Wang Sheng nodded and said, "This is a good suggestion. The attack on the shop happened this morning. This is a good reason for us to deal with Anluo Hall. Tomorrow, I will use the famous discussion of the prefect's yamen to circulate the master of Anluo Hall on the grounds that the arrested personnel confessed. If they don't come, we can disobey the reason, forcibly break into Anluo Hall to arrest people, and stop the seal of Anluo Hall."

Jiang Feng said: "What if they come? Wouldn't we have no reason to seal Anluotang?"

Wang Sheng smiled and said, "It's better to come. You can convict them if you find any reason, and then you still have to seize Anluo Hall. If you lose your head, it will be more beneficial to our actions to seal Anluo Hall. However, this requires the strong assistance of the People's Army."

Zhang Zhengjie said: "Don't worry, we can go out at any time."

Duan Qian said again: "But our troops in Jinan Prefecture may not be enough. We need to seek support from Qingdao. At least some of the troops must be transferred back from the troops stationed on the border."

Since Jinan is the capital of Shandong, although the center of the East China government is located in Qingdao, there are still two regiments stationed in Jifu, while other prefectures and prefectures are only stationed in one regiment, and some areas are even one regiment responsible for two regiments. Zhang Zhengjie's regiment is stationed in the city of Jinan, responsible for maintaining the surrounding areas of Jinan City, while the other regiment is stationed in the Dezhou region where Shandong and Zhili border.

Wang Shengdao: "We have to ask the Executive Committee for instructions. Now let's leave the meeting first, and I will send a telegram to Tianjin immediately."

At the end of the meeting, Wang Sheng immediately reported the content and resolutions of the meeting to the Executive Committee. At around 8 o'clock in the evening, the Tianjin Executive Committee called Jinan back and agreed to the resolution of the Jinan government, and issued four instructions to the Jinan government: First, all local forces that dare to challenge the authority of time travelers must be severely suppressed and must not be lenient; second, opium must be strictly prohibited, and the forces that sell, transport, and smuggling must be severely cracked down on, and there is no need to worry about any worries. If something happens, the entire East China government will naturally support it behind the back; third, the Executive Committee will require the army to cooperate fully with Ji.

The Nan government's actions and decided to draw two battalions from the troops stationed in Dezhou, and one battalion of the garrison stationed in Dongchang Prefecture, Tai'an Prefecture and Qingzhou Prefecture to support Jinan's troops; the Fourth Executive Committee will require Qingdao to immediately establish the Jinan Land Reform Commission and enter Jinan Prefecture. Taking advantage of this suppression of local forces in Jinan, land reform work will be carried out in Jinan immediately; the Fifth requires the Jinan government to strengthen publicity work, expose the evil deeds of these local forces, and pay attention to collecting evidence of crime, prepare for the next public trial meeting, and establish the image of the Jinan government being the presidency of justice among the people of Jinan.

After receiving the reply from the Executive Committee, Wang Sheng was naturally very happy. Not to mention other support, he received reinforcements from 5 battalions at once, which nearly doubled the strength of Jinan's troops, and had enough troops to control the situation. Of course, the reinforcements could not arrive in Jinan immediately. Of course, the two battalions stationed in Dezhou can arrive in Jinan by tomorrow afternoon, while the three battalions in the surrounding area will take two or three days. Therefore, Wang Sheng also considered whether to slow down the action for one day, so that the two battalions stationed in Dezhou can arrive in Jinan, which is more confident.

Just the next morning, when Wang Sheng was about to recruit everyone to discuss, something happened again. It turned out that the two shops protected by the police were attacked yesterday. Moreover, the number of people attacked the shops this time was more, and they also carried weapons such as swords and axes. Although the patrol team struggled to resist, they could not stop them. Not only were both shops destroyed, but both merchants and police suffered casualties.

It turned out that two groups of people were sent to the shop to cause trouble yesterday, but not only failed, but also lost nearly 10 brothers, which made An Luo Hall’s current hall owner Zhang Yanan very dissatisfied.

Anluotang is not a hereditary gang, but a gang group formed by six families. The hall leader is re-elected every six years. Zhang Yan'an's family is one of these six families. When he was young, Zhang Yan'an was like others, practiced martial arts diligently and acted bravely and aggressively. When competing for territory with other gangs, he performed very well. He was a member of Anluotang and was famous throughout the rivers and lakes of Shandong Province. Moreover, Zhang Yan'an was generous, generous, and had a broad friendship. He had friendship with many friends on the Green Forest Road. In Jinan Prefecture, many rich people were kidnapped by Green Forest, and his family would ask Zhang Yan'an to come forward to make peace. Therefore, Zhang Yan'an had a bit of prestige in the hall.

Later, after taking over Anluo Hall, Zhang Yanan showed his shrewd and capable side and fully utilized his broad friendship, which led to the management of Anluo Hall very prosperous. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Liu Kunyi, who was then the Governor of Liangjiang and Minister of Trade in Nanyang, was awarded the title of imperial envoy, to control the war between the army inside and outside the pass to Japan. During the Shandong supervision, Zhang Yanan led Anluo Hall to help the court use military supplies and donate 10,000 taels of silver, which did some practical things and established a relationship with Liu Kunyi. Later, Liu Kunyi returned to Liangjiang, but this relationship was not broken. With Liu Kunyi's care, Anluo Hall also firmly sat in the first gang in Jinan Prefecture. Generally, the Jinan government did not dare to easily cause trouble for Anluo Hall, and Zhang Yanan also had the prestige in the hall as high as the sky. At that time, he had been in charge of Anluo Hall for more than 20 years.

This time, Zhang Yan'an decided to go against the East China government. Firstly, the land reform damaged the interests of Anluotang. Although Anluotang has a lot of operations in Jinan City, the land is also an important source of income. Now Anluotang has more than 5,000 acres of land in Jinan Prefecture, and according to the East China government's [Land Reform Charter], much will not be left in the end. Secondly, Zhang Yan'an feels that the attitude of overseas Chinese is too rampant.

An Luotang did not attend the banquet negotiated by Wang Sheng and local forces in Jinan. However, afterwards, Zhang Yanan heard that a young man from overseas Chinese was extremely crazy and did not take anyone seriously. There was no room for discussion on anything. Zhang Yanan couldn't help but feel angry. In recent years, An Luotang had no chance of being offended by the government on this acre of three-point land in Jinan Prefecture. So what about overseas Chinese? The strong dragon could not beat the local snake. At that time, Zhang Yanan was determined to give overseas Chinese a little color to let them know who had the final say in Jinan. So when Xu Chang, Jiang Mingyi, Zhao Pinghe and others came to find Zhang Yanan to deal with overseas Chinese together, Zhang Yanan agreed immediately.

With Anluotang joining, others are naturally happy, because Anluotang is a gang organization after all, with enough personnel and can fight and kill. It is inevitable to be used against overseas Chinese. Although others are rich and powerful, they are not good at fighting and killing. Therefore, with Anluotang joining, they naturally have more confidence in winning.

Everyone discussed and decided not to respond to the orders of overseas Chinese to register shops, and to require all shops in Jinan Prefecture not to register. At that time, it depends on what overseas Chinese can do. The order to punish those shops that were registered naturally fell on Anluo Hall. Of course, Zhang Yan'an agreed that such a thing as smashing shops was indeed common in Anluo Hall. In the past, the government did not take much care of them at all, and even if the government wanted to manage them, the servants who were doing business would not really care, because it was completely unfair to him.

But the result was beyond Zhang Yanan's expectations. The overseas Chinese servants not only took care of An Luotang's affairs, but also really did. They even carried muskets, not only killed three brothers on the spot, but also captured seven people. This is something An Luotang had not encountered in Jinan Mansion in the past 10 years.

In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Chang, Jiang Mingyi, Zhao Pinghe and others also questioned Zhang Yanan, who was very dissatisfied with An Luotang's actions, and some even asked Zhang Yanan if he was afraid of overseas Chinese.

Zhang Yanan was also a little embarrassed at this moment because he had said all the big things at the beginning, but now things are done like this. Isn’t it a slap in the face? At this time, Zhang Yanan didn’t expect that the situation had changed and he was just thinking about how to get back this face. Therefore, he had to smash the two shops again, so that he could save his face.

So this time, Zhang Yanan not only arranged more people, sent more than 60 people to each shop, but also sent two of his disciples to lead the team himself, and brought machetes, axes and other weapons, requiring that the two shops be smashed and beat them to death when they see them, preferably kill a few people. At the same time, he also ordered that if he encounters the obstruction of the officers, don't be afraid. Directly manage and fight with the officers, even if he kills a few officers, he will do whatever he wants.

As a result, the next morning, Anluotang's personnel were divided into two teams and rushed to the two shops. The Jinan government was indeed a little careless, thinking that they had repelled the people who caused trouble yesterday and would definitely not come again today. Therefore, there was no patrol force added. There was still only one patrol team to defend the two shops. However, they did not expect that Anluotang not only sent people, but also had 4 or 5 times more people than yesterday. After seeing the patrol team, without saying a word, he swung his sword and axe, and the two sides immediately started a fierce fight.

Although the patrol teams on both sides resisted vigorously, the captain and deputy captain also shot and killed several people in a row, but the number of opponents was too large, and everyone was carrying swords and axes. Not only could they be used for chopping and killing, but the axes were also used to avoid some of the disadvantages of not having muskets. Therefore, the personnel of Anluotang rushed forward, and the two patrol teams were no match for them at all.

In addition, the members of the patrol team are of varying quality. Some of the original personnel just changed their minds when they saw that there were many people in Anluo Hall, and immediately turned around and ran away, making the people who stayed to fight fiercely with the church more passively. They could only rely on two pistols to support them. Fortunately, there were other patrol teams on both sides to support them, and they rescued two patrol teams. Otherwise, it would be dangerous, but they could only protect themselves. After all, the two or three patrol teams had only more than 20 people, which was not enough to fight against so many Anluo Hall personnel.
Chapter completed!