"The Inspector is back!"

"Detective, how's it going, what did the inspector say?"

When Sun Wei left the office of Inspector General Bois Ragon and entered the lobby of the front building of the arrest room, he was immediately surrounded by patrols and detectives waiting for news, and then chattered and asked.

"Don't make any noise, listen to me!" Sun Weiwei stopped everyone's inquiries in a loud voice, and then said: "Regarding the matter of crossing the border to handle the case, the chief inspector has already stated that we have no merit, and then the announcement of the reward will be sent out." ”

"Really, great!"

Whether the onlookers participated in the patrol of last night's cross-border case, or those who did not, they are actually inseparable from Sun Wei in terms of interests, and in many cases, the interests of these ordinary patrols need to be fought for by a strong official like Sun Wei to the foreigners, and they are naturally excited after learning the statement of the chief inspector Boisragon.

"Okay, it's not too early, you all go to work." The reason why Sun Wei was able to get the chief inspector Boisragon not to pursue the case of crossing the line was naturally to ensure the detection of the robbery of Xiangfu Jindian, and then he drove the cheering crowd and walked in the direction of his office.

"Detective, this matter has really passed like this, and the inspector general is too easy to talk to?" In Sun Wei's office, Class B Inspector Huang Wensheng asked Sun Wei puzzled.

"Naturally, the chief inspector can't be so easy to speak, according to his previous intentions, he will definitely have to deal with some of the people involved in the case, even if he doesn't dare to deal with me head-on because he is afraid of my forces, at least Lao Du and Lao Wang's inspectors will do it." Sun Wei crossed his legs on the desk and said.

"Then why didn't the inspector general pursue it in the end?" Huang Wensheng asked.

"I promised him to solve the robbery of the Xiangfu gold store within a week." Sun Wei replied.

"What, Detective, you said you were going to solve the robbery of Xiangfu Jindian within a week, how is this possible?" Huang Wensheng exclaimed when he heard this.

"You remember one sentence, in front of my Sun Wei, everything is possible!" Sun Wei pointed to his nose with his thumb very angrily, and then continued to Huang Wensheng: "Did you buy the newspaper I asked you to buy?" ”

"Ah...... Oh, I've bought it, I'll get it for you. Huang Wensheng came back to his senses and hurriedly brought in the "Declaration" that Sun Wei had asked him to buy before.

"Okay, it's none of your business, you go about your own business." After Sun Wei took the newspaper, he said to Huang Wensheng.

"Oh, okay, Detective." Huang Wensheng walked out slowly, and when he reached the door of Sun Wei's office, he finally couldn't hold back, turned around and asked, "Detective, can we really solve the robbery of Xiangfu Gold Store?" It had been more than two months, and the robbers might have already broken up the money. ”

"It's not us, it's me, I'll handle this case myself, just do your own thing." Behind the newspaper, Sun Wei said unhurriedly.

"Oh, then I'm going to get busy." Huang Wensheng couldn't get an answer, so he had to leave with a stomach full of questions.

In fact, the reason why Sun Wei is confident in solving this case, which has been two months long, is rooted in the arms smuggling base he runs in Pudong.

There are many foreign companies in Shanghai that can be involved in arms trading, but most of these foreign companies do business with the Manchu central government or the local new army in terms of arms sales.

At this time, the people in China still believed in the old powers of Britain, France, and Germany, and psychologically did not believe much in the Murata Type 22 rifles and Golden Hook rifles sold by Japan, so brokers who were between buying and selling weapons from Britain, France, Germany, and other countries came into being in this environment, and these arms brokers smuggled a large number of weapons from Britain, France, Germany, and other countries from foreign banks, and then sold them to landlords and merchants who wanted to buy weapons, so as to earn the difference.

Among these brokers, Sun Wei of the Public Concession and Huang Jinrong of the French Concession can be called the best among them, and at least seventy or eighty percent of the smuggling of scattered weapons in Shanghai and its surrounding counties came from these two people, and it is even more coincidental that the weapons purchased by the robbers in Xiangfu Jindian came from Sun Wei.

Arms smuggling could not have been a high-profile deal, even in the corrupt Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the brokers who sold the weapons naturally had intermediaries on their front lines in the first transaction, so Sun Wei's predecessors found the group of bandits who robbed the Xiangfu gold store through this middleman.

In fact, the real armed forces in the concession were not the patrols of the houses, but the International Chamber of Commerce established during the Taiping Movement, which was later taken over by the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau and became its permanent institution.

The primary purpose and greatest function of the survival of the International Chamber of Commerce is to protect the vested interests of the Shanghai Foreign Concession from being harmed in critical situations, and whenever a major situation is encountered, the headquarters of the International Chamber of Commerce will be ordered by the general director of the Ministry of Industry or issued a ****** on its own, and all members will gather at the designated place according to the requirements of the ****** to complete the duties of the garrison concession.

According to incomplete statistics from later generations, there were as many as 26 mobilization activities of the International Chamber of Commerce, including the Battle of Mud City, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Tianjin Teaching Case, the Siming Gongshu Incident, the Jiangnan Teaching Case, the First Sino-Japanese War, the 1896 Riots, the Little Coachman's Anti-Donation Incident, the Second Siming Gongshu Incident, the Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, the Mass Trial Incident, the Xinhai Revolution, the Second Revolution, the Rickshaw Drivers' Strike, the Second Rickshaw Drivers' Strike, the Shanghai Hawker Riot, the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Trend, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War, Zhejiang-Feng War, May Day Movement, Northern Expedition War, 128 Incident, 128 Incident, August 13 Incident, August 13 Incident.

Of course, the mobilization of the whole group of the International Chamber of Commerce is not only a situation of real swords and guns, but also a show of force, including the so-called parade and annual review of the International Chamber of Commerce.

The bandits came and went freely when robbing the Xiangfu gold shop, not only avoiding the area where the international merchant group was stationed, but also avoiding the patrol route of the Hongkou house hunting patrol, which shows that they are well aware of the environment of the concession.

As Sun Wei expected, the bandits who robbed the Xiangfu gold shop were indeed committed by a local gang in the concession, but it was not a thriving Qinggang gang, but a small gang called the Yuelian Society, but this gang had a very strong background because it came from Hongmen in Shanghai.

In the previous life, due to the existence of the three tycoons Huang Jinrong, Zhang Xiaolin, and Du Yuesheng, people will immediately think of the Green Gang when they talk about the secret society in Shanghai.

According to the provisions of the Sino-British Jiangning Treaty, after the opening of the port of Shanghai, the British were able to set up a consul and stationed in the county seat of Shanghai, but at this time both China and Britain had no experience in mutual exchanges, and the British were reluctant to enter the city, preferring to rent land from local farmers on the Huangpu beach on the outskirts to build houses to set up a consulate, and the Qing court also lacked diplomatic talents, and even could not decide which level of officials to use to face these terrible foreigners.

Shanghai County belonged to Songjiang Prefecture, but the government was far away, and the whip was beyond the reach, so the Qing court ordered the Yamen to specialize in foreign affairs in Su Song Taidao, the county seat of Shanghai, and concurrently served as the superintendent of Jiang Customs.

The officials of the Qing Dynasty were always arrogant, often saying no to the requests of the Anglo-American and French consuls, and when things got big and groveling to ask for everything, this kind of condescending and inconsistent attitude caused a lot of headaches for the foreign consuls and the Taipan, and they began to suggest that the Qing court select capable officials from among the Chinese compradors of the foreign firms to serve as Taoists.

Wu Jianzhang is such a talent, he is a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong, who became rich in foreign trade, and is one of the most famous businessmen in Guangzhou.

Wu Jianzhang was good at dancing with long sleeves, and was well versed in officialdom, and his work was unanimously recognized by foreign businessmen and the imperial court, and he had already donated to the class as an alternate Taoist, so the Qing court soon appointed him as a Taoist station, stationed in the county seat of Shanghai, to deal with the negotiation of those foreigners on the Bund.

At that time, Shanghai, Songjiang, Suzhou and other important towns in southern Jiangsu, although the economy was prosperous, the industry and commerce were developed, but due to the restrictions of the Qing court's port policy, there was a lack of foreign trade talents, so at this time, all of them were Fujian and Guangdong people who were more experienced in dealing with foreign businessmen, and the population of Shanghai County was 600,000, of which there were as many as 150,000 people from Fujian and Guangdong.

Most of the Cantonese people in Shanghai are foreign trade businessmen, content with the status quo, so the Hongmen with the Cantonese people as the core rarely respond here, and the Fujian people in Shanghai are mainly shipwrights, so the small knife club with the bottom people as the core was just founded in Fujian, and its disciples are all over Shanghai, but with the arrival of Liu Lichuan, the situation has changed.

Like Wu Jianzhang, Liu Lichuan is also a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong, he worked in a foreign bank in Guangzhou and Hong Kong in his early years, fluent in English, sociable, because of the sugar business with foreign businessmen, came to Shanghai and stayed.

As early as in Hong Kong, Liu Lichuan had already joined Hongmen, came to Shanghai, found that there were many fellow villagers in Guangdong, began secret preaching work, continued to develop members, expand the group, and soon Liu Lichuan learned that although the Xiaodao Society, which was popular among Fujian sailors, had no organizational connection with Hongmen, its political goal was also to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. As the leader of Hongmen in Shanghai, he pulled a knife and joined the gang.

Although Liu Lichuan's move was not very successful, he also formed a deep friendship with the Shanghai Knife Society, and through his folding and punching of bottles, the armed fights that often occurred between people in Fujian and Guangdong did not resume again, and the expatriates in Shanghai from the two provinces formed a close community, and secretly took Liu Lichuan as the leader.