War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 326: You are good at playing dumb!

boom! boom! boom!
boom! boom! boom!
In Xiaowangzhuang, Tianjin, with the sound of gunshots, a large number of prisoners were executed by shooting in accordance with the "wartime laws" without any court trial.

The speed of the 217th Regiment's action at that time surprised everyone. Many wealthy and powerful people didn't even have the chance to use their connections to plead for mercy. This led to an old saying here: when two people quarrel, one of them will always say, "Go to Xiaowangzhuang to eat some black dates."

Of course, Liu Zhichang, adjutant of the Quartermaster Department of the Peking Military Sub-district, was not able to escape either. He did not even change his clothes. He had his hat knocked off and was directly rushed to the execution ground. At noon that day, when the sun had just started to become scorching, he had already died.

Newspapers in various places in Pingjin also reported this sudden incident in great detail, so much so that many things that had never happened became the focus of people's attention...

"Commander He worked hard to govern the country and rectify the bureaucracy. In one day, a total of 74 people were executed."

"No courts, no trials, wartime decrees execute large numbers of corrupt officials"

"217th Regiment's Ruthless Law Enforcement"

In short, the weather in Tianjin has changed.

"Have you heard that Xiao Wang Zhang killed nearly a hundred people in one day, and even the head of Jingxing Coal Mine was killed!"

"What about the Jingxing Coal Mine? They were just taken by chance. The director of the thermal power plant absconded with the money and left everyone in the dark. Who can mess with Xu Chaoyang? How naive are the Japanese? He was beaten to a pulp in their hands. The director of the thermal power plant is crazy. He dares to take any money."

"Needless to say, I actually know the director of the thermal power plant. When I was a kid, I used to hide behind him..."

"Come on, how old are you?"

"I'm telling you, you can only see the surface of this matter. Who is Xu Chaoyang? He is the son-in-law of the Yuan family! In order to establish the authority of the son-in-law in Dagu, the Yuan family even brought out Cao Kun. Didn't you see what was written in the newspaper? Cao Kun brought the Ten Thousand People Umbrella to applaud Chief He of the National Government."

"But then again, even though the 217th Regiment doesn't care about what's going on here, since they killed this group, all the officers seem to have restrained themselves a lot and started to follow the rules when doing anything."

The background of 217 and Xu Chaoyang was completely spread in the lower reaches of Jiuhe, and the things happening here were also spread, but no ordinary people knew that the real mastermind had never appeared in public, such as Deputy Director Li.

Dagu, shipyard.

"I regret that I came to laugh at you~"

"I regret burning incense with thieves~"

Deputy Director Li was humming in Xu Chaoyang's office with his hands behind his back. When he was happy, he smacked his lips with his mouth tilted, as if he was savoring the taste of the song. But he had a piece of jade in his hand, a piece of Han jade, which he was playing with.

"Chaoyang, do you know that in the history of our country, dragons have several forms? In ancient times, dragons had legs and looked like unicorns. Later, they changed and became pythons..."

Xu Chaoyang didn't understand this at all. He just knew that Deputy Director Li was attracted by the pile of things in the courtyard as soon as he walked past them. Then, he took out the Han jade from among the many gold, silver and jewelry, and never let go of it since then. Deputy Director Li never looked at the gold, silver and jewelry in the courtyard again.

"Now Dagu has changed, just like the dragon has changed in history. What are you going to do next?"

Xu Chaoyang couldn't lie in front of the real Buddha: "I'm thinking, in order to provide electricity, I want to take control of the thermal power plant..."

Deputy Director Li nodded: "Yes, I think so."

"In order to keep the thermal power plant running, they also want to take control of the Jingxing coal mine."

Deputy Director Li smiled, looked at Xu Chaoyang and crossed his legs: "How do we catch him?"

"I have some educated people under my command. How about we ask the higher-ups to send them over to be the factory director?"

Deputy Director Li changed one word: "Deputy Factory Director."

The key here lies in the word "deputy".

"Chaoyang, if the person you send is capable, even if he is in a deputy position, he can do the work of a full-time job. No matter who is sent down, he will not be able to make trouble with you in his hands."

"You can still hide in the back and put on an expression of a good kid, so that no one knows what is going on. At least on the surface, you are giving face to the superiors. As for whether the people sent by the superiors can control the situation, isn't it still you who has the final say?"

"This officialdom is like this sometimes."

"The thermal power plant is easy to deal with. Let's talk about the Jingxing Coal Mine."

Xu Chaoyang pretended to understand what Deputy Director Li said, and continued to think: "I plan to take control of the Shimen Coking Plant of Jingxing Coal Mine..."

"I didn't ask you about specifics, I asked you about profits."

"Ah?" Xu Chaoyang didn't think about the profit. He wanted to take over Jingxing Coal Mine, not for the profit!
Jingxing Coal Mine.

One of the three largest coal mines in the Republic of China, relying on coal mining, first built the Industrial Promotion Center and then built the Transportation Hotel, and also helped the Germans to build the Cheeselin Food Factory in Jiuhexiashao. This is not the end!

After two expansions, the Shimen Coking Plant of Jingxing Coal Mine was able to reach an annual output of 1930 tons by !

Do you know what Shimen Coking Plant produces?
Pure perilla oil (perilla oil, fuel)!
In addition, Shimen Coking Plant can also produce Nafusarin powder, which can not only kill maggots, but more importantly, can be used to make explosives!
This place has been trying out by-product coking furnaces since 1912, and hired German chemistry doctor Gordon Bo as a technical advisor. In 1914, the Shimen Coking Plant was built, and the country's first batch of clear water coke was produced. More than products were extracted from black kerosene, including stinky oil, kaolin oil, medium oil, heavy oil, red oil, naphthalene, ammonia water, fertilizer powder, black lacquer, sulphuric acid, asphalt, etc.!

This was just the answer given by Jingxing Coal Mine around 1930.

did you see it?

We were not completely penniless during the Republic of China period. Many of the resources that still benefit us today actually already existed in that era. It’s just that few people knew how to use these things at the time. The Industrial Revolution in the West allowed these things to quickly show their uses.

What about us?
What we were proud of at that time was our ability to make things happen at the touch of a button, and we always believed that "those who work with their minds rule over others, and those who work with their hands are ruled by others." However, we forgot that there is another sentence behind this saying: "Those who are ruled by others eat others, and those who rule others are eaten by others."

But what Deputy Director Li saw was not the changes these things could bring to the country, but the naked money: "If you don't want to distribute the benefits, what do you want to do with the Jingxing Coal Mine?"

"Don't you know that if you don't do this well, it's like putting a time bomb in your arms that can explode at any time?"

"Do you know how many people contributed to this matter? Why did they contribute? If you can't even understand this, you should stop staying in Dagu. Go back to Peking, get married, and become a rich man."

Deputy Director Li rolled his eyes at him. What did you tell Xu Chaoyang?

Xu Chaoyang could only smile and in the pitch-black darkness, he flattered her by saying, "Shouldn't you teach me this?"

"You can really make people angry to death."

Deputy Director Li said, "The Yuan family helped you, but in vain? After helping you, they still have to beg you, and you act like a big shot and arrange for the Yuan clan members to work in the thermal power plant and Jingxing Coal Mine? Without them, how can you control these two places?"

"Don't you have to go back to Peking? Don't you have to tell the Yuan family, 'I'm too busy, is there anyone in your family who can come and help?' Isn't that how interpersonal relationships are built?"

"And Cao Kun, he's over seventy years old, he came here to sing praises, is that for nothing?"

"Don't the thermal power plant give them one?"

"Who will care about you next time?"

Deputy Director Li sat back on the sofa and said with emotion: "No one can be perfect forever, and no flower can be red forever. In this struggle, the most difficult thing is not winning, but making all parties satisfied after winning. After all, luck cannot always follow you, but if many people follow you, you can always see luck behind you. Do you understand?"

Xu Chaoyang nodded thoughtfully: "Then... Commander He?"

"stubborn!"

Deputy Director Li slapped his thigh and said, "You expect to give Chief He a share of the benefits? Isn't this ridiculous!"

"You have to sincerely find an opportunity to privately admit your mistakes to Chief He and tell him how you caused trouble in Dagu and how you treated him as a junior, so that he would feel like he was giving orders."

"And I promise that from now on, the enemy of Chief He is the enemy of you, Xu Chaoyang. At this time, he will definitely scold you and ask what you think of He Yingqin. Don't worry about that and just stick to your principles. Do you know, Li Kui?"

Xu Chaoyang directly replied: "Let Song Jiang kill that one?"

"go with!"

Deputy Director Li was so angry at Xu Chaoyang that he laughed: "You little bastard." He cursed.

"Then, how much of my profits should I keep?"

"About 30%."

As soon as Deputy Director Li said this, Xu Chaoyang nodded immediately: "Okay, I'll send the extra ones to you in Beiping and you can distribute them."

As soon as these words were spoken, Deputy Director Li raised his head and looked at Xu Chaoyang on the spot!
He originally came here to give advice to the younger generation, or at most to put out a fire, but how come with just a few words, he became Xu Chaoyang's...protective umbrella?
The problem is that it feels good to be a protective umbrella. You can be a good teacher to Xu Chaoyang, you can control the overall situation, and you can distribute the benefits... No... It's still not right... If he marries Yuan Fuzhen, it's true that they are all a family, but why do I feel that this guy is using the same methods he used against Chief He on me?

After thinking it over, Deputy Director Li looked up at Xu Chaoyang again. Xu Chaoyang looked at him with a silly look on his face and said, "Uncle, I asked someone to get some fish and crabs from the Haihe River, and warmed up some rice wine. It's almost time for dinner, so let's have a drink, men?"

舅？
Deputy Director Li couldn't hear this word, and the doubt in his heart was just suspicion, but when he heard this word, he gave Xu Chaoyang a thumbs up: "You are good at playing dumb!"

Xu Chaoyang: "Ah? I'm not that kind of person... I'm so stupid, I really don't understand what's going on in the officialdom!"

(End of this chapter)