Chapter 056: The Dividends of the Revolution (6)
Huang Xing, who was so anxious, naturally couldn't calm down: "Mr. Ye, I heard Wen Zheng say that you are involved in the sale of arms?" ”
Ye Zuwen smiled: "Ye is a small businessman, so dare to do such a terrible business." It's just that I've been in this mall for a long time, and a few of my friends dare to play this, Ye Mou usually helps to pull a line and build a bridge, and there are many, I don't dare to ask or think about it! ”
Huang Xing sighed and asked, "I don't know if Mr. Ye can help Huang also draw a line and build a bridge." Of course, this will not make Mr. Ye work in vain. ”
Ye Zuwen: "Huang Liushou can afford to be below, and it is also an honor to run errands for you." It's just that I don't know what Huang needs Ye to do here? ”
Huang Xing hesitated for a long time, and said the plan he had with Li Shucheng and Wang Zhenyu last night: "Don't hide it, I have nearly 300,000 troops to deal with here." Among them, there are mountain guns and heavy machine guns, but Huang can only handle Hanyang, and the number is about 150,000. Any more is beyond Huang's authority, as for the price, I hope it will not be lower than the market price, Mr. Ye, what do you think? ”
"So much, hiss" Ye Zuwen pretended to be surprised, "Huang stays behind, this is a lot of money, even if my friend eats it, he may not be able to ship it so quickly, the pressure on this fund is very great, you have to allow Ye to discuss it with his friends." ”
Huang Xing also felt reasonable: "Mr. Ye, don't worry, but you have to bother with such a big matter, please keep your mouth shut!" ”
Ye Zuwen smiled lightly: "This is natural, Ye is a businessman, and he still understands this rule." ”……
Ye Zuwen and his son stayed in Wang Zhenyu's brigade that night.
"General Wang, on the side of the Zongshe Party, I have already contacted him, and the other party is very interested, but the location of the delivery is required to be in Lushun. The price is very realistic, 80 yuan a piece, a total of 150,000 pieces. The payment is half of the goods to Shanghai, and the other half to Lushun. Ye Zuwen told Wang Zhenyu softly that if you calculate carefully, it will be 12 million. At present, the Zongshe Party can come up with so much silver at one time, and the delivery can be so generous and refreshing. Of course, the number of goods in Boss Ye's hands is too large, this is the total output of the Hanyang Arsenal for more than ten years, and these princes who are determined to restore the Qing Dynasty are not tempted and do not bleed. Compared with the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains of the ancestors, what is more than 10 million taels of silver? As long as the great cause of restoration can be accomplished, there will be as much silver as you want! (This will figure it out, why did you go earlier?) Wang Zhenyu asked in a low voice, "Where is that person now?" ”
Ye Zuwen: "In Shanghai, with Mr. Du, safety should be no problem. But General Wang, are you sure that we will not leave any of them, such a large batch of munitions, you will always need to expand your team in the future. ”
Wang Zhenyu waved his hand and said: "Mr. Ye, you don't know, don't look at the people's army in Nanjing, which claims to be 300,000, almost one out of four people has no weapons. The remaining 200,000 guns, the quality of which was also given priority by Commander Huang to the Jiangxi side, or stayed to form a reliable army for himself. ”
Ye Zuwen's mind turned quickly: "Then look at what it means, this is ...... between the north and the south."
Wang Zhenyu nodded: "This is just the beginning, the battle, you have to continue to fight, sooner or later." ”
Ye Zuwen thought for a while and said with a smile: "Then General Wang, what are your plans?" ”
Wang Zhenyu smiled: "As soon as this matter is over, I will go back to Hunan, occupy a territory first, and wait and see the current situation." ”
Ye Zuwen nodded after listening: "Where is Huang staying, how is this price?" ”
Wang Zhenyu got up and said: "It's okay, just give it at the market price, he gave me a grace, and it's okay for me to give favors back." The agreement is made, the six million money must be delivered in Shanghai, and Nanjing is not very peaceful. ”
Ye Zuwen and Huang Xing reached an agreement the next day, fifteen rifles, the unit price is twenty oceans, a total of three million. Starting from a poor and a white man to a huge sum of three million, how could Huang Xing not hold Ye Zuwen's hand excitedly and said: "Mr. Ye, Huang has been hitting the wall in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for several months, and only now do I know that it is you, Mr. Ye, who are the most supportive of the revolution, and you have really helped us a lot." ”
Wang Zhenyu was slammed hard, and he had malicious guesses, if Huang Dada, who had taken it as his responsibility to fight against Manchurianism all his life, knew that this arms was finally sold to the Tartars, what would his expression be?
Ye Zuwen then said goodbye to Wang Zhenyu and went to Shanghai, and when the transaction was completed, he did not return to Nanjing, but took a boat back to Wuhan. Before leaving, Ye Guoxuan, who was very decent, suddenly leaned on Wang Zhenyu's arm, and then stuffed a letter into Wang Zhenyu's hand, and said with a slightly embarrassed smile: "My sister is stubborn, and I hope General Wang will not care." ”
Although Wang Zhenyu and Ye Guoxuan hadn't talked a few words, they had a very good impression of them, so they naturally nodded and smiled, and stuffed the letter into their pants pocket.
When Ye Zuwen and others got on the train, Wang Zhenyu tore open the seal. There was a piece of paper with ten words written on it: "Big bad, remember my words that day." ”
Wang Zhenyu was immediately happy, and the quirky little girl also appeared in his mind. Maybe this girl is really good, Wang Zhenyu thought abruptly in his heart. As soon as this thought came out, he thought about himself a lot, he looked nervously at Zhao Dongsheng and Ma Xicheng behind him, and saw that they were still some distance from him, so he put his mind at ease and put away the letter with only ten words.
Zhao Dongsheng and Ma Xicheng, who were following behind, exchanged glances with each other, but they didn't know that the brigade commander Weishenme suddenly laughed.
Such a large amount of arms was to be sent to Shanghai, and Huang Xing couldn't find credible manpower for a while, so he naturally handed over the heavy responsibility to Wang Zhenyu, who came up with the idea. Wang Zhenyu didn't shirk it, he had done it once anyway, and he was familiar with the road. The 9th Brigade took the order of the Left-behind Mansion and temporarily took over the defense of the entire Shimonoseki Wharf.
In Shanghai, Du Yuesheng's ability to do things is really good, in order to avoid accidents in the transaction. Du Yuesheng first gave the master Huang Jinrong and promised a benefit fee of up to 500,000 yuan. Then, in the name of Huang Jinrong, he greeted the major shili on the ground in Shanghai. Because the biggest hooligan leader in Shanghai, Huang Jinrong, was involved, and Ye Zuwen visited Yu Qiaqing and Old Man Yu. Now anyone who has a bit of shili in Shanghai knows that this deal cannot be touched. In these years, no matter how much money you want to make, you have to ensure that you have a life to spend.
According to the agreement, Ye Zuwen naturally paid Huang Xing 1.5 million oceans first, and as soon as Huang Xing's money arrived, he immediately mobilized his descendants to surround the various departments, disarmed and forcibly dismissed.
Wang Zhixiang's Guangxi army bore the brunt of this, and Wang Zhixiang, who knew that he would not be spared, received Wang Zhenyu's 30,000 oceans and handed over the engineer battalion under his command to Wang Zhenyu completely. Except for the battalion commander himself, Wang Zhenyu did not change anything, and also made up the arrears, and Wang Zhenyu also appointed Hu Lichun, the former commander of the first company of the engineer battalion, as the commander of the engineer battalion major.
Successfully solved the Guangxi Army, which was the most complete in formation, and then, Huang Xing began to forcefully dismiss the other armies. The whole Nanjing suddenly became deserted, and Wang Zhenyu's opportunity came. With Huang Xing's acquiescence, he received men and equipment from the dismissed armies. The principle is also very clear: soldiers should not be over the age of 25, and officers should not be above the company level. Those who are literate over 100 will be given priority, and once they are selected, they will be given a three-month military salary as a settling-in allowance.
As soon as this news came out, the officers and men of the civilian army who did not want to return to their hometowns to farm land used them one after another to join the No. 2 Army Middle School in Nanjing, and they asked to join the Ninth Brigade. The officer in charge of recruitment smiled happily and said, Okay, if you can write a hundred words or carry the 100-pound bag of rice around the playground, I will accept it, so there was a lively scene on the playground.
In this way, the elite selected from the demobilized People's Army quickly filled the establishment of the three infantry regiments, and the tailor shops and shoe shops in Nanjing also exploded, with two sets of blue-gray new military uniforms plus three sets of boxer briefs, two sets of vests, two sets of white-bottomed shirts, and two pairs of cloth shoes per person. The officers of the Quartermaster Department of the Ninth Brigade were very busy during this time, working overtime to catch up with tasks, collecting sizes and placing orders, and running around almost without touching the ground.
The infantry regiment was formed in accordance with the principle of the three-three system, so the original company was naturally upgraded and expanded into a battalion, and the original platoon was upgraded and expanded into a company. There are a total of 96 trainees in the training team, and except for Yu Zuobai and other nine who remain in the training team as instructors, the remaining 87 are assigned to the newly formed infantry company (27 in total), the special service company, and the reconnaissance company as platoon commanders. Song Haomin was only 17 years old and served as the captain of the teaching team, with the temporary rank of captain.
In addition, Wang Zhenyu didn't know what kind of mentality, for such jishu arms like engineers and artillery, they were taken in with a formed system, and as long as the officers had professional knowledge, they were all retained in their original positions, and soon a whole engineer battalion and a brigade artillery team (40 people, no artillery) were put together, and the ninth brigade swelled to more than 3,900 people at once, and because they were supplemented by elite veterans, the combat effectiveness did not decrease but rose.
The left-behind government turned a blind eye to this, and they themselves were doing the same, wasn't this how the Eighth and Ninth Divisions were formed? Second, they really did not have the money to repay the arrears of these dismissed soldiers, and it was just undesirable for someone to take the initiative to deal with some of them for them; The third is Huang Xing's special care, don't mention this.
Nanjing is so lively, Shanghai has not stopped, as soon as this side is forcibly dismissed, weapons and everything will immediately come out. Huang Xing, Li Shucheng and others ordered that except for the two divisions that were selected to be used to equip the newly formed two divisions and sent to Li Liejun in Jiangxi, the rest were all sent to the Xiaguan Wharf, which was taken over by the Ninth Brigade. Wang Zhenyu didn't say much, just asked Yang Wangui to take the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Brigade to supervise the dock workers to load the ship immediately. On March 12, a full 150,000 rifles of all kinds and some ammunition arrived in Shanghai through five 400-ton British freighters. ”
As for Du Yuesheng, who is responsible for the security of this transaction, although only 400,000 yuan was actually received in the end, with the huge prestige and popularity generated by the success of this transaction, Du Yuesheng is now really on the stage in Shanghai. With money in his hands, there will naturally be people under his hands, and some people will naturally have power, it is estimated that everyone will politely shout Boss Du when they see Du Yuesheng in the future.
Thinking of this, Du Yuesheng, who was in a big mood, arched his hand to Ye Zuwen and said: "Mr. Ye, please go back and tell the third brother, I will accept the 900,000 oceans unceremoniously, and the next thing is on the second brother and me, you haven't seen the money, I won't let the British place the goods, you let him put 10,000 hearts." ”
Ye Zuwen also smiled, and said in return that he would bring Boss Du's words.
In Beijing, Yuan Shikai vaguely learned that the revolutionary party had sold guns here for money to demobilize the army. Although he was very dissatisfied with the revolutionary party's handling of arms of such a scale, Yuan Guangtou was now overwhelmed by the bank group of the six countries that had borrowed money from the aftermath and the army under his hand, and he had no time to look south. In addition, it is always haode that can dismiss the opponent's army, at least it is beneficial to oneself, and you can't be strict in everything. Thinking about this, Yuan Shikai not only did not mention the stubble of the arms, but also called to reward Huang Xing, but he was not a good person, he still instructed Zhao Bingjun and others to strictly investigate the final whereabouts of the arms.
Because Du Yuesheng's mouth was very tight, Zhao Bingjun only found Ye Zuwen's layer afterwards, and he was not able to dig out Wang Zhenyu, a little fox.
On March 20, the balance of $6 million was settled at HSBC. However, in the end, this weapon did not fall into the hands of the Zongsha Party, which paid a lot of money. It is said that he was just transported not far from Lushun, and was surrounded by Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the 27th Division of the Army stationed in Mukden. As for who leaked the news, many years later, history will be decrypted, and it is precisely the Japanese who are relied on by the Zongsha Party as their backers, bad, really bad.
So in this large-scale underground arms transaction in the first year of the Republic of China, Huang Xing, Wang Zhenyu, and Zhang Zuolin all benefited, but only the Zongshe Party lost a mess. The princes, who had lost their capital and had nothing to gain, could only sigh in addition to accusing each other.
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