Hangzhou.

Recently, the province is not very peaceful, coastal Ningbo, Taizhou and other places have invaded by pirates, Shaoxing prefect Qian Zhongen was assassinated, the provincial capital of Manchu and Han is the same as fire and water, it is really a scene that has never been seen in the founding of the country for a hundred years.

The governor of Zhejiang, Wang Kangwang, was in a hurry, and the Hangzhou general Chengde also repeatedly proposed that the banner battalion take over the city defense of Hangzhou, which made Wang Kangwang even more annoyed and worried.

Yiwu Chengde signed a contract with the Jingshi Restoration Government behind his back; Second, Wei Chengde listened to the rumors and dispatched the garrison flag soldiers to fight against his governor's yamen.

Fortunately, the Hangzhou gentry still supported him Wang Futai, not because Wang Futai was supported by the gentry because of his honesty and honesty, but because Wang Futai had borrowed more than 1,240 taels from the Hangzhou gentry since he took office.

In other words, the biggest creditor of the rich people in Hangzhou today is Lord Futai.

Therefore, if Lord Futai is finished, then the Hangzhou gentry's thousands of high-interest loans will be all lost.

Tens of millions of taels of money, Rao is a great cause of the gentry in Hangzhou, and it is also going to hurt the muscles and bones.

If there is money, there are people, and under the magic of the silver ticket, Lord Futai is also firmly in control of Zhejiang Green Camp.

This can compete with Hangzhou General Chengde.

It's just that the situation in Zhejiang Province is extremely bad at the moment, the coastal provinces of Ningbo and Taizhou have fallen into the hands of Haikou one after another, and revolutions are constantly taking place in other places, and the objects of the revolution are these Qing court officials, which makes Wang Kanwang unable to sit still.

After the assassination of Qian Zhongen, the prefect of Shaoxing, Wang Kangwang finally realized that the revolution must be effectively suppressed in order to ensure that his basic situation was not in chaos.

Otherwise, there is no need for Chengde to make a move, and there is no need for the devil who led the army out of the Guandong Expedition to make a move, and he, the governor, will have to do it to the end.

In order to suppress it, we must first understand what revolution is and how this demonic wind was set off.

So an emergency conclave was held in the governor's office.

In addition to Futai, the main officials of Zhejiang, such as Fantai, Zhentai, Xuetai, Daotai, and Futai, were also several elders of the Zhejiang Green Battalion.

The first to speak was Bai Weixin, the procurator in charge of criminal investigation, who told the participants: "It has been verified by the relevant departments that since September, many banned books have been recited among Han people in the city. This kind of book is called "Revolutionary Army", or "Menghuitou", or "Alarm Bell", which mostly talks about the brutal extermination of the Han people in the Guannai by the Qing soldiers entering the customs at the beginning of the country..."

Bai Weixin's envoy to the Yamen has apparently done a solid investigation.

According to the results of the investigation, the word revolution comes from the book "Revolutionary Army" signed by the author named "Xibei".

"Futai, please see, what Han people should have ethnic hatred, what revolution today, revenge on its head, or Yunzhang IX's revanchism, for a period of ten years of bloody war... This kind of remarks is simply sensational! ”

Bai Zhentai clearly pointed out that the purpose of these banned books was to call on the people of Zhejiang Province to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and advocated the use of fierce and violent means to carry it out, if such a call was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, not only in Zhejiang, but also in the whole country.

"I also have a few banned books here,"

Qingge, who was born in the white flag of Manchuria, also took out a few books for Lord Futai to see, "These writings are even more exaggerated, what is the boundary of Huayi, it will be the Spring and Autumn Period, call for injustice and show bloody history, and vow to shed blood for the race... The people of the province have heard such fanning words, and once something happens, our banner people will bear the brunt..."

In view of the seriousness of the situation, Qingge hoped that Lord Futai would immediately order the suppression of banned books and the arrest of so-called revolutionaries.

Such words abound in the city and even all over Zhejiang. According to the private inquiries of the lower officials, many of the students in Zhejiang Province are now bewitched by these evil books, and they want to expel the Tartars, so that they do not even read the books of sages. ”

It was Sun Yibo, the prefect of Hangzhou, who said that since the beginning of the Republic of China, there have always been ideas in Zhejiang to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty and drive the Manchus to restore the Han Dynasty, and these ideas originated from the brutal attacks on the resistance of the bureaucratic landlords in the Jiangnan area and the literati with anti-Manchu consciousness after the Qing soldiers entered the customs.

The appalling incidents of Lu Liuliang opening the coffin and killing the corpse and the hunting and killing of Zeng Jing created by the Qianlong Dynasty in Zhejiang made Zhejiang scholars have no good impression of the Qing court, so there has always been a market for anti-Qing ideas.

Of course, Governor Sun spoke more implicitly, and some things were not easy to say too plainly.

But for the Qianlong Dynasty, Sun Zhifu obviously has no respect.

There is no other reason, Qianlong is really a thief of the Han people, and the whole country knows it.

"Good manners, what kind of revolution is this? If you want to talk about the affairs of the early days of the country, there is something wrong with the Qing soldiers, but Manchuria is not unkind to us and other Han gentry, and besides, things have passed for a hundred years, what is the point of turning over the old things of a hundred years ago. ”

Wang Kangwang frowned deeply, and asked Bai Weixin whether he could find out whether this group of revolutionaries was organized, and if so, who led it, where did the funds come from, where did the organization be, and who provided the gunpowder weapons.

Qian Zhongen, the prefect of Shaoxing, was not assassinated by the revolutionary with a sharp blade, but was killed by a medicine bag wrapped in silk thrown by the revolutionary on the way out of the tour.

The medicine bag was extremely powerful, not only did Qian Zhongen receive a boxed lunch on the spot, but the accompanying subordinates also killed and injured more than ten people.

The Assassins took advantage of the chaos and fled.

Only remnants of the kit were found at the scene afterwards.

Gunpowder was strictly forbidden among the people, so Wang Futai had reason to suspect that there were Qing officials behind these revolutionaries.

Bai Weixin said that according to their investigation, all kinds of signs pointed to an organization called the Liberation Society.

"Restoration?"

Wang Futai, Qing Fantai, and Sun Futai had never heard of the name of this organization, and they all thought that most of the so-called revolutionaries who carried out the assassination were demons of the White Lotus Sect.

"With the slogan of recovering the Han nationality, returning our mountains and rivers, promising the country with one's own life, and retiring after success, this meeting advocates that in addition to written propaganda, assassination and riot should be used as the main revolutionary means."

Bai Weixin concluded that the assassination of Qian Guoen, the prefect of Shaoxing, was most likely the work of the Liberation Society.

He also said that the Liberation Society called the expulsion of Manchuria a manipulation, and that there were various ideas in the meeting, some of them talked about revenge, some talked about fighting for political power, and some said that Manchuria could not be the master of China.

These claims seem to be exaggerated and brutal, and there is no reason, but they are better than simple propaganda, even if a fool can know, speak, and act. Such a slogan, applied to the society, will inevitably cause a catastrophe in the former lake Guangxing Han. ”

Then he talked about the situation of the Restoration Society, saying that most of the students who joined the Liberation Society were some students, merchants, and some craftsmen, as well as soldiers of the Green Battalion.

Finally, he asserted: "There is reason to suspect that not only Shaoxing, but also the provincial capital also has a Guangfuhui organization. ”

Hangzhou Governor Sun Yibo was very nervous after hearing this: "According to the investigation of the Yamen, why don't you start hunting and killing those members of the Liberation Army?" ”

"This..."

Bai Weixin hesitated, suddenly got up and said to the officials: "Because I am also from the Restoration Society." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the official robe on the lord of the platform suddenly split apart and flew to all parts of the house.

Like a storm.

After that, the officials at the meeting gasped in unison: Good guy, there is a circle of bombs strapped to Bai Zhentai!