Shi Shiyan and Xiong Chengmu pedaled their bicycles, rushed all the way to Huangpu from the north of the city, and waited in front of the Lidaibuchuan police station, but now it was already heavily guarded, not only more than 100 heavily armed policemen stood in front of the door, but also some armed national defense officers and soldiers, barricades were also erected, and at a long distance from the gate of the police station, Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji were stopped by the police.

Fortunately, the police officer who led the team knew Zhang Taiyan, and after interrogating a few words, he let the two of them go, Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji walked into the police station building and went straight to the director's office, but when they arrived at the place, the door was locked, and no one seemed to be working in the office.

Zhang Taiyan grabbed a policeman who walked by and asked.

"Where are you Director Wu now?"

The policeman didn't know where Zhang Taiyan came from, but since the other party could walk into the police station at this time and shout everywhere, he was afraid that he was also a person with a background, so he didn't dare not answer.

"Director Wu has already resigned in the morning, and he left after packing up his things just now."

"Director Wu resigned? Who is in charge of this police station now? Zhang Taiyan asked.

Of course, it was the new chief, and the police replied. "The new director is Dan," Zhang Taiyan asked again.

The policeman raised his hand and pointed behind Zhang Taiyan and said, "That is the new police chief of this city."

Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji looked back, and they could see clearly the several police officers who were coming towards them, and the person who walked in front had the highest police rank, which should be the new police chief, and this person, Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji both knew each other.

"Feng Yuxiang".

"Feng Yuxiang, when did you arrive in Shanghai?"

Xiong Chengji and Zhang Taiyan were both stunned, and the newly appointed Director Feng of the Police Department was also stunned, obviously they didn't expect to meet each other here.

"You two came to the police station at this time, is there anything wrong?"

Feng Yuxiang quickly reacted, took away those subordinates, and led the two into the director's office, which was in a mess, and Sha didn't know where to go, so he had to stand and talk.

"You hand over Qian Xuantong and Wu Chengshi to me."

Zhang Taiyan was not polite, and asked Feng Yuxiang directly.

"Qian Xuantong? Wu Chengshi? Who are they? Your friend? Feng Yuxiang asked.

"My students are also faculty members of prestigious local universities. They drove a borrowed truck to pick up people at the China Merchants Pier this morning, but the person who called you on the way was arrested and is now being held in your police detention center. You let me go right away."

Zhang Taiyan confidently asked Feng Yuxiang to release him, but Xiong Chengji was calmer and suggested that Feng Yuxiang ask someone to check first, because judging from Feng Yuxiang's performance, he obviously didn't know why the two were arrested.

Feng Yuxiang called a police officer and told him to ask, and while the police officer was shaking the phone, he chatted with Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji for a few words, and only then did he learn that Xiong Chengji had returned to China to assist the National League in its presidential campaign.

"Director Feng, when did you arrive in Shanghai? Aren't you in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

Xiong Chengji asked, although he is in Nanyang, he often corresponds with friends in China, and he also understands the situation in some officialdom, Feng Yuxiang's uncle is Lu Jianzhang, the chief of internal affairs, there is such a relationship, Feng Yuxiang is also quite good in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in contrast, to Shanghai as the chief of police, to some, "Qu Cai."

"The mayor asked me to come and help him maintain law and order. The mayor asked the Ministry of the Interior to send someone to guide the work, I came the day before yesterday, I didn't plan to seize power, but how could Director Wu be angry, and submitted his resignation in a fit of anger, but now there is an emergency in the local area, and the police station can't be left alone, so I was appointed by the mayor as the new police chief, just acting, and when I am busy with this matter in front of me, I still have to appoint another police officer to take over as the director, after all, I am a person from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Feng Yuxiang explained.

"Emergency? Isn't it just citizens demonstrating in front of the city hall? This is a power under the law, and as long as there is no violent conflict, you police have no right to interfere. The anger in Zhang Taiyan's heart had not subsided, and he took the opportunity to sneer a few words.

"Let's not talk about whether the demonstrations were filed with the police station before the demonstrations, and it is impossible to talk about violent clashes just by talking about violent clashes. Mr. Zhang, in the past few years, I have dealt with no less than 100 similar incidents across the country, and each incident was peaceful at first, but later on, it was often just punching and kicking. In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that now everyone is holding back the fire, the people are angry, the government is helpless, so, in any case, this necessary precautionary measure is also necessary, this citizen demonstration, put forward excessive demands, the mayor has been determined to be uncompromising, desperate not to be re-elected, but also to suppress this incident, so, in the past few days, if there is no important matter, you should not go anywhere, or stay at home safer. ”

Feng Yuxiang's words surprised both Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji, and they really didn't expect that things would unfold to the point of being out of control.

"It's just that the people are asking for a lower tax rate, shouldn't the government make some compromises? Xiong Chengji said.

"It would be simple to just reduce the local tax rate, but if you don't know about the demonstrations, there are people who have put forward a demand to cancel the right to vote and link it to the right to property, and if universal suffrage is not obtained, not only men will have universal suffrage, but women will also have universal suffrage, what is this not a rebellion?"

"Well? Asking for universal suffrage? small

Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji were shocked again, and couldn't help but look at each other, only then did they understand why the police station was like a big enemy.

"That's a good thing! Don't British women now have the right to vote? After Xiong Chengji reacted, he gave a big praise.

"Ajigen, you're thinking too simply. Now that the presidential election is approaching, some people raise the issue of universal suffrage at this time, and that is an ulterior motive, not to mention that the National League is not happy, and even the United Front of the majority of the Congress will not agree. ”

Feng Yuxiang didn't say it thoroughly, but the meaning of it Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji was so good that they could understand that whether it was the United Front or the National League, they were all broad clubs, especially the National League, and basically its main members were business tycoons, and there were a few cultural people like Zhang Taiyan, and the United Front was broader than the class represented by the National League, but there were few poor party members.

"There's weirdness, there's weirdness

Zhang Taiyan suddenly sighed and said: "I'm still wondering, why all of a sudden, the local people are so concerned about politics, now that I think about it, I'm afraid that someone really instigated it." ”

"Who?"

Feng Yuxiang and Xiong Chengji hurriedly asked, but Zhang Taiyan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I don't know."

While a few people were pondering, the police officer who had gone to shake the phone had hurried back to the office, standing beside Feng Yuxiaoxiang and whispering a few words.

Feng Yuxiang took the police officer away and said to Zhang Taiyan, "I have sent someone to ask clearly." Qian Xuantong and Wu Chengshi are indeed being held in the detention center, and they were detained by the police for trying to force their way through the traffic control area in a motor vehicle, and are now being held in the Huangpu Detention Center, but the charges are not serious and they can be released on bail. I will inform the judge to approve a note, and you should take the note and go to the detention center to receive it. ”

Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji also didn't want to stay in the police station for a long time. took the approval slip that Feng Yuxiang got from the judge, quickly left the police station, rushed to the detention center, paid the bail, and released Qian Xuantong and Wu Chengshi on bail, and then borrowed a police car from Feng Yuxiang, loaded the two bicycles into the car, and rushed back to the Far East Shiwen Newspaper Office together.

When Zhang Taiyan and Xiong Chengji rushed back to the museum, the porter rushed to tell them that there was a visitor who had come to visit Zhang Taiyan, not anyone else, it was Zhan Dabei, the editor-in-chief of the "Pioneer Daily", who had rushed to Shanghai from Beijing, and as soon as he arrived at the train station, he went straight to Zhang Taiyan's apartment, and after learning that he was in the newspaper hall, he hurried to visit.

Zhang Taiyan and Zhan Dabei are peers, although their peers are enemies, but they are friends, often exchange letters, and Zhang Taiyan was the leader of the United Front back then, and "Pioneer Daily" is the mouthpiece of the United Front, therefore, the two are not only New Year's friends, but also superiors and subordinates, Zhan Dabei always comes to visit Zhang Taiyan several times a year, and every time he comes over, he will not be empty-handed, not to bring some lets. Goods, is to bring some local products, thousands of miles to send goose feathers, courtesy is light, benevolence and righteousness, but there is a little gentleman's friendship as light as water.

This time he came to visit Zhang Taiyan, Zhan Dabei did not come empty-handed, in addition to bringing Zhang Taiyan a package of dried fish from the north, he also brought Zhang Taiyan an invitation. This invitation bundle was sent by Zhao Bei to Zhan Dabei to Zhang Taiyan, inviting Zhang Taiyan to be a guest in Xishan, Beijing, and Zhao Bei wanted to hold a birthday banquet.

"Do Shou? Zhao Zhenhua's birthday is not in the second half of the year, right? Xiong Chengji asked.

Zhan Dabei said: "It's not Zhao Zhenhua's birthday, it's his father-in-law's birthday, this year is his father-in-law's 70th birthday, of course, he has to put up a banquet, just in his Xishan villa, at that time, the people who attended the meeting are all leading figures in society, both industrialists, and revolutionary comrades who were born and died with Zhao Zhenhua back then, and even Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui's Beiyang Chinese people also received the post, and they wanted to "laugh and enmity" with Zhao Zhenhua

"Humph! When the people are not happy, what kind of birthday banquet is there to hold? I'm not going. ”

Zhang Taiyan shook his head and resolutely refused to go to Xishan for a banquet.

"Mr. Taiyan, don't be rash. I know that you have always been prejudiced against Zhao Zhenhua, and you do have a holiday between you, but since he now takes the initiative to invite you to the banquet and stretch out a smiling face, what if you go there? By the way, I will go to Beijing to contact the northern branch of the Kuomintang League, and we can also discuss the issue of coordination between the north and the south in the presidential election

Seeing that Zhang Taiyan was a little stubborn, Zhan Dabei had no choice but to persuade a few words

"I'm not "prejudiced" but "vigilant" against Zhao Zhenhua, I'm worried that he has ulterior motives for holding a birthday banquet this time, the treat is fake, and the tandem is true, but I'm afraid that he is ready to make a comeback in the political arena again, and now there is chaos in the country, and the international community is not peaceful. At this time, it is the time when the ambition of the madman is inflated, and we must be on guard

Zhang Taiyan's words made the expressions of several people present change, Xiong Chengji, Qian Xuantong, Wu Chengshi, why don't these people think so in their hearts? But only Zhang Taiyan dared to make his words clear.

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