At the time of the shooting, among the foreigners in the public garden were the British Consul General in Shanghai, the general director of the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession, Langdale, the deputy general director of the Ministry of Industry and the other seven directors and the general office. After the gunshots, these concession bigwigs were frightened one by one, and in a panic, they were protected by the British soldiers and returned to the building of the Ministry of Industry.

A quarter of an hour after the shooting, in the public concession, the Central Arrest House on Fuzhou Road in the Central District, the Laozha Arrest House on Nanjing Road and Liuhe Road, the Jing'an Temple Arrest House and the Xinzha Road Arrest House on Yuyuan Road in the West District, the Hongkou Capture House and Huisi Capture House in the North District, the Gran Road Capture House in the East District, the Huishan Capture House on Maohai Road, and the Jiaxing Road Arrest House all received a call from Bruce, the chief inspector of the Police Department of the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau of Public Concession (also known as the chief inspector, the highest officer of the Shanghai Public Concession Police Department). Bruce was furious at the directors of the patrol houses on the phone, and then all the nine patrol houses in the public concession (there were 14 in history) were all dispatched to martial law and patrol the intersections on the street to arrest a suspicious person.

The Public Concession Bureau of the Ministry of Industry is located at No. 23 Jiangxi Road, at the beginning of the office of the Ministry of Industry Bureau at No. 12 Henan Road, in 1868 at No. 15 Henan Road, in 1874 at No. 17 Jiangxi Road, in 1880 changed to No. 23 Jiangxi Road, and has been used since then, and the later Ministry of Industry Bureau building has not been built now.

In the conference room of the General Office of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, all the bigwigs of the concession were listed, including the British Consul General in Shanghai, Frank Langdale, the deputy general director of the Ministry of Industry, Liao Sen, and the other seven directors, Led, Brandt, McClay, De Gray, Polanddis, Hai Fei, and Zhu Man, as well as the general office of the Ministry of Industry and the chief inspector of the police department, Bruce.

The conference room was filled with smoke, and in the public garden just now, the frightened bigwigs swallowed the smoke one by one with thick and long cigars, in order to relieve the panic in their hearts.

After a long time, the British Consul General in Shanghai, Fa Leishi, who was sitting in the first place, slapped the table and said angrily: "Can't do it, it's really lawless, the gangsters actually brazenly attacked the soldiers standing guard in the concession, and also robbed guns and shot our British Empire soldiers and patrols, I want to ask, Mr. Landale, how did your Ministry of Industry do it, why do people under your rule dare to provoke the dignity of the British Empire?" ”

The administrative system of the Public Concession was completely different from that of the French Concession, which was part of the French colonial empire and was under the control of the French Governor in Indochina, while the Shanghai Public Concession was a local self-government of the local foreign expatriate. However, in fact, if the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession wants to exercise its administrative power normally, it absolutely cannot do without the support of the British Consul General in Shanghai. Therefore, the British Consul General in Shanghai is equivalent to the umbrella and immediate boss of the Ministry of Industry Bureau of the Concession, although the election of the directors and directors is not controlled by the British Consul General in Shanghai, but without the support of the British Consul General in Shanghai, the Ministry of Industry Bureau cannot play.

Langdale, the general director of the Ministry of Industry, stood up and looked at Lu Shi, the general director of the general office, under the stern gaze of Fa Leishi, and transferred his anger to the general office: "General Lu Shi, you have come to tell the consul general and the directors that the law and order in the concession has always been good, why did such a strict incident happen at the gate of the public garden tonight?" You must give the Consul General and me and the directors an explanation today! ”

The highest leading body of the Concession Industry Bureau is the Board of Directors, which consists of a general director, a deputy director and seven directors of the Board of Directors, these nine people are elected by the General Assembly of Foreign Taxpayers of the Concession, and the election is held once a year, and the Board of Directors has a number of offices to exercise the administrative functions of the Concession, of which the General Office has a General Office, which is responsible for handling important matters assigned by the Board of Directors, and the General Office presides over all administrative affairs of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau on behalf of the Board of Directors. All the day-to-day administrative affairs of the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau are first sent to the General Office, which signs and forwards them to the various departments for handling and reports to the Board of Directors, who attends the board meeting and expresses his opinions on the administrative affairs of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau. The major policies of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau are decided by the Board of Directors, but the agenda of the Board of Directors meeting is arranged by the General Office. The General Office also serves as the secretary of the committees of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau, and arranges the matters discussed by these committees on behalf of the Board of Directors. As the legal custodian of all kinds of documents of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, he is also responsible for guiding the safekeeping, cataloguing and sorting of documents exchanged between the Ministry of Industry Bureau and other units. The directors of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau are part-time, each with its own affairs, and the specific affairs are mostly handled by the general office, and he can entrust his deputy to exercise his powers when the general office is not there, and the status of the general office is higher than that of other directors. Therefore, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry is in fact the supreme chief executive of the Public Concession, but he is appointed by the Board of Directors.

In addition to the General Office, the Ministry of Industry and Bureau also has other functional agencies, such as: the Police Department, the Fire Administration Department (responsible for the fire protection of the Public Concession and the French Concession), the Finance Department, the Public Works Department, the Health Department, the Legal Department, the Real Estate Committee, the Band, the Library, the Inspection Office and many other departments.

Lu Shi is the general office, the top administrative leader of the actual agencies of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau, what happened tonight happened suddenly, without any warning, and his main energy is spent on municipal affairs, and he does not manage much in matters related to public order, so there is nothing to say, but now that the general director has pointed his gun at him, he can only disperse his fire again and point the finger at Bruce, the inspector of the police department.

"Inspector Bruce, you are the chief inspector in charge of public security in all parts of the concession, you can explain it to the Consul General, the general director, and the directors!"

Bruce saw that the general office of Lushi kicked the ball to him, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, this matter can be said to be directly responsible, after all, this is a criminal security incident, and the target of the attack is still British soldiers and British detectives and Indian patrols, and eight people were shot dead at the scene.

In front of everyone's eyes, Bruce had to stand up, "Your Excellency the Consul General, the General Director, the directors and the General Office, I was also in the park just now, and when I arrived at the gate of the park, the gangsters had already fled, and I found a strange phenomenon at the gate of the park, except for the two British soldiers who were killed, hanging from the wall at the entrance of the park." Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter' wooden sign was shattered by heavy blows, sawdust scattered on the ground, I checked the bodies of two British soldiers who were killed at the entrance of the park, one of them had a heavy blow to the spleen part of the body, and another soldier had his cervical vertebrae broken and died, both of which were fatal parts, and they were killed without any resistance, so it can be seen that the murderer was very powerful, and four soldiers were killed on the road next to the park wall, a detective and an Indian patrol were all shot in the head and died. It can be seen that the murderer is not only strong, but what is more terrifying is his marksmanship, in the case of being pursued by so many soldiers, he can still do the gun hit, which not only shows that the murderer's marksmanship is like a god, but also the psychological element zhì is extremely strong, before this, our police detective unit did not receive any news in advance, based on the above clues, it can be inferred that the murderer should be because he saw the piece hanging on the wall at the entrance of the park. Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter' sign before the sudden outbreak of murder, this is a sudden incident, I suspect that this person is very likely to be Chinese, and he is a patriot among the Chinese, an extreme nationalist, because the average Chinese do not do much, from this point of view, it is very likely that this person is a revolutionary party!

In any case, no matter what the purpose of the murderer, he has seriously disrupted the law and order of the Public Concession, and at the same time provoked the dignity of the British Empire, so our police department will definitely try to capture him in the shortest possible time! ”

Bruce said righteously, so that Consul General Fa Leishi and others couldn't help but nod, Bruce still has some skills in criminal investigation, although he is a little old, but his professional knowledge has not been lost, in recent years, with the assistance of Deputy Inspector General Mai Gaoyun, the police department has been kept in good order, and the security of the concession has improved significantly, and gang figures, revolutionary parties and secret agents and lackeys of the Qing court do not dare to mess around in the concession.

After Bruce finished speaking, General Director Langdale, Deputy General Director Liao Sen and the other seven directors and the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau Lu Shi all looked at the British Consul General in Shanghai.

Farex took a puff of his cigar and asked, "Inspector Bruce, your analysis just now is very good, so how are you going to solve the case in the shortest possible time?" ”

Bruce had already thought of a plan to solve the problem when everyone was discussing just now, and he said confidently: "Your Excellency, I suspect that the murderer is a newcomer to Shanghai or a newcomer to the concession, and a person who has been in the concession for a long time will never do this, a person who has just arrived in Shanghai must not have a fixed residence, we can ask each patrol room to send patrols to the hotels and restaurants in the concession to strictly check the guests who have just checked in." In the name of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, we will send a note to the Public Board of Directors of the French Concession and the Shanghai County and County Government of the Qing Dynasty, asking them to do their best to cooperate with us in tracing the whereabouts of the murderer, and to set up checkpoints at the intersections of the French Concession and the county seats, suburbs and southern cities of Shanghai County in the Qing Dynasty, and to check the passengers who have just checked in in the hotels and restaurants. In addition, the Chinese patrols were sent to the local gangs to issue a notice of assistance, asking them to assist us in finding out the news, and report it immediately as soon as there is news of a suspicious person, and at the same time send a note to Chen Qimei, the person in charge of the Shanghai branch of the League, and ask him to hand over the murderer within a time limit, otherwise the police department of our Ministry of Industry will make every effort to eliminate the revolutionary party in the concession, and under such multiple arrangements, I don't believe that the murderer can fly into the sky! ”

The bigwigs of the Ministry of Industry Bureau listened to Bruce's disposal plan, and they couldn't help but nodded, this tracking plan can be said to have mobilized the entire Shanghai forces, and with so many forces intervening, I am afraid that no one can escape the investigation.

Consul General Fa Leishi snuffed out his cigar and stood up and said: "Okay, General Director Landale, I will give you five days for the Ministry of Industry, if the murderer is not caught within five days, then the wrath of the British Empire is not something you can bear!" ”

Landale immediately said: "Colonel Bruce, you heard the words of His Excellency the Consul General, solve the case within five days, otherwise you will go back to China!" ”

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