After Song Jiaoren was stabbed, he was immediately sent to the hospital by Huang Xing and others, and the hospital organized doctors with excellent medical skills to immediately perform surgery and remove the bullets. Although painkillers were injected after the operation, Song Jiaoren was still in pain, tossing and turning, which was unbearable.

The special city government soon got the news, Mayor Lin Zhiqiang immediately led the city government personnel to the hospital to condole, learned that Song Jiaoren was still in the rescue, Lin Zhiqiang knew that this was a big trouble, Song Jiaoren was the leader of the People's Party, he was stabbed at the train station, and was about to have a great impact on China's political situation, he immediately reported the matter to Nanjing, and ordered the police station to immediately intervene in the investigation and track down the murderer.

Xiao Zhenlei was woken up by Cheng Baguio in the early hours of the morning. At the beginning of this year, he was married to Cheng Biyao and Wang Yanan, Wang Yanan is currently working in the Information Department of the Department of Internal Affairs, and Cheng Biyao is Xiao Zhenlei's life secretary.

After Xiao Zhenlei read the telegram sent to him from Shanghai by Baguio during the process, he immediately gave instructions to ask the special city government to send someone to accompany him to the hospital throughout the whole process, and immediately report the news of the results of the doctor's treatment, and at the same time ordered the special city government to set up a special task force for the assassination of Song Jiaoren to investigate, track down the murderer, and dig out the murderer behind the scenes.

After receiving Xiao Zhenlei's instructions, Lin Zhiqiang, mayor of the special city government, immediately called the chief of the police department and announced the establishment of a special task force for the assassination of Song Jiaoren, which was headed by him himself, with the police chief as the deputy leader, and the police chief was responsible for the specific work of chasing down the murderer.

With the medical conditions and level of this period, gunshot wounds that hurt important parts of the torso were almost fatal, and after the operation that night, Song Jiaoren's injuries were even more serious, and the blood in his stool did not stop.

In the early morning of the 21st, Song Jiaoren's expression changed miserably, and he was in danger, and the doctor said after examination: "The patient's intestines have been damaged, and it is urgent to cut them before there is hope for life." At 2 p.m., the doctor performed another operation, repairing the intestines, removing blood clots, and injecting morphine, but the condition became more severe, and the only thing remained.

Before his death, Song Jiaoren left his last words, with three things to entrust: "First, all the books deposited in Nanjing, Beijing and Tokyo will be donated to the library; Second, I am from a poor family, and my mother is still there, if I die, please Keqiang and the deceased to take care of me; Thirdly, you should still work hard to do so, and do not let me suffer misfortune and cause me to retreat from my responsibilities as a citizen. I want to reconcile the north and the south, and I have worked hard to prevent the thugs from misunderstanding me and putting me to death, and I am suffering, and I am also self-inflicted! ”

At about 4 o'clock in the morning of the 22nd, Song Jiaoren was stabbed and died after rescue. When the news came out on the morning of the 22nd, the whole country was shocked, and for a time the KMT members and progressives in various localities were excited, and leading figures and representatives from all walks of life demanded that the authorities arrest the murderers, especially Huang Xing, Yu Youren, Liao Zhongkai, Chen Qimei, and others were even more angry and swore revenge.

Lin Zhiqiang, mayor of the special city government, held a press conference at the city hall at 3 p.m. on the 22nd to formally inform all walks of life of the news, and said that he had received a telegram from the governor's office and set up a special task force for the assassination of Song Jiaoren, to solve the case within a time limit, vowing to catch the assassin and find out who was behind the scenes.

After Sun Wen was shocked to hear the bad news, the railway was no longer repaired, and immediately sent an urgent telegram, "I hope that the party will work together to find out the cause of this incident and seek Zhaoxue"; Huang Xing contacted Chen Qimei and sent a letter to the police chief of the special municipal government, offering a reward of 10,000 yuan for the arrest of the murderer; The Shanghai-Nanjing Railway Bureau believed that the murder occurred in the railway station, which damaged the reputation of the Railway Bureau, and also took the initiative to offer a reward of 5,000 yuan to arrest the murderer.

Immediately after the establishment of the task force, an investigation into the assassination of Song Jiaoren was launched, and under the national scrutiny, the task force assumed great pressure, but in order to solve the case as much as possible, the police department also gave the greatest support in terms of police strength and funds.

With the vigorous development of the investigation work, the original confusing truth of the case, like peeling bamboo shoots gradually revealed in front of the world, a short young man in his thirties was arrested, after interrogation, it was learned that this person's name is Wu Shiying, originally a military attache of the Qing Army, a person from Shanxi, who served as a supervisor in the second battalion of the 74th standard in Yunnan, but because Yuan Shikai came to power last year after the nationwide army reorganization, many armies have been disarmed, and Yunnan is no exception, Wu Shiying was abolished in this way. After Wu Shiying was dismissed, he was exiled to Shanghai, where he lived without support and almost became a beggar.

He also confessed that a few days ago he met a person on the street, and that person's name was Ying Guixin, who was now a chief inspector of the procuratorial department of the Governor's Office in Shanghai, and Ying Guixin was also the chairman of the Communist Party, which was a peripheral organization of the Kuomintang and a member of the Kuomintang Party. It was this person who gave Wu Shiying a thousand oceans, a pistol, and a photo of Song Jiaoren, and asked Wu Shiying to kill Song Jiaoren.

Ying Guixin used to be the chief of the general affairs section of the Nanjing Provisional Presidential Palace, but Sun Wen found that he had a bad character, was treacherous, insidious, arrogant and domineering, and removed him from his post. After that, Ying Guixin came to Shanghai to seek a job, and I don't know how he moved, but he actually found a position as a patrol chief in Shanghai in the procuratorial department.

After learning from Wu Shiying's mouth that it was Ying Guixin's instructions, the task force immediately investigated Ying Guixin and found that this person had taken bribes and extorted money during his tenure as the governor of Shanghai, and had recently purchased a property in the French Concession, where he also raised a concubine.

The task force immediately sent people to the patrol room of the French Concession to ask for assistance in arresting Ying Guixin, but Epila, the director of the patrol house of the French Concession, resolutely refused to allow the special municipal police to enter the French Concession to arrest people.

For this reason, the investigators of the special case group almost clashed with the patrol house of the French Concession, but since foreign countries no longer have consular jurisdiction in China at this time, the French Concession authorities had better have to agree to the special case group sending people into the concession to arrest people.

After Ying Guixin was caught, the investigators of the task force searched his villa, but found nothing, at this time, one of the policemen had an idea, and from the mouth of Ying Guixin's concubine, the secret hiding place of Ying Guixin's secret hideout, the task force obtained a large number of extremely important letters and telegrams from a small box hidden in a cave in the corner. What is surprising is that these telegrams and letters are actually related to the Beiping Provisional Government, involving Premier Zhao Bingjun and State Secretary Hong Shuzu -- both of whom were Yuan Shikai's confidants. Since the political situation is at stake, the special task force investigating this case has no choice but to be extremely cautious. However, these irrevocable and conclusive evidence are enough to prove that the Song case is indeed related to Zhao Bingjun and Hong Shuzu, and that Interim President Yuan Shikai also has an unshirkable responsibility and suspicion that cannot be cleared.

The task force did not dare to draw conclusions without authorization, and compiled the investigation into a file and reported that it was in the hands of Ma Boyang, director of the Police Department of the Department of the Interior under the Governor's Office, that it was related to China's future political situation, and even Song Shijie, director of the Department of the Interior, did not dare to be arbitrary, and took Ma Boyang to see Xiao Zhenlei overnight.

Xiao Zhenlei was still working at this time, and after hearing Cheng Baguio say that Song Shijie and Ma Boyang came, they met them, and several people sat down, Xiao Zhenlei asked: "You came to see me so late, didn't something serious happen?" ”

Song Shijie shook his head at Ma Boyang, and Ma Boyang took out the text in his briefcase and said: "President, the special case team of Song Jiaoren's assassination case has found key evidence, and the matter involves Zhao Bingjun, Premier of the Beiping Cabinet, and Hong Shuzu, State Secretary!" The stakes are heavy, we don't dare to announce this result to the outside world without authorization, and as the prime minister and state secretary of the cabinet, we have no right to send people north to arrest them, not to mention that Yuan Shikai also has a responsibility that cannot be shirked and a suspicion that cannot be cleared! ”

Xiao Zhenlei frowned when he heard this, then relaxed again and asked, "Are the results of the investigation true?" ”

Ma Boyang said: "I have repeatedly checked the case file and found some suspicious points, but these suspicious points still cannot overturn the serious suspicions of the above people, I want the task force to continue to investigate more deeply and carefully, but the Kuomintang is urging very urgently, so."

Xiao Zhenlei didn't speak, he lit a cigarette and smoked, thinking in his head, maybe this is the best excuse to launch against Yuan Shikai, Song Jiaoren's assassination has made the Kuomintang extremely angry, once this evidence is released, then all the spearheads will be pointed at Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai is embattled in politics, isolated in politics, and there is no absolutely strong force guarantee in the military, Xiao Zhenlei is confident that he will solve Lao Yuan within half a year, and after solving Lao Yuan by force, Not only has he achieved a great victory in politics, but he is powerless in force, and at this time he proposes to return power to the central government, which warlord in the whole country dares to confront him?

After thinking for a while, Xiao Zhenlei asked Ma Boyang to go back first, leaving Song Shijie, he needed to weigh the pros and cons carefully, after Ma Boyang left, he immediately called Jiang Baili, the three of them not only in the military, but also at the political level, thinking that it was completely possible to use this incident as an excuse to wage war against Yuan Shikai and take Yuan Shikai in one fell swoop.

The next day, Xiao Zhenlei called Ma Boyang and informed him to let the special case team release the evidence obtained from the investigation to the outside world. After the news broke, the whole country was in an uproar. Sun Wen could no longer start an industrial railway construction with peace of mind, Song Jiaoren was assassinated, and intuitively, he felt that the case was related to Yuan Shikai, so he immediately went to Shanghai. He arrived in Shanghai on March 25, and on the same day held a meeting of high-level Kuomintang cadres, believing that "the matter has come to this point, and the only way is to raise troops." Because Yuan Shikai is the president, the assassination instigated by the president is definitely not something that can be solved by law, and the only thing that can be solved is force."

When Song Jiaoren was assassinated, Huang Xing was at the scene, and in a fit of anger, he wanted to fight back in the same way and use assassination to deal with Yuan Shikai. Later, I calmed down and felt that it was the period of the Republic of China, and the country had entered the era of the rule of law, and that force could not be used lightly, and that it should be resolved in accordance with legal procedures.

The special city government decided to try the case in accordance with the law on April 25, but the day before the trial, the murderer Wu Shiying was poisoned and died under close supervision. The murderer's purpose is obvious, and it is obvious that he is killing people to cover up the truth and interfere with the administration of justice. The already clear case took a sharp turn for the worse, and it once again fell into fog and stalemate.

That night, the special case group will announce the investigation of the Song case and the relevant evidence. Newspapers across the country, such as Minli Bao, Guofeng Bao, Guoguang News, and Shumin Daily, were moved by the news and published articles one after another criticizing the Beiping Provisional Government.

Then on the next day, that is, on April 26, Yuan Shikai did not hesitate to sign a huge loan contract of 25 million pounds with a bank group of Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Russia at a high interest rate of 5 percent. The fall of Song Jiaoren does not mean the collapse and surrender of Xiao Zhenlei and the Kuomintang, he knows that Sun Wen, Huang Xing and others will not give up. War was inevitable, and at the same time, he also wanted to take this opportunity to conquer the southern provinces controlled by the Predators and the Kuomintang in one fell swoop, once and for all.

When Ying Guixin saw that Wu Shiying was dead, he retracted his confession on the spot, and denied it in every possible way, and Hong Shuzu, who had exchanged telegrams with Ying Guixin, fled into the Qingdao Concession, and the special case group could not find direct evidence of Zhao Bingjun for a while, and Hong Shuzu also sent a telegram in the Qingdao Concession, saying that the connection with Ying Guixin was in the name of the cabinet, and he only wanted to destroy Song Jiaoren's reputation, and had no intention of murder. Zhao Bingjun used Hong Shuzu's telegram as a basis to push the Song case out completely, and ignored the summons of the special city court.

Since the law cannot solve the problem, the only way to do it is to resort to force.

After Xiao Zhenlei learned the news, he immediately contacted Sun Wen, Huang Xing and others, after urgent discussion, the Iron Blood Party and the Kuomintang jointly telegraphed Yuan Shikai as the culprit of the assassination of the Song Dynasty, the president of a country actually used such a means to do this, it was really the misfortune of the country, he immediately announced the army to attack Yuan Shikai, after the news came out, the southern provinces responded one after another, and the second ** outbreak. R1152