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Chapter 990: The Taste of Being Deceived

Located in Baihuazhou, the Jiangnan Hotel is only a lake away from Nanchang Xingying, the sixth floor of the most luxurious hotel in Jiangxi, has been wrapped up by An Yi as a whole, and the special detachment of the old Nanchang Garrison Brigade quickly arrived and took on strict security work. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xu Yichen, the general manager of the hotel, was introduced to Liu Wenhui and Zhu Peide by An Yi and others, of course, he only lightly explained Xu Yichen's public identity as a rich man, and the secret of Xu Yichen's Nanchang intelligence station chief, even not many people in An Jiajun knew about it, and only at the level of brigade commander and above were eligible to know.

Due to the unimaginable smooth transfer of various industries in the old Nanchang base, now in the huge city, only three universities, several large smelting enterprises, Jiangnan Group headquarters, Jiangnan Hospital are still in the hands of An Yi, who took away more than 200 million oceans from the industrial transfer, and naturally lost a lot of things, even the old Nanchang Rongjun Community, a modern residential community with a national reputation, has also sold most of it in the months of dismantling and selling. Now only a few regiment commanders and brigade commanders of the garrison brigade who stick to the old Nanchang are still living in the entire Anjia Army, and their families have gradually moved to Syria and lived in the Xufu Invalids Community, which has a better environment and is more beautiful and comfortable than here. There are only Jiangnan Hotel and Xu Yichen's Jiangnan Theater left in Nanchang City, and there is also a trading company mainly operated by Mrs. Xu Yichen.

After washing up a little, An Yi walked into Zhu Peide's luxurious suite opposite, and saw that Liu Wenhui had changed into a general's dress and was drinking tea and chatting with Zhu Peide, who was also tidying up.

An Yi walked over in a few steps, sat on the side of the two, waved his hand to signal Zhu Peide's attendant to go aside, skillfully picked up the teapot himself, quickly replaced it with a pot of fragrant new tea, and elegantly poured it for the two seniors, and finally poured the cup in front of him.

The three of them didn't say a few words, and Shen Fengdao came in to report that the chairman had gone downstairs.

An Yi glanced at Zhu Peide and Liu Wenhui with some surprise, but he didn't expect Chiang Kai-shek to be so anxious, and he came over in advance an hour before the reception dinner. An Yi, who was still wearing a casual brocade robe, hurriedly returned to his room, and with the help of the guards, quickly changed into a dress, put on a sword, checked in the mirror and went out immediately, just in time to take a look at Chiang Kai-shek, who came calmly with a smile.

After An Yi finished saluting, he invited Chiang Kai-shek and his entourage into Zhu Peide's living room, and Zhu Peide and Liu Wenhui hurriedly greeted him, exchanged pleasantries, and respectfully invited Chiang Kai-shek to sit down.

"Hey, what a fragrant tea!"

Chiang Kai-shek, who has never drunk tea, praised sincerely.

Zhu Peide smiled and explained: "This is the Pu'er tea secretly made by the folk master of southern Yunnan, this tea is made of high-quality fresh leaves of Yunnan large-leaf species, the appearance is brown and red, the inner soup is red and bright, the aroma is unique and fragrant, the taste is mellow and sweet, and the longer the year, the more fragrant, it is a must in Yunnan!"

"However, in the future, even if I want to drink this kind of superb Pu'er tea, I have to ask General An Yi to provide it, Ning'er area and Simao City are now his territory, since he went to southern Yunnan once in the second half of last year, I don't know what ** soup was poured into those tea farmers and tea merchants, the originally loose tea merchants of the three counties actually united to form the Southern Yunnan Chamber of Commerce, and soon changed the previous way of doing business, under the pretext of cooperating to establish three major tea factories, and doubled the external sales of Pu'er tea, As a result, the price of tea in the entire Yunnan market has risen again and again, and it was only in January this year that the supply was regained.

"The new Pu'er tea tea is very exquisitely made and packaged, the price has opened up 369 and so on, like the secret best we are drinking now, the price has quadrupled, the Yunnan gentry complained, but they can't help but drink, while drinking and scolding the profiteers, drinking and willingly to buy, interesting, right?"

Chiang Kai-shek was very surprised, "oh", looked at An Yi, who was quiet, turned to Liu Wenhui and asked: "Brother Ziqian, I heard that most of the tea in Yunnan is sold to Qinghai, Tibet and the northwest, and it has to go through the trade routes of Sichuan, do you have any opinions on this?" ”

Where does Liu Wenhui have an opinion? In order to persuade Pu'er tea farmers and tea merchants to form a unified alliance, establish a large-scale tea factory, and replace it with three unified packaging, An Yi did not hesitate to spend more than 4 million yuan to buy the finished products in the hands of all tea farmers and tea merchants, and then transported the tea to Liu Wencai through the convoy that transported materials to southern Yunnan.

Liu Wencai followed the advice in An Yi's secret letter, hoarded and did not sell, anyway, the capital was paid by An Yi, and he did not want the Liu family to pay a penny, but in less than two months, the price of Yunnan tea rose step by step, almost doubled.

The alpine regions of Qinghai-Tibet and Sichuan-Kang Tibet rely on tea to maintain physiological needs all year round.

Liu Wencai saw that the price of tea stabilized at a high level, so he began to ship slowly, easily defeated all the tea merchants in Chengdu Mansion and Xikang in Sichuan, and became the largest supplier of Yunnan tea in the whole Sichuan. Happily signed a perennial purchase and sales contract with several old men of the Yunnan Tea Chamber of Commerce in Syria.

Since then, the tea merchants in southern Yunnan no longer need to organize caravans every year to transport tea with difficulty, and Liu Wencai does not need to tear his face every year in order to levy high taxes on the tea merchants in transit.

Liu Wenhui listened to Chiang Kai-shek's question, nodded and smiled slightly, and replied respectfully: "Jiegong, we have also established a tea chamber of commerce in Sichuan, and established a good cooperative relationship with the Southern Yunnan Chamber of Commerce, which has basically straightened out the original chaotic tea market, avoided many drawbacks of taxation everywhere in the past, and can also provide protection for the needs of the general public."

"General An's opinion is very good, the tea is subdivided according to the grade, and the tax rate is unified, so that the poor people basically do not need to pay more for tea than before, but the tea that the rich and noble families need and sell to the Qinghai-Tibet region is different, and the new Pu'er tea products are of high grade in terms of production and packaging, and they will have to pay more if they want to drink good tea. In fact, middle-income families and wealthy families don't care about this money at all, and the response is very good. In Chengdu, the better the tea sells, the more expensive it sells, and the better the sales, like the best tea that Yigong drinks, even the packaging is a finely carved sandalwood box, few people are blessed to drink, no matter how rich you are, you can only think about it, haha! ”

As soon as Chiang Kai-shek heard it, he knew that Liu Wenhui's family must have joined hands with An Yi's company to operate Yunnan tea, and may even have closer cooperation in other fields, reminiscent of Liu Wenhui's decision to give An Yi two days after laying down the artesian well area, Chiang Kai-shek once again saw An Yi's almost demonic business and communication methods, although he had a smile on his face, he sighed very much in his heart, and suddenly found that since An Yi stepped in, all kinds of relationships seem to be quietly changing, and this change is unknown to the central government!

An Yi listened to the cordial conversation between Chiang Kai-shek and the two feudal officials, and carefully pondered Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts - it was really unexpected that a small tea would bring Chiang Kai-shek a trace of defense, which could be revealed from the meaningful eyes of Chiang Kai-shek when he looked at him, and An Yi lamented for no reason.

The next reception dinner was held in the famous time-honored restaurant in Nanchang City, the stars and dignitaries gathered in the antique hall, but the wind and rain were bleak outside, An Yi had become numb to this, followed behind Ge Jingen, Zhang Zhi and others, wandering between laughter and laughter, hanging a seemingly sincere smile, and the officials and generals who came up to toast one by one.

Finally, the two-hour banquet ended, and a lengthy informal military and political meeting was held in the conference room of the Nanchang camp, at which Yang Yongtai finally spoke for Chiang Kai-shek the principles of "courtesy, courtesy, perseverance and humility, military preparations, and diplomatic mediation" for the settlement of the Sichuan-Kang and Sino-Burmese border issues.

When he returned to the hotel, it was already half past eleven in the evening, and the worried Liu Wenhui saw An Yi's attendant send two brand-new radio stations with power supplies, and thanked him very much, chatted with Zhu Peide and An Yi for a while, and then said goodbye and went back to the guest room to send a report behind closed doors.

The Xikang rebellion made Liu Wenhui extremely worried, Ya'an has always been an important base for Liu Wenhui, and now the rebel forward is less than two days away from Ya'an, Liu Wenhui's third frontier division is still on the way to reinforce Ya'an, how can the only garrison brigade resist the tens of thousands of rebel troops equipped and commanded by the British?

On the morning of the next day, Chiang Kai-shek led Zhu Peide and Liu Wenhui to visit the camp in Nanchang and strolled together on the beautiful Baihuazhou, where the cold wind swept across the blue lake, ripples, and a little fresh green in the withered grass and weak willows, full of vitality in the warm winter sun.

An Yi and Ge Jingen, Chen Lifu and others followed behind more than ten meters, and they did not have the slightest sense of being underestimated, he knew that Chiang Kai-shek, Zhu Peide, and Liu Wenhui were actually far from being as easy as they seemed, and they discussed not only the Xikang rebellion and the Sino-Burmese border conflict, but also the entire four southwestern provinces, and even Sichuan-Tibet relations and Sino-British relations were also among their discussions.

There is also a very important problem, it is estimated that many people do not realize that Liu Xiang is still the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan bandits, although he has shaken hands with his uncle Liu Wenhui and handed over the administrative leadership, but Liu Xiang, who commands the military power of the whole province's army, is firmly grasped in his hands and will not give an inch.

In order to maintain military power, Liu Xiang did not hesitate to organize the Sixth Route Sichuan Army again when he needed to recuperate the most, and started a major war with Xu Xiangqian and Zhang Guotao.

For this reason, Liu Xiang constantly telegraphed and sent people to Chiang Kai-shek to express his determination to resolutely suppress the bandits, and also made requests to Chiang Kai-shek on many occasions in terms of funds, weapons and equipment, military supplies, and so on; Chiang Kai-shek needed to check and balance the various factions of the Sichuan army, and he did not want to watch Liu Wenhui's family dominate the army, so he very readily sent two main divisions to help in the battle, and urgently allocated weapons and ammunition from two 1,500-ton ships to support them, and Liu Xiang's military and political situation suddenly improved. And Chiang Kai-shek's support for Liu Xiang made Liu Wenhui very jealous, and the reason why Liu Wenhui was willing to come to Nanchang this time was to ask Chiang Kai-shek a sentence in person: In the eyes of the central government, who is the boss of Sichuan?

"Let's stop, don't get too close...... Xiao Yi, what do you say General Yizhi, General Ziqian, and the commission are talking about? ”

Chen Lifu saw that the three Chiang Kai-shek people in front of him stopped, as if something was wrong, and they were talking fiercely, so he asked An Yi beside him.

"How does the little brother know? It is estimated that it is a matter of Sichuan, otherwise Yigong would not have quietly stood aside...... Everyone can see that General Ziqian's face is very wrong, and the principal is comforting him. An Yi knew it in his heart, but there was a helpless look on his face.

Ge Jingen followed Chiang Kai-shek all day long, and almost all military intelligence could be accessed, and he vaguely understood that the dispute between Chiang Kai-shek and Liu Wenhui was likely to be related to the suppression of bandits in Sichuan, because on the issue of suppressing bandits, Liu Xiang, who was the first to occupy the enemy's position, excluded Liu Wenhui's department from the anti-bandit troops directly under the General Branch Headquarters, and did not greet Liu Wenhui, the nominal number one in Sichuan, in any matter, Liu Wenhui would definitely not be able to bear this situation, and Chiang Kai-shek would not let Liu Wenhui wave his army to suppress it. The influence of public opinion caused by this can make Liu Wenhui unable to step down, let alone fight openly and secretly for power in Sichuan.

Liu Wenhui's adjutant Liu Simin suddenly rushed to everyone's side and pulled An Yi aside very anxiously: "General An, we just received an urgent report from Ya'an, the rebels surrounded one of our outposts before dawn, and only two of the more than 100 brothers risked their lives to grab the horses and kill them, and if they don't make a decision, I'm afraid the entire brigade will be eaten by the rebels little by little!" This is the original copy of the telegram, general, please see ......"

An Yi was extremely angry at Chiang Kai-shek's forbearance policy, and immediately blocked the adjutant's hand: "Uncle Min, don't look at the little nephew, you go over and hand it over directly to General Ziqian, and he will make a decision." Rest assured, no matter what happens, I, An Yi and Yigong, will fully support you. ”

"Good! I won't say it......"

Liu Wenhui was furious when he received the urgent report, and handed the telegram to Chiang Kai-shek with a calm face, without saying a word.

Chiang Kai-shek was taken aback after reading it, and hurriedly persuaded Liu Wenhui to go back to the conference room together to discuss the long term. Where did Liu Wenhui, who couldn't get a response to his request, have such a good mood, he immediately saluted, said goodbye in a deep voice, took his adjutant, and walked out of the camp without looking back.

Chiang Kai-shek was very anxious and extremely embarrassed, just now he also said that the British ambassador Gadgan had made it clear that the conflict would stop and sit down to negotiate, but he did not expect that in a blink of an eye, the Xikang rebels would destroy a company of Liu Wenhui.

The feeling of being deceived was intertwined with a belly full of anxiety, swirling in Chiang Kai-shek's chest.

Chiang Kai-shek's face was blue and white, looking at Liu Wenhui's back in a hurry, unable to speak, scaring Zhu Peide and An Yi and others who rushed over.