When Werther heard the four words "this person will not kill", his heart was dripping blood, very painful, very painful! When we were studying modern history before the time, Witt's dissertation was "The Practical Examination of the Lushun Massacre", when Witt had come to Lushun, which had become a subordinate district of Dalian, it was the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and the temperature had risen, and when Witte finished studying this history, the whole person was depressed for almost a month. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Witte remembers Kliman, a reporter for the American newspaper New York World at the time, described: "I saw a man kneeling in front of the soldiers, prostrating his head and begging for his life. The soldier thrust his head into the ground with his spear tail knife in one hand, and cut off his head with his sword with the other. One man shrank at the head of the horn, and a group of Japanese soldiers fired bullets to shatter his body. There was an old man kneeling in the middle of the street, and the Japanese soldiers cut him down, almost in two. One refugee was also killed by bullets on the ridge. One man fell from the roof into the middle of the street, and the soldier stabbed him more than ten times with a spear and knife. ”

Only by that time the survivors were long gone, and all Witt knew was news releases, historical accounts, or personal notes written by his predecessors, but this time he did listen to the wails of the survivors.

At this time, one of them said, "I am different from them, I am a great fate." When I returned to Lushun from Shengjing that day, I happened to walk to a high ground, and when I heard the gunshots, I lay on the ground and raised my head slightly to look forward. Not far from me, there was a pond high below, and I saw a lot of devil soldiers standing by the pond, desperately driving a group of people into the pond, and soon the pond was full of people. I saw that those people were in chaos in the water, and the Japanese soldiers by the pond were shooting with guns, and some were stabbing with bayonets on their guns. At that time, I was very scared, I was afraid that the devil soldiers would suddenly come towards me, and I didn't dare to say anything, so I buried my head in the cat. I don't know how long it took, but there was no sound in the high ground, and I took a look at the cat, and saw that there were no ghost soldiers, so I cautiously walked down. ”

The man slowed down, his eyes were red and he cried, "I walked to the pond and was scared stupid!" And the pond was beheaded, and beheaded, and pierced, and broken, and stirred together, and the water became red. There were men, women, old and young, and it was the same on the shore, and a girl who looked young had no clothes on her body, and a wooden stick with a thick wrist stuck under it, and she didn't know where her head was, and I was so frightened that I ran in the direction from which I came. ”

After this man finished speaking, there was only crying in the whole venue, and Zagoev, who was sitting with him, also had red circles in his eyes. Werther walked to the window, lit a cigarette, took a sharp puff to try to calm himself, and looked at the harsh sunlight outside, Wirther wiped tears from the corners of his eyes.

After smoking a cigarette, Witt turned around and asked, "Where are all these people buried when they die?" Actually, Werther knew the answer, but he really didn't know what to ask if he didn't ask like this.

"There were so many dead that there was no way to dispose of the bodies. Although it is winter, it is icy and snowy. But the devil was also afraid of the plague, so he gathered the dead together and burned them all, and the fire was missing for more than ten days. Later, the devil put the burned ashes into four large coffins, and buried them in the burial post at the eastern foot of Baiyu Mountain. One replied.

Witt continued: "What happened later?" ”

"Later? The devil withdrew, and last year the government sent a Taoist surnamed Gu to accept it, and the Taoist Gu was a good person, and went to the burial post in person, and set up a tombstone in front of the devil's tablet, which said 'Wanzhong Tomb', and built a temple so that people could go to pay respects. Another man sighed.

After hearing this, Witte said slowly: "Fellow villagers, we have reached an agreement with the Qing State, and this Lushunkou will be our Russian leased land in the future, so the father of this Lushunkou is also our fellow villagers. Although we have had some unpleasant things before, I think we will get along with the old folks in Lushun. Therefore, I am going to build tombs and erect monuments for these innocent dead, and you can go back and talk to the villagers in Lushun, and when you are ready, I hope that everyone can go to burn paper and incense for the deceased. ”

"This relationship is good, this relationship is good!" Everyone who came responded with a smile.

Sending these people away, Zagoev asked: "Sir, are you really going to do this?" ”

"Hmm." Witte nodded and said, "The Port of Arthur is no less important to us than Vladivostok, and His Majesty intends to make the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria the most important base of our Russia in the Far East. Since we are going to stay there for a long time, we have to deal with the local Qing people. What happened before caused the Qing people to be hostile to us, and now we have to make up for it. The people of the Qing Dynasty pay the most attention to physical death, and there is a saying that 'the coffin is closed, and death is great'. Therefore, this can help us establish a basic friendship with the Qing people as soon as possible. ”

After hearing this, Zagoev nodded and asked, "Qing officials have already built a cemetery and erected a monument here, what are we going to do?" ”

"The 'Qing Soldiers Death Monument' built by the Japanese can be removed, and that monument is a shame for the entire Qing people. "In addition, on the day of the celebration, we will invite ministers, journalists, and officials of the Qing Dynasty to come and participate, and we will make sure that it will be prosperous." ”

After hearing this, Zayaev said worriedly: "Will this cause dissatisfaction on the Japanese side?" ”

"As for those little dwarfs, if they are dissatisfied, they will be dissatisfied, and if they have the ability, they will take Lushun back!" Witt said with a nonchalant look on his face. However, I thought in my heart: If in this world, Japan really captured Lushun again in the Russo-Japanese War, would the first thing it do was to destroy the monument that it erected? But if that's the case, I'm afraid I'll have to beat these dwarfs in the future.

Witt swept away the bad taste in his heart and said to Zagoev: "You go and arrange this matter, it is already the end of July, and I think the ceremony will be arranged on August 15." Ministers from other countries may not come, but the Japanese ministers from Beijing will be present anyway. ”

"Understood, sir." Zagoev replied.

After Zagoev left, Witte thought fiercely: It would be wonderful if he could invite the likes of Hirobumi Ito, or the Japanese marshal Oyama Iwa, who had conquered Lushun at that time. Thinking of this, Witt couldn't help but smirk.

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