Chapter 139: One-on-one

The cold wind is fierce and the river waves are undulating.

The Chongqing Chaotianmen passenger ship dock is no longer the hustle and bustle of the past. There are few overtime luxury passenger ships from the British Chuanjiang Shipping Company to Shanghai, and there are sparse passengers checking tickets. Several officers wearing Sichuan military uniforms sent more than a dozen boxes on board one step in advance, handed them to the British waiter responsible for reception on the ship and turned around and got off the ship.

On the dock, Xiao Yimin picked up Zhuang Sen's cute little son and kissed him, then touched Zhuang Sen's eldest son's head, said goodbye to each other in English, and then sent his heavy-hearted friend Betty and his two children onto the boat.

The child who was about to enter the cabin turned around and waved reluctantly. Xiao Yimin immediately showed a bright smile, raised his hand and waved it to the child a few times. When the children and Betty entered the cabin, Xiao Yimin turned to Zhuang Sen, a friend who had not boarded the ship, and took out a cigarette and gathered together.

Due to the order from the British political fu, Zhuang Sen, who is affiliated with Jardine Mahjong, had to temporarily leave Sichuan with his family. All passenger and cargo ships belonging to the British Sichuan Shipping Company will also be suspended from shipping from the next day. In a short period of time, it is estimated that it will be difficult to see luxury ships flying with rice flags in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River again.

One kilometer upstream of Chaotianmen Wharf is Donghe Freight Wharf. It was acquired by the Sichuan Army a year ago and expanded vigorously. It has now become a military wharf with three large cranes and a ** warehouse area.

On the edge of the wide dock, four steel-shell transport ships loaded with imported machine tools and military supplies were docked. These four new iron-gray transport ships are all manufactured by the British colonial Armstrong Shipyard in India, with a load of 300 tons. They use mature and cost-effective steam power. Regardless of the shape of the ship or the manufacturing technology, they maintain the pure British inland ship style.

At this moment, the flag fluttering in the wind on the two-story cockpit at the rear of the cargo ship is the flying leopard flag of the Sichuan Army.

"What? Are you still regretting that you cannot deliver the other six ships on time?" Xiao Yimin said and looked at the watch. It was ten minutes before he drove the ship. He followed Zhuang Sen's gaze and looked at the four steel-shelled ships at the upstream dock.

Zhuang Sen tightly clamped the collar of his coat and subconsciously combed his long golden hair that was blown by the wind: "It's all you crazy, you messed up everything. The remaining six new ships have already arrived at Xinjiabo. The ship is filled with dyes and advanced textile machinery that major textile printing and dyeing factories in Sichuan urgently need. God! I've put all my 170,000 pounds on it. Do you know that it's all my own funds! I have to find a way to hand over the ship and cargo to you, a bastard. How could I sign such a stupid contract with you?"

"Tsk tsk!"

Xiao Yimin looked at him disdain: "Isn't it just 170,000 pounds? What's the point for you? Even if you throw them all into the sea, you won't have much damage. Besides, when the ship and cargo arrive in Shanghai, you can change the contract and then let your American guy take over and avoid the blame of your British political franchise in the name of an American company. Isn't that all?"

Zhuang Sen glared at Xiao Yimin angrily: "Can you tell me why you always have to be in trouble with our British politics? Do you know how bad it is to force expel diplomats from a country? If the British politics were not busy with world wars, the powerful British navy would definitely launch military revenge on you, not just the simple trade sanctions of this kind, you bastard is so stupid!"

Xiao Yimin elegancedly bounced the ash: "It is because you British guys were bruised and swollen by the world war that I dared to do this. And the main responsibility for this matter is on your political affairs. If you weren't for your insatiable, occupied India and wanted to occupy our Kangzang territory, how could I resist? You also know that my behavior has been fully supported by the Chinese people."

Zhuang Sen shouted at Xiao Yimin: "You are a shameless man. From the beginning, you have fooled your people with conspiracies and tricks, and made profits from European and American countries with all kinds of despicable means. You are a villain who takes advantage of the situation and robs you!"

"If that's the case, you're the accomplice of the villain."

Xiao Yimin responded without hesitation: "Zhuang Sen, don't yell at me, okay? Don't look at how you Britain became powerful? For hundreds of years, you have plundered the whole world, murdered and set fire to do everything evilly, which has led to your powerful navy and the world's number one colonial hegemony. Every exhibit in the British Museum that you relish and proudly record the bloody crimes of British politics and the so-called civilized people. In contrast, how powerless and insignificant my actions are. Compared with the greed, cruel, barbaric, and shameless British, I am as pure as your God."

Zhuang Sen was so angry that he wanted to go wild. He turned around twice before he could control his emotions: "Okay! We won't pursue the past. I just want to ask you, are you not afraid of attracting the anger of the British team? Are you not afraid of China's coastal areas and the banks of the Yangtze River being razed to the ground by ruthless artillery fire?

"Do you really think that your army and annual output value are less than one thousandth of the UK's strength can fight against the British team that makes the whole world tremble? No, you are not an idiot, on the contrary, you are smarter than anyone else, so I ask you to tell me what you think?"

Xiao Yimin stepped on the cigarette butts and raised his head, stared at Zhuang Sen's eyes: "Want to hear the truth?"

"Nonsense!" Zhuang Sen almost yelled.

Xiao Yimin said calmly: "As long as you don't bombard Sichuan, you can do whatever the British ships want. It's all about whether they are strong or not!"

Zhuang Sen opened his eyes wide in surprise and finally realized after a long time: "You bastard, it turns out that this is the case. The whole world has been fooled by you... You are leading the anger of British politics and Japanese people to the illegal politics in Beijing politics and Guangzhou, and then attacking these two political opponents, right?

"You are worried that the power of the two hostile political forces in the north and south is too disparity, so you secretly send people and weapons to the southern army, intending to make the two sides fight to the death, and then you can get benefits from it, right?"

Xiao Yimin subconsciously looked around: "You're drinking too much?"

Zhuang Sen smiled: "You are guilty, it must be like this, it must be! Only in this way can we explain everything you have done over the past six months. It seems that you have come true and you have successfully aroused the anger of British politics. Therefore, European and American countries have shouted at China for many years and threatened the arms embargo to China, and finally became a fact. You and the politicians in Sichuan can dump your weapons, ammunition and industrial products into the whole of China through a basically perfect industrial system, provoking wars, and obtaining the greatest benefits. You, a cruel ambitious man... It's really despicable! No wonder I have been constantly exploited by you, the devil, in business for ten years!"

Xiao Yimin was amused and crying:

"Hey... can you calm down? Isn't it just a temporary difficulty? Although you have left Sichuan for a while, you won't suffer much loss! Isn't your puppet Mr. Douglas still staying in Sichuan? You just need to change the trade contract a little, and you can hire cargo ships from Americans or other countries to transport gasoline, kerosene, rubber products, machinery and equipment and other goods to Sichuan smoothly, and even continue to sell guns and ammunition, isn't it?"

Zhuang Sen still gritted his teeth, and Xiao Yimin continued to comfort and explain:

"Don't believe in any trade sanctions. The whole of Europe is fighting. Where can I have the energy to sanction China? Except for the weapons embargo that may achieve temporary unification, everything else is empty talk! Don't think that the Americans are really standing with your British political sanctions. The Americans shout sanctions against China, as if they are actively cooperating with you to implement a strategic material and weapon embargo on Sichuan. But in fact, they will never do this. Even if they temporarily stop selling planes and military cars to me at the risk of breach of trust, they will just do it. They will compensate me from other places, and will not stop exporting other products and materials to Sichuan. You don't know these situations, but the two American banks quickly entered Sichuan is the best proof."

It’s not that Zhuang Sen didn’t understand the truth, but felt very cowardly and unwilling. If Xiao Yimin hadn’t repeatedly angered the British politics, Zhuang Sen would never have been implicated. Although he was forced to move to Shanghai and not far from Sichuan, he had lost many business opportunities.

Especially the two items of textile machinery and industry, fuel management, Sichuan's textile printing and dyeing industry and machinery processing industry have become China's third largest production base after Shanghai and Zhejiang after five years of continuous development. The rich cotton resources and the import and use of a large number of advanced machinery in western China have led to the rapid development of light industries such as Sichuan's textile industry and are growing stronger. The products produced have squeezed out the Japanese product market and are selling to surrounding provinces and the vast northwest region, and have huge development potential.

Over the years, most of the growing imports of textile machinery and printing and dyeing raw materials in Sichuan were handled by Zhuang Sen. While he was making great strides to control the Sichuan and southwest markets, his close friend Xiao Yimin rudely closed the British consulate and brutally expelled British diplomats, causing Zhuang Sen to leave Sichuan under the strict orders of British politics, leaving huge market space for wealthy Americans.

You should know that the quality of various machinery and refined oils in the United States is very high, but the price is lower than that of British goods. The British political and military, which are fighting hard in Europe, have to rely on the full support of the United States. In this way, it will inevitably make concessions to the Americans in the huge market of China. This is the biggest concern and anger of Zhuang Sen.

The whistle sounded, and the passenger ship was about to "", Zhuang Sen's face was not much anger. He stepped forward and held Xiao Yimin's hand and told:

"I won't talk about anything else. I have entrusted my father-in-law to buy the building opposite the Shanghai Jardin Company and registered an American company according to your opinion. When I arrived in Shanghai, I asked Xiao Zhen to move the office over, so it would be more convenient for everyone to be together. I'll leave it to Douglas in Sichuan. If you have time, you can help him more."

Xiao Yimin patted Zhuang Sen's arm: "Don't worry, I promise that your vested interests will not be affected. Also, the yard will be kept for you. It will probably not take long when you come back with Betty and the children."

"I'm not as optimistic as you."

Zhuang Sen sighed, shook Xiao Yimin's hand hard, waved to the generals and schools beside him, turned around to board the ship, and never looked back.

The ship whistled away, and Chongqing garrison commander Xie Mingyang walked to Xiao Yimin and stood: "Commander, it seems that Mr. Zhuang Sen is very unhappy."

Xiao Yimin said helplessly: "Can he be happy to be forced to leave Sichuan? Although this guy is as annoying as other British guys, he still values ​​feelings and keeps his promises very much. He hasn't asked me until now that he wants the payment for the four new ships, and he is still worried about how to hand over the other six ships that are about to arrive in Shanghai. From this point of view, he is a rare friend."

Xie Mingyang nodded and asked with a smile: "Commander, is the reason why we drove away the British diplomats really like Mr. Zhuang Sen said?"

"Don't talk nonsense! Don't listen to him. It seems that people all over the world like their British guys like to play conspiracies. If you really want to be like what he said, I, Xiao Yimin, have become a god! Let's go, Deputy Commander Wang and the others are coming soon. Let's discuss together to see when it will be appropriate to go to Yichang..."

Xiao Yimin beat him and turned around and left. Xie Mingyang looked at the passenger ship that was leaving, then looked at Xiao Yimin who was walking very casually. He scratched his head and followed quickly with confusion on his face.

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