Chapter 18 Important Matters
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It's really not enough to succeed and more than to fail! Yuan Shuxun scolded in his heart. What a great opportunity, just wasted. When Yuan Shuxun was complaining, the porter came to report that Master Zhi was here. I couldn't think of what was going on with this coward, but I didn't dare to slack off, Yuan Shuxun hurriedly said: "Please, please." ”
This Zhi Zanxi's real name should be called Zhi Qi, he is the brother of Zhen and Jin's two concubines, and he was demoted because of the Wuxu Change, and his cousin Zhirui was demoted to Yili, and he completely lost his official position and hid in Shanghai. When Su reported the case the year before last, the reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty knew so much about the situation in Shanghai was entirely because he was here to investigate, as for the other one to sit and investigate, Zhao Zhujun, the staff of Zhang Zhidong, the former governor of Huguang, was not the same as Yu Mingzhen, who fled as a thief, but imagine that Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, had the thought of an emperor, the master, and his staff should be like this. Zhi Zanxi was afraid that this key arrest would be the same as the year before last, the main culprit escaped, and the people who were caught were all small fish and shrimp, or they took the initiative to go to prison like Zhang Zou, so he volunteered to go up, but his luck was also bad, and the big fish slipped away when he got to his mouth.
"Lord Yuan, Lord Yuan. We still have to note to the foreigners, the anti-thief leader is within the concession, and it is still too late to search for the whole city. If it's late, you'll run. "Zhi Zanxi interrogated all night, and all the news was obtained, and he made up his mind to arrest the revolutionary party leader again, and he did not know the reason why the concession allowed them to cross the border to arrest people last night.
"Shi-sama. I'm afraid that this foreigner is only good to take note of in Beijing. Besides, didn't the Pu master say it before, this thing will be done, if it doesn't work out or something big happens, he won't admit it. "Yuan Shuxun has a lot of time, and he is not interested in Zhi Zanxi's construction at all, he has been in the concession for five years, and he has long known the rules in the officialdom. Although it stands to reason that as long as Shanghai Shangdao applies to the public party of the meeting, and the public party agrees, he can enter and arrest people, but this thing seems to have never been born, but the patrol inside has nothing to do with the public office, and then go out of the realm with a gun to arrest people.
Seeing that Yuan Shuxun was not in a hurry at all, Zhi Zanxi was suddenly a little discouraged, and he secretly hated it in his heart. But now it is not as good as before, so he can only suppress his dissatisfaction, and then say: "Lord Yuan, is this the end of this matter?" ”
"Hey, Master Chi, I have no choice but to do it. Didn't you also be there when that Pu Daren came that day, what he meant was that this arrest was private, and he only had one Ailes familiar with the heads of the patrol room, otherwise he wouldn't let us go to the Wusong River. If we had gone to the 16th shop, we would have brought people out a long time ago. Now that two people have been arrested, we will have to know if we arrest those foreign consuls. When the time comes, it will not be for us to note them. They took note of us. Yuan Shuxun patiently told him about the relationship, that is, he didn't want to deal with him and was afraid of accidentally offending him. Although this fine fire kung fu is difficult, it is not a difficult thing for Yuan Shuxun, who is in the officialdom, I wonder if he climbed out of Jiangxi like this.
"Lord Yuan, what should we do now?"
"Now, Master Chi, now we just have to wait for news from the foreigners. Alas, didn't you bring back two people yesterday? Didn't you come out on trial? ”
"This, these revolutionary parties are very hard-mouthed, and the foreigners say that it is not easy to use torture, hey, they tossed all night and didn't ask anything." Speaking of this, Zhi Zanxi is discouraged, and there are times when I can't use the ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty.
"I didn't try it, what about the person? Did you put it back? Yuan Shuxun has known this result for a long time. It's good to catch a big fish. Xiao Yumo didn't ask anything, so he had to let it go.
"Throw it back." Zhi Zan Xi said.
"Thrown back?"
"Well, both are dead, so they can only be thrown back."
"Huh? This...... If only the concession authorities had known......"
"Lord Yuan, the weather is getting warmer now. Poisonous insects are infested, and it is not unusual for them to go out at night and be bitten by snakes. Zhi Zanxi said a little colorful, the foreigner said not to use torture, he thought about it and came up with this trick, when the time came, it was only bitten by a poisonous snake, and it was normal to die.
Yuan Shuxun felt a little that this matter had provoked him into the wrong way, originally he wanted to use Zhi Zanxi's relationship to say something beneficial to himself to the capital, so that he could move up to the next level, but now because he wants to offend the revolutionary party, this is not a good thing. The twilight of the Manchu Qing Dynasty appeared early, and the fall was only a matter of time, and if the revolutionary party came to power another day, then he would have a blood feud with them.
Yuan Shuxun's heart was turbulent, but his face was silent, "Master Zhi is really thoughtful." Xia Guan really didn't expect it. ”
Zhi Zanxi was overjoyed when he heard his praise, but he still didn't give up, and said: "Lord Yuan, let's discuss it with foreigners again, if we don't catch the revolutionary party leader, I'm unwilling." ”
Seeing that he still wanted to arrest people, Yuan Shuxun couldn't persuade him again, so he responded, "Xiaguan will do it." ”
After Yuan Shuxun dealt with Zhi Zanxi away, he said to his subordinates: "Then Ying Guixin is here?" ”
"Back to my lord, he's here. But ......"
"But what?"
However, he said that the printing bureau was not done well last time, and it was really a disappointing adult's high expectations, and now the adult is recruiting again, and he dare not come, so he ...... Therefore, I have come to bear the guilt. ”
"He, bear the guilt, hehe." Yuan Shuxun touched his beard and laughed, he knew what this person looked like, he smiled and said, "Pass him in." ”
Visiting Yuan Shuxun, Ying Guixin, was actually a gang member, who got up early and spent a lot of time with Fan Gaotou, the old man of the Hong Gang, and followed Fan Gaotou to smuggle and sell drugs. After Fan Gaotou's death, Ying Guixin, an outsider, did not sit on any chairs, so he hid in the concession and spent money to donate an alternate magistrate to worship under Yuan Shuxun. Yuan Shuxun saw that he could do things, and he knew two sentences of foreign language, so he greatly appreciated, at this time last year, he appointed him to sit in the Jiangsu government printing bureau, and gave 5,000 taels of start-up fees, who knew that he would spend all his money as soon as he got it. Originally, Yuan Shuxun didn't want to pay attention to this person anymore, but in the concession, these gang members could go to places where the officials couldn't go, so he found someone to find Ying Guixin a few days ago.
When Yuan Shuxun was waiting, he saw a shirtless man with clear eyebrows coming in from outside, and as soon as he entered the door, he knelt on the ground and shouted, "My lord, I am guilty of a capital crime!" I'm dead! ”。 Then kowtow again and again, and there was only a bang. Yuan Shuxun knew that he was just doing it, and hurriedly motioned to help him up. But who knew that Ying Guixin just didn't get up, and only said: "The adults value me so much, but I have done such things, which is really a loss of the high expectations of the adults." Capital crime! Capital crime! ”
Seeing that Ying Guixin still couldn't get up on the ground, Yuan Shuxun knew that he couldn't do it if he didn't express his position. He cleared his throat and said, "Mengqing, I forgot everything I did before, and I still think about what I'm doing." I have invited you here this time, but there is something else to do. If you break your head, who's going to do it for me? ”
Yuan Shuxun said half-truths and half-truths, Ying Guixin stopped for a while, and Yuan Shuxun saw this and motioned to help him up. Wait for this to be Gui Xin untie the thorns. After getting dressed, he said again: "Mengqing, I heard that you and Fan Gaotou sat down to buy and sell together in the early years?" ”
Ying Guixin was taken aback when she heard that he asked Fan Gaotou, his butt on the chair was raised again, and he was about to kneel, but Yuan Shuxun stopped him again. "It's not about going into your past. It's just that you have something important to do today. ”
It turned out that he didn't want to track down Fan Gaotou and the rest of the party, Ying Guixin felt a little relieved, just now he didn't really want to kneel down when he left his seat, but thought about how to escape. "My lord, since Fan Gaotou's death, the Hong Gang has been scattered into a few factions, some of them are in the Sixteenth Shop, and some of them are still on the waterways of the Huangpu River. What do you want me to do? If you are sent, you must do your best to do so. ”
Hearing Ying Guixin say, she tried her best to repay. Yuan Shuxun didn't believe it at all, but now he had no solution to this situation, and what he could rely on now was Ying Guixin in front of him. Originally, the revolutionary party in prison should be locked up, and what should be done by poisoning people, but this Zhi Zanxi took chicken feathers as an arrow, saying that this Zou Rongzhi's "Revolutionary Army" was too vicious. scolded Cixi as an adulteress, and even called on everyone to "love Xinjue Luo with Er's public enemy, and gallop in the rain of bullets", which is really too rebellious. Relative to him. That Zhang Taiyan just said that Guangxu's "not distinguishing wheat" is equivalent to tickling. Such a rebellious article, such a rebellious revolutionary party, how can we calm the public anger if we don't kill it, and how can we show the prestige of our Qing Dynasty if we don't kill it.
This Zhi Zanxi is the "Revolutionary Army" written by Zou Rong is heinous, the people in the capital want to kill it and then can't help it, forcing Yuan Shuxun to find a way, Yuan Shuxun did not fold and negotiate with the foreigners, but Zhi Zanxi said that he had done the thing, and reimbursed him for 300,000 taels of funds, Yuan Shuxun muttered while taking out the money, I really can't imagine what relationship he found, only a few days ago, the newspaper published the news that Zou Rong was suspected of being poisoned, and then I knew that he had bought off the doctor of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and the person was dead, But in the end, he was asked to come, which really made him hateful.
"Mengqing. One of the revolutionaries who were imprisoned a few days ago died, and now they are trying to find a way to fight a lawsuit, and you are looking for someone to see if you can find out those who are behind the scenes and are masterminding this matter, and then they can't get a lawsuit. ”
"If you can't fight a lawsuit, the people behind the scenes," Ying Guixin's revolutionary party knew, but he knew that Wu Baochu was presiding over the Zou Rong poisoning case that was now making a lot of noise in the newspapers, could he also be a revolutionary party? "My lord, isn't this matter presided over by Wu Gongzi, do you want to ...... him?"
"Wu Gongzi can't move!" Yuan Shuxun said in a deep voice, Wu Changqing, the father of Wu Baochu, is the noble man of his big backer Yuan Shikai, if he moves Wu Baochu, not to mention his father's other old departments, even if Yuan Shikai says two words, then he will have to resign and return to the field immediately, "Wu Gongzi, don't move!" Find the people behind Wu Gongzi and ...... these people Then the lawsuit will not be completed. ”
Ying Guixin seemed to understand a little, but since he donated the alternate magistrate, he basically rarely interacted with the brothers in the former gang, and he said carefully: "My lord, I can go and find it first, if I can really find it, then I will definitely come back to restore my life." It's just that the brothers in this gang haven't met for a long time, and I'm afraid I can't find any reason to ask them for help. ”
Ying Guixin said euphemistically, but Yuan Shuxun knew it, "Come on, give two thousand taels of silver to Mengqing." ”
Ying Guixin hurriedly said: "My lord, this money is too much, I ...... it."
"In this place in Shanghai, how can you do things well without money, and the people in the gang have to talk about love, but the silver also has to be counted. You can take the money and get things done. "Yuan Shuxun has been in Shanghai for many years, and he still knows a lot about gangs.
"Then Guixin must live up to the trust of adults. I'm going to get things done. Ying Guixin saw that there was money to get her hands on, so she immediately stood up and expressed her determination.
Yuan Shuxun smiled: "Okay! This matter was sent by Jingli, and if Mengqing does it well, the future is limitless. ”
*
The next day, when the lawyer went to find someone from the Shanghai Yamen, the Shanghai County Yamen denied that there had been an arrest yesterday, and also said that he should not lose people in the concession and ask the Shanghai Yamen for it.
"You really haven't found anyone?" Wang Xiaoxu frowned. looked at Yu Ziyi.
"Not really. The people who went with them had already looked at the cells, and there were no of them at all. Could it be that the news is wrong, and people are still patrolling the house? Yu Ziyi asked.
"Unlikely. If you want the Manchus to arrest people, you must arrest the revolutionary party, I was saved by you, and the rest of the people are estimated to be ......" said Wang Xiaoxu had a bad premonition. "Let's let them go to the patrol room again. What time is Li Zhengwu's appointment? ”
"He's probably there."
"That's good!" Wang Xiaoxu thought of this Li Zhengwu yesterday. But now that the lawyer can't find someone to go to the county government in Shanghai, he is even more eager to see this Li Zhengwu.
Before the time came, Wang Xiaoxu and Yu Ziyi went out of Wan'anli, and then hid to a big smoke house, and before they entered the private room, they saw more than a dozen men in black guarding the door, and their waists were bulging. At this time, when he saw someone coming forward, he immediately stood up and glared at him, but another older man next to him made a look, and these people sat down again.
"Mr. Wang is here." The man laughed.
"yes. Is Master Li available? Wang Xiaoxu knew that he was Li Zhengwu's confidant Lao Sha, and said politely.
"The fifth boss heard that Mr. was almost tied up yesterday, and he came after receiving the news. Is it okay sir? Lao Sha said with concern. He has a very good impression of Wang Xiaoxu.
Wang Xiaoxu said politely: "It's okay, it's okay." You've bothered. He bowed his hand to him, and followed him in.
In fact, Wang Xiaoxu and Li Zhengwu's acquaintance began at the beginning of last year. At that time, although the coal mining company had barges, the output of more than 17,000 tons a day could not be transported by himself, and in the case of insufficient funds, he could only outsource the transportation of coal. But when it comes to outsourcing, things get troublesome. Water transportation and water transportation have always been gang-rich industries, not only ordinary wharves and ships, but also shipping companies of steamship merchants and foreigners, all of which are gang members. Wang Xiaoxu was faced with two choices at that time. The first is to hand over the outsourcing business to the Hong Gang, the leader of the gang is Zeng Guozhang, who was originally in Changzhou and Jiangyin, and later combined with Xiong Mantang's Tianmu Juzhongtang, and its power has spread to Tongzhou, Taihu Lake, and Chongming; The other option is to hand over the coal transportation to Li Zhengwu of the Huzhou Gang of the Qing Gang, compared with the two, Wang Xiaoxu felt that Li Zhengwu was more sincere, and his subordinates also had a lot of dishes, so he gave him the coal transportation.
In fact, this Li Zhengwu is also a native of Zhenhai, Ningbo, his grandfather Li Yeting was a shipping giant in the late Qing Dynasty, and once monopolized the sand shipbuilding industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then the foreign ship prevailed, the sand ship gradually declined, and the capital on the sand ship was gradually transferred to other industries by the Li family. Since he joined the gang, others can go, but he has a group of brothers below but can't go, so he has no choice but to come to Wang Xiaoxu to ask for work. Wang Xiaoxu gave him the business under Zeng Guozhang's threat, which made him extremely grateful, especially when this was under the threat of Zeng Guozhang of the Hong Gang. However, it is also luck, although Zeng Guozhang threatened to retaliate, but at this time, after Xu Baoshan, the big salt lord of Zhenjiang, was appeased by the Qing court, he worked extremely hard, sweeping the former gangs everywhere, and in April of this year, he would join the Qing army to kill Zeng Guozhang's forces, Xiong Mantang died, and Zeng Guozhang avoided living in the concession, so Li Zhengwu was a great threat less, and his power suddenly expanded to the entire Taihu Lake. Although the power was great, Li Zhengwu and others were still grateful for Wang Xiaoxu's trust at that time, not only protecting the Changxing Coal Mine and the coal transportation line, but also warning many gangs in Shanghai from time to time, so that they could fight less Tianzihao's idea, which was really helpful.
As soon as Wang Xiaoxu saw the door, Li Zhengwu stood up and arched his hand, "Mr. is frightened!" He said to Yu Ziyi again: "Brother Yu." ”
Wang Xiaoxu looked at this stout man with a concerned face, couldn't help laughing, and said, "What's so frightened, it's not that you don't know how chaotic this world is." I came to you this time to ask for your help with something important. ”
Li Zhengwu first invited Wang Xiaoxu to the chair, and then said: "Mr. said that he didn't dare to please, as long as he had something to say, what he did would be done, and what he couldn't do would be done." But having said that, there are few things in Shanghai that can stump me Li Houxi. And the people from last night, I'm going to have to find them out! ”
Seeing that he was so sure, Wang Xiaoxu said: "Forget about last night's matter." It's something else that came to you, and we lost two of our fellows last night. ”
As he spoke, Yu Ziyi next to him took out two photos from his body and said, "This older one is called Kuang Dayong, and the younger one is called Fang Yiping." I was arrested last night, and I thought it was done by someone from the Yamen in Shanghai, but I sent someone to look for it in the morning, and it was said that no one had been arrested. ”
Li Zhengwu listened to Yu Ziyi explain the details, and after listening, he said to Lao Sha, who was pouring tea next to him: "You take out the photo and let the brothers from all walks of life spread out to find it!" The sooner the better! ”