Chapter 36 Acting Shandong

On Chinese soil, the impact of lesson plans such as the one mentioned above that makes non-believers suffer is very bad.

In addition, some people with ulterior motives have created a lot of rumors, such as foreigners' hospitals digging out the eyes of Chinese children to make **, priests using special tools to suck up something from the little boy's body, etc.

At that time, due to the lack of scientific knowledge among the Chinese people, it was easy for ordinary Chinese people to believe such rumors, forming a very strong xenophobic and xenophobic sentiment.

Some people who do evil things take the opportunity to rob the church and its people of their property, forming more lesson plans. The Boxers also took the opportunity to raise the banner of exterminating the ocean.

In the beginning, due to the frequent teaching plans in Shandong, Boxer activities were rampant. In order to maintain social order in Shandong, the imperial court ordered Yuan Shikai to take his Wuwei Right Army to Dezhou and Yizhou to conduct drills, in an attempt to deter bandits.

There is a very famous lesson plan.

On October 7, 1899, a boxer surnamed Yang led the boxers of Li Zhuang in Pingyuan County and robbed the property of the family of the Li family in this village.

The people surnamed Li went to the county to complain. The county ordered Jiang Kai to send the chief officer Chen Dehe to lead the county Yong to arrest him.

The boxers surnamed Li and others resisted, and with the assistance of Zhuang Min, they captured six people including boxers surnamed Qiu.

Jiang Kai was arraigned. It was true that the whole people surnamed Qiu and others confessed that they obeyed the whole people surnamed Li and robbed the people surnamed Li of their food and clothing, so they ordered the six people to be detained.

The boxers surnamed Li fled, and immediately asked for help from the big leader of the Boxers who were active in this area.

The great leader led the crowd to Gongzi Lizhuang and robbed the parishioners again. kidnapped the parishioners, and claimed that Qiu Fuzi and the other six people must be released. also framed Chen De and blackmailed Qian Wen, a boxer surnamed Li, and he must hand over the full amount, otherwise the people of the sect will be killed.

Jiang Kai personally led the brave team to go, and the two messengers were slashed. Jiang Kai saw that the other party was strong, and reported to the top for help.

At this time, Yuan Shikai happened to lead the right army of Wuwei to practice in this area.

On October 16, Lu Changyi and Yuan Shikai, the prefects of Jinan, led their troops to the plain.

At that time, the governor of Shandong was Yuxian, an extremely stubborn xenophobia, and he was protective of the Yihequan, and asked the lower side to be mainly Fu. As a last resort, no force should be used against the Boxers.

Lu Changyi sent Yuxian's notice to the leader of the Yihe Fist to persuade him to disband.

The great leader of the Boxer Fist relied on the strength of the crowd and resisted the trouble.

On the 18th, the leader of the Boxer Boxing led his troops to move to Senluodian.

Lu Changyi was worried that it would cause even greater harm, so he once again sent people to persuade them to wake up and disband. At the same time, he and Yuan Shikai led the troops to show deterrence.

Seeing the arrival of the official army, the leader of the Boxer Fist wanted to attack the official army first, and the official army suffered casualties.

Yuan Shikai ordered the troops to attack and sent a team of horses to outflank them. The two-way attack killed more than 20 boxers.

Seeing that he was invincible, the great leader of the Boxer Fist led people to flee.

Yuxian, the extremely xenophobic governor of Shandong, received Lu Changyi's report and did not care about it. According to inertial thinking, it was immediately concluded that Li Kai, the magistrate of the county, was protective of the people; and arson with Chen De and blackmail the people. As a result, the anger of the people was aroused, and the robbers took the opportunity to rob.

Please dismiss Jiang Kai, and Chen Dehe will be strictly dealt with in the province.

He was also very dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai, believing that he had ruined his overall plan to appease Yihequan. He participated in Yuan Shikai's book and asked the imperial court to transfer Yuan Shikai's right army from Shandong.

In this way, Yuan Shikai's reputation for resolutely suppressing the Boxers was spread.

The Boxer Leader and the others fled back to Chiping and negotiated with several other leaders under him. Feeling that the matter had become a big problem, he simply took people out to rob the parishioners everywhere.

He robbed four homes including Wang Shushen, a religious member of Miaojialinzhuang in Yucheng County, and killed a civilian guarding the door.

robbed the house of Li Gongtang, a religious citizen of Lijiazhuang, Changqing County, and kidnapped Li Gongtang's father and brother to ransom.

robbed Zheng Jixian, a member of the Zheng family camp, and kidnapped his father.

robbed the homes of Zhang Guantun, Xu Qinghua and others in Chiping County, and killed the church teacher Wang Guanjie.

robbed the house of Xu Yanglan, a priest of Wangxiang Laozhuang, and kidnapped Liu Anyi, a priest of Shawo Village, of Majia for ransom. ……

Things are getting bigger and bigger. But Yuxian saw that most of the robbers were religious people, and he still showed mercy outside the law, did not blame the past, and ordered it to be dissolved.

The matter reached the imperial court, and the imperial court strictly ordered Yuxian to severely punish the leader of the Boxer and other bandits.

Yuxian had to order the Taoist Ji Cansheng and the deputy general Ma Jinxu to lead the officers and soldiers of the department to suppress the bandits.

On November 21, the Boxer leader was arrested, and then several other leaders were captured.

Yuxian interrogated these leaders of the Boxers.

It was found that what these people did had nothing to do with the mindset lesson plan formed in his mind, and these people were indeed robbers who used the lesson plan as an excuse to kill people and steal goods, loot property, and do all kinds of evil. Thinking that he had been protecting this gang of robbers, he was afraid of being truthful, and he was also forced by pressure from all sides, so he hurriedly put to death the leader of the Boxer and other evildoers.

The great powers of various countries were dissatisfied with Yuxian's inability to protect the church, which caused great dissatisfaction among the parishioners, and strongly demanded that the Qing Dynasty remove the governor of Shandong.

Qing ** also believes that Yuxian "is stubborn, thinking that those who are in trouble with the people are good people, and they will inevitably be partial, as if this will breed trouble over time."

On December 26, 1899, he ordered Yuxian to enter Beijing to see His Majesty.

Yuan Shikai acted as governor of Shandong.

Yuan Shikai gambled on the chaos of Shandong and was unwilling to accept Yuxian's mess.

When he entered Beijing to ask for training, he said that because of the poor public security in Shandong, he asked himself to still control the right army of Wuwei. After receiving approval, he led the people of his headquarters to Shandong to take office.

After taking office, Yuan Shikai faced two major problems:

One was the Gaomi people who prevented the Germans from building the Jiaoji Railway, and the other was the activities of the Boxers throughout Shandong.

Yuan Shikai had long believed in his bones that the Boxers and the like were bandits. This is also normal, his family was originally built by suppressing the peasants. Anti-ZTE.

Therefore, on his way to take office, he passed through Dezhou to meet with the Wuqiao County Commander, spoke highly of his action of requesting the punishment of the boxers, and sent a telegram to Yulu, the governor of Zhili.

On the second day of his arrival, he took the lead and promulgated the "Prohibition of Boxers." In the notice, he knew it with affection and moved it with reason: "The commander has suppressed and suppressed the heavy troops, and it is not difficult to extinguish it immediately, but he can't bear to be punished without teaching."

In addition to announcing that the former Yuxian has corrected the law such as the leader of the Boxer Fist, he hereby tells the military and civilians to know it:

"It is advisable to exhort one another and keep things in peace,...... Don't fall astray. Those who have joined the boxing sect will change their past mistakes and dissolve immediately; Those who have not joined the boxing sect should not be followed. Those who can inspire Tianliang to dedicate their heads will be rewarded for their efforts to eliminate hegemony in the land of self-renewal; If he is obsessed with obsession and recklessness, he is willing to violate the criminal chapter and must be severely punished.

"Or dare to shield the bandit leader, hide and not report, once discovered, the owner of the nest will be punished according to the law, and the Li Bao will be punished together. If you are lawless and resist the officials, the army will be shattered. The Department of Nursing is pure and painstaking, and it is not necessary to say that it is unpredictable. ”

For Yuan Shikai to serve as the governor of Shandong, the powers of various countries were relatively satisfied.

For example, the British Minister to Beijing, Douglas, wrote to British Foreign Secretary Salisbury, saying: "With regard to the situation in northern Shandong, I think the most promising prospect is to select Yuan Shikai as governor of Shandong.

This official had served for many years as Minister to Korea, and had recently commanded an army of about 8,000 foreigners, stationed near Tianjin.

"He has already declared that the whole army must be transferred with him to the province: at the same time, he has a resolute character and, if necessary, the immediate use of force, which is characteristic of his activities in various critical situations throughout his life. So one might expect that in the provinces under his jurisdiction he would successfully and swiftly put down the rebellion. ”

After the proclamation prohibiting the Boxers was issued, Yuan Shikai asked his subordinate Admiral Cheng Wenzhi to discuss the suppression of bandits.

Cheng Wenshan shook his head again and again, saying that many people in Yihequan are possessed by divine skills, and they are invulnerable, which is really difficult to deal with.

Kindly persuaded Yuan Shikai to send out the notice to make a show, don't make unnecessary trouble for yourself.

Is the Boxer really possessed by divine powers? Yuan Shikai is a very superstitious person, but he believes that hearing is false and seeing is believing. He recalled that when he and Lu Changyi, the prefect of Jinan, were killing more than 20 boxers, he killed more than 20 boxers, and he didn't see anyone who was invulnerable! But Cheng Wenshan insisted that he had seen it with his own eyes, and what he said was vivid, and Yuan Shikai couldn't completely disbelieve it.

If these boxers of the Boxers are really possessed by divine skills and are invulnerable, it is really difficult to deal with, Yuan Shikai is very entangled.