The sun rises in the east, near the Shuiguan Wharf of Chaotianmen in Shanghai, there is a lot of traffic and people.

Since Li Weiguo took charge of Shanghai, the scale and scale of the implementation of reform and opening up have surpassed the regulations of the Qing court, and it is not an exaggeration to say that in fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is open to the outside world in an all-round way.

It is precisely because Li Weiguo is so open-minded, wantonly opens up the sea ban, and trades with other countries, so that the powers of all countries are very satisfied with Li Weiguo, and strongly support Li Weiguo to sit in Shanghai and dominate Jiangnan Province, and even hope that the entire Qing Dynasty will be Li Weiguo's, so that the entire Qing Dynasty will be fully opened, which is most in line with the wishes of the great powers of all countries.

Of course, not all the great powers liked Li Weiguo, except for the United States.

Although the United States does not have the ability to cross the Pacific Ocean to clean up Li Weiguo at this moment, it still declares war on the Qing Dynasty.

However, Li Weiguo couldn't hear their clamour, and now Li Weiguo was leading the civil and military officials of Jiangnan Province to rush to Chaotianmen Shuiguan Wharf to greet the Xianfeng Mi envoy Sang Kun who was about to arrive.

Why did Li Weiguo greet Sang Kun with such fanfare, these ordinary people didn't know, and they didn't care, they just gathered around in the distance to watch the excitement.

On the other side of the crowd, there is a row of two-story houses along the river, full of classical charm, which is usually a place of rest and entertainment for boatmen and merchants, but today two strange guests suddenly stayed in, and they asked for a room by the river alone, just facing the Shuiguan wharf.

At this moment, the two men were leaning against the window, looking at the river with binoculars, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

Another man sat down in front of the bed, opened a long leather case, and took out a spear from it. It is clearly different from the standard muskets of the current countries in the world.

The man carefully took out the spear, gently wiped it with a cloth as gently as he would a woman of his own, and asked, "Has the target appeared?" ”

The man at the window replied, "Not yet, but the time should be almost up!" Our adults have arrived, and they are waiting on the dock with hundreds of civil and military officials, so you must be careful when you shoot for a while, don't hurt your adults. ”

"Don't worry, my marksmanship is the best in our S.H.I.E.L.D!" The man sitting on the edge of the bed said confidently: "Besides, this time I used the most accurate patriotic rifle." With the addition of the scope, it is absolutely no problem to take out the target within 300 meters! ”

It turned out that these two men were both agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the two of them appeared here not by chance, but with a purpose.

According to Li Weiguo's order, the two were going to assassinate an enemy today. Xianfeng's secret envoy Sang Kun will cross the river to Shanghai today, ostensibly to reward Li Weiguo's merits for Xianfeng, but in fact he is secretly investigating the secret collusion between Li Weiguo and the Taiping Army.

Li Weiguo originally planned to kill Sang Kun in Jiangbei, but after careful consideration and listening to the advice of Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan. Li Weiguo decided to kill Sang Kun on his own territory, on the dock, in front of everyone.

It's a gamble. It is also a targeted ploy.

Killing people at the door of his own house, killing the imperial court, is undoubtedly challenging the imperial power and slapping Xianfeng in the face. Ordinary people would never dare to do this. But Li Weiguo wanted to commit a crime against the wind, because he wanted to dispel Xianfeng's suspicions about him in this way.

If Xianfeng's IQ was less than one hundred, then Sang Kun was killed on Li Weiguo's territory. will definitely anger Xianfeng, making Xianfeng think that Li Weiguo wants to kill people and cover up the fact that he is secretly colluding with the Taiping Army.

But Xianfeng is a person with an IQ of more than one hundred and fifteen, so he will think about why Sang Kun died on Li Weiguo's territory instead of someone else's territory, what conspiracy is behind this, and whether someone wants to blame Li Weiguo.

Once Xianfeng had such doubts, then Li Weiguo would be victorious, and his goal would be achieved.

This is a strategy to put the death in the future, and it is extremely dangerous during the period, but it is also the only way to dispel Xianfeng's doubts, otherwise Li Weiguo can only pull the flag and rebel.

In order to ensure that Sang Kun was killed in public, Li Weiguo personally brought hundreds of civil and military officials of Jiangnan Province to the dock to greet Sang Kun, in fact, he was deliberately creating a false image, who would believe that Li Weiguo would assassinate Sang Kun on such an occasion? This is the best means of cover-up.

The assassination mission was carried out by two of the best agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., one hundred and three and one hundred and eighty-nine.

Agent One Hundred and Three is good at reconnaissance, and Agent One Hundred and Eighty-Nine is the best sharpshooter in S.H.I.E.L.D., and Li Weiguo gave him the honorary title of Sniper because he can use the P1851 rifled gun to accurately hit copper coins a hundred meters away. If you change to a patriotic rifle, you can hit a copper coin at a distance of 200 meters. If the double sniper scope invented by Li Weiguo himself is installed, it can accurately hit the head within 400 meters.

The patriotic rifle is a modern rifle designed by Li Weiguo himself, although it has undergone various tests and can be delivered to the factory for production, but it is limited by the low level of mechanical castings in this era, and it is not realistic to use cast parts on a large scale like in later generations, so it can only be manufactured by workers by hand.

As a result, the arsenal could only produce about 100 Patriotic rifles per month, and it was impossible to redress the Shanghai army on a large scale. At the same time, the Shanghai army was affected by the war, and had to supply the consumption and wear of front-line weapons on a large scale, and also had to mass-produce and manufacture front-loading muskets. Therefore, Li Weiguo has not reequipped the Shanghai army with patriotic rifles so far, and the patriotic rifles produced have been handed over to the China S.H.I.E.L.D. and equipped for the use of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, because the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. often have to carry out various assassination activities, and the patriotic rifles are much higher than the muskets of the Shanghai army in terms of accuracy and range, making it easier to assassinate the enemy remotely, and at the same time, it can also ensure the safety of their own people to the greatest extent.

At this moment, Agent 189 had already attached the scope to the Patriotic rifle and had made no less than three repeated adjustments and corrections to ensure its accuracy.

In fact, shooting from the window, the pier where the target is located is no more than 200 meters in a straight line, and with his ability, he does not need the assistance of a sniper scope at all, but because this operation is too arduous and important, it is not only necessary to ensure that the target is killed with one shot. It was also necessary to ensure that Li Weiguo was not injured in the slightest, which is why Agent 189 had to act small and install sniper goggles for the sake of safety.

This sniper scope was also invented by Li Weiguo, because the world's optical technology is still very backward, Li Weiguo spent a lot of effort to barely make three sniper scopes that meet the sniper requirements, the magnification is only two times, engraved with a simple crosshair, because the multiple is too low, so there is no need to engrave the scale.

It was nine o'clock in the morning, and Sangkun's boat ride seemed to be deliberately two hours late, because he had received a report. Knowing that Li Weiguo led hundreds of officials to greet him at the dock, in order to give Li Weiguo a dismount, Sang Kun deliberately let the boat be two hours late.

Watching Sang Kun's boat arrive at the dock, Li Weiguo sneered in his heart: You dare to entertain Lao Tzu like this, don't blame Lao Tzu for sending you to the western sky!

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo turned his head and glanced at the attic diagonally opposite, and with his experience and eyes, he easily discovered the location of the sniper.

Li Weiguo shook his head and said in his heart: Fortunately, there are no snipers in other countries these days. Sang Kun's bodyguards also do not have Li Weiguo's anti-reconnaissance and anti-sniper observation capabilities, otherwise today's assassination operation would have failed before it began.

At this time, Sang Kun's boat docked, and suddenly a personal soldier jumped ashore. Sing and shout.

"Lord Chin has arrived! Irrelevant people avoid it quickly! ”

Soon, Sang Kun went ashore under the escort of more than 100 personal soldiers and walked towards Li Weiguo's side with a figure-eight step.

In front of the window of the building opposite, Agent One Hundred and Three saw Sang Kun appear. hurriedly said: "One hundred and eighty-nine, why don't you shoot yet, Sang Kun has come out!" ”

Agent 189 is armed with a Patriotic sniper rifle. Aiming at Sang Kun's head, but he didn't pull the trigger all the time, then he said: "Wait, there are too many people, and when he stands still, it is the best time to shoot!" ”

Only then did No. 1003 notice that in front of Sang Kun were Li Weiguo and other civil and military officials, and the left and right were guarded by Sang Kun's own soldiers, and they were crowded, so it was indeed not the best time to shoot.

At this time, Li Weiguo tidied up his official uniform and stepped forward to greet him.

"Chen Jiangnan Governor Li Weiguo greets Lord Qincha!"

Sang Kun had a big belly, looked Li Weiguo up and down, and snorted coldly: "Li Weiguo takes the order!" ”

Li Weiguo saw that the sniper had not yet fired, and immediately guessed that the sniper was waiting for everyone to kneel, leaving only Sang Kun alone to stand and announce the decree before shooting, so he led the civil and military officials to kneel.

At the same time, the surrounding people did not dare to stand anymore, and when they heard that it was a holy decree, they knelt down one after another.

In an instant, on the entire dock, only Sang Kun was standing and reading the holy decree, and the personal guards he brought were standing behind him.

"The time has come!" Agent One Hundred and Three urged again.

"Understood!" Agent One Hundred and Eighty-Nine responded, took a deep breath, calmed the tension in his heart, immediately aimed at Sang Kun's head, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Bang!"

Gunshots!

A nine-millimeter bullet shot out of the chamber of the gun, and the next second it hit Sang Kun's eyebrows.

The powerful bullet kinetic energy instantly pierced Sang Kun's head, and the back of his head exploded into a bloody hole with the size of the bowl, and the brain and blood spurted out several meters away, splashing the faces of the nearby guards.

The incident happened in such a hurry that everyone was in a daze the moment they heard the gunshot, and it was not until Sang Kun's body fell to the ground that everyone woke up.

Of course, there was only a gap of five or six seconds.

"There are assassins!"

"Protect Chincha-sama!"

"Not good! Chincha-sama has been shot! ”

"Ahh Chincha-sama has been killed! ”

All kinds of exclamations were everywhere, and the shouts made by each person were different because of their different IQs, but there was one thing in common, that is, they all panicked.

Li Weiguo hurriedly got up and shouted: "Come on, block the scene, and catch the assassin!" ”

At the critical moment, the Shanghai army brought by Li Weiguo acted urgently, wanting to block the scene and arrest the assassin.

However, all this is for outsiders to see, and the reason why Li Weiguo chose a public place like the dock is to create chaos so that the snipers can take advantage of the chaos to evacuate.

Sure enough, the common people were the first to panic, they heard the gunshots, and immediately scattered and fled, and the entire wharf was in chaos, so that the Shanghai soldiers who did not know the truth had no way to find the person who shot them.

"Master Li is really good at planning, and the officials admire it!"

Li Weiguo was happy that his plan had succeeded, but unexpectedly, a stranger's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, which startled him.

"Who are you?" (To be continued......)