Chapter 113: The First Assassination

After renting a Russian ferry to cross the Songhua River, the 17th Mixed Brigade finally arrived in Heilongjiang Province and came to Zhaoyuan County, Heilongjiang Province. Wang Maoru felt that he had some regrets about passing through Harbin but not traveling to Harbin, so he let the army continue to go north, and he took the guards to Binjiang Mansion (the name of Harbin in the early years of the Republic of China) for a day.

What I saw and heard was that under the construction of the Russians, the riverside at this time was no less prosperous than any other prosperous city in China, and even more prosperous than Shenyang, the capital of Fengtian Province. Wang Maoru inquired and learned that the reason why this Binjiang Mansion was so prosperous was inseparable from those Russian Jewish businessmen. The Russians had been in exile for hundreds of years, and the Jews were denied the power enjoyed by normal people, and the Jews in Russia were like pigs in captivity, fed on weekdays, and when they ran out of money and food, they would slaughter the Jews and plunder their property. This led many Jews to come to live in China, and the arrival of a large number of Jews not only brought European architecture and art to Binjiang Mansion (Harbin), but also brought wealth, making Binjiang Mansion a Moscow of the East.

In some areas of Binjiang Province, the jurisdiction of the Russian Far East Road Protection Team, and in the entire Binjiang Province, there are only police officers and no squadrons, especially along the railway line, all of them are Russian old Maozi, and there are often Chinese police wearing Russian police uniforms, and they are also Chinese hired by them as auxiliary police, and they are called Ergouzi by the locals.

Here the Russians were first-class citizens, and the ordinary Chinese people who came to live in the Far East, except for the Jews, were Russian drunkards and criminals, and the ordinary Chinese people never had any friction with the Russians. Occasionally, there was friction, and the Chinese people either fled, or knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. If the Russian Jews were beaten at most, they would not be in danger of their lives, but if they provoked Russian soldiers and Russian vagabonds, it would be miserable, most of them would be killed, and then the bodies would be dragged outside the city and buried by the two dogs. In order to prevent diplomatic conflicts, the Russians did not even allow squadrons to be stationed in the counties around Binjiang Province, such as Hulan, Bayan, Lanxi and other places, and only some police officers who were converted from the old army patrol battalions to enforce the law.

And the Chinese here seem to be accustomed to being submissive, and it seems normal to be beaten and scolded by foreigners, this numbness deeply stung Wang Maoru's heart, he saw with his own eyes a tall Russian because of a little collision, killed a Chinese people, and the surrounding people stretched their necks to see the excitement, this scene made him suddenly think of Lu Xun's ducks to be slaughtered, stretching their necks, as if nothing mattered to him, but he didn't want to be one of them, he clenched his fists and secretly swore an oath.

After inquiring and learning that the best restaurant in Harbin was the Gaojia restaurant belonging to the Shandong Townsmen Association, in addition to the concession, it was delicious, and Wang Maoru took twelve people with guards and adjutants to come here to taste it. The big shopkeeper of this Gao family restaurant is called Gao Changtu, who broke into the east of the country in the early years and put a row on the Songhua River. Under the influence of many immigrants from Tuoshan to the Northeast, business is booming. After Wang Maoru and a few people entered, when they heard their accents, the people around them suddenly stopped talking and looked at them with a strange kind of optometry.

Wang Maoru and others thought that they were handsome and had the spirit of a king, but after a while, a group of people came outside, rushing at Wang Maoru and others. He stood beside them, and did not speak, but stared at them.

"What are you doing?" The guards locked up and shouted, "Still not letting people eat?" ”

"Hmph, you eat yours, let's see how the people in your Zhili Guild Hall pick thorns today," said a tall Shandong man with a full face and beard.

"Picky?" Wang Maoru laughed and asked the adjutant Ren Yuanxing to ask what was going on, Ren Yuanxing was not from Zhili, and his accent could be heard, so he asked what was going on. Only then did I learn that the people of the Shandong Guild Hall and the people of the Zhili Guild Hall were having a conflict recently, and the cause was that a Shandong escapee died in a hotel opened by the Zhili people, so because of the hidden contradictions between the two regional immigrants due to competition, they began to open and intensify, and the Shandong Guild Hall and the Zhili Guild Hall would find fault with each other every once in a while to carry out martial arts and miscellaneous.

Wang Maoru coincidentally and unfortunately, his guards were all young men from Cangzhou, Zhili, okay, the people in the Shandong Hall thought they were coming to make trouble, so they gathered a large group of people. After saying that, everyone knew that this was a misunderstanding, and the boss Gao Changtu hurriedly apologized, saying that he was a rumor and offended the guests, and this table was his own invitation. How could Wang Maoru let him invite, saying that you Shandong people are very good, and the people of Zhili are also very good, they are all fleeing from the famine in the north to live, and they should be integrated, how can there be always conflicts.

Ren Yuanxing said: "In fact, this is related to the regional culture of the two places, the Confucian culture of the land of Qilu meets the chivalrous culture of the land of Yanzhao, and it is destined to go through a lot of running-in before it can be fused together." ”

Wang Maoru nodded and said that this was indeed the case, after eating, just walked out of the door of the hotel, two drivers pulling foreign cars rushed over from the side of the road, the carport was opened, and the two people just pulled out their guns and shot. Bai Shunzi, who was following behind Wang Maoru, was quick and blocked in front of Wang Maoru, and after a few shots, Bai Shunzi fell in a pool of blood. The guards immediately returned fire, killing two of them, and the captain of the guard was also wounded, and the guards who had a good relationship with him, Zhang Jinlong, chased after him, and the two box cannons in his hands ignored the people around him, and shot with a bang, until they caught up with the two cars and killed the coachman, and saw that one of the assassins was not dead, and took the assassin back by the man's neck. The assassin saw that there was less air intake and more air out, Ren Yuanxing tore open the assassin's clothes to see if there was anything worth referring to in it, and asked, "What's your name?" So that you have a family to identify the body. The Assassin choked on and whispered "Mao Pengju" before dying.

"Mao Pengju? What the hell. Wang Maoru asked coldly.

"I don't know, I don't recognize." Ren Yuanxing said.

"Save Xiaobai and lock it first, **, dare to provoke me, hum" Wang Maoru spat viciously on the ground, the guards asked the hospital clearly, and hurriedly carried the two of them into the foreign car, and several people ran to the hospital. The nearest Western medicine hospital here is Russian, and in the concession, Wang Maoru handed Zhang Jinlong two gold bars and said: "The Russians can't let us bring guns in, so you are the only one who goes to the hospital, you must save the two, you know?" ”

"Medium." Zhang Jinlong nodded and said.

Back at the place of the incident, Ren Yuanxing was talking to Chen Shuhong, the head of the Binjiang Provincial Police Department, at this time, telling the whole process of the case, naturally, the assassination of Wang Maoru, the commander of the 17th Mixed Brigade, made Chen Shuhong half frightened to death, and immediately sent someone to report Yin Li Hongmo of Binjiang Province. Li Hongmo, who had just replaced Li Jiaao, who had resigned due to illness, as the governor of Binjiang Province 10 days ago, had a clash between the 45th Brigade and the 17th Mixed Brigade in Binjiang Road, and the cause was that the 17th Mixed Brigade was cut off and stranded by floods, and the 17th Mixed Brigade suppressed bandits on the spot, triggering a clash between the two armies. Li Jiaao couldn't handle official affairs due to illness, so Li Hongmo took the position, but as soon as he took office, he was scolded by Meng Enyuan, the overseer of Jilin, and Qi Yaolin, the governor of Jilin, all of which were caused by Wang Maoru. Now it's okay, Wang Maoru was assassinated in Binjiang Mansion in Jilin Province, and anyone would think that it must have been done by Ji Jun, even if Meng Enyuan had ten mouths, he couldn't tell the relationship.

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