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Chapter 176 Going to America

The next morning, Cheng Xiaojia rushed over to report to Chen Hao that she had completed the task successfully and quietly "invited" Fang Junying to the women's guard camp.

After Chen Hao praised Cheng Xiaojia for her shrewdness and ability, he asked Zheng Xuanyu to make arrangements with Liu Sifang, the political commissar of the Women's Guard Battalion, according to the method discussed last night. Then, several women went to deal with the matter of communicating with Fang Junying.

Chen Hao was idle and asked Xia Xingyu and Huang Zhonghan to ride in a carriage. Under the escort of the cavalry of the guard brigade, he went to the farm near Semarang to visit the newly built granary warehouse.

On the carriage, the three of them talked about the current situation in China. Huang Zhonghan, who was very concerned about the domestic situation, first sighed: "According to businessmen who are traveling between home and abroad, the domestic economic situation has been deteriorating over the past year. In order to pay compensation and interest to various countries, various taxes and taxes shared by the people are becoming increasingly common.

Many areas that suffer from natural disasters and famines are ignored. If ordinary people have illnesses or something, they can only sit and wait for death. In some places, there are even tragic phenomena of "eating with people" that sounds really scary!"

Xia Xingyu, Minister of Intelligence, continued: "According to the news from our Intelligence Department, the people who were trapped in dire straits have been constantly inciting resistance with the support of the revolutionary party. It seems that even if we don't take action, the Qing Dynasty will be in the past few days!"

"Yes! So we must do something early so that the people can be rescued from the fire and water as soon as possible." Chen Hao of course knew that the Qing Dynasty had been around for a few years. He echoed and asked Xia Xingyu: "Xingyu, over the past few months, with the food transported from our Borneo and Java Islands, the domestic people have received certain relief. Has their living conditions improved?"

Xia Xingyu's face changed slightly, and he nodded in a deep voice: "Since the principal was very merciful and transported a large amount of food to the country, the living conditions of the people in the coastal areas such as Zhejiang and Fujian that have been secretly controlled by us have greatly improved!"

"Minister Xia, what is the situation in other areas? Has it been improved?" Huang Zhonghan saw that Xia Xingyu was not discolored, but only mentioned the controlled areas, and couldn't help but ask about the situation in other places with concern.

Xia Xingyu said slowly: "Because our transportation capacity is not strong, now, in addition to maintaining the supply of our own army and controlling the needs of the poor people in the area, we can only transport a few food to other areas with severe disasters."

Speaking of this, Xia Xingyu's face changed again and said angrily: "In those severe disaster areas, the hateful bureaucrats, landlords and speculative merchants do not care about the lives of the people. They took the opportunity to buy rice, hoard goods, raise prices, and make huge profits. We don't have much food, and when we ship it, we are snatched up and we can't do our best to rescue those poor compatriots."

"Oh! There are too many monks and less porridge! Sometimes there are too many people, which is also a huge burden!" Chen Hao sighed continuously.

"What's even more annoying is that during the way to transport grain, bandits and robbers were prevalent in various places. They even colluded with the bullies of the unscrupulous businessmen to loot our grain transport team, causing heavy losses to our grain transport personnel." Xia Xingyu said indignantly.

"Since that's the case, you send an order to Qin Zhongyu, Li Fengrui and others to suspend the relief operations, send soldiers to support the war, and destroy the unscrupulous merchants, bandits and bullies who are accomplices of the tigers!" Chen Hao was also indignant and said immediately.

Xia Xingyu became more and more angry as he spoke, hoping that Chen Hao could change his strategy and implement an iron-blooded battle-fighting action outside Zhejiang, Fujian and other regions in China.

Now, seeing that the purpose has been achieved, Xia Xingyu was filled with joy, but his face was very awe-inspiring. He quickly agreed respectfully: "Yes! Principal, I will immediately order someone to send a report to Qin Zhongyu, Li Fengrui and others to send troops to destroy the beasts and loot all their property. In this way, we can have better conditions to help and help the poor and disaster victims."

When they arrived at the farm on the outskirts of the city, after the accompanying guards implemented military control on the farm, Chen Hao, Huang Zhonghan, Xia Xingyu and other talents visited several newly built granary warehouses accompanied by the farm leader.

After introduction by the farm manager, the grain storage warehouse owned by this farm alone reached more than 8,000 square meters, and the grain inventory reached more than 20,000 tons!

Under the guidance of Chen Hao's hygiene policy, the granary storage warehouse strictly keeps the inside and outside the warehouse clean and neat. In addition, every once in a while, the warehouse doors and windows must be opened to let the sunlight shine in to dry the grain.

In the granary, the warehouse staff wrapped the pepper and fennel in gauze, placed it on the surface of the grain, and placed a few cloves of garlic on the grain, so that it can effectively prevent insects.

Outside the warehouse, Indonesian female workers clean every day, and they are absolutely not allowed to leave garbage, sewage and weeds, which seem extremely neat. Under this kind of "both internal and external" care, the storage life of grain will be greatly extended.

Looking at the farmland in the distance, Indonesian young and middle-aged men, under the whip and knife of the Chinese militia, were concentrating on their efforts and doing their best to cultivate the fields. Chen Hao, Huang Zhonghan, Xia Xingyu and others all showed knowing smiles.

Five days later, in a hotel in Semarang City, Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun were packing their luggage and preparing to leave Semarang and return to Singapore to continue their work.

Since Fang Junying disappeared for no reason, Wang Jingwei has been anxious over the past five days and has used various relationships and even asked Semarang Mayor Huang Zhonghan for help in searching.

Of course, the result is self-evident. After searching all Semarang, Fang Junying was like evaporating from the world, and there was no news.

On the fifth day, Wang Jingwei gradually recovered from his anxiety state. Looking at Chen Bijun who was concerned about him and full of affection, Wang Jingwei asked himself in his heart: Could it be that this is God's will! Without Junying, he would no longer have to make a choice!

On March 2, 1908, at the wharf in Semarang, Chen Hao was about to take a boat to the United States, and was saying goodbye to his beloved wife reluctantly.

Thinking that he would be separated for several months, Zheng Xuanyu's eyes were red when she cried. After chatting about her concerns at Chen Hao, she watched Chen Hao walk towards the merchant ship holding the American flag.

As the saying goes, a son of a daughter cannot sit in the hall! Chen Hao's current identity is different from the past and is extremely valuable. Although there is no big risk in merchant ships going back and forth, there will be great storms or pirates at sea from time to time.

Therefore, just in case, the Semarang Municipal Government also hired three American armed merchant ships to follow Chen Hao's merchant ship for protection.

After Chen Hao took the accompanying guards on board, he waved his goodbye strongly under the eager eyes of everyone and headed towards the United States of America.
Chapter completed!
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