Master Yuan, start!

If we were to find another way, Liu Bingzhang would be followed by others every day, and we couldn't fake it as an accident, so we had to resort to force!"

"Then use a revolver. I heard that when Brother Leng was making his way in Shanghai two years ago, he used a revolver to kill several fools. He fled to Guangzhou because he was wanted."

The Brother Leng mentioned by several people is named Leng Kaisong, a Pao brother who has become famous on the Chongqing docks in recent years.

The Huaxing Party has never been afraid to absorb local gang organizations, so naturally they accept all the underworld organizations.

Leng Kaisong was in Guangzhou. Because of his ruthlessness, he was valued by Chen Jiongming. He followed Chen Jiongming's path and joined the Huaxing Party.

Later, because it was necessary to station personnel in Sichuan, he was sent to Chongqing by Chen Jiongming to stand by.

"Boom"

"Boom"

When several people were discussing excitedly, there were suddenly several knocks on the door from outside. The young man named Leng went to answer the door. After the door was opened, he saw a short man sneaking into the grocery store and quickly closing the door.

"Brother Leng, are you here?" Several young men in the room stood up and asked Leng Kaisong who brought people in.

Leng Kaisong pointed at a middle-aged man following behind him and said, "This brother's surname is Huang Dezhai. He studied for a few years and was a failed scholar. Now he is a patrol officer of the Chaotianmen Police Station. With his help, we are almost certain to win!"

"Gentlemen, I may be of little talent, but I am a man of great loyalty. If you have any instructions, please tell me. I will go through fire and water for you."

The middle-aged man clasped his fists to everyone, then whispered a few words with Leng Kaisong, apologized to everyone, turned around and pushed the door open to leave.

Leng Kaisong and Huang Dezhai were minor figures in history and almost no one knew about them.

However, Leng Kaisong's younger brother Leng Kaitai and Huang Dezhai's son Huang Qingyuan were notorious bandits in the history of the Republic of China.

Huang Qingyuan, in particular, was once known as the local emperor of northern Sichuan. He had a wealthy family and controlled 231 towns in eight counties in northern Sichuan. He had more than 7000 subordinates and a large number of guns and ammunition. He was not captured and executed by the People's Liberation Army until the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China during the southwest bandit suppression campaign.

"Brother Leng, is this person reliable?"

After the patrolman surnamed Huang left, Chen Jiongming turned around and asked Leng Kaisong.

"This man is determined to join the Huai Army and get an official position. I have a way, so he won't dare to betray us.

What's more, I didn't explain to him what we were planning to do. The reason I brought him along was just to make it easier for us to assassinate Liu and to create a loophole in the defense.

Whenever Liu Bingzhang travels, there are always police patrols along the streets to restrain the people. With him turning a blind eye, our actions will be much easier."

Hearing this, Chen Jiongming took out a revolver from his suit pocket, which looked particularly sharp under the light of the kerosene lamp.

"Brother Leng, you are the best shooter among us, so you are the most suitable to be the shooter. I will send someone to assist you. After you succeed, immediately throw away the gun and run away.

With Patrolman Huang's help, you should be able to escape. If you succeed, you will be the most meritorious official of our Huaxing Party in Sichuan. It is not impossible for you to become the Secretary-General of the Chongqing region in the future!"

From top to bottom, the Huaxing Party was headed by party leader Li Hongzhang, followed by Liu Bingzhang as the general manager, the secretaries-general of the Huai Army veterans, and Huang Xing as the executive director. Among them, the secretary-general was a nominal position.

Further down are the ministers and deputy ministers of local branches.

Chen Jiongming was not a high-ranking official, and was only the director of the Huaxing Party's Haifeng County branch. However, he took advantage of the situation and promised Leng Kaisong a big promise.

"Fuck you, even if I can't escape, I won't surrender. I'll just put a bullet in your mouth. The worst that can happen is that you die without any evidence!

Everyone is responsible for their own actions and will never implicate the Huaxing Party! "

Leng Kaisong took the pistol and patted his chest to make a promise.

Another young man asked with some concern, "This matter is of great importance. Does Marshal Tsuen know about it?"

Chen Jiongming shook his head and said, "Marshal Quan is not in Sichuan now. He is negotiating with Yuan Shikai and trying to persuade him to change his mind and agree to federal autonomy. Of course, he doesn't know about this.

This operation was entirely my decision, and I didn't even tell the young marshal.

You are all loyal members of the Huaxing Party. You must know that assassinating Liu is not for personal gain, but for the future of China!

This matter is of great importance, so please keep it a secret. If the news leaks out, I will be solely responsible. Xliu: Wu Qi 6% 3 Si 2 has nothing to do with you! It has nothing to do with the young marshal either! "

Chen Jiongming patted his chest and made a noble promise, and also removed Li Jingfang, the young marshal of the Huai Army.

But in fact, although the idea of ​​assassinating Liu Bingzhang was proposed by him, Li Jingfang agreed with it!

Chen Jiongming was very good at guessing people's intentions. After Li Jingfang returned that day, he claimed that he had risked his life to come up with a method to assassinate Liu.

Who would have thought that after listening to it, Li Jingfang did not blame him.

Li Jingfang had long been dissatisfied with Liu Bingzhang because Liu Bingzhang had "robbed" him of the position of general manager and he was also reprimanded by him for misappropriating funds for the Sichuan-Hankou Railway.

In addition, he knew that his father Li Hongzhang was secretly purchasing weapons and was in urgent need of a large amount of funds, so he took the initiative and decided to strike first.

Thus, the plan to assassinate Liu gradually took shape under the selfish motives of some people.

Chapter 376 Third Update

Some people in the Huaxing Party wanted to kill Liu Bingzhang and get the money.

Little did he know that the Chu army in the northwest also wanted to take Liu Bingzhang's life and disrupt the situation.

At the same time that Chen Jiongming and others were secretly planning to assassinate Liu Bingzhang, in a restaurant not far from Chaotianmen Wharf, three men with northwestern accents were gathered around a table drinking.

The tables next to them were filled with food and wine, but there was no one there. The door of the restaurant was also tightly closed. The three men were playing rock-paper-scissors and drinking without restraint, eating some cold dishes from their own tables to wash down their wine.

"Old Ma, hurry up, you're so slow!"

When it was the other man's turn to punch, one man thought he was too slow and muttered something.

"What's the hurry? What's wrong with waiting a little longer?"

Hearing being urged, the man called Lao Ma put down his wine glass with a "bang" and replied unhappily.

The man was about thirty years old, with a sturdy build and a Lanzhou, Gansu accent. Seeing that he was being urged to drink, he simply put down his glass, sighed, and said:

"It's too late to stay in Chongqing. The Sichuan Governor's Office is using the excuse of building a railway to arrest people as free laborers!

Damn it, they don’t arrest people from Sichuan, but only target people like us from other provinces. Once we’re caught, we’ll be forced to do hard labor for half a year. Chongqing has become a mess, and we, the people from the northwest who come here to make a living, can’t even survive.

Staying in Chongqing or Sichuan now is a dead end. Going to build railways will be a waste of time and you will get skinned alive if you don’t die!

If I had known earlier, when the Chu army was stationed in the northwest, I should have surrendered to Admiral Dong in Xinjiang. It might be a bit far, but at least they are all our own people.

Being bullied by those gang members in Lanzhou was one thing, but now that I'm in Sichuan, I'm being bullied by the Han people. What a shame!"

"Lao Ma, you studied in the Military Academy, why don't you join the Northwest New Army?" another man took over the conversation and asked.

The man named Lao Ma shook his head in disdain and said, "Forget about the Northwest New Army. They are not Han Chinese, and there is no way out if they enter. All they do is hard labor.

Moreover, I have met people who joined the New Army. As soon as they met me, they complained to me that the New Army was not like the Qing Army, that there was no religious law in the army, that people were not allowed to pray, and that they regretted it very much.

If you ask me, what were you doing so far?

This group of people betrayed the imperial court and stood idly by when Yuan Shikai raised his rebellion in Xiangcheng, which violated their oath. The Northwest Army did not wipe them out because they were afraid that they would become desperate and do something desperate.

At the beginning of the year, I heard that a group of Manchus were moved to Hetao to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land. I am afraid that in a few years, they will be slowly strangled to death by the Chu army and Yuan Shikai.

"Vote for them? It's better to stay in Lanzhou!"

At this point, the man picked up the wine glass, drank the wine in it in one gulp, and then continued: "I have made up my mind. After I make a big fortune in Chongqing, I will go to Wuhan. In Wuhan, as long as I disguise myself well, no one will know that I am a religious person.

The biggest gang in Wuhan right now is the Gelaohui. As long as I join the Gelaohui and have a reputation, no one will dare to bully me anymore. If all else fails, I'll go to Shanghai. There's always a way out!"

When he said the last sentence, Lao Ma slapped the table hard, and with a "pop", several wood cracks appeared on it.

Wood chips flew everywhere. Lao Ma raised his hand and looked at his palm which was pierced by the splinter, but he didn't even blink.

A man saw this and quickly stood up, took a kerosene lamp to light the way, and pulled out the thorns from the old horse.

As he pulled out the bamboo, he said, "Old Ma, I've found a job for you. When you meet people, just say you're from the northwest. Don't reveal your identity as a Christian."

However, before he could finish pulling out the rope, someone knocked on the wooden door from outside.

The man put down the kerosene lamp, took two steps outside, opened the door, and saw a fat man in his thirties with a Hunan accent walked in.

"Old Dragon Head, you're finally here!" The man who was pulling out the thorns for the old horse saw the person coming and hurriedly greeted him.

"Is everyone here?" The fat man glanced at the men sitting at the table, and finally stopped his gaze on Lao Ma.

"With just these few people, who are you looking for?" Old Ma shook the wound where he had just pulled out the thorn and said in a muffled voice.

"I heard that you attended a military academy? Can you shoot a foreign rifle?" asked the fat man.

“I can’t say I’m a good marksman, but as long as I have the right weapon, I can hit the target within a hundred steps.” Lao Ma replied.

The fat man was quite interested in Lao Ma. He asked a few questions and was quite satisfied to see that Lao Ma answered fluently and looked healthy.

"Since you're a good marksman, I have a job for you. If you do it well, there will be a generous reward, at least 5000 eagle dollars."

The fat man promised a generous reward. Old Ma was stunned at first, then asked hurriedly, "What's the errand? Is this 5000 eagle dollars a bill of exchange or cash? Is it to be paid in installments or all at once?"

"I'll give you 1000 Eagle Dollars first, and another 4000 after the job is done. As for what the job is, you don't need to know now. I'll just tell you that this is a life-threatening job. If you don't do it well, you'll lose your head. Have you made up your mind, do you want to do it or not?"

"Damn! It's just a bag of money. Fortune and wealth are achieved through risk!"

Lao Ma patted his chest and shouted, "Give me the money. Not even the King of Hell can stop me. I'll take care of anything you need!"

The fat man nodded, asked Lao Ma to stand up, looked him up and down carefully, and asked, "Do you have a name?"

Old Ma hesitated for a moment and said, "My last name is Ma. I don't have a real name. My family members call me Ma San." As he spoke, Old Ma stammered, wanting to say his Christian name, but hesitated and didn't speak.

The fat man smiled and said, "Don't use this name. Since you are going to change your name and go to Wuhan, just change it.

It just so happens that my name is Ma Fuyi. I think your Chinese name should be Ma Fuxiang, how about that?

"Ma Fuxiang."

Old Ma wrote the name down on the table and repeated it several times. Then he looked up at the fat man, cupped his hands together, and asked earnestly, "Who are you?"

Fatty Nine said calmly: "It's okay to tell you, anyway you will always know who I am in the future.

I just told you, my name is Ma Fuyi, and I'm quite famous among the Chongqing Pao brothers, so I have a lot of influence."

At this time, a man walked up to Lao Ma, patted him on the shoulder, pointed at Ma Fuyi, and said, "Lao Ma, don't you want to join the Gelaohui?

This Ma Fuyi, also known as Ma Longtou, is the leader of the Gelaohui in Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei provinces. In the Qing Dynasty, even the government would have to give him some respect!

Seeing this, Ma Fuyi waved his hand, smiled faintly, and said, "Old Ma, if you do this job well, I will personally take you into the guild. From now on, you and I will be sworn brothers!"

After saying that, Ma Fuyi took out a 1000-dollar draft from HSBC from his pocket, handed it to Lao Ma, and left the restaurant without looking back.

He was extremely confident and didn't seem to be afraid at all that Lao Ma would run away with the bill of exchange.

After Ma Fuyi walked out of the restaurant, he walked along the street for a quarter of an hour, and then turned into a pharmacy.

He spoke first, and asked the servant in the inn to get some common Chinese medicines, while taking off his robe. Then, when the servant turned around to get the medicine, he threw the robe on the ground.

After getting the Chinese medicine and paying the money, Ma Fuyi changed into a commoner, carrying the Chinese medicine, and walked leisurely towards the east of the city.