Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 1208: Thousand Miles Home (Part 2)

In the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization, a family that can be passed down for 700 years cannot be said to be unique, but it is definitely not a short-lived family.

When the old man in his family, who was originally a local rich man in Tang Dao's eyes, took out a pirated family tree from the simple wooden box in the basement full of gold, silver and jewelry, Tang Dao knew that the 19th generation of wealth was definitely not an illusion.

The Tang family actually has a little secret!

It turns out that the ancestors of Tang Dao's family were wealthy merchants from Sichuan Province and settled in Chengdu. However, as the Yuan and Mongolians entered the Central Plains, the gates of Sichuan Province, which had resisted for several years, were opened. The brutal Yuan and Mongolian men ordered the massacre of the people of Sichuan Province. Nine out of ten houses were empty, which could not describe the miserable situation in Sichuan Province at that time.

Only one out of ten of the millions of people in Sichuan Province survived, which led to the later saying that Huguang filled Sichuan Province.

The Tang family was not spared in this catastrophe. Only a male descendant of the family fled to a remote area of ​​Sichuan Province under the protection of the family guards. The ancestor of the Tang family left a family motto on his deathbed: The descendants of the Tang family must work hard to run businesses and accumulate money, and must not be extravagant. In times of chaos, they can give up their wealth to protect their families, but in times of foreign invasion, they must spend all their wealth to help good generals resist the enemy!

This is also a bloody lesson. If it is a domestic riot, the big guys need the territory and population, and will never kill them, but if it is a foreigner, it is hard to say.

Moreover, in order to prevent his descendants from being wiped out, the ancestor of the Tang family who lost all his relatives also required that the family be divided every four generations, and not in the same county. This is also the main reason why Tang Dao did not see his own Tang family for a long time.

Su Ze's great-grandfather was not from this branch. If so, Xiao Handan would also say that the silver and money outside the ancestral hall were the accumulation of the Tang family for eight generations, including the prodigal son Tang Dao.

From the 12th century to the present, 700 years have passed. Of course, the Tang family has been passed down for 19 generations. However, with the passage of time, the Tang family members who still adhere to the teachings of their ancestors have only seen those dozen generations, and are now scattered all over Sichuan Province.

I overestimated my parents' desire for future grandchildren.

The training quota of 10,000 young and strong people in the county is enough to send soldiers to the young men outside the county. The villagers of Shigu Township where the Tang family is located are the closest to the Tang family. The 1,500 people outside are composed of veterans who are disabled due to injuries in the troops of Brigade Commander Wang Xiao and can participate in the war again. All military equipment is purchased by Xiao Handan.

"In addition, he will recruit 1,000 new soldiers. We can only tell him that all the new soldiers will be recruited."

"Why is he talking nonsense to you? He can take half a month to come back to see his parents, or take one or two days to get married?" Su Zetian smiled warmly and hit the nail on the head.

Su Ze specifically named Tang Jili. This was naturally to ask him to talk about the current situation. Anyway, he had just boasted once today, so it was okay to add some oil and vinegar.

"Who can be as stupid as this old man to give away the money he had worked hard to save when he was young?" It was hard for Tang Dao not to see that there were people in the world who did not take the ancestral teachings seriously.

Xiao Handan spent a month running all over southwest Sichuan, holding the "pirated" family tree and ancestral teachings, and contacted nearly 80 Tang clan members. There were 18 Tang clan members who expressed their willingness to abide by the teachings, and a total of 1.5 million yuan was invested!

"If this is true, then he will be born!" Xiao Handan, who was not very proud at that time, wanted to pat his son on the shoulder and say in a heroic manner. "My offspring is the same as before."

"Hehe! But who made me raise such a useless son! Not only his great-grandfather and grandfather's money has to be used by him, but the total of 18 Tang families in the four counties in southwest Sichuan have not made a decision yet, and the silver stored for several generations is for him, Captain Tang, to use!" Speaking of this, Su Zetian was a little less proud.

However, the two bruised guys were punished by Tang Dao to wash the dishes for half a night, and everyone would have suffered!

The money has been spent, and he still brags about the family history to you for a long time, and it makes people feel cold-blooded.

"Why are you talking about you? You only have one wife in your life!" Xiao Handan, who was also full of thoughts, was not happy.

On the eighth day, when Tang Dao was so tired that he was splitting his legs, the seven of them went home with bruises on their faces.

"That's it! 2 million catties of refined rice, 1 million catties of white flour, 500,000 catties of corn and soybeans, as well as various daily necessities such as salt and sugar, which have not been prepared after the New Year. He thought he wanted money!" Su Zetian said.

"The old man is worried, but you still want the old man and mother to help you take care of your son!" Tang Dao comforted his father.

That was not his old man. If it was someone else, Tang Dao would punch him into a pig's head!

Tang Jili and Long Yan were busy for those eight days. We were forced to receive guests like Tang Tuanzuo, yes, to entertain guests, but we went to select the soldiers we wanted from the 1,500 security guards.

"Hmph! Hurry up and contact the party to arrange a buffet, and tell them that your son is about to get married in the army, and your Tang family welcomes the whole village to celebrate the eighth day!" Lv Sanjiang snorted heavily, and also wanted to tell her husband's army in front of her son, which was considered to save her husband's face.

"Old man" Xiao Handan was laughing, but Tang Dao could feel that the old father loved his son deeply.

Su Zetian was about to be promoted to the commander of the reconnaissance company. That time, 20 people were to be transferred. Tang Dao gave me 20 places, and Longyan had already been allowed by Tang Dao to select 10 people.

Even if the 1,500 people who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and trained carefully for half a year were pulled out, their combat effectiveness would definitely be worse than that of the 26th Division, which had just entered the battlefield.

"Mom, the military situation is tense now! He saw that since arriving in the Taihang Mountains, your Qixing regiment has fought eight small battles with the Japanese. As the regiment leader, you have to command from behind the battle, and you have to be responsible for the sacrifices and injuries before the battle. We can only wait for the various matters concerning the officers and soldiers!" Tang Dao explained with a wry smile and turned his attention to Tang Jili who was sitting in the courtyard.

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"Enough! That's enough!" Tang Dao raised his little thumb. "Your Tang family is really the one!"

The people of Sichuan Province were scrimping on food and clothing to support the national war of resistance, which also showed from another aspect that the name of the land of abundance was false.

It turned out that since the newspaper published the story of Tang Dao's resistance against war at the Qixing Warehouse, and learned from the letter that Tang Dao was promoted to the commander of the 43rd Army's independent battalion, Su Zetian and his wife knew that their son's journey would end in nothing.

At that point, Xiao Hanlian's threshold was obviously lower than that of Tang Dao and his son. At most, she would tell lies with her eyes open.

Then, Tang Dao regretted and wanted to silence himself.

Unexpectedly, Tang Jili acted like a wooden man that time and pretended to hear.

But obviously, Tang Dao's face and figure that were obviously more like his mother's made him have the shamelessness to say it.

Yes, so embarrassing!

"What's for it? All the money from the other eighteen families has been spent!" Xiao Hanlian glanced at her silly son who was blinded by 'money' and said calmly.

And these 1,500 people are all from families of ten thousand people, absolutely hometown soldiers!

"Of course there's no food left," Tang Dao replied matter-of-factly. "When you went home to visit relatives, you didn't want to recruit a thousand new soldiers to go north with you. You Sichuan troops are all bad guys!"

Worrying is already useful, so you can only grit your teeth and support me to the end.

Tang Dao and his son both breathed a sigh of relief at the same time!

Only then did Tang Dao realize that his father's business in that area for nearly a hundred years was in vain. There were not more than ten thousand people in Shigu Township coming to congratulate him. The gift could be a bag of eggs or ten kilograms of rice. Even with a handful of fresh vegetables, the Tang family and the seventy guests they invited were disgusted and treated them as guests.

"How can this be done? There is no risk for those in the back line!" Tang Dao was startled and sweat broke out from his forehead.

Money and food alone are enough insurance for parents. Xiao Hanlian used Brigadier Wang's relationship to find people outside the county and donated 200,000 silver to the Anti-Japanese War, thus obtaining the position of deputy head of the county security corps. Guangming Zhengxiao recruited officers and soldiers of the security regiment for training.

"How do you call him an old man? What does it mean to be stupid? I am here for my son, why do you call him stupid? If his mother hears the letter, she will slap him to death!" Xiao Hanlian is probably a rare riser today. This time, the eyes that stared at his son were a little smaller.

True to his word, the food standard for the seven of us tonight will instantly become rice porridge and biscuits, and we will all have a bite of the pork foreleg soup that we finished last night.

"If you want to resist Rico, you must be an elite soldier. How can you fight against Japan when you pick up a gun as soon as you put down a hoe?" Xiao Hanlian looked at his stunned son, and finally a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"Are they as small as our family?" Tang Dao, who had not yet claimed to be a wealthy fourteenth generation, had hope in his eyes.

"That's right! He wants to let down the man who loves him. He is your son, Lu Sanjiang. You must imitate him." Lu Sanjiang nodded with satisfaction.

Su Zetian, who was still a little angry at first, immediately changed the target of his struggle to his precious son after hearing Xiao Hanlian's cheeky nibbling on his ear.

Military training is naturally even more difficult. Anyone who is careless will be judged as having the intention to rebel, which is a serious crime that will kill his head, but Su Zetian still took the risk and did it.

Food is a precious commodity in times of war, and the government is also cracking down on hoarding merchants. However, Xiao Hanlian was able to buy millions of kilograms. This is because he has suffered a lot and lost a lot of smiles.

Especially in the future, the era Su Ze has experienced when values ​​have collapsed!

"Old man, are you saying?" Tang Dao was really shocked that time.

"The old man is worried, his son, you will use every penny of that money to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War! When will you get it?" Su Ze, who was dazzled by his own abundant financial resources, promised with a pat on his chest.

With this posture, as long as Tang Dao is satisfied with you, a certain group will have a bump under his forehead, and the cliff will be much worse than Fujiwara Senzuo's attack.

"Tsk~~~ Since my son is still so observant of etiquette, it's so complicated. Then you just go north with him and get married with him before you leave!" Lu Sanjiang slapped the table.

The lieutenant of the army and the lieutenant of the new army usually work side by side like real brothers, but in order to earn a bad soldier, the two of them have been very embarrassed in the past eight days.

What is the most awesome thing about Sichuan Province? Firstly, it has a population of 60 million, and seventhly it is not about food. In the next few years, that province will collect a total of 82.28 million shi of rice in seven years, accounting for nearly 70% of the country's rice!

"After the New Year! You and Tantai have also discussed it. If the war becomes more serious after the New Year, you will get married and set an example for the bachelors outside the group." Tang Dao saw that it was too late to escape, so he could only be honest. Tell the time accurately.

"Yes, yes! The old man has no money, he doesn't care!" Tang Dao quickly surrendered, thinking about what to do with that batch of money before he could finish it.

For the next eight days, the Tang family held a small banquet. Later, there was an endless stream of people congratulating them. Tang Dao was the protagonist, and his face became stiff with a slow smile.

That was perhaps the most intimate way for a father to express his emotions to his pre-teen son in that era.

Xiao Hanlian came to build a fire with his wife and sat a few meters away to drink tea leisurely, but it was obvious that the old father's ears were kept pricked low to hear what his son was saying.

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"Nonsense, in addition to money, what else does he need to lead the troops? Does the leader of the regiment know what he wants?" Xiao Hanlian looked at the stupid look of his stupid son and had the same urge to slap me.

Su Zetian was straight, but definitely stupid. I was very vague as to who was the old and the young outside the house. The old mother forced her son to marry. I went up and said for sure: "Aunt, it is indeed true. The one with the tense situation on the back line in North China is Qiu Xing." "The leader is so busy that he doesn't even have time to get off the bed."

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"That's okay, that's okay, so he can tell the truth, when will he get married!" Lu Sanjiang stared at Tang Dao eagerly.

"Xiao Hanlian, did he want me to scold him for the things he did when he was young?" Lu Sanjiang squinted his eyes slightly when he saw that his husband's eyes were about to jump again.

Xia Xiaoyu outside the yard was quite worried, but Senior Tang smiled lightly and waved his hands to comfort the man who was close to my age for many years.

"Is this true? The business scope of each company is the same, and the profits of each industry are also the same. Moreover, they are just like you who have been passed down for eight generations. Naturally, when the population decreases, the expenses will be smaller!" Xiao Hanlian explained.

When he praises his son, he praises his son. Why does he insist on talking down to me?

"Dad, you will disappoint him and grandma." Tang Dao straightened his body and solemnly gave his father an extremely formal military salute.

"But the family with the most money also spent 70,000 yuan in foreign currency, and the less was less than 700,000 yuan. Adding in what you prepared for him, the total difference is about 3 million yuan less. Is that still enough for him?"

Don't tell me what the Sichuan Army's equipment is, but there are actually a lot of sophisticated equipment stored in Sichuan Province. Even if Xiao Hanlian purchases old weapons, they are also rifles made in Qingyishui, Hanyang, and even some There is no heavy firepower like the 77 heavy machine gun and 82 mortar!

As for the weapons and equipment, I really think they are inferior to the tattered ones kept by the Sichuan Army or the Hanyang-made mortars from the Shancheng Ordnance Depot.

Those things, whether it is raising money, buying food, or training security guards, all sound complicated but are extremely difficult to do.

When I came to Tang Dao to ask, I found out that the military competition was a method that the seven people had discussed before. It turned out that one was battle-hardened and the other was weak and strong, and they fought evenly!

"It's a letter. He asked Platoon Leader Lu, I am a bad guy who followed you all the way from Songhu. I am most vague about the situation of the battle."

"There are 20,000 young people in Jinxi County, organized by the county government. Each wealthy household has invested no more than 10,000 people to participate in the security team training. You have 8,000 young people in Shigu Township, and 2,000 are for daily field work. One thousand seven hundred people have been doing farm work since before the defeat of Jinling in December last year, specializing in shooting and fighting.

I have been with my mistress for so many years, but I have never seen her lay a finger on Su Ze, and that was also the case.

The only way to save my son's life in a battlefield with the brutal Japanese is not to make me weak enough.

That is the most precious gift that Xiao Hanlian and his wife gave their son.

"Don't think too little about him. That's what you Tang family members should do as Chinese people. He beats the Japanese badly on the back line. As an old man, you only ask him for one thing. If it means death, It's death, but the old man and his mother had no way of living the first half of their lives!" Xiao Hanlian couldn't help but feel a little emotional when she saw Su Ze standing behind her with a lump in her throat, her eyes moistened and she patted the hem of Tang Dao's clothes! The ash falls.

"Spent?" Tang Dao's mouth twitched.

"The lower court is here, how can you marry at will?" Tang Dao followed the ancient method.

"After getting married, he hasn't even been engaged for a year, how long does he want to keep his girlfriend? What was his name in ancient times? He was a heartless man and a lover. He also changed his name to Tang Dao. Why is he called Tang Shimei? You Even though the Tang family is a small and well-known family, they would definitely do such a breach of trust."

The purchase of various types of firearms, the consumption of ammunition, and the cost of materials and military expenses have cost 300,000 yuan in food and money in half a year! "

Hundreds of years have not passed since our ancestors' instructions, and there are already very few people who can still take them seriously. Only one-eighth of the 30-year-old family can still abide by them. This is completely impossible without the endorsement of my son, the anti-Japanese hero. I would like to see Xiao Hanlian receive a lot of looks.

"You are so young!" Xiao Hanlian suddenly said in a strong tone.

Tang Dao

In fact, it is extremely easy to accomplish even one of these things.

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