"If you sacrifice your life for righteousness, how can you be punished in the name of a thug?"
"Sacrificing yourself to warn the world is so heroic!"
"Fu Wei, this is the intention to serve the country with fists and fists. I beg you to commute your sentence!"
"Injustice! Injustice! Injustice!"
The parade carrying dozens of large and small banners quickly approached, shouting loudly as they walked.
More than 2,000 people shouted in unison. Such a formation was not insignificant. Passersby ran for cover one after another, and rows of shops on the west side of Chaoxi Avenue quickly closed their doors.
On the other side, more than a thousand young men were unwilling to be outdone and faced them head-on fearlessly.
Several leaders in the team raised their loudspeakers while giving instructions, and shouted loudly in standard Nanjing Mandarin: "Everyone! These people with ulterior motives in front of us talk about righteousness, but what they actually do is so terrible. This is not a so-called petition, this is an eye-catching riot!”
The crowds collided, creating thousands of waves!
There were shouts, curses, and fights, and the confrontation quickly turned from pushing each other into a group fight.
More than 200 patrol officers and criminal policemen from the Shanghai Police are working hard to maintain order on the periphery. Because the numbers on both sides are far apart, they are currently unable to respond effectively.
And the police reinforcements are still being mobilized urgently, because there are more than one such situation in this large area of several counties.
The last time the Shanghai police felt that their police force was insufficient was six or seven years ago when the economic crisis affected the Ming Dynasty. Before and after that, order and security in the economic capital had always been quite good.
Big but not chaotic, rich but not bad, this has always been the pride of Ming people who have lived in Shanghai for a long time.
However, the turmoil after the "Jimao Disaster" shattered what everyone believed in.
"gentlemen……"
"What are you afraid of? Am I not here?"
In a cafe with European style decoration, Xia Xiaoshi held Zhou Changfeng's forearm tightly, for fear of being scattered by the surging crowd.
Around the two of them, the originally spacious cafe was crowded with people, probably around thirty or forty people.
Through the large bright windows, people seeking refuge inside could clearly witness the fierce confrontation between the two teams on the avenue outside.
Seeing this, most of the women looked pale and trembling. Although there were many cowards among the men, some picked up benches or chairs to defend themselves.
For a time, the room was filled with an atmosphere of extreme tension and anxiety, and the cries of children made the tight strings in everyone's hearts tremble violently.
Zhou Changfeng stretched out his hand and slapped the brown round table, shouting: "Come here, please move the table with me and block it behind the door and window."
After saying that, he started to move the table, and then several men and women began to cooperate to move other tables and chairs.
At this moment, four young men suddenly rushed outside the house. Two of them were quite strong. They were eager to get in, pushing and patting them.
Everyone thought they were running away to avoid danger, so they quickly opened the door and let the four people in.
But who would have expected that as soon as they came in, they immediately turned against each other and pulled out iron pipes or pointed daggers from their sleeves. The strong man in the lead also took out a revolver.
"Hurry! Take out everything of value!"
"I'll give him a knife if he dares to procrastinate!"
The gangsters who took advantage of the situation shouted loudly and waved their weapons.
People in the cafe were horrified and subconsciously stepped back. As a result, people kept being pushed and fell, and the scene instantly became chaotic.
The actions of these guys made Zhou Changfeng feel as if he had returned to the Caozhou disaster area three months ago. Those Xiaoxiao people who were afraid of chaos and took advantage of the situation were really hateful.
If there were no guns, people would definitely dare to resist. What's so scary about everyone swarming up?
But the mediocre Geely brand six-shot revolver shocked everyone present, and some timid women began to pull out the hairpins from their buns.
Immediately, other people nearby began to pick off jewelry, watches, and banknotes.
Zhou Changfeng patted Xia Xiaoshi's back gently, then calmly took her handbag and whispered: "Squat down later."
He turned his back to the bandits and quickly took out the weapon from his bag, an honor that could only be obtained by the top ten students of the Yingtian Army's martial arts school.
Insert the magazine, open the safety, and load the gun!
After completing all this, Zhou Changfeng quickly turned around and fired three shots in a row using the most basic Weaver-style shooting method.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Three rounds of 7.65×17mm Browning pistol bullets flew out of the muzzle one after another. In the flash of lightning, the robber holding the revolver was shot three times and collapsed to the ground.
But Zhou Changfeng still shot him two more times, then turned his gun and shot at several other guys.
Things turned around so quickly that the other three thieves who were frantically loading their belongings into cloth bags were now stunned.
It wasn't until one person screamed and fell to the ground that the other two rolled and crawled away in fear.
"Click!" It happened that the last bullet failed to feed and failed to enter the chamber smoothly.
This is because Xia Xiaoshi has not unloaded the bullets from the magazine since last year - if it is full of bullets for a long time, the force of the spring will gradually weaken.
Zhou Changfeng threw away the gun decisively, rushed forward in three steps and bent down to pick up the Geely brand six-round revolver dropped by the gun-wielding robber, and then chased him out of the cafe.
After firing four shots in a row and knocking down one person, the other person had already run out three to forty meters, which was already an unlikely hit distance for a pistol, so he put away the gun and returned to the house.
The man who had been shot five times had expired, but the other man was not dead and was still howling miserably - the .32ACP pistol bullet with a muzzle kinetic energy of only over 200 joules was really weak.
He, as well as another robber who was knocked down after escaping outside the cafe, were dragged to a corner. Among the people taking refuge there happened to be two nurses from a hospital who were shopping together, and they began to bandage the two of them urgently.
Now, the nervous police officers were all focused on this huge crowd.
Due to the chaotic situation at the scene and the sound of more than a dozen gunshots in succession, the police in the nearby area misjudged the situation at the scene. They thought it was two fiercely confronting marchers who were firing at each other.
Finally, a group of "cavalry" came over from the south of Chaoxi Avenue.
He wears a bright red half-armor, a frontier helmet, an armband, blue-gray clothes, leather soap boots, and holds a long wooden stick that is half black and half white. The tall horse has a steel horse mask and armor-shaped helmet hanging on its crotch. Chicken neck (neck protector).
Damn, he’s so handsome!
These semi-equipped "cavalry" are the mounted police unit of the Shanghai Prefectural Police, specially used to disperse the parade.
In blue and red and fully armored, the costumes of the mounted police can be said to be very stylish and mighty.
"Side by side, let's go!"
"drive!"
More than ten riders just filled the entire avenue. After a short period of formation, they quickly attacked and moved forward side by side, marching hand in hand.
The speed of the mounted police was not very fast, roughly the same as that of ordinary people jogging, but even so, the sound of horse hooves was rumbling and full of pressure.
The armor is worn on the one hand to prevent being hurt by cold weapons, and on the other hand it can increase deterrence; at the same time, there are patrolmen with guns on both sides to accompany them and protect the mounted police in the middle.
Facing the mounted police who rushed towards them like a steamroller, the more than 3,000 marchers who had just been fighting and fighting suddenly became riotous. Many people subconsciously ran away around, completely unable to control the fear in their hearts. Running wildly.
Generally speaking, mounted police can play a unique and significant role in controlling and dispersing large crowds. Later police agencies believe that the deterrent effect of one mounted policeman is worth ten patrolmen on foot, often more than a dozen mounted policemen. It can effectively control the situation where thousands of people gather to demonstrate.
Human beings' fear of horses is rooted in physiological instinct and is difficult to suppress. The number of armies that can still maintain their positions in the face of large numbers of cavalry has always been a minority.
When the Russians were filming "War and Peace", the mechanized infantry who guest-starred in the group still subconsciously avoided the rolling cavalry groups, causing the formation to scatter.
"stop!"
"Uu——"
The mounted policemen of the Shanghai Prefectural Police are definitely well-trained, or they are unwilling to cause trouble - they will slow down and stop every thirty meters forward, giving the panicked marchers some time to escape the scene and accidentally fall. The fallen person can also take the opportunity to get up and run away.
After waiting for more than ten seconds, the mounted police moved forward again and continued to put pressure on the crowd.
In just half a quarter of an hour, the thousands of people who had previously been so vocal were successfully dispersed, leaving only a mess on the scene.
People injured in fighting and trampling were carried to the side of the road, lying or sitting. There were hundreds of people in a row.
At this point, after the situation was completely calmed down, the police officers had time to look around the area.
"My dear, it was you who fired the gun earlier."
"Who did this? Come out."
As a result, as soon as Zhou Changfeng came out of the queue, two patrol policemen came up and captured him as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
Because of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou dialect, communication became a big problem. Fortunately, although Zhou Changfeng and Xia Xiaoshi did not speak dialect, the police officers understood Mandarin.
After understanding the cause and effect, one of the lanky deputy superintendents couldn't help but sigh: "You are so powerful, you are so cruel."
Although the two robbers who were shot before were bandaged urgently, they are still dead due to Zhou's shooting skills - both of them were shot in the torso, and although the low-power .32ACP was not effective enough to stop them, they were still dead. It doesn't mean you can't kill someone.
"Can you all testify? Well... my guess is reasonable. But I still ask you and your wife to come with me. It only takes a while."
Since Zhou Changfeng has no important official duties at the moment, even if dozens of people can testify, the basic process still has to be completed.
When we arrived at the Minhang County Inspection Department, the staff were amazed almost the whole time, and Zhou Changfeng also praised the mounted policemen.
The two parties exchanged business boasts while recording what happened. Finally, after taking photos and signing and depositing money, this unwarranted disaster was finally settled.
Although it said "a moment of time", it actually took more than an hour.
Before leaving, Zhou Changfeng also bought a box of .32ACP pistol bullets from the Inspection Department - Xia Xiaoshi was not idle and bored shooting, so the eight bullets used before were from more than a year ago.
After being delayed for so long, they no longer had the energy to go anywhere else, so the two took the tram back to the inn where they were staying.
As the most economically developed place in the Ming Dynasty, the development of the service industry is no less than that of Europe. Many things have already taken shape today, at least in terms of opening rooms in hotels, they are very different from those of later generations.
Although there is no identification information, there are document registrations and fingerprint records - the wealthy Shanghai government was the first in the Ming Dynasty to popularize fingerprint comparison criminal investigation technology.
Storing identity information for millions of people and being able to quickly retrieve it seems unimaginable in this age without electronic computers? But humans still did it with wisdom - this is a type of electric mechanical device that records information through punched cards, and then quickly stores, categorizes, retrieves, and retrieves it.
Historically, this technology was monopolized by the famous IBM company and widely used by the U.S. Census Bureau; this technology was also sold to Spicy for 1.35 million Reichsmarks for rapid statistics and accurate oil removal.
Because the population is too large, Ming Dynasty is naturally very interested in it, but IBM also knows that Ming Dynasty really needs it, so it raises the price.
The then Minister of Household Affairs felt that this was not cost-effective, so he decided to do his own research. There was no rush anyway, and copying the "Hui Ji Tian Xia Population" data from previous years and modifying it can be said to be a routine operation of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times.
In the end, Shanghai Gezhi University cooperated with Songjiang Electrical College to develop it and quickly achieved results.
"Huh - I've been working on it for a long time, let's take a shower!"
"Then sir, go ahead."
As soon as he entered the room, Zhou Changfeng shouted that he wanted to take a shower. Xia Xiaoshi, who was wearing a white short shirt and a black pleated skirt, replied casually, then leaned over to take off her shoes and put down her handbag.
But when she looked up, she found that Zhou had not moved at all, but was staring at her with a smile.
This look is like...a hunter seeing his prey.
"What...what?" She didn't know why, but she suddenly panicked.
Zhou Changfeng leaned against the wall and asked half-jokingly: "Do you want to come together?"
As soon as these words came out, Xia Xiaoshi's cheeks turned red.
Weak, pitiful, helpless, wrong.
Weak, cute, helpless, yes.
"No, no, no..."
"Hahaha - then...when do you want it?"
"Ah," Xia Xiaoshi, blushing with embarrassment, complained through gritted teeth, "You're so annoying!"
"It's okay, don't worry, we'll talk about it later." Zhou Changfeng looked his fiancée up and down with a smile on his face, and then pretended to be serious and said, "Isn't it too much to kiss a few times now?"
The latter hummed sweetly, then stood on tiptoes and kissed her.
"Just a moment? It's not enough."
Obviously Zhou had considerable practical experience in this area. When Xia Xiaoshi leaned forward on tiptoe again, he quickly took a step back.
Ever since... Xia Xiaoshi, who lost her balance, fell into his arms.
The touch was so wonderful that Zhou Changfeng couldn't help but tighten his arms around her waist.
The two hugged each other and nibbled each other for a long time. Xia Xiaoshi, who was blushing, was panting after breaking free.
She whispered in a low voice: "I can't even breathe..."
"Really?" Zhou Changfeng pinched her nose casually and said nonchalantly: "The more you practice and the more you kiss, the more likely you will be like this."
"Ha!" Xia Xiaoshi once again felt that she was as weak and helpless in front of him as the rabbit in the mouth of a wealthy wolf. She couldn't resist at all, so she could only tilt her head and hum: "Sir, take a bath quickly!"
(End of chapter)
