Wang Yaqiao, in order to confirm the fact of Zhao Tieqiao's rebellion, had Wu Hongtai approach Li Guojie, the chairman of China Merchants Group and the grandson of Li Hongzhang, a fellow Anhui native. After drinking, Li Guojie did indeed tell Zhao Tieqiao about the betrayal of Fang Zhenwu, Peng Jianguo and Shi Yousan in the mutagens, which led to the assassination of his benefactor Wang Leping.
Jiang Zhongcai appointed Zhao Tieqiao as the manager of the China Merchants Bureau in order to reward him.
After Zhao Tieqiao became the manager of the China Merchants Group, he blocked Li Guojie's financial path and took advantage of it himself. So Li Guojie had long hated him. But Zhao's backing was too strong for him to move. A month earlier, he found Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin and said he would send them a ship called "Jiang 'an" to kill Zhao Tieqiao.
Du Yuesheng knew that Zhao Tieqiao was on Jiang Zhongcai's side and asked Zhang Xiaolin to turn the matter down. Zhang Xiaolin did not dare to offend Jiang Zhongcai either, so he did not dare to kill Zhao; But not willing to return the ship to Li Guojie, he sent someone to take over the ship. Li Guojie was annoyed but had no way to deal with the hooligans.
Now when Li Guojie saw Wu Hongtai, he thought of Wang Yaqiao. Only Wang Yaqiao was not afraid of Jiang Zhongcai, and only he was not afraid of Du Yuesheng and the others. So he asked to see Wang Yaqiao through Wu Hongtai. They were all from Anhui and had known each other before. When Li Guojie met Wang Yaqiao, he presented him with ten thousand silver dollars, indicating that if Zhao Tieqiao was removed for him, he would also send the "Jiang 'an" ship.
Wang Yaqiao was originally going to kill Zhao Tieqiao, and now he was offered a ship for free, of course he agreed.
Wang Yaqiao ordered the assassination. On the night of June 30th, Niu Anru and others lay in wait on Zhao Tieqiao's way home. When Zhao's car approached, they opened fire. But Zhao's bodyguard driver was not bad either. He drove out of the ambush circle.
Wang Yaqiao was not a rash man. He waited patiently for a while, then carefully planned and changed the location of the assassination to the entrance of China Merchants. On July 24th, Wang Ganting, Xia Shao 'en, Niu Anru and Fei Xiangyuan were waiting at the entrance of the China Merchants Group. Zhao Tieqiao's driver went to park, so he only brought a secretary to the entrance. Niu Anru and Xia Shao 'en went up and shot Zhao Tieqiao to death at close range, and the four of them took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Having killed Zhao Tieqiao, Wang Yaqiao sent Hua Kezhi and others to receive the Jiang 'an. It turned out that there were Zhang Xiaolin's men on board, who did not even look at the transfer documents of Li Guojie they had taken, saying they had such things in their hands. The two sides couldn't reach an agreement and they started fighting. There were many people on the ship, and a man surnamed Zhu from Anhui that Hua Kezhi had taken with him was killed.
When Hua Kezhi and the others returned to report, Wang Yaqiao felt that it was troublesome. In terms of strength, Wang Yaqiao now has only twenty or thirty men under his command, which is far behind the Green Gang, and Wang Yaqiao and his men have to avoid Jiang Zhongcai's government. If the conflict is not serious, they can talk to Li Guojie and let it go. Even if they don't want the boat, it doesn't matter. But now that their men have been killed, if they don't give an explanation, they won't be able to walk in Shanghai anymore. Now they have to fight the Green Gang.
Wang Yaqiao and his men gathered their followers in Shanghai and elsewhere and sent out a message asking Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin to give an explanation.
Du Yuesheng was also troubled by this matter. To be honest, he and Zhang Xiaolin jointly founded the Sanxin Company and were both from the Green Gang. They were in the same gang. Zhang Xiaolin, if he doesn't do anything, he wants to take someone else's boat! Who is Wang Yaqiao? If you offend him, who knows when he will strike you and you can't guard against it!
But Zhang Xiaolin said no fear, I'll handle it! How many of them are there in total? Test their strength first. He ordered the boat to be moored at the mouth of the Yangtze River so that Wang Yaqiao and his men could not seize it. He sent someone to see if they could catch a few of Wang Yaqiao's relatives as bargaining chips.
Wang Yaqiao had gathered nearly two hundred gang members at the Anhui Guild Hall, but there were too few weapons. So he called King Kong and asked if he could borrow thirty or forty submachine guns. When King Kong learned of this, he lent them a hundred subguns and asked Aqing and his more than thirty Anhui security guards to bring guns to support them. As a result, Wang Yaqiao and his men had more than 130 guns, and their strength was greatly enhanced.
The Green Gang bribed an Anhui man named Liu Er and asked him to infiltrate the Anhui Guild to be a traitor. When Liu Er went in, he happened to see A Qing and his gang delivering guns. Wang Yaqiao was overjoyed. He called his good friend, Brother Guangzhi, to thank him and asked if he wanted Aqing and the others to go back. I'm afraid that King Kong's own defense won't be sufficient. King Kong, of course, said no problem, let them stay.
Liu Er reported the intelligence to the Green Gang, saying that Wang Yaqiao and his men had so many submachine guns, strong firepower and many men. One of Wang Yaqiao's good friends, Xu Guangzhi, sent his bodyguards and guns to help him.
When Zhang Xiaolin heard this, he had an idea. I can't catch your relatives, but I'll catch your good friend as a bargaining chip.
After making a rough inquiry, Zhang Xiaolin sent twenty-five thuffers to the Keyi Industrial Group that afternoon. Seeing a few children, he asked where Mr. CAI Mi was. These were children of refugees from Henan who did not know and could not understand the Shanghainese either.
Just then Sanlong came over, and the children asked these people to ask Sanlong. The Three Dragons did not look big, but they were already old men of Shanghai. Looking at the appearance of the three dragons, they were like the White Xiangren of Shanghai, with weapons at their waists, they pointed to a newly built empty courtyard and said, "Mr. CAI Mi will go in soon." He immediately went to look for King Kong, and King Kong, along with Ye Zhanxiong, Qu Guoliang and others, immediately gathered about a hundred security guards and surrounded the courtyard in four groups. By the time the white men found out, they were already surrounded.
At first, the White men pretended to resist stubbornly, but Fu Baoguo and Ye Zixiong brought more than fifty men to reinforce them. They were training with rifles and machine guns, so they came directly with machine guns and rifles. Seeing this, the White man was so frightened that he quickly surrendered his gun.
King Kong didn't want much of a conflict with the Green Gang either. He sent two good-looking white men and asked them to go back and ask, what did I, Xu, offend your boss, Zhang Xiaolin? Do you guys have to come and demand an explanation?
The two men went back and told Zhang Xiaolin about the situation, saying that Mr. CAI Mi was probably not to be touched, with military background, machine guns had come up!
Zhang Xiaolin saw that he had failed to steal the chicken but lost the rice. He wanted to catch people as chips, and now more than twenty of them had become chips in their hands!
At this point, Du Yuesheng had no choice but to step in. He was so powerful and I had someone in his hands, so give in.
That night, a car came to King Kong, and a man came out of it, claiming to be Wan Molin, and apologized to King Kong.
It was a misunderstanding. Zhang Xiaolin's men don't know how to get things done. Mr. Xu was supposed to be invited to the banquet! I wanted Mr. Xu to mediate the misunderstanding between us and Mr. Wang Yaqiao! These people who don't know how to do things have misunderstood Zhang Xiaolin's meaning! Now, on behalf of Mr. Du, I invite Mr. Xu to the banquet and ask Mr. Xu to express to Mr. Wang Yaqiao that we sincerely repair it and invite Mr. Wang to the banquet together.
The next day, Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin entertained Wang Yaqiao and King Kong at the Huamao Hotel in the International Settlement in the middle territory.
Mr. Du Yuesheng, the host, first expressed his gratitude to Wang and Xu for showing him the honor of coming to the banquet.
Zhang Xiaolin regretted the conflict caused by the previous misunderstanding with Wang Yaqiao and was willing to hand over Jiang 'an to Wang Yaqiao. He expressed deep sorrow over the tragic incident of Wang Yaqiao's Zhu brothers being wrongly injured to death and offered 5,000 yuan as a token of condolences to his family.
Wang Yaqiao is also a man who knows when to stop and accepts Zhang's apology; He made some excuses about the Jiang 'an ship before accepting it.
Du Yuesheng's intelligence work is quite impressive. He already knows that there is a connection between King Kong and Zhang Xueliang, a "fact" that King Kong himself does not quite admit.
Among all the warlords, Zhang Xueliang is now the most sought-after, as Jiang Zhongcai, Yan Xishan and Feng Yuxiang are all currying favor with him. Last month, June 3rd, it was Zhang Xueliang's thirtieth birthday. As the Japanese chose to kill Zhang Zuolin on his birthday, Zhang Xueliang announced that he would never celebrate his birthday again.
But this year the situation is different. Both sides are taking advantage of the opportunity to send important people and generous gifts to "celebrate the birthday"! The newspapers reported it as "Representatives from all sides gather for the birthday". Unfortunately, Zhang Xueliang remained neutral, merely expressing his willingness to mediate. Who dares to offend Zhang Xueliang now? Besides, Xu himself is so powerful that Wang Yaqiao wants to borrow guns and people from him!
So, at the banquet, Du Yuesheng and the others also called King Kong brothers.
Wang Yaqiao said, "Guangzhi is my brother. If anyone does anything to him again in the future, I, Wang, will not be polite to him!"
Zhang Xiaolin, of course, said, "Mr. Caimi is also our friend. Today we can make up, all thanks to Mr. Caimi. Whoever dares to offend Mr. Caimi in the future, I, Zhang, will be the first to not let him go!" Mr. CAI Mi, come on, let me toast you again! If you need anything from Mr. Zhang in the future, just come to me and we will do our best!
Du Yuesheng was even more intimate, that is, that is, from today on, we are all brothers of our own family, like family, no need to be polite.
There was only one table of wine for them in the banquet hall. Four people were seated to "drink", but there were more than ten people standing on each side behind. There were more than two hundred men in the restaurant, each carrying at least two hundred subbox guns. The banquet ended in such a "warm and friendly" atmosphere. A day of big events, melting away.