Chapter 90 second quarter

The assassination of Zhao Tieqiao was done by the famous "Assassination King" Wang Yaqiao in the Republic of China. Wang Yaqiao is a fellow of Li Guojie's Hefei, Anhui. He joined the League in his early years. After the Revolution of 1911, he went to Shanghai. With the wharf workers from Anhui as his team, he made more than 100 sharp axes and distributed them. "Anhui Federation of Laborers".Because of his generosity and daring, he quickly made a name for himself in the world, and was known as the "Jianghuai Hero" in Shanghai. Even the local underworld bosses Huang Jinrong, Du Yuesheng, and Zhang Xiaolin sometimes gave him three points.

Wang Yaqiao is best known for his assassination skills.The important people who were assassinated by him successively were Xu Guoliang, chief of the Shanghai Police Department; General Shirakawa Yoshinori, the supreme commander in the early days of the Japanese invasion of China, who was the most senior military officer who died in China during the Japanese invasion of China; Deputy Minister Tang Youren, Chairman of the National Government Construction Committee and Director of Anhui Construction Zhang Qiubai. What is particularly shocking is that he also assassinated Chiang Kai-shek in Mount Lushan and Song Ziwen in Shanghai; the Japanese ambassadors to China Mamoru Shigemitsu and Wang Jingwei were also seriously injured by him in the assassination.Wang Jingwei died of a serious illness in the Tokyo Imperial University Hospital in Japan in 1944 because Wang Yaqiao shot him three times when he was assassinated at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Committee in 1939, and one of the bullets remained in his body.

Regarding this "assassination king" who made his enemies shudder, the military commander said intoxicated: "Everyone is afraid of the devil, and the devil is afraid of Wang Yaqiao." The reason why Wang Yaqiao got rid of Zhao Tieqiao was not all at the request of Li Guojie, a fellow villager and old acquaintance.Prior to this, Wang Leping, the leader of the Kuomintang "reorganization faction" who fought against Chiang alongside him, was assassinated and killed. After investigation by Wang Yaqiao, Zhao Tieqiao played a great role in this matter.When Zhao Tieqiao first returned to China, he served as Wang Leping's secretary, and he won Wang Leping's trust, and Wang Yaqiao also respected this literati and scholar.Unexpectedly, Zhao Tieqiao became friends with Dai Li, and he provided key information on Wang Leping's whereabouts, which led Dai Li to send seven assassins to assassinate Wang Leping on the night of February 18, 1930.Zhao Tieqiao was appointed as the general office of the Shanghai Shipping Merchants Bureau, which was Chiang Kai-shek's compliment to him.

Therefore, when Li Guojie asked someone to find Wang Yaqiao and offered to help kill Zhao Tieqiao, Wang Yaqiao, who was already preparing to attack Zhao Tieqiao, was in the middle of his arms.What Wang Yaqiao planned was that I wanted to kill Zhao Tieqiao anyway, so I just pushed the boat along the way and said that I would serve you, Li Guojie, and pay a lot of money. Li Guojie invited Wang Yaqiao to a banquet, and after Wang Yaqiao agreed to "help", Li Guojie handed over 8,000 yuan to Wang Yaqiao, saying that he would offer so much first, and that the amount would be auspicious, and he would thank him again when everything was done.Wang Yaqiao's eyes widened, and he was very surprised to say that for such a big matter, why did you Li "Hou Ye" only give you some small change for tea?

Li Guojie's answer surprised the "Assassin King" who was going to make a big mouthful: after the matter is completed, the reward is to allocate the big ship "Jiang'an" of Shanghai Shipping Merchants to Wang Yaqiao!In order to take Zhao Tieqiao's life as a thorn in his side, he was willing to pay such a price. Wang Yaqiao felt in his heart that this grandson of Mr. Li Hongzhang was a little abnormal. So Wang Yaqiao said, Lord Hou, you got rid of the mortal enemy, and it was worth the price, but I was afraid that your words would mean nothing.Li Guojie was in a hurry and said that I would send the contract right away!Wang Yaqiao was overjoyed and said that the day when the contract was delivered was when Zhao Tieqiao's head fell to the ground!

In the early morning of July 24, 1930, Zhao Tieqiao was shot by the disciples deployed by Wang Yaqiao at the side of the building of the Shanghai Steamship Merchants Bureau at the intersection of Fuzhou Road on the Bund. He was sent to the hospital and died. The goal was achieved. In order to reward Wang Yaqiao, Li Guojie gave Wang Yaqiao another 15,000 yuan in addition to allocating the Jiang'an ship to Wang Yaqiao for operating profits. Wang Yaqiao's ax gang needs thousands of dollars a month, but there is no normal source of funds. Getting this big ship is like having a cash cow.Full of excitement, Wang Yaqiao invited Zhuo Zhiyue, a Fujian native who had served as the manager of the second round of Jiang Kuan and Jiang An, to run the business for him, replacing the former manager Zhang Yanling.

This Zhang Yanling is not trivial, he is Du Yuesheng's great disciple and Zhang Xiaolin's nephew.How could he spit out the big piece of fat on the Jiang'an ship easily, and he repeatedly caused troubles and delays in the handover.In the end, Wang Yaqiao became anxious, and sent two or three hundred disciples with sharp axes to the pier where the Jiang An was moored, and forcibly took over. Then that night, Zhang Xiaolin's mansion, Zhang Yanling's uncle and one of the three tycoons of the gangsters in Shanghai, was blown up with a grenade in the backyard of the mansion. Hole.This is Wang Yaqiao's backstage demonstration to Zhang Yanling.

Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin didn't want to fight with Wang Yaqiao, who was in the limelight for the time being, so they ordered Zhang Yanling to take a step back and hand over the Jiang'an number; then, Du and Zhang watched the situation quietly and waited for an opportunity to retaliate. This incident was caused by Li Guojie's allocation of Zhang Yanling's Jiang'an number, and Li Guojie also offended Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin. After getting rid of Zhao Tieqiao, Li Guojie allocated the Jiangan ship to Wang Yaqiao as agreed, thinking that the underworld disputes over the ship's reception had nothing to do with him, and what he wanted now was the position of the General Office of the Shanghai Shipping Merchants Bureau. In the spring of 1932, the General Office of China Merchants was renamed the General Manager.The opportunity came soon. The China Merchants Bureau was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Communications of the Nationalist Government. At that time, the Minister of Communications was concurrently served by Chen Shuming, the vice president of the Executive Yuan. This Chen Shuming happened to be a friend in need with his brother Li Guofeng!

Under Li Guofeng's activities, Chen Shuming finally agreed that the general manager of China Merchants Steamship Co., Ltd. should be concurrently held by Chairman Li Guojie. Li Guojie's long-cherished wish was fulfilled.To thank Li Guofeng, he gave Li Guofeng's son-in-law the management of the China Merchants Steamship Warehouse in Shanghai Zhabei, and assigned it to a large ocean liner sailing from Shanghai to Tianjin. After mastering the power of Shanghai Shipping Merchants, Li Guojie, who was full of ambition, did not consider how to run this large-scale national enterprise cultivated by his grandfather with all his painstaking efforts.He was basically indifferent to the business of China Merchants, and all his energy was squandered on wine ponds and meat forests.

When Li Guojie became the chairman of the board in 1924, the performance of China Merchants Shanghai Steamship Co., Ltd. was already on the decline. Now Li Guojie is so extravagant and wasteful, neglects governance, and is even more internally corrupt and heavily in debt externally. Over the years, the accumulated arrears have reached more than 20 million yuan. , only owed 500,000 taels of silver to the British-funded HSBC Bank, plus interest, a total of 600,000 taels!Li Guojie was usually addicted to extravagance and enjoyment, and he never took it to heart, until HSBC found out that the sunset of China Merchants Steamboat was too high, and these large loans were too risky, so they took China Merchants to court to demand money.

The judgment of the British company: Shanghai Steamship Merchants must repay 600,000 taels of silver to HSBC within 60 days. Li Guojie was just waking up from a big dream, and he moved around every day to borrow money, and his head was battered.He has to repay a huge debt of 10,000 taels of silver every day, how can this be done by a person who is not doing business?China Merchants’ camel has a big skeleton, and the value of all assets is 70 million, but the 70 million is real estate, and the operating income is only enough for daily expenses. How can I get the money to repay the loan?His grandfather Li Hongzhang was troubled by political reparations, and now he is at a loss for commercial debts. The days are like the middle of the year, and the subordinates offer advice: the piers under the China Merchants Group have always been coveted by foreigners, and any one can be worth one or two million; these piers are mortgaged for loans, so it is better to simply sell a few, such as five The wharf was mortgaged to American-funded Diners Bank when it borrowed 200,000 taels of silver. The wharf can be sold for 1 million taels, and the 200,000 taels of Diners Club will be repaid, and the 600,000 HSBC will be repaid. You can also buy two more seagoing ships! Li Guojie, who had nowhere to go, was moved by this idea.However, the shipping industry is now state-owned, and the docks are state assets and land, and if they want to sell them to foreign countries, China Merchants does not dare to call the shots.Li Guojie gritted his teeth, determined to get through the barrier of the Ministry of Communications. In his term of office, he turned the time-honored profit-making enterprise China Shipping Merchants into such a mess. Of course, Li Guojie could not justly report that he was unable to make ends meet and had financial difficulties, so he wanted to sell the wharf to foreign countries for emergency relief; besides, the wharf is state-owned land and assets, and he sold it to foreign countries. , the government will not allow it easily.He could only secretly bribe Department of Transportation officials to get approval. Li Guojie first bribed Huang Jusu, the councilor of the Ministry of Communications, and Cai Pei, the director of the Department of Aviation Administration, to explain to them and ask them for help.Selling the wharf to a foreign country is a bit outrageous. It is entirely possible to be rejected by the relevant department before reporting to the top of the Ministry of Communications.But Huang and Cai predicted that there would be huge financial benefits, so they cleared the way for him and reported the report to Chen Fumu, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications. Selling docks and warehouses is a good show, in which no one is a good person, everyone has self-interest and intrigues.In the end, Li Guojie was the only one who was defeated and blamed.