Chapter 54 Arrangements for the People of Shanghai
Upstairs in Weihua Pharmaceutical, Jiang Cheng and several giants half-truthfully told everything they had done during this time.
Several people looked at each other, and Du Yuesheng spoke first, "Old Yu has already told us everything. Since you have chosen the Red Party, Master Yu has gone to Yan'an to investigate, and we don't have much opinion, after all, we are all white-faced people, and we don't know much about military affairs, we just need to make a fortune. Just say what you want us to do. β
Jiang Cheng stood up and arched his hand to several bigwigs and said, "Thank you, gentlemen, then I will say it directly, Yu Lao should have told you my previous thoughts, according to my information, at the beginning of July, the war will begin, and it is expected that in August, Shanghai will start a war, and it will be very chaotic at that time, so we must prepare in advance, Yu Lao, you are the barefoot God of Wealth on the beach, please contact the factory owner more, once the war starts, immediately move inward, I think the Nanjing government will also organize the inward relocation at that time, But at that time, only large enterprises should have the help of the central government, and those small and medium-sized factories will be difficult to relocate without the help of the central government. So we'll do the work. β
Saying that, Jiang Cheng looked back at Chen Tongsheng who was standing behind and said, "How much money do we have now?" β
Chen Tongsheng immediately replied, "Go back to the owner, because the owner has opened branches in Europe and the United States, although the price is a lot higher, but after all, it is allowed to pay without gold, so our business has been much worse than before in recent times, and after the last time the owner borrowed money from the gentlemen, we still have 89,456 taels of gold in yesterday's account, and about 11.5 million yuan in legal currency."
Jiang Cheng nodded, this income is not bad, after all, the main buyers of European and American countries have begun to buy power in the German branch and the American branch, and only those who seek higher profits will come to Shanghai with gold from afar.
Jiang Cheng said, "I still have a ton of gold given to me by Yan'an, and I will take it all away in batches and exchange it for equivalent silver." That's about fifteen.6 million. First mention 4 million to the four gentlemen, because there will probably not be such a smooth time to make money later, and then raise 6 million as a fund, so that all the factory machinery that can be moved can be transported away, except for the textile industry and other light industries in the south, the rest will be moved to Yan'an as much as possible. Elder Yu is fully responsible for this matter. Then there are people, Mr. Du is the most famous in Shanghai, and when the time comes, please trouble Mr. Du to organize all the workers who are willing to go north to Yan'an, and if they are unwilling, they will transfer to Chongqing and Wuhan, first take 3 million to do this work, and then Boss Huang, you will mention 1 million, you have the title of major general, please organize the transfer of cultural relics and books in Shanghai at that time. Finally, Sister Guisheng, I would like you to mobilize your sisters to promote the brutality of the Japanese in peacetime, and do a good job in public opinion, but I know that the fastest message in the world is not the telegram but the mouths of your sisters. β
Everyone was coaxed into laughter by Jiang Cheng's words, and they all shook their heads after looking at each other, Yu Qiaqing said first, "Xiao Jiang, you think about it very well, but we still don't want the four million, we did business with you at the beginning to make money, but, at this time today, the Japanese are about to call, do you say we still have the heart to make money, we know that you have a way, let's take it and buy some guns first." β
Jiang Cheng said that in the end, it was agreed that everyone would first take 500,000 fiat currency as dividends, and the rest of the money would be used for those small and medium-sized factories and enterprises to relocate.
The reason why we are ready to transport gold back to modern times and exchange it for silver to the Republic of China is because the ratio of the high price of silver to gold in the Republic of China is about 30-40:1, while the ratio of modern times is 70-80:1.
At this time, there was another dispute downstairs.
Li Qian queued for more than two hours, and finally saw the door, at this time, a man in gray suddenly rushed over, this man was tall and big but deliberately shrunk into a ball, and hit Li Qian, Li Qian is a practitioner since childhood, where would he be afraid of him, and suddenly shook him to the ground.
The man in gray rolled his eyes, then covered his hand and said, "How are you squeezing people, my hand, my hand is broken." β
Li Qian couldn't understand Shanghainese at all, but she guessed three points by looking at him.
At this time, several men came out of nowhere, and surrounded the man in gray and said, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?" He pointed at Li Qian and said, "You little red guy, you broke someone, hurry up and lose money." β
Li Qian understood the loss of money, and immediately shouted, "He obviously didn't have anything, and he hit me first." β
At this time, the horse boy who maintained order came over and pulled the man in gray up, touched his arm, ah, it was really broken, this horse boy was suddenly in trouble, although he knew that this was this group of ruffians doing ghosts, but now his hand is really broken, is this so doing?
When the men saw this situation, they didn't know that the situation was coming, and immediately someone grabbed Li Qian and dragged him out, where did Li Qian receive such treatment, kicked the person to the ground with a kick, pulled out a soft sword from his waist and said, "You framed a good person, and then I'm not welcome." β
"What are you doing?" Everyone looked back and saw a man in a flat-headed long shirt standing at the door of the store, and Ma Zai hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Mr. Lin, it's like this." Then he told the story again.
Lin Huaibu looked at Ma Zai and said, "Are you new here, can't you see such a little trick?" β
As he spoke, he grabbed the man in gray next door and pulled it away, and with a click, his arm was connected, and Lin Huaibu smiled and said, "Little tricks dare to be wild here, don't you like to break your arm?" Come on, break all these people's arms and throw them out of the street, don't get your eyes dirty here. β
Ignoring those poor eggs, Lin Huaibu looked at Li Qian who was holding a soft sword and said, "The girl is frightened, but we are not allowed to use knives and guns here, and it is better for the girl to put it away." How many medicines you need, I decide, you can buy them in advance. β
Li Qian scratched her head and said, "I'm not here to buy medicine, I'm here to find someone." As he spoke, he handed the letter to Lin Huaibu.
Lin Huaibu looked at it twice, and said in shock, "It turned out to be the famous jade-faced tiger Han Muxia's high-ranking apprentice, disrespectful, disrespectful, upstairs, please." β
Jiang Cheng was introducing Wang Yong at this time, and asked Chen Tongsheng to cooperate with Wang Yong to recruit another 200 escorts, and train strictly to prepare for great use. These are intended to be used as escorts for the company in the future.
Lin Huaibu interjected at this time and said to Jiang Cheng, "Mr. Jiang, someone is looking for you." As he spoke, he handed the letter to Jiang Cheng.
Jiang Cheng took it and saw that it was a letter written by Zhou Guansheng, to the effect that he knew that there were no people around him, so he sent a junior sister to protect his safety.
Jiang Cheng asked Li Qian, "What's your name?" β
Li Qian arched her hand and said, "Under Li Qian, please give me more advice in the future." β
Jiang Cheng hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Contemptible Jiang Cheng, please girl in the future, Wang Yong, Miss Li will be your deputy in the future, and you will be treated." You go and tell Miss Li about our treatment here. β
Wang Yong sighed, pulled Li Qian to the back row and said, Jiang Cheng continued to have a meeting with the bigwigs.
Li Qian asked curiously, "Are we treated well?" β
Wang Yong nodded sheepishly and said, "Our first, oh, no, the owner is a super landlord and old wealth, your treatment is the same as mine, 13 months of salary a year, 300 fiat currency a month, three times the salary on holidays, benefits are calculated separately, in addition, what special equipment do you need, I will report it to the old man with the abacus over there, and he will be responsible for it." There are also a lot of secrets of our owner, so we must keep our mouth tight. β
Li Qian listened to Wang Yong talk about welfare benefits, heard her eyes getting bigger and bigger, the corners of her mouth turned up, her eyes kept rolling, and she said, "Is this true?" How much do we pay us? Three hundred, my goodness, how many sugar gourds are there? β
Wang Yong patted his chest and said, "Then there is still a fake, you look at the queue downstairs, they are all here to buy our host's things." β
Jiang Cheng said to Yu Qiaqing again: "There is another matter, I discussed with the Red Party that I am going to sponsor some students to send some students to study in the United States and Germany before the war has started. There will be people from the Red Party in Peiping who will be responsible for sending them to the Soviet Union, and we will send them to the United States and Germany, mainly to learn about science and engineering, and if anyone is interested, they can also study military affairs. β
Yu Qiaqing nodded and said, "This is a good thing, how many are you going to send?" β
Jiang Cheng said, "The first batch of 1,000 people, all recruited from the south, should be sent out as quickly as possible." β
Du Yuesheng couldn't help but be shocked when she heard this: "A thousand people? So much? As far as I know, there were only 1,002 international students studying abroad in the country last year (historical facts), and where do we find so many students? And they all require excellent character and learning, which is a lot of money. β
Jiang Cheng replied, "Not only high school students, junior college students, and college students, but also go directly to the school to find them, according to their grades and conduct, their tuition fees abroad are all responsible for us, such conditions they should be tempted, the key is that it is still a safe period, and it is not easy to send people out, once the war starts, it will not be easy for us to send people out." The money will be paid by the rest of the money first, and if it is not enough, we will find a way when the time comes. β
Huang Jinrong said, "Send, it's a good thing to send the baby to study, no matter how difficult it is, it's worth it, we send it, but Xiao Jiang in Europe and the United States has to arrange it quickly." β
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "I will arrange it, these people must be selected before mid-July, and sent out before August." β
After Jiang Cheng finished the meeting with several bigwigs, he turned back to Li Qian and said, "Come on, I'll show you around, and then introduce some brothers to you." With that, he took Wang Yong and Li Qian downstairs to meet Ding Jie and Jin Shan.
After the two sides exchanged greetings, Jiang Cheng instructed the four to work together, especially to ensure the recruitment and training of the security team.
At this time, a voice came from behind, "Brother Cheng!! β
When Jiang Cheng turned around, it was Yu Yishan. Yu Yishan saw Li Qian standing beside Jiang Cheng, raised her forehead, and said with a smile, "Brother Cheng, who are these two?" β
Jiang Cheng hurriedly introduced, "This is called Li Qian, the master apprentice of Tianjin Han Daxia, this is called Wang Yong - that, Wang Yong, where did you learn kung fu?" β
Wang Yongyi raised his head and said, "My marksmanship is hunting, bomb throwing is herding sheep, and fighting is practiced with tigers." β
Jiang Cheng swallowed his saliva and skipped directly and said, "This is the eldest lady of the Yu family, Yu Yishan, who is now helping me open a literacy class, by the way, how are the brothers studying now?" β
Jin Shan hurriedly said, "Thanks to Miss Yu, most of the brothers can now write more than three or four hundred words. β
Jiang Cheng frowned, this is still too slow, although there are already Hanyu Pinyin and simplified characters, but due to the confusion of thoughts, after the simplified characters were published in 1935, and on February 5, 1936, due to the strong opposition of Dai Jitao, a veteran of the Kuomintang at the time, the Ministry of Education was ordered by the Executive Yuan to take it back, and the simplified Chinese movement was stopped, and the simplification at this time was very different from later generations, and it was not as simple as later generations.
As for Hanyu Pinyin, it was first proposed by Lu Jianzhang in 1892, first formulated by the Chinese Pronunciation Unification Association in 1913, and promulgated by the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government in 1918. But this is not the same as the pinyin of later generations, and it should be more accurate to call phonetic symbols, that is, the symbols of the radicals that appear in the dictionary of later generations, and only Taiwan is still learning these symbols in an all-round way in later generations.
The well-known Hanyu Pinyin was published by the Nanjing Kuomintang Government University in 1928. But it is not widespread.
Jiang Cheng secretly thought that next time he would have to bring these literacy things to the Republic of China, and the army with culture and thought was the most terrible army.
Yu Yishan walked into Jiang Cheng, held his hand, and then looked at Li Qian proudly.
Although Li Qian doesn't quite understand that this Miss Yu is staring at herself, she understands a truth when she has been practicing martial arts and fighting since she was a child - others stare at you, don't care why, just stare back. Li Qian didn't say a word and stared at Yu Yishan.
Jiang Cheng looked at the two of them who were the same as Douyan, and shook his head helplessly, what is the matter.
Jiang Cheng said to Yu Yishan, "I'll bring you a few textbooks next time, with the latest Chinese pinyin, and simplified Chinese characters, you let the new brothers learn this in the future, this one can learn quickly." Yu Yishan said curiously, "Really? Then I'm really curious. β
Jiang Cheng said with a smile: "Try it and you'll know." As he spoke, he took everyone back to the warehouse to visit the security team and the laborers. Introduce Wang Yong and Li Qian to everyone.
After ordering everything, Jiang Cheng brought half of the gold to the modern era that night, preparing to use the difference in the price of precious metals between the two eras to make a small profit.
-- Berlin, Germany, June 16, 1937
On this day, the tank test site outside Berlin was visited by many heavyweights, Daimler led the way, followed by a string of German officers in military uniforms, one of whom had the iconic mustache of Hitler.
Gustav Krupp, who was at the end of the mustache, looked critically at Daimler's proving ground, where a mighty tank was waiting for its final review.
Hitler and the others sat on the high platform and looked at the tanks not far away with binoculars, and Hitler asked, "Daimler, is this your latest model?" It looks like it's a big change from the previous models. β
Daimler smiled and said, "My FΓΌhrer, I was inspired by the models you gave me, and the 37mm gun we originally designed did not perform well against the latest French tanks or Soviet tanks. So we redesigned it, and it's the Type D that is now the third tank in front of you.
GUDERIAN LOOKED AT THE TANK AND SAID IN SURPRISE: "YOU SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED HIS CALIBER, THIS SHOULD BE 50MM, RIGHT?" β
Daimler nodded and said, "After we saw the tank armor of France and the Soviet Union in the intelligence, we thought that it was impossible to achieve an advantage by relying only on the 37MM tank gun, and the latest tank armor developed by the Soviet Union according to the intelligence was inclined armor, although this would lead to a smaller space, but it would indeed increase the defensive power, so we used a 50 mm 42 times caliber KwK38 gun, so that his armor-piercing ability reached 50 mm, And the standard car can carry 99 rounds of 50-mm shells and 2000 rounds of machine gun ammunition, and the ammunition carried by our tanks can guarantee our fighters to fight for a long time. β
Hitler shook his head and said, "And what about his defenses?" Our tank doesn't just have attack power, it's also its speed and"
Guderian hurriedly picked up and said, "There is still the ability to continue fighting." β
Daimler shook his head and said, "Our engine is still not good, so the armor has not been strengthened, and the armor is still the thickest 37MM, because only some changes have occurred in the weapon system, and the sustained combat capability has not changed much." β
Hitler calmly waved his cane and said, "Engine, our empire needs a better engine, who is studying the engine now?" β
Himmler immediately replied, "It's Maybach." However, the news from them is not very good, and it will be difficult for the engine to make a huge breakthrough in a short period of time. β
Hitler exclaimed, "We must speed up, our time has been delayed for too long by those damn financiers, by the way, how is the design of tank four?" β
Himmler replied that "the design had already been completed, but after getting the latest information about the opponent, the redesign began, and RWE said that the first prototype would be produced by the end of this year at the latest." β
Hitler nodded and thought for a moment and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, our wasted time is being chased back in our efforts, the great cause of the Third Reich is being created in our hands, and the shame of the world war will be washed away in our hands, as I said before, if we wait for the Germanic peoples to multiply to the point where the population swells, then we will reach out and plunder the territory." At that time, for the sake of bread and butter, of course, the public did not hesitate to use hoes instead of swords to uncover the prelude to the war. At that time it will be a disgrace to all the previous rulers, so let's go together with the sword in our hands to find land for the plough of the commoners. β
Everyone was thrilled by Hitler's speech, excitedly saying, "Hurrah, Hitler." β
On June 17, 1937, Tianjin was basically in a stage where the entire Chinese maritime frontier was basically in a stage of having a sea and no defense, and the Chinese navy was a well-deserved fleet, after all, even the army was still an average of two or three people with a gun, and China really could not afford to swallow the navy like a gold-swallowing beast.
At this time, because of a series of events such as the floating corpse case and Japan's request to expand the concession, Sino-Japanese relations were extremely tense, and Zhang Zizhong received a secret mission from Song Zheyuan at this time to help the Red Party transport machinery and equipment. The heart is also up and down, Tianjin is not the 29th Army alone, even in the concession I don't know if there are artillery has been secretly aiming at their own headquarters, if you want to hide from the Japanese to hide a large number of machinery and equipment into the inland, how easy it is to say, not to mention that the people of the Blue Coat Society are eyeing the side, if they use the army, there is undoubtedly no silver three hundred taels here, without the army, the problem of secrecy is no longer a problem at all, I am afraid that even a few screws will be investigated.