1928: The Rise of Giants

Chapter 255 Breakthrough

September 17, the 1928th year of the Republic of China (11).

After following Ye Luo to investigate for a night, and then going to the Nissin to inspect the batch of 2000 boxes of cigarettes, Zhang Zhijiang, with dark circles under his eyes, joined the task force at the Shanghai Railway Station with Wei Daoming, who had just separated from his wife.

Other members of the task force thought that Zhang Zhijiang and the two had been staying in the room. By the time they realized that the two of them might have arrived in Shanghai one step ahead, it was too late to notify Lu Yusheng, Xiong Shihui and others.

After all, the communications industry in this era is really scarce. If you send a telegram in the middle of the night, no one may receive it in time, and it may not be successfully transmitted to the ears of Xiong Shihui and others.

The group could only wait with Zhang Zhijiang and the others at the train station to be greeted by Zhang Dingyao and others with ugly expressions, and then pretended to arrive in Shanghai together, and then waited for an opportunity to contact and negotiate with Xiong Shihui and the others.

"President Zhang, Minister Wei, you are welcome to investigate! You don't know, I am already very busy and overwhelmed with the Jiang Anlun matter." Zhang Dingyao himself was not involved in the incident, and he believed Ye Luo and Wang Hu are both outsiders, so they are not worried about the cargo on the Jiang'an ship.

What worries him is the impact of the incident on his political performance, and whether his evaluation in the principal's mind will be lowered a lot.

The most important thing is not to conflict with the cooperation project of the German military advisory group arriving in Shanghai tonight!
"Haha, Mayor Zhang kept his word in Shanghai, but he was still at a loss?" Zhang Zhijiang smiled.

Zhang Dingyao smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that the strong dragon will crush me, a local snake, to death."

Of course, the strong dragon he mentioned did not refer to Zhang Zhijiang and others, but to the mysterious person hiding behind Xiong Shihui and the others.

Zhang Dingyao shuddered just thinking about the person who could make Qian Dajun turn a blind eye, and let Feng Yuxiang personally call Bai Xiongqi to disengage the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs.

Zhang Zhijiang tried a few more words and found that, just as Ye Luo said, Zhang Dingyao did not know more about the inside story and was probably just unlucky.

"Come here this time, does the principal have any secret instructions?" Zhang Dingyao asked closely.

Zhang Zhijiang shook his head and said nothing. The two walked forward for a while. He suddenly smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's not just Jiang Anlun."

"Is there anything else important?" Zhang Dingyao felt anxious and did not dare to ask any more questions.

The people of these task forces came here with Shang Fang's sword. They didn't mean to just investigate the Jiang Anlun issue. If they found holes in their military and political circles in Shanghai, they could kill them first and report them later!
That morning, Zhang Zhijiang and others finished their meal at the Licha Hotel and then went to the city hall to investigate the ins and outs of the Jiang Anlun incident.

Holding a pile of thick files in his hand, Zhang Zhijiang flipped through them for a while and realized that just as Ye Luo said, these people had been prepared for it. If they checked now, they could only get some superficial information, which was insignificant.

Xiong Shihui and Wang Hu each hold different opinions. If you ask the former, Jiang Anlun is still alive, the goods are still detained at the security headquarters, intact, and the anti-smuggling officers in Longhua Prison are as if they have eaten ecstasy soup. , the confession was surprisingly consistent with the police headquarters, which was very frustrating.

You want to say that the Garrison Headquarters is transporting cigarettes with arms. Now that the people are there and the goods are there, they can be handed over at any time. Where is it transported?
There were no third-party witnesses or audio or video recordings of what happened that night. Anyway, whatever the Songhu Police Department said, the Garrison Command denied on the spot.

Wang Hu's trump card is Ma Yongzhen. In the eyes of everyone, he was the only person who came out that night. However, he was the director of the Anti-Smuggling Department and had no evidence. The testimony he provided was inconsistent with that of his colleagues who inspected the goods that night, so there was no way he could do anything about it. Evidence used.

Ma Yongzhen never expected that a group of brothers would suddenly change their minds.

Zhang Zhijiang and others asked Lonely, so they had to ask Lu Yusheng.

Lu Yusheng's mouth was more reliable. He didn't know anything about it. He only said that he was the boss, but all the work was handed over to the ship manager of Jiang'an. What did his transportation of cigarettes have to do with him?
He even felt like a victim.

Zhang Zhijiang knew that Lu Yusheng was at best a puppet on strings. Without sufficient evidence, he could be arrested and imprisoned for a few years at most, which would be insignificant and would not help.

The ship manager also simply confessed directly and said that a group of temporarily hired crew members absconded that night and they were accomplices!

But Zhang Zhijiang knew very well that those people were Ye Luo's subordinates. He asked them one by one last night, and thus roughly understood the truth of the matter.But so what, I can’t take it.

When the situation became awkward, the only breaking point appeared——

Also on board were the new laborers who, like the ship's manager, were identified as being involved in transporting the cigarettes.

Because of the disruption by the Anti-Smuggling Department, Ye Chen and others who were supposed to be eliminated on the way to the Baiyunguan Investigation Department survived.

In the original plan, the Jiang'an ship's cargo would be transported to Suzhou City by people from the Security Command through Dada Wharf, while all other unrelated persons on the ship would be disposed of in secret.

As soon as the incident broke out, Ma Yongzhen escaped. Realizing that the incident would be exposed, Xiong Shihui immediately asked his subordinates to spare the lives of the police officers from the Anti-Smuggling Department and Ye Chen, making the latter and the ship manager a scapegoat.

In order to keep quiet, Lu Yusheng and Xiong Shihui used coercion and inducement to beat Ye Chen and others half to death. They warned them that if they confessed, they would have a chance of survival. At least their family would not have to worry. If Lu Yusheng was exposed, their whole family would definitely die!

It has to be said that Longhua Prison has its own rules for torture and coercion, and even several people from the Anti-Smuggling Department suddenly changed their minds.

Seeing that the case was about to be settled with the Jiang An ship illegally transporting opium, and that the Steamship Merchants Company was most likely to be blamed in the end, Ye Chen suddenly changed his mind.

He requested to meet separately with the leader and deputy leader of the task force to report important information.

Zhang Zhijiang and Wei Daoming met him alone.

Ye Chen gritted his teeth and said: "The person who instructed me to transport the cigarettes was Lu Yusheng, but my brother accidentally discovered someone from the security headquarters on the ship. I told Ye Luo about the matter, and he said he would intercept the Hu Jiangan ship!"

Wei Daoming clicked his tongue when he heard this.

Zhang Zhijiang kept nodding.

In this way, things finally went as planned by Ye Luo.

In fact, the day Ye Chen approached Ye Luo, Ye Luo secretly called Zhang Zhijiang, and the two even agreed to stay put and catch bigger fish!

Ye Chen realized that he had become Ye Luo's abandoned son and wanted to drag these people into the water. He didn't expect that Zhang Zhijiang and Ye Luo were in the same group!

Zhang Zhijiang nodded frequently and looked at each other with Wei Daoming, feeling that there was still something to be done.

As long as Ye Chen proves that there is something wrong with Lu Yusheng and the security headquarters, he can follow the clues and continue to find the mysterious person behind.

Zhang Zhijiang and the others brought Shang Fang's sword this time to dig out the biggest hole. Anyway, the principal was behind everything.

The principal is busy with Zhang Hanqing's change of flag in December. At the same time, he should be preparing for the Central Plains War. What worries him the most now is the fire in the backyard, so he is determined to ask Zhang Zhijiang to dig out the big tiger and kill it as a warning to others!

After repeated confirmations, Zhang Zhijiang decided to call a group of important people, let Ye Chen identify them face to face, and then continue to escalate the situation.

"President Zhang, they are not good people! If I die, they will not be able to live!" Ye Chen, whose eyes were red, was not in a good mental state. He especially hated Ye Luo. If it weren't for Ye Luo's words, he wouldn't be able to live. ended up like this.

"Don't worry, everyone involved will not end well." Zhang Zhijiang nodded and smiled.

(End of this chapter)