When the banquet dispersed, it was already midnight, and the businessmen, celebrities, landlords, and rich peasants who had agreed with An Yi at the next meeting time were satisfied and politely hugged An Yi and his party downstairs, and watched the amiable God of Wealth and virtuous nephew leave all the way, and their hearts were full of excitement and expectation.

When An Yi, who was drunk and red-faced, and several of his brothers disappeared into the street, a group of old guys sat in their sedan chairs and returned full of hope.

Among them, the only disappointment is probably the beautiful bustard of Xiaoyao Building, An Yi can drink flower wine left and right, but he is never willing to go to the room with the young lady, even if the two girls who accompany him look pure and moving. Although Hu Zi and Gu Lao Er are mighty, they both stick to their own principles, and would rather find a village woman than a girl. The veteran ruffian Huang Yingwu and the local snake Chao Guoqing were itchy, but when they saw the three bosses turn around and leave, they had no choice but to suppress the lust in their chests and abdomen and go back together.

After listening to Xiao Langzhong's report, he knew that everyone's injuries had been effectively controlled, and most of them only needed to lie down for a few days and wait for the wounds to heal before returning to the team for training, so they were relieved.

The three of them returned to the east wing of the middle courtyard and saw that Yin Jinan had not slept yet, and was sitting at the Eight Immortals table in An Yi's front hall at the moment, happily writing and drawing.

After Hu Zi sat down, he cocked Erlang's legs, took out a cigarette, threw one to An Yi and Gu Laoer, took out a match and lit it himself, then looked at Yin Jinan, who was busy, and asked curiously: "Jinan, look at your bared teeth and grinning, what makes you happy like this?" Did you meet a girl in Nanchang County that made your heart flutter? Also, what are you doing in the middle of the night? ”

"Go, go, do you think I'm like that?" After Yin Jinan finished laughing, he put down his pen and asked in a low voice: "Huzi, guess how much money is in the twelve heavy big boxes you asked the brothers to quietly move back?" ”

"Yo! If you don't mention it, I've forgotten about it, and I'm so busy that I don't touch the ground when I get here. ”

As soon as Hu Zi heard that his interest came, he put down Erlang's legs and leaned on the edge of the table excitedly, An Yi and Gu Lao Er also immediately stopped talking, and they all looked at Yin Jinan intently.

Yin Jinan picked up the notebook and whispered with a smile: "You can't imagine it, four boxes of oceans totaling 60,000 yuan, one box of jewelry is equivalent to about 150,000 yuan, and seven large boxes of gold bars, each box is exactly 160 catties, totaling 17,922 ......."

"Boom-boom-"

An Yi didn't feel anything at first, but when he heard it, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a chair, Gu Lao Er and Hu Zi hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, Yin Jinan laughed and lowered his voice again:

"After dinner today, Shi Lejun and Lao Chang didn't calculate until half an hour ago, took out each box of gold bars and stacked them separately, and weighed them one by one to get the total number, which is 716,800 oceans at the current price of 40 oceans per two taels of gold on the market, plus the other five boxes of 210,000 oceans, the total is 926,800 oceans! And that's not even counting the tens of thousands of oceans and large quantities of supplies that the brothers captured while cleaning up the battlefield, haha! Beard, it's really yours, you put those rounds of artillery on the shore of Junshan Lake to force back those dozens of boats, and you have made a great contribution to us! ”

The cigarette on his beard and mouth had long since fallen, and he opened his eyes wide for a while before muttering, "It's his uncle's...... What a sum of money it would be if we could force all the ships back......"

Yin Jinan laughed again, and turned to An Yi, who opened his mouth wide, with emotion: "Big brother, I finally believe what you said now, when we took the lead from Guangzhou and passed through Shaoguan, you said that one of the two divisions of Huang Shaohong of the Gui Department was stationed in Wuzhou, an important town in Xijiang, and the other occupied half of Shaoguan and the three counties in northwest Guangdong, and at least 400,000 yuan of taxes were withheld every month, not counting the transit tax of opium tobacco, where was there such a huge number?" I have always had doubts in my heart.

Now that the younger brother believes it, even Zhang Tianyi's division of the Second Army, Zhang Huizan, can get 180,000 oceans of taxes every month from the three counties and two tungsten mining areas that he occupies, and the Gui system occupies the two major water and land chokepoints in the west and north of Guangdong, can he not get rich?

Take the matter at hand as an example, is it possible that the divisions of the enemy's Deng Ruzhuo Division have occupied the wealthy Nanchang and seven or eight counties in central Jiangxi for so long, and there is no monthly tax income of millions of dollars? Judging from the capture of the beard this time, the younger brother estimates that the second army and the third army can be captured for more than one million yuan.

In my opinion, perhaps the four regiments of our division, which did not pursue the fleeing enemy, gained even more, because they occupied Xingzi County, a commercial port at the mouth of the Ganjiang River, with a long history, and the battle report that came in the evening said that Senior Brother Li Xianzhou in the first issue led dozens of his men to capture more than 700 enemies and capture more than 600 long and short guns and a batch of military supplies. ”

An Yi suddenly realized: "I understand, it turns out that the more than 700 prisoners mentioned in the war report are not important, and 'a batch of military funds' is the key to Lao Li's promotion!" Hehe, it seems that Lao Li honestly handed over all the 'batch of military funds', otherwise it would be impossible to be directly promoted from the deputy battalion commander to the deputy of the regiment, and it was also personally rewarded by the principal, it is estimated that this 'batch of military funds' is by no means a small amount, otherwise the fifth regiment, the sixth regiment and our regiment captured nearly 20,000 enemies and captured tens of thousands of guns, why didn't we get promoted?

Ha ha...... Lao Tzu finally understands it now, it turns out that there is such an old saying that 'a cannon goes off is ten thousand taels of gold', I have never been able to figure out what is going on, and now Lao Tzu knows!

In the future, we will do this, and we will set up a special elite army to do this, and every time we fight, we will keep an eye on the enemy's pockets. The ranks of the major warlords are even more [***], not only have a large number of looted and looted oceans, gold and jewels, but also almost all have a certain stock of opium tobacco with the army, as long as we keep an eye on it and fight it well, these things are all ours! ”

"His grandmother's! Knowing this, Lao Tzu would not have been a bandit for so many years, and the income obtained from climbing over the wall and blocking the road and robbing the road all year round is not as good as the fraction of the money seized in a battle with regular regulations! Gu Lao Er was very touched, and his look of remorse immediately caused the brothers to laugh.

Hu Zi thought for a while and asked, "Xiao Yi, what do you say should be done with this money?" You can't take anywhere, can you? ”

An Yi nodded: "Don't worry, it will be dealt with soon." During this time, the whole army is resting, all departments are digesting the prisoners and expanding the army, no one can pull out, and the regiments of our second division are full of new recruits, and they can't move at all in twenty or thirty days, we have time.

Brother Cai told me that a large amount of new equipment is coming recently, and tomorrow when I enter the city, I will go to Brother Yu of the Quartermaster Department to ask, and try to get back a few radio stations, otherwise it will be very inconvenient. Again, it is estimated that in a few days the trade wharf outside the Desheng Gate of Nanchang City will be reopened, and the banks of various countries will also reopen, and then we will deposit the money in installments and batches into the old accounts of HSBC and Standard Chartered, as well as the 60,000 dividends from the resale of grain given to me by Deputy Division Commander Jiang, and all the money adds up to more than 1.5 million yuan in our secret account account, which does not include the monthly routine income in Guangzhou, as well as the dividends that A Biao gave us from selling arms and opium, with this millions of money, our "Revitalization Plan" It's time to start early, it's time to wait! ”

"What should we do with the more than 50,000 oceans seized and aggregated by the brothers of each company this time?" Yin Jinan thought for a while and asked.

An Yi thought carefully for a while, and then replied: "It's better to put it in the provident fund account you are responsible for first." ”

Yin Jinan nodded: "In this way, the provident fund is nearly 200,000, and Shen Jianping reported to me in the evening, saying that he will be able to clean up all the captured firearms tomorrow, and it is estimated that 1,500 6.5 caliber guns and about 400 7.62 caliber Mogan guns can be cleared, these guns are different from the standards we use, see if they can be exchanged with friendly forces?" There were only about 700 German-made weapons seized this time, of which more than 200 were short guns, and if it weren't for the 20 light machine guns and 25 hidden beards, we really don't know where to get the weapons to make up for them, and now there are suddenly more than 2,900 brothers, and there are not enough guns! ”

"We don't need to worry too much about that."

An Yi smiled slightly: "Let's think about it, I didn't inform us until today that we would go to the division headquarters for a meeting tomorrow, although it was nominally to attend the principal's entrance ceremony, but I estimate that this trip is very likely to convey the instructions for the expansion of each department in the meeting." Our regiment has just been expanded and upgraded from the model battalion, and it is unlikely that it will be expanded again this time.

Huzi, tomorrow Ji Nan and I will go to Nanchang City for a meeting, you can deal with it at home, let Lao Qu, Huang Yingwu and a dozen instructors of the guard company assist you in doing it together, and after driving out the more than 1,000 prisoners who are full of bad habits and stubbornness, you will assign eight of the 17 officers who have mastered communications, engineering and artillery skills to each battalion to serve as company commanders, and then select the top men of a battalion of 600 people from among the more than 2,900 surrendered prisoners, and immediately divide them into the machine gun company, mortar company, and artillery company under the regiment. The remaining 2,300 or so and the nine lieutenants were divided into two provisional regiments, which were managed by the training team.

Gao Zhihua's eldest brother unfortunately died in battle, one of his reinforcement regiments has been awarded the title of reading force division by the principal before, tomorrow I estimate that the principal will summon me alone, it is very likely that he will transfer people from us, enrich the reading force division into a full division, and soon transfer the division commander from other places, and really turn this division into a descendant division of my army, so we can't keep people.

It's up to me to figure out a way to make sure as much as possible that the principal will make sure that our supplementary regiment is a reading regiment, so that we can get rid of the embarrassment that we may make wedding clothes for others and export soldiers at any time. Moreover, in this way, we will be able to receive a fixed salary of 3,500 officers and men every month, and we will also have an advantage in equipment rationing. We try to get all of this done in five days, and then we start rigorous training. ”

The three of them agreed, and Yin Jinan asked in a low voice: "Big brother, when do you plan to do Shen Jianping, Tao Xun and Zhang Shuguang to study abroad?" ”

An Yi replied without hesitation: "It will be done within five days, the three of them and the nine people from the Hanyang factory will go out as soon as possible, I plan to let them study in Germany for five years and learn the real skills before coming back, it is estimated that in five years, a few of our brothers will also mix up."

In recent years, as long as we have the opportunity, we will send several batches of people with good cultural foundation and trust to study in Europe and the United States, especially in smelting, mineral exploration and mining, machinery and equipment design and manufacturing to strengthen personnel training, we can not save money in this regard, at least 100 people will be sent within five years, as long as there are 10 people who become talents, it will bring us a thousand times the benefits.

Alas, our country's industrial foundation is too weak, and it is not possible to go out to broaden our horizons! I don't know how to tell you a lot of things, I have always been unscrupulous to collect money, and I don't know how to explain it, but I can cover my conscience and say that not a single cent of the money I am greedy for will be used for myself, but for every brother, and even for the whole country and nation, so I'm not greedy, no, if I'm not greedy, where is the capital? Besides, my greed has never harmed the interests of a toiling public, so I will continue to be greedy! ”

"Big brother, don't say it, I understand your thoughts, and the younger brother didn't understand it before, but slowly the younger brother understands that your goal is the goal of the younger brother, which is more real than any doctrine or ideal. Don't worry, the younger brother is still the same sentence, he has followed the eldest brother to the end in this life! Yin Jinan said firmly.

The beard touched his chin: "Xiao Yi, what should I do with you." ”

For the first time, Gu Lao Er came into contact with An Yi's ideals and lofty ambitions so deeply, he was so excited that he didn't know what to do, took two puffs of cigarette, threw away the cigarette butt and said viciously:

"Even if the boss tells me, I can ask the younger brother to rob the bank!"

An Yi and the others laughed when they heard it, laughing so much that Gu Lao Er was embarrassed.

An Yi shook his head and said meaningfully: "Tiger Head, you are destined to be a general in this life, and only military life is the most suitable for you, so don't worry about your bandit career anymore, in the future, your contribution on the battlefield will be more effective than if you robbed ten banks, as for the money, it is still what I just said: When the cannon goes off, it is ten thousand taels of gold!" ”

Gu Lao Er laughed, and with excess energy, he grabbed the leather whip on the table and went to patrol the camp.

An Yi and the three of them continued to sit together, discussing the problems and solutions they had to face one by one in a low voice, and did not go back to their rooms to rest for a while until half past four in the morning, preparing for the arrival of a new day.

(To be continued)