As soon as Zhou Wen looked at the principal's face, he knew that this boss's self-esteem was too high and now he was putting on airs.
At that moment, I felt angry and said: "Young master is eating the food of the villagers and caring about the county magistrate's heart! If you didn't want to change the historical direction of the disastrous Anti-Japanese War, I would be patient enough to tell you this. What the hell?"
Not even a sip of hot water."
Zhou Wen cursed in his heart, but still had a signature smile on his face and said: "Principal, in order to fight against Japan, I emptied my family's fortune in my humble position. Later, I will expand my business and buy an airplane, so I just want to go to Shanghai to make a living."
If you want money, build a shipping company and earn some hard-earned money."
"The main reason is that the Yangtze River is not very peaceful. The section from Shanghai to Nanjing is okay, but going down after Nanjing is not very safe. There are two groups in Pukou, and there are robbers and water bandits within a few hundred miles upstream.
It can be eradicated, it can effectively maintain local security, and it can also bring balance to the local people, right?"
The principal understood as soon as he heard this. This guy transferred the Second Regiment to Pukou to garrison in Pukou just because he wanted to benefit from the public good. He said he wanted to bring peace to the local area, but in fact he wanted to turn the Second Regiment into the bodyguards of the shipping company.
At that moment, I felt even more unhappy, and my face became a little gloomy.
He has always hated officials who seek personal gain with power and use public assets of the state to satisfy their own desires. When he was young, he often secretly swore that when he took power, the end of the world's corrupt officials would come.
However, after decades of political career, he learned to compromise and began to turn a blind eye to the corruption he once hated for political purposes.
As a result, when he finally stood at the pinnacle of his life and became the head of a country, he discovered that not only was this phenomenon of seeking power for personal gain not under control, but it was even more common and blatant than before.
But he, who has become accustomed to compromise and tolerance, is now unable to change this bad habit of officialdom due to various needs for balance and co-optation.
However, being unable to change does not mean that he will accept it in his heart. On the contrary, he hates it even more than before, but it is just buried deeper in his heart.
When Zhou Wen saw the principal's hesitant expression, his heart skipped a beat.
The principal guessed right, Zhou Wen wanted to turn the second regiment into the shipping company's escort team.
You know, Zhou Wen is planning to start a shipping business in Shanghai. He is not just buying a few ships for transportation. Instead, he is going to use guns and money to develop a monopoly in Shanghai, integrating shipping and land transportation.
A large group company integrating trade.
It has only been four years since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and there is no room for Zhou Wen to continue to follow the steps, starting from a small company and slowly growing bigger.
What's more, this era doesn't talk about fair competition, but the law of survival where the big fish eats the small fish.
If you have power, you can quickly amass huge amounts of wealth through plunder and cannibalism.
What does it mean to be powerful?
Zhou Wen is now called powerful.
Power means that he now has countless connections and backgrounds. Whether he is Chief Qian, the director of the Central Aviation Commission, Marshal Yan of Shanxi, or he is the person in charge of the only armed force of the Central Party Headquarters, he has the right to do so.
support.
Not to mention his friendship with the principal, cooperation with the Liu family, relationship with Mr. Du from the Qing Gang, etc.
Powerful, of course, refers to the fact that he has a group of men under his command who are extremely powerful and invincible, even the principal is a little afraid of him, and he also has a great reputation from winning two anti-Japanese battlefields.
If you include the performance of forcing the Kong family to submit this time, it can be said that Zhou Wen is now among the top echelons of the Republic of China, and he is still the kind of person who does not follow the rules, whether in the military or government officials.
Anyone who touches it will have a headache.
What's more, Zhou Wen is not only powerful now, he also has guns and soldiers.
He has the connections at the top to take care of him, the gangsters have the support of big bosses, and he has a backing background in the military. In addition, he has a friendly face, ruthless methods, and the memory brought by the information age in later generations. What if he still stupidly tells others the rules of the game?
, shopping mall rules, unless your head is crushed by the door panel.
To expand rapidly, he must have people on his hands, and many of them.
Now, the only ones that can be brought from Shanxi are the dozens of old brothers from the first detachment. It is impossible to bring all the more than a thousand people from the first regiment. Not to mention that it is suspected of overstepping the bounds of the mobilized troops.
The principal will also have trouble sleeping.
What do you want to do by transferring the entire army to the Nanjing and Shanghai area? You have all the artillery and cavalry, do you want to rebel?
Therefore, the only people Zhou Wen could use were the more than 1,500 people from the Second Regiment, veterans of the Northern Expedition and the Songhu Battlefield.
And there is another reason. Since Zhou Wen handed over the Second Regiment, the former Second Detachment, to the jurisdiction of the Central Party Headquarters, most of the senior officials in the Party Headquarters did not understand military affairs, and due to the factional fighting within the Party Headquarters, everyone wanted to
With this armed force in hand, they only focus on fighting for control, but they ignore the feelings of these elite officers and soldiers.
In particular, these former officers and soldiers of the 19th Route Army were basically Cantonese. After leaving the original army and coming to Nanjing, a place they were unfamiliar with, they were somewhat lost and confused.
However, these senior officials of the Central Party Committee were only focused on fighting for power and profit, and were indifferent to the situation of the Second Regiment. As a result, supplies for several months were not delivered on time, and the entire regiment almost starved.
The military pay has been in arrears for several months. It was not until three months ago that Liu Ruoshui was transferred to the position of director of the Military-Administrative Coordination Office of the Central Party Committee that the situation changed, and the money for the pay was still found by Liu Ruoshui.
Borrowed from home.
Zhou Wen really didn't expect that these central party officials would be so miserable.
When he left, he handed over these 1,500 elite veterans who had fought for hundreds of years and were rigorously trained by the mercenary regiment into their hands. It had only been one year, and Zhou Wen's second regiment had turned into a group of listless, laxly trained,
A straggler with everyone full of complaints.
If they hadn't been stationed in a small camp, surrounded by almost all camps of Nanjing city garrison troops, and the officers and soldiers had some scruples, they might have broken out a mutiny long ago and dispersed.
The leader of the second detachment, the original Commander Cai of the 19th Route Army, was relatively weak due to the sequelae of his last serious injury. In addition, he was also depressed and unhappy, so his management of the troops became lax.
After Zhou Wen saw the current situation of the Second Regiment a few days ago, he felt regretful.
He originally respected these meritorious veterans who shed blood in the anti-Japanese battlefield, and wanted to find a way out for them, so that these heroes who shed blood and sweat for the country would not die worthlessly in the civil war.