What Wang Wenzhao didn't say was that he had advanced the medical fee of nearly 100 yuan. How could Li Bin, who had gone bankrupt because of his son, have that kind of money. After Wang Wenzhao returned home, his wife complained for a while. But Wang Wenzhao couldn't just watch Li Bin's child die of illness, right? In this era, one hundred oceans was enough for a medium-sized family of four to live in Taiyuan City for more than a year. Even Wang Wenzhao's net worth was not a small sum.
However, Wang Wenzhao also gained confidence at this time. Even though his nephew was a senior official in the province, his son was now the head of a county. Is a hundred oceans a lot?
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At about five o'clock in the afternoon, two black Buick cars drove into the foreigner district of Donghuamen Street. It was Zhou Wen who came to pick up Hobert, Delman and several other foreigners to have dinner with him. Zhou Wen knows that foreigners actually care about face. Since he wants to take the initiative to make friends with these foreigners, he might as well make all the appearances. They simply borrowed Liu Ruoshui's car and brought two cars to pick them up, so that these foreigners could look good.
You must know that cars were just introduced into China during this period. Except for a few big cities such as Shanghai and Tianjin, there were a certain number of cars in the country, and there were very few in other cities. Even the car owned by the dignified Chairman of Shanxi Province, Chief Xu, was given to him by Marshal Yan as a gift before he left the field. There are only one new car and a few old cars in the entire province.
The two cars drove slowly on Foreigner Street, attracting the side glances of many foreigners on the roadside. I thought it was the senior provincial official who came. The car stopped in front of a small house. A young colonel got out of the car with a smile and warmly hugged several foreigners who were already waiting at the door, and communicated in fluent English.
The foreigners watching all knew that it was the German engineer Hobert and his friends from the arsenal.
At this time, at the entrance of a Japanese trading company facing the street not far away, there were two Japanese men in kimono carefully observing the lively scene here. One of the older men said: "Yamano-kun, can you guess who this Chinese person represents? What are you doing here?"
The younger man smiled and said: "Kangtian-kun is going to test me again. Okay, let me guess. The color of this Chinese military uniform should be that of the Nanjing man. He is already a colonel at such a young age, which shows that he He has a deep family background. He may even be the nephew of a high-ranking official in Nanjing. You can infer this from his surname by asking about his name. Now Nanjing is fighting fiercely with Germany. Let’s see how he treats those Germans. With such enthusiasm, the purpose is self-evident.”
The older man named Okada praised with satisfaction: "Yamano-kun, you work very hard. It's amazing that you can think of so many details in such a short time after coming to China. Let's work together for the great cause of the empire!"
"Hi!"
These two Japanese were actually spies sent to China by Japan. Of course, they are not spies from important departments. The important ones are in China's economic and political centers such as Shanghai and Nanjing. Even Okada is a real businessman himself. But this is the terrible thing about the Japanese. Under the education of Japanese militarism, almost everyone in the country is willing to dedicate their body and mind to the prosperity and strength of the so-called Empire of Japan.
Not to mention that the emperor's status in their minds is already comparable to that of the leaders of extreme religions. As long as the emperor asks them to sacrifice themselves, most Japanese people are willing to sacrifice their wealth and even their lives without hesitation. Loyalty to the Emperor and devotion to the Empire have become a belief of recent generations of Japanese people.
It is this belief that has led the entire nation of Japan to work together frugally and to build the most powerful navy in the world with the efforts of all the people in the country.
It was this belief that led Japan to brazenly launch a full-scale war of aggression against China seven years later in an attempt to annex China.
It was this belief that made the Japanese extremely ambitious and confident. Regardless of their predicament in the quagmire of the China War, they actually launched attacks and declared war on the two most powerful industrial countries in the world at the time. In the end, it lasted for three years.
According to Zhou Wen's understanding, the Japanese during this period were actually an extremely religious country. Their religion is militarism, and their religious leader is the Emperor of Japan.
This Okada is one of the representatives. Because he wanted to expand the market in China, as a businessman, he voluntarily went to the Japanese intelligence department to participate in training. After coming to China, he collected all aspects of China's intelligence while doing business. There are many people like Okada in China. It can be said that there are shadows of Japanese spies everywhere in China, no matter east, west, north or south. Wherever there are Japanese, there are Japanese spies.
Zhou Wen, who had already got into the car and headed to the restaurant, didn't know that he had just attracted the attention of two Japanese spies. Coincidentally, at this time he was also thinking about issues related to Japan. A Japanese bank called Yongjin Bank that he passed by just now caught his attention. Zhou Wen knew that Japan's Yongjin Bank was a large bank that could compete with international banks such as Citibank in the United States, Deutsche Bank in Germany, and HSBC in the United Kingdom.
What does it mean to be a big bank? In Zhou Wen's heart, that means having money, lots and lots of money. And Zhou Wen will be poor now, soon, and soon.
Zhou Wen now has nearly 1.5 million in various currencies and gold and silver in his possession. It looks like a lot of money, but the money that will be spent immediately may be even more. Why did he deliberately make friends with these Germans, just to spend money. Delman is an arms dealer, and Zhou Wen wants to buy weapons, cars, and steelmaking equipment from him. The next step is to build a hospital, and junior brother Feng Tianpei is still waiting pitifully.
By the way, we might even build a pharmaceutical factory. Although his younger brother and sister Li Qiaoer's medical skills are not as good as Feng Tianpei's, they are very talented in researching drug formulas. She studied the little book passed down by her master Zi Qing Lao Tao thoroughly. Coupled with her own knowledge of medicine, she was able to improve a hemostatic medicine. Now Fuyuan Stores in Taiyuan have almost become her laboratories. Why? Because there are many medicinal raw materials there.
Zhou Wen doesn't have time to take care of this matter now, so he can only talk about it later. But if there is really a special hemostatic drug, why not set up a factory? It all costs money. So Zhou Wen had a premonition that he would be poor soon. The so-called extreme poverty brings about change, and extreme poverty brings about extreme evil. Now Zhou Wen's eyes are fixed on Yongjin Bank of Japan. This is a very rich man, a very, very, very rich man.
But that’s not possible in Taiyuan. Good rabbits don’t even eat the grass around their nests. In fact, the main reason is that Yongjin Bank in Taiyuan does not have much money. why? There is no Japanese concession in Taiyuan, there is no Japanese garrison, there is no port, and the economy is not developed. How much money will there be in the bank?
Where can I find it in Taiyuan? There are them in Shanghai and Tianjin. If you think about it, if there is a concession, there will be a lot of Japanese deposits and business remittances, if there is a garrison, there will be military expenditures and other expenses, and if there are ports, there will be a lot of trade and transportation. Where will these funds be placed? Of course it is a Japanese bank. The greater the capital circulation and deposits, the greater the bank's margin. The fat sheep beeped loudly.
Of course, Zhou Wen can only think about it now, but is he planning for a rainy day... Hehe!
