A gunshot rang out from Feng Daye, like a starting gun, announcing the beginning of the chaos in Tianjin. In fact, there is not much difference between humans and animals, since the smell of blood stimulates people's nerves, the feast of human blood is stimulated. As soon as Feng Daye's gun rang out, the congregations and bastards gathered around were all stimulated, knives, guns and sticks were put together, and in the blink of an eye, Feng Daye and his secretary Simon became ghosts, this time not foreign ghosts, but real ghosts.

The people who have gone crazy have let go of all their scruples, and Liu Jie, the magistrate of Tianjin, who is standing alive, is no different from the dead, and there is no way to stop them at all. What the people resent is the foreign devil and the church, and now that the foreign devil's official has been ambushed, the next step is the church. Without anyone to greet them, after killing Feng Daye and Simon, the people immediately flocked to Wanghailou Church like a tide. As for the consequences of killing the French consul, the consequences of bulldozing the church, the people have no time to care about it at the moment, they only need to vent the anger that has been accumulated in their hearts for a long time.

In less than three hours, the French Consulate in Tianjin, the Catholic Assembly Hall (Wanghailou Church), the Nursery Church (Church of Mercy) affiliated to the Catholic Mission of St. Wincinte, and several foreign companies were looted and burned down, completely erasing from Chinese soil. In terms of robbery and arson, the people have the ability to learn from themselves, and they are very clean, and they have not even left a whole brick for foreigners. It's not just the foreigners' things that have to be destroyed, but the foreigners who "do all kinds of evil" don't want to run. Twenty foreigners, including women, were killed, including thirteen French, two Belgian, one Italian, one Irish, and three Russians. In addition to churches and trading houses, six Anglo-American lecture halls were completely burned down, and they were also places where false reasoning and heresies were spread, so naturally they could not be left. Usually relying on the name of foreigners, the thirty or forty Chinese believers in the township did not run away, and were pulled out by everyone and bled one by one.

The victims were not tried by the yamen, and naturally there were no orthodox punishments such as beheading and shooting, and they were all lynched. The Chinese pay attention to a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood, although it is only a rumor, but the restless people still have to clean them up in the same way that the missionaries deal with babies, so that they know what the cycle of heaven is. Legend has it that the orphans were all dug up by the missionaries for alchemy, and the people naturally wanted to disembowel the captured missionaries and take their hearts and livers to sacrifice the dead. Legend has it that they gouged out the eyes of children to refine silver, and the people naturally had to gouge out their eyes so that they would never look away.

For some unspeakable reason, the people also stripped the nuns naked one by one in front of others, leaving them naked. The nuns' bodies were then torn open, their eyes gouged out, and their eyes cut off. When a person is mutilated to death, her body is hung on a spear before being thrown into a burning church. Men are stripped of their clothes after they die, and most of their bodies are thrown into the river.

At first, they focused on attacking the French, and later launched indiscriminate attacks on foreigners from all over the world, and the consulates of Britain, the United States, and Russia were all attacked. The people in the consulate can still rely on the fence to protect themselves, and the missionaries and businessmen outside can be caught blind, and now the people of Tianjin are indiscriminately searching and killing them, as long as they are caught, they will die. The way to flee to the consulate was impassable, and these poor people could call the heavens and the earth unspiritual, and the God they believed in was obviously not working in the east, and could not shelter them at all.

It is also the road of endless heaven, and the foreigners who are scattered and fleeing, constantly praying for God is not spiritual, but they still find a savior. When the savior was discovered, he was very impolitely lying on the wall to watch the excitement, and he was holding a bowl of millet porridge in his hand, and this god was Song Changqing, the commercial representative of North Manchu in Tianjin. Song Changqing was obviously unwilling to get involved in these bad things, but if the foreigners rushed into the North Manchurian Business Hall to seek refuge, they would not stop or drive them away. If the people stormed the business hall, they would be driven away by the guards very unceremoniously, and the people could not beat the heavily armed guards of North Manchuria. Therefore, the North Manchurian Business Hall has become a refuge for wandering foreigners, and all the foreigners who can't return to the consulate run here.

Song Changqing's surname explains his identity, serious Han people only have the surname Song, where will anyone have the surname Song! He is a Zhenggen banner man, and he is a banner man from Gu'an. Song Changqing has been weak since he was a child, although he is also a bannerman, but he can't enter the barracks at all, let alone fight, he can't even catch chickens. It stands to reason that he will be able to mix the food and salary, and then be mediocre and mediocre for a lifetime, and he will not have the opportunity to get an official and a half-job. But Song Changqing, who has an average family background, has a good brother-in-law, and his sister is married to Feng Sheng, a veteran hero of North Manchuria, and she is a big house Fujin, which gives Song Changqing a chance. Under the scrutiny of many parties, Song Changqing passed the public official examination, and then obtained the official position of business representative through his connections.

There is a shortage of business representatives, and one step up is the Minister of International Trade. There are not many foreign envoys in North Manchuria, and many places deal with foreign affairs as trade representatives and commerce ministers, so becoming a trade representative is equivalent to entering the Ningxin Pavilion on one leg, and can almost be regarded as a quasi-cabinet member. It's a pity that Song Changqing's ability is limited, and he has been in the fat shortage position for a long time, and he has not made any progress at all, Zou Degui barely knew that there was such a person as him, and he didn't remove him to give Fengsheng a face. Therefore, Song Changqing can only be a representative everywhere, Nanyang, South America, Australia, the United States, Shanghai, Guangzhou, he has stayed, and he was transferred to Tianjin half a year ago. Song Changqing also kept in mind his brother-in-law's teachings, he didn't seek merit but no fault, and he was not ready to rise, so it was good to mix it up like this.

The admission of these foreign refugees this time is not that Song Changqing has any foresight, he just abides by the rules and regulations of the business club. The North Manchurian Chamber of Commerce stipulates that refugees seeking relief are allowed to enter, but nuisance scoundrels are not allowed to enter, but there is no nationality and ethnic composition, so foreigners seeking asylum can enter, but ordinary people who are fighting in open flames are not allowed to enter. The international influence is cloudy, and how North Manchuria can profit from this incident is not within the scope of Song Changqing's consideration, he is just a legalistic person. So he took in the foreign refugees, and then sent a telegram to Zheng Qifeng, who was in charge of Dalian to report it, and the rest of the matter had nothing to do with him, he had to continue to drink his porridge and watch his liveliness.

After the chaos ended, Tianjin quickly fell into a strange state. People died, churches were burned, but there was no triumphant revelry in the streets, and the city of Tianjin took on a strange state of silence. Officials at all levels below Chonghou are thinking about how they can make up the recitals for the imperial court. The sound of gongs, drums, and shouts of killing in the various water and fire meetings suddenly stopped, and many streets immediately stopped, shops closed, ships left port, small merchants and hawkers closed their stalls, and the originally lawless gangsters also subsided a lot.

The consuls and foreigners of various countries living in Zizhulin were frightened, closed their doors and windows, hid in strong buildings such as consulates, and gathered strong men to organize armed self-defense. As long as the foreigners who were close to the church, whether it was missionaries or priests, as well as women and children, they all hid in the business halls of North Manchuria. And they paid a lot of money, hoping that Song Changqing could help them again and get a boat to send them out of Tianjin. But the savior Song Changqing is not very active in this matter, he still has to wait for the instructions of Dalian and Changchun, and he himself is not responsible at all.

In the silence, everyone seemed to be fine, except for an assistant at the British Consulate in Tianjin, who sent an urgent letter to London, far away in the Atlantic. The letter arrived in Shanghai six days later, to Hong Kong a week later, and immediately to Cape de Gaulle, the terminus of the submarine telegraph to the Far East. A month later, the telegram was photographed by Cape de Gaulle, and two days later, the urgent telegram finally arrived in London. The content is just one sentence: "The French Consulate, the Church of Charity, and the Assembly Hall of France were all burned, and the French Consul and all the nuns and several other French people were killed!" ”。 In an instant, the whole of Europe was boiling. And at this very moment, the long-brewing Franco-Prussian War had just broken out for a week. There is a war on the European continent, how will France deal with the Sino-French teaching case? How should the Qing court respond? All of a sudden, it became the focus of the whole world.

At this time, the calmest person, in addition to watching the lively Song Changqing, is the three ministers of trade and commerce. Seeing that the street was a little calm, Chonghou asked his subordinates to quickly buy a good coffin to bury the dead, and informed the Tianjin garrison to send troops to guard the foreign companies of various countries as soon as possible. On the other hand, Chonghou sent people to the consulates to inform them that the Water and Fire Society, the gangsters, and the common people had retreated, and that more troops had been sent to various important places, and that they would never harm other countries again. The next day, Chonghou visited the scene of the tragedy and personally went to the legations of various countries in Zizhulin to express his condolences. Chonghou has been criticized by the people of Tianjin as "favoring foreigners, but has won the praise of foreigners", and even later when the French minister Luo Shuya asked for severe punishment of officials at all levels in Tianjin, only Chonghou was excluded.

After the disruption was eliminated, the reaction of countries was not the same. On the issue of China, Britain and France have always been united, and this time is no exception. Moreover, the young wife of the British consul Li Weihai once volunteered in the nursery of the Holy House of Mercy and was familiar with the grandmothers there. But the British played a trick again, they had to look at the attitude of North Manchuria before they expressed their opinion, and their support for France was only in private.

The US consul has been stationed in China for a long time, and long before the tragedy, he had some criticism of the French Catholic Church's practice; after the incident, he pointed out in his report to his own government that the practice of the Church of Mercy using money to adopt Chinese abandoned babies was contrary to the traditional thinking of the Chinese and was one of the causes of the incident. In fact, the Americans are also afraid, they really can't afford to provoke the big devil of Guoxinga, and the national strength has been deteriorating recently, and the civil war has not yet ended, so how can they be idle and meddle.

The reaction of the Russian consul was unexpected, and he was supposed to follow the French to claim compensation for the three people who had been killed, but the Russian consul accepted the conclusion that his citizens had been killed by gangsters who had been killed by the mistaken French, and was not prepared to make a big move. As for the other victim countries, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium were unable to win their national strength at that time, and they did not have consulates in China, which means that they have no right to speak.

As for the French minister Luo Shuya, he originally looked down on the Chinese and was deeply concerned about China's anti-foreign religious sentiments, and he once went to Premier Yamen to quarrel with Prince Gong over the "Sichuan Youyang Teaching Case." Under the pretext that the teaching plans of Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Guangdong, Henan, Shanxi, and other provinces had not yet been completed, he personally took French warships to Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and other provinces to "urge them to be handled one by one." "With such a big incident this time, his reaction can be imagined.

And the actions of the Qing Dynasty are very strange, the clamor is very loud, but the actual action is very few, mysterious and mysterious, and countless tricks have been played.