"Commander, Guangzhou Emergency!"

Zhang Sike's arrival interrupted Gu Weijun and Zhang Qun's work report, and under Xiao Yimin's reminder, he, like most generals in the army, still called Xiao Yimin the commander.

Xiao Yimin took the telegram, motioned for Zhang Sike to sit down as well, quickly straightened up, and then reported: "Cheng Biguang was assassinated and killed by Mo Rongxin, the overseer of Guangdong. ”

Gu Weijun and Zhang Qun were taken aback, but Zhang Sike had a gloating smile on his face.

Zhang Qun reacted and couldn't help but sigh: "I really didn't expect that just four months after Mr. Sun Wen boarded the warship of Cheng Biguang, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Navy, and ordered the shelling of Mo Rongxin's Guanyin Mountain Governor's Mansion, Mo Rongxin, who had made a comeback, would use such a shady trick!" ”

"Yue Jun, I don't agree with you."

Zhang Sike, who was once a classmate and student of Zhang Qun, smiled slowly: "The background of this matter is very complicated, and the entanglement between them is also very deep, but in any case, after Sun Wen and Lu Rongting went from close cooperation to splitting, they should not have ordered two warships of the Navy to shell the Guanyin Mountain Overseer's Mansion in anger and shame, although they successfully forced out Mo Rongxin, the Guangdong overseer appointed by Yanjing Zhengaxe, and expelled a division of Guijun who occupied Guangzhou, but it caused a huge adverse impact, and was unanimously condemned by the whole country, and the reputation of the revolutionary party was seriously damaged, and bury a huge hidden danger, it is not surprising to have today's result!

"Besides, Yue Jun, you have also been in Guangdong for a long time, you should know that the revolutionary party has always liked to go to extremes, from the Xinhai year to the present, there are still few military and political celebrities who died under the assassination of the revolutionary party? Not even their own comrades, not to mention the enemy! ”

Zhang Qun's face was sad, and he couldn't even shake his head and say a word, while Gu Weijun looked at this and that with great interest, perhaps thinking of the Nanjing bombing case that had just passed, Gu Weijun's last gaze stopped on Xiao Yimin's calm face.

Xiao Yimin smiled at Gu Weijun:

"It is estimated that there are many dark sides in my psyche, so when I received the news of Cheng Biguang's assassination, I was so ...... Excited, right! It's exciting! Maybe you are surprised by my reaction, and think that I should show a demeanor that is in line with my identity, and sigh regretfully no matter what I think, or sympathize with Cheng Biguang, right?

"To be honest, instead of the slightest sympathy or regret in my heart, I feel a little happy, because the pain of the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle is deeply engraved in my heart, and I clearly remember that Cheng Biguang, as the captain of the 'Zhenbei' ship, not only escaped in the First Sino-Japanese War, but also actively advocated begging for surrender, and finally he actually volunteered to personally deliver the surrender document to the invaders."

After listening to Xiao Yimin's heartfelt words, Gu Weijun and Zhang Qun looked at each other and sighed.

Zhang Sike nodded again and again, obviously having the same opinion as Xiao Yimin: "I always think that Cheng Biguang is more like a speculative politician. ”

Zhang Qun's traditional concept in his bones is very pure, and he and Cheng Biguang are familiar with each other, so he changed the topic lightly: "Commander, will such a major event happen in Guangzhou affect the implementation of our overall plan?" ”

Xiao Yimin smiled:

"It won't have much impact, it is estimated that the fleet of Admiral General Liu Guanxiong has left the mouth of the Yangtze River and headed south. The navy controlled by Guangdong does not have a few decent warships, more than a dozen large and small, but the displacement of the largest warship is less than 3,000 tons, most of which belong to old ships that have exceeded their service period, none of them can sail far from the coastline, and what is even worse is that the internal strife is constantly precarious, and more than half of the captains were pulled to Guangdong by Cheng Biguang at the beginning, and now that Cheng Biguang is gone, the fate of the Guangdong Navy will come to an end. ”

Gu Weijun immediately understood: "So, the situation is more favorable to us?" ”

"That's right."

Zhang Qun echoed casually, and seeing that Xiao Yimin had no instructions, he said goodbye and left with Gu Weijun.

Ma Gang arrived soon with a rare smile on his face: "Big brother, I knew you were going to see me today, so I postponed the trip until tomorrow." ”

Xiao Yimin handed the top-secret document he had just signed to Ma Gang: "After the mission is over, this document will be destroyed immediately." ”

"Understood!"

Guangzhou, Shamian Street.

The bright sunlight through the lush canopy, dyed the dappled gold of Shamian Street, which is lined with western-style buildings, and the wind blowing from the river took away the heat of early summer, so cool and pleasant weather, Shamian Street, which concentrates the world's six major banks, consulates of seven countries and hundreds of well-known commercial banks, should be full of pedestrians, but because of the assassination of Cheng Biguang and the strong atmosphere of war, this famous street has lost its prosperity yesterday, and the Indian policemen with big baotou and the short, black and thin Annan policemen wandered in groups. There are almost as many people as there are hurried, nervous-looking pedestrians.

The bank under the Barot building is still open, but few customers enter or leave, and the flower shop to the left of the bank has become deserted, almost obscuring half of the façade with all kinds of blooming flowers.

Just after 11 a.m., the number of pedestrians on the street increased considerably, and the police, who had been wandering all morning, relaxed.

A car with embassy license plates slowly stopped at the door of the flower shop, and two young fashionable men and women got out of the car with a smile and sighed around the basket of lilies at the door.

The young flower girl hurried out and whispered praise to her guests for their beautiful clothes.

The young man in the suit and leather shoes seemed very educated, and he used to bow slightly to the flower seller, and in stiff Cantonese, he asked kindly if he could send flowers on his behalf.

The flower seller asked where the flowers would be delivered, and when she learned that it was the famous Ito Trading Company diagonally opposite, she immediately smiled and agreed, and happily told the two young customers, "Mr. Takano of Ito Trading Company is also a regular customer of our store." ”

The polite male customer thanked him again politely, and soon paid for a whole basket of blooming lilies.

The female customer in the beautiful Kimono seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly reminded the male customer next to her in a low voice, and the male customer quickly returned to the car, and soon took out a small box with beautiful packaging and handed it to the flower seller, and attached a considerable tip, asking her to send this small gift to Ito Trading Company along with flowers as soon as possible, and he wanted to give Mr. Takano a huge surprise.

The little boy of about eleven or twelve years old soon arrived, took the flowers and gift boxes packed by the flower seller, glanced at the pair of customers who were getting on the bus, and ran towards Ito Trading Company with some reluctance, and handed over the flowers and gift boxes to the staff who were standing outside the gate of the trading house.

The young clerk cautiously took the small gift box, and when he saw the small card attached to the gift box that read "Nagao Takano", he seemed to feel confused for a while, and finally entered the trading company with the gift box and flowers, and handed them to a middle-aged man in a suit with a gloomy look, explaining the origin of the gifts and flowers by the way.

The middle-aged man glanced at the card on the gift box, silently read the name of the person who signed the letter that seemed very familiar, and quickly went up to the second floor and sent the flowers and the gift box to the office on the inside, which was not marked with any words.

In less than five minutes, a loud bang rang out from inside the Ito Trading Company, and the smoke and flames broke through the roofs of the western-style buildings, and the broken rubble and wooden beams flew into the sky with the huge smoke, shattering the windows and panes of all the buildings within 50 meters of the surrounding area.

Soon, the streets sounded with rapid sirens, and hundreds of concession policemen came galloping from all directions, and the whole street was in a mess of exclamations.

The only two fire engines in the Shamian Concession soon arrived, and two water hoses sprayed into the inside of the burning building amid the shouts of firefighters, and several surviving trading company employees cried out of the gate, shouting and begging the firefighters to hurry up and save the survivors on the second floor as more and more onlookers watched in horror.

An ordinary rickshaw came to the back of the crowd of onlookers and stopped, and before the young and obscene driver could take a second look, two tall Indian policemen waved big sticks and drove away, and the driver immediately apologized in panic, pulled the rickshaw and left unhurriedly, and soon turned the street and headed towards the city.

Only a little more than a minute later, the British and French military and police came at a gallop and sealed off the entire Shamian Concession, prohibiting all pedestrians and vehicles from entering and leaving.

In the afternoon, the news that "Nagaharu Takano, director of the world-famous multinational consortium Ito Trading Co., Ltd. and vice president of the Chinese Exchange Association, was killed by a bombing" once again shocked China and foreign countries, and Guangzhou, where the political situation was chaotic and the sword was shining, once again became the focus of public opinion reports at home and abroad.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the minister in Yanjing rushed into the office of Prime Minister Duan Qirui in a fit of rage, and after making a strong protest and threatening a hundredfold revenge, he solemnly announced that the execution of the "Xiyuan loan" would be stopped from now on, until Duan Qirui came up with an investigation that was approved by the imperial government and all the people.

Duan Qirui, who was anxious about the assassination of Cheng Biguang and the public departure of Wu Peifu and other generals, was extremely shocked, and until the angry Minister Yuben left, he still did not wake up from this sudden and unwarranted disaster.

In the impression of outsiders, Takano Nagaji is not an outstanding politician, and his fame in China is limited to the cultural circles, and not many people know that this person is still the second in line to the Ito Foundation, but he Duan Qirui knows very well.

What is even more secret is that Nagaharu Takano, who is only 35 years old and has a dignified and knowledgeable appearance, is a top student of the Army University and the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, and is also the top person in charge of the army intelligence department in South China.

"Who did it? Who did it? ”

In the face of Duan Qirui's fierce questioning, a group of Beiyang generals and prime minister's henchmen who quickly arrived were silent, if Cheng Biguang's death made everyone happy, Takano Nagaji's death made everyone feel painful.

It seems that no one needs to do this black hand, after all, few people know the top-secret background of Gao Ye Nagaji, and the only ones who know this person's noble identity are Duan Qirui of Yanjing and Sun Yat-sen of Guangzhou.

(To be continued)