Fighting a war is the most expensive, but sometimes it is the easiest to make money, especially if you win a war.

Liang Jiajun fought a war with Vietnam and made a lot of money.

The indemnity alone took three million taels of silver, and the other seven seven eight eight looted nearly two million taels, as well as a lot of gold, jewelry, jade and other property; The point is that there is a large amount of food and supplies, and the value of these grains alone is more than one million taels of silver. Vietnam is a large grain producer, and the treasury of various places is full of grain, which directly leads to the fact that the warehouse of the Hainan base can no longer be loaded, so it can only be quickly transferred to Guangzhou, so that now the Liang family's warehouses in Guangzhou City and Liangjiazhuang are full of grain.

Tianbaoxing's branches in Guangzhou, Shantou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai will make guest appearances in grain merchants and vigorously promote grain, because grain is not durable. However, in the Qing Dynasty, food was in short supply. Natural disasters occurred frequently in the Qing Dynasty, with droughts and locust plagues in the north and floods and floods in the south. In places where disasters are a little more severe, food becomes a life-saving substance.

Throughout Chinese history, when a dynasty reaches the later stage of its development, population growth causes the demand for food to exceed the output of the land, a peasant revolt will break out, and then through successive wars, a large number of people will be lost, a new dynasty will be established, the land output and population will be balanced again, and the dynasty will continue to develop steadily, and then ······ In the final analysis, the main reason for the change of dynasty turned out to be a lack of food.

At this time, Master Liang suddenly discovered that Vietnam, Cambodia, Siam, and Myanmar, which are grain-producing countries, are too important to China, and they are very close to China, which is simply China's natural granary.

It doesn't matter what you look at, the most important thing is to strengthen yourself. Master Ben has money and food now, and he is not panicked!

However, the fifth uncle Liang Haowen had an opinion about him, because when the young master Liang led the troops to attack Vietnam, he happened to go back to Guangzhou to recruit workers to come to Hainan, and learn from those Prussian engineers and technicians about the installation of equipment in steel and cement plants, so that they could learn to use these machines and equipment faster and better. But as soon as he left, Young Master Liang led his troops to fight Vietnam. When he returned to the base, he found that there were already many Vietnamese prisoners in the base.

Liang Haowen was taken aback at the time, and he was very dissatisfied with his nephew hiding from him to do such a big thing. As the builder of the Hainan base, one of the founders of the Liang Jiajun, and the second-in-command, he didn't know about such a big military operation!

But at that juncture, Liang Haowen, who had a calm personality, knew that he couldn't act rashly, war was not child's play, and he could only silently arrange logistics and transportation for Liang Jiajun at the base. After receiving his nephew's letter, he learned that the Liang family's army on the battlefield in Vietnam was weak, and he was always worried about his nephew's safety, and he couldn't tell his family about these things.

This kid is too bold! said that he was just training the guards of the Liang Family Dart Bureau here, how did he make such a big move.

Now in the office of the regiment headquarters of the Hainan base, Young Master Liang is smiling and smiling with the fifth uncle: "Fifth uncle, if you have to believe me, I definitely didn't mean to hide it from you." When I asked you to go back to Guangzhou to recruit people, I didn't expect to go to war, but after you left, I suddenly realized that the steel mill needed an equally important raw material, which was coal. However, there are no coal mines in Qiongzhou, and even Guangdong has never heard of where coal is produced, so I was anxious at that time. Later, I remembered that I had heard from foreigners that the French had discovered a large number of coal mines in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam, and were preparing to develop coal mines in Vietnam. That's why I asked my grandfather to help me find two Englishmen who were exploring coal mines, and by the way, you know that."

Liang Haowen nodded, he did know the Englishman who was looking for coal mining, and he went to find it, and the old man just passed a word to him.

"After going to Vietnam, it didn't take long to find the coal mine, but I never thought that the Vietnamese actually arrested our people, even the two British were arrested, fortunately, someone was clever, after coming back to report the news, I took the escort group to Vietnam to save people, and then the matter became bigger and bigger, and then you also know what happened later" Young Master Liang can only make up nonsense, first fool the past and then say, his words seem to be quite like a rough sound, but it can't stand scrutiny at all.

Fortunately, Liang Haowen didn't want to get to the bottom of the matter, he said with a serious face: "Forget it after this incident, fortunately nothing happened to you, so don't tell the family, lest the old man get angry." But you know, if something goes wrong with you, how do you ask me to explain it to my family? So this must not happen again, and you have to promise me that you must discuss it with me next time you have something."

Young Master Liang knew that he was really weak this time, and promised repeatedly: "I must be sure, next time I have something to discuss with you first."

The matter is said, Liang Haowen is not a person with a chicken belly, this matter can be regarded as a turning page.

But Young Master Liang thought about whether to have a showdown with the fifth uncle. After this period of cooperation, I found that the fifth uncle is indeed a capable person, not in a hurry or impatient, in an orderly manner, very open-minded, and open-minded, it is simply a tailor-made talent for political cadres such as instructors and political commissars! It's a pity to let this kind of talent go, but in the future, the fifth uncle will be in charge of the stall of the dart bureau, since he will leave after a while, then why let him get involved too much, it will make him worry.

Forget it, I don't want to think about it, I'll talk about it later. He turned around and went to find Master Huang Qiying.

"Master, my fifth uncle has recruited seven or eight hundred people in Guangzhou this time, but it is too far from our target number, I don't think we can recruit people in Guangzhou anymore, otherwise it will be easy to cause the government to track down the people after several or three recruitments. However, I know that there is a place where you can definitely recruit a lot of people, and you can go there and try it."

Huang Qiying is also worrying about this matter, it is not easy to recruit seven or eight thousand young and strong young men to serve as soldiers at once, and it is even more difficult to avoid the sight of the government. So he immediately asked, "Where can you recruit so many people at once?" ”

"Master, don't worry, listen to me tell you slowly. Originally, when Guangzhou was the only foreign trade port in the Qing Dynasty, the export goods from Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangxi were transported into Guangdong by the trade routes at the junction of the two provinces, and there were hundreds of thousands of laborers doing the manual work of carrying goods on these trade routes, but now there are as many as 16 treaty ports in the country, and the number of goods transiting from Jiangxi-Guangdong Trade Road, Hunan and Guangdong Trade Road, and Guangdong-Guangdong Trade Road has been greatly reduced, and most of the hundreds of thousands of laborers are actually unemployed, and these people are looking for a job or find a way out. And it's located in a mountainous area, and the government won't pay attention to it, doesn't it just meet our requirements? ”

Huang Qiying slapped her thigh excitedly: "Hey, it's not like stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to find it, so it takes no effort to get it." I said, how do you have such a long brain, why can't anything bother you? How do you know about these places? ”

"Master, this is called Xiucai does not go out, he knows the world, your apprentice and I are also a scholar." Now that the master and apprentice are close, Young Master Liang dares to joke with Huang Qiying, who is always serious.

Huang Qiying was worried when he heard this, he remembered for the first time whether he should let his son Huang Feihong also go to school and study, and now he also understands that he can't do much by force alone.

Seeing that Master Liang didn't speak, he looked at his face and probably guessed what Master was thinking, so he said, "Is Master thinking about Feihong?" ”

"Yes, when you talked about reading, I was thinking that Feihong is one year younger than you, should I send him to study?" In the past, he was adrift on the rivers and lakes, and his life was tight, so he always taught his son to practice martial arts, and by the way, he also taught him to read. But he is a martial artist, how much can he teach his son? Compared with before, he is definitely a rich man, so he naturally has to think about his son's future.

Young Master Liang thought to himself that Master was really a good man, and he was infatuated and cared for his family: "Master, you have to ask Feihong yourself to see what he wants to do in the future." If he wants to study medicine, he can go to Guangzhou Medical College; If you want to learn Western science and technology, you can go to the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology; If you want to join the army, you can go to a military school; It's okay to send him to study abroad, but don't go and read the Four Books and Five Classics with an old master, it will make people stupid."

Huang Qiying laughed: "You are right, let him choose by himself, I will ask him at night."

"Master, tomorrow we will hold a commendation meeting, tonight our platoon and above cadres will hold a Vietnam War summary meeting, I am afraid you will not be able to go back until late in the evening, Feihong is there, you can call him over now."