Chapter 123 Conspiracy
"This guy always goes against me and can't tell me anything. He is a heart disease of Lao Li, a big heart disease. What should I do?" Li Yuanhong stroked his chest with his hand a few times and coughed a few times. The anger he had just now was still bulging in front of his chest, and it was difficult to calm down for a while.
"Duke Li, this matter needs to be decided immediately and not hesitate. Duke Li is the number one figure in the Hubei military government. Why should he be angry with Zhang Zhenwu? We can act arbitrarily and ignore his feelings." Seeing that Li Yuanhong and Zhang Zhenwu had a dispute once or twice, the conflict between the two had never stopped. Especially for Zhang Zhenwu's publicity that Li Yuanhong was afraid of Li Yuanhong at the beginning and was caught by the rebel army, Li Yuanhong hated him extremely. Moreover, Zhang Zhenwu usually does not take the people around Li Yuanhong seriously and always looks at him coldly. The man also hates Zhang Zhenwu very much, and he immediately seizes the opportunity to persuade him.
"You don't know Zhang Zhenwu's temper yet. If I decide to surrender to Li Tiancheng alone, it would be strange if he doesn't fight me even if he doesn't fight me." Li Yuan sighed, shook his head and then reached out to pat his swollen forehead.
"Duke Li, I don't know whether to say it or not?" A strange light suddenly flashed in the man's eyes, and he stepped forward and whispered to Li Yuanhong.
"What do you have to say, but it doesn't matter. I'm the only one who is close friends at this time." Li Yuanhong waved his hand and asked the man to continue talking, but his brows were still frowning.
"Duke Li, Zhang Zhenwu is a vulgar person and often acts very disrespectful to Duke Li. Duke Li cannot let him do this. In this way, the Hubei military government must cross the stage. I mean, if you want to break, you should just break it. Just do it all..." The man said behind him, his voice getting deeper and lowered, and then he reached out and stroked his neck, with a sharp look in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth.
"What do you mean..." Li Yuanhong immediately understood the man's meaning. He had thought about this matter before, but he was not sure if he really wanted to do it. He was mainly worried that something would go wrong, which would hurt his life. At this time, he began to feel moved again when he heard the man say this.
"Then according to your wishes, if we destroy Zhang Zhenwu, how can we calm down the emotions of those subordinate officers who are close to him and ensure that they will not get up to make trouble?" Li Yuanhong deliberately lowered his voice and asked softly.
"This is easy to deal with. If Mr. Li makes up his mind, he will leave everything to his subordinates. At that time, after we kill Zhang Zhenwu, he will leave his subordinates with nothing to say." The man responded sinisterly.
"Speak and listen."
Then the man approached Li Yuanhong and muttered, and Li Yuanhong's expression gradually became loose and finally showed a gloomy sneer.
"Zhang Zhenwu, don't blame me for being ruthless"
Three days later, Zhang Zhenwu took more than a dozen guards to a teahouse on Yanzhi Road in Wuchang for tea. It was not far from his office and was surrounded by his own people, so he was not worried about safety issues. He asked most of the guards to wait downstairs, and only brought two of them upstairs.
After the three of them arrived at the second floor, they found a place in the middle to sit down. This teahouse is a relatively high-end place in Wuchang, with a total of two floors, especially the second floor, which are five or six elegant seats separated by the second floor. Each elegant seat is separated by curtains. The furnishings and arrangements inside are all antique styles and elegant in style. The tables and stools are made of high-quality pear blossom trees. Usually, some well-known people go to the second floor to have tea. The seats on the first floor are more popular and are all separated.
When Zhang Zhenwu came up, there were no one else on the second floor. There were two elegant seat curtains on the wall that were pulled up, but no one was talking inside. The waiter smiled and brought a pot of Biluochun to the table, and then went down to greet the other guests.
"Why is it so deserted today? It doesn't look like the style of this teahouse. It's usually full of people." Zhang Zhenwu often comes to this teahouse, and every time he comes, it's crowded, but the store owner will make a special place for him. At this time, he feels very strange, and looks around for a while, muttering.
"I don't know, there are quite a few people on the first floor, but I don't know why there are so many fewer people on the second floor than usual?" The two guards were also confused, and one of them echoed.
"What's going on in this teahouse? Today I'm going to go to the second floor to have tea. The owner of this shop just refused to let me say that the second floor is being renovated, and he's doing some well, so I'm in vain." A man in a big jacket walked with the rest of the people on the street, complaining while walking. He was just about to enter this teahouse and go to the second floor to have tea, but was unexpectedly invited by the boss and was a little unhappy.
While drinking tea, Zhang Zhenwu suddenly smelled a special smell on his nose. He sniffed his nose carefully and found that in addition to the tea fragrance, there seemed to be a pungent smell in the space on the second floor. This smell seemed to be similar to some smell he smelled on the battlefield. However, some materials that can emit fragrance were placed on the second floor, and the aroma of tea was mixed with this smell, so it smelled less obvious. However, Zhang Zhenwu felt something was wrong. He frowned and looked around again, but he found nothing.
"This teahouse is a bit weird today, let's go." After drinking half a cup of tea, Zhang Zhenwu finally decided to get up and leave, then threw a silver dollar on the table, turned around and prepared to go downstairs.
At this time, the sound of kicking and stomping footsteps suddenly came from the entrance of the teahouse. It seemed that many people suddenly came to the door. There was a quarrel at the door. It seemed that Zhang Zhenwu's guard was drinking someone who was arguing about something. Zhang Zhenwu did not rush downstairs, and walked a few steps to the window near the street with doubts, and stretched out his head to look at the street below.
A team of about 100 soldiers suddenly appeared at the entrance of the teahouse. They were wearing military uniforms of the civilian army. One of them was wearing the military seal of the chief officer. Zhang Zhenwu looked a little familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he found that this person was a military police captain of Li Yuanhong's military government. This person was one of Li Yuanhong's confidants. He suddenly felt a little trembling in his heart. I wonder what his name was for coming here.
The whistle chief forced the guards of Zhang Zhenwu who were blocking the door, and then led his men to rush up to the second floor. A burst of rapid footsteps suddenly came from the stairs. Zhang Zhenwu turned around and walked quickly to the stairs. The officer happened to reach the stairs. Behind him was a team of soldiers with live ammunition.
Zhang Zhenwu stood in front of the officer and blocked his way.
"Who are you doing here? I am Zhang Zhenwu. You are not a big or a young man. You don't treat the ruling when you see the ruling?" Zhang Zhenwu guessed that these people were performing official duties, but he didn't know that he was upstairs. He immediately pointed at the officer's nose with his beard and shouted.
"General Zhang, his subordinates received a report that someone had murdered an officer who participated in the Wuchang Shouyi. The murder was located in the private room on the second floor of this teahouse. After receiving the order, we rushed over to investigate immediately and asked General Zhang to forgive him." The officer bowed to Zhang Zhenwu, and then said seriously, but a trace of haze flashed in his eyes, as if something ulterior motive was hidden.
"Murder case, I'm drinking tea here, and I'm drinking it well. How could anyone commit a crime under my nose? Which bastard is so brave?" Zhang Zhenwu was stunned when he heard this. He thought that he had drunk tea here for a long time and had not seen anyone come up. How could any murder happen? He immediately scolded him angrily.
"I'm sorry, General Zhang, I have the order from Governor Li Yuanhong, and I must go upstairs to perform official duties. Please do not stop General Zhang." Although the officer knew Zhang Zhenwu's status, he did not give him face and said with a deep face.
"Go upstairs to search." Then the officer issued an order to ask his soldiers to go upstairs to search.
"You bastard, you don't even believe me, and you dare to break up." Zhang Zhenwu wanted to continue scolding the officer, but he couldn't stop them from being crowded. The soldiers rushed up with guns.
Although Zhang Zhenwu's guards were all wearing guns, the people who could not hold them up were helpless and stood downstairs and did nothing.
"Search, search, I see what you bastards can find? Be careful with me, don't think it's okay if Li Yuanhong protects you. Don't fall on me, Zhang Zhenwu, in the future." Zhang Zhenwu immediately sat on the chair beside him, pointed at the officer standing at the stairs and guarded the exit.
The officer ignored him, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, as if waiting for something.
"Report to the captain, I've found it here." Zhang Zhenwu thought these people were just coming up and making a mess, and then they would come over happily to pour tea and apologize to him, but he didn't expect that a soldier suddenly found something in the elegant seat against the wall.
Zhang Zhenwu immediately widened his eyes and looked at the private room behind the man's curtain. He found that there was a human leg exposed outside. It seemed that someone was lying on the ground, and there was a pool of blood on the ground. He stood up in confusion and walked quickly towards the private room, wanting to go up and see what was going on.
"It's indeed General Huanghaicheng, General Huang was murdered." The officer then walked up, looked inside the fairyland, and then exclaimed deliberately.
I saw a civilian officer lying on the ground in a military uniform, with several knife holes on his head and body, and blood was everywhere on his body and the ground.
"What's going on? Huanghaicheng, I drank with him until dawn yesterday, how could he...?" Zhang Zhenwu was stunned for a moment. Huanghaicheng was his old subordinate. The government office and armory he captured during the Wuchang Uprising. The relationship between the two was also pretty good, but they didn't know how Huanghaicheng died in this teahouse...
Chapter completed!