Although there was no donation box, the common people almost all took out the small amount of money they carried, including cash and copper coins, and threw them into the venue like snowflakes over the heads of the soldiers maintaining order.
The more money is thrown away, the more ugly the wealthy locals look.
This is great, the Huashang Group is richer than Liu Tuanzuo, who owns a mine and sells it directly to his family, and it is worth one million. If you think about it at this time, you will be a traitor and a lackey.
At this time, these shrewd businessmen still don’t know that Fatty Han and Fatty Liu are a team? If they are not a team, how can they coordinate so well with each other? Even the amount is so real.
of.
A share of 1.8 million was reserved for these people.
"I'll donate 100,000!" The old man from Shanxi pinched his nose and was the first to give in. If he didn't donate, I'm afraid his reputation as the commander of the 2nd Theater would be ruined tomorrow. This was to help his soldiers in the 2nd Theater.
OK?
"I'll donate 20,000 yuan." Wang Shihe smiled bitterly and reported the amount based on his own financial resources. How could he have imagined that he would confiscate the gift when he went to Taiyuan on behalf of the Chairman, but he would lose the money first.
Shanxi's rich locals took one look at it and thought, admit it! The bosses have donated, and the common people have also donated, so let's do it too!
I have five thousand, you have ten thousand, and he has pledged twenty thousand.
Naturally, Han Tianhao paid the bulk of the money and collected it on behalf of the Huashang Group. No one would doubt that he and the Huashang Group dared to embezzle the money. They might even pay more than the promised one million.
Now that his words are out and people come to visit with certificates, the Huashang Group will have to pay. Otherwise, let alone a group of high-ranking officials who cannot spare them, if word gets out, the Huashang Group will have to close down no matter how strong it is.
In this age of ancient customs, sometimes promises are more effective than words in black and white.
Just like Liu Lang's previous promise to the little girl, no one took it as a joke with a child. A man or a real man, he either doesn't say it or nails it with spit and nail. If he says it, he must do it.
This is the moral bottom line of the Chinese people with five thousand years of civilization. Even if many people throw it away in the future, they will pick it up again in the future. When they understand that money is not everything.
Liu Tuanzuo, who had been prepared for a long time, was not joking with them. He had already called Zeng Shui to hold a blank piece of paper and asked the wealthy locals who pledged to donate to write their names and amount. Even the old man from Shanxi was no exception. The words were written in black and white on the paper.
In addition to their own signatures, if anyone dares to deny his account, Liu Lang will dare to hang his name beside the gate of Taiyuan City, ensuring that the wind will stink for ten miles.
It would be better to leave it to the Japanese than to the Chinese soldiers. Liu Lang was trying to get rid of these wealthy locals before he failed in the battle of Taiyuan.
He is not afraid of being resented by these guys either.
Soon, he will fly away from Taiyuan.
The vigorous investiture ceremony in the mourning hall ended with the sound of donations.
Although surrounded by the "stench of copper", everyone was moved by the respect for the brave sacrifice of the frontline soldiers. It was useless to cry and shout slogans. Real money and silver had to be used to solve the worries of the soldiers. Liu Lang
The emotion turned into reality.
Not counting the money donated by ordinary people who could not be counted in a short time, the donation from the big guys alone has exceeded 3 million. Han Tianhao, who was holding the donation pledges from the big guys, even specially signed it with the chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Government who was present.
An agreement with legal effect was made.
The "Shanxi Campaign Killed and Disabled Soldiers Relief Fund" led by Huashang Group will benefit all officers and soldiers in Shanxi's battle, whether they are the Central Army, Shanxi-Sui Army, the 18th Group Army, whether they are generals or privates, but
If the family is in difficulty and unable to survive, you only need to take the military family certificate with military number or the war death and disability certificate issued by the 2nd theater, and you can go to the branches of the Huashang Group in major cities in the province where the family members are located to receive subsidies.
Even without any proof, as long as ten people from the hometown and the local security chief prove that their children are fighting on the front line in Shanxi and their families are in difficulty, the relief fund will also provide subsidies and follow up their families for a long time.
Just now, Han Tianhao's words as the general manager of Shaanxi and Shaanxi branches may not have enough weight, but General Manager Fan Xudongfan of Huashang Group also called after just learning about it. The message said in black and white, General Manager of Shanxi Branch of Huashang Group
The decision was made and an additional one million yuan was added to the rescue fund.
I'm afraid no one knows that the "Shanxi Campaign Killed and Disabled Soldiers Relief Fund" first officially proposed by Liu Lang was swelled six months later due to the injection of US$500 donated by Situ Meitang on behalf of the Chinese Americans.
to 15 million silver dollars.
This is not over yet. The most jaw-dropping thing is that the little foreign girl donated 10 million U.S. dollars on behalf of Huamei Company, which has received part of the government's military procurement. The financial status was announced to the outside world as high as 40 million. Yin Yang has already retreated its headquarters to the mountain city with the government.
The relief fund has changed its name to "Relief Fund for Chinese Soldiers Killed in War and Wounded and Disabled Soldiers", benefiting not only front-line soldiers in Shanxi, but all front-line soldiers across the country.
Throughout the Great Patriotic War, the Huashang Group did not announce a clear figure for the relief subsidies distributed by this relief fund to soldiers and military dependents. Since most of them came from overseas Chinese, the official did not receive a penny. Even the Huashang Group
Since then, donations from domestic consortiums have been refused, and no one has the right to check its financial expenditures.
However, some statisticians and financial experts have come to a rough conclusion based on surveys and statistics of some soldiers and military families. It is an incredible astronomical figure.
If it were replaced by the domestic business of Huashang Group, it would not be able to support it anyway. People who don't understand its internal situation can only attribute this mysterious source of funds to the efforts of millions of overseas Chinese.
I am afraid that only a few senior executives within the Huashang Group know that the overseas branches of the Huashang Group, which Liu Lang established overseas a few years before the war, are the real source of this almost astronomical amount of funds.
The millions of casualties in the army cannot be catered for by the Huashang Group, but just benefiting most of them can enable them and their families to survive the disaster for several years. That is not tens of millions of funds.
It can be done.
Of course, that's a story later.
After finishing all this, Liu Lang received a personal notice from Wang Shihe that the Japanese troops in the direction of Xingtai had all retreated. The independent regiment that had arrived at the Liao County garrison handed over the position to the 26th Route Army. The entire army rushed to Xingtai, and one trip could be carried.
The infantry division's special train will arrive at Xingtai Railway Station late at night.
All the equipment and personnel of the independent regiment will take this secret train to Zhengzhou. Then, without getting off the train in Zhengzhou, they will change to the Longhai Line to Xuzhou, and then transfer to the Jinpu Line in Xuzhou to reach Pukou.
Before that, Liu Lang and he would take a special plane to Wuhan, and then from Wuhan to Nanjing, where he would join the independent regiment and follow the unified deployment of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Everything had been arranged, leaving Liu Lang with less than two hours in Taiyuan.
Liu Lang immediately arranged for Han Tianhao to connect his newly adopted adoptive mother and three adopted children who had not yet changed their names to the branch of the Huashang Group in Taiyuan.
I originally thought of asking Han Tianhao to help pack up their belongings a hundred miles away, and then send them to Sichuan together. But when I asked, everyone, including Liu Lang, fell silent.
This family of four has nothing else. Home is wherever you go.
Brigadier Jiang Yuzhen, who had already died in battle, lost his father just four months ago. His mother, Pan, worked hard to raise him and never married. He had no brothers or sisters to share the burden of supporting the family for him. His wife was also fighting.
He died of illness three months ago, leaving an old woman in her sixties and three girls, the longest of whom was only ten years old, in the family.
From Heze, Shandong, to Yangquan, Shanxi, he even rented a house. It can be said that except for an old lady and three children, this major general brigade commander left nothing behind.
But it’s okay, it’s okay to pour it out if there’s nothing, so as not to make it sad to see things and think about people.
Jiang Yuzhen left behind a daughter and two sons, whose names are simple. The daughter is "Ling", and the second son is "Yong" and the other is "Loyal", which fits the temperament of this military father.
Liu Lang hung the other two Medals of Blue Sky and White Sun on the chests of his eldest daughter and second son in the Taiyuan Huashang Group branch, as a gift of recognition to them. With these three medals to protect their bodies, except in the Japanese-occupied areas
, there are probably not many people who would dare to bully these three little guys. Except for him, Liu Lang, there is no one in the country who has two Medals of the Blue Sky and White Sun and a First-class Medal of Baoding, and still hangs them on his baby like this.
Even the ferocious Japanese can use it to hang wind chimes, but who can he not kill? The fact that there is not even a bandit hair in northern Sichuan is proof.
As for the Medal of Blue Sky and White Sun that Jiang Yuzhen paid for with her life, it was left to her old mother who had cried all her tears to keep it close to her. Perhaps, the medal that was hot but bloodless would allow her to still feel the legacy of her son.
temperature.
I sent a telegram to Lieutenant Colonel Ji who was staying at the Guangyuan base, briefly informing me about the adoption of three godsons as my daughters. Liu Lang knew that, needless to say, his well-educated wife would definitely arrange this properly.
For a family.
However, Liu Lang felt that it would be better for them to live in the newly built "Shuguang" town next to the Guangyuan base, not at the base or the Liu family in Chongzhou. He hoped that the family could live with more dignity and freedom instead of
Under the wings of others. Even without the support of the Liu family, they should be able to live a good life in that small town just relying on Major General Jiang Yuzhen's pension and Huashang Group's casualty military subsidies.
Hao Mengling and Liu Jiaqi, whose hometowns are in Wuhan, will naturally have someone to take care of them. The tragic thing that happened in the past and made a living by selling tea eggs will never happen.
Liu Lang's business empire deployed in advance is at its maximum effectiveness at this time, and it is not just about making guns and artillery to support frontline military supplies.
Money, earned, is spent.
Although it is said to be a special plane, it is actually not very big. It can seat 17 or 18 people, which is good enough. Liu Xueyuan, Liu Lang and two personal bodyguards all boarded the special plane. Hao Mengling and Liu Jiaqi, who were asked by the government to be transported back to their hometown in Wuhan for a public memorial ceremony
The general's coffin could only be transported to Xi'an by special car and then transferred to Wuhan by train.
At the airport, Liu Lang unexpectedly saw Zhou Dapeng and the aviation volunteers led by him, including fifteen Warhawks, all parked on the tarmac of Taiyuan Airport.
It turned out that Taiyuan was an important town on the northern frontline, and Japanese fighter planes were very active. In order to protect the safety of his bodyguard and Liu Lang who boarded the special plane, the bald principal made great efforts to mobilize all the aviation volunteers who had returned to Sichuan for repairs.
Escort the special plane.
No wonder they had to go to Wuhan first. It turned out that the maximum range of the escort fighter planes could only reach Wuhan. Liu Lang's face remained calm, and Zhou Dapeng, who was standing on the tarmac in the distance and saw him, looked at each other silently and nodded lightly.
He followed Captain Wang into the special plane.
The escort fighter planes took off first, and after fifteen fighter planes circled in the sky for a week, the special plane accelerated and jumped from the ground into the sky.
Damn it! How cool! This is Liu Lang's first impression of the special plane of the Republic of China that only senior officials at the ministerial and general level are eligible to fly on. It is far worse than the jet aircraft of the future.
However, fortunately, a parachute was issued under each seat. As long as it did not disintegrate in the air, Liu Tuanzuo was fully confident to take the beautiful reporter beside him, who was not flying for the first time but still had a pale face, to go bungee jumping at a high altitude.
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In the future, he will have practical experience in 500-meter ultra-low-altitude skydiving.
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PS: I recommend a book written by a friend on the military channel, "The Chinese God of War in the Resistance Against Japan", which has more than 2 million words. Book lovers who are short on books can read it.