After Wang Maocai heard Wan Qiangui's joke, the goatee on his face twitched unconsciously, and he laughed a few times and said: "How can you? He Yusheng is still doing business well, can't Brother Wan see that? , aren’t we just the caravan with Yu Sheng?”
Wan Qiangui said casually: "Isn't it true? When did you and Yusheng not have a caravan of hundreds of people before? If I hadn't known you, I really wouldn't have believed that other people came. What was it like with Yusheng back then? Everyone It’s not like I don’t know.”
It is said that the speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Wang Maocai was so frightened by Wan Qiangui's words that his little heart almost jumped out of his mouth. If someone behind him hadn't put his hand on his back, he would have been frightened. Turn around and run.
But the man behind him was a man with triangular eyes and a tuft of black hair at the corner of his mouth, dressed as a clerk. He saw Wang Maocai was a little panicked, and quickly said: "Isn't this company recently opened up other trade routes, so enter There are fewer people in custody, and Manager Wang will come first to attack the front line. There will definitely be a large caravan coming after the new year."
Wang Maocai quickly said: "Yes, yes, there will be a big caravan after the new year."
Wan Qiangui glanced at the man with black hair and triangular eyes curiously. He had been dealing with caravans all year round and knew the rules of the caravan. When would it be a guy's turn to interrupt?
Wang Maocai knew something was wrong as soon as he saw Wan Qiangui's eyes, and quickly introduced him: "Brother Wan, let me introduce you, this is our and Yu Sheng's new deputy manager Lai."
Wanqiangui is even more puzzling. You have a deputy steward for a caravan of more than ten people. You and Yusheng have too many people to spare or something, but these have nothing to do with him. Wanqiangui has nothing to do with it. He just wants to know about the caravan. What does it mean to come to Kouwai Village? It stands to reason that Wang Maocai knows the way into the customs, right?
What Wan Qiangui didn't know was that he was actually right about what he said just now. The caravan that came this time was not He Yusheng Company at all. He Yusheng, who was once famous both inside and outside the customs, had disappeared.
But the rumors he had heard before were true. With hundreds of years of hard work and management by generations of He Yusheng, it has become the most famous and powerful private business in Jinzhou. Its business can be extended to the Pingjin area, and its status has also increased. , it is said that the old club was invited to attend Zhang Dashuai's birthday banquet back then. It is considered a big family in Jinzhou and has accumulated a huge family fortune over the past hundred years.
But as the saying goes: wine makes a person's face red, and wealth and silk touch people's hearts.
When Zhang Dashuai was here, he at least knew that economic development was inseparable from these private capitals, and he understood the principle of long-term water flow. Not only would he not overly exploit the wool of these local businessmen, but he would also strive to improve the status of these businessmen and protect them.
After the Japanese occupied Jinzhou, it was not as simple as shedding wool. Those Japanese companies and trading companies that had been eyeing this piece of fat for many years suddenly had Japanese soldiers backing them, and they had the idea of cooking and eating the sheep.
So, just as Northeastern General Ma Zhanshan fired the first shot of the Northeast's anti-Japanese war in Jiangqiao, those Japanese trading companies suddenly found an excuse. More than a dozen of their foreign firms and trading companies jointly wrote a letter to the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters, falsely accusing Yu Sheng of having an affair. Suspected of resisting Japan, he secretly transported supplies to the anti-Japanese army led by General Ma Zhanshan.
For the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Northeast they just occupied is the time when they need to kill others and use violence and guns to make the Northeast people surrender. These beasts don't care what evidence you have. Aren't you rich and status-savvy? It's time for you to be operated on.
Therefore, poor and Yusheng, a time-honored business with a history of hundreds of years and which survived various wars in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, was wiped out overnight under the swords and guns of the Japanese soldiers. The family property and business name were destroyed by those greedy Japanese trading companies. After the partition, more than 100 direct and collateral relatives were all taken into the Japs barracks. The men were tied to wooden stakes to train the Japs recruits in their stabbing skills, while the women were all humiliated to death.
Wang Maocai, a side manager, survived because the Japanese wanted to investigate He Yusheng's assets and needed the cooperation of insiders. However, he was eventually used by the Japanese to lead a plainclothes detachment of the Japanese army to survey the terrain at the Great Wall Pass. .
This caravan pretending to be He Yusheng had ten Japanese soldiers. One of them, a sergeant, brought six Kwantung Army veterans who could speak Northeastern dialect, escorting an artillery lieutenant and three artillery observers to inspect and map the terrain along the Great Wall. .
To be on the safe side, this Japanese reconnaissance team specially recruited three puppet army officers who were familiar with the situation in the customs from the traitor Zhang Haipeng to cooperate.
Zhang Haipeng was originally the sworn brother of Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the Northeast Army. After Marshal Zhang came to power, he sought the position of governor of Heilongjiang Province from Marshal Zhang but failed, so he defected to the Japanese. After surrendering to Japan, Zhang Haipeng served as the commander of the pseudo-border security.
After the September 18th Incident, Zhang Haipeng declared independence in Taonan according to the instructions of the Japanese army. When Japan attacked Rehe, Zhang Haipeng, as the former enemy commander-in-chief of the puppet Manchukuo government, led the puppet army to help the Japanese attack his compatriots.
Since the puppet army he led was formerly the 32nd Cavalry Division of the Northeast Army, most of the officers and soldiers were recruited horse bandits who had previously plundered the Northeast, and they had extremely strong combat effectiveness.
It is strange to say that Zhang Haipeng and his puppet troops were groveling and obedient to the Japanese, and they looked like cowards. However, he was vicious and vicious in dealing with the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, fighting to the death, just like a dedicated screw, working hard for Japan's war of aggression against China.
This type of people also emerged one after another in the subsequent all-out war of resistance. It was as if they were born with servility. Once they found a master and became a slave, they became bolder, began to lose fear of death, and then began to do all kinds of evil.
This time, Zhang Haipeng sent out his personal guard adjutant Lai Youmao for the sake of his Japanese master.
Lai Youmao is the man with black hair and triangular eyes behind Wang Maocai. This man has a strange appearance. He had hair on the corners of his mouth as soon as he came out of his mother's womb. His bandit father gave him the name Lai Youmao.
Lai Youmao grew up in a bandit's den and developed good riding skills and marksmanship. In particular, he mastered the skill of shooting on horseback. He led horse bandits into the country many times to rob and escape successfully.
This man is ruthless, bold and careful. No matter whether it is the direct army or the Feng army that comes to encircle and suppress him, he will always be cut off by him personally. His guns and horses come and go like the wind, and the bullets are not missed. The pursuers often dare not take the lead directly. , so he won the name of "Black Steel Mane" among the horse bandits, and became famous in Jinzhou area for being able to stop children from crying at night.
Later, Zhang Haipeng cherished his talent and personally went to the mountain to recruit people. Only then did Lai Youmao lead his team to join the Northeast Army and get an official job.
Lai Youmao quickly made a name for himself in the army with his skills. In a battle, he risked his own life to save Zhang Haipeng's life. Since then, he has been valued by Zhang Haipeng and is now Zhang Haipeng's major security adjutant.
