20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 295 Boss Jia

It's past noon at Chengxi Railway Station.

Liaoyang is a small city, and the station is small. The area of ​​​​the Southern Railway annex is not large. It is only a long and narrow area. There are not many Japanese expatriates. The supporting facilities in it, such as hotels, libraries, local offices and other buildings, are only small. It is a single-story brick house, which is a bit shabby compared to the size of Fengtian.

Although the city is small, there are quite a few garrison troops stationed along the outside of the city because it guards the south of Fengtian.

After Jiang Lianheng and others had a light meal, they went straight to the train station, detoured to the freight platform.

It was just after noon and there was no freight passing by. Except for a few switch workers who were still exposed to the sun on the railway, most people were in the shadows under the walls or under the eaves of small warehouses, cooling off and resting.

This kind of leisure is simply unimaginable in the busy Yingkou Pier and Fengtian Station.

Jiang Lianheng and others walked towards the small warehouse, where there were six or seven loaders squatting in a circle, chatting and laughing.

When I got closer, I saw a square piece of linen spread out on the ground, divided into many grids according to the thirty-six Tiangang.

One of them, wearing dirty bloomers, shirtless, with a cigarette butt in his mouth, was chattering and urging everyone to place bets - it turned out that he was playing a game of monogram flowers.

Some of the onlookers had their eyes wide open, while others were hesitant. He then said, "What's the matter with Moji? Like a bitch, I've told you how many times I've told you, I'm sure you'll hit the mark today, even if you don't win." You can win everything back with profits, so what are you afraid of?"

Suddenly, several figures enveloped Zihua.

"Cigarette Butt" noticed someone coming, tilted his head, frowned and asked: "How about picking up the goods? Which store?"

Jiang Lianheng smiled and asked, "Brother, are you the leader here?"

"What's wrong? What's wrong with you?" the cigarette butt asked.

"I have something to do. I want to ask him about the situation." Jiang Lianheng took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and said politely, "Brother, smoke."

The cigarette butt took the cigarette unceremoniously, squatted up, walked to the corner of the small warehouse, turned to the railway behind him and shouted loudly: "Boss Jia! Boss Jia! Someone is looking for trouble!"

The so-called "boss" refers to the foreman of the labor of a Japanese company, but it is not entirely appointed by the Japanese.

After Dongyang entered the customs, it frantically exploited resources in various places and urgently needed a lot of manpower. However, because of its bad reputation, ordinary people were worried and most of them did not dare to apply.

Therefore, the little devils relied on local gentry and celebrities to act as "leaders" and help them recruit labor.

Relying on their prestige, influence and power in the countryside, these squires then allocated the recruitment amount to their "little bosses", who then lobbied the people to enter Dongyang factories.

The recruited laborers were managed by "bosses", big and small, and the Japanese only negotiated with the "bosses" and ignored the workers.

If the labor performance is good, the "boss" will receive bonuses; if the workers run away or are lazy, the "boss" will be fined.

To be fair, if you are recruited to work on the railway, it is a good job. Although it is tiring, it is hundreds or thousands of times better than farming. If anyone is blind and is tricked into digging coal in the coal mines of Fushun, then it will be considered a misfortune. .

Everyone followed the shouting of the cigarette butt, and saw two people standing on the railway track in the distance. One of them was bending down and working hard, doing cleaning and maintenance work, and the other was standing next to him, looking aloof.

"Eh? Brother Dao, isn't that Big Yuan!"

Zhao Zhengbei had a sharp eye and immediately recognized Yuan Xinfa who was working hard.

But because the distance was too far, they couldn't hear what they were saying...

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"Old Yuan! You're a good person at work, but you can't do it if you're always so unsociable!" Boss Jia earnestly advised, "Isn't it okay for you to play high and low just to support your brother? You If you don’t buy the people under my command, how can others buy them?”

Yuan Xinfa lowered his head to clean up the weeds between the railway tracks and said in a low voice: "No, I can't."

"Nonsense! What can't you do? Thirty-six Tiangang, just pick a few and you're done!"

"No, the kids at home are getting older and I have to save some money."

"Just because the child is older, you have to buy more, do you understand?" Boss Jia said, "If you bet one dollar, it will be doubled thirty times immediately. Your son will have enough money to marry a wife. In this way, your next one I'll bet ten or eight yuan on your monthly salary, and when you win the prize, you have to treat your brother to dinner."

Yuan Xinfa was still bent over: "I really don't want to buy it. You have been using my salary to buy it for several months."

"What do you mean I've been using your salary to buy it for several months? Didn't you win or something?"

"Just winning once was not enough..."

"That's because you underpaid! I'll buy you ten yuan of your monthly salary, that's it!"

"I told you I won't buy it!"

Yuan Xinfa straightened up suddenly, his voice was still very low, but seemed to reveal a bit of resistance.

"Oops? Yuan Xinfa, who the hell are you doing this with?" Jia's leader stabbed the other party's thick chest with his knuckles and said aggressively, "What, I don't want to do it anymore? I don't want to do it to you. Just get out of here, if you don’t do it, there are people who do it! You don’t play tricks, and you don’t help when asked to help. Are you pretending that your mother is noble? Don’t be shameless. If you don’t want to do it, get out of here. Don’t even want the wages. !”

Yuan Xinfa immediately retreated and said hesitantly: "I didn't say I didn't want to do it..."

"Then stop staring at me like that!" Boss Jia cursed and threatened, "With this job and earning so much money, what else do you want? Are you going to carry bags or pull rickshaws? I won't let you do anything. , do you believe it?"

A vein stood up on Yuan Xinfa's cheek, but he said nothing, turned around, bent down, and continued working.

Jia curled his lips and spat, but kept mumbling: "If you don't eat the toast, you'll have to drink the wine as a penalty, what the hell!"

At this moment, he suddenly heard someone calling him in the distance.

He turned around and saw four or five people waiting for him in the small warehouse, so he walked over slowly.

Jiang Lianheng stepped forward to greet him, cupped his fists and said politely, "Jia is the boss."

"Well, what's going on?" Jia put his head behind his hands and seemed to regard himself as a piece of cake.

"I want to ask you about the missing goods from Shanfangtang not long ago."

Jia stared at the boss and asked angrily: "Why do you ask? Does it have anything to do with you?"

Jiang Lianheng immediately brushed himself off, but said: "Actually, it doesn't matter, it's just that a batch of goods was lost for no reason. We, small business people, don't feel at ease, so we have to take precautions, right?"

"Which company is yours?" Jia asked the boss.

"Not yet. I originally planned to do some business here, but I heard that there was a big thief in the city, so I was hesitating!" "Hey! Don't worry, I'll help you keep an eye on it in the worst case -"

"Oh, that's great. I have someone to help take care of me. I feel confident in my heart. Boss Jia doesn't need to say more. I will definitely be able to live up to your expectations."

"You're welcome, that's what you should do."

Seeing that the visitor was so polite, Boss Jia couldn't help but feel very good.

Jiang Lianheng took advantage of the situation and asked again: "Brother, I think the management of this station is quite loose. My business is not big. If the goods arrive, can I send someone to unload them myself?"

"Unloading the goods by yourself? That's not possible!" Boss Jia immediately refused, "If everyone unloads the goods by themselves, wouldn't the station be in chaos! Brother, if you are really worried, you should come here early and wait. You watch the unloading with your own eyes, and you transport it away on the spot, that’s it! Nowadays, every timid business does this."

After Jiang Lianheng heard this, he thought that Lao Nie must have been nearby here when he saw with his own eyes that the carriage door was opened but the medicinal materials were missing.

Needless to say, there is definitely something wrong with this boss.

But in order not to alert others, Jiang Lianheng stopped asking further questions.

At this time, the alarm bell in the station suddenly rang, and the busy workers on the railway track jumped away and hid in a safe place.

After a while, he saw a freight train slowly approaching the platform.

There was nothing unusual about the train entering the station, but then, there was a series of footsteps behind everyone. Not long after, a dozen soldiers in gray-blue military uniforms walked into the station with guns drawn.

Upon seeing this, Chief Jia immediately called to the loaders and unloaders around the small warehouse, urging: "Stop fucking around, this train is for military supplies, everyone, get up and get to work!"

The workers quickly stood up and lined up along the platform, waiting to complete the unloading as quickly as possible.

Soon, the train came to a slow stop on the tracks.

"Boom" sounded a few times, the cargo trunk door opened together, and the military materials of the whole box of the whole box were moved to the platform one after another, and then a soldier came to take over. .

The remaining soldiers were guarded on the left and right. They were not many in number, but their formation was quite intimidating.

Several soldiers found Jiang Lianheng and others standing nearby, so they came over aggressively, raised their guns and shouted: "Who are you? What are you looking at here? It doesn't matter who you are, so evacuate immediately!"

Jiang Lianheng's eyes were originally fixed on the railway tracks, until he heard the shouting, he came back to his senses, quickly raised his hands and said with a smile: "Master, don't be angry, we are just passing by, let's leave now, Let’s go now!”

Unexpectedly, just after taking a few steps, I heard a sudden voice among the soldiers: "Hey, Brother Jiang!"

Jiang Lianheng stopped in response, tilted his head, and saw a young junior officer hurriedly walked out of the crowd. He bared his crooked teeth and laughed loudly: "What a coincidence, it's really you! I'm not waiting in Fengtian anymore." , what are you doing here?"

Jiang Lianheng was a little surprised. After carefully identifying him for a long time, he suddenly remembered that the person coming was none other than the soldier who was guarding the gate of the patrol battalion headquarters last year and had met in Huifangli - Ren Pengfei.

I saw him walking over carelessly, waving to the soldiers: "Go, go, this is my friend, go over there and get busy!"

When Jiang Lianheng saw this, he quickly clasped his fists and congratulated: "Brother, it looks like you have been promoted!"

"Pull him down, why should I be promoted to an official position?" Ren Pengfei said with his thumb on his little fingernail, "The big position is just because the superiors think highly of me and let me take charge of these twenty or thirty people."

In fact, the friendship between the two was not deep, but Ren Pengfei knew that Jiang Lianheng and Mr. Zhang were related, so he came here to get close.

Now that we have met, it is inevitable to chat a few words in one place.

After chatting for a while, Jiang Lianheng asked: "Brother, why don't you stay in Fengtian?"

Ren Pengfei sighed: "Hey! It's time to mobilize. After last year's riot, our patrol battalion and the new army of the Peking University Battalion were merged, and now they have become a regular army. Doesn't that mean we can transfer them wherever they go?"

"So, Wang Yanzong and Wang Guandai are also in Liaoyang now?"

"I don't know about this. After the merger and reorganization, there were a lot of changes and it was already in chaos. By the way, you can no longer ask Wang Guan to take charge. I heard that he has been promoted. It seems that he is in Anton. Come on, follow Ma Longtan."

"Now that we've met, why don't you show your respect to Sir Ren and find a place to have a drink together?" Jiang Lianheng suggested.

"No, no," Ren Pengfei declined politely, "Brother, I'm really not trying to flatter you. You've seen it. I have a mission today, and it's really inconvenient. Let's talk about it another day."

Jiang Lianheng nodded and said, "This whole truck contains a lot of supplies! Don't tell me we're going to fight again!"

"Let's let Nanbian fight!" Ren Pengfei said cheerfully, "On our side, we only fight in small ways, mainly to suppress bandits."

"Suppressing bandits? Which hilltop?"

"That makes you ask - I don't know!"

"What? I don't know where they are at the top of the mountain, so how can I suppress the bandits?" After saying this, Jiang Lianheng realized it first, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Are you looking for an excuse to follow up and ask for supplies? And what about military spending?”

"Hahaha! Brother, you know what you are doing at first glance!" Ren Pengfei said, "However, the suppression of bandits is not entirely out of thin air. In the past year, there has indeed been a group of thieves in the surrounding areas. Of course, look up. When reporting, you have to exaggerate a little, so you can take credit when the time comes!"

Last year?

Jiang Lianheng suddenly had an idea and remembered that the thief Wen Tingge, whom everyone had heard of from word of mouth, started committing crimes around this time.

If this guess is correct, it seems that the so-called "dark under the lamp" is not alone.

While thinking about it, the loaders almost moved all the materials on the train to the platform.

Seeing this, Ren Pengfei had no choice but to say: "Brother, I have military affairs, so I can't talk much. If nothing happens, I will leave first. You plan to stay here for a few days. If anything happens, you can come to the city at any time." Find me in the military camp outside."

Jiang Lian clasped his fists and said goodbye, promising: "Okay, okay, I will definitely come find you in the next two days."

The soldiers worked quickly in large numbers and quickly moved the goods away from the platform.

Just when Jiang Lianheng and others were about to leave, Chief Jia suddenly came over from behind with a flattering smile on his face, and no longer had the proud look he had just looked at Zixiong.

"Hey, this young man, I really didn't realize that you still have a relationship in the military camp?"

　The condition is not good, 4000 orders, don’t scold me, don’t scold me, 13 orders per day have been cut off for 6 consecutive days, I feel more uncomfortable than everyone else!

　　Thanks to _Mumu_ for the reward and support, and thanks to Feng Songji for the reward and support!

　　The boss is awesome! ! !

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(End of this chapter)