Chapter 708: Renwu Mutiny

Cui Zhenji saw the disgust in Min Yonggan's eyes, and couldn't help but be surprised, knowing that she had said the wrong thing, as long as this man promised to redeem her, even if she wanted her to kneel in public and beg him with low eyebrows. She couldn't care about Ah Wu at all, and eagerly threw herself into Min Yonggan's arms and beat his strong chest with her fist, "You stingy man, can't you see that I am the only one in my heart?" ”

The expression on Ah Wu's face froze, as if he felt that he had misheard, Cui Zhenji's coquettishness was close at hand, but it seemed to be far away, would she talk like that? There should indeed be only one man in her heart, but shouldn't that be herself? He stood dumbfounded, looked up at Choi Jin-hee, and saw Min Yonggan wrapping her arms around Choi Jin-hee's waist with the roughness of a high-roller and holding her lips viciously. Ah Wu couldn't see Cui Jinji's eyes clearly, because Cui Jinji closed her eyes obsessively, but at that moment, Cui Jinji's eyes when she looked at Min Yonggan suddenly brightened in his heart. That's the look in a woman's eyes when she is obsessed with a man, and the lust in her is like fire.

"I fell in love with you probably at that moment, thinking that you are such a person, you will not be as cruel to me as others."

"Let's go, I feel sad when I look at you, but you're thin and sick, right?"

"Let's just treat it as if we didn't meet, Ah Wu, you forget me, marry a woman from a good family in the future, live a good life, you are also happy, and I am happy for you."

These scattered words suddenly echoed in his ears, and every word of his heart became false in an instant. He felt a headache, an empty ache, something stuck in his heart, he couldn't breathe, he could only watch his woman kiss a man. The soft body was rubbed by the man. Wrapped around him. Like a snake.

One of the attendants who rushed to Ah Wu had already thought that the first knife was just a false blow, and if the young man dodged, he would hit the opponent's jaw with his left elbow, but the young man who was as agile as a cat suddenly did not move, and his eyes seemed to be blank. The attendant panicked for a moment in the face of this opportunity to come to the door, and did not dare to take this empty door, so he pounced too close. Seeing that he was face to face with Ah Wu, it was no longer convenient to swing the knife and slash down, so he slammed the handle of the knife on Ah Wu's forehead.

Ah Wu stumbled back a few steps, blood dripping down his forehead, staining his face red, like a demon on the stage. But he didn't move, still looking up blankly. The two attendants of the Min family stopped in surprise and looked at Ah Wu, who had a pair of childlike eyes on his ghost-like face. Eyes that want to cry bitterly.

"This boy is not sensible, if I abolish him. You're not mad at me, are you? Min Yonggan picked up Choi Jin-hee's chin.

Cui Jinji's heart tightened, knowing what Min Yonggan wanted to do.

"You're not going to be angry, are you?" Min Yonggan squinted his eyes at her, "Are you my woman, what do you care about other men?" ”

Cui Zhenji sighed faintly in her heart, these men, all of them are like wolves and tigers, and if they want to monopolize something, they have to prove it to others in this public. She nodded and buried her face in Min Yonggan's chest, so that she could not see Ah Wu's face, so as not to feel a little unhappy when she saw blood. Min Yonggan hugged Cui Jinji fiercely in his arms with the pleasure of staring at the crowd.

The attendant kicked Ah Wu's knee and bent back, Ah Wu couldn't help but fall down on one knee, twelve years of hard training made him still hold one leg, that was the arrogance of a warrior in the East China Sea, but then the sharp pain in the back of his neck made his eyes black, almost fainted, he threw himself on the floor, and was trampled on the back by two feet. He didn't even think about resisting or dodging, and the blow from the hilt seemed to pierce his skull, making everything crystal clear and making him extremely weak.

He spent everything he had and bought something, but it was not a woman's love, but her acting skills. Ah Wu watched a good show, and before dying, he watched a prostitute cry on stage. If this story were heard by the other members of the Heavenly Bless Heroes, everyone would definitely laugh, right?

A blow from the back seemed to shatter his entire spine. It was a squire who stabbed Ah Wu in the middle of Ah Wu's waist with a scabbard, and the attendant understood what Min Yonggan meant, and wanted to destroy this young man and let him live like a dog for the rest of his life. Ah Wu twitched, and his hands were hard to get up.

"With the tip of a knife." The other attendant gave his companion a look, and lifted the knife with his backhand, and the blade flashed.

Suddenly, Ah Wu let out a beast-like roar in his throat and punched one of the attendants in the front of the knee.

The attendant howled and stepped back, and Ah Wu took the opportunity to roll and dodge the tip of the knife from top to bottom. But he bumped into a table next to him, and the wine utensils on the table fell on his face one after another, and the men and women who had originally regarded this as an after-pleasure got up angrily, and several men pushed away the women next to them with the intention of drinking, and stepped on Ah Wu fiercely. The mud-stained boots stepped on his face, the men spit on him in anger, Ah Wu rolled and tried to dodge, but he couldn't dodge, and everywhere he looked was the faces of people, the faces of those distorted and ugly men.

Tears flowed down his cheeks, his cry was suppressed deep in his throat, and he suddenly wanted to kill.

Now he seems to be dying, and when he dies, Cui Jinji will be snuggled in the arms of a strong man, his eyes are foggy.

Min Yonggan watched Ah Wu roll under the kicking and trampling of the crowd, and felt extremely happy in his heart.

As Min Qianho's third son, he has been accustomed to seeing such things since he was a child, and likes to use methods that trample on the dignity of others to obtain his own spiritual pleasure.

However, Ah Wu's expression suddenly changed, and no one dared to believe that such a look would appear on that bloodstained face.

That's the expression of an angry wolf!

At this moment, he swung his long knife at the two Min family attendants.

The long knife came out of nowhere, and the wind swept by, and the blade flashed. The two Min attendants stared blankly ahead until their heads were crooked around their necks, toppling down like jars full of blood.

Min Yonggan opened his mouth in horror and was about to shout, in the movement that was so fast that he couldn't distinguish it, Ah Wu seemed to have a series of phantoms, and Min Sangongzi had not yet reacted from the death of the attendants, but just watched Ah Wu rise from the ground. Go straight up to the second floor. There was a crescent moon in the sky. Ah Wu flipped in the air like a crane. Then he fell lightly and raised his hands. He held a three-foot-long blade in his hand, shining with a snowy light, and a layer of bright red flowed down from it.

A moment later, Min Yonggan touched his jaw on the second floor, thick blood spurted out of the wound in his jaw, and he still hugged Cui Jinji's waist tightly.

The surroundings fell silent for a moment, and after a while. The silence was broken by Choi Jin-hee's hysterical screams, and she cried out to remove Min Sangongzi's corpse's hand from her waist.

Mom screamed too, and the surrounding drinkers also blew up the pot and rushed to the door.

Looking at the frightened and ugly faces, Ah Wu's heart rose with boundless happiness.

Only then could he experience the joy that the gods could understand.

It is only at this time that he remembers his original identity and his real name - Naosuke Takei, the killer of the "Genyosha......

This time the task is with public and private. He has done a great job.

He slowly ascended the stairs, and Choi Jin-hee was trembling against the railing on the second floor. Min Yonggan's blood smeared her, and she cried hoarsely, and no one could hear what she was crying about.

He pinched Cui Zhenji's face, looked at her frightened beautiful eyes, and a disdainful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Eight silver dollars a night's...... Did I sleep with a woman like you on my first night? ”

His hand suddenly pressed on Cui Jinji's forehead, and half a dark red hairpin pierced out of the back of Cui Jinji's head, and Cui Jinji was still staring at the beautiful but wrinkled eyes, and a slip of blood slipped from the hairpin.

"I said it a long time ago, you're mine." Nao Takei pushed him, and Choi Jin-hee's body fell to the ground limply.

The third son of the Min family was brutally killed by a soldier in Baoyue Tower immediately spread throughout Seoul, coupled with the incident of snatching rice from Du Bao on the same day, so that Min Qianhao immediately fell into infinite rage, under his order, a large-scale search began inside and outside Seoul, and all four battalions of the Beijing army were disarmed by the Praetorian Guard Battalion, except for the soldiers who had been arrested and imprisoned, such as Jin Chunyong, Liu Buwan, Zheng Yiji, Jiang Mingjun, etc., who took the lead in grabbing rice, more soldiers and civilians were arrested and put in prison and tortured.

Min Yonggan no longer knew that his killing was deliberately done by someone, in order to make his death a strong catalyst for this big turmoil.

A week later, Japan, Tokyo, Empire State Building.

"There was a riot in Seoul?" Ito Hirobumi asked in surprise as he looked at the urgent report sent by Yoshikaku Hanafu, the Japanese minister to Korea, brought by Foreign Secretary Inoue Shin.

"Yes, Ito-kun." Inoue Xin nodded with a serious face, "It was originally a mutiny, but now it has evolved into a riot that has swept across the whole of Korea, and the imperial government should act quickly." ”

Hirofumi Ito picked up the report and opened it, and quickly skimmed through it.

This report, written by Yoshikashi Hanabo himself, is a very detailed account of what has just happened in North Korea.

In his report, Hwabo Yoshishi said that on July 19, 9082 (the 8th year of the Great Emperor of the Great Dry Empire, the 15th year of the Meiji era of Japan), the Korean capital of Seoul, there was an incident in which the rice was looted by the Tokwan Shogun, and when the rice from Jeolla Province arrived in Seoul, the Seonhui Administration, which was in charge of Yuroku, decided to pay the Korean army for 1 month, which had been in arrears for 13 months. However, the rice distributed was mixed with a large amount of sand and bran, which was inedible. So the Korean soldiers went to the warehouse of the Seonhye Hall to argue with the domestic servants of Min Qianho, who was also the chief of the Seonhye Office, and there was a conflict between them, during which a large number of angry and hungry soldiers rushed into the Dubang office, smashed the warehouse, seized the grain, and beat the storekeeper, but then the soldiers scattered. The matter was reported to Min Qian-ho, who ordered the arrest of more than a dozen soldiers led by Kim Chun-yong, Yoo Bu-wan, Jung Eui-gil, Kang Myeong-jun, etc., and handed them over to the Seoul Arrest and Robbery Agency for punishment. But on the same day, there was another incident in which Min Qian-ho's third son, Min Yong-gan, was killed in a fight with a North Korean soldier in the courtyard, and Min Qian-ho was furious and ordered the whole city to search for the murderer behind closed doors, and arrested a large number of soldiers and civilians, so it was rumored among the people of Seoul that these arrested people would all be beheaded and Min Yong-gan would be killed. When the news reached the Korean soldiers' quarters in the eastern suburbs of Seoul, it aroused great indignation among the North Korean soldiers, and the soldiers of the 4th Battalion of the Beijing Army decided to gather a crowd to mutiny in order to save their comrades who were about to be killed. After Jin Chunyong's father, Jin Changsun, and Liu Buwan's brother, Liu Chunwan, discussed with them, Jin Changsun drafted a general document asking everyone to gather in Dongbetsuying. Preparing to rescue the captured soldiers.

July 23, 9082 (June 9 of the lunar calendar). Tens of thousands of soldiers led by Kim Changsun and Yoo Chunwan and their dependents gathered in Dongbek Camp on the outskirts of Seoul to mutiny. At first, their purpose was simple. It was to rescue the arrested soldiers, and the way it was to demonstrate and petition. The mutinous soldiers first approached their commander, Li Jingxia, the general of the Wuwei Army, and asked him to intervene to resolve the matter. Li Jingxia had some sympathy for the soldiers, but he had no real power and did not dare to offend the powerful Min family, so he only wrote a letter of love and asked the soldiers to go directly to Min Qianhao. Many North Korean soldiers went to Min Qianho's house with love letters to ask for explanations. Min Qianho was supervising the work at Gyeongbokgung Palace at the time and was not at home. As soon as the soldiers arrived at the Min Mansion, they bumped into Min Qianhao's servant who served as the treasurer of the Duzhu Office, and saw the gold and silver treasures piled up in the Min Mansion. The soldiers set fire to all kinds of treasures and delicacies of Minfu to ashes, and "smelled the flowers for several miles" (at this time, it had not rained in Seoul for more than two months, but it was pouring rain on the day of the mutiny, and it did not stop until dusk the next day). People think that this is a sign of "clearing the name").

After burning down Min Qian-ho's house, mutinous Korean soldiers went to and besieged Unhyeon Palace. He asked for the assistance of Heungseon-daewon-kun, the father of King Yi Hee, who lived in it, because Daewon-kun had been retired for many years. Discord with Concubine Min. But when the king of the courtyard faced tens of thousands of rebellious troops and their dependents, he said, "I am an old man, how do you know about state affairs?" The king is merciful, and there will be no other", and shouted out the soldiers.

On the afternoon of the day the mutiny broke out, the rebel soldiers and the Korean mob first went to the Dongbetsu camp, occupied the weapons depot, seized the weapons, and then launched a riot in three directions: all the way attacked the Capture and Robbery Hall and the Yi Ban Mansion, and released the imprisoned Jin Chunyong, Liu Buwan and other arrested soldiers and civilians, as well as other prisoners, as well as many imprisoned Confucian students, including Bai Lekuan, the leader of the "Weizheng and Evil Suppression" faction. Subsequently, the soldiers and citizens of the rebel army smashed the mansions of Min Tae-ho, Min Yong-yi and other relatives and magnates, as well as people who had dealings with Japanese and other foreigners, chanted the slogan "Kill all the Min clans", and attacked the lower capital prison where the Korean Janissary military camp was located all the way, killing the commander of the army, Han Sung-geun, Kim Ro-won and others, so that the only force in the hands of the North Korean government that could suppress the rebel soldiers was eliminated; Along the way, he occupied the Gyeonggi prison camp, and then attacked the nearby Japanese legation with the rioters, "claiming to kill all the Japanese." ”

At 3 p.m. on the same day, the Japanese legation received a letter from Yin Xiongyeol, an officer of the Praetorian Guard, informing the Japanese side that the situation was in chaos and advising him to make preparations for prevention. The Japanese legation asked the Korean government to send troops to protect it, but to no avail. At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, tens of thousands of Korean soldiers and civilians began to besiege the Japanese legation, and the soldiers and citizens of the rebellious army fought fiercely with the Japanese until late at night, and they burned down the houses around the legation in order to cut off the back road of the Japanese.

After several setbacks, Hwabo Yoshiji and his party fled to Incheon Port for refuge and were entertained by the Incheon Provincial Envoy Chung Ji-yong. Unexpectedly, the mutiny soon spread to Incheon, and the local residents besieged Hwabo Yoshiji and his party, forcing them to flee by boat on July 26. At this time, Hanafu Yoshishishi encountered a British survey ship "Exocet", and Hanafu Yoshishishi was familiar with the captain, so he fled back to Japan on a British ship. A total of 13 Japanese were killed in the course of the mutiny (7 in the attack on the legation and 6 in the escape of Hanabo's party), and Hanabo Yoshinori estimated that the death toll of Japanese expatriates in Seoul and Incheon was nearly 1,000. After returning to China, while treating his injuries, he hurriedly wrote this report and sent it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as soon as possible, so that the Japanese government could understand the situation as soon as possible.

After reading the report, Ito's face turned blue.

"Hua Fangjun overlooked one thing, this mutiny was actually instigated by someone." Hirobumi Ito said in a hoarse voice.

"That's what Ito-kun said." Inoue Xin nodded, "And I think that the main messenger behind this major incident is Li Shiying, the king of the courtyard." ”

"Tell me your reasons, Inoue-kun." Ito said, taking a deep breath, tilting his head and closing his eyes, calming his mind.

"On the day of the rice grabbing incident, the son of Min Qianho, who was in charge of grain, was killed by North Korean soldiers, which is so strange." Inoue Shin looked at Hirobumi Ito and said, "If it's a coincidence, it's too much of a coincidence." ”

"Yes." Hirobumi Ito opened his eyes and looked at Inoue Xin, "In this world, the most unlikely thing is a coincidence. ”

"The son was killed by the soldiers, as a father, he must think of the incident that just happened when the soldiers snatched rice, and in his rage, he acted irrationally - I heard that this person is very greedy, greedy people are always stupid, and it is difficult to act rationally - he actually ordered the whole city to be closed and searched for the murderer, and arrested many innocent people, which led to a mutiny at once."

"That's right." Hirobumi Ito nodded.

"And judging from the report of Hanafang-kun, before the rioting soldiers went to Daewon-kun, their behavior was still spontaneous and unorganized, but after meeting Daewon-kun, although Daewon-kun refused their request, their behavior seems to have become more organized and well-planned than before-they actually seized the arsenal first, and then attacked the key departments of the North Korean government and the only force that could suppress them, the Praetorian Guard, and succeeded, if there was no one to guide them, I don't think a group of hungry soldiers can do that. (To be continued......)

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