Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() Zhang Rubao has been in Yangzhou for five days.After the garrison was assassinated, the boss Xue Zhinong immediately came to the action team.He brought an order from the garrison adults, asking the action team to immediately send people to Yangzhou to retaliate against Qi's family.Because Zhang Rubao was the captain of the action team who led the team to Yangzhou last time, so the manpower sent by the action team this time will also be led by Zhang Rubao.

Xue Zhinong's order to Zhang Rubao was very simple, that is, the action team should go to Yangzhou to kill the head of Qi's family.Xue Zhinong just set a time for Zhang Rubao. The day to kill the head of the Qi family must be one month later, within three days of July [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th.Xue Zhinong didn't care how many people the rest of the action team dispatched and what method to assassinate, it was up to Zhang Rubao to decide.

And this time, Xue Zhinong will not personally lead the action team to Yangzhou, because Xue Zhinong still has to do some things arranged by Wu Shigong in Henan.

Therefore, Zhang Rubao selected [-] members with better skills in the action team, and called them together, and everyone brainstormed an assassination plan.

But in the current action team, there are many members who are soldiers. Even if there are a few members who are bandits, what they are good at is robbery and kidnapping, and they are really amateurs in assassination.

So everyone discussed for a long time, and proposed methods such as poisoning, ambushes, etc., but they were all rejected by everyone.Because this assassination has two difficulties:

One is that the head of the Qi family must be protected by guards, and it is difficult for the members of the action team to get close to the head of the Qi family; Except for some short daggers, you can't carry very long weapons.

In the end, the members of the action team felt that the most suitable assassination weapon was the hand gun. <>As for the method of assassination, the simplest method was discussed—send an action team member to approach the head of the Qi family with a pistol, and then shoot at the head of the Qi family.

Don't tell me that in the end, all the team members agreed that this simple and crude method is the best method.After the method is determined, it is necessary to determine the manpower to carry out the assassination.But Zhang Rubao did his part and snatched this task.

Zhang Rubao has been soaking in the teahouse directly opposite the door of Qi’s house for four days. He found that every morning, Qi’s family always parked the carriage at the main entrance. Get into the carriage and go out to do errands.And yesterday, the action team had already discussed it properly, and today is the day when Zhang Rubao assassinates the head of the Qi family.

Seeing that the carriage at the main entrance of Qi's house had stopped again, Zhang Rubao left some broken silver on the table, picked up an oiled paper bag on the table and walked out.

And in the oil paper bag, there is a hand gun that has already been filled with gunpowder and bullets.When he left the teahouse, Zhang Rubao saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he quickly lit the matchlock of the pistol with gunpowder.

In front of the main entrance of Qi's house, there was a large open space, and Zhang Rubao walked over it unhurriedly.Because he was holding a greased paper bag in his hand, others would think that what he was holding was a piece of pork or chicken or duck he had just bought.

Zhang Rubao was getting closer and closer to the carriage. After taking two steps, he blew on the burning match outside the oil paper bag, for fear that the match would go out.At this time, the Patriarch of the Qi Family also walked out of the door of the Qi Family.He chatted and laughed with the Qingke beside him, and walked towards his carriage.

When the Patriarch of the Qi Family walked to the side of the carriage, Zhang Rubao was only seven or eight steps away from the Patriarch of the Qi Family.But for the final confirmation, Zhang Rubao raised the oil paper bag in his hand and shouted to the head of the Qi family: "Master Qi!"

Just as the Patriarch of the Qi family was about to get into the carriage, he heard someone calling him loudly.He raised his head, straightened his chest, and looked at the person who called him.The Patriarch of the Qi family saw a thick and strong man pointing at himself with an oil paper bag in his hand.

The Patriarch of the Qi Family realized that he didn't know the big man at all, and the way the big man was holding the oil paper bag seemed very strange.The Patriarch of the Qi Family murmured to himself: "A lunatic came out of nowhere." The guards beside the Patriarch of the Qi Family also stepped forward, trying to drive away the lunatic.

But at this moment, there was a loud noise, and a flame spewed out from the oil paper bag, and Patriarch Qi Jia felt his chest was hit hard.Immediately, he fell down feebly.

Zhang Rubao saw spider web-like blood oozing from the chest of Patriarch Qi's family.He knew that the Patriarch of the Qi Family was hopeless.In this era, the flight of bullets from firecrackers and handguns is very irregular, so when they hit a person's body, the bullets will roll and fly.Penetrating injuries rarely occur.

Therefore, the bullet shot by Zhang Rubao had already caused great damage to the internal organs of Patriarch Qi's family.Coupled with the medical conditions of this era, it can be said that Zhang Rubao is already sure that the head of the Qi family will definitely enter the gate of hell.

After Zhang Rubao fired the pistol, he turned around and ran away without hesitation.As for the guards who stepped forward to stop Zhang Rubao just now, they were first startled by the loud sound of the pistol firing, and when they found that Master Qi behind them had fallen in a pool of blood, they wanted to look for the assassin again. They found that the assassin who assassinated Lord Qi had run away without a trace.

The Patriarch of the Qi Family is still alive.He was very unwilling, because he didn't know who was going to assassinate him at all.Because the Patriarch of the Qi family didn't know at all, Wang Mi, who was Qi's family, hid it from him at all, and hired an assassin to assassinate Wu Shigong on his own initiative. Even the news of Wu Shigong's assassination was never told to him.

So when Patriarch Qi Family took his last breath, he still kept his eyes wide open.He was indeed a bit restless.

Zhang Rubao's retreat led the action team members surprisingly smoothly, without encountering any obstacles at all.Because in Yangzhou City, there has been no such vicious incident of assassination in the street in broad daylight for a long time, so both the yamen of Yangzhou City and the guards of Qijia are all concerned about how to deal with this situation They were all at a loss.

When they finally remembered to close the gate of Yangzhou City and search for assassins in Yangzhou City, Zhang Rubao had already left Yangzhou City with the members of the action team and walked away.

Zhang Rubao brought a total of [-] members of the action team to Yangzhou City this time.But apart from Zhang Rubao's assassination mission, some of the other team members planned to make up for the second assassination after Zhang Rubao missed; some wanted to cover Zhang Rubao's escape.Zhang Rubao even arranged three team members on the edge of a remote city wall in Yangzhou, preparing to climb from the city wall to the outside of the city if the gate of Yangzhou was closed.But Zhang Rubao didn't use all the follow-up measures.

The news that the head of the Qi family was assassinated caused a sensation in Yangzhou city.Qi's family immediately offered a reward of 5000 taels of silver to track down the murderer.And other salt merchants also speculated about the reason why the head of the Qi family was assassinated.

Of course, among the ordinary people in Yangzhou City, the origin of the assassin who assassinated the head of the Qi family was also spread one after another, and the most widely spread must be the pink news about the jealousy over some woman.

But these rumors subsided immediately after seven or eight days.Because everyone immediately knew who assassinated the head of the Qi family.Because at this time, big news came from Henan that shocked the entire Yangzhou salt business community.