20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 281 The Japs’ Temptation

The next few days were uneventful.

Miyata Ryuji visited Jiang Lianheng a few more times and asked about the situation in Fengtian's business community.

His problems are common and common and can be easily understood by just looking around on the street.

Therefore, several meetings were more about testing loyalty than gathering intelligence.

On the other hand, while Jiang Lianheng was busy preparing for the insurance company's original account, he was entrusted by Zhang Laogeda to monitor public opinion trends in the Fengtian market.

……

In a blink of an eye, it’s late May.

In the early morning after the rain, the gate of Huifangli was closed tightly.

A notice was posted outside the store: Closed today.

In the lobby, twenty or thirty girls were woken up early. They were either leaning on the doorposts or sitting lazily at the tea table, with sleepy eyes and yawning constantly.

Han Xinyuan and Big Teapot Fulong stood side by side at the door, looking at the stage at the far end with sad faces.

There used to be a place for female drummers to entertain clients, but today there is only an empty high-backed armchair.

Shao Qing, under everyone's suspicious eyes, Chuang Hu walked onto the stage with a brochure in his hand and a sly look on his face.

He was so short that even standing on a chair did not look condescending.

"Ahem, girls, good morning! My name is Chuanghu, Chuanghu is under the bed. I was hired by Boss Jiang to come here as a business consultant. I am mainly responsible for training you to become industry leaders! Our slogan is, Ningdang Chicken head, not phoenix tail!"

There was a burst of sparse applause from the audience.

There was an old prostitute in her early thirties, while playing with the tea bowl on the table, she asked in a strange voice: "Do you want to pay me?"

"You don't need to pay me!" Chuanghu said blankly, "Boss Fei Jiang has already given me the training fee. You just need to cooperate."

The girls laughed loudly, but said: "We are asking, will you give us money?"

"How much do I pay for training you guys?"

The girls were unhappy and asked, "What, you still want to sleep in vain?"

Only then did Chuanghu react and hurriedly said: "This training only focuses on theory and not on personal practice!"

"If it doesn't work, just say it doesn't work. What kind of theories are you talking about? You're so funny!"

The girls laughed and laughed, and the meeting place was suddenly filled with a happy atmosphere.

Han Xinyuan stood at the door. Seeing this situation, he kept shaking his head and thought to himself: It's over, the majesty has been wiped out, this kid is terrible!

Since Xu Ruqing retired, the business in Huifangli has been getting worse day by day.

Nowadays, let alone paying tribute to the Jiang family, it is not easy to maintain the general.

Jiang Lianheng sent Chuanghu over, not expecting him to be able to turn the tide. He just hoped that the business could improve slightly, but it seemed that it was of no use at all.

Chuanghu on the stage was ridiculed by the girls in turn. He was like a wooden pile. He didn't know how to reply, so he just blurred the matter and turned around and started handing out books to the girls.

"This book, "Records in the Boudoir", is the result of Chuang's painstaking research after several years of research. If girls can study hard, their skills will be greatly improved."

"Fart! Are you trying to be mean to us? There are more than half of the people here who don't even know the words. What a fart!"

"It doesn't matter if you can't read, we have illustrations!" Chuang Hu swallowed his saliva and hurriedly opened the spine of the book, "Everyone, turn the book to... uh... page 13. Today we will mainly learn the first move. Oppose Tiangang."

The girls flipped to the corresponding page, looked down, and all of them looked embarrassed in an instant.

"What the hell? Do you still have to stand on your head?"

"It's just nonsense. My aunt went to the sea just to make money while lying down. Do you think of us as sideshows?"

"This is a piece of shit, whoever wants to fix it can fix it. Anyway, I won't learn from it!"

For a time, the voices of opposition grew louder and louder, and Chuanghu was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.

"Okay, okay, for the first class, let's not take such a difficult class. Let's switch to an ordinary one. Ordinary ones are also exquisite... Well, which girl is willing to come up and cooperate with me?"

When the girls heard this, they made faces at each other and excused each other. No one wanted to go on stage.

When the big teapot Fulong saw this, he immediately yelled at him: "You're all fucking short, aren't you? I asked you to do it, why are you talking so much nonsense?"

The girls were worried about being hurt, so they had to discuss with each other to choose a representative and walked to the stage.

Chuang Hu looked up at the girl coming over. Once the two figures were compared, the whole small horse pulled the cart. Before he could say anything, everyone in the audience started laughing again.

This prostitute was also holding back her bad intentions and wanted to cause trouble. She came to the lecturer, pinched her left and right, and said teasingly: "Mr. Chuang, you need to eat more. Look at you, you are so thin, your wrists are not as thick as mine!" "

"Thank you, girl, for reminding me, thank you girl for caring." Chuanghu stepped back a little embarrassed.

Who would have thought that at this moment, the girl suddenly leaned over and immediately came to recruit the monkey to pick peaches.

"Ah! Mr. Chuang, it turns out that all your flesh is here!"

After saying this, all the prostitutes burst into laughter.

"Mr. Chuang is really a 'little man but a big man'!"

"Hey! Why are you blushing? Our teacher is still a young girl, right?"

Chuanghu was ashamed and ashamed. He immediately lowered his head and walked quickly to the door, but said, "Brother Yuan, please tell Brother Dao that I really don't understand this job!"

Who would have thought that the man under the bed, listening to the wind and listening to the moonlight, would still have a hard boy's body.

The girls immediately burst into laughter.

Chuang Hu's little face was so red that he almost bleeded. He immediately planned to flee the scene in a hurry, but as soon as he opened the door, he happened to run into Li Zhengxi who came in a hurry.

"What are you doing? Brother Dao is looking for you!" Xifeng was stunned, "Eh? Brother, what's wrong with your face?"

Chuang Hu waved his hands repeatedly: "Tell Brother Dao, I'd better go back and do my work."

When the girls behind him saw that he was about to run away, they became more and more excited and shouted after him: "Mr. Chuang, don't leave, I've prepared all the red envelopes for you!"

Li Zhengxi frowned, but said: "Chuanghu, you have to come with me, Brother Dao has other things to do with you!"

The poppies under the bed were so embarrassed that they had no place to go, so they followed the west wind in a daze.

Han Xinyuan closed the shop door helplessly and glanced around the hall coldly. The girls were worried about being punished, and their teasing suddenly stopped. "Just keep making trouble! Sooner or later, Huifangli will be in your hands! What are you still looking at here? Get back here!"

The girls rolled their eyes secretly, and after making a sound of "嘁", they got up and went back to their respective rooms to rest, thinking to themselves: Sister Hong is not here, business is deserted, what does it have to do with us? We are still those people, we are incompetent, why take it out on us ladies!

The business of the brothel was not doing well, and no one was more anxious than Han Xinyuan.

He was originally just responsible for watching the scene, and he was good with swords and guns, but when it came to taking care of business and making ends meet, it was not his strong point.

Although Huifangli is getting depressed day by day, it is no longer a matter of a day or two, but if this business is really in his hands in the end, then he will not be able to get any good positions in the Jiang family, and he will not be reused again.

What's more, "Chuan'erhong" has put a lot of effort into Huifangli. If it really goes bankrupt, Han Xinyuan will feel guilty for both Sister Hong and Brother Dao, and he has to find a way.

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West of Fengtian City, affiliated to the Southern Railway.

Li Zhengxi led Chuanghu hurriedly and slowly to a block across the street from the east square of the train station.

The Japanese named this place Kasuga Town. It was the first subsidiary area developed by Fengtian and was also the busiest and most prosperous commercial street.

The road is extremely neatly planned and even seems a little dull. There are red two-story western-style buildings on both sides. Department stores, izakayas, optical shops and other shops are all around.

Although it is the territory of the Japanese, there are still many Chinese people making a living here, but they are restricted everywhere and are looked down upon by others.

The two of them walked through the streets and alleys. After walking for a while, they saw a simple grass platform set up on the road not far ahead. There were many Chinese people around. They were looking up at a middle-aged man in his thirties who was oil-headed. Nian made an impassioned speech.

"Fang Datou is actually a rebellious official and a traitor. He betrayed the Qing government. This is disloyalty; a false revolution is unjust! If such an unfaithful and unjust person is in a powerful position, the world will be in chaos and the country will not be in charge!"

Li Zhengxi pushed through the crowd, squeezed to the front of the stage, and whispered: "Brother Dao, Chuanghu is here."

Jiang Lian turned around and waved to the people under the bed: "Brother, come here!"

The oily middle-aged man on the stage was still shouting at the top of his lungs: "What is really sad is that our powerful figure in Fengtian, Zhang Laogao, is actually a pug of Fang Datou. He is always flattering and flattering, and his gangsterism is hard to change. He only thinks about himself." Interests, with people like this here, can we still do well in Fengtian?"

When Chuanghu heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked, and asked in a low voice: "Brother, is this person crazy? Do you still think about saying this to Mr. Zhang in Fengtian?"

"It's a pity that this is a subsidiary territory and is not under the control of Lao Zhang!" Jiang Lianheng raised his chin, "Look, he has been shouting here for a long time and nothing happened."

Originally, he was invited by Miyata Ryuji to come to Nantetsu Co., Ltd. to meet.

As a result, we arrived at the annex, and before walking far, we were attracted by the open-air public lectures here.

If this speech were delivered in Fengtian City, the consequences would be disastrous.

At first, Jiang Lianheng did not believe that anyone would challenge Zhang Laoge's power in Fengtian.

But now it seems that it is not entirely unreasonable for Lao Zhang to ask him to pay attention to the direction of public opinion in the market.

The oily middle-aged man continued: "Who is Zhang Laoda? At best, he is called an insurance team, but in fact he is no different from a bandit! He has no principles at all, let alone a stand! Think about it, he was under Zhao The governor was promoted and said he wanted to defend the Qing court, but what happened? Seeing that the momentum was wrong, he immediately became a revolutionary party! For such a capricious thing, some people still think he is a hero. Sad! It really makes me feel sad! I hope my fellow villagers can Let’s work together to drive Zhang Laoge out of Fengtian!”

Chuanghu was frightened when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Brother, this man is too crazy. Can't we teach him a lesson and make him be honest?"

"I can't give it to you. The fact that this old boy can talk nonsense in the attached area for so long must have something to do with the Japanese."

At present, Jiang Lianheng has been suspected by Miyata Ryuuji, and he does not dare to cause any trouble in the affiliated area easily.

"Then you asked me to come - what do you mean?" Chuanghu asked.

"Aren't you able to write articles?" Jiang Lianheng said, "If it's not convenient for you to do it, then just do it."

"Writing?" Chuanghu looked confused, "Brother, you really think highly of me, so I just write some low-level stuff. How can I be good at writing?"

Unexpectedly, Jiang Lianheng said: "I just asked you to write down the three-way stuff! Chuanghu, remember this old boy's face. Go touch his bottom in the past two days. If there is anything shameful, write it down. Come out, but don't use the name Poppy under the bed."

"But if there is nothing shameful about him, how can he be punished?"

"Then just make it up. Anyway, it's just a matter of pouring shit on him and ruining this person's reputation!"

Reputation often determines the effectiveness of speech. Since you can't block his mouth, then discredit him.

This is the best solution Jiang Lianheng could come up with.

Although I have thought of a solution for the time being, there is still a trace of doubt in my heart.

He didn't understand what the background of the person speaking on the stage was, and how he dared to speak so unscrupulously.

At this time, Li Zhengxi came over and reminded in a low voice: "Brother Dao, it's almost time. We have to go see the little devil Miyata."

"Well, Chuanghu, I'll leave it to you to take care of this matter!"

After saying that, Jiang Lianheng turned around and left the place against the crowd.

After turning a corner and walking along the street intersection, I arrived at the Southern Railway Fengtian Local Office Building after not walking far.

After visiting a few times, Jiang Lianheng was already familiar with the road. When he entered the building, the doorman outside even greeted him familiarly.

Walking into the office of the Investigation Department, Miyata Ryuji was looking out the window.

"Mr. Jiang, you are late."

Jiang Lianheng laughed apologetically and said: "Kasuga Town is too prosperous. When I came here, I couldn't help but walk around. Please forgive me, Mr. Miyata!"

Miyata Ryuuji snorted, slowly left the window, walked to the mahogany table, and sat down.

"I have verified that some of the information I asked you about earlier is indeed correct. Mr. Jiang behaved very well."

"That's necessary. Since he said he wanted to serve, Jiang will definitely not be vague."

Miyata Ryuji smiled, crossed his hands on the table, and said, "Since Mr. Jiang is so loyal, I have a difficult matter here. I hope you can come forward and help me solve it."

"Do you still have troublesome things?" Jiang Lianheng was a little surprised, "Mr. Miyata, are you kidding me?"

The Japs were not in the mood to make jokes and said bluntly: "We at Nantie Co., Ltd. have recently taken a fancy to a piece of land in the north of the annex and want to acquire it and build a factory. Our price is very fair, but the landowners there don't seem to be very interested. I am open-minded and determined not to sell the land, so I hope Mr. Jiang can help mediate."

According to the provisions of the treaty, the Southern Railway attachment should only have an extension of five kilometers of ground along the railway line.

The Japanese took advantage of the loopholes in the treaty and have been annexing land through forced purchase for many years, and the scope of the annexed lands has also become larger and larger.

The Southern Railway Company did not want to use violence to avoid arousing the anger of the local people, so it planned to ask Jiang Lianheng to take action on its behalf.

Miyata Ryuji grinned and asked with a half-smile: "Mr. Jiang will definitely not refuse such a small matter, right?"

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