Chapter 143 Mr. Inoue and the traitor Lu

"The political axe sent 147 ninjas and assassins to break into the ship's government's government in the middle of the night to assassinate Hu Chuyuan, the minister of ships in Fuzhou"

This news spread all over China almost overnight. The Guardian, which was just founded in the Tianjin Concession, Shanghai's "Declaration", "Jiangnan Newspaper" and Hong Kong's "Circular Newspaper" are all talking about this matter.

The last time it was a mystery, but this time it's not.

This is a real big case, and the whole country is shocked.

Since 1880, Chinese raw silk has landed on the U.S. market on a large scale and completely formed a monopoly at the end of 1881, accounting for 97% of the U.S. raw silk import market.

After a short period of warmth, the original silk quickly entered an ice age.

Due to the lack of other export resources and markets, Japan's short-lived booming economy also suddenly suffered a fatal blow. It is said that they tried to disintegrate Hu Chuyuan's monopoly alliance through a provocative action in May 1881. After being severely frustrated, they clearly understood that Hu Chuyuan would not give way.

It is almost impossible to defeat Hu Chuyuan, Rockefeller and JP Morgan in business, but it is not difficult to assassinate them in some ways.

Even the President of the United States can be assassinated for two terms. How many people in the world can't be killed?

A few days later, I will be in Tokyo.

Chiyoda District, Nagata Town, thousands of meters away from the Imperial Palace, and the private hall on a hill park, which is only a few kilometers away from the National Assembly Hall, the walls are painted with exaggerated paintings of the style of Ukiyo-e, which promote the long history of the Japanese royal family.

On the fine and smooth wax wooden floor, Shibusawa Pingdong crawled on the ground like a sinner. Behind him was his warrior Matsukawa Takamasa. His father, Eiichiro Shibusawa, has the status of being the father of the father of the country in the Japanese economy. At this time, he also knelt on the side seat like a sinner, bowing his head and did not dare to say a word.

The atmosphere is so solemn that it seems that a slight movement will lead to murder.

However, Shibusawa Hirato was not afraid of it.

The face, which is almost perpendicular to the floor... close to the floor, is still so young and resolute, fearless.

Sitting in front of him is a middle-aged man with a serious face, whose face is as gray as a dead body, as if only a dead person will use that kind of white powder. He is wearing a very gorgeous black Japanese kimono embroidered with a phoenix-like pattern, and there are also two middle-aged warriors sitting behind him, respectfully. I'm afraid of a little negligence and disrespect.

The middle-aged man is silent and seems to be extremely angry, but he is suppressed by a strong personal aura.

After a while, he asked Shize Pingdong coldly, "So, this is the second time you have missed... What a fool. Don't you know what the bird of the bow is? Because birds that have been scared once are ten times more difficult to hunt than normal birds. When we ask you to do it, you should use all the power you can for the first time.

Shibusawa Pingdong continued to kowtoe and said, "I'm very sorry, Mr. Inoue. I originally hoped to complete the assassination without revealing all my strength and identity. Before the second assassination, I also tried to explore his defense force. It was really not worth worrying about, but the actual situation was completely different."

"Well... what a sinister Chinese!"

The middle-aged man sighed silently and said, "Although this is the case, I still continue to find a way. If I don't kill this Chinese, it is a threat to Mitsui and the whole empire that can't be ignored."

Shibusawa said, "I have arranged a detailed work in advance, but it seems difficult to form a reliable assassination opportunity."

The middle-aged man gradually suppressed his dissatisfaction, but said arrogantly, "So... Ping Dongjun, continue to work hard. If such a Chinese can't be killed, even if it can become a powerful country, it is impossible to successfully defeat China and annex North Korea, let alone expand to Manchuria. Although it will be difficult to continue the attack, and it also exposes our motives, we must continue to do it. There will always be justice in this world. As long as you keep paying diligently, you will always succeed.

Shibusawa Pingdong asked, "So, for those things they put forward about the level of political axe...?"

The middle-aged man interrupted him and said, "You don't have to worry about it. The empire did not formally intervene in this matter, and with the cowardice and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty, as long as it is resolutely rejected at the level of political axe, there will be no problem."

Shibusawa Pingdong bowed his head and said, "Well, I understand, Mr. Inoue."

... For me, assassination was originally an almost righteous act. In the Warring States Period, the shogunate era and the downturn era, such assassination became crazy and never stopped.

Now, they are just targeting another goal that blocks the development of Japan - Hu Chuyuan.

As Mr. Inoue said, the Qing court obviously did not dare to make trouble. Even if the opponent was Japanese, they did not want to. Before there was definite evidence, while strengthening the rectification of Fuzhou's military strength, they proposed Sun Kaihua, a famous general of the Hunan Army, as an admiral of Fujian, and stationed in Fuzhou. In addition, they gave Hu Chuyuan a little military power to protect themselves. At the same time, they also reminded Hu Chuyuan to "choose words carefully and not disturb the state affairs."

Seeing this treatment, Hu Chuyuan no longer sent people to pretend to be an assassin to provide false information, and did not expect the poor diplomatic ability of the Qing court, but completely relied on himself.

In order to appease Hu Chuyuan, the Qing court gave Fuzhou Ship Administration Yamen a vacancy of Fubiao Camp, and also agreed that the Fujian Marine Division would build another gun battalion.

With this criticism, Hu Chuyuan quickly through Zuo Zongtang, he quickly mentioned Xiao Boquan, who was familiar with him, as a general, and transferred more than 1,000 elites from the Xiang army to stationed in Mawei.

He also raised private homes to build his own guard camp and strengthen the protection of his family.

He took out a large amount of money to absorb intelligence spies in Japan through the Jiangnan Translation Society, and investigated the news in the economic and political circles of Japan, especially the periphery of Shize Pingdong, and then secretly set up the Fuqing Society through the Huameng Association to train assassination spies.

Hu Chuyuan has never been a good person. Since he decided to do this, he must be crazy. He said that he invested one million taels of silver, and he invested five million taels of silver.

In the short silence, both sides are secretly accumulating new strength, saying that they are planning a new round of assassinations, and Hu Chuyuan also plans to launch an assassination ambush against Shibusawa Pingdong and Zhibendong Liyang, who returned to Shanghai.

Hu Chuyuan invested more money, and he also got more information.

In October 1882, Hu Chuyuan was preparing to return to Hangzhou to prepare for his wedding, and Wu Shuzhen was also waiting for him in Hangzhou... At this time, Hu Chuyuan received the latest information.

I decided to execute the hijacking case against Hu Pinyuan and his younger sister Hu Yulan, who were studying in Shanghai, and continued to do it through a group of Zhejiang pirates and local hooligans in Shanghai.

Hu Chuyuan could only take action in front of him. In the French Concession, he carried out an ambush and assassinated the pirates who had found the specific hiding place.

The two sides fought in the French Concession. Shize Pingdong was shot with two bullets. Fortunately, he escaped from the siege. His life and death were unknown. The remaining five people, including Takamasa Matsukawa, were assassinated, as well as 27 pirates from Zhejiang and more than a dozen local youth gang hooligans.

Because the patrol house in the French Concession had already been dredged, all the bodies were secretly transported to a factory on the banks of the Suzhou River by car. After dissolving with nitric acid, cement was poured and buried under the factory.

There is not even a body, so why do you want to file a case?

At most, it is a missing case.

Even so, Hu Chuyuan did not dare to be careless.

He knew that he had shifted his target to his family when he could not deal with him for a while, and he would use a deterrent assassination to convince him and intimidate him.

He immediately let Hu Pinyuan, Hu Zhenyuan and Hu Yulan, pseudonyms Wu Siguang, Wu Siyuan and Wu Siwei, cover up the distant relatives of the Wu family, and quietly traveled to the United States to live in Boston.

At the end of October, Hu Chuyuan got married in Hangzhou. Although he was well prepared in advance, he was still assassinated while welcoming his relatives on Yuanbao Street. Six people were killed and one injured in the Hu family, and more than a dozen people in the Hunan army were also killed by explosives.

He said that I asked him, who was proficient in Chinese, to disguise himself as a Chinese, continued to assassinate Hu Chuyuan, put the explosives in a gift box and sent them to the Hu family. At the same time, he also told Hu Chuyuan that regardless of whether Shize Pingdong was dead, the spy network he had established in China could continue to operate.

As revenge, after Hu Chuyuan returned to Fuzhou with his wife Wu Shuzhen, he soon asked Fuqingshe to assassinate Shibusawa Hirato's father, Shibusawa Eiichiro.

He had secretly transported four small-caliber flowering cannons through various means and bombed the villa where Eiichiro Shibusawa lived in the wild, causing Seiichiro Shibusawa to be seriously injured, and Hirato Shibusawa's wife also died in this bombing.

Both sides have sufficient funds and manpower, and the assassinations are also going on continuously, from the initial national hatred to a clear hatred, and even the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Soon, a gap was also blown up in the Hu family's compound, and Mrs. Luo and six servants were injured.

The Hu family compound is no longer safe. Hu Chuyuan moved all the Hu family to Shanghai Longyuan and concentrated on protection. The Hu family compound was empty overnight.

At this time, the Qing court finally realized that they wanted to strengthen the protection of the Hu family, but what was the point? The political axe, which even dared not be offended... can no longer be described as a coward.

Living almost alone in the government of Fuzhou, Hu Chuyuan knew very well that as this kind of assassination of revenge continued, sooner or later he would die in the assassination of himself.

He stood in front of the road to dominate Asia and did not blow him up. He said that he would not stop.

But he won't give in because of this. For this reason, he has even written a will.

Once he finally dies in this endless assassination, all the wealth will be divided into seven parts, inherited by Hu Zhenyuan, Hu Pinyuan, the American Chinese Association, the Chinese League Association, Wu Shuzhen and Hu Weiyuan respectively.

Among them, Wu Shuzhen, Hu Pinyuan and Hu Zhenyuan will inherit most of the assets, while the American Chinese Association will inherit the shares of United Steel and United Railway under the name of the Rich Country Investment Bank, and the China League will inherit about 100 million US dollars in funds to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.

Hu Weiyuan inherited Zhongrun Company.

The last one is given to Fuqing Society separately and is specially used for revenge.

He knew that death was very close to him.

January 1883.

New Year's Day has just passed.

Hu Chuyuan and Wu Shuzhen, who have been married for more than three months, still seem to be very calm. Their lives are as peaceful as before. They still live in the heavily defended Fuzhou ship government government.

Hu Chuyuan moved the Yamen to Pingding Mountain. On the top of the mountain more than 50 meters high, there were more than four mu of flat land, and many French manors were built in the era of Shen Baozhen.

This kind of reading in the layout of the surrounding environment is very conducive to security work. The Xiang army is surrounded by the Pingding Mountain, and Hu Chuyuan's guard battalion is responsible for the security of the Pingding slope and the mountaintop complex.

In order to further ensure security, Hu Chuyuan secretly integrated the Xinghua Society, a branch of the Huameng Association, into the guard camp. The guard camp mainly chose to recruit people in Huizhou, Fuqing and Shenzhou, with a total number of more than 400 people.

After all, life has to continue.

On this day, Hu Chuyuan handled a day of official and private affairs in the government office and was about to go back to the backyard to have dinner with Wu Shuzhen. Under the guidance of Chen Shanyuan, a familiar middle-aged rich gentry quickly came in.

Entering the gate of the government, the middle-aged rich gentry came forward to worship and said, "Lu Wenjin, a Caomin, has seen Lord Ship Administration!"

"Oh? Is it you?"

Hu Chuyuan smiled softly, and then remembered that he had seen him when he went to Japan for the auction for the first time. At that time, didn't he fight with Sheng Xuanhuai?

Sheng Xuanhuai recently set up Beiyang Bank in Tianjin. The banknote printing paper used is almost the same as the Japanese yuan banknotes. Even the pattern of the plate printing is roughly the same. There must be my own help in the middle.

Seeing this Lu Wenjin, Hu Chuyuan remembered this matter. It is estimated that Lu Wenjin also participated in it.

Maybe it was he who connected Sheng Xuanhuai with me.

In China, there is no shortage of Han annihron at any time.

"Sit down, we are all acquaintances!" Hu Chuyuan didn't say anything and asked Lu Wenjin to sit down and talk about it.

Lu Wenjin was not polite. He really sat down and arched his hand and said, "The Caomin came to visit the Lord this time. In fact, he was entrusted by Mr. Zhidao. This gentleman is a master behind the scenes of politics and economy. He is very powerful. He asked the Caomin to say something to the adults."

Hu Chuyuan smiled and asked, "Why, such a big man is also interested in talking to me?"

Lu Wenjin laughed and said, "You don't have to underestimate yourself. You and Mr. Zhidao can also be the strongest in today's world. Mr. Zhidao said that some radical groups and you had a misunderstanding, and the two sides had a lot of unnecessary conflicts for this. If adults are willing to slightly raise the price of this year's raw silk by 20%, Mr. Zhidao guarantees that he is willing to come forward to coordinate, and will ensure that those radical groups and social parties will no longer target you, let alone make any out of scope.

Hu Chuyuan smiled softly again and said, "Isn't that letting the Japanese silk merchants take advantage of it? What's more, I have made an appointment with various foreign banks that they will not raise the price within ten years. Isn't it back on the word?"

Lu Wenjin smiled and said, "Your Excellency, foreigners are all barbarians. China says that the two countries are friends of thousands of years and are both Asian powers. If the silk industry of the two countries can live in peace, sell it at the same price and conspire to earn real money from foreigners, wouldn't it be a good thing to benefit the country and the people and themselves?

Hu Chuyuan immediately said, "I'm sorry, I'm honest in business. I won't go back on my promise!"

Lu Wenjin suddenly sneered and said, "That's not good, my lord, we understand that people don't tell lies. We have checked very clearly that you have shares in all major foreign banks, selling at a low price, making foreigners make money for nothing, and you also make money! It harmed the people and court in the south of the Yangtze River. If this kind of thing spreads, it will not be good for your reputation!"

Hu Chuyuan also sneered and said, "Let me gossip. I do hold shares of several foreign banks, but I have already told Lord Zhongtang and Prince Su about these things. These foreign banks do not make much profit from the silk industry. Every year, they have to draw a large amount of profits for publicity and advertising. The accounts are clear.

Lu Wenjin's face was gloomy, but he smiled and said, "Your Excellency, why do you have to do this? If you really want to tear your face, no one will have a hard time. Some of my friends are also very powerful. After checking, they actually found that you may still be... American citizens. If the court knows, I'm afraid it will be unfavorable to you, right? You have been safe and sound over the years, but for us Chinese travelers, our business in Japan has been greatly affected and threatened at all times. You have to consider us more or less, right? You are making money. We have been cheated by you, and you don't go to the Japanese to inquire. The Chinese are complaining about you!"

Hu Chuyuan sneered, "What does it have to do with me? If you are willing to do business in Japan, you have to take your own risks. Just to take care of you, can I ignore the interests of the people of the country? You overestimate yourself, Lu Wenjin, without my own support, what can you be with me?

"You...!"

Lu Wenjin's face turned red and angry, but he shouted, "Okay, Lord Hu, I think you are toasting or not eating punishment, so let's wait and see...!"

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Let's wait and see, don't go. At least I am also an inspector of the same province. How can I be humiliated by you for no reason? Come on, drag it down and hit the top 20 boards, and hit me heavily!"

Don't fucking treat the ship's government as a government.

This is the government office of the ship minister of Fuzhou, which is much more powerful than a government office and a magistrate.

What about my support? What about the support of Sheng Xuanhuai and Li Hongzhang?

Don't miss it!

Chen Shanyuan listened to the fire next to him. He did it himself, dragged Lu Wenjin down, and hit the 20 boards fiercely. Basically, he was about to die. Then he threw him out of the ship's government.

It is very pleasant to fight Han J, but the real disaster has just begun.

Hu Chuyuan knows this very well.

He knew that there was only one last step left to break with the Qing court.

(to be continued)