When the Li brothers walked out of the Shanghai General Association, they couldn't help but glance back at the red and gray building behind them.

"Big brother, we're in debt of 600,000 taels now." After coming out, Li Yongcai's excitement seemed to fade quickly, and the sense of reality returned to him, and he said with some worry.

"Hey, hey! Xintiandi! Xintiandi, this name is good, this time it has opened up the heaven and earth line, isn't Shanghai Tang a new world? Li Yongfa did not respond to his brother's words, but expressed his feelings in his heart.

"Big brother! We are in debt of 600,000 yuan, and we will not even have to take away the house of Seymour Road. ”

"You, you, how can you say that small things are fine, but when you encounter big things, you always look forward and backward, how can you do this? Besides, did we pay for the 600,000? No, it's still in our hands. Everyone has already made it clear, and when the factory is up and running, and the profits come out, we feel that the business has been done, and then we will invest the money. All that has been said is this, what else is there to do? Now it seems, Mr. Gao, don't look at his young age, it's amazing, at least this amount of energy is greater than you and me, no wonder it takes only half a year to be able to call the wind and rain on the beach and make such a big pattern. ”

"I just thought that we were the only ones who had to pay for the shares, and the three of them didn't have to pay a penny, and they didn't have a bottom of their hearts, isn't this just an empty glove white wolf? When the time comes, if the book is folded, they will pat their butts and leave, only our brothers will lose real money. ”

"Hey, I don't understand this, we are taking money into the part, they are taking power into the part. Without power, money cannot be earned, and with power, even if there is no money, money can be born. Without us, people can find anyone to do the same business. What can we do with our money without them, not yet lying there moldy and smelly. If you follow them to do business, you will lose money, then there will be no one who can make money in Shanghai. This time we were lucky, met a nobleman, and picked us to make a fortune! ”

As he spoke, he patted Li Yongcai on the shoulder with a fan and continued:

"Then again, even if the business does lose money in the end, we can afford to lose it. We must remember that we are the earth, people are the sky, and the earth must build the sky, how can it be possible without paying a price? The 600,000 yuan is regarded as a communication fee, as long as you make good friends, you will lose this time, and you can double it next time. Just like Huang Jinrong, we were doing well in the 16th shop, but he squeezed us out as soon as he came, why, isn't it just a skin? He's been here a year ago, right? We have been fighting with him for nearly four years, and in the past four years, we have lost more and won less, and today's meal and a phone call have passed, and the heart disease of four years has been solved. Dick, haven't you seen it yet? What is right, this is the real right! As long as 600,000 taels are spent, this right will be used by our brothers in the future! ”

As he spoke, the carriage drove over, and when Li Yongfa stepped into the carriage, he glanced back at the Shanghai Federation again, and he said to Li Yongcai: "Do you think we will not be able to become one of the owners of this house in the future and build a suite on the third floor?" ”

Li Yongcai could only roll his eyes in his heart, the boss's heart was really big enough, but he was invited to have a meal, and he wanted to be the master of someone's house.

"Sometimes I think about it, there is no reason why Chinese should not be directors of the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau, after all, the number of Chinese in the concession is ten or a hundred times that of foreigners."

The boss's next sentence was even more so that Li Yongcai mixed garlic at his feet, and almost fell into the carriage.

******

After Er Li left, Gao Yi and the others were so busy that they didn't even have time to send the brothers to the gate. Although he looked relaxed before, it was by no means so easy to completely eradicate a force.

However, the 600,000 taels of cash that Er Li had promised to inject in proportion to the capital fully mobilized their enthusiasm.

Although the total share capital of the company is 2 million taels, the paid-in share capital is 600,000 taels, and all the 600,000 taels will come from the Erli brothers. In other words, Gao Yi and the others are completely empty gloves white wolves, if the company does nothing after opening and closes down directly, the 600,000 taels of the two brothers will directly shrink to 180,000 taels, and Gao Yi and they have not done anything to get tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of taels of income in vain.

However, this is the price that must be paid in order to gain the current top power.

Of course, the Li brothers didn't have to pay the 600,000 taels immediately, and Gao Yi agreed with them that they could regret it at any time before the factory was officially put into operation. Gao Yi is still very confident in his own technology, and the excess profits generated by the factory will surely become a reassurance for the two brothers.

In fact, Gao Yi has been busy for most of the month, and he has not received a penny from the two brothers, but he is not in a hurry at all, the two brothers are in the concession, and there is no possibility of defaulting on the debt, so there is no need for him to show a roaring appearance to scare the other party away.

However, since there is such a thing as Huang Jinrong today, Gao Yi believes that with the vision of the brothers, as long as they can handle the matter cleanly, the other party's 600,000 yuan will soon arrive in advance.

In order to deal with this matter, Gao Yi and the three of them are now full of firepower. Keswick is responsible for liaising with the Ministry of Industry and the Patrol House. The capture houses in the French Concession are like a sieve, and it is definitely not possible to rely on them to deal with the forces of Huang Jinrong. Gao Yi's idea is to use the army and the Ministry of Industry Bureau to patrol and arrest, the army is ready-made, and there is it in the barracks next door to the house, but it is not possible to rely on the army to arrest people, after all, it is easy to make mistakes without professional training. Therefore, the army is only responsible for the suppression of the localities, and the specific arrest work will be completed by the Chinese arresters who are seconded from the public concession. When the time comes, Er Li's subordinates will be responsible for identification, Hua Zhu will be responsible for arresting people, and the army will be responsible for encircling and isolating them, and the three will perform their own duties.

De Grey is in charge of investigating Huang Jinrong's background in the French Concession. Huang Jinrong can mix so well in the French Concession, although he has the help of his disciples, but he is just a small detective, if you want to say that there is no one to cover him, no one will believe it. Soon the news came back, it was the translator of the vice consul in charge of concession affairs of the Consulate General, named Cao Xianmin, who was a key role in connecting the previous and the next, used to promote a small detective, and this position could be said to be enough.

Soon, the name of the second person to be dismissed from office today in the French Concession appeared.

Ju Laida did not have any objection to the dismissal of Huang Jinrong and Cao Xianmin, after all, they were just two Chinese employees, but he was very disgusted by Gao Yi's proposal to secondment the patrol of the public concession to arrest people in the French Concession. This is a very humiliating thing for the French Concession. You must know that the French Concession was originally also a member of the Public Concession, but later it became independent due to contradictions, so the two are not a brotherly relationship of friendship and mutual assistance.

However, after Gao Yi explained in detail to Ju Laida the share distribution plan of a newly formed company, his position quickly softened. The new company, which was decided to be set up just this afternoon, is mainly based on the "familiar land" that specializes in the French Concession, and the Li brothers will have a 70 percent stake in the new company, and the other 30 percent will be owned by the "Xintiandi." Half of the 30% shares held by "Xintiandi", that is, 15% will be held by Daijulaida. The company's source of funds is naturally the Li brothers, and there will be no capital injection from "Xintiandi" and Julaida.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Inspector Wilson, "Three Heads" McPherson, and Probationary Inspector McGowan, who was strongly recommended by Keswick, gathered in Gao Yi's suite.

McGowan, the son of former Chief Inspector McEwan, is a second-generation police officer, he is only 24 years old this year, and his position is already above Wilson. His name Gao Yi has been heard, but not in this era, but in later generations, he is the main person in charge of the May Day tragedy. At the time of the May Day tragedy in 1925, he was already the commissioner of police, and it can be said that he took over his class, but it was precisely because he was in the position of commissioner of police at that time that he became the person in charge of the tragedy and resigned.

Neither McGowan nor McPherson had any opinions on Gao Yi's plan, but Wilson made a few pertinent suggestions. First of all, Gao Yi and the others think that the Chinese capture in the public concession is no problem at all, and some wishful thinking, and there are also many local gang members in the public concession, and these people also worship the old men of the Green Gang, and it can be said that they are in collusion with the French Concession. Fortunately, in 1897, the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry fired several Chinese detectives who used their power to accept bribes and open underground banks, and began to recruit Chinese from other provinces as agents. Therefore, the Chinese arresters who participated in this operation were limited to people from other provinces.

Secondly, each arrest team must have a Spanish police officer as the commander, because if it is only a Chinese arrest, it will not be able to command the French soldiers at all, and the arrest is likely to attract obstruction from the French Concession patrol - although after the operation begins, the French Concession Capture House will receive an order from the Consulate General to cooperate with the operation, but no one knows whether the order can inform every patrol, and whether these patrols will be followed after receiving the order, no one knows. At this time, if the leader is a Spanish police officer, he can effectively suppress the opponent.

In the end, Gao Yi envisioned that each group would be led by a person who recognized the target, and went to the place where the other party often moved to find and arrest him, which was completely infeasible in actual action, and there were too many variables to do. The correct approach is to have the person who recognizes the target bring a plainclothes agent to identify the target in advance, then follow it, and then arrest it at a unified time. Regarding Gao Yi's concern that the operation would be exposed in advance because of too many people's participation, Wilson patted his chest to ensure the professionalism of the public concession agents, and believed that the key was to choose the right people, and the wrong person was the root cause of intelligence leakage.

So Gao Yi and the others decided not to let the layman command the insider, and the specific actions were handed over to Wilson to coordinate and command. Mai Gaoyun is in charge of personnel, and with his Lao Tzu's Yu Yin here, there are quite a few people in his pocket who can hold the table. Of course, it will be up to Wilson to decide whether and how to use these manpower.

McPherson, as an operation captain, was specifically responsible for the arrest of Huang Jinrong's hardcore, Cheng Ziqing and Ding Shunhua, who had patrol identities.

At dinnertime, a large conference room in McPherson's old gate capture room was carved out to serve as the operational headquarters.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, a temporary telephone line was connected to Gao Yi's suite, and this temporary telephone set up three 24-hour hotlines with the old gate to catch the house, the residence of Erli on Seymour Road, and the consular office of the French Consulate General. At this time, the telephone system in Shanghai was still manually wired, and Case Wick specially arranged three operators for Jardine and the service to guard these lines in three shifts to prevent leaks.

In this way, a net slowly unfolded in the French Concession, enveloping towards the smoky sixteen shops and the Eight Immortals Bridge.