The next time, An Yi and Gu Lao's second division headquarters who entered Nanchang City held a preparatory meeting, came to the teahouse at the head of the champion bridge to sit down and drink tea to pass the time, and when they entered the teahouse, they heard the shocking rumors that the tea guests were talking about the "great robbery in western Jiangxi", and the number of people killed in the rumors increased from the real 35 people to hundreds of people, and the victims expanded from the family and the nursing home to hundreds of families of old and young, and even Luo Xiliang's younger brother, Luo Xuliang, a famous wealthy businessman in western Jiangxi, was killed in bed in a daze. The strange thing is that the mother-in-law of both of them was let go by the ruthless robbers.

The only place where there is a huge controversy is that there are very different judgments from all walks of life on the murderer who killed and oversold the goods, which made An Yi and Gu Lao Er look at each other and be speechless.

The scattered rumors are mixed with many rumors, some people say that the strongmen on the Luoxiao Mountains on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi went down the mountain to rob; Some people say that it was Luo Xiliang's retribution for occupying the mining area and killing people back then; Some people say that it was done by Shen Lunatics, a lone thief who shook the nine provinces in the north and south; More people believe that it is the Third Army's Zhu Peide Department to do the work, because Zhu Peide has long been unaccustomed to Tan Yanmin's Second Army's monopoly of the tax-rich tungsten ore rich area, the generals of the two sides have repeatedly made trouble for this, and broke up unhappily, this time Zhu Peide's department took advantage of the transfer of the various armies, saw the opportunity to suddenly rob the huge rich county magistrate of Anfu, and after succeeding, it was reasonable to refuse to admit that he had pushed it cleanly, and no one could do anything about him, or that sentence: Catch the thief and take the stolen goods! Who would admit it without evidence? What's more, it is Zhu Peide, the commander of the first army with more than 30,000 troops.

The biggest reason to support this statement is that Luo Xiliang, the county magistrate of Anfu County, who was robbed of a huge amount of wealth, complained to the Second Army garrison and the Second Army headquarters that the robbers were all wearing the gray-blue uniforms of the Third Army, speaking Yunnan dialect, and numbering dozens of people; Again, the garrison of the Second Army, which reacted at dawn, immediately dispatched to investigate and pursue everywhere, followed the traces left by the robbers, and finally found the stolen carriage and part of the soft ocean in the woods fifteen kilometers southwest of Yichun City in the northwest, and Yichun was the station of the Eighth Division of the Third Army. At that time, a large number of recruits and veterans of the Third Army were constantly driving out of Yichun, heading to the front line of Nanchang and Jiujiang, and the two sides suddenly met without speculation and then had a quarrel, and within a few words it developed to the extent of raising guns to confront each other, almost causing human lives, and in the end, the second army, which was small in number, could only return with hatred and immediately submitted a complaint to the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army through the military headquarters.

At the noon reception banquet, more than 200 guests, specially invited headquarters, and dozens of generals and colonels of the First Army almost all talked about the "Great Robbery in Western Jiangxi" and raised this robbery to the level of "the first robbery in the Republic of China." The strange thing is that many generals and colonels were full of gloating in their eyes.

Jiang Dingwen, who had just recovered from a foot injury and was still hanging his right arm on his chest, was overjoyed to see An Yi, and soon left a group of generals who were talking warmly to come to An Yi, and led An Yi and Gu Lao Er to sit under the windowsill on the north side of the hall: "How are you doing with the textile factory and the grain and oil factory?" ”

"The fence is being built, the foundation of the plant has been poured, and the construction of the upper plant is fast, and it is estimated that the equipment will be installed in April next year to start trial production."

An Yi took the champagne handed by the waiter and put it on the table: "Big brother, the younger brother's shoulder injury took two and a half months to heal, and the injury on your body is much more serious than that of the younger brother, it's best not to go to Zhejiang this time, you can't bear it all the way." ”

Jiang Dingwen laughed: "I can't go if I want to, it's not convenient to do anything without taking care of my injuries." Two days ago, the principal called me to ask if I would like to go to the first division to be the commander, and I thought about it for a while but refused. Chief He's Eastern Route Army is preparing to establish a new First Army, the commander of the Third Division Tan Zhenxiang (Tan Shuqing) has been transferred to the commander of the New First Army, Gu Mosan (Gu Zhutong) has been promoted to the commander of the Third Division, and the deputy division commander Xue Boling (Xue Yue) is estimated to be promoted to the commander of the First Division soon. As for me, I'll just follow the principal and study while recuperating from my injuries, haha!

By the way, the principal has sent an invitation letter to Mr. Ou Yaoting again, inviting this God of Wealth to come to Nanchang to have a look, and to communicate more with friends from the business community in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I expect him to come, first, the political factions in Guangdong are now making a lot of trouble, and in the past two months there have been dozens of demonstrations and workers' strikes in Guangzhou, and Mr. Ou's business may not be able to be done, even if his goods are good. The second reason is that you finally set your industrial development in Nanchang, Mr. Ou regards you as his own nephew, and has always corresponded frequently with you and has a close relationship, who does he not help you? Moreover, the medicines and footwear produced by his Nanyang factory are now in short supply in the Shanghai and Nanjing markets, and even several major commercial houses in the three towns of Wuhan and Nanchang distribute his goods, and he has to set up several branches in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Nanchang. ”

An Yi nodded: "A few days ago, Mr. Ou asked my group to go to Guangzhou to pick up the equipment of a few people to bring a letter, the letter mentioned that they were going to come to Nanchang for inspection, and also said that Guangzhou is now more than trendy, and it is difficult to do business, he has moved his family to Hong Kong again, and plans to sell more than a dozen commercial houses under his name, leaving only the time-honored Taichang, and focusing on Hong Kong and Nanyang."

For a long time, Mr. Ou has business dealings with Jing Lao (Zhang Jingjiang), Mr. Yu Qiaqing in Shanghai and others, and also has plans to invest in industries in Shanghai and Nanjing, but he did not expect the situation in Guangdong to become so fast. Minister Song finally achieved initial results in the implementation of the tax reform, and was able to spend more than 4 million yuan every month to support the various armies of our Northern Expedition, but now Guangdong has suddenly become like this, which is really incomprehensible, and if the national political axe does not do anything, I am afraid that even the soldiers of the Northern Expedition will not be able to pay the salaries. ”

Speaking of this, An Yi let out a long sigh, worried about the development of the future situation.

"Don't say you don't understand, many of us don't understand, now even the Guangdong national political axe can't collect taxes, the political axe officials who stayed in Guangzhou have arrived in Wuhan and Nanchang one after another, ready to convene a joint meeting of the central party and government to discuss and solve this series of problems, including the Guangdong problem, Tang Shengzhi's occupation of the two lakes area to collect taxes and dominate the problem, how to develop the economy of the occupied areas and revitalize industry and commerce, etc., otherwise where to find money to fight? What are you talking about the Northern Expedition?

Therefore, I and Mr. Yu, the president and many officials of the General Headquarters have supported your idea of developing Nanchang's economy and revitalizing the national industry. Jiang Dingwen raised his glass and touched An Yi lightly.

An Yi raised his head and took a sip, put down his wine glass, saw Gu Lao Er help him bring a buffet and nodded slightly, turned to Jiang Dingwen and asked in a low voice, "Big brother, why hasn't the principal come out to give a speech yet?" ”

Jiang Dingwen smiled bitterly: "It's not for the confused robbery of the Second Army and the Third Army, it is estimated that it is still mediating for both of them at the General Headquarters at this moment." In order to give up the Northern Expedition, the principal has made huge concessions to the Northern Expedition armies, and borrowed five million interest-free loans from Shanghai to start the Northern Expedition, led by Chief He Yingqin, the principal personally led the Middle Route Army, and Chief Tang Shengzhi led the Western Route Army to march together, the plan has already been formulated, and the military mobilization is also in progress. I don't know if the Second Army and the Third Army really don't want to fight in Zhejiang. ”

"The younger brother also heard about this case, and even the street spread it, who did it do?" An Yi's face was full of doubts.

Jiang Dingwen shook his head: "This case is by no means capable of ordinary thieves, it has been done seamlessly, and there is almost no trace, for this reason, the principal convened a group of our generals to analyze and discuss, and in the end there was no result, most of them tend to be caused by internal and external collusion, otherwise the timing cannot be seen so accurately and the action is so fast, of course, it cannot be ruled out that it was really someone in the Third Army who did it, and the General Headquarters had to secretly notify Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and other aspects to pay more attention to see if they can make a breakthrough from the possible stolen goods."

You don't know, many of the stolen goods are the treasures of the country, tens of thousands of taels of gold jewelry, I don't need to say, just the pair of jade from the Eastern Han Dynasty and four pieces of the best bronzes of the Warring States Period, at least worth four million oceans, think about it I admire those robbers, they are so accurate and fast, clean and neat, really powerful! ”

An Yi nodded worriedly, and the nervous Gu Lao Er leisurely put down the knife and fork to enjoy the wine. An Yi estimated that President Jiang would not appear for a while, so after eating something, he asked Jiang Dingwen to say goodbye:

"In the morning at the preparatory meeting of the division headquarters, the younger brother received an order to lead the regiment to Shangrao at any time, to select and build a camp for the division headquarters, and to undertake the garrison task before the arrival of the whole division, and the division of the engineer battalion set off together, the younger brother had to seize the two days to take care of the construction of his old Nanchang ramie textile factory, and a meeting with several shareholders to implement their respective responsibilities, so they had to leave now.

Here, I implore the eldest brother to take care of the younger brother's industry during his stay in Nanchang, and choose the site of our 'Nanchang Jiangnan Food Manufacturing Company' as soon as possible, and encircle one or two hundred acres of land as much as possible to make preparations for other investment industries in advance, otherwise Mr. Ou will be unhappy to see us unprepared, and these will depend on the eldest brother. ”

Jiang Dingwen nodded: "Don't worry, Mr. Yu and I have always taken this matter to heart." The day before yesterday, Mr. Kong Xiangxi quietly came to Nanchang from Shanghai, wanting to build a thermal power plant in Xingzi County or Xiushui in the south of Lushan Mountain to supply electricity to several surrounding counties.

Mr. Kong was very surprised after reading it, and praised it repeatedly, and asked me about your situation at the dinner, but he, like Mr. Ou Yaoting, said that it was a pity that a talent like you was placed in the army.

The principal naturally knew what he meant, smiled and didn't speak, Mr. Kong saw the mystery, so he didn't mention anything else, but praised your vision, and was very optimistic about a few projects in your plan, it seems that maybe he will also join in at that time, so this matter can't be tolerated by a few of us as big brothers not taking it seriously. ”

At this time, An Yi was finally completely relieved, and secretly entrusted Jiang Dingwen to help him buy another piece of land near the Zhuangyuan Bridge, planning to build a place for leisure gatherings, and then quietly left the luncheon hall with Gu Laoer, and went straight back to the old Nanchang station to start intense preparations.

At four o'clock in the morning of the third day, the snowflakes that had fallen for most of the night finally stopped, and An Yi's reading group headquarters completely withdrew from the old Nanchang County, and the men and horses of various departments quietly drove eastward.

At dawn, the old Nanchang people who opened their doors inadvertently found that the three big flags at the entrance of the county yamen had disappeared, and a big red banner was hung directly above the closed yamen, which read, "The kindness of the people is remembered in the heart", and the inscription was the Reading Force Regiment of the Second Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army.

Only then did people know that this army had strict discipline, and that the soldiers who had paved the way for the construction of bridges in the old city and had silently contributed had left, and that this revolutionary contingent that respected the old and loved the young and initiated the construction project of the welfare institute had quietly started to pull out, and then exclaimed loudly and ran to tell each other.

The old Nanchang Chamber of Commerce and people from all walks of life prepared a large number of gifts in advance, all of which were not given to them, and one by one women and children rushed to the gate of the county yamen one after another, looking at the big red banner above the yamen, sighing and quietly wiping away tears.

(To be continued)