Chapter 151: Where Does the Money Come From?
As soon as Zhang Xuewu heard Zhou Ying's frank meeting, he sounded that the night before the Battle of Rehe, Zhou Ying hugged himself and asked to give him a child? How ridiculous does it seem? Now Zhou Ying seems to be a little blushing when she mentions it herself, but in the end, she is the manager of the Paramount Grand Ballroom, and she is well-informed on this cover, and it is effortless to deal with a young man like Zhang Xuewu, both psychologically and physically.
Zhang Xuewu returned to his desk and said, "Could it be that the so-called special goods are all opium?" Although there are few poor people in Rehe, as long as you find a way, it will work without growing opium! Opium harms the country and the people, and it is inevitable that I will ban the tobacco houses in Rehe! ”
Zhou Ying smiled helplessly: "Your ban on tobacco houses is a trivial matter, you are the commander of the Tiger Ben Legion, and the chairman of Rehe Province, this is a matter of your words, I ask you how you are going to settle the livelihood of more than 700,000 smokers in Rehe?" What is the livelihood of their families and those working in the processing industry? If there is no big tobacco transaction of at least 80 million a year in Rehe Tong Province, may I ask you what kind of army commander Zhang will take to raise soldiers? Is the Nanjing political axe specially approved 400,000 oceans per month? Even if there is a monthly subsidy of 100,000 yuan from your cousin, I'm afraid it's a drop in the bucket! In China, Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Chen Jitang in Guangzhou, Li Zongren in Guangxi, Liu Wenhui in Sichuan, etc., including Zhang Shaomarshal of your Northeast Army, how can you raise troops without growing opium? How to buy arms? Do you think the special goods you are referring to salt? ”
Zhou Ying paused and said, "Commander Zhang, does he know how much salt is in one hundred and twenty thousand oceans?" How much open-pit mine or seayard salt do you need? Shaanxi and Shanxi are short of salt, and the two provinces do not produce much salt, and they all rely on Shandong to transport it, even if it is at a high price, it is impossible to make millions a year. ”
Zhou Ying's words made Zhang Xuewu suddenly remember that someone in later generations slandered a certain army for planting opium in Nanniwan, and Zhang Xuewu remembered that the first report on this matter was the full text of the front page headline carried out by the People's Daily, and then someone explained that the so-called special goods of nearly 2 million oceans were actually salt! Since the small Nanniwan can produce so much salt, it is better to sell salt than to grow opium, right?
And there are a lot of salt mines in Rehe, but Zhou Ying's introduction made Zhang Xuewu a little embarrassed, it seems that he was too inconsiderate before, if he really broke the livelihood of the smokers in Rehe Province, I am afraid that he will have to give himself a big riot in the province, the people of this era are not used to your buns, especially the smokers who grow cigarettes, almost every family has a fast gun guard.
After the Battle of Rehe, Zhang Xuewu once heard the grassroots officers below mutter, there were dozens of cavalry who dragged horses and grass in a village, but they were found by a teenager, and they were going to shoot when they went home to get a gun, but they were found by the elders and given a slap. You can't fight, you have to pay for your life!
Rehe is not better than Shandong, nor is it more bearded than Kanto, this place is as strong as the northwest, the elders directly told the juniors, said that there are more than 30 soldiers, can you kill a person with a gun? Hurry back to find someone, go to the intersection in front of them to ambush them, and they all collapse!
As a result, none of the more than 30 cavalry of the Yue army ran away, and such things always happened in various parts of Rehe, which also directly led to the outbreak of the incident of many slaughtering villages by the Yue army.
So Zhang Xuewu, a smoker in Rehe, really can't be provoked, and Zhang Xuewu at this moment is the most short of money, saying that he slipped back to Liaoning like a dog with a tail, and the two armies returned to the pre-war form, Zhang Xuewu knew that at this moment he hated himself and was afraid that he gritted his teeth, so his delay was to prepare for war, and to prepare for war requires training troops, purchasing equipment, training exercises, etc., and all of this is inseparable from money.
Zhang Xuewu had a feeling that he seemed to have fallen into the eyes of money, and after hesitating for a moment, Zhang Xuewu said to Zhou Ying: "I want to know where your opium products are distributed?" ”
Zhou Ying smiled and said: "In fact, there are three ways, the first is opium dealers, generally made into Fushou paste, tablets, sugar, etc., and the second is to sell it to opium parlors for smoking, the second is to purify, make more high-grade and more expensive heroin and sell it to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States to make huge profits, few people in China can afford to smoke, generally high-end and high-quality customers, the last one is the most profitable, but it requires a certain foundation and strength, that is, purification and reprocessing into morphine, This is a commonly used hydrochloride or sulfate, which belongs to the opium alkaloid, which belongs to the strategic material, so all countries have reserves, but the cultivation and sale of opium is illegal in many countries, especially in European countries, so if you want to maximize the potential value of opium, it is to purify and produce morphine and other analgesic drugs for legal trafficking, and the purified residue can also be reused, which is the choice with the highest surname price ratio. ”
Zhang Xuewu was a little surprised: "According to you, wouldn't it be able to minimize the harm of opium?" ”
Zhou Ying smiled helplessly: "Commander Zhang, this requires a way and strong industrial strength, do you know how many people in China are smoking opium?" How can I quit in a short period of time? For domestic tobacco dealers, self-production and self-sale is the choice of almost most people, and it is also the only way out! You must know that the official tax on large cigarette decal collected by the National Political Axe every year is as huge as 40 million, and the total number of opium transactions of large and small warlord factions in the country combined, I am afraid that it can be several times higher than the income of the National Political Axe, where does your Northeast Army come from such a rich money? Tang Yulin dared to tax thirty years later, and Rehe still hasn't become a dead place where there is no rooster crying for thousands of miles? I don't need to go into detail about many of them, right? ”
Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind: "If you can really not distribute it in China, I can underwrite all the opium in Rehe for you, and even expand the scale of cultivation!" But I hope you don't lie to me on this issue! ”
Zhou Ying also said cautiously: "I understand the harm, if the Rehe smoke floods the country, the price of tobacco will inevitably fall, and it will not be good for us, and it will also affect the prestige and fame of Zhang Junjun, and it will also affect the long-term cooperation between us in the future!" ”
Zhang Xuewu glared at Zhou Ying and said, "Do you want long-term cooperation?" Do you think that the ancestors and sages of my Zhang family can't close their eyes in the sky? ”
Zhou Ying was slightly stunned when she heard Zhang Xuewu's words, the old Zhang family bandit beard was born only in the second generation, and the real one who made his career was Zhang Zuolin, who was an authentic poor bastard before, it is no exaggeration to say that there is no overnight food at home, where has there been any sage person? But this can only be slandered, when Zhang Xuewu slandered his ancestors, Zhou Ying didn't have the guts, you must know that Zhang Xuewu is a decisive person, and the fate of him is the same as himself, in Fengtian and Xinjing, every day miserable and miserable relatives held a soul meeting, to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, and to transport the ashes to a large passenger ship.
Since the most important thing is finalized, Zhou Ying is ready to plan for herself in the rest of the time, a woman is working hard outside, and being cheapened by others is nothing at all, and a careful will make people swallow even the bones, which Zhou Ying knows very well, so a woman is destined to find a man as a backer.
For women, there are only two kinds of men, one is a stepping stone that they can use each other, and the other is to marry a good man who lives honestly with him, people always say that plain is true, but they don't notice that this sentence is not prepared for the people at all, it is a sentence that has experienced the wind and waves and the passion is exhausted! Zhou Ying's passion has obviously just been ignited, Zhang Xuewu is very much in line with her requirements for men, the powerful faction of the controlling party, the lieutenant general and the commander of the Central Army, as long as Zhang Xuewu has soldiers in his hands, then he will be able to shine brightly.
In Zhou Ying's opinion, such a man is not worth a woman's thoughts, so what kind of man is worth it?
Just when Zhou Ying's delicate body accidentally leaned on Zhang Xuewu's body, the refreshing fragrance of the spleen and lungs had just spread, and after the four eyes met, Zhang Xuewu's hand unconsciously reached into the hem of Zhou Ying's cheongsam, and Zhou Ying's plump chest was attached to Zhang Xuewu's chest, making Zhang Xuewu feel turbulent.
Huang Tao hurriedly took a telegram and rushed in, encountering this embarrassing scene Huang Tao didn't even raise his head and said: "You are busy with yours, I put the telegram here, the secret telegram of the Nanjing Supreme Military Commission, the corps commander, you move quickly, Beiping called back, they arranged for a plane to pick you up in Rehe, and I asked the engineer regiment to clean up the field airfield." ”
Zhang Xuewu glared at Huang Tao fiercely and said, "A man is at a critical juncture like mine, remember to say no, let alone hurry!" Do you understand? ”
Huang Tao smiled and waved his hand and ran away, as soon as he heard the secret telegram from the Supreme Military Commission in Nanjing, Zhou Ying also went to the side very obediently to sort out his clothes, Zhang Xuewu hesitated after reading the telegram and said: "Miss Zhou, can you go back to Shanghai?" ”
Zhou Ying was slightly stunned and nodded: "Of course I go back!" There are many things that cannot be explained by phone and telegram, and there is no telling how many people are listening to it on a telephone line! ”
Zhang Xuewu smiled slightly and said: "The Nanjing Supreme Military Commission appointed me as the deputy head of the Sino-Chinese armistice negotiation team, let me leave for Shanghai a few days after receiving the call, since the transfer is on the way, please allow me to give you a ride!" ”
Zhou Ying blinked her eyes wide, Zhang Xuewu's move made her slightly confused, and she hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm afraid that it won't affect me on Captain Zhang's plane?" I think it's better to forget it. ”
Zhang Xuewu smiled slightly and said: "You are now my aunt and grandmother of the God of Wealth, how can I bear to make you tired?" Besides, Miss Zhou is probably not the only one on Miss Zhou's side, there is still a gentleman's agreement between you and me, and I will also express my attitude! Even if it is trustworthy and reputable, it is also settled! ”
(To be continued)