Chapter 65 Strain
After Lu Hong came back from Zhang Yuan, Yan Fu brought a telegram, saying that Wang Renkan would come back from the Bund Pier early tomorrow morning, asking them to wait for him to come back to deal with the matter of the Nanyang Navy.
That night, Lu Hong interrogated Tian Shengchang again, and the big stick carrots were on the side. This guy was very honest, but when it came to the affairs of the senior navy, he really didn't know the inside story. At this time, He Ding, who was a whistle outside, brought a poor man in. He got a letter from someone, saying that someone asked him to send him a reward.
After Lu Hong opened it and read it, the letter was signed with the word "Wu". Within two lines, there were actually three or four typos. It was obviously Wu Ankang, the right wing leader of the navy. He brought the news that tomorrow night, the navy ship returned, but the reason was a bit unexpected. It is said that the customs anti-smuggling ship at the Huangpu River Estuary was checked tightly in the past few days... It seems that that guy Heder really worked hard for the Qing Dynasty!
After giving the man a favor, Lu Hong muttered to Qin Tianmin in his room for a long time. The guy hurried out to the telegraph office. While Lu Hong was carefully planning how to act the next day, Ouyang Hao, who was responsible for monitoring Wang's North Cargo Train outside Zhoujiadu Way, hurriedly sent someone to send news - the Wang family seemed to have unusual movements.
The shopkeeper of Wang's North Cargo Store is an opium ghost in his forties, named Wang Asheng. He has been helping Tian Shengchang and inquire through multiple channels. He is indeed the brother of Yuan Jiugao's third-party concubine. He relies on the power of his uncle and can be regarded as a way out. As a result, this guy doesn't go well, holding a cigarette gun and an oil lamp all day long. Fortunately, this guy is quite smart in his work, otherwise Yuan Jiugao would not be assured to let him manage this industry.
Yesterday Ouyang Hao took Tian Shengchang, and Wang Asheng didn't mean anything. He just sent someone to find Tian Shengchang at noon to rent an extra set of shelves temporarily. However, unless he found the house where Lu Hong lived, he naturally couldn't find this guy. The old smoker naturally thought about this. When he sent someone to Tian Shengchang's house, he couldn't help but feel suspicious.
Yuan Jiugao naturally has many connections on the beach. Not only is Wang Asheng not stupid, but he can be said to be very smart. He actually asked him to find out some news. However, this guy naturally couldn't determine anything. After all, Tian Shengchang was missing for a day. To be honest, it was really not a big deal. Who knows if he was going to mess with a woman!
So, Wang Asheng was thinking something was wrong and was preparing to visit some famous people. After all, he had his own brother-in-law brand and hoped to confirm some news. More importantly, tomorrow is an important day, and Yuan Jiugao is coming back. This time it is said that there is a big deal!
After Wang Asheng left, he accidentally discovered something strange. Ouyang Hao was not discovered by him. He had two guys under him in the tea shop opposite the shop, but some flaws were seen, which made Wang Asheng even more shocked. After thinking for a while, he slipped back to the house... This made Ouyang Hao feel a little unusual!
After hearing the news he brought back, Lu Hong also felt that this matter was really hard to grasp. After thinking about it, it was almost evening, so he simply stopped working. He immediately ordered three teams of staff. Yan Fu also insisted on joining in the fun, so he took it with him. He called six or seven carriages and directly pulled the team to the alley behind Wang's North Cargo Store.
Send someone to find Ouyang Hao. At this moment, few people in this generation have walked around. The two of them got off the carriage and called several friends over. Each of them sent two pieces of eagle. Du Wenlan, who had a black face, warned them with a bad voice, "All of them are waiting here, I have taken money, remember to shut up and do things. If the news leaks, the family will be reborn as soon as they are young, and at worst, they will be killed in autumn!"
Several coachmen saw these officials holding foreign guns before, and thought the job was gone in vain. Unexpectedly, the fare made a lot of money. They smiled and nodded and bowed to promise that they would definitely be considered as having no mouths, and several carriages were waiting carefully in the alley.
Lu Hong brought a group of hands to the backyard of the Wang family's North Cargo Store. There was only a bluestone wall less than three meters away. He assisted with the run, and stepped on the wall with two feet and entered as soon as he turned over. This skill made Ouyang Hao, who had never practiced climbing over the wall, and was stunned... In fact, this thing is a must-have class for training for recruits in later generations. The focus is actually on the decomposition of the overall movement, how to borrow strength, when to explode, and after a period of training, all soldiers with excellent physiques can complete it!
A few seconds later, a dozen soldiers immediately rushed into the far door. The Wang family shop was not small, with more than a dozen houses entering the house. It was dinner time. When I rushed to the back hall, I met two friends. Seeing the bright bayonets in the hands of the officers and soldiers, the two friends had already been scared to the ground.
Seeing this, Lu Hong naturally did not stop. He did not intend to shoot and make any big noise. He wanted to catch all the people. He arrested people along the way and sent people to take prison. Fortunately, there were actually a few rooms in the front room, with seven or eight maids. The man walked around, but he didn't do anything here. He had fainted a few people, so he was worried that he would not have to arrest people.
When they rushed into the main hall, they were all taken down without any reaction. Wang Asheng, his wife and concubine were having dinner. When they looked up and saw Ouyang Hao's face, he was very sharp-eyed and immediately recognized that he had seen Bai Tian outside... They immediately collapsed to the ground with a dead face. The two women opened their mouths and wanted to scream. Chen Huan went up and slapped them, and immediately became dumb!
The situation inside was controlled. Chen Huan and He Dingyi immediately took the lead and counted the Wang family's staff, and they all recruited people to identify them. They found some fish that had missed the net from several rooms. Then, Du Wenlan, who was squatting outside, caught a man who had climbed over the wall, and then confirmed that they were all there.
After gathering everyone, Lu Hong immediately took out a document and announced that he would be the imperial envoy, the Shanghai Daotai warrant, arresting serious offenders, and no one was held accountable, but they were locked in the side room and were not allowed to leave. After the truth was found out, they would naturally be released... He warned again, "Everyone, the informed whistleblower, the imperial envoy had a heavy reward, but he would not report it. After finding out, he would be punished with the same crime as Wang Asheng!"
He made up his mind to make a quick decision. Obviously, every news is very important. As for the simple execution and forced confession, he had considered it. If Wang Asheng's guilt was confirmed, Qin Tianmin had already been sentenced to death, and it was all the death sentences of Qiu Hou's death!
The result was somewhat unexpected. Wang Asheng looked like a soft cock just now, but he didn't expect that he would be completely indifferent when he interrogated alone. When Lu Hong was about to take action, Yan Fu ran out and pulled Lu Hong aside, "Master Lu, why not let me enlighten him. If it doesn't work, you will be punished again!"
In the room next to him, Ouyang Hao and Du Wenlan asked the guys and maids about some important clues. Soon, an astonishing amount of silver notes and a whole box of silver ingots were found from the secret compartment of Wang Asheng and his concubine's house... This scared Lu Hong. He also had tens of thousands of taels of silver notes on hand, but the three-foot-high box was full of silver, which was a scene that often appeared in later TV dramas. I didn't expect to see it here, and there were many jewelry. Ouyang Hao estimated that the value of the money here was more than 50,000 taels of silver!
More importantly, there are two books under a pile of silver notes. One is the account book for buying and selling, and the other is the account for giving gifts. The small strings are densely recorded in the various inputs and exits...
"On October 3, the Hu family introduced 300 taels of foreign medicine and 450 taels of official silver"
"On November 1st of the year Guiyi, 100 taels of first-class foreign medicine in Jiangning General's Mansion"
"On November 6, 200 taels of foreign medicines such as Rong Xing Yi"
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Chapter completed!