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Chapter 410 Suppression of bandits and speculation

After passing Xindian Port and sailing along the Baihe River for more than 30 miles, except for Xinye County, there happened to be a small wharf nearby, and the wharf was next to a relatively prosperous town.

According to Li Mu's understanding, those ships that transport smoke and soil would often stop here overnight to have some fun with women.

This is the opportunity.

Li Mu would not directly rob. As a security team, he had also come here to suppress bandits. He knew that there was a gang of bandits in this area, who often robbed merchants, killed people and robbed them.

He once led the security team to fight against them, sacrificed several brothers, and the other party was beaten to the ground seven or eight times, and the two sides had a stalemate for a long time.

So I asked someone to send a message, as long as the other party didn't set foot in Xinye County, they would be ignored.

The other party also realized that the security team is not easy to mess with, and the number of robberies in Xinye County has indeed decreased since then.

Afterwards, Li Mu also specially investigated this group of gangsters. There were 80 to [-] people, all young and strong, very greedy.

In the end, after Li Mu's analysis, the biggest weakness of this group of gangsters should be the lack of intelligence, and they couldn't find a good robbery target.

Now, throw them a big pie. According to his estimation, those few boats of smoke and soil are worth about [-] silver dollars.

They are jealous of goods worth more than a dozen silver dollars and don't want to let them go. If goods worth [-] silver dollars come under their noses, they won't be crazy.

It is impossible to let go.

So, a few days ago, Li Mu found someone to secretly tell the gangsters the news, where the boat was parked, how many people there were, how many weapons and equipment they had, and how much the escorted items were worth...

Sure enough, last night, taking advantage of many people on board going down to have fun, the guards were lax, and there was no leader, this group of gangsters attacked directly.

Although the number of those escorting the tobacco was not dominant and they were caught off guard, the firepower was strong enough, and the two groups fought fiercely.

Later, the people who went to the town to have fun heard the movement and ran back with guns, so the scene became even more chaotic. In the nearby town, every house closed its doors and every house turned off the lights. Only two groups of people were left in the vicinity. Hit the hand.

Of course, there is someone who wants to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

At the end of the fight, the gangsters went to call for people on a fast horse, and all the young and strong came out, and finally won miserably. Only a dozen or so whole men were left, and they finally took down the few boats of smoke and soil.

When the gangsters took their guns and went to the town to recruit some young men to help them transport the smoke to the bandit village, Li Mu had already brought the security team over to suppress the bandits.

According to intelligence, there were only five or six bandits guarding the village, plus the rest of the dozen or so who were all wounded, the total number did not exceed twenty.

Li Mu sent the first battalion and the second battalion to surround the stockade and attack them in turn. He was not in a hurry, just training his troops.

As for him, it is so dangerous to fight a war, how could he do it himself!So he took the guard company and waited at the foot of the mountain.

Old man Sun, who sells tea, is a tea seller in a nearby town, so he specially called him over and set up a tea shed here to supply tea.

Thinking about something in his mind, he asked casually: "How is the bandit village, when will it be taken down?"

Liu Peiming replied: "I asked you just now when you fell asleep, commander. Now the price of a strong attack is a bit high. The opponent only has ten or twenty people, and they can't defend at all. If you consume the opponent's energy, you will definitely be defeated before dark." I can take it."

Li Mu nodded: "Tell them not to worry, the wine and meat are ready, wait for them to celebrate."

Liu Peiming said: "Yes, commander." He turned around and hurried to the bandit village.

Li Mu got up and walked around, getting used to the weather in August, the sun was scorching hot, and it was hot.

He simply moved his legs and feet, and looked at himself again. There was a holster in his waist, and inside was a shell gun, commonly known as a box gun.

On the ground next to it, there is also a brand-new middle-class rifle, which is a new type of rifle that was just launched in [-], produced by the Gongxian Arsenal.

I thought about the time again. Today is August [-], [-], and the July [-]th Incident was already a month ago.

On the 29th of last month, Beiping and Tianjin fell one after another, and in eight days, the "Songhu Battle" which lasted three months will begin.

At present, the Japanese warships have blocked the sea, and the whole country is in a panic all day long.

As for Nanyang, which is located inland, it is still a little calm at this time, and the smoke from the distance has not blown over, but it will not be too long, and the next step is the national war of resistance.

Li Mu sighed for a while, picked up the regular rifle, called the guard company, and strode towards the bandit village.

The guard company reacted very quickly, and immediately lined up and followed quickly.

When he arrived near the bandit village, he observed with binoculars for a while. Li Mu quickly climbed up to a nearby slope, took a closer look, raised his rifle, and with a bang, 300 meters away, a bandit who had just exposed his head fell down.

Marksmanship, except for some talents, is mostly fed by bullets.

Li Mu feeds a lot of bullets, especially in the last world, because he has participated in the big competitions of the police system many times, he has specially trained with pistols and rifles, and fed a lot of bullets.

This is a condition that many people in this era do not have.

Coupled with Li Mu's strong physique and extremely fine control over all aspects of his body, his marksmanship has naturally improved to a higher level. In the period of the Republic of China, it was not considered modest to say that he was a sharpshooter.

In the next half an hour, Li Mu fired six shots in a row, and five more gangsters fell down. The eyes of the surrounding guards were all round. I didn't expect that the commander who didn't touch guns very much on weekdays, and didn't go to the front line very much, played The gun is so powerful, it is worthy of returning from studying abroad in military academies.

Now, the gangsters were completely suppressed, and no one dared to show their heads again. Seeing the opportunity, the first battalion pushed directly under the bandit village, and it was about to break the village. Want to shoot.

With a bang, Li Mu's gun rang out again, and the gangster fell down in response.

Now, no one dared to show their heads again.

Half an hour later, the bandit village was taken down, and all the bandits were given heads.

The bandit village is quite poor, except for the opium and soil they just robbed, gold and silver jewellery, silver dollars, and French currency, the cost of adding one piece is less than two thousand oceans.

Such a big village, such a group of thugs, with such a small fortune, is pitiful enough.

It is precisely because of this that the garrison does not actively suppress bandits.Such a bandit village will not kill dozens of people, consume a lot of ammunition, and cannot be defeated.As for the gains from taking down the bandit village, they didn't even lose much.

Who wants to do such a thankless task!

In addition to Li Mu, the next step is to train troops by suppressing bandits.

The security regiment's residence is a fairly large farm. Except for the two small yards where Li Mu lives, which looks more elegant and stylish, the rest are basically barracks.

In Li Mu's residence, apart from himself, there are two old women who are in charge of his daily life.There is no such thing as eating and sleeping with soldiers.

I drank a lot of wine in the evening, and with a touch of drunkenness, I drank a bowl of hangover soup and took a shower before resting.

The next day, Li Mu still got up early, and just after running five kilometers, the soldiers of the security regiment started doing morning exercises one after another.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Li Mu shouted directly: "Stop, stand at attention, turn right, and run after me."

Everyone subconsciously completed the movement and started running after Li Mu. Several battalion commanders and company commanders looked at each other in blank dismay, and ran along without saying a word.

Li Mu slowed down, ran in a circle for five kilometers, and returned to the school grounds.Everyone performed well. Although they were sweating profusely and panting, there were only more than 20 laggards.

Among them, three had heatstroke.

Li Mu did not expect this. In the summer, even though it is morning, the temperature is not low when running five kilometers. Some people are indeed prone to heat stroke.

After initially understanding everyone's physical fitness, Li Mu signaled to several battalion commanders.

"You guys continue training."

Several battalion commanders and company commanders led their own people and began training.

Li Mu watched from the side for a while, the training was still taught by him, there was no way, he was the only one who knew something about it before, and for this reason he consulted a lot of military materials and textbooks.

Not to mention the grass-roots team, it's about the same. There are only a few dozen people in a company, and more than 100 people in a battalion.

It is said that it is a security regiment, but in terms of size, it is only the size of a battalion.

After breakfast, he walked around casually, and called Liu Peiming over to give some instructions. Li Mu began to look through the military books he had bought before.

Finally, I took out the pen and ink again, and began to familiarize myself with the structure and writing of traditional characters, which will be indispensable in the future.

The next morning, Liu Peiming came over and reported, "The invited person has come."

When Li Mu walked outside the door, seven or eight businessmen saw him and immediately clasped their fists and said, "Captain Li!"

Li Mu smiled: "Everyone, don't gossip, please..."

As he spoke, Li Mu led the birthdays to a nearby warehouse, and motioned to the two soldiers on guard to open the door.

"Everyone, the goods are all inside, come in and take a look..."

Several businessmen filed in, checked carefully, and nodded: "The goods are good, the best foreign goods from Shanghai."

A businessman hesitated and said, "The origin of these goods..."

Li Mu smiled and said, "You guys who sell this, what are you afraid of?"

He continued: "But don't hide it from me, this is the spoils of the bandits, and the origin is very innocent!"

Several businessmen looked at each other in blank dismay. In the past two days, rumors had spread nearby that a business house from Shanghai was targeted and robbed by a group of famous gangsters nearby, leaving few survivors.

The gangsters then forced young men from nearby towns to escort their goods to the bandit village. Many people can attest to this.

Then I heard that in the past year, the security corps, which has been very famous and suppressed bandits everywhere, rushed over when they heard the news, and wiped out this group of bandits.

Looking at the so-called spoils in front of him, in a sense, the origin is indeed quite innocent.

These merchants discussed it, and directly wrapped up the smoke and soil, and gave a fairly good price, one hundred thousand French currency.

Li Mu asked someone to find out about it yesterday. Since the July 5000th Incident, the French currency has dropped a lot. Currently, [-] French currency is equivalent to [-] silver dollars.

Li Mu also asked someone to estimate the price of these smoke pictures. It is probably worth [-] silver dollars.

In the next two days, Li Mu found someone to apply for a new identity certificate, which had nothing to do with his current security team leader, and his name was Li Mu.

If I fly too frequently in the future, it is easy to attract attention, so just change a few more identities and names.For him, it is quite simple to apply for several different identity certificates on this three-acre land.

After arranging everything here, Li Mu took a platoon of guards, more than 20 people, and sailed along the Hanshui River, via Xiangyang, and headed for Wuhan.

Two days later, I got off the boat and arrived in Wuhan. The whole city was very noisy, there were crowds everywhere, and many students paraded in the street.Li Mu bought a newspaper, and only then did he know that a fight had already started in Shanghai, and the Battle of Songhu had officially started.

Li Mu is not in the mood to be emotional about this, because he knows that this is just the beginning, and the next war will be more cruel, and half of China will fall in just one year.

As the only variable in this world, he can only fan his little wings vigorously to see if he can change the future.

As an important port city on the Yangtze River waterway, Wuhan is connected to the river and the sea. There are many commercial warehouses on the wharf, and there is an endless stream of businessmen.

Li Mu came to Wuhan this time, firstly to fly from here, and secondly to buy some goods and bring them to Singapore for sale.

It would be a waste of time to only bring things from Singapore with multiple transfers along the way.

Li Mu had already selected the specific goods.

During the period of the Republic of China, there were not many domestic goods that occupied a monopoly position in the world, but there was one item that was characteristic of China, "bristle", that is, pig hair.

Pig bristles have natural advantages, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, heat resistance, acid and alkali resistance, not easy to deform, moderate hardness, good toughness, and are the main raw materials for chemical and military industrial brushes.

For example, the cleaning of warships, aircraft, various tanks, military vehicles, and various gun barrels is inseparable from bristle brushes.

Whether it is daily life, industrial production, or weapon maintenance, scraps from pigs play a key role in warfare.

Before the invention of plastic nylon, bristles were the only material for brushes.Bristle is China's traditional export product, ranking first in the world.During World War II, the United States listed bristles as a Class A strategic material, which was as precious as arms and a key material that could determine the outcome of the war.

At present, 65% of the global demand for 95 boxes of bristles comes from China.Even big capitalist countries such as the United States, Britain, and Germany rely on China for their brush industry.

During the Anti-Japanese War, due to traffic jams, the export of bristles from China decreased, which also led to a serious shortage of bristles around the world, and the global price of bristles soared.With the expansion of World War II, more weapons are needed, and Chinese bristles have become a tight military supply.

During World War II, the United States, as the "arsenal" of its allies, had the largest demand for bristle brushes. At that time, all the brush factories in the United States used almost all the raw material bristles from China.Bristle was also used to repay loans to China from the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.

In 1939, the U.S. government ordered the embassy in China to make a formal request to the Chinese government to ship all bristles exported from Chongqing to the U.S., and the government agreed.But at that time, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom were all in urgent need of bristles. In order to distribute bristles, the three countries also established a distribution agency in Washington, with the participation of delegations from the three countries, responsible for negotiating how to obtain bristles from China and discussing how to distribute them. Finished.

From 1937 to 1945, the material bristle alone earned 3000 million US dollars in foreign exchange for the country, equivalent to 500 million Yuan Datou.

Plan the materials you want to buy, find a knowledgeable intermediary, and start looking at the goods immediately.

Only then did Li Mu realize that due to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan blocked the sea, roads were impassable, things could not be sold, and many materials that needed to be exported were backlogged in the hands of merchants.

For example, bristles are shipped in a large volume every year, and many businessmen also like to do this business, buying everywhere.

However, it is now in their hands, especially after the outbreak of the Songhu Battle, entering the stage of the full-scale war of resistance, and the flames of war are everywhere. Many merchants are in a state of panic all day long, and they want to quickly dispose of the goods and save money.

In the warehouses of major commercial houses, there was a lot of pig bristles. Under the guidance of the intermediary, Li Mu met many merchants in this field. Finally, a merchant in Hebei, worried about the situation at home, sold the bristles at [-]% off the usual price.

Li Mu spent [-] French coins to take down the bristles from several warehouses.

Quietly put the bristles into the space, and Li Mu exchanged some US dollars and British pounds with French currency, and then bought a plane ticket at a foreign company, and got on the plane from Hankou to Kunming.

When he arrived in Kunming, Li Mu didn't stop there. He even bought an air ticket that day. After inquiring, he found out that, as the only international airline in China, many people chose to fly out of Kunming from here after the Battle of Songhu broke out.

Therefore, airlines have also increased the number of flights, sometimes with three or four flights a day.

When we arrived in Hanoi, it was almost evening. Li Mu bought a flight ticket to Bangkok tomorrow, and found a hotel nearby to stay.

Vietnam is still a colony of France. Compared with the raging domestic wars, it still maintains a tranquility.

Instead of staying here, Li Mu boarded a flight to Bangkok the next morning.When we arrived in Bangkok, there happened to be a passenger plane flying to Singapore in the afternoon, so we bought a ticket and flew over immediately without stopping.

Arrived in Singapore at [-]:[-] p.m. that day, and it only took two days to start from Wuhan, which is a miracle in this era.

That night, I found a hotel with a low grade to stay in. Early the next morning, after finishing the exercise, Li Mu started to visit the market here, mainly to understand the current market of bristles.

I don’t know, I don’t know, due to the outbreak of the war, the trade routes were blocked, bristles are now scarce in the market, coupled with a group of speculators, seeing that China, which almost monopolizes the global export of bristles, has fallen into a war, and there is no sign of ending it in a short time.

Get involved and start hyping.

The price of bristles has tripled in just one month, and there is still no market for the price.

Li Mu clicked his tongue when he heard that. He bought bristles at half the market price in China, and sold them here at three times the usual price. Just traveling from Wuhan to Singapore, he made six times the profit.

Really crazy.

After spending two days in Singapore, I chose a reliable foreign company, sold all the bristles in my hand, and got almost 20 US dollars.

Li Mu knew that in domestic banks and foreign firms, the exchange rate between silver dollars and U.S. dollars was about [-], and one U.S. dollar was equal to [-] silver dollars.

20 U.S. dollars, equivalent to 48 silver dollars.

Just by going abroad, the money in his hand has multiplied so many times, which made Li Mu feel emotional.

(End of this chapter)