Gui Wang's Mansion.

"King, let's go!"

Chen Zizhuang anxiously urged King Gui.

The situation took a turn for the worse and they were all dumbfounded, and no one expected such a result, and the rioting workers swept the whole of Guangzhou in a very short time. At this moment, the whole city was overwhelmed by the workers who rushed out of the factory, and the cavalry that was the first to enter the city fled without a fight, and the royal palace guards and the consultative bureau guards who followed He Wusu to suppress them were directly dispersed by the workers......

All the officials in the city of Guangzhou are fleeing.

The factory guards were also protecting the villagers who hired them from escaping.

And the workers were in a revelry.

They occupied the official offices, the merchants, the mansions of the village sages, and shared the wealth merrily, and the hungry drank wine and ate meat......

This is also unavoidable.

After all, we can't expect this kind of thing to really have any order, but more of them are coming towards King Gui's mansion, they have already shouted the slogan of driving King Gui away, and at this time, on the high wall outside the palace, the guards who stayed behind were already firing. However, the workers also had weapons in their hands, first, they had seized, and second, there were not no arms dealers in the city, and even arsenals had them, and the flintlock pistols produced in Guangzhou were the first choice for those merchant ships, and Zhang Xianzhong even ordered 50,000 pieces. The arms dealers had stockpiled a lot of weapons and ammunition, and the workers knew very well that the first thing they would do after they started was to arm themselves, otherwise they would not attack the palace now.

"Where can this king go?"

King Gui sat there and said without tears.

At this moment, there are only two people left around him, Chen Bangyan and Chen Zizhuang, he originally didn't have any ministers, those village sages are absolutely elite and simple, and the number of officials is strictly controlled, and King Gui does not have his own real court, just a few subordinate officials. There are also 300 guards outside, originally he was a guard of 500 people, and he sent 200 to He Wusu to suppress, which is also all the strength he can control, as for the army, it is up to the Consultative Bureau.

Their salaries are paid by the Consultative Bureau.

"Let's get out of town first!"

Chen Bangyan said: "Wang Deren is coming with the follow-up infantry, let's go out of the city to meet him first, and then retake Guangzhou, the workers are all rabble, they can't resist the escort." What's more, even if Wang Deren's subordinates are not enough, the king can also transfer reinforcements from other armies, most of those village sages have fled from the city, they will also transfer militia groups from all over the country, as long as they go out of the city to avoid this period first, then we have a way! ”

Chen Zizhuang also nodded.

As for King Gui......

What else can he do at this time?

In this way, King Gui quickly packed his bags, took his wife and children, and hurriedly left the palace out of the back door under the protection of Er Chen and three hundred guards, and embarked on the road of escape.

At this time, the workers were handing over a petition to Her Majesty the Empress.

"You guys are too Meng Lang!"

The eunuch who hurried to the door took the petition handed by Lao Wu and said.

"This father-in-law, we are also forced to run out of life, don't you know what kind of life we have been living! Eating what the factory owner's dog doesn't eat every day, doing work that is more tiring than cattle and horses, and not seeing the sun every day, the iron-beaten man can die of exhaustion for three years. When they were sick and injured, they were kicked out directly, and how many people simply jumped into the river in order not to drag down their families! ”

Old Wu complained with tears in his eyes.

"Father-in-law, four of my five children starved to death, and only one of them was only eleven, so I had to pull a cart to make a living!"

A female worker cried.

Then all the workers around cried.

At this moment, they looked at the old eunuch, as if they had seen a relative, lying beside him and holding his legs, where they kept crying about their miserable life over the years. This situation is very contagious, and all the workers are crying with the officials of the Jinyi Guards and the Department of Taxation, and some crying with each other.

Soon the whole street was filled with crying.

"This is indeed too much, Her Majesty the Empress guards Guangdong with King Gui, that is, King Gui protects the territory and the people, wants King Gui to give the people plenty of food and clothing, and let those factory owners be such fishing and meat workers, this is a serious dereliction of duty by King Gui!"

The old eunuch said indignantly.

"Rest assured, although our family has no right to supervise the place, we have grown up watching Her Majesty the Empress, and you can still say a few words in front of Her Majesty, and our family will convey your petition. But now it's not good to be in such chaos in the city, you still need to organize to restore order, our family has no right to ask about the place, and if you want to chase King Gui, our family has no right to stop it, but driving away King Gui can't destroy Guangzhou. According to our family's opinion, you might as well elect the Four People's Assembly first, since it is the land of the Ming Dynasty, before the empress's will arrives, the Four People's Assembly can manage the place by itself. ”

He went on to say.

"Yes, let's listen to my father-in-law!"

Lao Wu waved his arms and shouted.

"Then we have to have a yamen, right? Could it be that we choose a prefect by ourselves? ”

A worker said cautiously.

"It's better not to do this, after all, even if you are elected, it is only a temporary autonomy of the people when there is no one to manage Guangzhou, after all, they are not officials of the imperial court, and this yamen at all levels of Guangzhou Mansion is still waiting for Her Majesty's will first."

The old eunuch said.

"My father-in-law is right, why don't we form a commune like Li Zicheng, let's call it Guangzhou Commune!"

Lao Wu said.

"That's right, it's called Guangzhou Commune!"

"We are also the same as Li Zicheng, and we have divided all the grain in the warehouse!"

……

The workers were immediately excited.

Obviously, Li Zicheng's communes were undoubtedly the most attractive to these destitute workers, and of course, these were none of the business of Jinyiwei, as the dispatched organs of the imperial court, they had no right to interfere in the localities. Therefore, the people of the Gui clan gathered to expel him because King Gui had no way to govern, and this Jinyiwei had no right to interfere, and after the same King Gui was expelled, in the case of no owner in Guangzhou, the common people organized their own commune to manage themselves, and this Jinyiwei also had no right to interfere. However, if King Gui commanded the guards of the Gui Domain to counterattack Guangzhou, the Jinyi Guard could not interfere either, after all, Guangdong was still the territory of King Gui before the Emperor's decree came, and even if the first assistant came, he could not interfere.

In short, the Canton Commune was born.

And just as the workers were excitedly discussing how to elect the Four People's Congress and how to organize the Canton Commune, a sudden cannon shot interrupted their discussion......

"It's Wuyangmen!"

A worker said as he looked at the smoke rising from the sky to the south.

"The convoy has arrived!"

Lao Wu said.

Wuyangmen is the Five Immortal Gate of the Qing Dynasty, one of the south gates of the outer city of Guangzhou, facing the Pearl River wharf, it is obvious that the infantry of the escort army who came by warship arrived at the wharf, where the wharf coolies hurriedly fired a cannon alarm. Perhaps the escort had already begun to enter the city at this time, after all, most of the coolies from the docks in the outer city had poured into the city to parade, and the entire outer city was almost empty.

But that's nothing.

Because Guangzhou City, like Beijing City, is the north and south parts, the outer city is only attached, the real main city wall is between the inner and outer city, and even there is an additional moat inside the outer city, as long as this city wall is still there.

"Let's go, brothers, pick up the swords and guns to defend our Guangzhou Commune, and go and fight the guards to the end!"

Old Wu raised his arms and shouted.

Then the workers roared with a boil.

They then rushed to the south of the city to fight for the defense of the nascent Canton Commune, and the Jinyi guard immediately sent men out of the city to convey the petition of the Canton workers to Her Majesty the Empress.

At this time, King Gui had already left the small north gate.

He and Chen Bangyan, Chen Zizhuang looked back at the city gate behind him with a sigh, because there was no urn city at this city gate, they could clearly see the city at this time. The reveling workers were surging after them, and the few guards who had fallen behind were immediately drowned out and dragged off their horses by countless hands......

"King, let's go!"

Chen Zizhuang whispered with a sad face.

King Gui sighed, he didn't say anything more, then turned around and urged the horse to leave, and at the gate behind him, a large number of workers chased out, but after making sure that they could not catch up, the workers quickly closed the gate. At this time, in addition to the gates of the outer city, the gates of Canton had been closed by the workers one after another, but the outer city was occupied by the infantry of the guards who arrived by warships because most of the workers there poured into the inner city. However, fortunately, those workers reacted quickly, and quickly closed the three gates of the south wall of the inner city, Xiaonan and Guide, so that the guards and workers controlled the outer and inner cities respectively across the south wall of the inner city.

However, the convoy did not attack immediately.

In fact, Wang Deren, who arrived with the troops, was also confused, he didn't know what was going on in the city, and he was confused by all kinds of chaotic and even contradictory news along the way.

Moreover, the first batch he brought was only one infantry brigade, one brigade each of the Lubu battalion, one brigade each of the cavalry battalions, one brigade each of the first army of his escort in Humen Town, Zhaoqing and Huizhou, and one brigade each of the military headquarters and infantry cavalry stationed in the Lubu battalion. After receiving the order, he sent a cavalry brigade first, in fact, he didn't expect such a thing to happen in the city of Guangzhou, so he took the infantry to board the ship leisurely as a follow-up, and in his opinion, it was enough to have a cavalry brigade enter the city. However, he did not expect that the cavalry brigade was so frightened by the workers that it fled without a fight, and was scattered by the workers in the city, so it had to flee separately, and it has not been collected so far, and even some of it is blocked in the city.

The first night of the two sides was spent in their respective preparations, and on the same night King Gui ran into Wang Deren's army.

The next morning, the Foshan militia arrived.

The cavalry that was also scattered was also collected one after another, and even those village sages who fled from the city also organized their factory protection team, and Wang Deren, whose subordinate troops quickly exceeded 10,000, finally launched an attack on the inner city of Guangzhou.

The Guangzhou Commune's security and health war kicked off.