Chapter 65: Contingency
After Lu Hong returned from Zhang Yuan, Yan Fu brought a telegram, and Wang Renkan said that he would come back from the Bund dock early in the morning, and asked them to wait for him to come back to deal with the affairs of the Nanyang Naval Division.
That night, Lu Hong interrogated Tian Shengchang again, and the big stick and carrots were on together, this guy was very honest, but when it came to the high-level affairs of the sailor, he really didn't know the inside story, at this time, He Ding, who was on duty outside, also brought in a poor man, and got a letterhead from someone, saying that someone asked him to send it and there was a reward.
After Lu Hong opened it and read it, there was a "Wu" word at the end of the letter, not two lines, there were three or four typos, obviously it was Wu Ankang, the commander of the right wing of the sailor, he brought the news, tomorrow evening, the sailor ship returned, but the reason was a little unexpected, it is said that these Huangpu River estuary customs anti-smuggling ship check tightly...... It looks like that guy Hurd is really working hard for the Qing Dynasty!
After letting people appreciate the man, Lu Hong muttered to Qin Tianmin in his house for a long time, this guy hurriedly went out to the telegraph office, and while Lu Hong was carefully thinking about how to act the next day, Ouyang Hao, who was in charge of monitoring the Wang family's North Cargo Store outside the Zhoujiadu wharf, hurriedly sent someone to deliver the news - the Wang family seemed to have unusual movements.
The shopkeeper of Wang's North Goods Store is a forty-year-old opium ghost, named Wang Asheng, who inquired from a small assistant Tian Shengchang and multiple channels, and is indeed the brother of Yuan Jiugao's third-party concubine, he relied on the prestige of his uncle, and he can be regarded as getting out of the sea of suffering, but this guy does not take a good path, holding a cigarette gun and oil lamp all day long, fortunately, in addition to being good at this, he is quite smart in doing things, otherwise Yuan Jiugao will not rest assured that he will hold this industry.
Yesterday, Ouyang Hao took Tian Shengchang, Wang Asheng didn't have anything to do, but at noon he sent someone to find Tian Shengchang to prepare to temporarily rent an extra set of shelves, but, unless he found the house where Lu Hong lived, he naturally couldn't find this guy, this old smoker naturally thought about it, and when he sent someone to Tian Shengchang's house and didn't find anyone, he couldn't help but be suspicious.
And on the beach, Yuan Jiugao naturally has a lot of contacts, this Wang Asheng is not only not stupid, but can also be said to be very shrewd, and even let him inquire about some rumors, but this guy naturally can't determine what is going on, after all, Tian Shengchang has been missing for a day, to be honest, it's really not a big deal, who knows if he went to find a woman to fool around!
Therefore, this Wang Asheng pondered that something was wrong, and was ready to visit the next big figures, after all, he had his brother-in-law's brand, hoping to confirm some news, and more importantly, tomorrow was an important day, Yuan Jiugao was about to come back, and this time it was said that there was a big deal!
After Wang Asheng went out, he unexpectedly found something unusual, Ouyang Hao was not discovered by him, and there were two guys under him in the tea shop opposite the shop, but they were seen to have some flaws, which made Wang Asheng even more frightened, and after thinking about it for a while, he slipped back to the house...... This made Ouyang Hao feel a little unusual!
Lu Hong listened to the news he brought back, and also felt that this matter was really difficult to grasp, and pondered for a while, now that it was almost evening, the surname Suo did not stop, he immediately ordered the manpower of the three teams, Yan Fu also insisted on joining in the fun, so he brought it, called six or seven carriages and directly pulled the team to the alley behind Wang's North Goods Store.
Sent someone to find Ouyang Hao, this time, there are few people in this generation, the two of them combined, got off the carriage directly, called a few guys over, one person sent two pieces of Yingyang, the black-faced Du Wenlan warned them viciously, "They are all waiting here, take the money, remember to keep your mouth shut, the official errands, if the news is leaked, the family will be charged to the army, and the heavy will be eaten after the autumn!" ”
A few coachmen saw these officials with foreign guns before, and thought that this errand was in vain, but they didn't expect the fare to make a lot of money, and they grinned one by one, nodding their heads to assure that they would definitely treat themselves as if they didn't have a long mouth, and several carriages were waiting carefully in the alley.
Lu Hong took a group of men down to the backyard of the Wang family's North Goods Store, the bluestone wall here was less than three meters, he ran with one run, kicked on the wall with two feet, and went in as soon as he turned over, this skill made Ouyang Hao, who had never practiced climbing over the wall, suddenly dumbfounded...... In fact, this thing is in the future generations, that is, it is a necessary course for recruit training, the focus is actually the decomposition of the overall action, how to borrow strength, when to break out, after a period of training, excellent physique soldiers can be completed!
A few seconds later, the door immediately poured into more than a dozen big-headed soldiers, this Wang's shop is not small, there are more than a dozen rooms before and after, this time it is dinner time, and so all the way to the back hall, only then did they meet two guys, seeing the bayonets in the hands of the officers and soldiers, the two guys were paralyzed to the ground in fright.
Seeing this, Lu Hong naturally didn't stop, he didn't plan to shoot and make any big noise, what he wanted was to catch them all, and send people to watch them if they caught them along the way, but fortunately, there were really a few people in the front room, there were seven or eight maids and guys walking around, and they didn't do anything here, and a few people had already fainted over there, so they didn't have to worry about arresting people.
When he rushed into the main hall, he was all taken down without any reaction here, Wang Asheng and his wife and concubine were eating, and when he looked up and saw Ouyang Hao's face, he was very sharp-eyed, and immediately recognized that he had seen it outside during the day...... Immediately collapsed to the ground with a dead face, the two women opened their mouths to scream, Chen Huan went up and slammed his mouth, and immediately became dumb!
The situation inside was controlled, Chen Huan and He Dingyi's two teams immediately counted the manpower of the Wang family separately, pulled people to identify them one by one, and searched out some fish that slipped through the net from several rooms, and then, Du Wenlan, who was squatting outside, caught a master who climbed over the wall, which confirmed that all of them were there.
After gathering all the people, Lu Hong immediately took out a Guan document, announcing that he would arrest felons under the warrants of Lord Qincha and Shanghai Daotai, and that no idlers would be held accountable, but they were all locked up in the side room and not allowed to leave, and after the truth was clarified, he would naturally be released...... He warned viciously, "Everyone, those who know about the report, there is a heavy reward for the Qincha, and those who do not report it will be punished with Wang Asheng for the same crime after they find out!" ”
He made up his mind to fight quickly, obviously every news is very important, as for the simple execution to extort a confession, he has not not considered it, if this Wang Asheng's guilt is confirmed, Qin Tianmin has already been sentenced, and it is all the capital crime of the autumn queen!
The result was somewhat unexpected, this Wang Asheng still looked like a soft egg just now, but he didn't expect that when he was interrogated alone, he was completely like he didn't get in, when Lu Hong was about to make a move, Yan Fu ran out and pulled Lu Hong aside, "Lord Lu, you might as well let me enlighten him, if it doesn't work, you will be punished again!" ”
In the next room, Ouyang Hao and Du Wenlan asked those guys and maids to ask for some important clues, and soon, a staggering amount of silver tickets and a whole box of silver ingots were found from the secret compartment of Wang Asheng's mother-in-law and concubine's house...... This made Lu Hong also startled, he also had tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets in hand, but this three-foot-high box was full of silver, which was a scene that often appeared in later TV dramas, I didn't expect to see it here, in addition to a lot of jewelry, Ouyang Hao estimated that the value of money and silver here was more than 50,000 taels of silver!
More importantly, there are two account books under a pile of silver tickets, one is the account book of buying and selling, and the other is the account of gifts, and the rope head is densely recorded on the top of the rope head and the various items and outgoings......
"On the third day of October of the year, Hu Shi Xing entered 300 taels of foreign medicine and 450 taels of official silver"
"On the first day of November of the year, I respect 100 taels of first-class foreign medicine in General Jiangning's mansion"
"On November 6 of the year, I respectfully inspected Rong Xing's first-class foreign medicine for 200 taels"
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When Lu Hong saw it, he also deeply felt that this matter was seriously involved, and when he was thinking about how to deal with it, Yan Fu had already run out with a smile on his face, "Lord Lu, that Wang Asheng has recruited...... Ming said that there was a ship entering the port, but it did not stop at Zhoujiadu, but at Dongjiadu, it turned out that they still had a warehouse over there! ”
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