Chapter 078 Thief

Zhou Charter said, "I'm offended!" He covered the hawker's mouth with one hand and stuck his neck with the other, dragged the hawker into the woods behind the archway. The woods were indeed empty. Zhou Charter loosened the hawker's mouth and stuck his hand on his neck, but he added a lot of strength.

The hawker was scared to death: "The revolutionary man spares his life!" He regarded Zhou Charter as a revolutionary. The revolutionary party has always been soft when he met the officials of the Qing court.

Zhou Charter asked in a low voice, "Who are your heads?"

"Chief Soldier Yan Qionglin." The hawker replied tremblingly, "It's the cigarette seller opposite the inn."

Zhou Charter looked in the direction guided by the hawker. Under the street lamp opposite the gate of the inn, a middle-aged man with a long beard sat behind a cigarette stall. The middle-aged man was obviously from a military background. There were several strong men around the cigarette stall. He should be the personal soldier of General Yan Qionglin. Guard.

"How many people have you come? How to arrange it?"

"Mr. Yan led 200 people, plus the patrol room, a total of 250 people. There are people in the lanes and intersections around the front and back of the inn."

"What is the action code?" Zhou Charter asked that the Qing army would definitely agree on an action code.

"The right index finger is hooked." The hawker said and made a gesture.

"How do you know that there is a revolutionary party here?"

"I heard from the officer that some of the revolutionaries took the lead."

"Who is it?"

"The villain doesn't know."

"Are you telling the truth?"

"If there is half a lie, you will die!" The hawker points to the curse of heaven.

"You'd better sleep for a while!" Zhou Charter said, with a strong wrist, the hawker's neck was numb, and he was suddenly unconscious and collapsed.

Zhou Charter dragged the hawker down into the woods, took off the white knot on his sleeves, put it on his arm, touched the hawker's waist, and took out a pistol. Zhou Charter clapped his hand under his clothes, clapped his hands, walked out of the woods, took three steps and two steps, and came to the gate of the Gathering Inn.

Four or five people with white knots on their sleeves had been guarding at the door of the inn. When they saw Zhou Charter, they did not doubt that they nodded to Zhou Charter. Zhou Charter also nodded to them and mixed among these people.

Just after eight o'clock, Yan Qionglin behind the cigarette stall raised his right hand and hooked his index finger.

The plain clothes at the door rushed in, and Jiang Naiwu, who was sitting behind the counter, suddenly jumped up. More than a dozen plain clothes behind him rushed up and pressed Jiang Naiwu to the counter.

Zhou Charter was mixed in his casual clothes and rushed into the inn. Despite Jiang Naiwu, he pulled out his legs and rushed straight to the second floor. He came to Yao Xiaofeng's room and kicked the door open. Yao Xiaofeng was sitting at the head of the bed, screaming in horror. Before he opened his mouth, Zhou Charter whispered, "Qingjun came to arrest people, not for you!"

"My child..."

"Everything is fine with Mary taking care of him. Remember, you don't know me!" Zhou Charter winned and shouted, "Where are the revolutionaries?"

Countless plain clothes rushed to the second floor and were searching door to door, and the tenants in the inn exclaimed.

"No, I haven't seen the revolutionary party." Yao Xiaofeng answered tremblingly.

"Stay honest in the room and be careful to take you as a revolutionary!" Zhou Charter shouted, stuffed a pile of ocean into Yao Xiaofeng's hand and whispered, "Go to Lujiazui Datong Hotel to wait for me!" Remember, don't go to the hospital anyway. It's safe for the child to be there.

Zhou Charter remembered that the old boatman had once told him that if there was any difficulty, he could go to the Datong Hotel to find the general manager Tang Caichang. Zeng Guochang had a life-saving kindness to him. Ji Juxian must not be able to stay any longer. Yao Xiaofeng went to Datong Hotel first, Zhou Charter finished the affairs here, and then met him.

Yao Xiaofeng answered, and Zhou Charter turned around and went out of the door.

In the corridor, there was a mess. The Qing army in uniforms and plain clothes with white knots on their cuffs were everywhere. When they saw the white knots on Zhou Charter's sleeves, they didn't care. These Qing army and casual clothes only guarded in the corridor and did not embarrass the tenants inside. It seems that the information of the Qing army is extremely accurate. They know very well who are the revolutionary party and who are not.

The hawker is right. There must be some revolutionary people who are rebellious. This person is likely to be one of the core figures of the revolutionaries.

No gunfire was heard, and the two sides did not exchange fire.

Zhou Charter quickly walked down the second floor. In the lobby, a group of Qing troops with live ammunition surrounded more than a dozen people. This group of people were all tied up. The leader was the innkeeper Shi Zhongji. Behind him were the beautiful reporter Zhao Han, the porter Jiang Naiwu, and the four strong men he saw yesterday, who were also among them. .

There are more than a dozen brand-new rifles piled up at the door.

The Qing army's action can be said to be fast. The revolutionaries had guns in their hands, but before they could resist, they were taken down by the Qing army.

Yan Qionglin, the general soldier who set up a cigarette stall, has changed into an official uniform, inserted his hand, and stared coldly at this group of revolutionaries.

Zhou Charter was mixed behind a group of casual clothes and said nothing.

Shi Zhongji said to Yan Qionglin, "Ms. Zhao is British. You can't arrest him!"

Yan Qionglin sneered: "I don't know what British people are here, but I only know that there are rebellious traitors here! Take them all away!" With that, he ignored Zhongji and strode out of the door of the inn.

The soldiers escorted Shi Zhongji, Zhao Han and others, and left the inn and drove towards the north of the gate, which was where the patrol camp was stationed.

Shanghai is an international metropolis. There is a foreign concession here. The Qing government can't enter the concession to arrest people, or even arrest people in the adjacent areas of the concession. Therefore, revolutionaries, Jianghu gangs and people of all walks of life gathered in Shanghai to take advantage of Shanghai's special political and geographical environment to start war activities. Therefore, It is also common for Shanghai citizens to arrest lawbreakers by Qing soldiers. On both sides of the street, what should the residents do? Some stopped their way of life and pointed to Shi Zhongji and others who were detained by the Qing soldiers. Some old people with braids spit on Shi Zhongji - in the eyes of the people, the revolutionaries, like the Jianghu Gang, are bandits.

Zhou Charter was mixed in the casual clothes of the Qing soldiers and sighed in his heart. Shanghai is the most open city in China. People accept Western clothing, coffee, entertainment and Western food, but they still cannot accept Western democratic ideas. However, in the vast mainland of China, the people's wisdom is not open, and the people do not know what the democratic revolution is evil! In such an environment, there is little hope for revolutionaries to succeed.

An hour later, the team came to the Zhabei Patrol Camp.

The Qing soldiers escorted the criminal of Jiji to the black prison behind the battalion and broke up their teams.

Zhou Charter has been not far behind the general Yan Qionglin. He saw Yan Qionglin with several soldiers and walked to the door of a lobby. At the door of the lobby stood two stone lions, two dark gates, a street lamp in front of the door, and a plaque on the forehead of the door with the book "White Tiger Hall".

This White Tiger Hall should be the official office of the general officer.

Yan Qionglin entered the White Tiger Hall, and the soldiers closed the door and guarded outside the door.

The White Tiger Hall faces south, and there is a river in the east. There is a guard tower beside the river. There are lights on the guard tower, and two Qing soldiers stand on the guard building. The three directions of north, west and south are dark and there are some buildings.

Zhou Charter went around behind the White Tiger Hall from the south, but there was a forage shed piled up with horses and hay. The forage shed is very low, and there is light on the roof, which is the light from the back window of the White Tiger Hall.

Zhou Charter looked at no one around, jumped to the forage shed, lay on the back window of the White Tiger Hall, smeared it with his fingers, gently opened the window paper, and looked inside.

There are two people in the lobby.

General soldier Yan Qionglin sat in a handsome chair. Opposite him stood a man with a sharp face, a sharp tooth, a pair of feet, a felt hat on his head, and leggings under his feet.

That man was the man who ambushed with Qing soldiers in the lane outside the gathered virtuous inn.

I heard Yan Qionglin say, "I will gather all the revolutionary party members this time, and Mr. Xiong Mantang has made great contributions! If it hadn't been for Mr. Xiong's counterattack, I wouldn't have been so smooth. I have reported to Lord Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, to ask Lord Liu to give Mr. Xiong a special reward. Lord Liu has sent 3,000 taels of silver, and reported Mr. Yang's credit to the court, and the court should also be rewarded. I congratulate Mr. Yang in advance.

"Thank you, my lord!" Xiong Mantang bowed his head and knelt down to thank him.

Zhou Charter suddenly guessed that the Qing soldiers' action was so accurate that there must be a traitor within the revolutionaries. Now it seems that this traitor is the bear standing in front of Yan Qionglin.

This Xiong Mantang was originally a member of the Lianghu Brother Association and a rudder of Tianmu Mountain.

Most of the revolutionaries are composed of foreign students and patriotic overseas Chinese. Their strength is very weak, but their ideas are extremely grand. They adopted violent revolutionary means to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and end China's two thousand years of imperial system. With the existing power of revolutionaries, this grand goal cannot be achieved at all. Therefore, the revolutionaries adopted the strategy of uniting the Jianghu gang, hoping to use the power of the gang to achieve the purpose of strengthening the revolutionary party and forming a revolutionary army.

In the eyes of the revolutionaries, the Jianghu gang are all people outside the system, and they are naturally irreplaceable with the Qing court. Therefore, all the Jianghu gangs, the Youth Gang, Hongmen, the Elder Brother Association and other gangs, the revolutionaries do not refuse to come and make friends in all directions.

The source of funds of the revolutionaries is mainly overseas Chinese donations. Most of the overseas Chinese were extremely disappointed with the Qing court. They supported the idea of the revolutionaries to overthrow the imperial system and establish a republic, and donated extremely enthusiastically. Therefore, revolutionaries have always been generous in terms of funds. In this way, the revolutionaries have indeed made friends with many heroes, but some of them are also mixed with fish and dragons, and even some people cooperate with the revolutionaries purely for money. Moreover, most of the gangs have bad habits, and they are not forbidden to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble. They also have their own territory in Shanghai, fighting and killing each other. These people entered the revolutionary party. Their motives were not pure. They had a little wind and grass. They flew away with conscience. If they had no conscience, they simply defected to the Qing court and betrayed the revolutionaries.