Chapter 341

The charity night market is getting bigger and bigger in this period of time, it’s only dusk now, it’s not dark yet, there are already many people in front of the stalls to ask for prices.

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce did not expect this charity night market actually have such a large flow of people, which makes them more confident in the Chinese market.

Many of the Japanese merchants and Japanese laborers selling their wares here have taught themselves Chinese, saying “Cheap, very cheap” at every turn.

The signboard of the charity night market was also redone by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce. Every night, a worker from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce stood in front of the signboard with a lantern and kept greeting people passing by: “Chinese, charity, Chinese charity, buy it, buy it, it’s cheap!”

Although the Japanese are still very intimidating, this place has become a mature market, an oasis in the middle of the city when all the other markets in the city are gradually shrinking.

There are many more Chinese who also come here to do business. Hire, buy, labor, laborers, laborers, yellow cab drivers, as well as tortoise, prostitutes, grass sellers, gambling stalls, selling big tobacco cream, and so on.

Because here there is the Japanese Chamber of Commerce to watch, Chinese hooligans patrol police dare not come, Japanese hooligans also dare not come.

Because the Japanese power to expand, before only dared to activities in small areas of the Japanese hooligans began to gradually run out of the Concession, expanding the territory, in the whole city activities, before not dare to go to the rich area now they also dare to go.

After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the samurai class was in total decline, many Japanese ronin who used to be attached to big nobles, big merchants and samurai families lost their source of living, they all carried swords, in groups or single-handedly, and became scum and hooligans in the Japanese society, robbing and killing people, and there was nothing they dared to do.

So the Japanese government enlisted these ronin to immigrate to China, calling on them to come to China to kill Chinese and rob them, telling them that every Chinese they killed was a Japanese they saved, and that the more Chinese died, the better off the Japanese would be in the future, and that this was a righteous act of patriotism and loyalty to the emperor.

So the ronin followed the immigrant ship and became the first batch of Japanese to immigrate to China.

However, the ronin who had no work habits were not popular even among the Japanese. In the Japanese Concession, there were many Japanese merchants who came to China to seek gold, and they hated the ronin very much because after the Meiji Restoration, Japan was fully westernized, and most of the Japanese merchants who were the new class did business with foreigners, and the ronin hated to do business with these foreigners who were the Japanese who had betrayed Japan, and thought that they were the ones who had betrayed Japan. They thought that they were the ones who betrayed Japan and were also responsible for the decline of the samurai class and the loss of their former noble status. The two sides did not see eye to eye with each other, but the Japanese merchants were more powerful and drove the Japanese ronin out of the Japanese Concession, and the Japanese ronin wandered into the city and became bullies in the city.

The Chinese people could not tell the difference between a Japanese ronin, an ordinary Japanese and a Japanese soldier; they only knew that these ghost-speaking people had swords and guns, and would kill and rob, and that when they saw the Japanese they could only avoid them.

Now that the city was becoming more and more dangerous, even just walking down the street with a little bit of money to buy food they were afraid they would be robbed.

Not to mention there was no place to buy food at all.

This night market became everyone’s lifesaver.

Even though there were Japanese here, if there was no chance of being robbed by hooligans and you could buy the necessities of life, then everyone could only come here to buy things.

Not long after the market opened today, a group of laborers came, pushing carts, carrying bags, picking burdens, and barricading boxes of things in the middle of the road.

The laborers were gathered in a circle, all as thin as a skeleton, huffing and puffing with exhaustion, but no one dared to lean over.

The laborers are very powerful, they form their own gang, ordinary hooligans do not dare to provoke them.

They are all poor people, selling their lives to earn a little bit of ration to support their families.

Whoever takes this little food from their mouth, they can fight for their lives.

So people don’t mess with them, and avoid them when they see them from afar.

Zhu Yuyan waited until all the grain on the pier was finished before leaving, and she didn’t care if the goods behind her were randomly shipped.

She asked the police officer to drive her here, and when she left, she naturally took Su Chunjun’s car.

When she got into the car, Su Chunjun asked, “Where is Mrs. Suzuki?”

Zhu Yuyan: “She didn’t come with me. She should have gone straight to the night market.”

Su Chunjun: “Are you going over there now too?”

Zhu Yuyan: “Yes, I need to sell some first. Mrs. Suzuki will only be happy if I sell well.”

Maybe she could entice Suzuki Yoshiko to follow suit and sell grain as well, that would be great.

But she told herself it shouldn’t go that well, it would take a while longer anyways.

Su Chunjun let Xiao Chen drive and asked her, “How much did it cost?”

Zhu Yuyan: “It’s worth whatever it costs.” Then compared a hand gesture to him.

Driver Chen squinted his eyes and saw that it was an eight.

It definitely wouldn’t be eight dollars. Eight thousand dollars was also a bit low. Could it be eighty thousand dollars? Could it be too much? Other than the potatoes at the beginning, the rest didn’t really matter ah.

Su Chunjun: “Not bad.”

Eighty thousand dollars was a sky-high price, but coming from the US on a Japanese smuggling ship, just that shipping cost was worth it. He didn’t even have a doorway to buy smuggled grain from the U.S. The last time Suzuki handed him grain from Hong Kong over the ship, it seems that Suzuki Saburo and Suzuki Yoshiko used two different smuggling lines.

Su Chunjun thought to himself that this couple would not be seemingly inseparable, then it would be interesting, I wonder if I can provoke a little.

The car drove to the night market, Su Chunjun didn’t go down, he hid in the car and watched Zhu Yuyan get out of the car under the protection of his listener.

He called out to Driver Chen, “You go too, bring your gun.”

Driver Chen went down with him, protecting Zhu Yuyan together with the police officer.

At this time, it was already over eleven o’clock, the street lamps had already gone out, the road was dark, the stars in the sky were shining, but there were no more lights on the ground.

This area used to be a place of lights, but the windows and doors of the two rows of houses against the street have been smashed almost to the ground, and the people have all run away and moved away, so the lights behind the windows are naturally gone.

The hard laborers had placed the unloaded potato crates right on the corner of the curb and piled them into a small mountain.

The potatoes were all packed in wooden crates.

When Zhu Yuyan walked over, the laborers stepped aside, but they didn’t leave either, gathering not far away, looking eagerly at this place.

The man bowed deeply to Zhu Yu Yan and said, “Mrs. Su, I know this request is a bit rude, but …… the last payment of that one gold bar I don t accept, can I exchange it for food?”

Zhu Yuyan froze for a moment, looked once more at those hard laborers looking at this place, thought for a moment and said, “I have to sell these potatoes for a period of time tonight, the longer I sell them, the more people will know about this, and the more people who will come here to buy food tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be the more people who come here to buy food. So today I am bound to fail to get everyone to buy grain, to buy enough grain.”

The man thought this was a rejection, his feet stuck to the ground, bent over, back arched, head lowered, he couldn’t turn around to face the gazes of those partners.

Zhu Yuyan pulled out the gold bars in her bag, “I’ll pay you the gold bars as they are. Potatoes you can each take three to go, no need to pay me.”

The man jerked his head up, “Mrs. Su ……”

Zhu Yuyan: “Move the boxes there.” She pointed to the end of the night market.

The man greeted the drudges and came over to move the boxes.

As soon as the drudges went over, the people in the night market avoided them.

The drudges rearranged the boxes in a three-tier line.

The man told the laborers, they all stopped walking, obediently stood there in a row, waiting for Zhu Yuyan to speak.

Zhu Yuyan: “Pry open the boxes, then you line up and come get them, three for each person.”

The drudges neatly formed a line and went forward one by one, took three potatoes and bowed to her again.

Zhu Yuyan had to get out of the way again, and didn’t bother to look at how many they actually took, as long as they didn’t run off holding the box, it didn’t matter if they took one or two more, anyway, taking them back surely someone would be able to eat them and fill their stomachs.

But the laborers all took only three, no one took more.

The laborers lined up to take potatoes soon attracted the attention of people in the night market. Beginning to follow the queue, when the laborers finished, behind the people also want to reach out to take, Zhu Yuyan at this time to stand out, said with a smile, “ten dollars for three.”

The man said: “I see these people also did not pay.”

Zhu Yuyan: “They paid me in total. You want to take money to buy, ten dollars three, each person is only allowed to buy twenty dollars.”

That man is not without money, he came to the night market just want to buy things, can come across potatoes this is how good luck ah! As he pulled out his money, he said, “You can only buy six? That’s not enough to eat.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Please forgive me, there are too few things to sell, so I can only sell them like this.”

Guy: “You’re selling for money, so sell me some more.”

Zhu Yuyan: “I really can’t, sorry.”

The person in the queue behind her rushed up, “What’s the point of talking! This is Mrs. Su, didn’t you see the sign? Charity Night Market! If you buy it, no one else will eat it! Buying six is enough, go away!”

The man was driven away, the second man rushed forward, took out twenty dollars, picked up six large potatoes and wrapped them up, asking, “Will there be more tomorrow?”

Zhu Yuyan nodded: “There will be more tomorrow.”

The man rolled his eyes and asked, “One person buys six, what if my whole family comes?”

Zhu Yuyan smiled and said, “Still six per person.”

The man: “OK!” After saying this, he turned around and ran away, thinking that he must have gone home to call someone.

The people in the queue understood, some at the end of the queue, have run back to call people, should be living close, some in front of the queue, had to wait to buy and then go back to call their families to continue to queue.

The laborers did not all go away to leave, they seem to want to protect her like to stay to maintain order, to help pry the box.

Two hundred pounds of potatoes is more than thirty boxes, less than two hours to sell out.

Zhu Yuyan took all the money collected and put it in a sack, placing it randomly on the ground.

All of them are banknotes.

With the current speed of printing money, how much value is really hard to say.

She returned to the car, tired and sore.

Su Chunjun let Xiao Chen drive.

“Tired, get some rest and relax.” He said, “Mrs. Suzuki was also watching from the car and just left.”

Zhu Yuyan: “I had forgotten about her. So she was there too. Where is she hiding to peek?”

Su Chunjun pointed out to her that she was also hiding in the alley by the side of the road, where there was indeed a car parked just now.

Su Chunjun: “You have to be careful of the Japanese plotting.”

Zhu Yuyan: “What conspiracy can there be? At most, they will take away this night market and not let me come here to sell again, that would be great.”

Su Chunjun didn’t understand: “That would be great?”

Zhu Yuyan smiled and said, “If that day really comes, it would mean that Suzuki Jiazi is going to start her own grain business, which would be too good.”

Driver Chen said in front of him, “But the Japanese must sell it at a very high price.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Even more expensive, he has to sell it to people to eat. If he sets the price too high, no one can afford it, the business will be ruined. So no matter how high he wants to set the price, he will make sure that the majority of people can afford it.”

If everyone was poor, he wouldn’t be able to sell at a high price.

There is only one way for him to sell at a high price, and that is to make all his customers rich first.

In other words, he had to get money in the hands of the common people before they could afford his high-priced goods.

Su Chunjun understood and smiled, “Indeed.”

Whether the Japanese opened factories or sold their goods, they could not continue to blockade the city.

He had helped the Japanese open factories, and Yan Yan had helped the Japanese sell things, both for this one purpose.

With this city blockaded, people would only get poorer and poorer, but it was useless for the Japanese to want a dead city, he had to lift the blockade if he wanted to make money here.

The conflict between the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and the Japanese military arose.

He wrapped his arms around Yan Yan s petite shoulders.

This tiny person has a huge strength in her heart.