"Here's your chance?" Wang Husheng asked, "What chance?" ”

Xu Rui waved his hand and asked everyone instead of answering: "Let me ask you, what do we lack the most now?" ”

What's missing most right now? Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then this one said that the most lacking was guns and ammunition, the other said that the most lacking was manpower, and the other said that the most lacking was reliable old party members. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Listening to everyone's discussions, Xu Rui waved his hand and said: "No, what we lack most now is not guns and ammunition, not manpower, not the backbone of party members, but money!" Now we are most short of money! ”

"Money?" Wang Husheng was stunned, frowned and said, "No, we don't seem to be short of money now." ”

Liu Mei also said with a puzzled face: "Yes, the one million savings coupons given by the Nakamura agency have not been spent." ”

"One million yuan in the reserve coupons?" Xu Rui shook his finger and said disdainfully, "What is this money?" ”

"A million is too little?" Wang Husheng glared at Xu Rui and said, "Then how much more money do you want?" ”

Xu Rui smiled and said, "Lao Wang, do you know how much tax Shanghai paid in a year before the Battle of Songhu?" ”

Wang Husheng rolled his eyes and said angrily: "How do I know this, I am not the Minister of Finance of the National Government." ”

"I know that." Jiang Nan whispered, "Before the Battle of Songhu, the entire fiscal revenue of the Nationalist Government was about 870 million yuan, of which one-third came from Shanghai, that is to say, Shanghai alone paid nearly 300 million yuan in taxes to the Nationalist Government, which is a very considerable figure. ”

"So much!" Wang Husheng and everyone were taken aback.

"And that's not all." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "This is only the financial income of the Chinese community in Shanghai, don't forget, in addition to the several districts of the Chinese community, there are two major concessions in Shanghai, the public concession and the French concession, and these two major concessions are the essence of Shanghai, and their financial income is as good as that of the Chinese community!" ”

"This, this, how many of them?" At this time, Wang Husheng was directly dumbfounded.

In the next moment, Wang Husheng's face immediately became gloomy, and he said: "Damn, now that Shanghai has fallen, doesn't it mean that all the 300 million taxes go to Little Japan?" ”

"Not really." Jiang Nan said, "I have read the annual financial report of the Restoration government, after the fall of Shanghai, both industrial production and trade have been seriously affected, the industry has shrunk very badly, with the shrinkage of the industry, the tax revenue has also been greatly reduced, and now the tax revenue of the Chinese community in Shanghai is even less than 100 million." ”

Wang Husheng said: "100 million is not a lot, so Ying Zuo Zhenzhao only gave us 1 million, which is really not much." ”

"Not really!" Xu Rui said hesitantly, "But don't just stare at Little Japan, in addition to Little Japan, the white pigs in the West are also not a good thing, and the money in the Public Concession and the French Concession cannot be let go, even if the industry has shrunk sharply now, the total tax revenue of the entire Shanghai is at least 300 million!" ”

"Three hundred million? My goodness. Wang Husheng felt that it was a little difficult to breathe.

Thinking about the beginning, when he first heard that there was a batch of up to one million taels of gold, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep well for several days in a row, and now he thinks about it, one million taels of gold is only 100 million legal currency, but now, Shanghai's annual tax revenue is 300 million, which is only one year's tax, that is to say, there are 300 million every year!

300 million a year, what kind of huge amount of money should this be? Unthinkable!

At least, this number is beyond the limits of Wang Husheng's imagination.

"And that's just regular income!" Xu Rui smiled, and threw a boulder into the hearts of Wang Husheng and others, "If we take some unconventional means, such as stealing or something, we can accumulate a huge amount of money of more than one billion in a short period of time, and with this huge amount of money, then all problems will be solved." ”

"What, you mean, billion?!" Wang Husheng was completely numb.

Jiangnan Bingxue was smart, and she guessed what Xu Rui wanted to do at once, and said worriedly: "Commander, do you want to use the smoke house in Shanghai?" ”

"Clever." Xu Rui snapped his fingers and said hesitantly, "It's the Big Smoke Pavilion!" ”

In Greater Shanghai during the Republic of China, there was a saying that Shanghai contributed more than one-third of the tax revenue of the Nationalist Government, and opium contributed one-third of Shanghai's tax revenue!

During the period of the Republic of China, although the official ban on opium was nominally, in fact, because there was a concession outside the law, the prohibition of opium trade was completely wishful thinking, so the opium industry almost became the pillar industry of the Nationalist Government, not only the opium trade in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai controlled by Chairman Chiang flourished, but the local warlords even cultivated opium on a large scale.

Even Zhang Xiaoliu openly cultivated opium in the northeast to raise military expenses.

"I agree with this!" Wang Husheng slapped the table and said, "The big smoke house must be banned for a living that harms people!" ”

"It's not enough to just ban the big smoke houses." Xu Rui smiled cruelly, "We want to let the owners of the big smoke house and the black umbrella behind them spit out all the money they have accumulated by opening the smoke house over the years!" In addition to the big tobacco houses, foreign companies engaged in the opium trade and workshops engaged in opium processing were all targeted. ”

Hearing Xu Rui's words, Wu Han's eyes immediately lit up as the eyes of the three captains.

In the past few years in Shanghai, Wu Han, Chen Boxi, and Liu Yiming profoundly discovered that the richest people in Shanghai are not those factory owners who open national industries, nor those businessmen who open foreign banks to engage in foreign trade, but those gentry who open big tobacco houses, and these gentry who open big tobacco houses and gangsters are really rich.

For example, Du Yuesheng, Huang Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin, who was killed not long ago, can be regarded as the top three tycoons in Shanghai, at this time, Song Ziwen, the eldest son of the Song family, may not be as rich as Du Huang Zhang, the three rogue tycoons, and Kong Xiangxi, the richest man in Shanxi, may not be able to do it.

If you pick out the money that these hooligan tycoons and those gentry have accumulated by opening big tobacco houses or engaging in opium trade and opium production, it will definitely be a terrifying astronomical amount! More than a 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, "There is almost no way to operate this matter. ”

Liu Mei also echoed and said: "That is, in the Chinese realm, 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 and the French have their brains burned out, they will definitely intervene." ”

"You guys, it's always too easy to think about." Xu Rui shook his head with a smile, and continued, "Did I say that our secret service would directly come forward to do this?" In fact, we don't need to do anything about it, the patrol camp can help us take care of everything, and as for us, hehehe, we just need to follow behind and provide protection. ”

"Offer protection? Who to protect? Wang Husheng couldn't keep up with Xu Rui's thinking and was at a loss.

Xu Ruiyin said with a smile: "Of course, it is to protect those owners who open big tobacco houses, as well as foreign companies engaged in the opium trade, as well as the owners of opium manufacturers and sellers, aren't they often harassed by patrol camps, we can provide them with protection, of course, this protection is not free, they have to pay us commissions." ”

"I see!" Wang Husheng suddenly realized, and then frowned again and asked, "But it's still not right, the sphere of influence of the patrol camp is limited to the western area of the concession, and the sphere of influence of our secret service is limited to the Chinese realm. ”

"It's not easy." Xu Rui smiled slightly, and said, "Just build a gang." ”

"Let's start a gang." Wang Husheng finally reacted, and suddenly said, "Lao Xu, do you mean that if it is in the Chinese realm, the people from the patrol camp will act as the thugs of this gang, and they will extort those big smoke houses, foreign firms, workshops and underworld bosses, and then our secret service will provide protection, and then in the western area of the concession, it will be the other way around, and our people will act as gang thugs to extort, and then the patrol camp will provide protection?" ”

Wu Han then asked: "What about the French Concession and the Central and Eastern Concessions?" ”

"That's better." Xu Rui smiled cruelly, "The patrol camp and the people from our secret service are all pretending to be gang thugs, extorting money together, and then they can pass the buck to each other, the people in the patrol camp can be said to be our secret service to do it, and we can also shirk that it was the patrol camp that did it, and the concession Ministry of Industry and the French can't find the defendant in the lawsuit." ”

"Okay, great!" Wang Husheng said excitedly, "This method is good, if you really do this, you will be able to uproot the opium industry in Shanghai in less than half a year!" From then on, the common people of Shanghai no longer had to suffer from opium, and I don't know how many families could be spared from the separation of wives and families. ”

Xu Rui smiled and added: "The key is to be able to accumulate a lot of funds!" ”

Wang Husheng went on to add: "And this fund is at least one billion!" ”

Jiang Nan poured cold water on him and said: "But if we do this, we will definitely suffer from the crazy revenge of those gangsters, Shanghai gentry and Japanese puppet forces who make a living from opium, and even the British, French and Americans will not let us go, because the opium trade is actually controlled by the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Germany." ”

"I'm not afraid of this." Xu Rui said hesitantly, "It's a big deal to flip the table." ”

The so-called Xin table means a direct showdown, turning the whole of Shanghai into a battlefield of street fighting, so that the interests of either side will be in vain, but the Chinese will not suffer more losses, because Shanghai is already not belonging to the Chinese, even if it is completely broken, it will not lose more.