Chapter Seventy-Six: The Palace of Seoul Changes
Concubine Min, the old lady, is extremely power-hungry, although the sticks beautify her like a virgin, but in fact there is no difference from Concubine Yi, when she was in power, North Korea was the standard dictatorship of foreign relatives, and the old and young of the Min family were about to divide up the officials at all levels, and the wanton expropriation and extortion made the people miserable, otherwise it would be impossible to make such a thing as a peasant uprising.
And this old lady is still obedient to China on the surface these years, but in fact she hooks up with the Russians, which is essentially different from the genuine big party, after the Japanese took control of Seoul, they supported her father-in-law, but the real ruler is the pro-Japanese Kaihua Party. None of the two families liked her, and Dayuanjun directly sent her back to the palace to study, and then cleaned up her brothers outside.
Thinking about the fact that in order to grasp power, Cixi can even do such a strange thing as recruiting the Boxers into Beijing and declaring war on the eleven countries at the same time, you can know how crazy this kind of woman is at this time, and they will not miss any life-saving straw.
After bringing her cronies Li Jinfan and several of her brothers to discuss, to make sure that this Yang Feng was indeed as hand-eyed as Sun Ze said, Li Jinfan even found a few old foreign newspapers, especially one with a photo of Yang Feng and Alice walking out of his special car together, the background was actually the German Imperial Palace, and then it was accompanied by the scandal about him and Alice, which was even more convinced, so she personally wrote a letter to the Russian emperor asking for help.
In tone, he even regarded himself as a vassal country, and the content described the Japanese as extremely cruel and abusive, she and the king were so humiliated that they were almost defiled, and then hoped that the Russian emperor could send volunteers to save North Korea from fire and water, and North Korea would be grateful for virtue from generation to generation, of course, what she didn't know was that since Sun Ze persuaded her, her every move was under Japanese surveillance, because Keisuke Otori, the Japanese minister in Korea, received an anonymous whistleblower letter.
Concubine Min is a high-risk person, although she doesn't understand who the whistleblower is, but Otori still reacts quickly and bribes a palace maid next to Concubine Min to monitor her every move, and when the content of the Min group's discussion reaches the Japanese legation, Otori is startled. Yang Feng's energy naturally knew that if this letter reached Yang Feng's hands and had enough benefits, he would really transfer the letter to Princess Alex, and then this woman who had actually become the Empress of Russia because Alexander III had just died would send the letter to her husband, with Nikolai's hatred of Japan, she would definitely send troops. Now is the time for a decisive battle between China and Japan, and if such a hungry wolf is killed again, it will not be a big deal for China, which has a lot of land and resources and does not care about losing North Korea at all, but for Japan, which regards this as the only way out, it will undoubtedly be desperate.
At this moment, the big bird immediately moved to kill, you must know that even if there is no such thing, Concubine Min is always a scourge, this woman has been stirring up the wind and rain all these years, and she knows that Lu Dao is not controllable, and she can basically control Li Xi, such a woman can't stay, just look at the old woman in China.
Of course, this kind of thing can't be done by the Japanese, find a few Koreans who are determined to take refuge in Japan, and then find a group of Japanese ronins or even garrisons to change into Korean clothes, and then say that North Korea is infighting, and killing has become a trend in Korean politics over the years, before the First Sino-Japanese War, Concubine Min had just sent someone to assassinate a political enemy who fled to China, and there was more than one member of her family who was assassinated, even her mother died in a bomb, as the head of the Min Party, it must not be strange if someone assassinated her.
Besides, this woman is unpopular with the people, and some people hate her and the Min family to the core, if there is a rebellion of people storming the palace and killing her, there will definitely be many people applauding.
"Please, I'll be thankful after the deed is done." Under the electric light that had just been installed, Concubine Min, who didn't know that she was in a huge trap, finished writing the letter and then handed it to Sun Ze with an expectant face, she also knew that she and her cronies must be under surveillance now, and things like sending letters could only be handed over to Sun Ze, she was the sister-in-law of the Russian minister, and she was a German, so it was undoubtedly the safest to do this kind of work.
"Your Majesty, don't worry, I'll leave everything to me." Sun Ze hurriedly said, in fact, her brother-in-law knows about this matter, of course the Russian Webel welcomes it, to be honest, if a small foreign minister like him wants to send this letter to the Russian emperor, then he really doesn't know the year of the monkey! Especially now at a time of national mourning. But Yang Feng, who is a close friend of the queen, can send it directly to the queen as soon as possible, and send troops to intervene or mediate, but he has been looking forward to it.
"Please tell Mr. Yang that if this happens, Jeju Island will be his fief forever." Concubine Min said solemnly that this small island of raising horses was not worth mentioning to her.
Sun Ze nodded and took care of the secret letter, then turned around and walked out, Concubine Min looked at her back with high morale, and began to look forward to the scenery when she regained control of the country, but at this time, there was a sudden exclamation outside: "Bastard, what do you want to do, I am a German citizen, you can't do this to me!"
Immediately after that, there was a faint sound of fighting, and even gunshots began to come.
The clever Concubine Min had already guessed what was happening, she was so frightened that her face immediately turned white, and then she turned around and ran into the inner room, and hid under the bed under the service of several palace maids, and then saw Sun Ze being thrown in, and the clothes on her body were also torn, and the two rooms were exposed, and the secret letter that was carefully stuffed into the corset was needless to say that it was also taken away, and next to her was a bunch of feet wearing clogs, and then she heard the sound of Japanese speaking.
"You're Japanese!" Sun Ze outside shouted in surprise, to be honest, this was indeed unexpected by her.
Immediately after that, Concubine Min saw that she was dragged aside, and then struggling, at least four men began to tear her clothes amid the screams, and one of them couldn't wait to start taking off her pants, Concubine Min was so frightened that she quickly covered her mouth, and almost at the same time several corpses of palace maids appeared on the ground, she trembled and lay under the bed praying to heaven, don't let herself be discovered, but unfortunately it backfired, and was praying Suddenly a Japanese katana came in, and then a smiling face appeared in front of her.
Poor Concubine Min struggled, was dragged out by her hair, and she immediately recognized who was the leader, but it was a pity that this Japanese ronin, who had been respectful to her before, was looking at her with greedy eyes, and her body was still charming.
"What are you going to do, I'm the princess, you can't do this to me!" Concubine Min screamed and struggled among countless men, and what answered her was Sun Ze's screams when he was roulin, and then these Japanese ronins were quite cool, but unfortunately they didn't notice that among the flowers not far away, there were two Americans quietly enjoying this good show.
These two people belong to the American Edison Electric Company, and their manager in Seoul does not know why Lu Dao gave a new lighting system to the North Korean royal family, and they came to install it as engineers, because the boss emphasized that they must rush to work overnight, so they are still working, and how these armed men rushed into the palace and fought with the guards, all of which were quietly watched by them.
One of the younger ones couldn't stand it anymore and was about to stand up to rescue the noble princess, but was held down by his companions.
"Don't you want to live anymore, don't you see that they haven't even let go of the sister-in-law of the Russian minister? If we go out, we will definitely be killed. The companion said sternly, and the guy's mind immediately cleared up and quickly lay down again.
These Japanese tossed for half an hour before they killed the two who were dying, and even chopped them into pieces with knives, piled up the bodies of the slain palace maids, poured gasoline on them, and then lit a fire there to watch them burn.
At this time, the palace guards outside have been completely defeated, they only have a small number of guns, and most of them are still using cold weapons, and they can't compete with the Korean rebels who are actually disguised by the Japanese garrison.
Gaozong Li Xi, who has been a puppet for a lifetime and has been at the mercy of his father and wife for decades, shed tears of humiliation while tightly hugging his and Concubine Min's son in his arms, and the father and son listened to the screams outside, looked at the fire in Concubine Min's bedroom, and imagined the tragic ending of their relatives.
The Japanese waited until Concubine Min burned to ashes, and then threw her ashes into the pond outside, not noticing that the two Americans were lying in the flowers next to them watching the scene, and then the so-called rebels who occupied the palace quickly evacuated.
The two Americans were so frightened that they hurriedly ran out of the city, and then they found that in Seoul tonight, there was not only one place where this kind of thing happened, and there were several fires burning, and the two people did not dare to delay, until they ran to their own company, and then they recounted the terrible encounter tonight to the company manager with palpitations, and an hour later, on a British merchant ship outside the port of Incheon, Yuan Shikai, the chief director of this scene, proudly sent a telegram to Yang Feng who was far away in Okinawa.
"Madamn, finally kill this stinky!" This guy couldn't help but smile and said, it can be seen that he has a deep grudge against Concubine Min.
Early the next morning, when the news of the Bao riots in Seoul and the unfortunate murder of Concubine Min broke out through North Korean officials, the two Edison Electric Company employees also cautiously fled Seoul and then went straight to Shanghai on a British merchant ship.
At this time, a naval battle also began on the Yellow Sea, and the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, which was heading to Incheon, encountered the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division on the Yellow Sea.