Chapter 39 Chapter 17 Shanghai Assassination

The day when Chen Qimei signed a business contract with Cheng Guorui was at 16:00 on May 18, 1916. The location is No. 14, Sapo Sai Road, Shanghai—now this road is renamed Danshui Road.This is the concession land of the French, and the owner of the apartment is Tian Junsaburo, who is of course Japanese.Chen Qimei lives here, and teams of military and police detectives wander around outside the door every day, but they dare not come in.Japanese, foreign guests, and in the concession of the French, who would have the guts to provoke them? Apart from Li Haiqiu, there were six other people who signed the contract at the scene that day, including Cheng Guorui, whose alias was Cheng Zian, Wang Jiefan, Xu Guolin, the manager of Hongfeng Company, Su Yingwu, and Zhu Guangming. The sixth one is that you can't even guess it, it's a Japanese.In short, these six people boarded a taxi rickshaw together. Thanks to the strength of the driver back then, they were able to squeeze the six men out. Now at least two taxis are needed.

When they arrived in front of Tian Chunsanlang's apartment, six people got out of the car, and Li Haiqiu went in alone.When entering the room, Chen Qimei was waiting for him: Sit down, Xiao Li, sit down, wait for me to find out the pen, let's sign quickly.When Chen Qimei was looking for her signature pen, Li Haiqiu suddenly slapped her head: Oh, old Chen, look at my brain, I forgot to bring the contract, wait for me for a while, I will go back and get the contract. While speaking, Li Haiqiu hurried to the door, opened it and went out.As soon as the door opened, two people rushed in. One was Cheng Zian and the other was Wang Jiefan. Two Browning pistols aimed at Chen Qimei who was sitting on the sofa and shot fiercely. Chen Qimei was unexpectedly shot in the head several times. , died on the spot.

Poor old Chen, a hero of his life, fell into a trap because of negligence in guarding against him. After killing Chen Qimei, Cheng Zian and Wang Jiefan turned around and fled wildly. A group of party members rushed out of the back room, firing random guns, and shot Wang Jiefan to death on the spot.Cheng Zian and Zhu Guangming fled, and Xu Guolin jumped on the rickshaw he was riding on, urging the driver to flee, but the driver was frightened, threw the car over violently, and escaped first. Xu Guolin got up and ran wildly with the four of them. Hearing woo wa woo wa, the piercing siren sounded.The French police came rushing with guns and hunting around. Cheng Zian's unknown Japanese escaped, and the other three, Hongfeng Company Manager Xu Guolin, Su Yingwu, and Zhu Guangming, the lookout, were all arrested.

When the three were arrested and interrogated, the Frenchman burst into tears.The three murder suspects didn't know what to ask. It's not that these three people have strong bones and are not afraid of torture, but they really don't know.Among them, Xu Guolin from Hongfeng Company was the one who was most involved. However, when the investigation was carried out, it was found that this guy was as innocent as a newborn baby.This guy was handing out resumes in the talent market. When he saw Hongfeng's recruitment, he came to apply for the job. He was hired as the general manager, and his salary was quite high.Then the boss ordered him to do some small things to kill the annoying competitors, and his brother came to take the money from the boss and work for the boss. What's wrong with that?

In the end, this stupid Xu Guolin didn't even know the boss's last name. Although this Xu Guolin was confused, he was the most understanding among the three people who were caught.The other two people didn't even know what they came here for. Anyway, they saw that there were a lot of people, so they came to make up the number of people. They didn't expect to be caught by the French police. As a result, the case became a suspense, and no one knew who did it.Until 1923, when Beiyang Zhang Zongchang went to eat under the Northeast King Zhang Zuolin, Cheng Guorui was still inseparable from him.It was the autumn exercise of the Fifth Department of Fengtian Army, and Zhang Zongchang's troops were pulled back because of Cheng Guorui's poor training.So Chief of Staff Wang Hanming asked to replace Cheng Guorui, but unexpectedly, Zhang Zongchang blurted out the following words:

Others said that Cheng Jingwu was not good, so just ignore him.You can't say that as the chief of staff.You need to know the relationship between Cheng Jingwu and me. I sent him to kill Chen Qimei. I spent 400,000 yuan and didn't give him any money. I feel sorry for him.Now as a team leader, what's the point? When Wang Hanming learned of such a secret incident by accident, he was so excited that he almost cried, and quickly found a pen to write it down.Only later did people know that Zhang Zongchang was the culprit behind the scenes. Regarding this matter, Ding Zhongjiang is famous: Zhang Zongchang is talking nonsense, he is not the mastermind at all, but just a gun used by others.Moreover, the bounty for killing Chen Qimei was not 400,000, but 700,000, at least 300,000, who knows who got it all.

Who is it, he swallowed 300,000 in one go, isn't he afraid of being choked to death?