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 walking in the dark did not stop, and continued the process 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 nausea, 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 Ye received an envelope from the porter, he looked at it, and his face changed again and again. After thinking about it for a long time, Jin Ye sighed heavily and told his eldest wife to prepare 100,000 yuan, and then he carried the money box alone and went out in the carriage for a long time. After coming back, Jin Ye immediately asked people to send a message to his apprentice grandson, don't track down any suspicious people related to the "Seven Evils" or the "Seven Killings", whether it is true or not, don't step aside.
A few 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.
The next morning, after Jin Ye saw the news of Shen Xingshan's death in the morning newspaper, he was first stunned, then sighed, and finally laughed out loud, laughing out of tears, laughing until he coughed. Subsequently, Jin Ye found two confidants and secretly explained them 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 has another ticket under him, who robs and smuggles by force, and makes a fortune in the × business. It's a pity that before he reached the point and climbed to the point of his life, the famous "Big Eight Parties" in history only came to light, and he, the leader, 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 that Ah Fa disliked the girls' background, but Zhu Niang Xiaoqin was 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 account office, and I have to hire odd jobs, and I have to hire 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 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 I have a few pieces, and it is enough to cure the disease." 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, and asked casually: "Xiaoyun, how are they, 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 old Liucai Feng Caihong is old, and it's not appropriate to stay in it all the time, so you can arrange a thing!" ”
"Then go to the company, there are 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 were not subject to Chinese law, Shanghai soon became the largest distribution center for drug × in China. Opium × became an important trade for British and French merchants in China, and the "Teochew Gang" local merchants who transferred from Guangdong soon took root in the concession, using the concession to smuggle a large amount of opium × and make a fortune.
China does not produce opium × itself. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, imported by Yin, the imperial court levied two dollars per ten catties. In the tenth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, crow × tablets were imported in the name of medicinal materials, and there were only forty boxes per year, and tax money was levied. By the time of Qianlong, the British invaded India, and the British East India Company monopolized the privilege of manufacturing opium × chips, which were imported into China and increased to the box. From Jiajing to Daoguang, there are more than 20,000 boxes. Chinese surnames and Lin Zexu and other officials opposed, and the Raven × War broke out.
The Qing Dynasty government lost the war, not only allowed the Westerners to open up concessions in Shanghai, but also negotiated with the British, American and French ministers to negotiate with the British, American and French ministers that the × tablets were imported in large quantities in the name of foreign medicine, and only required that the tax be increased to ten taels of silver per catty. Some Chaozhou Gang merchants and Guangbang merchants obtained the right to distribute × crow chips approved by the Qing court, and shipped the large quantities of crow × to the north and south.