Chapter 173: The Big Black Cauldron
Hao Wenbin, the deputy commander of the Rehe Legion, and Huang Tao, the director of the Political Department, worked behind the scenes to remotely sell cultural relics to raise military funds to buy weapons and equipment, and Zhang Xuewu, who had been thinking about it behind closed doors in Baotou, also welcomed a guest he expected, but this guest was long overdue.
Feng Heping's first impression of Zhang Xuewu was that he was like a sharp machete! is different from the general so-called feeling of being as sharp as a blade, Zhang Xuewu gives him a feeling of aggression.
And Zhang Xuewu's office is almost unusually simple, the big construction of Baotou can be said to be how many people want to do it but can't do it, where does Zhang Xuewu's construction money come from for such a scale? This point made Feng Heping very interested, because he could judge that Zhang Xuewu was very short of money at the moment, as long as Zhang Xuewu was short of money, it would be easy to do!
In Feng Heping's opinion, as long as a secret agreement is reached as soon as possible, it is the most important thing for Zhang Xuewu to release the relevant personnel of the 34th Army and return the weapons!
The age of Yan Xishan's representative can be said to be beyond Zhang Xuewu's expectations, and Zhang Xuewu didn't expect that Yan Xishan's representative would first go around and touch his bottom before coming.
However, Zhang Xuewu didn't bother to intrigue and play word games, so he said directly: "I don't know if Mr. Feng is the plenipotentiary of Shanxi?" ”
Before Feng Heping came out, Yan Xishan did not give him the so-called full responsibility, in fact, Yan Xishan was not generous in terms of power and money, Feng Heping was just a pathfinder of Yan Xishan, in case there was a mistake, Yan Xishan could deny it.
However, in the face of Zhang Xuewu, who didn't even give up his seat, Feng Heping can be said to be full of pride, and there are thousands of strategies that are useless, looking at Zhang Xuewu who is sitting on the marching bed, Feng Heping is also helpless to the extreme, the chairman of the three provinces has more than 100,000 soldiers, and he doesn't even set up an office? Just in the marching tent? Is it flaunting frugality or is it something else?
Since Zhang Xuewu didn't buy it, Feng Heping tried to make him pay attention to himself, and it was also the embarrassment of the plenipotentiary, otherwise if he said that he was not the plenipotentiary, I am afraid that he would be able to be blasted out in the next minute, Feng Heping knew that Zhang Xuewu was not a person who sold his reputation and reputation, especially an unknown person like him.
Feng Heping saw Zhang Xuewu's bedside throwing basic German books and some English materials on business, so he had an idea and said: "In January of the 22nd year of the Republic of China, Germany's new Nazi radical Chancellor Hitler came to power, and Germany's twilight empire seems to be burning with the boiling flame of national consciousness and revenge honor again, if the Germans can control their ambitions, then in the near future, maybe ten years later, they will be the most powerful country in Europe!" ”
Zhang Xuewu was slightly stunned and looked at Feng Heping, now that Hitler has just come to power and has not yet emerged, many people don't even know the surname of this Nazi fanatic, I didn't expect that someone would have such an opinion in China? Ten years later, in 1943? The most glorious era of the German tank! It seems that this Feng Heping still has a certain international strategic vision.
Zhang Xuewu snorted softly and said, "Then tell me what you originally did?" Do you understand ordnance? ”
Feng Heping was also slightly stunned, when he was a comprador, he handled the most ordnance, in fact, many foreign countries are willing to sell anything as long as you have money, but domestic warlords are generally short-sighted or have shriveled pockets, and they can't afford big guys, and most of the rich have their own channels and connections, so Feng Heping's business has been stuck in rifles and Mauser pistols.
Seeing Zhang Xuewu asking himself, Feng Heping suddenly said with a slight pride: "The German heavy artillery surname is the best in the world, the 150 mm caliber German-made FH18 Rheinland heavy howitzer can completely suppress any kind of large-caliber artillery installed in my army, but the domestic road and railway conditions are not good, the heavy artillery lacks enough mobile surname, and the price of this kind of weapon is extremely expensive. If there are not enough of them, I am afraid that the deterrent effect will be greater than the actual meaning. ”
Zhang Xuewu glanced at Feng Heping meaningfully and said: "You go and tell Yan Xishan that I want two million oceans, and if you give money, you will release people, and promise that you will not make trouble with each other in the future!" Make old scores! ”
Feng Heping was slightly stunned and didn't expect Zhang Xuewu to open his mouth, you must know that in the Central Plains War, Yan Xishan bought Shi Yousan to promise 800,000 oceans, and finally gave 300,000 as a last resort, and the flesh hurt for a whole few months, and now it costs 2 million oceans, which is equivalent to more than 7 million national dollars!
Zhang Xuewu saw that Feng Heping was just about to speak, so he waved his hand and said: "Mr. Feng, don't say anything, one less ocean is an insult to me, isn't the 20,000 horses of the 34th Army worth this?" And my Rehe Legion is in front of Shanxi to fight against thunder, and Yan Xishan should also give me some compensation, right? ”
Feng Heping smiled a little helplessly: "I'm afraid that even if the money is given to the 34th Army, it will only be able to come back a bunch of regiments, brigades, and division commanders, a group of old, weak, sick, disabled and broken weapons, right?" ”
Zhang Xuewu smiled and said: "Ming people don't tell lies, it's true, Mr. Feng's experience and talent are too aggrieved to mix with Yan Laoxi, help me come to these two million, my vice chairman of Suiyuan Province will hand over the power to you on behalf of the provincial chairman, you run an iron-clad military industrial base for me, do you dare?" ”
Feng Heping, who was like being struck by lightning, asked tentatively after a while: "Commander Zhang is joking?" Such a heavy responsibility is entrusted to me like child's play? This Baotou is your lifeline, you must know that I am not from the Northeast! ”
Zhang Xuewu frowned and said: "I know that you are Chinese, as for the ability needs to be exercised, you can also see that there is really no one next to me, a bunch of Qiu Ba who shouts and kills, I will first give you the power to let you adapt and exercise, if you are really not this material, I will naturally change you mercilessly, hang up an idle job and give you money to go to the mountains and waters to retire!" ”
Feng Heping was slightly stunned and said, "Then I'll try it reluctantly!" If it weren't for that material, I would have abdicated in advance so that Xian didn't have to rush with Captain Zhang! ”
Zhang Xuewu nodded and said, "Then you can go and reply to Yan Laoxi!" I'm waiting for good news! ”
Feng Heping's telegram made Yan Xishan furious, so the cheap porcelain in his hometown fell into bad luck again, and after the gas was dissipated, Yan Xishan also realized that this so-called road purchase fee may not be given, but two million oceans have been exchanged for more than seven million national currency, and it is fake not to be painful! Planting straw men, digging pits, and looking for god sticks, Yan Xishan basically used all the means he could use, and his 34th Army was also detained by Zhang Xuewu for almost two months.
Yan Xishan exchanged dozens of telegrams through Feng Heping, no matter what tricks he made or what he planned, he was immediately recognized by the other party, Yan Xishan could be said to be extremely passive? As if his hole cards were pinched in Zhang Xuewu's hands? Yan Xishan even suspected that Feng Heping was from Zhang Xuewu's side? In the end, Zhang Xuewu's extremely tough ultimatum was to either give money or continue hostility! Launch military operations against Jin troops at any time.
Although Yan Xishan was suspicious of Feng Heping, he was quickly relieved, because Feng Heping did not have any benefit at all in doing this? Will Zhang Xuewu reuse and buy an unknown staff member from his side? Obviously, it is impossible, and the only explanation is that Zhang Xuewu is too strong.
Zhang Xuewu is a complete madman, this is Yan Xishan's very pertinent definition! Because no one is so crazy except for the madman, this kind of desperate surname who wants to die together at every turn is not a defect that can be explained, the old Zhang family is born with a bandit beard, maybe there is such a defect in his genetic lineage? But Zhang Hanqing is not such a reckless person?
In the end, the anxious Yan Xishan thought of a way to get the best of both worlds, that is, to scrape the big households and raise taxes, scraping the big households and raising taxes are like Yan Xishan's forte, it can be said that Yan Xishan is an out-and-out acting school, and every time he can use sensationalism to whip money out of the hands of the old watches who pick the door, Yan Xishan can be said to be familiar with this!
And this time, he has to scrape in the name of blackmailing the wicked Zhang Xuewu in Shanxi, so that the people of the entire Shanxi hate Zhang Xuewu to death, and every family hangs a little straw man and uses rattan to smoke every day!
Yan Xishan's tricks made Zhang Xuewu's ears really red like a rabbit, Yan Xishan's tax increase in Shanxi and the notoriety of shaving big households basically let Zhang Xuewu carry it, this big black pot made Zhang Xuewu very happy, Yan Xishan also tried his best not to save face, as long as there are enough benefits to be publicly soft, what can he do? It was Zhang Xuewu who was scolded for being unkind, and he won sympathy and benefits.
Yan Xishan really deserves to be an old and cunning man, lifting weights like a light four or two thousand pounds, Zhang Xuewu carried a big black pot, knocked Yan Xishan bamboo pole and turned into Shanxi Tong Province to punish him, and the country is also scolding, according to Feng Heping's feedback back news, Yan Xishan has scraped at least more than three million oceans this time, and the millions of national coins for the second tax increase are not among them, which shows that Shanxi Lao Lian can really save money!
Yan Xishan was able to collect a huge amount of 2 million oceans in just one week, Zhang Xuewu sighed that Shanxi was rich and found that his subordinate Chahar, Rehe, and Suiyuan were poor! In later generations, these three places are also economically underdeveloped areas, not to mention that they have just undergone a baptism of war. Broken place where rabbits don't poop.
(To be continued)