The New Year of 1940 was really difficult for the Chahar Independent Regiment.
First, Chairman Chiang broke his promise and stopped the bidding for the shares of the Baotou Tea Trading Company. Xu Rui and Wang Husheng's efforts to sell the shares of the Tea Trading Company at a good price came to nothing.
Immediately afterwards, the tea trading company's caravan encountered a dust explosion in the Black Valley, not only losing a considerable amount of tea, but also causing a large number of Soviet casualties. This directly led to the tea road not only not making money, but also losing money.
A lot of money, which made the financial situation of the Chahar Independent Regiment even worse.
That's not all. Then Baotou encountered a once-in-a-century blizzard. This sudden blizzard directly plunged the herdsmen in Baotou and even Suiyuan into desperate situations. If they don't get help from the government, it is completely foreseeable that Baotou will be in trouble.
There will even be a large-scale famine in the entire Suiyuan Province.
All of this, in the final analysis, is still about money.
"Old Xu, this year's end of the year is really sad." Wang Husheng shook his head and said, "There is no money in the account of our independent group, but the construction of the industrial zone has not been completed. The money to buy winter clothes, several companies in the industrial zone
The factory's working capital and the funds to purchase raw materials are all missing, and we don't know where to raise disaster relief funds."
Wang Husheng is also a clever woman who cannot make a meal without rice. When he returned to Suizhou after the liberation, he seized more than one million yuan from the Japs and the puppet Mongolian army. Later, he sold his shares in the tea trading company and obtained three million yuan from the Kong family, plus Baotou various
The more than one million yuan donated by the companies has already bottomed out, and Wang Husheng is already planning to borrow money from various companies.
Xu Rui said in a deep voice: "Other work can be suspended first, but the disaster relief work cannot be stopped. Relief materials such as cotton clothes, tents, coal and fodder must be received as soon as possible. No matter what, we must help the Baotou herdsmen get through this winter."
Let’s wait until next spring, otherwise there will be a great famine.”
"That's the truth. The interests of the common people always come first. Who said that our Eighth Route Army is the people's soldiers." Wang Husheng nodded and said, "But our independent regiment really has no money in its account, so I
I plan to borrow some money from Fuzhao, Weizihao and other merchants to survive this winter no matter what."
Xu Rui said: "Yes, let's borrow 1.8 million from Shopkeeper Mada first to stabilize the situation."
After a pause, Xu Rui said again: "You don't have to worry about money. How can a living person be choked to death by urine? Isn't it just about making money? Our Langya Brigade is very good at fighting, and we are equally unambiguous about robbing homes and homes."
A black line immediately appeared on Wang Husheng's forehead: "What are you talking about, robbing homes and houses?"
"Don't get me wrong, Old Wang, it's not what you think." Xu Rui smiled and said, "No matter how inferior our Langya Brigade is, can we still rob our own compatriots? Don't worry, even if we rob, we will only rob traitors.
Little devil."
When Wang Husheng heard this, he immediately became interested and asked: "Old Xu, where do you plan to make money? Datong? Or Zhangbei?"
"Looking at your little potential, you only have eyes for Datong and Zhangbei?" Xu Rui said with a smile, "Why can't you just go to Peiping and Tianjin? Peking and Tianjin are much more prosperous than Datong and Zhangbei. Rich people
There are many, especially Tianjin, which has been a port since the late Qing Dynasty. The wealth accumulated in Tianjin will never be much worse than that in Shanghai."
"Tianjin?" Wang Husheng asked dumbfounded, "Isn't it too risky?"
"Adventure?" Xu Rui said, "We have even ventured into Tokyo, why are we still afraid of going to Tianjin?"
Wang Husheng was right. Xu Rui and the others had even made it to Tokyo, so a trip to Tianjin was really nothing.
In any case, Tianjin is still within the borders of China. After the fall of North China, although the underground party organizations in Tianjin were severely damaged, they still have activities.
Therefore, if Langya really wants to go to Tianjin, he can at least get some cover.
At that moment, Wang Husheng asked: "Okay, Lao Xu, what are you going to do? Do you want to do it like Shanghai?"
"I'm afraid that won't work." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "Firstly, there is a complete underground organization of our party in Shanghai, but the underground party organizations in Peiping and Tianjin have been severely damaged and have not been able to recover so far. Secondly, time does not allow it.
This time when I go to Tianjin to make money, I have to be short and quick, I have to go in and out quickly, I would rather have less money."
"That's right." Wang Husheng nodded repeatedly, "The family is anxiously waiting for money, so we need to hurry up."
After a pause, Wang Husheng asked again: "Then you must have a rough way to make money, right?"
"This is really not the case." Xu Rui said, "When the veteran wakes up, I will add it up with him."
Wang Husheng rolled his eyes after hearing this. After talking for a long time, he didn't even have a basic idea. Isn't this child's play?
At that moment, Wang Husheng suggested again: "Old Xu, why don't you go find Kong Lingkan again? Although the stock bidding of Baotou Tea Trading Company has been suspended, the strange thing is that this young man has not left and is still in Baotou. Maybe the Kong family
Father and son have not given up their previous thoughts, otherwise, why don’t you go find him again?”
"Looking for him?" Xu Rui said, "If you look for him, the price will drop. You have to wait for him to come to you."
"Coming to your door? I wonder." Wang Husheng shook his head and said, "Chiang Kai-shek is really determined to implement a blockade this time. Not only the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, but even our Baotou base area is also included in the blockade. A few days ago I
I went to Xi'an to buy cotton with the help of Fu Fu brand, but I didn't even buy a bundle of cotton yarn. The cotton merchant told me that Chairman Chiang would not allow it to be sold!"
Xu Rui didn't believe it, and asked with a smile: "Old Wang, are you really unable to buy it?"
"Of course it's impossible to buy it." Wang Husheng said awkwardly, "As long as you can afford the price, you can buy not only cotton yarn, but also weapons and equipment." This is really not nonsense. All the local officials of the Kuomintang have seen it.
If you are money-minded, as long as you can afford a high price, anything can be sold to you.
It's just that our party has always been very poor, and we may not be able to afford it even at low prices, let alone high prices. Therefore, Chairman Chiang's blockade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and various base areas is still very effective, precisely because it is effective
, so we launched a vigorous large-scale production movement, forcing our party to build the barren Northwest into a small Jiangnan on the fortress.
But in our party, not all troops are poor, and the Chahar Independent Regiment is an exception.
Xu Rui, whether he was in Dameishan, Shanghai or Baotou, never had a hard life.
When we were in Damei Mountain, we had one million taels of gold as a backing, but now this batch of gold has been confiscated and shipped to Yan'an, and later to Shanghai. Needless to say, an anti-criminal campaign almost uprooted the entire opium industry in Shanghai, and the money gained from it
The benefits amounted to tens of millions of dollars, and the fine equipment alone was purchased for three divisions!
Even in the frontier fortress of Baotou, Xu Rui remained the same.
Therefore, when he was short of money, Xu Rui's first reaction was not to cut back on food and clothing, but to find ways to increase revenue.
"Okay, then I won't ask Mr. Kong." Wang Husheng shook his head and said, "When do you plan to go to Tianjin? How many people do you plan to take with you?"
"You don't need to have too many people, a dozen or so will be enough." Xu Rui thought for a while and said, "But he must be a good player, so I want to wait until the veterans and sweet potatoes have recovered before going." After a pause, he added, "While this is the case,
For a while, it’s time to reorganize the Wolf Fang Brigade. Although there are sacrifices in going to the Nordic battlefield this time, there are also gains. It’s just a good time to carry out intensive training.”
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While he was talking, Zhuan Shanbao suddenly came in and reported: "Regiment leader, political commissar, the veteran is awake and he wants to see you."
Because Leng Tiefeng was just overtired and not seriously injured, he was not sent to the field hospital in Baotou but was carried directly back to the regiment headquarters.
When they heard that the veteran had woken up, Xu Rui and Wang Husheng hurried straight to Leng Tiefeng's dormitory.
When he walked into the dormitory, he happened to see Leng Tiefeng sitting on the bedside and Xiao Yanyue feeding him sugar-watered eggs.
Seeing Xu Rui and Wang Husheng walking in, Leng Tiefeng felt a little embarrassed and reached out to take the bowl, but Xiao Yanyue gave the bowl away and refused to take it, and then said: "Good boy, open your mouth quickly."
Leng Tiefeng whispered: "Lao Xu and Lao Wang are here, give them to me quickly."
"What's going on with them? Eat yours." Xiao Yanyue didn't care at all. This time there was no news from Leng Tiefeng for more than ten days, which made Xiao Yanyue anxious, and then she also figured out a lot.
The thing is, as a soldier and born in a war era, you may die for the country and the nation one day, so you have to cherish the good times together.
Wang Husheng also smiled and said: "That's right, Yanzi is right. Besides, veteran, you are not a stupid young man. Why are you so ashamed? Really."
Leng Tiefeng coughed dryly and didn't know what to say.
In order to avoid Leng Tiefeng being embarrassed, Xu Rui changed the subject and said, "Veteran, have you killed the little devil who escaped?"
"No, we encountered a group of puppet Mongolian troops at the last moment." Leng Tiefeng was still a little annoyed when he talked about this incident, and then asked, "Old Xu, you didn't continue to hunt down that Japanese?"
"No." Xu Rui said, "I don't know what the situation was at that time. I don't even know if you killed that kid. Moreover, your situation was not optimistic at that time, so I brought you back directly."
Leng Tiefeng sighed and said, "It's all my fault for not being able to kill that Japs."
"It's okay, it's just a Japs." Xu Rui reassured him, "Just run away, it's no big deal."
"Old Xu, that's not the case." Leng Tiefeng shook his head and said, "That little Japs has investigated the exact location of the Baotou Industrial Zone, so if he is allowed to escape back, he will definitely hand over this information to the Japs' aviation force, and then,
The Japanese Air Force can carry out precision bombing of our Baotou Industrial Zone, which would be troublesome."
"No, it's not that easy." Wang Husheng said cheerfully, "Veteran, you don't know, Lao Xu went back to the Nordic battlefield and brought back a lot of good things, including three tank battalions and a flying regiment.
, a flying group, a hundred fighter jets, it’s okay if the little devils don’t come, if they dare to come, they will suffer.”
