1928: The rise of giant merchants

With a glimmer of luck and a glimmer of hope, Ma Jue carefully opened the letter sent by Ye Luo.

The first thing that slipped out of the envelope was a dried specimen of a bright peach blossom, set in a beautiful gold frame. It was worth a lot at first sight.

Ma Jue's depressed mood suddenly improved.

Is this a token of love?

So beautiful.

It just looks so expensive. Isn't it made of real gold?

Ma Jue thought happily and took a sniff, as if he could still smell the sweetness.

When she thought of the peach blossom petals she had randomly broken off, and that she had not even thought about sending them to Shanghai in a hurry, the petals might be rotten, she blushed and felt very embarrassed.

Continue reading the letter.

Dear sister Ma Jue:

Seeing the words is like seeing the face.

I am honored to be favored by a beautiful and talented girl like you.

Ye Luo used the most common writing method in later generations. Before giving someone a good person card, he would first praise him, and then make a twist, trying to decline the other person's love in a non-hurting tone.

Considering that this was the period of the Republic of China, even if a talented woman from Peking University like Ma Jue was relatively open and enthusiastic, if he refused outright, he would probably break her heart and make her too embarrassed to see anyone, so he still used a more gentle approach. Wan's statement.

Ma Jue, who was looking forward to it in her heart, was so confused by the first few words of praise, but the turn and rejection that followed made her feel like she was hit hard!

Mr. Ye Luo declined her intention with the simplest words.

"I treat you like a big brother treats a little sister. You and my sister Ye Qingchun are similar in age. Every time I think of you, I think of her. I hope you can find a good home like her."

How could there be a better destination than you!

Ma Jue suddenly felt bitter and thought about Ye Luo a hundred, a thousand times.

A letter of no more than a thousand words, she read it over and over dozens of times, and she could almost recite it by heart.

Every word and every punctuation mark is read carefully and carefully.

But no matter how you look at it, you can't see between the lines any trace of Ye Luo's affection for him.

That night, she had a rare insomnia.

Really unable to sleep, Ma Jue thought of Mr. Lu Yucai, so he got up and wrote him a letter, telling him his troubles.

She said that she seemed to have fallen in love with a married man, who clearly rejected her, but she could not let go of this love. She knew that it was wrong and shameless, but she could not suppress the feeling of longing for her.

She hoped that Mr. Lu Yucai could come up with an idea to help her solve this problem.

After writing the letter, she took out a brand new piece of paper and hesitated before writing a reply to Ye Luo.

The conversation in the letter was still the same, but the resentment between the lines almost overflowed.

At the end of the letter was attached a new poignant poem:

The night has gone to sleep,

But my thoughts are awakened.

Cicadas chirp in summer,

Sing a lonely song,

Floating and turning in the night sky,

With a section of cold moonlight,

Crushed my dreams.

dreamer,

Do you know what's going on in the girl's mind?

It was already the end of February when Ye Luo received this letter.

Ma Jue obviously did not back down, and even mustered up the courage to continue expressing his love, just like those famous infatuated people in the Republic of China.

They may be very happy with this kind of unrequited love, like to indulge in it, and find it difficult to extricate themselves.

Ye Luo stopped replying this time and planned to let the little sister have a cooling-off period. For such a little girl, love comes warmly and goes quickly. There is no need to be too anxious to solve it, otherwise it will become more and more chaotic.

At the same time, documents approving the establishment of the Tax Police Corps from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Military Affairs were also issued. To Ye Luo's surprise, the Ministry of Finance actually shouldered the funding for the establishment.

Song Ziwen gave the tax police headquarters to Ye Luo as collateral. Since the thing no longer belonged to him, he would definitely not be willing to use the money in his pocket to help Ye Luo build a steel lion.

"Old Song is so righteous?" Ye Luo was shocked and puzzled.

Without thinking about going round and round, the preparations for the establishment of the Tax Police Corps returned to the original track of history.

On February 28th, under Song Ziwen's personal control, with funding from the Ministry of Finance and the approval of the principal, the first unofficial team of German mechanics began to be formed in two huge open spaces in the suburbs of Shanghai Bund and Jinling.

Shortly after Wen Yingxing was transferred to the Jinling Police Department, he received an order to serve as the first head of the Tax Police Corps. As soon as he inquired and learned the ins and outs of this force, he immediately took up the post happily.

Song Ziwen also listened to Ye Luo's advice and recruited well-known officers such as Liu Fangwu, the prototype of Long Wenwen, and He Shaozhou, the prototype of Yu Xiaoqing, into the tax police corps to expand the establishment.

When the Tax Police Corps was first established, it was decided to have five subordinate regiments. Adding the troops directly under the General Corps, it was equivalent to six regiments.

The formation of the regiment is quite large. There are fourteen soldiers in each squad, and each squad is equipped with one light machine gun. Six squads are one platoon, and three platoons are one company. Each company has a total of 252 soldiers, which is equivalent to two companies of a Class A regular army.

The first battalion has four companies and two 60-gun guns.

The regiment oversees three battalions and is equipped with seven special forces companies. Each regiment has a total of more than 5,000 combat soldiers.

The General Regiment Headquarters directly administers seven battalions including the special agent battalion, anti-aircraft artillery battalion, artillery battalion and communications battalion.

The entire tax police regiment has more than 30,000 troops!

Ye Luo only knew one thing about it but not the other, and was shocked when he got this rough report.

"More than 30,000 people! I heard that a division of the Japanese invaders only had 30,000 people, and there were only 10,000 regular German weapon masters. This is a bit outrageous."

Ye Luo sighed in his heart, and at the same time refreshed the level of the principal's indulgence towards Song Ziwen.

No wonder the Song family dared to poop on the principal's head.

I originally thought that the principal didn't mind this small-scale private armed force because the tax police corps is a group with only a thousand people at most——

Now there are more than this number of regular employees of Ye's Security and Ye's Sports.

Unexpectedly, this "regiment" has the number of people in a "division"!

Song Ziwen was really willing to give.

In his eyes, the elite troops of more than 30,000 people were not as good as the 80 million people who rescued the ocean.

Assuming that each person consumes an average of 100 oceans a month, the monthly expenses of a tax police group start at 3 million oceans. Without 40 million oceans a year, it is difficult to make ends meet.

If it were Ye Luo a year ago, it would be difficult for the entire Ye family to invest in supporting such a tax police group.

But things are different now.

He has a terrifying US$3 billion in capital in the United States, and at least US$300 million in China. Raising a tax police corps is not a problem at all.

Even if it costs him one billion oceans in twenty years, it will only be equivalent to more than 200 million U.S. dollars.

Twenty years later it will be 1950.

In addition, Song Ziwen's brother-in-law Zhang Yuannan, who graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, also came over to ask for the position of regimental leader. He knew that his younger brother Zhang Yuanbei was working for Ye Luo, and he was considered a "relative of the emperor."

Most of the senior officers in the regiment are not relatives or friends, but many of them are very talented in leadership. After all, in this era, there are still a large number of illiterate people. Those who have studied in college and studied abroad are indeed first-class. Talent.

Under Song Ziwen's arrangement, the tax police headquarters also had an advisory group composed of eight German officers on standby at any time.

As for the weapons and equipment mentioned by Ye Luo before, the final decision was made by the Ministry of Finance to purchase them by itself, drawing on the strengths of European and American military powers, and the level of sophistication is not comparable to that of ordinary troops.

Song Ziwen waved his hand, and the tax police headquarters mainly purchased American weapons, equipped with Orligen anti-aircraft cannons and Vickers amphibious tanks. The rifles were mainly German-made 1924-style standard Mauser series guns or Belgian FN1924/30 infantry. The gun, water-cooled heavy machine gun, and pistol are naturally the famous 71932, and they are even equipped with a "Carden Lloyd" ultra-light tank!

"It's done!" Ye Luo felt happy. (End of chapter)