Chapter 53 Lincoln and the Assassin
"Sir, there seem to be more foreigners in the imperial city."
"No need to seem, at least tens of thousands of people have arrived at our imperial city, and there are still people on the road. The hard work is the police in the imperial city. It is not easy for them to maintain public order."
After finishing his daily work, Chu Qi invited Li Yanguang and several subordinates to go to Zuixianglou.
He began to focus on winning people's hearts, and the Qianhushou where he was naturally his direct line.
There are many foreigners on the streets of the imperial city. They may come from all over the place and have different skin colors. However, these foreigners are full of awe of the imperial city and the people of the Ming Dynasty. After all, they are facing civilians from the No. 1 power, and they are not able to provoke them.
Chu Qi and his group changed into casual clothes and occupied a table. They found more than 20 blonde and blue-eyed people walking into a compartment.
"It was the ambassador of the United States who was slapped by you last time. Seeing them nodding and bowing, the strangers next to them should have been the envoys who came from North America to attend the World Expo, which is different from the ambassadors who are always in our imperial city." Li Yanguang reminded Chu Qi.
Chu Qi had just recognized it. Among the more than 20 people from the United States, one of them was slapped by him for causing trouble in Zuixianglou.
The man obviously did not have been removed from his position as an ambassador by the United States because of his drunkenness, and also accompanied the special embassy delegation to the banquet.
Among the people who came to the United States were Lincoln, Chase and others, and Chu Qi already had an impression of which of them Lincoln was.
The first thing each envoy came to the imperial city was to find their embassy to understand the situation here, and to receive the ambassadors who were always in the imperial city of Ming Dynasty. The United States was no exception.
In addition to seeing Lincoln in the United States' envoys, Chu Qi also saw the member of parliament, Davis, who was a member of parliament who hoped that the Yugoslavia would be independent. Lincoln and the members represented by Davis had differences, and both sides could even sit together patiently and chat and have dinner together.
When I saw these celebrities one after another, Chu Qi's heart was not very fluctuating.
This time, the Ming Empire held the third World Expo, and countless celebrities arrived like cabbage.
Chu Qi even believed that the Ming Empire held this Wanguo Expo not only to show its national strength, but also to make some money.
Travelers who come to the Imperial City are not only overseas but also locally, and may consume millions of taels of silver. In addition, merchants from various countries will definitely take advantage of this opportunity to purchase a large number of goods displayed at the expo.
"Sir, those two people looked a little strange."
Chu Qi focused almost all his attention on Lincoln who entered the compartment, while Li Yanguang reminded Chu Qi.
Chu Qi looked in the direction Li Yanguang signaled and found two foreigners sitting at the same table, their eyes swept across the compartment where Lincoln and the others were, whispering. Both of them had sweat on their foreheads, and one of them was still trembling.
"It looks suspicious indeed. Let's go and interrogate, they should be exposed soon."
Chu Qi put down his chopsticks and walked over with several Jinyiwei.
As members of the Jinyiwei who specializes in infiltrating the great powers to collect intelligence, Chu Qi and others know multiple languages and can communicate normally when they meet most Westerners.
"Both, Lincoln is in it, he violated the Constitution of 1787. As long as this matter is done, you are the hero of the United States, and there is no need to be divided between the north and the south, and we can choose those who represent our interests."
"But this is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, with policemen on the streets and the ubiquitous Jinyiwei. As long as the gunshot sounds, I will die here."
Two men from the United States were having an anxious conversation, and Chu Qi and others had already blocked their retreat inadvertently.
Chu Qi sat down slowly: "Listen to the accents of both of you, you should be a passenger from North America. I wonder if he is used to the water and soil here?"
The men of the two United States were obviously too nervous, and they only found that several people had surrounded them now.
One of the men looked at his suitcase nervously, but Li Yanguang had seized the suitcase.
"There are muskets inside? Who are you? Why are you trying to assassinate the ambassador from the United States, or your president."
When Chu Qi said this, the two men from the United States showed a look of horror. They wanted to stand up, but were stopped by Chu Qi's subordinates.
"Don't try to hide it, we are the Jinyiwei. Believe us, as long as we are willing, we can find out any of your details. Stop while you have not done anything wrong, you can still survive. Otherwise, you may be imprisoned and be tortured by us."
When they heard that it was the Jinyiwei, the two Western men were extremely frightened. The Jinyiwei's reputation was not known to the foreign countries, but they were targeted by the Jinyiwei shortly after they arrived in the imperial city!
The two of them didn't know that Chu Qi and the others just happened to see the two of them being suspicious, so they came up to check it out, and thought that the Jinyiwei's ability was already great, so they stammered and had to be honest.
"My name is John Wilkes Booth, a drama actor. Lincoln intends to abolish the slavery system, so I followed him here..." The most nervous man trembled and answered Chu Qi's question.
One drama actor, the other one is his accomplice.
"So you're going to assassinate him here? What did the Uttar Confederate state legislators direct you to do, or did you mean it?"
Chu Qi's eyes were like a sharp dagger, which made the drama actor named Booth extremely scared, and he couldn't even say clearly: "I, what I mean..."
The drama actor's accomplices calmed down a little: "My Lord Jinyiwei, we have no intention of offending your country. We just want to solve the problems of our United States at the lowest cost in our own way."
"How to resolve the matters within your unity have nothing to do with us, and it is understandable what methods you use, but you are now organizing a conspiracy on the territory of our Ming Empire!" Chu Qi slapped the table, which shocked the two men, "If Lincoln had an accident in the imperial city of the Ming Dynasty, even if we accuse you of you and wait for the murderer, the people in North America would only suspect that it was our cause! Now, you two have been arrested by our Jinyiwei."
The two North American men were ashamed, and they knew that they could not escape from the infamous Jinyiwei.
"Put them in prison and torture them carefully, and maybe you can cross-examine any valuable information."
Chu Qi didn't expect that he would accidentally hit the murderer who was about to assassinate Lincoln. Is this considered saving Lincoln's life?
Chapter completed!