Chapter Twenty-Three: Hiring Gangsters

As the days passed, the rainy season that began in Myanmar every May was getting closer and closer, and Zhao Zhi began to worry about the Jewish refugees stranded in Yangon and the mountains of supplies, and the fleet that traveled back and forth between Yangon and the port of Marseille would bring a large number of Jewish refugees here, which once made the city of Yangon almost everywhere with Jewish refugees. Prices in Yangon have skyrocketed as a result of the massive increase in population, from US$5 a month for a family of three to US$15 a month when the refugees arrived in Yangon six months ago, and now the cost of living for a family of three has more than tripled to US$15 a month.

At the same time, Zhao Zhi also has a headache for the security in Yangon City, with the increase of Jewish refugees, there are more and more robberies and kidnappings against Jews in Yangon City, Capone, a scheming guy, only knows how to make money in his own pocket, and the security police under him don't follow to make trouble, Zhao Zhi doesn't expect them to protect the safety of these Jews. In order to ensure the safety of the Jews in Yangon, with the tacit consent of Capone and Zhao Zhi, Jewish gangs in the form of families came into being in Yangon, which more or less gave the Jews in Yangon a sense of security, but at the same time, it also made the chaotic law and order in Yangon even more chaotic, and even the materials stored by Zhao Zhi in the port were stolen.

As the first to contact Zhao Zhi, the Levy family was not far behind, and concentrated the young people of the family to open a gemstone and jewelry shop in Yangon, which was secretly a gangster den for loan sharks. Soaring prices in the city of Yangon also opened the eyes of the shrewd Jews, who had the brains and skills to seize the opportunity, but many of them lacked the capital. The Jewish gangsters, who were able to provide financial services to everyone, were given the opportunity to develop, and the usury was only aimed at the wealthy locals in Yangon, and when the Jews borrowed money, the Jewish gangsters only charged a small interest, and they were essentially the same as the banks.

On the last Sunday at the end of March, all the Jewish gangster families in Yangon City received Zhao Zhi's invitation, and Zhao Zhi, as the protector of the Jews, rarely called these gangster family gatherings, so although the gangster families who received the invitation were a little confused and didn't know what Zhao Zhi meant, they still got on the truck to pick them up at the time agreed in the invitation. The gang leaders who were worried in their hearts were pulled all the way by the truck into Zhao Zhi's training camp outside the city, which deviated from Yangon City, Zhao Zhi did not have to worry about the police under Capone to make trouble, and Zhao Zhi also had the intention of using force to pressure the gang leaders.

When the truck drove into the training camp, it was the time when the mercenaries were conducting special training for Jewish recruits, and the gang leaders looked with interest at the children of their own tribe who were being trained on the playground. The movement of tens of thousands of people training is not small, and the gang leaders on the truck who watched were pleasantly surprised, and they were looking for the children of their own families among the recruits.

"Everyone, my gentleman, please come in" The truck stopped in front of Zhao Zhi's combat conference room, and Ye Kong, who was heavily armed and indifferent, stood in front of the door and was waiting for them. There was a huge sand table in the war conference room, and Zhao Zhi, who was dressed in a black shirt, was taking Luo Ying to mark on the sand table, and this sand table was made by Zhao Zhi based on the information sent back by the Jewish First Army. The Jewish First Legion sent by Zhao Zhi to serve as a road protector is not only as simple as protecting the road, they need to establish material distribution and distribution points at key points on the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and also discharge scout troops to carry out reconnaissance of the surrounding terrain, and all the information on the Yunnan-Burma Highway in Zhao Zhi's hands comes from the Jewish First Army.

Zhao Zhi doesn't need the accuracy of the terrain, he only values the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Zhao Zhi needs to know the dangers of the entire Yunnan-Burma Highway, and Zhao Zhi, who is accustomed to planning and then acting, is planning for the future. The Japanese were about to overwhelm the border, and their next target after occupying Vietnam would be Burma, and Zhao Zhi, who had never fought uncertain battles, did not want to be pursued by the Japanese army all the way into China. Zhao Zhi didn't speak, and the gang leaders who were led into the combat conference room didn't dare to sit down without permission, they only watched Zhao Zhi poke and poke on the sand table, but the person with his back to them just ignored them.

"You guys are here, sit down" After the gang leaders were chilled by Zhao Zhi for a while, Zhao Zhicai, who was done, straightened up and jumped down from the table with the sand table, Zhao Zhi took the handkerchief handed by Luo Ying and wiped his hands while greeting them. Zhao Zhi summoned these gangster families to the training camp today for two purposes: one was to use the power of the gangs to transfer the Jewish refugees in Yangon to China as soon as possible, and the other was to use the power of the Jewish gangsters to collect grain in Burma and transport it to China. The influx of Jews into Myanmar has caused prices in Yangon to skyrocket, and Zhao Zhi is equally concerned that prices in Kunming will be driven up by the Jewish refugees.

The huge map was spread out on the table, and Zhao Zhi carried a thin wooden stick in his hand, "Everyone, you are all people who can take charge of things in various families, and I have summoned you here today to talk about the migration of refugees to China." As the war in France progressed, a large number of refugees from the port of Marseille were stranded in Yangon City, and housing, food, medical care and security were all major problems. ”

"Actually, these are not the most important things" Zhao Zhi's stick in his hand fell on the waters of the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal, "Yangon is close to the sea, but the British troops stationed here only have a few thousand-ton gunboats, such a force is not enough to fight against the Japanese fleet, once the Japanese completely occupy Vietnam and set their sights on Burma, then the Jews stranded in Yangon will become the victims of the war." ”

"You may think that Japanese soldiers will give preferential treatment to foreigners, but don't forget that Germany and Japan are former allies, and although Germany has dissolved its alliance with Japan, Japan is actively looking for opportunities, and they want to restore their alliance with Germany. You were all forced to move here by the Germans, and imagine what the Japanese, eager to prove to Germany and regain their allies, would treat you if the Japanese attacked Burma? ”

Zhao Zhi's rhetorical question made the gang leaders talk a lot, they were basically just some merchant families, and they didn't know anything about the war, they didn't fully understand the meaning of Zhao Zhi's words, but they also understood that the situation that the Jews were going to face was not optimistic. "There are still more than 800,000 Jews in Yangon, and the camps outside the city are already overcrowded, and if France is defeated, there will be a large number of French Jews sent here, and the people who stayed in France have done a rough count, and there are still 100,000 Jews in the Jewish refugee camps in the port of Marseille, and this number is increasing every day."

"Mr. Zhao, just say it directly, what do you need us to do?" The first to express his stance was the patriarch of Levy, who had cooperated with Zhao Zhi many times, and Levi already knew Zhao Zhi's temperament, if he didn't need everyone's help, Zhao Zhi would not take the initiative to summon them here.

"Recruits need to be trained and selected, I don't have enough people now, I want to leave the transfer of refugees to you" Zhao Zhi took out a piece of paper and put it on the table, "Many of your clansmen think that Yangon is a place where you can live, grow old, sick and die for a lifetime, they are not willing to follow the convoy I hired to China, but time waits for no one, if you don't send them to China in time, I am afraid that when the Japanese come, these compatriots of yours will become corpses in the refugee concentration camp."

"Of course, I won't let you work in vain, except for the means of transportation I hire, you can use any means of transportation, as long as I send people to Wan Town safely, for every 5 people, I will pay you 1 dollar, you must know that this is a big business of more than 200,000 US dollars, I don't think you will refuse" Zhao Zhi is unwilling to deal with those cold Jewish refugees, he now regards these Jewish gangster families as contract foremen, he is the contractor, they are contractors, The targets of the contract were those Jewish refugees who needed to be relocated.

Patriarch Levy and several close gang leaders glanced at each other, and already had a rough idea in their hearts, 200,000 US dollars were divided equally among the gangster families present, and each family could also get tens of thousands of US dollars. The trucks in Yangon have been collected by Zhao Zhi, but there are other cities in Myanmar, and trucks will be found in those cities, not only that, but the British military camps stationed in Myanmar are also full of vehicles, with the silver bullet offensive and pervasive means of the Jewish gangsters, it is believed that it will not be difficult to borrow the vehicles of the British army.

"There is one more thing that depends on you to do" Patriarch Levi was just about to speak, but Zhao Zhi raised his hand to stop him, "Grain, I need a lot of grain, Myanmar was a bumper harvest year last year, and the people hoarded a lot of grain, I need you to collect this grain from the Burmese and transport it into China, I don't care if you buy it with money or go directly to rob it, on the premise of ensuring that the safety of Jewish refugees is not endangered, I want to see the grain that enters China with the refugees, otherwise your compatriots can only gnaw the bark in China"

Zhao Zhi's strength made several family patriarchs except Levi very unhappy, but Zhao Zhi's words were not unreasonable, the people stranded in Yangon were all unarmed Jews, and if the Japanese really started the idea of Burma, their people would be in great danger. At that time, no matter how many vehicles they had, they would not have time to transport their compatriots to China, so Zhao Zhi's forced transfer of Jews now was quite correct.