"Mr. Xiong, I understand your feelings, but I think this is a critical period for you to establish a foothold in Shanghai. If you turn against Li Shiqun at this time, you may lose more than you gain!" Li Qiang advised cautiously.
"What? He's just a wild man who became a monk halfway. Am I still afraid of him?"
"That's natural, but Mr. Xiong, the problem now is not this, but to make Mr. Zhou, Chairman Wang, and even the Japanese pay enough attention to the chips in your hand. Think about it, if that person named Luo
As soon as he took office, there was a shameful incident such as insufficient weapons and equipment rationing. Isn't that just giving Mr. Zhou eye drops?"
At this time, Xiong Jiandong also calmed down, "Well, what I said is true. If I don't have a guy in my hand, no matter how many people there are, it's useless! But...if this matter spreads, wouldn't outsiders think that I, Xiong Jiandong, are afraid of me?"
Did you kill him, Li Shiqun?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Xiong. As long as you nod, I will leave Li Shiqun's side to me. I guarantee that you will be satisfied."
"Okay!" After pondering for a long time, Xiong Jiandong finally relaxed in the face of the huge temptation of power, "Then I'll leave everything to Brother Ming."
"Easy to say!"
After coming out of the tax police headquarters, Li Qiang was about to borrow a phone from a nearby store when he saw several No. 76 cars driving menacingly from a distance.
Soon, the car stopped at the door of a shop not far ahead, and then a boy who looked to be in his teens was the first to jump out of the Buick car at the front of the motorcade.
, held the shop with his hand and ordered fiercely: "Smash it to me!"
As soon as these words came out, a dozen spies who got off the car immediately rushed in and smashed everything in the store without explanation.
After the smashing, the young man seemed not to be relieved, so he ordered the special agents to pull the shop owner and the clerk out of the store, beat them up in the street, and then he was finally relieved.
"Shopkeeper, if I had known this, wouldn't it be over if you just asked me to borrow the phone? How about it, now you know how powerful Xiao Baoye is? I tell you, if you are sensible, you should pack up and get out of Shanghai immediately, otherwise
I smash my little treasure master every time I see him, do you hear me?"
At this time, the store owner had been beaten by the spies so much that he couldn't even speak. He could only lie on the ground and nodded while struggling.
All this was naturally seen clearly by Li Qiang, who was among the crowd of onlookers, and he also guessed the identity of the young man who called himself Xiao Baoye.
At such a young age, he was able to lead so many agents from No. 76 to find a place. Apart from Li Shiqun's precious son, Li Xiaobao, there was probably no one else.
Thinking of this, Li Qiang changed his mind, stopped a rickshaw and went straight to Li Shiqun's mansion.
However, just after Li Qiang explained his purpose and followed the housekeeper to the living room, the person who came down from upstairs was not Li Shiqun, but his wife Ye Jiqing.
Li Qiang was naturally not surprised by this. After all, Li Shiqun was very busy with the "Country Clearing Movement" and was away from home for three days, so Li Qiang's trip was specifically for Ye Jiqing.
You must know that although Li Shiqun was notorious, he was very henpecked. This was not only related to Ye Jiqing's strong character, but also related to their previous experiences.
Therefore, for some things, as long as Ye Jiqing nods his head, Li Shiqun will have to obey his wife's wishes even if he is unwilling to do so.
"Hey, isn't this Brother Aqiang? Why are you so free today and come to my place? Where is Miss Haitang? Why didn't you come with you?"
"Tell her, I have asked her to go back to the Suppressor General first."
Hearing this, a look of disappointment appeared on Ye Jiqing's face, "We finally came back, why are we so anxious to let her go back? We originally made an appointment to play cards together this weekend!"
"There's nothing I can do. After all, I'm almost out of town for a month. If I don't rush back as soon as possible, even if Commander Tang doesn't say anything, it will inevitably attract gossip from others. So I can only apologize to Sister Ye on her behalf first."
Li Qiang smiled bitterly and said, "Don't worry, when I come back next time, I will let her play a few laps with you until you are happy."
"Na! This is what you said!"
"Of course!"
Just as he was talking, the phone rang rapidly.
Ye Jiqing, who was receiving Li Qiang, was naturally inconvenient to answer the phone, so after a few rings, he was picked up by the housekeeper, "Hello, this is Li Mansion, who are you?...What did you say? Nan
City branch?..."
The butler, who was originally expressionless, changed his expression not long after the call was answered. After hanging up the phone, he immediately walked over and whispered to Ye Jiqing in a low voice.
At this moment, there was a heavy slamming at the door, followed by a childish voice, "Uncle Wang, I'm back, where is my mother?"
"Master Xiaobao..." The butler was about to say something after hearing this, but was stopped by a look from Ye Jiqing on the side, and he could only swallow the rest of the words.
But even so, the housekeeper secretly stood behind Ye Jiqing and winked at Li Xiaobao, who had just returned.
Then Li Xiaobao was not stupid. He immediately glanced at Li Qiang in the living room and said anxiously: "Are there guests? Then I will go back to the room first."
After saying that, he turned around and was about to run upstairs, but before he could take two steps, he was stopped by Ye Jiqing, "Stop!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Xiaobao's body trembled violently, almost as a conditioned reflex, and he stood down obediently.
Ye Jiqing then said to Li Qiang with an apologetic look on his face: "I'm so sorry, Brother Qiang, please sit down for a moment. I'll take care of the housework first. I'll come back when I go."
However, before she could get up, she heard Li Qiang say: "Sister Ye, please calm down first. If I guessed correctly, the phone call just now must be related to the smashing of the shop in Nanshi, right?"
Ye Jiqing couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, "How did you know?"
Li Qiang smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, I came here just for this matter."
"Oh, really?" Ye Jiqing, who was about to get up and teach his son a lesson, immediately sat back and asked doubtfully when he heard this.
Before he finished speaking, Li Qiang nodded quickly, and then told the whole story in detail.
"...That's how the whole thing happened. If the shopkeeper in that store hadn't looked down on others, he wouldn't have had a quarrel with Master Xiaobao."
"So you took Brother No. 76 and ran over and smashed up his store?"
"Yes, actually I don't want to make the matter so big, but the store owner was really bullying me, and even treated Young Master Xiaobao with such a bad attitude. If it were an ordinary commoner, he wouldn't eat him up.
To be honest? To be honest, I have long been blind to this kind of evil trend. Today's incident is just an excuse to use the topic. I didn't expect it to cause such a big commotion. Really... If this spreads to Li
In the ears of the director, I would like to ask Sister Ye to say a few more good words for me when the time comes!"
Seeing that Li Qiang took all the responsibilities on himself, Ye Jiqing's attitude towards him immediately became much closer.
But even so, he still glared at his son fiercely and said angrily: "Why are you standing there stunned? Why don't you come over quickly and thank Uncle Ming?"
Although Li Xiaobao was young and had a very domineering temperament, he was not a fool. Naturally, he knew that Li Qiang was trying to intercede for him in a different way, so he obediently walked up to Li Qiang and saluted: "Thank you.
Uncle Ming."
"Okay, Uncle Wang, send the young master back to his room. He is not allowed to step out of the room without my permission."
"Got it, ma'am."
It wasn't until the two left that Ye Jiqing turned to Li Qiang and said, "Okay, brother A Qiang, the housework has been taken care of, is it time to talk about business?"
"Business? What business?"
"Okay! Brother Aqiang, do you think I really can't see that you are pleading for Xiaobao?" Ye Jiqing said with a smile, "Others don't know Xiaobao's temperament, and I, the mother, don't know it either.
Is it? It’s just that at this age, this child has begun to have a rebellious mentality. No matter how severe the preaching is, he will not listen. On the contrary, it will hurt the relationship between us. So Brother Aqiang, not only Xiaobao, but also
I should also say thank you."
"Sister Ye, you are too polite. To be honest, I really didn't think much about it, just..."
"Okay, I won't say anything unnecessary. I will keep this in mind. Let's get down to business!"
Now that the matter has come to this, Li Qiang no longer needs to hide it, so he said bluntly: "Okay, Sister Ye, Director Li once asked me to get a batch of arms from the Northeast, I want you to
You should know, right?"
"I know, could it be that something happened to that batch of arms?" Ye Jiqing immediately asked nervously after hearing this.
"It can't be regarded as an accident. Sister Ye, please don't rush and listen to me. I will tell you slowly."
So Li Qiang told the story of Li Shiqun asking him to help save the batch of arms.
Ye Jiqing was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then asked Li Qiang: "What's Xiong Jiandong's attitude?"
"Before I finished speaking, he flatly refused, but after I helped him analyze the stakes of the matter in detail, he finally relented. It was just that he relented, but he still proposed
One condition."
"Hmph! I knew that guy wouldn't agree so easily. Tell me, what are the conditions?"
"His original words were, 'You can keep the arms if you want, but you have to do things in a way that makes sense for me. Otherwise, even if the arms don't fall into my hands in the end, his wish will never be fulfilled.
!'."
"He really said that?"
After getting Li Qiang's affirmative reply, Ye Jiqing became furious, "This bastard, how dare you open your mouth! Such a shady matter should be kept as low-key as possible, how could he be allowed to have any knowledge?"
Do you have a face? Is it possible that we, the scholars, should be asked to beg him?"
"How can that be done? If that were the case, wouldn't Director Li be disgraced?"
"Yes, but you can't just give away such a large number of arms to others for nothing, right?"
"That's true, but that batch of arms is still being held in someone else's warehouse. We can't just rob them, right?"
"Hmph! If you want me to say that this matter turned out like this, I don't blame anyone, just Wu Shibao! I told him at the beginning not to be in such a hurry to remove the arms from the dock warehouse, but he just didn't listen.
Ah! It’s better now. After one night, you will become an adult.”
"Sister Ye, please calm down first. I can't blame Team Wu for this. After all, the dock warehouse is not our territory, and no one could have predicted such a big change later!"
"Then tell me, what should we do now?"
"There is a way, but it's a little more troublesome."
"As long as there is a way, it's already this time, why do you care about the trouble?"
"It's like this. When I was chatting with Mr. Xiong, I overheard his complaints. It seemed that he was quite dissatisfied with the fact that Mr. Zhou specially transferred him from Wuhan, but only assigned him a deputy position.
Criticism. So I was thinking, if we can find a way to get Chairman Wang to order the Imperial Guards to be transferred back and form a second regiment of tax police, wouldn’t that mean that Mr. Xiong owes Director Li a big favor?
At some point, I guess he will take the initiative to send those arms over without us even having to ask."
"Recruiting the Royal Guards? Wouldn't that be..."
Although Ye Jiqing didn't make it clear, Li Qiang had already guessed what she was worried about, so he lowered his voice and said to her: "Sister Ye, don't worry, if the tax police regiment really recruits those Imperial Guards, even though it won't happen at first
It seems that it has indeed further expanded the eyesight of the tax police, but if you think about it carefully, not only is this not a good thing, but it will also create endless hidden dangers."
"You mean, through this method, Xiong Jiandong will fight with Zhou Fohai's internal commander?"
"Exactly!"
"Well, this is one of them, but how to do it specifically?"
"I still have to ask Director Li to find the director of Qingqi Agency. Only by asking him to come forward can we possibly convince Chairman Wang."
"Using the Japanese? It doesn't need to be that troublesome. I happen to be going to Nanjing tomorrow to do some personal things, so just wait until I come back to make the next step."
"okay, I get it."
When we came out of Li Shiqun's mansion, it was almost noon, so Li Qiang specially ordered a good banquet at Lao Zhengxing and invited Xiong Jiandong over.
"Oh, brother Ming, didn't you agree that we were just having a casual meal? Isn't this too extravagant?" As soon as he entered the door, Xiong Jiandong looked at the large table of delicacies and said indifferently.
Unexpectedly, Li Qiang replied with a smile: "Mr. Xiong, look at what you said, I'm inviting you to be the head of the tax police group. I can't invite you to eat at a roadside stall, right? Besides, this meal costs...
Li Shiqun’s money, why should we be polite to him? If you don’t take it, it’s free!”
When Xiong Jiandong heard what Li Qiang said, he immediately put his heart into his stomach, thinking that what Li Qiang said would most likely be done, so he laughed loudly and said: "Yes, it's free if you don't eat!"
