Chapter 77 Two Lives

Royal Casino, few people in the Shanghai Concession do not know this Russian casino. This is the largest foreign casino in the public concession. Most of the consumption here are the foreigners in the concession. The most popular business in the day is often after nightfall. Under the colored lights, the lights are brilliant, and the casino is even more It looks like a crowd of people.

Relying on the street lamp, the man in a suit stared straight at the casino. He wore a collar, a top hat on his head, and dressed as a common squire in the concession.

The waiter in a horse coat came out of the casino gate. The cold wind outside froze his head all over his body. Standing on the steps, he looked carefully and saw the people standing under the street lamp. He hurriedly ran over.

"Mr., I've already heard that Miss Natasha is..."

When he came to the most critical point, he suddenly stopped talking, and his mouth and face were full of greed.

The man who relied on the street lamp said nothing and took out a few pieces of money from his pocket and handed it to the man.

"In the east hall on the third floor."

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in a white coat ran back to the casino.

Andre, who had just been released from prison, stared at the Royal Casino with cigarette eyes, and his eyes were full of overwhelming anger. Andre is no stranger to the Royal Casino, where he has entertained customers many times.

In addition to the casino, the most attractive thing about the Casino Royale is probably the luxury and silver molesment of the Ottoman Turkish sultan court. Chinese, Russian, American, British, French and Middle Eastern women will give any guest in those luxurious rooms on the second floor or at least the fourth floor. A rare sultan-style royal enjoyment.

And those women, some are voluntary and some are oppressive. There will always be some guests who can't afford to pay back the Royal Casino. In the end, they can only choose to use their wives and daughters or themselves to pay off their debts. The casino owner Zhu Keweili is a Chechen, and he will never have a trace of sympathy for anyone. There is only money in his eyes. As for those If a woman refuses, he will solve the problem in a Chechen way.

For gamblers, this is the gold cave, for men, this is the soul cave, but for women, this is hell.

"Natasha!"

She is his wife and lover. She came to Shanghai with her from Russia, and now she has become a girl, the girl of the Royal Casino, for a false debt.

Throw away the cigarette butt between his fingers, his feet in boots twisted them fiercely, and Andre strode towards the casino with his hands in his coat pocket.

As he walked through the magnificent hall, Andre, who bowed his head, did not notice that in the cloister on the second floor, a Chechen man with a beard smiled when he saw him walking into the casino. The man turned around and walked into a box. In the box, Anatole and Zhu Kevili were smiling with a beautiful girl in their arms. Saying that.

"Boss, that man is here!"

"It's finally here!"

Anatole and Juqueville looked at each other and squeezed out a smile on their faces.

"I said earlier that he would definitely come!"

Zhu Keweili, who was holding a cigar in his cigarette, looked complacent.

"The rest is up to you!"

Anatole looked at the woman with tears in his arms and grabbed her chest hard. This woman was Andrea's wife. When he first saw her, he was moved by this woman, but she was rejected by this woman. What about now? She still leaned in her arms and let the man **.

Anatori can't admire Zhuveri's ** woman. It's just a few days to make this woman completely give up her resistance and accept her fate obediently.

"Remember what you said!"

A sharp color flashed in Zhukvelli's eyes, reminding Anatoly, who was playing with women.

"Don't worry, I promise to open your casino in St. Petersburg before Christmas this year!"

Anatoly, who squinted his eyes, rolled his eyes at Zhu Keweili. How could he understand the influence of his family in St. Petersburg, a little thier who made a fortune in Shanghai with a cruel word?

"Thank you very much!"

Although he said so, Zhu Keweili knew that these nobles had never had any credibility to talk about, but only they could help themselves. No matter how rich they were in Shanghai, they were just a passer-by in Russia. Thinking of this, he gave a look at the bodyguard beside him.

Walking in the corridor on the second floor, he held the Nagan wheel pistol in his right hand in his overcoat pocket. This pistol was brought by Andre when he came to Shanghai. Originally, in his opinion, in a barbaric country like China, there was nothing wrong with carrying weapons, but he didn't expect that it would be the current use.

As he got closer and closer to the room, Andre felt that his breathing became more and more rapid, and his palms seemed to be sweating. At this time, a man blocked his way.

"Please get out of the way!"

Before he raised his head, Andre whispered. The next second, he only felt a fierce blow in the back of his head, and he fainted in the dark in front of his eyes.

"Don't you know that this fool has been found since he appeared outside the door of the Royal Casino?"

Holding Natasha's seductive body in his arms, Anatoly couldn't help sighing, regardless of the delicately dressed woman in his arms. When he looked at the dead man on the ground, the tears in his eyes.

"Hmm!"

With a soft hum, Andre, who slowly regained his sane, endured the pain and turned his eyes to the front. Suddenly, he felt angry. Anatoly sat on the wide sofa, pressing Natasha's shoulder with one hand, while holding her towering room with one hand.

"Anatoli, let go...ah!"

just called out, and Andre was kicked hard.

"No!"

Looking at her husband being beaten, Natasha hurriedly exclaimed and looked at Anatoly with a full face.

"Miss Natasha, didn't you say you would never sleep with someone like me? I'm going to sleep with you in front of your husband now. I don't know what to do.

He put his eyes on Natasha's face.

"My baby, if you didn't refuse me at that time, how could you be the girl here!"

"No...don't..."

Natasha's eyes were full of tears and kept shaking her head. She looked at her husband being beaten back, and her eyes were full of despair.

"I'm going to kill you!"

Andre, who was lying on the ground, glared at Anatoly, and his eyes were almost angry.

"Mr. Andre, to be honest... I don't want to kill you, really!"

Anatoly shook his head and sighed. He really didn't want to stain his hands. Unlike a barbarian like Chucoville, he is a civilized man. Maybe jealousy will make him crazy, but, hmm! Anatoli is a civilized man.

"Mr. Zhu Keweili, I think it's up to you to decide! Now..."

Grabbing Natasha's wrist, Anatoly suddenly pulled the woman into his arms.

"Mr. Andre, compared with this violent scene, I still like women! Don't worry, I will take care of her for you in the future!"

Natasha, who was full of tears and despair in her eyes, looked at her battered and dying husband as if she had made a decision. She looked at Andre's lips moving gently and suddenly gave birth to strength from nowhere to let her break free Anatoly's hand and rushed to the window in just a few steps. , suddenly knocked open the glass window and jumped.

"Natasha!"

A desperate roar came out of Andre's voice. Anatoly was also stunned by the scene, and Juconvili just looked at the window, touched his bare head and shook his head helplessly, sighing that it was a pity.

"Anatoli, I will definitely kill you and your whole family!"

Andre, who was originally pressed on the floor, kept struggling. Looking at Anatole's eyes made Zhuverelli feel a little scared, not to mention Anatole.

"Zhu Kavili, give... kill him!"

In the face of the frightening eyes, Anatoly turned back and shouted at Zhu Kevili. When shouting, he was forced out of the room by Andre's eyes until he retreated out of the house. Thinking of Andre's eyes, Anatole still looked lingering. At this time, he even regretted it and regretted why he didn't have it. Just kill Andre.

Sitting up from the sofa, Zhu Keweili walked to Andre, and his smooth forehead flashed a little luster in the light.

"Mr. Andre! You have heard it!"

Before Andre could say anything, Zhu Kavili gave a look at the people beside him.

"Break his leg and make it clean!"

When Zhu Keweili left this room, he looked at the evil-white Anatoly and sighed. The noble master... did nothing!

The moon is high and the wind is dark, and many things always happen at night. In a humble room under the local land of Changlong Mountain hundreds of kilometers away, the oil lamp emits dim lights, and a wooden table sits several people.

"This is iron ore!"

Looking at the black pimples on the table, Xiao Jiren, who had just arrived at Changlong Mountain in the afternoon, asked with some surprise.

Yesterday, after receiving Chen Moran's telegram, he arranged the company's affairs. He took Lin Yuqing and several people from the company to Jiangning by boat first, and then chartered a carriage from Jiangning to Changlong Mountain.

Silently opening an iron mine and running an iron factory. If it hadn't been for the black and white words on the telegram, Xiao Yuren would hardly believe his eyes. The contact between the two was that they agreed to choose a book as the password. This was Xiao Yu's idea, and the matter of the mall should be kept secret first. So much so that when he translated the password from the book, he translated it several times. After making sure that it was true, he knew that Chen Moran was not joking. This time, Ning was really a lot of money. In addition to solving the matter of the "development company", he also made a big bargain by the way.

"Yes, this is iron ore. The Changlongshan iron ore vein is slightly exposed, and the buried layer is very shallow. If it is mined, it can directly peel off the surface soil and stone and directly mine it in the open air. The mining cost is low, which is rare in China. In the rough calculation of Nianzu, it includes labor and material costs up to a ton. Thirty articles!"

Hu Nianzu grabbed the iron ore on the table and looked around at the three people at the wooden table, but stopped Chen Moran. This is the God of Wealth and his future boss. Although he has the title of the sixth grade, he does not feel any discomfort for Chen Moran, who is devoted to the white body. Mining is his dream and wish.

"Chairman, after the iron ore in the Changlong area was available before April, it was preliminarily judged that its iron content was about 60%. In addition, I have mailed the sample to the London Iron and Steel Research Institute and asked the teacher to do the test on your behalf. If the chairman invests in Changlong Iron Mine and holds an iron factory, Nianzu can guarantee that only the iron ore in the Changlong area is enough to meet the iron. For decades of needs of the factory, the second can be guaranteed not to commit the mistake of Hanyang!"

Hu Nianzu's eyes were full of expectation, and his eyes looked directly at Chen Moran. The reason why he said this was to calm Chen's heart. After all, he was not as good as the people in the government before. The people in the government who took the public's silver never asked about the cost and profit, but the private life of spending their own money was different.

Chen Moran didn't say anything. He just picked up a piece of iron ore found in the exposed veins on the mountain in the afternoon and took a look. This place was Ma'anshan. When he rode a horse to this long dragon, he asked the local land security guard. There was indeed a "Ma'anshan" a dozen miles away. The land security guard even told him about Ma'anshan. It is said that during the Chu-Han War, Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, asked the fisherman to cross his beloved horse to the other side in front of the Wujiang River. However, the black horse rolled over because it missed its owner, and the saddle fell to the ground and turned into a mountain, so there was Ma Anshan.

After confirming that this place is Ma'anshan, Chen Moran did not need to worry about the taste of iron ore and whether it could be smelted. From myself to New China, this place is a steel city. Opening mines and running factories in this place can be said to be the right time and place. First, there is the convenience of the Yangtze River and the advantage of the terrain near Nanjing.

However, at this moment, Chen Moran didn't say anything, but he was thinking about another problem in his mind. That problem had been around him for a few days. Although Sun Mingjiu was beside him to relieve his confusion, he was still not very secure. At this meeting with Hu Nianzu, he stopped talking just looking at himself, so he went on.

"Xianglin, don't worry, this iron ore and iron factory, I, Chen, have decided to do it. If you don't run heavy industry, you can't strengthen the country. If you don't run steel, you can't have heavy industry! Xianglin has this heart. Although his leg is lame, his heart is not lame!"

After saying that, Chen Moran, who smiled loudly, looked at Hu Nianzu meaningfully.

Although he only knows the same Hu Nianzu, he is happy with this person's surname. He has the kind of simplicity and persistence unique to technicians. His mind is not like others, and his mind is full of dirty things. There is only one scholar's simplest dedication to the profession, or the strong expectation of the country. .

Chen Moran likes this person's surname. This kind of "expert" is one of them in later generations. In this era, he is the first person he knows, and Fang Jingyuan also has a utilitarian taste in his bones. However, Hu Nianzu in front of him, who only thinks about metallurgy and only thinks about this iron ore and iron factory.

"Xianglin, I will raise money for the iron factory. You don't need to worry about this. You will learn metallurgy, and you can also have a hand in mining. You always need coke to run an iron factory. I'll show you a place to go to Huainan!"

Chen Moran pointed to the map on the table. The Huaihe River was in the area of Fengtai, which was the location of Huainan in later generations. After leaving the governor's mansion, he knew that there was no place in Huainan at all at this time.

"That's it. There is coal under the ground in this area. There must be! The locals have been taking coal from the ground for more than a thousand years, and there may also be some small mines. Xianglin, you go there to do the coal mine for me. Not to mention that we also have the approvals invited by the governor's office, you are the sixth grade governor's office clerks. The local officials dare not make things difficult for you. As long as this coal mine is fixed, our iron factory will be half! "

"However, that...here!"

Hu Nianzu hesitated for a moment.

"Now the matter of iron ore has not been decided..."

"There is no need to worry about this, Weiyang, the three people you brought from the company, ask them who want to stay here, and circle the area according to the map!"

His hand drew a large circle on Hu Nianzu's iron ore distribution map, and Chen Moran ordered Xiao Yiren. With the approval of the governor's office, things in the place are easy to do. The mountains are free of money, but the people's graves have to accompany some money. With the approval of the governor's office, the price of the land is almost like picking up.

"In addition, before Yang, you send a few more people to northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui or Shandong to recruit workers. The manpower in the south is weak, and the mining work can't catch up with the strength of the northerners! In addition, after this area, we will find some technical personnel from Shanghai to build a wharf by the river. The equipment of the factory needs a wharf. In the future, we will need a wharf for coal and iron transportation. When we return to Shanghai, we will talk to Yanghang about the equipment of coal mines, iron mines and iron factories. Let's do this first!"

Hu Nianzu, who was really shocked by Chen Moran's words, didn't come to his senses for a while. He finally understood why the governor said, "This son has the courage to do great things!" He said that it would cost tens of millions of taels of silver to get things done. This kind of courage was known to him. If China was big, he was afraid that he could not find a second person.

At this time, Chen Moran looked back at Hu Nianzu, who was still surprised.

"From today on, I, Chen Moran, will take all my family to these two mines, one factory, and all the way! I also silently gave my own family to you! You have found a mine, and I, Chen Moran, will run this factory with money. As long as we can run a large steel factory under the edge of the Yangtze River, we will have no shame in our hearts and future generations!"

"However...ran ran!"

In surprise, Hu Nianzu held his fist and saluted deeply.

"From now on, Nianzu's life will be sold to you Chen Ranzhi. Not to mention that you have fulfilled my dream, it is this courage, that is... Tomorrow, I will go to Huainan, and I won't find the big coal mine you said..."

Hu Nianzu didn't say anything more about the ceremony.

"Xianglin, your life is precious, you can't do it silently! What I want silently is your brain, this life, let's keep it, to build our big steel factory, a big steel factory bigger than the Carnegie Steel Factory in the United States. In the future, as long as anyone comes to the Yangtze River, he will see the smoke oven of our big iron factory rolling!"

When Chen Moran lightly introduced a blueprint, he gave a look at Xiao Yiren.

(to be continued)