Chapter 444 Resolved

The officials and bandits continued to negotiate, and the bandits put forward more and more stringent conditions each time, and the officials and bandits could not reach an agreement in the negotiations.

Since the officials and bandits could not get along, the Shandong overseer Tian Zhongyu went to Beijing to report on his work and resolutely advocated changing the matter of appeasement to suppression, and Zhang Shaozeng, the general manager of the cabinet, also advocated "suppression." However, this plan was leaked out, and the diplomatic corps was worried about the "foreign votes" in the hands of the bandits, so they strongly expressed their opposition. Tanaka Yuno personally went to Baoding to confide in Cao, and the secret report was not really to suppress the bandits, but because the situation in the bandit cave was very difficult, and the government announced that the suppression of the bandits was only a superficial intimidation, but in fact it was "overt and covertly suppressed" to intimidate the bandits into giving up their excessively harsh conditions.

After the negotiation between the officials and bandits broke down, sure enough, the bandits were strong and strong, and among the 19 foreign prisoners, they found Pei Yusong, a Frenchman who had won the Medal of Warrior during the European War, and asked him to take an oath to promise to return to the mountain, and sent him to carry the new conditions to the mountain to contact, and the government army was limited to withdraw to the original defense before 6 p.m. on the 3rd. Unexpectedly, Pei Yusong never returned, and the prisoners on the mountain sent a telegram asking him to come back, but he ignored it. The bandits were very surprised that foreigners were not trustworthy, not to mention that this foreigner was still a well-known "warrior"!

In order to prevent the government from robbing the "foreign tickets", the bandits moved three western prisoners to the cave on the top of the mountain on the 4th. Originally, the calf was like an upside-down gourd on the terrain, and there was about two acres of basin on the top of the mountain, but the mountainside was very narrow, and it climbed up from a steep mountain wall, and there were climbing rocks or embedded wooden stakes on both sides. According to local legends, because the big cow could not go up the mountain, and there was an arable basin on the mountain, the calf had to be carried up the mountain to raise, so it was called "holding the calf". A trench was dug around the summit, a cave was built in the middle to house the prisoners, and there were three cisterns and numerous tanks of various sizes to store rainwater. The crypt contained many Chinese captives, who had been captive for more than three years, and they sat and waited to die, just like the old monks. Among them, dozens of children, ranging in age from five to eight years old, sat on the straw recommendation, and the bandits treated them even worse, all like living skeletons with skin and bones.

When these news came out in the newspapers, it aroused the anger of the government and the opposition across the country, and unanimously condemned the Beijing government for turning a blind eye to the painful suffering of its own meat votes, but only wholeheartedly rescuing foreign meat votes.

Three Western prisoners were moved to the top of the mountain and hung up the mountain with ropes, among which the 63-year-old Englishman Smith was the oldest among the Western prisoners, he suffered from insomnia, specially went to Chinese mainland to "travel and recuperate", and now he was suspended in mid-air and lifted up the mountain, making his insomnia attack more severe, fortunately, at this time the mountain and the outside world were already available for mail, so the Western prisoners on the mountain could get help from the bottom of the mountain, and Smith's sleeping pills could be sent, so they could barely cope with it. A large number of canned food, cigarettes, fruits, newspapers, and magazines sent from Shanghai were all handed over to the Western prisoners.

The Shanghai "Millers Review" first published Powell's "Correspondence on the Bandits," describing the life of the prisoners and the scenery in the mountains, but there was one thing that Powell avoided talking about, that is, when the bandits escorted him and another Western prisoner to Chaoyunguan, they were ordered to kowtow to the gods and Buddhas, and someone next to them struck the bell and beat the drum, and they did it.

Due to the increasingly tough attitude of the government army, Pei Yusong went down the mountain and never returned, and the bandits asked Powell to take an oath to go down the mountain on the 5th, and he was limited to returning within 24 hours, and sent two bandits to accompany him.

Powell brought the bandit conditions: (1) six months' military salaries to the bandits; (2) Recruit 10,000 bandit troops;

The officials rejected the bandits' conditions, and Powell kept his oath and returned to the bandit den on the same day.

On the 6th, the bandits sent down the three Western prisoners who had been transferred to the top of the mountain, and first released the old and sick Smith.

Mr. Smith, who had travelled to China for medical treatment of insomnia, became a newsmaker when he regained his self-esteem, and he published a newsletter recounting his feelings about the exile, which he considered the most valuable experience of his life, but solemnly stated that he did not want to encounter such an adventure again, even if someone offered him a million dollars. He had not finished his journey to the northeast, but when he heard that Zhang Zuolin was also from a "red beard", he resolutely said that he would end his "travel treatment" in Chinese mainland, hurriedly packed his bags, and returned to the United Kingdom. …,

The reason why it is not easy for the officials and bandits to negotiate is that they do not trust each other, and the official side is afraid that if they accept the conditions, the bandits will not let them go: the bandits are worried that if they release the people, the officials will push the conditions overturned. It's a knot, and if it can't be untied, it's all in vain.

The American, Anderson, was very clever enough to see through this, and came up with a way for the two sides to submit mutual guarantee certificates, and with the consent of Tanaka Yu and Sun Guizhi, Anderson guaranteed that the official would absolutely fulfill the conditions for incorporation and pardon all the crimes committed by the bandits in the past; Sun Guizhi promised that the bandits would abide by military discipline and be loyal to the country after being compiled. But after signing, the bandit still has concerns, how useful can a piece of paper be?

The official really wanted to turn his face and deny it, and this piece of paper couldn't resist the death card, so he continued to drag it day by day, refusing to release the meat ticket.

The occurrence of the Great Robbery in Lincheng, and the delay in being solved, made one person smell an opportunity to force Tanaka Yu to surrender:

Wang Hengyue!

Wang Hengyue immediately ordered his confidant Lin Tianlong to enter Shandong in a high-profile manner and threatened to negotiate with the bandits to solve the hostage problem.

All eyes were focused on Wang Hengyue's body at once.

The foreign legations threatened that since the Beijing government could not solve the problem, there was no harm in handing over the hostage incident to someone else.

This other person, of course, refers to the National Government.

Tanaka Yu, who was disturbed by the hostage incident, could only watch Lin Tianlong swagger into Shandong with two brigades of Northern Expeditionary Army soldiers!

Lin Tianlong has a flexible mind and good eloquence, plus he is used to dealing with local bandits, so he understands their psychology very well. After he arrived in Zaozhuang, he talked with Sun Guizhi, Zhou Tianlun and several other bandit leaders, and immediately won their favor.

Since the reason why officials and bandits cannot get along with each other is because they do not trust each other, there is a need for an official who is really willing to "go to hell."

When Lin Tianlong arrived in Lincheng and saw that this was a key issue, he patted his chest very generously and was willing to go up the mountain immediately. Lin Tianlong immediately led a group of 20 people, including the American Anderson, the gentry of Yiteng County, and Sun Shoucheng, a representative of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, to the mountain. On the surface, of course, it is not said to be a collateral, but to take all the tickets and some Chinese tickets down the mountain.

When Lin Tianlong went to Lincheng, he took two brigades with him, and if the bandits released the meat ticket, Tanaka Yu suddenly turned his face and wanted to attack Baoqianggu, his two brigades would use force to stop it for his safety. On the other hand, if the bandits did not release the meat ticket and did not let him go down the mountain, his two brigades would attack with all their might first, and Sun Guizhi could not ignore this. So even though it was dangerous for others to go up the mountain, he didn't have to worry about it at all.

When Lin Tianlong arrived at the mountain, Sun Meiyao and the others saw that he had a peaceful attitude, one sentence at a time, and he drank wine and ate food without restraint, it was really like going to an old friend's house, so everyone was very affectionate to him. In the afternoon of the same day, Wen Andechen and the two of them were asked to send all the foreign tickets and six Chinese tickets out of the mountain first. The long-standing impasse was opened.

Sun Guizhi and Sun Meiyao's uncle and nephew let Lin Tianlong and more than a dozen others into a temporary large banquet shed to set up a banquet and entertain, but they actually kept it as collateral.

Lin Tianlong raised a glass and drank at the banquet, calmly, and saw that Sun Meiyao's eyes were a little red and swollen, so he asked if he was sick, Sun Meiyao said that it was because he was busy with things on the mountain these days and stayed up for a few nights. Lin Tianlong immediately took out a pair of dark glasses from his arms and gave them to him, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Bring it, it will be better." Brother! You are the master of the village, you should take extra care! "Sun Meiyao has never cared about him like this since she was born in her mother's womb, of course she treats him as a good person.

Lin Tianlong himself originally brought two guards, both with box cannons. Before going to bed that night, the resourceful old bandit leader Sun Guizhi suddenly said to Lin Tianlong with a smile:

"Envoy, settle it early. We will send sentry here and there at night, and nothing will happen, but the few brothers you brought with you are fine, and it is better not to go out, lest there be a misunderstanding."

Before his words stopped, Lin Tianlong's heart was already bright, and he immediately ordered the guards: "It's right to unload the guy and hand it over to the old master." ”

Sun Guizhi couldn't help but admire Lin Tianlong's alertness.

Lin Tianlong not only had a good perfunctory relationship with the bandits, but even the official gentry who followed him all the way into the mountain tried his best to win him over, and he seemed very enthusiastic. He took out a diary and asked everyone to sign it, saying that it was rare to get together like this, and to go up the mountain together to do such an embarrassing thing, which could be regarded as friends in distress.

Everyone also felt that this representative of the Northern Expeditionary Army had both courage and no arrogance, and was really a rare general.

When Lin Tianlong went up the mountain, this showed that the two sides were extremely close. Coupled with Lin Tianlong's involvement, the carjacking and kidnapping case that shook the world gradually disappeared!

On October 8, the military attache regiments of various countries arrived in Zaozhuang, but Zheng Shiqi did not go to the railway station to welcome these "foreign adults", which made them very angry. Zheng Shiqi invited these foreign guests to luncheon, but they didn't go collectively, Zheng Shiqi knew the reason, so he rushed to compensate a lot of people, apologized and said good things, and finally these "foreign adults" reluctantly accepted and went to the banquet in a big way.

On the same day, they asked the Chinese officers to lead the way and rode horses to the mountains to reconnoiter the path, but in fact, this was just a pretentiousness, and they couldn't reconnoiter a famous hall at all, because at this time, the local bandits had already said that they would be appeased, and all the western prisoners had been released!

And with the resolution of the Lincheng robbery, the two brigades of the Northern Expeditionary Army actually entered Shandong, and the solution of the Shandong problem is sooner or later! (Lying on the bear_ provided by no beginning)