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Chapter 30: The Art of the Emperor

In the original history, the rapid development of the Boxer Rebellion and the killing of foreign missionaries caused great panic among the foreign coalition forces, and they demanded that the Qing government take measures to eliminate the Boxers. The Empress Dowager Cixi, who was actually in control of the political situation, repeatedly issued edicts strictly prohibiting the Boxers and organized the army to encircle and suppress them. However, due to a variety of reasons, it was difficult to extinguish the Boxers for a while. At the suggestion of Bishop Fan Guoliang of the Beitang (Xishiku Church, then the main church of Chinese Catholicism), the Great Powers proposed to send "embassy guards" into Beijing on May 28, 1900, but the Qing government first refused, and then was forced to agree on the 31st, but proposed that "each embassy should be based on twenty or thirty people", and as a result, the Great Powers successively sent more than 400 people to Beijing, which greatly exceeded the limit of the Qing government. Later, the foreign coalition sent Seymour to Beijing with 2,000 men, which posed a serious threat to the Qing government.

In response to this, the Qing government continued to issue orders to suppress the Boxers to eliminate the reason for the foreign powers to send troops, and on the other hand, it mobilized troops into Beijing to prevent accidents. On June 9, the military guard army (Gan army) led by Dong Fuxiang, who was hostile to foreigners, was transferred to Beijing to garrison, and on June 11, the Japanese secretary Sugiyama Bin went to meet the Seymour coalition forces entering Beijing, but was killed by Gan troops outside the Yongding Gate. After the incident, Minister Ronglu personally went to the Japanese embassy to apologize.

The foreign powers forcibly marched into Beijing and the Boxers resisted the foreign army, which caused the Qing court's attitude towards the Boxers to begin to change. In the face of the aggressive posture of the great powers, the differences between the main peace and the main war, and the main suppression and the main war within the Qing court became more serious. The Qing government sent Zhao Shuqiao and He Naiying on June 5, and Gangyi to Zhuozhou on June 6 to "persuade" the Boxers. As a result, the resolute attitude was that "the people can be relied upon", and Zhao Shuqiao and others also agreed to take measures to appease them. Coupled with the instigation of Zai Yi and other bureaucrats, the Qing government gradually began to recognize the Boxers as a legitimate organization, and this attitude directly led to the Boxer Rebellion entering Beijing in large numbers in early June. From June 10, with the acquiescence of Qing officials, the Boxers began to enter Beijing in large numbers. In the early days, relations between the Boxers and foreigners in Beijing were strained, but there was no large-scale bloodshed. June 12 "This morning, the church outside Donghua Gate caught fire, and many parishioners led them north. It was the first time that the Boxers entered Beijing and caused trouble." ("Gengzi Memorabilia"). Some commentators believe that this incident is likely related to Klinder's unauthorized arrest of Boxers passing through the embassy district, and the situation in Beijing deteriorated rapidly.

After the embassy guards entered Beijing, some foreign diplomats headed by German Minister Klinder blindly used force to solve the problem. Clint led a platoon of sailors above the inner city, and found that there was a Boxer practice in the sand, so he did not hesitate to give the order to shoot, killing more than 20 people on the spot ("Gengzi Embassy Besieged"). After that, the embassy guards carried out the "Boxer Hunt Operation", and repeatedly took the initiative to attack the Boxers, which only made the situation even more out of control, and the angry Boxers burned churches and slaughtered innocent Christians everywhere in Beijing, and also affected the Dashilar area outside Qianmen Street.

Yuan Chang, an official of the Lord's Peace faction, accused Clint and said: "The gatekeepers and other parties discussed with the commander of the infantry army to suppress the inside and outside of the capital, strictly take the first place according to the order, and use the appeasement of the place to provoke the neighbors." I don't want Dirk to take advantage of the situation and take the boxers without authorization, so that it will change dramatically." On June 20, when Klinder himself went to the Prime Minister's Yamen to negotiate, he met with Shenji Battalion Zhang Jingenhai and was shot by the latter, causing the famous "Klinder Incident".

It was because he knew that the Manchu government would finally tear the last layer of the veil and reveal its murderous face, so Lin Mengchu was not interested in using the name of the Manchu Central Committee. Besides, after the First Sino-Japanese War, did the Manchu Qing Dynasty really have any righteous reputation?

If there really is such a thing, the governors of the southeast will not either, and they will not dare to play any southeast mutual protection.

"Not to mention anything else, that Shenji Battalion named Enhai is still a good man, but I think he probably won't end well, right?"

"Yes, no matter how ignorant, how hasty, and incompetent the Manchus were, in this country, in this land, there will always be some people who dare to die generously in the most dangerous times, and this does not change because the Manchus were a colonial regime."

Chen Cheng first said an irrelevant word, and then sighed: "Later, a Japanese detective found Enhai according to Klinde's relics, and immediately arrested and transferred him to the Germans, and after some interrogation, he was executed on the side of the Dongdan archway. ”

"So there are still some available people on the Manchu side," the girl said thoughtfully, "Can we let these people be of our use?" It would be a pity that they and the students in the martial arts academy in Tianjin died so meaninglessly. Since he is a good man, he should die on the battlefield where the two armies are fighting. ”

"Well, those people in the Martial Arts Academy can be regarded as dying on the battlefield, right?" Of course, Chen Cheng understood what the girl meant, but he deliberately said: "It can't be said that if they die in battle like an ordinary infantryman, they are not killed in battle." Besides, it's death anyway, and it doesn't make much difference how you die. ”

Lin Mengchu ignored the young man's nonsense, and said seriously: "Aren't we now lacking middle-level managers and grass-roots officials? It's really not good, let them be a squad leader, or a platoon leader. We have worked so hard and the number of officers is so small, that if we can't fight a really tough battle a few times, we will be broken. ”

"Okay," Chen Cheng stopped joking, "the infiltration of the capital is already being done, and it is estimated that there is no big problem." As long as we wait until that Lafayette runs away, we will put up the banner again, and these people will only be used by us when they have no way out. As for the martial arts academy, it's a bit troublesome, those students are all big businessmen, officials or heroes from all over the world, and they don't get along with our basic situation, and I'm afraid it's not easy to move them. ”

"Well, I'm saying," the girl waved her hand, "I'm doing this once in a while to give them a chance." If they can't handle it themselves, let them die. ”

His Excellency Mengchu, the black dragon ****, has never been a person with overflowing sympathy, on the contrary, she prefers to see the scene of bloody and flying swords.

"We just need to get in touch first, and when they are wailing in pain, they will naturally remember us. Isn't that guy named Gao Huan that you like very much like this often? When the time comes, we will give them a chance to take revenge, and their subjective initiative will definitely become very strong! ”

Eh, which teacher taught your history?

"Are you trying to say that my history teacher died too soon?"

No, no, no, I want to say that he taught him so well, what you just said is the so-called imperial art.

"Hmph, I'll have a lot more!"

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