The true biography of Yaqiao, the first chivalrous king of the Republic of China

Chapter 12
In 1840, the rumbling gunfire of the first Opium War blasted the closed Qing Dynasty. On November 1843, 11, according to the "Nanjing Treaty" and the "Five-Port Trade Charter", Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shanghai were officially opened. , transformed into an East Asian tycoon.In the mid-17s, with the rise of Shanghai, the prosperity of commerce and popularity, the service industry represented by the bath industry became more and more developed. There were 1920 well-documented baths, including high-end American showers, Japanese, Finnish and Turkish baths.Aiduoya Road Hot Spring Bath pioneered steam baths, medicinal baths, and showers with sulfur water to treat skin diseases, and has become a place frequented by many dignitaries.

That night, Zheng Yian and others were reprimanded by Wang Yaqiao and felt deeply ashamed.After some discussion, they felt that "Grasshopper" can run and jump well, and it is difficult to be effective at the gate of the police station.So, they spent a lot of money to get an inside line from the Songhu Police Department, and learned that Xu Guoliang had a habit of taking a bath on weekends.At that time, Xu Guoliang was nearly fifty years old, exactly at the age of forty like a wolf and fifty like a tiger.It is reasonable to take advantage of Saturday to wash cleanly, whether it is going home to be tender with my wife, or going out to find flowers and willows.Therefore, Zheng Yian sent his brothers out and "squat" at the entrance of every high-end bathing pool in Shanghai. At 1923 o'clock in the afternoon on November 11, 10, they finally found Xu Guoliang near the hot spring bath on Aiduoya Road. : His German Maybach luxury car, the license plate number is 3.

At around 5 o'clock, people came and went in front of the hot spring bath as usual.A small vendor was carrying a bamboo basket filled with cigarettes, melon seeds, and peanuts. As soon as he entered the door, he was chased out by the guys in the bath: "Nong is blind? Didn't you see what kind of place it is? Can you just come in if you want? Country bumpkin, get out!" The small peddler nodded and apologized, took off his old hat, held it in his hand, and exited the door.

At about 6 o'clock, Yang Zijin took a cigarette in his mouth, went out of the bathroom door, and looked around warily: people came and went, as usual.Small vendors wandered on the road, shoe shiners squatted busy in the corner, and outside a store, a short man leaned against the window, flipping through the evening paper of the day by the light...

"Boss, buy a pack of cigarettes!" The small vendor greeted enthusiastically.

"Go, go, stay away from here!" Yang Zijin waved his hands, thinking: These out-of-town traders, like flies, penetrate everywhere, really annoying.

Yang Zijin spat out the cigarette in his mouth, turned around and entered the bathtub.The cigarette butt was still smoking.One with narrow eyes and quick legs, rushed over with a stride, picked it up and took a deep breath, then, looking at the trademark on the cigarette, squinted his eyes, and walked away proudly...

At 6:10, Yan Ruiqing walked out of the gate with the car keys in hand, trotting all the way to the bulletproof car.Then, Xu Guoliang came out with a flushed face and a complacent expression.Behind him was Yang Zijin, the personal bodyguard.Yang Zijin held a revolver in his hand.

"Little Chongming, what's going on?" Xu Guoliang asked. ——Yan Ruiqing is from Chongming Island, nicknamed "Little Chongming".

Yan Ruiqing was still using the key to unlock the lock: "I don't know, I can't open it."

"Idiot, you don't even know this." Xu Guoliang pinched his waist, looking a little disappointed.

"Let me try." Yang Zijin put the pistol in the holster and went to help.

At this juncture, the country man with the bamboo basket sneaked behind Xu Guoliang without knowing it or noticing it. He held the basket in his left hand, stretched out his right hand to the bottom of the basket, aimed at his waist, and shot him with a "bang", and then threw it away. Basket, turn and run.

With a sound of "ah", Xu Guoliang lay down on the car.

Yang Zijin and Yan Ruiqing were unprepared. They saw a man running desperately northward along Yunnan Road (now Yunnan Middle Road) towards the British Concession, and they followed him by coincidence.

The shoe shiner rushed over from the opposite side of the road, aimed at the head of Xu Guoliang, who was lying on the car panting, and shot again.Xu Guoliang sprawled on all fours, paralyzed on the ground...

As soon as the gunshot rang out, the peaceful Eduardo seemed like a bee's nest had exploded, and men and women yelled in disorder.Pedestrians were afraid of being accidentally injured by stray bullets, so they got into shops, hotels, and banks to hide.

Yang Zijin and Yan Ruiqing clung to the small vendor tightly.

"Small trader" Zheng Yi'an fired his gun backwards while running, a bullet seemed to have eyes, and hit Yang Zijin's head.

Yan Ruiqing didn't care about his companions, and chased and yelled: "Catch the robber, catch the robber quickly!"

At the junction of Yunnan, there was a "red-headed assan" on duty with a gun, and rushed over upon hearing the sound.

Zheng Yian saw that the situation was not good, threw away his empty gun, turned left immediately, and ran westward to Beihai Road, passed Shenjiang Grand Theater (No. The Far East Hotel (now No. 25, Xizang Middle Road) on Nichengbang Road was captured by patrols.

The shoeshine is Joo Sun-won.After firing the fatal shot at Xu Guoliang, he tactfully ran towards a crowded place. After mingling with the crowd, he threw away his pistol and coat while running, and then sneaked into a large department store...

The person who read the evening paper was Wang Yaqiao who went to the scene to observe the results of the assassination.Seeing that the assassination was successful, he ran into another nearby bath vigilantly, stripped off his clothes, and mixed in with the bathers.I took a shower, changed into the clothes I prepared beforehand, and went home calmly.

He Shouding, Wu Dingjiu, Hu Baoyi and others who were in charge of responding ran away from different directions before arriving at Zheng Yian and Zhu Shanyuan.

(End of this chapter)