Chapter 198 Racking Seedlings

When Ruan Zhongshu, Cai Tinggan and others held a meeting in the small conference room of the Presidential Palace to discuss the "empty case", in an inconspicuous warehouse in the Tianjin Rì Concession, several gangsters also got together, but not in a meeting, but in pushing pai gow.

The table is a black table of eight immortals, next to which are placed several equally black benches, and in addition to pai gow, there is also a gramophone made by rì Ben, which is winded, and is humming and chirping at the moment singing rìben folk songs.

These Tianjin Wei gangsters are also stylish people.

Behind the thugs lay a huge iron cage, which, judging by the rusty iron plaque on the cage, was supposed to have been used to hold the beasts in the past, and may have been exhibited in some park, and then moved to this store.

Now, instead of animals, there were four men in the iron cage, both young and young, all with their hands tied behind their backs, half-lying and half-sitting in the cage, all of them looking sluggish.

The iron cage was locked, and there was no rope tied to it, and these four people could not escape, not to mention that they were so hungry that their eyes were dazzled, and they had no strength to escape.

However, the gangsters obviously didn't dare to care, in addition to the few who pushed pai gow, there were also two gangsters sitting next to the cage, both holding six-shot foreign guns in their hands, watching the people in the iron cage.

In fact, this room is now used as the corner of the "seedling room", and the four people in the iron cage are "seedlings", also known as "meat tickets", and as for these gangsters, they are thugs who specialize in guarding meat tickets.

Speaking of the gangsters of Tianjin Wei, it is also a major local specialty, these people are idle all day long, idle, all rely on the pit and abduction to live, dozens of hundreds of people rent a courtyard in a secluded place, and when a big pot is set up, they eat together in this pot, so this Tianjin gangster is also called "pot guy", and those gangsters in the south are different from the party composed of farmers, hawkers, and homeless people, the gangsters do not have the pursuit of "anti-Qing and Han", and they enter the industry to eat together, so, according to later generations, they are "professional underworlds." ”。

Gangsters are a big threat to local security, when the Qing court did not fall, it also had to clear the Tianjin Wei gangster group Shikai Governor Beiyang, and this gang of people was even more to take a thunderous means to clear the way for his "new deal" to carry out, after years of efforts, the gangsters in Tianjin Huajie "pot gang" basically disappeared, and those who did not die either fled to the northeast and broke into the Guandong, or hid in the concession and crossed the concession The authorities did not allow the gangsters to take the pot, and a small number of high-level gangsters who had a way to do the concession patrol for the concession authorities to do secret agents, Most of the gangsters had no choice but to continue to eat the food of the underworld, but they didn't dare to blatantly set up the pot.

Now Tianjin has an eight-nation concession. The Concession was established after the First Sino-Japanese War. It covers an area of more than 1,600 acres. The concession area stretches from the banks of the Haihe River to the county seat of Tianjin, next to the French Concession. Across the Haihe River, it faces the Italian Concession and the Austro-Hungarian Concession in a distance, and the location is not the best. The area is not the largest, and the economic prosperity of the concession is far less than that of the British concession.

So. This concession is also the most land in Tianjin's national concessions, and this commodity competition is not as good as that of British and American goods. So. The concession authorities can only make up their minds about this opium.

In this context. Most of the thugs in the concession are also addicts. This pai gow hasn't been pushed for long. A few people became addicted to smoking. One by one, they yawned and searched for cigarette guns. While smoking a cigarette. While humming a little song along with the gramophone. After a while, he was intoxicated with the joy of India's "head soil".

Didn't wait for them to finish their addiction. The door of the warehouse was pushed open through the cracks. Fall rì under the afterglow. A few people sneaked into the store. Two of them were in Tsing Yi hats. The others were dressed as gangsters.

The two men in green clothes and small hats were dressed similarly. But the age is far from the same. One person was in his forties. One person looked no more than thirty. The older one has no braids. Young it not only wears braids on the back of the head. And he also wears a jade wrench on the thumb of his right hand.

I saw those gangsters who were smoking addictively. The older man walked over and shouted a few words. Turn off the gramophone. The young man walked over to the iron cage. The four men in the iron cage turned their heads to look. Suddenly shouted.

"King Gong, in terms of seniority, I have to call you Brother Sheng. Where in this world is there a meat ticket for an elder brother to tie up a younger brother? ”

"Wei! You damn bastard! If you don't learn, learn to be a horse thief and tie up a meat ticket. The master is a Baylor anyway, the prince tied Baylor, we have been in the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, you are unprecedented! ”

"Brother Gongwang, let us go, we have no grudges or hatreds with you, we are all descendants of Aixin Jueluo."

"Shut up the master! Anyway, we are all Baylor and Beizi of Qingwangfu, and it is not too cold to ask this little Gongzi~! He, like that good, is now a foreigner's dog! ”

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The young man with a wrench on his thumb looked at the shouting "meat tickets" in front of the iron cage, and after a moment sneered: "You have no grudge against this king? Your Lao Tzu Zaizhen, Ye Lao Ziyi, they and Yuan Shikai eyebrows, and together they sold the Great Qing Kingdom to Ge

Even if this love for Xinjueluo is buried in their hands, you ~ tell this king 'no grudge and no hatred'? Are you embarrassed to say that you are a descendant of Aixin Jueluo? You are the 'Achina' and 'Seth Black' in Yongzhengye's mouth back then! ”

This sneering person was none other than Xiao Gong Wang Wei of the Manchu Dynasty, the founder and leader of the "Zongshe Party" and the vanguard of the Manchu restoration.

After the Qing Dynasty issued the edict of abdication, the Manchu Dynasty abolished Emperor Yi was expelled from the Forbidden City, and was placed under house arrest in the Alcohol Palace, as a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, Xiao Gong Wang Wei was unwilling to end the 200-year-old Guozuo, so he united Liangbi, Shanqi and others in the Qing Dynasty was expelled in Nanyuan on the night of the night to instigate the Praetorian Guard mutiny, attack the city of Běijīng, and try to rescue the abolished Emperor Yi and others, but this rabble was ambushed by the Beiyang Army with superior strength on the way forward, and disintegrated without strong resistance. Shanqi and the others could only abscond in disguise, and with the assistance of the envoy to China, they boarded a ship from Tianjin to North Korea, accompanied by their families.

After living in the Korean Governor's Office, Wei, Shanqi and others went to the "Kwantung Prefecture", the leased land of the Rìben in southern Liaoning, where they lived in seclusion for a period of time, and got in touch with the Governor of the Kwantung Prefecture, Oshima Yoshimasa, and others.

After returning to Tianjin, the first thing Wei and Shanqi did was to tie up the four grandsons of Prince Qing Yi, and this was only the first step in their plan to restore the country.

Yi has a total of six sons, but only three sons live to adulthood, as for the grandchildren only four, it can be regarded as a withered person, these four grandchildren are Yi's palm pearls, baby bumps, he Yi earned these thousands of family fortunes in the officialdom, and he will expect these four grandchildren to carry forward in the future.

After the abdication of the Qing family, Yi's family moved to the Tianjin Rì Concession, under the protection of Rì himself, thinking that this would be a peace of mind, but Yi Qian calculated, but he didn't calculate, someone had already targeted his Wanguan family wealth, and the other party quickly took action.

On the way to Tianjin County to listen to the play, the carriages that Yi and others were riding were stopped by a group of people with guns, and the other party did not tie Yi, but just took his four precious grandchildren away, and left a letter before leaving, ordering Yi how to do it.

It was Wang Wei and Su Wangshan who planned this kidnapping, and behind them, there was the shadow of Rì himself, and the specific action personnel were not ordinary gangsters, they were all green forest masters invited from the three eastern provinces.

After the kidnapping, these four meat tickets have been locked up in this warehouse, this is the property of Rì Ben Mitsui Foreign Company, no one would have thought that this place is actually a "seedling house", let alone a patrol to search here, everything is properly arranged, it depends on whether the "old thief" knows each other or not.

Yi is indeed very acquainted, not only obediently presented two million taels of silver to Wei and others for the "restoration donation", but also went to the capital, through Sun Baoqi, to Yuan Shikai "donated" a military salary of 1.5 million taels of silver, in exchange for Zhao Erfeng's official hat of "Governor of Western Sichuan".

The dignified prince of the Qing Kingdom can not count if he speaks, and he will naturally not break his promise at the beginning, since Yi will do things completely according to his orders, then this "meat ticket" can be exonerated.

Today, Wei deliberately rushed to the warehouse, just to release the four meat tickets, and by the way, let them bring a word to Yi.

"After I went back, I told Lao Qing, and I said that this king said that from now on, he will not be surnamed Aixin Jueluo, we Aixin Jueluo does not have this kind of unscrupulous descendants, and to restore the country, we still have to rely on our 'Eight Banners outside the Guan'!"

Wei Jiang waved his hand, and the gangsters opened the iron cage, but instead of loosening the four people, they put ropes on the mouths of the four people, and their legs were also tied with ropes, and then they took a black cloth and wrapped it around their heads.

"Lord Wang, is this person really released?" One of the thugs asked.

Wei rolled his eyes and snorted: "In the end, it is the banner man, even if you can't kill it!" ”

After touching a nail, the thug retreated stupidly, and ordered his subordinates to drag the four "meat tickets" out of the warehouse, load them into a four-wheeled carriage without any markings, and with a shout, the carriage drove out of the warehouse and headed for the old west at the junction of the French Concession and the British Concession.

After the thugs left the warehouse, Wei said to the middle-aged man who had been silent, "Mr. Kawashima, should these thugs be removed?" If the news leaks out, I am afraid it will be detrimental to your country. ”

The middle-aged man in his forties is Kawashima Naniwa, who is an interpreter of the legation on the surface, but in fact he is a member of the "Black Dragon Society", because of his close relationship with Prince Su Shanqi, he also participated in the kidnapping.