It’s really not enough to succeed, but it’s more than enough to fail! Yuan Shuxun cursed in his heart. What a great opportunity, it was wasted. When Yuan Shuxun was complaining, the concierge came to report that it was Lord Zhi who came. He couldn’t think of what was going on with this coward, but he didn’t dare to neglect it. Yuan Shuxun quickly said, “Please, please.”

Zhizanxi's real name should be Zhiqi. It is the brother of the second concubine Zhen and Jin. Because of the rebellion of 1898, 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 yesterday, the reason why the Qing Dynasty knew the situation in Shanghai was that he was here to visit him. As for another person, Zhao Zhujun, the former governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong, was just the same as Yu Mingzhen, who was fleeing with the thief, but just imagine that the governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong, had the idea of ​​an emperor in the Gengzi year. The master was like this, and his subordinates should do so. Zhizanxi was afraid that this key arrest would be the same as the previous year. The main culprit escaped, and the arrested were all small fish and shrimps. Or they were voluntarily imprisoned like Zhang Zou, so he volunteered to go on his own. However, his luck was also bad, and the big fish slipped away when he reached his mouth.

"Mr. Yuan, Lord Yuan. We still have to report to the foreigners. The leader of the thief is in the concession. It is still time for the whole city to search. If it is too late, then we will run away." Zhizanxi reviewed all night and received any news. He also made up his mind to arrest the leader of the revolutionary party for trial. He had no idea why the concession allowed them to cross the line and arrest people last night.

"Master Zhi. I'm afraid that only the foreigner can be read by the capital. Besides, did Master Pu say that before? If this matter is done, it will be done. If it doesn't happen or something big happens, he will not recognize it." Yuan Shuxun was very busy and did not dare to be interested in Zhizanxi's suggestions. He has been in the concession for five years and had known the rules in the officialdom. Although it is logical that as long as the Shanghai Road applied to the Commission for Trial, the public can enter and arrest people after the public agreement, it seems that this has never happened. However, the police inside applied to the public for any matters and went out of boundary to arrest people with guns.

Seeing Yuan Shuxun's appearance was not at all anxious, Zhizanxi was suddenly discouraged, and he felt secretly hated. But now it is not as good as before, so he could only suppress his dissatisfaction and then said, "Mr. Yuan, is this matter over?"

"Oh, Lord Zhi, I have no choice but to have no choice. Didn't you be there when Lord Pu came that day? He meant that the arrest was private. He only had one Ales familiar with the captains in the police station, otherwise we wouldn't have let us go to the Wusong River. If we were to go to the Sixteenth Shop, we would have brought the people out long ago. Now we have arrested two people, and we will know that they will arrest the foreign consuls. Then we will not tell them. They will tell us." Yuan Shuxun patiently told him about the relationship here, not wanting to pay attention to him and was afraid of offending him accidentally. Although this fine fire skill is difficult, it is not a difficult thing for Yuan Shuxun, who is in the officialdom. I wonder if he just climbed out of Jiangxi like this.

"Sir Yuan, what should we do now?"

"Now, Lord Zhi, we can only wait for news from foreigners now. Alas, didn't you bring two people back yesterday? Didn't you review it?"

"This, these revolutionaries are very stubborn, and foreigners say they can't use torture. Alas, I've been trying hard for a night and I didn't ask anything." Speaking of this, Zhizanxi was depressed. There were times when I couldn't use the ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty.

"There is no review, where is that person? Have you put it back?" Yuan Shuxun had known this result for a long time. It was okay if the big fish caught it. The little fish had to let it go without asking anything.

"Twist it back." Zhizanxi said.

"Twisted back?"

"Well, both of them are dead, so I can only throw them back."

"Ah? This...if the concession authorities knew..."

"Mr. Yuan, the weather is getting warmer now. Poisonous insects are appearing. It is nothing strange for them to go out at night and be bitten by snakes." Zhizanxi said a little lustful. Foreigners said that they should not use torture. After thinking about it, he used this trick. After checking, he was just bitten by a poisonous snake, and it would be normal to die.

Yuan Shuxun felt that this incident was not so correct to provoke him. He originally wanted to use Zhizanxi's relationship to say something good to him to the capital so that he could go smoothly. But now because he was going to offend the Revolutionary Party, this is not a good thing. The Manchu Qing Dynasty showed up early, and the collapse was only a matter of time. If the Revolutionary Party came to power again, then he would have a blood feud with them.

Yuan Shuxun's heart was turbulent, but his face was silent, "Mr. Zhi is really considerate. Xiaguan really didn't expect it."

Zhizanxi was happy to hear his praise, but he still didn't give up and said, "Mr. Yuan, let's discuss it with foreigners. I'm unwilling to not capture the leader of the revolutionary party."

Seeing that he was still trying to arrest someone, Yuan Shuxun was not willing to persuade him again, and said, "I will do it now."

After Yuan Shuxun responded to Zhizanxi, he said to his servants: "Why is Ying Guixin here?"

"Sir, he's here. But..."

"But what?"

"But he said that the printing office was not done well last time, and he really had to let the great expectations of the adults. Now the adults are asking again, so he dare not not to come, so... so he came to take the blame for the bruises."

"He, take the thorns and apologize, haha." Yuan Shuxun smiled while touching his beard. He knew what this person looked like. He smiled and said, "Tell him to come in."

Visiting Yuan Shuxun, Ying Guixin, is actually a gang member. She got up early and mingled with Fan Gaotou, the old man from the Hong Gang, for a long time. She lived a free life with Fan Gaotou smuggling and drug trafficking. However, Fan Gaotou accidentally killed the people who were patrolling the river and anti-smuggling camps, and the government designed to rectify him. As the saying goes, the tree fell and the money was scattered. After Fan Gaotou died, Ying Guixin, an outsider, did not sit in any chair, so she hid in the concession and spent money to donate a candidate magistrate.

He was appointed under Yuan Shuxun's disciple. Seeing that he could do business and knew a few foreign words, Yuan Shuxun admired him very much. Last year, he was appointed as the Jiangsu Official Printing Bureau and gave him 5,000 taels of commission 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 where the constable could not reach, so he found someone a few days ago to find Ying Guixin.

While Yuan Shuxun was waiting, he saw a man with a naked upper body and a handsome face coming in from outside. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt on the ground and shouted, "Sir, I'm a death sentence! I'm a death sentence!". Then he kowtowed repeatedly, and a bang bang sounded. Yuan Shuxun knew that he was just doing this, so he hurriedly signaled to help him up. But who knew that Ying Guixin just didn't stand up and said, "Sir, he valued me so much, but I did this, and it was really a loss of the great hope of the great man. Death sentence! Death sentence!"

Seeing Ying Guixin still couldn't get up on the ground, Yuan Shuxun knew that he would not be able to express his opinion. He cleared his throat and said, "Mengqing, I forgot everything before, and I'm still worried about what I'm doing. I'm asking you here this time, but it's something else. If you break your head, who will do it for me?"

What Yuan Shuxun said was half true and half false, Ying Guixin stopped for a moment. Seeing this, Yuan Shuxun signaled to help him up. After Ying Guixin took off the thorn and put on her clothes, he said again: "Mengqing, I heard that you and Fan Gaotou were in business together in the early years?"

Ying Guixin was shocked when she heard that he asked Fan Gaotou. He raised his butt on the chair again, and was about to kneel down, when Yuan Shuxun stopped him again. "It's not that you want to pursue your past affairs. But today you have something important to do."

It turned out that it was not to investigate Fan Gaotou's remaining party. Ying Guixin felt a little relieved. He was not really going to kneel down just now, but thinking about how to escape. "Sir, since Fan Gaotou's death, the Hong Gang has been scattered in several factions. Some of them are on the Sixteenth Shop, and some are on the various waterways of the Huangpu River. What is my business? If there is any dispatch, I will do my best to serve."

When he heard Ying Guixin say that he tried his best to serve, Yuan Shuxun didn't believe it at all, but he had no way to solve the situation in the present situation. What he could rely on now is Ying Guixin in front of him. Originally, the revolutionary party locked up in prison, and he would keep it in the way. What kind of obstacle should he do to poison him? But Zhizanxi took the chicken feathers as an arrow and said that Zou Rongzhi's "Revolutionary Army" was too vicious. He called Cixi a erotic wife, and even called on everyone to "stop galloping with your public enemy Aisin Jueluo in the rain of gunfire." This was really too rebellious. Compared to him, Zhang Taiyan just said that Guangxu's "not distinguishing beans and wheat" was equivalent to tickling it. Such a rebellious article, such a rebellious revolutionary party, how can he calm public anger if he didn't kill him? How can he show the power of the Qing Dynasty if he didn't kill him?

Zhizanxi is a "Revolutionary Army" written by Zou Rong. The Manchus in the capital were about to kill him and were almost out of his way. He forced Yuan Shuxun to find a solution. When Yuan Shuxun was not tying the bullet and negotiating with foreigners, Zhizanxi said that he had already done the matter and reimbursed him 300,000 taels of funds. Yuan Shuxun was paying the money while muttering, he couldn't imagine what he had to do. He just waited for a newspaper a few days ago that Zou Rong was suspected of being killed by poisoning. Only then did he know that he had bribed the doctor from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The man was dead, but the ending was to ask him to come, which really made him want to be eager.

"Mengqing. A revolutionary party who was locked in prison a few days ago died. Now they are trying to sue. You are looking for someone to find someone to find out who is behind the scenes and in charge of this matter, and then they can't sue."

"The lawsuit cannot be fought, the person behind the scenes." Ying Guixin's revolutionary party knew, but he knew that the Zou Rong poisoning case that was causing a lot of controversy in the newspapers was presided over by Wu Baochu. Could it be that he was also a revolutionary party? "Sir, isn't Mr. Wu presided over this matter? Do you want to... "

"Young Master Wu cannot move!" Yuan Shuxun said in a deep voice. Wu Changqing, the father of Wu Baochu, is a noble person of Yuan Shikai, who is his great backer. If he moves Wu Baochu himself, then he will not talk about his father's other old subordinates, even if Yuan Shikai says a few words, he will immediately resign and return to the field. "Young Master Wu, don't move! Find the people behind Mr. Wu, and turn these people... then the lawsuit will not be defeated."

Ying Guixin seemed to understand a little, but since he donated the alternate magistrate, he has rarely had any contact with the former gang brothers. He said carefully: "Sir, I can go and look for it first. If I can really find it, I will definitely come back to report it. However, these gang brothers have not met for a long time, so I am afraid I can't find any reason to ask them for help."

Ying Guixin said tactfully, but Yuan Shuxun knew it very well, "Come here, I will pay two thousand taels of silver to Mengqing."

Ying Guixin quickly said, "Sir, this money is too much, I..."

"How can we do things in Shanghai without money? Besides, people in the gang have to talk about friendship, but money also has to be calculated. You can take this money and get things done." Yuan Shuxun has been in Shanghai for many years and still has a lot of knowledge about gangs.

"Then Gui Xin will definitely live up to the entrustedness of the Lord. We will definitely get things done." Seeing that there was money to get started, Ying Guixin immediately stood up to express her determination.

Yuan Shuxun smiled and said, "Okay! This matter was sent by the Beijing area. If Meng Qing does it well, her future will be limitless."

*

Things were different from what Wang Xiaoxu thought. When he was a lawyer looking for a person in Shanghai Yamen the next day, the Shanghai County Yamen denied that he had arrested people yesterday, and said that he should not lose people in the concession and asked the Shanghai Yamen the need.

"Isn't found anyone?" Wang Xiaoxu frowned and looked at Yu Ziyi.

"No. The people who went there had already looked at the cell, but there was no them at all. Could it be that the news was wrong and the person was still in the police room?" Yu Ziyi asked.

"It is unlikely. If the Qing Dynasty arrests people, it must be the revolutionary party. I was rescued by you. I guess the others..." Wang Xiaoxu had a bad premonition. "Let them go to the police station to ask. What time did Li Zhengwu make an appointment?"

"He probably has arrived."

"That's good!" Wang Xiaoxu thought of Li Zhengwu yesterday. But now that the lawyer went to Shanghai County Government and couldn't get anyone, he was even more anxious to see Li Zhengwu.

Before the hour of the lunar month, Wang Xiaoxu and Yu Ziyi left Wan'anli, and then hid to a large opium restaurant. Before going upstairs, they saw more than ten men in black wearing men guarding the door, with their waists bulging. At this time, they saw someone coming forward, and immediately stood up and glared at them. However, another elderly man next to them made a wink and these people sat down again.

"Mr. Wang is here." The man smiled.

"Yes. Mr. Li is here?" Wang Xiaoxu knew that he was Li Zhengwu's confidant Lao Sha, so he said politely.

"The fifth boss heard that the gentleman was almost tied up yesterday, and he came when he received the news. Isn't he okay?" Lao Sha said with concern. He has a good impression of Wang Xiaoxu.

Wang Xiaoxu said politely: "It's okay, it's okay. You have to worry." He bowed to him and followed him in.

In fact, the acquaintance between Wang Xiaoxu and Li Zhengwu began at the beginning of last year. At that time, the Changxing Coal Mine was first opened, and Wang Xiaoxu was basically responsible for the matter of Yang Rui not being in Shanghai. Although the coal mine company had barges at that time, the output of more than 17,000 tons per day was not something that could be transported by oneself. When there was insufficient funds, it could only outsource the transportation of coal. But once it was outsourcing, the matter would be troublesome. Canal transport and water transport have always been an industry with gangs, not only ordinary docks, ships, but also ships to recruit.

The bureau and foreign shipping companies were all gang members. Wang Xiaoxu faced two choices at that time. One was to hand over the outsourcing business to the Hong Gang. The leader of the gang was Zeng Guozhang, who was originally in Changzhou and Jiangyin, and later combined with Xiong Mantang's Tianmu Juzhongtang, and its power developed into Tongzhou, Taihu and Chongming. The other choice was to hand over the coal transportation matter to Li Zhengwu of the Qing Gang Huzhou Gang. Compared with the two, Wang Xiaoxu felt that Li Zhengwu was more sincere and had many good deeds under his command, so he gave him the coal transportation matter.

In fact, Li Zhengwu is also from Zhenhai, Ningbo. His grandfather Li Yeting was a shipping giant in the late Qing Dynasty. He once monopolized the sand ship industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Later, foreign ships were prevalent, and sand ships gradually declined, and the capital on the sand ship was gradually transferred to other industries by the Li family. In his early years, Li Zhengwu joined the Qing Gang and became a generation of Li. Since he joined the gang, others could leave, he had a group of brothers but could not leave, so he had 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 this was in the Hong Gang Zeng Guozhang's.

Under threat, it was luck. Although Zeng Guozhang threatened to take revenge, after Xu Baoshan, the Great Salt Owl of Zhenjiang, was recruited by the Qing court, he worked very hard to sweep away the former gangs. In April of this year, he joined forces with the Qing army to kill Zeng Guozhang. Xiong Mantang was killed, and Zeng Guozhang was evaded in the concession. In this way, Li Zhengwu lost a huge threat 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 did he protect the Changxing coal mine and coal transportation line, he also warned many gangs in Shanghai from time to time, asking them to make less of the sky-type font, which really helped a lot.

As soon as Wang Xiaoxu saw the door, Li Zhengwu stood up and bowed, "Sir, I'm frightened!" He said to Yu Ziyi again: "Brother Yu."

Wang Xiaoxu looked at the sturdy man with concern and couldn't help but smile and said, "What's the matter if you are frightened or not? You don't know how chaotic this world is. I'm looking for you this time, I'm asking you for help."

Li Zhengwu first invited Wang Xiaoxu to the chair, and then said, "Mr. I dare not ask for it. As long as I have something to say, I will definitely do it. If I can't do it, I will do it. But after all, there are few things in Shanghai that can stump me, Li Houxi. And those people last night, I have to find them out!"

Seeing that he was so sure, Wang Xiaoxu said: "Forget what happened last night. It's his business to come to you. Last night, we lost two guys."

As he spoke, Yu Ziyi took out two photos from his body and said, "This older one is called Kuang Dayong, and the younger one is called Fang Yiping. He was arrested last night. He thought it was made by someone from the Shanghai yamen. He sent someone to search in the morning, but he said he had never arrested anyone."
Chapter completed!