Li Yaoting just joked casually, but Chen Zikun said it seriously, when the general trend is today, the direct line is like the sky, and he will never allow the remnants of the Anhui system to continue to occupy Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places, and it is a matter of time before he uses troops to the south, and Chen Zikun, as the envoy of the Jiangbei Protector, will definitely be Wu Peifu's vanguard.

In the past year, he has made statistics on Shanghai's large and small tobacco houses, brothels, teahouses, and casinos, and how to purchase goods, how to collect money, and how to patrol and arrest them.

Chen Zikun came to the office of the Springfield & Co. of the Sassoon Building, and before he entered the door, he heard the telephone ringing inside, and the figures were shaking.

Seeing Chen Zikun come in, a man looked him up and down and said, "Sir, what's the matter with Nong?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "Oh, I'm here to find a friend, his name is Mu Yichen." ”

The man said: "Oh, looking for Manager Mu, come in, he is busy, you sit first." He took a stack of papers and went straight away.

Chen Zikun walked through the crowd to the front of the manager's room, and saw Mu Yichen sitting at his desk, holding an earpiece in his left and right hands, shouting hey, and the other two phones on the table were also ringing.

"Help me buy 100 hands to open the Luan Coal Mine, yes, buy it immediately." Mu Yichen put down the microphone on his right, grabbed a microphone and shouted, "Wait a minute." Then he put it aside and said into the microphone on the left: "You say, what, the price of silver has risen, throw it out immediately." ”

Then he put down the phone, picked up the fourth microphone, and this time changed his English to speak: "The new cargo has arrived at the port of Shanghai?" Okay, I'll send someone to pick up the goods right away. ”

Taking a breath, he picked up the microphone he had just put down and said, "I'm sorry Mr. Zhang, I have considered the piece of land you said yesterday, and I will eat it as soon as the price drops, okay, let's have dinner together in the evening." ”

After answering all the calls, Mu Yichen finally breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the cup and poured a few sips of coffee, took the pencil from his ear and wrote a few lines on the paper book, cleared his throat with a dry cough, and was about to answer the telephone when he suddenly found Chen Zikun standing at the door, and quickly stood up: "Senior." ”

Chen Zikun smiled: "You are busy with you, I just came to take a look." ”

Mu Yichen welcomed Chen Zikun into the room, poured coffee, handed over a cigar, helped Chen Zikun light it, and said: "The official room is too messy, I'm really embarrassed, let the seniors laugh." ”

Chen Zikun looked around and said: "It's good to mess around, it's better to have something to do than nothing to do, I listen to you, it seems that the business is very miscellaneous." ”

Mu Yichen's face turned red and said: "Shanghai is full of opportunities, stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, gold, silver, agricultural products, land, arms, imported luxury goods, except for pornography, gambling and drugs, our foreign banks can do it, I thought that it was too idle to do arms trading alone, so I started." ”

Chen Zikun said: "It doesn't matter, with your ingenuity, it is indeed condescending to be a simple arms importer, I will give you the power, as long as it is a profitable business, we can intervene in the Chuntian Foreign Bank, by the way, I came to bring some money this time, and then purchase some ammunition." ”

As he spoke, he took out the 64,000 yuan Standard Chartered Bank cheque.

Mu Yichen sighed and said: "The price of American ** fire is twice that of German goods, although the firearms are half sold and half sent, but in the long run, Springfeld has taken advantage, we spend a high price to buy ammunition, it is not good to be controlled by others after all, it is better to purchase machinery and make ammunition by yourself, not only can you be self-sufficient, but also can be sold externally, killing two birds with one stone." ”

Chen Zikun's eyes lit up: "Okay, I have this intention." ”

Mu Yichen said: "Ammunition looks simple, but it is quite troublesome to produce, it takes the entire industrial production line, the production of bullet shells requires copper sheets, stamping machines, chemical plants need to produce ammunition, a large amount of nitric acid is needed, power plants are needed, and coal is needed to transport coal, so it cannot be done without a certain industrial base, it stands to reason that this factory is the best in Shanghai, but Shanghai is the territory of Lu Yongxiang and He Fenglin......

Chen Zikun said: "The factory should be built in Jiangbei, what is lacking can be built, step by step, what machinery needs to be purchased, how much money is needed, you can pull a list for me." ”

Mu Yichen felt a hot current surging into his heart, and he was extremely moved by trust, and couldn't help but say, "Senior, I ...... it."

Chen Zikun patted him on the shoulder: "You are a person who does business, I believe in you, that's it, you are busy, I am leaving." Saying that, he walked out of the office with a cigar in his mouth, and Mu Yichen didn't stop until he sent him to the gate.

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The trip to Shanghai was quite smooth, Chen Zikun returned to Nantai with two full ships of goods purchased from Shanghai, he first invited Li Juren to the Protector Embassy Office, rewarded him in person for taking the lead in responding to the righteous act of planting tobacco, and rewarded him with 10,000 oceans.

If 500 acres of land are planted with sorghum or wheat, each mu is about 10 yuan of output, and this 10 yuan will be divided into three parts: the government's land endowment, the landlord's rent, and the tenant's retention.

Li Juren was happy to bloom, the white beard pouted and pouted, and immediately after going back, he instructed the housekeeper to reward the tobacco farmers, and prepared a wine banquet in the house, so that the newly married concubine could accompany him to drink a few cups, and the concubine vomited after taking a sip, so panicked that Li Juren hurriedly sent someone to invite Lang Zhong to see, and the doctor in the county came to congratulate and congratulate him as soon as he took the pulse, saying that it was a happy pulse.

Double happiness is coming, Li Mansion put up lights, put a cannon battle of 5,000 shots, Li Juren is old and has a son, and the joy is overflowing, but the neighbors don't think so, and they all talk in private that the head of the old man is green.

Green to green, can not stop Li Juren from making a fortune, with him as an example, many landlords in Nantai County have moved the idea of planting opium, of course, there are some people resolutely resist opium, among which Gong Jiaxuan, who was the most supportive of him in the past, was the most intense.

Overseer's Office, in the middle of summer, Chen Zikun is leading his wife to shoot targets in the backyard, this is the reserved program of the General's Mansion, regardless of the maid-in-law's servant and groom, they all have to be able to shoot, and they are not allowed to pay fines, and there are rewards for hitting accurately, anyway, bullets don't cost money, and the servants naturally scramble, and every weekend, the gunshots in the backyard are ringing out, and the people of the county are not shocked.

There are many orphans and beggars in Nantai County, no matter how windy or rainy they are squatting at the gate of the city to beg, Chen Zikun sees them pitiful, so they are all incorporated to be used as service soldiers, the oldest of these people is not more than fifteen years old, and they are still in the shaping stage, among which the smart and loyal ones are transferred to the general's mansion for use, and the others are sent to the army to serve as service soldiers to the commanders.

The small orderlies were originally beggars that everyone hated, they couldn't eat enough all day, their clothes were not warm, their heads were full of sores, and people were annoyed by dogs, but now they have become the descendants of the handsome, wearing two and a half feet, carrying a pickle, and their social status has suddenly improved.

I picked a cart of big watermelons from the countryside, and they were all used as targets, and the backyard was a mess, the ground was bright red, the gunsmoke was pungent, and the duty class was full of colors, Chen Zikun was about to present an award - a German-made box cannon, he always said that the masturbation is a thing used by girls and children, and the real man only uses a box cannon.

Suddenly, Qingfeng came to report, saying that Gong Zijun, the director of logistics, came to worship, Chen Zikun wondered in his heart, today is Sunday, how can he still be busy with official business, and came to the second hall to receive him, only to see that Gong Zijun was not wearing a military uniform, wearing a long shirt and holding a folding fan, and there was a trace of hesitation between his eyebrows.

"Zi-kun, sit down." Chan said.

Gong Zijun sat down, and said to Ai Ai: "Protector envoy, there is a letter here, which was sent by my uncle, let me hand it over to you personally." ”

Saying that, he took out a letter, Chen Zikun took it, took out the letter paper and browsed it, his smiling face froze, this letter was written by Gong Jiaxiang, general manager of Huijin Bank in the provincial capital, the letter was fierce, Chen Zikun was reprimanded, called him a drug lord, an opium general, and asked where is the coal mine factory that was set up with a loan of 200,000 yuan? Gong Jiaxiang said bitterly that he had seen the wrong person, and thought that Chen Zikun was a national hero who stood up to the sky, but how did he know that he was a complete warlord!

In the end, Chen Zikun was asked to repay the loan of 200,000 yuan, and the business was suspended ahead of schedule.

Chen Zikun didn't expect Gong Jiaxiang to be so bookish, but thinking that he voted for himself as a member of Congress, he is also a patriotic and angry young man, and it is understandable that he is not as mercenary as a businessman.

"Zijun, have you read this letter?" Chan gently placed the letter on the table.

Gong Zijun nodded silently, and stopped talking.

"It's okay, you say." Chan had already guessed what he was going to say.

"Humble ...... It is difficult for the lowly position to be qualified for the post of logistics director, and he plans to go to the provincial capital to continue his studies, so he ......"

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay to go to school more, I approve you to step down and resign, just hand over the accounts in hand to Zhao Yufeng."

"Xie Dashuai!" Gong Zijun didn't expect his resignation to go so smoothly, he was overjoyed, and said, "Dashuai, I'm getting married." ”

"And the eldest lady of the Xia family?"

"Yes, get engaged first, and then get married when I succeed in my studies, I still have one thing to ask for."

"Say."

"Xia Dalong is deeply guilty, but he has been seriously ill for a long time, and he still asks the marshal to look at his humble duties...... For the sake of the younger brother, spare his old life. Gong Zijun stood up and bowed deeply, thinking that this request was Xia Jingxi's idea.

Chen Zikun said: "You are wrong, I am a military envoy, not a county magistrate, not a judge, and I have no judicial power, but I will take proper care of it, you can go and say hello to Miss Xia for me." ”

"Thank you." Gong Zijun bowed to the end again and retreated.

Chen Zikun sat in the second hall, pondered for a long time, mother, the feeling of betrayal and separation of relatives is not happy, is Lao Tzu really wrong?