Chapter 17: Buying Grain

A total of nineteen octagonal fiat currency (the early fiat currency was 1 to 1 against the silver dollar, and later the fiat currency depreciated, basically no one wanted, in 1937 1 silver yuan can buy 30 catties of rice), fortunately, the current fiat currency is still valuable, with this money can buy some grain.

"Five people from each came with me into the village to buy food."

Twenty yuan can buy no less than 500 catties of grain, and the unified arrangement of one pound of grain for one person must be held up to Zhenjiang.

"Who dares to be an uncle after entering the village, Lao Tzu will not pick your skin."

With 35 people, Zhang Ziwen was ready to enter the village, in fact, they were not far from the village, but they were worried that there would be a robbery of the villagers and bullying the people, so they did not enter the village all the way, and the village was less than a few hundred meters away.

Not many people went out in December, and now that there is a war, few people go out, if it weren't for the fact that there was cooking smoke in the village, Zhang Ziwen would have thought that the people of this village had also fled.

"Is anyone home?"

Zhang Ziwen searched for a long time, only this one seemed to be a landlord, and there should be food. After waiting for a while, no one answered, so I had to knock on other people's houses, but no one opened the door, could I have just seen it wrong?

"Commander of the Ninth Company, it can't be that the villagers are afraid of us, so they don't open the door?"

A brother of the 613th Regiment said that only the brothers of the 613th Regiment were called Commander Zhang Ziwenjiu, and everyone else was called Company Commander Zhang. Zhang Ziwen thought that it would be like this, but he was afraid that the villagers were scared, so he didn't dare to open the door.

"Let's go, let's go back to the first one." And he went back with someone.

"Fellow, open the door, we are the National Revolutionary Army, I want to buy some food from you."

Zhang Ziwen banged on the door vigorously, but the courtyard still didn't move.

This is not good, Zhang Ziwen has just told the brothers to come and buy food, if you can't buy it back, the brothers can't eat, it will make a big trouble.

"Two of you, open the door."

This is the only way, someone and no one have to open the door to see?

"Yes," the two brothers stepped forward and began to bang the net.

"Oops"

At the same time that the two brothers knocked them away, they heard an oopsy sound in the yard, and sure enough, there were people, and when they walked in, two people were lying on the ground, ready to get up, Zhang Ziwen was just about to ask why he didn't open the door, and without waiting for the two to answer, a person who looked like a businessman in his thirties and forties came out of the courtyard, only to find that it was a courtyard with two entrances.

"A few military masters, what are you doing in my Raojia Village today?"

Zhang Ziwen seemed to be very confident when he heard this businessman-like man.

"Contemptible, Zhang Ziwen, commander of the 9th Company of the 103rd Division of the Jiangyin River Defense Army and the 613th Regiment, came to Raojia Village today to buy some food from the village, but what do you want to do if you refuse to open the door."

He is not welcome, and Zhang Ziwen naturally has no need to smile.

"Jiangyin River Defense Army? Jiangyin Mo is not lost, right? ”

The man ignored the threat in Zhang Ziwen's words and muttered to himself.

"Our Ninth Company Commander asked you, are you deaf?"

The brothers below were already anxious when they saw that he didn't reply to Zhang Ziwen's words.

"Ah, I'm sorry Company Commander Zhang, are you going to buy food?"

The man only reacted when he heard the sound of the brothers being loaded, and took a step forward to pick up the two young men who looked like they were guarding the front of him.

"We are going to buy some food from your village, and the brothers have just retired and have not eaten for a day."

Hearing that he meant to sell grain, Zhang Ziwen asked his brothers to put down their guns.

"I don't know how much food do you want to buy, Company Commander Zhang? What kind of food to buy? ”

"I have 20 pieces of fiat currency, and I can get 600 catties of rice at the market price, but the price of grain is higher in winter, how about you give me 500 catties?"

Doing business at home, although Zhang Ziwen doesn't care about his family's business when he reads, he still understands the basics.

"It's not a secret, twenty fiat dollars can't buy so much grain now, after all, food is more real in the war now."

When Zhang Ziwen heard this, it didn't look like it was fake, if the grain rose so much, I was afraid that more than 400 brothers would not be able to eat enough, and they would not even have to drink porridge all the way to Zhenjiang.

"How much can it be sold?"

"Company Commander Zhang is not in a hurry, I see that you and the brothers here are only a few dozen people and don't need so much food, you don't need to buy me, on behalf of Raojia Village, I will give 100 catties of food to Company Commander Zhang as military food, what do you think?"

It turned out that Zhang Ziwen and his party were not many people, and they planned to give away food.

"Don't you know, we still have about 400 brothers outside the village waiting for us to buy food and go back."

Zhang Ziwen only told him the situation, hoping that he could sell more grain to himself.

"Ah, aren't you a company, how can there be so many people."

The man was obviously frightened by the number of people, and if these four or five hundred people entered the village, the village would probably be over.

"You don't have to worry about that. See how much grain you can sell me? ”

Zhang Ziwen naturally won't tell him, and there is no need to tell him.

"Company Commander Zhang, there are also more than a dozen young people in our village who joined the army last year, and now when I see you, I think about the descendants of our village. So how about I sell you 400 catties of grain, give you another 200 catties, and then give you some dried fish? ”

Zhang Ziwen heard a little meaning, this man is not simple, tell Zhang Ziwen that there are people in the village who join the army, sell them grain, and then send them food. In this way, the deal has been completed, and the favor is also available, and the fellow soldiers will naturally not spoil their hometown fathers and elders of their comrades.

"Xianglong, Xiangyun will go and let each family bring out a little food, about three hundred catties, and the other three hundred catties will come out of me, and then get some dried fish and wine." The man ordered the two guards to arrive.

"Yes, Patriarch"

It turned out to be the patriarch, this is Raojia Village, and it must be the Rao family.

"Company Commander Zhang, it doesn't look like a crown, he became a company commander at such a young age, he is really a young talent."

The man gave the order and was ready to talk to Zhang Ziwen.

"Don't dare to be, it's all up to the grace of your parents."

Zhang Ziwen is still an acting company commander, and the platoon commander also donates money, and the young talent is on his side.

"In the army, how can there be parents who rely on them, could it be that Company Commander Zhang is from a military family?"

The person in front of him is worthy of being the patriarch, and he wants to dig out Zhang Ziwen's heel.

"My father is a businessman in Yunnan and Guizhou, and he is a businessman."

"Is that company commander Zhang the Qianjun or the Yunnan army?"

"The younger brother is from Duyun Mansion, and we are naturally Qianjun."

"Oh, there are a lot of mountains and rivers in Qiandi, but it's a good place."

Everyone in the world says that the land is poor and the mountains and rivers are bad, but this is a good feeling, no wonder businessmen can make money, you can see and listen to it comfortably.

"Patriarch Rao asked, how far is it from here to Zhenjiang, and how to go?"

Zhang Ziwen didn't have a map and had to ask him, and Zhang Ziwen really didn't want to talk to him about such a question.

"Out of the Chunjiang River, in the direction of Menglai Town, there is probably more than a hundred miles of land."

It is more than 100 miles, and if you walk hard, you can probably walk more than 30 miles. I didn't rest last night, and the Japanese army won't come up for a while, so I can rest well for the night.

"Company Commander Zhang, are you going to retreat to Zhenjiang?" This Rao patriarch seems to be very interested in the army.

"Yes, we retreated, there are no troops in front, you can take the villagers to flee too."

When he said this, Zhang Ziwen's heart was full of guilt, hundreds of thousands of troops couldn't stop the 200,000 Japanese troops.

"We can't leave, this is the inheritance left by our ancestors, we don't dare to throw it away, it's a big deal that the Japanese army will hand over the tax to them, and they will pay it anyway, they won't do anything to our people."

"You don't want to, I can't help it, I hope the Japanese army is not as ...... as they have heard"

"Don't worry, Company Commander Zhang, as long as there are you devils who are soldiers, you won't dare to kill us all."

He said with relief, Zhang Ziwen did not refute, and later Zhang Ziwen realized that he really thought too beautifully.