Chapter 34 The First Exploration of the World
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The noon incident is just a small episode, after lunch, there are people from the patrol room to report, Wang Dingye, who lost the bill of exchange, has already led people to beat gongs and drums to the central patrol room, and now this show is just the actor Sun Wei, the thunderbolt detective.
50,000 taels of silver is definitely a huge amount in the current society, otherwise the White Demolition Party that cheated Wang Dingye out of the bill of exchange before would not be in a hurry to discount and exchange, and then go away, but it is also to blame that they were unlucky, and they were automatically sent to Sun Wei's muzzle, and they are still waiting for trial in the prison of the patrol room.
When Sun Wei arrived at the patrol room, a large number of onlookers had gathered outside the patrol room, of course, this kind of occasion was naturally indispensable for reporters looking for news everywhere, many of whom were gunmen hired by Xie Xiaoshu and Wang Dingye.
"Inspector Sun is here, everyone let me go in!" The patrol who was responsible for maintaining law and order outside discovered Sun Wei's figure at the first time, and hurriedly stepped forward with his colleagues to separate the crowd and separate a smooth passage for Sun Wei.
"Inspector Sun is so powerful, such a big case was solved in a few days!"
"What kind of big case is this, some time ago, Inspector Sun had a shootout with hundreds of bandits in order to save the daughter of the British consul, not only saved the daughter of the British consul, but also killed dozens of bandits, and even those who escaped were personally arrested by him with injuries!"
"How did I hear that there were only a dozen bandits?"
"What do you know, this is the patrol room in order to prevent the people in our concession from panicking, and also to prevent Inspector Sun's credit from being too great and threatening the status of these foreign devils in the concession, so he lied to the outside world that there were only a dozen bandits, which reduced Inspector Sun's credit."
"How do you know this, it can't be nonsense, right?"
"How come, my wife's uncle's neighbor's youngest son is patrolling in the central patrol room, but he witnessed the scene of Inspector Sun killing hundreds of bandits with a gun, do you think what he said will be false!"
"So that's the case, no wonder you know so much, why don't you come to my house after work today, I'll ask your sister-in-law to cook some food and blanch some wine, you tell me how Inspector Sun broke the bandits with one enemy and one hundred?"
"This relationship is good, I haven't eaten my sister-in-law's cooking for a long time, I miss it strangely."
Sun Wei walked inward, listening to the discussions of the people around him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the imagination of the masses was strong, and he thought that he was really Changshan Zhao Zilong!
When Sun Wei walked to the door of the outer building of the arrest room, he happened to see the chief inspector of the arrest room, Bois Ragon, the chief inspector, the chief inspector Douglas Freeman, and the chief inspector Maiderson Jonas were greeting Wang Dingye, followed by the large and small foreigner police officers in the arrest room, presumably all of them wanted to show their faces in the newspaper, as for the Chinese police officers in the arrest room, they were either arranged to direct order outside, or they were squeezed to the back by this group of foreigners.
"Inspector Wang, you have really made a great contribution to our patrol and arrest house this time!" Boisragon, the boss of the patrol room, patted Sun Wei on the shoulder to show encouragement, while the reporters around him quickly pressed the shutter of the camera very cooperatively, properly taking the headline photo of tomorrow.
"As the inspector of the patrol house, it is my responsibility to protect the prosperity of the concession!" Sun Wei replied awe-inspiringly.
As soon as Sun Wei's words fell, Wang Dingye answered very appropriately: "Inspector Sun, thank you for helping the contemptible people find the deceived money order this time, and the contemptible people know that you, as the inspector of the patrol room, have always flaunted with a clean breeze on your sleeves, so the contemptible people dare not defile Inspector Sun's style with a blockade, so they ordered someone to carve this plaque overnight to show gratitude!" ”
"This is all within Sun's responsibility, and I don't deserve Boss Wang's gratitude." Sun Wei shirked.
"Sun, this is a deserved honor, open it and see what words Boss Wang sent." Sun Wei's immediate boss, Chief Inspector Douglas Freeman, said to Sun Wei.
"That's right, Inspector Sun, open it and see what Boss Wang sent." Inspector General Maiderson Jonas echoed.
"Then I'll be respectful and obey." Sun Wei said that he vigorously uncovered the red cloth on the plaque, and then the five gilded characters of "the first exploration in the world" appeared, even Sun Wei, who did not know calligraphy, knew that it must be from the hands of famous artists, and the words revealed vigorous and powerful.
"The first exploration in the world, it is really a good word, it must be the handwriting of a famous master!" Naturally, there are also people in the crowd who know the goods, and they can see at a glance that the font of the plaque is unusual.
"I haven't heard of anyone in our Shanghai who will write so brilliantly, but I heard that Zheng Daren, the president of the Preparatory Constitutional Association, is now presiding over the establishment of the Shanghai Commercial Press and the Shanghai Savings Bank in Shanghai. Someone in the crowd pointed to the origin of the plaque's calligraphy.
"Boss Wang, Sun is just a small detective in the house, how can he take on the reputation of 'the first detective in the world', and ask Boss Wang to take it back quickly." Sun Wei didn't communicate with Wang Dingye before, only thought that Wang Dingye could send a plaque such as "Bao Qingtian in the World" and "Di Renjie in the World", but he didn't expect him to directly send himself a piece of "The First Exploration in the World".
"Don't shirk Inspector Sun, this plaque is written by the calligraphy master Zheng Gongzhi and Elder Zheng, which just complements Inspector Sun." Wang Dingye said.
"Sure enough, it is Zheng Lao's handwritten calligraphy, it is rumored that although Zheng Lao advocates constitutional monarchy and advocates new learning, he is not used to seeing the Chinese and foreign people living in our concession, I didn't expect this Boss Wang to be able to invite his old man to come forward to inscribe for Inspector Sun, it seems that this Boss Wang has a lot of relationship with Zheng Lao." Hearing Wang Dingye's introduction, the person who recognized it was Zheng Xiaoxu's font exclaimed again.
With the introduction of the connoisseur, the surrounding reporters are even more like chicken blood, taking pictures of Sun Wei and the plaque frantically, in their opinion, Zheng Xiaoxu, an important minister of the imperial court, can be said to have given enough face to Sun Wei's inscription for a small detective in the concession, which is much more exciting than the photo of Sun Wei and the chief inspector of the house, and most of the reporters have already had a plan to give up the original headlines at this time.
Although Sun Wei didn't know who Zheng Xiaoxu was, he realized from the exclamations of the onlookers around him that he must be a super bullish figure, maybe he was still a high-ranking official of the Manchu government, which made him can't help but have a strong interest in Wang Dingye's true purpose, and also had a lot of jealousy about Wang Dingye's true identity.
After repeated shirks, Sun Wei finally accepted the plaque sent by Wang Dingye and ordered the plaque to be hung in his office.
"Wen Sheng, who is this Zheng Xiaoxu, and why did everyone react so much to him to give me an inscription?" The Wen Sheng in Sun Wei's mouth is the previous Inspector Huang, and his full name is Huang Wensheng.
"This Zheng Xiaoxu Zheng is said to be a native of Fujian, a scholarly family, and his father and uncle are both from Jinshi, although he only has a Juren background, but he served as Li Hongzhang Li's staff at a very early age. Because of the recommendation of Li Hongzhang and Lord Li, he first went east to Japan and served as the secretary of the imperial embassy in Japan, and was promoted to consul general not long after, and he did not return to China until the first year of the first year, and then served as the supervisor of Zhang Zhidong Zhang Ziqiang Army.
This Lord Zheng because of the recommendation of Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, two members of the imperial court, so his official has become bigger and bigger, successively served as the prime minister, the national affairs yamen Zhangjing, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Senator, last year was elected as the chairman of the preparatory constitutional association, this time to Shanghai is mainly to preside over the Shanghai Commercial Press, the establishment of the Shanghai Savings Bank, and the handling of new-style schools in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places.
Zheng Xiaoxu is most famous not for his official position, but for his calligraphy and poetry, and Chen Yan is known as the leader of the Min school of poetry, and founded a new style of poetry. Huang Wensheng explained.
"Are you related to that Zheng Xiaoxu, how do you know him in such detail?" Sun Wei knew that his subordinate had always been uneducated and unskilled, and he was only able to be promoted to Class B Inspector by carefully drilling camps and slapping horses, and a high-quality person like Zheng Xiaoxu was definitely not in the same dimension.
"I wanted to have a bit of a relationship with him, but unfortunately he is from Fujian, I am from Zhejiang, and eight horses can't be pulled together. The reason why I know him so well is only because I went to the teahouse to drink tea yesterday, and I happened to hear two young people who looked like scholars talking about him. Huang Wensheng explained.
"I just heard that this Zheng Xiaoxu doesn't like us people who work hard for foreigners, so why did he write this plaque for me?" Sun Wei asked again.
"Detective, you're embarrassing me, how can a little person like me understand the minds of big people, and if you want to know why Lord Zheng wrote you a plaque, the fastest way is to ask that Wang Dingye." Huang Wensheng said.
"That's right, this Huang Wensheng can ask Zheng Xiaoxu to write a plaque for me against his will, he must not be an idle person, such a person can't please a small detective in the concession like me, but I don't know what benefits he wants to get from me." Sun Wei seemed to be asking Huang Wensheng, but more like asking himself.
"Detective, do you need me to help you check his details?" Huang Wensheng asked.
"Not this time, I already know where to find out his identity." At this time, Sun Wei thought of the person who became Wang Dingye's bridge with himself through Gu Ye, and this person must know Wang Dingye's true identity.