The sun never sets

Although the theory proposed by Sun Yat-sen was basically a copy of the American system, it was not a big problem. It was much better than the feudal dynasty where one family ruled the world. However, Sun Yat-sen's shortcomings were also obvious. He was not good at military affairs and did not know how to build his own army.

Historically, it was not until the establishment of the Soviet Union that he thought of learning from the Soviet Union and establishing a military academy to train military cadres. But by then it was too late. Before the military academy students were trained, he had already died of illness.

Now there is no Soviet Union to learn from, but Baldy Lin in the north is a ready-made rational person. Didn't Marshal Lin build a military academy in Baoding and train a group of fast-track officer cadets, so that he could sweep through thousands of troops?

Sun Yat-sen listened to the veteran generals' criticism of Wu Tingfang, but he was thinking about where to build a military academy. It would definitely not work in Guangzhou, as there was no place. It also couldn't be too far away from Guangzhou, as it was the military government's money bag, the economic center, and politically neutral. If it was far away from Guangzhou, power would fall into the hands of others.

The terrains near Guangzhou flashed through Sun Yat-sen's mind one by one. There were many good locations. Land was easy to get, but where would the guns, ammunition and food come from? In order to fight against the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, Guangzhou also expanded its army, and now the total force has exceeded 100,000. With so many troops, food and horses would cost a lot of money. The military government had already levied several times, and the landlords and farmers complained. The merchant groups in the city also complained. Where could they get a large sum of money?

Without Red-haired's gold rubles and water beads, as well as military instructors, it would be difficult to realize even if I had an idea.

Sun Yat-sen looked at the people who were speaking. They were all kind-hearted people. It was possible to ask them to pay, but it was impossible to ask them to pay a lot. Even if Sun Yat-sen lost face, he couldn't ask for much money. He was more like a leader of an alliance than the leader of a faction.

The warlords below all had their own calculations, and factional struggles existed from the beginning. In Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, and Yunnan, they both cooperated and fought. In the face of a powerful enemy, they mostly cooperated, but if they were asked to bleed heavily and give all their land to the peasants, that would be absolutely unacceptable.

After everyone was tired of talking, Sun Yat-sen said, "Okay, I'll go talk to Zhiyong right away."

Talk? Just talk? The elders and generals were very disappointed, but Sun Yat-sen was just that kind of person. If they were replaced by a decisive and ruthless interim president, they would be nervous. Let's talk, a few of them looked at each other and decided that some things had to be done by themselves.

Soon, the Presidential Palace invited Wu Tingfang over. The others had already left, and there were no other guests in the Presidential Palace.

Shan personally went to the door to greet him. When he saw Wu Tingfang, his face was full of smiles. He said from a distance: "Zhiyong, do you know that this Guangzhou city is in turmoil because of you?"

Seeing Sun Yat-sen at the door, Wu Tingfang hurriedly took a few steps forward and said, "Mr. Sun, Wu Tingfang is sorry to trouble you."

Sun Yat-sen shook Wu Tingfang's hand a few times and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you cause me trouble. As for me, I should accept more trouble. Some comrades in Guangzhou are not conscious enough. I have asked someone to make a pot of good tea. We can talk while drinking tea."

Wu Tingfang pulled his hand out calmly, "Okay, I also have something to say to you, sir."

He had already told Sun Yat-sen that he was going to Taiyuan, and Sun Yat-sen naturally tried his best to keep him. But it was useless to keep him, because Wu Tingfang had his own ideas and was not someone who could be moved by being kept.

"Zhiyong, you really can't leave. If you leave, how can the government carry out all this huge work?"

Wu Tingfang smiled and said, "Zhang Jingjiang, Cai Yuanpei, Sun Baoqi and others are all good choices at the time. One more or one less won't make a difference. Besides, what else can the military government do now?"

Many of the military government's policies could not be implemented. The current focus of work was on raising funds for the war. From time to time, the military would ask for money and guns and ammunition, as if money, food, and guns could fall from the sky. Wu Tingfang was in charge of foreign affairs. There was nothing much to do in foreign affairs, just arguing with other military governments. He also did some legal work when he had free time, but it was just for his own amusement. It was extremely difficult to implement it.

He couldn't do what he wanted to do in the military government. As a good diplomat, he usually did some things like revising laws and other things. But after a trip to the north, he found that the people's government had already implemented the things he did throughout the north.

In this case, why stay in the military government?

Wu Tingfang once confidently told people that he would live a long life, but now he is over 50 years old and has not achieved anything at this age. Isn't it shameful? When he was in the north, he once sighed like this, and President Lin presented him with a calligraphy work with two lines from Lu Fangweng's "The Golden Sword", "A man has not achieved anything at the age of 50, holding a sword and standing alone to look at the world."

The characters are vigorous and powerful, and the writing is full of inspiration. It takes decades of practice to be able to write them.

Some people in the South said that President Lin was just a peasant, uncultured and crude, and that he had won two battles by chance because he dared to fight and fight. Wu Tingfang used to think so, but now when he heard such a statement again, he could only sneer at it. How could he be uncultured if he could write such good characters?

Chapter 204: Killing Pigs for the New Year

Wu Tingfang was determined to leave, and Sun Yat-sen tried to persuade him to stay but failed, so he had to give up. For Sun Yat-sen, it was good for Wu Tingfang to leave, at least the temporary presidential palace would not be so noisy, and everyone could have a few days of peace.

Sun Yat-sen was a little worried about the giant in the north, but that was just a little worry. Are the Russians so easy to deal with? Annihilating 100,000 Russian troops? There must be some exaggeration, right? The casualties of the People's Army itself must have been modified. It would be good for the People's Party to fight with the Russians. While the north is mired in the quagmire of war, first deal with the reactionaries in Nanjing, unify the entire south, and then compete with the north!

It is not necessary to use force to deal with the Nationalist Government in Nanjing. Diplomatic negotiations are also acceptable. As long as the problem can be solved, any means are fine. If the problem can really be solved through diplomatic means, those generals will be more restrained...right?

After Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on all nations in the Gengzi Year, Sun Yat-sen secretly contacted Li Hongzhang to discuss the establishment of a new central government. However, things changed too quickly, Beijing was captured, Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled in a hurry, and lost their lives on the way. Sun Yat-sen and Li Hongzhang each formed their own government, and the cooperation proposal that day naturally came to nothing.

Both sides wanted to unify the South, and then unify the whole of China, and become the new masters of the whole of China. Negotiations were always going on, and wars were always going on. Even when accumulating troops, conflicts and battles did not stop, but the scale was smaller and the frequency was less.

But now the situation has changed again. It is not the battlefield that decides the winner, but Sun Yat-sen who wins over Li Hongzhang. The victory is not on the battlefield, nor in politics and diplomacy, but because Sun Yat-sen can live longer. Sun Yat-sen is in his prime and full of energy, but Li Hongzhang is already old and has been suffering from a long-term illness. It seems that he will die of illness. Not only Li Hongzhang, but also Liu Kunyi, another big boss of the "troika" of the Jinling National Government, is in poor health. Even if he does not die this year, he will die next year.

If Li Hongzhang and Liu Kunyi were both dead, there would only be one Zhang Zhidong left. Zhang Nanpi was good at writing poems and prose, and was also okay at handling foreign affairs, but he was just average at fighting. According to Marshal Lin, Zhang Zhidong was only so-so at handling foreign affairs, as evidenced by the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works incident. The reason why Zhang Zhidong seemed so capable was that he was a general among the short men.

Li Hongzhang was about to die, and there was a rumor among the Nationalist Government in Nanjing that they were interested in merging with the military government. We are all Chinese, and Chinese people don't fight against Chinese people.

Sun Yat-sen was very excited when he thought of this, but then he thought of Yuan Shikai, who had recently emerged in the National Government. After the Beiyang Army was defeated in Jinan, Yuan Shikai led

Some of his close associates went south, and because of his ability to monopolize business and the support of foreigners, Yuan Shikai quickly gained control of an army and made his mark in the war.

Yuan Shikai himself could not fight, but he was good at training soldiers and selecting generals. His subordinates such as Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang were all brave generals who fought fiercely and repeatedly defeated the military government's troops, proving to the world that it was not that the Beiyang government could not fight, but that Baldy Lin had no martial ethics and always liked to rely on his superior numbers to fight the minority.

Sun Yat-sen thought about it and realized that no one on his side could defeat the remnants of the Beiyang regime. Huang Xing couldn't do it, and the others were even worse. So he had to negotiate as soon as possible! Before Li Hongzhang died of illness, the military government should merge with the National Government! Then he wouldn't have to worry about people like Yuan Shikai messing around!

Sun Yat-sen had made up his mind. He put aside Wu Tingfang's escape and prepared to reach a peace agreement with the Nanjing National Government as soon as possible, and then merge. It was too expensive to continue to expand the army and fight wars, and Guangdong, which has always been rich, could not afford it. Things in the south had changed, and Marshal Lin in the north also faced many difficulties, one of the most important of which was that he had no money. Didn't they seize 60 million taels of silver? Didn't they issue RMB? How could they still have no money?

The previous imperial court had an annual income of only 50 million taels, and that was collected nationwide. The Central People's Republic Government now only had the Western Regions, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Rehe and Liaoxi, and reduced the agricultural tax to "two out of ten taxes", and even reduced it to "one out of ten taxes" for families with military service members, which was unheard of.

Relying on the distribution of land and the unprecedentedly low tax rate, the People's Party quickly gained a foothold in the north and proudly formed a large number of high-spirited troops, but the price was a sharp drop in the amount of money they could receive. That would have been fine, as the newly developed financial resources could make up for the deficit. The key point was that President Lin Biao spent money without restraint. While building the steel mill, he also launched a series of small factories, such as small machinery factories, small fertilizer factories, small cement factories, small coal factories, etc.

Although it is called a small factory, it is not small in this era. It is smaller than the factories of the great powers. In China, and even in the whole of East Asia, it is a big project. This is not the end. Just when the small steel mill and other small factories were in order, President Lin bought chemical plants and tractor factories from the United States, and also bought a lot of machinery and equipment from the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and other countries. With such non-stop purchases, didn’t the money flow out like a "clatter"?

Yan Shutang, who was transferred from the Central Bank to the Ministry of Finance, looked at the huge deficit on the books and wondered if the president wanted to use him as a scapegoat. As the governor of the Central Bank, Yan Shutang did not embezzle or accept bribes, but he did use his power to facilitate his own business and made a lot of money.

Could it be that the Chinese New Year is coming and the President wants to kill a pig? But if we count the days, it’s still several months away from the Chinese New Year!

"You are so confused! I said I won't pursue your past affairs, and that means I won't pursue them! And what about killing a pig... Well, speaking of killing a pig, it's almost time to kill it."

Lin Yongchang had a thoughtful look on his face, which scared Yan Shutang. He felt like a fat pig about to be slaughtered. I must not violate the rules again! Yan Shutang's mouth was dry and his legs were shaking slightly.

"Don't worry, the American loan will arrive in two days."

"Well, don't we have to buy machinery and food from the United States?" Yan Shutang said boldly: "Mr. President, the interest rates of Americans are so high, it's better not to use this loan."

"Let's use it first. Is an annual interest rate of 10% high? Well, it is a bit high, but it can buy a lot of equipment, so it's worth it. We should look at the problem from a development perspective and don't be afraid of deficits. Running a country is not like doing business, so why should we be afraid of owing money? Maintaining an annual inflation rate of 4% is conducive to the healthy development of the economy!"

Yan Shutang was frowning. What is inflation? Isn't it just printing paper money to rob the people of their wealth? Didn't the previous dynasty do this less often? The court issued Jiaochao several times, but each time it was issued excessively, so that no one used the notes issued by the court anymore.

"Mr. President, the RMB has just established its credibility. We can't do this!"

"We produce so many products and have established a sales system relying on the supply and marketing cooperatives. Many things are only available in the supply and marketing cooperatives and can only be purchased with RMB. This is not a problem!"

Fertilizers, medicines, farm tools, cotton clothes, salt and other commodities can be bought from other places, but state-owned enterprises can keep production costs to a minimum, and in large quantities, it is more cost-effective to buy from supply and marketing cooperatives. Lin Yongchang was confident that he would not make a mistake, but Yan Shutang reminded him that pigs should be killed when they are fat.

So he asked someone to send a telegram to Yan Xishan in Shanghai, asking Yan Xishan, who was happy and unwilling to leave, to sell out his rubber stocks and futures as soon as possible. After playing the "ecological counterattack" for so long, it was time to kill the pig.

Chapter 205 Clearance

Shanghai was a place of foreign influence and the most prosperous place in China. When the Taiping Rebellion swept across Jiangdong, the rich and officials—often the two were combined—packed up their belongings and fled to the Shanghai Concession, which prospered since then.

Sixty years later, the original British concession expanded a lot, and the United States, France, and other powers also occupied land in Shanghai and set up concessions. The British, American, and Liang countries' concessions were merged and became public concessions.

In May 99, a new round of expansion took place, with the area expanded to 33503 mu, extending to Zhoujiazui in the east, the border of Shanghai and Baoshan counties in the north, and Jing'an Temple in the west. The entire concession was divided into four districts: Central, North, East, and West.

Whether it is the International Settlement or the French Concession, this is the trendiest place in the entire Far East. There are always the latest topics. Usually a topic will be popular for a month at most. People are often still talking about it last week, but have forgotten it without a trace the next week.

But there is one topic that has been hot for more than a year. It has been suppressed by other things, but it always pops up again. Yes, it is rubber, which makes countless people obsessed with it. People in Shanghai and surrounding areas, as well as many other places, have been involved in the trading of rubber stocks and futures, and many people have made a fortune.

Those who entered the market first made a lot of money and wanted to make more. Those who entered later made some small money and were eager to make big money. Rubber was so hot that those who participated in it all made a fortune, which attracted more people to participate. Now Yan Xishan has become a new generation of Shanghai gangsters, and those who sell opium and make counterfeit money are not as powerful as him.

He no longer took care of the tasks assigned to him by the organization, and handed over the work of selling materials and purchasing grain machinery to others. Yan Xishan now spent his days drinking and spending money. He often had a good night, awoke from sleep, and found that his net worth had increased again... Well, it was still not good. Many people came every day to listen to him bragging about the bright prospects of rubber, and after being fascinated by it, they went back to buy, buy, buy.

Li Hongzhang's son Li Jingshu, Sun Yat-sen's younger brother Chen Qimei and others all participated in the rubber speculation business. Not only Chinese participated in it, but also many foreigners joined in, including the bigwigs of the foreign concessions, foreigners who came to Shanghai for adventure, and even Yamagata Aritomo embezzled a lot of army funds to speculate in stocks.

Everyone made a lot of money, was very happy, and had a bright future.

But is it true that everyone can make a lot of money? People in Shanghai would definitely say yes! Rubber stocks are one of them!

As the man who proposed the concept of "ecological counter-attack" and shouted the slogan "suffocate for dreams", Yan Xishan was in great glory and was praised wherever he went. Even though he was still young, what did being young matter? Being able to make money and help so many people make money meant that he was better than everyone else!

No matter Li Hongzhang, Sun Yat-sen, or Lin Tuzi, none of them has as much face as Yan Baichuan in Shanghai!

Yan Xishan felt elated as he was surrounded by fine wine and beautiful women, and listened to all kinds of disgusting flattery all day long. He felt that he was a genius. Why didn't he want to come to Shanghai to trade stocks before?

Last night, Yan Xishan rode a big foreign horse. When he woke up in the morning, his back and waist were sore, but he couldn't help but pinch those two huge trembling lumps. The big foreign horse was really big, and it was very exciting to ride. As he touched it, he got excited again. He patted the big foreign horse's buttocks, asked her to turn over and lie on the bed, and Yan Xishan stood at the head of the bed and enjoyed it happily.

After moving twice, there was a "bang" sound from below, and someone broke in. The leather shoes stepped on the stairs, getting closer and closer. Yan Xishan was startled and shuddered all over. The man in a black suit and big leather shoes walked to the door, turning a blind eye to the obscene scene in the room, and said coldly: "The superiors have ordered that all rubber stocks and futures be sold."

The foreign horse turned his head and saw the black suit, and immediately hid under the quilt. It was not because he was shy, but because he was afraid. Yan Xishan did not come to Shanghai alone, he brought hundreds of brothers with him. Those people formed an organization called "Axe Gang", and behind these more than one hundred people there were thousands of people who could be mobilized at any time. Those brothers were all highly skilled in martial arts, daring to fight and fight, and once defeated the local snakes.

They not only have more people, but also machine guns and cannons. Even foreigners have to give way to them. How can the local Qinghong Gang defeat them?

Now everyone knows that those bald guys in black suits are not to be trifled with. The big foreign horse knows how powerful they are, so he hides under the quilt and dares not even breathe. Yan Xishan, who was frightened and ejaculated immediately, was very angry and shouted loudly: "Do you know what the current price of rubber stocks is? It can still rise by several more stops! If you sell it now, how much money will you lose?"

The man in the black suit said expressionlessly, "This is an instruction from the highest level. You must follow it whether you understand it or not! You can refuse, but according to the rules, the next time you come, it will be the special forces team that enforces the family rules."

Yan Xishan seemed to have a bucket of cold water poured over his head. He calmed down, but his anger remained. He stared at the man in the black suit and shouted, "This is a false order. I'm going to send a telegram to the higher-ups!"

"It's up to you. Violating discipline is your own business. Remember, the special forces will only wait for three days."

The man in the black suit turned around and went downstairs. Even though Yan Xishan was very reluctant, he could not disobey the highest instructions from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Most of the stocks he held were held on behalf of others, and there were people checking the accounts every time they were transferred. Even if he wanted to resist, he couldn't.

"Sell it, sell it! You will regret it someday!"

Yan Xishan shouted: "I can make money on my own!"

Soon, Yan Xishan sold all the shares of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Rubber stocks were very popular at that time, and someone immediately took over as soon as he sold them. Some of them were bought by Yan Xishan himself.

He sent a telegram to Taiyuan, not to Chairman Lin, but to his father Yan Shutang, saying that he wanted to buy stocks and strongly persuaded Yan Shutang to invest money.

After Yan Shutang learned some of the causes and consequences, he was very moved, and then he remitted all the money he had saved for two years to Shanghai. This was not enough, Yan Xishan also borrowed a lot of money from many people, eating up nearly one-fifth of the share. The amount was too large, and Yan Xishan could not raise so much money in a short period of time, even though he was the godfather of Shanghai, so he could only helplessly sell the rest of the shares to the Jews, the Japanese, and Sun Yat-sen, Li Hongzhang and other forces also took up a large part.

After selling all stocks and other stock-related assets, the Ministry of the Interior cashed in more than 27 million taels of silver, nearly 4 million pounds, a huge sum of money, enough to support the British in South Africa for two more weeks.

Chapter 206 Melting into the Blue Sky

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the th century, with the rapid development of the automobile industry, the demand for rubber increased dramatically. At the same time, rubber also became a new material for the production of many industrial products and was very popular. Cars, tricycles, and rickshaws were all replaced with rubber tires. At that time, Shanghai people put a pair of rubber shoes on cloth shoes and leather shoes, called "overshoes", and then put on rubber raincoats, so they could go out as usual on rainy days. There were countless other kinds of rubber (Shanghai people called rubber "rubber" at that time) products.

The amount of rubber imported by the UK and the US has increased year by year, but due to factors such as the growth cycle, climate, and soil, the scale of rubber production cannot be expanded in the short term. It is destined that rubber prices will continue to rise for a certain period of time. This is one of the reasons why rubber can be hyped up.

The big dealers sold related stocks in a short period of time, causing the market to fall for a while, and then rebounded with a stronger momentum. In the following month, rubber continued to be hot, and the wealth of Yan Xishan, Li Jingshu, Chen Qimei and others who continued to buy rose again.

This prosperous era of flowers and brocade and cooking oil seemed to have no end. Everyone participated in it and everyone got rich. But the dream was eventually shattered. Nothing could rise sharply all the time. In early November, the London trading market fell, and Shanghai rubber stocks plummeted.

In addition to Yan Xishan and his gang, there were also many foreigners blowing bubbles in Shanghai. What Western scenes have those foreigners not seen? The tulip scam has been played again and again, and it has become a traditional program for capitalists to cut leeks. After the rubber stocks were hyped up, international speculators followed suit. Those Jews are like hunting dogs, they will quickly smell the blood.

International speculators wanted to keep speculating for two more years. A big scam would certainly trick more people. But the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ran away first. The Jews and other international speculators were a little slow to react. They continued to speculate for more than a month, and when the London trading market plummeted, they also ran away.

They sold out at high prices and made a lot of money, but those who followed them into the stock market were cheated. Countless people were robbed, and their life savings, and even the accumulation of several generations, were wiped out, leaving only stocks that had become worthless paper. As the price of rubber stocks plummeted, countless people were left with a lot of debt, and many people cursed the Jews and foreigners for being shameless, and then lined up to go to the rooftop.

Stock speculation was originally a game for the rich. Failure in stock speculation would only cause the rich in Shanghai to lose some money. But the involvement of money houses made things more complicated. The so-called money houses refer to traditional Chinese financial institutions, including but not limited to money houses, silver houses, and bill houses. They participated in stock speculation, which magnified the impact of the stock market crash by hundreds or thousands of times.

There are two main ways for money houses to get involved in rubber stock speculation. The first one is more common. Money houses provide loans to speculators. In addition to credit loans, they also accept loans in kind, which actually allows speculators to use the rubber stocks they have already purchased as collateral to obtain new loans to buy new stocks.

Does it sound familiar? It should be. Ant Financial uses a similar approach. Users borrow money from Fubao Ma to form bonds, which are then used as collateral at banks. The money is then used to make loans, and the bonds are then used as collateral again. Billions of dollars of capital can be transferred in this way to a scale of trillions. If Fubao Ma had been listened to and financial regulation had been completely relaxed, the scale could have been increased by an order of magnitude.

As long as the price of rubber stocks does not fall, the bank will not lose money, and the mortgaged stocks are still appreciating. Therefore, the bank speeds up the loan. The faster the transfer, the more money it makes!

The second situation is that money houses directly participate in stock speculation. Since the stocks issued by various rubber companies in Shanghai are mainly sold through foreign companies and foreign banks, the big compradors of these foreign companies can use their positions to buy up stocks. If rubber stocks continue to rise sharply, everyone's book value will also rise sharply. But when the stock market crash comes, those who run slowly will become the ones who take over.

The banks in Shanghai closed down one after another, and the wealthy Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, the Yangtze River Basin, and the industries and commerce of the major cities along the southeast coast were also severely damaged. According to rough estimates, China's industry and commerce lost more than 40 million taels of silver. Not only did the Chinese lose a lot of money, but many Westerners and Japanese also lost everything.

Aritomo Yamagata embezzled a large sum of money from the Ministry of the Army to invest in stocks. When he was making money, he was extremely happy. He could often spend a lot of money in Kabukicho and invite the bigwigs in the military to have fun with him.

When the stock market crash broke out, not only did all of his investments go down the drain, but he also ended up in a lot of debt.

He borrowed a lot of money from chaebols and friends, hoping to make a fortune. Making a fortune is not new, and there have been many such cases in Japan. During the Meiji Restoration, people tightened their belts to build many factories, and after they were built, they sold them to chaebols at low prices, and many people reaped countless benefits from them.

Yamagata Aritomo only ate half full last time, and this time he wanted more. But he didn't expect that he would fail miserably.

Friends can ask him not to pay back the money, but they don't dare to. What about the misappropriated military funds? What about the money of the chaebol? With no other choice, Yamagata Aritomo could only hide in a singing girl's house and wait for the matter to pass. The military leaders were very troubled by this matter, but it was related to the face of the military, and Yamagata Aritomo was also one of the elders of the Meiji era, so everyone could only hold their noses and suppress the matter.

Aritomo Yamagata escaped the disaster, but more people could not.

Yan Xishan sat in the restaurant in a daze, his head was a mess. He couldn't figure out why the stock market suddenly crashed? Before, everyone was rushing to buy, but now they are begging for someone to take over. But who will take over? Everyone knows that rubber stocks are finished and are worthless now. Who will take over? It is human nature to chase the rise and sell the fall!

A week ago, he was a Shanghai tycoon, the godfather of rubber, and a supernova who shouted "I don't care about money" in front of reporters and media. Now he has become a heavily indebted "negative man".

“Whoosh!” “Bang!”

There was a sound of something heavy falling to the ground outside, followed by exclamations from the crowd. Someone shouted, "Oh my God, Mr. Smith jumped off the building too!"

Yan Xishan shuddered. He knew what a miserable situation it was outside without even looking. He had seen similar situations more than once. Many old friends had gone down this road of no return. Many people also fled. As the Chinese people know, there is always a way out.

Should he go to the rooftop or run away? Going to the rooftop would end it all, but he was unwilling to do that. He wanted to run away, but where could he go? He owed so much money, he would be caught even if he ran to Antarctica. He looked at the newspaper, which contained a serialized novel. There was a dialogue that read, "Zhao Cang jumped down, Tang Ta also jumped down, you should jump down too! One more step forward, and you will melt into the blue sky!"

Yan Xishan looked at the newspaper and really wanted to jump with him. If you jump, I will jump too, isn't that great?

"Yan Baichuan, you liar! Give me back my money!"

Just when Yan Xishan was in a dilemma, Jiang Zhiqing rushed into the restaurant panting and grabbed Yan Xishan by the collar.

Chapter 207 Twelve consecutive jumps

Yan Xishan lost all his money, and Jiang Zhiqing was almost the same. Chen Qimei embezzled the opium money of the Qing and Hong Gangs to speculate in stocks, and Jiang Zhiqing also embezzled some of it and borrowed a lot of money from the bigwigs of the Qing and Hong Gangs. Now all that money disappeared with the outbreak of the stock market crash.

The people in the Green Gang and the Hong Gang were all gangsters, and the big guys in them were gangster leaders, so how could they be easy to talk to? They said, "If you kill someone, you must pay your life, and if you owe someone money, you must pay it back." If he couldn't pay back the money, they would buy an insurance policy for Jiang Zhiqing and then let him commit suicide, either by jumping off a building or being hit by a car.

Even if Jiang Zhiqing's boss was Chen Qimei, it would be useless because Chen Qimei himself was being hunted by the Green Gang and the Hong Gang and had already fled back to Guangzhou, leaving Jiang Zhiqing in Shanghai in constant fear.