Back to the Republic of China as a commander

"Wang Yaqiao?" Huang Jinrong shivered unconsciously when he heard the three, oh my god, how did Du Yuesheng attract this powerful character.Wang Yaqiao arrived in Shanghai in the early autumn of last year. At first, he was an inconspicuous little character and opened a restaurant.Later, I didn't know how to do it. In less than half a year, this kid gathered more than 500 Anhui young men, and created an ax gang in Shanghai that everyone heard of.

At first, this gang was mainly active in the Chinese community, but somehow offended the director of the Shanghai Police Department, who publicly ordered the ban on this organization.This is also what it should have meant, after all, if anyone in the underworld can get mixed up with a team, that's fine.

But three days later, the minister was hacked to death in the office with an axe.Yang Shande, an envoy of the Shanghai Guards, quickly issued a warrant to arrest Wang Yaqiao, but he was nowhere to be found.A week later, Yang Shande's convoy was attacked by a bomb. Fortunately, Yang Shande was temporarily absent from the car and narrowly escaped the disaster. Yang Shande's three guards and his imported car were all blown to ashes. . .

Yang Shande is the commander of the Fourth Beiyang Division, the Shanghai Army Guard, and one of the princes.The incarnation of justice, light and wisdom in the mainstream propaganda, faced with such evil forces as Wang Yaqiao, was naturally filled with righteous indignation, and then, then retreated.

Although the arrest warrant has not been revoked, all the military and police have been ordered not to provoke Wang Yaqiao, a lunatic.

So overnight, Wang Yaqiao became famous in Shanghai.A character who dared to make a move even as an envoy, any gang leader would not be willing to be an enemy. The Ax Gang quickly gained a foothold in Shanghai Bund, which also laid a solid foundation for Wang Yaqiao to establish the Yangtze River intelligence network. Foundation. . .

"Yue Sheng, you are too rude, how could you treat Mr. Wang so slowly, come on, come on, Mr. Wang, please sit down, Xiao Wu, let's serve tea." Huang Jinrong was flustered for a while.

Wang Yaqiao stopped with a friendly expression: "Boss Huang, sit down. I came to see you on the order of my superior, so there is no need to engage in these vain rituals. Besides, Boss Du is my superior's sworn brother. We can actually be regarded as a family." people."

"Second brother worshiped by the superior?" The old and mature Huang Jinrong immediately understood when he heard this. The big boss behind Wang Yaqiao's scene is none other than Wang Zhenyu. It's no wonder that the Ax Gang can develop so rapidly. The biggest warlord.Thinking of this, Huang Jinrong had to sigh in admiration: "Yue Sheng, your third brother really has a long-term plan and is unfathomable. There is nothing to say. Mr. Wang, if you have any requests, just tell me. My old bones are willing to be the commander-in-chief of Wang." Do your best."

Wang Yaqiao was naturally very satisfied with Huang Jinrong's cooperation. He immediately went straight to the topic, "Boss Huang, Boss Du, to tell the truth, the ultimate goal of our army's battle this time is to win Shanghai. In my commander's opinion, this It is not difficult to defeat Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army in this battle, but the difficulty lies in entering Shanghai at the end."

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

"Shanghai is the most prosperous city in China. The great powers have their concessions here, the rich merchants and local tyrants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have their industries here, and the financial center of the whole country is also here. In terms of prosperity, this is the most prosperous city, but in terms of complexity, you are also in China. I can’t find anything more complicated than this. The commander-in-chief said that it is very easy for our army to enter Shanghai by force, but if we really want to control Shanghai, we must support Boss Huang and Boss Du. And it’s not just your support In order to truly control Shanghai, all rich people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, including the Ningbo Business Gang, must support it.”

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

Wang Yaqiao shook his head and said: "The commander-in-chief said that the main reason for entering Shanghai this time is to guard against the Japanese. The other powers don't need to worry about them. They are fighting like a raging fire in Europe, and they have no time to talk to us. And this time, the British and French may also have a chance. Support our entry, so Little Japan will not be a problem."

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

Wang Yaqiao seemed to have expected Du Yuesheng's question for a long time, and said with a relaxed smile: "My commander-in-chief asked me to tell you two that this concession will still exist in the next ten years, so there are still many things to be relied on here. For the two, my commander-in-chief will also give you official titles and will not wrong you. But you should also know what the market thinks about the Youth Gang, so my commander-in-chief still recommends that you take the time to bleach during this period When the concession is taken back in the future, our own property will naturally have a smooth transition."

Hearing this, Huang Jinrong breathed a sigh of relief, and said with joy in his voice: "It's so good, it's so good, please go back and tell the commander, Mr. Huang, and others are just street gangsters. Thanks to his old man (Wang Zhenyu is furious, do it, you are an old man) thinks highly of him, Huang and others will definitely do their best to handle the matter in Shanghai this time, and will never disappoint the commander in chief."

Just when Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng, two rogue leaders from the Shanghai Concession, decided to take refuge in Wang Zhenyu, Wang Zhenyu's elder brother Liu Hongsheng was having a discussion with the leaders of the Ningbo Gang, the largest financial force in Shanghai, at the Siming Bank headquarters on Ningbo Road. A meeting of the same nature.

Since the Ningbo Gang, the leader of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols, has to be mentioned, Shanghai Siming Bank, which was not mentioned in the history textbooks of later generations, was the fourth largest in China and the largest local private commercial bank in Shanghai at that time (the top three in China. It was taken away by Wang Zhenyu, a traveler, through the three major banks in Xiangxi).

One day in August 1908 (lunar calendar), at the Jiangxi intersection of Ningbo Road not far from the Bund in Shanghai, a bank called "Siming Commercial Bank" was opened. Siming is another name for Ningbo, and it opened a bank on Ningbo Road serving Ningbo people Financial institutions seem to be logical, but the first thing that stands out is that there are many foreign banks and old-style money houses in the surrounding area, and a Chinese-funded bank stands out from the crowd, because at that time in the vast land of China, Chinese new-style banks, including Chinese-foreign joint ventures and "government-run" banks, Only 8 banks were born in China, Russia, China Tongshang, China Huashang, Daqing, and Junchuanyuan, and there were only 13 banks with their head offices in Shanghai. Therefore, Siming Bank was established very early, and it is still second only to Yu Junchuanyuan, Zhejiang Industrial Bank's third commercial bank in China; second, the founders of this bank were Yuan Liu, Zhu Baosan, Wu Chuanji, Li Houyuan, Fang Shunian, Yan Yibin, Ye Zhang, Zhou Jinchao, Yu Qiaqing, Chen Xun and so on.

After the establishment of Siming Bank, Zhou Jinbiao was the general director, Chen Xun was the prime minister, and Yu Qiaqing was the assistant manager.It divides business types into two departments: the commercial department, which operates deposits, lending, discounts, remittances, and issuing silver and foreign invoices; the savings department, which collects and deposits sporadic funds.Its mode of operation completely imitates the practice of the bank, focusing on commercial transactions, and its business hours are the same as those of the surrounding banks.But the obvious difference from the bank is that it applied to the branch of the Qing government for the right to issue banknotes shortly after its opening. There are four types of exchange notes issued: one yuan, two yuan, five yuan, and ten yuan.

Among them, the two-yuan coupons are not available elsewhere, which looks very unique.Everything is difficult at the beginning. As soon as the banknotes of Siming Bank were issued, they were flanked by foreign banks who attempted to dominate China's financial market. Fortunately, quite a few of the shareholders and directors of Siming Bank are the leaders of the Ningbo Association, which has a certain appeal in Shanghai. When they climbed up and shouted, the Ningbo fellows gave a helping hand one after another. Major stores, banks, and banks Competing to replace Siming banknotes, the trend subsided, and Siming banknotes also gained people's trust and welcome. The initial issuance amount was 20 yuan, and it increased year by year. In Shanghai, Hankou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Zhoushan and other coastal areas , Wide circulation in cities along the river.It is known as China, Siming, and Commerce.

I met with Liu Hongsheng today. There are seven directors sitting here including Wang Xinguan, Sun Hengfu, Yu Qiaqing, Li Yongshang, Zhou Yangshan, Yu Zuoting, and Li Shuming. These seven people are basically enough to represent the entire Shanghai financial circle.

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

Chapter 253 Entering Jiangnan ([-])

There were three other people who accompanied Liu Hongsheng. Strictly speaking, Liu Hongsheng seemed to be just leading the way, because these three people included Yang Yongtai, the number one military adviser under Wang Zhenyu's account.

Yang Yongtai's official status at the moment is the acting governor of Guangdong Province, but it doesn't matter, the governor himself is not in charge of civil affairs, his main task is to coordinate the relationship between all parties in Guangzhou.And as a Cantonese himself, it is even easier for him to do this kind of thing, like a fish in water.

With the latest land-for-peace agreement reached by Sun Wen and Wang Zhenyu, the situation in Guangdong has completely stabilized after Huang Xuchu's commander entered the Shantou area. At least [-] to [-] Chaoshan and Meizhou people chose to go to Fujian to follow Lao Sun to continue the revolution. go down.

At this time, Wang Zhenyu sent an urgent message to Yang Yongtai, asking him to go to Shanghai immediately to preside over the preparations for the youth army's stationing in Shanghai.Looking at the National Socialist Party, only this master can handle this job.So after the government affairs of Guangdong Province were left to Chen Gongbo, Yang Yongtai came to Shanghai.

However, Yang Yongtai has a characteristic, he likes to plan ahead, so he did not come alone, but also brought two people, one is Liu Guojun, the second industrialist under Wang Zhenyu, who is in charge of the business of Guangdong and Guangxi Development Corporation, this person is in Shanghai He is also well-known (he worked in Hongsheng Company for more than a year before coming to Anjiang).The second person is an old friend of Shanghai's financial tycoons, Cai Naihuang, Shanghai Daodaotai in the late Qing Dynasty.

Speaking of Cai Naihuang’s fate, when the rubber stock market crashed in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty, the successful trading could save the situation. Unexpectedly, the party and government in the middle of the country forced Sheng Xuanhuai to turn the situation into a deadlock, and he also lost his position and left.After the Republic of China, he was not favored by the old Yuan. Finally, when the old Yuan was about to proclaim himself emperor, Cai Naihuang got a salary-raising job. Yuan Shikai appointed Cai Naihuang as the supervisor of the smoking ban in the three provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Jiangsu.Everyone, don't be fooled by the word "no smoking". During the period of the Republic of China, you had to read many literal things backwards.For example, when Yuan Shikai first became president, he would call himself a public servant when he met everyone, as if the people were really in charge of their own affairs.Or what Sun Chuanfang said later was true, what kind of bullshit public servant, this public servant is the worst in the world, either stealing from the master, or sleeping with the master's woman.Sure enough, at the end of the game, Yuan Shikai, an extra-large public servant, is going to be the emperor, and from a public servant to a princess.Since public servants are such a thing, the so-called ban on smoking is actually turning over cigarettes. This is not only done by Yuan Shikai, but our Wang Zhenyu started the tobacco business by setting up an organization of the Xiangxi Banning Bureau.Naturally, Cai Naihuang, the anti-smoking supervisor, colluded with British businessmen to ban domestic cigarettes and sell foreign cigarettes. Each box required cigarette dealers to pay 4500 yuan, and the estimated profit was more than 2700 million yuan.After the outbreak of the War to Protect the Nation, Cai Naihuang was sent to Guangdong to serve as the director of the Guangdong Opium Special Bureau because he was from Panyu, Guangdong. While raising funds, he monitored Long Jiguang.

At this time, Long Jiguang was surrounded by various anti-Yuan forces and was forced to negotiate with Liang Qichao's representatives Xu Qin and Tang Juedun.

Negotiations between Yuan Fang's representative and Long Jiguang's representative at the Haizhu Water Police Station in Guangzhou reached a stalemate. ** Central commander Lu Zhongming and many others died on the spot.It is the infamous "Haizhu Incident".Afterwards, Long blamed Cai Naihuang and Yan Qihan (who had fled) for the Haizhu tragedy. Cai Naihuang was detained by Tan Xuekui's brother, Guangdong Navy Commander Tan Xueheng, and was about to be shot.

Fortunately, the youth army quickly defeated Long Jiguang's troops, and Tan Xueheng was forced to hand over military power to the youth army before he had time to shoot Cai Naihuang.Therefore, Cai Naihuang failed to obtain the thirteen-character announcement in the original history that "Cai Naihuang is innocent, and everyone in the country can be killed", but was rescued by Yang Yongtai.

This trip to Shanghai, how could this former parent officer be missing?

Now that Yang Yongtai, who played the leading role on Wang Zhenyu's side, was present, it was natural for the Ningbo Gang to speak.The Ningbo Gang at this time is naturally headed by Yu Qiaqing and Sun Hengfu, but it is clear that one of these two people is a good face and the other is a bad face.

The first person to speak was Sun Hengfu. He stood up and said to Zhang Qian, who is a middleman: "Everyone is in the business field, every minute is money, and I have nothing to say. I just want to ask the opposite party a question." friends of mine."

Seeing that the visitor was not kind, Yang Yongtai was not in a hurry to say anything, but raised his hand with a smile and said: "Listen carefully, but it's okay to say."

Sun Hengfu nodded and said: "As far as we know, your army has its own bank and issued a currency called Huayuan, and this currency quickly became the local currency after your army captured Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places. Even in the Fujian area controlled by Mr. Sun Wen, this currency is circulated as hard currency. Mr. Sun is a banker. As we all know, our Siming Bank has the right to issue currency since the Qing Dynasty. I just want to know After your army enters Shanghai, can our Siming Bank issue Huayuan? And in the future interest structure of Shanghai, what can our Siming Bank get? These questions are not clear, let us Ningbo people support you foreigners, I'm afraid it's not appropriate."

After Sun Hengfu finished speaking, all the people present turned their attention to Yang Yongtai, wanting to see how he would answer.Especially Zhang Jingjiang, because these Ningbo people had already raised these issues in front of himself and Chen Qimei last night.At that time, in order to gain the support of these local tyrants, Chen Qimei agreed to everything, and promised that the central bank of the future revolutionary government would be led by these Ningbo people. What is going on?

Yang Yongtai was sitting there at the moment, smiling unhurriedly: "Boss Sun, first of all, to correct you, you didn't have one question just now, and the second is two questions. I want to ask which one do you want me to answer?" ?”

After speaking, everyone laughed. Since Sun Hengfu was rich and powerful, no one had ever teased him like this, but at this moment he could only bear it.Sun Hengfu said with a cold face: "Mr. Yang, you can answer whatever you want. If you want to make fun of Sun, Sun will leave immediately."

Yang Yongtai raised his glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hands, and said with a smile: "Boss Sun thinks too much, hehe, just kidding. Since you asked this question just now, I will answer it together. First, currency I can't guarantee the right to issue currency, but I can tell you clearly that if there is no accident, the issue of currency issue right in the future will be re-planned after our army unifies the country. Second, the biggest layout of Shanghai in the future is only fair and just. , openly, Siming Bank will surely make a lot of money in Shanghai in the future, so there is no need to worry! Third, the problem of foreigners that Boss Sun mentioned just now, I emphasize one point, Song Hanzhang, Chen Guangfu and others who are currently managing the bank for our general are all People from Zhejiang, or even from Ningbo, I wonder if Boss Sun is sure they are foreigners?"

After hearing this, Sun Hengfu cupped his hands and said: "Mr. Yang, you can continue to talk about these big words, Sun has something to say goodbye."

Seeing Sun Hengfu not giving face so much, Yang Yongtai's expression changed: "It seems that someone is not giving the commander any face?"

"So what, I'm in the concession, what can Wang Zhenyu do to me? If it's you, Mr. Yang, I have to advise you, this world doesn't necessarily belong to anyone, even if your soldiers can enter Shanghai, We can also prevent your Hua Yuan from getting in. If you don’t believe me, you can try it, you bitch!”

"Really? Then Mr. Sun, you might as well stay in the concession and see if Boss Huang and Boss Du are willing to let you settle down." Yang Yongtai sneered.

Sun Hengfu sneered and said: "Mr. Yang, if I heard you right, you are threatening me! I, Sun Hengfu, are not scared too much, just let the horse come here."

Yang Yongtai buttoned his suit and said: "No, no, I think you misunderstood, Boss Sun, our National Socialist Party or the Youth Army never threaten anyone. But since all the bosses are here, I still remind everyone that if we When the Youth Army has arrived in Shanghai, there are only two kinds of people in Shanghai, our friends and our enemies."

Seeing the situation, Yu Qiaqing immediately came out to be a peacemaker: "Everyone, don't get angry. The business is about asking for money rather than anger. Let's sit down and talk, sit down and talk."

But Yang Yongtai stood up ungratefully and said: "No need, today doesn't seem like a day to talk about things, but everyone, I still hope that you can understand the nature of our National Socialist Party and the policies that our Marshal Wang is currently implementing. To be clear, you can ask the businessmen in Hongjiang. Don’t go the wrong way or stand in the wrong team just for the small profit in front of you. Once the opportunity is missed, it will be gone. Okay, goodbye!”

After saying that, Yang Yongtai left, Liu Hongsheng, Cai Naihuang and others hurriedly followed out, leaving a room full of big bosses sitting there looking at each other. It seemed that the youth army was much tougher than the revolutionary army, which actually made these budget-minded big bosses Hesitated.

Coming out of Siming Bank, Cai Naihuang quickly followed Yang Yongtai and asked, "Brother Changqing, Brother Yu has something unclear, why don't we talk to them?"

Yang Yongtai stopped and said: "Judging from their performance just now, these Ningbo guys are not in a hurry, which means that someone from Sun Wen's side is also in contact with them. Isn't Zhang Jingjiang Sun Wen's finance minister? So these The Ningbo guys are actually waiting and watching, and they will see who will enter Shanghai first. So don't worry, as long as our army is up to the challenge, these guys will take the initiative to come to us, and then we will naturally set the price. "

Cai Naihuang nodded, and said worriedly, "Then what if Sun Wen's revolutionary army invades Shanghai first?"

Yang Yongtai replied without hesitation: "Brother Bohao (Cai Naihuang's words), this world is very magical, but I can be sure of one thing, that is, the things you worry about are impossible to happen..."

Chapter 254

In the final analysis, the world still relies on strength to speak, so after Yang Yongtai left, Ningbo businessmen discussed with each other for a while, and the final answer was that everyone should stop discussing. Let's first look at the two armies of Sun Wen and Wang Zhenyu Who advanced Shanghai!Poor Feng Guozhang, none of the chaebols in Jiangsu and Zhejiang felt that he had any hope of victory, and even hoped that he and the Beiyang Army he commanded would be finished soon.

Although no one is optimistic about himself, Feng Guozhang does not have the consciousness of a sure loser. He still has to play the villain of this volume to the end. On March 3, Feng Guozhang came to Wuhu in person, and after severely reprimanding Wang Zhanyuan, Yang Shande, and Lu Yongxiang, he personally served as the supreme commander, commanding the No. Two or two miscellaneous divisions with a total of 17 troops are ready to attack the invading youth right army.

But Tao Zhiyue, who had already been hit head-on by Feng Guozhang's determination, was still very leisurely asking Lu Diping to eat at this moment: "Come on, Brother Lu, try something new."