"First there is Zongai Town, and then there is Shouyang City!"

Zongai Town is a thousand-year-old town, which was famous in the Han Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when the Jin merchants arose, here is the famous dry wharf in the central Jin region, generation after generation of Jin merchants set off from here, go east over the Taihang Mountains to Beijing and Tianjin, cross the Great Wall inside and outside the desert to the north, cross the Yellow River to the west to Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan, and go to the Central Plains Huguang to the south, and the end is a traffic artery.

In 1931, during the Republic of China, there were 300 businesses in Zongai Town, forming a well-known business group "Zongai Business Gang", and also issued a kind of credit banknote "Keqian".

It is said that when the big suppliers of Tianjin Wharf offered the price, the Zong Ai merchants would not offer the price if they were not present!

Jin Shang is synonymous with money!

Because Zongai Town has been the commercial center of Shouyang for 300 years, and it is also the logistics center of Jinzhong and Jinbei, and the businessmen who have made a lot of money have built a lot of buildings and built houses here, and pay attention to feng shui, pay attention to borrowing the scenery to build momentum, and pray for the gods and Buddhas to bless them with a wide range of financial resources and endless, and the scale of Zongai Town can be imagined.

On the main road from northeast to southwest, there are Jade Emperor Pavilion and ear tower built on the South City Gate Cave, which is called South Pavilion by the locals; There are Zhenwu Temple, Bell Tower built on the North City Gate Cave, and the locals call it the North Pavilion. The east pavilion is the Ruixiang Temple where the treasure is strict, and it is divided into two parts: the upper temple and the lower temple.

On the commanding heights on the southeast side of the town, there is Kuixing Pavilion, also called Wenchang Pavilion; The Wenchang Temple outside the town corresponds to the Kuixing Pavilion, and the Caishen Temple corresponds to the South Pavilion and the North Pavilion on the main road.

Surrounding the town, there are Guanyin Temple and Dragon King Temple in the south of the town; There is a Mawang Temple in the west of the town; There is a temple in the northeast of the town; There is a Luzu temple in the east of the town; There are five temples built at the fork of each street and lane, each temple is planted with pine and willow in front of it, and the statue of the green tablet in the temple is elegant.

On the main road in the town, which is about two or three miles long, the first street and two lines are all shops; In the streets and alleys of the east, west, north, south, and middle, there are also many shops.

In such a purely commercial market town, there are hidden deep mansions of those rich businessmen, covering an area of thousands of square meters, thousands of square meters, and the largest Zhang's group of houses in Dongguan covers an area of 30 acres!

What's even more amazing is that there are five Mahe pools in the east, middle and west of Zongai Town, that is, artificial lakes, weeping willows floating by the pool, gathering wealth, gas storage, and landscaping!

With the rise of railway transportation and road transportation, the commercial form has changed, Taiyuan has gradually become the commercial center of Shanxi, and Shouyang County has become the commercial center of Shouyang because of the convenience of railway transportation. Zongai Town, as the thriving place and rear of the Zongai Business Gang, is still a prosperous place.

It's a pity that the little devil came, and Zongai Town became an important stronghold for the Japanese army to control the northwest area of Shouyang, and the little devil's barracks were set up in the Ruixiang Temple where the Zongai people burned incense and worshiped the Buddha.

On the evening of the 26th day of the first lunar month, that is, on the evening of February 25th, the sunset rendered the sky like a dream, sprinkled on the Shuangfeng Mountain in the north of Zongai Town, sprinkled on the high Kuixing Pavilion, sprinkled on the roofs of the North Pavilion, the South Pavilion, the East Pavilion and the temples outside the town, reflecting the brilliance of Zongai Town, like a blessed land.

On the city wall on the side of the north side of the north side of Zongai Town, a thick hemp rope hangs the remains of Chen Yisheng, the anti-Japanese hero, the central county * secretary * of the five counties of Meng Pingyang Shouyu and the political commissar of the seventh brigade of the third detachment of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army********.

At the entrance of the city gate below the north pavilion, two devil soldiers held rifles, staring at the sparse pedestrians entering and exiting the city gate. Two puppet soldiers with rifles on their backs and cigarettes in their mouths will pull and interrogate people when they see them, and if a pedestrian answers incorrectly, they will be pulled aside by the puppet army and handed over to the Japanese army.

Chen San'er's original name was Chen Zongbao, a native of southern Liaoning, who was a soldier of the warlord Zhang Zongchang's department, and followed the White Russian soldiers under Zhang Zongchang to practice good knife skills and marksmanship. After Zhang Zongchang was defeated and killed, Chen Zongbao went to a bandit village in Taihang Mountain and became a bandit. Unexpectedly, the bandit leader was not righteous, Chen San'er got drunk and touched the bed of the little wife of the bandit leader, and the bandit leader not only gave the little wife to him, but also killed him. Chen San'er had no choice but to shoot and kill the bandit leader, fled in the wilderness, ran to Zongai Town, changed his name to Chen San'er, and became the bodyguard of a wealthy merchant in Zongai Town.

During the Battle of Taiyuan, the rich businessman's family went to Tianjin in advance to escape the war, leaving Chen San'er to lead three bodyguards to take care of the family.

When the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was transferred south from Wutai, it made a short stop in Zongai Town. When the cadres and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army held a meeting in the town to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance, Chen San'er also went to see the excitement. At that time, a cadre of the Eighth Route Army heard that Chen San'er had a good marksmanship and knife skills, so he went to do his work, and explained the anti-Japanese principles a lot, and finally really moved Chen San'er, he not only signed up for the army himself, but also went back to mobilize the three remaining bodyguards of the rich businessman, all of whom became the Eighth Route Army and followed the headquarters.

As a result, when the headquarters crossed Zhengtai Road, Chen San'er and the three bodyguards took advantage of the opportunity to, deserted, and ran back to Zongai Town.

The Eighth Route Army didn't know Chen San'er's details, and the people in Zongai Town didn't know his details!

It is said that Chen San'er told his three bodyguards that the Eighth Route Army was poor and did not pay for the start of work, and only fools would follow them! It's better to stay in Zongai Town to take care of the family's nursing home, there are white buns to eat, pig's feet to gnaw, small wine to drink, and kiln sisters to play, and the owner also pays money on a monthly basis!

After the Japanese army broke through Niangzi Pass, it was divided into two roads, left and right, and pursued the retreating national * army on the front line of Niangzi Pass, and soon killed Shouyang and Zongai Town.

As soon as the little devil came, the traitors in Shouyang County set up a maintenance association, and under the guidance of the Japanese army, they prepared to set up a pseudo Shouyang County garrison and began to carry out Japanese puppet rule over Shouyang.

At this time, Chen San'er jumped out, took the Jinzao barge gun and Jinzao rifle that the wealthy businessman asked him to take care of the home and nursery, took his three bodyguard brothers, and took refuge in the Japanese army, and went to Shouyang City to receive training from the Japanese army instructor.

In Chen San'er's words, when he followed Zhang Zongchang, he knew that the Japanese were powerful, and he couldn't go against the Japanese if he was against anyone, that was looking for death! The Manchus entered the customs from the northeast to occupy China, and the Japanese must have done the same! Just look at the fact that the three eastern provinces became Manchukuo, and it won't be long before the Japanese occupy all of China, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty established the Qing Dynasty, and establish a new dynasty!

This Chen San'er is basically uneducated, but he knows about the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty! It seems that when I was young, I heard a lot of storytellers tell Manchu stories!

Not to mention, Chen San'er, who became the puppet guard captain of Zongai Town, is really majestic, carrying a wooden box shell gun, leading a group of traitors and puppet soldiers, following behind the devil's ass, as if he recognized a father again, rampant and domineering, and doing all kinds of evil!

What excites Chen San'er the most is that those merchants who used to see him like a dog are all standing up when they see him now. Good cigarettes, good wine, good meat, greetings, and even secretly stuffed him with money!

At the beginning, Chen San'er's appetite was not big, and those merchants stuffed him with thirty or fifty yuan in Jin banknotes and fiat currency, and he was very satisfied. Later, it didn't work, and this product felt that Jin banknotes and fiat currency might become waste paper, so only yen, dollar, pound, franc, silver dollar, and gold bars were needed.

This is also in Zongai Town, the base camp of the Zongai merchant gang, in other places, where will those small merchants and small bosses have dollars, pounds, francs and yen!

Chen San'er, who has a gun and money, suddenly found that life is so beautiful, there is no need to pin his head to the waistband of his trousers to charge like he did when he was under Zhang Zongchang, nor do he have to drill the ravine every day like when he was a bandit, let alone look forward to the salary of the owner who hired him as a bodyguard every day.

Even if he went to sleep with the little wives of those merchants, no one dared to squeak. Of course, Chen San'er is a mixed society, although his cultural level is not high, he has his own set of logic, that is, he only sleeps with the little wives that the merchants bought from other places, and never sleeps with the main wife of the other family, so as not to fight with him in a hurry!

Now Chen San'er, walking on the streets of Zongai Town, with money in his pocket and a gun on his buttocks, what do you want, she really looks like a dog!

When the Japanese army carried out an eight-way siege on the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, Chen San'er took the pseudo-garrison of Zongai Town to cooperate with the action. It's just that the location of Zongai Town is important, and there is no room for mistakes, when the little devils in Shouyang County killed Yu County, they didn't let them follow, but just asked them to assist the devils to stay in Zongai Town, and sent those who were familiar with the road to lead the way for the devils. Otherwise, he might have died under Xiao Siming's gun!

Chen Yisheng was unlucky in the hands of Chen San'er.

This guy became the captain of the puppet garrison in Zongai Town, thinking about receiving meritorious service rewards and becoming an official every day, and every day he drove out the puppet army traitors under him, and let them spy on the intelligence of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, one of his puppet soldiers inadvertently discovered Chen Yisheng who went to Shouyang to inspect the work, and after reporting the little devil, the leader of the devil squad stationed in Zongai Town immediately led the team to the ancient city to set up an ambush, and the battle was successful, and he actually killed the old Red Army cadre Chen Yisheng!

Now Chen San'er is red in the devil's place! The Japanese adviser of the puppet Shouyang County Government and the Japanese army adviser of the puppet first garrison went to Zongai Town to give Chen San'er an award, and in addition to the medal, he was also rewarded with a Wang Ba box and 200 pieces of ocean!

Chen San'er, who received the reward from the Japanese army, has become more and more dedicated! No, this evening, Chen San'er, who had had dinner, took two guards and went around several city gates in Zongai Town, Xiang checked whether his brothers were able to cooperate with the imperial army and dedicated!

Turning around, Chen San'er turned to the north gate! (To be continued.) )