Chapter 122 Waiting to be shot(1/2)
Old Tianjin people call Financial Street “a street paved with gold and silver”.
The newspaper called it "Tinmen Wall Street".
This all makes sense.
When Zhao Chuanxin opened the money bank and saw mountains of silver coins, gold, paper and pens inside, he couldn't believe it.
The banks in the capital pale in comparison to this one.
If I had known earlier, I would not have taken the risk to the capital and come directly here to solve the problem at once.
The two people outside just glanced inside and almost stopped breathing.
Wherever Zhao Chuanxin walked, all the money was emptied.
By some estimation, the total amount of all the money is at least seven to eight million silver dollars.
When Gao Li and Er Feizi were waiting for Zhao Chuanxin to come out, they heard Zhao Chuanxin say: "Damn, at most this is only one-tenth of the assets of that old boy Yi Kuang. Where is my money hidden?"
Gao Li and Er Feizi: "..."
Just a glimpse just made them breathless. Are you still too young?
What Zhao Chuanxin didn't know was that the foreign-funded banks that came to China at this time usually supported foreign businessmen in exporting large quantities of goods to China through loans, overdrafts, etc. in order to obtain cheap raw materials and make huge profits.
Although the bank has money, it cannot always be kept in the vault.
"Let's go, the next family must make up for that old boy Yi Kuang's money before it's over!"
"..."
Amundi and Yokohama Gold, later Zhao Chuanxian and two of them visited these two banks successively and obtained a total of 7 million yuan in silver dollars.
Finally, when Ruiji Foreign Company ransacked the Yankees' money bank, they discovered that there were a lot of arms, foreign wine, foreign cigarettes, etc. piled in the warehouse.
Zhao Chuanxin doesn't understand at all. Almost all foreign companies nowadays are engaged in arms trading business.
If he wants to buy any weapons, he doesn't need to find anyone else to match them. He only needs to find a foreign company to buy them and place an order.
But now he almost understands this.
They emptied all the millions of silver coins and warehouses inside, and just when they were about to go out and continue to patronize the next store, they were still discovered.
A team of horses soon realized something was wrong. They saw broken glass and fragments of iron fence scattered on the ground.
After all, this place is connected in all directions. There are roads and streets everywhere, so it is easy to find abnormalities.
As soon as Zhao Chuanxin and the others came out, they were immediately spotted running towards Ruiji Foreign Company.
"Wipe!"
Zhao Chuanxin was still surprised by the so-called guilty conscience, but he was not too scared.
A horseman carrying a thirteen-ring Winchester raised his gun and shouted loudly: "Surrender, kneel down and not kill."
Zhao Chuanxin stood on one side and raised his hand to shoot.
Ma Kuai was shot in the shoulder and fell to the ground before the gun went off.
They only have one gun.
The second man tried to pick up the gun and was also shot in the shoulder.
The group of horses quickly dispersed.
He didn't even care about his companion who fell to the ground.
Zhao Chuanxin put away his gun, walked to the two Ma Kuai who fell to the ground, threw thirty yuan on the ground, and left without saying a word.
He discovered that one of them turned out to be Zhou Yuxiang!
Zhou Yuxiang originally thought that he would die today.
Unexpectedly, what arrived in the end was not bullets, but silver dollars!
The two looked at each other on the ground: "What does he mean?"
"For us?"
When the two of them looked at their shoulder injuries, they both had an incredible idea.
The man hit them on the shoulder intentionally, not by accident.
The man injured them, but for some unknown reason, he gave them a small subsidy?
Ma Kuai's whistle has already been blown, and Zhao Chuanxin knew that it would be lively here soon.
The three of them ran quickly and joined the people outside.
The three of them entered the bank, and others met them at the bridge.
Hearing the gunshots, Liu Guogui and others who were ambushing at the bridge did not act rashly.
They believed in Zhao Chuanxin's combat effectiveness, but they were still anxious.
When he saw the figures of Zhao Chuanxin and the others, Liu Guogui breathed a sigh of relief.
A group of people began to cross the bridge. Once they crossed the bridge, the sky was high and the sea was vast.
Only then the Marine Police arrived.
Set up a small steamboat and sail upstream from the Haihe River.
Ping-ping-ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-ping-pong-pong-ping-pong-pong-ping-ping-pong-ping-ping-pong-ping-ping-ping-pong-ping-ping-pong method started shooting towards the bridge, and the bullets collided with the bridge body, causing violent sparks.
Zhao Chuanxin ignored them at all, because he couldn't hit them at all.
The marine police team began to go ashore and cleverly blocked the other side of the bridge.
Zhao Chuanxin stopped, took out his rifle and took aim.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Then, the marine police team dispersed, leaving three of their fallen companions wailing and waiting for death.
When a group of people crossed the bridge, Zhao Chuanxin casually threw dozens more yuan on the ground.
The three desperate wounded men looked at them with bewildered faces as they passed by without saying a word.
"These people are really scary."
"Yes, without saying a word or even looking at us."
"Who is he?"
"I don't know, I came here when I heard the alarm..."
Zhao Chuanxin and others found the horse and changed their clothes while running.
He took off his worn-out coat and coat, threw it directly on the roadside, and put on his own down jacket.
Since he doesn't plan to continue going south, there is no need for Zhao Chuanxin to hide it, and he hastens to prepare to leave Tianjin City.
However, he overlooked one point.
At this time, the telegraph system was more complete in coastal cities. Because at first the Qing court did not agree to lay telegraph lines, thinking that it was messy and ugly, ruined the feng shui, and cost a lot of money.
On this point, their attitude towards foreigners is very firm.
The foreigners did not tolerate them, and directly laid the lines privately, which was just a line pulled on the bottom of the sea. Later, it became an established fact.
In addition, during the war, he found that messages could be transmitted incredibly quickly, but the imperial court needed relay stations. After seeing the power of the telegraph, Li Hongzhang suggested that it would be better to master communications by himself.
Therefore, as a coastal port, Tianjin City has a more complete telegraph system than BJ.
After Zhao Chuanxin and others made a fuss here, the news immediately spread throughout Tianjin.
As they headed north, checkpoints were set up to block them, and they were searched throughout the city.
Everyone looked towards Zhao Chuanxin.
"Why are you panicking? Let's take a detour through Ba County. This is where the Boxers invaded Tianjin."
……
At this time, Shengjing General Zhao Erxun was in Tianjin City discussing matters with Yuan Shikai regarding the three eastern provinces.
In the middle of the night, a subordinate knocked on Yuan Shikai's door and informed him that robbers had robbed the money bank of two banks and the warehouse of a foreign bank overnight.
Yuan Shikai was shocked.
He had heard about bank thefts in the capital before, but he never expected that such a thing would happen in his own territory.
"A city-wide search and thorough investigation will be carried out. The gangsters must not be allowed to leave. Let the chief of the patrol bureau ask the injured patrol officers to see if they can find any clues."
The subordinate replied: "I have already asked. It is said that they only picked foreign banks and foreign banks to attack, and they killed the foreigners, but they only injured the shoulders and thighs of our patrol policemen and Ma Kuai, avoiding the vital points.
, and also left some silver coins..."
Yuan Shikai: "..."
To be continued...