Chapter Forty-Eight: Rampant Blackmail
Several foreign priests in the government office of Jinan Mansion sat in the back hall of the government office together with a group of officials wearing official uniforms. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
These priests, bishops of several dioceses, came to protest.
Fr. Ann in the hall was impassionedly speaking of their demands: "............, if your government fails to rescue the parishioners quickly and forcefully and protect them, your government will have no choice but to try to protect itself. ”
Several other priests chimed in, unanimously demanding that the officials present immediately try to rescue the parishioners.
At this moment, a soldier bravely broke in in a hurry, and whispered a few words in the ear of Governor Li.
Master Li interrupted as soon as he heard half of the story: "Quickly check, after the inspection is correct, send it in immediately." ”
Bing Yong easily agreed and hurriedly left the lobby, Lord Li slowly stood up and glanced at the people in the room who were looking at him and said: "The bandits may have killed two people again, it is really hateful, now the corpse is at the city gate, and the two heads are being checked, and there are two heads given to Lord Ben." Damn, damnable. ”
At this time, I saw the prefect of Jinan Mansion stand up and say to Lord Li: "Lord Li, the lower officials have found out that this kidnapping was committed by the Skeleton Gang, and the bandits' nest is in Huangya Mountain, please order the mobilization of troops and horses to suppress it." ”
"Yes! Lord Li, the thief is powerful, he must cut through the mess quickly, fight quickly, and send troops to destroy it quickly. ”
"We demand that Lord Li immediately send troops to exterminate the bandits and rescue the parishioners, otherwise we will meet with the prime minister's yamen and lodge a protest, and if you can't protect the parishioners, we will use our methods to protect the parishioners."
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"According to the inspector Yuxian, the three battalions of the Kaizi commander, who are candidates for Dao Ma Kaiyu, will immediately go to Huangya Mountain, and be sure to capture the bandits. The others led the surrounding counties to help at the same speed, and they couldn't let go of a thief. ”
After a sound of peace, some officials in the lobby hurriedly walked out of the lobby, and they happened to be opposite to the two soldiers holding two black boxes.
See what the two are holding. was dripping with blood, and hurriedly flashed to both sides, stopping at the same time, watching the two of them hurriedly enter the lobby.
Two soldiers entered the lobby and carefully placed two black boxes on the ground, one of them opened a black box and pulled out a black folded post from the box, the front of the post was a white skeleton with a knife and gun under it.
Bing Yong carefully handed the post to Governor Li, and then retreated to stand in the middle of the field.
Governor Li opened the post and saw that it was densely filled with words, which roughly meant that no soldiers were allowed to attack Huangya Mountain within ten days, otherwise all the parishioners would be killed. Within 10 days, as long as the ransom was paid, the meat ticket could be released, and in order to urge the ransom to be paid as soon as possible, it was decided to kill two parishioners by drawing lots every day.
Governor Li frowned and read the entire post, then passed it on to other officials and priests to review.
Now he is really worried, these bandits are different from the bandits in the past.
First of all, even the government dared to threaten, and it was violent and cruel, and it was not appropriate to treat the people at all, and at the same time, the means had to be said to be too ruthless, and he used two heads a day to urge the delivery of the ransom, which was like urging life.
After reading the post, the entire lobby fell silent, and everyone was frightened by the ferocity of the bandits, looking at Governor Li one by one and waiting for him to give him an idea.
The lobby of the government was silent here, but the homes of the parishioners who had been kidnapped were chaotic.
Posts with white skulls painted on black surfaces, like amulets, were sent into these people's homes in various ways.
Each black post clearly indicates the amount of ransom, some secrets of your family that only have the people who have been kidnapped in your family, and whether you agree to pay the ransom, what if you agree to pay the ransom at the door, and how to contact you in the future, etc.
These methods were all made by Gao Hongsheng, after all, there were so many ports in the later generations! How are all kinds of kidnapping cases in Wanwan done, that is a clear explanation, clear, let's follow the cat and draw the tiger, not to say that we learn seven, seven, eighty, eight, eight, eight
In this era, kidnappers kidnapped meat tickets, and generally gave black posts to the family members of the meat tickets, and then discussed with each other a time, place, and agreed signals, and then handed over the money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other.
But it's too risky to do this, what if people arrange personnel in the place of the transaction early, it won't let everyone eat it, right?
Gao Hongsheng is the method adopted by the later generations, and people and money go two ways.
After collecting the money, the safety is fine, find a place to throw people into the wilderness, or simply hijack a carriage and give them a small amount of money, and let the vehicle send people to the city.
And the way he collects money is even more different from other kidnappers, can he rest assured that he doesn't send money around?
Not to mention that you throw a small package down from a high place and pick it up at the bottom, so that by the time you want to catch the person receiving the money, they will be gone.
There is also a hole in the wall, and you are on this side of the wall, and you pay through the wall.
Anyway, you want a silver ticket, and it's an anonymous silver ticket, and if it's wrong, you just wait to collect the body.
was so involved by Gao Hongsheng, the bandits of the other gangs who followed the case together were really convinced, it turned out that the kidnapping had to do this, it turned out that the kidnapping was so easy, and it turned out that the people of the church could make a fortune by kidnapping the people.
Everything is going on little by little according to Gao Hongsheng's plan.
Huang Yuanchang, who was a black hand in the city, also kept coming good news, and the people who were forced to helpless sold their fields and real estate to Rui Fuxiang at a low price.
The businesses that followed him were secretly having fun behind their backs.
They have always been bullied by the parishioners, but they didn't expect the parishioners to have this day.
One by one, with a sad face, the family's land and real estate were sold to Rui Fuxiang at a price of 20%, and it was fast, because there were two heads a day, and they were sent to the city every day, if the ransom was sent late, maybe there would be no one left.
Every morning, when the city gate was opened, groups of relatives of the kidnapped parishioners were waiting at the city gate to see whose meat tickets were killed by the Skull Gang, and then they received the cries and cries of the corpses.
At the end of the day, the idlers of Fucheng also came to see the excitement every morning.
Later, these methods of kidnapping tickets spread farther and farther, and all kinds of novel and unique methods of kidnapping tickets were invented by these bandits, so that later the parishioners had a little wealth, and they would be tied up by the kidnappers who didn't know where to come out.
It is really dangerous that those who later enter the church are either destitute or have nothing, and those who have a little value hurriedly apostatize.
And when Gao Hongsheng was governing Shandong in the future, he was overwhelmed by the frequent kidnapping cases in various places.
So much so that he often sighs that he can live if he has done evil in heaven, but he can't live if he has done evil in himself.
It is often said that the pit he dug himself how he got into it.