In June, it is not very hot, the temperature is moderate, and the breeze is cool.

On the highway leading from Huize County to Lishuping, Xiaoqingshan County, there are several cars, one of which is a limited Zhonghua brand A-type car trial-produced by Shusheng Company. The latter ones are old-fashioned imported American cars.

This kind of car has one of the biggest characteristics, its car design has been similar to the style of the 21st century car, although limited by the process, the indicators and aesthetics are far less than the 21st century car, but compared to the mainstream car shape of this era, it has been much stronger. The fully enclosed streamlined body, the four unsightly wheels are also properly hidden under the belly of the body, the design of the lights and wipers is also ingenious, coupled with other reasonable vehicle design styles, so that the A-type car with a new engine has just been produced, and it has been well received by experts at home and abroad in the automobile factory.

The only drawback was that it was currently produced manually, and the production line would not be able to reach assembly line production capacity until the beginning of 1924, provided that the construction of the new supporting steel mill and the new engine plant could keep up.

There were five people in the Zhonghua A-type car driving in the second parking space, the driver and guards in front, and Zhang Shusheng's personal secretary Lu Yunyan and a man and a woman in the back.

This man and woman have a very good temperament, the man has a Chinese face, about 30 years old, like a soldier, wearing a tunic from the south, full of a tough atmosphere. The female twenty-seven or eighteen, wearing a really good little dress, reveals the temperament of a noble lady, although her beautiful face is far inferior to Lu Yunyan next to her, but the whole person also shows the demeanor of everyone.

"Yunyan, your place is much better than you imagined. Originally, my mother was afraid that you would be wronged with Zhang Shusheng, but now it seems that you are afraid that you will be the happiest person among your sisters. It was the person dressed as the eldest lady who spoke, and there was a sense of relief in his words, "Look at the car we are in, it is much better than the one we rented in the foreign bank." Even if it's at home, it's not comparable. ”

The man listened to the two girls and watched the traffic outside the window, although there were not many cars. But there are only a few trucks that can be seen in Guilin, and they are all over the place, and they are still very strange models, but they are not connected in a line and drive forward, he counted, and within one hour, at least twenty or thirty large trucks full of rainproof cloths have passed. What are you transporting? Could it be a stone?

And the blackened marks on the highway told him that this high-quality highway was brutally run over by cars every day.

Looking back at some of the details in the car, although the decoration in the car is not luxurious, but it is very detailed, such as the seat is black leather, and there is a stack of soft paper with napkins written on it and a few bottles of glass in the small storage compartment on the side, some of the liquid is light green, and some are black and red.

"Big brother, let's have some drinks, it's delicious. These are trial productions and cannot be bought outside. Lu Yunyan took out two bottles of drinks, a bottle of green tea, a bottle of Coca-Cola, and three ceramic cups from the special locker. This section of the road to Lishuping is well repaired, and the thickened chassis of the A-type car makes the car drive very smoothly and is not afraid of spilling.

"Woo! This green tea is quite delicious. I'll try this Coca-Cola again. Lu Yunyan's cousin took a sip of green tea, a drink that has not yet been mass-produced, and the factory has been built, and it will be sold to the southwest and central China generation next month, targeting the middle class. The same product, through Pan American Ken's International, will also be produced and marketed in the United States. In addition to running around to help Zhang Shusheng, Kenneth is thinking about how much his 5% stake is worth now. He didn't even have to manage, and almost all of his subordinates, whether white, yellow, or black, were assigned to him by God. All he needs to do is run around for relationships and count money.

"Cousin, this is Coca-Cola. I don't know if you're in the habit of drinking. This is the patent and beverage factory that Shu Sheng bought in the United States and produced, it is expensive and costs a lot of money. Lu Yunyan always hoped that his cousin and cousin could have a better impression of Zhang Shusheng and the Dongchuan area, so he picked up some irrelevant things to be interesting.

"Green tea tastes good, it's this Coca-Cola, it tastes a little weird, I don't like it very much." Lu Yunyan's cousin Lu Yunlun is a person who says one is one, and he is very upright, so he was selected here as a family representative.

"What my cousin said is right, and Shu Sheng also said the same. He said that it is still good for Chinese things, and foreigners' things are still bought and drunk by foreigners. I'll pour you some more orange juice. Lu Yunyan said happily, but he didn't know how shocked his cousin and cousin had been.

The warlord of a small region actually has the money to go to a foreign country to buy factories, and what kind of drinks are produced. At this time, the warlords, if they have a little money, shouldn't they all use it to buy guns and ammunition to occupy the territory?

If this person is not sick, then he is acting in a unique way.

"Zhang Shusheng actually went to a foreign country to buy a factory, does he have a lot of money? I think it's better to buy more machine guns and cannons, just like my father. Lu Yunyan's cousin Lu Yunwen said quietly, "Dad just said, more people and more guns is the right thing." You can live happily with him. Isn't our China stronger than anyone else? ”

"I don't know, he shouldn't be short of money anyway, I don't care about these things. Hee-hee, the main thing is that I don't usually spend money. Lu Yunyan smiled and leaned on her cousin's shoulder.

"Not short of money? I think it's a small place to buy nothing, you are also my father's favorite niece, in our Guilin, wearing gold and silver is also commonplace, look at now, there is no thing that will ring in your body. Lu Yunwen said pityingly. Also, you are all about to talk about marriage, but you don't know how much money he has, so be careful that your child suffers in the future. ”

"My good cousin, alright, don't say it. When you get to Lishuping, you can take a look at everything, although he doesn't use anything expensive, but the best one for me is the best, you see my skin is good, right? This is the latest brand of facial cleanser. ”

"Facial cleanser? Is this the case? Lu Yunwen opened her small kun bag, took out a small white bottle and asked, this is what she bought in Guilin for fear of hurting her skin from the fatigue of the journey.

"Cousin, do you also use this Roselle brand facial cleanser? You see, so is mine. Lu Yunyan also took out a bottle, but it was obvious that both the bottle and the trademark label were much more refined......

"It's different, your bottle looks so much better. How much is yours? I'm very valuable. ”

"Hee-hee, I don't need money, but others buy it, the latest facial cleanser, 120 yuan a bottle in China." Lu Yunyan pointed to the new label on the bottle and introduced the difference between the new style.

"So expensive? I only spent 80 yuan on this bottle. Although 80 yuan also made the thrifty Lu Yunwen feel very painful, he didn't expect that the price was half worse than the new Roselle facial cleanser.

Lu Yunlun also interjected curiously: "How much is the takeaway?" ”

Lu Yunyan shook his head, "I don't know how much it will be sold, but it seems that the minimum amount is the same." There is one thing she didn't say, Zhang Shusheng put the same facial cleanser in different bottles, divided into multiple packaging grades, and divided it into many prices, the highest price, it can scare people to death when you say it. And the one that Lu Yunyan knows is only the price of the poor people.

It can be said that cosmetics are one of the biggest profits of Shusheng Company, Zhang Shusheng didn't even tell Lu Yunyan, in order to confuse the ingredients, he added several strange trace ingredients made by the dream machine, which led to the fact that Western laboratories could not analyze the active ingredients of cosmetics at all, and could only try to develop other similar cosmetics, but the effect was much worse.

"That's not too expensive, alas. It is so expensive to sell in China, but it is the same price abroad, Zhang Shusheng is really. It is not good to worship the foreign and flatter the foreigner, and the economy of the West is ten million times stronger than ours. Lu Yunlun, who didn't know what was going on, complained.

Lu Yunyan chuckled, "Cousin, don't think about it, the same price doesn't mean that it only sells for 120 oceans, it's 120 dollars." And it's the lowest grade."

"......" Lu Yunlun was speechless, and said in his heart that Zhang Shusheng's business is really not an ordinary black.

The convoy drove forward for a while, and gradually entered the boundary of Xiaoqingshan, Lu Yunlun looked out the window, a little strange, "Yunwen, you said that when we came from Guilin, why was this spring corn so different from the field outside the car." Elsewhere along the way, the corn is much shorter and smaller, and the corn here is noticeably better. ”

Although he is a rich son, he still understands the quality of the crops.

"Yes, also, you see that eggplant is so long, and that bitter gourd is also so long. Ah, brother, you see, that little bowl of big tomatoes is almost red. These are much bigger than I've ever seen. ”

Lu Yunwen exclaimed there. Lu Yunlun looked at the scene outside the car, but fell into deep thought, from what he saw and heard from getting in the car to now, whether it was crops, cars, trucks, drinks, or these things told by his cousin, all of them made him have more guesses: Zhang Shusheng is too simple, too capable.

"Squeak!" A non-harsh brake sounded, and a small convoy stopped at the gate of the headquarters of the militia group, and the place that was built back then is now divided into three major areas, covering an extremely wide area, and the twin buildings of the year have also become triangular buildings. The three districts are adjacent to each other but completely separated by high-walled power grids and wide security avenues, one is the headquarters of the Shusheng Company, one is the headquarters of the militia group, and the other is the district political axe of Dongchuan District. Except for Zhang Shusheng's office at the top of the triangle building, which is the connection point of the three major districts, the others are far apart. For the sake of safety, there is no way to do it.

"Salute!!"

The gate where the convoy stopped was the gate of the militia headquarters, and fifty meters from the gate was the cordon, and at least one company of guards regiment soldiers were on guard.

When the Lu Yunlun brothers and sisters saw the soldiers on guard saluting, and an officer walking over with a soldier carrying a strange gun, they couldn't help but think in their hearts, what was this going to do.

Seeing the battle in front of them, both of them were secretly shocked, not to mention anything else, just these guards, Guilin's military and political axes were 108,000 miles away.

"Hello, please show your ID!" The officer saluted Lu Yunyan first and said solemnly.

Lu Yunlun and the two secretly wondered in their hearts, their cousin is so close to Zhang Shusheng, and they are the secretary of the militia group, the people they see every day, don't the guards know each other? Do you still want to check your documents?

Lu Yunyan naturally took out his ID and handed it over, which simply read: Secretary Lu Yunyan of the headquarters, "Secretary Lu, your ID." Who are these people? The officer carefully checked the documents, and then handed the documents back to Lu Yunyan with both hands expressionlessly, looked at the Lu Yunlun brothers and sisters behind him and the convoy and asked.

"This is my cousin and cousin from my hometown, and they are here to see District Chief Zhang. Secretary Gangmao said that the district chief came to the headquarters of the militia group, and we just came to take a look, and it was okay, so we waited for him at the door. Lu Yunyan said with a smile.

"I'm sorry, please wait a moment for Secretary Lu. The division commander's itinerary is top secret, and I will inform the above. The officer ran back to the duty room in a few steps, ran back after a while, saluted and said: "Secretary Lu, the division commander already knows, he said that he is in a hurry, he will go back later, let us entertain the guests first." ”

"Okay, thank you." Lu Yunyan turned around and was about to leave.

"Secretary Lu, wait a minute, the division commander said, the distinguished guest is here, we have to receive it well, please wait with the distinguished guest!" The captain of the guard regiment immediately ran back to the guardhouse, dialed the internal security phone again, and then walked back, "Wait a minute." ”

Lu Yunlun's brother and sister are thinking, what is this going to do?

The answer soon became clear.

"Toot ......"

Two car horns sounded, and immediately two large army vehicles and several double motorcycles were seen driving from a distance, and on them stood soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, and they were actually the two platoons that the guard regiment had just sent.

The car lowered the baffle, and the soldiers jumped out of the car in an orderly manner, and then finished the formation and ran after the motorcycle.

"Report to the chief, platoon A and platoon B of the guard regiment were ordered to come to greet the distinguished guests. Please follow the guard motorcycle. A major of the guard regiment put his feet together, snapped and saluted, and said something that almost made Lu Yunyan faint with happiness.

This dead ghost, in order to take care of his own face, actually came to such a hand, and he was not afraid of being ashamed.

She has never seen the welcome etiquette, how do you know which one this is playing. In her impression, Zhang Shusheng is so harsh that he doesn't even have the privilege of being a little woman and a secretary, why is he so generous today?

After all, Lu Yunyan, who was unexpectedly turned upside down, still turned around and called the stunned Lu Yunwen brothers and sisters, followed by a few guard motorcycles that drove back to Zhang Shusheng's residence, a few minutes later, the motorcycle opened the road, and a group of mighty soldiers ran to follow, which really shocked the Lu family brothers and sisters, not only felt that this cousin-in-law valued his so-called mother's family, but also felt that the force under his command was very strong.

Until the evening, when the Lu Yunwen brothers and sisters had already drunk afternoon tea and were about to go around the large courtyard with a unique landscape layout on the left of the huge Zhang Shusheng Mansion (the courtyard on the right was the home office area), Lu Yunyan heard a report at the door, saying that Zhang Shusheng was back.

"What about people? Cousin. ”

Lu Yunwen was curious about this future cousin-in-law, and when she was about to take a look, she didn't see anyone, and her cousin was actually followed by a dirty subordinate, which made her want to go out the door and see, is her future cousin-in-law still unsightly?

"Ahem! I'm sorry, I made the two of you wait for a long time, and the contemptible person is Zhang Shusheng. ”

Zhang Shusheng smiled embarrassedly, he inspected the battery factory for most of the day, and also got a key equipment together halfway, and several scientists did not understand a certain key technical description in their drawings, which led to the failure of the installation of a machine in the battery factory.

As a result, he was covered in oil, and he originally wanted to go back to change his clothes and see his future family, but as a result, he was about to pass by here on the way back to the house, and he was directly stopped by Lu Yunyan.

Lu Yunlun almost didn't squirt out a sip of tea, this is his future cousin-in-law??

(To be continued)