Chapter 122: Waiting to be shot
The old Tianjin people called the financial street "a street paved with gold and silver".
The newspapers called it "Jinmen Wall Street".
It all makes sense.
When Zhao Chuanxin opened the treasury and saw the mountains of silver dollars, silver, gold, and paper and pens inside, he couldn't believe it.
The banks in the capital are nothing compared to here.
If I knew it, I wouldn't have gone to the capital to take an adventure, and I would have come here to grab a one-time solution.
The two of them just glanced inside, breathing almost to a halt.
Wherever Zhao Chuanxin walked by, all the money was emptied.
Estimate that all the money adds up to at least seven or eight million silver dollars.
When Gao Li and Er Feizi waited for Zhao Chuanxin to come out, they heard Zhao Chuanxin say: "Grass, this is only one-tenth of the old boy's assets at most." Where the hell is my money hidden? ”
Gao Li and Erfeizi: "......"
Just a glimpse has already taken them both out of breath, are you too little?
What Zhao Chuanxin didn't know was that the foreign-funded banks that came to China at this time usually supported foreign businessmen to export a large number of goods to China through loans, overdrafts, etc., in order to obtain cheap raw materials to make huge profits.
Although the bank has money, it is impossible to keep it in the treasury.
"Let's go, the next one, I have to make up the money of the old boy before it's over!"
“……”
Amundi Adamantine, Yokohama Zhengjin, and later Zhao Chuanxin took the two of them to patronize these two banks successively, and obtained a total of 7 million silver dollars.
In the end, when the Rui Kee foreign company ransacked the Yankees' treasury, they found that there were a lot of arms, foreign wine, foreign cigarettes, etc. piled up in the warehouses here.
Zhao Chuanxin didn't understand that almost all foreign banks now were engaged in arms trade.
He doesn't need to find someone else to match him with any weapons he wants to buy, he just needs to find a foreign company to buy and place an order.
But now he almost understands that.
Emptied all the millions of silver dollars and warehouses inside, and when they went out to continue patronizing the next one, they were still discovered.
A team of horses quickly noticed that something was wrong, and they saw broken glass and fragments of iron fences scattered on the ground.
After all, there are roads and streets everywhere, and it is easy to find anomalies.
As soon as Zhao Chuanxin and them came out, there was immediately a horse who quickly found Chao Ruiji running towards him.
"Rub!"
The so-called thief is weak-hearted, Zhao Chuanxin was still taken aback, but he was not too afraid.
A horse carrying the thirteenth rings of Winchester quickly raised his gun and shouted: "Surrender, kneel and do not kill." ”
Zhao Chuanxin was on the side of his body, and he raised his hand to shoot.
The horse was shot in the shoulder, and the gun fell to the ground before it went off.
They're just a gun.
The second person tried to pick up the gun, and then he was also shot in the shoulder.
The herd quickly dispersed.
Even the companions who fell to the ground did not care.
Zhao Chuanxin put away his gun, walked to the side of the two fallen horses, threw thirty pieces of ocean on the ground, and left without saying a word.
He found out that one of them turned out to be Zhou Yuxiang!
Zhou Yuxiang originally felt that he would die today.
Unexpectedly, the last thing to wait for was not a bullet, but a silver dollar!
The two looked at each other on the ground: "What does he mean by this?" ”
"For us?"
The two of them looked at their shoulder injuries and had an incredible idea.
The man deliberately hit them on the shoulder, not unintentionally.
The man wounded them, but for some unknown reason, gave them a small subsidy?
Ma Kuai's whistle has already sounded, and Zhao Chuanxin knows that it will be lively here soon.
The three of them ran quickly and joined the people on the periphery.
The three of them entered the bank, and the others met at the bridge.
Hearing the gunshots, Liu Guigui and the others who were ambushed at the bridge did not act rashly.
They believed in Zhao Chuanxin's combat effectiveness, but they were still anxious in their hearts.
When he saw the figure of Zhao Chuanxin and the others, Liu Guigui breathed a sigh of relief.
The group began to cross the bridge, and as long as they crossed the bridge, the sky was high and the sea was wide.
It's just that this is when the Marine Police arrived.
Set up a small steamboat and go up the river from Haihe.
Ping Pong began to shoot at the bridge, and the bullets collided with the bridge body with violent sparks.
Zhao Chuanxin didn't pay attention to it at all, because he couldn't hit them at all.
The Marine Police began to come ashore and cleverly blocked the other side of the bridge.
Zhao Chuanxin stopped and took out his rifle to aim.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Then, the Marine Police team scattered in a hurry, leaving three of their fallen companions wailing for death.
The group crossed the bridge, and Zhao Chuanxin casually threw dozens of oceans on the ground.
The three desperate wounded watched as they passed by without saying a word.
"These people are scary."
"yes, don't say a word, don't even look at us."
"Who the hell is it?"
"I don't know, I heard the alarm and came......"
Zhao Chuanxin and the others found the horse and changed their clothes while running.
Take off your shabby gown, throw it on the side of the road, and put on your own down jacket.
Since he didn't plan to continue south, Zhao Chuanxin didn't need to hide it, and quickly prepared to leave Tianjin City.
However, he overlooked one point.
At this time, the telegraph system was laid more perfect in coastal cities. Because at first, the Qing court did not agree to lay telegraph lines, and felt that it was disorganized and ugly, destroying feng shui, and costing a lot of money.
At this point, their attitude towards foreigners is very resolute.
The foreigners are not used to them, and they directly lay them privately, but they are just pulling the line at the bottom of the sea. Later created an established fact.
In addition, when the war was fighting, he found that the speed of people's news transmission was unbelievable, and the imperial court needed post station transmission, Li Hongzhang saw the power of the telegram and advocated that it was better to master the communication by himself.
Therefore, the city of Tianjin, as a coastal port, is more complete than BJ's telegraph system.
After Zhao Chuanxin and others made a commotion, the news immediately spread throughout Tianjin.
They went all the way north, and checkpoints had been set up on the way, and the whole city was searched.
Everyone looked at Zhao Chuanxin.
"What's the panic, let's take a detour from Baxian, the Boxers entered Tianjin from here."
……
At this time, Zhao Erxun, the general of Shengjing, was discussing the affairs of the three eastern provinces with Yuan Shikai in Tianjin.
In the second half of the night, a subordinate knocked on Yuan Shikai's door and informed him that robbers had robbed the money vaults of two banks and the warehouse of a foreign bank overnight.
Yuan Shikai was shocked.
He had already heard about the theft of banks in the capital, but he never expected that such a thing would happen on his own territory.
"The whole city is searched, thoroughly investigated, and the bandits must not be allowed to leave. Ask the chief of the patrol station to ask the injured patrol officers to see if they can find some clues. ”
The subordinate replied, "I have already asked." It is said that they only picked on foreigners' banks and foreign banks, and they killed foreigners, but on our patrol officers and horses, they only injured their shoulders and thighs, avoided the vital point, and left some silver dollars......"
Yuan Shikai: "......"
Although his own life was not harmed, he vaguely felt that this was not good news.
Sure enough, news soon came that said, "They first went north, probably seeing Shekha blocking the way, so they turned west." When they ran into the patrolman, they fired only one shot, and the patrolman and the horse quickly scattered. The wounded patrolman was not afraid, and only waited for the reward. Later, the news spread throughout the city, and some horses were deliberately blocking the road and waiting for the money to be shot, and they all gave ......"
Yuan Shikai: "......"
The subordinate said: "The army on the foreigner's side has been organized to pursue, but the gang of bandits is fast with guns and horses, and I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up." ”
……
Zhao Chuanxin had already scattered hundreds of oceans, and he was so rich that he didn't even blink his eyes.
Whether it's a fast horse or a patrolman, it's just a subsistence business.
As long as you don't hit the vital point and don't die or be crippled, but if you take dozens of silver dollars at once, there are really people who are willing to do this.
Later, Zhao Chuanxin simply stopped beating people, shot directly, and then threw money when he got closer, and the people blocking the road immediately dispersed.
"This is special, it's the same as playing house...... Liu Guigui looked at the smiling horse who ran away with the money, and he couldn't cry or laugh.
Zhao Chuanxin said: "This is thanks to the well-developed telegraph system in Tianjin, otherwise the news would not have spread so quickly." ”