The red sun rises over the horizon. It's dawn. Amid the rooster's crowing, the city gradually woke up and began the rhythm of life again.

This is Nanjing, facing Pukou on the other side of the Yangtze River, as the provincial capital of Jiangsu, here is a place of commerce and trade, and because of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou railway, the traffic here is also very convenient.

Along with the city, Xu Baoshan, the overseer of Jiangsu, also woke up.

Xu Baoshan woke up in the cool bed, and at that time, he was naked, and there were a few young women lying next to him who were also naked, these young women were all collected for him by his subordinates, some were red girls in the Qinglou, and some were female workers in imitation weaving factories who admired vanity.

After all, because of China's light industry in the past two years, foreign cloth and yarn have to be sold at reduced prices, and due to the existence of customs and the increase in tariffs, smuggling seems to have become the best way for foreign goods, especially Japanese goods, to enter China, and Xu Baoshan's private team played a role in it. Playing a vital role, the private team escorted the Japanese cloth and Japanese yarn into Xu Dujun's imitation weaving factory, and then affixed the trademark of the Chinese imitation weaving factory there, so that after that, these Japanese cloths and Japanese yarn became Chinese goods that could be sold openly in the market.

It is by relying on this means that Xu Baoshan not only maintained a local army of 20,000 people, but also accumulated amazing wealth, now Jiangsu, if he Xu Dujun said that he is the second richest man in the local area, then, no one dares to claim to be the first, the power office can always bring wealth, this has been the case since ancient times, and the secret of Werther's power is to master the army, Xu Baoshan has a clear understanding of this.

It is precisely because he saw the role of the army that Xu Baoshan regarded the army as a forbidden, and no one could meddle in the affairs of his troops, in the land of the Republic of China, his troops of Xu Supervising Army were quite eye-catching, and the center transferred him to lead the troops to guard the Xijiang River, he did not go, and the center transferred him to lead the troops to northern Jiangsu to suppress bandits, and he was perfunctory. After the outbreak of the "Northeast Asia Crisis", the center planned to transfer him and Meng Enyuan to Xuzhou together, but he still excused himself and resolutely refused to move the place, even Jiangxi Province asked his soldiers to help suppress the rebellion of the Hui Party, he Xu Dujun also ignored it, he made up his mind to be the "king of Jiangsu", he didn't want to fight the idea of other provinces, and others didn't want to fight his idea, for his rule over Jiangsu, he Xu Dujun was full of confidence.

Xu Baoshan's confidence is not built on the reckless arrogance of the rivers and lakes, but on the support of foreigners, specifically speaking, it is built on the support of the British, without the support of the British. He had absolutely no confidence in maintaining his current state of "semi-autonomy", as can be seen from the British rifles that were armed in his troops

In fact, as early as two years ago, in the "Guangdong Incident", the British began to treat Xu Baozhi. looked at each other differently, and at that time, Xu Baoshan was the governor of Jiangsu. Originally, according to the wishful thinking of the British government, by supporting Xu Baoshan, and then contacting Jiang Guidi, the governor of Anhui, Zhang Renjun, the governor of Guangdong, Sun Wu, the governor of Yunnan, Sun Daoren, the governor of Fujian, and Yan Xishan, the governor of Jiangxi, and other powerful local figures, the so-called "autonomy of the provinces of the governors" and the united front were at the same time restrained the somewhat excessive Japanese governmentThe British government, unwilling to accept defeat, had no choice but to change its strategy and fully support Xu Baoshan in order to maintain control of the southeastern choke point and have a ready-made agent in the event of drastic changes in China.

It is in this international political context. Xu Baoshan was able to maintain Jiangsu's special status, on the one hand, the governor here had a close relationship with the central government, and there was a garrison of the central government, but on the other hand, Xu Baoshan was able to continue his military rule over Jiangsu as the governor of Jiangsu, this situation was very delicate, and the reason why it has been maintained until now is mainly because of the restraint of the central government of China.

As long as Britain does not obstruct Jiangsu's industrial exhibition, the central government and the president do not mind letting Xu Baoshan continue to jump for a while, anyway, Xu Baoshan's strength is not enough to threaten the center.

Although Xu Baoshan is a rough man, but how many think tanks are there under his hands, under the reminder of these think tanks, he also clearly realized his weight, he does not want to provoke the center, nor does he want the center to provoke himself, he understands better, as long as he can respond to the call of the center, the center can tolerate him, so he will take the initiative to assist Zhang Shisuo and others to actively develop Jiangsu's industry and commerce, and build Jiangsu into a "model province"

But as the struggle with the Zhang Shisina faction intensified, Xu Baoshan finally couldn't tolerate it, so a dog-eat-dog political struggle, he drove Zhang Shisuo out and forced the provincial parliament to temporarily submit to him.

However, the submission of the provincial council was only temporary, and Xu Baoshan knew it when he learned that the provincial council sent a telegram requesting the central government to directly appoint a person from another province as the governor of Jiangsu

Although it is not clear whether the new governor of Jiangsu, Wang Zhaoming, intends to continue to pursue the smuggling matter, Xu Baoshan knows very well in his heart that once this provincial official with a central background arrives in Jiangsu, then he will maintain an "independent kingdom" for more than two years. will become crumbling, Wang Zhaoming is not as good as Zhang Shisuo, Zhang Shisuo was elected by the provincial legislators and the gang of bigwigs, and he used to rely on the support of a Meng Enyuan, as soon as Meng Enyuan left, Zhang Shijie was a clown, and he couldn't fight Xu Baoshan, who had 20,000 troops, but Wang Zhaoming was different, he didn't rely on the support of any local powerful faction, his backer was the central government, the central government with hundreds of thousands of regular troops in the 6th Army and the Navy, his words were far more important than Zhang Shi, and if he wanted to play political struggle with him, he would definitely not be able to play, If you play tricks with him, you can't do it without the courage to break the boat.

Therefore, when he learned that Wang Zhaoming had left for Nanjing, Xu Baorang. He convened his staff to discuss, and everyone discussed, but he couldn't make up his mind to break the boat, so in the end he could only come up with a strategy of "taking one step at a time", the soldiers would block, and the water would cover up, as long as the surnamed Wang did not force people to a dead end, they would never be stupid enough to go to the representative of the center to confront each other, as long as the time was enough, they were not afraid that they would not be able to pull the surnamed Wang into the water and become the pug of his Xu Overseer.

So, this idea must be determined, Xu Baoshan didn't care when Wang Zhaoming came to Nanjing, he didn't explicitly oppose the appointment of the center, but he didn't intend to give Governor Wang a good look, he wanted to give the other party a dismount, he decided not to go to Pukou Railway Station to meet Governor Wang, only sent a minion over to see if the other party was calm.

But what is the effect of this dismount, Xu Baoshan did not figure it out. Because not long after getting off the train, the new governor of Jiangsu Province, Wang Zhaoming, ate a black gun, fell on the side of the carriage, and finally died in the arms of Mrs. Wang, and he did not know who wanted the life of his Wang family.

The subordinates soon sent the news of Wang Zhaoming's assassination back to the Jiangsu Overseer's Mansion, Xu Baoshan was very surprised and very happy after learning the news of Governor Wang's death, from the bottom of his heart, he was very grateful to that, the mastermind behind the assassination, Xu Overseer didn't have to do it himself, he solved a potential political enemy, and it also played a role in killing chickens and monkeys, Xu Baoshan could not be happy?

Under the reminder of the staff, Xu Baoshan was the first to send a telegram to the center, telling the center the news of Wang Zhaoming's assassination, and mourned the "Comrade Wang" who had never met in a sad tone, and then asked the center to send another Lu chief to assist Xu Dujun to continue to promote Jiangsu's industrial exhibition and commercial prosperity.

The new governor was assassinated by gangsters before he even stepped into the administrative office, and the central government was of course very shocked, and then once again waved the efficiency of his work, and the president personally signed an order ordering the Ministry of the Interior to set up a special task force to thoroughly investigate the case, and at the same time appointed Xu Baoshan as the "head of the task force." "Supervise the investigation of this case.

This assassination case is also known as the "No. 1 Project of the Ministry of Ran." ”

The order was issued yesterday afternoon, and it was already evening when it reached Xu Baoshan's hands, Xu Baogong, who was in a good mood, immediately gathered his henchmen and cronies, and held a banquet in the Overseer's Mansion.

After waking up, Xu Baoshan had a splitting headache, and his back was also sore, so the first thing he did after sitting up was to call his cronies, massage, and cupping, and he was busy for half an hour, and then he eased up.

It was only at this time that Xu Baoshan remembered what was going on, so he ordered a minion to call Yang Ruiwen.

Yang Ruiwen is Xu Baoshan's left and right hand, and he usually goes with the rumor, but this time, Na Luo didn't call Yang Ruiwen over, and asked carefully, it turned out that the deputy leader of the task force rushed to Nanjing, Yang Ruiwen went to the train station to greet him, and Xu Baoshan hadn't woken up when he left, so he didn't bother.

"Deputy leader of the task force? Who is it? ”

Xu Baoshan was a little surprised, sitting on the Taishi chair, rubbing his temples with his hands, the telegram sent to him by the center yesterday didn't say anything about the deputy leader of the task force, but now a deputy leader of the task force suddenly came over, no wonder he was surprised.

"I don't know who the Overseer is, but the man is from Shanghai, and I heard he got on the train yesterday afternoon." Minions said.

"Whoever he is! When you get to Lao Tzu, isn't it a cheat on Lao Tzu? ”

Xu Baoshan made up his mind and asked someone to bring the food. Gobbling up, this meal has not been eaten yet, and Yang Ruijian has already rushed back to the Overseer's Mansion with the deputy leader of the task force to meet Inspector Xu.

When they met, Xu Baoshan looked at the deputy leader of the task force, and suddenly became angry.

"6 Jianzhang, is that you?"

The deputy leader of the task force who came with Yang Ruiwen was 6 Jianzhang, who had the title of "6 Hades", and it was not the first time he had dealt with Xu Baoshan, and the last experience of dealing with him left a shadow on Xu Baoshan's psychology.