At the end of the month, Chen Run's determination was shaken again.

I didn't see the reinforcements, but what I saw was that the Consulate General was flooded like a sea, and the people holding the flags of different provincial governments spoke with various accents, comparing Yinghua to demons, and denouncing the "British demons" for harming the world and poisoning China.

This is the climax that the Empress Dowager Cichun was looking forward to, and her loyal and courageous Wu Xiang put forward the plan of "100,000 prefectures, 100,000 counties, 100,000 people", and every county under her rule should mobilize a group of people to come to the capital to make noise, so as to show the Great Wall of the hearts of the people of the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the Manchu Qing Dynasty now has no hundreds of prefectures and thousands of counties, and the mobilization of 100,000 people is not only very painful, but also too many sufferings. But with 20,000 or 30,000 people from 30 prefectures and 200 counties, plus the people of the capital, the shelf can still be built. With such a momentum, it can even stir up Yinghua's internal affairs, and the plan to block Yinghua's direct targeting of the lifeblood of industry and commerce with public opinion can be successful.

The bureaucracy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty burst out with a rare mobilization force, and it was accomplished in just half a month. Even Liu Tongxun, who acted perfunctorily in Shandong, had to save up 3,000 officials and monks to change into civilian clothes and enter Beijing, while Henan and other places organized groups of relatives and friends of officials, which was tantamount to letting these people travel.

Nearly 100,000 people piled up, and it was difficult to see the details of Shandong and Henan hiding from the sky and the sea, and the officials of the Consulate General felt that the wind was blowing in their faces and it was difficult to breathe. Chen Run even began to vaccinate his subordinates, if this crowd is really crazy, to storm the consulate general, everyone has to burn the documents first, and then cut themselves, if they are captured alive by tens of thousands of madmen, the end is worse than death.

Fortunately, the quality of this crowd of "people" with the "tour group entering Beijing" as the core is obviously insufficient, and the voice is louder than the people who were clamoring before, but they never move under their feet, and they are separated by two or three feet from the bayonet wall of the patrol battalion soldiers, and the quality is very good.

It's not that no one is trying to make a mess, just like He Zhi, who has been prestigious in Yingciyuan before. At this time, the whole person has been reborn and is full of fighting passion. It's just that the call sign is obviously difficult to vent his desires, so he leads a group of people to rush in.

"Don't blame me for not reminding me of being sieveed, as I said. There must be no chaos on the side of the Consulate General, and the patrol battalion received an order to shoot when it crossed the line. ”

Hong Ding's words stopped He Zhi, in He Zhi's opinion, since he wanted to be the enemy of the Southern Barbarians, he should uproot the Consulate General, what is the meaning of such twisting and pinching?

But he is still conscious, and there is a game of chess on it. I'm just a small chess piece, and I can't spoil the overall situation. It's just a few days of happiness, and the person has been transparent, so it's really boring to make such a small fuss, so he shifted the target.

Those who wear black yarn and wear a middle jacket must be the Southern Barbarian Heroes, fight!

Riding on a four-wheeler instead of a two-wheeler. It must be the Southern Barbarian Demon, the car was smashed, and people beat it.

There are small shops on the street selling British goods. Grab the light, smash the light! Taking this opportunity, He Zhi also led his brother to the grocery store where he originally worked, not only robbed a lot of good things that could only be seen but not moved before, but also beat the shopkeeper who "looked down on people with dog eyes" half to death.

When the regiments from all over the country surrounded the Yinghua Consulate General, the guerrillas like He Zhi who held high the anti-British banner were innumerable, and they spread all over the capital, setting off an even greater campaign of smashing and looting.

When Qingfu hurriedly entered the palace to report the chaos in the capital to Ru Xi, Ru Xi said disapprerovingly: "Stir up the anger of those grass-headed people." You have to let people vent their anger, as long as the Nanban envoys don't have an accident. Listening to all these things you said, aren't they all Han people suffering? I didn't go to the government, I didn't damage our full industry, what are you anxious about!? ”

Qingfu also wants to say that he is not rushing to the official mansion now. It's not aimed at the Manchurians, but it doesn't take the reins, who knows what the next mess will be?

Tens of millions of people are like fingers, waved by her, at this time Ru Xi was full of spirit, and he felt that the breath that he had held for thirty years was spewing out, and he was so happy that he was about to ascend to immortal, how could he care about anything else, the next step? Shouldn't the next step be to wait for the Nanban to surrender?

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At this time, Ru Xi and Qingfu didn't know that in other places, the next step had come.

In Taiyuan City, Shanxi, the people have been touring the streets for days, it is not exciting enough, how to smash and rob small shops like that has already been lively, is making trouble, I don't know who raised his arms and shouted: "I'd rather starve to death and freeze to death, than eat the salt and rice of the Nanban, and not wear the clothes of the Nanban!" In recent years, the price of salt, rice and cloth has been rising, and the days have become more and more difficult, and at the same time, more and more of these daily necessities on the market have come from Nanban, and ordinary people will naturally attribute this situation to Nanban scourge them.

The Jin merchants, who monopolized the import trade of grain, salt, silk and cotton in Taiyuan Prefecture, were still watching the chaos as if they were watching the excitement, but now they have become lost dogs, and they fled into the yamen and barracks in panic, and found the master above, that is, the internal affairs office to cry.

The leaders of the Internal Affairs Office in Shanxi are dissatisfied, and the people are making a fuss on the orders, how can they dare to make trouble with the Internal Affairs Office, this is a rebellion! There must be people with ill intentions behind the scenes!

The target was quickly found, or rather chosen, that is, the person who usually opposes their monopoly business and smuggles the goods of the Southern Barbarians!

Under the order of the master of the Internal Affairs Office, Liu Binzu, the prefect of Taiyuan, hurriedly got busy, not only did his best to suppress this chaos, but also began to arrest smugglers on a large scale.

The person who can smuggle Nanban goods outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not an ordinary character, not on the underworld, or involved in the government and even the green camp, if it is a normal day, Liu Binzu does not dare to offend these people, but looking at the current momentum, the riot has been directed at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this is a hardcore pillar, and if this situation is broken, he is afraid that he will wear it and fall off with his head, so he closed his eyes and took care of these people with the lowest peddlers and pawns.

At the same time that the Taiyuan Mansion delegation was clamoring in front of the Yinghua Consulate General, the rumors that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was going to close the city and ban merchants, and that all commercial goods had to be designated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for sale, and that they would pay another cent of money, spread all over the city in an instant, and the official messengers went to the streets to seal up the shops and arrest the vendors, which proved the truth of the rumors.

In just half a day, the city of Taiyuan Prefecture was overwhelmed by the riot of people, and smugglers and good people joined forces to smash the Yamen of the Shanxi Internal Affairs Bureau, the Provincial Customs Yamen, and the Lijin Bureau, and then confronted the gangsters organized by the officials and the Internal Affairs Government. From fists and feet to bricks, from flat poles to kitchen knives, and then the old-fashioned bird guns went into battle, on November 27, Taiyuan Fucheng has become a battlefield in the true sense.

"The Heroic Demon in the House of Internal Affairs!"

"Liu Binzu betrayed the country to seek glory!"

The leader shouted confusing slogans, not only did not have any intention of rebellion, but also conformed to the general righteousness of the imperial court to stir up people's hearts. Therefore, when the people attacked the government, their hearts were also very justified. Liu Binzu, the prefect of Taiyuan, and Dong Haifu, the bureau of the Shanxi Lijin Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were beaten to death, and countless Jin merchants with the identity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were killed.

Chen Zhiying, the governor of Shanxi, was in Yangqu County, when he received the news. It was the twenty-ninth day, and I rolled my eyes and fainted.

Complete one's misery.

In response to the call of the imperial court, Yangqu County was also making noise. It can be seen that the county is a fool without political sensitivity, and the imperial court has allocated some funds to the local government in order to promote this "movement". This county feels that Yangqu County is full of coal mines. If you make trouble with those miners who are like a mustard, you don't have to pay half a penny, and those funds can go into your own pockets, so tens of thousands of miners gathered in the city...... It's the other way around. killed the magistrate, occupied the county seat, and erected the banner of the Red Yang Sect.

Chen Zhi rushed to Yangqu with the green camp in an emergency to deploy the chaos suppression. But I didn't expect the Taiyuan Mansion to be in chaos. He woke up, and then thought that there are coal mines in almost all counties and counties in Shanxi now, and the proprietors are all Jin merchants. The squeezing miner was extremely ruthless, and he couldn't wait to faint again, where would it be after Yangqu?

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At this time, Chen Zhiying not only hated Yangquzhi County very much, but also sighed that the queen mother in the capital who was clamoring for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, she was already full of devastation, and if she continued to make such trouble, did she want to sit and watch the smoke all over the ground?

"At this time, it is the day for you to sacrifice your lives to serve the country, I hope you will work hard, break the city quickly, and then return to Taiyuan to suppress the chaos!"

Chen Zhiying gritted his teeth and suppressed the green battalion generals. The generals responded weakly. After leaving the big tent, the deputy generals of the guerrilla staff looked at each other, and then shrugged their shoulders with a sneer. Sacrifice your life to serve the country? Whether it is the chaos of Yangqu or the chaos of Taiyuan Mansion, it is directly aimed at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the pillars of the country that monopolize industry and commerce. What does it have to do with them?

They live like wild dogs on the streets when they are in the green camps, where their salaries have not risen for many years, and their equipment has not been changed over the years. Now that something has happened, you still point to the green camp and work hard?

Disorderly! The more messy the better! It's best to lift the Internal Affairs Office and even the "pillars", and let's watch the play on the side of the Green Camp.

With such a consensus, when Shanxi was in turmoil, the green camps of a province all sat on the wall and watched, even if the governor sat in front of him, they all grinded foreign workers in a grand manner.

Shanxi is chaotic, Shandong is quite calm because Liu Tongxun is in charge, and Henan, which is sandwiched in the middle, is chaotic and quiet.

On the outskirts of Zhangde Mansion in Henan, in a small village, in a house that looks like an ordinary ancestral hall, a pretty girl in white bows to a wooden sign after offering incense. Look at this wooden plaque on a circle of moire borders, the middle is plain and white, it looks like the heavenly monument in the Yinghua Temple.

There are also a number of pictures hanging on the left and right of the ancestral hall, one is a female Buddha statue like Guanyin Bodhisattva, with the Buddha light on her head, sitting on the lotus platform, one is the statue of the old monk sitting in meditation in the forest, and the other is the statue of the monk Tanabe teaching the Dharma.

"The old mother of vacuum, Zen Master Huiyuan and Patriarch Cizhaozi are above, and Xu Wuniang should lead the children of Bailian to return to the right path, and seek goodness with all their hearts......"

After worshipping the wordless tablet, the girl bowed down to these portraits again, and whispered to herself.

After the ceremony, the girl turned to the group of people who knelt down behind her: "Although we have the name of Wenxiang Sect, we are really the true sect of the White Lotus, and we only seek to help each other and cross ourselves, and we will never do anything that hurts heaven and reason." The envoy of the Heaven and Earth Society also said that what we want to do is to calm people's hearts, not to kill in troubled times. What those sects want to do, we must not follow. ”

One of them said respectfully: "The Holy Maiden has the decree of the law, and we have nothing to do, but I am afraid that those sects will make trouble, and when the Tartar government is liquidated, we will be implicated." ”

The girl said: "In this way, we should stand up and call the neighbors so that everyone should not attack each other." There were so many people who listened to us that the Tartar government had to rely on our strength, and they did not dare to do anything to us at that time. ”

Another said: "I understand, the Holy Maiden wants us to be obscure, and when the Celestial Empire's army goes north, we will respond again and make great contributions." ”

The girl shook her head: "No, even if the army of the Celestial Empire goes north in the future, I also hope that everyone will not be restless." Those who farm continue to farm, those who do business continue to do business, and everyone lives their days quietly. Over the years, I have learned the way of heaven and have understood the world of the Heavenly Empire. That is the world of small people, only asking for the benefits that people should ask for, and guarding the righteousness that people should keep, it is already a vacuum hometown. At that time, our White Lotus True Gate could also be dispersed, and everyone only worshiped the heavens. ”

She looked at the kneeling crowd, and her eyes were like a deep pool: "If you ask for great wealth, you don't have to ask for it in this White Lotus True Gate, if you want to go to the world, I can recommend it to the Heaven and Earth Society." ”

Some people were moved, and some people also said: "We just want to have a good life, so we will follow the holy girl and wait for the Northern Expedition of the Heavenly Empire, but when will we wait." ”

The girl was silent, turned her head to look at the wordless heavenly position card, and sighed secretly, yes, when will it be before she can go back to the south to find the uncle......

The Holy Aunt Xu Wumei of the Wenxiang Sect has been waiting for almost ten years, and her sect, under the impetus of her and the Heaven and Earth Society, has gradually departed from the original doctrine and returned to the meaning of the White Lotus Sutra created by Mao Ziyuan. This scripture is the Yinghua Heavenly Temple for the transformation of the White Lotus Sect and gathered the power of countless sages to restore, with the way of heaven as the overarching, with the Chinese blood interpretation, seeking the people to be poor and happy, mutual assistance and self-reflection. Not only attracted ordinary people, but also those merchants, landlords, and even some scholars who were affected by the times, buried their heads in the scriptures, and then climbed into the vein of heaven from these scriptures and righteousness, seeking inner peace. There are few Heavenly Temples in the north, and there is resistance to entering the Heavenly Temple, but there is no psychological barrier to the secret belief in Bailian.

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When the wind of public opinion drummed up by the Manchu Qing Dynasty blew in this area, it seemed to be sinking into nothingness, and the fierce wind turned into a warm spring breeze. The prefect of Zhangde and even the governor of Henan had a headache because he couldn't mobilize here, and he spent a lot of effort, but he still couldn't get many people to go to the streets. And when the chaos in Shanxi came, there were signs of restlessness in the various doors of Henan Bailian, but they calmed down again, and only a little chaos appeared, and they were glad for it.

Naturally, they don't know that the people here are quiet in order to wait.

When the public opinion movement in Beijing reached its climax, the chaos in Shanxi had just begun, and Henan was not dismayed, but it was like peeling off the cocoon, pulling out the people's hearts from the vortex stirred up by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in Huaibei, the situation was different.

In the prefectures and counties near the Anglo-Chinese border, the power of the internal affairs government was relatively weak, after all, the Anglo-Chinese industry and commerce were unwilling to let the internal affairs government monopolize the downstream, so the local Shang dynasty supported by the old practice in Jiangnan was very active.

When the Shanxi Internal Affairs Government pressed on the heads of the people and even the government to squeeze profits, the Huaibei Internal Affairs Government was careful to take profits in the cracks, and never dared to be too arrogant to the local Shang Dynasty.

At the end of November, when the public opinion movement in the north was in full swing, the Manchu government in Huaibei took action no matter how much it suppressed the "pro-British forces."

"Anti-Anglo-Chinese oppression, anti-monopoly of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

"Get rid of the traitors, protect the Qing Dynasty!"

The righteousness raised by the people who were clamored by the Shang Dynasty was exactly the same as the righteousness raised by the forces that created the Taiyuan Rebellion, and the scolding of Yinghua was a disguise, and the real crusade was against the Internal Affairs Office and the Imperial Merchants, officials and merchants. Through the clamour, he also put forward specific political demands such as the abolition of the monopoly of the provincial government and the internal affairs government, which made the local government and the internal affairs government even more frightened.

Ru Xi slept soundly in the Forbidden City for several nights in a row, and even woke up from her dreams several times with a smile, but it was not until December 1, when the news of the destruction of the checkpoint of the Internal Affairs Office by the citizens of Changping County came, she had a faint feeling that she had been dreaming before. (To be continued......)