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Tang Shaode and Tang Shaojing are the pillars of the Tang family, Tang Yuan returned to the Tang Mansion to find the third uncle Tang Shaoren and the second brother Tang Zhi to discuss together, and soon decided to pay the silver for ransom. In the wharf area across the river, there are a mixture of fish and dragons, and if people can quietly kill the thirty or so guards he Tang Yuan brought over, then they can quietly touch this Tang family's mansion. And it is also the chaos of the dock, and those people are easy to evacuate, so there is no way to find the government at this time.

Large families have the habit of digging their own silver cellars, and the silver they earn is basically placed in them. In fact, this silver cellar is called a basement for people in the new era, and of course it is far inferior to a basement made of reinforced concrete. After so many years of doing ** business, the Tang family's wealth is not false at all, there are 600,000 taels of silver in the silver cellar at home alone, in addition to the 150,000 yuan proposed earlier to trade with Zhang Renjie and them, there are more than 400,000 here, including 20,000 taels of gold.

The business of the Zhang family is all over Huai'an Mansion, and the most valuable thing about the Tang family is the shops distributed in various places, especially the shops in Qingjiangpu, each of which is worth tens of thousands, but after all, it is a fixed asset, and the working capital is the family's these.

Because Zhang Renjie put down his words, the first choice for ransom is gold, after all, this thing is easy to carry, and the current official price of one tael of gold is exchanged for eighteen taels of silver, and the value of gold is twice as high as in the early Qing Dynasty. Now that all countries in the world are on the gold standard, the demand for silver in the white world has been greatly reduced, and the price of gold has naturally risen. Tang Yuan and the others had no choice but to carry out a few boxes of gold to exchange hostages.

Coupled with the backwardness of criminal investigation technology and communication means in this era, Zhang Renjie and the soldiers easily got the Tang family's ransom with little effort, and when the sky was bright, Zhang Renjie had already taken a boat with the soldiers to the dock town. Zhang Qishi and the soldiers of the special combat team did not follow along, and stayed behind to be responsible for cutting off the tail of the track. After the Tang family picked up Tang Shaode and Tang Shaojing, they immediately sent someone to follow Zhang Renjie's two ships. The Tang family is also worthy of being the head snake, and followed the clues until the intersection of the Huai River in the west of the city.

But Zhang Qishi and a group of special combat team members had been waiting here for a long time, quickly pulled out these stalkers, and squatted here until dawn, and then dispersed back to Zhangjiazhuang, the dock town. After dawn, the family finished breakfast, Zhang Renjie couldn't take a break, and was ready to start leaving Zhangjiazhuang for Funing.

"Dad, this time you will take the waterway, send all this silver to Shanghai, and deposit it in HSBC, but I'm afraid that your body will not be able to bear it!"

In the courtyard of the Zhang family's house, the silver stored in it can already be described as piled up, with a total of 800,000 taels of silver, not counting the 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver tickets in Zhang Renjie's hand.

"It's okay, I'm not old enough to move. I support everything you do, but you must be careful, once these things leak out, the court will definitely interfere, I don't want to watch you be escorted to the vegetable market! Zhang Youde said with a worried frown.

Zhang Renjie rolled his eyes: "Dad, you can't say something nice, my son is also accumulating virtue and doing good deeds." In any case, your son and I will never do anything to be sorry for my conscience, this silver is deposited in HSBC because I will use this money to buy a large amount of money from foreigners in the future, so to speak, in a few days, my son may have to go far away, and it is possible that he will not be able to come back for a year and a half. This"

"The eagle has grown up, and it is bound to soar in the sky, my son has a future, how can I stop you from flying?! Son, it doesn't feel like a problem for my dad to hold on to this old bone for three or five years, my dad has a wish, I hope you get married sooner, so that I can hug my grandson before leaving, and I don't want anything else! ”

"Don't worry, Dad, my son will do his best to let you hold your grandson. I'll leave after a while, I have to rush to Funing, and I have to wait for two or three months to come back, and you and your mother have to take care. ”

"Not a day?"

"I must rush to Funing immediately, so as not to be suspicious of the Tang and Xia families. You think, other families are fine, if there is a problem with the Tang family and the Xia family, people will definitely link this matter with the case of the robbery in Andong County a while ago. As long as I think about it this way, I am one of the people who have the strength to do this in Lenovo! Therefore, I transferred the team out to suppress the bandits, but also as a precaution, although the commander of the first company and the commander of the second company were in charge there, it was still not safe. I still have to go and meet the parents of Funing County, so that I can dispel everyone's doubts. Zhang Renjie nodded.

"Well, be careful on your way!" Zhang Youde is still very reluctant, he is old, and he really wants to tease Sun Yi to raise his life, but now it seems that his son will not let him worry.

"The special combat team stayed to escort my father to Shanghai, and the guard squad followed me!"

The distance from Wharf Town to Funing County is a little far, almost two hundred miles, Zhang Renjie and other eleven people rode horses without resting for a moment, and they did not arrive in Funing until it was dark at night.

The situation in Funing is a bit complicated, and there is no trace of the old hammer head in the locality, but the small group of bandits has been wiped out in two groups, but the total number of people is less than fifty. These two small groups of bandits have few guns, and they are all old-fashioned breech guns.

"It's not bad, you can wipe out two bandits in three days, and you can barely explain it. It's just that what the prefect of Qian asked was to exterminate the old hammer, and we also took over this task, if there is no gain at all, I am afraid that it will not be justified! Early the next morning, Zhang Renjie rushed to the place where the Renzi camp was stationed. There are many of them, and there is no such a big place to be stationed in the county, so they took the initiative to take the team to camp in the countryside outside the city, and they suppressed the bandits when they came, and they also came to cover Zhang Renjie.

"Battalion commander, this old hammer is very cunning, he should know that we are here at this time. However, the brothers of the reconnaissance squad had come over several days in advance, and no news had been found. Funing County is so big, it's really not easy to find if you really want to hide! Dong Biao said bitterly.

Zhang Youfa also felt the same way: "Indeed, the brothers in the reconnaissance squad came back last night and reported that there were no clues at all!" ”

"It's impossible, let them continue to investigate, didn't they offer a bounty?" Zhang Renjie frowned and asked.

Dong Biao and Zhang Youfa were stunned, this is really nothing. "This"

"Look at your expressions and I'll understand! It's also my fault, I didn't think about it beforehand! Hurry up and send a thousand taels of silver from the logistics to everyone in the reconnaissance squad, money can make the ghost grind, and many times it will be much better to open the way with silver! Just based on the two-petal mouth, people don't care about you! Zhang Renjie really can't say about these soldiers, they are all from poor families, and they used to worry about how to fill their stomachs every day, and they didn't have any silver in their hands, so they didn't have the habit of spending silver. There is a little bit of silver, which is also hidden at the bottom of the box at home, and it is reluctant to take it out.

"A thousand taels?" Dong Biao exclaimed. "Battalion commander, isn't it too much?!"

"Shut up, what do you know? If we find the old hammerhead's lair, do you think we can get a thousand taels back? Besides, is a thousand taels more for you now? You have accumulated so much money for two years, right? Hurry up and do it! "When the Renzi battalion was officially formed, the salary standards of officers and soldiers at all levels were also announced at the same time. Zhang Renjie naturally does not need to be counted, the company commander at the next level, that is, Dong Biao, and the three of them are fifty taels per month, which is equivalent to the battalion officers in the Hunan army, and the platoon commander below is twenty taels per month, the squad leader is twelve taels per month, and the ordinary soldier is six taels. Now one tael of silver can buy 100 catties of rice, and the conditions are very generous.

"Well, battalion commander, there is no need to sound silver on the team now, so I didn't bring so much silver!" Zhang Youfa squeaked and said that although he is Zhang Renjie's uncle in terms of seniority, he is not related to this team, and he is really afraid of being reprimanded by Zhang Renjie.

"Fortunately, I have a silver ticket with me, so I hurried to the county town to redeem it and send it to the soldiers, whether we can get the results depends on the silver!"

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