Chapter 425 changed the 'door' court

The autumn rain drifted slanting in the wind. Dense and dense, like a curtain of rain, enveloping the whole city, coupled with the drowsy light, it makes people feel depressed.

This is Shanghai, by the Huangpu River, China Merchants Wharf.

A passenger ship had just docked at the wharf, and the passengers on board were disembarking one after another through the trestle, walking towards the wharf in the solemn atmosphere of three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry.

As a passenger, Yang Du stood in front of several military policemen at this moment, unhurriedly put the suitcase he was carrying on the square table, and then unbuckled.

"Slow down, slow down!"

A military policeman lifted the baton in his hand and pressed it against the suitcase, and with the other hand slapped Yang Du's hand away, and then opened the suitcase for him.

Yang Du stood with his hands down, with a pampered and unsurprised expression, and Zhang Yilu was standing beside him, looking at the suitcase that the military policeman was inspecting Yang Du with his mouth open.

The military police picked up a jar of tooth powder from the suitcase, carefully shook it to his ear, and then gently unscrewed the lid of the tooth powder jar. Glanced into the jar.

"Don't worry, sir, this is American tooth powder like a fake, not a 'drug', and it can't kill people."

Yang Du snorted crookedly, reached out and picked up another toothbrush from the suitcase, opened his mouth, and made two gestures with the toothbrush, this action made Zhang Yilu laugh, but it made the military policeman very annoyed.

"Lao Tzu knows it's tooth powder! When you little red guy was still playing with 'pee' mud, Lao Tzu was in Shanghai Tang's ten-mile foreign field! ”

The military policeman spoke in an official accent in southern Jiangsu, impatiently threw the tooth powder jar back into the suitcase, and then closed the lid of the suitcase with a "bang" and waved his hand.

"Get out! Next! ”

The first sentence of the military policeman "Get out" was said to Yang Du, and the next sentence "next" was said to Zhang Yilu, and soon, Zhang Yilu was also inspected by the military policeman and his companions, but fortunately he didn't bring any canned items, so he left the checkpoint faster than Yang Du.

At this time, Yang Du also sorted out the suitcase, walked out of the dock with Zhang Yilu one after the other, and stood on the street with a drizzle and looked around.

"Huizi, the military and police here are in such a big battle, I'm afraid that the grass and trees are all scared by the bomb." Zhang Yilu teased jokingly.

"Yes, when the Qing court did not fall, the ** party was used to using bombs to assassinate, and now it is the turn of the ** party to sit in the world, and the bomb still keeps ringing. It's kind of ironic. In fact, the method of this bomb assassination was learned by the ** party members in Japan from the Russian nihilistic party, but the Russian nihilistic party at that time had assassinated the Russian tsar, and those people advocated apolitical fǔism and advocated killing everything, and they were simply a bunch of crazy people. ”

Yang Du sighed with emotion, his eyes were still wandering the street, and finally stopped at a few rickshaws waiting on the side of the street, and then reached out and 'touched' a few copper plates from the long shirt.

"The Russian Nihilists are a group of crazy people, but the people who assassinated Li Songqing this time may not be crazy, they are afraid that they have ulterior motives and ulterior goals, the assassination of Li is just a means, but it is not difficult to guess what their real purpose is, in my opinion, this is the same as the purpose of assassinating Song Duchu, it is to intimidate the republicans."

Zhang Yilu said this 'exposed' bones, Yang Du frowned, thought about it, and still didn't plan to continue this topic, this is indeed not the place to talk about business. And he didn't agree with the companion either.

"Look at it like this, the person who picked us up doesn't know when it will come. Let's hire a rickshaw, I don't have much change here, how much change do you have? ”

Yang Du handed his palm to Zhang Yilu's eyes, and showed the copper plates.

"Huizi, you're too stingy, what about giving the coachman a silver dollar?" Zhang Yilu smiled and pushed Yang Du's hand away, took out a silver dollar, and shook it at Yang Du.

"Now that the country's finances are tight, and President Zhao Da has called on the whole country to be diligent and thrifty, how can we, the government employees, take the lead in extravagantly 'wasting' expenses?" Yang Du said seriously.

Zhang Yilu smiled bitterly and said, "Huizi, your mouth is getting poorer and poorer. Don't forget, we are traveling south to Shanghai this time as a 'special investigator' of the Congress to investigate the assassination of Li Songqing, although before leaving Beijing, the president told us to keep a low profile, but you can't take the 'chicken' and 'feather' as an arrow. To be honest, I haven't slept well for a few days in the general cabin of our passenger ship this way, and now I want to hurry to the hotel and get some sleep, not to mention hiring a rickshaw, or hiring a carriage, and I don't blink. ”

After speaking, Zhang Yilu took the silver dollar and walked across the street. He hired two rickshaws, and then took a tarpaulin poncho handed over by the driver, but before he could get into the rickshaw, he heard Yang Du on the other side of the street yelling at him.

"Zhongren, your piece of silver dollar can be put away, and the person who picked us up is here!"

Zhang Yilu followed Yang Du's finger and looked over, and saw a pitch-black four-wheeled carriage turning onto the street from the corner of the street, carrying a five-color flag, which was obviously a political carriage.

Zhang Yilu took off the poncho, 'handed over' to the rickshaw driver, and then walked back to Yang Du with a suitcase, waiting for the carriage to come.

When the carriage arrived in front of the two of them, it really stopped, and then the 'door' of the carriage was pushed open from the inside, and Li Xiehe jumped out of the carriage.

"Why are you here to pick us up?" Yang Du was quite surprised, but he didn't bother with it, and got into the carriage with the suitcase.

Zhang Yilu hurriedly followed the carriage, and then Li Xiehe got into the carriage again, closed the 'door' of the carriage, and instructed the coachman to drive the carriage to Nanshi.

"The two are the 'special investigators' sent here by the Congress, and I am the investigator of the Li case, not for me to pick up the two, do you want Li Songqing to take the two of them wrapped in a bandage?"

Li Xiehe joked with the two first. Then he got down to business and said: "The Congress sent two people south to investigate the assassination of Li Songqing, this is a secret, not many people know about it, and it is inconvenient to send others to pick up the two, so I rushed over, the hotel has arranged for the two of them, the two of them have a day off, and tomorrow there will be a formal investigation." ”

Yang Du asked, "How is Li Songqing's injury?" Now the press is also divided, and the president is also ambiguous, asking us to come and see for ourselves. Along the way, Zhongren and I were restless. ”

Li Xiehe shook his head and sighed: "Li Songqing's injury is serious, but it is not serious. ”

Yang Duqi said: "What are these words? A serious injury is a serious injury, a minor injury is a minor injury, how can you speak so ambiguously? ”

Li Xiehe said: "Li Songqing was injured by a bomb, this news is true, but how he was injured is not something that can be explained in a word." In fact, Li Songqing was bombed in his apartment, and the bomb was placed in his study, a cigarette can, hidden behind a spittoon not far from the desk, and it was filled with explosive 'medicine', which seemed to be detonated with an alarm clock, which was very powerful, and half of the study was blown up. ”

"Could it be that anyone can enter and exit Li Songqing's study?" Zhang Yilu asked.

Li Xiehe shook his head and said: "Li Songqing is the speaker of the Senate of the National Assembly, and there are many congressional documents in his study, of course, not everyone can enter and exit this study, only Li Songqing himself and a few servants of the Loei Mansion can enter and exit, so I just said that Li Songqing's injury is not serious, and it is not light, because this bomb is hidden in the study by a servant of the Loei Mansion, Li Songqing's body injury is not serious, but this inner injury is very serious, he is sad, he usually treats the servant well, but in the end he was betrayed by the servant, which is a taste." , I'm afraid only Li Songqing himself can understand it. ”

"The bomb planted by the servants of Loei? Already confirmed? Why did this person murder Li Songqing? Yang Du asked like a cannonball.

"The most suspicious thing about the bomb is a horse in the Li Province, although it is only Li Songqing's own speculation at present, but all indications show that the person who installed the bomb must be someone who is familiar with Li Songqing's living habits, otherwise, he would not have been stuck at the right time, and the bomb was detonated just when Li Songqing was practicing calligraphy in the study. Fortunately, there were several members of the National Assembly at that time. I wanted to invite Li Songqing to the banquet, Li Songqing left the study to meet guests, the front foot just left, the bomb in the back foot study went off, Li Songqing was only a few steps away from the study, the bomb crashed into the window, was smashing on his shoulder, and fainted at that time, and when the others rushed to the study, they saw that the study had collapsed half, if it weren't for those parliamentarians to visit, I am afraid that Li Songqing would also follow in the footsteps of Tao Huanqing and Song Yuchu, then there is another martyr in the political circles of the Republic of China. After Li Songqing woke up, he sent someone to call all the subordinates in the apartment, and asked them one by one, and later found that a Ma Ben said goodbye without saying goodbye, that Ma Ben was Li Songqing's Huangpi fellow villager, and when it came to seniority, he had to call Li Songqing 'uncle', but now that Li Songqing was assassinated, that person said goodbye without saying goodbye, which inevitably has a bit of a taste of self-confession. ”

Li Xiehe's words made Yang Du and Zhang Yilu understand a little about Li Yuanhong's assassination, but the two were even more confused.

"If it's a bomb planted by Ma Ben, is it a 'private' grudge? If it's not a 'private' grudge, then who is behind it? Now that Ma Ben has escaped, if he can't catch it, I'm afraid he won't understand what's at stake. ”

Yang Du's words are also questions that Zhang Yilu is thinking about, but Li Xiehe does not pay attention to these issues.

"You two, don't you understand? Whoever planned the assassination of Li Songqing was a threat to the republican system, so no matter what, there must be an explanation for this assassination. The president sent two people over, one is to ask you to sort out a report in detail and submit it to the Congress, and the other is to ask you to come and assist Li Songqing, who has now relented and insisted on presiding over the northward relocation of the Congress, and he asked Yang Huizi to come and assist him by name, because you know the constitution very well, and with your assistance, the burden on Li Songqing's shoulders will be lighter. ”

Li Xiehe's words made Yang Du a little surprised, but then he recalled the courtesy that Li Yuanhong treated him in Wuhan last time, and his heart was relieved, but in his opinion, the most fundamental reason why he was able to go to Shanghai to be a "special investigator" of the Congress this time was probably because Zhao Bei planned to receive the political heritage of Beiyang.

Since Xu Shichang went into the wilderness, the Beiyang Group has fallen apart, the Beiyang Army has been merged into the "National Defense Force", and the politicians in Beiyang have also changed their "doors", some have thrown themselves into the Constituent Assembly, and some have surrendered to the United Front, while Yang Du and Zhang Yilu have chosen to submit to the United Front, because they are not optimistic about the Constituent Assembly, nor are they optimistic about the "industrial club" after the Beiyang Wenzhi faction Jin Cicada came out of the shell, so they wisely chose to return to Zhaobei.

Yang Du was originally worried that Zhao Bei would not accept him, after all, he was Yuan Shikai's confidant before, and he had also been an opponent of Zhao Bei, but the actual situation was that Zhao Bei welcomed Yang Du's submission very much, and immediately appointed him as a senior senator of the presidential palace, which is the kind of position that can directly talk to Zhao Bei.

Although I don't know whether Zhao Bei's "appreciation" for him is true or not, Yang Du didn't think too much about Zhao Bei's thoughts, after all, as long as he can stay in the political arena, as long as he can stay in the center of power, then he Yang Du Yang Huizi can play a role in the center, no matter how big or small this role is, at least much stronger than those who are excluded from the circle of power.

Changing the 'door' court, this is just the first step for Yang Du to get closer to Zhao Bei, if he wants to really become Zhao Bei's humerus minister, Yang Du must show his ability.