On the 29th day of the 1938th lunar month. Mobile

In accordance with the wishes of the Zhang family, Zhong Yi and Zhang Manyi held a simple Western-style wedding in the Catholic Church in Yinjiang under the witness of Zhang Mouzhi and his wife, Zhang Yuanxi and Zhang Yuanfan, and they officially got married.

As for Zhong Yi’s parents, because they are far away in Myanmar, they can only talk about it later.

Next was New Year's Eve, where President Chang, who was far away in Chongqing and Chairman Huang from the province, issued New Year's notices one after another.

Zhong Yi was lazy, not only did he not publish a statement as usual, but he did not even attend the New Year's Eve dinner.

Because he was newlywed, Zhong Yi has not been to work these days and accompanied Zhang Manyi to visit scenic spots such as Qita Temple, Tiantong Temple and even Xikou Xuedou Temple.

In a blink of an eye, time came to the third day of the first lunar month in 1939.

It was snowing heavily in Yinjiang, and the ground was three feet snowing. Zhong Yi and Zhang Manyi were still in a good mood. They went to Baoguo Temple near Cicheng for a whole day. When they returned to the Zhang family villa, it was already evening.

As soon as I entered the door, I met Zhang Yuanxi, and he looked anxious.

"Zi Ren, you're back." Zhang Yuanxi said anxiously, "I've been waiting for you for a day."

"Yuanxi, why are you in a hurry?" Mrs. Zhang walked over and dusted off the snow on Zhong Yi's body while saying to Zhang Yuanxi with a angrily, "Let Ziren drink a little hot tea first to warm up your body."

"Brother-in-law, drink tea." Zhang Yuanfan handed over with a cup of hot tea.

By the way, Zhang Yuanfan has been sent by Zhong Yi to the officer training class of the East Zhejiang Sea Defense Corps.

Mrs. Zhang strongly opposed this, but her father-in-law Zhang Mouzhi and her second brother-in-law Zhang Yuanxi strongly supported it.

Finally, a family meeting was held to vote, and Mrs. Zhang's opinion was rejected with one vote, while five votes were rejected.

Back to the point, Zhang Yuanxi ignored his mother and continued: "When will the Yangxiao arrive? The three-way project in the new district has been completely suspended!"

"Stop?" Zhong Yi took the teacup from Zhang Yuanfan and said, "Didn't I ask you to start the landfill project of Xitang River and Xintang River first?"

"The civil servants have all gone home for the New Year." Zhang Yuanxi said angrily, "What should I do if I don't stop working?"

After a pause, Zhang Yuanxi said again: "Also, let me tell you something. The construction period may be postponed. The first three-way project of 5,000 acres of land may not be completed in three months."

"What?" Zhong Yi's face collapsed as soon as he heard this, "What's going on?"

When it comes to business affairs, Zhong Yi only has subordinates in his eyes, but no brother-in-law.

"The main reason is that some of them were not considered thoroughly at the beginning." Speaking of this, Zhang Yuanxi couldn't help but feel a little guilty, and said, "I was thinking about taking soil from the canal and Yuehu nearby and landing the Xitang River and Xintang River. This would not only broaden and deepen the canal and Yuehu, but beautify the environment of Yinjiang New District. But when the construction started, I found that the project volume was too large!"

"I don't care!" Zhong Yi said arrogantly, "It's three months to three months. No matter what you think, you must complete the first phase of the 5,000-acre land three-way and one-leveling project for me within three months!"

"In this case, at least one hundred thousand people will be required. It is definitely not enough to hire just by hiring. "Zhang Yuanxi frowned, "You have to issue an administrative order in the name of Mayor Yinjiang, and every household needs to pay one pride! It is considered labor, and you don't pay for wages! Because the amount of wages for a hundred thousand strong men is too large, you can't afford it at all!"

Zhong Yi frowned after hearing this: "I have to think about this."

Sending labor has been a common routine for the government to exploit the people since ancient times, and Zhong Yi was extremely resistant to this.

At this time, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but interrupt the two and said, "Okay, okay, let's talk about business later, and have a meal first."

However, Zhong Yi was destined to be unable to stop eating this meal, because as soon as he sat down, Zhou Baoyu, secretary-general of the municipal government, hurried into the Zhang family restaurant.

"Mayor, something happened!" Zhou Baoyu whispered.

Zhong Yi put down his chopsticks and followed Zhou Baoyu away from the restaurant.

Seeing Zhong Yi's figure disappear, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but shake her head. It's true that she couldn't feel at ease when she had a meal.

Fortunately, not long after, Zhong Yi returned to the restaurant and the family continued to have dinner. However, his father-in-law Zhang Mouzhi was not here, and he went to Fenghua to visit.

Zhang Yuanxi immediately asked, "Zi Ren, what happened?"

"Some people are hoarding rice!" Zhong Yi said, "Since yesterday morning, the rice price has started to soar!"

"Zi Ren, I remembered it when you say it." Mrs. Zhang said, "My Wang was still nagging me, saying that everything has been rising in the past two days, rice is rising in the price, meat is rising in the price, and eggs are rising in the price!"

Zhang Yuanxi disagreed and said, "It happened to be the end of the year, and there was another blizzard. The price of rice, flour, oil and meat increased slightly, which is completely reasonable. There is no need to make a fuss like this, right?"

"This is not an ordinary price increase!" Zhong Yi shook his head and said, "It's just that someone is hoarding goods!"

After a pause, Zhong Yi said again: "Because just now, the rice price has risen to one cent per catty! With this price, there are only two willing to sell it in more than a dozen grain stores in Yinjiang City!"

"What?" Zhang Yuanxi said with a thunderous change of color, "It has increased to a cent per catty?"

Although Zhang Yuanxi had never bought rice, he probably knew that the rice price was around two or three cents per catty. In the main production areas of rice like Yinjiang, the rice price rarely exceeded two cents.

But now it has increased to one cent per catty, so there must be something wrong with this matter!

Zhang Yuanxi said now: "Then this matter is strange. Yinjiang is the main production area of ​​rice. Last year, it was another rare bumper year. There was a lot of surplus food among the people. It is logical that such a large price fluctuation would not occur."

Zhong Yi said: "No need to say, there must be a pair of black hands behind the scenes. As for whom it is, you can only know when the detective team has investigated it."

Zhang Yuanxi pondered for a moment and said, "Zi Ren, could it be that group of people who took revenge on you?"

"It's possible." Zhong Yi nodded and said, "It's a way to block people's wealth, like killing parents. If I completely cut off those people's opium smuggling channels, they will definitely hold a grudge, and it's reasonable to find opportunities to retaliate."

In fact, Zhong Yi didn't say anything, and this incident may not be that simple.

Behind that group of people, there are probably the Japanese behind the scenes, which is likely to be a carefully planned economic war!

"If this happens, it will be a little troublesome." Zhang Yuanxi's face changed slightly, "A considerable number of people in this group are senior generals in the Third War Zone! He holds military power in his hands!"

Zhong Yi sneered: "They have soldiers in their hands, don't we have one?"

After pausing, Zhong Yi continued, "It would be fine if it was found out this time that it wasn't them. If it was true, how would I deal with them?"
Chapter completed!