Chapter 57: Yangzhou Shock
"Little money, it's so sweet!"
Hu Dashuai changed to a comfortable position and lay on the recliner, smacked his lips and tasted the dragon well before the rain, humming a little song leisurely.
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Chen Qimei was impatient to take the two young people straight to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. Chen Qimei has a wide range of hobbies, among which she is best at smoking big cigarettes and prostitution. In order to get the coveted position of the governor of Shanghai, this goods can be regarded as a wreck. You have a lot of time in one night, and you can't scavenge more than a million. Chen Qimei and Li Pingshu and other backbones held a one-night meeting, mortgaged the property to the bank, embezzled the money raised before, and found a few fat sheep to slaughter overnight, and finally got 1.5 million yuan.
A Hanyang-made rifle costs 80 yuan, a 37-mm mountain cannon costs 5,000 yuan, a Shanghai-made imitation German-style 75-mm 14-diameter mountain gun costs 20,000 yuan, a 75-mm shell costs 50 yuan, a 37-mm shell costs 20 yuan, and a 7.92-mm round-nosed bullet is calculated as 30 yuan for 1,000 rounds. In all fairness, this price is very cheating, you must know that before the war, the price quoted by unscrupulous German arms dealers was only 60 yuan per commission 1888 rifle, which is still the original German goods, and the quality is a grade higher than the old sleeves and Hanyang made in China at that time. However, Chen Qimei had no choice, and now that the revolution intensified, the British, who directly controlled the Yangtze River Valley, had begun to ban the flow of arms. Even if you hold the silver in your hand, you can't buy arms, and Chen Qimei, the position of the governor of Shanghai, is determined to win, so he can only grit his teeth and accept the price of cutting meat.
There are 36 imitation German 75-mm 14-diameter short-barreled mountain guns, 60 imitation French Haas 37 rapid-fire guns, more than 10,000 Hanyang-made rifles, 200,000 rounds of ammunition, and two bases of 37 mm and 75 mm shells. In the blink of an eye, the 1.5 million yuan bill of exchange in his arms had already changed owners before it was warmed up. Sadly, this is only a deposit, which is a big drop according to the price list. Showing a sharp mountain face. Hu Dashuai, who had just made a stroke, waved his hand, saying that for the sake of the people of Shanghai who had made great contributions to the revolution. You can pick up the goods first. The balance can be settled within a week.
"The little red guy in the countryside of Anhui! Dead little deflated three who want money! If you don't come out and stick a pole, these guns are all from the people of Shanghai! ”
Chen Qimei's eyes turned black with anger, and she couldn't help but scold in her heart.
But this is also the ability to be in the heart. On the surface, he still pretended to be grateful, and thanked Hu Dashuai for his strong "support" to the people of Shanghai. With the gun in hand, Chen Qimei and his entourage achieved their goal, and they didn't want to delay in the manufacturing bureau immediately, so they hurriedly walked away after putting down the bill of exchange, preparing to bring someone to pick up the goods later. As for Li Xiehe of the Restoration Society, he just overpressed Chen Qimei at the meeting yesterday and became the provisional commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Revolutionary Army. In the evening, he directly shouted at five and six and took a group of party henchmen to drink in a chic manner, without any sense of crisis. Since this mud can't hold up the wall. Hu Rui didn't bother to worry about it anymore. directly asked someone to send 1,000 rifles and 100,000 rounds of ammunition to the Liberation Society, and quickly sent Li Xiehe away, and he didn't even have the time to meet and mention it. An unlucky and sad child, who can't complain about others, is born to be cannon fodder!
It was when the spring breeze was proud, and the money order that was put in the pocket with a hula was taken away by one hand with lightning speed.
"Okay, it's only been a long time, and 1.5 million has come in. Hu Dashuai. You're really hundreds of thousands a minute! ”
Sanniang pinched the bill of exchange in her hand, raised her eyebrows, and joked. The remarks of "hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute" are naturally the product of getting along with Hu Dashuai for a long time.
"Hey, hey. Of course, I don't bother to do things like looting places. This handsome man loves the people like a son, and he is a very principled Qing official! Of course, if someone cries and shouts to put the silver into your hand. Then I still won't refuse kindness. Sanniang, someone has reimbursed the cost of the expansion of the army along the way. Hey. When it's expanded, it's time for your epaulettes to be replaced! ”
Hu Rui laughed. Prepare to snatch the bill of exchange back. The small amount of money I earned is refreshing and comfortable to watch.
"Turn it over to the treasury! Say haode, this half of my private money! For the rest, you can find Chen Qimei to go! ”
Sanniang raised her eyebrows playfully, put the bill of exchange directly into her pocket, and said undoubtedly. At the same time, the aura was full of energy, and there was a strong royal sister momentum scattered all over the body, which discouraged all the males within a radius of ten meters.
“……”
Hu Dashuai wanted to cry without tears on his middle finger, muttering secretly in his heart. There are more than 2 million in total, half for one person, why don't you find me more than 200,000 first. Of course, this can only be muttering in my heart, facing Sanniang who is full of aura. Hu Dashuai was overwhelmed by the royal sister's momentum, unable to move, and couldn't afford to bargain. I only hated myself for talking too much at the beginning, why did I tease Yan Sanniang when I had nothing to do, but now it's okay, I dug a pit for myself to jump.
Looking at Hu Dashuai, who was suffocated and shrunk on the recliner with the middle finger of the team, Sanniang's mood was inexplicably good. The corners of his mouth inadvertently showed a faint smile, and people are just like this.
"Handsome, in charge, Pukou No. 2 mixed into the Concord Electric! The Ministry of Intelligence Yangzhou Station is in an emergency! ”
At this moment, the intelligence staff officer on duty in the telecommunications department rushed all the way over with a folder in his arms.
"Read!"
As soon as he heard the urgent telegram signed by the two departments, Hu Dashuai immediately recovered his state. Suddenly jumped up from the recliner, glanced at Sanniang beside him in surprise, and said in unison.
"Urgent electricity, Yangzhou recovered yesterday, and the idler Sun Tiansheng recognized himself as the governor of Yangzhou. Late yesterday night, the salt barons rioted, and Yangzhou was in flames. How to deal with it, the governor of Qingdu made it clear! ”
"Hiss~"
Hu Rui gasped as if he had a toothache, and Sanniang had mentioned it when he was in Zhenjiang before, so that the Second Mixed Association stationed in Pukou would send troops to Jianghuai and catch the salt tax of Lianghuai. It's been a few days, why did such a Sun Tiansheng suddenly appear and insert a lever? Yangzhou is the base camp of salt merchants, and this place can be regarded as a fat place, and the salt tax alone is a large income.
"The second mixed association weishenme did not follow the previous orders. Immediately send troops to Jianghuai?! Where is the second mixed association now? ”
Hu Rui frowned and thought about it, and Sanniang was the first to react. Immediately grasped the main point. Immediately asked. The order to the Second Mixed Association had already been issued when crossing the Zhenjiang River, how could this still happen?
"Report the Minister. When the Fourth Division was reorganized to assist in the defense of Nanjing, the League repeatedly made difficulties in many ways. Bob, the acting commander of the Fourth Division, was so annoyed that after Xu Shaozhen's department began to take shape, he immediately withdrew to Wuhu to continue the reorganization! Xu Shaozhen privately came to the Second Mixed Association, and asked the Second Mixed Association to temporarily stay in Pukou to defend the safety of Nanjing on the grounds that the department had just been established and had not yet established a stable foothold! ”
The intelligence staff officer saluted and said respectfully. Hu Dashuai had personally said it before. Within the Anhui Revolutionary Army, there is no secret about Minister Yan of the Ministry of Intelligence. The whole army is not stupid, except for Minister Yan, who does it in private and directly calls the marshal "Lao Hu"? Let's not talk about cooking in person, but the two of them are really unrestrained when they joke in private. Hu Dashuai, who single-handedly created the Anhui Revolutionary Army, has always been iron-blooded and upright, but he has changed only in front of Minister Yan, and it is common to be bullied. It's not a couple, do you dare to be so casual?! Don't you dare to commit such a crime?! It's not a couple. Do you dare to be so affectionate?! So, that's where the answer comes in. said that these two had nothing, and the whole army didn't believe it!
"It seems that some people are afraid that we will not leave in Nanjing!"
Hearing this, Hu Rui said lightly in a cold tone. The Alliance's is stabbing in the back. At present, the Anhui Revolutionary Army is still on its way to the east, and all the cities it passes through have been recovered. Among other things, the mere capture of Nanjing greatly diverted the attention of the Manchu regime. The battle on the Wuchang side is also much easier to fight. Now that the Manchus have not yet fallen, it should have been a time for unity. These guys from the League can't wait to carve up the power and stab the Anhui Revolutionary Army in the back! How could Hu Rui not be angry? Hu Rui gritted his back molars. I plan to wait for the next time Chen Qimei asks for the door again, and then slaughter it fiercely.
"What is the situation in Yangzhou now?"
Sanniang put her hands on Hu Rui's shoulders and gently stroked them as if comforting. The second mixed association delayed the fighters, and the most important thing was that the alliance would secretly obstruct and drag its feet.
The intelligence staff officer was very interested in temporarily losing his sight, took out a newspaper from the folder, and respectfully handed it over.
"What's wrong?"
Hu Ruiang raised his head, looked at the telegram, and asked Sanniang with a strange expression on her face.
Sanniang didn't answer, but just handed over the telegram directly. This is an urgent secret report from the Yangzhou Station of the Ministry of Intelligence, and the authenticity and accuracy can still be guaranteed.
"Making teapots in a brothel? Sun Tiansheng? It's a familiar name......"
Hu Rui grasped a few key words of violence, pondered for a long time, and went through all the information about the Xinhai Revolution in his head. Suddenly, it was as if I had fallen into an ice cave in a dog day, and a burst of cold that invaded the bone marrow rushed to my face.
According to Hu Rui's memory, one day after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising of the Xinhai Revolution in parallel history, a group of stragglers came to Yangzhou City, led by a white silk horse wrapped in a pistol and swaggering into the Yamen of the salt transport envoy. The Qing Dynasty's officials had long since disappeared, and the soldiers and warriors ordered the officials in the yamen to open the door of the warehouse, and the soldiers each grabbed a few ingots and scattered. The rest of the leader and a few entourages did not leave, sitting on the top of the high hall, looking at the ingots in front of them in a daze. At this time, the Yangzhou gentry, who thought that it was the revolutionaries who broke the city, sent a few representatives to investigate, and after making a pass and complimenting, they saw that the leader could not say a few words, not like a person with a background, but he did not dare to make a mistake, out of concern for the order of the city, so he asked the leader to issue a notice to calm the people, so as not to cause chaos. The leader felt justified, so he pulled the inspector who came with the gentry representative, and insisted that the family do it, but the inspector had no choice but to write a notice indiscriminately, without a big seal (the salt transport envoy had already taken it away), so he took the inspector's wooden poke top bar. There are rumors in the market that Yangzhou has been reformed in this way -- "recovered". Later, it was found that this young man was a turtle slave who worked as a handyman in a brothel! At that time, the party was accustomed to planning revolution in brothels, and Sun Tiansheng had repeatedly heard some major truths propagated by the revolutionary party during his errand days, and also knew that Sun of the League was a well-known revolutionary leader, and he happened to get acquainted with several battalion officers of several patrol battalions. After the Wuchang Uprising, the entire Yangtze River basin was shaken, and Sun Tiansheng's thief heart rose sharply, so he lied to those patrol battalion officers that he was Sun Yat-sen's brother, and was ordered to come to recover Yangzhou, and everyone could make a fortune together. So there was such a farce. After Sun Tiansheng became the governor for three days, he was captured by the salt lord Xu Laohu and later beheaded. Before the execution, the goods shouted: "Lao Tzu has also been the emperor for three days, enough!" ”
But this was the day after the Wuchang Uprising, how did it happen now? Could it be that the established history, because of his little butterfly that crossed over, has changed again? If I remember correctly, after Xu Laohu led his troops into Yangzhou in parallel history, he did not make such a big move. The garrison in Pukou and the Yangzhou station of the Ministry of Intelligence sent an emergency telegram at the same time, which shows the chaos of the situation in Yangzhou.
"Lao Hu, what's wrong with you? Isn't it uncomfortable?! ”
Sanniang looked at Hu Rui, who was pale and sluggish, and asked with concern. After saying a sentence three times in a row, Hu Rui could be considered to have a little reaction.
"I'm fine."
Hu Rui was covered in cold sweat, weakly shook Sanniang's hand on his shoulder, and replied reluctantly. The moment the skin touched, Sanniang was surprised to find that Hu Rui's hands were as cold as ice cubes. (To be continued......)
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