Early in the morning, Yoshiichi Tanaka came to a house in Hongkou called the Honji Temple. Out of caution, he looked through the gate of the courtyard, and there were still two or three people in the shop, but in his eyes, it was simply empty! Going in at this time may obviously arouse suspicion from others.

"Damn, doesn't he know that there are a lot of Chinese spies in Shanghai?"

He cursed in his heart about this time of the consulate Yuki Shaozuo, but he still reluctantly walked into the almost empty courtyard. As soon as he walked through the wooden door of the courtyard, he always felt as if someone was watching him in the store, and he looked around and saw that it was those turtles.

There are teahouses and restaurants in the early morning, but there are few people who visit the kiln in the early morning, but who knows? Maybe he had a dream last night, so it wasn't necessary to find a woman to set the fire early in the morning.

Just when a turtle in a kimono greeted him, Tanaka Yi glanced at him, and when he was about to speak, he stared coldly, and the turtle immediately lowered his head, and Tanaka walked directly to the agreed room, and when he walked to a room where he knelt outside the door and remembered the girl, the girl pushed open the screen door, and there was a man in a suit in the room.

"Yuki Shaosa, this time is not right!"

After sitting down, at the moment when the door closed, Tanaka Yoshiichi said in a cold voice, his military rank is higher than Yuki, so he can naturally reprimand him.

"I hope you understand!"

Yuki Ichiro said with a gentle bow.

"Maybe you don't know how many pairs of eyes are on us in Shanghai now, the secret agents of the Investigation Bureau, the gangsters who serve the Investigation Bureau, and even the person who was bribed by them!"

Yuki Ichiro is a man in a hurry, and he doesn't want to talk to the Tanaka Nakasa in front of him, but he must tell him his intentions for this arrangement.

"For the sake of this meeting, I can't even use the drunken dormitory method to get rid of those people, now that many people have left, so I can see you with confidence, and I have to hurry up, this is also for your safety!"

When Yuki Shaoza explained, Tanaka Yoshiichi just looked at him directly, not intending to listen to his explanation at all.

"How's it going, have you gotten the thing?"

When Tanaka asked this question, Yukiichiro took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and that paper was a bill of lading from a foreign company.

His task was to incite strikes and even riots in China with the help of those revolutionary parties, and although Mei Enping was not a core member of the republican faction, he chose such a person after repeated considerations.

The most fundamental reason is to take advantage of his ambitions, as for Sun Wen and others, they are investigating in Europe, but this happens to be using republican careerists like Mei Enping to launch a riot in Shanghai, even if it is a small uprising, it is enough to create a false appearance.

But to start a riot, you need weapons, and the bill of lading brought to him by Yuki Shaoza is a thousand rifles, in his opinion, whether the success or failure of the riot can hit the hearts of the Chinese people, especially in places like Shanghai, once a riot occurs, it may even affect the amount of bonds issued by the Chinese.

"I wonder what Tanaka-kun is going to do?"

"On the front line, the Chinese army has a large number of artillery shells and hand-thrown bombs and explosives on the battlefield, and according to the information we have so far, their largest explosives production enterprise is in Shanghai, so I will use those people to blow up their explosives factory,"

"Blowing up the explosives factory?"

Yuki Ichiro couldn't help but be stunned, why blow up the explosives factory?

"When we start a riot, we can only mobilize a few hundred people at most, but in Shanghai there are thousands of policemen and thousands of soldiers, and only by blowing up their explosives factory can we transfer those policemen and troops and start a riot! As long as they can win for a day, or even a night, it is enough! ”

When Tanaka Yoshiichi said this, his eyes were full of coldness, those Chinese, even everyone including Mei Enping, whether they were dead or alive had nothing to do with him, the only thing he needed was to use Mei Enping to launch a rebellion in China led by the republicans, so that the Chinese political axe would fight the republicans, so as to force those republicans who temporarily cooperated with the political axe to choose to riot by force under the blow of the political axe.

As for Mayne and Ping, they are nothing more than a pawn.

At this time, although Mei Enping was still the same councillor who received a salary of 25 yuan a month as a "councillor", for him, he was no longer the "poor councillor" of the past, the first time he was 50,000 yuan, and two days ago, he took another 30,000 yuan, and the revolution could still make a fortune.

Mei Enping, who was carrying a check for 20,000 yuan, of course, did not know the thoughts of his "friends", since he accepted Tanaka Yoshiichi's funding, he has been jumping up and down to contact what he thinks is "like-minded people", naturally those gangsters, whether it is Sun Wen's uprising or the Liberation Society in the past, have used the "congregation". It's just that the Liberation Society succeeded, but what they succeeded in doing was to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and a few of the gangsters along the river did not help them, but a few of them were not beheaded in the name of military law. And the person he is going to visit today is the elder brother of the Shanghai Youth Gang.

"Councilor May, please be seated!"

Fan Gaotou said in a thick Shandong accent. He had become accustomed to looking at all the strangers who walked into his shop with a suspicious eye, and the kind of person in front of him, let alone a suspicious eye, if he could, he even had the idea of driving this kind of person out, this kind of person would not bring any good news, but he could not sit like this, he was a member of the Advisory Bureau, and handed a letter to the police station, maybe a police officer would come to visit him tomorrow.

One day a year ago, a customer-looking man walked into the store and was chatting with him about business. At first, he thought that person was a charlatan with rhetoric, but later he learned that that person was the leader of the Xinghan Society, and that person talked about what national righteousness he talked about, and what he said about being promoted to become rich after the successful recovery.

Instead, he watched from the side, and after seeing that the Restoration Society really raised righteousness, he saw that the senior brothers were company commanders, battalion commanders and even regiment commanders, his eyes were so hot, but after the heat, he found that those individuals slowly did not hear from him, and later inquired and found out that many senior brothers were either beheaded for violating military law, or were imprisoned for something, and then he was shocked into a cold sweat.

After all, since ancient times, officials are officials, bandits are bandits, when the country was founded, people used you, you were officials, you don't need it, then you are a bandit, naturally you have to find a way to kill the head, every time I think of the fate of those people, when he secretly sighed about luck, on the other hand, he admired the ruthlessness of the emperor Lao'er, and directly cut off the heads of those people in the name of military law.

"Brother Fan!"

Mei Enping saluted Fan Gaotou, who he had met with Chen Qimei when he first returned to China.

"I don't know how Brother Fan's business has been recently!"

When asked, Mei Enping smiled, since the recovery, the police station has been catching gangsters, from the dock to the academy, from the academy to the opium hall, especially after You Xiaoxia became the chief of the Imperial Police, he has made a heavy effort to rectify the gangsters.

"Don't mess around with me, okay?"

Thinking that he had become more and more sad in the field in recent years, Fan Gaotou replied to Mei Enping's greetings in this way. This kind of vulgar words are commensurate with his short dress, and do not give people any discomfort, he is just an uneducated rough man, just like he still wears a Qing-style short riding coat.

"You, Councilor Mei, are noble, and you hold the silver of the court in the council, and I am a beggar for food, if it's okay, I'm afraid you won't come, right? If there is anything, Congressman May might as well say it directly! ”

"Brother Fan, when I went to the Shanghai Police Station recently, do you know what I saw?"

"See what?"

"Inadvertently, I saw a photo of Brother Fan!"

"What? Photo? You mean the foreign photo? ”

Fan Gao was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, in the first few months, the Shanghai Police Department sent more than a dozen heavily armed policemen to "invite" him.

"A person wants to make a business in Shanghai, but now it's not easy, now someone knows where he is, knows what he does, and knows what he looks like, as long as he wants, he can ruin his business at will, and even his people will lose their numbers. You know what I mean? ”

Mayne said with a smile on the plane, and when he spoke, he noticed that Fan Gaotou's eyebrows were worried, these party favorite is the troubled times, the most feared Kaiping world, just like being targeted by the police now, the reason why Fan Gaotou is hiding in the concession is also afraid that he will be arrested by the police that day, and those policemen don't care what Brother Fan is or not Brother Fan.

"If you have something to say, just say it, Councilor Mei came to me right now, definitely not to talk about these things, I know my own, I don't know about Councilor Mei's affairs, just say it! Is there anything I can do for you? ”

"Listen, first of all, I want to ask you something,"

Mayne's tone of voice had changed to that of a command.

"I don't know, do you plan to be a thief for the rest of your life, or do you want to be a founding father!"

"Don't ...... Don't mention that thing, the party that fought the world for the emperor back then, now there are a few good ones, except for his porter, oh! By the way, people are the dragon head with the number, but no matter how much it is the dragon head, it is still the gatehouse of the emperor Lao Tzu. ”

"Well, you're afraid that one day you'll unload the mill and kill the donkey."

"It's not one or two!"

"Then I don't know if Brother Fan is afraid of the police in Shanghai, oh yes, there is also the Anti-Black Operations Department of the Investigation Bureau, it seems that Brother Fan can also be registered there!"

When Mei Enping noticed that he said this, Fan Gao's brows jumped in front of him, making friends with this kind of three-minded and ninth-rate person is actually very simple, it is nothing more than holding a sharp word.

Then he said with great interest.

"When Brother Ince was here, I think Brother Fan also saw Brother Ince's style, that is, the revolutionary party against the Qing Dynasty, and the party that worked with us, have we ever unloaded the mill and killed the donkey? No, Mr. Sun instead raised donations overseas to support the children of the congregation, and Brother Fan was naturally able to distinguish between them, right? ”

"Now that even Cixi's old thing has been fed foreign peanuts, what are you going to do?"

"But the emperor is still there!"

"Oh, it's this!"

"Do you know why that lone man was able to kill the congregational party who fought for him?"

"I haven't read any books, so can I know?"

"It's because he is the emperor, he can kill whoever he wants, but if it's a republic, it's different, everything is everyone sitting together to discuss, and if you want to kill the heroes of the revolution, even if that person wants to kill, you have to ask the people if they want to!"

"According to you, republican stuff is fun, but what is a republic?"

"It's just that everyone is doing something together to discuss, and what is a major national event or something, everyone is discussing it."

"Really? Interesting, let's talk about it, there is always someone who is in charge of the matter, right? ”

Fan Gaotou and Mei Enping played haha, even if he was in charge of the gang, he also knew that if everything was discussed by everyone, maybe before the person could discuss it, his own territory would be swallowed by others, and it was really a group of scholars, and it would not become a big climate.

"Of course, there will be a big president elected by the whole people,"

Mei Enping did not notice the disdain in Fan Gaotou's heart, but said with great interest.

"For example, like you, Brother Fan, if you are a hero who created the republic, maybe when the time comes, you can also run for president!"

These words made Fan Gao stunned.

"You...... You mean me...... I can be a president like that. ”

"Of course, with the republic, any Chinese can run for president at that time?"

"Then the fuck isn't messed up."

"If you can't mess up, you see that the United States is not messy......"

More than an hour later, after Mei Enping put down 20,000 yuan in cash and left, he looked at the tickets on the table, and without waiting for Fan Gaotou to speak, Rui Debao spoke first, and he didn't know where a burst of anger came out.

"Big brother, don't listen to that person's nonsense, you didn't read the newspaper and said, those republicans are all things that are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, the front line is fighting with foreigners, he is here to encourage us to rebel, isn't this a fucking Oriental devil? Big brother, we can't do this thing that gives birth to a son without an asshole! ”

Rui Debao scolded like this, but Fan Gaotou looked at the banknotes, took a sip of tea with a teapot in his left hand, and looked at Rui Debao who was angry in front of him and said lightly.

"I see what you mean, it's not a good job!"

He sighed again, and then said.

"But it's not easy to do, we have to do it too! Let's not do it, someone will do it, we are forced to not even have a way to live now, we have to find a way to live! ”

"Big brother!" Rui Debao was taken aback, isn't the eldest brother really stupid, the current guards are not the green battalion soldiers of the past.

"You kid, what do you know? This time, let's survive in the dead! You go and contact the hall masters, everyone will pick a time to gather in a few days, and ask Mr. Mei to burn incense into the hall! ”

In Shanghai, Liu Xin is a pretty good internist. In the concession, he has a decent house, and he has a very beautiful lover, love, money and even status, for him, it may be described as everything, but many people know that for him, there is still something missing, to the outside world he is a radical republican, advocating the use of violence to overthrow the "empire".

But only he knew that all of it was nothing but a carefully woven lie, all of which was deeply buried, hidden in distortions, denials, and lies, and that these lies would never go away, at least until the enemies he considered to be gone, and the lie must continue.

After getting off the rickshaw, in front of the glass window of the roadside bookstore, Liu Xin combed his hair at the glass window, then helped his glasses, and then took two deep breaths, and then he pushed open the door and walked in, the Shanghai Republicans have a party here today.

After entering the bookstore, he nodded to the owner of the bookstore, and then he went directly to the attic on the second floor, knocked three times and opened the door.

"Xinghe, why did you come!"

Seeing Liu Xin coming, Mei Enping hurriedly and enthusiastically invited him into the room.

There were only two people in the small room, and besides Mei Enping, there was also a stranger.

"This is ......"

Seeing the people in the house, Liu Xin was stunned at first, he had seen this person, or he had seen a photo of this person, that was the photo he had seen in the information given to him by the bureau, Yoshiichi Tanaka, he was a spy.

"Xinghe, this is Mr. Tian Yi, my old friend when I studied abroad, and he has been giving me and my friends a lot of help over the years!"

For Liu Xin and Mei Enping, they are still at ease, both of them have studied in the book, and they are friends when they study abroad, but the most rare thing is that Liu Xin has not changed his beliefs so far.

"Mr. Tian!"

Liu Xin bowed first.

"Mr. Liu!"

Tian Yilian stood up and bowed 90 degrees. The two of them exchanged polite words before sitting down with each other.

"Mr. Mei, I don't know if you asked me to come this time......"

"Xinghe, you've already read that report!"

"yes!"

A hint of worry appeared on Liu Xin's face.

"It is really hateful that the political axe is now taking advantage of the matter of the people's newspaper to make wanton accusations against our republicans, confuse the people's debate on right and wrong, and even do not hesitate to charge us with crimes."

"His deeds and words are very shameful, before the civil referendum, in the name of investigation, transfer our republican elites and elites overseas, and then take the opportunity to make a popular referendum, seek national power, and usurp the fruits of the blood of the aspirants,"

Mei Enping expressed his opinions impassionedly, and when he saw Liu Xin, who had been provoked by his own success, he immediately raised his words.

"Now, in order to regain the revolutionary gains usurped by Emperor Yucai, we must take action to make all Chinese understand that the blood of the Zhishi is not in vain, we must use a gun to speak to the emperor Lao'er, and only with a gun will he listen to the voice of the people!"

(To be continued)