Chapter 87: Seoul Rebellion (2) Planting
The day before yesterday, the first group of the main forces of the Japanese Combined Marines arrived in Seoul, forcibly entered despite the obstruction of Lee Yong-sik, the Korean Foreign Affairs Co-ordinator, and set up a brigade headquarters in the Ichicheon Hotel. Such an outrageous act has aroused great opinions among the people of Seoul, who are already extremely disgusted with Japan.
It's just that their number is not too large, and the inner court of the court is pressed on all sides, so there is no trouble.
But that doesn't mean the situation is really calm. Don't forget, there is a simultaneous issue of the "Guowen Bao", and almost the entire ruling class of North Korea has studied the Han classics, and there is no obstacle to reading the newspaper in an environment where Chinese characters are used to chant poems.
In Seoul, where almost the entire country's cultural power is concentrated, the "National News" sells hundreds of copies at a time, and at most thousands of copies. Regardless of which side they stand, people are anxious to know how the situation in the outside world is changing.
As a result, after Dong Xuedao's initiative to negotiate peace, after the threat was exhausted, China and Japan continued to increase their troops, diplomatic bargaining, Japan's double-facedness, the Qing court's indecision, the fanning of the flames by the foreign powers, and all kinds of absolutely unfavorable news for Korea were in the dust!
There are many Confucian students in North Korea, and there are even more hot-blooded young people! In this era of drastic changes in the world, they, like the young scholars of the Qing Dynasty, are also seeking a way out of the national reform. After returning from the "group of gentlemen in Japan" ten years ago, it became an "enlightened party" inclined to Japan, and even planned to use a coup d'Γ©tat to collectively defect, but it was suppressed by the Qing court.
However, as a result, an internal split had already been formed, and the conservative "Shida Party" and orthodox Confucian scholars were in fact similar to those of the Eastern Scholars, and they were very disgusted with the so-called revolutionary style of Japan that relied on military force to forcibly attack the door, forced them to shave their hair and change their clothes, and converted to Christianity.
And in recent days, this dissatisfaction has accumulated to the peak, and it is just a trigger to vent it.
At the critical moment, the nails planted by Yang Hao began to exert force! The working group headed by Xu Yanzhuo, in cooperation with Ding Weifen's "Guowen Bao" reporter group, worked closely with light and darkness, quietly contacted those relatively radical young Confucian students, disseminated revolutionary ideas among them, imperceptibly gained trust, and proved their judgments step by step with ironclad facts.
To this day, these young Confucian scholars have formed a kind of thinking: if they continue to sit back and watch the Qing court delay the warplanes and allow Japan to rapidly increase its troops, not only will they repeat the tragedy of the Jiashen Incident ten years ago, but they may even be defeated by the Qing court and the 500-year-old Korean state will come to an end, and it will become a slave of the Japanese barbarians from an orthodox ancient country of oriental culture!
This is something that they cannot accept in any way. When they learned that today, a larger group of Japanese troops would enter Seoul and force the royal family to sever its vassal relationship with China for 500 years with a strong force.
Xu Yanzhuo then mobilized some of the chess pieces he had bought before, and they came forward to connect them everywhere, scattering the clothes, flags, and leaflets that had been prepared long ago, and agreed, just this morning, there will be an outbreak!
The citizens of Seoul are even more unhappy with the Japanese! In recent years, Japan has forcibly monopolized more than eighty percent of the DPRK's business, wantonly dumped foreign goods trafficked from Europe and the United States, and smashed the local handicraft industry and commerce, leaving them with no money to earn, no food to eat, and no anger but not to speak!
Now there are stunned young strikers, they follow up and stand on their feet to cheer, but they can push the boat down the river, and they can also export evil spirits, and the danger is not great, why not do it!
As a result, thousands of people were driven by various thoughts, and they snowballed more and more, surging continuously, and turned into a huge momentum that can now completely surround the Japanese Legation!
The Confucian student who greeted Zhao Bingji was not an ordinary person, but An Chengyu, the disciple of the current Korean Confucian Liu Linxi! Liu Linxi, a student of the self-reliant Confucian Li Henglao, is considered to have inherited the academic mantle of the "West China School"! Li Henglao's disciples and grandchildren also take Liu Linxi as the leader and regard them as authentic!
Liu Linxi himself is not a peaceful person. In 1876, when Korea and Japan concluded the "Ganghwa Treaty," he and 46 Confucian scholars in Gyeonggi Province, including Hong Jae-gu, jointly put forward the slogan of "unity between Japan and foreign countries" with Choi Yi-hyun, another major bull in the capital who "wrote with an axe," and resolutely opposed the reconciliation of trade with Japan. It can be said that he was a staunch anti-Japanese and anti-Westernization banner figure.
Today, North Korea has once again reached a critical juncture of life and death, he did not move in the place where he was lecturing, but his students were here, An Chengyu, who was more flexible, immediately seized the opportunity, stepped forward, and acted as the leader of Confucian students, waving his fists, waving flags, stirring up a lot of momentum, and killing in front of the battle!
The streets of Seoul are not wide, and the crowding of hundreds of people together is particularly spectacular. If there are more than 1,000 people, you can't see the edge at a glance. Thousands of shouts were shouted, the oscillating rain could not fall smoothly, and a rolling heat boiled the whole king on the morning of June!
There were not many guards stationed at the Japanese Legation, including Minister Keisuke Otori, the Japanese, who didn't take the Koreans seriously from their hearts, never thought that this group of sheep-like guys would be so bold as to gather and run to the legation to demonstrate!
Zhao Bingji's shouting could not stop the enthusiasm of the Confucian students, but he was dragged into the crowd by An Chengyu, followed by a louder cheer, spreading like a tsunami, Xu Yanzhuo and others who were mixed in the crowd immediately shouted loudly: "The Foreign Affairs Governor is also on our side!" Fellow brothers, the court is also supporting our righteous deeds! β
"Oh! Oh! Oh! β
The sky-shattering cheers shook the houses next to them to the point that the walls fell off, and the loud movement could be heard by half of the city!
Those who had not yet arrived and had not made up their minds in the back and other streets, when they heard this, their hearts were on fire, and they shouted loudly to join the crowd, and multiply the power of the commotion again!
The guards of the Japanese legation had never seen such a scene before, their hands holding their rifles trembling, their uniforms soaked with sweat, their distorted faces full of horror and bluffing, but they could not even hear the people in the front row.
Keisuke Otori had just gotten up, and when he looked out of the window, he was crowded with people everywhere he looked, and the white flags were overwhelming, as if some emperor had returned to heaven and went abroad to mourn, and he was shocked at that time!
The 20 police leaders who followed him ran up in a panic and stammered: "Male...... Your Excellency, Minister! Things are not good, the North Koreans are going to rush in! β
Keisuke Otori is a veteran politician and an ambitious radical who is responsible for provoking the Korean War and is fully prepared for all kinds of contingencies.
glared at the policeman fiercely, he calmly sorted out his tuxedo, and scolded in a deep voice: "What are you panicking, the North Koreans don't have the courage to rush in!" You immediately inform the Combined Marines at the Ichikawa Hotel and ask Muyama Shinyoshi to send a team to strengthen the defense. In addition, I especially told him not to be provoked by unexpected provocations, it is very likely that someone is secretly stirring up trouble! β
"Hey! I'll do it. But what about the mob outside? β
Keisuke Otori calmly stepped out: "I'll go and drive them away!" β
"Huh?!" The police chief was shocked, "But this will be very dangerous!" Your Excellency, you'd better stay here, and we'll just keep order!" β
Keisuke Otori snorted coldly: "This kind of thing is not something you can do. β
With a straight face, he strode to the door of the embassy, stood in front of the crowd without fear, and looked at everyone with condescending contempt in his cold eyes, just staring at him coldly and directly without expression.
An Chengyu saw his photo and knew that this was the main master, so he hurriedly raised his right hand, and the frantic shouting quickly stopped. Then, An Chengyu shook his white robe, puffed up his chest, and with a righteous and awe-inspiring face, he took a few steps forward, stood five meters away from Keisuke Otori, and said loudly: "Honorable Mr. Minister, we are the representatives of the righteous Korean subjects, hereby, we make a solemn request, please convey to your government to immediately stop the wanton invasion of our territory and the gross interference in our government!" β
After speaking, he took out a thick document in both hands and held it high.
Keisuke Otori didn't even look at it, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he sneered: "The Japanese Empire has the legal right to garrison Korea, which is clear in the "Jemulpo Treaty" and the "Ganghwa Treaty". The cooperation between Japan and North Korea is a blessing for the subjects of the two countries! You young people don't understand the general trend of the world, and you only hear the instigation and coaxing of some lawbreakers, so you come to threaten the diplomatic envoys of the empire, don't you know that this will cause great trouble?! β
An Chengyu is not good at stubble, he can become an excellent Confucian student, a young leader, and his ability to play tricks is not weaker than that of ordinary politicians, and he immediately shouted in a righteous and stern manner: "North Korea is the North Korea of North Koreans!" We have our own sovereignty and do not need Japan to interfere. You have sent so many troops to our capital, which has already violated the dignity of our country, and even more severely threatened the safety of our people! If you don't accept the conditions, quit immediately, and we will not back down! β
"That's right! Never back down! β
"You can't give in to the Wakos!"
"Little Japanese devil, get out! You are not welcome here! β
"Oriental Japanese slaves, who have lost the orthodoxy of Chinese culture, but they still want to deprive us of civilization and help foreign devils to fight for the tiger, shameless!"
"Withdraw immediately! Get out of Seoul! β
The shouts of the mountains and the tsunami, under the arrogance and sarcasm of Keisuke Otori, soared into the sky again! Clusters of waves of people crowded forward from behind, pushing the people in front of them to stagger, to An Chengyu's back.
The Japanese guard subconsciously raised his rifle, his cheeks twitched, and his fingers unconsciously put on the trigger.
At this moment, in the crowd of demonstrators, a young man gritted his teeth, showed a resolute gaze, and suddenly strode out!
This dangerous move made a nervous policeman subconsciously pull the trigger, and Keisuke Otori saw it out of the corner of his eye and exclaimed: "Don't!" β
The person next to him raised his hand and pushed the muzzle of the gun hard, and saw that the young man's body shook violently, and a pool of blood spread rapidly on his chest! ps: Thank you for the reward! Don't forget to vote after reading it!