The Central Plains War is real! It was a fierce battle! They were all big battles with thousands of casualties.
The Guangxi army also stabbed Jiang Zhongcai in the back and advanced to Hunan. The Guangdong army, of course, joined in the commotion. The politicians of the "Yue faction" shouted their "anti-Chiang" slogans loudly, but in terms of fighting, the Guangdong and Guangxi armies did not seem so fierce. Was it due to limited strength? Or are you looking at the situation of the Northern war? Anyway, it doesn't look like a full-scale attack on Hubei.
Shandong and Hebei have now become major battlefields, causing military disasters. Refugees have come to Shanghai from both Shandong and Hebei, and King Kong has taken in some more.
Not to mention those who are related to those already taken in by King Kong. Dozens of Ye Zhanxiong's relatives, like those from Shandong, are either called Ye Zhanxiong's uncle or Ye's aunt. Take them all, some as security guards with uncle, and some as workers.
In the midst of chaos, it's better to have more security guards. The main reason is that King Kong collects too many people and has his own gun. There are more security guards, divided into four categories:
The first is the Ye brothers, nephews and disciples, who are with King Kong every day and have a small number of bodyguards.
The second was a group of people led by Fu Baoguo, all reliable, in good physical condition and excellent in training, with a majority from Anhui and Shandong, to protect King Kong and his family. "Famous philanthropists" are usually the main targets of gangsters' kidnappings and have to be guarded against.
The third is the team led by Fu Baotian and AD, which mainly guards the factory.
Finally, there were more than two hundred men led by Qu Guoliang, selected from refugees, with some strength but no skills and no culture. It was a new recruit team, with Fu Baotian, Ye Zhanxiong and others helping with the training, and divided into groups led by A team of Ade and others to take turns on duty and patrol.
The rotation was because there was no actual need for so many people, and having them follow was just to teach them how to do it.
King Kong's training of the initial security team, including the Fu brothers and the big dragon and other boys, was basically based on what he had learned in the military camp. Army combat theory and so on were also taught by King Kong.
In comparison, Qu Guoliang, a "Whampoa class 4 and a half graduate", was far inferior to King Kong and even worse than the Fu brothers who had studied under King Kong for several months. But the "Whampoa student" said that the military knowledge they learned at the academy was indeed limited to this.
It should be said that their security team was actually trained exactly like an army, and in the same way as King Kong trained in Little Z's troops, of course, with less intensity. Because King Kong, apart from the military training at college entrance, saw only the training of the Z unit and thought that the training of the army should be like this.
In addition to the general infantry training, there are also street combat and scout training.
Qu Guoliang, a graduate of the fourth and a half classes of the Whampoa Military Academy, said that these training methods are very effective. They are more rigorous and closer to actual combat than those of the fourth classes of the Whampoa Military Academy back then, and their level is much higher. Even the study of military theory was much more and deeper than that of the fourth batch of students at the Whampoa Military Academy. The fourth term of the Whampoa Military Academy only had a bit more political study.
Qu Guoliang also wanted to be a student of Mr. Light and study military affairs. Though he is the only one here who has fought a regular war.
King Kong demanded that several of his boys, along with boys over twelve years old in the workers' school, take part in a certain amount of military training.
The number of refugees he has taken in since March and the number of workers he has recruited since April and May is a bit too large. There are now a thousand or so men under him, and the number is still increasing.
There are also too many female workers. Even though the garment factory is already open, it can't accommodate so many of them.
Everyone has less time to work and more time to study. Among them, those who are found to have outstanding academic performance do not have to work as workers anymore and study as students. Female workers who do well in their studies switch to nursing.
Some say it's not just about grades, not overall quality, it's unfair! So tell me, how is this overall quality tested?
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The price of grain in Shanghai has doubled. One shi of rice (150 jin) costs 21 yuan!
The shortage of grain in Shanghai is related to famine and the lack of supply, as well as to some grain merchants hoarding goods to drive up prices. King Kong heard that grain prices were still relatively low in Hunan and Guangdong, and of course in Northeast China.
The problem is that the roads are not peaceful. The south and the north are fighting. The Guangdong army is fighting against the Guangxi army, the Guangxi army is fighting against the Hunan army, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Shandong... They are all fighting! One section of the Yangtze River belongs to the southern army and the other to the Northern army. They all hold ships for inspection and confiscate goods at every turn! You're lucky if you're not shot! And there are plenty of bandits and water bandits, and the war is in chaos. Who dares to transport?
At this time, Kang Yejun, the boss of Tonglu Huolun Company, and Guan Liqing, the boss of Shanghai Xinxing Steamship Factory, came looking for King Kong again. Under the squeeze of foreign shipping companies, the bosses of China's shipping industry are having a hard time. So a few shipping bosses from Zhejiang and Jiangsu pooled their money and took a big gamble, hoping to make more money. They saw that rice prices in Sichuan and Hunan were more than half as low as those in Shanghai. So they sent Guan Yongqing, the brother of Guan Liqing, to buy two thousand tons and transport them down with their own small steamship fleet.
In Yueyang, their fleet was seized by the army and their men were arrested, claiming that they were "supporting the enemy". Now Boss Guan is going to take the cash to save his brother's life. But they don't have any money at once. All the money for the grain business is borrowed. So Guan Liqing was going to sell his new steamship factory to King Kong for 100,000 yuan.
King Kong thought for a moment and came up with an idea. He first approached Huang Qixiang, saying that Guan Boss could buy two thousand tons of grain at 70 percent of the market price in Shanghai and sell it to Mrs. Sun's charity. This would help save money and also help stabilize the price of grain in Shanghai. So Mrs. Sun's charity issued a certificate stating that the batch of grain was purchased by the charity.
Second, King Kong asked Qu Guoliang to go with Guan Boss, and Qu always said that his elder brother Huang Honglin was quite capable in Hubei.
In addition, King Kong lent another 100,000 yuan to Boss Guan.
The Sun Lady's brand still has some influence.
According to Guan Liqing's return, this Huang Honglin is indeed quite capable. He has many acquaintances and is good at socializing. After spending some money to get things done, Mr. Guan not only rescued his brother, but also the fleet and the grain!
With these two connections, there will be fewer troubles along the way. Although the food was sold to the charity at 70 percent of the market price in the end, which was less than expected, the safety of the people and the loss of all money were considered a blessing in misfortune.
King Kong was good on both ends this time: the charity was able to provide more relief to the poor by buying cheap food. Guan Liqing and the others regarded King Kong as their savior!
Guan Boss came to pay back the 100,000 yuan to King Kong and said he would give the shipyard to King Kong. Although the investment in his shipyard is more than 100,000 yuan, there is actually no business now and it has been losing money. He is unable to turn losses into profits and has long wanted to sell it. Finally, King Kong bought the shipyard at a price of 100,000 yuan.
Shortly after, some of the old ships that King had bought were going to Shanghai, and he needed the shipyard to repair them.
Through these events, King Kong got in touch with the bosses of the fire wheel companies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.