Volume 1 Tigers in Southeast Asia Chapter 87 Bank Vault
Zhang Chuang said: "The Spanish police are here!"
Lin Fei laughed and said, "Why should we be afraid of the Spanish police? Let's kill them all. The Chinese don't dare to trust us, and these police can help us establish our authority."
Zhang Chuang answered loudly: "Yes! Let's go and destroy them right now!"
Zhang Chuang walked out after he finished speaking. Lin Fei turned around and said to the mayor, "Let's go and take a look." After that, he grabbed the mayor and took him to the lobby on the first floor of the city government. On the street opposite, a large group of Spanish police were walking towards the city government with batons in their hands. The sniper team and a company of soldiers had already hidden in the city government building.
The police came to the door with murderous intent, and surrounded the entrance of the city hall. The leading police officer shouted loudly: "Listen, robbers inside, come out and surrender quickly, you have been surrounded."
Lin Fei almost laughed out loud when he heard this. These policemen actually thought we were robbers!
Lin Fei said casually: "Let's kill that police chief and give them a warning."
A soldier raised his rifle and pulled the trigger. With a "bang" a gunshot rang out, and the police leader fell to the ground. The other policemen were stunned and involuntarily took a few steps back.
Lin Fei saw the police's cowardice, waved his hand and said, "Kill them."
The sniper team and the first company of soldiers rushed out of the city hall building like tigers descending from the mountains, shooting as they rushed. A large number of policemen in the front were knocked down in the blink of an eye. The other policemen were scared out of their wits and threw away their batons and ran away.
These scenes greatly shocked the Chinese who were watching from a distance. These policemen were usually the most bullying, and the Chinese were afraid of being bullied by them. Now, seeing that the Huaxia Empire had driven the policemen away in an instant, they suddenly gained a lot of confidence in the Huaxia Empire. However, they were afraid of the corpses on the ground and did not dare to step forward.
Lin Fei had people say it several times on the radio and had the dead body taken away, and only then did Chinese people slowly come over. Lin Fei then asked Gao Manlu and others to organize the Chinese and set up various organizations.
Lin Fei carefully scouted the terrain around the city government and found that the buildings on all sides were offices of the government agencies of the Spanish Empire. He then ordered the first and second battalions to be transferred in, drive out the Spaniards inside, let the troops move in, and set up roadblocks and checkpoints at the intersections to guard against Spanish attacks.
Lin Fei's subordinates also brought a lot of rifles and bullets, distributed them to the Chinese, set up a city guard and maintained law and order. After completing these tasks, Lin Fei began to receive the wealth in the city. The wealth in the city can be divided into two types, one is currency such as gold and peso, and the other is physical objects such as factories and houses.
Lin Fei asked the mayor to bring the tax account books and picked out the fifteen wealthy businessmen who paid the highest taxes. The situation in Butuan City was different from the towns on Samar Island and Leyte Island. In Samar Island and Leyte Island, the wealthy businessmen were all Chinese, but in Butuan City, the wealthy businessmen were all Spanish. It was impossible for Spanish businessmen to watch the Chinese get rich. They would find ways to persecute the Chinese and take their wealth for themselves.
Lin Fei wrote down the names of these fifteen people and the names and addresses of the factories, and gave them to Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu, asking them to take their people to take over the first batch of factories.
Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu asked: "Receive? How do we receive?"
Lin Fei said: "The process of taking over is very simple. We will drive away the original management of the factory, keep our people, mobilize the Chinese in the factory, and form a management team."
Niu Dalong and Niu Dahu led their men away. Lin Fei left his staff officer He Kaisheng to coordinate the arrangements at the municipal government, and he personally led the sniper team to the only bank in the city - Santander Bank.
Banks are the concentration of monetary wealth. The deposits of senior Spanish military and political officials and the profits of various factories are all kept in banks. Banks are very important, so Lin Fei decided to go there in person.
Santander Bank is on the street next to the city hall. When Lin Fei arrived, he was shocked to find that countless Spaniards were crowding at the door, and the guards at the door formed a human wall to block the crowd.
Zhang Chuang asked Lin Fei: "Your Majesty, what are they doing? Why are they all rushing into the bank?"
Lin Fei smiled and said, "Today we announced that the Huaxia Empire is in power and has abolished the original Spanish regime. The change of regime is definitely accompanied by a transfer of wealth. These people are afraid that their savings will disappear overnight, so they ran to the bank and wanted to withdraw all their savings. The richer the people, the more they want to withdraw their money."
Zhang Chuang pointed at the crowd and said, "You mean they are all rich people? But I see they are dressed in ordinary clothes, they don't look like rich people at all!"
Lin Fei laughed and scolded: "Why are you so confused? Which rich man doesn't have servants? Do you need to come and get the money yourself?"
Zhang Chuang finally understood and laughed a few times. At this time, Lin Fei had already walked up to the crowd. He waved his hand casually and said to Zhang Chuang: "Take some people and drive these people away."
Zhang Chuang nodded, took off the gun on his back, walked outside the crowd, and fired three shots into the sky. The crowd immediately screamed and ran away, leaving behind a pile of shoes, hats, and handbags.
The guard at the door was shocked to see Lin Fei and the others. Seeing them dumbfounded, Lin Fei walked up the steps and said to a guard, "Where is your manager?"
The guard shook his head. Lin Fei thought that the guard was just a handyman and it was difficult for him to know the whereabouts of the manager. It was useless to interrogate him. So Lin Fei stretched out his hand to push the guard away and walked into the door. Several guards subconsciously came to stop him, but were pushed aside by the members of the sniper team behind Lin Fei. The guards had no guns, so how could they dare to go against Lin Fei's people? They ran away obediently.
Inside was a spacious hall with a long row of counters where banking services were handled. Behind the counters, a group of shivering Spanish women crowded against the wall. They were all bank employees. Lin Fei glanced at them and said, "Get your manager here."
Those people were stunned and no one moved. Lin Fei raised his voice and said it again, and the woman outside ran upstairs in panic.
Lin Fei pulled over a chair, sat down leisurely, pointed at a Spanish girl, and said coldly: "Come here!"
The girl shrank back in fear. Lin Fei waved his hand and two soldiers rushed over and pulled the girl over. Lin Fei pulled a chair in front of him, pointed with his hand and said, "Sit down."
The girl sat on the chair tremblingly, lowering her head, not daring to look at Lin Fei. Lin Fei smiled and said, "Your uniform is different from others. Are you the counter manager?"
The girl nodded, and Lin Fei continued to ask: "Then do you know where the bank's vault is?" The bank's vault is where gold . The Huaxia Empire's Huaxia currency can be circulated domestically, but future foreign trade will require gold.
The girl was too scared to hear Lin Fei's words clearly. She looked up at Lin Fei with confusion in her eyes, but she didn't dare to ask. Lin Fei asked again: "Where is the bank's vault?"
The girl's teeth chattered as she whispered, "I... don't know..."
Lin Fei frowned, and asked sternly, "You don't know, or don't want to say?"
The girl started to cry and said, "I don't know, I really don't know, please let me go, I have never bullied the Chinese, wuwuwu."
The girl hugged her shoulders and started crying. At this time, she heard a majestic voice at the stairs: "The location of the bank vault is top secret. Only I and the vault manager know it. She is just a counter manager. How could she know it?"
Lin Fei looked in the direction of the voice and saw a middle-aged Spanish man in a neat suit and gold-rimmed glasses walking down the stairs. The man was tall and had a sharp light in his eyes.
The man walked up to Lin Fei, extended his hand generously, and said, "I am Enrique Calzas, the manager of Santander Bank's Butuan City branch. Hello."
Lin Fei stretched out his hand and shook his hand gently, saying: "I am the emperor of the Huaxia Empire, Lin Fei, you should have heard my name on the radio."
Karsas let go of Lin Fei's hand, patted the girl's shoulder, and gestured to her to get out of the way. The girl hurriedly stood up and ran back to her companions. Karsas sat in front of Lin Fei calmly and sneered: "The emperor actually personally asked a little girl about the location of the vault? Why doing the job of an interrogator?"
Karsus' tone was full of sarcasm and mockery. Lin Fei thought to himself that he dared to speak to me in this tone under the point of my gun. This guy doesn't look easy to deal with.
Lin Fei snorted coldly, ignoring Karsas 's ridicule, and said directly: "Where is the bank vault? Tell me, and I will spare your life."
Karsas said disdainfully: "Spare my life? What a joke! I advise you not to go after the vault. If you don't rob the vault, maybe you can escape death after being caught by our people."
Lin Fei was stunned and asked, "Being caught by your people? What does this mean?"
Karsas said proudly: "We have reported your affairs to Manila by telegram. Our army will be here soon. Wouldn't it be easy to destroy you then?"
Lin Fei burst out laughing, and then burst into laughter. This made Karsas laugh so hard that he frowned and said angrily, "What are you laughing at? Aren't you afraid of the army of the Spanish Empire?"
Lin Fei put away his smile and said proudly: "You don't know yet, your imperial navy has been destroyed by me. Without the protection of the navy, would the army dare to land across the sea?"
Karsus didn't know that the navy had been wiped out yet. After hearing what Lin Fei said, his face was full of doubt. Lin Fei said sternly: "Forget it, let's not talk about this. Tell me the location of the vault quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!"
Karsus sneered and said, "Do you want to torture me? Come on!" After saying this, Karsus reached out and untied his tie.
