Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 137 9 Hall

"sit!"

Entering the central meeting hall, there is a five-meter long mahogany table in the middle, with more than a dozen chairs on both sides.

Zhou Debiao took the most important position in the middle. Looking at the dozen or so key subordinates standing on both sides, he nodded with satisfaction and pressed his hands lightly.

"Wow!"

As Zhou Debiao finished speaking, the leaders of his subordinates on both sides sat down in an orderly manner.

"Go on!" Zhou Debiao said after the disciples on both sides had added tea.

"Alliance leader, the Wu Hall has already conquered one-third of the Daobei refugee zone. All the small gangs have either been defeated or left." Tieli, the leader of the War Hall who was sitting first on the right, stood up and reported.

"Yes, how are the casualties among our brothers? Do you need any support?" Zhou Debiao said, tapping the table with his fingers.

Since its establishment, Yanhuang League has nine branches:

The elders' hall is responsible for deliberation and decision;

The clerk is responsible for assisting the gang leader;

The organization hall responsible for personnel;

War Hall responsible for external violence;

Jinyintang, which is responsible for business;

The Law Enforcement Hall is responsible for internal and external supervision;

The information hall is responsible for internal and external liaison;

The General Affairs Hall, which is responsible for logistics;

The Jemin Hall, which is responsible for charity work;

Each of these nine halls has three hall masters, one chief and two deputy chiefs. Now there is only the chief one, who is newly established.

Moreover, the head of each hall will be a member of the Elders Hall. Therefore, in the absence of Zhou Debiao, the Elders Hall is the highest institution of the Yanhuang League.

Of course, now that the gang is newly established, Zhou Debiao deliberately left the position of the elder hall vacant. He wanted to make these subordinates go up, the capable ones go up, and the mediocre ones go down. Not everyone can be an elder, only those who have made achievements can get promoted.

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“A total of five brothers have been killed recently, and sixteen are seriously injured. After they recover, they can probably only do some odd jobs.” The head of the War Hall, Tieli, lowered his voice as he spoke.

"Can I eat people or what? The voice of Tie Tangzhu, the successor of the Iron Sand Palm, was clamped by his buttocks.

When the gang was first established, naturally there were countless peers who were dissatisfied with it. Naturally, there would be bloodshed and some casualties were inevitable.

I also allow casualties, as long as you don't deliberately let your brothers die.

But there is one thing I want to emphasize, and that is, for the sake of the brothers in the alliance who have shed blood, we cannot let them shed tears again.

The Internal Affairs Hall is responsible for pensions, the Law Enforcement Hall is responsible for supervision, and other halls also have the right to inquire.

If Zhou knew who dared to embezzle the brothers' pensions, don't blame me for not considering him a brother.

All right, sit down quickly! What a fool you are, you are only as strong as an iron man or a bird. " Zhou Debiao scolded with a smile.

"Ha ha!"

The lobby suddenly burst into laughter.

"My mouth is tightly closed. Whoever laughs and watches me will be cut by me." Tieli said coquettishly, his dark face flushed red.

The laughter lasted for a minute, and the tense atmosphere in the hall relaxed a lot.

"Sit down, why are you still standing?" Zhou Debiao looked at Tieli who was still standing there stupidly.

"Well, leader, I haven't mentioned the difficulties yet!" Tieli scratched his head and smiled foolishly.

"Hurry up and tell me. I forgot about it because you interrupted me just now." Zhou Debiao nodded and scolded with a smile.

"Alliance leader, our battle hall is in urgent need of manpower and weapons.

Now, apart from the people who are left in the gang to garrison, there are less than two hundred official gang members working outside every day.

Now the gang's business continues to expand, and conflicts with other gangs are increasing. If it weren't for the muskets, we would have been beaten down by other gangs long ago." Tieli said excitedly.

"Okay, I understand your request. Sit down first and wait for other halls to finish their discussions and then handle them together." Zhou Debiao comforted Tieli and asked him to sit down.

The Elders' Hall and the Clerk's Hall do not need to hold meetings now. There is no one in the Elders' Hall, and the Clerk's Hall only needs to report to Zhou Debiao.

The head of the Personnel Hall is a traditional cultural figure in his forties, Li Wenru.

"Alliance leader, the personnel files of the gang have been sorted out, and we have sufficient reserve personnel. We can expand more than twice." Li Wenru did not state his needs. After he finished speaking, he bowed and sat down.

“Alliance leader, Jinyintang has now opened 20 stores in the city, and has also acquired some businesses in Xianyang, Sanyuan, and Jingyang.

We are just renting as you said and not buying. Now the minimum profit is 500 dollars a day.

I will have someone hand over all the accounts to the Secretariat later, and the leader can check them.

Moreover, as the leader had instructed, pawnshops and gold and silver shops exchanged silver for gold and used legal tender paper money to purchase raw stones and meteorites, and they have already made some gains, which are now stored in the treasury of the leader of the Internal Affairs Hall.

The problem is that the food, medicinal materials, fruits, and meat in several large inventories are running low and need to be replenished urgently. "Han Fuheng, the head of the business hall, said with a bow.

The head of the business hall is a descendant of a Shaanxi merchant family, recommended by Tong Baizhan. He is in his early thirties and has strong connections and abilities.

"Fuheng, you did a great job, sit down!

I'm repeating it again, please remember it.

Raw jade and meteorites, as long as you know the channel, the source and who has them, you will use any means to get them, except killing someone.

All you need to understand is that these two things were one of the original intentions of my founding the Yanhuang League.

Wenshutang, please note that from now on, no matter if it is a disciple in the alliance or an outsider, as long as they contribute meteorites, they will be awarded at least one second-class merit. "Zhou Debiao stared at Wenjun, the head of Wenshutang, and said seriously.

The head of the Wenshutang, Wenjun, was a female college student from Central China. She was bought by Zhou Debiao from a dental clinic. She was very loyal to Zhou Debiao and became the director of his secretariat.

Oh! That’s right, it’s the head of the Wenshu Hall.

When everyone heard Zhou Debiao say that contributing a meteorite would be awarded a second-class merit, their eyes widened.

In their eyes, a meteorite is nothing more than a piece of iron! It is also a bit ominous, and they would not want it even if it is given to them for free.

But this second-class merit is a good thing!

In the Yanhuang League, a second-class merit is counted as fifty contribution points. You should know that one hundred points can make you a hall protector who governs thirty formal members.

In addition to being used as capital for advancement, fifty points can also be exchanged for five hundred dollars.

Five hundred dollars is a considerable fortune. It can buy five acres of high-quality irrigated land in Qin Province, making you a landowner, and buy a two-story courtyard in Chang'an City.

In addition to these, the second-class merit can also ask the hall to help deal with a personal private matter.

If you don't want any of the above, you can exchange fifty points for two marrow cleansing and bone strengthening pills put in by the alliance leader at the public treasury.

This pill was made by Hou Xiaoge using the spiritual spring water in the space and the ordinary five-year-old rare medicinal materials in the space. The medicinal effect is quite strong.

When taken by ordinary people, it can treat serious diseases that are beyond treatment. When taken by martial artists, the effect is even better, as it can replenish qi and blood, strengthen bones, and also have a slight effect of cleansing tendons and marrow.

If you don't want all of these, you can exchange them for two muskets with 500 rounds of bullets.

So when everyone heard that he was awarded the second-class merit, they all said that they would definitely treat this as a top priority.

The Law Enforcement Hall and the Internal Affairs Hall are both internal affairs. Since the gang is newly established, there is nothing much to say about them. The only ones left are the External Relations Hall and the Jimmy Choo Hall.

"Alliance leader, the gang is now providing relief to tens of thousands of disaster victims every day, distributing 100 dan of grain and more than 1,000 doses of healing medicine.

There is not much grain left, and we have to borrow from the Internal Affairs Hall and the Gold and Silver Hall. These two guys are not considerate. "The person who manages Jimin Hall is an old scholar in his forties, who is quite angry.

"Who are you scolding, old man?

The Internal Affairs Hall is in charge of the food, drink, defecation and urination of more than 800 brothers in the gang, and they calculate the money carefully every day. If they lend it to you, then what will the brothers do?

Your Jimin Hall is famous for only spending money and not taking in money. Don’t you know how to do the math? There are so many poor people in the world. Can our non-governmental organizations save them all? "Wang Defa, the head of the Internal Affairs Hall, is also an old-school scholar. He stood up and angrily scolded Li Xiuyuan, the head of the Jimin Hall.

"You, you little man, you are so imaginative and presumptuous that you have read the books of sages for so many years.

Now that there are disaster victims everywhere, it is time for scholars like me to step forward and save the people. It would be fine if you didn't support me, but you are still here making sarcastic remarks.

I was blind when I recommended you to the leader of the alliance to be the head of the internal affairs hall. I thought that an acquaintance could help me! But I didn't expect that the eagle would peck my eyes.

Bah! I am ashamed to sit at the same table with you." Li Xiuyuan, the head of Jimin Hall, put his hands on his waist and cursed at Jin Neiwu Hall.

"Humph! How can you clean up the world if you can't even clean up your own house?

You old bastard, you have squandered your family's wealth of several generations, and your hungry wife has to run to my house to borrow food every day. You still have the nerve to talk about this? Aren't you afraid that your uncle will beat you with his shoe soles after you are buried?

Besides, the leader trusts me and lets me be the person in charge of the Internal Affairs Hall, so I must live up to his trust.

I'll lend you the grain from the Internal Affairs Hall as you ask? Humph! I'm still lending you the grain.

Pah! I'm afraid the meat bun will never come back!

When I go back today, I will tell my wife that your family came to borrow food, so just close the door and let the dogs out." Wang Defa also said sarcastically.

The two men were childhood classmates. Both families came from relatively well-off families. When Wang Defa was young, his family was robbed of their property by warlords and became destitute. In order to pay off the debts, he suffered a lot and had to work as an accountant to support his family.

Li Xiuyuan's family was even more well-off. When he was 18 years old in Qin Province, he donated all his property in a fit of impulsiveness.

After Li Xiuyuan donated his property, he joined a charity organization in Qin Province. He didn't contribute much money to his family every month, but just managed to make ends meet.

This has caused great hardship to his wife, children and the elderly. These years, he can only make a living by selling his property and ancestral home, and occasionally has to borrow money from friends when he is in financial difficulty.

How much courage does it take to sacrifice one's family to help the people? Therefore, Li Xiuyuan was well-known in Chang'an, and Zhou Debiao invited Li Xiuyuan to the Jimin Hall.

As the Internal Affairs Hall was short of staff, Li Xiuyuan took the opportunity to recommend his good friend Wang Defa, who was an accountant.

The Master of the Jinyin Hall, who was about to say a few words, looked at the two people bickering, and just smiled bitterly and stopped talking.

“Well, both of you are important figures in the alliance, so you should stop arguing, lest the disciples outside the sect laugh at you.

First of all, I have to praise Brother Li for his benevolence. If it weren't for Brother Li's efforts in saving the world and the people during this period, our Yanhuang Alliance would not have become so famous, nor would we have been recognized by so many people.

So Brother Li, you have made an indelible contribution, and Jimin Hall has also made an indelible contribution.

As for Brother Wang, you are right. Each branch of the Yanhuang Alliance must take care of its own affairs and you cannot interfere with any branch.

The Neiwu Hall is the core of the entire gang. It is not only the purse string for hundreds of brothers in the gang, but also the purse string for thousands and tens of thousands of brothers’ families inside and outside the gang.

Being impartial and ruthless is what you should do and what you must do. The first thing a gang should do is to protect the interests of the brothers, and nothing else. If even you and your family starve to death, then it's better not to run the gang.

Brother Li, I respect your approach, but it is wrong to sacrifice yourself and your family to help others.

I remember your salary is 100 dollars a month, right? I can only give you 50 dollars in the future, and let the gang send the other 50 directly to the old sister-in-law. "Zhou Debiao said to the two men while pulling and beating them.

"Thank you for the praise, Leader!" Wang Defa just bowed to express his gratitude and sat down.

"Hey, leader, this hundred dollars of mine can save a lot of disaster victims! My family has enough to live on, but we just have a little to eat." Li Xiuyuan said with a slightly flushed face.

"No, as the leader of a gang, your family lives in such poverty. If others see you, they will think that the Yanhuang League is harsh on their brothers. This will really damage the image of the Yanhuang League. This matter must not be mentioned again." Zhou Debiao refused directly.

Li Xiuyuan also knew that the leader of the alliance was always overbearing, and the reason he made him the leader of Jimin Hall was simply because he admired his impartiality and incorruptibility.

He was just aloof and loved fame, but he was not a fool, so he had to sit down in dismay.

The Information Hall was the last to take its turn, and this was also a hall that Zhou Debiao valued very much.

The disciples of this hall are all alert and smart people, and are required to be literate. It is an important hall for gathering intelligence, collecting information and speaking out.

"Alliance leader, recently many gang leaders from the Qinghong Gang and the local Pao Ge Society have sent letters, wanting to meet you." Cui Wenying, the head of the Information Hall, stood up and said.

Cui Wenying was from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He was an old-school legal advisor who was adept at handling receptions and affairs, so Zhou Debiao arranged him to work in the Information Hall to make full use of his abilities.

"What's the point of meeting? It's nothing more than money and territory, or alliance. I refuse all of these. If you want to meet, just make your own decision.

However, the four principles I mentioned at the beginning are still non-alliance, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and no gambling or drugs in the country.

As long as it complies with these principles, you can do whatever you want." Zhou Debiao looked around and tapped the table with his index finger.

"Yes, I understand, Leader." Everyone agreed.

"Alliance leader, there is one more thing. That is~" Cui Wenying said and looked at the hall masters around him.

"Speak up! You are all core figures in the gang. If no one knows, then it's useless for you to say it." Zhou Debiao saw what he was thinking and said loudly.

"it is good!"

"Recently, the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Qin Army and the Red Army have contacted us, hoping to cooperate with us." Cui Wenying said softly.

"Oh! How do we cooperate?" Zhou Debiao understood that he would come into contact with these people sooner or later, so there would be no surprises.

"The government has proposed that the refugee area under the Jimin Hall be handed over to the local government for management. We only need to provide one thousand shi of grain every month.

Also, they hope to buy red injury medicinal materials from us." Cui Yingjie said.

"No, I don't agree.

I know better than anyone what kind of people those people in the government are. It is like throwing meat buns at a dog to let them manage Jimin Hall. It would be considered good if we can leave 50 dan of grain for the disaster victims out of 100 dan." As soon as Cui Wenying finished speaking, Jimin Hall Master Li Xiuyuan jumped up in anger.

"Okay, Brother Li, no one has agreed yet. Let's just talk about this issue. You'd better sit down first!" Zhou Debiao admired and was troubled by this stubborn person. He speechlessly told him to sit down quickly.

"Master Cui, please remember that the government's request to hand over Jimin Hall to them for management is absolutely unacceptable. This goes against the purpose of the Yanhuang League to save the world and the people.

However, compared to the government, we are just a non-governmental organization, and we still need to show a certain degree of respect and compromise.

We can give up some of the profits from the medicinal materials at that time. Anyway, these medicinal materials will be used by the anti-Japanese troops in the end. "Zhou Debiao said to Cui Wenying, the hall master who was recording the information.