Chapter 156, Salesian Hospital

Although he had a faint feeling for these truths, he didn't think about them seriously, and after listening to Li Shucheng's words at this time, he pondered: "So that's the case, it seems that I still have to find a chance to enter the army to exercise." ”

"Okay, that's it for the time being for the past two years, I'll guide you, and I'll talk about it when you have a little bit of self-preservation, otherwise you will join the army now, and you won't know where you die." Li Shucheng said.

In fact, joining the army is not a good choice, and now the country is scattered, and warlords are fighting each other for territory. Most of the small soldiers in the army can't survive and go to the army to eat, everyone is poor, and when they fight, they actually fight themselves. It is the low-level soldiers and ordinary people who suffer. Like Sichuan, decades after the tax has been received, the difficulties of the people's survival can be imagined. However, fighting a war is another thing for the bigwigs, losing the war, the worst is to go to the field with electricity, there is no danger to life, and maybe there is a chance to make a comeback.

The two little guys followed a few people and didn't say a word, for fear of making Li Shucheng unhappy and not wanting them. In this era, there are quite a lot of people whose families are ruined, and many children have been adopted, girls are raised as child daughters-in-law, boys are engaged in long-term work, and of course, they are also eight or nine years old, so that they can already work the best. As for the ones that are too small, few people adopt them, and they are really not ruthless, after all, most families are also poor, and they can't support multiple children.

Li Shucheng came back with two children, Jiang Mingyue saw two skinny and dirty children, and her love and pity rose, and the people who had just been hired were immediately arranged by her, boiling water, cooking, and going to the tailor shop to buy clothes and bedding.

After some tossing, the two children finally looked a little better.

"People in troubled times are not as good as Taiping dogs!" Jiang Mingyue said when she was resting at night, "Why don't we adopt more children?"

"More adoptions? It's not a matter of just getting in and not leaving. Li Shucheng said, "You see that now that the war that Western countries call a world war is over, how can we say that our country is also one of the allies and one of the victorious countries, and what has it gained? Now that the war is over, their eyes have turned to us again, and in addition, the Oriental country has become stronger and stronger over the years, and in the future, the war will still have to be fought." This money should be kept to support the war. ”

"It doesn't cost much, and it's not for them to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas. Jiang Mingyue said, "Those small fish, shrimp and crabs are all food for the poor, and in addition, we can also go to sea to fish." ”

Li Shucheng thought about it, it is true, the hairy crabs that will be famous in the future are still eaten by the poor, and the rich will not even look at them. As for fishing, boats are now much faster than hand-cranked boats, and casting nets is more efficient. So he said, "Then try it first." Buy a small boat, ask a few people to try it, and if you can, talk about adoption. ”

Soon, the boat was bought, and Li Shucheng went to the fishing village to invite a few fishing veterans, and returned with a full load when he went to sea for the first time.

"Yes, if you go to sea, you will have a good harvest!" Li Shucheng said, "This thing is feasible." ”

Jiang Mingyue said with a smile: "There are a lot of fish in the sea, although there are many fishing boats at sea, but they are all hand-cranked wooden boats, how much can they catch? If we can't eat all the fish we catch, we can still sell them and make money. ”

It can indeed make money, and after the Salesian House was set up by the sea, there were not many children, so it was natural to make money. He also attracted the garrison, extorted a sum of money, and promised to pay it once a month in the future before leaving.

"Master, what should I do about this?" Fang Yun asked. He manages the Salesian Hospital, and when those ** come, for the safety of the children, they can only whisper good words, take the money to send people away, and then rush back to tell Li Shucheng.

"You take good care of the Salesian House, don't meddle in this matter, I'll take care of it." Li Shucheng said.

After Fang Yun left, Li Shucheng sighed: "This era is like this, only the powerful can do practical things well." But those who are powerful and powerful no longer have the heart to do practical things. ”

In the evening, Li Shucheng crossed the Huangpu River, as if in a no-man's land, came to the house of the commander of the garrison, and stopped on the roof of the main house. In the room, the head of the regiment and his concubine were running errands, Li Shucheng held his breath, raised his arm and fanned him in disgust.

After finishing and tidying up, both of them fell asleep from exhaustion. At this time, Li Shucheng entered the room, hung a dagger on the mosquito net holder, left a letter on the table and left.

The next day, the regimental commander woke up and was shocked to see a dagger pointed at his head. is worthy of being a soldier, although he has been mixed with the regiment commander, and his body has long been neglected in training, but the instinct that has been cultivated by the army for many years is still there, and he rolls out of bed, his body shrinks and squats up, and at the same time, his eyes glance around, only to find that there is no one. The regiment commander sighed, only to find that his back was covered in cold sweat.

The sound of the head of the regiment rolling out of bed woke up the sleeping concubine, and the concubine said in confusion: "Why does the master get up so early? It's not dawn yet, so let's sleep for a while to recuperate." ”

"Still sleeping!" the regimental commander shouted angrily, pointing at the dagger, "Look what that is!

The concubine followed the hand of the head of the regiment and finally saw the hanging dagger, and said tremblingly: "Master, this is ...... This is...... How...... What's going on...... Affair. "She is a woman, and her heart is full of fear when she encounters this kind of thing.

"I wish I wanted to know what was going on!" said the head of the regiment, turned around and walked to the table to pour water and drink, and when he put down the cup, he saw a letter on the table.

picked up the letter and opened it, only to know what was going on, and scolded: "What dog day eats the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dares to go to the Salesian Home to find trouble!"

The concubine listened and said, "Salesian Academy, master, what does this mean?" Originally, a Salesian Institute was not in her heart at all, but she had heard it before, and when she saw her master's demeanor, she didn't dare to say contemptuous words.

"The Salesian House is run by a wealthy man who lives in the Salesian Concession, and if you want to be able to live in the Salesian Concession and use the money to open the Salesian Courtyard, can it be an ordinary person? The meaning of the head of the regiment is very clear, it is not because the Salesian Institute adopts orphans and cannot go to trouble, anyway, human life is as cheap as a dog, even if the Salesian Institute is robbed, it will be fine. But this Salesian has a deep background and is mysterious, so such a person cannot be messed with. This time it's a warning, and next time it may really lose its head!

The regiment commander was frightened, and immediately called a meeting of men and horses, found out the company commander who led the troops to blackmail the Salesian, and tied them up and whipped them in public.

"We are soldiers to defend our families and country, not to extort the people!" the regimental commander said in a loud voice, "This group of bastards actually ignored discipline and military law and ran to extort the Salesian. What kind of place is a Salesian home? It's a place to adopt orphans who have lost their loved ones! Is there a place like this to blackmail, and there is still a little conscience?"

A group of subordinates looked solemn, but thought in their hearts: "It must be that the backstage of this Salesian House is big, and the head of the regiment is here for others to see." Otherwise, how can he not care if the people below used to extort the people?

Soon, the money was collected, but part of it had already been spent, and the head of the regiment said: "I will make up for the poor money, and then go out of fifty oceans, how can I not participate in such a good thing!"

After the whipping, the regimental commander shouted: "Expelled them from the barracks!"

Fang Yun received the money sent back by the head of the regiment, counted the more than fifty oceans, and listened to the other party's words, Fang Yun was full of gratitude, and couldn't stop praising the head of the regiment for his high wind and bright festival.

Looking at the soldiers who were going away, Fang Yun thought in his heart: "I didn't expect that the master still has such ability, a regiment commander is actually dealing with his subordinates and sending money to say good things, and in the future, this Salesian Institute can be done with peace of mind." ”

At noon, Fang Yun came back again and told Li Shucheng that the military camp had sent money back.

In the evening, Li Shucheng came to the regiment commander's room again to leave a letter, and the regiment commander got up the next day and found the letter, and was shocked. Yesterday, he doubled the number of guards, and there were still people standing guard outside the door, but he still let people in!

"This is a human or a ghost!" the regiment commander sighed in his heart, "It's good to return the money in time, otherwise I will ...... today" Thinking of this, the regiment commander hurriedly opened the letter to see what the other party meant.

The letter praised him for discovering and dealing with the black sheep in the barracks in a timely manner, and also had the intention of cooperating with him in business.

"What business does this Salesian have to do, do you want me to pay for it?" thought to himself. However, for the sake of his life, the head of the regiment still planned to go to see it with his cronies, but it really didn't work, so the head of the regiment simply didn't do it, and he had saved a sum of money in his hands over the years, and he went back to be a rich man.

The captain of the guard took the two of them to the Salesian House again, and after some talking, they learned that they were in the fish business. The Salesian Institute made dried fish from the surplus seafish, as well as kelp, and they were responsible for transporting them, which could still be sold inland. After opening up the market, they can also buy goods from the Salesian House and start their own business. Moreover, there are also high-end dried seafood, such as sea cucumber, abalone, fish bladder, mullet roe, which are delicious and priceless, and will not lose money.

The captain of the guard came back and said to the regiment commander, who thought for a moment and said, "Well, this business can be done." Something like abalone is not expensive in Shanghai, but it is very expensive in the mainland. The money for delivery is only a small amount, and since this is a legitimate business, we buy directly from them. You go talk to them again and see what the price is. When the price was high, we had to buy less from them and collect it from other fishermen. "As for the safety of the shipment, they are the army, they have guns and cannons, and they are afraid of those bandits and hooligans?

Because this is a volume, and there are too many things to sell in Shanghai, Li Shucheng gave them a low price after thinking about it, and the first few times he could wait for them to sell the goods before paying.

The head of the regiment was very happy, thinking that this was the benefit that Li Shucheng gave to him for dealing with **, but he didn't know that Li Shucheng was just doing business for the sake of being able to do it, and the extra dried fish was useless if he couldn't sell it.

As soon as the business started, the Salesian Institute was finally on the right track, and there was no need for Li Shucheng to post money anymore.