Chapter 6 Raiding the House
Flames immediately ignited on the body, but kerosene was no better than gasoline, so the fire was not big. Even so, Yun Suixin didn't dare to venture out of the car door, and he was relieved until he saw a group of soldiers from the Liberation Army running up to him.
The two infantry platoons of the Ninth Company stationed in Luohu rushed to the rescue, and they only arrived now because they had to wait for the cars sent by the base. The commander of the Ninth Company left one squad to extinguish the fire and treat the wounded, while the rest went after the fleeing thugs. Yun Suixin walked to the side of the road to rest with the help of a soldier, at this time he was already physically and mentally exhausted, today's experience can be said to be nine deaths, if it weren't for the fact that he knew that reinforcements would arrive soon, he didn't know if he could hold out to the end. The driver was also frightened, and at this time there were still two trembling forces.
The three police officers were not so lucky, one of them died on the spot, the other two were also seriously injured and unconscious, and the commander of the ninth company had already sent a car to take them back to the base for rescue. Looking at the cash truck that could no longer be driven, and the corpse of the thug who was killed lying on the ground, recalling the thrilling situation just now, Yun Suixin, who had been relieved, wanted to immediately lead the troops to wash the Chen family, and now he could only let Levi lead the security team to control the Chen family's people first.
It didn't take long for the troops who went out to pursue them to come back one after another, and the leader of the mob and Chen Guanxi had fled without a trace, killing twenty or thirty thugs and recovering more than thirty small shrimps. The little leader who teased Yun Suixin with a torch just now was impressively listed, but Yun Suixin didn't have time to deal with such a small character, urging the commander of the Ninth Company to immediately pack up and return to Longgang. Half an hour later, a convoy consisting of a wheeled armored car and three trucks returned to Longgang.
"What do you say? The people of the Chen family have all run away? Yun Suixin couldn't believe his ears, "What are you all eating?!" ”
Levi knew that Yun Suixin was on fire now, and it was impossible for anyone who experienced such an encounter to face it calmly, and it was his direct subordinates who were killed or injured, and he was also eager to eat Chen Shirong's flesh and sleep on his skin. But the matter was already like this, and he could only find a way to make up for it, so he patiently explained to Yun Suixin how the Chen family escaped. After Chen Guanxi was escorted away, Chen Shirong announced to the public that the original wife was too sad and needed to recuperate, and swaggered to lead the family to another courtyard in the countryside. Although Levi received the report, he didn't take it to heart, he didn't expect Chen Shirong to abandon the big industry and run away with the whole family. By the time he received the news of the attack on the prisoner truck, it was almost an hour later, and Levi immediately led the security team to the Chen Mansion, but unfortunately he found out that not only Chen Shirong and his wife were not there, but even his concubine, youngest son, daughter, important steward, and account room were not there, and the servants who stayed behind did not know anything. Levi then took people to the Chen family's courtyard in the countryside, but also found nothing.
Such a result is unacceptable to Yun Suixin, and no one can provoke the Guangfu Army with impunity. He angrily spun around in place a few times and shouted, "Raid the house!" The Chen family's brothels, pawnshops, and casinos were all sealed! At this time, the Eighth Company of Infantry stationed on the Dapeng Acropolis also rushed to support, and the army, security guards, and police all went out to launch operations against Chen Shirong's various industries in the town.
Regardless of fatigue, Yun Sui led an infantry platoon straight to the Zuichun Tower. Because of what happened yesterday, Zuichun Lou was ordered to close down for rectification, but the old bustard didn't expect that only a day later, Shorthair came to the door again. The soldiers invited the steward, the account room, the prostitute, the maid, the servant, and the domestic servant all to the front yard, and there were nearly 100 people in the black crows. As soon as the words fell, there was a cry of grievances and grievances, and the old bustard was lying on the ground and rolling around. Yun Suixin was not in the mood to tell her any policy today, and after a few slaps, the old woman immediately became honest. The next step is to put seals everywhere, and the specific clean-up work needs to be sent by the management committee.
The same scene was staged everywhere in the town, arresting people and sealing the door, which made a lot of trouble for a while. A large number of employees of Chen's Industries were called in to "assist in the investigation", so much so that the county security squadron was overcrowded. The majority of the men, servants, and servants were released and returned home after questioning, and there was a personal dependency relationship with the Chen family, that is, the prostitutes, maids, and slaves who had signed a deed of sale with the Chen family were temporarily taken in by the county government, while the treasurers, account offices, bustards, and courtiers of various properties needed to explain what they knew clearly.
Two hours later, a working group composed of professionals from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Public Security, and a number of other fields gathered together with the "8.12 Investigation Team" to take stock of the Chen family's property. First of all, the Ministry of Justice issued an indefinite "freezing order" on the Chen family's property, of course, on the charge of "colluding with bandits, hijacking a prisoner's car, and absconding in fear of crime". Then the accountants of the Ministry of Finance and the Economic Working Committee of the Management Committee began to liquidate the Chen family's property.
The first one to clean up is the mansion of the Chen Mansion, although Yun Suixin has been here twice, but he did not find that it covers an extremely wide area, there are more than ten acres of land, three before and after, plus the side courtyard and the back flower courtyard, so that most of the survivors who had only one snail dwelling in the past sighed. The back garden is built with pavilions, cloisters and water pavilions, and there are carp swimming under the lotus leaves in the pond, plus rockery lake stones, which is very much the style of Suzhou garden. It can be seen that the owner has put a lot of effort into this house, such a house will not be wanted if he says no, and even Yun Suixin has to admire Chen Shirong's decisive decision to break his wrist.
Led by the abandoned, unknown steward, the team counted the belongings of the master's room one by one. It could be seen that the owners of the house were in a hurry, and took nothing with them except gold and silver. In each bedroom, boxes of silk clothes were neatly placed there, and there was no sign that the owner had fled. In addition to these clothes, the only valuable things left were various porcelain and jade ornaments, but unfortunately there were no appraisers among the survivors, so they could not figure out the value of these things, and they were not easy to realize.
Looking at the various antiques piled up in half a room, the survivors looked at each other, and they couldn't say anything about beating such a big local tyrant with such a small gain. "Dig three feet into the ground! I don't believe he can take all the money with him. Yun casually slapped his palm on the table.
Liu Kuang, the Minister of Finance and Chief Accountant, also did not believe that there was no hard currency in the landlord's home, and judging from the pornography, gambling and drugs controlled by the Chen family in half of the county, the usual cash flow should be tens of thousands of taels. And in Longgang Town, not to mention banks, there are not even money banks, and it is impossible for Chen Shirong to exchange all precious metals for checks or silver bills. According to the police's investigation, Chen Shirong and his entourage only had a double-wheeled carriage, and it was impossible to take all the silver away. Moreover, the rich people of this era had the habit of cellaring gold and silver, so Liu Kuang believed that the Chen family's silver must still be somewhere in this house.
He was prepared for this, and several survivors armed with metal detectors began to wander around the house. The indigenous soldiers and police officers all watched curiously, and the chiefs were performing some immortal spells. The results soon came out, and the Chen family's silver cellar had nothing to hide in the face of modern technology. When a detection team walked to the gazebo in the back garden, the detector reacted, standing in the gazebo, and the reaction was even greater, indicating that the place to be found was under the gazebo. Several survivors circled around the gazebo a few times, but they were not allowed to enter, Yun rushed over after hearing the news, and lay on the floor in the gazebo to carefully check the gaps in the floor tiles. He soon discovered that the lower end of the stone table in the middle of the pavilion was one with the floor, and in Longgang, the aborigines basically did not have the possibility of getting cement, so the stone table and the floor below that was almost one square meter wide were carved out of a single stone. Looking at the gap between this large floor and the surrounding floor, the gap is obviously very deep, Yun Suixin shook the stone table with his hand, and he couldn't feel any shaking, it seems that this thing weighs hundreds of pounds and is wedged very tightly with the surroundings, not one or two people can lift it with their hands. He subconsciously looked up, and several marks on the beams above caught his attention. Standing on the stone table, he carefully inspected these few marks that were obviously worn out by the rope, and he already understood the method of the Chen family to move the stone table.
Yun Suixin found a gourd to hang on the beams and pillars of the pavilion, and the stone table was tied with thick hemp rope and hung on the hanging fishing under the gourd. Pulling the chain, it was easy to get this hundreds of pounds of thing off the ground. As he expected, there was something else under the stone table, and what appeared in front of everyone's eyes was a large iron cover. One of the survivors couldn't wait to grab the pull tab on the iron cover, but was pulled by Yun Suixin, "Be careful that there is a mechanism!" Hearing this, everyone immediately retreated to three meters away, and Yun Suixin used the rope to pass through the pull ring and retreated to the outside of the pavilion, before pulling the iron cover apart violently. The expected dark arrow poison smoke did not appear, and after waiting for three or five minutes, everyone cautiously returned to the entrance of the cellar and shone it inside with a flashlight. The kiln is not deep, there is a bamboo ladder to go down, and Yun Suiyun is the first to climb down. The area of the cellar is not large, it is a little larger than the apartment where the survivors live now, except for the hole, there are large stones up and down, left and right, front and back, and it is a complete stone room. On all four sides against the wall, there are large wooden boxes, which is the goal of the survivors today.
When one of them was opened, the white silver inside immediately dazzled the eyes of several survivors in the cellar. The area of the cellar is limited, and it is difficult to even turn around after five people come in, and the air in it is not good. The survivors who had seen it crawled out of the cellar and sent the indigenous security guards down to carry the silver. After more than an hour of busyness, a total of more than 40 boxes of silver were taken out from the cellar, each box was 20 ingots and 50 taels of official silver, all of which added up to more than 40,000 taels. And according to Liu Kuang's estimate, this is only a part of the Chen family's property, which shows the wealth of the rich man. No gold was found, and Yun Suixin thought that he had been taken away by Chen Shirong. It is always more convenient to go on a long flight and bring gold ten times the price of silver.
In the next few days, the liquidation team carried out a major liquidation of the Chen family's various properties and the Grange Garden in the countryside, and found two more silver cellars, with a total of more than 10,000 taels of silver. Including the confiscated property, fields, jade, and antiques, the total value is likely to exceed 80,000 taels. Coupled with the fact that I don't know how much gold and silver was taken away, the wealth of a rich man in a small border county still surprised the survivors. I just don't know how Chen Shirong will feel after knowing that his family fortune is cheap and the army is restored.
After another two days, the exact whereabouts of Chen Shirong's family came to fruition. After all, a family of more than a dozen people, plus housekeepers, bookkeepers, and male servants and maids who have children in the family, it is impossible for a group of twenty or thirty people to completely cover up their tracks. According to an insider's report, the Chen family and his entourage got on a Citigroup merchant ship in Shantou and headed north, presumably to defect to Chen Guanwu, the eldest son who worked as a comprador in Shanghai.
Although Yun Suixin was unwilling, the target had already left the place where the strength of the Liberation Army could reach, and it could not be traced for at least two or three years, and he could only put this matter aside for the time being.