The Republic is so violent

Chapter 137 Midnight Phantom (1)
01 Assassination storm strikes
Regardless of the cause of death, Zhao Bingjun is dead when he dies, and no one can change this result.

Although the detective Zhao Bingjun died, the assassination of Song Jiaoren still needs to be investigated.

Before Zhao Bingjun died, a warrant was issued for the suspects who assassinated the tainted witness Ying Kuicheng: Hao Zhanyi from the Gyeonggi Law Enforcement Department, and senior detective Wang Shuangxi.

The assassination of Ying Kuicheng and his assassination of Song Jiaoren formed a strange historical circle.Ying Kuicheng and Song Jiaoren were both members of the Kuomintang, but the Kuomintang insisted that it was Yuan Shikai who gave Ying Kuicheng the assassination order.But now it was Yuan Shikai's subordinates who killed Ying Kuicheng, so what can Lao Yuan say this time?

As the saying goes, Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is aimed at Pei Gong. Once Hao Zhanyi and Wang Shuangxi fall into the law, the assassin corps hidden behind the political arena of the Republic of China will inevitably be exposed in broad daylight.

In fact, people have known for a long time the existence of such a regiment of assassins, and a series of murders have occurred and continue to occur-and, everyone knows who this regiment of assassins is, and they all look forward to being able to kill each other in broad daylight. See the killer's true face.

But the killer is not stupid, he is playing hide-and-seek with everyone happily, and you must not let you find him.Not only will you not be able to find him, but he will also hide in the dark to mess with you.

To put it in detail, the first person to get rid of by this secret assassination group was not Ying Kuicheng, but a man marginalized by history——Xu Baoshan.

Xu Baoshan, who was well-known at the time, was a gangster and a private salt dealer, and had an inexplicable relationship with Ying Kuicheng.During the Revolution of [-], Xu Baoshan joined the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Allied Forces, defeated Zhang Xun of the Beiyang Army guarding Nanjing, and made great contributions to the revolution.

Because of his strength, Xu Baoshan has been promoted to the commander of the army.It is said that one day the army commander was taking an afternoon nap, when suddenly someone came from outside the door, holding an antique and exquisite wooden box, saying that he was ordered by an antique dealer to give Commander Xu a pair of ancient porcelain vases.The person in charge of the reception didn't dare to disturb the commander's dream, so he signed to accept the gift, and put it next to Commander Xu's pillow.

Not long after, Xu Baoshan woke up, opened his eyes happily, saw the wooden box next to his pillow, was overjoyed, sat up and wanted to open it, but the wooden box was so tight that Xu Baoshan's nails hurt from scratching, but he insisted on opening it. Can't open it.

The more he couldn't open it, the more itchy Xu Baoshan felt, so he called the orderly, and the two of them worked together hard, hard, hard, and hard again, and there was a sound of prying, and the solid wooden box was indeed pried open a thin crack, a thread Strands of yellow smoke curled up from the cracks in the box.

Xu Baoshan was overjoyed, and said: "It really is an ancient artifact, and it's all fucking smoking... I couldn't help but took a closer look, and heard a loud bang."

On this day, the governors of Jiangsu and the provinces, as well as Yuan Shikai's central government, received telegrams detailing the process:
Before eight o'clock in the imperial court, the army commander entered the room and opened the seal. Because the seal was very strong, he and the army sent a joint effort to open it. A little smoke and flames were spread, and the bomb exploded suddenly. It was caught off guard, and the intestines were pierced. The blood was flying and the flesh was thin. The head, the wrist, and the death at any time.Chabian Gao Zhenqing has been eroded, and Wang De's standard distance is relatively close, and he was injured and survived.According to the source, the murderer was short in stature, thin and dark-faced, spoke Nanyin, and left calmly after handing over the letter.The disaster happened suddenly, and it was more than nine o'clock from the time of sending the letter, so it should be far away.

Xu Baoshan, who was originally a member of the rivers and lakes, separated from the revolutionary party in this platoon, which resulted in his death.His death symbolizes the viciousness of the party members, and a wave of assassinations is sweeping across China.

But the party members said: nonsense, there is no such thing at all...

02 more violent than before
Xu Baoshan was bombed to death, causing extreme panic among the Chinese people.

It has started again, the assassination trend of the partisans has struck fiercely again!

It is indisputable that Xu Baoshan's death was attributed to the party members.Even if Yuan Shikai is a million times stupid, he has no reason to attack Xu Baoshan.Only the Communists would hate him, because he broke away from the Jianghu Society and formally joined the military.

The death of Xu Baoshan proved one thing, the assassin was a member of the Kuomintang—if this is the case, then the death of Cheng Ying Kui was also done by the Kuomintang?
When people were exploring this issue, in Shenyang, a reporter was going from door to door, stealthily looking into people's homes: who can have some news?To be a reporter is to rely on news for a living. Without journalists, journalists will starve to death.Xu Baoshan's death was originally a big news, but he died in Jiangsu, which is too far away from your three eastern provinces. Various newspapers in the south reported this frantically, making the "Shengjing Times" in the three eastern provinces starve to death.

If there is no news to explode, no one cares about the newspaper. The reporters of the "Shengjing Times" are in constant panic. This wicked Kuomintang, why don't you come to Shenyang and drop a bomb, so that the reporters can get something to eat.

While panicking, a person suddenly came in front of him, and he reached out to greet the reporter: Hey, buddy, long time no see.

The reporter was overjoyed at first sight: Dude, I recognize you, you are a revolutionary party, and you went to Japan with Sun Wen.

The man changed his face and said, "Dude, don't talk nonsense. You are an honest man. You don't eat poisonous ones, and you don't do anything that breaks the law. You are the revolutionary party. Your whole family is a revolutionary party!"
The reporter was very disappointed: You are not a revolutionary party, so why did you go to Japan?
The man said, "I'm doing business. Why, other than the Revolutionary Party, no one else can go to Japan?"

The reporter was even more unwilling to give up: Then when you go to Japan, you must have met Sun Wen, the leader of the rebellious party, right?

The man said: How is this possible? I am a businessman and I only do my own small business. How could I associate with the rebellious party?

The reporter was extremely disappointed: Then you...you must have heard something, right?
The man said, "Of course I heard it. Isn't Xu Baoshan from Yangzhou killed by the bombing?"

The reporter shook his head: Xu Baoshan was killed by the bombing, and it was Sun Wen who did it. All the media in the south have reported it. Our newspapers are mostly copying others. You are far away, so there is nothing you can do.

The man laughed loudly: That's right, many newspapers reported it, but what they reported was all fake news and rumors.

What?The reporter's adrenal hormones were secreted, and he screamed with excitement: Brother, tell me, I will call you uncle if you tell me, uncle, our newspaper is saved...

On June 1913, 6, Shenyang's "Shengjing Times" reported:
A friend came to Yun from Zhenjiang, and Xu Baoshan's relationship between the north and the south was getting worse, so he was eager to prepare for the war and organized a bomb squad as a way to win.A few days ago, during an audition, an accident caused a tragedy. His subordinates wanted to deceive others, so they specially fabricated the wooden box given by the antique to explode.

The "Shengjing Times" has always prided itself on being fair and objective, neither favoring Yuan Shikai's government nor Sun Wen's revolutionary party, so as soon as this report came out, it immediately had the effect of rectifying the source and setting the scene straight.

Just when the people of the country breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the wave of assassinations in the year of [-] would not repeat itself, the sound of earth-shattering explosions rang out incessantly.

In Beijing, in Shanghai, in all the places where Sun Wen was heartbroken.

The assassination frenzy is more violent than ever.

03Charitable people make trouble in Tokyo

At the beginning of 1914, Yuan Shikai's government intercepted a secret report, and Sun Wen sent four people to sneak into Shanghai. Among the four, one was Zang Zaixing, the other was Lei, and the other two were unknown.There is another news that is enough to make Yuan Shikai tremble with fear, saying that the terrorist tycoon Chen Qimei has sneaked into Shanghai.

According to the spy report at the time: Chen Qimei, after the failure of the second revolution, hid on a foreigner's warship, and with the help of the imperialist powers, she still wanted to make a big fuss, but failed.He sneaked into Zhejiang with Wang Jinfa, the comrade-in-arms of Jianhu heroine Qiu Jin, but was guarded by the governor of Zhejiang, Zhu Rui. Chen Qimei had nowhere to start, and ran to Japan in hatred.

But soon, Chen Qimei came back again, and the spies even found out where Chen Qimei was hiding. He was in a Japanese home in Shuishatuo, Huxi. who.At that time, groups of spies were squatting helplessly in Shuishatuo, guarding the door of the Japanese family, hoping that Chen Qimei would lose her mind and come out by herself, so that they could catch him and get more bonuses.

In fact, Chen Qimei had been foolish many times and came out. The spies reported: Chen Qimei wore silk cotton as the base of the jackets and trousers, and she usually wore Tianjing wool single gowns. When she went out, she wore a white and gray coat with a high collar. Coat, the place to go is mainly garbage bridge north, and sometimes visit relatives and friends, most of the time is in the middle of the night.

Although Chen Qimei showed up many times, the spies still couldn't catch him.In a confidential report to the police, the agents explained:
However, not only does he not communicate with people outside the party on weekdays, even if he guards against plots by his fellow party, he never forgets his past.

What the agent meant was that Chen Qimei had already advanced into a terrorist tycoon and had a lot of experience in fighting against the enemy. Not only did he not trust people other than the Kuomintang, he was most wary of the Kuomintang.So if you want to catch him, it's difficult, extremely difficult.

Another source said that the Kuomintang had secretly set up a bomb research institute in Tokyo. It was so secretive that even the powerful Japanese police didn't know about it. known to outsiders.

The Japanese police reported that there is an inconspicuous school in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, in a beautiful place. This school is funded by a Chinese philanthropist, and the students attending are all from China.Suddenly one day there was a loud bang in the well-established school, and a student was seen running down the small road in Tokyo in a panic with his face covered in blood and his clothes torn.After hearing the news, the Japanese police came after him, stopped him and arrested the strange man.

The strange man said that his surname was Zhang, he was also Chinese, he was a member of Mr. Sun Wen's Chinese Revolutionary Party, he was researching bombs at school, and was accidentally injured.

The Japanese police entered the school and found that there was another Japanese man at the explosion site, a retired soldier, who was also bombed to death.

The school claimed that the Japanese and Chinese who were injured had nothing to do with the school.The man surnamed Zhang has already been expelled from the school, so the school is innocent.

It’s no wonder that Japan believed you. After careful investigation of the sponsor of this school, I was surprised to find that the philanthropist was Li Liejun from the Chinese Revolutionary Party.The school is actually just a secret training base for the Chinese Revolutionaries in Japan. Although the base was cracked this time, a large number of assassins had already set off. However, due to Yuan Shikai's strict defense in Beijing, it was difficult for the assassins to sneak in, so the undercurrent of assassination began. flow to the southern provinces.

04Try whether the instruments of torture work or not
A large number of assassins sneaked into Beijing and Shanghai, trying to cause trouble.

But the policemen trained by Zhao Bingjun are not vegetarians either. On the night of January 1914, 1, a train entered Beijing Railway Station. Passengers were about to get off when they saw soldiers and policemen lined up on the platform, and sirens kept ringing. They were stunned.

A team of police officers rushed into the car and entered a box.In the box, sat a man with an indifferent face.

Policeman: What's your name?
Passenger: Ask who...Ask me?My name is Shi Huaiqing.

Police: What are you doing?

Shi Huaiqing: ... What else can I do?Take the train.

Police: Where is your luggage?

Shi Huaiqing: Luggage?I have no luggage.

At this time, the passenger next to him came over: Hey, you are so strange, just now you said that you are a sugar merchant, isn’t the sugar you imported from Japan next to you?How do you say you have no luggage?
The police stepped forward to open the luggage, and there were several bombs inside: Shi Huaiqing, you have the right to remain silent... If you can bear the whip and the tiger stool, then you should be silent and take it away!
Shi Huaiqing: ... save people, the police are arresting people indiscriminately, I am not a revolutionary party, and I don't know Sun Wen... Amid the voices of grievances, I have been dragged to the police station.

After entering the torture room, Shi Huaiqing was immediately stripped naked and hung on the torture pillar. The police took out countless torture tools from the leather goods and piled them up in front of Shi Huaiqing: Brother, we beg you, please don’t Confession, these instruments of torture are all imported from Germany and Japan, and I have never been able to find a chance to use them. Damn this bullshit Republic of China is really not fun. Civil rights are soaring. Even thieves and murderers have lawyers. Once you execute the sentence, you will be in big trouble.Fortunately, I caught you today, don't recruit, don't confess if you are obedient, let us try whether these instruments of torture will work...

In the torture room, the screams of the revolutionary Shi Huaiqing resounded: Awow... Aw...

At this time, there was a patrolman named Jin Lanting. He was on the night shift. When he entered the police station, he saw a pocket in the yard at a glance. Lah, while no one is paying attention, I'll take some home and improve my life.

Going forward to open the pocket and looking inside, there was a loud bang, the bomb in Shi Huaiqing's luggage exploded, and the body of patrolman Jin Lanting was thrown into the air with a whoosh by the shock wave, and when it fell, there was a bang. Shengsheng smashed the roof of the police station.

05 Lurking in Beijing
The day after the explosion at the police station, that is, on January 1, Beijing police once again joined forces with the military to rush onto the platform and surround a train that had just arrived in Beijing.

A tall man was led off the train.

Policeman: What's your name?
Man: Fan Tiexian.

Police: What are you doing in Beijing?
Man: Talk about business.

Police: Are you sure?

Man: ...OK.

Police: Why are you alone?Chen Qimei and Chiang Kai-shek, where are they?

Man: ...What are Chen Qimei and Chiang Kai-shek?do not know.

Police: You'd better know each other. I don't believe you can survive the torture.

Man: Help, the police have killed someone... Amidst the shouts, the police rushed forward, tore open the man's skirt, and took out a large pile of letters from his arms.

Police: What is this?
Man: ... Hey, it's so strange, how could there be such a thing in my arms?Must have been framed, I need to see my lawyer immediately!You are the police and the people's nannies. If you dare to act recklessly, I will sue you!
The policeman opened the thing that was taken out of the man's arms: Fan Tiexian, a member of the Kuomintang, this party card, someone will not frame you, right?There are also these letters, instructing the rebels lurking in the capital to carry out terrorist activities, you can't rely on it, can you?
Man: ...That's hard to say, anyway, I have a lawyer.

The man was taken away, and together with Shi Huaiqing, a party member captured the day before, was handed over to the Gyeonggi Law Enforcement Office for execution within a few days.

06 Ghost House
In Guangzhou, since Chen Jiongming's unsuccessful uprising and his escape, the atmosphere has been unprecedentedly terrifying and tense. Partisans continued to infiltrate and riots broke out.

It is said that Zhongzhao Academy on Jigang Street, this place is said to be the library of a family surnamed Liu. This place has been deserted for a long time, and the yard is full of grass half a person's height.But recently, strange things have happened frequently in this house. At night, ghost fires are often seen floating and floating above the house, and scary sounds that are not human can be heard in the darkness.

The people nearby were very frightened, so they begged the Guangxi army brought by Long Jiguang to catch ghosts for them.The soldiers were all young and strong men. They were very curious after hearing this, so they gathered more than 40 people, armed with guns, and entered the house to look for ghosts.Just as expected, as soon as these soldiers entered the door, they heard the constant sound of gunshots. Unexpectedly, the ghosts could also shoot.

At this time, the soldiers suddenly realized that there was no ghost, it turned out to be Sun Wen's revolutionary party, who wanted to use the empty house to make trouble.

So the soldiers immediately lay down and opened fire. Amidst the deafening gunshots, a figure was seen running like flying, and fled over the wall with a whoosh.

All the soldiers shouted and chased after them with their guns. They saw the figure galloping ahead, and escaped half of Guangzhou City in one breath. With a sound, the door was closed.

The soldiers rushed forward and slammed on the door with their gun butts: open the door, open the door... With a bang, the door opened, and a foreigner appeared in front of the door with a candle in his hand: hello, wat a oil block hard?
Ah You Du Hard... Seeing that it was a foreigner, the soldiers were frightened and retreated hastily.The foreigner came over aggressively: "Stop, I am protected by public international law. What are you trying to do by knocking on my door in the middle of the night?"
What are you doing?We're hunting for the rogues!A voice sounded from behind, and it turned out to be Deng Yaoguang, the chief of the police department who came after hearing the news.Seeing him come forward, the soldiers immediately became fierce: yes, we are here to hunt down the rebels, we saw the rebels run into your house with our own eyes.

The foreigner was furious: You are talking nonsense, I want to complain to your Beijing government and get Yuan Shikai to dismiss you!
Deng Yaoguang, the chief of police, was in a dilemma. He was also afraid of foreigners in his heart, because once the allies were surprised, things would be very troublesome. It is not uncommon for him to be dismissed from office.But this foreigner in front of him is really too suspicious. Deng Yaoguang thought about it and decided not to be the chief of the police department, but also to touch the tiger's ass of the foreigner.

So Deng Yaoguang ordered the soldiers: You watch this guy for me, and when I go to their consulate and call their consul, I will see if he has anything to say.

So Deng Yaoguang hurried to the foreigner's consulate, found the consul, accused the citizens of the other country of interfering in their own internal affairs, harboring the wanted rebel party, and demanded an explanation from the other party.

The foreign consul had firmly denied it in advance, and spent half the night talking about diplomatic rhetoric with Deng Yaoguang. Finally, reluctantly, he reluctantly came to the scene with Deng Yaoguang.But when I went to the place, there were a few grunting soldiers lying on the ground, but the foreigner was nowhere to be found.

Deng Yaoguang was shocked, and asked anxiously: What's going on here?

The soldiers cried, "My lord, you are back. The foreigner beat us badly. As soon as you left, he took a thick rolling pin and beat us on the skulls, which made our brains full of blood blisters."

Deng Yaoguang was furious: You idiots, why didn't you say to fight back?
The soldiers said: Director Deng, our officers often teach us not to fight back when we hit foreigners, or else our friends will be surprised, and we will not be able to bear it.

Deng Yaoguang was so angry that he couldn't laugh or cry: Forget it, their consul is here now, you go in and search out the rogue party immediately.

The soldiers rushed into the foreigner's apartment, only to find that the house was empty, and the mysterious foreigner had long since disappeared.

(End of this chapter)