Time flies like a white horse, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Although there were a lot of strange things in the old society in 1933, there were still no new and video games, and there was no "point" in the comic strips, which made Zhao Jian, who had been in the house for more than 12 years, very bored for a while, but slowly got used to it. Besides, there is a beautiful girl beside him, Zhao Jian thinks that flirting with Hongling is much more interesting than playing games!

A week ago, the final exams of the primary school were over, and Zhao Jian and the majority of bear children ushered in a happy summer vacation.

When Zhao Jian's father was still alive, he asked his son to recognize a brother named Liang Guoxiong as his father-in-law. The other party is an alumnus of Zhao Teng in the military academy and a comrade-in-arms in the navy later.

Liang Guoxiong, who specialized in "amphibious landing," was originally a battalion commander of the Marine Corps, but unfortunately injured his leg during an exercise, so he had to retreat to the second line and was sent to Qingdao as the head of the local garrison regiment, and the Zhao family happened to be here.

Liang Guoxiong, who has no children under his knees, has always treated Zhao Jian as his own, even after Zhao Teng's death, this relationship has not been weak. At the beginning of the summer vacation, Zhao Jian ran to him for three days, and Liang Guoxiong also knew that this kid wanted to play with guns, so the long guns and short guns were enjoyable with Zhao Jian at the shooting range.

On this day, Zhao Jian went home from Liang Guoxiong, although his shoulder was still a little painful, but the feeling of shooting was still very refreshing. In addition, Liang Guoxiong told him that at the end of the month, their regiment will have new equipment, and then they will be able to have new guns to play with!

On the way home, Zhao Jian did not take a car, but walked home accompanied by Hongling and Wangcai. Although the painful memories of his previous life made Zhao Jian hate bodybuilding and muscles, he did not embark on the road of no return to becoming a "sissy" because of this. I usually practice what I should practice, and I must have abdominal muscles, but my brother is absolutely free to talk about it!

As soon as he entered the house, Zhao Jian found a man with glasses standing in the living room, the other party's name was Liu Qingyang, one of the accountants of their tea shop, and there was a thick stack of account books on the coffee table next to him. Curious, Zhao Jian walked over and picked up the account book to look through it, but he was stunned on the spot.

Although Zhao Jian is not a professional in accounting, he fully understands the basic profit and loss, and he often habitually turns books from the left, so he directly saw the first half of the first half of the summary of Zuihou. He found that the income in the first half of 33 years was not even a fraction of the expenditure, according to this loss method, it would not take him a few and a half years to become a young master with negative equity!

"Say! What's going on!? ”

It is related to his own family business, Zhao Jian can't care about respecting the old and loving the young, and the 12-year-old child questioned the man with glasses above 30 in a loud voice, leaving the other party speechless for a while.

"Young owner, I'm ...... It's none of my business! ”

"Who's the matter, bring that grandson, young master, I want to copy his squid!!"

"Squid, squid?"

Although he didn't understand what the word in Zhao Jian's mouth meant, the other party understood that it was definitely not a good word.

The noise in the living room soon made Qin Heng hear the news, Zhao Jian slapped the account book and pointed out the terrifying deficit on it to Qin Heng, the old housekeeper's face suddenly twitched, and he turned his head and asked the man with glasses.

"Qingyang, how can this be?"

"Uncle Qin, it's inconvenient to say here, can we go inside and talk?"

Under the understanding, Qin Bo led the accountant Qingyang and Zhao Jian to the study. Originally, the conversation should not have allowed the 12-year-old Zhao Jian to also participate, but after all, he was the heir of the Zhao family, and he already knew about it, so he simply let him follow, and it would not hurt him to get in touch with these family affairs earlier.

In the study, accountant Liu Qingyang told Qin Heng and Zhao Jian about the process of getting the account books. He accidentally found this thing from the drawer of the chief manager, and he planned to conceal it by reporting it to his superiors, so he not only obtained the account books, but also conducted an investigation in private.

The Zhao family's tea business is mainly sold overseas, and all they earn is the money of foreign devils, but since the death of Zhao Jian's parents four years ago, this benefit has not been as good as year by year. Among them, there were business problems, and there were also reasons for the run of other tea merchants, but life was barely passable until the "bad luck" in the first half of the year came......

First, the old customers of previous years suddenly changed their minds, and then a company that had never heard of it took the initiative to "take over". So the general manager (known as the manager) of the new sales category happily sold all the inventory to them. As a result, this batch of tea leaves has not been heard from again, and the company has evaporated.

The general manager, who thought that he had been defrauded, immediately reported the case to the police, but it didn't take long for the Zhao family to receive a lawsuit from the French side, saying that a batch of tea they sold to Paris was fake, and it had caused hundreds of poisoning incidents in the local area, and demanded that the Zhao family compensate 25 million francs, and all the evidence was extremely unfavorable to them!

In 1933, when money could still be called "money", the purchasing power of banknotes of the same face value was far from comparable. The price of gold, for example, was $35 an ounce in 1934, but after 2000, it increased almost 20-fold. Although the Zhao family is very rich, 25 million francs is not a small amount for them today.

Zhao Jian had insomnia that night, he thought that he had crossed over to become a rich boy and could live a life without worrying about food and clothing, but the cruel reality gave him a resounding slap in the face. The compensation of 25 million francs has a funding gap of at least 5 million, and it is necessary to either borrow it from others or sell the tea plantation.

Tea plantations must not be sold, and the rest can only be borrowed from someone. But when Zhao Jian spent 3 days and visited more than a dozen "world friends", only one borrowed 20,000 Tang yuan from him, and the others either closed their doors or sent him away with snacks and sweets, and even took advantage of the fire to rob and buy the Zhao family's tea garden, the angry Zhao Jian was furious.

"Young master, I don't believe in any bullshit anymore!"

"Young master, you are dissipated, and it is not worth it if you are angry."

"Everyone treats me like a child......

"Young master, but you are indeed still a child now!"

Looking at his young master's angry appearance, although Qin Heng was also angry, he could understand the thoughts of those people. Zhao Jian's age is still too young, although he is much smarter than children of the same age, but he is only 12 years old after all.

If it was Zhao Jian's grandfather or his shrewd and capable mother who went to borrow the money, these families might borrow a little to make up for the lack of 5 million francs for the sake of friendship. With his mother's business acumen, he could pay it back with interest in less than 10 years, but Zhao Jian couldn't bring them that confidence.

After the anger, Zhao Jian himself quickly calmed down, after all, he is a 12-year-old and a 29-year-old "core", he understands the common feelings of these people, but the fact that he was seen dead and not saved still made him extremely unhappy.

"Uncle Qin, I'll trouble you again. I can't count on these local people, do we have any relatives and friends in other places? The kind that can borrow money. ”

"I'm afraid not. As for relatives...... If they don't come to borrow money at this juncture, we should burn high incense! Qin Bo groaned for a while, and replied helplessly.

Like most famous families, the Zhao family has a lot of relatives who are close to the deceased, and in Qingdao alone, there are more than a dozen people in the Zhao family who have to call uncles, and there are countless aunts and aunts, and they often change! Every New Year's holiday, these people come to eat and take, so Zhao Jian's impression of them is not very good.

When Zhao Jian's great-grandfather started his business, in order to shade the descendants of future generations, he adopted a shareholding system, although the control of the tea garden was in the hands of the descendants, but the side lines could also rely on the equity to share the money. The old lady's original intention was to rely on this to maintain family cohesion, but he didn't expect that in the third generation, a bunch of moths would be bred waiting to die.

Back in his room, although Zhao Jian was physically and mentally exhausted, his mind was full of the lingering word "make money". At this time, he saw that there was a newspaper on the desk that he had not read, so he grabbed it and flipped through it, and his eyes were immediately fixed on a piece of "overseas news" about East Africa......

That night, Zhao Jian held a banquet to invite his father-in-law Liang Guoxiong to come to the house as a guest, and Liang Guoxiong was not empty-handed when he came. He knew that Zhao Jian was borrowing money from everywhere, so he carried a briefcase with a check for 100,000 yuan in it. In order to save his godson, Liang Guoxiong brought most of his life savings.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Liang Guoxiong, who was born in the military, did not have that kind of ink character, and without waiting for Zhao Jian to take the initiative to speak, he took the briefcase from the adjutant's hand, took out the check inside and handed it to Zhao Jian.

"Xiaojian, your godfather and I will be a soldier in my life, and I haven't saved any family wealth. I know that the Zhao family is in trouble now, here is 100,000, you take it to the emergency first. If it's not enough, I'll contact my old comrades-in-arms again to see if they have a way. ”

"Father-in-law, how embarrassed am I......"

"Xiaojian, I'll treat you as my own son, don't see your godfather!"

To be honest, Liang Guoxiong's words moved Zhao Jian, who had been running into walls everywhere for three days. But he invited the other party today, not to squeeze his meager savings, but to get a little "scrap" from him to sell.

Zhao Jian knew that Liang Guoxiong's garrison regiment was going to change its equipment, and all the old guns that were replaced were destroyed by the local government. As long as the new equipment is down, Liang Guoxiong has thousands of "second-hand guns" to deal with, and these tattered Datang troops are no longer worth it, but as long as they are transported to those backward countries, they are definitely a good thing to be sought-after!

"Father-in-law, I heard that your troops are going to be redressed, right?"

"yes, why are you asking that?"

"I mean, can you sell me some of the old guns that have been replaced?"

"What do you want to do!?"

As soon as he heard that Zhao Jian wanted a gun, Liang Guoxiong's face suddenly fell, and his voice suddenly rose a few decibels. Zhao Jian was afraid that he would misunderstand something, so he hurriedly explained to him.

"Father-in-law, don't get me wrong, I don't want to do anything bad with these guns, let alone rebel. I thought to myself, these guns have all been destroyed, so it is better to resell them to me and let me exchange them for some money to save the emergency. ”

Hearing that Zhao Jian was not planning to rebel with a gun, nor did he want to rob, Liang Guoxiong's face softened slightly, but he immediately showed an angry expression, scratched Zhao Jian's nose and said.

"Stinky boy, are you crazy? How many rotten guns are these guns worth? Besides, who are you selling to? The bandits in the mountains were wiped out 800 years ago, so you can't sell these guns to the neighbors, right? ”

"No, no, no, I don't plan to sell these guns domestically, but I plan to ship them to Africa."

"Sell to Africans? Oh my silly son! Those poor in Africa can't even wear pants, so how can they have any money to buy your gun? ”

"Father-in-law, you can't say that, they don't have money, but they have something worth more than money!"

Based on Zhao Jian's understanding of Africa in his previous life, the Black Shu millet is indeed very poor, and the "dresses" of some indigenous tribal chiefs are not even as big as Zhao Jian's handkerchiefs, but they are also very rich because they have a lot of diamonds on their hands!

Zhao Jian has learned that in this time and space, diamonds are still priceless precious jewelry, and only crystal mines such as quartz and crystal have been found on other planets, but the color and appearance are far from being comparable to diamonds produced on the earth.

At that time, Zhao Jian's mother heard that a batch of South African colored diamonds came to Guangzhou and was going to be auctioned locally, so she ran over by train in a hurry, but when she came back, she was empty-handed. There is no other reason, because in each round of auction, the price will exceed the limit of what she can accept in 5 minutes, and its value can be seen!

Because of trust, Zhao Jian told Liang Guoxiong his thoughts unreservedly, and the other party couldn't help but fall into deep thought. He knew very well what would happen to the guns in his regiment, and they were basically violent dismantling lives. If these second-hand guns can help Zhao Jian save the emergency, he can give them away for nothing, but the risk of this matter is not small! Although Datang does not ban guns, it does not allow the smuggling of military weapons in large quantities, and how to sell them after they are shipped to Africa is also a big problem.

Most of Africa is now a British colony, and although humans have entered the space age prematurely for some reason, they don't pay enough attention to that land, but it is still their "human pasture" after all. And even if the British don't care, it is also debatable whether the local blacks can honestly exchange diamonds.

"No! This fact is too dangerous, and if something goes wrong in any link, it will cost human life, and ......"

"Father-in-law!"

Suddenly raising the volume, Zhao Jian got up and left the table, knelt down in front of Liang Guoxiong with a plop, and prayed to Liang Guoxiong with tears and choking in a tragic tone that did not match his youth.

"I have no way out, I can't keep the tea garden, how do you want me to face the ancestors of the Zhao family!"

As he spoke, Zhao Jian slammed his head on the floor one after another, and the sound was so loud that it was distressing.

After kowtowing nine times in a row, Zhao Jian grabbed the ground with his head, and if Liang Guoxiong didn't agree, he wouldn't get up. After being silent for a while, Liang Guoxiong drank all the wine in the cup, and then got up silently and walked out. As soon as a trace of disappointment rose in Zhao Jian's heart, he heard Liang Guoxiong, who had already walked to the door, say without looking back.

"I'll sell my guns next Monday, and you can prepare a few cars by then."

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