Chapter 10 Recovery of the French Concession

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The Longmen Road in the French Concession, in old Shanghai, is almost as famous as the famous Xiafei Road. Watermark Advertising Test Watermark Advertising Test Here is a three-story western-style building with dozens of rooms, which is the mansion of Shanghai Tang's "hooligan enjoyment" of gold glory. In old Shanghai, many hooligans from humble backgrounds and poor families, but who did not learn or have no skills, used the power of gangs to recruit disciples and became local tyrants. These people are pervasive, and the power in the three hundred and sixty lines adds up, and the left and right are at the source. For these people, the common people gave them the nickname "rogue tycoon". Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1868, he worked as an apprentice in the Cuihuatang Mounting Shop of the Shanghai City God's Temple.

At this time, in a luxurious bedroom at the east end of the second floor of the Huang Mansion, thirty-three-year-old Huang Jinrong was lying comfortably on a mahogany bed covered with silk with his fat belly. Two young and handsome maids stood by the bed, one holding him by the shoulder, the other holding an Indian smoking gun, serving him to smoke a lot. Huang Jinrong swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog one by one, and his heart was very comfortable.

There are three things that Huang Jinrong has to enjoy every day: smoking a big cigarette, rubbing mahjong, and going to the bathhouse. In the case of smoking, although the government has long banned it, those who refuse to change will be shot! But at this time, Huang Jinrong was not only an errand boy in the patrol room, but at the age of 24, he went to the French Concession to patrol the house to investigate, and later promoted to detective and inspector, and now he is the only Chinese inspector general of the French Concession Police Department, with 2,000 disciples, and his green gang has become the largest underworld gang in Shanghai.

Then. Lin Guisheng, who was dressed in an embroidered cheongsam, twisted his waist and walked in, and persuaded Huang Jinrong: "Jinyong, I heard that the Central Anti-Crime Group came to Shanghai during this time, and Tan Sitong, who is the leader, is not a character to be messed with. As soon as he arrived in Shanghai. Just let out cruel words, this time I won't kill a few big guys. Never go back. ”

Lin Guisheng was originally the proprietress of the brothel in Shanghai's "Fireworks Room", and she had a lot of fame in her early twenties, and she had a kind of beauty that was both strong and weak in her bones, and she was so old that people didn't dare to look at it directly. Huang Jinrong was still patrolling the room. Because of a case related to the interests of the French Concession, when he came to the "Yizhichun Street", Lin Guisheng smiled lightly at Huang Jinrong, and Huang Jinrong involuntarily followed her to the "fireworks room". Lin Guisheng is still coquettish and arrogant, Huang Jinrong fell in love with her at first sight, Lin Guisheng was in the land of fireworks, and he read countless people. has a skill that should not be underestimated, and he can't help but think about it, and the two of them are entangled together. When love was strong, Lin Guisheng sold the "fireworks room" that had been in business for many years. Married to Huang Jinrong. To be precise, it was Huang Jinrong who joined the Lin family as a son-in-law. When they got married, the Lin family built this western-style building in Junpeiri. Lin Guisheng relied on the three religions and nine streams he had met before, coupled with his shrewdness, ability, and courage, and soon his disciples reached thousands of people, and he became the largest underworld gang in Shanghai at that time. The Green Gang was personally led by Lin Guisheng, trafficking drugs and gambling, smuggling arms, robbing and harboring stolen goods, trafficking in human beings, kidnapping tickets for extortion, it can be said that all evil is pervasive, shuttling through the 360 lines of Shanghai Tang, Lin Guisheng became a famous "Bai Xiangsao" (Shanghainese "female hooligan") in Shanghai. Huang Jinrong usually obeys her and is often ridiculed by friends as "afraid of his wife", but this time, Huang Jinrong disagreed, took a deep breath of smoke, and replied: "Wife, are you too worried, we are in the French Concession, and he Tan Sitong has the courage of a leopard, and he rushed to the territory of the French to arrest people." ”

Lin Guisheng lit a Cuban cigar, took a puff, and said with an uneasy look on his face, "Tan Sitong really dares." Jin Tingsun and Ma Xiangsheng had already been arrested by the military police two days ago. ”

"What did you say?" Jin Tingsun and Ma Xiangsheng are Huang Jinrong's right-hand men, Huang Jinrong heard that the two of them were arrested, so he jumped up from the bed in shock, waved his hand to signal the two maids to step back, and asked Lin Guisheng softly, "Wife, didn't you go and fish them out?" Do they know a lot about us, will they give us a confession? Send two more gold bars to Director Lin of the Shanghai Police Station. ”

Lin Guisheng said: "I went to Lin Sen yesterday and took twenty gold bars, but he didn't accept them, and said that this time the black fight is the meaning of the top, whoever touches it will die." It seems that we are in a catastrophe, or we should go abroad for the time being. ”

Huang Jinrong said: "After all, this is the French Concession, and I will go and talk to Mr. Henry, the French Inspector General. Let him protect us, we have also sent him a lot of gold bars over the years, and he should still have this face. ”

Lin Guisheng said: "The matter has come to this point, and we have to make preparations with both hands. You go to the Inspector-General at once, and I'll book a ticket to England. ”

It's a pity that before Huang Jinrong and Lin Guisheng went out, Tan Sitong and Dadao Wang Wu surrounded the Huang Mansion with five hundred military police. These military and police officers all use new Hualong rifles, and they all use light-tipped bullets.

By the way, the performance of the light-pointed bullet has been revolutionized compared with the round-headed projectile, and the muzzle velocity has been increased from 640 meters per second to 875 meters per second, which not only makes the trajectory straighter, but also has a very good killing effect after hitting the target. The high-speed warhead is unstable after entering the body, which is more likely to deform in the body and produce large wounds, and the streamlined shape and high muzzle velocity also make the projectile have a longer effective range. Long before the outbreak of the Sino-Russian War in 1901, the ordnance department of the Ministry of Defense Industry realized that the rifle's performance was outdated, and imitated the latest German Mauser 1898 rifle with light-pointed bullets, named the "Hualong rifle".

At this time, the vicinity of the Huang Mansion was already a chicken, flying and jumping, at that time, more than 20 people from the Huang family up and down, all lived in No. 1 Junpeili, Longmen Road, which was a three-story house built by Huang Jinrong after his development, and most of the nearby houses were rented by his disciples, so they could communicate with each other. Tan Sitong and Dadao Wang Wu led the military and police to the Huang Mansion, and Huang Jinrong's subordinates ran over early to report the news.

Huang Jinrong hurriedly ran back to the room on the second floor and called the police station in the French Concession, but he couldn't get through. At this time, the police station in the French Concession has also been in the same nest as Tan Si, and the police in the French Concession have all been locked up in their cells.

Huang Jinrong called the home of Henry, the chief inspector of France, and the person who answered the phone was his servant, informing Huang Jinrong that Sir Henry of France had been repatriated. Huang Jinrong suddenly felt that the situation was not good, and pulled Lin Guisheng to the backyard, ready to escape over the wall, his fat body stepped on the body of a servant, and it took him a long time to climb out of the wall, but in the dark, a man in a cyan robe stared at them, and the man was holding a green dragon glaive dagger weighing more than a hundred catties, which was the fifth king of the big sword.

Huang Jinrong was about to take out a pistol for self-defense, Lin Guisheng held down his hand, their heads had been aimed at the black muzzles of more than a dozen Hualong rifles, once they took out the gun, it was a dead end, and they would be shot in the head immediately.

The five orders of the big sword king tied up Huang Jinrong and Lin Guisheng, Lin Guisheng twisted his waist and walked in front of Wang Wu, smiled charmingly, and said: "Big brother, we have no grievances, you let us go, and I will give you all our family property." ”

The Fifth Great Sword King spat at Lin Guisheng, "Get out of the way, what do you think of my Great Sword King Five!" ”

Huang Jinrong was pressed by two military policemen at this time, and when he saw Lin Guisheng being insulted, he scolded and scolded, "You bastards, don't hurt my wife." He was just about to break free, when the big sword king's kick flew into his abdomen, and he rolled on the ground in pain. The two military policemen were about to step forward to beat him, and Lin Guisheng also pounced on him to protect Huang Jinrong.

The fifth king of the great sword said: "You knew that there was today, so why do you do so much evil! ”

Tan Sitong raided Huang Jinrong's home, and the smoke and soil in it were enough to sentence him to death dozens of times. On this night, Huang Jinrong's rogue empire completely collapsed, and more than 200 backbones were arrested.

Lin Guisheng later sold all his property and begged for Huang Jinrong to atone for his sins. Song Xiaofei considered that he had too many disciples, many of whom were also low-level ordinary people, so he asked Huang Jinrong to be responsible for sweeping the streets every morning and warning others, which played a lot of roles in stabilizing social order and deterring the remnants of the gang. However, the main reason why Song Xiaofei let Huang Jinrong go was because he wanted him to cooperate with the government to expose all kinds of criminal deeds in the French Concession, so as to find an excuse to recover the French Concession in Shanghai.

Huang Jinrong cooperated with the government's reform, and was interviewed by the world's major media, exposing the corruption and bribery of the French Concession, the private use of torture instruments to oppress the Chinese people, and the collusion with drug dealers.

At that time, France was plunged into a serious political and social crisis that lasted for several years because of the "Dreyfus case", from top to bottom, including the government, the army, the church, the press, political parties, groups, and families, almost all of them were divided into two factions in favor of the retrial and against the retrial, and the struggle was extremely fierce: relatives and friends turned against each other because of arguments; Some couples divorce because of this; Even if family members and friends are reunited, as long as they talk about this case, they will fight for it, and even scuffle, causing a lot of trouble.

However, the Shanghai French Concession, opened in 1849, is the earliest, largest and most prosperous commercial of the four French Concessions in China, the other three are the Tianjin French Concession, the Hankou French Concession and the Guangzhou French Concession. French Prime Minister Waldeck. When Rousseau heard that China had recovered the French Concession in Shanghai, he was furious and sent Rear Admiral Raymond. Karl led six cruiser armored ships to the waters near Hainan Island to make trouble, preparing to occupy Hainan Island and intimidate the Chinese.

Navy Chief Liu Buyun asked whether to sink these six warships, and Song Xiaofei replied categorically: "In 1883, France was defeated by us Chinese, and it seems that the French still did not learn their lesson and only sent six warships over. Give the French a little color, and when the time comes, we will also take back the other three French concessions in China! ”