Di Xiong said: "Only by enduring all the hardships can you become a master." When you finish the three-month recruit training, you can enjoy the blessings, and when the time comes, you take a leave of absence to go back, and I will personally cook the food for you. Your salary of ten yuan a month, I will still send it, and Chen Xianglian is also waiting for you to go back, don't let us down. ”

After Wu Chunlei left, Di Xiong said to Wu Chunfeng: "When I was eating just now, you should have heard the words of Battalion Commander Feng, there are many machines in the arsenal of the Ordnance Bureau, some of these machines should be repaired, but they are just public things, no one is distressed if they are broken, your main task now is to try to get through the relationship between the managers of the arsenal, buy these machines at the price of scrap iron, and then find a mechanic to repair them, and our company can produce guns and ammunition." ”

Wu Chunfeng is clever and excellent at gathering intelligence, and Di Xiong has promoted him to the manager of the company's intelligence department. Wu Chunfeng said: "Steward Wang of the arsenal and Li Fei, the new security guard, are relatives, I will ask him to take care of it, it should be no problem." ”

Early in the morning, Di Xiong put on a strong suit to run, he ran from the West River along the street to the textile factory in Nankou Town, just when it was time to work, the workers were entering the gate one after another, the building of the company was also located in the compound of the textile factory, Di Xiong opened the baggage he carried, took out the suit and put it on, and walked into the gate.

The guard at the gate saluted him and said, "Morning, chairman!" Manager Leng, Captain Hong and the two factory directors are waiting for you in the conference room! ”

The conference room was cleaned very clean, and the yellow lacquer table top was polished, but the smell of smoke was very choking. Although Hu Lin and Li Jingfa were very dissatisfied, they did not ask him to extinguish the cigarette butts, they all knew that Leng Hanbing was one of Di Xiong's four important henchmen, and his status in the company was the director and chief of the supervision section, and they did not dare to offend him. And Leng Hanbing always had a gloomy face, as if everyone owed him a sum of money.

After Di Xiong wiped his sweat with a towel, he walked into the conference room and smelled the smoke, and immediately ordered Hong Tianlie to open the window to ventilate, and at the same time asked Leng Hanbing to extinguish the cigarette. Without saying a word, Leng Hanbing snuffed out the cigarette.

Di Xiong said to Hu Lin: "My time is very tight, if you have anything to say, say it quickly!" ”

Hu Lin, the director of the factory, who is in his thirties, with a white face and a pair of glasses, said: "Last month, the textile mill sold very well, and after deducting various expenses and workers' wages, it made a net profit of more than 2,000 silver dollars, but this month I am afraid that we will not make so much money, and the price of cloth in the market has plummeted, and if this price continues, we may have to lose money." ”

Dichon asked, "Have you checked the reason?" ”

Hu Lin said: "I have checked, recently, the East Asia textile factory in Yanshan Town, this county has put a large number of cheap fabrics on the market, and all the large and small cloth stores in Beijing are full, resulting in a sharp drop in prices. The East Asian textile factory was opened by the Japanese Yokota Ichiro, with more than 3,000 machines and nearly 4,000 workers, nearly ten times more than us. In the past, he also used this method to crush other textile factories, and when those factories closed, they bought factories and machinery at low prices, and then raised the market price of cloth, making a lot of money. ”

Hong Tianlie said loudly: "The Japanese dare to get along with our company, I will take a few brothers to slaughter this Yokota tonight, and then burn down the warehouse of the East Asia factory, and see how low he can sell it." ”

Di Xiong saw that the two factory directors looked at Hong Tianlie in surprise, the Japanese were very rampant in Beijing, and the Beiyang government and the underworld were very afraid of them, except for the disciples of the Jingwu Sect, no one dared to kill the Japanese. He smiled at them and said: "Hong Tianlie is angry, he will talk nonsense when he is in a hurry, you don't have to take it seriously, if you have anything to say, continue to talk." ”

Li Jingfa, deputy director of the factory, said: "I have investigated, during the New Year Mutiny, the gang of rebels who ransacked the textile factory was actually pretended to be by the Ghost Gang, and the backstage boss of the Ghost Gang was Yokota Ichiro. Although our textile factory has few small people and the price of goods is not lower than others, the people in Beijing are willing to buy our goods, because we are domestic products and they are Japanese products, which poses competitive pressure on East Asian textile factories. In addition, the workers in the East Asian factories were poorly paid and had a heavy workload, and the Japanese overseers often beat and insulted the female workers at will. As soon as production resumed last month, a group of skilled female workers from the East Asia factory jumped to work in our factory. This is one of the reasons why Ichiro Yokota is going to deal with us. ”

Di Xiong said: "I know about this matter, I will find a way to solve it, you go and get busy with the production in the factory." ”

After the two factory directors left, Di Xiong gave Hong Tianlie a hard reprimand, and then said: "They are the senior management talents I invited, and they are the factory director and deputy director of the low-profit company, but they are not from Xihehui, if you open your mouth and talk nonsense, they will think that we are a bunch of murderous and arsonist guys, which will scare them away." ”

Hong Tianlei was unconvinced and said: "According to the boss, we are just slaughtered like this?" ”

At this time, Tian Mengxue and Wu Chunfeng opened the door and walked in, looking for a place to sit down.

Di Xiong said: "Of course not, the warehouse in Yokota still has to be burned, but the Japanese have hundreds of garrisons in Dongjiaomin Lane, and the Beiyang government has always been afraid of them, so we can't touch it, we can only burn it as the Blue Dragon Society." Yesterday, the "Minfeng Daily" said that Li Lianying, the former chief eunuch of the Qing Dynasty, died of illness, and this guy had been the chief of the government for decades, and received many bribes from Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai and other ministers, and left a large amount of property after his death, which fell into the hands of his godson Zhang Ade, which is rumored to be worth one million taels of silver, although he was extorted a lot by the police and the gendarmerie, but there should be a lot left. We lack funds to open an iron factory, so let's take this ill-gotten gain. ”

Tian Mengxue reminded: "Zhang Ade is the backbone of the royalist party and the financial patron of the Blue Dragon Society. The mansion is heavily guarded, and you should bring at least four bodyguards when you go out. ”

Di Xiong asked Wu Chunfeng: "Didn't you buy informants in the Five Gangs?" What are the characteristics of the ghost gang's actions? ”

Wu Chunfeng said: "I act at night, I am masked in a black scarf, my weapon is an Oriental sword, and the leader has a pistol. ”

Di Xiong said: "We will use the identity of the Ghost Shadow Gang to attack Zhang Ade's mansion, buy a few more Oriental knives to bring with us, the Green Dragon Society will suffer a loss, of course we will retaliate, and then we will burn Yokota's warehouse as the Green Dragon Society, so that Yokota and the Ghost Shadow Gang will decide that the Green Dragon Society did it, and will only find the Blue Dragon Society to retaliate." ”

Tian Mengxue reminded again: "Zhang Ade has a master by his side, and last time the Flying Knife Party sent someone to assassinate him, but it failed, and all three killers died. Zhang's mansion has been attacked many times by gangsters and bandits before, all of which have failed. ”

Di Xiong said: "I know that I will ask the Intelligence Bureau to conduct a detailed investigation and then formulate a detailed action plan. When it comes to hands-on, I personally lead the team. The Blue Dragon Society has already asked our hotel for protection money last time, and sooner or later they will trouble us, so it is better to provoke a conflict between the Ghost Gang and them first and weaken their power. ”

Hong Tianlie said happily: "If the boss personally takes action, it will naturally succeed." ”

Di Xiong didn't realize that due to the smooth operation of a series of actions such as eradicating the Flying Eagle Gang and killing the Beiyang soldiers, he had already developed the idea of underestimating the enemy, and this opponent was much stronger than the previous opponent.

Wu Chunfeng said: "According to the boss's orders, I have bought several bad machines from Steward Wang, including broaching machines, boring machines and milling machines, which only cost more than 500 yuan, including the red envelopes given to him, and dug up a few gunsmiths and mechanics from the arsenal with high salaries to repair the machines in the ironware factory, but the machines are not matched." For example, rifles are produced with barrels and butts, but not with a body. If you don't have the machine, you have to import it from a foreign foreign company, and the cheapest imported machine costs more than 10,000 yuan. ”

Di Xiong said: "It seems that we have to start from Zhang Ade, our iron factory only makes some farm tools and knives on the surface, in fact, it is to make guns and ammunition, in addition to self-use in the future, the surplus can also be sold, the arms business is one of the four most profitable industries!" But without a lot of money, there is no way to import machinery. ”

Hong Tianlie asked, "What about Yokota Ichiro, kill or not?" ”

Di Xiong said: "Yokota can't be killed for the time being, if we kill him, the Beiyang government will inevitably investigate to the end under the pressure of the Japanese, and we will all die if we are found out." Because our current strength is too weak, we can't even fight any of the five major gangs in the capital, let alone the Japanese. When we are strong, we can kill as many Japanese as we want. ”

Bai Xiuling woke up from a sleep, found that there was no one by the pillow, saw that the light was still on in the study, and knew that Di Xiong had not slept yet, she put on a coat and went over, and saw that Di Xiong was drawing a map of China.

Bai Xiuling asked strangely, "Doesn't the bookstore have maps to sell?" Why draw your own? ”

Di Xiong said: "Because the maps in the bookstore are not accurate, especially the more model lake of Outer Mongolia, which is not as good as the maps of the British and Japanese, but the maps of foreigners are all in foreign languages, so I had to buy a few maps, learn from each other's strengths, and draw one by myself." ”

Bai Xiuling said: "There is a question I have wanted to ask for a long time, you are now the boss of a monthly income of thousands of oceans, why are you still frugal?" Never go out of high-end places, you always pick up bargains to buy things, and the most expensive coat is only ten oceans, or I bought it. Let's say you are stingy, but you are very generous to your subordinates, whether it is a textile factory or a restaurant employee, the income is higher than that of your peers. Other bosses with income like you will spend hundreds of dollars a month just to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble. Why do you suffer yourself like this? ”

Di Xiong smiled: "You mean, I should be like Li Jincai and Li Jinfa, and often go to brothels, casinos, and tobacco houses to play?" ”

Bai Xiuling said: "With a beautiful woman like me waiting for you every day, you don't want to go to the kiln, it's too dirty, and it will be troublesome if you get sick, but you should still go to other high-end places, you must know that many bosses negotiate business there." If rich people don't go for fun, what's the point of life? ”