"From now on, all Western churches will be banned from preaching in the Han Kingdom, churches will be sealed, missionaries and parishioners will be thoroughly investigated, all missionaries and parishioners who violate the laws of the Han Kingdom will be severely punished, and all missionaries who do not violate the laws of the Han Kingdom will be expelled......

Yan Xueyi's order reached all levels of government in the Han Kingdom through His Excellency, and the governments at all levels followed Yan Xueyi's order, quickly dispatched police forces to seal down all the churches of the Western Church in the territory, and arrested all missionaries, regardless of whether they had violated the laws of the Han Kingdom, and if they were later found innocent, they would also be expelled. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The seizure of churches and the expulsion of missionaries were the second round of large-scale operations launched by the Han Kingdom against foreigners in the country, and the first round was to forcibly reclaim the concession by force.

Puhui Province, Anqing City, Tongcheng County

"Quick, quick, surround the church."

I saw a police captain with a pistol in his hand, ten ordinary police officers armed with rifles, and about 30 auxiliary police officers armed with broadswords and spears come to the church.

There was a lot of movement outside, and everyone in the church could hear it, and soon someone came out of the church, and the first person was Father Anthony, who walked towards the police captain with a book in his hand, followed by a nun who thought he was about thirty-five or six years old, and then dozens of parishioners, all of whom were developed by Father Anthony in Tongcheng County.

"What are you going to do, this is the church." Father Anthony said loudly in strange Chinese to Li Anguo, who was the police captain and the person in charge of the operation, Father Anthony had met Li Anguo before.

"On the orders of the superiors, all the churches in the territory are sealed, and no one else is far away from here, and, Anthony, someone has accused you of embezzling other people's property, so you have been arrested, come and arrest him and her." Li Anguo pointed to Father Anthony and the middle-aged nun behind him to give orders to his men.

"Yes!" I saw two policemen and four auxiliary policemen come forward and try to arrest Father Anthony and the middle-aged nun.

"You can't arrest me, I'm not guilty, I'm a citizen of the British Empire, you don't have the right to arrest me!" Father Anthony, who was escorted by two auxiliary policemen, yelled, but it was useless and he was dragged away by the two auxiliary policemen.

Seeing Father Anthony being taken away, the parishioners behind reacted and immediately walked forward, shouting loudly as they walked: "Why did you arrest Father Anthony? Let go of Father Anthony. ”

Li Anguo: "Stop them, whoever dares to attack the police, arrest and take them away together." ”

"Yes!"

More than a dozen auxiliary police officers armed with broadswords and spears stopped the bare-handed parishioners, for whom pistols and rifles were not as deterrent as broadswords and spears.

"You can't take Father Anthony!" Faced with the threat of broadswords and spears, the parishioners who bullied the weak and feared the hard with their bare hands did not dare to continue to move forward, but could only continue to shout and scream.

"The church is about to be sealed, so get out of here." Li Anguo said solemnly to the parishioners.

"If we don't leave, why are you sealing the church? Aren't you afraid of foreigners coming over? The parishioners continued to shout loudly, although they did not dare to continue to move forward, but they did not listen to Li Anguo's words and left here.

You must know that it is because they have the backer of the church that they can be powerful in the nearby area, and even those rich people dare not provoke them, but now that the head of the church, Father Anthony, has been arrested, many parishioners already have the idea of leaving here.

Li Anguo: "Come and disperse them, and those who dare to resist will be arrested and thrown into the labor camp. ”

Li Anguo waved his hand, and the police and auxiliary police on both sides rushed forward, and the parishioners on the other hand, who were accustomed to bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, could only keep retreating, and even some parishioners had already run away, but they knew the fate of entering the labor camp as coolies, so it was not miserable.

Father Anthony, the backer, was arrested, and the parishioners really didn't dare to confront the police and auxiliary police, and just now they had the audacity to say a few words arrogantly, but now they saw the police and auxiliary police coming up with real knives and guns, and the parishioners could only hug their heads and run around, and some people turned around and said: "You wait, wait until the foreigners call, there must be you good-looking." ”

For such words, Li Anguo is in the left ear and out of the right ear, what is there to be afraid of foreigners, isn't it the same person? However, foreigners are all aliens, and if they dare to bully the Chinese, they have only one way to die.

More than an hour later, a public security policeman handed over the statistics of the property in the church to Li Anguo, and when he saw this data, Li Anguo directly scolded: "This Anthony is really damned." ”

In total, the police and auxiliary police found more than 13,000 taels of silver and hundreds of antiques in the church, and the price of these antiques was roughly estimated to be more than 20,000 taels.

A small church actually has so much wealth, apparently Father Anthony relied on his identity to be provoked by the Tongcheng County government during the reign of the Manchu Dynasty, so as to use forced buying and selling, oppressing the people and other methods, most people see the kind-faced Father Anthony, I am afraid they can't imagine what Father Anthony is doing behind the scenes.

What Li Anguo didn't expect was that after the interrogation of Father Anthony, Father Anthony confided that this was not all the wealth he had looted, and that a small part of the wealth had been sent back to England, and that part of the wealth was worth as much as 15,000 taels of silver, even in pounds, it was as high as 5,000 pounds, which was not a small number for an Englishman, so Father Anthony continued to stay in China to accumulate wealth.

In addition, the middle-aged nun is not a real nun, but a disguise, and her real identity is actually the love of Father Anthony. Person.

Later, after investigation (mass reports and complaints), many of those parishioners had bullied other ordinary people, and the Tongcheng County Police Bureau quickly issued an arrest warrant to arrest the parishioners involved in the case.

In the end, the Tongcheng County Court sentenced Anthony to death with a cane, and the middle-aged nun was sentenced to five years of hard labor and then deported.

The church in Tongcheng County is a little better, but it has accumulated wealth and oppressed the people, and there have been no casualties, while churches in other areas have had more than one casualty, but the Manchu government is cowardly and incompetent, and does not dare to do anything to the church. (To be continued.) )