When Chen Run, deputy governor of the British General Office and vice envoy for north-south affairs, arrived in Beijing, the news that the Manchu Jiaqing Emperor was deposed and the Empress Dowager Cining abdicated had reached the British Consulate General in Sanlitun.

Qingfu said that as a responsible big country, the Qing Dynasty cherished the heart of one family from all over the world, abided by benevolence, righteousness and morality, and would never tolerate such shameless crimes as human trafficking, and the assassination of politicians was a serious incident that undermined the good situation of stability and unity between the two countries.

Qingfu also conveyed the ardent expectations of the Empress Dowager Cichun, who reviewed the difficult process of the two countries working together to create peace over the years, and hoped that the British could maintain the greatest calmness and patience in relevant incidents, and not speak in vain and let the people of the world make senseless sacrifices.

"Fu Min, Cai Shiyuan, Jiang Tingxi and others tried in vain to destroy the peace and security between the two countries, and they have been dealt with by the Queen Mother. Yongqi, the fifth elder brother of the first emperor Qianlong, will ascend the throne in December, in accordance with the will of the Holy Daoye, and the year name is Daoguang. I also asked Lord Chen, this era name ...... Is it proper? ”

After the official sample article was finished, Qingfu got down to business. Although the "Dao Light" was "given" by the Holy Dao Emperor, but directly facing the "Holy Dao", the Manchu Qing Dynasty was muttering, is this cursing the Holy Dao Emperor's Dao to lose all his glory or something.

Chen Run twitched the corners of his mouth, the chronology that the emperor let the Manchus receive was the number one mystery of the Tongshi Hall. No one knew the emperor's intentions in listing these era names, and it was even more difficult to understand why he would give these good-sounding era names to the Manchu emperor wholesale. As far as Chen Run himself understands, most of the emperor has some unspeakable bad taste.

After being silent for a while, Chen Run said: "Daoguang can be interpreted as receiving the grace of His Majesty in his country. It doesn't hurt. ”

Qingfu breathed a sigh of relief, and repeated the spirit of the "Anglo-Qing Peace Agreement" over and over again, saying that the Qing Dynasty would fully cooperate. Thanks to the British, as long as there are no troops, everything is negotiable.

"I really can climb up the pole, and I also acted in a bitter drama by the way, so I'm not afraid that the fake play will be real."

Looking at Qingfu's distant back from the main building of the Consulate General, Chen Run sneered.

The hearts of the British and Chinese people are boiling, the government and the opposition are shouting for the Northern Expedition, and the old scene after the assassination in Xi'an two years ago is staged again. The fragile state structure of the Manchu dynasty also collapsed again.

But this collapse is in the direction of the Empress Dowager Cichun, who took advantage of the Yinghua crusade to not only abandon the previous hypocritical and pretentious government of the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, but also changed the emperor again, and completely cleaned up the "Qianlong Old Party" such as Fumin Cai Shiyuan and Jiang Tingxi and others who tried to use the Empress Dowager Cining to overthrow her in order to abolish the New Deal. In the Manchu Dynasty, the old school forces were swept away. The Empress Dowager Cichun was finally able to hold power alone.

Empress Dowager Cichun's trip to clean up political enemies was also used by her as a weight to resist Yinghua's further oppression by asking for a full tide, you see, the upper echelons of my Qing Dynasty are in danger, even to the point of having to change the emperor again, if you are too pressed. The upper echelons of the Qing Dynasty have collapsed, and it is not good for you, the pressure is the pressure, and the mourning family is ready to bear it, but don't be too deep and heavy.

Of course, the Empress Dowager Cichun's posture of being under pressure was still very sufficient, and before Chen Run arrived in Beijing, countless human trafficker groups under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, such as the Triads, were severely cracked down, and Zhou Kunlai was the most wanted target. Zhou Kunlai was not caught, but hundreds of relatives and friends of the Nine Clans had been captured, and the list was sent to the British Consulate General, waiting for Yinghua to receive it.

"This is deliberately disgusting, when did we Yinghua start Zhulian? Don't you guys their tails to the sky, do you really think that witch is bowing her head? ”

Chen Run rebuked the officials of the Consulate General for taking advantage of this matter, and at the same time asked them to be more vigilant. ..., the officials still don't care too much, the situation in the two countries has become like this, what cards does the Cichun demon woman have to play? The goal set by the General Administration of North-South Affairs should be easily achieved, and the witch will never dare to refuse.

"Don't underestimate that witch......"

Chen Run only suppressed the pride of his subordinates, and he himself felt that this task should not be too difficult, and after handing over the industrial and commercial terms listed by Chen Wance to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he sat and waited for Qingfu to come to the door to report the good news. These clauses wanted to seize the monopoly of the Manchu Qing Dynasty on industry and commerce under its rule, although they pointed directly to the lifeline, but the difference in strength between the north and the south was so great that the witch wanted to resist, but she was afraid that she would be helpless.

Unexpectedly, I didn't wait for Qingfu, but waited for a large number of people.

On November 10, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Yinghua Consulate General in Sanlitun, holding flags and shouting, "Nanban get out!" Anti-British slogans. The patrol battalion under the command of the Admiral of Jiumen covered the Consulate General early, but did not disperse the people.

Chen Run stood on the top floor of the main building and looked at the gate of the Consulate General, looked at those people, and said to his subordinates: "That witch has made a move......

After the new policy of the Empress Dowager Cichun, the Manchu Qing Dynasty strictly controlled the gathering of the people, and gathered more than 10 people in public in the city, the first conspirator, the remainder were detained, and the dense ten or more people discussed state affairs, the first conspirator beheaded, and the rest flowed.

And now these people are clamoring, but the patrol battalion and officials have not interfered, and it is self-evident who is behind the scenes. Yinghua wants to take the lifeblood of industry and commerce, the Empress Dowager Cichun is unwilling to let go, letting go is to damage the interests of the Manchurians and the interests of the pillars, she will definitely resist. But she didn't dare to resist with national weapons, otherwise she would provoke the Yinghua army to overwhelm the border, and it would not be over.

What to do? stir up the hearts of the people and let Yinghua know that it is not that she does not accept these terms, but that the people under the rule of the Qing Dynasty want to oppose you Yinghua. In the end, even if you can't block all the terms, you can negotiate a good price without losing too much.

The subordinates are all worried, and now these people are afraid that this is just the beginning, and maybe what kind of trend will evolve into later, the Empress Dowager Cichun is really ruthless in using the trick of coercing public opinion, I am afraid it will be difficult to resolve.

Chen Run said: "It's easy to open the gate and it's hard to close the gate, she thinks that the rule can be like my Yinghua, there are embankments, ditches have been laid, and people's hearts can go downstream?" It's okay, let her go, and she will be the last one to jump. Let's protect the people living in the Qing Dynasty. Send a message to the consulates and ask them to warn the people of the country that they should either return south as soon as possible. Either retreat to the consulate for refuge. ”

Then he sighed: "I only suffered the northerners, and I will suffer this catastrophe again." ”

As expected, the 10-day demonstrations were just the beginning.

Eleventh. The number of people demonstrating in front of the Consulate General was twice as large as yesterday, and the patrol camp finally became nervous, and the soldiers in their coats, armed with muskets loaded with bayonets, lined up in a dense wall of people to separate the surging crowds. The torrent was forced by the forest of bayonets and washed away in the other direction, stopping in front of the Eihito Zendo Hall on one side.

"Yingyi is my Chinese catastrophe! Yiwu Yishu Yi said, all of them are demons! This Benevolence Hall is also a nest of evil. Smash it! Burned it! ”

A man was shouting in front of the crowd, although it was a simple short fight, he could speak in an orderly manner, his waving hands were white and calloused, and his identity was quite suspicious. But everyone in the crowd was emotional, and they were blocked in front of the Consulate General, and they were distracted. No one cared, just raised their arms and shouted to the noise of this person.

He Zhi, who was crowded in the crowd, felt that the blood was burning all over his body, and shouted with everyone: "Smash it!" Burned it! ”

He Zhi, who is in his twenties, is an inconspicuous piece of dust among all living beings, his family background is average, and he has attended private school. But he was not lucky enough to cross the dragon gate through the imperial examination, so he helped in the grocery store. The monthly salary is eight cents of silver, plus odd and bits of extra money, less than two taels of silver, barely living in Beijing, and every day I count when I will save enough money for the bride price. ..., the helpers in the industry were squeezed by the underworld of Bajie, blackmailed by the poor master to earn extra money, bumped into those imperial merchant masters in the grocery store, had to kowtow and lick their shoes at every turn, and served carefully, and were slapped and punched if they were not satisfied.

He Zhi has a vague impression of Yinghua in the south, and has some good feelings, such as the groceries in the south are well-made and sufficient, the price is fair and the profits are high, and he relies on bringing the "British goods" that cannot be sold in the industry to the countryside around Xuanhua in Changping to earn some extra money. The dragon silver dragon ticket in the south is also easy to make, and any shop can be recognized. In recent years, the capital has flourished with commercial goods and abundant grain, which is also due to the trade between the imperial court and the south. The medical skills in the south are even more sophisticated, especially in trauma and pediatrics, and the people around him, even the proprietors in the industry, have to go to the nursery of Yingci Hospital.

There are a lot of good feelings, and even more bad feelings. Some relatives and friends beckoned him to go with him, but he scoffed. Everyone in the south no longer has the braids that their grandparents have left, and they are not from a country at all. What kind of heavenly temple to worship the sky privately, the noble and lowly concubines with different surnames mixed together to worship the ancestors, everything is taught in the school, and even women can take the imperial examination to become officials, and they are also engaged in machines, and they are demonic, and they are not wronged at all by saying that they are Nanban.

He has also come into contact with a lot of Nanban books, but there are some inexplicable truths on them, and the people of Nanban use these truths to fight with the official master, and even fight with the emperor, which is completely unorthodox! The gentleman of the private school often said that the masters of the Nanban were not like the masters, and they were all held hostage by merchants, and they were really right.

In He Zhi's opinion, those truths of Nanban are particularly ridiculous, and the truth of earning wealth is nothing, but it can't be said on the surface, let alone replace the three outlines and five constants. And what is the same for everyone, can everyone be the same?

Although he He Zhi wants to kowtow to the official lord and kowtow to the Manchurians, but if he sends it in the future, someone will have to kowtow to him, if the heavens have eyes, he can climb into the circle of the emperor and merchants, and he can also call himself a slave in front of the Manchurian masters. Raise some more minions and listen to them call their masters, this is the way of life in the world, isn't it like this since ancient times? If they are all the same, they don't kowtow to each other, and there are no masters and slaves, what kind of world is it called? So what's the point of being alive? So how to live?

After all, he He Zhi has also read the books of sages, knows some benevolence, righteousness and morality, and knows the principles of the world, and he is a person in the capital, living at the feet of the Son of Heaven, he will never fall for the poison of these fallacies.

For He Zhi, the general trend of the north and the south is not worth caring about. In this life, he also experienced the disaster of swords, when the Guangxu Restoration could make the city of Beijing miserable, fortunately he was young at that time, and fled with his family to avoid this disaster. Although this chaos is big, it is civil strife after all. The Battle of Liuli Bridge was rumored to be the entry of the Southern Barbarian Shengdao Emperor, and he, like most people, scoffed at this claim. Can Nanban really enter Beijing City, can he retreat? Is this flower Beijing city willing to throw away?

Therefore, except for Yongzhengye's defeat and loss of Jiangnan once, and the loss of Xi'an four or five years ago, in He Zhi's feelings, the north and south are generally stable, and he also feels that it will always be stable. The "Anglo-Qing Peace Agreement" is like the alliance between the abysses and the abyss, and it will continue for decades.

Speaking of the Lanyuan Alliance, He Zhi, like most people, thinks that they are Song, Nanban is Liao, the times are changing, and the north and south are translocated. Two years ago, the assassination case in Xi'an, the Nanban began to clamor for the northern invasion of the Central Plains, which made He Zhi begin to worry about it.

When Lord Qianlong abdicated and Empress Dowager Cichun led the court to accept the amendment, he was still indignant with his friends, drinking and talking all night, feeling that the court was weak and incompetent, and that the southern barbarians were too pressing.

I thought that the Great Qing Kingdom would endure humiliation and burden, and Nanban would be able to live in peace, but I didn't expect that Nanban began to make trouble again two months ago. said that the Qing Dynasty did not treat people as human beings and sold them wantonly, and then they killed each other with their own families, and they also detained the charges on the Qing Dynasty. ..., He Zhi and the group of friends around him who are also living a small life almost blew up their lungs, not to mention this human trafficking, there is a purchase before selling, it's not that you are unkind, why would someone do this lack of virtue here in the Qing Dynasty? Let's just say that your own family members kill each other, but you want to give us the Qing Dynasty a shit basin, really think that our Qing Dynasty is a lowly slave? He Zhi is a native of the Qing Dynasty after all, and Nanban doesn't take the Qing Dynasty seriously, so he naturally feels humiliated.

The rabbit is anxious to fight the eagle, and the mouse also has the gas of pulling the cat's beard, this gas is on the head, the original dissatisfaction with the court, and the resentment of the Manchurian pile is only a small section, when the friends greeted the street and cheered, he responded in a loud voice: "Go with you!" ”

At this time, the heroes shouted, He Zhi hated to dig out his heart and liver and show his sincerity. But digging out the heart and liver is to lose your life, and in response to the call of the heroes, smashing this good hall is a gesture. Guarding in front of the good hall were not the musketeers of the patrol camp, but some pretending yacha who would not hit the bayonet.

So while the others were still talking, He Zhi made a move. He picked up a brick from the ground, poured his anger on it, and threw it forward with all his might.

There was a clattering sound, and bricks smashed one of the windows of the temple, like a signal flare, announcing the arrival of a great storm.

On November 11, the Sanlitun Yingren Charity Hall was destroyed......

On the night of the 11th, the Dongcheng Temple and the Yinghua Commercial Hall were burned, and the raging fire dispersed the night, reflecting half of Beijing as if it were day.

On 12 November, the Liuli Bridge in the southwest of Beijing, standing on the battlefield of the past, not only collected the war victims, but also entered Beijing as a pawn of the peddlers and pawns of the incense to the heavenly temple was attacked by tens of thousands of people, the temple was destroyed, and the sacrifices were injured.

On 14 November, under the leadership of unknown figures, the unloaders of the Tanggu wharf set off a wave of strikes, which soon turned into riots, and the Tanggu Temple and Yingci Monastery were smashed one after another, and the port warehouses were burned and looted, and the black smoke did not disperse for two days.

Beginning on the 14th, the riots spread rapidly to the entire Manchu rule, mainly in Beijing and Tanggu. Baoding, Taiyuan, Daming, Jinan, Henan (Luoyang), and finally Nanyang, Yingzhou, Xuzhou and Haizhou are bordered by the British and Qingqing borders.

By the end of November, almost all the prefectures under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were making noise in the streets, and the number of participants was more than one million. The people who parade in the streets hold high all kinds of banners and shout all kinds of slogans, and the spearhead is directed at Yinghua. The crusade against the unrighteousness of the British and Chinese merchants, the unkindness of the scholars, not only oppressed the northerners, but also poisoned the hearts of the people. clamoring to build the Great Wall in the south and expel all the things of Yinghua, including people and things.

Almost overnight, newspapers such as "Central Plains", "Shenzhou", and "Purple Qi from the East" appeared brightly, and the first editorials all exaggerated the victimization of the northerners by the British and Chinese, the people's livelihood, and the people's hearts were lost. Crying begging the imperial court to raise its head in front of "Yingyi" and sacrifice its life to resist.

In less than half a month, the Manchu Qing dynasty was also boiling. (To be continued)