Chapter 468 Great Changes Are Coming
Chapter 468 Great Changes Are Coming
When the train suddenly braked, Shao Quanzhong was thrown from his seat to the ground by inertia.
The train overturned and hit the other side of the train, and Shao Quanzhong was immediately hit with a bruised face.
The dangerous situation suddenly occurred. Zhang Siwen, who was sitting opposite Shao Quanzhong, threw himself on Shao Quanzhong without thinking and protected him tightly with his tall body.
Sitting next to him was Chen Siqi, the director of the Daxia Statistics and Investigation Bureau, who always followed Shao Quanzhong like a shadow. He also rushed over to protect Shao Quanzhong.
He was far away and slower than Zhang Siwen, so he pounced on Zhang Siwen's back.
The Caohe Iron Bridge was blown up by someone. Iron pieces on the bridge were flying everywhere. A piece of iron fell from a high altitude, broke the glass of the overturned carriage, and hit Shao Quanzhong.
Shao Quanzhong was a brave man and was not frightened by the attack. When the train stopped moving, he climbed out of the crowd and cursed loudly.
"Master Qing Hong, this old liar, cheated me out of five hundred taels of silver. Didn't you say that I would have a smooth road ahead and no danger? What's going on?"
"Brother, aren't you sure you're okay?"
Zhang Siwen stood up shakily. He had a bump on his head and he was covering his head, but it was nothing serious.
Shao Quanzhong sighed, his fourth brother was definitely his most loyal buddy. When something happened, he threw himself on him without hesitation to protect him from disaster. Fortunately, his fourth brother was fine.
Huh? Shao Quanzhong was nervous, "Fourth brother, what's wrong with the blood on your body?"
Zhang Siwen's back was covered in blood. Looking again, he saw Chen Siqi lying on the ground with a piece of iron that had fallen from the sky piercing his neck. Blood was gushing out. It was obvious that his carotid artery had been cut. There was no hope of saving him.
"Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen!"
Shao Quanzhong and Zhang Siwen supported Chen Siqi's shoulders together. The train had overturned, and the so-called "ground" was actually the original right carriage of the train.
"I have already protected my second brother, why are you doing this, Xiao Chen?"
Chen Siqi's face was strangely flushed, but his throat was not cut. "I am no longer able to do this, so don't worry about me. Uncle Shao and Uncle Zhang are both indispensable talents for Daxia."
"I am a useless person who has always been a burden to Uncle Shao and has always caused trouble for him. Saving any one of you is better than keeping me alive."
"I am a person of ordinary talent. I am ashamed to work with Uncle Shao and Uncle Zhang. But now I can go down in history because of this incident. People in the future will say that Chen Siqi's death was worth it. I am already quite..."
Before he could finish his words, Xiao Chen had already closed his eyes with a smile.
Shao Quanzhong and Zhang Siwen were quickly rescued. A company of guards were protecting them, and a battalion of guards were standing guard outside.
The train ahead, which was full of Guards, had stopped. Five battalions of Guards came running over, spread out to provide alert, and searched for any suspicious persons.
Half an hour later, "Report, we found wires, batteries and electric detonators nearby. We caught a group of suspicious people four miles away. They resisted fiercely when our troopers questioned and arrested them."
Seven suspicious men with bruised faces and noses were brought over. When Shao Quanzhong saw them, he immediately became furious.
Although these seven men were all wearing suits, Shao Quanzhong was very familiar with the paranoid temperament and focused and persistent eyes on most of them.
"Damn it, it's the Japs again. Japan is in such a bad state, yet they still send people to assassinate me."
The Japanese knew that they could not get rid of the smell of a narrow island nation. They were all caught and probably would not be spared, so they simply did not hide it. The leader was in his early forties, looked sick, and spoke tremblingly, as if he was about to die. He bent down and bowed like a standard Japanese pirate, "Hi, I'm Kido Takayoshi. This action is purely my personal behavior and has nothing to do with Fuso."
"General, you were disrespectful to Tiannaohekah by making him live in a simple mud house. As a loyal subject, I could not ignore it, so I angrily used the Bolang Golden Scepter to attack him, but unfortunately it failed."
"We, the loyal subjects, are willing to bear all the responsibilities. Please do not implicate others. Please allow me to commit seppuku."
The six people behind him bowed together, "We are willing to commit suicide to apologize."
It looked like a failed assassination organized by a dissatisfied group of pirates. Shao Quanzhong rolled his eyes and suddenly glared, "No! The current power of the pirates in Daxia is impossible for them to get military electric detonators."
Without electric detonators, how can we control the explosion time accurately so as to let the first train go and blow up the second one?
Shao Quanzhong glanced at the six "death warriors" behind Kido Takayoshi, and suddenly pointed his finger, "These two are not devils. Interrogate them in detail and make sure to find out who is behind this!"
After Chen Siqi died, the former detective agents with him were still there. They pounced on the two guys identified by Shao Quanzhong like wolves and tigers, and dragged them away from the guards.
"We are - we are Fuso people -"
This opening further exposed his faults.
Shao Quanzhong sneered, "I know these little devils all too well. The way you bow is wrong. You don't have that kind of stubborn temperament. You're even trembling. If you're afraid of death, don't do this kind of thing!"
Zhang Siwen shook his head. His second brother had led the Nanyang Navy on a visit abroad, bombarding the Shimazu Domain, bombarding Osaka, and bombarding Edo. On his way back, he passed through Yokohama, but he never got off the ship himself and had never set foot on Japanese soil. It was unknown how he knew the Japs so well.
It turned out that Chen Siqi's men were trained by eunuchs Haiqing and Jiyong. Their interrogation methods were quite vicious. The two guys, who were not very strong-willed to begin with, surrendered immediately after being subjected to the inhuman torture.
"Report, one of these two men is from the Shanxi New Army, and the other is from the Henan New Army. Both are engineers who know how to blast."
That's right, Kido Takayoshi was a civil servant, how could he be capable of causing explosions?
This is the person who is ready to be thrown out to take the blame. Judging from his sickly appearance, he probably won't live for many days unless he commits suicide.
However, the Governor-General of Shanxi was Zeng Guoquan, the former governor of Shanxi of the Qing Dynasty, and the Governor-General of Henan was Yuan Baoheng, an old acquaintance. They were basically half of his own people and should have no motive to assassinate him.
"They confessed that it was not their superiors who ordered them to do this. One of them was a gambler in debt, and the other was a heavy smoker. They accepted money from unknown persons as resettlement fees and were willing to risk their lives."
"Follow this clue and investigate further!"
"Report! Li Zhanchun, the commander of the Zhili Garrison, requests to see you."
Zhang Zhidong was stationed in the capital and managed the northern provinces, so there was no military governor in Zhili.
Zhang Zhidong transferred the troops of the Self-Strengthening Army to guard the capital. In addition to the troops in the capital, the remaining troops were in Baoding, the current capital of Zhili, under the command of Li Zhanchun.
Li Zhanchun took a few quick steps and fell to his knees. "The Marshal was assassinated in my jurisdiction. I deserve death. Please go to Baoding first to calm down."
Shao Quanzhong got on the Maybach sent by Li Zhanchun and went to Baoding under the escort of the Guards Brigade.
The news that the Marshal was assassinated in the northern suburbs of Baoding and that Chen Siqi, the hero of the first uprising, had died, spread throughout Daxia.
(End of this chapter)