nbsp; The City God Temple in Fucheng was surrounded by countless soldiers with knives and guns, lanterns, torches, and nervous expressions.

Under the escort of officers and soldiers, a large green sedan chair hurriedly gathered from everywhere.

The officials of all kinds gathered in the square in front of the gate of the City God Temple, gathered in a group and whispered to each other, but all of them looked at the Governor Li who stood alone in front of the gate of the City God Temple.

The governor Li Bingheng stood alone in front of the gate with a calm face, staring at the gate, unable to decide whether to go in or not.

What happened in the City God Temple tonight, he also stood in the courtyard and saw it with his own eyes, and the whole thing was beyond his cognition.

I couldn't make up my mind after looking at it alone for a long time, whether to go in or not.

At this moment, several officials accompanied the governor of Jinan Mansion to rush over in a panic, and shouted from afar: "My lord, Lord Li, it's not good, it's not good, something is wrong." ”

The officials who were blocking behind hurriedly dodged the road one by one, asking each other and watching

Master Li turned his head and looked at the few people who came over with a calm face, and snorted coldly: "What's the panic, report it." “

The two officials knelt down in front of Lord Li with a plop, bowing their heads and not daring to say a word, Fu Yin walked a few steps and whispered to Lord Li's ear and said: "Something is wrong, one hundred and seventy-two parishioners have been kidnapped, one of them named Diao Er has been killed, the head has been sent to the door of the yamen, the kidnappers have already given a post to the bitter masters, at least a thousand taels of ransom silver, the matter has reached the church, Father Shen led the other sect leaders are waiting in the lobby to reply." ”

"What, when is it." Master Li was taken aback, this case is too big, especially involving the parishioners, this matter is not handled well, if there is any damage to the parishioners, then his official position may not be guaranteed.

There is no time to take care of the affairs of the City God Temple now, as for whether the gods are artificial or really have immortals, it doesn't matter now, what matters is what to do with the affairs of the people.

A group of sub-officials, under the leadership of Master Li, rushed back to the mansion in a swarm, all of them with faces like dirt, and they couldn't stop in panic.

The soldiers who surrounded the Chenghuang Temple also hurriedly spread to the entire Jinan Mansion as if they had blown up their nests, and began to conduct door-to-door investigations, smashing open the doors of the houses one by one like fierce gods and bullies, breaking in, and carefully searching for the missing parishioners.

And the pig's foot who did this sky-high case is now sleeping with one finger, and Hong Jincai's brain is sleeping in a bamboo shed, and he has a brain melon crash, which wakes up Hong Jincai, who is sleeping in Zhengxiang.

Gao Hongsheng can't help it.

Made, this guy is sleeping and snoring! It can be described as earth-shattering, if you Mad, who sleeps in a room with him, you don't want to sleep, and the whole house is like a magnitude 7 earthquake, and he snores and shakes straight up.

But Hong Jincai turned over, muttered a few words, and pulled up the organ-like purr from the beginning, and the people fell asleep again.

Gao Hongsheng, who was angry, helplessly piled up in the quilt and counted the stars.

Gao Hongsheng was angry, but the priests of several churches in Jinan Mansion were even more angry.

Now one by one, they lost their temper at the Li people sitting in the lobby, one by one more powerful, and threatened one after another, if the affairs of the people of the sect were not resolved, they would collectively go to the capital to find the prime minister's yamen and talk about it.

These parishioners are their most important backbone, and if there is any damage to this, it will really be in vain in the past few years.

The entire government has now become a place for foreign priests to vent, and the officials of the Great Qing Kingdom are cautiously accompanied by smiling faces, and they are playing in a low voice.

However, as the soldiers who searched the city reported, the faces of these officials became worse and worse, and not a single parishioner who had been kidnapped was found in the entire city.

And having the ability to kidnap so many parishioners out of the city is a premeditated and organized operation just to think about.

And the Skeleton Gang who extorted the ransom money was even more clueless.

Take the blackmail post as an example, the black sè shading with a white sè skull under the skull is not owned by the local bandits, but more like a product of Europa a hundred years ago.

Could it be that these foreigners are shouting to catch the thief to create an incident, and what is the plot behind it?

When the official unfurled the banner that had wrapped the head of the sectarian, everyone in the entire hall was silent, it was a black skull pirate flag.

No one in China uses the skull pirate flag, only the pirates of Europa, who use this kind of pirate flag with a skeletal skelet, and it is also a black sè pirate flag that symbolizes negotiation.

Now these foreign priests are crossing their chests one by one, and their mouths are saying, "This is impossible, it is impossible. ”

Because only they can understand exactly what these pirate flags mean.

These officials of the Qing Dynasty also suddenly noticed the strange movements of these foreign bishops, and they all cast inquiring eyes.

As for how these foreign priests explained the meaning of the pirate flag to them, we don't care, anyway, Gao Hongsheng's purpose of confusing the water has already been half achieved, so that the attitude towards the Skull Gang between the church and the Qing Dynasty has changed from unanimous extermination to mutual suspicion.

Now the two leaders of Eagle Frame Mountain can't imagine that in Fucheng, there are already chickens and dogs.

The two of them are now busy jumping chickens and dogs.

On the official road leading to Huangya Mountain in Jinan Prefecture, a group of people wearing skull masks sat around the bonfire lit along the road, set up a barbecue feast, and were eating and drinking.

In the middle of the avenue were black-shed carriages, and from time to time parishioners with their heads covered were dragged out of the cars and dragged to several large tents on the side of the road.

In the middle of a tent, Zhou Yinghai, the second leader, was writing hard, writing the amount on a post with black skin.

The earlier post was nothing more than a stone-throwing asking for directions, and the current post is the real blackmail post.

Screams came from the tent on the side from time to time, but it did not affect Zhou Yinghai's interest in the slightest.

made a fortune, Eagle Frame Mountain really made a fortune this time.

A total of 172 parishioners were kidnapped, of which 17 were killed according to Gao Laodi's arrangement, and the rest were interrogated to see their worth and began to extort money.

At first, I really didn't take these parishioners seriously, but after the real torture, I realized that I underestimated the wealth of these parishioners.

The lowest worth of each one is thousands of taels, and the high ones have even exceeded 10,000 taels.

Of course, there is a lot of real estate and equity participation, but this is also a lot, you must know that a medium-sized landlord's family may not be as rich as them, Eagle Frame Mountain can be regarded as a big deal.

Even if a part of the parishioners is divided among the other cottages according to the plan.

Even if you just leave some fat sheep, then you can get at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Now Zhou Yinghai regretted killing the seventeen parishioners a little, and if he counted them, how much more ransom could he get.

As for Feng Laosi, the big boss of Eagle Frame Mountain, he is now busier than Zhou Yinghai, wearing a black skull mask, majestic, waving silver tickets and handing out money to the bandits in various cottages on the empty field on the top of Huangya Mountain.

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