Chapter 30: Kicking to the Iron Plate
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David Andre's words are not unfounded, although foreigners have a lot of privileges in the public concession, and often get favoritism when there are disputes with the Chinese, but this situation is not static, and the exception is the patrolmen who are on a mission in the patrol house.
In his previous life, Sun Wei saw such a news when he was browsing the information of the old concession, that is, on October 6, 1891, the board meeting of the Ministry of Industry received a complaint from Mr. Wickham, saying that when he was riding a rickshaw along the Fuzhou Road from west to east between 10 and 11 p.m. on the 19th of last month, No. 76 Yin Arrester came to stop him, and very rudely pushed him aside, saying that he could not go.
Since he didn't know that there was a law against this road, he was about to move on, when the Seal Catcher pushed him aside again, and he pushed the Seal Catcher back, causing the Seal Catcher to fall to the ground.
Seeing this, Seal Arrester No. 90 ran over and beat him on the head and kicked him, and the two Seals dragged him to the Old Gate Capture House, despite his request to go with them to the Central Capture House, where they met Inspector Howard before being allowed to leave.
In the letter, Wickham accused Capture No. 76 of abusing him and Seal No. 90 of brutally kicking him.
With regard to Mr. Wickham's complaint, the Board's view is that the Imp Arrest was merely carrying out an order to stop Mr. Wickham from moving west to east on the road, and that if he had any complaint against the two Wickham, he should have done so immediately and denounced them at the arrest house, and it was clear that the Inkham's rude conduct had been favoured by the Ministry of Works.
At that time, this documentary report was intended to illustrate the barbaric rudeness of the Indian patrols in the execution of their missions, and pointed out that they were still like this to the Westerners, so many Chinese in Shanghai who made a living by pulling rickshaws and pushing trolleys were naturally treated harshly by the Indian arrests.
Although the ordinary Chinese patrol does not have the trouble that they can use to find the white people in the concession, the Chinese officials inside, especially the detectives who have great voting rights in criminal and civil cases, can enjoy this treatment, not to mention that this kind of officials have colluded with the local underground forces in the concession to some extent, and naturally they have become the object of white people who are unwilling to offend too much.
Sun Wei was not blindly derelict in his duties during the period of working in the patrol room, and he also had a certain understanding of the current situation in the patrol room, especially the Chinese patrol and detectives who had positions in the patrol room.
For the time being, the General Police Office has divided the nine patrol houses in the entire Public Concession into four police districts, the central, western and northeastern districts, of which the central district includes the Central Arrest House and the Laozha Arrest House, the western district includes the Jing'an Temple Arrest House and the Xinzha Road Arrest House, the northern district includes the Hongkou Arrest House and the Huisi Arrest House, and the eastern area includes the Grand Road Arrest House, the Huishan Capture House, and the Jiaxing Road Capture House, which was established only this year to manage Japanese expatriates.
The current patrol house has not yet reached the scale of four or five thousand people in the middle and late Republic of China, and there is not enough manpower to maintain the independence of each patrol house in a police district, so each police district has a main patrol room guarded by the chief patrol town, and the rest are sub-patrol rooms led by patrol officers sent from the main patrol room.
Taking Sun Wei as an example, although he claimed to be the chief inspector of the No. 1 Detective Department of the Central Patrol and Arrest Office when he was handling the case, he also handled the cases that occurred during the Laozha patrol in the same area as the Central Patrol and Arrest House.
In the early years, the Hongkou area belonged to the American concession, but the Americans did not have much interest in managing the concession, so the Americans merged the American concession in Hongkou into the original British concession, thus forming the current public concession, and its security was also maintained by the patrol house set up by the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession.
However, since the US Concession was located on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, the security management of the patrol houses located on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek was not effective, so the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry followed the example of the Laozha Capture House established by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Li Xiucheng Army, which caused a large number of Chinese refugees to pour into the concession due to the large-scale attack on the Suzhou and Hangzhou areas, and set up a second sub-patrol and arrest house of the Ministry of Industry Bureau in the Hongkou area where the US Concession was located.
At the beginning of the establishment of the patrol house, the entire Hongkou Concession was sparsely populated, and even the Americans themselves were unwilling to live in their own concession, but it was used as a base camp by the Japanese who had not been able to obtain the concession from the Manchu government, so there was Jiaxing Road Capture House, but at this time the Jiaxing Road Capture House did not belong to the North District where the Hongkou Capture House was located, but belonged to the East District separated from the American Concession.
Unlike later generations, the Japanese at this time did not have the arrogance they had after World War I, and except for a certain amount of intelligence work in the Shanghai Public Concession, they were basically normal business activities, and the highest proportion of them were naturally Japanese prostitutes who resounded throughout East Asia.
Japan has always been a people who pay attention to etiquette, which they have been rigorously trained from birth, just like during the later Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese slaughtered the Chinese people on a large scale, while groveling to ask the famous Chinese to come out to maintain the situation, but when they were decided, they did not hesitate to kill their groveling objects, which was completely a neurotic expression in the eyes of most Chinese people.
At this time, Japanese women were better than their men in terms of etiquette, although they did not have to go out to work, but they were able to tidy up the house in an orderly manner, and when the husband came home, he did not even need to change his shoes and take off his clothes.
Although Japan has gone through decades of the Meiji Restoration, defeating the Manchu government and the huge Tsarist government that have been pressing on them, it still cannot change its small territory and lack of resources.
In order to be able to earn a large amount of foreign exchange to develop the national industry, the Japanese government had to export a large amount of domestic grain and raw silk, and the only way to obtain grain and raw silk was naturally to increase taxes.
Under the onerous agricultural taxes imposed by the Meiji government, more and more farmers in the country were on the verge of bankruptcy, so in order to survive, they had to borrow large amounts from landlords and chaebols to support their families.
The only way to change the precarious situation of the Japanese peasants is to reduce the taxes of the peasants and give the people at the bottom the money to make ends meet.
The only thing the Meiji government could now rely on was the agricultural tax of their own country, and the change of the tax law was naturally not something they were willing to accept, but at a time when they were at a loss, there were ways in some parts of Japan for landlords and zaibatsu to encourage bankrupt farmers to send their daughters abroad to work as prostitutes to repay their loans.
Clever Japanese politicians found new ways to earn foreign exchange from this example, and they quickly persuaded the cabinet to sign a new agreement in the name of the government with the bankrupt peasants and debtors, which stipulated that more than half of the money won by the women sent abroad would be handed over to the government in the form of taxes, and then a large part of the after-tax would be handed over to the debtors, and the bankrupt peasants would receive only a small part of the money to support their families.
In order to better control these women who went abroad, the Japanese government and the chaebols in the United Nations set up one brothel after another in East and Southeast Asia, and these brothels can be used as places to collect intelligence, but also bring them a lot of income, according to Sun Wei's understanding that there are at least 700 Japanese prostitutes in Hongkou alone.
The gentleness and tenacity of Japanese prostitutes can accept the demands of customers who are unacceptable to prostitutes from other countries, so they have more and more repeat customers, these repeat customers have brought prosperous business activities to the local area, attracting more people to settle in Hongkou, it can be said that Hongkou has the current development, and its biggest contributor is the Japanese prostitutes living in Hongkou.
At present, among the Chinese detectives in the Hongkou Concession, there is only Li Gang, a Chinese Class B detective, and at the same time, he is the protector of those small underground forces in the North District, so it can be said that the entire case in the North District is basically controlled by him, and even his foreign boss has to give him three points, and it is estimated that it is precisely in this way that he has developed the character of no one in his son's eyes.
"Boss, that kid has passed out, so he won't wake up and continue fighting." When Sun Wei and David Andre were greeting each other, the bodyguard Ah Hua walked in and said to Sun Wei.
Even if Sun Wei didn't take Li Gang, who could only be the king and hegemon in Hongkou, in his eyes, he was also a prominent person in the Shanghai Public Concession after all, so he killed his son in public, and it was estimated that he would be very troublesome, in order to reduce the trouble, the follow-up revenge could only be carried out in secret, so he said to Ah Hua: "No need, you send someone to send him to the hospital, and then go to inform his father, just say that his son was beaten by me." ”
"Yes, boss!" When Ah Hua heard this, he went out to carry out the order.
"Mr. Andrew, I think let's talk about the transfer of this house." Sun Wei then got to the point and said to David Andre.
"Since Inspector Sun wants to buy it, how about a transaction at the price I negotiated with Mr. Li before for 19,000 taels?" David Andre said.
"This is not good, after all, this is your friend's house, I am afraid it is not easy to explain to him if you reduce the price for him privately." The discount of two thousand taels is a lot of money even for a huge rich man like Sun Wei, but he can't give people the impression of buying and selling because he wants to buy a cheap house, which will damage his reputation as a righteous man, so he refused.