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Chapter 24 Taking over Jinan (17)

When Wu was in trouble, the martial arts and guards were much more awake than him. The fact that overseas Chinese wiped out Anluotang had already spread in Jinan, so everyone had to think about it in their hearts. The consequences were quite serious.

Although when Wu set out at home, all the martial arts and guards were full of fighting spirit, they were actually thinking about their own little plans. Although Wu usually treats these martial arts, guards are indeed not bad, but they don’t have to sell their lives to Wu. Therefore, if you really meet overseas Chinese, you should be smarter. When it comes time to take action, you should slow down your movements. It is best to let others go first and see the direction of the wind.

As a result, everyone had this idea. When Wu rushed up, no one moved. Two guards followed him for two steps, but when he saw left and right, no one followed him, so he hurriedly stopped and retreated to the crowd. Wu was still unaware of it, and he rushed forward alone. When the People's Army saw that only one person rushed up, he did not shoot. Several policemen went up and beat him up and arrested Wu. In almost the blink of an eye, the other martial artists and guards ran away, so the soldiers stationed in the tobacco hall immediately reported to the Jinan government.

After receiving the report, Wang Sheng couldn't help but be overjoyed. He was about to catch several typical examples who refused to ban smoking, but he didn't expect that Wu would hit his gun on his own initiative. He was the largest tobacco dealer in Jinan. He was the largest tobacco dealer in Jinan. He could not only shock the tobacco dealer in Jinan, but also greatly enrich the finances of the Jinan government. During this period, the Jinan government not only fought with the gentry, but also carried out various tasks such as the establishment, integration, inventory and filing of government departments.

The Qing court's local administrative system had great disadvantages. One of them was that there was almost no concept of local finance, and almost all the taxes collected were handed over to the central government. Once any major accidents, such as natural disasters and wars, all depended on the central government to allocate materials and funds, and then let local gentry donate. Therefore, it is not unreasonable that gentry has great influence in the local area.

Jinan was considered a large city in this era, but the storage of warehouses was extremely poor. After the time travelers cleaned it, the grain was only more than 300 stones, and most of them were rotten and deteriorated grains, less than 3,000 taels of silver, and 5,000 copper coins. There were also a bunch of other things, such as cloth, wood, medicinal materials, etc., but most of them were old items, which were basically useless. And this was quite good. In Jiaozhou, Gaomi and Jimo occupied by the time travelers, there was nothing except a few starving rats in the warehouses.

But time travelers are modern management systems implemented, and of course they need to establish a good local financial system. However, they have hardly inherited any wealth from the Qing court and cannot ask for money from the East China government everywhere. It is easy to do something.

Fortunately, the Logical Time Traveler arrested continuously on the first day of taking over Jinan, executed more than ten officials, and confiscated the homes of 5 or 6 officials, and obtained a large amount of money and materials. Although this batch of money and materials will not be left in Jinan and will be handed over to the East China government, some of them will definitely be kept locally, so it can also alleviate a considerable amount of financial pressure. At least in the early stage of taking over Jinan, financial urgent needs can be temporarily suspended, otherwise no matter how reorganized or integrated it is done.

After destroying Anluotang, the Jinan government will undoubtedly obtain a large amount of wealth and materials. Even if he confiscates Na Wu's home, even if he submits a part of the East China government, Jinan's finances should be enough. However, Na Wu was foolish and took the initiative to deliver the opportunity to his door. Moreover, Na Wu has been operating an opium business in Jinan for many years. Although he has earned huge wealth, he has also made him extremely famous. After all, it is impossible to have a good reputation when opening a tobacco restaurant. Therefore, confiscating his home will only make the people in Jinan applaud.

Now the Jinan government has sealed Nawu's tobacco house, so Wang Sheng immediately ordered Zhang Zhengjie to dispatch troops to confiscate Nawu's home immediately.

This order was actually very extreme. If it was even half an hour later, Wu's property might have been divided. It turned out that Wu's martial artist, who was raised, scattered in the courtyard, most of the people finally returned to the Wu's mansion. At this time, the mansion was in chaos. Wu's wife and concubine cried and shouted. Although his sons shouted to use silver to save people, they all focused on Wu's property. The martial artists and guards were also greedy. The Wu's mansion was caught by overseas Chinese, which must be a little bit of luck. It seems that he can't make any more money here. Wu's wife, concubine, and children have no capable people. It's better to grab a sum of money from Wu's house and fly away.

So after several martial artists discussed that more than 20 guards were willing to join, everyone immediately started to attack the warehouse and started to rob. The couple of children in the army naturally refused and brought some family members to stop them. However, they were the martial artists and the guards' opponents were knocked to the ground. At this time, Wu's wife and concubine would only cry and could not do anything. There were also a few brave martial artists who even had bad intentions and pulled the two young and beautiful concubines in the army to the room.

Fortunately, at this moment, the People's Army rushed to Curry in Nawu and shot several martial artists and guarding the hospital. Others did not dare to make trouble anymore. They honestly raised their hands to surrender. The two young concubines of the Wu also escaped the disaster. However, after this demolition, the Wu's wife, concubines, and children also calmed down, and they did not dare to say no to the People's Army. Therefore, they all honestly followed the mercy of the People's Army and were taken out of the Wu's mansion. The Wu's home was also sealed off, waiting for the time travelers to come and take a little closer.

Except for that country, the other gentry were very honest. They stopped all the transactions that should be stopped early this morning. Many people wanted to watch the wind direction. Because they were other people who opened tobacco shops, they wanted to close the door for a few days, but they did not intend to hand over the opium. They waited for the wind to pass before reopening. However, the country's knot also made them understand that for overseas Chinese, it was impossible to drag them over by dragging them. Moreover, the time required by overseas Chinese was limited to hand over the opium, so they had to bear the pain of handing over the opium.

At this time, no one in Jinan City dared to oppose the Jinan government openly or secretly, but all honestly followed the requirements of the Jinan government, shut down what should be closed, shut down what should be closed, and register. Therefore, the time was not long, and all shops in Jinan City also completed the registration.

However, after the time to pay the opium, the Jinan government received more than 5,000 boxes of opium and conducted a surprise inspection on the merchants who operated the opium business. As a result, it was found that six companies had more than 1,000 boxes of opium privately hidden. It turned out that although all the merchants did not dare to operate opium anymore, they were unwilling to hand over all their opiums, so they hid the opium well, hoping to pass the test by luck. Then there was no room for luck among time travelers.

The Jinan government was not polite, arresting all the merchants who had hidden opium and confiscated their property, because in the matter of banning opium, time travelers had no room for harmony and could not give people any luck. Moreover, the Jinan government had given them a chance before. Since they were going to die, no one could stop them.

This shocked many people again, because there are still many people who have privately hidden opium, so some people took the initiative to admit that they had privately hidden opium, hoping that the Jinan government would let it go! After discussion, the Jinan government made a decision and designated another deadline to hand over the privately hidden opium and also had to pay a considerable amount of fine. So more than 10 merchants paid more than 1,600 boxes of opium and fined more than 50,000 taels.

At this time, the Jinan government confiscated a total of more than 6,800 boxes of opium, totaling more than 50,000 kilograms. Wang Sheng also chose a day to publicly destroy this batch of opium in the suburbs of Jinan City, which also attracted the attention of tens of thousands of people. The ban on smoking and ban on opium is indeed a popular action. Except for a few smokers, the vast majority of people hate opium, because the family was destroyed by opium and the family was destroyed, and many people were separated from their wives and children, so the onlookers also applauded.

Moreover, this is another large-scale drug destruction action carried out by China after the Humen cigarettes were removed in 1839. However, when Humen cigarettes were removed, the Qing court was still a sovereign and independent country, but now China has become a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and a large amount of sovereignty was lost. It is even more commendable to carry out a cigarette disposal action in such a context. Tianjin also sent reporters to conduct on-site interviews and reports, preparing to conduct a large-scale publicity.

After the destruction of opium, Wang Sheng ordered that more than 10 opium merchants including Nawu be sentenced to death and be executed in public. Then he announced in public that the Jinan government's determination to ban smoking and ban opium was unshakable. In the future, those who sell opium will be sentenced to death at one rate and welcome the public to report. The entire smoking ban activity was declared to be completely over.

The cigarette disposal operation also achieved a decisive victory for the travelers in the fight against the gentry of Shandong. Although during this period, the Jinan government and the gentry of Shandong fought wits and courage, and even if it was a massacre, their behavior was quite restrained. Whether it was the People's Army or the police, their actions were limited to the target gentry, but they did not invade the people of Jinan. This was very different from the Qing army before. If such a major event had happened in the Qing court, the city of Jinan would have been in chaos and could not be at peace.

In addition, after the Jinan government wiped out Anluotang, it strictly prohibited the gang forces from invading the interests of merchants. The interests of residents were also a heavy blow to the gang forces in Jinan. Although one gang did not believe in evil, he not only charged the merchants protection fees, but also planned to take over the gap left by Anluotang. As a result, the Jinan government took action without hesitation and destroyed the gang in one fell swoop, thus also eliminating the fantasies of other gangs, so he had to endure it honestly.
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