Chapter 21 Section 21

In addition to inspecting politics, the four ministers became five ministers. In addition to Zaize, the minister of the state, Xu Shichang, the minister of the Ministry of war, Dai Hongci, the minister of the household department, and Duanfang, the governor of Hunan, Shaoying, the right minister of the Ministry of Commerce, was added. Choose your entourage, book your itinerary, organize your luggage, and book your boat ticket. Everything is ready. On August 19th, please ask for training. On the twenty-sixth auspicious day, you will set off on the train and head south by train. The special car prepared by the Railway Bureau has a total of five sections, the first two sections are for the entourage, the third section is for the floats of the five ministers, the fourth section is for the servants, and the last section is for luggage.It was early in the morning at Qianmen Station, just after eight o'clock, and people who saw us off arrived one after another.Xu Shichang was the first to arrive, followed by Shaoying, Duanfang, Dai Hongci, and of course Zaize the last.

The people seeing off are naturally divided into three classes. The first class is the princes and ministers, who get on the float to say hello, "Bon voyage" and "Take care of the journey". On the platform of the bus, you can only smile and express your sincerity to see off with the five ministers; the third class is just standing on the shift from afar, but if the people in the car can look around and find that he is also coming to see him off, it is a worthwhile trip. "My lords!" The captain of the special car shouted at the entrance of the float: "The special car will leave at nine o'clock, and there is still a quarter of an hour. The adults who are seeing you off, please get out of the car!"

As soon as this remark came out, the people who came to see off the red-topped flower feathers got off the car one after another, while the attendants in the front and the servants in the back, either to curry favor with their superiors or serve their masters, all flocked to the floats.The front is fine, but there are guards brought by Zai Ze at the back, guarding the car door.There was a thin, thin man in his thirties, wearing a thin blue padded robe, soap boots, and a red tasseled cap on his head, with his hands covering his waist. Board, stopped by the guards. "What do you do?"

"Master Xu's follower." The man spoke with the accent of Anqing Mansion in Anhui. "It's almost time to drive, don't squeeze in!" "No! My adults will look for me." The man said, "I got on the wrong bus just now." The latter sentence is puzzling, "Which car should you get in?" the guard asked. "Of course it's a float, I have to follow my lord." "Then why didn't you follow up just now?" "There are too many people on the platform, and they are scattered." The guard became suspicious, stared at him, pointed at his waist and asked, "What are you carrying in your arms?"

Before he could finish his sentence, there was a "bang lang" sound, the front of the car reversed and connected to the carriage, the strength increased, and all five cars shook violently, with a series of "clang lang lang" sounds.Those who were standing couldn't stand, and the guard had already fallen on the man.At this moment, there was a loud bang, and flowers bloomed on the roof of the carriage. Wood chips, blood, severed hands, and feet flew up from the gunpowder smoke, and fell on the roof of the carriage with a clatter, and it took a while to stop. The souls of the five ministers flew into the sky, and Zai Ze touched his neck with a wounded bloody hand and asked, "Where is my head?"

Of course the trip was discontinued.Among the five ministers, only Zaize and Shaoying were slightly injured, and three of the five ministers' followers died.The assassin died the worst. His lower body was blown off, but his upper body remained, embedded between two carriages.His face was bloody and bloody, and his eyes were bulging like copper bells. The name of the assassin is not known.It's just that some experts pointed out that the bombs carried by the assassins were extremely simple and had no lead wires, and they exploded upon impact, so there was this result. "Who is the murderer?" Everyone from the Empress Dowager Cixi to the small people in the palace and alley asked this question, but there was no answer.But there is a person who has to find the answer.

This man is called Zhao Bingjun, whose name is Zhi'an, and is from Zhili.He was very scheming and good at flattering people, so he was appreciated by Yuan Shikai as a miscellaneous official, and he was promoted repeatedly, and became a Taoist priest in five or six years. His lack of road is called "Patrol Road".After the Xinyou Rebellion, Yuan Shikai founded the police administration, which was promoted from Tianjin to the capital, and Nie Shicheng's rout soldiers were recruited and trained as patrol police, that is, Zhao Bingjun presided over the affairs. The patrol police in the capital are subordinate to the Industrial Inspection Bureau and under the management of Prince Su Shanqi. In fact, Zhao Bingjun is in charge.Now under the chariot, there is such a case of murdering a minister with a bomb. Naturally, the government and the public are shocked, and they must investigate the truth, but they don't even know the name of the murderer!If this matter was not explained, Zhao Bingjun knew that he would lose his job, so he personally planned and supervised, and started the search without sleep or food.

Fortunately, the assassin's face is still intact, washed with water, photographed, printed hundreds of copies, distributed to all plainclothes detectives, to inns, guild halls, temples, and any place where tourists can stay to check and ask . After asking and asking, I finally got the result.There was a little girl in the Tongcheng Guild Hall, who recognized him as "Master Wu" who lived in the Guild Hall, Wu Yue, a son of Tongcheng's aristocratic family. As a result, the deacon of the Tongcheng Guild Hall was arrested and taken to the Industrial Inspection Bureau, where Zhao Bingjun interrogated himself.The deacon said he was Wu Shilu, and the little girl who recognized Wu Yue from the photo was his daughter.

"What does Wu Yue do?" "I don't know." Wu Shilu replied, "There are many fellow villagers, so I can't ask the details." "Who does he come and go with on weekdays?" "Master Wu is very withdrawn and has no friends." "Hmph!" Zhao Bingjun sneered, "You are very loyal, you are from the same hometown, and you always hide it for others. However, the word loyalty is not so easy to come by. I want you to taste the taste of loyalty!" After all, order the execution, the lightest one, fifty slaps on the mouth.The fifty slaps with the leather gloves on caused Wu Shilu's mouth to bleed, and he had to tell the truth.

"Master Zhang often came here. On the night of August 25th, I slept in the same room with Master Wu, and the two talked quietly for midnight. We went out together early the next morning and never came back. " "Is it this person?" Zhao Bingjun took out a photo found in Wu Yue's house and asked Wu Shilu to identify him. "That's right! It's Master Zhang." "anything else?" There is also a "Master Yang".Wu Shilu asked his coachman, and he knew that the name of "Master Yang" was Yang Dusheng, a native of Changsha, Hunan.The current teacher of the Institute of Translation and Translation was recommended by Zhang Baixi, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but he often went to the home of Qu Hongji, Minister of Military Affairs.He was also one of the entourage when the five ministers inspected constitutionalism.Such a well-known figure involved him, and Wu Shilu thought that he could be killed.So I said firmly: "Yes, yes, one or two, two or three times, I don't know what the last name is?"

Seeing this situation, Zhao Bingjun felt that there was no need to ask any more questions.The most important thing is to catch this person whose surname is Zhang with an outside accent. He talked quietly with Wu Yue all night, and then went out together the next morning. Naturally, he is an accomplice in the case.Catch this person, and the truth will naturally come to light. So he took this photo, reproduced it many times, and distributed it everywhere with a reward for arrest.Of course the Tianjin Visiting Bureau also received it. The head of the visiting bureau, named Yang Yide, was originally a steward of Tianjin Laolongtou Railway Station, in charge of cutting tickets.During the Xinyou Rebellion, they took advantage of the fire to rob and made some money. For a while, the official prosperity flourished, and a miscellaneous official was donated and sent to the Visiting Bureau as an errand.At that time Yuan Shikai was arresting the Revolutionary Party. Yang Yide knew that the only way to get promoted was to ask for credit, so he spent his own money and spread his eyes and ears. As long as his behavior was slightly suspicious, he would be arrested immediately and tortured. Many people died in his hands. Therefore, he was greatly appreciated by Yuan Shikai, and after only three or four years, he was promoted to a Taoist member with donations and protection, and became the leader of the visiting team. When the visiting team was reorganized into the Visiting Bureau, Yang Yide actually had the title of general office. Since he worked as a station ticket cuter for a long time, he didn't know how many strange faces he had to see in a day. Therefore, Yang Yide developed a special skill. He knows people's faces and never forgets them with his photographic memory. Once he has seen this face, whether it is fat or thin, round or square, what are its characteristics? , Immediately engraved in the brain.In his "signature room", there are many photos hanging across the desk. Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Zhang Binglin, etc., have nothing to do, staring at them endlessly. Live in one, and the third-rank hall official is just around the corner." Since the bombing of the five ministers happened, Yang Yide's heart has been pounding, thinking that this is an excellent opportunity to do meritorious deeds, so he has already sent people to investigate secretly to see if there are any mysterious people appearing.When he got the photo surnamed Zhang, he was overjoyed as soon as he saw it. It turned out that he had found four people of unknown origin who were under secret surveillance, and this person surnamed Zhang was one of them. Yang Yide has a competent subordinate, the captain of the third visiting team, whose surname is Ma, who happens to be Mazi, so the nickname of Mamazi is particularly resounding.Those four people with unknown origins were under the surveillance of this team, so Yang Yide asked him to ask. "Look! Does it look like someone surnamed Yu?" "Xiang!" Ma Mazi replied, "Yu Benqiang must be a pseudonym." "Are you still here?" "Why aren't you here? There was a report just now, and I was in the kiln behind Hou's house at noon." "Then what are you waiting for?" Yang Yide asked. "No! This guy has a hard hand and knows how to handle. There are only five or six people who can't move him." Ma Mazi said: "And the waist is always bulging. Maybe he also has a bomb in his mouth. He has to cook it in a pot and can't catch him." It’s not economical to live on and spare a few instead.” "So, what do you say to do?" Ma Mazi thinks that it can only be captured by outsmarting, by surprise in the middle of the night, and by catching him quietly.Yang Yide naturally agreed.This night, he went out personally, climbed over the wall and entered, and grabbed the "vital criminal" who was sleeping soundly after drinking from the bed. "Why is that so!" The man said calmly, "I'm not a thief, I just go with you." "Good! You are a man. But, my friend, I heard that you are very capable, so we have to put the man first and then the gentleman." Yang Yide ordered his subordinates to cut Zhang Rong's hands behind his back, cover him with a robe outside, help him into the car and drive straight to the Visiting Bureau. In Yang Yide's signing room, the man surnamed Zhang sat for trial.He said that his name was Zhang Rong, his style name was Yinhua, he was a native of Fushun, and he was a member of the Han army, and he had served as the "guardian" of Fuling for many generations.He also admitted that he and Wu Yue are good friends and know all his plans.Wu Yue assassinated the Lord. This trip to Beijing was originally intended to be detrimental to Tie Liang. Later, because the imperial court decided to establish a constitution, they were afraid that the people would be deceived and unwilling to make a revolution, so they instead started to investigate the five ministers of politics. "On the night of August 25th, did you talk all night?" Yang Yide asked. "yes." "Go out together early the next morning?" "good!" "Then, of course you are responsible for assassinating the five ministers!" "No!" Zhang Rong calmly denied: "Without me. I persuaded him the night before that there is no need to use this method. I would go with him to do such a stupid thing." "Since you know that Wu Yue has such a plan, and you don't agree with it, why don't you surrender yourself?" "Isn't that a betrayal of a friend?" Zhang Rong grinned with a relaxed attitude. Yang stopped in German.Ask him again about the source of the bomb, Zhang Rong knew it was made by Yang Dusheng, a teacher of the Translation Institute, but shook his head and did not answer.