Chapter 641: 100,000 Troops Enter the River (7)
Long before arriving in Shanghai, Wang Yongan learned from the newspaper that the assassin Wu Shiying, the assassin soldier who assassinated Song Jiaoren, was captured by the French Concession patrol and handed over to Chen Qimei, and after interrogation (torture), Wu Shiying confessed that the mastermind behind the scenes was Ying Guixin, and then Ying Guixin was arrested by the French patrol, but because Ying Guixin instructed the suspect, it was not handed over to the Shanghai Municipal Police Department.
Ying Guixin, a native of Zhejiang Province, was the leader of the Shanghai Youth Gang in the early years, and later met fellow villager Chen Qimei, the two were both fellow villagers and fellow Qing Gang, and naturally became close friends. A year ago, Shanghai was restored, Ying Guixin participated in the uprising with the party to support Chen Qimei, and after the victory of the liberation, Ying Guixin actively helped Chen Qimei to squeeze out the commander of the Shanghai uprising, Li Xiehe of the Guangfu Society, and drove out Li Pingshu, the leader of the merchant group. In order to thank the brothers of the Youth Gang for their help, Chen Qimei then wantonly "divided" the brothers to hold important positions in Shanghai, and Ying Guixin was entrusted with the important task of serving as the head of the espionage section of the Shanghai Military Governor's Office.
When Sun Yat-sen returned from the United States, Chen Qimei knew that many people had assassinated Sun Yat-sen, and in order to protect Sun Yat-sen, he sent his henchman Ying Guixin to escort him all the way. Sun Yat-sen saw that Ying Guixin was loyal and knew that the Nanjing government was in crisis, so he proposed to Chen Qimei that Ying Guixin should serve as the head of the presidential palace guard.
At this time, Ying Guixin has a bright future and unlimited scenery, if she follows the normal trajectory, Ying Guixin must be a revolutionary hero. However, after Ying Guixin arrived in Nanjing, soon after, his old problem was committed again. After all, Ying Guixin was born in the rivers and lakes, and he had a lot of bad habits, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking were commonplace, especially because he liked to linger in brothels, and even when he met with other revolutionary comrades, he was also in brothels, and he preferred to keep prostitutes, so he went around making money and embezzling and accepting bribes.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Government, there were many guests who visited President Sun Yat-sen, and because Gui Xin served as the captain of the presidential palace guard, there were many people who befriended him. Ying Guixin started out just watching people cook, and then it developed into a blatant bribery, otherwise some people would not have seen the president at all.
After Sun Yat-sen learned of this, he was angry and demoted him to the head of the general affairs section, but Ying Guixin did not restrain after serving as the chief of general affairs, but became more aggressively corrupt, such as a table of one tael of silver banquet in his hands and needed to reimburse five taels of silver. Due to the sudden increase in the expenses of the General Affairs Section, and then the Presidential Office began to audit the General Affairs Section, Ying Guixin was soon found to be corrupt, which angered Sun Yat-sen, who had been worried about silver, if it were not for Ying Guixin to protect him all the way, and Ying Guixin was Chen Qimei's confidant brother, Ying Guixin's fate was not just as simple as being driven back to Shanghai by Sun Yat-sen.
After Ying Guixin returned to Shanghai, she was still reused by Chen Qimei as the chief of the Shanghai police, and after the peace talks between the north and the south, the wind of democracy prevailed, and many spontaneously organized parties appeared throughout the country. Ying Guixin naturally also joined the excitement and formed the Chinese National Progressive Association with the three major gangs of the Green Gang, Hongmen, and Gongkou, and due to the strong strength of the three gangs, the membership of the Chinese National Progressive Association soon surpassed that of the Kuomintang, which made Chen Qimei and other Kuomintang members feel threatened. Ying Guixin's appointment as the chief of the Shanghai police made Chen Qimei even more worried, so she transferred her out of the police circle, which caused Ying Guixin's dissatisfaction and hatred.
During the peace talks between the north and the south, Yuan Shikai realized that the power of the gang would bring some stubborn diseases to the future Republic of China, so he discussed with the Nanjing side to solve the problem of the gang force together, and jointly signed the edict of strict investigation of the gang. The various behaviors and bad habits of the gangs aroused the resentment of the revolutionary party and the local overseers, so everyone expressed their support, especially the revolutionary party who had relied on the gangs to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were eager to kick out these gangs and monopolize the fruits of the revolution. As the leader of the Kuomintang Party, Song Jiaoren naturally rushed to the front, and criticized the gang several times for disturbing the people and disrupting the country. (Because he was born in Hongmen, he was protected by the Youth Gang when he was in China, so it was inconvenient to openly oppose the gang forces.) )
Hong Shuzu, secretary of Cho Byung-kyun, head of the interior department of the 12th Cabinet Ministry, as the head of intelligence gathering for the Southern Revolutionary Party, was keenly aware of the gradual decline of the Qinggang Hongmen Elders' Association and other gangs under the suppression of the revolutionary party, and resented the revolutionary party that abandoned them. So Hong Shuzu secretly recruited the gang to assist him in collecting information on the activities of the revolutionary party, among which Ying Guixin was the object of his wooing, and Ying Guixin thought that it was good to rely on the big tree of Yuan Shikai to enjoy the shade, maybe the feng shui would take turns in the future, and I don't know who was the lord of the Shanghai market.
After Wu Shiying confessed to Ying Guixin, Ying Guixin was quickly arrested by the French patrol, and a secret correspondence with Hong Shuzu was found in Ying Guixin's home, proving that he was bribed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the central government and became a person from the north.
However, Wu Shiying's admission that he was instructed by Ying Guixin to assassinate Song Jiaoren was only a one-sided statement, and there was no evidence to prove that Wu Shiying did not lie, so the case was full of suspicions and attracted the attention of all walks of life at home and abroad.
The next day, when Wang Yongan arrived at the Shanghai District Court in Chen Qimei's car, he found that there was a sea of people outside the court, and reporters and citizens from all walks of life at home and abroad had blocked the three floors outside the court, and there were more than 1,000 Shanghai police officers maintaining order on the spot, and there were more than 1,000 soldiers from two battalions of Shanghai Army who assisted in the maintenance. Seeing the arrival of the Shanghai governor's special car at the courthouse, the reporters rushed up at once, and the police immediately drove the reporters away, but the police did not dare to really do anything to the reporters, so they could only push the reporters away from the place with their chests.
Chen Qimei said: "I didn't expect so many people, Jingyun, wait a while for the reporter to ask you some questions." ”
Wang Yongan shook his head: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, don't you have a big brother?" ”
The two got out of the car and were escorted to the courthouse by the guards in the crowd, but the reporters still rushed up to ask about the case and what the governor thought of the case.
Chen Qimei swore to reporters: "I believe that China still has justice and justice, China still has a conscience, and China's democracy will never be crushed by power." ”
Wang Yongan, what are you talking about, what are you talking about, you have not yet started the trial, you will point the sword at Yuan Shikai, Lao Yuan is bitter, but Lao Yuan doesn't say it......
Naturally, some people also recognized that the person who was walking side by side with Chen Qimei was the general of the town, Wang Yongan, the king of Jiangbei, and everyone also asked him questions, and a reporter stretched his neck and shouted at Wang Yongan: "General Zhenbian, I am Chao Keyun, a reporter from the nurse "Huabao", what do you think of the assassination of Song Jiaoren? Immediately, other reporters took a look, and some people took pictures.
Wang Yongan waved his hand and said, "There are chairs in the court, I will sit and watch." ”
The reporter was stunned, what is the answer?