Signing in during the Republic of China: Starting from a foot patrol

Chapter 195

While Lin Hongfei was pondering the matter of road construction in his mind, Wu Yongquan walked into the study and said, "Hongfei,

the gang has gone to the dock, let's go too!"

Lin Hongfei turned around, nodded, picked up the top hat on the table and buttoned it on his head, and then walked outside.

Walking out of the county, Lin Hongfei turned over and stepped onto a snowflake-like white horse, and then pulled the reins, urging the white horse to rush towards the pier.

Behind him, thirty guards with shell guns and flower organs followed, and their hooves stepped on the bluestone slab of the main road of the county, making a crisp sound.

The people along the way quickly hid on both sides of the road, and then watched Lin Hongfei and his group leave with a look of awe.

Jiangdu Wharf, in a nearby clearing, densely arranged some chairs and benches.

The wealthy gentry in the county and the merchants on the pier all gathered here, seemingly waiting for something.

However, everyone did not have the heart to chat, and their eyes first looked at the soldiers of the Independent Regiment who were responsible for guarding and guarding around.

Although these soldiers did not say a word and stood steady, just by their momentum, clothing, and equipment, it can be seen that these soldiers are well-trained.

Especially the new and neat military uniforms on the soldiers are made of good fabrics at a glance, and even the clothes worn by some gentry are not comparable to the fabrics on the big-headed soldiers.

But this is also normal, after all, Lin Hongfei himself opened a dyeing factory, and it is not a trivial matter to get some good fabrics for his own soldiers to make military uniforms.

Looking at the heavy machine guns and oblique mortars in the distant clearing, the original Ren family militia did not have such good equipment.

The strength of the independent regiment under Lin Hongfei can be imagined!

A few bold children came up to see the excitement, and the soldiers who were wiping heavy machine guns and fiddling with the barrels did not drive away, but laughed and let the children touch the barrels and touch the shells, causing the children to shout and elate.

Everyone's eyes left from the mortar, and finally looked at an ironclad gunboat that swayed slightly with the flow of the river not far away!

Just now, everyone saw with their own eyes that several officer-like people changed boats from the gunboat and came to land to meet Guo Lang and Huo Yunshan, which means that the gunboat is also Lin Hongfei's!

This incident made everyone's hearts jump, the so-called relying on mountains and mountains and relying on water to draught, Jiangdu County is close to the Yangtze River, and these wealthy gentlemen naturally made a lot of money by relying on the river.

An ironclad gunboat across the river, that is the invincible existence.

To put it bluntly, Lin Hongfei can control the shipping, fishing and other matters of Jiangdu Wharf with this gunboat.

The lifeblood of everyone is equivalent to being controlled by Lin Hongfei!

Look at the black and thick barrel of the ship, and the arm-thick barrel, which is not a wooden ship can compete with.

Pondering this, not only these gentry, but also the merchants, treasurers, gangs, and ship bosses on the dock have changed their faces.

At this time, Lin Hongfei had not yet arrived at the pier, but everyone looked at the empty main seat, and their eyes clearly showed awe and fear.

It seems that in the future, everyone will have to be careful when doing business at Jiangdu Pier.

However, some thoughtful people quickly thought that if they could get the protection of this ironclad gunboat.

Then the waters around Jiangdu County are not much safer, and everyone does not have to worry about water bandits robbing them.

For a while, everyone's eyes were a little more strange.

Several people had already begun to calculate, pondering what kind of price to pay in exchange for Lin Hongfei's protection.

Just when everyone had different thoughts, a dense sound of horses' hooves sounded, and everyone looked back, only to see Lin Hongfei galloping towards this side, and the horse team behind him raised a puff of smoke!

Soon, Lin Hongfei came to everyone, turned over and dismounted, and saw everyone bowing down in unison, and said respectfully in his mouth:

"Welcome to the county elder!"

"It's late, forgive me!"

Lin Hongfei smiled, then strode onto the rostrum, and then sat on the main seat, looking directly at the group of wealthy gentry, merchant owners, and Caogang ship merchants under the stage.

Beside him, Wu Yongquan, Chu Liangyi, Huo Yunshan, Guo Lang and others sat down in turn, although these people were very young, the momentum exuding from their bodies still shocked everyone in the audience.

At this time, Wu Yongquan stood up, held a tin trumpet, and shouted loudly to the audience according to the speech specially written by Lin Hongfei:

"Since the abdication of the former Qing Emperor, Jiangdu County has come to a total of 9 county magistrates!"

"They are all bastards, beasts, and parasites!"

"Apart from being greedy and bending the law and looting people's wealth, they have not done anything good for the people of Jiangdu County."

"I have not been able to live and work in peace, nor have I been able to protect my family and people!"

"However, our Lin County Magistrate is not like this!"

"Today, the elder of Lin County summoned you here to show everyone the military prestige of my Jiangdu County Independent Regiment in public!"

"Let everyone know that our independent regiment can protect the family and the people!"

After speaking, Wu Yongquan pointed to a communication soldier not far away and said: "Go, bring those bandits with you!" Soon

, I saw nearly 100 bandits with black cloths on their heads being escorted to an open field not far away by the soldiers of the Independent Regiment, and then forced to kneel.

Wu Yongquan shouted at the top of his throat: "These people are all members of the original Ren family vigilante group, and they have committed evil acts and fallen into the grass.

"Today, we must behead them in public to set an example!"

"Firing squad, do it!"

As soon as the words fell, the soldiers immediately raised their rifles and shot at the bandits in front of them, and the bullets penetrated the back of these bandits and quickly took their lives.

Seeing this scene, the hearts of everyone present trembled, they had not seen the dead, but this was the first time they had seen such a large-scale execution.

Immediately afterwards, he heard Wu Yongquan shouting again:

"Why shoot the vigilante group!"

"Because they robbed big households and robbed the gentry

" "Shoot them just to let everyone understand that falling into the grass is the end of the field!"

Speaking of this, Wu Yongquan pulled his neck in a hoarse voice and shouted: "The county magistrate is here, and Jiangdu County will be peaceful!" "

The county magistrate is here, Qingtian is there!"

"Ahem..."

Shouting too hard, Wu Yongquan almost didn't come up in one breath.

The people who were shot just now were naturally not the Ren family militia, they were some bandits who had just been captured by the independent group two days ago.

Lin Hongfei used them as vigilante groups to deceive everyone, and at the same time sat on the rumors that the vigilante group had indeed fallen into the grass.

At this time, Lin Hongfei stood up, looked at everyone with a smile, and said loudly: "I came to Jiangdu County to do only three things!"

"Fairness, fairness, or fairness on horseback!"

"Therefore, I hope that you will be fair and just in your future affairs."

"If someone is doing something wrong, then don't let me get caught."

"Otherwise, I don't care which family's master he is, whose son-in-law he is, I will be shot on the spot!"

"I, Lin Hongfei, as the county magistrate, pay the most attention to the rules."

"I, do what I say!"

As soon as these words came out, Lin Hongfei looked at everyone in the audience with grim eyes, causing everyone's hearts to tremble.

At this moment, in the hearts of everyone, four words appeared almost at the same time:

"Domineering side leak!"