Jin Chamber of Commerce, at this time is already the whole Baotou, one of the largest buildings, not only has dozens of sets of courtyards of different sizes, but also has more than a dozen conference rooms, this in Yang Yuanzhao's point of mention, the construction of the conference room, in the past 4 months, to undertake a large number of talks, in the past, just a few shopkeepers, in the sleeve, than a few gestures, on the completion of the business, now, have fallen to the bright side, through the guò meeting, after negotiation, reach a contract, and then in accordance with the contract.

In the largest conference room, more than a dozen important people in Baotou gathered here, in the past year, here, almost decided most of the things in Baotou, from the cotton textile factory, to the Baotou Expressway, to the steel mill, one after another huge investment, from a small brick factory and flour mill, to millions or even tens of millions of investment, Baotou at an unimaginable speed, in the forward triumphant, especially in the recent period, With the commissioning of various factories one by one, from ordinary daily necessities factories, to textile factories, printing and dyeing factories, and now, involved in the field of steel, Baotou seems to be like a lion awakening, beginning to show the power of the king.

The huge development of business, industry, the accumulation of huge investment, these are a qiē shun lì, huge benefits, and even let the tentacles of Jin merchants, began to gradually expand, from the original Shanxi, Mongolia such a basic plate, began to expand outward, at this moment, has basically entered Shaanxi, Henan, and even Hebei and other fields, influence and popularity, are further expanding, the shareholders here believe that in the future, at most one or two years later, Baotou will usher in a blowout like the development stage.

Everyone knows that next, with the continuous expansion of Baotou's production capacity, when the steel plant is thoroughly formed and promoted, steel has a huge influence on the whole world, and even China.

No one would have thought that in this stage of tremendous development, there would be huge twists and turns because of a small bandit, and even if we were not careful, maybe the good situation would be contained.

The power of the Qu family, among the eight Jin merchants, is considered to be in the forefront, and they have been involved in commerce relatively little before, more in land control and fixed shop operations, and rarely go to the merchants, the strength on their hands is relatively small, and the scale and guards of the caravan are relatively small.

Even so, such a caravan was not attacked by bandits casually, but now the fact is that the convoy of 240 cars was wiped out, a caravan with 150 guns to escort it, and it was directly attacked, a certain number of caravans, among those sporadic retail investors, basically, they are all unsafe, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and the future development of Baotou is inseparable from a prosperous and developed business, once the caravan here is cut off, Baotou has more products, no matter how much investment, what is the use, This has almost reached the point of shaking Baotou.

At this time, in the conference room, there was a lot of gossip and excitement, and several family heads were no longer maintaining the prestige of the family heads in front of people of the same status, and they said in a casual manner: "You say, what does Yang Shao think about expanding the new army?" ”

"There has never been a precedent for using the army to protect merchants!"

"But how are we going to deal with the bandits, the three major bandits of the first-line red, the iron harrier, and the northwest gang have been combined, and there are scattered small bandits, the total number of people has reached more than 1,200 people, and next, will there be 2,000 or even 3,000 bandits?"

Liu Shu, as the host, glanced at Wang Jinming, who is currently the controller of the militia and the Yellow River patrol battalion, and also as the only person in charge of the armed forces in the entire Baotou, stood up and said: "Everyone be quiet and listen to me!" ”

The eight major Jin merchants all know him, especially some who have ticket numbers, every time the ticket number is transferred and transferred, they will deal with Wang Jinming, hundreds of thousands of goods, maybe their own caravans, can be handled, but millions, or even tens of millions of funds, just rely on the guards, can not be completely solved, will use the militia. In the past few months, Wang Jinming and his militia have proved their strength with their tough combat power, and the militia can be relied on.

"Everyone knows me, I am the head of the militia and the Yellow River patrol battalion!" Wang Jinming paused for a moment and continued: "I have a document here, which describes in detail the basic situation of all the bandits in the 400-kilometer range with Baotou as the center!" ”

Wen Jiàn has already been printed, handed over to everyone, several heads of the family looked at the text on it, their faces suddenly changed, Mongolia and Shanxi, the bandits are very serious, since ancient times are very strict, almost every year, there will be a lot of caravans threatened by horse bandits, even big merchants like the Yang family, have to compromise with the horse bandits, leaving some money to buy the road, they really haven't counted, the number of bandits around Baotou, how many are there.

Wang Jinming's text is based on the data of the past 4 months and some newly known information, a basic situation of statistics, the approximate number of people, is still estimated, but the final combined number is really surprising, because the total number exceeds 40,000.

"Are there really forty-five thousand bandits?" Qiao Zhiyong of the Qiao family asked with some doubts: "Are there so many bandits in Baotou?" ”

"Nothing more, no less!" Wang Jinming said affirmatively: "The several major gangs led by them are all well-known, and their number should be certain, about 15,000 people, these should be recognizable!" ”

Many heads of families nodded, led by several big bandits, the least of which had more than 200 people, and the most of them almost reached a thousand, they were all time-honored bandits, powerful, and even a few people had dealt with them more or less before, and the number of people was about to be estimated, this is all the number of horses, nests and logistics, there must be a part, but no one knows where, and it is impossible to count accurate numbers.

"I still have a detailed report of all the robberies here, there are parties involved, there are also sides, roughly calculated, the total number of gangs around Baotou is now 451, the number of people is roughly between 22,000 and 30,000, adding up, it is about 40,000 and 45,000 people, this has not been calculated, there is no outcrop!"

The faces of many family heads are awe-inspiring, detailed reports, from this point of view, this number of people is relatively certain, but below this number, a certain number of dù above, just a small number on the surface, not every horse gang will light up the flag, nor any horse gang will commit crimes, many are after hearing the news, from Shanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Northeast, and even Henan, there are tens of thousands of people who do not show their heads, in this way, the entire Baotou periphery, There will be more than 50,000 bandits.

It's just a bandit who acts alone, perhaps, not in the eyes of everyone, it's just a plate of loose sand, once the bandits are combined, not to mention 50,000 people, even if it is 3,000 people, 5,000 people, it will be a catastrophe, less than 500 militia groups or 1,500 people of the escort team, can not protect the safety of the caravan at all, even the foundation of Baotou and the steel plant, will be greatly impacted.

Why are the bandits so strong, here, or Jin merchants, or Baotou local landlords, they never expected that Baotou concentrated so many bandits, even if they don't believe it, the facts are in front of them, don't allow everyone to think about it, now every family, have devoted themselves to Baotou's business operations, and thus obtained huge profits, no one can let go of these, in the face of more and more powerful bandits, even if it is stronger than the Yang family of business, how long can it be supported, maybe, when the bandits' appetite is getting bigger and bigger, maybe, will hit the target on the silver car, that is the real catastrophe, once the exchange and ticket number are affected, Baotou's business can not go on at all.

Hou Jinsheng and Jiang Wenhou, the two of them, are not the strongest among the people here, but they are the strongest one with the official background, one is behind the Shanxi Political Division, and the other has a certain relationship with the Suiyuan General and the center, and the other Jin merchants, with the promotion of capital, the tentacles are also all over Shanxi and Mongolia in various fields, if you are willing to spend a lot of capital, it is no problem to move a new army.

But what is the direct relationship between the new army and the bandits, and the approved qualifications of the new army can be transformed into strength, even if it is Yuan Zhongtang's small station training, it will take more than ten years to show its grandeur, the Baotou militia, a certain amount of Cheng dù above, is a short period of time burst out of combat effectiveness, and it is also worth believing, they have more or less got some news, they have obtained some backbones from the Beiyang Army, there are backbones and training out of thin air, these are completely different things, but the new army to 3,000 people is already the limit, This is evident from the fact that the new army has not expanded in the slightest in the past six months or so.

In their view, the new army has no direct connection with the suppression of bandits, or it would be better to expand the militia and use the militia to suppress the bandits, which can be regarded as normal in name, and the use of the new army, in the eyes of other provinces and other new armies, is like a cannon to beat flies, and it is completely a knife to kill chickens.

Many doubts, and finally according to the agenda of the meeting, summarized to Liu Shu here, Liu Shu and Wang Jinming glanced at each other, these people's reactions, basically, are in their plans, it seems that this thing is half of the success, Liu Shu said to Wang Jinming: "Brother Jin Ming, come on!" ”R1152