Rise From Eight Hundred

Tang Dao, the local tyrant, paid with gold, which made the old man in Shanxi feel bad, but he still gave him some face.

In the two days after Zhang Kai was released from prison, he first went to the Shanxi Provincial Bank to exchange another 10,000 taels of gold, which was a fortune of more than 2 million silver dollars. There were 50 boxes of silver dollars alone. The carriages responsible for transporting these boxes of silver dollars were lined up from the door of the bank to the end of the alley, with a total of 10 carriages.

More than 2 million silver dollars made the old man earn more than 10,000 silver dollars in tax points for nothing, but there was a small episode in the middle, which raised the old man's blood pressure, which had finally calmed down yesterday.

But this can't really be blamed on Tang Tuanzuo. After all, it was the old man's own fault.

Although the Shanxi Provincial Bank was notified in advance and had already prepared some silver dollars, the notice from the government was vague and did not clearly explain who Tang Dao was. It only said that he was an army colonel.

As the largest financial institution in Jin Province, Jin Province Bank is also the old man's money bag in a sense. How can the president be an ordinary person? He is the old man's nephew. Not to mention the colonel, even the four great kings under the old man have a good relationship with him.

Naturally, he didn't take it too seriously. He didn't receive him in person, but only sent a deputy manager to receive Tang Dao.

The reason why the lackey deputy manager was able to climb to this position was that he was able to read people's expressions. Hearing that it was a notice from the inner court, and seeing that his boss was not very interested, he quickly imagined a big drama in his mind.

Over the past 20 years, as the old man's power has grown, the clan members, clansmen, and villagers who depend on him have become a large number. They are basically placed in large and small departments and the army of Jin Province. Such a huge force will certainly not be a monolithic one.

In general, the forces are divided into three groups. One is the clan members represented by middle-aged women, who are also the most powerful. Another group is the old man's in-laws, who are considered relatives, and the last group is the good friends made by the old man when he was a teenager.

He knew the character of his big boss. He was in charge of the most important financial institution in Shanxi Province. He was always too arrogant. Even when General Fu came to the bank to withdraw military pay yesterday, both sides were polite and would never flatter him. Could it be that this little colonel had someone behind him that even old men in Shanxi were afraid of?

But, what the hell were the twenty or so bamboo baskets used to package "local specialties"? Could sweet potatoes and corn also turn into gold?

Look at the courage of other superiors, and then compare it with your own superior. Usually, porridge can be used as a mirror, steamed buns are all black, and there is not even a drop of oil in the rice dishes. It's really annoying to compare people.

The Tang Dao didn't even hit the face of a brigade commander, but he beat his in-laws half to death. If this gets out of hand, he, the bank president, will probably be a cabbage - you can pinch him as you want.

If the unlucky director was here, he would definitely remind this person. Although Tang Tuanzuo doesn't seem to care much about appearance, he is really rich in content. When he delivered the cash at the Ordnance Department, he mentioned this thing.

"Colonel Tang, as long as you can come up with enough gold today, if the cash is not enough, can you move the bank vault?" The deputy manager glanced at Tang Dao with some amusement and answered in an almost contemptuous tone.

If white flour, rice, salt, sugar, vegetable oil, meat, cloth and other necessities are the must-haves on the list, and cigarettes, alcohol, tea and other items are also commonly used by the army, but even snacks like sesame candy, peanut kernels and peanut candy are also purchased, the bigwigs in Linfen who are paying attention to Tang Dao can only express their feelings with dumbfounded.

So, this deputy manager is in tragedy.

The man in the suit has a super strong ability to make up his mind.

The deputy manager, who was almost crying with fear, saw Tang Dao's face getting darker and darker, and the whip in his hand hit his palm harder and harder. His face was pale with fear. He finally waited for his boss to show up, and he was relieved thinking that he finally had a backer.

Yesterday, Tang Dao used the trick of "Li Tao Dai Jiang" to make him lose tens of thousands of dollars out of thin air, which was heartbreaking enough, but at least Tang Dao's brain turned quickly and used the information gap to find the bug and tinkered with it himself. The old man couldn't be too harsh on the director of the Ordnance Department who had been with him for almost 20 years, and punished him to stand for a day to vent his anger.

Who knew that the thigh in his eyes - the nephew of a certain old man was even more unbearable than his performance just now. It would be fine if he had an almost flattering smile on his face. He bent his waist and trotted up to hold Tang Dao's hand with both hands and shouted: "Captain Tang, I have heard of your name for a long time. I am late, please don't blame me!" But it directly kicked the heart of the dog-eyed suit man into the abyss.

So, when Tang Dao said jokingly that if he couldn't get the foreign currency today, he would have to empty the vault according to the deputy manager's wishes, the president finally knew where Tang Dao's anger came from.

He slapped the dog-eyed suit man in the face twice, causing a nosebleed, and then replied to Tang Dao decisively: "This is a problem of our bank. In order to compensate for the loss of Captain Tang, the exchange rate will be implemented according to the rate announced by the Western Bank in the Shanghai Concession yesterday."

Anyway, from the perspective of the rules, this is not a violation of the rules. Tang Dao is a big customer! Big customers always have some privileges. It is normal for the bank to make concessions when they ask for the exchange rate to be based on yesterday's exchange rate. It can also be regarded as a kind of support for the soldiers on the front line of the war of resistance, right?

This man had a beautiful idea, but when he happily reported the successful exchange of 10,000 taels of gold to his uncle, he did not expect that the old man from Shanxi was not as happy as he imagined when he saw the huge amount. Instead, his face darkened.

"As expected, you are the first bank in Shanxi Province. I am very satisfied with your service. I decided so happily." Tang Tuanzuo, who turned from anger to joy, smiled and shook the hand of the fairly decisive president, exerting a little force.

But he would never have thought that the old man was heartbroken for losing tens of thousands of dollars! If Tang Dao had said earlier that he wanted to exchange 20,000 taels of gold, he would never take the initiative to give Tang Dao's financial tax a "break".

So, Tang Tuanzuo, who had basically completed all his tasks in Linfen, encountered the legendary neglect and contempt.

It just happened that it offset most of the loss of financial taxes.

That was really 10,000 taels of gold. The bank's appraisers were sweating profusely when they were halfway through the appraisal. The deputy manager knew that he had hit a wall and quietly sent someone to notify his boss.

But today, it was his own nephew who handed over the knife, so Tang Dao cut off another piece of fat from his barren thigh.

However, this man was smart enough to call to inquire about Tang Dao's origins. It didn't matter if he inquired, but he was almost scared to death. He could ignore Tang Dao's previous achievements. No matter how powerful the Four Lines Group was, it couldn't be as powerful as him, but the scene that Tang Dao made at the city gate the day before yesterday made a deep impression on the dignitaries of Shanxi Province.

Although Shanghai was lost, everything in the Western Concession was normal, and all financial industries were operating as usual. Originally, according to the regulations of the Shanxi Provincial Bank, the exchange rate was announced in Shanghai a week ago, but this week, with the fluctuation of the exchange rate, the exchange rate of the US dollar to the ocean rose sharply for several consecutive days, almost rising by 0.5 percentage points.

It was not until the baggage troops of the Four Lines Group arrived and loaded the huge supplies and left that the old man of Shanxi, who was already a little numb, patted his chest and finally sent this plague god away.

Who said that the head of the Tang Group was a scumbag? Look, isn't he easy to talk to! After being so angry, he was solved with 10,000 yuan.

Who is this bastard who made this? The old man from Shanxi, who had just smashed his beloved purple clay teapot and quickly realized that he had lost hundreds of yuan again, stared at his nephew for a full minute, staring at the financial tycoon who was sweating in the 10-degree weather. Then he mustered up his breath and yelled: "Get out! Get out of here and stand at the door!"

If he didn't leave, he was worried that the irritated garrison in Linfen City would mutiniate. In comparison, it was nothing for Tang Dao to take advantage of his 20,000 yuan.

A bunch of poor soldiers, it's good enough to have food and clothes, why do you buy snacks? And what about head flowers, hairpins, rouge, face oil. What's the matter? You are going to open a brothel in the mountains!

Tang Tuanzuo's "domineering president" personality, of course, I don't want you to think, I only want to think, and it is not affected at all.

A shrewd man like the old man from Shanxi would know all this, but he used the ancient emperor's technique to manage his family, set up a tripartite alliance, and played a game of checks and balances.

This was not a peaceful time. The powerful people who relied on the big guys to suck the blood of the poor people were most afraid of the generals who led the troops, and they were even more afraid of the generals who led the troops like Tang Dao.

Tang Dao had money to spend, so he spent it without hesitation. In Tang Dao's own words: "If I don't spend the money I earned from the old man, he will have a heart attack."

But there were really neatly arranged yellow croakers inside, which were blinding when the light was turned on.

Let me tell you something that everyone can understand. If one US dollar could be exchanged for 4 US dollars before, it can now be exchanged for a little more than 4 dollars. If we calculate based on the US dollars that Tang Dao can exchange for 10,000 taels of gold, he can exchange for 10,000 more US dollars.

The exchange rate is fair and impartial, but the lazy attitude makes you feel that the customer is God. The sponsor didn't even get a cup of tea. This made a certain regiment commander feel that the three gold stars on his collar badge were fake. He said that the service attitude of the four major banks in the future was poor. Compared with this broken bank, their service is at least five stars!

Poor service attitude is fine, and Tang Dao can tolerate these. The key is that Tang Dao asked the deputy manager in a suit and tie whether the bank currently has enough cash, and he will withdraw all of it today.

When the money reaches a certain level, it can really make people tremble. The three gold stars on Tang Dao's collar badge were originally ordinary, but at this moment, in the eyes of the deputy manager, they are really shining.

Well, after the dignified director of the Ordnance Department "stood guard" for a day outside the old man's courtyard, the big man in charge of the financial industry in Jin Province came to take over.

This really pissed off Tang Tuanzuo, who was a ruthless man who didn't talk much. He gave an order to Peng Chong outside, and a team of cavalrymen carrying simple bamboo baskets broke into the bank. If it weren't for the fact that this was in Linfen, where there were tens of thousands of garrisons, the frightened deputy manager would have thought that the angry army colonel was going to rob with arms.

The bank president, who had originally not planned to receive Tang Dao, knew that something bad was going to happen when he heard that the army colonel had actually taken out a huge sum of tens of thousands of taels of gold, and they were all newly minted gold bars.

The old man in Shanxi, who loves money like his life, can still watch Tang, who has taken advantage of the situation, "raging" in Linfen City without "showing weakness". He really endured it again and again.

Good guy, it's not easy for me to make a little money! Why are there so many people like you around me? This must have been the old man's inner OS at the time.

The soldiers with the gold didn't bargain at all. They basically took whatever they had. In just three days, the amount of money spent exceeded 150,000 gold. The eyes of the Jinsui Army guarding the city were blue with envy.

'How much meat is still rotten in the pot! ' This is probably the old man's last reason to comfort himself.

A certain bank president felt that his hand was about to be broken, but a stone fell from his heart.

However, Tang Tuanzuo was not someone who could be despised by everyone. Tang Tuanzuo, who delivered the gold on the spot, asked to withdraw the gold immediately. Otherwise, he would have to empty the bank vault according to the deputy manager's statement.

If he didn't work harder, Tang Tuanzuo was afraid that others would not feel the sincerity of his praise!

Tang Tuanzuo has always been 'flexible'. It's just that he didn't drink tea and was looked down upon! It's actually worth tens of thousands of gold. If such a thing happens every day, Tang Tuanzuo would like to be despised like this every day. After the contempt, he would give him 10,000 gold. The military expenses, subsidies, and pensions of the brothers are all there, right?

The legs were almost broken from standing, and the key point was that it was cold! Although it was almost May, the nights in the spring in the north were really cold! The temperature was definitely not above 8 degrees. If the head of a certain bank, who was only wearing a suit, had not been afraid that he would really freeze and give him a jacket, he would have been seriously ill if he didn't die.

Tang Tuanzuo disdained to scare this little man with murderous intent, but the fifty cavalrymen standing neatly outside the door, all armed with guns, were not decorations. They all had box guns in their waists, carbines on their backs, and sabers in their warhorse pouches.

Although he knew the old man well, for example, he knew that the old man's demand for gold was much higher than that for the ocean. The old man had made the worst plan for the situation. If the Japanese army was strong, it would be much easier to run away with gold than the ocean.

After a round of crazy purchases, the prices in Linfen City were almost raised.

Arms, equipment, and steel raw materials have already been purchased. Tang Dao sent out baggage soldiers and cavalry to buy some daily necessities.

The old man from Shanxi smashed his beloved purple clay teapot.

The old man got the money by scheming, and finally it was all thanks to the efforts of the old six.

That's right, the 100 taels of gold that Tang Dao gave out before were worth 24,000 yuan. The ordnance department and the bank made a fierce operation, saving 25,000 yuan and making a profit of 1,000 yuan.

It was in this big background that the deputy manager who imagined the drama in his mind took it for granted that a certain colonel just hugged the thigh of the old man's clan and exchanged silver dollars through connections.

That stop lasted a whole night.

Seeing the old man's "menopausal"-like unhappiness, he could only report the details of the exchange rate that he decided to a certain VIP customer when reporting the exchange details.

This almost scared the deputy manager to tears.

The mother of the bank president is the old man's sister, but China has always had a saying that "a daughter who is married off is like water spilled out". Since they are all from other families, they are naturally considered as in-laws. They can't be said to be fighting to the death with the clan relatives! But they are also the kind of people who secretly trip each other up, which makes people feel unhappy.

They have followed the old man for more than ten or even twenty years. They know what kind of person the old man is. He is almost a person who has the word "interest" engraved on his forehead. In troubled times, he will obviously favor the group of rough guys who can help him lead troops to fight. Once a conflict arises, they will most likely be the ones who get beaten.

It's just that this man's overt and covert means let his clan members and in-laws know that there is no problem with open and covert fighting, as long as they don't make it public and let outsiders laugh at them. After all, in the entire Jin Province, the most powerful ones are the four kings under his command, who control Jin Province in the fields of civil affairs, economy, and military.

The number of female soldiers recruited by the medical and communications companies in the Sihang Regiment has exceeded 100. During normal training, there is also a half-day off a week. What's wrong with letting the female soldiers wear daily clothes and dress up beautifully to go back to see their parents?

Besides, the war is protracted, and there will be several New Years in between. They have to perform some shows or something. It's a rare opportunity to come to the big city for procurement. Tang Tuanzuo must think more and buy a lot at once.

His pattern is not as big as his own thigh. The respectful and almost humble one knows that Tang Dao has a low rank and a small number of troops, but he is good at making trouble. Once he gets angry because of his bank problem and makes a big fuss, it doesn't matter if it is spread to his uncle. If the fifth sister who has always disliked him adds fuel to the fire, he will probably be in big trouble.

In their eyes, Tang Dao is no longer a slacker, but a lunatic.

But then again, the Japanese are so rich! Then this Southeast Shanxi will have to make a lot of money from him! It can't be that only the 80th Army, Sichuan Army and Northwest Army participate, his Jinsui Army must also get a share!

The smart old man from Shanxi was stimulated by the local tyrant Tang and actually started to make his own calculations.

Ten days later, with the transfer of the 17th Division of the Northwest Army to southeastern Shanxi, an infantry division of the Jinsui Army followed closely and entered the Taihang Mountains.

Together with the original infantry division of the 22nd Army, the 921st Division of the 80th Army and the army's direct regiment, plus the Four-Line Regiment, the Chinese army in southeastern Shanxi has a total of 70,000 troops.

And the Battle of Xuzhou thousands of miles away, after continuous fierce fighting, both China and Japan have been exhausted. Both the front-line soldiers and the rear command department have realized that this battle can no longer achieve the goal they wanted to achieve at the beginning.

What's the point of playing then! With this tacit understanding, the Battle of Xuzhou ended!