mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 123 Waiting to be shot
The old Tianjin people called the Financial Street "a street full of gold and silver".

Newspapers called it "Tianmen Wall Street".

It all makes sense.

When Zhao Chuanxin opened the money bank and saw the mountains of silver dollars, silver, gold, paper and pens inside, he couldn't believe it.

The banks in the capital are nothing compared to here.

If I had known it earlier, I would not have taken risks in the capital, and would have come here directly to grab a one-off fix.

The two people outside just glanced inside, their breathing almost stopped.

Wherever Zhao Chuanxin walked, all the money was emptied.

It is estimated that all the money adds up to at least seventy-eight million silver dollars.

When Gao Li and Er Fatty waited for Zhao Chuanxin to come out, they heard Zhao Chuanxin say: "Fuck, this is at most one-tenth of the property of that old boy Yikuang. Where is my money hidden?"

Gao Li and Er Fatty: "..."

Just a glimpse just now has already made them both breathless, how little do you think?
What Zhao Chuanxin didn't know was that the foreign-funded banks that came to China at this time usually used loans, overdrafts, etc. to support foreign businessmen to export a large amount of goods to China in order to obtain cheap raw materials to make huge profits.

Although the bank has money, it is impossible to put it all in the money bank.

"Let's go, the next family, we have to make up the old boy Yikuang's money before it's over!"

"..."

Amundi, Yokohama Zhengjin, and Zhao Chuanxin took the two of them to visit these two banks one after another later, and obtained a total of 700 million silver dollars.

Finally, when Shui Kee & Co. ransacked the Yankee's money bank, they found that there were a lot of munitions, foreign wine, foreign cigarettes, etc. piled up in the warehouse here.

Zhao Chuanxin doesn't understand at all that almost all foreign firms are now engaged in the arms trade business.

What kind of weapon he wants to buy, he doesn't need to find others to make a bridge, he just needs to find a foreign company to buy and place an order.

But now he almost understood it too.

They emptied all the millions of silver dollars and warehouses inside, and when they went out to continue to patronize the next one, they were still discovered.

A team of horses soon noticed something was wrong, they saw broken glass and pieces of iron fence scattered on the ground.

After all, this place extends in all directions, and there are roads and streets everywhere, so it is easy to find abnormalities.

As soon as Zhao Chuanxin and the others came out, Ma Kuai found Chao Ruiji Foreign Firm running towards them.

"wipe!"

The so-called guilty conscience, Zhao Chuanxin was still taken aback, but he wasn't too scared.

A horse holding a Winchester thirteen quickly raised its gun and said loudly: "Surrender, kneel down and don't kill."

Zhao Chuanxin was on one side of his body, and raised his hand to shoot.

Ma Kuai was shot in the shoulder, and the gun fell to the ground without firing.

That's all they have.

The second man tried to pick up the gun and was shot in the shoulder as well.

The group of horses quickly dispersed.

He didn't even care about his companions who were lying on the ground.

Zhao Chuanxin put away his gun, walked to the side of the two fallen Ma Kuai, threw 30 Yuan Dayang on the ground, and left without saying a word.

He discovered that one of them was—Zhou Yuxiang!

Zhou Yuxiang originally thought that he would die today.

Unexpectedly, what was waiting in the end was not bullets, but silver dollars!

The two looked at each other on the ground: "What does he mean?"

"For us?"

When the two looked at their shoulder injuries, they both had an incredible idea.

The man hit them on the shoulder on purpose, not by accident and missed.

That person injured them, but for some unknown reason, gave them a little subsidy?
Ma Kuai's whistle has already blown, and Zhao Chuanxin knows that it will be lively here soon.

The three ran quickly and joined the surrounding people.

The three of them entered the bank, and the others met at the bridge.

Hearing the gunshots, Liu Baogui and others who were ambushing at the bridge did not act rashly.

They believed in Zhao Chuanxin's combat effectiveness, but they were still anxious.

Liu Guigui breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the figures of Zhao Chuanxin and the three of them.

A group of people began to cross the bridge, as long as they crossed the bridge, the sky would be high and the sea would be wide.

Only then did the Marine Police arrive.

With a small steamboat, I went upstream from the Haihe River.

The ping-pong-pong began to shoot towards the bridge, and the bullets collided with the bridge to produce violent sparks.

Zhao Chuanxin ignored them at all, because he couldn't beat them at all.

The marine police team began to go ashore, and cleverly blocked the other side of the bridge.

Zhao Chuanxin stopped and took out his rifle to aim.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Then, the marine police team over there dispersed in a rush, leaving three fallen companions wailing and waiting to die.

After a group of people crossed the bridge, Zhao Chuanxin casually threw dozens of dollars on the ground.

The three desperate wounded looked at them in bewilderment as they passed by without saying a word.

"These people are scary."

"Yeah, don't say a word, don't even look at us."

"Who is it?"

"I don't know, I came when I heard the alarm..."

Zhao Chuanxin and others found the horse and changed clothes while running.

He took off his worn-out gown and jacket, threw it directly on the side of the road, and put on his own down jacket.

Since he didn't plan to continue going south, Zhao Chuanxin didn't need to hide it, and prepared to leave Tianjin City as fast as he could.

However, he overlooked one point.

The telegraph system at this time, the more the coastal cities are laid, the more perfect it is.Because the Qing court did not agree with the laying of telegraph wires at the beginning, they felt that it was messy and ugly, destroyed Feng Shui, cost a lot of money, and so on.

On this point, their attitude towards foreigners is very firm.

Foreigners are not used to them, and they lay them directly, but they are just lines pulled on the bottom of the sea.Later established facts.

In addition, during the war, it was found that the speed of news delivery was unimaginable, but the imperial court needed a post station to deliver it. After seeing the power of the telegraph, Li Hongzhang suggested that it is better to master the communication by himself.

Therefore, Tianjin City, as a coastal port, is more complete than BJ's telegraph system.

After Zhao Chuanxin and others made a commotion, the news was immediately spread throughout Tianjin City.

They headed north all the way, and checkpoints were set up on the road to stop them, and the whole city was searched and arrested.

Everyone looked at Zhao Chuanxin.

"What are you panicking about? Let's take a detour from Ba County. The Boxers entered Tianjin from here."

……

At this time, General Zhao Erxun of Shengjing was discussing matters with Yuan Shikai in the three eastern provinces in Tianjin.

In the middle of the night, some subordinates knocked on the door of Yuan Shikai's room and told him that robbers had robbed the cash vaults of two banks and the warehouse of a foreign company overnight.

Yuan Shikai was shocked.

He had heard about bank thefts in the capital before, but he never thought that such a thing would happen on his own territory.

"Search and investigate thoroughly throughout the city. The gangsters must not be allowed to leave. Ask the chief of the police station to ask the injured policemen to see if they can find any clues."

The subordinate replied: "I have already asked. It is said that they only picked foreign banks and foreign firms to attack. Moreover, they killed foreigners, but they only injured shoulders and thighs when they attacked Chinese patrolmen and Ma Kuai, avoiding the vital parts." , and left some silver dollars..."

Yuan Shikai: "..."

Although none of his own people were killed, he vaguely felt that this was not good news.

Sure enough, news came soon: "They went north first, and they probably saw a barricade, so they turned to the west. When they ran into a patrolman, they only fired one shot, and the patrolman and the horse quickly scattered. And fled. The injured patrolman was not afraid, just waiting for a reward. Afterwards, the news spread throughout the city. You Makuai deliberately blocked the road and was shot waiting to get the money. They all gave..."

Yuan Shikai: "..."

The subordinate said again: "The army on the side of the foreigners has already organized a pursuit, but the gangsters are fast and fast, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up."

……

Zhao Chuanxin has already thrown out hundreds of dollars, and the rich and powerful 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 parts after being shot, you will not die or be maimed, but if you take dozens of silver dollars all at once, there are really people who are willing to do that.

Later, Zhao Chuanxin stopped beating people at all, and shot directly, and then threw money when he got close, and those who blocked the way dispersed immediately.

"What the hell, it's like playing a house..." Liu Baogui looked at the horse that ran away with the money on a happy face, and couldn't help crying or laughing.

Zhao Chuanxin said: "This is also thanks to the developed telegraph system in Tianjin, otherwise the news would not have spread so quickly."

(End of this chapter)