Changchun's Guoxing'a arranged everything, and replied to the imperial court, saying that he would return to Beijing to worship during the Tongzhi pro-government ceremony, and introduced in detail his route to Beijing and the escorts he brought. Guo Xinga thought that he could wait for the reply of the imperial court in Changchun, and then go to Beijing to play tricks after a year and a half, but he didn't want to receive an urgent report that afternoon, and the imperial court was in chaos. This chaos seems to have occurred in Tianjin, a mass incident caused by rumors, but the degree of outrageousness and the consequences are unprecedented.

Since the Beijing peace talks 11 years ago, Tianjin has become the largest port in the north, and while the economy is booming, there is also a very interesting phenomenon, the small city of Tianjin has a huge number of officials. On the table, there are three ministers of trade Chonghou, Tianjin Daotai Zhou Jiaxun, Tianjin Governor Zhang Guangzao, Tianjin County Governor Liu Jie, Tianjin Governor Chen Guorui and a large number of people, as well as a large number of consuls from various countries, including Song Changqing, the trade representative of North Manchuria. If these people can work together and actively communicate, Tianjin will not be thriving, at least there will be no big mess, but unfortunately everyone is reading their own scriptures, which finally leads to the situation getting out of control.

In addition to the large number of officials, there is another difference between Tianjin and other places, that is, there are a large number of gangsters living in Tianjin, and these outlaws are extremely troublesome. These people wear blue pants, fat clothes and large-sleeved satin gowns, embroidered shoes on their feet, and wigs with big locks on their heads, called braids, and like to shake their heads and pick their thumbs when they speak, and always walk with their left leg and drag their right leg, pretending to be disabled. These guys look funny, and they live even more funny, they basically started with self-harm, and they live without scruples, betting on the oil pot, and they don't do less. On weekdays, people who rely on their own scruples and live in the market are naturally not easy to mess with. However, they also pay attention to the rules of righteousness, but their world view is somewhat distorted, and they are a real factor of social instability. A group of old men in the upper class of Tianjin can't afford to offend foreigners, and they are all cautious, and there is a group of desperate outlaws in the lower class.

In the late spring of the 11th year of Tongzhi, a wild mound on the east bank of the Haihe River attracted many wild dogs and crows, and some people found that the corpses of many children were dug out of the soil by wild dogs, and the eagles pecked the dogs, and the scene was very tragic. At the same time, a terrible rumor spread in the city of Tianjin, like the wind. In the French nursery, the eyes and internal organs of Chinese orphans were gouged out ······, and some people said that the internal organs were used as medicine primers, and the eyeballs were dug out by foreigners to refine silver. Some people say that not long ago, the grandmother of the Hall of Mercy hired someone to bury these dozens of coffins, and one thin coffin contained the bodies of two or three children at most.

The news naturally reached the ears of the government, and Zhang Guangzao, the prefect of Tianjin, sent a servant to the scene to take a look, and reported that "the coffins have dried up, and there are no traces of digging hearts and eyes", and later did not see the people report to the official, nor did he receive a report from Liu Jie, the magistrate, Zhang Guangzao thought that the matter had subsided. The government didn't take it seriously, what should the Daotai, the prefect, and the county do, maybe because they are not politically sensitive, and it is more likely to be "schadenfreude".

Within a few days, a lot of people gathered in front of the yamen of Tianjin Mansion in despair, and it turned out that someone had caught two suspects who abducted children with *, one was named Zhang Xuan, and the other was called Guo Gui, and listening to the name was like abducting children. Some people say that there was originally a suspect, because he was in the church, so he was asked to leave by the priest of Wanghailou Church through the three ministers of trade and trade. Zhang Guangzao, the prefect of Tianjin, and Liu Jieshi, the prefect of Tianjin, didn't care about any rumors, they just wanted to suppress the matter, and after obtaining confessions from the suspects, they hurriedly announced that they were guilty of human trafficking, and then cut off their heads. Then Zhang Guangzao posted a very strange notice, absolutely with ulterior motives, the notice said: "Zhang Lian, Guo Gui abducted young children with medicine. It was rumored that there were many criminals, and they were instructed to spread around the world, abducting young children to take out their brains and gouge out their hearts for the purpose of dispensing medicine. ”

Not only that, Zhang Guangzao also approached Feng Daye, the French consul in Tianjin, through Chonghou, and asked to investigate the suspicion of the Nursery Hall. A detailed investigation is a good thing, but public opinion is turbulent, and Zhang Guangzao hasn't done it secretively, doesn't this add fuel to the fire? The illiterate bastards don't understand, and the people behind the bastards can see the door at once, although this notice does not name the nursery, but it is obvious that there are no three hundred taels of silver here, and even the government believes that this matter has something to do with the church's medicine primer. The people's doubts about the Catholic Church still have no explanation, so the two heads of Zhang Lian and Guo Guan have become clear evidence to confirm the rumors, thus increasing people's suspicion and hatred of the Catholic Church.

Before Zhang Guangzao's investigation was announced, Tianjin's "Water and Fire Society" arrested another abductor, Wu Lanzhen. Under severe torture, Wu Lanzhen confessed that his * was given by Wang San of Wanghailou Church, and the abducted child was also given to the church. The Water and Fire Association is a kind of civil organization in Tianjin, which was originally in charge of fire fighting and fire fighting, but later because of the rise of militia groups in various places, these people are all young and strong people with some martial arts skills, so they also charge part-time fees to protect the territory and the people. They are not as careless as the gangsters, but they are not very different in nature.

As soon as Wu Lanzhen's confession came out, the people in Tianjin immediately boiled over, and Liu Jie, the magistrate of Tianjin, had to invite the prefect Zhang Guangzao to find a noble way to ask for instructions from the prefect who specialized in foreign affairs. Chonghou also had no choice but to take them to meet the French consul Feng Daye. At first, Feng Daye also promised to assist them in the investigation, but the next day there was no result, Liu Jie looked for Feng Daye again, and was scolded by Feng Daye, and a small county magistrate of yours also came to order me to do this, do that? Do you deserve it? Liu Xianling had no choice but to come back and ask Chonghou again. When Chonghou came, Feng Daye agreed to let Father Xie of Wanghailou Church cooperate with the investigation.

The next day, Zhang Guangzao and Liu Jie took the servants to escort Wu Lanzhen to Wanghailou Church to identify the scene and confront the prisoners. However, when the government took people to the church to identify them with great fanfare, they did not find the person named Wang San, and the church did not have the ceiling and iron fence that Wu Lanzhen said. In the end, he and Father Xie Evangel finalized: "After that, the young children in the church, the local inventory, and the sick and dead are buried, so as not to cause material discussions." At this point, the matter seemed to have been settled, so in a letter to the French minister Luo Shuya that day, Feng Daye said: "This incident, which might have deteriorated without noble intervention, seems to be almost settled today." ”

However, the people who watched the excitement around didn't understand what was going on here, and when they saw that the government had gone to the scene to identify them, they believed even more in the fact that the church used children as medicine primers, and naively thought that the government was on the side of the people in this matter. The rumors spread ten, ten, hundreds, and soon spread throughout Tianjin. As a result, calls for the killing of priests and the burning of churches became increasingly loud. It is a typical characteristic of Xiucai to eat and have nothing to do, so they went to the Confucian Temple to rally and demonstrate, and then the "unveiling post" was posted all over the streets and alleys of Tianjin.

Zhang Guangzao and Liu Jie thought that they had just left after finding out, and there was an accident in Wanghailou Church again. The people who gathered around the church to watch the excitement were mainly idlers who had nothing to do, and when they saw the parishioners coming in and out, they shouted "ghost slave, ghost slave". And the people in the church were not to be outdone, and immediately scolded "hell, lamb" in return. The two sides quickly wrestled together, and the people outside picked up the bricks and stones and threw them at a glance. This place is not far from the lofty mansion, and the French priest Xie Gospel hurriedly asked someone to tell Chonghou, but Chonghou sent two patrols, and the patrols only drank everyone when they arrived. The French consulate not far from here also got the news, Feng Daye hurried over, and asked why the patrol didn't arrest people, and the patrol asked rhetorically, they don't make trouble, who should I arrest? Feng Daye was furious, grabbed a patrolling braid, took his secretary Simon, and went to the Chonghou Mansion to ask for the guilt.

Chonghou was about to go out to greet him when he heard the news, and he didn't want Feng Daye to kick the door open, but when he saw Chonghou, he raised his hand to shoot, and naturally he didn't hit. Feng Daye was here to anger and scare people, and he didn't have the courage to kill Chinese officials. The intimidation effect of this shot was really good, so frightened that the left and right hurriedly stopped Feng Daye, and Chonghou escaped into the back hall. Feng Daye didn't spread the fire, so he took the furnishings in the house and smashed seven meat and six vegetables. Feng Daye actually has a very good impression of Chonghou, because Chonghou is always towards him and helps him a lot, but he is very poor at controlling his emotions, and he doesn't care about his temper.

Feng Daye is like having a hatred for taking his wife with Chonghou, in the sublime mansion, he shot and smashed again, and it didn't end until he was tired. The sublime Qi cultivation kung fu is really nothing to say, the hostage turtle is his grandson, at this time he actually came out, and he can still say good things to Feng Daye's smiling face, which is really beyond the reach of ordinary people. The so-called fist is difficult to beat the smiling person, the sublime is like this, and the arrogant Fengda cause is not good to do anything anymore.

Feng Daye snorted angrily and prepared to go back to disperse the mob, but he couldn't leave, at this time the French consul made a big fuss about the three ministers of trade and commerce, the matter had already spread, and the gong sounded, and many people from the water and fire meeting were summoned to the streets, in the words of Zhang Guangzao, the prefect of Tianjin, "The people have each armed with swords and weapons, and the water will sound gongs and gather." "Chonghou persuaded Feng Daye to say, those people outside are not easy to mess with, and if they don't get killed, you should hide in my place first. Feng Daye's eyes widened, "You are afraid of the people, I am not afraid of the Chinese people!" After slamming the door and leaving, Chonghou hurriedly sent two people to follow him to protect him. At this time, there was a sea of people near the East Pontoon Bridge, and who could the two people of the Chonghou faction see in the thousands of people? Who else are you protecting?

Feng Daye was also startled as soon as he left the mansion, and the people on the street were black, all with knives and guns and glaring angrily. But the two patrols sent by the rush were really useful, and with their deterrence, the people didn't do anything, but just formed a knot with Feng Daye and rushed forward. Feng Daye just walked to the East Pontoon Bridge, and happened to meet Liu Jie, the county magistrate who had just gone to the church to bounce back, Feng Daye's fire came up at once, if you didn't take the suspect to the church to confront him, could there be this rotten thing today? And these thousands of people put a lot of pressure on Feng Daye, Feng Daye needed to make a splash and scare these people, and then he made a stupid move.