On the night of August 13, just when the coalition forces arrived at the city of Beijing and there was a rumor in the city, there was a series of major cases in the capital, which immediately shocked the imperial court.

That night, Prince Qing was not in the palace, but on duty at the military plane. Discuss city defense affairs with Rong Lu and others. Although King Qing's "greed for fame" is prominent, he is a staunch anti-war faction in this war with all nations. Cixi has reached this point, and she has hated the misguided princes such as King Duan and King Zhuang. On the other hand, he felt that Yixuan still understood the matter, so he asked King Qing to take the lead and discuss the battle defense with Rong Lu and other cronies.

During the day, information had been received that the coalition forces had left Tongzhou, and the battle in Beijing was imminent. Therefore, this night, Yi Liang stayed up all night in the small bungalow of the military aircraft department, and only got the news that his mansion was robbed by the rebels at dawn.

At the same time, there was also the news that Prince Zhuang's mansion and the "Four Great Heng" money houses near Dongsi were looted. But Yixuan couldn't care about others anymore, and he didn't care about state affairs, so he ran out of the palace with a long howl.

Rong Lu was also shocked. He strictly ordered the news to be blocked and not to be disseminated. was going to enter the palace immediately to play the queen mother, but thought that it was better to go to the scene to have a look, so he hurriedly took a sedan chair and followed him to Qingwang's mansion. Rong Lu, who was sitting in a sedan chair and escorted by the military camp, thought about it all the way, and felt that the problem was big, and Jingshi was afraid that it was dangerous.

The extremely shrewd Rong Lu has determined that the robbers of the palace are definitely not ordinary thieves, nine times out of ten, it is the army. And it was done by the guest army.

The largest guest army in the Beijing division was the Gan army, which served as the main force defending the city.

But what can Gan Jun do now? Don't want Beijing anymore? Dong Fuxiang, Dong Fuxiang. No wonder the Queen Mother scolded him as a robber and chose to commit the crime at this time, and there was no doubt about the rebellion. In the extremely confidential retreat plan formulated by Rong Lu, he is also ready to use Dong Fuxiang's Gan army to escort him, isn't this my life?

It's also the reputation of this insatiable guy who is famous__

Prince Yixuan, who is already 60 years old this year, is the grandson of Qianlong's seventeenth son, Yongxuan, and the son of Zhenguo General Mianxing. Legend has it that Emperor Jiaqing, who had not yet ascended the throne at that time, asked his brother Yongxuan privately and asked him what his ideals were. Yongxuan made it clear that he had no interest in becoming emperor. I just hope that I can get the mansion of He Shen, the first corrupt official of the Qianlong Dynasty, in the future. After Jiaqing succeeded to the throne. Grateful for Yongxuan's humility, after confiscating Heshen and obtaining hundreds of millions of taels (converted) of silver, he gave Yonglin's mansion to Yongxuan, and promised that the title of county prince inherited by Yongxuan's son could be inherited again. The son of Yongxuan Mianmin has no children. Yicai, the son of Wang Mianzhi of Yijun, is the queen. After Yicai's death. Yixuan was succeeded to Mianzhi as his son, and he was first named an auxiliary general, which was the tenth rank of the Qing Dynasty. It is equivalent to a second-grade military attaché, supplemented as a lion, and then sealed Beizi, and then sealed Baylor, and even the prince and prince are already one step away.

In the second half of his life, he was successively knighted, from the auxiliary general, Gushan Beizi, and Dorobelle until 1884, when he became the prime minister's minister of national affairs and was named the king of Qingjun. In 1894, he was crowned Prince Qing.

Maybe Yixuan was too poor in the first half of his life, and it is said that he even went to the pawnshop for the last court's supplements. After taking power, Yixuan had some momentum to recover the lost time, and the lost life cannot be recovered, but some characteristics of life can be recovered, such as money. Yixuan's greed for money is very famous in the circle, the so-called circle of course refers to officialdom, Yixuan's hand can't reach into the pockets of ordinary people, and those people who are being exploited by the empire's more and more harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes really don't have a few copper plates left in their pockets, who are the rich people in the empire? For example, Hu Xueyan, who supported Zuo Zongtang's westward expedition, and Sheng Xuanhuai, who was Li Hongzhang's money bag, are of course rich and rival the country, but such giant businessmen are inextricably linked with officialdom, and they have climbed to the very few most powerful people in the empire, and even he, the prince, is difficult to covet. However, like a mountain of imperial officialdom, there are always some people who are eager to climb to the top and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the empire, and these officials who are eager to rise have become the objects of Yixuan's exploitation. Yixuan did not let go of any opportunity to accumulate money, and I was extremely stingy, accumulating over time, and saved a considerable amount of money. Some of this wealth was invested by him to earn more money, such as buying shops in Beijing and Tianjin, and jewelry collected for red and white ceremonies in the prince's palace, but more of it was real money and silver bills that were still reputable at this time. These things, which were regarded as life by Prince Qing, were all stored in the courtyard of the palace, and became the most primitive driving force to support the old prince's hard work.

Rong Lu came to King Qing's Mansion on Dingfu Street, that is, he was only a quarter of an hour later than King Qing. Shuntian Mansion Yin He Naiying had already come over, he didn't bother to comfort Prince Qing, and immediately found someone to inquire about the situation.

According to the housekeeper of the Qing Palace, the soldiers who took advantage of the chaos to loot the palace were Dong Fuxiang's Gan army. Guarding the palace was the palace's own guard, about forty men, these were the palace's own arms, led by a deputy governor. The chaos approached Jingshi, and Yixuan turned to Rong Lu for help, thinking that the defense of his mansion was too weak, and asked Rong Lu to send troops to protect it. Although Rong Lu looked down on the greedy and incompetent Yixuan, after all, he was in the Manchurian lineage, gave the old prince face, and sent a platoon of soldiers from the Wuwei Chinese Army.

Most of the armed forces of these nearly 100 people have now turned into corpses, lying in and out of the palace. The current situation is miserable, so that the Prince Qing, who was worried about the safety of his family's property and rushed back from the military plane, almost fainted, the family is fine, except for the death of a grandson, the dearest relatives are safe and sound, the grandson born to the concubine is a little brave, he was killed when he shot to stop the rebels from breaking the house, a bullet entered his eye socket, his brain was broken, and the death was terrible. But King Qing didn't see it - it had been hastily retracted.

The death of his grandchildren is still secondary, and what makes Prince Qing ruined is that a large number of gold, silver and jewelry he has amassed have been found and looted by the rebels! The method of the rebels is very simple, the children of King Qing's housekeeper concubines are gathered to threaten death, and they have witnessed the rebels killing people like chopping melons and vegetables, and those frightened family members dare to hide it, and they all confessed truthfully.

"A large group of Gan troops entered the palace from three directions at the same time, and the gate of the palace was still being negotiated, and the back gate had been broken by the rebel army. The rebels climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, and they killed people when they saw them, which was simply terrible...... A masked man at the head, with a spear in his hand, killed at least three of our brothers......" Ha Zuyao, the leader of the palace guards, was Manchurian, and he said to Yixuan, who hurried back, "They first killed the guards guarding the back gate, and at least a dozen brothers died...... Those rebels are so vicious that we can't resist them. They shouted for us to lay down our arms, and the brothers were greatly favored by the king. Where will you listen to his nonsense? Nature desperately resists. But outnumbered__" Ha Zuyao's eloquence is first-class. The general process of the Gan army's rebellion and the raid on the palace was recounted, and he especially described the scene of the Gan army's rebellious soldiers killing people, which he saw with his own eyes. Some were frightened. Now for that. It makes Rong Lu feel immersive.

The leading official who followed He Naiying over was called Xu Xi, but he had some insight, and immediately decided that what Ha Zuyao said was basically the truth. Dong Fuxiang's Gan Jun joined the Boxer Rebellion quite a lot. Sugiyama Bin, the secretary of the Japanese embassy in China, died at the hands of the Gan soldiers, and they were also the main force in the siege of Dongjiaomin Lane. And Dong Fuxiang's own experience is also extremely complicated, he participated in the Huihui uprising in Gansu in his early years, if it wasn't for Zuo Zongtang's surrender, he would have been slaughtered by the Hunan army. The imperial court was also extremely embarrassed, and accepted this gang of thieves as the rear army of the military guard, and counted on them to defend the capital. This is good, the palace will be suppressed first.

Rong Lu was calm and didn't say anything, and there was a cry in the courtyard, and King Qing fainted. Suddenly panicked, Rong Lu ordered the following to take care of King Qing, and he didn't care about continuing to inquire, so he rushed to the next house - Prince Zhuang's Mansion after leaving King Qing's Mansion.

It's a disaster.

Yixuan was fainted by anger. When the old prince hurried home, he realized that the situation was much more serious than he had imagined. Fu Jin cried and shouted when he saw him, Fu Jin, like him, was also the lord of wealth as his life, and swept away his savings for many years at once, almost knocking the palace back to its original shape, and initially calculated that it had lost more than two million taels of silver, and it was difficult to calculate the accurate number of the rest of the jewelry.

The key is that the 1.2 million taels of gold that were ready to be deposited in HSBC were swept away by thieves, which simply cost Lao Yixiao's life. Of course, the 1.2 million taels of gold are the income of Prince Qing's corruption for many years, and the deposit in HSBC is also heard of the extreme measures of this foreign bank to keep customers confidential, and has already sent someone to contact the bank, probably HSBC also guessed that the huge amount of money in Prince Qing's mansion came from the wrong way, and made it difficult in every way, and even pressed the interest to two percent per month, and was about to send it to the bank. No wonder the old prince fainted when he heard of the theft of gold.

Overnight, Prince Qing was almost reduced to abject poverty. Of course, this is an exaggeration, because he still has many shops in Beijing and Tianjin.

He Naiying already knew that her career was over. Even if it is determined that Gan Jun did it, he, the "Jing Zhaoyin", can be regarded as the end, and now it seems that it is lucky to be able to save his head.

The mayor of the capital didn't care about offending King Qing, and followed Rong Lu to King Zhuang's mansion.

The situation is even worse here, not only was King Zhuang's Mansion looted, but even King Zhuang himself was killed! Also killed were seven of King Zhuang's close relatives. According to eyewitnesses, the prince had already succumbed, but the leader of the defeated army said that the country had fallen to this point because of you thieves who had brought disaster to the country and the people, and cut off King Zhuang's head with a single sword!

Rong Lu's heart was broken.

This is no longer a robbery, but a rebellion! Rong Lu no longer hesitated, and immediately flew back to Ouchi to find Cixi to report.

Compared with the tragedy of the two princes' mansions, the looting of the "Four Great Heng" money houses is nothing.

He Naiying only went to the "Four Great Hengs" in the afternoon, and there were already preliminary results there, and the masters of Shuntianfu thought that it was definitely the army.

The "Four Great Heng" Qian Village, located near Dongsi, died in this catastrophe, and a total of nine nurses died, all of whom were stabbed to death by sharp blades. The rest of the people, men, women, and children, were tied to the firewood room with towels stuffed in their mouths. The silver and gold jewels in the vault were all robbed.

Asked the shopkeeper, the frightened victim only said that it was the result of the defeated soldiers, and when asked in detail, such as military uniforms and accents, there were different opinions, and the descriptions of the four looted money banks were different, but they all affirmed that they were committed by the army, and those people were all wearing military uniforms, holding rifles with bayonets, fierce and vicious, and they would shoot and kill people if they didn't agree with each other.

The names of the bank are different, and they are the predecessors of the bank, which assume the function of a financial center. There are two centers in Beijing's Qianzhuang ticket number, and the northerners (mostly Shanxi) open the ticket number. It is concentrated in the West River and Qianshi Hutong area. Southerners (to Zhejiang people) open called Qianzhuang, concentrated in the East four archway area, Hengxing, Henghe, Hengli, Hengyuan four money village is the most famous, Beijing people call it "four Heng", these four money village credit has always been good, is the first choice of the people of Beijing, the dignitaries of the Beijing division will be silver two in the "four constant". Now the "Four Constants" have basically ended overnight.

Recently, stragglers have robbed ticket numbers along the West River. The Shuncheon Prefecture has deliberately strengthened its inspections around the front gate. But the current situation is too chaotic, so chaotic that this Jing Zhaoyin is at a loss, and all the soldiers and horses who poured into the city want to eat, drink, and live, and they are looking for him, the mayor of the capital. Where can we take care of law and order? Even if caught. It's just a matter of returning things to their rightful owners. There is no way to do anything about those soldiers, and when the court is employing people, it has forced the army to rebel. The sins of Suncheonfu are even greater.

But the "Four Constants" are unusual. He Naiying knew that more than half of the eunuchs in Beijing had financial dealings with the "Four Great Hengs", and there were many people he could not afford to offend. Not only that, they also have business dealings with the Ministry of Households, and many official exchanges are undertaken through the "Four Hengs"!

Therefore, He Naiying is more concerned about the loss of gold and silver than the death of nine lives. Therefore, he called the big shopkeeper of the four major money banks (fortunately all alive) to Hengli Money Bank, and the first sentence was to ask, how much gold and silver was lost?

The shopkeeper of Henghe is a short and fat man, with a fat face as gray and white as a dead man, and he muttered that the silver treasury of our name has been cleaned, and what is even more hateful is that the defeated soldiers have taken away the account books, according to my memory, there should be 2.33 million taels of silver, and 400 taels of gold__

Hengxing's shopkeeper's face was not much better than his peers, and he seemed to have just cried, his eyes were swollen, and his name was miserable, losing at least 4.5 million taels, of which 1.2 million had just been deposited by the household, and it was all taken away like his account book. The three shopkeepers in charge of the accounts had hard bones, and they didn't hand over life or death, and they were hit on the chin by the butt of a gun by the defeated soldiers, and even the bones were shattered__

The biggest loss was Henghe, which lost 7 million, and the smallest was Hengyuan, only 1.2 million taels.

There are also antiques and jade objects, and the number varies

After asking one by one, the "Four Great Heng" lost more than 15 million taels of silver and more than 30,000 taels of gold overnight.

After this catastrophe, the famous "Four Constants" are afraid to disappear.

How did you take so much silver? He Naiying's question was quickly solved, those soldiers came in a carriage to carry silver! More than one of the men confirmed this, and two of them had seen the soldiers carry the boxes of silver taels onto the wagon.

No one but the army can do such a big case! Moreover, there was immediate evidence of the Shuntianfu's deeds, and the nine nurses who were killed were all knife wounds, and judging from the wounds, they should have been formed by bayonets.

"Their accent? You can't hear it, right? Xu Xi, the first master of criminal investigation in Shuntianfu, asked.

This is a very important part. The criminal investigation experts of Shuntianfu asked the bitter master one by one, and came to the conclusion that this group of defeated soldiers had been planning for a long time, and they entered over the wall in the second half of the night, and poisoned the dogs in the hospital with poisoned meat buns, and then poured in one fell swoop, and then had a short fight with the bodyguards of the hospital, and quickly subdued these hired masters of the rivers and lakes. According to eyewitnesses, the robbers in military uniforms who could have been immortal repeatedly said that they would lay down their weapons and not kill, but the duty of the martial artists in the courtyard was that they could not resist, which caused the tragedy. Those soldiers have excellent martial arts, in groups of three, and the martial artists of the nursing courtyard are not opponents at all. It is especially noted that no one said anything during the whole fight, only the screams of the martial artist of the nursing courtyard who were dying, and in the courtyard of the deep house, it could not be heard outside at all.

"Someone is always asking you where the vault is, right? Where are their accents? ”

After the careful memories of the bitter masters, each Qianzhuang is a leader of the inquiry, the accent, two are Shaanxi and Gansu accents, and two are standard Beijing films.

"Gan Jun of the dog day!" He Naiying scolded indignantly. I thought to myself, that is, they have the ability to attack the palace and the "Four Hengs" at the same time overnight. Dog's day, I really know how to choose the time, with the arrival of foreign soldiers in the city, the people in the capital are locked and locked, those who can walk are gone, and those who can't go are hiding at home and not coming out, and it is much more difficult to find clues. On second thought, why bother looking for clues? If it's not the army, who has the ability to do such a massive crime?

But there always has to be an explanation for the case! The criminal department can't run, and Shuntianfu is the first to bear the brunt. Maybe it's now, the Qincha sent by Ouchi is already waiting in his yamen. He Naiying dropped the stacks of "Four Hengs" and begged the shopkeepers to solve the case as soon as possible, instead of taking a sedan chair, but riding back to their yamen, the street was silent and afraid of people, not a single pedestrian could be seen, the doors were closed, and the ears were just rumbling cannons, and the foreigners were afraid that they were going to come in, right? Now how can I have time and opportunity to catch the murderer and solve the case!

The gang of uncles in the Wuwei Rear Army have already committed a lot of crimes! What an army, it's just a bunch of bandits! In the past two months, the Huihe Boxers have done countless bad things of robbing homes and houses, and the imperial court has endured it, this time it is really too much!

He Naiying returned to her yamen, put pen to paper, and quickly wrote a letter of resignation. There were two bloody cases in the palace, and he still thought about the power of the stack, he was a fool. Being able to spend your old age in peace is the greatest luxury. (To be continued......)