Du Yuesheng looked at Huang Jinrong, who was deliberately pretending to be stupid, with a smile, and said in a low voice: "Master, the current situation is turbulent, and many things are not up to us at all. If we don't try to keep up, I'm afraid the future will end badly! ”

Huang Jinrong choked on a puff of cigarette, coughed a few times, and said: "Yuesheng, it's not that the master is timid and unwilling to keep up with the situation, but the master can't see the situation." What are we, it's the Green Gang, don't look at us as if we're a character in Shanghai. But look at those real big shots, whether it's Yang Shande or Lu Yongxiang, who will look at us. Last time, we went to meet Yang Shande, but they didn't see us, so they accepted a generous gift and sent it away. Master, I have also seen clearly over the years, no matter who comes in place, the people in our gang are just urinals in their eyes. When I used it, I took it out and used it urgently, and when I finished urinating, I thought we were dirty and hurriedly kicked it away. So the master is very afraid of participating in these messy things, and the bamboo basket is empty, costing money and effort, and it is so good that it is still second, and he is afraid that he will get Zuihou to plant himself in. ”

Du Yuesheng nodded very agreeably: "What the master said is right, we are all afraid of this matter." But my third brother won't, to be honest, our contact has not been broken over the years (the opium trade has indeed never been broken), this person is very righteous and not bureaucratic. And this time, he also personally sent someone to send a message, and there are also arrangements for our future, so I don't think there will be a situation that the master is worried about. ”

When Huang Jinrong heard this, he got up and said, "Oh, what did you bring to us?" ”

Du Yuesheng clapped his palms gently, and the protégé who was guarding the door pushed the door in, and Du Yuesheng immediately ordered: "Xiao Wu, go and invite the friend who came with me to come up, Boss Huang wants to see him." ”

After a while, Wang Yaqiao pushed the door and came in, Huang Jinrong was originally planning to put on a show and wanted to lie down and talk. But the sharp aura exuded by Wang Yaqiao's body forced him to change Jihua, sat up honestly, and his sixth sense told him that the manly man in front of him was by no means an ordinary person.

This Huang Rong is so bad that he doesn't put on a score, but Wang Yaqiao doesn't open his mouth, just looks at Huang Jinrong with a serious face.

After watching it for a while, Huang Jinrong felt very embarrassed but it was not easy to speak directly, so he could only change his direction and ask Du Yuesheng: "Yuesheng, you haven't introduced this brother to me yet?" ”

Wang Yaqiao's goal was achieved, and he hugged his fists and said, "The junior Wang Yaqiao has seen Boss Huang. ”

"Wang Yaqiao?" Huang Jinrong shuddered unconsciously when he heard these three, oh my God, how did Du Yuesheng attract this powerful character. Wang Yaqiao arrived in Shanghai in the early autumn of the previous year, and was initially an inconspicuous small role, opening a restaurant. Later, I don't know how to get it, but in less than half a year, this kid gathered more than 500 Anhui young people and created an axe gang in Shanghai that everyone smelled of.

Initially, the gang was mainly active in the Chinese community, but somehow offended the director of the Shanghai Police Department, who publicly ordered the organization to be banned. This was also supposed to be, after all, if the underworld was someone who pulled a team, it would be okay.

But three days later, the hall master was hacked to death with an axe in his office. Yang Shande, the envoy of the Shanghai Protector, hurriedly issued a wanted warrant for the arrest of Wang Yaqiao, but he was nowhere to be found. A week later, Yang Shande's convoy was bombed, but fortunately, Yang Shande did not get into the car for a while, and he was able to escape, and Yang Shande's three guards and his imported car were blown to ashes......

Yang Shande was the commander of the Beiyang Fourth Division, the envoy of the Shanghai Protector, and the prince of one side. In mainstream propaganda, the embodiment of justice, light and wisdom, in the face of an evil shili like Wang Yaqiao, he was naturally filled with righteous indignation, and then, and then he retreated.

Although the wanted warrant has not been revoked, all the military and police have been ordered not to provoke Wang Yaqiao, a madman.

So overnight, Wang Yaqiao became famous in Shanghai. A character who even dares to make a move, any gangster is unwilling to be an enemy of him, and the Axe Gang soon took up his feet in Shanghai, which also laid a solid foundation for Wang Yaqiao to establish the Yangtze River intelligence network......

"Yuesheng, you are so rude, how can you treat Mr. Wang so slowly, come, come, Mr. Wang, please sit down, Xiao Wu, serve tea." Huang Jinrong was in a hurry.

Wang Yaqiao said with a kind face: "Boss Huang, sit, I came to see you on the orders of my superiors, so there is no need to engage in these false courtesies." And Boss Du is the second brother of my superior, and we can actually be regarded as a family. ”

"The second brother of the superior?" When the old and refined Huang Jinrong heard this, he immediately understood, the big boss behind Wang Yaqiao's feelings was none other than Wang Zhenyu, no wonder the Axe Gang could develop so rapidly, and behind the people stood the biggest warlord in China at present. Huang Jinrong had to sigh when he thought of this: "Yuesheng, your third brother is really long-term and unfathomable, there is nothing more to say, Mr. Wang, if you have any requirements, just command, my old bones are willing to do their best for Wang Dashuai." ”

Huang Jinrong cooperated so much, Wang Yaqiao was naturally very satisfied, and he immediately went straight to the topic, "Boss Huang, Boss Du, don't hide it, the ultimate goal of our army's battle this time is to take Shanghai." In the opinion of my marshal, it is not difficult to defeat Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army in this war, but the difficulty is to enter Shanghai with Zuihou. ”

Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng didn't interject when they heard this, but looked at each other and nodded.

"Shanghai is the most prosperous city in China, where the great powers have concessions, the wealthy businessmen and tycoons from Jiangsu and Zhejiang have industries here, and the financial center of the whole country is also here. In terms of prosperity, this is the most prosperous, but in terms of complexity, you can't find anything more complicated in China. The marshal said that it is very easy for our army to enter Shanghai by force, but if you want to really control Shanghai, you have to support Boss Huang and Boss Du. And it's not just your support, but also the rich people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, including the Ningbo Business Gang, who need to support in order to really control Shanghai. ”

Huang Jinrong seemed to understand, but he still asked very hesitantly: "What about foreigners?" We all support you, but if foreigners don't support you, it won't work? ”

Wang Yaqiao shook his head and said: "The marshal said that the main purpose of entering Shanghai this time is to guard against the Japanese, and the other powers don't care about them, they are in full swing in Europe, and they have no time to deal with us." And this time, Britain and France may still support our entry, so small Japan will not be a problem. ”

Huang Jinrong nodded, and then looked at Du Yuesheng, Du Yuesheng immediately understood what he meant, and he said directly: "Mr. Wang, you also know that we are all members of the Green Gang. Once your army enters Shanghai, what will happen to us? ”

Wang Yaqiao seemed to have expected Du Yuesheng to ask this question, and said with a relaxed smile: "My handsome family has something to ask me to tell the two of you that in the next ten years, this concession will still exist, so there are still many things to rely on here." For the two of them, the marshals of my family will also give them official bodies, and they will not be wronged. But the two of them should also know what the market knows about the Green Gang, so my family commander still suggests that the two of them seize the time to bleach their own property during this period, and the concession will be recovered in the future, and it will naturally be a smooth transition. ”

Hearing this, Huang Jinrong breathed a sigh of relief, and said with joy in his voice: "So very good, so very good, please Mr. Wang go back and tell the big handsome, Huang and the others are just street gangsters, thanks to his old man (Wang Zhenyu is furious, do it, you are an old man) can afford it, this time in Shanghai, Huang and others will do their best to deal with it for the big handsome, and never let down the big handsome." ”

Just when Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng, the two hooligan leaders in the Shanghai Concession, were deciding to join Wang Zhenyu, Wang Zhenyu's sworn brother Liu Hongsheng was having a meeting of the same nature with the heads of Shanghai's largest financial and financial Shili Ningbo Gang in the headquarters of Siming Bank on Ningbo Road.

Since we mention the Ningbo Gang, which led the Jiangsu-Zhejiang chaebols, we have to mention the Shanghai Siming Bank, which was omitted by later history textbooks, which was the fourth largest local private commercial bank in China and the largest in Shanghai at that time (the top three in China were taken away by Wang Zhenyu, a traverser, through the three major banks in Xiangxi).

One day in August 1908 (lunar calendar), at the intersection of Ningbo Road and Jiangxi Road, not far from the Bund in Shanghai, a bank known as "Siming Commercial Bank" was opened, Siming is another name for Ningbo, and it seems logical to open a financial institution serving Ningbo people on Ningbo Road, but the eye-catching one is that there are many foreign banks and old-style money banks in the surrounding area, and a Chinese-funded bank stands out from the crowd, because at that time in the vast land of China, China's new-style banks, including Sino-foreign joint ventures and "government-run" banks, only gave birth to Sino-Russian and Chinese trade, China Chinese Merchants, Daqing, Junchuanyuan 13 banks, the head office in Shanghai is only 4 banks, so the establishment of Siming Bank is also early, and it is also the third commercial bank in China after Junchuanyuan and Zhejiang Industrial Bank; Second, the founders of this bank were Yuan Liu, Zhu Baosan, Wu Chuanji, Li Houyuan, Fang Shunnian, Yan Yibin, Ye Zhang, Zhou Jinbiao, Yu Qiaqing, Chen Xun, and so on, who were well-known in Shanghai at that time.

After the opening of Siming Bank, Zhou Jinbiao was the chief director, Chen Xun was the prime minister, and Yu Qiaqing was the assistant. It is divided into two business types: the commercial department, which operates deposits, loans, discounts, exchanges, and the issuance of Yinyang bills; The savings department, which collects and deposits odd and poignant payments. Its way of doing business is completely modeled after the practice of money banks, mainly for business transactions, and the business hours are the same as those of the surrounding money banks. 但与钱庄明显的区别是它在开业不久，就向清政府度支部申请了钞票发行权，发行的兑换券有4种：壹元、贰元、伍元、拾元。

Among them, the two-yuan coupon, he doesn't have it, it looks very chic. Everything is difficult at the beginning, as soon as the banknotes of Siming Bank are issued, they are attacked by foreign banks that try to dominate China's financial market, and they will save the banknotes printed by Siming to a certain extent to squeeze out the foreign currency, which causes great pressure on Siming, fortunately, a considerable number of the shareholders and directors of Siming Bank are the leaders of the Ningbo Townsmen Association, and they have a certain appeal in Shanghai. 四明钞票也由此得到了人们的信任和欢迎，最初发行额20万元，以后逐年增加，在上海、汉口、宁波、温州、舟山等沿海、沿江城市广为流通。 It is known as China (country), four (Ming), and commerce (commerce).

At today's meeting with Liu Hongsheng, there are seven directors present: Wang Xinguan, Sun Hengfu, Yu Qiaqing, Li Yongshang, Zhou Yangshan, Yu Zuoting, and Li Shuming, and these seven people are basically enough to represent the entire Shanghai financial circle.

In addition to the seven people, there were two very key figures present, Zhang Jingjiang and Zhang Jian......