In the summer rain, in a luxurious house in Suzhou, a woman stood aside, surrounded by an old man sitting on the upper seat. Outside the window, there was a burst of thunder and the sound of dense rain, and the old man seemed to hear the terrible sound of bullets when the comprador group was attacked by the enemy, and his shoulders shook and returned to normal.

The old man's name is Xu Run, known as the king of minerals and real estate, and his fame has spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the wealth he has accumulated is immeasurable. In fact, Xu Run is essentially a big comprador, or he would not have been so active in organizing the comprador group to exterminate the forces of the Zhenguo Party. This person had worked in a foreign bank since he was young and had seen a lot of things, and he knew that the Zhenguo Party was the biggest obstacle in his way, and he had to move it away and could not get around.

If the violent confrontation on the surface fails, then it will be yin, and let Lu Liang, the nouveau riche, know that the energy accumulated by the Jiangnan clan and the comprador rich businessman is not something he can handle at will! I am still old and confused, the comprador group is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and I personally set up a comprador group of 3,000 people, but the result is not a loss, the family wealth has shrunk by nearly half, and it has not achieved any effect! At that time, he was full of spirit and wanted to go to the battlefield in person to watch the Zhenguo Army being wiped out, but after he came back, he did not come out of the horror of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood for more than a month.

Xu Run clenched his fists, closed his eyes slightly, and said in a low voice: "Jiali, within a month, I want to see Lu Liang's head!" I don't care what method you use, what means, in short, I only look at the result. You've been with me for thirteen years, since you were four years old, and you've learned nothing else, and I've had people just teach you how to kill, don't let me down. ”

The woman named Jiali nodded, saw that Xu Run stopped talking, turned around and walked out of the door. From now on, she is going to plan to assassinate Lu Liang, this expressionless, ordinary-dressed, and even average-looking woman looks like a servant of people, who would have thought that this is an assassin that Xu Run has cultivated for many years?

The assassination did not require Jia Li alone, she disguised herself as a subordinate and arrived in Guangzhou with a caravan on a shipping company's ship. Then spend a month observing and collecting intelligence, and formulate a suitable assassination plan according to Lu Liang's line of action.

Lu Liang's whereabouts are not easy to grasp, according to the information provided by the inside line mixed in the Ziqiang Chamber of Commerce, Lu Liang has been moving between the Guangzhou Prime Minister's Office and the headquarters of the Huizhou Zhenguo Army, and no one knows the time and law of travel, and the details of the subordinates and guards around Lu Liang cannot be found, they seem to have appeared out of thin air. Moreover, Lu Liang had at least two hundred armed guards around him, and it was difficult for him to get close to him without a suitable reason.

It was early September 1903, and Lü Liang devoted all his energy to the preparations before the Northern Expedition. Since the beginning of the armed uprising, the Zhenguo Army has fought on different scales every year, and although the quality of the soldiers has been raised to a satisfactory level, it is not a good thing for the civilians of Guangdong and the three provinces of Fujian and Guizhou to have frequent wars. Many military families have to be worried, businessmen who are engaged in business have to worry about the impact of the war on their business, and farmers have to worry about whether life will change back to the way it used to be if it fails.

In particular, the Japanese invasion of Guangdong, a tragic battle took place around us, and even though the Zhenguo Army compressed the war time to the shortest time and reduced the losses to the minimum, more than 30 civilians were still killed in this battle. The panic caused by the fighting required the Provisional Government to take a variety of measures to suppress it, but fortunately, the next Northern Expedition was outside the three provinces, which was not too bad news for the people of Guangxi and Fujian provinces, which were initially stable, under construction, and had better days coming.

Not everyone was against the war, and the Provisional Government did not hide the news of the Northern Expedition, but on the contrary hyped it up internally. The first to respond were the millions of intellectuals who had accumulated in the three provinces, most of whom were local youths who had received a new education, and who were also probationary members of the Zhenguo Party, who were the most supportive of the policies of the provisional government, including soldiers, workers, teachers, government officials, businessmen, and so on. These young people support the party not only because of their ideological compatibility, but also because their future and their families are closely linked to the party.

Joining the party are the more than 3,000 members of the Ziqiang Chamber of Commerce, who represent the interests of the bourgeoisie, and the expansion of territory will bring them more resources, a larger market, and a richer labor force. There are millions of interest communities behind them, including factory workers, merchants who circulate goods, farmers who provide resources, etc., this is a system, and Lü Liang has successfully tied almost everyone in the three provinces to his chariot. At the beginning of his business, he exchanged shares in most light industrial factories, and some people ridiculed him for being a fool. Now it seems that his ambition is not to make money at all, and it is clear who is who.

Uniting the emerging bourgeoisie and bringing countless people behind them is one of the things that Lu Liang is most proud of, so he attaches great importance to communicating with those in the Ziqiang Chamber of Commerce. When Xu Fa, a Zhaoqing capitalist who owns four large and medium-sized enterprises including Guangzhou Leather Processing Factory, Zhaoqing Pig Sideburns Processing Factory, Foshan Cement Factory, and Yunfu Building Materials Factory, invited him to a banquet at the Ziqiang Hotel in Guangzhou, Lu Liang, who has always hated banquets, did not refuse.

The preparation for the Northern Expedition also needs the participation of the Ziqiang Chamber of Commerce, Xu Fa's factories have orders from the army, and they are one of the key enterprises of the Logistics Department of the Zhenguo Army.

The banquet was in the most luxurious private room of the hotel, and the hotel management personnel deliberately cleared the vicinity of the private room under the supervision of the Investigation Bureau.

Accompanying the banquet were the two vice presidents of the Ziqiang Chamber of Commerce, Wu Shimin and Mei Delong, who were the most enthusiastic about Lu Liang's affairs, and they believed that no matter what Lu Liang did, it would bring the Chamber of Commerce the opportunity to make a fortune.

The four of them sat down, and after the greetings, a waitress began to serve the food, on this occasion, Lu Liang didn't mind joking, of course, with his status, if he didn't say something relaxed, the other three would not be able to let go.

"Boss Xu, I heard that Guangzhou Ziqiang Hotel has 30% of your shares, and the hotel manager is also your person. I have to admit that you are very well managed, Wu Lao, Mei Lao, you see, traditional people like Boss Xu also know how to use beautiful women to serve! ”

"Hahahaha!" Whether it's funny or not, at least a few people laugh genuinely. Wu Shimin continued: "Lao Yu doesn't have the same energy as Lao Xu, and after opening four large factories, he still has to meddle in the hotel business, and he can still run it very well." I heard that the Guangzhou branch of the Ziqiang hotel chain is the best one, and Boss Xu has contributed a lot! ”

"I can't stand your praise, if it weren't for Premier Lu's leadership, we wouldn't have been able to have so many deals to do. It's not Premier Lu who made a fortune after he led our Guangdong! Come, I hope that our country will get better and better, the Zhenguo Party will become more and more prosperous, and our business will get bigger and bigger! Xu Fa's toast Lu Liang just nodded lightly on his lips, and those who know the details know that Lu Liang doesn't drink, and now he is already giving Xu Fa face.

"Everyone, Boss Xu, there is something I have to instruct, and I also need to ventilate to the bosses in the Chamber of Commerce through you. The Northern Expedition is imperative, and we are bound to win the south of the Yangtze River and the Sichuan region, and then half of China will be recovered. However, those places are not as good as Fujian and Guangxi, the local gentry and wealthy merchants in Fujian left with the imperial court, and Guangxi did not have a large local power, which is an important reason why you can make a fortune smoothly. But unlike other regions, the local forces in the Liangjiang area are very large, and they are also very cooperative with the actions of the Zhenguo Party some time ago. In the future, the distribution of the cake will not be divided by our Guangdong merchants as it is now, and a piece must be given to them. ”

Lu Liang's words made the expressions of the three of them stagnate slightly, and then immediately returned to normal, and they all expressed their support for Lu Liang's decision. This is also to be expected, Yunnan and Guizhou are still a little behind, and the local wealth in the Liangjiang area is amazing, no worse than the Guangdong capitalists who have accumulated for more than three years, and the provisional government will definitely absorb those capitals into the emerging factories and other fields. However, the Ziqiang Chamber of Commerce was formed by our Guangdong businessmen, we are the head of the land, we have the experience of opening factories, those local rich people want to surpass Guangdong, not just money, then fair competition is enough.

After three rounds of drinking, the waitress poured wine on the side, and everything seemed very normal. Jiali poured wine for Lu Liang, she was not in a hurry at all, since it was carefully planned, she could enter the private room to serve everyone, then the assassination was half the success. Now, just wait for Lu Liang to lower his vigilance to the minimum, but unfortunately, this person does not drink, he saw it himself, he was just pretending, and he didn't even get his lips stained with wine, so the first plan, poison, was abandoned.

However, Lu Liang's guards are all outside the door, and the other two old men are not threatening at all, so they will use the second plan, as for whether they can escape after they succeed, Jiali has not planned an escape plan at all, and she is not ready to go back when she comes here.