Chapter 89: The Qingzhou Rebellion (2)
It turned out that Feng Ruqi was loyal to the Qing court, and when the traverser first landed on the shore, because of the defeat of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Feng Ruqi still had a good impression of them, but as the traverser occupied Shandong and behaved in his own way, he simply did not take the Qing court in his eyes, and there was a lot of disrespect for the Qing court in his words, which caused Feng Ruqi's dissatisfaction. Moreover, after the traverser occupied Qingdao, he set up his own administration and set up officials, which was like a rebellion, and it was the land reform implemented by the East China government.
In fact, Yuan Shikai understands these things much better than Feng Ruqi, but if he wants to try to get overseas Chinese, how can he do it? Overseas Chinese are not comparable to the likes of Longhair, the Boxers, and the like, and even the imperial court can't do anything about them, so why should he worry about this more, and besides, if that day comes, won't there still be ministers of military aircraft in the DPRK and China? I don't bother to use this brain, so I still have to do the normal things in front of me first.
However, Yuan Shikai was also afraid that after he left Shandong, Feng Ruqi would really have trouble with overseas Chinese, and the only unlucky person at that time was naturally Feng Ruqi, so he repeatedly belonged to him, and never made enemies with overseas Chinese.
In fact, Feng Ruqi is also a person who has been in the officialdom for many years, but he is not a reckless teenager, and naturally he knows that the overseas Chinese are in full swing now, and even the imperial court has to look at their faces, he is just a small prefect, and the momentum of touching overseas Chinese at this moment is completely self-inflicted, and he only complains a few words in front of Yuan Shikai.
After Yuan Shikai left office, the traverser did not extend his influence to Qingzhou Mansion for the time being, so Feng Ruqi also fell into a clean ear, but the overseas Chinese in Jinan Mansion carried out land reform with great fanfare, and severely cracked down on the local powerful forces in Jinan, these things have spread to Qingzhou, Feng Ruqi can't help but be shocked that overseas Chinese really dare to do it, not taboo at all, and worry in a hurry, if overseas Chinese come to Qingzhou, what can they do?
Sure enough, a few months later, the overseas Chinese really came to Qingzhou to carry out some land reform, and the local squires did not dare to provoke the overseas Chinese, so they came to Feng Ruqi one after another to cry, asking Feng Ruqi to come forward for him, asking the overseas Chinese to show mercy, leaving hundreds of acres of land for themselves, and so on.
Although Feng Ruqi really didn't want to provoke overseas Chinese, he couldn't help it at this point, because among the local officials in the Qing court, Feng Ruqi was still relatively colorful, even if the local squire asked for his head, he would have to meet the overseas Chinese for a while.
So Feng Ruli ordered to send someone to send a post to invite the principal of the overseas Chinese, and wanted to talk to him face-to-face, the person who was responsible for presiding over the land reform in Qingzhou was in a hurry to open up the situation in the Qingzhou area at this time, so he was in the mood to meet the Qingzhou magistrate, and he didn't put a Qingzhou magistrate in his eyes, so he only said that he had something to do and didn't have time to visit.
This time Feng Ruqi was angry enough, although he was an overseas Chinese, but after all, he was just a flat-headed commoner, and he was a dignified Qingzhou prefect, and he was also a fourth-grade official of the imperial court. Therefore, Feng Ruqi was angry, and he couldn't care about it much, and he tried to make his own prefect inappropriate, and he also wanted to destroy the prestige of overseas Chinese, so he immediately called the officials in Qingzhou City and asked them to take people out of the city to arrest a few overseas Chinese who disturbed the place.
When the officials heard this, they were all frightened, because they all knew, the overseas Chinese had cleaned up the officials in Jinan, and there were more than a dozen of them, and several old officials of the family had been slaughtered by the overseas Chinese, and the family property was also copied, and now the prefect let himself catch a few overseas Chinese back, isn't this putting himself on the fire to roast. But as soon as he said that he couldn't go, Feng Ruqi got angry and reprimanded the servants severely, only saying that if he couldn't bring people, he would all be arrested and imprisoned tomorrow.
Although he couldn't afford to provoke overseas Chinese, he wanted the prefect of Tangsai, and the servants had a way, so all the officers took sick leave the next day and didn't come to work. Feng Ruqi was so angry that he smoked, but there was no way, to say that he had arrested all these errand servants and squatted in prison, it was just talking, one was that he could not say that he would arrest people if he took sick leave; second, Feng Ruqi knew in his heart that the affairs in the yamen still had to be handled by these errand officers, and he couldn't let his dignified prefect arrest people.
In desperation, Feng Ruqi had no choice but to write to the governor's yamen, saying that some people were making trouble in the local area in the name of overseas Chinese, hoping that the governor's yamen could take care of it. This is also a way to do no way, as long as the governor's yamen replies that there is no such thing, he can plug his mouth, of course, these may be somewhat restrained. But Feng Ruqi didn't expect the reply of the governor's yamen to be four words: "Don't be nosy".
Feng Ruqi was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he was thinking that if he didn't do anything, it would be better to fold it directly to the court, and he would like to take a copy of them, and simply shake out all the things they did in Shandong. However, Feng Ruqi also knew that it was not trivial to fold to the imperial court, not only did he cut off his own back road, but also nine times out of ten he could not participate in overseas Chinese, but he would also put himself in.
At this time, Yuan Shikai sent a letter to Feng Ruqi, saying that he was ordered by the imperial court to pacify the remnants of the boxers in Zhili, Henan, Shanxi and other places, and to ensure that Feng Ruqi was transferred to the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion to supply the army's food and grass utensils.
Although the transfer from Qingzhou to the Daimyo Mansion is a transfer at the same level, it is different with the title of "supplying food and grass utensils for the army". In fact, he followed Yuan Shikai to quell the chaos together, and once the chaos was successful, he also had a share of the credit, so Yuan Shikai also had a reason to promote himself. This time, Feng Ruqi also threw aside the matter of joining overseas Chinese, after all, seeing that he was about to be promoted, why bother to do such a thing that would cut off his future, endure it for a few more days, and he would leave Shandong, out of sight and out of mind, no matter how overseas Chinese tossed.
And at this time, Wen Rui came, also for the sake of overseas Chinese. In fact, Wen Rui was also in a hurry to go to the doctor, because it was useless to find Feng Ruqi for this matter, but Wen Rui hoped that Feng Ruqi could set up a line and talk to overseas Chinese, they can carry out land reform as much as they want, but don't touch the land of the people.
Of course, Feng Ruqi understood what Wen Rui meant, but he was also more clear that overseas Chinese would never compromise with Wen Rui. Moreover, Feng Ruqi didn't have a good impression of the Manchurians, thinking that these people would only waste food and could not do anything. But when it comes to coming up with an idea, you might as well instigate Wen Rui to come out and make a fuss with overseas Chinese, and make the matter as big as possible, if the overseas Chinese are afraid of the identity of the Manchurians, it can be regarded as a violation of their prestige, and there will be a way to deal with the overseas Chinese in the future, and if the overseas Chinese are not even afraid of the Manchurians, and even the Manchus are killed, then it will make the matter bigger, and the imperial court can no longer ignore it, and it will more or less make the overseas Chinese restrain themselves.
So Feng Ruqi deliberately made an innocent appearance, saying that he couldn't help himself, and also told him that he had posted a post to invite overseas Chinese but was refuted and lost face.
Sure enough, Wen Rui was a little stupid when he heard it, and subconsciously asked Feng Ruqi what to do?
In fact, Feng Ruqi was waiting for his question, and deliberately made a helpless look, persuading Wen Rui to endure it, and if the overseas Chinese want to collect the fields, they will give them the fields, so as to keep a peace, speaking of this, Feng Ruqi also deliberately lowered his voice, and said something about what the overseas Chinese did in Jinan Mansion, only saying that this is a lesson from the past, and advised Wen Rui not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Wen Rui was anxious at that time, saying that he was a Manchurian, and that overseas Chinese would dare to kill Manchurians.
Seeing that Wen Ruiji was gradually getting into the corner, Feng Ruqi was very happy in his heart, saying that overseas Chinese are famous for not recognizing their six relatives, and they have long had a heart of disobedience, so they will not be considered Manchu Han, but now that the imperial court has just returned to Luan, there are many affairs, and they have no energy to take care of these things, so even if overseas Chinese really kill a few Manchurians, the imperial court will not do anything to them? If you listen to your own advice and hand over all the fields, you can still save your life, but if you don't hand over the fields, you will annoy the overseas Chinese and kill people, and the land and property will not be saved, so it is better to abandon the fields and save your lives.
The more Wen Rui listened, the more angry he became, he threw his sleeves off, and left Qingzhou City angrily and returned to Mancheng, just at this time the housekeeper told him that more than 1,000 acres of land in a grange outside the city had been divided by overseas Chinese, and dozens of clothed people on the village wanted to stop them, but they were also arrested by more than a dozen overseas Chinese, and the others fled back to Mancheng to report the news.
Originally, Wen Rui held back the fire in his belly, and when he heard the news, he suddenly had a seizure, thinking that since the overseas Chinese were unreasonable and even robbed their own fields, then he would not be polite, so he simply made a big fuss about him, to see what the overseas Chinese could do to themselves, and if they didn't do it, they would go to the capital and ask Lafayette, the world is still not full of people, and they are actually bullied like this.
So Wen Rui immediately recruited the officials of the garrison to discuss, and the leader Wu Lezhen agreed with Wen Rui's proposition, and decided to fight to the death with the overseas Chinese, because he had two granges of about 1,200 acres of land that were also robbed by overseas Chinese, and he was thinking about how to take back this grange。
However, Wen Rui knew that if he was on the fold like this, most of the imperial court would fool the past, even if the overseas Chinese stopped, the land and property that they robbed would not be recovered, so if something did not happen, the imperial court would not take care of it seriously, so he ignored Wu Yannian's suggestion and asked Wu Leyi to recruit troops and prepare to teach overseas Chinese a lesson, leaving only Wu Yannian in the city. When Wu Yannian saw this, although he was bitter in his heart, he was helpless.