Chapter 57: Wang Jie Returns

  Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

  The training of new soldiers is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the basic training of the squad has been going well despite some unexpected events. However, the progress is clearly not as fast as when Lin Wen and Sun Da Bao were training, because their foundation was laid very solidly. Now, among the 150 people, basically everyone is building their foundation, with the daily workload increasing continuously, and the effect is quite obvious.

  Every member of the direct team is actually an object of envy for new recruits. Although the direct team trains the hardest, in the 318th Regiment, everyone knows that the direct team has the highest salary and the best food, with meat every meal.

  This isn't Wang Mingyu being biased towards them, the other new recruits aren't jealous of them either. It's just that their training is too tough. Basically, all the new recruits who have seen the regular training of the direct team think that the captain is too harsh. Apart from the regular training, it's said that there are special trainings as well, and the captain has established a confidentiality principle, so nobody knows what the so-called special training content is. But thinking about it, it can't be simple if they're keeping it confidential, it must be tough.

  The training of the new recruits quickly got on track, with an intensity that was twice as high as before in the 318th Regiment. The basic requirements for each soldier were also raised by a big margin. Zhang De'en and his comrades now felt that if these new recruits were trained for half a year, they could completely match them, veterans who had fought for many years. After being baptized on the battlefield, their combat effectiveness would absolutely be higher than that of the 318th Regiment before, perhaps even comparable to that of the legendary Central Army's elite troops.

  Zhang Deen's idea was correct, but the troops Wang Mingyu wanted to train were not on the same level as the Central Army. The first three months of training, Wang Mingyu had already planned very well, these were all basic training, and the later training would be even more strict. It wasn't until later that everyone found out that an ordinary soldier from the 318th Regiment went to another unit to become a platoon leader, but people from the 318th Regiment didn't want to do it.

  The Intelligence Section established by Gao Shan, due to the lack of wireless telegraphy knowledge training, Wang Mingyu specially pulled strings and let Gao Shan and five others go to Shanghai for a six-month wireless telegraphy knowledge training. During this period, the work of the Intelligence Section was also handled by Wang Mingyu.

  The Intelligence Division has a total of fifty people, all of whom are carefully selected by the high mountains. They are all clever and resourceful individuals. Wang Mingyu, through modern spy dramas he had watched, combined with special forces training in disguise, psychological quality training, reconnaissance key points, map drawing, social skills training, etc., left these intelligence personnel enchanted.

  Wang Mingyu was in charge of the direct team and the intelligence department, which did not conflict with each other. The training of the direct team mainly focused on Lin Wen and others during the day, while Wang Mingyu would take two hours every evening to train them in disguise, reconnaissance, blasting, and hostage rescue methods. They also trained members of the direct team while improving themselves. During the daytime, Wang Mingyu mainly concentrated on the intelligence department, where he had time to compile a small booklet for the personnel to read, containing stories about espionage wars, key points to note, and basically everything that could be thought of.

  The training results of the Intelligence Section are also gratifying. They have now begun to slowly explore their own way, and each person's situation is different. During this period, there was a 20-year-old young man named Ah Wu who performed exceptionally well, making Wang Mingyu take notice. In Wang Mingyu's opinion, Ah Wu was born with the makings of an intelligence officer, with clear thinking on intelligence matters and a good grasp of human nature. Wang Mingyu appointed Ah Wu as the deputy head of the Intelligence Section for this period, temporarily taking over the duties of the section head until Gao Shan returns to assist him.

  The training of the guard company is even more straightforward, and Wang Mingyu directly follows the standard of the direct team's early stage training. Except for camouflage, blasting, hostage rescue, and wilderness survival training, everything else is carried out according to Wang Mingyu's thinking. However, the cadres of the guard company have not been selected yet. In fact, Wang Mingyu has considered it, because he wants Lin Wen to take over as the captain of the guard company after the direct team's training is over.

  Wang Mingyu continuously improved and supplemented the training plan, holding a meeting every week to discuss the training results. During this period, there was also a military martial arts competition, in which a company commander from the 4th battalion came in last place and was publicly criticized by the entire division, stripped of his position as company commander, replaced by the deputy company commander, and demoted to platoon leader, continuing to participate in training.

  On January 1st, 1936, Wang Jie disembarked from Shanghai Port and headed straight for Ningbo.

  "Report to the team leader, there is a gentleman outside who says he is looking for you!" A soldier from the communication squad saluted and said to Wang Mingyu.

  "What's your surname?" Wang Mingyu raised an eyebrow and thought: "Who is looking for me at this time?"

  "Surname Wang, he also shouted to find our young master..." The communication soldier said weakly, and after finishing, he glanced at Wang Mingyu. Seeing Wang Mingyu excitedly running out, the communication soldier was stunned, thinking that at this time, shouldn't the team leader say to bring people in? Later, he shook his head, smiled, and followed up.

  At the entrance of dormitory 318, Wang Jie wore a western-style suit and looked like an overseas returnee. However, the Marlboro cigarette in his mouth betrayed his image.

  "Wang Jie..." Wang Mingyu rushed over with a smile, only to see Wang Jie, who was chatting and laughing with the soldiers, drop his Marlboro cigarette on the ground. He then turned around and shouted at Wang Mingyu: "Young master, I've finally seen you again! I thought I was going to die!"

  The soldier next to him was stunned, and then saw the team leader coming over. Was it an inspection? Later, he saw the man who had just been talking to himself tightly hugging the team leader, with what seemed to be tears in his eyes. Could it be... A soldier thought wickedly, but the next moment made it clear.

  "Master, is the old master doing well?" Wang Jie asked. "He's fine, I went back home for a while last time. How did you know I was here?" Wang Mingyu asked curiously. "Hehe, just made a casual phone call and asked around. Mingyu, this time I came back, I brought 3 million dollars with me, not enough to send a telegram to ask them to bring some more over. Mainly, the money we're making now is all invested in the projects you want to invest in, so it's hard to gather much cash at once. Also, I brought a lot of cigarettes, but they're all stored at the Shanghai dock!" Wang Jie said quietly. "En, no problem, this time you brought a lot of money too, I think we won't use it up for a while. We're currently thinking of ways to transport some things from Suzhou and the north." Wang Mingyu and Wang Jie stood aside talking, the other soldiers didn't dare get close. "What do you plan to do?" Wang Jie asked curiously. "When are you planning to leave this time?" Wang Mingyu asked. "I plan to stay for a couple of months before leaving, it's not easy to come back once in a while, and being in America is broadening my horizons too. I just realized that I used to be a country bumpkin, very rustic." Wang Jie laughed and said. Wang Mingyu's face looked a bit unpleasant, saying: "If we want to change our country, first we must accept other people's knowledge, but we can't look down on our own country. No matter what time, we are all descendants of the Yan and Huang emperors."

  Wang Jie looked at Wang Mingyu's face and hastily said, "Mingyu, you misunderstood me. I was just talking about myself. Now that I'm in the US, I can manage all right. However, there's a lot of pressure from Zhongsheng Pharmaceutical. Many countries want to buy our Zhongsheng Pharmaceutical at a high price. Japan even offered $100 million to buy our factory and technical personnel." As Wang Jie spoke, he felt like drooling. $100 million! Who has ever seen that much money in their lifetime?

  Wang Mingyu sneered and said: "A toad wants to eat swan meat, one hundred million? Even if it's one billion, I won't sell it to this group of beasts."

  Wang Jie looked at Wang Mingyu without hesitation and asked: "Young Master, why?"

  Wang Mingyu said coldly, "Because these medicines represent not money, but life. Why should I help Japan? Why should I help them cure their illnesses and then come to invade our country? These medicines, I can only sell a small part of them to them at a high price, ten times higher than others, especially during wartime! They plunder our wealth, and then use our wealth to buy our things to fight us. Is there anything more shameless than this?"

  Wang Jie finally understood what was going on, and immediately regretted the little trick he had just played. He then said to Wang Mingyu: "Young master, I was wrong. From now on, I won't sell those damned things anymore."

  Wang Mingyu smiled and said, "We still have to sell, but not too much, and the price must be high. We must try to find out their bottom line, and then slowly raise it. This is also a way to consume their national strength."

  Wang Jie listened to Wang Mingyu's words and smiled, "Young master, this method doesn't seem bad either, haha, I understand. In the few years I've been in the US, I haven't wasted my time, I've also learned a lot from them."

  Wang Mingyu said: "This is good, we want to enter more industries through Zhongsheng Pharmaceutical, the aviation industry, petroleum and other industries that I mentioned last time, steel, automobiles and other industries must be implemented as soon as possible, shares must be many, as much as possible."

  Wang Jiadao said: "We already have a countermeasure for this, and the current share acquisition situation is very optimistic. We are involved in aircraft, oil, steel, and automobiles, and we are constantly absorbing shares."

  P.S: I'll be on a business trip to Shanghai the day after tomorrow and won't be able to update. I'll make up for it when I get back on Monday.