On a hot day, Nie Jinku's cold sweat came down, the old nest was served, what to take the book, went in to see, the barracks were empty, there was no one, and he ran to the armory in a hurry to see, not a single bullet was left, and then to the grain tun to see, all burned, and there was not a single horsehair left in the stable.

Originally, according to Nie Jinku's plan, after coming back, he immediately ordered people to kill and return to Jiangbei to take revenge, but there were only more than 100 guns left, what to take revenge, and his biggest problem at the moment was not revenge, but how to explain to the brigade commander, division commander, and the overseer.

Hearing that the regiment commander had returned, some of the left-behind personnel gradually gathered, and I heard from them that the bandits from Jiangbei attacked the barracks that night, and the leading big bandit was called Gai Longquan.

Nie Jinku gritted his teeth with hatred, what a Gai Longquan who took advantage of the fire to rob, Lao Tzu and you don't share the sky!

After thinking for a long time, Nie Jinku still decided to go back to the provincial capital first to ask for help.

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Along the Huai River down the river 600 miles, is the provincial capital of Jiangdong, the overseer office is located in the former Qing Dynasty of the Zhentai Yamen, the gate of the three bays, a handsome flag waving in the wind, eight soldiers standing at the door, the common people passing by all walk around.

In the teahouse across the street, Yan Su, chief of staff of the Jiangbei Protector Army Embassy Office, and Gong Zijun, chief of logistics, sat opposite each other, neither of them were wearing military uniforms.

"Chief of Staff, can you get in?" Gong Zijun asked.

"Wait." Yan Su was not in a hurry, unfolded the folding fan and shook it slowly.

After a while, a colonel officer came out of the yamen and hurried over to the teahouse, and Yan Su immediately got up to greet him: "Brother Pengcheng, it's been a long time." ”

The colonel's officer laughed: "Baoding has been talking about martial arts for ten years, right?" ”

Yan Su said: "Not to mention ten years, we are all old. ”

The colonel officer said, "Let's have a discussion upstairs, and I will settle the account." ”

The three of them went upstairs and sat down, and Yan Su first introduced that this colonel officer was Zhang Pengcheng, the director of the adjutant department of the Jiangdong Provincial Military Supervision Office, and they were classmates and friends of the Baoding Lecture Martial Arts Hall back then, and introduced Gong Zijun, saying that he was the logistics director of the Jiangdong Guardian Military Embassy Office.

Zhang Pengcheng said with a smile: "You are the director at a young age, and you are terrible in the future, by the way, who are you Gong Jiaxiang of Huijin Bank in the provincial capital?" ”

Gong Zijun replied respectfully: "It's my uncle." ”

"It turned out to be Young Master Gong, I'll just say, it looks like the Gong family, a talent, haha." Zhang Pengcheng's eyes narrowed into a line, smiling like a Maitreya Buddha.

Yan Su said straight to the point: "Old classmate, I am now the chief of staff in Jiangbei, and I had a little unpleasantness with the 11th Regiment a few days ago, so I came to you for help." ”

Zhang Pengcheng's smile did not decrease: "What a big deal, you still work Brother Yan, you go out in person, don't you just write a letter to your brother, by the way, how is it an unpleasant method?" Nie Jinku's kid doesn't do things in a measured way, don't take it to heart, haha. ”

Yan Su said dryly: "We have disarmed the 11th Regiment. ”

Gong Zijun interjected: "I also killed forty black sheep who plagued the people. ”

Zhang Pengcheng squirted out all the tea in one gulp: "I'm grass!" How much? Forty of them were killed in one go, which is a big deal. ”

Yan Su said: "That's why I asked your brother to help dredge and dredge, in fact, our Chen Protector really has no malicious intentions, the Eleventh Regiment came uninvited, poisoned the people, and made the people's grievances boiling, if you don't do this, the position of the Protector Army Envoy will not be stable." ”

Zhang Pengcheng said: "Nie Jinku is okay, right?" ”

Yan Su said, "Commander Nie and his brothers have all been sent back, along with their guns. ”

Zhang Pengcheng breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay, your protector is not completely out of proportion, what are you going to do now?" ”

Yan Su said: "Just talk about it, I have something here, Brother Pengcheng can take a look first." As he spoke, he took out the people's wits and Nie Jinku's confession, as well as the incident description jointly signed by the Protector Embassy Office and the county government.

Zhang Pengcheng hurriedly flipped through it and said: "These things are useless, Sun Dujun doesn't recognize this, you have surrendered the weapons of the 11th regiment, and killed so many people, it is impossible to say that you don't come out with some dry goods." ”

Gong Zijun said: "What is dry goods? Isn't this evidence enough to show that these bad guys deserve to be killed? ”

Zhang Pengcheng smiled: "Young Master Gong is still young, the dry goods are not what he refers to, but those things in your uncle's bank." ”

Gong Zijun said angrily: "It's just blackmail!" ”

Zhang Pengcheng was a little displeased: "Young Master Gong, you can't say that, this matter is well hidden, if Sun Dujun knew about it, he would have sent troops to cross the river a long time ago." ”

Yan Su said: "Peng Cheng, Zijun is a college student, he doesn't understand these ways of officialdom, don't be surprised, I came to you, just to ask you for guidance, see how much it will cost and where to start." ”

Zhang Pengcheng said: "This matter is easy to do, Sun Overseer has a favorite ninth aunt who seems to be from Jiangbei, when the time comes, you send some gifts, let her complain in front of the overseer, saying that the eleventh regiment bullied her relatives or something, first blow the pillow wind, and then I will consider the wording on the military affairs report, basically the big thing is small, but it is impossible to think that it is all right, you had better give another gift to the overseer, so that it seems sincere." ”

Yan Su said: "Is 5,000 yuan enough?" ”

"Five thousand?" Zhang Pengcheng looked at his old classmate with a strange gaze, and then laughed: "Brother Yan, you have been in the Beijing War Department for too long, and you don't know the local market, and you can't give a gift of 5,000 yuan, not to mention that your affairs are not small, at least this amount." He stretched out three fingers and shook them.

"Thirty thousand?" Yan Su remained silent.

"Yes, at least 30,000, this is still the relationship between our old classmates, I will save all the money in the province for you, if it is an outsider, at least double."

"Okay, 30,000 is 30,000, you wait for my news and leave." Yan Su got up to say goodbye, and Zhang Pengcheng didn't leave him: "Old Yan, I'm still on an errand at this time, let's get back together in the evening." ”

Out of the teahouse, Yan Su took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his forehead, the trip to the provincial capital is not easy, Zhang Pengcheng is right, 30,000 yuan is the least expense, after all, killing dozens of soldiers is equivalent to slapping Sun Dujun in public.

Gong Zijun muttered: "Knock on the bamboo bar, 30,000 yuan, we have a total of 30,000 yuan in our account, I knew this, so I persuaded the military envoy not to shoot those people." ”

Yan Su said: "In that kind of environment at that time, if the guards didn't shoot them, what would have happened? ”

Gong Zijun thought for a while and said: "If the people's grievances are boiling, the prestige of the military envoy will not be so high. ”

Yan Su said: "Yes, the 11th Regiment will stay in Nantai County, and they will not leave if they are not cleaned, so they must be disarmed, and the 11th Regiment will never do bad things, if they are not disposed of, the people will not believe in us and will not love us, so this is also something that must be done." ”

Gong Zijun said: "If you kill these people, you have to make amends, which is also something that must be done." ”

Yan Su was relieved: "You finally understand. ”

When they came from Jiangbei, they only brought 5,000 oceans, and now it's too late to go back and withdraw money, so they can only find a way to raise it, the Gong family opened a bank in the provincial capital, called Huijin Bank, in the past, Gong Zijun's college expenses were withdrawn from his uncle, and now he has difficulties, so he naturally goes to him.

The predecessor of Huijin Bank is called Huijin Bill, is a private bank, Gong Jiaxuan's younger brother Gong Jiaxiang took over, the business is getting bigger and bigger, and now it is a small famous bank in the province, the address is on the street in front of the provincial capital, Western-style house, there are two big stone lions at the door, and two patrol police officers are hired to stand guard, it looks very magnificent.

Led by Young Master Gong, it was naturally smooth all the way to the general manager's office, Gong Jiaxiang was working at the desk, this is a capable man in his forties, his hair is meticulously combed back, and he is still wearing a sophisticated three-piece British suit on a hot day, with a pure gold diamond-encrusted tie clip on his tie, and a wise and calm brilliance flashing behind his gold wire glasses.

Seeing his nephew come in with a stranger, Gong Jiaxiang was very polite, stood up and shook hands with Yan Su, and when he heard Gong Zijun introduce that this person like a teacher was the chief of staff of the Jiangdong Protector Military Embassy Office, he was not surprised.

Gong Jiaxiang pressed the electric bell on the table: "Xiaomei, pour two cups of tea and one cup of coffee." Then he greeted Yan Su very warmly to sit down, picked up the English briar pipe on the table, and asked politely, "Is it okay?" ”

Yan Su smiled: "Please." ”

It didn't take much effort, the female secretary brought tea and coffee, the guests and hosts exchanged pleasantries, and when they got to the point, Gong Zijun got straight to the point and said: "Second uncle, we need 30,000 oceans." ”

Gong Jiaxiang smoked his pipe, his eyes narrowed slightly: "We are in the financial industry, what we do is the business of lending and financing, not to mention 30,000 yuan, even 300,000, 3 million can be obtained, but I need to know, what is the use of this money, what is the guarantee for the loan I let out?" ”

Gong Zijun said: "You don't have to ask about the purpose of the money, just lend it to me, I also have a share in Huijin Bank, so I will take it." ”

Gong Jiaxiang said with a straight face: "If the bank operates like this, I'm afraid it will not be far from bankruptcy, Zijun, you must know that the bank is not our Gong family's own, there are many major shareholders, we need to be responsible for them, if you don't explain the purpose, my uncle will not give you a penny." ”

When the uncle and nephew were talking, Yan Su had been drinking tea with Erlang's legs crossed, and his posture was full of lightness, and when he heard the conversation becoming more and more intense, he put down the teacup and said: "General Manager Gong, this money is used to bribe, not long ago the provincial army looted the county, and was caught and killed by our Chen Hujun envoy, and now I came to the provincial capital with my nephew, just to resolve this matter, if you need to pledge, take a look at this line?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a yellow silk wrapped thing from the package, and slowly untied it to see that it was a bronze seal.

"This is the Jiangbei Protector Envoy granted by the Ministry of War to defend the country."

Gong Jiaxiang's pupils contracted.