As soon as Li Ling returned to the mansion, he heard that Madame Fleming had invited Li Ling to a villa on Jiayuguan Road. Li Ling did not delay and went directly by car.

When Mrs. Fleming saw Li Ling, she hurriedly greeted her warmly. Introduce a middle-aged man, and sure enough, it is Brigadier General Fleming, the commander of the British garrison in Shanghai. Li Ling had seen this person at the auction venue, and he also knew that they wanted to auction the "Dragon Birthday Incense" but failed to do so, but was pocketed by the Japanese businessman Watanabe Masho.

Probably Fleming has been in the top position for a long time, but Li Ling bowed slightly when he arrived, and then he sat on the chair behind the table with a big sword and golden horse, and said: "A few bandits in Laoshan Den are disrespectful to my wife, I hope Mr. Li can help me eradicate it." Of course, I will be very grateful to you, as for the supply of weapons and ammunition, it is difficult now. ”

Is it hard now? Li Ling didn't know what this meant, and it was estimated that he couldn't provide it. Li Ling sneered in his heart, wanting me to help eradicate the bandits, just thanking him for letting his brother live and die, it was also whimsical.

"Since General Fleming can't provide weapons, how can it help me?" Li Ling unceremoniously talked about the conditions.

Fleming shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and said, "I'm sorry I can't help you in any way." But you have a grudge against those bandits, and you must be in desperate need of eradicating them. I can only promise to help you in the years to come. ”

Fleming is right, even if there is no them, Li Ling will wipe out Hu Xinyi and others, Li Ling said: "Then I hope Fleming can do me a favor, as for what to do, I haven't thought about it yet." ”

Fleming immediately agreed to the empty promise, he served as the British commander in Shanghai, and he was powerful, and he thought that what Li Ling said was very small, and he did not look at it.

After chatting for a while, Li Ling took his leave and left. It's not bad to let Fleming owe himself a favor. After all, Fleming was the British commander in Shanghai and had a huge influence in the British and American public concessions.

Li Ling summoned brothers from all walks of life to discuss Hu Xinyi. Hu Xinyi and his righteous brother Qiu Laoba have infiltrated Laoshan as bandits, and they can only unite with the local armed forces in Qingdao. If Li Ling alone, it would be difficult to uproot it.

Nowadays, the situation in Qingdao is too chaotic, and Japanese yarn mills have gone on strike several times, and all walks of life have also responded. The Kuomintang city government was unable to maintain order, and the mayors were replaced one after another. And bandits are even more rampant, often going down the mountain to blatantly rob homes and houses.

Li Ling's time in Qingdao has been growing day by day, and the members of the Golden Sword Society have expanded to more than 1,000 people. Since he is rich and powerful, Li Ling decided to muddy the waters of Qingdao.

First, Ge Changxing and his gang were transferred from Jinan and stationed in Laoshan Den to pretend to be bandits, and then Li Ling made friends with local businessmen, celebrities, and local armed forces in Qingdao.

The transport convoy of Peng Shaoan, the boss of Hexieji, was robbed by bandits, and Li Ling took out 300,000 yuan of share capital and asked to do a joint venture with Peng Shaoan to do a transportation business. Peng Shaoan, who was forced to almost commit suicide, got a share capital of 300,000 yuan, and was grateful to Li Ling, repurchased transportation equipment, and rebuilt his heroism.

The Qingdao merchant group is controlled by Song Jiuxiang, the head of the regiment is his brother-in-law An Lianggui, and the deputy head is Li Zhenghong, who used to be a Beiyang officer.

Li Ling secretly met with Li Zhenghong several times, learned a lot of internal information about the business group, and used various means to attract Li Zhenghong and some members of the business group to join the Golden Sword Society. Through the family relationship of the "Eight Tiger Brothers" Sui Ganchen, Li Ling befriended Sui Shiqing, the president of the Chamber of Commerce. After a long period of layout, Li Ling's operation began.

First, the son of Liu Bancheng, the richest man in Qingdao, was kidnapped, and the extortion amount was as high as 1 million. After being recommended by the former chief inspector Shi Gongshu, Liu Banshan lowered his figure and asked Li Ling, who was in Qingdao to eat all black and white, to come forward and negotiate with the robbers, and then release the ransom to 400,000 yuan.

Subsequently, several commercial houses in Qingdao were harassed by bandits, and even Song Jiuxiang's home was attacked by bandits.

Then the businessmen who were harassed by the bandits, led by Peng Shaoan, went to the Qingdao Municipal Government to petition the Qingdao Municipal Government, demanding that the Kuomintang Qingdao Municipal Government encircle and severely punish the bandit Qiu Laoba. However, the Qingdao merchant group collected large sums of money from the merchants every year, but did not act, demanding the abolition of the merchant group's armament.

With the efforts of Song Jiuxiang, although the merchant group was retained, the duties of the head of the regiment An Lianggui were also removed, and the deputy head of the regiment, Li Zhenghong, was allowed to lead and wait for the opportunity to suppress the bandits.

Li Zhenghong vigorously expelled the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers, and supplemented the young and strong men into the merchant group, and the soldiers who were supplemented were basically brothers of the Golden Sword Society.

This series of events, if someone with a discerning eye pays attention, they can see Li Ling's figure. It's just that Li Ling is hiding behind his back, and he won't leave a handle at all.

At that time, although Qingdao was under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, it did not send many soldiers, and the suppression of bandits mainly relied on local armed forces. There are more than 1,000 people in Qingdao business groups plus local security forces, but they have all retained their strength, and few are willing to go all out, not to mention that there are several bandits in Laoshan, and there are not a few people......

The vigorous anti-bandit operation finally began, and people from all walks of life cheered one after another, and the local armed forces went deep into Laoshan to fight fiercely against the bandits. Even the Feng navy, stationed in the port of Qingdao, was involved in the operation.

Under the leadership of Zhang Xueliang, the Northeast Army changed its flag and obeyed the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and a dedicated navy sailed into the port of Qingdao. After Li Ling learned that the navy was the Third Fleet, and the commander's name was Shen Honglie, he immediately took out 100,000 oceans to come to the labor army to offer condolences.

One hundred thousand oceans is a huge amount of money, enough for the navy's expenses for a year. Many people don't understand why Li Ling is so bloody and originally befriended Shen Honglie, after all, this navy is a miscellaneous army and has little to do with Qingdao.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Ling to say that Shen Honglie will become the mayor of Qingdao in the future.

Shen Honglie was overjoyed and entertained Li Ling on the Haiqi ship. After learning that Li Ling's brother was Chiang Kai-shek's protégé, Shen Honglie deliberately made friends, and after three glasses of wine, the two called them brothers and sisters, and formed a friendship that they forgot about the year.

After the unremitting efforts of the navy and local armed forces, after more than ten days of conquest, the bandits in Qingdao basically disappeared, and Qiu Laoba's bandits were even more dispersed, and the whereabouts of Qiu Laoba and Hu Xinyi are unknown.

Li Ling contacted the local people, beat gongs and drums to build momentum for the navy, and gave all the credit for suppressing bandits to Shen Honglie of the Third Fleet. Shen Honglie has a navy and has little power on land, so he hit it off with Li Ling and others and touted each other.

Although the navy has little power in Qingdao, it also has a strong deterrent power. The wealthy merchants of the Qingdao Chamber of Commerce saw that Li Ling had a good relationship with the commander of the fleet, and they no longer regarded him as an ordinary gang hooligan. After all, when people interact with people, it is not about your origin, but about your current energy.

Under Shen Honglie, there was a group of generals who stayed in the Japanese system, and they repeatedly suggested to Shen Honglie that they should seize the administrative power of Qingdao in order to develop the land power of the navy and solve the problem of the source of military spending. These people were represented by Ling Xiao, the captain of the First Frontier Fleet, but Shen Honglie rejected their proposal on the grounds that it was not suitable for military personnel to interfere in politics.

Ling Xiao took advantage of Shen Honglie's visit to the Taiqing Palace to lecture the officers and soldiers, and suddenly attacked, put Shen Honglie under house arrest, and forced him to resign due to illness and hand over military power.

This move shocked the navy. Shen Honglie's cronies and subordinates were furious and decided to organize a death squad to rescue Shen Honglie from the Taiqing Palace.

After Li Ling got the news, he personally led the brothers of the Golden Sword Society and Li Zhenghong's merchant group to arm, and before the death squad arrived, he eliminated the guards of the Taiqing Palace and rescued Shen Honglie overnight.

Shen Honglie immediately dismissed Ling Xiao and others from their positions and monopolized the power of the Northeast Navy. Subsequently, the Nanjing Nationalist Government and Zhang Xueliang appointed Shen Honglie as the mayor of Qingdao at the same time, in charge of Qingdao's administrative affairs.

During the Laoshan Incident, Li Ling had been accompanying Shen Honglie, making Shen Honglie grateful and determined to promote Li Ling to the government. Li Lingzhi was not here, and after politely refusing, he recommended Li Zhenghong.

Li Zhenghong was originally a Beiyang officer, but after the defeat in Qingdao, he made a living in Qingdao and served in the merchant group responsible for training soldiers. He had no ambition to display, and his performance in the two things of Laoshan to suppress bandits and rescue Shen Honglie was remarkable, and he was recommended by Li Ling, so he decided to resign from the position of the merchant group, and was temporarily appointed by Shen Honglie as a lieutenant colonel and staff officer.

And Li Ling was recommended by a large number of businessmen, and with the support of Shen Honglie, he became the head of the business group, and then appointed Sun Yuzhu as the deputy head of the group. Li Ling knew that Sun Yuzhu didn't know anything about military affairs, and letting him be the deputy head of the regiment was just to improve his social status.

At this time, Song Jiuxiang woke up like a dream, and the merchant group he controlled had been taken away unconsciously, just looking at the welcome of the merchant group soldiers to Li Ling.

Song Jiuxiang regretted it in his heart, he shouldn't have offended Li Ling and a group of gang hooligans so easily, but he didn't expect Li Ling and others to play with such flexible methods. I didn't expect that I was so smart that I would fall in love with a few young people. The Song family is a big family in Qingdao, in order to keep their descendants safe, the family has been well continued, so they have to bow to Li Ling and take the initiative to ask someone to marry their daughter Song Tingting to Sun Yuzhu.

Li Ling was also not cold, and invited Shen Honglie to be a matchmaker, looking for an auspicious day for the zodiac to get married. Shen Hongliele sold the favor of the two parties and readily agreed.

Now that Shen Honglie has become the mayor of Qingdao, Li Ling has risen with the help of his connections, and no one in the business world is willing to compete with him. And because of the power of the gang, some factories hired Li Ling as a senior consultant, chairman, general manager and other fictitious titles with high salaries in order not to be harassed by hooligans. All kinds of business activities are even more overwhelming.

Because of Li Ling's investment, Peng Shaoan made the transportation industry prosperous. Li Ling took a fancy to his business acumen, and then took out the money to develop all walks of life, and Li Ling also became a veritable industrialist.

Li Ling, who was high-spirited in Qingdao, didn't want to be famous in Shanghai, because Li Ling smuggled and sold **, and was named and reported by the "Declaration".

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