Chapter 179 The wealth that can be seen but cannot be moved
Chapter 179 Wealth that can be seen but not touched
An Yi lived a comfortable life for several consecutive days. Every morning, he would take Gu Laoer, Qu Muchen and others to the textile factory construction site two kilometers west of the city to inspect the construction progress of his four engineering company brothers and communicate with them.
A dozen landowners and squires from the old Nanchang Chamber of Commerce discussed the factory construction plan.
An Yi and a group of young and old saw a new factory taking shape little by little covering an area of 125 acres, and their faces were naturally filled with excitement and satisfaction.
The major squire and landowners in Old Nanchang were quite powerful, and the raw materials of ramie were all produced in this province. Every household in each producing area has been processing ramie, and selling beautiful twine to support their families, and the price is low.
The supply is almost inexhaustible. The value of the purchased twine can increase dozens of times through processing and production with advanced foreign production equipment. In addition, An Yi guarantees sales with shares. All the landowners and wealthy businessmen are unanimously optimistic about the prospects of the ramie textile factory.
For more than ten days, under repeated pleas from the major landowners, squires and business tycoons in Old Nanchang, An Yi could only divide part of his shares, reducing his shareholding from 70% to 40%.
The established Lao Nanchang Collective held 30% of the shares. Zhou Dashan, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Zhou Boxin and brothers Zhou Zhongxin obtained 20% of the shares. Xi Muyan, a wealthy businessman who was very familiar with the acquisition, processing and market of ramie raw materials, held 100% of the shares.
Ten out of ten.
Xi Muyan, who has dreamed of owning a textile factory since he was a child and is well-known in the Nanchang business community for his integrity and diligence, was appointed as the first factory director after being nominated by An Yi through collective discussion.
Due to the capital investment from the new shareholders, the investment in the entire new factory has also increased from the originally expected 330,000 yuan to the current 450,000 yuan.
The three shareholder representatives elected by the Chamber of Commerce for equipment purchase had taken a boat from Jiujiang to Guangzhou four days ago with An Yi's letter and a huge check of 300,000 to negotiate the equipment purchase with Mr. Ou Yaoting, a wealthy man from the province and Hong Kong who had agreed.
There is an equipment order for another project "Old Nanchang Cereals, Oils and Food Factory" in which Anyi accounts for 30% - rice milling equipment, oil press, packaging and sealing equipment for annual processing of 200,000 tons of rice, corn, and tea.
Diesel generator set.
With An Yi's high-profile appearance, various banquets and family banquets came one after another. An Yi, who had been drinking for four days in a row, couldn't cope with it. He could only decline them one by one because he was busy with military affairs. He met Gu Laoer every afternoon.
Qu Muchen and others carried their rifles to Chen Zhibiao's No. 3 Battalion shooting range in the southern suburbs to indulge their gun addiction.
Thanks to the recovery from the gunshot wound, An Yi was able to move freely at this time, but his shooting skills were further and further away from Li Fuqiang, the sharpshooter recognized by his brothers, and even not as good as the disciple Li Zhiqiang brought out -
-Deng Bin, a 21-year-old soldier from Sichuan, is only slightly better than Li Fuqiang's other two apprentices. This embarrassing situation makes the confident An Yi very depressed. He knows that he needs to resume training.
After the last two shots, An Yi used his binoculars to read the target results 400 meters away and nodded slightly. It was already very good to achieve an excellent result of five out of five shots at 400 meters. An Yi
Carefully disassemble the scope, wipe it clean, carefully put it into the original long hard leather box, close the lid and fasten it carefully, raise your head and ask the shooting instructor Li Fuqiang: "Old Li, have the brothers mastered the new shooting?"
Skilled?"
Li Fuqiang, who had a vicissitudes of life and a stocky figure, threw away the cigarette butt and replied with a smile: "I basically figured it out. We bumpkins couldn't use it on the first day and basically missed the target. Even I couldn't figure out what was going on. If it weren't for the twists and turns,
The team leader and Battalion Commander Ye translated the chicken intestines and wrote a booklet to explain it to us one by one, teaching us how to measure the wind direction and force and how to simply estimate the error rate. We really don’t know how to use this advanced gadget.
It's great now. After practicing hundreds of shots, I finally found the secret. Even my apprentice Deng Bin can easily hit the head-shaped target within 400 meters. I am slightly better than them. This is something I never thought of before.
Dare to think about it. If our guns were better and had a longer range, there would be no problem at all in killing a target six hundred meters away through the scope."
An Yi sighed helplessly: "I think so too... But it would be nice to have this kind of Mauser rifle now. The fifty carefully selected German Mauser rifles that just arrived the day before yesterday were all sent to you. Every
The price of each gun is more than twice that of ordinary imported Mauser guns. The trouble is that even if you have money, you can't get these good weapons. If it weren't for the help of my German buddy Hans, you wouldn't be able to get these fifty guns. You can't get them.
I have to tell my brothers to cherish it.
Today's domestic imitation rifles can only be accurate within 150 meters. Beyond this distance, bullets will fly to nowhere. Whether it is gun manufacturing technology or bullet manufacturing technology, we are far behind countries such as Germany and Japan.
There is really no other way! We can only wait patiently. As long as new high-quality rifles are produced abroad, I will do my best to buy them back for you."
Li Fuqiang nodded gratefully: "Don't worry, boss, the gun is with you!"
An Yi packed up his rifle and carried it on his back, handed the scope to Li Fuqiang, called Gu Laoer who had just finished practicing shooting with two guns, and said hello to Qu Muchen and others who had led the teaching team to practice shooting.
Then they left. Accompanied by several close guards, the two mounted their horses and slowly left the shooting range.
"Boss, I guess Lao Ding and Xiaodouzi will have a result tonight." Gu Laoer saw the worry in An Yi's eyes and quickly explained.
An Yi shook his head and said: "This is already the fifth day, why should we come back? What I'm worried about is not whether they can successfully attack, but whether they can come back smoothly. If they can't get the money, they can definitely come back safely.
, I would be worried if I got the money. Think about it, the weight of two thousand oceans is fifty-three kilograms.
Kilograms, even gold bars are huge. One thousand taels of gold is just over thirty-seven kilograms. How many oceans and gold bars can one person and one horse run away with? What's more, there are only thirty-six of them. In order to move secretly and be safe, they have to calculate
After all, I only brought a dozen horses with me. To be honest, I am really worried that something will happen to them on their way back."
Gu Laoer laughed: "Don't worry, they have thought about these things at least a hundred times, and they will definitely have their own methods. Half of Lao Ding's men are old people who have traveled all over the world, and have gone through our extremely strict formal training.
, they are all good brothers who drank blood wine and swore an oath to the sky together, there is no need for us to worry about them here."
An Yi smiled bitterly and nodded: "Okay, I won't worry about it anymore, there's no point in worrying... Let's go, Hutou, let's have a good drink tonight and wait for the news while drinking."
Six horses carried An Yi and others on the dirt road between the suburbs of the city, and soon entered the county seat and arrived at the entrance of the Youth League Department of the county government.
An Yi and others entered the courtyard and got off their horses. Huzi and Xiaodouzi had already come out of the lobby with smiles on their faces.
An Yi was overjoyed when he saw the proud smile on Xiao Douzi's face. Then he saw Hu Zi's slight nod and immediately strode forward. He laughed and took Xiao Douzi's hand through the lobby and back to the central courtyard. He praised him and was overjoyed.
receive.
When he entered his room, he saw more than thirty large and small sacks with open mouths piled in the corner of the wall. The shining golden light made An Yi feel in a trance and his eyes were dim.
An Yi, whose lips were trembling and unable to speak for a long time, finally calmed down after a while, and was so excited that he punched Ding Zhicheng's strong chest.
"Sit down quickly and tell me what happened." An Yi's heart was beating like a drum, his handsome face was red, and he couldn't even see the teacup handed over by Yin Jinan.
Ding Zhicheng sat down slowly and reported in a low voice: "Sure enough, the information you got is the same. On the second day of our departure, we encountered the Second Army along the way. Officers and soldiers of the Third Army came towards us. We arrived the next afternoon.
Resting five kilometers north of Anfu City, Xiaodouzi led two little brothers into the city to check out the location. They found that the county magistrate named Luo and the heads of the county's civil affairs, police and other departments were sending off a group of independent regiments of the Second Army.
officer
There was a banquet. There was only one battalion of troops in the city, and they were all having a farewell drink in the hospitality of wealthy merchants and landlords. Nearly a hundred banquets were spread from the military camp diagonally opposite the county government office to the street. The street was full of noisy preparations.
The soldiers and civilians were drinking and giving gifts, without any guards or patrolling officers and soldiers. The independent division stationed in Ji'an did not even have the police station stationed to take over the defense. What a careless grandma... Boss, please drink some water first."
An Yi turned around and found that Yin Jinan was also dumbfounded. He was still holding a large cup of tea handed to An Yi but had forgotten to put it on the table. If it weren't for Ding Zhicheng's reminder, the tilted rim of the cup would still be there.
Silk dripped the tea, causing the brothers to burst into laughter.
Yin Jinan put down the teacup sheepishly, sat down, shook his head in self-mockery, and then looked at Ding Zhicheng expectantly.
Ding Zhicheng continued: "Although Luo Xiliang lives with his wife and children in the county government, his ancestral home is in Longbei Village in the east of the city. It occupies a very large area and is like a small castle. The locals call it Luojiabao
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At 2:40 in the middle of the night, three groups of us brothers put on the military uniforms of the Third Army, covered our faces and sneaked quietly into Longxi behind Luojiabao. We squeezed in through the water outlet, and the only four nurses in the fort drank.
They were so confused that they all gathered in the wooden hut next to the stable to warm themselves and chat. They were easily solved by the brothers in less than ten seconds.
I led a group of eight brothers to sneak into the garden behind the main house. Xiaodouzi led the third group of seven brothers to the front hall. Tieniu led the second group of eight brothers to support them. Within half an hour, the Luo family was
More than thirty sleeping guards in the castle were quietly killed, and all the maids and women were knocked unconscious and tied up. Luo Xiliang and his young wife, who went home to sleep, were tied up and gagged without even opening their eyes.
I only cut off one of Luo Xiliang's little fingers, and he was so frightened that he took us to the bank. We were all dumbfounded when we saw the large underground floor full of gold bars and registered banknotes!"
Ding Zhicheng's eyes shone, obviously he was deeply shocked and regretful about the scene at that time: "According to the original plan, we had to reluctantly abandon boxes and boxes of oceans and load them all with jewelery gold bars and antique gold Buddhas. Tienniu saw
When I realized that most of the things couldn't be moved, I just took a few brothers to the backyard.
Three carts were hitched to the stable and brought to the front yard. Twenty brothers were busy for a while before they moved thirty-seven heavy bags, large and small, to the cart. Then they went to the stable in the backyard and took out a dozen horses.
We drove out of Luojiabao in an open manner, and while it was dark, we boldly drove into the east of the city and turned north at the intersection of T-shaped street.
When I passed the entrance of the military camp, I took a special look. The sentries were all huddled in their sentry boxes, wrapped in cotton-padded clothes and taking a nap, not even looking at what was going on outside.
We took advantage of the moonlight and headed north. On the way out of the city, we met a patrolling militia group. They didn't stop us and even nodded and saluted us. They probably thought we were members of the independent garrison group.
When we left the city, the brothers of the fourth group had already eliminated several militiamen at the intersection in the north of the city. After advancing a few miles, we immediately started running north at full speed. At dawn, we separated south of Chigu Village, 25 kilometers north of Anfu. The seven members of the fourth group
The brothers pulled the cart and eight horses and ran toward the northwest, dropping seeds from time to time along the way.
After ordering the ocean, the three of us put all the bags on the horses, pretended to be merchants, divided into three groups and kept distance, and headed east. We walked along uninhabited deserted mountain paths, stopping and stopping in order to avoid being noticed.
It wasn't until around 8 o'clock the night before yesterday that I finished walking more than 60 kilometers of trails and arrived at a small village on the edge of the Gan River.
It took us more than half an hour to steal two wooden boats and sail down the river. Xiaodouzi led two groups of seventeen people to cross the east bank and look after us along the river. At six o'clock this morning, we finally arrived at Wanzhou Town, north of Fengcheng.
to the east coast, we will move down immediately
After sinking the wooden boat with the bag, we took the overland route and returned to the camp safely at 3:50 in the afternoon. The four groups of brothers who served as suspects came back half a day before us. They ran around desperately for the whole five days and four nights, but they were safe and sound, and not a single soldier was harmed.
Pawn a horse, haha!"
The brothers praised loudly and burst into laughter. An Yi immediately shouted to serve the wine and led Gu Laoer and Huzi to the guard company barracks deep in the middle courtyard to enjoy a drink with the brothers participating in the mission.
Yin Jinan closed the door tightly and opened the bags with quartermaster Shi Lejun and Lao Chang to count them. They were busy until about three o'clock in the morning the next day before completing the count.
Yin Jinan stood up and reported a set of figures to An Yi, Huzi and Gu Laoer who were sitting in the room drinking tea and waiting: "Twenty-six thousand two hundred and forty taels of gold bars, which is equivalent to about 1.12 million yuan according to the market price.
The golden Buddha, jewelry, antiques and other items are worth about 2.5 million oceans. There are also four bronzes and a pair of jade bis, but Lejun cannot determine their value."
An Yi and others were shocked. They glanced at the golden Buddhas, beads and gems placed neatly on the ground, and finally looked at Shi Lejun. Shi Lejun thought that the bosses were not satisfied with his estimate, so he quickly stepped forward and explained with shame: "I'm sorry.
, my little brother’s talent and learning are real
Due to limited resources, it is really impossible to determine the age of the two bronze tripods and the two bronze Buddhas. I just know something about the pair of jade bis on the table. They are estimated to be royal items from the Eastern Han Dynasty. If true, their value is easily hundreds of thousands or millions.
Therefore, I really don’t dare to make such an assertion lightly.”
"No, no! Lejun, we have no intention of being dissatisfied, but we really didn't expect to get back so much treasure... God! With such a huge sum, I'm afraid there's already a commotion outside..."
An Yi looked up to the sky and sighed, his heart beating wildly and unable to restrain himself.
Beard was quite calm. He knelt down and carefully looked at the jewelry and jades on the floor. His face was full of memories: "In the autumn when I was eighteen years old, I went to Handan with my uncle and a group of escort brothers to pick up a business.
, the escort was filled with two carriages full of this kind of stuff on the ground, and was escorted to the British Trading Company in Tianjin Wei.
On the way back after receiving the escort money, I heard from my uncle that the two carts of goods we had secured were worth two million oceans. They were all dug up from ancient tombs by a tomb robber in Handan. It was said that they belonged to a prince and concubine in the Han Dynasty.
Among the treasures in the cemetery, a pair of burial jade vases are worth 400,000 oceans.
This incident left a deep impression on me. At that time, I wanted to go to the tomb robber to learn from him. If the teacher’s rules were not strict, maybe I would have become a tomb robber now!”
Gu Laoer laughed: "I guess those five emeralds as big as pigeon eggs are more valuable. This is the first time I have seen such a big gem. Usually an emerald as big as a peanut is worth tens of thousands. Such a big one is worth tens of thousands."
Not even two or three hundred thousand? Tsk, tsk, I really made a fortune this time!"
An Yi suppressed the restlessness in his heart and took a long breath: "No matter how much it is worth, we can't touch these treasures for the time being, let alone deposit gold bars into major banks at this juncture, otherwise it will only make people lose money."
People are following the clues to investigate in every possible way, causing us huge trouble, and I think that we must not move it for at least one or two years, let alone take these treasures to fight, we must find a place to hide them as soon as possible!"
"That's what I mean. Using this wealth now is like flying a moth into a flame and destroying oneself... Ah, I remembered, there is a place that I think is good."
Yin Jinan motioned for everyone to come closer, and when all the brothers gathered together, he immediately whispered: "The stone hillock in the southeast corner of the factory site in the west of the city is surrounded by forty acres of camphor and plum trees. The planned staff dormitories and the brothers' family houses will be built there.
There, a battalion of engineering companies has built a road as planned to reach the edge of a thirty-meter-high rock mound. In the next two days, the roadbed will be built and the cement road will be paved.
Why don't we use the excuse of building a fixed warning post to dig a pit three meters deep and five meters square on the edge of the stone hillock, then use iron supports and formwork to pour cement, and then coat it with waterproof material. It only takes two days.
If we can handle it, then we can secretly store these treasures in there, pour cement on the top and build a glazed tile sentry box. As long as we keep it strictly confidential, we can store it safely away from people's eyes and ears, and then we can quietly open and sell it after the news passes."
An Yi, Huzi, and Gu Laoer looked at each other for a moment and nodded in unison. An Yi thought for a while and then added something. He asked the brothers of the special team to go to the construction training of the engineering subjects in the name of the security company, so that the secret could be revealed.
Conservatively within the current minimum range.
Everything was arranged, and the brothers left quietly. Huzi and An Yi were not sleepy at all guarding the millions of wealth in the house. Huzi was thinking about how to pack boxes to save space, but An Yi was thinking about going to the city to attend the Chiang Kai-shek Congress tomorrow.
What kind of news will you hear at the principal's reception lunch?