Chapter 53.
Fan Gang!
Fan Gang is a famous barrister and litigator.
This guy has a very bad reputation in the concession, specializing in the defense of some “robbers”, known as “robbers lawyer”, this person is only for money, not to ask the right and wrong, people are not even a little bit of the bottom line of morality.
He earns money is nothing, for the criminal defense of bad people, nothing, this society is tolerated, but if the Japanese, when the traitor.
That would be intolerable.
Just this old man, sucking up to the Japanese, into the pseudo SH Citizens’ Association, but also attempted to serve as the President of the SAR Court, this kind of person as a lawyer is already a scourge, and then let him become the President of the Court, then the people who suffered a sea of people.
Mr. Dai of the headquarters of the Lixing Society instructed that such a person must not be allowed to sit in the position of the SAR court president, although the Japanese are now strong, but the appointment of the presidents of the two SAR courts is still in the hands of the national government, the Japanese want to force the change of the court president, it would be a gross interference in the judicial trial of China, but of course, now they will not care so much.
The key is still the Ministry of Public Works Bureau and the Bureau of Public Administration, as well as behind the attitude of Europe and the United States.
But Cheng Mo thinks, the Ministry of Public Works Bureau and the Public Council will not agree to this kind of people on the throne, they themselves are not stupid, any of the two special courts, if you let Fan Gang this kind of people on the throne, I am afraid that their own interests will also be damaged.
Though they too are not pained to have the power of judicial trial withdrawn from them by the Chinese, it is much better to have this position given to a person appointed by the National Government than to a pro-Japanese person.
Unless there was really no other way but to compromise, which was not possible under the current circumstances, even if the Japanese had already occupied Nanking.
But a person like Fan Gang can never be allowed to gain power.
Assassination may not be the best way, but the most direct way.
To treat traitors, is not to be merciful, should be killed, can be killed, and even rather wrongly killed, can not let one go.
It can also deter those lawyers in the Concession who are stupid and want to work for the tiger. (PS: The first target group of the Junta’s hoeing mission in the Concession was lawyers, so you can imagine how hated this group was at that time.)
Therefore, the first target Cheng Mo chose from the three-man assassination list was this Fan Gang.
“Team leader, this Fan Gang is not an ordinary character, he has quite a wide range of contacts in both the public and French Concession, especially the patrol room, most of the cases he takes are related to robbers, thieves as well as killings of these criminal cases, and his relationship with Lu Liankui is extremely good …… ”
“That’s that Public Concession Inspector General Lu Liankui, known as the 4th Hen in addition to the Three Tycoons?” After listening to Shen Mo’s introduction, Cheng Mo was slightly surprised.
“Yes.”
“However, Lu Liankui has long been gone, but this person and Fan Gang must have collusion, wherever Lu Liankui handles a case, many of them are Fan Gang as the defense attorney, if there is no interest, I’m afraid that no one will believe it.”
Cheng Mo nodded, criminal cases, do not collude with the inspector, can not get the case of the agent, even if the parties invited, the inspector’s office does not cooperate, do not give you the file, do not allow you to understand the case, how can you still go to court to defend?
Lawyers with poor relations with the police station, there are a few can be mixed in the tenant world, Western lawyers can not play.
“Fan just to the defense, never care about the client’s life and death, he only collects money, and is to collect money to do things, very overbearing, the client does not give it is not okay, this guy three religions and nine streams are through it, is considered to be the Shanghai Bund rental sector of the number one figure.”
A simple sentence, this person is not good to kill.
In fact, the Shanghai Special Administrative Region to the list of three people, no one good to kill, are hardcore, clearly in the difficult “dark fire” team, look at the joke, so that they know their own difficulties to retreat.
Zhou Weilong this little mind who still can not see.
“Since this guy is a black and white person, if we want to kill him, we can’t give away a single bit of information.” Cheng Mo nodded, “We have to find a breakthrough and start with the people around him.”
“Fan Gang has a son, called Fan Cheng, graduated from the law school of Dong Wu University, he just goes to the teahouse every day, and takes cases right there in the teahouse, some people jokingly call him ‘teahouse lawyer’, father and son specialize in defending robbers, and it can be said that they are infamous in the lawyers’ world.”
“What ideas do you have, just say it.”
“We can kidnap his son first and knock off a sum of money, then find a chance to take Fan Gang out.” Shen Mo suggested.
“This will accomplish the mission and also solve our funding problem, isn’t it?” Cheng Mo saw through Shen Mo’s mind, the Junta’s actions in Shanghai were the three axes, kidnapping, assassination, and sinking the Huangpu River.
Personally, he liked sinking the Huangpu River without getting blood on his hands.
“Team leader, we are short of money now, this is the best way.”
“If we kill Fan Gang, we can get a generous bounty just the same, why take such a risk, kidnap, get the ransom, and then kill again, if any of these steps go wrong, we will be in trouble.” Cheng Mo said, “Third Brother, all of our activities now, we have to be cautious, we can’t leave any clues for our opponents to be able to locate us, this is the principle of the longer we are able to lurk in the Concession!”
“It’s still you, Team Leader, who thinks far ahead.”
“We’re not just going to do one job and leave, we have to consider that there are more difficult tasks ahead, we have to act cautiously and carefully, don’t bring up the kidnapping matter again, but you reminded me, Third Brother, that we can’t really kidnap, but we can come up with a fake one.” Cheng Mo said.
“What does the group leader mean?”
“Fan Gang has only one son, right, he must be very precious, you say, if he in learning Fan Cheng was kidnapped, the first time will do what?”
“Call the police ah ……”
“No, the police will only let the son die fast, after all, he has been a robber barrister for so many years, he has pitched an unknown number of people, we can find a person who has been pitched by him the most, in his name, let Fan Cheng temporarily disconnect from him, we will play a time difference.” Cheng Mo said.
“You mean, lure Fan Gang out and kill him, then frame this person.”
“Right.” Cheng Mo nodded.
“This person can’t be chosen well, Team Leader, Fan Gang has pitted so many people, many people hate him to the bone, but they can’t do anything about him, because he’s quick-witted and cautious by nature, he doesn’t participate in the food and treats of ordinary people.”
“This person has to be a loner, preferably the kind who just got out of prison after his sentence and is ruthless.” Cheng Mo added.
“I’ll look for him, but Team Leader, you’re in the Patrol Room and have more information than me, so it should be easier.”
“I’m in the political unit, I have very little contact with criminal cases, and I’ve just gotten in, so casually inquiring about this will easily get me suspected.” Cheng Mo said, “Of course, if there is an opportunity, I will naturally take it.”
“Team leader, the district just gave us a month, now half a month has passed and we only have our first assassination plan, what about the other two targets?”
“This Lu Hong is a famous industrialist in Shanghai, a Catholic, and a former Chinese director of the rented community, a famous philanthropist and educator, why did the higher-ups give the order to assassinate him?” Cheng Mo was a little puzzled.
“He secretly contacted the Japanese, participated in the pseudo SH Citizens’ Association, became a traitor, shouldn’t he be killed?” Shen Mo asked rhetorically.
“But I heard that he contacted the Japanese for the sake of the millions of homeless people in Zhabei and had no choice but to join the Citizens’ Association.”
“Whether he had no choice or not, this is something we can’t judge, but this is an order from the higher-ups, even if we don’t go for it, the other action groups will very much take up the mission, not to mention, with his status and position, the impact of him doing this is too great, if no sanction is imposed, what will it be like if other people follow suit in droves?”
Shen Mo’s reasoning could not be refuted.
After taking that step, no matter what your purpose was, there was no way to turn back, even if the starting point was good.
However, he forgot that he is not an ordinary person, this defection of his, how great the destructive force brought, some of the less determined generation look, even you Lu Hong have defected and surrendered, then I am still inferior to you, what is there to hold on to?
Curve to save the country can not save the country, can only be self-deception, wishful thinking.
Then we can only ask Mr. death, right and wrong and wait for future generations to comment on it.
Lu Hong is not an ordinary person, the risk of killing him is even greater, in addition to the reaction of the concession, and the Japanese retaliation.
Have to formulate a more rigorous plan to do so.
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