The Republic of Heroes

"Twenty thousand catties of gold!"

Like a thunderclap on the ground, Wu Xiaoliang did not expect the rumor to be true.

Mei Jinxue continued: "Big Brother, Daddy did hide [-] jin of gold during his lifetime, but the gold was not obtained through corruption. He has been a clean and honest official all his life, and his mission is to help the world."

"That's right! My brother's life in the former Qing magistrate was considered poor. As the saying goes, the three-year Qing magistrate had [-] snowflakes in silver, but his prefect was a breeze. The only thing that has grown in the past ten years is his age." And his precious collection of books." Mei Yunting echoed and talked about the stories of his elder brother's life, and he couldn't help heaving a long sigh when he thought that things are changing and people are changing, and heaven and man are forever separated.

Mei Jinxue was infected by the third uncle, and couldn't help shedding tears, and continued to tell: "In the third year of Xuantong, there was a mutiny in Wuchang, which was said to be a revolution, and riots followed everywhere, and Yuezhou was no exception. If you cut your braids, you will become a revolutionary soldier. Bandits and water bandits are all mingled with them. The bandit threatened my father with my family's life to sign on the electrification. My father had no choice but to sign, so he was able to continue to rule Yuezhou, but the morals of the world It has been corrupted, and rape and plunder in broad daylight are common. He is worried that the treasury accumulated in Yuezhou over the past ten years will fall into the hands of thieves, so that he can order his confidantes to secretly move the gold and silver out of hiding every day and night. These government officials went out at night and never came back, and the silver that was too late to transfer had to continue to be stored in the treasury."

Mei Jinxue sighed softly when she said this: "As expected, those thieves robbed all the silver in the treasury within a few days, and my father fell ill in bed that day. After that, it will be considered safe for a few years, Half a year ago, Nama Yama suddenly came to his father to ask for the treasury gold that disappeared several years ago. His father went to check the hiding place of the treasury gold after the yamen disappeared. Yan Wang was very angry, and he took people away after making a fuss. Later, Dad said that he should know the inside story, and it is hard to guarantee that the disappearance of several government officials back then was also related to it."

Listening to Mei Jinxue's eloquent talk, Wu Xiaoliang felt a bit of bitterness in his heart. Is this the land of China after the Wuchang Uprising?

"In a few days, water bandits came to the house..." Mei Jinxue's voice began to tremble when she said this, two lines of tears were left behind, and she couldn't continue.

Seeing his niece crying, Mei Yunting took the words and said: "Brigade Commander Wu, my brother is wholeheartedly working for the people, but he was framed as a corrupt official. It is really chilling. I thought about it with Jin Xue. Staying in Hunan will sooner or later become a tool for those warlords and politicians to expand their territory. I think the general is a person who does great things for the people, so I decided to inform the general of the whereabouts of the gold and let you handle it."

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Wu Xiaoliang ordered Yin Chengfu to choose the most reliable platoon to extract gold with Mei's uncle and nephew, and the cowardly cavalry company commander expected Ai Ai to come in again, "Brigade Commander, He Fengju didn't come to Mishui at all after the low-level interrogation. It might be a trap..." After reporting the information he got, he added a sentence of his own analysis, hoping to save some impression points in front of the brigade commander.

If what the cavalry company commander said was true, there would be a big story behind the matter. These people may not have planned to kill themselves in one step, but they opened up to let others take advantage of the loopholes. Will they be merciful?Thanks to the super combat effectiveness of the battalion directly under the brigade headquarters, otherwise, there will be no place to die today, and it will inevitably be ruined by these people using tricks like Mei Yunliang

The gold they dreamed of was obtained by themselves, which is a blessing in disguise. In the future, there are many places to spend money if they want to make a difference. The pharmaceutical factory currently has little leverage.The conversion of [-] catties of gold into silver dollars is about tens of millions. Duan Qirui borrowed from Japan for a single amount of more than ten million.

Thinking of this, Wu Xiaoliang was very excited, and immediately sent a telegram to Fu Zuoyi, the temporary head of the Changsha Security Command, and immediately sent a special train. He was going to board the train from Mishui Town and return north.

After Fu Zuoyi and Fang Qidao heard the news that Wu Xiaoliang and the brigade would not return to Changsha directly to the north, they all shouted nonsense. The two mistakenly thought that he had lost his temper because of the failure of the warlord, so they couldn't persuade him.

In the evening of the same day, the train arrived at Mishui Town, and a platoon sent to pick up the gold rushed to Huihe with several trucks full of them.

Boarding the train back to the north, Wu Xiaoliang was smug and full of ambition, feeling that the sea is open to fish, which is quite different from the worry state of mind when he led his troops to the south.But in the eyes of everyone in Changsha's local official circles, the young brigade commander Wu couldn't bear the setbacks, and rolled back to Beijing with his tail between his legs. He clapped his hands and said that the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time were finally released, but they didn't expect The soon-to-be new Governor Wang is not a weak governor like Fu Liangzuo, and he is no less powerful than Brigadier Wu.

One night, when the special train arrived in Wuchang, all the people directly under the Fourth Mixed Brigade lined up and waited for the ferry, while Yin Chengfu and his confidants waited beside the golden cart, not allowing anyone to approach.

In the early morning, the wharf of Wuchang was full of steamships, with towering chimneys and thick black smoke, and the sound of sirens covered the chants of the coolies on the shore, and passers-by were in a hurry. The officers and soldiers didn't even look at it directly. Wuchang is a big port on the Yangtze River, and the rioting soldiers are like crucian carp crossing the river. It is already difficult to arouse people's ideas.

The newsboys among the crowd were peddling their newspapers vigorously.

"Selling newspapers! Selling newspapers! The Chief Financial Officer of the Beiyang Government is engaging in malpractice for personal gain..."

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! Lin Baishui's wonderful commentary..."

Hearing that Duan Qirui's government broke the scandal in the newspaper, Wu Xiaoliang smiled wryly, and a new round of competition began again.He knew about Lin Baishui in his previous life, so he wanted to see how this person commented on the facts, so he stopped the newsboy.

"Little brother, here's a newspaper!"

The little newsboy saw that an officer in a neat military uniform called him to stop him, he was a little scared, and looked at Wu Xiaoliang nervously.

Wu Xiaoliang smiled slightly: "Don't be afraid, I'll buy a newspaper." He reached out and handed over a silver dollar.

Only then did the newsboy come to his senses, he quickly waved his hands and shook his head, and said incoherently, "We can't use so much money, we can't use so much money!"

Wu Xiaoliang couldn't help but say, put the silver dollar into the hands of the little newsboy, and then drew a newspaper by himself. The little newsboy knew that he had met a good person, and one silver dollar was his salary for selling newspapers for two months. To him, it was a huge sum of money. Bowing, thanking you a thousand times, then happily jumping away.

Spread out the newspaper, the entire first page headlines are the scandal of the Ministry of Finance, Lin Baishui's words are still so sharp, scolding a bunch of moths.He has always admired this public couplet. On Cixi's [-]th birthday, Lin Baishui sneered: "I am lucky in Xiyuan today, in Summer Palace tomorrow, when will I be lucky in Yuanmingyuan again?"Four hundred trillion bone marrow is completely dry, how lucky is there to be only one person left?Lost Ryukyu at fifty, Taiwan Strait at sixty, and three eastern provinces at seventy!The territory of [-] miles is narrow, and every longevity will be boundless!