"Has the opportunity come?" Wang Husheng asked, "What opportunity?"
Xu Rui waved his hand and asked everyone instead of answering: "Let me ask you, what do we lack most now?"
What is the most lacking thing now? Everyone was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then one said that the most lacking thing was guns and ammunition, another said that the most lacking thing was manpower, and another said that the most lacking thing was reliable old party members.
Listening to everyone's discussion, Xu Rui waved his hands and said: "None of them. What we lack most now is not guns and ammunition, manpower, or party members, but money! What we lack most now is money!"
"Money?" Wang Husheng was stunned for a moment, frowned and said, "No, we don't seem to be short of money now."
Liu Mei also said with a confused look on her face: "Yes, I haven't spent all the one million China Reserve Certificates given by the Nakamura Agency."
"One million yuan of Central Reserve Certificates?" Xu Rui shook his finger and said disdainfully, "What does this little money mean?"
"One million is not enough for you?" Wang Husheng glared at Xu Rui and said, "Then how much more money do you want?"
Xu Rui chuckled and said: "Old Wang, do you know how much tax Shanghai paid in a year before the Songhu Battle?"
Wang Husheng rolled his eyes and said angrily: "How could I know this? I am not the Minister of Finance of the National Government."
"I know this." Jiang Nan whispered, "Before the Battle of Songhu, the total fiscal revenue of the National Government was about 870 million, one-third of which came from Shanghai. In other words, just one Shanghai gave
The National Government paid nearly 300 million yuan in taxes, which is a very impressive figure."
"So many!" Wang Husheng and everyone were shocked.
"It's not just that." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "This is just the fiscal revenue of Shanghai Huajie. Don't forget, in addition to several districts of Huajie, Shanghai also has two major concessions, the Public Concession and the French Concession. And this
The two major concessions are the essence of Shanghai, and their fiscal revenue is even better than that of the Chinese Concession!"
"There are actually so many of these?" At this moment, Wang Husheng was dumbfounded.
The next moment, Wang Husheng's face immediately darkened, and he said again: "Damn it, now that Shanghai has fallen, doesn't it mean that all the 300 million in tax revenue has gone to Little Japan?"
"That's not true." Jiang Nan added, "I have read the annual financial report of the reform government. After the fall of Shanghai, both industrial production and trade were severely affected. The industry shrank very severely. As the industry shrank,
, tax revenue has also been significantly reduced, and now Shanghai Huajie’s tax revenue is even less than 100 million."
Wang Husheng said: "One hundred million is not a lot. So Yingzuo Zhenzhao only gave us one million, which is really not much."
"That's not the case!" Xu Rui said cheerfully, "But don't just focus on Little Japan. In addition to Little Japan, white-skinned pigs from the West are also not good things. Neither are the money from the public concession and the French Concession.
Let it go, even if the industry shrinks significantly now, the total tax revenue of the entire Shanghai will be at least 300 million!"
"Three hundred million? My dear." Wang Husheng felt that it was a little difficult to breathe.
He recalled that when he first heard that there was a batch of gold worth one million taels, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep well for several days. Now think about it, one million taels of gold is only 100 million French currency. But now, Shanghai
The annual tax revenue is 300 million. This is just one year’s tax, which means there are 300 million every year!
Three hundred million a year, what a huge sum of money this is? I can’t imagine!
At least, this number has exceeded the limit of Wang Husheng's imagination.
"This is just regular income!" Xu Rui chuckled, and threw a huge stone into the hearts of Wang Husheng and others, "If we adopt some unconventional means, such as taking advantage of others, we can accumulate a lot of money in a very short time.
A huge sum of over one billion dollars, with this huge sum of money, all problems will be solved."
"What, you mean, one billion?!" Wang Husheng was completely numb.
Jiangnan Bingxue was smart and immediately guessed what Xu Rui wanted to do. She said with concern: "Commander, do you want to attack the opium den in Shanghai?"
"Smart." Xu Rui snapped his fingers and said cheerfully, "It's the opium den!"
In Shanghai during the Republic of China, there was a saying that Shanghai contributed more than one-third of the National Government's tax revenue, and opium contributed one-third of Shanghai's tax revenue!
During the Republic of China, although opium was officially banned in name, in fact, due to the concession, a land outside the law, banning the opium trade was simply a wishful thinking. Therefore, the opium industry almost became a pillar industry of the National Government. Not only was it controlled by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek
The opium trade in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai was booming, and local warlords were planting opium on a large scale.
Even Zhang Xiaoliu openly planted opium in the Northeast to raise military expenses.
"I agree with this!" Wang Husheng slapped the table and said, "Businesses like opium dens that harm people must be banned!"
"Just banning opium dens is not enough." Xu Rui said with a grin, "We want the owners of opium dens and the black umbrella behind them to spit out all the money they have accumulated from opening opium dens over the years! In addition to
Opium dens, foreign firms engaged in the opium trade, and workshops engaged in opium processing are all targeted."
Hearing Xu Rui's words, the eyes of Wu Han and the other three captains immediately lit up.
In the past few years in Shanghai, Wu Han, Chen Baixi and Liu Yiming have made a profound discovery that the richest people in Shanghai are not the factory owners who start national industries, nor the businessmen who open foreign companies to engage in foreign trade, but those who open opium dens
The tycoons, the tycoons who open opium dens and gangsters are really rich.
For example, Du Yuesheng, Huang Huangrong and Zhang Xiaolin, who were killed not long ago, can be regarded as the top three rich men in Shanghai. At this time, the wealth of Song Ziwen, the eldest son of the Song family, may not be as rich as Du Huangzhang.
The three gangster tycoons and Kong Xiangxi, the richest man in Shanxi, may not be able to do it either.
If the money accumulated by these rogue tycoons and gentry from opening opium dens or engaging in the opium trade and opium production was extracted, it would definitely be a terrifying astronomical figure! More than one billion!
However, Wang Husheng and the others quickly calmed down and thought of another question.
"But that's not right, Lao Xu." Wang Husheng frowned and said, "It's almost impossible to do this."
Liu Mei also echoed: "That is, in the Chinese world, little Japan will never allow us to do this. In the public concession and the French concession, the British and the French will not allow it. I think, unless the Japanese or the British
, the French people’s brains are burned out, otherwise they will definitely intervene.”
"You guys, it's always too easy to think about problems." Xu Rui smiled and shook his head, then continued, "Have I ever said that our Secret Service should directly do this? In fact, there is no need for this at all.
Let's take action, and the patrol battalion will help us take action to settle everything. As for us, hehehe, we just need to follow behind and provide protection."
"Provide protection? Who to protect?" Wang Husheng couldn't keep up with Xu Rui's thinking and was at a loss.
Xu Rui smiled gloomily and said: "Of course it is to protect those owners who open opium dens, as well as the foreign firms engaged in the opium trade, and the workshop owners who manufacture and sell opium. Aren't they often harassed by patrol camps? We can give them
Provide protection, but of course this protection is not free, they have to pay us a commission."
"So that's it!" Wang Husheng suddenly realized, and then he frowned and asked, "But it's still wrong. The patrol camp's sphere of influence is limited to the Western Concession, and the scope of our Secret Service's sphere of influence is limited to the Chinese Concession. As for the Central District of the Concession, and the Eastern District of the Concession
There are also areas such as the French Concession that neither the patrol camp nor our secret service can penetrate."
"This is not easy." Xu Rui smiled slightly and said, "Just set up a gang."
"Shall we form a gang?" Wang Husheng finally came to his senses and said suddenly, "Old Xu, you mean that if it is in the Chinese border, people from the patrol camp will act as thugs of the gang to extort money from those who smoke.
In the taverns, foreign banks, workshops, and gangsters, our secret service provides protection, and then in the western part of the concession, it is the other way around, with our people acting as gang thugs to extort money, and then the patrol battalion provides protection?"
Wu Han then asked: "What about the French Concession and the Central and Eastern Districts of the Concession?"
"That would be easier." Xu Rui said with a grim smile, "The people in the patrol camp and our Secret Service all pretended to be gang thugs and extorted money together, and then they could pass the blame on each other. The people in the patrol camp could say that it was our Secret Service that did it.
, and we can also evade it by saying that it was the patrol battalion. The Concession Industry Bureau and the French could not find the defendant even if they filed a lawsuit."
"Okay, great!" Wang Husheng said excitedly, "This is a good method. If we really do this, the opium industry in Shanghai will be uprooted in less than half a year! From now on, the people of Shanghai will no longer have to suffer from opium.
I don’t know how many families can avoid the suffering of wives and children, and the destruction of their families.”
Xu Rui chuckled and added: "The key is to save a lot of funds!"
Wang Husheng then added: "And the cost is at least one billion!"
Jiang Nan poured cold water on him and said, "But if you do this, you will definitely receive crazy revenge from the gangsters who make a living on opium, the Shanghai tycoons and the Japanese and puppet forces, and even the British, French and Americans."
They will not let us go, because the large opium trade is actually controlled by the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany and other countries."
"Don't be afraid of this." Xu Rui said cheerfully, "The worst case scenario is flipping the table."
The so-called "Happy Table" means a direct showdown, turning the whole of Shanghai into a battlefield of street fighting. In this way, the interests of any party will be wiped out. On the contrary, the Chinese people will not suffer more losses, because Shanghai no longer belongs to
Even if the Chinese people are completely defeated, they will not lose more.