At this first meeting of the high-level personnel of the empire, Hu Zhen also wanted to discuss the construction of railways, highways, and educational arrangements, and by the way, to sell his idea of building the world's first highway between the capital and Tianjin, but now the news of the Manchurian Eight Banners Rebellion suddenly appeared, which made Hu Zhen lose a little mood and asked coldly:

"Let me inform you of the specific situation of the rebellion of the children of the Eight Banners that has been summarized."

Zhang Dajiang, the attendant officer, said respectfully: "Yes, according to the summary of telegrams from various places, there are now Manchurian Eight Banners Bullet Rebellion in 17 cities, including Jilin, Heilongjiang, Beijing, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Xiangyang, Nanjing, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Changsha, Wuchang, Xuzhou, Jinan, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, and Kunming. ”

"Your Majesty, this group of wine bags and rice bags who are used to eating hardcore crops even dare to rebel, what big things can they help? I beg your Majesty's permission to immediately organize a nationwide crackdown by the General Staff! Su Wenzhen expressed great contempt for these Eight Banners disciples daring to rebel.

More than 200 years ago, at the beginning of the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners was still very strong, after entering the Central Plains, the Qing rulers stationed the Eight Banners Army in major strategic places in the country, allocated fields and estates and rented them to the Han people for farming, and the Eight Banners Army and its descendants were specially trained in cavalry and archery to be used to deter all over the country.

After more than 200 years have passed, the invincible technology of the Manchurian Eight Banners has long been lost, and it is simply unbearable to fight, after the Huaxia Army advanced to the mainland and recovered, the children of the Manchurian Eight Banners did not dare to confront the Huaxia Army armed to the teeth, but they could not even do ordinary farming and farm work, and soon they had no food and clothing.

Cixi, who had absconded in the northwest, sent some people to find the children of the Eight Banners in various places and asked them to organize rebellions in various cities at the same time.

In fact, Cixi also knew that with the ability of this group of children of the Eight Banners, launching a riot would only cause a little harassment to the nascent Huaxia Empire at best, but she had a big strategic plan, and she would launch it together when her arrangement was ready, so that the Huaxia Empire would lose its skin if it did not die.

But those arrogant Eight Banner disciples have been incurable to the point of incurability, these days their banner fields have been confiscated and issued to Han tenants for cultivation, they can only live on the savings of the past, these days have suffered a lot, there is no patience and determination at all, as soon as the Cixi people say, regardless of the agreed date of the riot, they immediately set off a storm of rebellion, and look forward to changing the world again.

Hu Zhen knew that these Eight Banners disciples were useless, he was not in a hurry at all, waved his hand to signal Su Wenzhen not to worry, stood up and said to everyone present:

"Although there are Manchu people who committed the heinous crime of Yangzhou for ten days and the three massacres in Jiading, which caused tens of millions of Han people to bleed into rivers and corpses all over the field, but more than two hundred years later, the descendants of the Eight Banners have nothing to do with it, I didn't plan to exterminate the Eight Banners, but just confiscated their flag fields and sent them to the Han tenants to cultivate, in the hope that they can support themselves, there are many smart Eight Banners children who have given up the identity of the Eight Banners, and hid incognito among the people to support themselves, they have forgotten their identity as banner people, and I will not plan to pursue them.

However, to this day, the children of the Eight Banners still remember the glory of their ancestors in the past, and even jump up directly to rebel, do you think I can still tolerate it? Can I still step backwards? ”

Hu Zhen's words were actually said to Li Hongzhang and others, after all, they had served in the Qing court and received some favors from the Qing court, so it was inevitable that there was a little bit of deep affection for the old lord in their hearts, and if they wanted to raise a butcher's knife against the rebellious Manchurian Eight Banners, Hu Zhen must first ask public opinion to go first, and then take action.

Li Hongzhang didn't speak, Zhang Zhidong didn't speak, and the others didn't speak, they all knew very well that these Manchurian Eight Banners were scoundrels, and a large part of the Qing court's annual financial revenue was devoured by these Eight Banners.

"Okay, you have nothing to say, then I will make a decision, Su Wenzhen, Zheng Dingbang, Du Ligao, you immediately rush back to the General Staff, quickly organize the General Staff, unify the command of all the forces of the police, army, and local governments across the country, and launch a counterattack against the children of the rebellious Eight Banners. Their rebellion is in the middle of my mind! ”

Minister of Justice Wu Tingfang and Supreme Court official Shen Jiaben both understood that this was an extraordinary period, and it would be pedantic if they still insisted on any procedural justice, so they did not say anything to stop them, and let Hu Zhen arrange the actions of the army.

As soon as Hu Zhen's order was issued, Su Wenzhen and the other three stood up and responded violently, ran back to the operational command room of the General Staff, and began to direct the rebellion operations across the country.

These rebellious children of the Eight Banners, what kind of combat power do they have, they will not ride horses into battle for a long time, let alone use their ancestors' bows, arrows, spears and broadswords, but under the bewitchment of others, they want to regain their lost good life, and they pick up some shabby firearms and start to rush out to rebel in a hurry.

It was only at the beginning of the stage that the children of the Eight Banners took advantage of the unpreparedness and caused some casualties of police and officials, and the homes of some local Han people were burned and looted by the children of the Eight Banners for a while, but when the local governments of the Chinese Empire reacted, with some scattered police forces, they blocked the offensive line of the children of the Eight Banners.

During the battle, the children of the Eight Banners were knocked down by the dense rain of bullets, and more and more people were killed and wounded.

After losing the suddenness of the attack, the rebellion of the children of the Eight Banners must have been defeated.

After the garrisons of the Huaxia Army were mobilized by the General Staff through telegram orders, the rebellion of the children of the Eight Banners quickly came to an end.

Almost in the same day's time, most of the rebellions of the Eight Banners across the country were launched in the morning, blocked at noon, and completely collapsed in the afternoon.

This time, the rebellion of the children of the Eight Banners seemed to shake the whole country, but in fact, the harm was not great, but it only caused panic among some ordinary people.

But this kind of panic quickly turned into a hysterical revenge mentality of the common people against the children of the Eight Banners. (To be continued.) )