Respectfully

The fifth year of the Republic of China, November 1913, 1 in the Gregorian calendar

The train that Song Wu and his party took arrived at Guanbei Station in the afternoon.Due to the petition activities in Shandong, the Jinpu Line was temporarily suspended, and the originally planned itinerary had to be extended for two days.

When the train came into the station, there was snowflakes in the sky, so the station was busy.There are northern men in thick leather jackets and cotton hats carrying large and small parcels, women in thick clothes holding children, peddlers carrying burdens, policemen maintaining order, and sirens following trains entering the station and leaving for battle. The voices of people in the station were noisy.

"How is this going?"

The scene in front of him was beyond Song Wu's expectations. When he came to Guanbei with Sun Qingquan last time, the flow of people in the station was only about half of what it is now.It's a pity that most of the people in the station were in a hurry, and it was not a good place to ask questions, so I had to temporarily suppress the questions.

As soon as they walked out of the station, they saw many bus bosses waiting outside. Once they saw someone coming out, the people in front of them immediately stepped forward and asked, "Do you want to take the bus? In the city, there are five copper coins per person. If there is too much luggage, another Calculate.

Not long after, three waves of obviously businessmen got into the car.The owner of the car who received the business whipped his whip and drove away the carriage, and those in the back drove the carriage forward, waiting for the next wave of people to come out.No matter how close they were, there was no car owner trying to snatch up customers by lowering the price.

"Boss, do you want to take a car?"

Song Wu and his three companions got into a carriage. The owner of the carriage was very chatty, and he said while driving the carriage, "Are you from the south with your accent? Are you here to do business in Guanbei?"

"En." An attendant agreed casually, and asked with a little doubt: "This Guanbei City seems to be busier than before?"

"That's not it." The owner of the car greeted another owner of the car who was passing by, and then continued: "Did you see those people in the station? They all went to Anshan, Benxi to find work. We don't Shuai drove away the Japanese in South Manchuria and snatched back several big mines. There is a shortage of people to work. Once hired, there will be at least 20 yuan a month. If you do a good job, you can get more than 30 yuan Dayang also pays for a day's meals, distributes cotton clothes, and provides a place to live."

"Really?"

"Can you still lie to you? Just ask someone and you will know." The owner of the car laughed, "If my mother-in-law was not pregnant, I would also go to the mine to find a job. Three or four months will be enough. The whole family chewed it for a year."

Song Wu and the others didn't ask any more questions, but Che Boss opened up the conversation. He talked about the railway, the iron mine, and the half-built industrial zone in Guanbei City. He also asked if Song Wu and the others came to the industrial zone to build factories .If so, it's not the right time to come. The weather is cold and the ground is frozen hard. If we want to build a factory, we have to wait at least another two months.

Wu Song didn't make a sound all the time, and the attendant talked to the owner of the car. The carriage drove to the corner of Changning Street, and a few people got out of the car. The owner of the car specifically told them that if there were no acquaintances in the city, they would not be able to find a place to stay for a while. , I went to the street to find a newspaper boy, and a copper coin would definitely be able to bring it to the place.

"Those who wear homemade padded jackets are all living in shelters, and they all wear the same clothes, so they are easy to recognize."

"Asylum?"

"It was run by Young Master Li San, but now it is managed by the government. Didn't you see that there is no beggar on the street? They all live there."

"Master Li San?"

"Ah, our handsome daughter-in-law is very capable!"

After calculating the car price with a few people, the car owner drove the car and left.I want to take advantage of the weather to make a few more business trips, and buy half a roast chicken to go home at night. The mother-in-law at home has been talking about wanting to eat this the day before yesterday, so I can't forget it again today.

Across the street, the newsboy that the owner of the car pointed out to Song Wu just now has sold the last newspaper. Song Wuchao waved the newsboy, and the newsboy ran over a few steps: "Sir, buy a newspaper? Celebrity's new issue, Marshal's wedding banquet, Master Qian Kicking the Russian bear with long anger! This is the last one, if you don’t buy it, there will be no more!”

Song Wu bought the newspaper and asked about the shelter and the hotel. The newsboy did not hide it. It is estimated that many people asked him these things during this period of time. He explained the situation of the shelter clearly in a few words, and then Said: "If sir wants to find a hotel, I will take a few of them there right now. There are better ones, middle ones, and almost all. But hurry up, I have to go back to attend classes."

"Listen to the class?"

"The little teacher in the school taught us how to read and write every other day. It won't take up a good place when we go back late."

Song Wu didn't ask any more questions, and asked the newsboy to take them to a hotel with relatively good conditions, and gave the newsboy a copper coin as the owner of the car said before.One of the attendants had a child about his age. Seeing his cleverness, he gave him another ocean. Not wanting the newsboy, he shook his head: "Sir, my mother said that people should not be too greedy. If you think I can help you If you are busy, just give me a copper coin, I can't ask for more."

Seeing that the newsboy's expression did not seem to be fake, the man did not insist, but just sighed: "Under Lou Shengfeng's rule, it is really different from other places."

Song Wu didn't speak, but there was emotion in his expression.

The next day, Song Wu did not hide his whereabouts like last time, and met Lou Xiao in private, but directly revealed his identity and came to visit him in person.

"Who did you say was here?"

Lou Dashuai was holding a rattle to tease his son, and Lou Ershao had been watching for almost three months, and he was getting whiter and fatter and more cute, and he grinned at every turn.Strange to say, logically speaking, such a young child would not recognize people, but whenever Mr. Lou or Mr. Lou approached, Mr. Lou Er never smiled. On the contrary, Mrs. Lou and Li Jinyan hugged him. , always grinning his rosy mouth and babbling.

"Report to Commander-in-Chief, someone said he is Song Wu."

"Song Zhou's son?" Marshal Lou turned his head and frowned, "This kid is just like his old man, he is thinking about opening and closing his eyes. Go find my son, I don't have time."

"Marshal, the young marshal is in the barracks."

"Then my daughter-in-law..."

"Master Yan went out for something and hasn't come back yet."

Marshal Lou touched his bald head, "I'm already 'leisure', why hasn't it stopped?"

"Marshal, you'd better go and have a look. It's not good to leave the guests alone." Mrs. Lou hugged Lou Ershao, and Lou Ershao changed his cold eyebrows when he was in front of Lou Ershao, and immediately smiled like a trick Cai doll.

Marshal Lou: "..."

These one and two are both against him, right? !

The arms order between Li Jinyan and Denmark has been negotiated. According to the contract signed by the two parties, [-] Madsen light machine guns and [-] rounds of ammunition will be handed over to Li Jinyan by May this year at the latest.Historically, this batch of light machine guns should have been exported to Bulgaria, but they were seized and swallowed by the Kaiser. Now Li Jinyan is making a mess, and with the current cooperative relationship between the six northern provinces and Germany, no matter how thick-skinned Wilhelm II is, he can’t find it. There is no excuse to swallow these [-] machine guns, right?

How to divide the [-] machine guns after buying them is not Li Jinyan's concern. What he wants to think about now is how to ensure that the batch of machine gun bullets arrives in Guanbei safely without any mistakes in the middle.After all, this is munitions, not a can of soap. If you really encounter a brave person and take it down, then it will be a lot of trouble.

But this matter still needs to be told to Young Marshal Lou in advance, if there is any trouble, I'm afraid it will have to be solved by force in the end.

Thinking of this, Li Jinyan couldn't help sighing, but with [-] machine guns, he was in a lot of trouble. How did the batch of arms that Mr. Li Er hid in the cave back then be transported back to Guanbei City? , who helped him?

Asked the dumb uncle, the dumb uncle shook his head.Ask again, still shaking his head.Li Jinyan could only believe that Uncle Dumb really didn't know about this mysterious person, and even if he knew, now was not the time to tell him.

Li Jinyan originally ordered the driver to drive the car directly to Qiao Leshan's laboratory. Before that, Qiao Leshan's assistant came to him and told him that the experiment on the rotten watermelon had made progress. trip.

As for what the problem was, Qiao Leshan's assistant didn't say anything, so Li Jinyan had to go there himself.I didn't want to drive halfway, but met Mr. Li San.When Li Qingyun saw Li Jinyan, he said directly, "Jinyan, I'm going to find you."

"what's up?"

"The old man can't do it anymore."

Hearing Li Qingyun's words at first, Li Jinyan was still a little unresponsive. It wasn't until Master Li San repeated it that Li Jinyan understood what he meant. Mr. Li was dying.

"I fell down in the room last night. I don't know what happened. This morning, I was dying. I invited a few doctors, and they all said that it's time to prepare for the next life." Master Li San got into the car, frowning to death Tight, "Jin Shu's marriage is at the end of the month, and now that the old man is like this, he still has to talk to the Shen family."

Li Jinyan nodded, didn't say much, and told the driver to divert to Li's house.No matter how many foolish things Mrs. Li has done before, in the eyes of outsiders, he is still a descendant of the Li family. If Mrs. Li is like this, he will go back to the Li family out of emotion and reason.

At the Independent Brigade's station, Marshal Lou was working with Qian Boxi and others to make plans for the "military exercise". Adjutant Ji knocked on the door and walked in, "Report!"

"Speak." Young Marshal Lou and several teachers were looking at the map on the table.

Adjutant Ji hesitated: "Young commander, tell me here?"

"Say."

Adjutant Ji secretly said, Young Marshal, you told me to say it!

"Report to the young commander, Master Yan, please go home tonight!"

Do you have to go home tonight?

A group of veterans and scoundrels looked at Young Marshal Lou at the same time, their eyes were more or less not so "upper class".

Sure enough, it's nice to be young...