When he traveled back, it was usually night, Li Zhigao had just walked out of the rockery in the backyard, and suddenly found that his eyes were bright, and at the same time, he heard a sparse loading sound, followed by a hurried and nervous shout: "Who is there!" Come out! ”

Covering his eyes with his hand, after getting used to it, Li Zhigao found that there was a kerosene lamp in front of him, nervously asking himself, and next to this kerosene lamp, there was another nervous housekeeper, who was not holding a kerosene lamp, but an Enfield rifle pointed at him!

Li Zhigao was startled when he saw this, and hurriedly said loudly: "What are you doing, it's me!" Put the gun down! ”

Hearing Li Zhigao's voice, and seeing clearly the classic tuxedo he was wearing, the person who played the kerosene lamp looked at Li Zhigao's face again, and then hurriedly asked the person with the gun next to him to put away the gun, and he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "It turned out to be the master, kowtow to the master, please forgive the master!" ”

As soon as he came like this, the gunman next to him, who seemed to be a little stunned, hurriedly put down his gun and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and kept saying: "Kowtow to the adult, please forgive the adult!" ”

"Forget it, let's all get up." Li Zhigao waved his hand, "Stand up and reply." ”

After the two of them stood up again, Li Zhigao asked the person who made the kerosene lantern: "Who are you?" What for? ”

Listening to Li Zhigao's question, the person who played the kerosene lamp immediately said: "Back to the master, the little one's name is Sun Shun, and he is the family member you took in at the beginning, and he is specially responsible for patrolling the house." ”

"Sun Shun?" When Li Zhigao heard this, he looked at it through the light again, and finally had an impression, yes, this was indeed one of the early family members he received.

"What about him?" Li Zhigao pointed to the black-faced man next to him who was half a head taller than himself, and asked, "Why haven't I seen this person?" ”

"Back to the master, this person's name is Wang Erbiao, not your family, but a soldier in your regimental training."

"Oh." Li Zhigao nodded, and finally understood why the guy named Wang Erbiao called himself an adult, because he still has the identity of a regimental training supervisor and a daotai, and he is his own soldier, not what he calls himself an adult.

Looking at the majestic Wang Erbiao, Li Zhigao asked, "Are you Wang Erbiao?" Is it my soldier? ”

"Lord Hui, exactly!" That Wang Erbiao immediately stood upright, and then replied in a deep voice, "Just now, the black light was blind, and I didn't see it clearly, and I mistakenly thought that the adult was a villain, so I offended with a gun, and I hope that the adult will atone for his sins." ”

"It doesn't matter, and those who don't know are not guilty. Well, Wang Erbiao, but he has a strong spirit, listening to the accent, not local? ”

"Lord Hui, the mark was originally from Jining, Shandong, and then there was a famine, so I fled and followed, I originally planned to vote for my relatives here, who knew that in the end my relatives couldn't find it, and I didn't have any entanglements on my body, so I had to fall here."

"I see." Li Zhigao nodded, "Follow me well in the future, and you will have a future." ”

"Master Xie cultivates!"

"But he still has a good eloquence." Li Zhigao smiled slightly, "Okay, you can step back first." ”

After Wang Erbiao quietly stepped aside and stood aside, Li Zhigao began to ask that Sun Shun: "What happened just now?" ”

Seeing that Li Zhigao was not angry, Sun Shun said cautiously: "Master, we didn't mean to do that thing just now, it's all a misunderstanding, well, it's a long story, and the specific details are not clear, you better ask Manager Liu for questioning." ”

Sun Shun said that the manager of Liu is naturally Liu Runsheng, although he mainly deals with the outside and does not care much about the affairs of the house, but because he is Li Zhigao's intimate confidant, he is called the chief manager by everyone, as for Liu Runsheng's wife Zhang, the actual housekeeper of the inner house Ding Pingyue is called Mrs. Liu.

Under the guidance of Jiading, Li Zhigao soon saw Liu Runsheng, who was overjoyed, and began to listen to his return after a simple greeting, only then did he know that after he left, so many things had happened here.

That Sun Shun is right, this is indeed a long story, to put it simply, that is, in the period when Li Zhigao left, his store was robbed.

It is said that after Li Zhigao suddenly disappeared, he was shocked up and down, but fortunately, Li Zhigao had greeted him in advance before, saying that he was going to leave for a while, and he was often elusive, so although Liu Runsheng and the others were suspicious, they were not in chaos, so they could only wait until when Li Zhigao would come back suddenly.

But just when Li Zhigao came back, the world outside also changed.

On the second day after Li Zhigao traveled back to modern times, the order of the imperial court came down, saying that the local government should arrest the revolutionary party strictly and severely, and as for the reason, it was that a guy named Wang Zhaoming failed to assassinate Zaifeng a few days ago, and then he was arrested by mistake.

This assassination attempt stimulated the Qing political axe, coupled with the previous revolutionary party's bunch of rebellion and assassination cases, which made the Qing court particularly angry, which triggered a new round of craze for capturing the revolutionary party, which led to the recent rumors in various places immediately tightened.

As soon as martial law was imposed on the imperial court, there was chaos in the localities, and as a result, the revolutionary party did not catch much, but caused chaos in the localities.

The price of rice has been soaring recently, and the price of rice has been soaring, and the common people are not having a good time, and many local officials have begun to find excuses everywhere to make donations and taxes and arrest people indiscriminately, causing a series of dissatisfaction and rebellion.

For example, in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, there were butcher merchants who resisted the donation boycott, the tofu industry went on strike, and the police station was smashed, and there was a rice rush in Wuhu, killing and injuring more than a dozen people, and so on.

Although there has not been any turmoil such as a grain grab strike in Taiping Mansion for the time being, the prefect still ordered martial law in the whole city, and sent officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion to patrol everywhere day and night, and to interrogate suspicious elements without saying a word, even if they are dressed as foreigners.

Not only did the officers and men of the local patrol battalion begin to impose martial law, but due to the shortage of manpower, even the officers and men of the Yangtze River Naval Division stationed in the local area began to cooperate with the dispatch of personnel to help with martial law.

But it is precisely because of this martial law that a large number of police and security teams in the patrol battalion have gone out to patrol, and there are even many who have gone out of the city to fight the autumn breeze, no, they have gone out of the city to arrest the revolutionary party, so the security force in the boutique department store has weakened, at least the patrol battalion police security team has come to patrol several times a day, and only those policemen who stand guard are still the same.

In this way, it seems that martial law has been suspended, but in the case of boutique department stores, the defense force has weakened.

Seeing such an opportunity, the various gangs in Taiping Mansion, which were originally united because of the goods of the boutique, immediately decided to take the opportunity to attack, planning to fish in troubled waters and grab the boutique department store first.

Most of these gang organizations are Huidaomen organizations in the city, and they are familiar with the local area, just grabbing things, as long as they are fast in and out, there should be no problem. That's what they think, and that's what they do.

These people were very clever, and they first sent people to pretend to be revolutionaries in the evening when it was almost dark, and went outside the city to attack the officers and men of the patrol battalion who were patrolling with a relatively small number of people, and they also set fires everywhere, making quite a big noise.

After receiving this information, the prefect was really deceived, and first hurriedly mobilized the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion to guard his house, and after hearing that there was a disturbance outside the city and that the number of revolutionaries was not large, he immediately hurriedly sent a horse team to arrest these lawless revolutionaries and receive rewards. However, some time after a detachment of these patrol battalions left the city, the people in the city finally mobilized.

These people were all masked, and took advantage of the lack of troops in the city to quickly divide into two groups.

A wave of tremendous momentum stormed the prefect's yamen, as if the revolutionary party had taken the opportunity to rebel in the city, attracting the attention of officers and soldiers.

The other main force quickly rushed into the boutique department store, and then killed people when they saw them, and soon scared away some customers who were still lingering. After this wave of people cleared the scene, they rushed into the backyard in one go, and began to search house by house, without dragging mud and water at all.

Originally, they rushed into the house, especially after rushing into the warehouse where the forbidden land was located, they thought that there would be a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, but who knew that after searching and searching, they only found some goods and less than 30,000 silver dollars.

Those goods were leftover inventory, silver dollars were change used for turnover, and as for the large amount of gold jewelry that should have been stored, it had long been transferred to modern society by Li Zhigao.

Although the gold jewelry of the big head was not grabbed, there were nearly 30,000 oceans and some rare goods, which was also good. Although 30,000 oceans is a very heavy cargo, not as easy to take as gold, but they have a lot of people, and they have been prepared, there are many carts outside, and they put them up when they grab things, and leave immediately when they are full, and the whole first-class hydration operation is very smooth. In this way, before the officers and soldiers could react, they had looted all their money and disappeared without a trace.

Fortunately, the gang of thieves had a good conscience, or they were afraid of provoking the foreigners, so they did not set fire to the house, nor did they kill or injure the servants in the house. From this point of view, some of them are very thoughtful, knowing that foreigners can rob money, but foreigners cannot kill.

The whole process was very fast, after these masked thieves robbed something, they immediately broke into pieces, quickly escaped, and then there was no more news, naturally, those so-called "masked revolutionary parties" who feinted to attack the prefect's yamen also fled quickly, and after the prefect who was facing the enemy and made people strictly defend it find out that something was wrong and confirmed that the other party had indeed withdrawn, it was a long time later.

After that, the prefect Wang Yongni woke up like a dream, knew that he had been tricked, and understood that those people were not trying to deal with their own revolutionary party at all, but thieves who wanted to rob money.

Thinking that he was beaten so hard in his own territory, not to mention the loss of face, and his authority was also damaged, and then he thought that the thieves also had his own part of the things he robbed, Wang Yongni immediately felt distressed, and then he was furious, and strictly ordered the patrol battalion to solve the case within a time limit.

However, it is too difficult to solve such a case, those thieves are obviously a large number of well-organized associations, not a single small household, it is not difficult to find out the clue, but the key is that many of those people must be local snakes, many people are also hooked up with the local patrol battalion officers and soldiers, and even this matter is very likely to have a lot of people from the patrol battalion involved, otherwise it will not cooperate so well.

You must know that when the situation was most critical, that is, when the gang of thieves feinted to attack the prefect's yamen, many left-behind policemen stood guard in the boutique department stores, but they were so unlucky, they all ate bad stomachs temporarily, and went to diarrhea together!

Of course, this can also be said to be the thief's plan, it is the thief who poisoned the thief, and deliberately let the policeman standing guard go to diarrhea, and the kind policeman was careless, and he fell into the scheme. But if you think about it, how can there be such a coincidence in the world? If you want to say that there is no greasy here, the police standing guard did not collude with the thieves, and fools don't believe it.

Since the police are not credible, how can those small thieves dare to feint against the heavily guarded prefect's yamen? The most reasonable explanation is that the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion protecting the prefect have long colluded with the thieves outside, and everyone is acting! Otherwise, with so many officers and soldiers, many guns, and artillery, the thieves should have been repelled a long time ago, why did they stay on the defensive until the thieves had completely retreated for a long time, and then the people of the patrol battalion told themselves?

Moreover, if there was really collusion between inside and outside at that time, it would be equivalent to the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion at that time who put him under house arrest in disguise, which made the extremely smart prefect ignorant of the affairs of the outside world, and this made the wise prefect fall for the trick!

So it's not that he, Wang Yongni, is stupid and ignorant, it's completely that he is surrounded by Infernal Affairs, and there are no reliable people around!

Continue to think about it, the patrol battalion must be in league with the thieves, and even this matter is probably caused by the patrol battalion itself from beginning to end! Otherwise, how could it be possible to make such a big formation, and how could it be possible to deceive the up and down so smoothly?

After thinking of this, Wang Yongni, who was startled, immediately knew that if his guesses were true, then this case would not be solved in this case, can you expect the thief to catch him? So he did this, just deliberately in front of the patrol battalion to make a statement, to paralyze the patrol battalion, not to let them know that they had doubted them, and then to his own detriment, as for whether he could catch the thieves and regain the losses, he had long lost much hope.

But it is precisely because of this incident that the prefect does not believe in the officers and soldiers of the local patrol battalion even more, and he is also full of resentment towards his close allies, the Yangtze River Naval Division!

Nima, when Lao Tzu was besieged, the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion were all anti-bones, but so many officers and soldiers of your Yangtze River Water Division were close at hand, why didn't you come to help? If you come, as for the master, will I be under house arrest in disguise? As long as I wasn't under house arrest in disguise at that time, I wouldn't have let things go like this!

Good you Cheng Yonghe! If you don't save you, Lao Tzu will remember you!

It is precisely because of so many doubts and resentments that the prefect Wang Yongni does not believe anyone now, but pins his hopes on the group training who has just obtained 300 British fast robberies.

After all, Wang Yongni has not been the prefect for a few years, and he has not established much of his own power, and it is natural not to believe that the patrol battalion changed from the local green battalion soldiers, but the employer who hired this regimental training, the boutique department store, has its own shares, and this is definitely his own people, so if he does this well, isn't it his own power?

In this way, the regimental training bravery, which originally belonged to Li Zhigao's self-preservation, was regarded as his own henchman by the overly frightened prefect, and not only privately allocated some of the treasury silver taels and recruited 500 people and 200 British fast robbers, not to mention, but also issued an order to divide a total of 1,000 people and 500 British fast robberies into two groups.

One of them is still training in the training ground opened up near the prefect's yamen, and by the way serves as the prefect's security guard, and the other group is sent to the boutique department store to garrison, also as a security guard, to protect the boutique department store. The two groups of people are rotated regularly to ensure that there will be no more similar incidents in the prefect's yamen and boutique department stores.

Not to mention the training near the prefect's yamen, the 200 people sent to the boutique department store to garrison are all gun-wielding soldiers who have undergone the earliest training, and after they came, they were all assigned to Liu Runsheng, the head of the association, and Liu Runsheng set the rules, not only the front and back doors and people take turns to stand guard for 12 hours, but there are also people in the inner house who take turns patrolling for 12 hours, and when patrolling, it is a soldier with a gun and a family member with a lantern, and the two cooperate with each other to strive to patrol without dead ends.

It was under this kind of strict security and monitoring that Li Zhigao's self-proclaimed secret crossing point, in the stone cave in the rockery in the backyard, was discovered so quickly.

"Hey, it happened." Hearing this, Li Zhigao only sighed slightly, and didn't seem surprised, "Fortunately, I was prepared, and the loss was not too big." However, just taking advantage of this incident, you can find an excuse to change places in a bright way, and you can't mix in this city anymore, there are too many people in this city, and the terrain is complicated, so it's really not safe. ”

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