to the Japanese, we can’t offend Mr. Zhang.”

Su Chunjun: “Once we find the Japanese, they should be anxious.” He sighed, “Those merchants wouldn’t dare to slack off on you and me so much if they didn’t have a hold on them. Originally they came to do business and make money, now it’s become me begging them to do business and make money in my territory.”

Zhao Shuli is angry at the thought of it: “Those bastards, complaining about this and that, asking me to give them the green light everywhere, the faction is bigger than me.”

Su Chunjun: “You have to look at the master when you beat a dog. I’m giving Duke Zhang face, but there’s no need to suffer from these people’s idle anger. I’m bound to make them suffer a big loss this time.”

Zhao Shuli was tickled by the new hatred and old grudges, and changed his mind, saying, “Then I’ll listen to you!”

When Zhao Shuli pushed the door to go out, he always felt that the sentence “you have to look at the master even if you hit the dog” didn’t sound right, whether he was saying that the merchants were Zhang Gongzi’s dogs or he was Su Chunjun’s …… bahahaha!

Zhao Shuli cursed and left.

Su Chunjun went home and told Mrs. Su that she wanted to deliver a message to Suzuki Saburo and asked if she could tell Hirata Yoshiko.

Zhu Yuyan: “Yes you can, but Hirata Yoshiko has been a bit shifty these days. My guess is that she’s angry with Suzuki Saburo. If she is determined to take advantage of it, it is very likely that she will miss your chance to do something.”

As soon as Su Chunjun heard this, he knew that Hirata Yoshiko had made Mrs. Su angry, and said with a smile, “That’s just as well. Suzuki Saburo will be the one who is more angry if he misses something, so let that Hirata Yoshiko suffer, and see if she still dares to give my wife a hard time.”

Zhu Yuyan rolled her eyes and laughed.

Su Chunjun hadn’t been called by Mrs. Su for a photo shoot for a long time, so he couldn’t help but be concerned at this time.

He asked, “Is there anything I can do to help the charity foundation recently?”

Zhu Yuyan: “No. There was a lot of action a while ago. There were quite a lot of actions that I engaged in a while ago, and now I can relax and unwind as well.” Anyway, she had already hooked up Hirata Yoshiko, her foreign trade company was already open, and she was only waiting for the Hirata family’s fleet to deliver the first batch of smuggled food, so she could proceed to the next step: selling food at the night market.

Su Chunjun feels guilty for not being able to do his best for his wife in his official duties, so he personally washes her feet at night and waits for her to go to bed.

With his help, Mrs. Su slept until ten o’clock the next day.

When she got up, she called Hirata Yoshiko.

Speaking of which, since Mr. Zhang moved to the French Concession, the broken phone lines there were finally repaired. She could also call Ms. Zhu and the others.

Ms. Zhu, mindful of her new marriage, didn’t tell her anything, only saying that everything was fine over there and that everything was going well. But Zhang Ma said that Ms. Zhu and Prof. Dai were very busy as they left early and returned late every day, and they often wrote behind closed doors, and their relationship was getting better and better every day.

In Zhang Ma’s mind, if a man and a woman are always alone together behind closed doors, they are bound to have a good relationship.

Zhu Yuyan called Hirata Yoshiko and told her that today’s appointment would have to be postponed, as she had something else to do.

Hirata Yoshiko is very unhappy, she has been used to every day Zhu Yuyan go to help her to do the company’s business.

She said, “What’s the matter with Yan Ji?”

Zhu Yuyan then squeaked and couldn’t say anything.

The more she pushed back, the more active Hirata Yoshiko became. Originally, she thought that it was fine even if Zhu Yuyan was allowed to rest at home, but now she felt compelled to let her go to the foreign trade company together.

Zhu Yuyan couldn’t give a reason, so she excused herself, “It’s because I have a bit of a headache ……”

Hirata Yoshiko was provoked and spoke, “I will come to visit Yan Ji.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Huh? No, no need! I just need to rest and take a break ……”

Hirata Yoshiko: “Yan Ji has helped me a lot, I am definitely coming to visit if you are not feeling well.”

Hirata Yoshiko hangs up the phone and rushes to the Zhu family building by automobile.

Zhu Yuyan really did not dress as brightly as before, she only wore a home-style clothes, see Hirata Yoshiko personally come to the door but said, “After you leave, I have to lie down again at once”.

Hirata Yoshiko wondered if it was because she had been making Zhu Yuyan do her bidding lately, and now she wanted to rebel against her.

She said, “I’ll send Yan Ji back to bed to rest.”

Zhu Yuyan: “What? No no no …… really no need ……”

Then she was sent to the bedroom by Hirata Yoshiko and watched her lie down on the bed.

Zhu Yuyan thanked her again and again, very touched that Hirata Yoshiko was so concerned about her.

She said, “There’s nothing wrong with me. Yoshiko, you are so kind.”

Hirata Yoshiko: “It’s okay, we are friends. Yan Ji, you have to get well soon, we still have a lot to do.”

Zhu Yuyan softly said, “Good.”

I don’t know what stimulated Hirata Yoshiko, since she said that she wants to set up a foreign trade company, the whole person has become like a tyrant, saying the most gentle and polite words, doing the most forceful things.

Zhu Yuyan very much hope that the foreign trade company can be established as soon as possible, see Hirata Yoshiko energetic can not help but intervene, to promote the development of this foreign trade company in the direction she wants.

Probably because she gave Hirata Yoshiko too much magic soup, Hirata Yoshiko more and more have toward the direction of the Japanese samurai, not successful or plan the belly, with the determination of certain death to do things will not be unsuccessful.

This has both advantages and disadvantages.

The good thing is that Hirata Yoshiko is now focused on the foreign trade company, everything personally. The bad thing was that she had expanded the battlefield, and in order to get a piece of the Hirata family’s smuggling for her foreign trade company, she had sent countless telegrams to her second sister-in-law, seemingly intending to support her second sister-in-law’s agitation for her second brother to take out the Hirata family’s oldest brother, replacing the oldest with a new one in his place.

The reason was simply that her elder brother refused to give her a share of the smuggling route.

Zhu Yuyan gave her the idea of buying goods from the grain smuggled back by the Hirata family. And Hirata Yoshiko do not know where to get the truth, directly reach out to the Hirata family to ask for a smuggling line, listening to her meaning is to directly want a fleet of ships as her dowry for her to bring to the Suzuki family.

Hirata family brain into the water ah to give the dowry girl a smuggling fleet, this is a family’s most core strength, even the second son of the Hirata family is impossible to get their hands on, all to the head of the family line from generation to generation.

Of course the Hirata family boss could not agree, even if Hirata Yoshiko married Suzuki Saburo. It was impossible for her to marry the Suzuki family’s eldest son, the future head of the Suzuki family. Not to mention the oldest.

So Boss Hirata painfully rebuffed Hirata Yoshiko and had her scolded.

Hirata Yoshiko, in a fit of brainstorming, thinks that this elder brother who doesn’t smuggle money to her is too much, and starts to pry the Hirata family apart, supporting her second son, also known as the second brother, to grab the elder brother’s chair.

Zhu Yuyan feels that the water in Hirata Yoshiko’s head is not filled by her alone, Suzuki Saburo must have a hand in it as well!

Zhu Yuyan gently says to Hirata Yoshiko, “Yoshiko, can you do me a favor?”

Hirata Yoshiko: “What is it? We’re friends, of course I’ll help you.”

Zhu Yuyan sighed and fretted, “Mr. Su said that this matter is very difficult and he needs Mr. Suzuki’s help.”

Hirata Yoshiko: “Mr. Suzuki is very busy.”

Zhu Yuyan: “But …… aren’t we friends?”

Yoshiko Hirata: “Of course I’m your friend. But Mr. Suzuki is more important to me.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Yoshiko, just help me. I can’t let Mr. Su down, he’ll be angry.”

Hirata Yoshiko has accepted the setting that her friend Yanji is not loved by her husband and she sympathizes.

“Yanji, tell us what’s the matter.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Because many businessmen want to open factories, but Mr. Su remembers that Mr. Suzuki also wants to open a factory, and he wants to give this news to Mr. Suzuki first.”

Hirata Yoshiko: “I’ll make a note of that. Yanji, when Mr. Suzuki is free, I’ll pass it on to him.”