Chapter 38 Liwei, Opium*
The right path is the right way, the darkness is the darkness, and if you want to be free in the current society, both are indispensable. While Ah Fa was relaxing and enjoying, the assassination in the dark did not stop, and continued the process www.biquge.info of accumulating black gold.
"Fan Gaotou" died, dead in the toilet of the teahouse, and the dirty blood in his body seemed to flow down the wound on his neck; Guo Haishan also died, first with nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, then blood in the stool, dehydration, convulsions, coma, and finally a life. The doctor diagnosed it as acute dysentery, and no one knew that he was poisoned, let alone that he had been poisoned during a morning tea a few hours earlier.
The day after learning that Guo Haishan was "sick" and died, Jin Sanye received an envelope from the porter, and he looked at it, his face changed again and again. After thinking about it for a long time, Jin Sanye sighed heavily, and told his eldest wife to prepare 100,000 yuan, and then he carried the money box alone and went out in a carriage for a long time. After coming back, Jin Sanye immediately asked people to pass a message to his disciples and grandchildren, don't track down any suspicious people about the "Seven Evils" or the "Seven Killings", whether it is true or not, don't step aside.
Three days later, Shen Xingshan, a patrol house in the British Concession, also suffered from "acute dysentery", and the treatment was ineffective that night, and he died with a whimper.
The next morning, after Jin Sanye saw the news of Shen Xingshan's death in the morning newspaper, he was first stunned, then sighed loudly, and finally laughed non-stop, laughing out of tears, laughing until he coughed. Subsequently, Jin Sanye found two confidants and secretly confessed in the study for a while before letting these two cronies go out to do errands.
Shen Xingshan is a scout, except for foreigners, he is the biggest in the British patrol room. He had another ticket under him, who ate, robbed, and smuggled by force, and made a fortune in the opium business. It's a pity that he has not yet reached the extreme, and before he has climbed to the peak of his life, the famous "Big Eight Shares Party" in history has only emerged, and he, the leader, has lost his life.
The killing of Liwei is bloody and transparent, and the killing of the hidden is so that others can not find traces, Ah Fa thinks that he has a good grasp of it. While making money, he felt more and more that he should organize a vote of people, combine his mind and organization, stand in the open to show his power, and hide the killing machine in the dark.
Of course, starting from scratch is very difficult. But receiving and transforming may also be feasible. But this cannot be rushed, it must be observed, and it must be understood.
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When I saw the fourth sister again, after listening to Ah Fa's simple description, the fourth sister frowned very unhappily, "How do you hire people from outside?" It doesn't matter how much you pay, why don't you give these sisters a chance to support themselves? Like Caifeng, Caihong, Xiaoqin, and so on, when Zhu Niang recovers, she can also work. ”
"It's all rough work, how can you be embarrassed to let them do it." Ah Fa explained duplicitously, in fact, he didn't want to hire acquaintances, Ah Guo didn't know his details, he just regarded it as a big class of a foreign company, and these girls were different.
The fourth sister opened her mouth and swallowed the words. She originally wanted to say if Ah Fa disliked the girls' background, but Zhu Niang and Xiaoqin were in the house, and she didn't want to touch their hidden pain.
"If you really want to find a job to do, there will be in the future." Ah Fa made a remedy and said, "Well, I opened an agency company, and now I have to hire an accounting office, and I have to hire odd workers, salesmen, and scribes. In the future, I will open another company, don't recruit other people, and don't take care of those who are familiar with each other? ”
The fourth sister smiled, nodded, thought for a while and said, "The foreign doctor in that church is not very good at medical skills, I want to ask the Chinese medicine doctor to show Zhu Niang." ”
"No improvement at all?" Ah Fa tilted his head and looked at Zhu Niang, and said, "I look much better." ”
Zhu Niang smiled bitterly and pulled the quilt upwards with her dry hand, as if she didn't want Ah Fa to see the scars on her body and smell the smell on her body.
"There is an old Chinese medicine doctor who is good at treating this disease, but he-" The fourth elder sister paused, with a slightly embarrassed expression, "If you don't go to the hospital, when you go to the hospital, you will also charge a lot of money." Well, he looks down on the fireworks people. ”
"Money is not an issue." Ah Fa stood up and took out his pocket, and the fourth sister had already waved her hand to signal him to sit down.
"How can you spend your money all the time." The fourth sister pointed to the bottom of the bed and said, "I sold all the jewelry, and there are hundreds of yuan, and the treatment is enough." Since you want to do great things, although the money is easy to come by, you also have to calculate the spending. ”
"Then spend the fourth sister's first, and I'll take it if it's not enough." Ah Fa didn't push back, and asked casually: "How are Xiaoyunzi and them, how are they doing in Jiluosheng Hall?" ”
"I like her very much, and she also teaches reading and literacy, and she is very happy to see it." After the fourth sister finished speaking, she looked at Ah Fa with strange eyes, and then said: "It's just that the sixth child, Caifeng, and Caihong are old, and it's not appropriate to stay in it all the time, so you can arrange a matter!" ”
"Then go to the company, there are quite a lot of houses, and they can be fully occupied." Ah Fa felt that the fourth sister was still a little uneasy, was he afraid that he would do something wrong to the girls?
After chatting for a while, Ah Fa saw that there was nothing else to do, so he took his leave and left.
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"Seven evils" and "seven killings", there is no specific description, and it is impossible to distinguish which one it is, people just know from the vague narration of "Fan Gaotou's" follower, there is such a person, or a group.
In the mixed city of Shanghai, there are countless nicknames, and the "Seven Evils" or "Seven Killings" have caused a small sensation for a while under people's discussion and tabloid speculation, and then seem to be forgotten by people. Until, another killing broke out.
Since the opening of the port of Shanghai, since the public and French concessions are not subject to Chinese law, Shanghai has quickly become China's largest distribution center for toxic products. Opium became an important trade for British and French merchants in China, and the "Teochew Gang" local merchants who transferred from Guangdong also quickly took root in the concession area, using the concession to smuggle a large amount of opium and make a lot of "local" wealth.
China does not produce opium itself. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, imported from India, the imperial court taxed two cents per ten catties. In the tenth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, opium was imported in the name of medicinal materials, and it was only forty boxes per year, and the tax was three yuan. By the time of Qianlong, the British invaded India, and the British East India Company monopolized the privilege of manufacturing opium, and the import into China increased to 300 boxes. From Jiajing to Daoguang, there are more than 20,000 boxes. The Chinese people and Lin Zexu and other officials opposed it, and the Opium War broke out.
The Qing Dynasty government lost the war, not only allowing the Westerners to open up concessions in Shanghai, but also because of the small knife society and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the military expenditure was too large, and it actually negotiated with the British, American, and French ministers: opium was imported in large quantities in the name of foreign medicine, and only required that the tax be increased to 30 taels of silver per 100 catties. Some Teochew and Guanggang merchants obtained the right to distribute opium approved by the Qing court, and shipped large quantities of opium to the north and south.