The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

French Concession, National Hotel.

The hotel was founded in 1922 by Li Zhengqing, a comprador of Meifeng Bank.

Li Zhengqing was very good at coming, and he had no spare money at that time. So he asked the Swiss to rent the land first, and the rent could not be paid temporarily, but he promised to return the hotel and the land to the original owner free of charge after 15 years. The Swiss Lubana actually agreed, and immediately gave the land to Li Zhengqing.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhengqing took the land lease contract and borrowed 50,000 silver dollars from Quanye Bank to build a building. After the building was built, there was still a shortage of funds, so Li Zhengqing persuaded Pan Zixin to take a share and invest 20,000 silver dollars to purchase hotel equipment.

From the beginning to the end, Li Zhengqing built the National Hotel without spending a penny.

It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. Li Zhengqing never expected that his partner Pan Zixin would not follow the routine.

Pan Zixin, whose name is Zhixi, courtesy name He Zhong, and nickname Zixin, is a descendant of officials in the Qing Dynasty, known as Pan Qiye by people in the Jianghu, and a big brother of the Qing Gang. Seeing that the business of the National Hotel was very good, he was not satisfied with the little shares in his hand, so he snatched the hotel over - buying all the shares of Li Zhengqing for 55,000 yuan.

Poor Li Zhengqing worked hard for a long time, and finally only earned 5,000 yuan for hard work, and Pan Zixin took all the benefits.

Li Zhengqing is not a living Lei Feng, he is dedicated to benefiting others, so he has no choice but to sell it. Pan Zixin opened a mountain gate in Tianjin to set up an incense hall, and invited Zhang Xiaolin's brother Zhu Yanqing, and the hotel manager he appointed, Dai Shikui, was also a member of the Qing Gang's enlightened generation.

The whole restaurant is under the control of the Youth Gang, how dare Li Zhengqing say "no"?

Li Zhengqing played the empty glove white wolf, using a shrewd business acumen. But Pan Zixin was completely unreasonable and took a side route. In the society of the Republic of China where people cannibalize people, the latter will naturally win a big victory.

But Pan Zixin is not bad, and belongs to the Qingliu in the Green Gang. He did not kill them all, not only gave Li Zhengqing 5,000 yuan as a benefit fee, but also paid the hotel's first year's dividends in full.

If you change to the turbid gangsters of the Qing Gang, those policemen and local hooligans will look ugly, and it is normal for your family to be ruined and killed.

By the way, the current leader of the Tianjin Youth Gang Zhuoliu is Chu Yupu's subordinate Li Dahai. This person is an old guy from the Qing Gang. Chu Yupu specially invited him to control the territory of Tianjin.

Fortunately, when Zhou Hexuan was assassinated last year, Li Dahai hadn't turned to Chu Yupu, otherwise it would have been a member of the Green Gang who did it.

This time Yuan Kewen convened a gathering of members of the Qing Gang Qingliu, and the venue was chosen at the National Hotel.

Heroes from all walks of life came to the scene one after another, Wei Ziwen clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Seventh Master, long time no see, how many cups will we two drink alone some other day?"

"It's easy to say." Pan Zixin smiled back.

If Pan Zixin is still half black and half white, then Wei Ziwen is black at heart. This person started his business as a bar house, that is, leasing funeral equipment and funeral personnel, and sometimes undertaking funeral activities. Later, relying on his status as a youth gang, he gradually grew bigger and started playing pawnshops and loan sharks, forcing many people to go bankrupt.

But here is the funny part, Wei Ziwen has a black heart, but he likes to do charity, and often donates money to build bridges and pave roads. He is also very close to the dignitaries and nobles, and he actually walks the rivers and lakes with the face of a clean and kind person.

The two were talking and laughing, when suddenly another elegant middle-aged man came to the restaurant, they hurried over to pay a visit: "Brother Yuesheng!"

The person who came was of course not Du Yuesheng, but Zhang Yinghua and Zhang Yuesheng.

Zhang Yinghua studied abroad in the UK in his early years, studied at the University of Manchester, and worked as a professor at the Republic of China University after returning to China. Later, he turned to politics and served successively as the envoy of Hedong Salt Transport, the director of the Gansu Finance Department, the supervisor of Suzhou Customs, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Finance, and the chief minister of the Ministry of Finance.

He is a member of Wu Peifu. Because Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu fought openly and covertly, Zhang Yinghua's position as chief financial officer was also removed and he was replaced as governor of Henan Province. But in the past six months, Zhang Zuolin has been attacking Henan, and Zhang Yinghua is resolutely unwilling to take office, and has been relying on the Tianjin Concession.

With such a foreign talent, university professor, and political elite, would you guess that he is a big brother of the Qing Gang?

This person Zhang Yinghua, huh, huh, in the future he will join the Wang Puppet regime as a traitor.

Not long after Zhang Yinghua appeared, Wang Muyi, Guan Xingquan, Bi Xinzhai, Li Hanchen and others also arrived and took their seats.

Among them, Wang Muyi is worth mentioning. He belongs to the business elite who is good at management, just the opposite of the traitor Zhang Yinghua. When Japan invaded China and occupied Tianjin, Wang Muyi resolutely refused to cooperate with the Japanese and assisted Bian Shoujing to keep Hengyuan Spinning Mill.

The Qing Gang is like this, a mixed bag of nine streams. There are noble sons like Yuan Kewen, and black-hearted pickpockets like Wei Ziwen; there are traitors like Zhang Yinghua, and there are heroes who resist Japan like Wang Muyi.

Yuan Kewen led Zhou Hexuan and Zhang Xunzhi into the hall. He is wearing a suit and leather shoes, wearing sunglasses, and shaking a folding fan in his hand, showing his true qualities as a famous (dressed) scholar (forced).

After walking a few steps, everyone came forward to greet him one after another, saying in unison: "Young Master Yuan!"

The biggest reason why Yuan Kewen is so respected is because his father is called Yuan Shikai. Although a person is dead, he leaves his children and grandchildren.

"Everyone sits, everyone sits, haha," Yuan Kewen turned around and said with a smile, "Let me introduce a friend to you, Mr. Zhou Hexuan, a great scholar! The "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which have become popular in several northern provinces recently, are Written by Mr. Zhou."

"Hi yo!"

Wei Ziwen slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "I really like reading those two books. They are really well written. I finally met the author today!"

Yuan Kewen pointed to Pan Ziwen and introduced: "This guy is Wei Xiaozi, a loan shark."

Zhou Hexuan clasped his fists and said, "Brother Wei!"

Wei Ziwen didn't seem to like people saying that he was a usury, so he quickly corrected him: "Lending business, haha, leasing business."

Because of Wu Peifu's loss of power, Zhang Yinghua is now in a state of unemployment. She wants to seek refuge with Zhang Zuolin but has no way out. He said insinuatingly: "I heard that Mr. Zhou and the young marshal have a very close personal relationship?"

"I don't dare to be, I just worked as Liu Shuai's secretary, and now I help him with some business." Zhou Hexuan smiled.

"I see, Mr. Zhou has a bright future." Zhang Yinghua complimented. He was thinking about how to use Zhou Hexuan's way to catch Zhang Xueliang's express train, and then join Zhang Zuolin's command.

After Zhou Hexuan and the members of the Green Gang greeted each other, the food and drinks were served on the table.

Yuan Kewen raised his glass and got straight to the point, stood up and said, "Everyone, there are more and more refugees in Tianjin recently, and the authorities are unable to help them. Mr. Zhou saw it and was anxious, so he asked me to invite you to a banquet. I hope that the heroes of our Youth Gang can come forward. , Discuss disaster relief plans together!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone reacted differently.

The first to express support was Wei Ziwen, a loan shark. He laughed and said, "It's easy to say, I, Wei Xiaozhui, like to do charity. I used to be a shareholder of Bashantang, but it's a pity that Bashantang was dissolved. I see. Why don't we use this opportunity to re-establish a charity organization in the Youth Gang."