Chapter 408 Epilogue
I don't know who fired the first shot, and knocked the soldier Ma Chengtian who was on a mission to the ground, which provoked the hornet's nest.
A few gunshots rang out sporadically, one of which struck His Majesty's palace and shattered a pane of glass, and the illegal assembly had evolved from a riot to an even worse assassination.
Order
The military and police who were on standby immediately opened fire and counterattacked, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
The dense sound of machine guns and rows of gunfire in the city instantly shattered the illusions of the demonstrators, which caused many blind followers to wake up from their frenzy and immediately flee in all directions.
But it's too late......
When the social crowd began to gather, the 203rd Division located on the outskirts of the city quickly moved closer to Wuwei City after receiving the alarm, and set up several cordons in villages and towns and traffic arteries along the way, and jointly implemented blockade and encirclement with the local Chinese police and militia, and the action was very fast.
When the crowd of people gathered and flocked to the main street of Santo Domingo, the heavily armed officers and men of the 205th Division had already begun to enter the city, advancing all the way, blocking the intersection all the way, and everyone was only allowed to enter but not leave.
It took a few hours for the sporadic gunfire and the constant noise to subside.
In the days that followed
The Southern Military Region mobilized three divisions by railway into Strait Province and Zhennan Province to carry out a complete blockade and clearance attack on the area, and the military operation lasted for several months before it came to an end.
The Imperial military participated in the ruthless relentless suppression of the rebels and did not indulge a single gangster.
Small-scale military operations at the regimental and battalion level were still being blockaded in some remote mountainous areas until three years later, and the local Indian residents were emptied and the rebels who had fled to the mountains were completely strangled.
Either starve to death in the mountains, or die of illness due to lack of medical treatment, or fall to death after stepping on the air, or be attacked by fierce beasts and poisonous insects and die, anyway, they are not allowed to step out of the jungle of the Reckless Mountains alive.
Post-mortem statistics;
In the "Wuwei City Murder Incident", 611 rioters were killed, more than 1,720 people were arrested, and nearly 10,000 people were involved afterwards.
However, this official statistic has been questioned by many people, some of which also come from overseas scholars, according to people who cannot prove their identity;
After the "Wuwei City Murder Incident", the city was under full martial law for a week, and more than 10 times as many rioters were killed as officially announced, and only 31 wagons transporting corpses dragged on overnight until dawn on the second day.
No less than 32,000 white Hispanic males and no less than 100,000 Indians were arrested, and the vast majority of these people went to harsh mining camps, and very few survived.
All these unsubstantiated speculations and exaggerations were denied by the imperial government, and a large amount of evidence was produced to prove that those involved were severely punished by the law, a position that was generally endorsed by European countries.
The royal power is sacrosanct, and the "Wuwei City Murder Incident" itself has touched the sensitive nerves of various feudal kingdoms in Europe, and it is supported by ironclad facts, which cannot be denied.
With the current international influence of the Tang Empire, it is close to the world's second-rate powers, and no one wants to be unhappy in this matter, including Britain.
It is true that there are more than 1,000 cases involving the public verdict and independent prosecution of the "Wuwei City Murder Incident", but these are a group of imperial nobles led by Bella Rodriguez in Ningguo, a socialite who has held important positions in society, and the owner of a white manor, and the most important one is also a white mayor.
When the evidence was conclusive, the families were convicted of more than their entire estate, their titles and honors were banned, and they were subjected to a series of severe punishments, ranging from hanging to hard labor.
The case files related to Bella Rodriguez and other nobles were submitted to the House of Nobles, and their personal and material evidence was conclusive, and there was no doubt that they were involved in the rebellion organization "Holy Light Society".
One of the main leaders of the "Holy Light Society" is Ferdinand Rodriguez, the third son of Bella Rodriguez in Ningguo, a standard white angry young man who is the master of the cheat.
After a concrete vote by the upper house of the noble parliament, His Majesty the Emperor signed a royal decree to deprive the country of Bella Rodriguez and the other nobles involved in the case of hereditary honor and fiefdoms, and punish them according to law.
No one knows how many people were involved in the "Wuwei City Murder Incident"?
This is a confused account, there are about thousands of people recorded in the official record, some say 150,000, some say 400,000, anyway, there are different opinions.
The case even led to the downfall of some nobles in the provinces of Monan and Mexico, with as many as 20 families and more than 1,400 people involved, all of whom were basically uprooted.
The "Wuwei City Murder Incident" continued to hunt down fugitives, and many Indian tribes in the mountains were dug out and exterminated, but few people knew about it.
In this major case that shocked China and foreign countries, the royal family of the Tang Empire has always insisted on focusing on judicial punishment and tried its best not to affect the wife, daughter and minor family members of the criminals, which has been widely praised by European countries.
What they didn't know in the follow-up was that in the Tang Empire, with black files, especially this kind of black files of the king-killing rebellion, the criminal's wife, daughter and minor family members became lowly people who everyone in society could not avoid, most of the women were reduced to the brothel of the Qinglou, and the men were sold to the black-hearted plantations to work to death, and the situation was extremely miserable.
No one dares to hire these people with a black history, even the hard-line nobles in the background don't dare, which is tantamount to asking for trouble, and there is some impatience to live.
A large number of convicts involved in the case were sent to the mines, which caused a lot of fat in the Morenci copper mine, which suffered from a shortage of labor, and benefited several large silver mines in Mexico, and the production of copper and silver increased considerably.
The world's largest reserves of Morunch copper mine at its peak copper ore output reached 37,000 tons, although a lot of machinery and equipment have been added over the years, but the output has always hovered between 2.6 ~ 28,000 tons, mainly because of the lack of a large number of labor.
This time
The Morench Copper Mine is confident that in the new year, the output of copper ore will exceed 40,000 tons, an increase of 50% compared to the previous year.
A similar situation has also occurred in Mexico's major banks, which has made the major mine managers ready to put on a good performance and increase mine production and deliver a strong performance.
In this era, mining is inseparable from the most basic manpower, and machinery can only play a very small auxiliary role.
After the iron-blooded suppression, the countless troubles that originally haunted the desk were gone, all kinds of sharp ethnic conflicts were gone, the grievances and complaints were gone, and the society returned to the calm and peaceful atmosphere that it should have.
Strait Province and Zhennan Province have dropped from the highest proportion of Hispanic whites and Indians at 57.3% to 6.7%, while the proportion of ethnic Chinese has increased significantly to more than 93%, and a few years later it has increased to 97%, becoming one of the provinces with the highest proportion of Chinese.
This event greatly promoted the marriage between the white aristocratic group and the Chinese ethnic group, and formed a trend, which led to the widespread intermarriage between the white group and the Chinese ethnic group in the imperial society, but it was an unexpected good thing.
Fuso Islands
After the "Taiping Army Rebellion", the deeply stricken Fuso feudal lords woke up from their dreams of "respecting the king" and invariably changed the slogan to the "respect for the king" movement, and never dared to mention the word "Zhengyi" again.
The horse shed of the consulate of the Tang Empire was burned, and the shogunate was forced to pay 6.5 million Tang Yuan in compensation, and after the bombardment of Shimonoseki and the bombardment of Tokyo, it accepted the garrison request of the Tang, English, French, and Hopp countries.
The Chōshū Domain was devastated, and the nearby Kagoshima and Satsuma Domains were also devastated, causing heavy economic and demographic losses, especially the large number of young Fuso women who were captured by the Taiping Army (known as the "Amami Volunteer Militia"), a total of more than 170,000 people, which became an eternal pain in the hearts of the locals.
It's a pity that the weak have no status, and no one even listens to their cries.
By the end of 1863, the shogunate had made significant concessions, and the situation on Fuso had stabilized, leaving only devastation......
European proper
December 24, 1863
The Saxony and Hanoverian armies were stationed in Holstein under the name of the German Confederation, and the two armies were enthusiastically supported by the local population, who welcomed the German population in festive costumes and poured into the streets to present flowers to the invading federal army.
Inspired by the support of the people, Duke Friedreck immediately held a ceremony in a Protestant church and proclaimed himself "Friedreck VIII".
At this time, the Kingdom of Denmark, Holstein's nominal suzerainty, was slow to react, because their old king was in danger of being sick, and the new king Christian IX had not yet been crowned and succeeded to the throne.
Despite the fervor of German public opinion, Austria and Prussia failed to prepare for war, lest they be involved in a continental war, which Bismarck called "a foolish move."
Bismarck understood it deeply;
The situation in Holstein and Schleswig is now being closely watched in Europe, and the Austro-Prussian and Prussian agreements of 1852 must maintain their succession laws.
Only if the Kingdom of Denmark violates the terms of the agreement can they act in full correctness, so that other continental countries cannot intervene under any pretext.
Duke Friedreck's unauthorized actions will not actually decide anything, but will make the situation worse, more chaotic, and lead to an unpredictable future.
However, Prime Minister Bisman of the Kingdom of Prussia found another good opportunity to intervene, and he quietly hibernated and waited for the opportunity.
Prime Minister Bisman knew;
On the thorny road to the unification of the German nation, the war between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Kingdom of Denmark was an inevitable warm-up.
Whether or not the two regions of Holstein and Schleswig under the rule of the Kingdom of Denmark could be recovered was a matter of the struggle between Prussia and Austria for the leadership of the German nation, and was the touchstone of the European countries' treatment of German unity.
Whoever prepares better will have the last laugh. In order to accomplish the great cause of the unification of the German nation, Bismarck maintained great patience and waited for the opportunity like an old hunter.
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