Chapter Eighty-One Goes Gray

"Recite it with me, stay where you are, this sentence means .................."

Zhang Ziwen has already lost his brains about the cultural level of the brothers under his hands, and now uses the common words in the army to educate and counsel.

"Old pole, if you don't complete the task today, don't even think about smoking this month."

Zhang Ziwen looked at the old pole below, he had just started to speak, he was drowsy, and now the third battalion does not pay two-thirds of the military salary every month, and directly stays in Zhang Ziwen's hands for investment in the flue-cured tobacco factory.

The funds of the flue-cured tobacco factory have been sufficient, Zhang Ziwen gave the money in his hand to the brothers to improve the food, the shares of the flue-cured tobacco factory are just for the brothers to enjoy the dividends in the future, all this Ma Xiaobao has been registered in the register just in case, for the brothers who are short of money can advance dividends in advance, to put it bluntly, it is to take back their military salaries.

When the old pole heard Zhang Ziwen's words, he was shocked and quickly sat up, he had nothing to worry about in his life, only the 103rd Division was his home, and smoke was the only thing he couldn't live without.

If you don't smoke him, it might as well kill him, but without Lu Qingman, he can't do anything about Zhang Ziwen.

"Okay, let's go on, this word ............"

The third battalion is two hours of study time from seven to nine o'clock every night, and during this period of time, the third battalion is like a school, and Zhang Ziwen's task for each is at least ten words a day, don't look at it too much, it is four or five hundred words in more than a month.

At most, you can learn about the same amount in a year, but the teaching team has a minimum of 30 words a day, and you are required to know all the words by the beginning of June.

"Camp Commander Zhang, I have your letter."

Zhang Ziwen put down the chalk, got the envelope and saw that it was Zhang Qing's letter, he knew that it should have been successful, otherwise Zhang Qing would not have written to himself.

"That's all for today, the old pole went to call Lao Shen, Lao Wu, Wang Yi and they came to my office."

Zhang Ziwen opened the envelope on the road, and Zhang Qing wrote; Company commander, the special effect smoke has been initially effective, after consulting a number of seniors, I have been able to successfully achieve the original refreshing and pain-relieving function through the adjustment of the ratio of poppy extract and the fusion of multi-flavored herbs, and now there are no side effects, after many experiments, I will begin to study the best content of the drug in tobacco.

"Come and see, this is Zhang Qing's letter."

Zhang Ziwen lit a cigarette and began to think, this cigarette is still a little bad, it is easy to be addictive, this is something that Zhang Qing did not notice, tobacco is easy to make people addicted.

"Brother Wen, isn't this done, what is there to worry about."

Ma Xiaobao didn't think about it deeply, and felt that it would be good if it was done, and the brothers' investment would soon bear fruit.

"Xiaowen, are you worried about addiction and raw materials?"

Zhang Ziwen is worried about these two problems, one is not working well, that is, it will bring disaster to the country and the people, and although there is a large number of opium poppies planted in Guizhou, they are basically controlled by a few big families, and their own companies can only buy them at a high price.

"Let's discuss these two issues and see what we can do."

Zhang Ziwen only felt that he was too naïve to think at the beginning, thinking that it would be okay to build a cigarette factory, but now there is still a mountain of morality and benevolence in front of him, and the order to rectify military discipline at the beginning of the year came down, and now is not the era when people had two guns in the past.

"I don't think there's any need to worry about the sales of special effect cigarettes, it's really not good, we send them to Hong Kong and Shanghai, there are many addicts in those places, and the price of our cigarettes is definitely not so high.

Zhang Ziwen thinks that it is feasible, the Lu family has been doing business in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for decades, and now that the Japanese have occupied the lower reaches, the Lu family still has business communication with Shanghai, and it is no problem to take the Lu family's route.

"Then the problem now is the problem of raw materials, mainly tobacco and poppy."

No one can answer Zhang Ziwen's question, the Shen family and the Zhang family have no way to provide this kind of gray benefit without interfering, and others have no way.

"If you can't do it, you can only grow it yourself, or you can buy it at a high price."

The poppy flowers bear fruit from March to November, and if they are planted now, they can be caught up.

"Send a letter to Zhang Qing asking him to consider the amount of opium poppy planted at his discretion and not to leave the country, and who is willing to bring people back to train the security team."

The security team is what Zhang Ziwen has long wanted to do, and now there are many bandits in the Qiandong area of Xiangxi, and Huang Ping can meet bandits as soon as he comes out, and he originally thought that he would send people back when tobacco production began, but now the cultivation of opium poppies will definitely touch the interests of some people, and bloodshed will be indispensable when the time comes.

Zhang Ziwen saw that none of the brothers in front of him took the initiative to go back, and swept them one by one, Zhang Ziwen didn't know who to send, and now no one was missing.

"Now is the critical time, poppy cultivation will not bear fruit in a few months, as long as Zhang Qing is careful not to be discovered, it is urgent to wait for this group of brothers to pull out a few people and send them back."

After Zhang Ziwen thought about it, he decided not to let people go back first, and wrote to Zhang Qing to ask him to go to Duyun to plant, at least the Zhang family still has a strategy there, the Zhang family business is not big, but dozens of guns can still be taken out.

"Okay, Xiaobao is in a hurry, send a letter to Zhang Qing ............"

After careful consideration, we believe that three points are more important, and we hope that you should be careful.

The first point is whether the special effect cigarette is easy to make the user addicted, if the addiction is easily adjusted appropriately, the army can avoid addiction because of the adjustment, and the addict can be appropriately increased.

The second point is that for the cultivation of opium poppy, if the factory is fully operational, there will inevitably be a shortage of materials, so you can go to the Duyun land boundary to plant it as appropriate, and discuss everything with the company. Third, in preparation for the establishment of the security forces, we will recruit about one company in Duyun in the name of security, and we will conduct simple training first, and then I will send people to train later. I will send a letter to my family to cooperate with you, and this letter will be burned immediately after reading.

After the letter was sent, Zhang Ziwen, who was a simple tobacco company at the beginning, became gray, but he had to do it, like a river wrapped in mud and sand, he could only move forward slowly.

"Alright, let's go back."

Shen Qiyu knew Zhang Ziwen's embarrassment, Zhang Ziwen began to hate the Japanese since the September 18 Incident in 1931, angry that the country was weak, he was only eleven years old when he was not for the continuous invasion of the Japanese in the north, Zhang Ziwen would not have joined the army, but went to the university to study science and technology.

Zhang Ziwen is conflicted in his heart, he can completely reject Zhang Qing's statement, but how can a tobacco company afford to be constantly injured and sacrifice the living needs of his brothers, Zhang Ziwen fell to the gray side under the dilemma.

When Zhang Ziwen was in a dilemma, Wan Shijiong obtained the qualification to the general class of the Central Military Academy in Hankou. The order of Wan Shijiong, deputy commander of the 103rd Division, to take his post to school has been issued from the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the 103rd Division has begun the stage of no one to manage it.

Although Wan Shijiong was about to join the general class, he would not forget the 103rd Division, and sent a letter to Wang Jingyuan that night asking him to take care of the 103rd Division, and at the same time sent a letter to Chen Yongsi asking him to temporarily act as the commander of the 618th Regiment of the 103rd Division, and the main commander of the 615th Regiment was still staying with He Zhizhong in Hankou, preparing to prepare for the first Central Army Guizhou Army's military-level troops.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese suffered a great loss, and most of the troops gathered in North and Central China were ready to annihilate nearly one million troops in Xuzhou to avenge the revenge of Taierzhuang.

After the great victory in Taierzhuang, the situation in the whole country against Japan was extremely optimistic, and the Central Military Commission also felt that it could win a big victory, so it still stuck to the whole of Lunan and Anhui.

It was not until mid-May that the increasingly tragic battle reports from the front continued to reach the case of Chiang Kai-shek of the Wuchang Kuomintang Military Committee, and the sudden serious crisis in Xuzhou calmed down his brain, which was a little dizzy because of the victory in Taierzhuang. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly realized that the Japanese army was going to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army in Xuzhou. Chiang Kai-shek immediately called He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, Feng Yizhong and others to study and plan together.

In the end, it was discussed that the Japanese army's intentions had been completely exposed, and it was no longer realistic for nearly a million main forces to defend Xuzhou, and He Yingqin and others also advocated breaking through the encirclement as soon as possible and decided to abandon Xuzhou. Chiang Kai-shek's dictated telegram to Li Zongren ordered his troops to avoid a decisive battle, evacuate Xuzhou, and quickly break through the siege.

Li Zongren reacted quickly and divided the army into five routes, with the 68th Army covering the retreat.

The first route is that Liao Lei led his troops from Suxian County to the west of the Beijing-Pudong Railway, the second route was Tang Enbo led the headquarters to withdraw west from the Longhai line, the third route Sun Lianzhong and Zhang Zizhong led people south to Xiao County, the fourth route Guan Linzheng and the remaining Sichuan army went north to Henan, and the fifth route Sun Zhen led people to retreat to the southern Anhui area to defend Hubei.