mtl008 Chapter 178 2 The Young Master Returns
Chapter 178 2 The Young Master Returns
As Su Bai accepted the plaque, he had a premonition that as soon as Kong Li recovered from his injury and was discharged from the hospital, he would come to cause trouble for him first.
Commissioner Huang was naturally the most distinguished guest. Su Bai specially arranged him in the private room of Wanfulin and arranged the Sixth Concubine to sit next to him.
Although the Sixth Aunt was very satisfied with Su Bai's arrangement, Su Bai now felt like a pimp.
Su Bai was able to get some unpublished inside information from Commissioner Huang, but to Su Bai's dismay, none of it was good news.
Although Kong Li lost all his troops in this battle, he gained the trust of the provincial government.
This so-called trust meant nothing more than that his more than a thousand defeated soldiers would no longer cause any trouble and would not become a hidden danger to the provincial government.
Although it only has the strength of a regiment, Kong Li's troops are still organized as the Sanlong Security Division, and he is still the division commander.
This means that the Sanlong area is still his defense zone.
Another piece of bad news was that Commissioner Huang boasted to Cheng Zifeng that he would apply to have the first company of the former Longxing Garrison Battalion transferred to the county government, but the provincial government did not agree.
Huang Wenchang finally told Su Bai a piece of good news in his opinion. After Chairman Han took over Shandong, he has been vigorously banning smoking. In the territories ruled by small warlords such as Sanlong, the tobacco shop business has always been the main source of income for these warlords. This time, the provincial government is going to clean up these tobacco shops.
The Kong brothers own more than a dozen opium dens of varying sizes across three counties. If they are forcibly closed, Kong Chen and Kong Li will suffer great losses.
Su Bai couldn't laugh at all after hearing the news. Kong Li had lost his profits, and he would probably keep a closer eye on the batch of gold bars, and he would have no good life.
Kong Li was like a nightmare that entangled him and wouldn't let go. Su Bai thought that there might be only two ways to get himself out of this predicament. One was the one he had been preparing for since entering the Kong Mansion, escaping from the Kong Mansion and leaving Longxing.
Another one is to kill Kong Chen and Kong Li.
I didn't have this idea before because I didn't have the strength. Kong Chen and Kong Li always brought a lot of guards with them every time they came to Longxing.
Now, he indirectly has hundreds of Yang Huasen's people. Even if he does not admit that he is their leader, and he has no ability or interest to be their leader, he and they share a common wish, which is to kill the Kong brothers.
As long as Kong Li came to Longxing, he would definitely be able to find a way to work with Yang Huasen to kill him once and for all.
Moreover, he now has a favorable condition that he did not have before. Everyone in the Kong Mansion is his people, and the concubines will stand on his side as long as it does not involve a critical moment of life and death.
After dinner, Su Bai sent Huang Wenchang and Cheng Zifeng to the door. The Sixth Aunt whispered to Su Bai that she had made an appointment with Huang Wenchang during the meal and would go back to Linhua with him.
"You're going to lose your virginity!" Su Bai mocked her, and she responded with that sentence again. Before she officially became Mrs. Huang, she would not let Huang Wenchang take advantage of her.
In the past, Su Bai really believed it.
But now, Su Bai felt that she might have lost her virginity a long time ago.
The Sixth Aunt did not avoid other people's gazes. She left Wan Fulin and got directly into Huang Wenchang's car. Su Bai recognized this car; it belonged to Cheng Zifeng.
After watching the car leave, Su Bai was about to return to the restaurant when he heard someone shouting from the corner, "Madam?"
Su Bai looked over and saw that it was Qian Rufei.
Su Bai pointed towards the north, and Qian Rufei immediately nodded in understanding.
When we returned to the backyard of the Confucius Mansion, Qian Rufei was already waiting outside the back door.
He brought 60 gold bars to Su Bai.
In addition to the 20 sticks owed last time, the remaining 40 sticks are the payment for the medicine this time.
40 sticks equals 120 boxes, but Su Bai doesn’t have that much stock.
"Take as much as you can. Doctor Chen asked you to contact the source of supply as soon as possible."
Su Bai first gave him 60 boxes.
The last batch of medicine produced a total of 140 boxes. 120 boxes were given to Doctor Chen twice. Together with the remaining ones and the ones recently given to Yang Huasen and Liu Yiyan, there are less than 20 boxes left. Su Bai felt that he could not leave empty-handed and had to keep some for emergency use.
Su Bai asked Qian Rufei to go back and tell Doctor Chen: "The next batch of medicine will probably take about ten days to arrive."
"Try to be quick. Kong Li has been keeping an eye on Captain Zhou." Qian Rufei told Su Bai that among the 60 gold bars this time, 30 were given by Kong Li to Zhou Beiwang to buy medicine.
Zhou Beiwang has gone to Qingdao today. He was afraid that Kong Li would send someone to keep an eye on him, so he made an appointment with Qian Rufei to meet in Qingdao to give the medicine to him, and then bring the medicine back from Qingdao to give it to Doctor Chen and Kong Li.
It’s such a hassle.
Su Bai felt that he could no longer keep this secret.
The thought of killing Kong Li just occurred to him, but it was dismissed in an instant.
The efficacy of this medicine is so outstanding that even if Kong Li doesn't keep an eye on it, someone else will in the future.
The best way for him was to raise 50,000 yuan as soon as possible, buy the pharmaceutical factory in Shanghai, and then wait for an opportunity to move to Chongqing.
Although he thought so, Su Bai felt that he was getting further and further away from the realization of his plan.
It was already the end of February, and there were only a little more than four months left before the July 2 Incident. No matter how busy I was, I was afraid it would be too late.
Maybe there could be a few more months. Su Bai really couldn't remember when the Japanese invaders occupied Shandong.
Looking at the 60 gold bars, Su Bai remembered that Huang Wenchang had mentioned that the provincial government was about to ban smoking in the Sanlong area, so he called Kong Dai over, gave him 10 gold bars, and asked him to buy opium with them.
“Buying so much?”
"Well, I have a use for it. I'm going to use it while it's still cheap. In a few days, not only will the price go up, but it won't be so easy to buy the goods."
This is not something learned from history, but a common sense judgment. As long as smoking is banned in the Sanlong area, the price will immediately soar. If you buy it at that time, it will not be easy to buy it, but you will also be sued.
While waiting for the mold to ferment these few days, Su Bai plans to extract as much morphine as possible. This will be one of the most scarce medicines when a war breaks out in the future.
Extracting morphine is much simpler and faster than making penicillin. Only one day later, Su Bai and Niu Yanzi extracted the first batch of morphine.
Sure enough, the day after Su Bai asked Kong Dai to buy back the opium and work overtime to extract most of it into morphine, the third wife's son, the second young master Kong Nanwei, returned to the Kong Mansion. Just today, Lu Shijie from the police station brought the police to seal off all the opium dens in Longxing City.
Kong Nanwei has been keeping an eye on the tobacco shop business for Kong Chen and Kong Li. Su Bai suspects that this is also a deliberate arrangement by Kong Li. His own illegitimate son Kong Nanzhou does not get involved in the tobacco shop business for fear of getting addicted to it.
"Then what are you doing back? The Second Master and the Third Master don't need you anymore?" Obviously, the Third Aunt thought that her son had a future working with Kong Chen and Kong Li.
Kong Nanwei said that Kong Li asked him to return to the Kong Mansion first and make arrangements in the future.
The Third Concubine was obviously very unwilling to see her son lose this job, and asked again: "How dare a Lu Shijie bring people to close down the Third Master's opium den?"
In fact, two days before the closure, Kong Li sent people to transfer most of the stocks from the tobacco shops.
There isn't much stock in the tobacco shop these days and it's barely getting by.
"Fortunately, I had foresight!" Kong Nanwei said proudly.
"What foresight do you have? You took the Third Master's money?"
Su Bai's heart tightened, something was wrong.
Could it be that he has hidden some opium?
If so, he is likely to be addicted to smoking.