Blood-quenched mountains and rivers

Things have been complicated recently, and the matter of Bailu and Qiao Zhonghe was quickly forgotten by Yang Wei.

It was hot summer, but the training intensity of Yang Wei's army did not decrease. When training special forces abroad, they are often required to carry out intensive training in harsh natural environments. Many instructors even prefer hot and cold weather. Intense training in scorching desert areas.However, most of Yang Wei's soldiers were civilians, who had never received such high-intensity training before, and soon collapsed from heatstroke one after another.

Yang Wei had no choice but to arrange for the cooking team to boil hot soup. After all, these were Yang Wei's own soldiers. How he treats others will be treated by others.

On this day, just as Yang Wei was busy with military affairs, he saw Fang Dacheng, who had asked for leave to visit relatives, came back with a happy face. Yang Wei looked at him and couldn't help laughing: "This looks like a good meal at home?"

Fang Dacheng couldn't hold back his excitement, and said with a happy smile, "Big brother really hit the spot. I went back to my brother's house this time. My brother and sister-in-law prepared a lot of good things, and brought some for you."

The food box in Fang Dacheng's hand is full of delicious food, Xing Jun and the others who haven't eaten meat for a long time are also very happy, Zhang Luo said: "Hurry up, eat two more bites while Tieniu is not here, but we can't eat a bite when he comes. I can't eat any more."

Yang Wei looked at the Dongpo meat and sweet and sour tenderloin in the food box and said, "Is your brother's sister-in-law's life good?"

Fang Dacheng felt a little embarrassed when he said this, he picked his hair and said: "Life was normal in the past, but this year's silk business is good, and the silk from my brother-in-law's family has sold for a lot of money, which is much higher than the previous years. Come three times."

Hearing this, Xing Jun, Wang Xiao, Li Tiegang and Qian Chengshan just felt envious, but Yang Wei obviously felt something was wrong after hearing this.

According to common sense, the price of silk has always been relatively stable. Although there have been price increases, it is absolutely impossible to double the price of last year. There must be something wrong with the triple increase. Yang Wei stopped Fang Dacheng and said: "How could it be?" How much did it rise all at once?"

Fang Dacheng talked eloquently: "Brother, you are an expert in war, but you don't understand the silk business. Our family has grown mulberry and raised silkworms for generations. The silk in Hangzhou is good. This is well known, especially in the silk industry. In the past two years, foreigners have demanded more and more silk, and the big households above have received more goods. The price of silk sold by commercial firms to foreign firms is seven or eight times higher than the price received from silkworm farmers. You said this business is Isn't it a huge profit?"

Yang Wei nodded. In Shanghai, the silk business is indeed the most profitable business, but Yang Wei still couldn't understand it, and asked puzzledly, "Even if it's like this, it won't be higher than this, right?"

Fang Dacheng smiled and waved his hands and said: "The prices are set by the commercial firms, and any commercial firm wants to charge more silk to make more money. It is precisely because of this that the competition among commercial firms for silkworm farmers is quite fierce. Silkworm farmers sell silk to their own families, and there is a comparison of prices among commercial firms every year. This year, a Zhonghe Commercial Firm popped up suddenly. The owner is a young man in his twenties. His ancestors were in this business. In the past two years, it was squeezed out by several commercial firms, and it is said that this year they sold their property to reorganize the river and mountain, and the price was tripled, and now the silkworm farmers are scrambling to send silk to the Zhonghe Commercial Firm."

As soon as Yang Wei heard the words "Zhonghe Firm", Yang Wei immediately thought of Qiao Zhonghe.What the common people say about changing sellers is groundless nonsense. Yang Wei knows more about this Qiao Tianhe than those silkworm farmers. When the Qiao family collapsed, the family property had already been sold off. Divide up, where does Qiao Zhonghe have any property that can be sold?He can afford three times the price to collect silk, and there must be Japanese support behind him.

Yang Weixin said that it was not good, the Japanese really made their move so quickly, Yang Wei had already guessed their method, first they used Qiao Zhonghe to pay a high price to collect the silk from the silkworm farmers, and monopolized all the silk from Hangzhou in his own hands, so that they could Once the market is monopolized, the price depends on him alone, and the Japanese hiding behind Qiao Zhonghe monopolize the export right of silk invisibly. In the future, no matter which country wants to The silk imported from Hangzhou must be purchased from the Japanese, which is a common trick of the Japanese.

This method of driving up prices to seek monopoly is not uncommon in commercial wars. Although it seems that silkworm farmers benefit from it, in fact the biggest profit is the monopoly side. The silk received at three times the price in the hand has become a commodity with a price and no market in a blink of an eye. When the monopoly is resold, the price will be raised by more than ten times. Except for foreign companies that import silk from abroad, the biggest victims It is other commercial firms in the country, because they have no supply of goods and cannot conduct transactions, many small commercial firms have been defeated in this way.

Yang Wei couldn't figure it out, didn't Qiao Zhonghe think of this?Or does it mean that he clearly knows that he is helping the Japanese to bring down a Chinese firm, or does he have to do this?Yang Wei remembered that Bailu once told him the cause of Qiao Zhonghe's father's death, maybe it was because of hatred, so he would rather join forces with the Japanese than destroy the firms that forced his father to death.

One is hatred and the other is desire. These are the two things that can make people lose their minds. Now Qiao Zhonghe has gathered them all. Now Qiao Zhonghe has no time to care about other things, and he wants to take revenge by any means.

No wonder the first time he saw Qiao Zhonghe, Yang Wei felt that there was something wrong with his eyes, which were full of hatred and forbearance, just like people who are usually bullied but keep silent when they explode, they are often the scariest.

Regardless of whether this matter is related to Qiao Zhonghe or not, the important thing is not to let the Japanese benefit from it, so Yang Wei has to take care of this matter, but as the commander of the Hangzhou garrison, it seems strange that he suddenly appeared It is common sense that this is not something within the scope of one's own jurisdiction.

The first thing Yang Wei thought of was the mayor of Hangzhou. The authorities should have dealt with such things that disturbed the market order.

This matter cannot be delayed. The more tea Qiao Zhonghe buys now, the greater the losses other firms will suffer. At the same time, after this matter is settled, other firms can trade at normal prices. It was Qiao Zhonghe himself. Thinking of it this way, the anxious Yang Wei immediately went to report to the Mayor of Hangzhou.

Unfortunately, Yang Wei waited outside the mayor's office for a full three hours but saw no one. He learned that the mayor was going to Shanghai for a meeting and would not return for a while.

Yang Wei felt a little strange, could it be that the other party was hiding from him on purpose?But think about it and there is no reason.Blood Quenching Mountains and Rivers 87

Yang Wei, who was puzzled in his heart, left the mayor's office. When he went out, it was already dark outside. He took Tieniu for a walk and prepared to go back, but when he just walked to the street, Yang Wei suddenly heard There was a sound of arguing in the side alley, Yang Wei leaned forward, and saw three or five strong men punching and kicking around one person.

Yang Wei turned his head to look at Tie Niu behind him and said, "Are you full for tonight?"

Tieniu was confused by the question, nodded and said in a muffled voice, "I'm full."

Yang Wei pointed at those people and said, "Then let's do it!"