The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 296 Contradictions
"Look at you? Why am I looking at you?"

Yu Baozhong looked at him with disdain, and immediately replied to Jiang Cheng obediently, "Master Jiang, we have something to say!"

"Brother Wang has always been very close to the Japanese. Not only do they have close contacts with each other, but the good coal produced in the mining area is always given to the Japanese first!"

The old man was very smart about this young senior official: Feng Delin, who was entrenched in Zhengjiatun, had now fallen, and they would have to rely on him and his army to live in peace for a long time in the future.

Now is a good opportunity to surrender, and he will not let it go.

Wang Huaiye couldn't sit still when he heard this. The man's eyes bulged out and he looked impatient.

Especially since he was accused of something like this, he was so angry that he jumped up and pointed at Yu Baozhong and cursed: "You bastard, you actually falsely accused me in front of Master Jiang!?"

"We are all here to do business, no matter if they are Japanese or Russians... We are all paying with real money. Do you think I will not sell the coal that everyone has worked so hard to dig out?"

"Damn it, can you make money just by holding the coal in your hands? Everyone has to eat with me!"

"Why, we don't have money to eat and feed our wives and children, so why don't you give us money?"

Who knew that Yu Baozhong was clearly relying on the power of others and was determined to go against Wang Huaiye: "Okay, even if it's what you said, we sell coal to the Japanese for money and to find a way to make a living for everyone."

"Then let me ask you, why do you want to sell your last coal to the Japanese?"

Wang Huaiye was even more furious: "If you say that, you'd better show me the evidence! The coal is mined and taken out directly, so how can I be bothered to pick and choose the good ones to honor the queen?"

"Here……"

He suddenly became speechless in the middle of his words because he instantly caught the gloomy look of Jiang Cheng who was sitting behind the desk.

"Haha! I don't know anything about coal mines. If you really dig it out and then pick and choose, wouldn't that be a hassle?"

Jiang Cheng pretended to smile and said, "Alright, I've heard almost everything that happened. Let's go back and do our own things!"

"By the way, Mr. Luo, if you have nothing to do at home, please stay and have dinner with me."

…………

By the time the meeting was over, it was almost seven in the evening.

Jiang Cheng, who had been busy for a whole day, was already starving.

Ye Hai's mother-in-law Cui Ni brought her son Shengshi to cook some delicious home-cooked dishes for him, and also boiled a big pot of sweet rice porridge.

"Eat, can you smell enough just by sitting here?"

Seeing Luo Yuzhu and Mei Sheng sitting opposite the round table trembling with fear, Jiang Cheng, who was eating rice porridge with his bowl, put the bowl down.

Seeing the two guys opposite him trembled with fear, Jiang Cheng laughed out loud: "Oh, what's the matter? I'm letting you two have a simple meal, not a death meal."

"Look at what I'm eating, isn't it? This is a home-cooked meal made by my guard Ye Hai's family. Just eat it casually..."

Seeing the owner leading his son who had just learned to walk and carrying a large bowl of multi-grain cakes into the house, Jiang Cheng stood up and took it, holding the chubby Ye Shengshi in one hand, "Look at this naughty boy, he is capable, he is walking before he is even one year old."

It was not known whether it was because of Jiang Cheng’s kind words of comfort, or because Ye Shengshi’s cute appearance reminded him of his son’s tragic death, but the old man burst into tears.

Men value their reputation, and crying is often despised by others, which shows that they are really heartbroken.

Seeing him collapse like this, Mei Sheng quickly turned aside and whispered to comfort him. However, Jiang Cheng lowered his eyebrows, smiled faintly, handed Shengshi to Cui Ni who was beside him and made a wink to signal her to "stay away".

"Lao Luo, your son is gone, and many of your brothers have also been killed or injured - should we find a way to avenge them?"

Jiang Cheng's straightforward words made Luo Yuzhu suddenly lose consciousness, but he looked back at Jiang Cheng for a moment and then shook his head in pain: "I, I want to do it too... But how can I avenge this?"

As she spoke, she cried even harder.

Ye Hai, who had been standing at the door with his hands behind his back, curled his lips and said angrily: "We are all grown men, why are you wasting time! If you don't tell me everything, how can Master Jiang avenge you?"

Luo Yuzhu was still howling after hearing his words. Jiang Cheng returned to his seat indifferently, pulled out the Browning and slammed it on the table.

Jiang Cheng silently stared at Luo Mei, who was one sad and one shocked, and then smiled again: "You didn't dare to tell them, but now you are telling me the truth, right?"

Luo Yuzhu was shocked: "Master, you figured it out? How did you figure it out..."

Jiang Cheng put on a gentle smile, but in his heart he curled his lips and smiled: Haha, when those two old guys were fighting to the point of being black-eyed chickens, they still didn't forget to scare you with their eyes.
I really don’t believe that there is no “ghost” between you two!

After some hesitation, Luo Yuzhu finally told the whole story.

Liufangzi Coal Mine has only been in operation for three years. It was originally funded and built by Meng Enyuan's nephew Gao Shibin.

Later, Wu Junsheng occupied Siping and incorporated Liu Zhanxing, the local militia leader of Liufangzi.

So when something happened at the mine, the first person they looked for was Liu Zhanxing.

But this guy didn't care at all. He was just like Du Haisheng. He just drove them away as troublemakers and said that if they dared to cause trouble again, he would beat them all to death.

"That is to say, Liu Zhanxing won't make the decision for you either, right?"

Now, Jiang Cheng understood a little bit why the two of them were so timid.

But what Luo Yuzhu said next completely confirmed Jiang Cheng's guess that there was a conflict between Wang Huaiye and Yu Baozhong.

According to the mine owner, before the development of Liufangzi Coal Mine, Siping's mining industry was the poorest among its major industries.

Wang Huaiye, who is in charge of the mining industry under the Chamber of Commerce, has always been dissatisfied with Bao Zhong, believing that he is deliberately excluding him and not arranging lucrative jobs for him.

With this mentality, Wang Huaiye naturally had no good temper towards the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and the two had been at odds for many years.

Later, with the support of Gao Shibin, Liu Fangzi developed a coal mine - coal is known as black gold, and Wang Huaiye suddenly went from being penniless to being extremely rich:
Not only did people from all over the three northeastern provinces do business with him, but even foreigners such as the Russians and the Japanese were flocking to him.

Coal prices continued to rise, and Wang Huaiye, who had been a hard-working daughter-in-law for many years and had become a mother-in-law, naturally became even more dissatisfied with Baozhong.

"In other words, Yu Baozhong came to see you before your miners were attacked?"

Jiang Cheng was quite surprised to hear this detail.

"Yes, Master Jiang. He, he gave me two small yellow croakers and told me to bring more people to Siping City to cause trouble when the Chamber of Commerce holds a meeting on the 15th of next month—"

"Let me cooperate with him to replace Mr. Wang!"

(End of this chapter)