Chapter 54: Action on the Road
At 8:20 p.m., Qingpi, who was in charge of monitoring the Hongkou Patrol Prison Prison, called Sun Wei's office and reported to Sun Wei that Li Gang had brought people into the prison.
"Lao Du, Lao Wang, quickly send someone to the stable to set up the carriage, and let the brothers act immediately!" After putting down the phone, Sun Wei immediately instructed Du Ze and Wang Huaibing.
"Yes!" After Du Ze and Wang Huaibing saluted, they quickly left Sun Wei's office.
This is Sun Wei's first external action since the crossing, and he didn't feel it when he laid out the plan, but now he was a little inexplicably nervous about the action.
Sun Wei calmed down in the office alone for a while, and felt that the carriage should be almost set up below, so he left the office and walked downstairs to the hall.
When Sun Wei arrived in the hall on the first floor, the patrolmen of the first and second teams had already gathered outside the courtyard, and began to point to the carriages that boarded the carriage one after another.
In order to better inspect the safety of the concession, the patrol house has set up a certain number of mounted police in the capture house, and has not been able to dispatch the police in time to train several driving patrols for each team, so there is no need to hire a handlebar outside the arrest house to drive for them in this outing.
The carriage equipped with the fishing house is not the old-fashioned carriage of China, but the four-wheeled carriage that is still popular in the West, but this kind of four-wheeled carriage is not the kind of two-seater or four-seater small carriage that European nobles and wealthy merchants ride when they go out, but the kind of large carriage that is responsible for long-distance passengers.
This large horse-drawn carriage originated in the European Middle Ages, when because of the poor road conditions in Europe, passengers were very uncomfortable sitting on a poorly equipped and bumpy carriage, so in 1775, the Englishman John Uhtland was the first to invent this large horse-drawn carriage, and this kind of carriage was placed on the rails, thus replacing the traditional horse-drawn carriage as the main means of public transportation.
This large four-wheeled carriage can be said to be the precursor of the early train, which served as a train until the advent of steam trains, but since the seventies of the nineteenth century, due to the advent of trams and subsequent automobiles, the railroad has gradually withdrawn from the stage of history.
This kind of large four-wheeled carriage is extremely expensive in cost, and when the train officially replaces the railroad to become the most important means of transportation for long-distance transportation, there are still a lot of railroad carriages are being produced and delivered to the hands of the fortune company, if the transportation company directly eliminates this kind of carriage will face great losses, so they will convert this carriage into a public transportation tool in the city.
Just when everyone thought they had found a suitable job for this kind of carriage, the city tram was born, which was an economical means of transportation without the need for expensive and difficult horses, as well as expensive rubber tires and fuel.
In the early days of the Shanghai Concession, the British Jardine Matheson & Co. was the first to propose to the French Concession Board of Directors to start a tram business, and the concession authorities believed that although the tram lay tracks and lines had a large investment, in view of its advantages of low driving cost, large passenger capacity, and stable and comfortable ride, it was decided to adopt it and began to study it.
However, the French Concession Board of Directors considered that the scope of the French Concession was too small to support the survival of the tram company, so it united with the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession to form a tram design committee, but it failed due to design differences, and this large horse-drawn carriage was used as an alternative means of transportation at that time.
Since this kind of large carriage landed in the concession, its convenient transportation was discovered by the housing authorities, and then it was introduced as a means of transportation for the patrol police to quickly dispatch the police.
This time out of the police, Sun Wei naturally did not need to take such a crowded carriage, and his subordinates had already prepared a small two-seater four-wheeled carriage for him, and there was also a special patrol to drive for him.
"Reporter Jiang, I don't know if I have the honor to invite you to ride in my carriage?" When Sun Wei passed by Jiang Xue, he happened to see her staring with disgust at the carriage that had been filled with police patrols, and her photographer had already moved the camera to the car at this time and was beckoning her to get up.
"Thank you, Inspector Sun, for bothering you this time." Jiang Xue had the heart to refuse Sun Wei's invitation, but she shuddered at the thought of squeezing into a car with a group of stinky men, and instantly gave up the idea of refusing.
"It is an honor for Sun to be in the same car with such a beautiful lady." Sun Wei changed his previous aggressiveness and opened the car door for Jiang Xue very gentlemanly.
It is said that Sun Wei in this life is not most satisfied with his identity as a detective, but his handsome face, which is beyond his reach in his previous life, but his handsomeness has no effect on Jiang Xue, who is riding in the same carriage as him, since Jiang Xue boarded the carriage at his invitation, he has been shrinking in the corner of the seat, and has been watching Sun Wei with vigilant eyes.
"Reporter Jiang, we don't have to do this, can I still eat you?" After the carriage began to move, Sun Wei couldn't help but say to Jiang Xue.
"Humph!" Jiang Xue snorted coldly, still going her own way.
"Hey, you chick is quite temperamental, don't forget that you are in my carriage, and the driver is also my person, believe it or not, even if you cut your throat, no one will come out." is the so-called beating a child on a rainy day, and being idle is idle anyway, so Sun Wei got bored and teased her.
"You dare, don't think that you are the inspector of the concession, if I let my grandfather know that you are bullying me, he will definitely not let you go." Jiang Xue had also heard of Sun Wei's reputation before, and now that she heard Sun Wei say this, it was inevitable to be afraid.
"Oh, it turns out that you are not fighting for your father, but for your grandfather, so can you tell me who your grandfather is?" Sun Wei looked at Jiang Xue's frightened appearance and asked a little funny.
"I can scare you to death if I say my grandfather's name, he is Zhu Baosan, president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and president of the Ningbo and Dinghai Travelers Association, my grandfather's words can remove you as a detective!" Jiang Xue threatened.
"It turned out to be him, his old man is a giant in Shanghai's financial industry, don't say it, hearing your grandfather's name really scared me to death." Although Sun Wei was saying it in a joking tone, there was not much joke in it, and Zhu Baosan's current status was indeed not something that he could compete with as a small detective.
In the previous life, the official name of Xikou Road in Shanghai was Zhu Baosan Road, which was a strange man who could make the unbeatable Concession Board of Directors willing to name the road after him.
"I'm not joking with you, my grandfather is really Zhu Baosan." Jiang Xue saw that Sun Wei still didn't care, so she reiterated again.
"I'm not joking with you, I do believe that your grandfather is Zhu Baosan." Sun Wei finally changed to a serious look, but his serious look was very fake.
"You ......" Jiang Xue's emotions were quite excited, and she was already crying when she spoke.
"Okay, okay, I really believe that your grandfather is Zhu Baosan, just a joke for you, you adults have a lot of don't take it to heart." Sun Wei saw that he was about to make other girls cry, so he hurriedly apologized.
"Humph!" Jiang Xue turned her head and ignored Sun Wei.
"What, you're so angry?" Sun Wei put his head in front of Jiang Xue and asked.
"Go away, stay away from me, rogue!" Jiang Xue was very annoyed and pushed Sun Wei's head away.
"Bang!" "Oops!" The defenseless Sun Wei fell directly from his seat under Jiang Xue's push, and his head hit the door frame of the carriage, and even knocked the moving carriage into a shock.
"Ah, are you okay, I didn't expect to push you down, you didn't hurt there, did you?" Jiang Xue didn't expect that she would push Sun Wei to, listening to Sun Wei's scream, she knew that the fall must not be light, and quickly asked with concern, but maybe she still had a lot of fear of Sun Wei, so she still kept her distance from Sun Wei when asking.
"Detective, are you alright?" Sun Wei's screams and the concussion of the carriage naturally alarmed the patrol officer driving in front, and the patrol officer hurriedly asked loudly.
"It's fine, it's just a mosquito bite." Sun Wei sat back in his seat while covering his head, and replied to the patrolman who was driving.
"Mosquitoes? Detective, it seems that there are no mosquitoes this season. The patrolman who drove the car said in surprise.
"Where are there so many problems, I said that there is, just drive your car well!" Sun Wei reprimanded a little angrily.
"Oh!" drove to patrol to see Sun Wei angry, and he didn't dare to ask again.
"I really didn't mean to, I'm so sorry, are you okay?" Jiang Xue moved to Sun Wei to see the injury on his head, but Sun Wei avoided him.
"I can't die yet!" Sun Wei said angrily.
"Why are you like this, I apologize to you, what else do you want me to do?" Jiang Xue said a little aggrieved.
"If the apology is useful, what do you want us patrols to do?" Sun Wei was still very annoyed and said.
"And what do you want?" Jiang Xue didn't expect the famous Sun Wei to be so unreasonable, which made her a little overwhelmed.
"If you're sincere, why don't you invite me to dinner tomorrow, I think I'll be able to accept it reluctantly." Sun Wei thought for a moment and said.
"No, how can I eat with a strange man!" Jiang Xue directly refused.
"Anyway, I told you the way to apologize, please don't invite you, the injury on my head is not estimated to be better in three or five days, if someone asks me how this injury was caused, I don't mind saying that it was too big to fall when I was riding in the carriage with you." Sun Wei said in a ruffian tone.
"You ......" Jiang Xue wanted to scold Sun Wei for being shameless, but she was afraid that he would really talk nonsense like this, so she had no choice but to agree: "Okay, I will promise to invite you to dinner tomorrow." ”