After Bai Zhanshan left Chongqing, the daily affairs of the search team were handed over to Zhao Dashan and Lao Fu. Tang Cheng himself was either accompanying his family or hiding in a small building in the backyard of the military camp. Tang Cheng lived a very leisurely life. Tangcheng was hiding in Chongqing and was leisurely and contented, but the war outside was in full swing. In early April, the Battle of Taierzhuang ended with the victory of the national army. However, starting in May, bad news followed one after another.
The Japanese army suffered a major defeat in Taierzhuang and immediately changed their operational thinking. On May 10, Xiamen fell, followed by Hefei and Xuzhou on May 14 and 19. In June, in order to prevent the Japanese army from continuing to advance westward, Chiang Kai-shek adopted the method of "replacing troops with water" and ordered the opening of the Ferry Garden Mouth on the south bank of the Yellow River located 17 kilometers away from the northern suburbs of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China, causing a man-made breakout of the Yellow River. The dike was diverted, forming a large yellow flood area. Chiang Kai-shek tried to use the Yellow River to burst its banks to prevent the Japanese army from moving south, but his plan failed. The Japanese army captured Anqing on June 12, thus kicking off the Battle of Wuhan.
Danger is approaching Wuhan, and the dignitaries who followed the Nationalist Movement to Wuhan seem to have nothing to do on the surface, but in fact they have already panicked. The mountain city of Chongqing, which originally looked like a useless place, becomes particularly attractive at this time. Thanks to the two crackdowns led by Tangcheng, the public security environment in Chongqing has been greatly improved. Although public security cases have not been completely eliminated, in general, Chongqing's public security environment and market prosperity have already exceeded the current level. People in Wuhan are in panic.
Under this situation, the wealthy people who were temporarily living in Wuhan all sent their family members or confidants to Chongqing, trying to find a place for their families in Chongqing. "Captain, it's a good thing you have a good idea. The shabby houses we bought can be resold immediately with a little repair. At present, the first thing for the immigrants in the city is to buy a house, and now they are afraid that we will sell them. Those houses are not for sale." Under the fruit trees in the backyard of the military camp, Tang Cheng was lying comfortably on a bamboo deck chair, and the person sitting next to him was Qin Dachuan, the accountant of the search team.
Zhao Dashan came to Tangcheng for the old houses that Tangcheng had bought before. A large part of these old houses were confiscated from the criminals after the search team handled the case, and some of them were from Tangcheng. Purchased with my own money. "Mr. Qin, I'll leave all the repairs to the house to you. There are many refugees looking for work over there at the dock. Giving them a bite to eat is a good deed and a good deed. Tell them, as long as they do a good job , the farms outside the city will also recruit a group of agricultural workers before the year."
The Battle of Wuhan is about to begin, and it’s not too far away before the Kuomintang will move as a whole to Chongqing. Tangcheng has made so many arrangements in Chongqing in advance, and now it’s finally the harvest season. No matter when the time comes, these four items of food, clothing, housing and transportation will always be necessities. Tangcheng's appetite is not that big. It just encourages and unites the local garrison to establish farms outside the city in advance and acquires a large number of old houses in the city. As long as the government moves south to Chongqing, both the farms and the old houses will be given to them. Tangcheng brought a lot of wealth.
Qin Dachuan walked forward, and Lao Fu walked to the backyard of the military camp with a head full of sweat. "Captain, the horse gang from last time is here, and the woman with the long braid is here. She wants to see you by name." Lao Fu has been waiting for you these days. He was wandering around the dock area to inquire about news and was approached by the caravan. Lao Fu couldn't bear to be surprised, so he stabilized the caravan first and rushed back to the military camp to inform Tangcheng of the news.
"A member of the caravan?" Tang Cheng thought for a moment, then stood up from the recliner and sat up. "Did they tell me why they came to Chongqing to find me?" After detaining the batch of tobacco transported by the caravan, Tangcheng deliberately imprisoned the caravan members in the labor camp. Later, Zhang Jianghe felt that something was wrong, and Tang Cheng The city then released the caravan members and gave them a time limit to leave Chongqing. However, Tang Cheng did not expect at that time that the caravan people would still have the courage to come to Chongqing and even ask to see him by name.
Lao Fu shook his head when he heard this, and Tang Cheng immediately stood up, walked around the recliner, and made a decision. Tang Cheng decided to meet at a labor camp outside the city. The caravan was personally escorted to the farm by Lao Fu. Tang Cheng, who had been carrying binoculars early, saw the braided woman at first sight. "Miss Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time. You look very good!" Tang Cheng, who was waiting at the door of the small building, looked harmless, but Zhou Shengnan was already filled with anger.
If Tangcheng hadn't led people to intercept the smoke and soil transported by his own horse team, how could he have lost so much money in vain? If it hadn't been for losing a large sum of money in vain, the batch of arms ordered from the British would not have been snatched away by their enemies. Without the arms and money, the Zhou family would be in this situation. Tang Cheng didn't know what Zhou Shengnan was thinking at this moment. He just smiled politely at the other party and then made a gesture to invite the other party into the building.
Zhou Shengnan came to Chongqing this time to get help from Tangcheng. After he was released from the labor camp, Zhou Shengnan found acquaintances in the city to find out the details of Tangcheng. If he hadn't known that there was a force behind the Chongqing station of the military command in Tangcheng, Zhou Shengnan would never have left Chongqing honestly. Now that the Zhou family was in trouble, the only person Zhou Shengnan could turn to was Tangcheng. "When you forced us to leave Chongqing within a time limit, you said that if I had any trouble, I could come to you for help. Do your words still count now?"
Zhou Shengnan was a woman, but she spoke and acted as straightforwardly as a man. After Tang Cheng sat down across from him, Zhou Shengnan did not want to waste time and went straight to the subject to explain his purpose. Tang Cheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that the other party came to Chongqing to seek help from him. Before Zhou Shengnan appeared, Tang Cheng had been worried that the other party came to find trouble with him for the batch of cigarettes. Tang Cheng nodded when he heard this. When he opened his mouth to speak, Lao Fu spoke first.
"Miss Zhou, what our captain said must count, but it also depends on what you want to help? You can't ask our captain to do things that ordinary people can't do, so our captain must go too, right?" What Fu said was not nonsense. People in the world like Zhou Shengnan did things based on their preferences. Lao Fu was worried that the other party would make unreasonable demands or difficult things to embarrass Tang Cheng. It would be better to talk now than to fall out with him later. Now that Lao Fu had spoken, Tang Cheng remained silent, just waiting for Zhou Shengnan's answer.
"Captain Tang, don't worry, our Zhou family is not a shameless person! The things I said may be difficult for others, but for you, Captain Tang, it's just a piece of cake!" Zhou Shengnan suppressed the anger in his heart, Thinking about the safety of her family, she could only lower her body and tell Tang Cheng the matter in a good voice. "Captain Tang, this is what happened. My family's enemies are pressing harder and harder, and my Zhou family has no choice but to retreat. Otherwise, it will be difficult for everyone in the Zhou family to survive."
As he spoke, Zhou Shengnan opened the small box he had been carrying and took out three jadeite pieces of different colors from the box and placed them on the table. "I heard that Captain Tang loves jade. This is a fine jade passed down from generations of my Zhou family. As long as Captain Tang helps my Zhou family overcome this difficulty, this piece of jade will belong to you, Captain Tang." The Zhou family said Kunming has been passed down to the family for six generations. The jadeite that can be regarded as high-quality by the Zhou family cannot be ordinary goods. Tang Cheng only took one look at the three pieces of jadeite on the table and already fell in love with it.
"The stuff is good, I like it very much!" Tang Cheng, who secretly liked it in his heart, was not polite. He reached out and gathered all three jadeite pieces in front of him and started playing with them one by one. "Since you came to see me with something, and I also like what you brought, let's put it first as a villain and then as a gentleman. Let's make it clear here first, so that you won't blame me for these three pieces of jade in the future. ." The three pieces of jade that Zhou Shengnan brought were not small in weight and size. Tang Cheng liked them, but he did not immediately agree to them.
"I can basically guess what you just said. I believe that when you left Chongqing, you must have found someone to find out my details. This time you came to ask me for help with something, probably because you took a fancy to me and the military command of Chongqing. I guess your plan is to use me to establish a relationship with the Kunming Station of the Military Command, and then use the name of the Military Command to drive away the enemy of your Zhou family, right?" Tang Cheng's words made Zhou Shengnan secretly think Looking sideways in her heart, she didn't expect Tang Cheng's reaction to be so quick.
Zhou Shengnan remained silent, which showed that Tang Cheng's inference just now was completely correct, and it hit the mark with Zhou Shengnan's plans and thoughts. Tang Cheng was not angry at all, and just continued, "Miss Zhou, I can help you with this! But I also want to remind you that once you get involved with the military commander, your Zhou family will have more troubles in the future. Don't I thought that after hooking up with Jun Tong, your Zhou family would have no worries from now on, because Jun Tong is not easy to get along with!"
Tang Cheng knew the reputation of the military commander, but Zhou Shengnan didn't. That was because she didn't know much about the military commander, and she didn't know that a powerful department like the military commander was far more cunning than the bandits. Zhou Shengnan was already shaken in his heart, but when he saw the faint smile on Tang Cheng's face, he became angry and gritted his teeth at Tang Cheng when his head became hot. "My family can hardly survive now. How can we care about the future? I don't regret it."
Tang Cheng was surprised when he heard this, but he didn't expect that Miss Zhou was a decisive and ruthless person. Tang Cheng, who was about to answer the other party, felt something in his heart, but when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly changed his meaning. "Miss Zhou, I promised you this, but these things you brought are not enough. We still need to have a good talk!"
