And this Chen Xieyuan only now understood that it was useless no matter how much he tried to please the principal. After all, I am not the direct descendant of the principal. I have no soldiers and my farts will not make any noise.
What's more, he was really unwilling. How could I, a separatist local emperor, be willing to go to Nanjing to retire?
After his defeat, he took remedial measures and sent his son back to Anhui to recruit new soldiers, but he was unable to buy weapons. In fact, the principal simply didn't want him to take charge of the army again and cut off his ability to purchase weapons from several domestic arsenals.
And it is now under the jurisdiction of the National Government. If you want to import weapons from abroad, you must agree to the principal, otherwise even if you buy them, they will be nationalized by the Military Commission.
In the end, Chen Xieyuan could only think of arms smuggling. However, he is now a stripped phoenix and not as good as a chicken. Those old friends and connections from the past avoid him. Who will help him smuggle arms?
It happened that after Pu Bao Paulo came to Shanghai, he contacted Chen Yongbin, Chen Xieyuan's second son, and Chen Yongbin entrusted Pu Bao Paulo to help find a solution.
Chen Yongbin met Paul Pu when he went to England to study in the early years. Moreover, at that time, the Chen family wanted guns and money, so they were naturally generous with their actions. Naturally, they helped Pu Paulo, who was still a minor player at the time, a lot, and the Pu Paulo family owed a lot of favors to the Chen family.
After Paulo Pu arrived in Shanghai, he immediately contacted his old friends. Unexpectedly, not long after the two parties met, Chen Yongbin asked Pu Bao Paulo to help buy arms. This made Pu Bao Paulo a little difficult to deal with.
You must know that although Paulo's father is a heavyweight in the British court, it is only limited to the Chinese circle. The British people with big noses whose eyes are higher than their tops are also discriminated against. I don't even know anyone in the arms dealers or arsenals.
If you get a few long and short guns, they can buy them through the black market, but it will be a bit difficult to buy them in large quantities.
At that time, Pu Bao Paulo regretted it. Why did he find this old friend when he had nothing to do? Isn’t this just looking for things to do for yourself?
However, the Chen family did help the Pu family a lot back then. Chen Yongbin even paid for Paul Pu's father's lawsuit to be settled once. This favor had to be repaid.
So he couldn't refuse at that time, so he could only accept it first. He thought that he had no choice but to go to the British black market to scan for goods. No matter what kind of gun it is, get one or two hundred guns to return the favor first.
And he knew that the Chen family had been local emperors in Shandong and Anhui for many years and had no shortage of money. Although the price on the black market is a little higher, I think Chen Yongbin, an old friend, won't care about it.
In fact, there was really nothing Chen Yongbin could do to find Paul Pu.
You know, although I have suffered a defeat now, the establishment of the 37th Army of the National Revolutionary Army under him has not been abolished.
Just because even if the principal doesn't want you to take charge of the army, he can't show his intention to kill the donkey so obviously in terms of face.
I co-operated with others to obey your orders, actively responded to the call of the Military Commission, and even brought all my troops to fight with the Red Army. Although Chen Xieyuan's command was poor and he was beaten by the Red Army, but there is hard work without credit, right?
If you immediately dismantle other people's establishments, who will dare to listen to your orders in the future? Who is willing to send troops and respond to your call?
And Chen Xieyuan wanted to take advantage of this gap period to quickly pull up his team again. Otherwise, after a year and a half, it would be hard to say.
Now that Chen Xieyuan was transferred to the Military Senate as the president, he could not step forward himself, so he could only let his eldest son, who had been trained in the military for many years, act as commander, recruit troops in Anhui, organize and train the new army, and let his own The second son came to Shanghai to think of ways to get weapons.
But Chen Yongbin traveled around Shanghai for many days, but it was because of the private instruction of the principal that the Shanghai Arsenal did not sell him even a single screw, let alone the Hanyang Arsenal.
It's not that Chen Yongbin has never thought about the Taiyuan Arsenal in Shanxi, but Marshal Yan from Shanxi replied that as long as you can bring the team to Shanxi, I will provide you with as many weapons as you want. But if your Thirty-seventh Army is still in Anhui, forgive me, old man, for being powerless.
How dare the Chen family agree to this naked intention of wooing and annexing. This Yan Laojie never engages in loss-making business. What he values is not your thousands of mobs, what he values is the organization of your 37th Army.
Haha, as long as you agree, believe it or not, as soon as your team arrived in Shanxi, all officers and commanders were immediately replaced by members of the Jin Army. From now on, the 37th Army will have nothing to do with your Chen family.
Therefore, after Chen Yongbin saw Pu Baoluo, he could only seek medical treatment in an emergency, regardless of whether he had dates or not, and let him get a shot first.
After knowing the whole story, Zhou Wen breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he was secretly satisfied that his reputation as the son of Buddhist fortune was indeed not for nothing. Such good things could happen out of nowhere.
But he couldn't pretend to be ecstatic, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with Paulo Pu having changed his mind and added more money.
So Zhou Wen pretended to be thoughtful, but in fact he was happy in his heart, thinking that it would be better to wait a little longer before replying.
But in Pu Baolao's eyes, Zhou Wen looked embarrassed, thinking and weighing hard.
He is not in a hurry. Anyway, there are two offers, one is to make a fortune, and the other is to return a favor. Even if Zhou Wen doesn't agree to it, there will be no loss.
But for him, making concessions was out of the question.
After a long time, Zhou Wencai asked after careful consideration: "I wonder how many weapons Mr. Chen needs to meet Brother Paul's conditions?"
When Paulo Pu heard this, he knew that Zhou Wen was leaning towards the second offer. In fact, he himself had no idea how many weapons he would provide to the Chen family as a return of favor. However, he himself thought that he would just do his best, so even buying one or two hundred guns on the black market would be enough. A favor.
Of course, he knew that for Chen Yongbin, it must be Han Xin who ordered the troops, the more the better.
So he thought for a moment and said: "The more the better, but the minimum cannot be less than two thousand rifles. Even if the price is higher, it doesn't matter, but it cannot be less than two thousand. This is the bottom line."
When Zhou Wen heard this, he knew that the Chen family must be anxious, otherwise they would not reveal their intention to buy at a high price. This is certainly good news for him.
The three thousand rifles now in the warehouse are actually worthless to Zhou Wen. Just because there are not many people who are familiar with him and have the right to independently purchase weapons.
After all, only he and Marshal Yan can take advantage of this batch of arms.
However, the mercenary group does not know how to use this kind of weapon, and Marshal Yan himself guards a Taiyuan arsenal. The key is that the caliber does not match the ammunition of the Jin army, so naturally he does not like these rifles.
