In fact, Weng Minghui didn't know that the so-called other powerful force Dai Lilong recommended to him was Zhou Wen's mercenary group.
As for Zhou Wen, he had brought some of his brothers to Shanghai as early as last month.
After settling a series of incidents in Nanjing, Zhou Wen took the $600,000 in compensation from the Kong family (the other $100,000 had already been handed over to Zhao Changshu, who had also benefited from it) and started his gold panning trip in Shanghai.
Of course, he had already arranged everything in detail before coming.
As for the teaching corps, it has received permission from the Military Commission and will be expanded into two main regiments and one supplementary regiment.
The specific establishment is as follows: the commander-in-chief of the headquarters is Major General Zhou Wen, the deputy commanders are Colonel Gao Xiaoshan and Colonel Zhang Jinfa (Miaohua), the director of the General Affairs Department is Major Wu Dachang (Old Uncle Wu), and the director of the Telecommunications Department is Major Zhou Yongbin.
The first regiment is the original regiment. The regiment leader is Colonel Meng Yuting, and the deputy regiment leader and chief of staff is Lieutenant Colonel Chen Wanli.
A regiment consists of an infantry battalion, an artillery battalion, a fire support battalion, a cavalry company, an engineering company, a communications company and a logistics company.
Lieutenant Derengtai, commander of the cavalry company; Captain Lin Ling, commander of the engineering company; Captain Zhang Xinhe, commander of the communications company; Lieutenant Sun Chengzhu (a yellow-faced man from the Volunteer Army), commander of the logistics company.
The infantry battalion has three infantry companies, with the battalion commander and commander of the first company, Major Mu Qinghe; the commander of the second company, Captain Wan Changhe; and the commander of the third company, Lieutenant Lei Dahai.
The artillery battalion consists of a mortar company, a mountain artillery company and a howitzer company.
Battalion commander Major Zhu Jinhui; mortar company commander Captain Tang Jian; mountain artillery company commander Captain Zhong Qibao; howitzer company commander Captain Li Han.
The fire support battalion consists of two machine gun companies and an anti-aircraft company.
Major Mo Dahai, battalion commander and commander of the first machine gun company; Major Wang Lizhi, deputy battalion commander and commander of the air defense company; Captain Huang Tao, commander of the second machine gun company.
Since the Second Regiment was composed of veterans of the original 19th Route Army, Zhou Wen basically made no major adjustments to the officer team out of respect for this heroic unit.
The regiment leader is still Colonel Cai Jin, but some changes have been made to the original organization.
The second regiment also has an infantry battalion, an artillery battalion and a fire support battalion.
The infantry battalion and the fire support battalion both used officers from the original 19th Route Army. However, because the artillery battalion was very technical, with the consent of Commander Cai, Zhou Wen transferred the Soviet artillery officers Gushan, Wanyishan and Wang from the original artillery company. Yong sent over.
Major Gushan serves as the battalion commander, and Captain Wan Yishan and Captain Wang Yong serve as company commanders of the mortar company and mountain artillery company respectively.
The artillery battalion of the Second Regiment only has two companies. The howitzers have very high requirements on technology, transportation and logistical supplies. In addition, they are stationed in important places in Gyeonggi Province. This kind of powerful weapon is too eye-catching, so Zhou Wen did not dare to equip it. I just pulled him over because I couldn't do it, but the principal made an excuse and walked away.
At the same time, an instructors team led by Chen Wanli, with Uncle Ma as deputy, and composed of outstanding officers and non-commissioned officers of various arms from the First Regiment, also came to the Second Regiment, which had moved to Pukou Town, to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the Second Regiment. Orientation training.
Before Zhou Wen left Nanjing, he compiled his strategic suggestions and tactical insights into a book, which was handed over to the principal by Chief Qian. He only hoped that his suggestions would be adopted by the principal. Even if the principal adopts only a small part, it will be helpful in the future war of resistance.
Zhou Wen also let go of his worries after learning that the Liu family had agreed to his marriage to Liu Ruolan. It depends on how his father and the Liu family negotiate later. Anyway, Liu Ruolan is already his unwavering fiancée and no one can change her. As for when to get married, there is no rush now, since they are both still young, right?
The conflict with the Kong family seems to have been resolved, but Zhou Wen will not let this matter go. We all have a long way to go, and we will never be soft-hearted when we encounter opportunities in the future.
If you want to attack me, you will have to bear the consequences of endless revenge.
After everything was arranged, Zhou Wen led a team of brothers to Shanghai.
Originally, he thought that the Secret Service agents in Shanghai would contact him soon. Before he came, he had promised Dai Lilong that he would help the Secret Service when needed.
Of course, now Zhou Wen still needs to pay even if he helps the Secret Service deal with the Japanese.
As for how much it costs, it depends on what you are doing. If the risk is high and the difficulty is high, the fees will naturally be higher.
Moreover, Zhou Wen knows that the Secret Service has great power now. Although these agents are very heroic in dealing with the Japanese, they are not soft when it comes to blackmailing businessmen and officials. Senior officials of the Secret Service, including Dai Lilong, , almost all of them are wealthy men, and Zhou Wen will not have any psychological burden when accepting money.
But it’s been almost a month since he came to Shanghai, and Zhou Wen hasn’t seen anyone from the Secret Service contact him. He didn’t take it to heart at first, but now a situation has arisen, which makes Zhou Wen somewhat expect agents from the Secret Service to come to him for help as soon as possible. .
why?
Because Mr. Zhou is almost out of money.
Logically speaking, Zhou Wen should not be short of money now, but there are too many and too big things he has to do now, so there are more places to spend money.
The first big money grabber was the Yangtze River Company established by Zhou Wen and Mr. Du's junior brother Su Jixian.
What Zhou Wen originally thought was that since he was powerful now, with the support of Mr. Du in Shanghai, and the endorsement of the Military Commission in the government, he was still not allowed to go sideways in Shanghai?
But what he didn't expect was that the situation in Shanghai was too complicated. Being powerful didn't work in some places, and you had to have money.
If you want to start a land and river transportation business, ships and trucks are of course necessary, but at least you have to have your own wharf, right? There must also be a warehouse on the dock, right?
In Shanghai now, all large-scale terminals have owners, and there are owners behind the owners. If the backstage is from the government or the Youth Gang, Zhou Wen can at least use his background from the Military Commission to lower the price.
However, the few docks with warehouses that Zhou Wen is interested in are all owned by foreigners, which makes it a bit difficult to handle.
The best one is Fengyu Pier located in the public concession. Not only is the transportation convenient, but it also has several warehouses totaling tens of thousands of square meters, which is very suitable.
Unfortunately, the owner of this terminal is an American company called Qichang Yangxing.
Zhou Wen learned from Mr. Du that Qichang Foreign Company had a good reputation and was actually the most famous rice-invested company in Shanghai during this period.
Moreover, his partners are also quite influential in American politics and are not afraid of Zhou Wen's background at all.
Even if Zhou Wen wants to use some off-market tricks to lower the price, he is still afraid of causing international disputes.
The key is that the American company also owns two other larger terminals on the Bund. There is also a willingness to sell Fengyu Terminal, which is slightly smaller and is no longer convenient for docking sea ships.
