Chapter 48: The Death of Lu Dajun

  After resting for a while in the Western restaurant, Gao Yang drove Zheng Xiujing home. After parking the car, Gao Yang accompanied Zheng Xiujing to the door of her house.

  "OPPA, I'm so happy today." Zheng Xiujing smoothed out her hair in front of her eyes and smiled. "Me too," Gao Yang's words carried a inexplicable emotion. Suddenly he stretched out his hand to pull Zheng Xiujing's hand and gently pulled her into a hug! "Ah!" Zheng Xiujing let out a soft cry as she was enveloped in Gao Yang's arms!

  Gao Yang's eyelids slightly drooped, revealing a hint of tenderness, and he gently lowered his head. Zheng Xiujing's face flushed with a red glow, her mouth curved into a faint smile, and her eyes sparkled with bright light as she met Gao Yang's lowered head, and gently leaned in close.

  Half a response, lips parted. "Take good care of your injuries and pay attention to yourself." Gao Yang said softly.

  "En." Zheng Xiujing slightly lowered her head and softly responded.

  "Alright, I'm leaving, go ahead."

  "En." Zheng Xiujing softly responded, her hands tightly wrapped around Gao Yang's waist without letting go.

  Gaoyang didn't say anything else, and the two of them just quietly hugged each other like that.

  At this moment when silence was more powerful than sound, "ding." The elevator on the side suddenly opened, and Zheng Xiuyan with a tired face walked out!

  "Ah!" The two sisters exclaimed in unison.

  "You two!" Zheng Xiuyan stared at the pair in front of her, shocked and unsure of what to say.

  Jung Soo-jung hastily let go of the hand that was holding Gao Yang, smoothed her hair and said softly "Oppa, thank you for sending me back. I'll go in first, be careful on your way."

  Gao Yang somewhat awkwardly rubbed his eyebrows and responded, "En, I'll go first." He didn't head towards the elevator next to Zheng Xiuyan, but instead turned around and walked into the safety passage. Leaving behind the two sisters silently facing each other, Zheng Xiuyan slightly shook her head, sighed, and softly said, "Go in first."

  Back at the apartment, Kim Yong-nam made a phone call to report on the progress of things and instructed him to do a few things before heading to the airport. He rushed back to Beijing that night. The next morning, he took a plane to Africa.

  In the evening, he returned to the villa in the mining area and called the manager in charge of the mining area's work, instructing him to acquire all the companies in the mining area as soon as possible.

  After returning to the room and reporting safety to parents, I had a phone call with Zheng Xiujing. Now is the time for the two people to be affectionate and sweet, and they talked about it for more than half an hour before ending. After doing all this, start the time-space shuttle and come to Nanjing in 1925.

  Just as I was about to go out of the room for dinner, a bio-chemical warrior came forward and reported that Governor Zhang had been waiting at the official residence since this afternoon. It seemed like there was something very urgent. "Huh? What could it be? Could someone else have died?"

  It really made Gao Yang guess correctly. After seeing Gao Yang, the first sentence of Governor Zhang was "Marshal, I received news this morning that General Lu Yongxiang was killed in a bombing!"

  "Huh!?"

  Gao Yang's first reaction was not to think about what had happened to Lu Daishuai, but rather how every time Zhang Sheng came to find him it was always to report a death.

  "Du jun? Du jun?" Governor Zhang called out to Gao Yang who was staring at him without saying a word.

  "Oh, what's going on? Is there any detailed information? Tell me." Gaoyang turned around and sat down in the living room, asking in a low voice.

  "The news came from Shanghai, saying that this morning, Lu Daishuai was on his way to the Japanese Consulate when someone carrying a bomb rushed up to his car and detonated it, killing Lu Daishuai on the spot." Governor Zhang said, sitting beside him. "Oh, is that so? Alas, I don't know who my brother offended, but he ended up meeting such an end! Governor Zhang, please send a condolence telegram on my behalf." Gao Yang said with a regretful expression.

  Governor Zhang responded with a sound but didn't move, only looking at Gao Yang with an expression that was slightly strange. "Hmm? Is there something else?" Gao Yang sensed that something was off and asked aloud. "Cough." Governor Zhang lightly coughed and said, "There's another piece of news, it's said that General Zhang's guard captured a live person at the scene." At this point, Governor Zhang paused for a moment and looked at Gao Yang.

  "Huh?" Gao Yang's heart skipped a beat, could it be... "What else? Continue!" "According to the captured living witness, this matter was ordered by General Gao himself." Zhang Shengzhang said and stared straight at Gao Yang.

  "Huh?" Gao Yang's face stiffened when he heard this. He was furious in his heart, and had been framed by someone!!! Although he really wanted to take over this big brother's territory, he would never use such a despicable method. Most importantly, this matter wasn't something he did, yet he ended up taking the fall for someone else!

  Gao Yang's face turned red and white, making Governor Zhang worried. After a while, Gao Yang gritted his teeth and spat out two words: "Your sister!!!"

  Lu Dashi's assassination spread like wildfire across the country, and speculation that Gao Yang was the mastermind behind it caused a huge stir. In Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, all newspapers were frantically reporting on this incident! Newspaper boys on the streets were also enthusiastically promoting it, attracting attention from people all over the country.

  The Beiyang government in Beijing reacted unusually quickly, with Duan Qirui issuing a stern order to all newspapers that they were not to fabricate lies or frame government officials before the truth of the matter had been investigated. At the same time, he ordered Shen Jianong, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, to proceed immediately to Shanghai to try the case.

  But Gao Yang, who was in the center of the storm, did not show any signs. He was waiting, waiting for someone to jump out and break the silence.

  Soon, Japan's new consul in Madrid, Takashi Okada, said in an interview with Shunbao reporter that Koyou is simply a ruthless butcher who poisoned his sworn brother, and he is truly a scoundrel!

  When Gao Yang arrived in Modu through time and space, he saw this message and his first reaction was not anger but laughter. "Bastards, I knew it was you guys!" He had suspected that the Japanese were behind the frame-up when he learned about it earlier, but there was no evidence. Seeing Gao Teng rushing out to shout, Gao Yang could confirm that the Japanese were indeed behind this matter, but why? Why did the Japanese want to do this? Although not a pro-Japanese faction, Lu Yongxiang's relationship with the Japanese was still good, what was the motive for taking down Lu Yongxiang? Gao Yang furrowed his brow and fell into deep thought.

  Knock knock knock, the sound of knocking on the door rang out.

  "Come in." Gaoyang said in a low voice.

  The door was opened, and Gao Feng hastily walked to the front of Gao Yang and said, "Just received news that Lu Xiao Jia issued a statement at the Lu Gong Guan saying he wants to avenge his father and is preparing to raise troops to attack the officials."

  "Hmph." Gao Yang snorted, this playboy was really a good-for-nothing. Not to mention that things were not yet clear and he was already provoking the strong enemy, just relying on Lu Xiaoja's reputation and abilities, could he command those arrogant and fierce generals under his father? He was good at singing opera and playing with women, but fighting? Hmph.

  "Origin, do you have any good introductions?" Gao Yang asked Origin for help. "Yes, a bionic reconnaissance robot. It looks like a small insect and has a real-time transmission system, it's a great tool for gathering intelligence. You can use it to gather intelligence from the Japanese."

  "How many energy points?" Gao Yang asked in a low voice.

  "3300 points, 30 points consumed per minute of use."

  "Your stuff is getting more and more expensive."

  "Do you want to use it?"

  Hongkou District Japanese Consulate, cipher room. Takashi Yoshida, the consul, was drinking with Taisho Kōshō, the head of the Special Higher Police Agency. Taisho Kōshō, with a lewd expression on his face, hugged the geisha in his arms and fondled her randomly, his brain heated by alcohol making him speak nonsense, as if he wanted to take off his clothes and do it right there.

  Kōtetsu sat across from him, a faint smile on his face, but in his heart he was cursing "Is the great god Amaterasu sleeping? How could such an idiot accomplish something so important?"

  "Cough." He let out a light cough and said, "Taishi-kun, let's discuss some serious matters." He clapped his hands to signal the geishas to leave the room. Taishi Shinzou grumbled in dissatisfaction for a few moments before picking up the sake cup in front of him and drinking on his own.

  "Mr. Dashi, the previous action was very successful, can we proceed with the next plan now?" said Gao Teng Yijia with a smile.

  Dai Ishi Mitsumata leaned against the sake cup, sitting sideways on the cushion, with his upper body half-turned, and said with a pair of bleary small eyes, "Kotobuki-kun, for this operation, I have already lost one of my best agents, and another excellent agent is being held in a Chinese prison. The next action will take some time to prepare." Where was the slightest sign of intoxication in his cold tone and calm face?

  "Great Stone, the brave warriors who sacrificed for the empire are the most glorious! As for the brave warrior in prison, wait until he is cleared of being the mastermind behind the death of Gao Yang, then we'll think of a way to rescue him. What I want to know now is..." High Tong saw Dai Shi's cold and stern eyes and was startled, rubbing his smooth head, "Great Stone, how do you plan to seize SC Trade's huge deposits and their technical data?"

  Dai Ishi Mitsuzo raised his head, downed the wine in his cup, and looked at Gao Teng You Jia with a mocking gaze. "Gao Teng, SC Trading is such a big piece of fat, many big shots are eyeing it. Do you think you can just take a bite?" He burst out laughing loudly after finishing speaking.

  Gao Teng's face turned red and white as he pointed at the big stone, speechless with rage. He had just taken him for a fool, but it turned out that he was actually a sly guy who could deceive others!

  In the corner of the room, a small cockroach lay quietly, its two compound eyes flickering with a faint red light. Inside the SC Trading office building, Gao Yang sat on the sofa staring at the monitor in front of him, gently rubbing his brow. "Actually put their attention on my head?" Gao Yang speechlessly laughed lightly. "These Japanese people, really TM thinking about money until they're crazy!"

  Kōyō was unaware that since the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, Japan's economy, which had already been severely depressed since the end of World War I, had become even more desperate.

  In recent years, in order to maintain economic development and post-disaster reconstruction, the Japanese government has borrowed heavily from Western countries, with a total amount of nearly $1 billion! This was an astronomical figure in the 1920s! To put this into perspective, the United States, which was then the world's strongest economy, had a national production value of only several hundred billion dollars.

  The Japanese government, saddled with such a massive debt, is suffocating under the weight of interest payments alone each year and can only drastically cut expenditures across the board. The military budget, being the biggest item, has been greatly reduced, which is unacceptable to the Japanese military.

  After the introduction of nylon stockings in SC trade, like other countries, Japanese people also envied the huge profits of nylon stockings. After research by domestic scientists, they said that this substance cannot be made by them!

  SC Trade then launched a series of best-selling watches, cosmetics, perfumes, synthetic leather products and cigarettes that scientists in Japan couldn't replicate after research.

  In addition to the huge import and export trade between Gaoyang and Western countries, SC Trade has deposits of tens of millions of dollars in Citibank! The jealous Japanese sent out their best spy expert, Shinzo Oishi, to Shanghai to prepare to seize SC Trade's technology and capital.