Chapter 148 - Chestnuts in the Fire Section 4 Hot Potato
After explaining the people and things of the military commander, I will go back and talk about Yang Bangzi and them, with the funeral procession returned to the city without any obstacles, and I can no longer go to Zhao Mansion to hide, these things are done, Daoqing also wants to go back to Sanqingguan, Yang Bangzi's eyes rolled, and he did not take people to the contact point of the coffin shop, but went to Mr. Zhu's house.
It happened that Mr. Zhu had just come back from outside, and he heard the old man who guarded the door say that someone was waiting for him in the flower hall, and when he heard the description, he guessed that it was Yang Stick. I didn't change my clothes, and when I pushed the door, I saw that it was Yang Bangzi and a few other strange men.
There is no need to ask, this is all in the mountains in the west, and Mr. Zhu is not outside, and tells the old man to prepare a meal, so he and Yang Bangzi and them sit in the flower hall and talk about what he is going to do today.
The letter written by Pei Jiesan was also taken out for Yang Bangzi to read, only a few lines, without thinking about it, you can understand that this is a thorough word, Mr. Zhu said that he went to the gendarmerie in the morning, and did not see Pei Jiesan, but saw the captain of the gendarmerie, and said that he should go back and make a statement in the name of the Chamber of Commerce, expressing support for the Greater East Asian Holy War and the New Economic Policy, and then negotiate the amount of ransom, and then come to guarantore!
Mr. Zhu said that when he heard the devil say this, he thought he had heard it wrong! After making so much effort a year ago, and failing to bail people out, the devils have already posted notices saying that these people will be tried publicly, how can this suddenly turn 180 degrees and allow the redemption of people?
Yang Bangzi asked Mr. Zhu with a smile if he knew about the séance of the Chenghuang Temple in Ludao? The old gentleman said with a smile, the whole city of Baoding knows the way! It is said that the gods come to the three halls to judge, and the judgment of good and evil is determined. The verdict is very fair! I heard that the two traitors who came to listen were pale when they left!
That's right! One of those two traitors is Pei level three! Look at the time when the letter was written. That is, after returning from the City God Temple, it was written. Yang Bangzi estimated that this series of incidents shocked this kid, he followed the advice of Daoqing and Yang Bangzi, and wanted to let the businessmen go and leave a way back for himself.
Mr. Zhu said that when he returned from the gendarmerie in the morning, he summoned his colleagues from the Chamber of Commerce and the families of the detainees to discuss the matter. Writing that statement is the devil looking for a step down, this is easy to do, Mr. Zhu finished writing it on the spot.
As for the amount of ransom, there is a disagreement, and the life of the merchants has not been easy these years, and the devil's layers of exploitation have made it possible to maintain the business, and many merchants are subsidizing the money, gritting their teeth.
Otherwise, why did the devil's new economic policy come out, it was first opposed by the businessmen, which is obviously to drive out the businessmen! Originally, it was all a dismal operation, but now it is a tax increase and a restriction on operation. Even the purchase channel has to control this, who can stand this!
After the last big guy, the big guy discussed, and the detained people took the money according to the economic situation. The Chamber of Commerce issued 500,000 military tickets and sent them to the head of the gendarmerie, the head of the secret service, the commander of the garrison, the chief of the police department, and the mayor of the puppet Baoding City, each with 100,000 military tickets.
But who would have thought that when Mr. Zhu went to the gendarmerie to deliver a statement in the afternoon, he would send 100,000 military tickets, and the military police captain's face sank, saying that he didn't want military tickets, and he didn't want fiat currency, but he could do it in the gold ocean!
This little devil is also very good! The military ticket is used in disguise to loot the money of the Chinese, the little devil is not rare that thing, the fiat currency is the currency of the national government, and it is waste paper to bring back to Japan! If it can't be exchanged, it's useless at all, so the devil wants gold and silver!
This little devil is not the same as us Chinese, and when he sees this kind of thing, he does not know what to say, and he has to figure out the leader's mind by himself. The little devil is thick-skinned enough, and he wants it when he comes up, and he doesn't care if you want to give it to others or not, anyway, I have to get enough of it myself!
As soon as you open your mouth, there are fifty "yellow croaker" is fifty gold bars, and it is a big yellow croaker and not a small yellow croaker!
The standard for gold bars in the Republic of China was ten taels. (commonly known as "big yellow croaker") according to the old system 1 catty is equal to 16 taels, 1 tael = 500/16 = 31.25 grams, so, the "big yellow croaker" gold bar is equivalent to today's weight is 312.5 grams.
Originally, "big yellow croaker" was a common specification, and wealthy families would usually save a few gold bars as the bottom of the box. But later, gold was expensive and silver was cheap (the legal tender of the Republic of China was the silver standard, and the earliest one-yuan legal tender was priced at one silver dollar), and ordinary people also wanted to buy gold, and the "big yellow croaker" was obviously too expensive to afford. Therefore, the gold shop minted a small gold bar of 1 tael (31.25 grams today), commonly known as "small yellow croaker".
What this devil captain wants is fifty big gold bars, which is really a lion's mouth! Don't say that you are smashing pots and selling iron now, you just have enough money to buy these gold bars, and there is nowhere to buy them! In Baoding City for 42 years, all gold and silver jewelry stores and gold villages have been closed!
Many of them were robbed and robbed by the devil's open fire cane, and some of them fled when the war began, who would dare to open this kind of shop in troubled times!
For a big family like Mr. Zhu, it's normal to hide a few roots, but if you want him to make up fifty roots, you can't do it!
No, Mr. Zhu came back and told the big guy what the devil said, and the colleagues and family members of the Chamber of Commerce were also stupid, and they were silent, and they went back to think of a way, and they all left one by one.
Saving people has always been a hot potato, no matter how great your ability is, because there are many unexpected accidents that you can't think of, so it's always like holding a hot big potato, and you can't bear it, and then hold it, and you can't burn yourself if you don't make a good fuss.
Yang Bangzi sat there and listened to the old gentleman, took out the cigarette pouch and pot and pressed the tobacco, and used the fire chopsticks to take out a piece of red and small fire coal from the charcoal brazier, and lit the cigarette, when the fire chopsticks were put down, when the small fire coal fell into the charcoal basin, the spark floated up, and Yang Bangzi's eyes lit up! Got an idea!
He said to Mr. Zhu, he is not afraid that he will ask for it, just see if he can hide it! Let's send it to him! Send it in and have another fire!
Yang Bangzi whispered a set of strategies to the old gentleman, don't say it, the old Mr. Zhu and those people all listened strangely! This kid has a lot of ideas!
It happened that there was no curfew yet, so the old gentleman asked these people to stay in the house to eat and rest, and he hurriedly went to find a few friends who wanted to be good to study the method that Yang Bangzi said. (To be continued......)