At four o'clock in the morning, four large carriages parked under the outer wall on the north side of the Tiandeng Street barracks were unveiled, and 20 men wearing short jackets, German equipment and shell guns came out, and the leader was none other than Tang Wulin, the commando leader of the 33rd Association.

Tang Wulin looked at the sauce garden in the north, which was still full of lights, and remembered Xiao Yiming's detailed explanation four hours ago, and felt that the sauce garden not far away looked more and more like Xiao Yiming pointing to the situation described by a large hand-drawn floor plan, and couldn't help but secretly admire Xiao Yiming's dense scheming, and such a feeling suddenly appeared in his mind: What does it mean to know each other and know oneself to strategize? Xiao Yiming is!

Tang Wulin knew that the same action had started in four places in the city, and it was estimated that the chaotic parties that were gathering and plotting or sleeping were quietly surrounded tightly.

Tang Wulin didn't wait any longer, raised his hand and pointed in two directions, the ten commandos immediately divided into two groups, and slowly touched the alleys on both sides of the sauce garden, and the remaining ten commandos worked in pairs and sealed the front and rear courtyard doors and several sections of low walls, each of them walked very lightly, and even the most alert dog was not alarmed.

In the small courtyard between the sauce garden workshop and the front hall, there are clear voices of statements and quarrels, and the full moon-shaped courtyard gate has no door panels, so you can clearly see the lights in the courtyard room and the figures printed on the window paper.

The two groups of team members who were the first to touch in smoothly stuck to the foot of the wall and waited patiently, seeing the captain Tang Wulin quietly flashing out from the dark place, four of the ten team members pulled out the shell gun, and gently loaded it diagonally and raised it diagonally.

Tang Wulin observed for a moment, raised his big hand and waved down, ten team members in pairs, bent down and trotted, approaching the front and rear windows, one of them slammed open the door of the concealed room, roared, and rushed in like a galloping horse with the help of momentum, the seventeen men in the room who were discussing fiercely were stunned, and the windows on the left and right sides were then shattered, and the four big men entered with the sound, pounced on the two capture targets in their arms, subdued them neatly, and searched out two brand-new Colt pistols from the two of them.

Tang Wulin used his toes hard, jumped up, jumped on the middle square table, pointed his gun at the two middle-aged men who looked like leaders, and shouted loudly:

"It's better not to move! This place is full of my people inside and out, even if you fight to the death, if one or two of you are lucky enough to escape from this room, you will be shot and killed outside, although you are a rebel, but you will not die for your crimes, don't do stupid things that kill yourself! Someone is coming, they're all tied up! ”

When they gradually came to their senses, they found that there were only 12 officers and soldiers who had seized them, everything on their bodies had been searched, the two small bedrooms inside had also been turned upside down, and bundles of leaflets, pistols, and baggage were all placed on the central table.

Tang Wulin put the Colt pistol he was playing with into his pocket, and then ordered loudly: "Register the seized evidence, and take the prisoner away immediately!" Zhan Kui went to the military camp next door to inform Brother Erbiao, immediately surrounded this sauce garden, searched it comprehensively, and brought everyone back to the barracks, and checked one by one and did not let go of a suspicious person! ”

"Yes!"

The neat sound frightened the seventeen arrested people a few times, Tang Wulin was overjoyed in his heart, the whole operation was successfully completed in less than twenty minutes, according to the advance prediction and the current situation, the seventeen people captured were likely to be the leaders of the chaotic party, otherwise they would not have gathered together for a meeting at this time, and they would not have found four Colt pistols and six double-barreled short muskets, the whole operation was clean and neat, not a single shot was fired, no casualties and no fighting, which made him proud and feel a little regretful.

At 4:10 a.m., hundreds of officers and soldiers suddenly poured out of the roads in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions of Wenshu Monastery, and after three clear horse whips, torches were lit, illuminating the tall courtyard walls on all sides of Wenshu Monastery.

Two gunshots suddenly rang out from the Wenshu Monastery Scripture Printing Bureau in the encirclement, and then everything returned to calm, and the hearts of the new officers and soldiers who were on the task of encircling were trembling, thinking that they were afraid of death.

Not long after, the empty wagons of the five baggage battalions were driven into the broken courtyard gate, and the shouting, scolding, and beating resounded, but soon stopped again, as strange as the rooster suddenly being choked by the neck.

In less than five minutes, five large carriages covered with cloth drove out of the courtyard one after another, and more than 30 commandos who were covered with hot air rode horses, escorted left and right, and advanced towards the east school field at a very fast speed.

After another ten minutes, hundreds of new officers and soldiers quickly withdrew, and there was silence inside and outside Wenshu Monastery, as if nothing had happened.

At the intersection of the Han River in the southwest corner of Wenshu Monastery, more than 30 officers and soldiers are still guarding all directions, and in the middle of the intersection, Zhong Ying looked at Xiao Yiming by the light of the torch:

"I really didn't expect that such a big arrest operation would be so smooth, today the elder brother only knew that the arrest of people can still be arrested like this, if it is replaced by the elder brother or the major yamen, I am afraid that the whole city will already be jumping and becoming a pot of porridge, brother, brother obeys you!"

Xiao Yiming smiled bitterly: "What to take?" No matter how careful it was, it still shot, and one person died. ”

"It's the rebellious rebels with guns who die, what do you feel sorry for? This result is very good, let's wait for the reward! ”

Zhong Ying finished speaking loudly, pointing to the towering German church at the corner of the street and the building to the west:

"I said, brother, can you find a piece of land for your brother next to your house? Now your acre of land can be sold for 1,000 taels of silver, and rich people from all directions are still rushing over like hungry dogs seeing meat, making the price of land soar every day, and there is no place to buy it if you have money. ”

Xiao Yiming said with a smile: "When you were asked to invest some money in, who hesitated, afraid of wolves and tigers?" ”

Zhong Ying waved her hand again and again in pain: "Don't say it, my bowels are green now!" Who would have thought that you kid could be so tossed? Alas, I'm afraid it's like the song you hummed, sometimes you have to have it in your life, and you can't force it in your life, but if you have this kind of opportunity in the future, you must not forget your brother, otherwise I will cut off your robe and break off your righteousness. ”

Xiao Yiming couldn't help laughing, thought about it, approached Zhong Ying, pointed to Wenshu Monastery and whispered:

"Big brother, you said that this monk is not good at reciting scriptures and surpassing sentient beings, but he quietly bought the latest roller printing press in the United States, opened such a large printing bureau, and followed the chaotic party to demagogue? Look at it again, the west and the east that we can't see, which were originally idle wasteland, are now occupied by this temple, what a good site, I'm afraid it adds up to no less than 200 acres! With verdant bamboos and trees, towering ancient trees, and a dozen or so clear ponds scattered here and there, you say, the monks have no father, no mother, no wife and no children, what are they doing in so many places? This time, the temple openly harbored the rebel party and acted as a tiger, and printed leaflets to incite public opinion and create riots, but it was a capital crime of complicity! ”

Zhong Ying suddenly straightened up, grabbed Xiao Yiming's shoulder and shook it vigorously: "Brother, my brother has nothing to say, my brother will come forward, and our brothers will add five to each other, this time we will never let the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a fortune slip away!" ”

Xiao Yiming smiled: "Aren't you planning to go back to catch up on sleep?" ”

"Can you sleep? Brother, I'm going with you to see Lord Zhangtai, it's almost dawn, let's go to the south of the Drum Tower to have a few bowls of fat intestine lo noodles, and after filling your stomach, talk to Lord Zhangtai. Zhong Ying pulled Xiao Yiming and left, and quickly got on the horse and headed south.

The sky is bright, Chengdu inside and outside the city have resumed the noise of the past, and all the days are the same, wake up in the capital, everywhere is the sound of selling, laughter, shouting and children's noise, the vast majority of citizens do not know what happened in the early morning, occasionally someone quietly spread, listeners are also suspicious, not so concerned, but at noon, with the government-run "Sichuan Daily" and the private "Shu Daily" two major newspapers suddenly issued outside the number, the whole Chengdu immediately boiled.

"More than 180 members of the Revolutionary Party were arrested, and 17 American Horse pistols, 35 home-made muskets, and dozens of home-made bombs were seized......"

"Wenshu Monastery Harbors Anti-Thief Printed Leaflet......"

"The prison supervisor of Wenshu Monastery was arrested and confessed to funding the thieves for a year totaling 30,000 taels ......"

"The leader of the anti-thieves confessed and plotted to set fire to the major yamen and adjacent streets during the Lantern Festival, and took advantage of the chaos to riot and occupy the major military camps......"

More than a dozen news headlines printed in bold font on a larger size triggered a strong shock, and the citizens were afraid, no one wanted to see the fire ignited, affecting themselves, no one wanted to be disturbed by the sound of guns and fires during the festive and peaceful Lantern Festival, and no one wanted to see the Wenshu Monastery, which had a high prestige in the hearts of the people for a hundred years, was implicated. There is not a single modified adjective in the whole text, and the course of the incident and the preliminary results of the interrogation are rendered very well, which is shocking and shocking.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the officers and men of the student team of the police headquarters and the first battalion of the 33rd Association of the New Army surrounded Wenshu Monastery with guns and ammunition in one fell swoop, and under the watchful eyes of nearly 10,000 citizens and heart-wrenching pilgrims, they found a batch of guns, standard swords, gunpowder, and printed leaflets.

To the peace of mind of the kind and compassionate monks and pilgrims, no one was embarrassed by the monks in the monastery, whether it was the police or the new officers and soldiers, and the pious monks in the temple were also very polite in interrogation, but the government also showed its power and confidently posted a public notice: Wenshu Monastery will be temporarily closed from now on, and it will be opened immediately after the case is clarified, and the monks of the monastery will come and go at will, but they are not allowed to leave Chengdu without the consent of the yamen.

The whole city was full of rumors, heated discussions everywhere, all the major military camps in the city were closed to carry out training, the responsible persons of the police stations at all levels even said that they had a heavy responsibility to hold meetings, and the city guards of the four gates also changed their attitude to be arrogant and domineering, and became honest and did not dare to speak loudly.

Xiao Yiming was idle, met with the governor, handed over the entire case casually, and then stayed in the backyard of the governor's mansion, leisurely discussing the current situation with Zhao Erfeng, the teacher who was about to return to Kangzang.

Zhao Erfeng was very satisfied with this closed disciple, and Xiao Yiming's steady, meticulous, thoughtful, and rapid performance in the entire arrest operation greatly appreciated Zhao Erfeng, especially the clever strategy of "controlling public opinion and winning the hearts of the people" in a timely manner, so that Zhao Erfeng was pleasantly surprised to see Xiao Yiming's outstanding political wisdom and strategy, and left his proud protégé with joy, and taught him decades of valuable experience as an official.

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