When Ruan Zhongshu, Cai Tinggan and others held a meeting to discuss empty cases in the small conference room of the Presidential Palace, several gangsters also got together in an inconspicuous warehouse in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin, but they were not in a meeting, but in a promotional plan.

The gambling table was a black Eight Immortals table, next to it, with a few equally black benches. In addition to Paijiu, there was also a Japanese phonograph. The one on the table was humming and singing Japanese folk songs.

These gangsters from Tianjin Wei are also stylish.

Behind these gangsters, there was a huge iron cage. Judging from the rusty iron plate on the top of the iron cage, this iron cage should have been used to block beasts. Perhaps it had been exhibited in a park and was moved to this warehouse.

Now, the iron cage is not an animal, but four people, all men, both young and young, all tied their hands behind their backs, lying and half-sitting in the cage, and everyone looked dull.

The iron cage was locked and the ropes were tied up. These four people could not escape, not to mention that they were so hungry that they had no strength to escape.

However, the gangsters were obviously unwilling to be surprised. In addition to those who were pushing Paijiu, there were two gangsters sitting next to the cage, holding six foreign guns in their hands, watching the people in the iron cage.

In fact, this product now plays the role of "Yanzi House". The four people in the iron cage are "Yanzi", also known as "meat tickets". As for these gangsters, they are thugs who specialize in the meat tickets.

Speaking of the gangsters in Tianjin Wei, it is also a major feature of the local area. These people are idle all day long and do nothing, relying on cheating to survive. Dozens or hundreds of people rent a courtyard in a secluded place, and when they set up a big pot, they will eat together in this pot. Therefore, this gangster in Tianjin is also called "pot-hun". Unlike the associations composed of farmers, vendors, and vagrants in the south, the gangsters have no pursuit of "anti-Qing and supporting the Han Dynasty". They enter the industry just to make a living. Therefore, according to later generations, they are "professional underworld".

The gangsters were a great threat to the local public security. When the Qing court was not over, they had also wiped out the Tianjin gangster group, the Governor of Shikai, Beiyang, and used thunderous means to kill all the people to clear the obstacles for his "new policy". After years of hard work, the "pots" of the gangsters in the Chinese circle in Tianjin have basically disappeared. Those who are not dead either fled to the northeast and rushed to Guandong, or hid in the concession and passed by the concession authorities, and the authorities of the concession did not allow the gangsters to take the blame. A few senior gangsters with their own means worked as concessions to serve as secret agents for the concession authorities. Most of the gangsters had to continue to eat the gangsters, but they did not dare to make a blatant pot.

There are now eight concessions in Tianjin. The Japanese concession was established after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. It covers an area of ​​more than 1,600 acres. The concession area extends from the coast of the Haihe River to the county town of Tianjin next to the French concession. Through the Haihe River and the Italian concession, the Austro-Hungarian concession is not the best place. The area is not the largest and the economic prosperity of the concession is far inferior to the British concession.

Therefore, the Japanese concession is also the most Japanese goods in the concession in Tianjin that cannot compete with British and American goods. Then the concession authorities can only make their own decisions on this opium.

Under this background, most of the gangsters in the Japanese concession were addicts. Before this Paijiu was promoted for a long time, a few people became addicted to smoking. They yawned one by one and found a cigarette gun. While slamming cigarette bubbles, they hummed a song with the phonograph. Soon, they became immersed in the joy of India's "head of the earth".

Before they could finish their smoking, the door of the warehouse was pushed open to the crack. Under the afterglow of the sunset, several people sneaked into the warehouse. Two of them were wearing green hats, and the others were dressed in gangsters.

The two men in green and small hats were dressed in the same dress, but they were far apart. One was about forty, and the other looked only about thirty. The older one had no braids. The younger one not only had braids behind the head, but also had a jade ring on the thumb of the right hand.

I saw the gangsters who were enjoying smoking. The elderly man walked over and shouted loudly and turned off the phonograph. The young man walked to the iron cage. The four people put in the iron cage turned their heads and looked at it. They immediately started shouting.

"King Gong, in terms of seniority, I have to call you Brother Sheng. Where can I get the meat tickets for brothers to tie up brothers in this world?"

"Wei! You are a bastard like this! If you don't learn, learn how to use the thief to scoop up the seedlings and tie meat tickets. I am a benevolent after all, and the prince is tied up with Beile. Our Qing Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, and you have been the first to bet!"

"Brother Gong, let us go. We have no grudges and grudges with you. We are all descendants of Aisin Gioro."

"Shut up to you! After all, we are all Beile and Beizi from Prince Qing's Mansion. Please don't bother this little Kung-ko! He is like that good now, he is all foreign dogs!"

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The young man with a ring on his thumb looked at the shouting "meat tickets" in front of the iron cage, and then sneered: "You have no grudges and grudges with me? Yours, Zai Zhen, my grandfather, Yi, they and Yuan Shikai went back and forth and sold the Qing Dynasty to Ge together.

Even if this Aisin Gioro's country is destroyed in their hands, do you tell me that "no resentment or revenge"? You are also embarrassed to say that you are the descendants of Aisin Gioro? You are the 'Aqina' and 'Seth Hei' that Master Yongzheng said back then!"

The person who sneered was nothing else, but Wang Wei, the young Gong of the Qing Dynasty, the founder of the "Zongshe Party", the leader of the Party, and the vanguard of the Qing Dynasty's restoration faction.

After the Qing Dynasty issued the abdication edict, the deposed Emperor Yi of the Qing Dynasty was expelled from the Forbidden City and placed under house arrest in Prince Chun's mansion. As the prince who regarded himself as a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wei, Xiao Gong, was unwilling to let the country's fortunes be over for more than 200 years. So he joined forces with Liangbi, Shanqi and others to instigate the Imperial Guards in Nanyuan that night, attacked Beijing City, and tried to rescue the deposed Emperor Yi and others. However, this mob was ambushed by the Beiyang Army with superior forces on the way forward. Without strong resistance, Xingsan scattered. Wei, Liangbi, Shanqi and others could only disguise themselves and fled. With the assistance of the Japanese ambassador to China, boarding a ship from Tianjin to North Korea, with their families accompanying him.

After staying in the Japanese General Administration in North Korea for some days, Wei, Shanqi and others fled to the Japanese loaned land of "Kantozhou", in southern Liaoning. They lived there for a period of time and set up a line with Japanese Kanto Governor Yoshima Oshima and others. Under the protection of these senior Japanese military and political figures, Wei and others secretly sneaked back to Tianjin in the chaos after the outbreak of the "Kind of the People's Republic of China", lurked in the Japanese concession, waiting for an opportunity to restore the country.

After returning to Tianjin, the first thing Wei and Shanqi did was to tie up the four grandsons of Prince Qing Yi, and this was just the first step in their plan to restore the country.

Yi has six sons, but only three sons live to adulthood. As for his grandson, there are only four, and the population is withered. These four grandsons are the jewels of Yi's hand and treasures. He Yi has earned these thriving wealth in the officialdom, so he will rely on these four grandsons to be prosperous in the future.

After the Qing Dynasty abdicated and gave up the country, Yi's family moved to the Japanese concession in Tianjin and hid under the protection of the Japanese. They thought they would be restless. However, Yi's calculations were made but not. Someone had already set his sights on his wealth, and the other party quickly took action.

On the way to listen to operas in Tianjin County, the carriages that Yi and others were riding were stopped by a group of people with guns. The other party did not tie Yi up, but just took away his four treasures, grandsons. Before leaving, he left a letter and ordered Yi to do whatever he wanted.

The people who planned this kidnapping were Wang Wei and Su and Wang Shan. Behind them, there were shadows of Japanese people. The specific operators were not ordinary gangsters. They were all experts from the Green Forest invited from the three northeastern provinces. This "tethering tickets" and "raising seedlings" are the special skills of Green Forest in Northeast China. If they take action, they can be easily captured.

After the kidnapping, these four meat tickets were kept in this warehouse. This is the industry of Mitsui Bank in Japan. No one would have thought that this was actually a "Yanzifang", and there would not be a policeman here to search. Everything was arranged properly, just to see whether Yi's "old thief" knew each other or not.

Yi was indeed very cognitive. Not only did Xiang Wei and others obediently offer two million taels of silver to "restoring the country", but he also ran to the capital and through Sun Baoqi's help, he "donated" a military pay of 1.5 million taels of silver to Yuan Shikai, in exchange for Zhao Erfeng's official hat of "Governor of Western Sichuan".

The prince of the Qing Dynasty did not count for his words, and naturally he would not break his promise when Wei agreed. Since Yi did everything according to his instructions, then the "meat ticket" could be released.

Today, Wei arrived at the warehouse in order to release the four meat tickets and let them bring a word to Yi.

"After I went back, I told Lao Qing, and I said that from today on, his name will not be Aisin Gioro. We Aisin Gioro do not have such unworthy descendants. If we restore the country, we still have to rely on our "Eight Banners outside the Pass"!"

Wei waved his hand, and the gangsters opened the iron cage, but did not loosen the four people. Instead, they tied the ropes on the mouths of the four people, tied their legs with ropes, and wrapped them with black cloth on their heads. Although the four people struggled, they were useless and were finally carried out of the iron cage horizontally.

"Prince, is this person really let go?" asked a gangster.

Wei rolled his eyes and snorted: "After all, you are a bannerman, even if you kill him, you can't kill him!"

After hitting a nail, the gangster retreated angrily and ordered his subordinates to drag the four "meat tickets" out of the warehouse and load a four-wheeled carriage without any marks. He shouted and drove the carriage out of the warehouse and drove directly to Laoxi, at the junction of the French Concession and the British Concession.

When the gangsters left the warehouse, Wei said to the middle-aged man who had been silent: "Mr. Kawashima, should these gangsters be removed? If the rumors leak, it may be unfavorable to your country."
Chapter completed!