In the early morning of the second day, An Wanghai went to Zhang's mansion with the Wan brothers and informed Zhang Fuzhi that the arms business had been completed.

Zhang Fuzhi was very surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect that things had dragged on for so long, and suddenly it would be like this?

In fact, the arms business has always been relatively smooth, and Fengtian just wants to raise the price slightly, and the reason for the price increase is only because the situation is unstable and the raw materials are rising, and the main purpose of sending An Wanghai is to first explore the details of Zhang Fuzhi and want to know which force his Zhang family is attached to.

At the moment, it doesn't matter who Zhang Fuzhi is looking at, as long as he doesn't look at the revolutionary army in the south, after all, it is impossible for the Feng army to sell arms to his enemies.

After sitting down in the study and serving tea, Zhang Fuzhi immediately asked, "Special Envoy Ye, what about the price?" ”

An Wanghai immediately said: "It's one percent more than the original discussion, and I hope Zhang Ye understands." ”

Zhang Fuzhi said with a smile: "The current situation is unstable and prices are soaring, so of course I understand." ”

An Wanghai said: "Then it's settled?" ”

Zhang Fuzhi turned around and went to get the wine, An Wanghai also took out the prepared contract, Zhang Fuzhi read the contract, signed and sealed, and the deal was negotiated.

At this time, Zhang Fuzhi didn't know that this arms deal was a mine planted by An Wanghai.

After the two toasted and celebrated, An Wanghai said: "It's just that in terms of transportation methods, we must reconsider." ”

Zhang Fuzhi hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”

An Wanghai simply said: "The war is tight. ”

In the early stage of the Northern Expedition of the Revolutionary Army, Wu Peifu's troops were entrenched along the Han Road of Lianghu and Nanjing, with a strength of 200,000.

Sun Chuanfang's army was composed of warlords from Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Jiangxi, known as the "Five Provinces Alliance", with a strength of about 200,000.

The warlord Zhang Zuolin of the Feng faction stole the Beiyang government and entrenched himself in Beijing, Tianjin, Zhili, Rehe and the three northeastern provinces, with about 400,000 troops, while Zhang Zongchang, who was entrenched in Shandong, also had more than 100,000 troops.

After the revolutionary army began the Northern Expedition, Zhang Zuolin hoped to use the strength of the Northern Expeditionary Army to fight Wu Peifu's forces and take a wait-and-see attitude towards the war; Sun Chuanfang, under the banner of "protecting the territory and the people", remained neutral for the time being. Wu Peifu's main force was attacking Feng Yuxiang's Nationalist army in the northwest in the north, while the strength in Hunan and Hubei, including various miscellaneous armies with very weak combat effectiveness, was only 100,000, and the strength to attack Tang Shengzhi and attempt to penetrate Guangdong was only 40,000 or 50,000.

Now, the revolutionary army has conquered Hunan, although it is temporarily blocked by the Dingsi Bridge in Hubei, but it is a matter of time before it conquers Hubei and marches into the Central Plains, so the original matter of transporting this batch of arms by train can only be stopped.

An Wanghai deliberately looked at Zhang Fuzhi with a sad face, waiting for Zhang Fuzhi to say the only way.

As expected, Zhang Fuzhi said: "If land transportation is not good, then go by sea?" ”

An Wanghai said: "It's okay at sea, but at the moment, the Feng army can't use ships, and the civilian ships in the northeast and caves don't dare to call it." ”

Zhang Fuzhi: "That's okay, I have the boat." ”

An Wanghai said: "This is the only way to use, and I must let Zhang Ye send his henchmen to go to Dalian with the money on the ship." ”

Zhang Fuzhi hesitated: "Dalian? Now that the territory of the Japanese has been renamed Kanto Island, is it appropriate for us to ship and trade there? ”

Zhang Fuzhi's worries were not unreasonable, because after the Japanese seized Dalian from Tsarist Russia, they later signed the "Sino-Japanese Treaty of the Fourth People" with the Beiyang government, which directly extended the lease period of Lushun and Dalian and the term of the South Manchuria and Anfeng railways to 99 years.

An Wanghai immediately said: "The marshal is friendly with the Japanese, and the Japanese will not interfere in this matter, nor will they be embarrassed." ”

Of course, the Japanese will not intervene, and the Japanese are eager for the Chinese to kill each other and fight in a scattered manner, and the more dispersed the forces, the better, so that it will be conducive to their future aggression and expansion.

When Zhang Fuzhi heard this, he said: "That's good." ”

An Wanghai asked again: "As for the ship, is Zhang Ye a suitable ship?" ”

Zhang Fuzhi said with a smile: "Yongcheng is a city of harbors, there are large and small ships, my second brother Jiang Boqi himself is a shipbuilder, except for warships, there are all kinds of ships, this is not a problem." ”

is in the middle of everything, everything is the same as An Wanghai thinks.

An Wanghai smiled: "That's good, but it's ......"

Zhang Fuzhi saw that An Wanghai wanted to speak and stopped, and hurriedly asked: "Is there anything else for Special Envoy Ye to worry about?" ”

An Wanghai said: "Master Zhang, it's a shipload of munitions, it's not anything else, you use Boss Jiang's boat, can you rest assured?" ”

Zhang Fuzhi immediately said: "Jiang Boqi is my second brother, although he is a sworn brother, he has no two hearts, and I will send the housekeeper Zhang Fu to bring the money in person, and I will never make any mistakes." ”

An Wanghai nodded and said: "Don't have a problem, you must know that Dalian Port is now the territory of the Japanese, if there is contraband on the ship, or if there is a problem with the crew, not only will there be trouble in the transaction, but it will also make it difficult for the marshal." ”

Zhang Fuzhi said yes again and again, let An Wanghai not worry.

Because of the transfer of gold, a big stone in Zhang Fuzhi's heart had already landed, but he didn't know that transferring the gold without exploring the roofless hall was the stupidest thing he had done in his life.

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Although the gold in the underground roofless hall of the textile factory's raw material storage warehouse was cleaned up, Zhang Fuzhi still asked Zhang Fu to find a way to reseal the hole, and he didn't know that the value of the roofless hall far exceeded the batch of gold in his hand.

This kind of behavior is best described as killing chickens and taking eggs.

Keiichi Ikeda was not idle, and although he saw the newspaper advertisement, he did not send someone to contact the person who posted the advertisement, but sent someone to keep an eye on the ruins of the textile factory, and naturally discovered Zhang Fu's strange behavior.

Keiichi Ikeda witnessed Zhang Fuzhi's men carrying boxes on a car and transporting them back to Zhang's mansion, and he also discovered that Zhang Fu sent people back into the rubble, as if they were burying something.

Keiichi Ikeda then divided his men into two groups, one to keep a close watch on the Zhang's mansion and the other to keep an eye on the ruins.

After Zhang Fu left the ruins with the buried militia soldiers, Keiichi Ikeda immediately led his men to infiltrate the ruins, and after searching the ruins, he easily found the land that had obviously just been buried.

Just as Keiichi Ikeda hesitated, his men who were following Zhang Fu rushed back to report back and informed him that Zhang Fu had driven four more cars to a cliff on the shore of Xingang, as if he was abandoning something, but he couldn't see it clearly because it was too dark.

Seeing that the sky was about to dawn, Kei Ikeda had to lead the people to withdraw and go to the bottom of the cliff where Zhang Fu had abandoned his things, and when he finally walked along the reef, he found that the cliff was covered with corpses.

"It's a soldier of the militia under Zhang Fuzhi." Keiichi Ikeda came to a conclusion after examining a corpse.

Keiichi Ikeda remembers very well that these were the last people that Zhang Fu brought out of the ruins.

In other words, this group of people should have been brought back to Zhang's Mansion to be killed after burying that place, and they were poisoned, and then their bodies were dumped.

Therefore, this is murder, Zhang Fuzhi doesn't want others to know what he took there and buried something.

Killing so many people at one time is enough to show the importance of that underground thing to Zhang Fuzhi.

Keiichi Ikeda immediately ordered his subordinates to dive into the ruins and dig up the ruins after dark, and at the same time, Keiichi Ikeda also managed to get his subordinates to bribe a fisherman, so that the fisherman should go to the Yongcheng Police Station to report the case first, and then to the Coast Guard General Headquarters.

Of course, the report must be made after he discovers what Zhang Fuzhi is hiding.

On the night that An Wanghai went to see Zhang Fuzhi, Keiichi Ikeda led the men to dig up the land and discover the roofless hall hidden underground, as well as the bodies of the slain laborers who had been thrown into the roofless hall.

When Keiichi Ikeda and his men looked at the laborers, they immediately understood what was going on.

There is no doubt that these laborers were the first group of people hired by Zhang Fuzhi, who helped Zhang Fuzhi dig up what was hidden here, and then was exterminated by Zhang Fuzhi's militia group, and then Zhang Fuzhi killed all the militia soldiers involved in the incident and threw their bodies on the cliff.

This shows that what is hidden here is particularly important to Zhang Fuzhi, so what is he hiding? What is this roofless hall?

Keiichi Ikeda and his men searched the hall with the smell of corpses, and finally found a gold coin in the dirt in the corner of the hall.

Keiichi Ikeda picked up the gold coin and found that there were no lines on it, and he didn't know what age it was, but he was now almost certain that Zhang Fuzhi had taken a batch of gold here, and that he wanted to cover it up, and judging from the surveillance that night, there were as many as twenty boxes.

At the same time, based on previous discoveries, Ikeda concluded that the main hall must have a direct connection to the dungeon.

However, Keiichi Ikeda did not notice that there was a door to the main hall, so was it not the entrance to the dungeon?

After thinking about it, Ikeda felt that the problem was still with the map, and if he found it, he might be able to solve the mystery.

But before that, he had to find a way to divert Zhang Fuzhi's attention, as long as the body was tracked down by the police, Zhang Fuzhi would not dare to come to this place easily, and he would make a blank time for himself to study carefully.

At this point, Keiichi Ikeda thought about the advertisement, so was it necessary to meet the person who posted the advertisement?

Keiichi Ikeda took out the newspaper he had with him, looked at the contact information, and then stood there looking around the roofless hall.

"Search this hall carefully and see if there are any clues." Keiichi Ikeda gave orders to his subordinates.

Although he didn't expect his subordinates who didn't know much about Chinese culture to find anything, a few more pairs of eyes might be able to find something he had missed.

Soon, Keiichi Ikeda noticed strange patterns on the walls of the main hall that could only be seen when the light source was close to them, like river markers on a map.

But the lines on the walls don't look like maps, so what could they be?

In this way, Kei Ikeda and his men spent the night in the main hall, and no major discoveries were made.

In desperation, Keichi Ikeda had to leave with his men, but he did not rebury the entrance of the cave, he wished that the cave would be discovered, and once it was discovered, it would be tantamount to confirming Zhang Fuzhi's crime of murder.

However, it will also arouse the curiosity of other people, especially those from the West.

But it doesn't matter, whoever has the map will take the lead.