Rise From Eight Hundred

The rich man who came was none other than someone else.

It was Tantai Yunshu, Tang Dao's future father-in-law.

Since the last time he separated from his daughter, the old man has been running all the way with his old family who accompanied him. He arranged for three hundred advanced students to wait for Tang Dao to pick them up, and then took the train south without stopping for a moment.

After working hard in Jiangxia and collecting enough money, I took the train again and arrived in Henan Province. From there, I boarded a military train bound for Northern Jiangsu.

Thanks to Tantai Yunshu's wide network of friends, he can get a pass and get care wherever he goes based on his connections. Otherwise, he would not be able to board a train transporting soldiers and play this kind of game upstream just because he is a professor at Jinling University. .

He came to Xuzhou for only one purpose, to give money to Tang Dao!

Tantai Yunshu is a man of his word, and he will definitely pay Tang Dao if he says he will.

The Tantai family is a big family, with nearly 200 people. Except for a few dozen people who stayed in their hometown to look after the ancestral property, the rest have evacuated. Basically, the whole family has moved south.

Two hundred people need food, drink, shelter, and a new foothold in their place of residence. This kind of expense is of course huge. Even if the Tantai family was originally wealthy, it is no longer possible for them to spend hundreds of thousands of silver as they did before.

Tang Dao also knew this, but he obviously still didn't understand enough about his future father-in-law's love for licking calves.

In order to support his daughter, a certain old father-in-law went to great lengths and even sold some of his favorite paintings and antiques. After a long journey, I rushed to Laotantai, the liaison office of the 67th Army in Xuzhou City. The first thing I said when I saw Tang Dao was: "I'm here to fulfill my promise. This is for you!"

The second sentence is: "I'm starving to death, you kid, hurry up and get me some food."

What the family members handed to Tang Dao was a suitcase he was carrying. Tang Dao didn't have time to feel the weight of the suitcase to judge what was inside, so he asked Master Zhuang to collect it on his behalf and hurried to the liaison office. kitchen.

Tang Dao rarely goes to the kitchen.

It's not that he can't, it's that he has no chance at all.

In his previous life, when he was in the army, he ate in the canteen, and in the battlefield, he ate fast food and dry food. In this life, he was either on the battlefield or on the way to the battlefield. Almost all his energy was focused on how to kill the Japanese. What would happen? What to eat in the mood.

But looking at the originally elegant and graceful Lao Tantai, who was covered in dust, with a tired face and a lot of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, Tang Dao could tell that this old man had traveled a lot in the past month in order to fulfill his so-called promise. , how much hardship I suffered.

Even if he was not Tantai Mingyue's father or future father-in-law, Tang Dao would still be grateful to the old man for treating him like this. He couldn't give him any other Jiangnan green onion noodles that fit his taste.

There were no noodles at this time, and the noodles had to be rolled first. Fortunately, Tang Dao also had a chief of staff from Songjiang.

Even though Zhuang Shisan was once a local security battalion commander who basically made money as his mission, no one could have guessed that this man also had the exquisiteness of Songhu people, not to mention his good hand at rolling and slicing noodles. The ones are also extremely fine, each one is about the same thickness. Judging from the appearance alone, they are extremely good. Juebi is a good man living a good life.

"Damn it, Lao Zhuang, your sister-in-law must be very happy with this skill of yours!" Tang Dao was extremely surprised by the unusual ability displayed by his partner.

"Hehe! It makes everyone laugh. We Songjiang people can act like uncles when we are outside, but we will never act like big heads at home. It was clearly Shi Rang who caught fire in the backyard! Maybe everyone in the group will be better at cooking than me in the future." Master Zhuang laughed casually. road.

No wonder men in Songhu will buy food and cook in the future. This tradition is quite old. The key is to have a clear understanding of family status.

As for Zhuang Shisan teasing that he would marry a delicate Jiangnan woman in the future and eventually become a man who cooks for his wife, Tang Dao also laughed.

Shi Qi was in such a bad environment when he was in a coma, and Tang Dao didn't smell any peculiar smell on his body when he woke up. This shows how meticulously Tantai Mingyue took care of him, and how much he could not repay his affection.

If the day comes to welcome peace, Tang Dao is willing to put down his sword and gun and build a small house with a yard in the countryside.

There are flowers and plants in the yard, and Hammer will take his little dogs to take up the responsibilities of guarding the house again. While he and Tantai Mingyue are busy farming, in their free time, they make tea, read, spank the children, and cook for his wife and children. Cooking doesn't feel too good.

Perhaps no one would be surprised that Captain Tang, who was so cold and ruthless on the battlefield, had the biggest dream in life that he revolved around his wife and children.

In fact, the more you experience the cruelty of the battlefield, the more you know the value of peace and tranquility. Tang Dao, who has been a man for two generations, has experienced more battlefields than anyone here, and he longs for peace even more.

However, as a little butterfly coming out of the sky, he knows better that all peace is achieved with fists, never with mercy.

A humble wanderer who even barks at the watchdog!

For Jiangnan's chopped green onion noodles, first cook the noodles, add a few drops of sesame oil, remove the noodle soup, then put the noodles into a bowl with seasonings, then sprinkle with chopped green onions, heat the sesame oil in the pot, and finally add Pour hot oil over the chopped green onions and stir, and a steaming bowl of delicious and delicious chopped green onion noodles is ready.

The old man, who was already hungry and drinking tea, his eyes glowing green, saw the taste of his hometown that he had not seen for a long time, and there was still a little bit of the reserve of a great painter and poet? He took three mouthfuls of it and finished the whole bowl in less than thirty seconds.

Fortunately, Tang Dao knew that he must be very hungry, so he specially made two more bowls of noodles, for a total of five bowls of noodles. The old man only had three bowls of noodles, but his family, who had been his school boy since he was a child, only ate two. The bowl stopped on its own initiative, and with tears in his eyes he watched his master, who had never suffered much before, work hard to cook.

Seeing Tang Dao, a straight man like Tang Dao, his nose was slightly sore. He knew that this was not because he was embarrassed, but because Lao Tantai, who had no regard for his manners in front of him, had completely accepted him as the man who was snatching away his little cotton-padded jacket.

It is really not easy to be an old father. Tang Dao didn't know if he would be so calm if he encountered something like this in the future.

Maybe, he will beat the thief first? This is very likely. As long as there are no accidents, Tang Dao can guarantee that his combat power will still be at its peak even if he is over fifty.

Obviously, someone who has never been a father is blind.

When it comes time for him to become a father, he will have no choice but to be just like the man in front of him.

"You're good at cooking. I feel very comfortable eating this noodle! Burp!" Lao Tantai burped with satisfaction and tilted Tang Dao, who was sitting beside him. "Aren't you curious how much I paid you?"

"Hey, how can I not be curious? Since you are always in front of me, why don't I open the box too directly? I'm afraid that my golden eyes will scare you, right?" Tang Dao said with a smile.

"Hmph! You're so sweet and clever, why do I feel like you don't like it, are you afraid that opening it in front of me for just a few hundred yuan will embarrass both of you?" Tantai Yunshu snorted coldly, but the corners of his mouth were raised proudly. .

Taking a look at the proud look of the proud old Tantai, Tang Dao couldn't help but feel a little more curious.

The suitcase is not very big, at most it is about the size of a small suitcase from the future. If it is completely filled with large yellow croakers, it is probably worth a lot of money.

But that is obviously unrealistic. How can two middle-aged people who are over 60 years old have the strength to carry it for two thousand miles? But if it is not a large yellow croaker, how much money can be packed in this suitcase? Even ten thousand oceans cannot be loaded!

But even if it were ten thousand oceans, even though it was a lot, he would never let Lao Tantai, who had seen the world, show such a posture!

At Tang Dao's signal, Zhuang Shisan opened the small copper lock on the suitcase with the key handed over by his family, opened the zipper, and a pile of colorful banknotes appeared in front of several people.

Beautiful knife!

Tang Dao's eyes suddenly opened wide

As the most widely circulated currency in the future world, Tang Dao has of course seen the US sword countless times. Although the color of the US sword is slightly different at this time and the future, the image of the character on the US sword has never changed.

The number displayed on the U.S. knife is 10. If nothing else, a stack of 100 U.S. dollars worth 1,000 U.S. dollars. Even if you don’t need to count them in detail, there are at least twenty piles here, which means they are worth more than 20,000 U.S. dollars.

According to the current exchange rate, this is almost equivalent to nearly 100,000 silver dollars.

"Hey, to make it easier to carry, I went to all the major banks in Jiangxia and exchanged yellow croakers and oceans for hard currency like U.S. dollars. Don't look at it too much, but there are a total of twenty-four thousand U.S. dollars here! How about it? Is it enough to pay for it? Did you give me the reward for those students who went north?" Looking at Tang Dao and Zhuang Master looking at each other with horrified eyes, Tantai Yunshu said the number with some satisfaction.

The reward of giving away nearly 100,000 yuan at a time is almost astronomical no matter where you put it. Not to mention giving away a mere 300 people, even 3,000 people are enough.

The moment Zhuang Shisan looked at Captain Tang Da, his eyes were full of envy and envy.

It’s okay to have a rich father-in-law, but having a rich and generous father-in-law is the key!

"Why, I'm jealous! Not only am I a handsome young man, but I can also make green onion noodles!" Tang Dao glanced back at his chief of staff.

But obviously, Captain Tang Da, who was striding forward, was even more excited than Zhuang Shisan. He held the hand of the proud Lao Tantai tightly and howled: "Dad, you are my biological father!"

Lao Tantai trembled!

I almost slapped Tang Dao on Minato's shameless face.

In fact, it is easy for the old father to associate with those not so good aspects.

What, is the raw rice cooked?

This means that Lao Tantai is the one holding the paintbrush. If he were to be a Baji master like Lao Han, no matter how good the Tang Sword is, the cliff would be delivered with a dragon grip.

"Uncle, don't get me wrong, I'm just trying to express my excitement! There are words unique to our hometown!'

Tang Dao must also react quickly. I instantly felt the murderous aura of a certain old man!

The people of Sichuan Province expressed their dissatisfaction. I am not as wretched as your children.

"I'm so embarrassed. With the money you gave me, I can pay military salaries to the soldiers, and the families of those soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country can finally receive pensions." Tang Dao had tears in his eyes. .

"You are also the leader of the group, so you can't be so carried away and make people laugh! In addition, before you two are married, please don't yell!" Tantai Yunshu's face improved a lot, and he lectured the future with a straight face. son in law.

"Yes, yes, uncle, you are right!" Tang Dao's head was like pounding garlic.

"Haha! Okay! Someone can be considered as subduing this audacious monkey monkey, Lao Tantai, Lao Wu is really envious of you for giving birth to a beautiful daughter!" There was a burst of heroic laughter outside the door.

With laughter, Comrade Lao Wu entered from the door.

Seeing the bright smile on his face, it was obvious that he was very happy about the Tang Dao being defeated.

"What? With you, Uncle Wu, looking after you, what kind of tricks can this kid make?" Tantai Yunshu was very perceptive, but he heard that his old friend was connoting his future son-in-law.

"Hehe, your good son-in-law gave the 20th Army a show of strength as soon as he came to Xuzhou City. What a good guy, he led a cavalry platoon with sabers and charged at dozens of guns! Do you think he is audacious?" Old Wu The comrade smiled and put eye drops on Tang Dao.

"Oh? There is such a thing. What's the cause and effect?" Lao Tantai's face became solemn, but he continued to ask.

Comrade Lao Wu impartially told his old friend the cause and effect.

For this army commander, telling Tang Dao to be "black" was actually just hoping that Tang Dao would be restrained a little bit.

But he knew that when he told Tang Dao these things, Tang Dao would probably go in with the left ear and out with the right ear. Everyone has their own moral standards and persistence. Tang Dao's characteristic of not fearing power is very popular with him, but he can't help but feel a little worried.

There are a lot of injustices in this world. Today, he may be a bastard like the 20th Army, but what if he is a group army-level general in the future? Lao Tantai's identity is a bit subtle, especially for Tang Dao. The elders, no matter what, Tang Dao had to bite the bullet and listen to the teachings.

"Okay! Tang Dao, what you did has won my heart. It's worth it that I traveled thousands of miles to send you military supplies!" Tantai Yunshu roared with all his strength. "As a soldier, you should resist bandits from outside and eradicate evil from within! You should do the same thing next time you encounter something like this!'

Comrade Lao Wu.

Did I say something wrong? I always feel like the clown is actually me!

With the twenty-four thousand U.S. dollars from Lao Tantai, Tang Dao finally became wealthy again.

This time, Tang Dao was not stingy at all, and gave each of the two commanders of the 67th Army and the 59th Army two thousand dollars.

Of course, the two army commanders couldn't ask for money from their younger brother, but Tang Dao's words forced them to accept it.

"Two officers and elder brothers, although Tang Dao is brave on the battlefield, he is still young after all, and many people are not yet mature and smooth. He has offended many powerful people intentionally or unintentionally. Although Tang Dao has never regretted it, many constraints have also made Tang Dao very annoyed. .

Tang Daoshi is an extremely pure soldier, but Tang Dao also knows that there are many difficulties in such a world and system. Fortunately, Tang Dao has met you two and commanders like brothers like Commander Guo, who can ignore Tang Dao's recklessness and do it for him. There is a darkness on Tang Dao's back that Tang Dao cannot withstand. Tang Dao regards it as a blessing to be in this world.

Tang Dao had no repayment, so he could only borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha and transfer the funds to the military headquarters of his two brothers. Because I know that both brothers are honest officials and don’t have much personal savings. However, at the time of the war, the soldiers need rewards. Even if the soldiers have the desire to serve the country, they don’t need to be encouraged, but those soldiers who died for the country did not just pop out of a stone. They have parents, wives and children to support behind them. Two thousand U.S. dollars are equivalent to eight thousand silver oceans, which is only enough to provide compensation for the more than a hundred soldiers who died. They also asked the two elder brothers to accept it!" Tang Dao was extremely rare in the two elders. He revealed his true feelings in front of more than twice as many military commanders.

This is also what Tang Dao is thinking.

Despite his bravery and wisdom, he created miracles on the battlefield time and time again. The number of Japanese soldiers who died under his command was at least thousands. However, without the full support of Guo and Wu, the troops he led could not achieve anything. With more than a hundred soldiers, he could only do nothing in the face of the rolling torrent of tens of thousands of Japanese troops despite his three-headed and six-armed Tang Sword!

Those who really led those victories were actually two commanders who dared to trust completely, which required sufficient wisdom and a will to fight. Even though Tang Dao knew that they had gone through this in the long river of history, when he came into close contact with them, Tang Dao understood even more how rare these commanders who had left their names in the great Anti-Japanese War were.

They may all have some shadows of the old warlords and the old army, and they firmly defend their own power camp, but they all have a patriotic heart. When faced with the Japanese invaders who invaded the country, they put aside their persistence and fought bravely without hesitation.

This is infinitely better than some people.

And what Tang Dao said about the darkness behind the few people who fought for him is even more true. Without the cover of the commanders of the 43rd Army, 67th Army, and even the 59th Army who later joined him, just showing the carriages and horses in Xuzhou City In the scene played by the 20th Army, Tang Dao could guarantee that the narrow-minded general named Tang would be waiting for his Four Elements Regiment somewhere during his march.

After all, he was ordered to march north, and his marching trajectory could not escape the sight of the man whose hands and eyes could reach the sky.

"Okay! Since you said so, brother, then the elder brother will accept it!" Seeing that Tang Dao had said so, Commander Zhang no longer refused.

From the perspective of this chivalrous military commander, since they are brothers, they should not be too external.

What's more, Tang Dao also has a father-in-law who can sell paintings for money!

Comrade Lao Wu was also very pleased at this moment. He only helped Tang Dao because Tang Dao could kill enemies, but he had never received anything in return from Tang Dao. No matter what, Tang Dao was so thoughtful.

Tang Dao was already treated like a nephew, but he became even closer.

And Tantai Yunshu watched Tang Dao easily give away the funds he had worked hard to raise by selling off part of his family's property and sent it all the way. However, he was not annoyed at all. Instead, he stroked his long beard with great satisfaction.

This guy Tang Dao needs to be talented and handsome, and he needs to be a good match for his little cotton-padded jacket, but sometimes! He occasionally makes some shocking and fresh words, which makes people who have always been traditional and conservative Lao Tantai was a little unhappy.

It’s not that there’s anything wrong with those words, it’s that you’re already the commander of a regiment, and you’re still so unstable. How can you become a general in the future?

But Tang Dao's words just now, the gift was well-reasoned and full of deep affection, which showed that Tang Dao was actually mature beyond his age, and Lao Tantai was naturally relieved.

Money is nothing, if it's not enough, I'll just sell a few more paintings! The happy old father was a little inflated at this moment.

In troubled times, golden times are good for collecting, and at this time, paintings are not so easy to sell.

Tang Dao had 20,000 US dollars in his hand, which completely made up for the deficit of the regiment at this time, and also brought in a lot of rich funds; but at this time, the US dollar was hard currency but not circulating currency. It could be exchanged by finding a suitable merchant, but when ordinary people took it out, the small merchants would not recognize it. If it was sent to the officers and soldiers to send back to their hometowns, they would either be cheated by black-hearted merchants or would not use it.

Through the quartermaster of the 67th Army Liaison Office, he asked about the current exchange rate of US dollars to silver dollars. The official exchange rate was only 1:3, but Tang Dao remembered that the exchange rate should be close to 4 at this time. There was a difference of 20,000 silver dollars. After a while, he asked Lu Sanjiang to go to find Ma Wenxue.

When Ma Wenxue heard that this was the military funds of the Four Banks Group to be exchanged to pay rewards and subsidies to the disabled and sacrificed soldiers, he immediately patted his chest and agreed, and exchanged it according to the current highest ratio of 1:4 on the black market.

Before the war, the exchange rate of US dollars to silver dollars was about 1:2.5. After half a year of war, domestic prices in China began to soar, and the exchange rate of US dollars to silver dollars also rose all the way. The exchange rate on the black market was close to 1:4. Ma Wenxue could exchange at this ratio, which definitely earned enough favor in Tang Dao's heart.

Ma's Trading Company had enough background. After receiving the number of US dollars that Tang Dao needed to exchange, it took half a day to collect 80,000 silver dollars and delivered them to Tang Dao.

After receiving the money, Tang Dao immediately decided to set off to return to the Sihang Regiment's base. The two army commanders were also decisive people. They knew that the war would start in a few days, so they did not stay. They each took their guards to send Tang Dao and his party out of the city.

The farewell between soldiers was very simple. They saluted each other! Say goodbye, turn around and leave!

Even if no one knows whether they will see each other again after this farewell!

Some things are known without saying.

"Take care, my two superiors! See you again someday, I will treat you two to a drink!" Tang Dao said, turned his horse's head and left.

Lao Tan Tai sat in a carriage specially provided for him and waved goodbye to the two people standing at the city gate.

The carriage was padded with soft bedding, and there was even a ceramic hand warmer for heating. These were all arranged by Tang Dao. Lao Tan Tai enjoyed it with peace of mind. His old bones had been running around for more than a month, and he couldn't stand the bumps anymore.

Tan Tai Yunshu was more anxious than Tang Dao to see his little girl soon.

Twenty or so riders accompanied the long camel and horse team and the caravan, raising dust and gradually moving away from the city.

"I feel sad for no reason. Am I getting old?" Comrade Lao Wu suddenly sighed as he watched Tang Dao's back go away.

"Haha! Brother Jingshan, you care deeply about me because you love me so much!" Commander Zhang laughed loudly, raised the whip in his hand and pointed to the distance. "Didn't you hear what my brother Tang Dao said? When we meet again, I will invite you and me to drink. We may not be able to drink more than him, but we will definitely kill more Japanese soldiers than him, because we have more troops than him!"

"Brother Xunchen is right. When we meet again, we will see who kills more enemies. If there are fewer, we will drink one cup of wine for every hundred people!" Comrade Lao Wu was also very happy.

Obviously, the two were too optimistic.

The Four-Line Regiment that arrived in the north, not to mention the scale, just the number of Japanese soldiers that were broken into pieces and killed behind enemy lines was a number that made the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army Command furious, and regarded it as a serious threat.