Royal Casino, few people in the Shanghai Concession do not know this Russian casino, this is the largest foreign casino in the Public Concession, often spend most of the money here are those foreigners in the concession, the most popular business in the day is often after dark, under the reflection of the lanterns, a brilliant color, outside the casino is a group of people like a tide.

According to the street lamp, the man in a suit stared directly at the casino, he wore a strong collar and a top hat on his head, dressed like a foreign gentry often found in the concession.

The waiter in a horse coat walked out of the door of the casino, the cold wind outside made him tremble, standing on the steps, he took a closer look, saw the people standing under the street lamp, and hurriedly ran over.

"Sir, I've inquired and Miss Natasha is ......"

When the words reached the most critical place, he suddenly stopped talking, and his face was full of greed.

The man leaning on the street lamp didn't say anything, took out a few foreign bills from his pocket and handed them to the man.

"In the east waiting hall on the third floor."

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in the white horse coat ran back to the casino.

Andre, who had just been released from prison, smoked a cigarette and stared at the casino royale, his eyes full of suppressed anger. André is no stranger to Casino Royale, where he used to entertain customers on many occasions.

In addition to the casino, the most attractive thing about the Casino Royal is probably the luxury and silver of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan's court, and the women of China, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Middle East will give any guest in those luxurious rooms on the second floor or at least the fourth floor, that rare Sultan-style royal enjoyment.

And those women, some are voluntary, some are coercive, there will always be some guests in the Royal Casino who can't afford to pay back, and in the end they can only choose to use their wives and daughters or themselves to pay off their debts, the casino owner Zhukovelli is a Chechen, he will never have a trace of sympathy for anyone, he only has money in his eyes, as for those women, if they refuse, he will use Chechen methods to solve the problem.

For gamblers, it's a cave of gold, for men it's a cave of souls, but for women, it's hell.

"Natasha!"

She was his wife and lover, who came to Shanghai with her from Russia, and now became a maid, a lady of the Casino Royale, for an unwarranted debt.

Throwing away the cigarette butts between his fingers, André strode towards the casino with his booted feet on them, and put his hands in his coat pockets.

Walking through the palatial hall, Andrei, with his head down, did not notice the smile on the face of a bearded Chechen man in the cloister on the second floor when he saw him enter the casino, and the man turned and walked into a box in which Anatoly and Zhukovelli were holding beautiful girls and laughing.

"Boss, that guy is here!"

"It's finally here!"

Anatoly and Jukovelli looked at each other, smiles on their faces.

"I said he would come!"

Zhu Kevili, who was smoking a cigar, looked proud.

"I'll leave the rest to you!"

Anatoly looked at the woman with tears in his arms and grabbed her chest hard, this woman was Andrei's wife, he had been attracted to this woman when he first saw her, but he was rejected by this woman, and now? She is still snuggled in her arms and let men ravage her.

Anatoly couldn't admire Zhu Kevili's way of training women, but it was just a few days of hard work that could make this woman completely give up resistance and accept her fate obediently.

"Remember what you said!"

A fierce look flashed in Jukovelli's eyes, reminding Anatoly who was playing with the woman.

"Rest assured, before Christmas this year, I promise to open your casino in St. Petersburg!"

Anatoly, who squinted his eyes slightly, glanced at Zhu Kevili, how could this little deflated San, who made a fortune in Shanghai by relying on a ruthless word, understand his family's influence in St. Petersburg.

"Thank you very much!"

Although he said this, Zhu Kevili knew that these nobles had never had any credibility to talk about, but only they could help themselves, no matter how rich they were in Shanghai, they were just passers-by, and their roots were still in Russia, so he glanced at the bodyguards on the side when he thought of this.

Walking in the corridor on the second floor, he held the Nagant revolver in his right hand in his coat pocket, which Andrei brought with him when he came to Shanghai, originally in his opinion, in a barbaric country like China, there is nothing wrong with carrying weapons, but he did not think that it would be used now.

As he got closer to the room, André felt his breathing grow faster and his palms seemed to sweat, when a man blocked his way.

"Excuse me!"

Without raising his head, Andre said lightly. In the next second, he only felt a blow to the back of his head, and he fainted as soon as it was dark in front of him.

"Don't you know that this idiot has been spotted since he appeared outside the door of the Casino Royale?"

Holding Natasha's seductive body in her arms, Anatoly couldn't help but sigh, ignoring the tears in her pretty eyes when she looked at the beautifully dressed woman in her arms and looked at the dead man on the ground.

"Hmm!"

With a soft snort, Andrei, who slowly regained his senses, endured the pain, looked ahead, and suddenly felt a rage, only to see Anatoly sitting on the wide sofa, holding Natasha's shoulder with one hand, and Ling with the other, holding the towering room on her side.

"Anatoly, let it go...... Yes! ”

Before he screamed, Andre was kicked hard.

"Don't!"

Seeing her husband being beaten, Natasha hurriedly exclaimed and looked at Anatoly with a smile on her face.

"Miss Natasha, didn't you say you'd never sleep with someone like me? I'm going to sleep with you right now in front of your husband, I don't know how. ”

As the words fell, he focused his gaze on Natasha's face.

"My darling, if you hadn't rejected me then, how could you have become a maiden here!"

"No...... Don't ......"

Natasha was full of tears, shaking her head constantly, looking at her husband who was being beaten by others, her eyes were full of despair.

"I'm going to kill you!"

Andrei, who was lying on the ground, glared at Anatoly angrily, his eyes almost bursting with anger.

"Mr. Andrey, to be honest...... I don't want to kill you, really! ”

Anatoly shook his head and sighed, he really didn't want to get his hands dirty, he was different from a barbarian like Jukovili, he was a civilized person, maybe vinegar would make him crazy, but, uh! He, Anatoly, was a civilized man.

"Mr. Jukovelli, I think, I'll leave it to you to decide! Now ......"

Grabbing Natasha's wrist, Anatoly jerked and pulled the woman into his arms.

"Mr. Andrei, I still like women compared to such violent scenes! Don't worry, I'll take care of her for you in the future! ”

Natasha, who was full of tears and despair in her eyes, looked at her husband who was beaten and dying, as if she had made some decision, she watched Andrei's lips move lightly, and the sudden strength that came out of nowhere made her break free from Anatoly's hand, and rushed to the window in just a few steps, slammed open the glass window and jumped.

"Natasha!"

A desperate scream came out of Andrei's voice, and Anatoly was equally stunned by this scene, while Jukovelli just looked at the window, touched the top of his bare head, shook his head helplessly, and sighed in pity.

"Anatoly, I'm going to kill you, kill your whole family!"

Andrei, who was originally pressed to the floor, would keep struggling, and looking at Anatoly almost made Jukovelli feel a little frightened, let alone Anatoly.

"Jukovelli, give ...... Kill him for me! ”

Facing the terrifying gaze, Anatoly turned back and shouted at Jukovili, he was forced out of the room by Andrei's gaze when shouting, until he retreated outside the house, remembering Andrei's gaze Anatoly still looked palpitating, at this time, he even regretted a little, regretting why he didn't kill Andrei directly.

Sitting up from the couch, Jukovelli walked up to Andrei, his smooth head shining in the light.

"Mr. Andrey! You've heard you! ”

Before Andrei could say anything, Jukovelli glanced at the person beside him.

"Smash his leg and make it clean!"

After Jukovelli left this room, he looked at Anatoly, whose face was pale, but sighed, this noble lord...... Nothing!

The moon is high and the wind is dark, many things always happen at night, hundreds of kilometers away at the foot of Changlong Mountain, in a humble room of the local local protector's house, the oil lamp emits a dim light, and a wooden table sits around a few people.

"This is iron ore!"

Looking at the black bump on the table, Xiao Xinren, who had just arrived at Changlong Mountain in the afternoon, asked in surprise.

Yesterday, after receiving Chen Moran's telegram, he arranged the company's affairs, and he took Lin Yuqing and several people from the company to Jiangning by boat first, and then chartered a carriage from Jiangning to this Changlong Mountain.

Silently opening an iron mine and running an iron factory, if it weren't for the black and white words on the telegram, Xiao Xinren would almost not believe his eyes, the connection between the two was to choose a book as a password as agreed, this is Xiao Xinren's idea, and the matter of the shopping mall is kept secret first. So much so that when he translated the code from the book, he translated it several times, and after confirming that it was true, he realized that Chen Moran was not joking, and he was afraid that he had gained a lot this time, in addition to solving the matter of the "development company", he also made a big deal by the way.

"That's right, this is iron ore, Changlongshan iron ore veins are slightly exposed, the buried layer is very shallow, if you mine, you can directly strip the surface soil and stone, direct open-pit mining, the mining cost is low, rare in China, to Nian Zu rough calculation, is including labor, material cost up to 30 Wen per ton!"

Hu Nianzu grabbed the iron ore on the table, looked around at the three people at the wooden table, but stopped at Chen Moran, this is the God of Wealth and his future boss, although he has the rank of the sixth grade, but he does not feel any discomfort under Chen Moran who is in the white body, mining and metallurgy is his dream and wish.

"Chairman, this Changlong iron ore, after four months ago, after the preliminary judgment of its iron content is about sixty percent, in addition to I have mailed the sample to the London Iron and Steel Research Institute, please ask the teacher to test on behalf of the chairman, if the chairman invests in Changlong iron mine, set up an iron plant, Nian Zu can ensure that only this Changlong iron ore is enough to meet the needs of the iron plant for decades, and the second can ensure that the mistake of Hanyang will never be committed!"

Hu Nianzu's eyes were full of expectation, his eyes looked directly at Chen Moran, the reason why he said this was to appease Chen Moran's heart, after all, the people in the government who were not as good as the government before, and the people in the government who took the public money never asked about the cost and profit, but the private people who spent their own money were different.

Chen Moran didn't say anything, just curiously picked up a piece of iron ore found in the exposed ore veins on the mountain in the afternoon and looked at it, this place is Ma'anshan, when he rode a horse to this long dragon, he asked the local land security, there is indeed a "Ma'anshan" more than ten miles away, and the land security even told him the origin of Ma'anshan, saying that during the Chu-Han War, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, asked the fisherman to cross his beloved mount Wu Hu horse to the opposite bank before he killed the Wujiang River. However, the black horse rolled and killed himself because he missed his master, and the saddle fell to the ground and turned into a mountain, so there was Ma'anshan.

After determining that this place is Ma'anshan, Chen Moran no longer needs to worry about the grade of iron ore and whether it can be smelted, from himself to New China, this place is a steel city, in this place to open mines, set up factories, it can be said that the time and place are favorable, first there is the convenience of water transportation on the Yangtze River, and there is the advantage of the terrain near Nanjing.

But this time, Chen Moran didn't say anything, but his mind was thinking about another question, that question had been trapped around him for a few days, although Sun Mingjiu was on the side to solve his confusion, but his heart was still not very steady, this time Hu Nianzu stopped talking and just looked at himself, so he continued.

"Xianglin, don't worry, this iron mine and iron factory, I, a cripple Chen, have done it, if you don't run heavy industry, you can't make the country strong, and if you don't have steel, you can't have heavy industry!" Xianglin has this heart, although Mo Ran's leg is lame, but his heart is not lame! ”

After speaking, Chen Moran, who smiled loudly, looked at Hu Nianzu meaningfully.

Although he only knows this Hu Nianzu for a few days, he likes this person's surname, and has the kind of simplicity and persistence unique to technicians, and his mind is not like others, pretending to be full of filth and mess, only one scholar has the purest professional dedication, or there is the expectation of a strong country.

Chen Moran likes this person's surname, this kind of "expert" is one of the few in later generations, but in this era, he is the first person he knows, and Fang Jingyuan also has a utilitarian taste in his bones, but Hu Nianzu in front of him is simply thinking about metallurgy, only thinking about this iron mine and iron factory.

"Xianglin, I will raise the money for running an iron factory, you don't need to worry about this, you will learn metallurgy, Kan Mine also has a hand, running an iron factory always requires coke, I will show you a place, you go to Huainan!"

Chen Moran pointed to the map on the table, the Huai River in the Fengtai area of the "several" shape, that is the location of Huainan in the later generations, that said after leaving the Governor's Palace, he knew that there was no Huainan at this time.

"That's it, there's coal underneath the ground in this area, there must be! The locals have been taking coal from the ground for more than a thousand years, and there may be some small mines, Xianglin, you go there to do the coal mine for me, not to mention that we still have the approval letter invited by the Governor's Palace, that is, you are a member of the Governor's Mansion of the six products, and the magistrate will not dare to make it difficult for you, as long as this coal mine is fixed, our iron plant will be half! ”

"Well, then...... Over here! ”

Hu Nianzu hesitated.

"The matter of iron ore has not yet been decided......"

"Don't worry about this, Weiyang, the three people you brought from the company, ask them who wants to stay here, and enclose the land in this area for me according to the map!"

His hand drew a large circle on Hu Nianzu's iron ore distribution map, and Chen Moran instructed Xiao Xinren. There is the approval of the Governor's Palace, but the local affairs are much easier to do, the mountains are official land does not need money, but the graves of the common people have to accompany some silver, with the approval of the Governor's Palace, the price of the land is almost like a pickup.

"In addition, Weiyang, you send a few more people to northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui or Shandong to recruit workers, the manpower in the south is soft, and the mining work can't catch up with the strength of the northerners! In addition, after this area is encircled, we will find some technicians from Shanghai to build a wharf by the river, and the equipment of the factory needs a wharf, and in the future, we will need a wharf to transport coal and iron, and when we return to Shanghai, we will talk with foreign banks about coal mines, iron mines, and iron factory equipment. That's it! ”

Chen Moran's words were so shocking that Hu Nianzu didn't come back to his senses for a while, and he finally understood why the Governor said, "This son has the courage to do great things!" Xu Kung Fu set down that it would cost tens of millions of taels of silver to get things done, and as far as he knew, if China was big, he would not be able to find a second person.

At this time, Chen Moran turned his head and looked at Hu Nianzu who was still shocked.

"From today on, I, Chen Moran, will bet all my net worth on these two mines, one factory, and all the way! is also silently handing over his net worth to you! You have found a mine, and I Chen Moran came to set up this factory with silver, as long as we can run a big steel plant under the Yangtze River, we are not ashamed of our hearts, nor are we worthy of future generations! ”

"And then...... And then! ”

Surprised, Hu Nianzu hugged his fists and made a deep salute.

"From now on, I will sell the life of my ancestor to you Chen Ranzhi, don't say that you have fulfilled my dream, it is this courage, it is ...... Tomorrow, I will go to Huainan and not find the big coal mine you said......"

Hu Nianzu gave this salute but did not say anything again.

"Xianglin, your life is precious, you can't do it silently! What you want is your brain, this life, let's keep it, keep it to build our big steel plant, a big steel plant bigger than the Carnegie Steel Plant in the United States, and anyone who comes to the Yangtze River in the future will see the smoke furnace of our big iron factory! ”

When Chen Moran launched a blueprint in an understatement, he glanced at Xiao Xinren.

(To be continued)