The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Looking at each other.

The guards stared at each other, none of them could answer, nor did they dare to answer.

Han Ming, Jiang Cheng's bodyguard and driver, said boldly, "Sir! This is such a big thing, even if you shoot me, I won't say anything!"

"But we strictly enforce the rules of the mansion and the discipline of the Guard Brigade... Especially today. Brother Hai knew that there would be many people coming today, so he woke up the brothers an hour earlier than usual."

"In addition to the morning lecture, there is also the assignment of today's tasks—"

As he spoke, Xu Fushan, who was standing beside him, raised his hand and wiped his tears with his sleeve. He also took over the conversation with a bit of sobs, repeating everything Ye Hai said that morning.

The platoon leaders on duty also reported one after another... The station of the Guard Brigade was on Qianmiao Street, just across the wall from the Governor's Mansion;
In order to ensure security, the Governor's Office has always implemented a rotation system, with patrols and checkpoints in platoons... Over the past year or so, not even a mouse has been let in, so security is still no problem.

"You are saying this now, aren't you just trying to tell me that you are doing a good job as a security guard?"

Jiang Cheng suppressed his anger and stared at the brothers in front of him who looked anxious. "According to what you have reported one by one, the assassin should not have been able to sneak in at all."

"Not only has he sneaked in, but two of them have sneaked in at once... No matter what you say, you can't change this fact."

"Especially now that Ye Hai is in trouble, how are you going to explain it one by one?"

No one answered.

To be honest, they didn't know how to respond.

"Master Jiang..."

Just when the atmosphere was extremely cold, a guard named Feng Qing standing behind Han Ming spoke nervously, "I think you... should ask the young master."

"He and Young Master Ye probably know something."

What? Ask my son and Shengshi what they can know...

Jiang Cheng was stunned and suddenly remembered something.

"Go and call Chengye and Shengshi to me."

His face suddenly became colder.

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Zhang Tingshu dragged the two assassins to the tunnel in the Governor's Mansion for interrogation, while Jiang Cheng called the two children to question them.

The truth is clear.

It turns out that these two assassins were really let in by the two children.

They gave each of Chengye Shengshi a wooden toy gun case, and the two children led the assassin in.

Shengshi was a little older and could speak more or less clearly; Chengye could only stammer and could not even remember anything.

All the men, including Jiang Cheng, looked grim.

No wonder when Jiang Cheng picked up his son in the morning, he felt that there was something strange about his wooden toy gun.

Now looking at the wooden gun in his hand that looked like a "turtle box", Jiang Cheng gritted his teeth and snatched it from him. "Master Jiang..."

Before Hai Huixin and the guards who had brought the children could react, the furious Jiang Cheng had already crushed it in pieces!

"You bastard! Don't you have any brains at all?"

He yelled a lot of foul language in anger, which immediately frightened Chengye into bursting into tears. Seeing his son's useless appearance, and remembering that Ye Hai's tragic death was caused by this bad boy, Jiang Cheng became even more furious.

Just as he was about to raise his hand to hit her on the butt, Hai Huixin rushed forward and stopped him: "Grandpa, Grandpa! The child is still young, what are you doing?"

Hai Huixin rushed forward to protect Jiang Chengye tightly. It was the first time that she showed such a frightened and heartbroken expression in front of her lover. She almost knelt down on the spot and said, "Don't hit him... You can't hit him!"

Han Ming also hurried over to persuade them. Jiang Cheng's face turned pale. He looked at Hai Huixin's appearance and finally waved to her and took the two children away.

At that time, Zhang Tingshu returned from the interrogation. Jiang Cheng only left Han Ming and Feng Qing, and sent away the other guards on duty that day.

Jiang Cheng sat down behind the desk with a sullen face, and quickly picked up the cigarette box, but it was already empty.

He frowned and threw the cigarette box on the table. He raised his eyelids and looked back: "Tell me, second brother, what's going on? Is it another trick played by the Japanese devils?"

However, Zhang Tingshu's answer surprised him: "This time...it really has little to do with the devils."

In response to Jiang Cheng's suddenly colder expression, the second uncle continued, "But if you insist, it is still somewhat related to the Japs - the weapons they use were provided by the Japs."

He explained the situation in detail. Since Jiang Cheng came to power, he had carried out pilot drug control programs in Changchun and Jilin Prefecture, closed down large opium dens in the two places, and sent troops to confiscate the goods of opium dealers.

"These tobacco dealers think that banning smoking is a form of extortion, and they even brought gifts to bribe the Chamber of Commerce and our Chief of Staff."

Zhang Tingshu finished his account of what happened slowly and then continued the topic.
"But Feilan, you said that the ban on smoking is related to the development of Jilin. Whether it is Lao Sun or Guan Zhiyuan and Han Zongyang, they all take this matter very seriously and have returned all the gifts and even cash sent by the tobacco dealers."

"These are all things that happened when we fought Hunchun before. Since you were too busy, Feilan, and the anti-smoking issue was progressing smoothly, we didn't mention it."

Jiang Cheng slammed his fist on the table: "Damn it, I thought it was the Japanese who did it again, but I didn't expect it was actually a cigarette dealer!"

In the late Qing Dynasty, opium and drugs were rampant, leading to opium dens and brothels all over China. This gave rise to a series of evil industries, but the key point was that the wealth outflow was almost all earned by foreigners.
Opium is extremely harmful to the body... Many troops have suffered greatly from it. It is said that many soldiers in the Fengtian Army had to burn a stick before going into battle, otherwise they would not even have the strength to charge into battle.

If this thing is not banned, his Jilin will also suffer the same disaster - among other things, many of Ding Chunxi's soldiers have been infected with this thing;
Therefore, as soon as Jiang Cheng came to power, in addition to strictly issuing orders to the Jilin Army to ban smoking, he also carried out a pilot ban on smoking in Changchun and the capital of Jilin.

"In other words, the person behind the two assassins is the tobacco dealer?"

At this time, Jiang Cheng had regained his cold arrogance, "Damn it, the power is not big but the courage is not small!"

Zhang Tingshu said nothing, but Han Ming looked at his boss and said after getting his approval: "Master Jiang, this tobacco dealer is quite powerful!"

"We've heard about this in Fengtian before. The tobacco dealers in Shenhai Market are extremely wealthy... Not only do they own their own territories, they also have their own insurance teams, numbering no less than a thousand people."

"And that's fine, because growing this thing is very profitable, they also hired a lot of tobacco farmers--"

After he finished speaking, Feng Qing also spoke up: "Yes... I have a relative in Zhengjiatun. He said that growing tobacco is easier than growing grain. It will grow if you water it, and the seeds are easy to get."

"The most important thing is that the annual income from growing it is three times more than growing grain. The price that tobacco dealers charge for it is much higher than that for corn and other things." (End of this chapter)