Life in the world of film and television

Chapter 409

Li Mu woke up leisurely, opened his eyes, and someone next to him was fanning him with sweat all over his face. He glanced lightly, and felt that the person in front of him was wearing something strange. The military uniform didn't look like a military uniform, and the police uniform didn't look like a police uniform.

This person was very clever, seeing that Li Mu was awake, he immediately turned around and said, "Commander, you are awake."

Li Mu nodded: "Pei Ming, thank you for your hard work!"

Liu Peiming was a little flattered, and his attitude was more humble: "It's not hard to serve the head of the regiment."

As he said that, he quickly shouted: "Old man Sun, our head is awake, hurry up and make another pot of herbal tea."

Old man Sun hurriedly agreed, and soon a pot of herbal tea was brought over. Liu Peiming quickly poured Li Mu a cup, and Li Mu took a sip. The taste was not bad, a bit like Wanglaoji.

Drinking tea, he casually looked around a few times, only to see that he was in a tea shed under a hillside, dressed in a similarly nondescript style, like a military uniform or a police uniform.

There is also a recliner under him, where he just lay down for a lunch break.

At this time, the memory was finally sorted out. He was still called Li Mu, and his appearance was the same as in the real world. He was born in the first year of the Republic of China and was 25 years old this year. He is now the head of the Nanyang District Security Team.

Li Mu's experience is very rich. His family background was good when he was a teenager, but then something happened and his family fell into decline.He started wandering at the age of sixteen or seventeen. During this period, he served as a soldier for half a year and participated in two small conflicts. He felt that being a soldier was too dangerous, so he ran away with a bucket.

Then, I ran to Shanghai. At that time, gangs were prevalent in Shanghai. I felt that gangsters had a future. I was about to join the Youth Gang with a prefix. Suddenly I heard that a certain foreign company was recruiting people, saying that they would bring them to the United States to make a fortune.

Li Mu was only 19 years old at the time, at the age when he was easily seduced and excited, so he signed up right away without thinking too much.

Unexpectedly, he was fooled into working as a Chinese laborer. Fortunately, Li Mu had English as a class when he was in school. He had studied English for several years, and he could still communicate in English.

Among this group of Chinese workers, he was one of the few who knew a little English, and he directly became a small leader among the Chinese workers, and his life was quite good.

However, Li Mu obviously has a restless personality. After working here for more than a year, he has become familiar with English, can write and read, and has gradually become familiar with the social customs and living habits, and has saved a little money.

So, I ran away with the bucket again.

For the next few years, Li Mu wandered around like this, not only in the United States, but also in Europe. Discrimination is everywhere these days.

With a wandering heart, Li Mu felt that he had nowhere to rest, and finally decided to return to China.

However, returning to China is not a simple matter of buying a boat ticket and returning home. If he really does this, he will be in vain after spending so many years abroad.

Over the years, he has been in some universities to attend, and he has also pretended to be an international student and communicated with domestic international students.

These days, overseas students are absolutely delicious in China.

How can I go back to China naked, I must go back as an overseas student, so as to find a good future.

In this regard, Li Mu actually didn't put much thought into it. There are a lot of wealthy sons studying abroad in China, let alone a diploma, and many of them can't even speak English well.

What to do, where there is demand, there will naturally be a market.

Over the years, a corresponding industrial chain has been formed overseas. It is no problem to want an overseas diploma, and it is not a fake diploma. Some names are very high-end, but they are just Pheasant University.

So Li Mu spent all his savings besides leaving the money for the boat ticket, and finally got two diplomas.

Moreover, the two diplomas, one literary and one military, one is from a certain university in the United States, which is probably similar to Fang Hongjian in the besieged city.

One is a military academy in a small European country, of course it is a military academy in name, but in fact it is at best a military skills training class.

However, in order to appear tall, the Chinese name is the European Army Military School.

Of course, I came up with the name myself. Anyway, it’s a foreign school name, and it’s translated into Chinese. As long as no one cares about it, I can translate it whatever I want.

In this way, more than a year ago, Li Mu bought a boat ticket with the remaining money and hurried back to China.

When I got off the boat from Shanghai, Li Mu was still very ambitious at the time, thinking that with a diploma and the status of an overseas student, he would be able to develop his ambitions in Shanghai and enjoy the high society.

Therefore, he was very high-spirited, and directly took the American diploma to apply for jobs in some big foreign firms or large commercial firms.

As a result, he was slapped in the face.

At that time, Shanghai, as the largest city in the Far East, was not an inland area.

With a pheasant diploma like his, if he went to those big foreign firms and big commercial firms, he would just wave his hand and let him go.

Li Mu thought about it, so he went to Wuhan again, thinking that the inland areas were not as well-informed as those in Shanghai, but it was still not smooth to apply for jobs in those big foreign firms and large commercial firms.

Just when he was about to sleep out on the street after spending all his last money in his pocket, he was just thinking about finding a job to make a living, when he suddenly saw a job advertisement in the newspaper.

In the Nanyang area, due to the serious banditry, the local garrison is small, and the payment is not easy, it was decided to form a militia, that is, a local security group.

We are looking for a military chief officer, that is, the head of the security regiment of the militia.

The recruitment requirements are also quite high, either requiring actual job experience in the army at the battalion level or above, or graduating from the Central Military Academy or overseas military academies.

With a nervous attitude, Li Mu took out his diploma from the European Army Military School and tried it in the past. Unexpectedly, the other party agreed immediately.

Li Mu was overjoyed. Wuhan is not far from Nanyang. We walked along the Yangtze River, along the Han River, passed through Xiangyang, and followed the Tangbai River that runs through Nanyang.

It took two days to go all the way by water.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the place, Li Mu was dumbfounded. He said it was a security group, and he just gathered more than 300 militiamen in a few places, with less than [-] guns.

This is the security team?

It's true that during the Republic of China, in some places, the hundred and ten people dared to call themselves the security regiment.In fact, it belongs to a half-police and half-military organization, and belongs to the local armed forces, and the central government has no control over it.

In comparison, he has more than 300 people and [-] guns, and his strength is already good if he is placed in a domestic security team.

Li Mu finally knew why the other party immediately made a decision when he went to apply for the job.On this condition, whoever has better conditions will come.

I heard that two people came before him, but they left that day.

Li Mu also wanted to shake his hand and leave directly.However, that is impossible. After all, he is the head of the security regiment. After all, there are more than 300 people and [-] guns. With his pheasant diploma, where can he find such a good job after leaving here.

Ever since, Li Mu sat on the throne of the head of the security regiment.

After all, he had traveled overseas and had seen a lot of knowledge. Before going abroad, he had been a soldier for half a year. Li Mu bought some military materials from the bookstore.

In this way, stumbling, the security team was set up by him, and the strength was not bad, of course, compared to the bandits.

After training for two months, Li Mu began to suppress the bandits with Xinye County as his base. He exchanged fire more than a dozen times, and the record was not bad. At his strong request, the security team was expanded, and the total number reached more than 500, and more than 300 gun.

Originally, it was quite good all the time, but the situation changed a few months ago.

In the Nanyang area, there are actually garrisons, but of course they are not the direct descendants of the bald head, they are all miscellaneous troops, and the number is not large.

Naturally, the payment from above is not much.

In normal times, the sources of military salaries for raising these troops, in addition to some allocated by the above, and some are donations from merchants and local funds.

With the security team, the source of salary in this area will naturally be less.

The merchants and the place cannot be blamed either. The banditry in several nearby counties is serious. Before the establishment of the security regiment, these garrisons were perfunctory and had no intention of suppressing the bandits.

When merchants need money, they go to the mountains for a walk.

With the security team, no merchants will go to them anymore.

Seeing that the income has dropped sharply, they can't even support the army, and the opponent is also anxious. Even if they want to fight, the security team is not weak after Li Mu's training.

As a result, the other party also became active, competing with the security team, and actively went into the mountains to suppress bandits.

Although not many bandits have been suppressed, in recent months, under the active competition of the two families, the banditry in several nearby counties has been greatly reduced, and there are not many bandits who dare to go down the mountain to rob.

The effect of suppressing bandits was so good, these garrisons naturally began to appeal to the localities and merchants. After all, they were regular troops, and they were still armed with guns.

It's just that, with such a large security team, the merchants can't bear to raise garrisons here.

Helpless, they couldn't control the army, and the banditry in the area seemed to be less. Three months ago, they began to discuss with Li Mu whether they could downsize the security team.

The security team has been downsized from the current 500-odd people and more than 300 guns to 150 people and more than 100 guns. With donations from merchants and the extra [-] guns sold, the security team can continue to be maintained.

Naturally, Li Mu was not very willing. In this kind of troubled times, there is no way to downsize the army, but he was told clearly that they can only support one or two hundred people at most. If Li Mu doesn't want to downsize, he can only raise them by himself.

Li Mu considered for a long time, but in the end he still didn't agree to downsizing. He also found a way to raise money for the army.

In Xinye County, where the Security Corps is stationed, there is a river called Baihe, which was called Yushui in ancient times, and it is the mother river of Nanyang.Originated in Gongli Mountain, Baihe Town, Henan Province, it flows through Songxian County, Nanzhao County, Fangcheng County, Wancheng County, Xinye County, and enters Xiangyang County, Hubei Province at Zhaiwan. After the confluence of Lianghekou and Tanghe River, it was named Tangbai River. Into the south to Zhangjiawan into Hanshui.

In history, boats and vehicles swayed on the Baihe River in Nanyang, and there were many people on the water wharf, and there were quite a lot of sails.

It can go directly to Hubei, enter the Yangtze River along the Han River, and go directly to Wuhan and Nanjing. The water transportation conditions are very convenient.

With such a river leading to the sea and such a golden waterway, businesses along the river are naturally prosperous, such as Wadian Port.

Wadian is close to the Baihe River. It was called Xiaochang'an in Han Dynasty, and Linshuiyi was set up in Yuan Dynasty.In ancient times, water and land transportation was developed and commerce flourished.During the period of the Republic of China, hundreds of ships often berthed at Wadian Wharf, commuting between Nanyang, Xiangyang and Laohekou.

Xindian Port is located in Xindianpu, Xinye County.Because it is located in the lower reaches of the Baihe River, the water level is good and the wharf is stable.During the Ming and Qing dynasties, wealthy businessmen from Hankou, Xiangfan and other places often came here to buy goods, which promoted the prosperity of the port. Hundreds of ships were often moored in the port, sometimes even as many as a thousand.

There are many merchants around, and the business development is a good place to make money.

However, it just so happened that Xindian Port is located in Xinye County, only more than ten miles away from the security regiment station.

Relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, this White River is Li Mu's new source of income.

During this period of time, the security team has been suppressing bandits everywhere, protecting the environment and the people, and maintaining the safety of the river and merchants. Is it right to charge some money?

Ever since, Li Mu arranged for the third battalion to be stationed by the Baihe River, built a few more boats, and half-threatening and half-seductively recruited dozens of good water skills into the army.

They also built a simple blockhouse on the bank of the river. Naturally, the artillery security regiment did not have it, but they found a lot of earthen artillery, and installed two on each side.

Regardless of power and accuracy, I don't even know if it can fire shells, and I haven't tried it anyway.

However, as long as it is placed there, it will have a deterrent effect, and no one will risk their lives not to pay a small toll.

Of course, in order not to attract the attention of the above, and to avoid resistance from merchants, the toll fee is extremely low.

In order to save trouble and effort, naturally they don't care what kind of goods they transport, and the charging basis is based on the size of the ship.

One yuan for a big boat, and a few cents or ten cents for a small boat.

At the end of a day, hundreds of boats transit the border, and you can charge a hundred and 80 yuan.In January, there are also small three thousand oceans.

The security team is also paid, only three oceans per month, which doesn't seem like much.However, for the bald-headed direct line troops, the military salary of a big-headed soldier is only ten oceans a month, and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the national disaster pay was paid with a [-]% discount, and only seven oceans were paid.

Although the security regiment issued a little less, it can reach nearly half of the troops of Lao Jiang's direct line, but it is actually okay. Many miscellaneous troops, after being exploited and embezzled, can't even get this.

After recruiting dozens of brothers with good water skills, the size of the security team reached 600 people. In addition, the salary of officers must be higher than that of the chief soldiers, and the monthly salary expenditure is almost 2000 yuan.

The remaining [-] oceans, plus donations from merchants, are enough to maintain the normal operation of the security team.

It's just that life is still tight these days. The brothers have three oceans of salary, and if they want to support their families, they can only maintain simple food and clothing.

It is impossible for Li Mu to expand the size of the security team and increase the salary and treatment of his brothers.

When he was worrying about money, he suddenly found that there seemed to be an opportunity in front of him, although it was a bit risky.

I have been collecting tolls on the river for several months, and because I collect very little, I don’t harass the merchants passing by. When I hear there are bandits, I will go to patrol around. Everyone is very cooperative.

There are also some cross-river dragons who don't hang the security team at all, let alone toll fees.

Among them, several commercial ships from Shanghai were the most unruly. Not only were there dozens of gunmen on board, they even had machine guns installed on board.

Those who had collected the toll from the security team dared to lean over, and were immediately served by a shuttle of bullets. Seeing the panicked appearance of the security team falling into the water, there was a burst of mocking laughter on the boat.

This firm passed by once a month, and Li Mu soon found out their details, and it turned out that they were transporting tobacco and soil.

During the period of the Republic of China, what was the most rampant, opium, or opium, was also one of the most profitable industries.

No wonder the firepower is so good, it turned out to be in this business, and for those who sell this kind of thing, Li Mu doesn't feel guilty about doing them.

(End of this chapter)