The soldier named Xiao Shitou is actually not young, he looks to be in his late teens.
Such a big young man, when Wang Xu saw him, was holding a piglet and crying, with a butcher's knife beside him.
Wang Xu walked past and looked at the little pig.
Pigs are not big, and they are not as good as modern pigs that eat feed and can be slaughtered in half a year. They are still very small at four months old and don't have much meat on their bodies.
"Is this the only pig in the headquarters?" Wang Xu looked at the little stone and asked the guard.
The guard lowered his voice and replied: "This is the only one left now. The last plane bombing killed many people. This is the only one left."
Wang Xu nodded slightly, patted Xiao Shitou's shoulder and said, "Xiao Shitou, this pig won't eat at noon."
"Really?" Xiao Shitou hugged the pig and was very excited at first, but then asked weakly: "Are you the chief? Do you keep your word?"
"I'm not the chief, but the chief still has to give me this little face. However, the existence of Second Senior Brother can survive today but cannot survive tomorrow. How can you protect him for the rest of his life?" Wang Xu didn't want to eat this pork meal.
, because he is not short of oil and water and does not need to raid the headquarters, which is not rich.
Just take a look at the cooking class of the head of the headquarters and you will know that the food provided by the boss is just like that. Not to mention compared with the senior generals of the Democratic Party, it is even worse than that of ordinary wealthy people.
He came to Wangjiayu not to eat, but because he had something big to do.
He doesn't choose what to eat. He really wants to have a big meal. There is plenty of room in reality, so why bother eating the last pig in the headquarters.
"I, I'm not protecting it, but it's really too small." Xiao Shitou wiped his tears with his sleeves, held up the piglet to Wang Xu, and said, "Look, this is a sow. Today
If you don't eat it, there will be more piglets every year. Then, pigs will give birth to pigs, and pigs will give birth to pigs, and there will be many, many pigs."
"Yes, there are many, many pigs, and I can't finish them." Wang Xu touched the pig's head, turned to the guard and said, "Let's go back, and we have to tell the boss that we changed the recipe today.
"
After wandering around for an hour, Wang Xu had no intention of continuing and went back with two guards.
Before he even entered, Wang Xu heard the loud voice of the deputy chief of staff outside.
"What, the Japanese airport has been discovered. How many planes are there? More than thirty. Okay, great. How about the defense strength? There is only one brigade in one brigade? Haha, since there is only one brigade, what else do you ask for?
Just blow it up for me."
When Wang Xu pushed the door open and walked in, the deputy chief of staff smiled like a flower.
More than thirty aircraft appeared on the battlefield, providing regiment-level artillery coverage and high-altitude suppression.
Taking away this airport will mean that the enemy will lose air support in the next few weeks, and will no longer have to worry about enemy bombing of the headquarters.
"Mr. Wang, you're back!" Seeing Wang Xu come in, the deputy chief of staff poured tea in person and smiled from ear to ear: "Come, let me toast you. We have been looking for this small airport for a long time, and we didn't expect it.
Ah, I didn’t expect it, right under our noses.”
Wang Xu took the tea cup and sat next to several bosses. He first talked about changing the menu, and then got to the point: "This small airport is just one of the many secret strongholds on the map. Like the oil storage base next to the Bitter River.
, we must also get rid of the arms depot in Xiangshi Town and the arms processing factory on Niutou Mountain as soon as possible.
Especially the military factory. If we can capture it, the equipment inside will be ours. Even if we can't capture it and blow it up, the Japanese soldiers around Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei will have to tighten their belts to get by. This is all strategic level.
Prioritize hitting targets."
"This is a good suggestion. It can not only consume the enemy, but also strengthen yourself. It's a good idea."
The boss picked up the tea cup and took a sip. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Mr. Wang, you gave us a big gift. What do you want?"
Wang Xu looked at the boss, then at the vice president, and finally his eyes rested on the great man, and said with a smile: "I don't need anything, as long as you support me, my antique shop will open all over the red zone."
"This is us taking advantage!" The great man made gestures, discussed quietly with others for a while, and said forcefully: "Your antique shop will be unimpeded in our red zone. This is our promise to you all here.
In addition, I heard that you don’t have any guards around you yet, so we allow you to select a hundred people at the headquarters to form a guard company and form your own armed force."
"This..." Wang Xu felt excited for a moment.
As the business expands, having its own armed forces will definitely be on the agenda.
Because whether it is modern times or the Republic of China, his strength is too weak. Moreover, training from scratch would be time-consuming and laborious, and he does not have a suitable instructor candidate, so it is better to just recruit people from here.
But soon, he had concerns again, and directly recruited people from here, whether these people would listen to him or listen to the superiors.
Each team has its own brand, and those who are pulled over from here must have a red mark branded on them.
Wang Xu was very worried about whether such a team would obey his command. If they raised a group of white-eyed wolves, they would be in trouble.
"I appreciate the kindness of all the bosses. I'd better figure out a solution for the security issues myself." Wang Xu refused. He couldn't guarantee a loyal team, so it was useless for him to come over.
However, he did not put his words too harshly. He changed his tone and said: "Put the guard down for now. Let's do other business."
"What business?" Several big bosses became interested.
Wang Xu tapped the table with his hand and said with a naive smile: "Exchange medicines for jewelry..."
Business cannot be completed in one day, so Wang Xu stayed in the air-raid shelter at the headquarters that night.
It's not enough to live in an air-raid shelter. Enemy bombings come every three to five days. Who knows if there are any enemy planes around besides the airport that was taken away.
Wang Xu stayed here for three days and negotiated a deal for 100,000 penicillins.
One hundred thousand penicillin, the price given by Wang Xu, is one thousand small yellow croakers, or jewels of equivalent value.
The headquarters can't get this money right now because it doesn't have so much gold bars and jewelry.
Wang Xu was not in a hurry at all. He had seen from the past few days that the big bosses were frequently mobilizing troops. He thought these troops were preparing for the Hundred Regiment War.
When the time comes, it doesn't matter if we don't have gold, as long as the enemy does.
There are no guns or cannons. The enemy makes them for us, including gold, silver and jewelry.
Liuzhuang Village...
"Zhang Wazi, your village is not small!"
Wang Xu, who is bored in his free time, often wanders around outside these days. Liuzhuang Village, the hometown of guard Zhang Wazi, is also his usual wandering area.
Liuzhuang Village is a large village. During the Qing Dynasty, there were some third-grade officials. Although it is now dilapidated, its population is several times that of an ordinary village, with two to three thousand people, making it comparable in size to a small town.
Zhang Wazi was familiar with the road and walked on the dirt road to say hello to people. After hearing the voice, he said: "Mr. Wang, in three or six years ago, the county magistrate sent someone to inspect us and planned to turn us into a town. Later, I don't know why.
Didn’t do it.”
"Yes, this size is enough to build a town." Over the past few days, Wang Xu had visited almost a dozen villages within a radius of dozens of miles.
A village as big as Liuzhuang Village is unique in the local area. It is not an exaggeration to call it a small town.
Wang Xu turned the jade ball in his hand and asked about the situation in the village from time to time, including whose family members participated in the revolution and whose family members went to work in the city. Many of them were trivial matters.
Zhang Wazi answered all questions, and he answered whatever Wang Xu asked.
From the east end of the village to the west end of the village, I answered countless questions before I couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Wang, you have visited a lot of villages these days. What are you planning to do?"
"I don't want to do anything. I want to open my antique shop all over the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region, and the salesmen below are indispensable. Rural people are simple, so I will find a shopkeeper in the shop, and there is no need for the salesmen below. It can be regarded as helping the villagers.
." Wang Xu only said half of what he said, and the other half was left unsaid, which was that he planned to see if he could form a team below.
His own team, Wang Xu felt full of energy when he thought of this word.