Chapter 185: Zeng Guofan's Temporary Judgment (3)

After the words of the national vassal, the upper secretary said: The ministers investigated the cause of the provocation in this case, because the traitors abducted the population, involved the church, and gouged out the eyes and hearts as medicinal materials, etc., which led to the accumulation of suspicion and anger, and provoked a great change.

After the vassal vassal arrived in Tianjin, he carefully studied the section on the abduction of the people of the sect, although Wang San confessed to giving medicine to Wu Lanzhen, but he still confessed from time to time, and his nationality was in Tianjin, which was inconsistent with Wu Lanzhen's original confession in Ningjin, and there was no confirmation from the church owner.

More than 150 men and women were found in the Mercy Hall, and they confessed one by one, saying that they had been practicing teaching for a long time, and their families had been sent to the church to raise them, and there was no abduction.

When the vassal first entered Tianjin County, the people stopped hundreds of people and asked what the evidence was for digging out their eyes and dissecting their hearts, and none of them could point to the truth, and there was no one inside and outside Tianjin who was inquired about the loss of the child's home to accuse the case.

However, these rumors are not particularly found in Tianjin, that is, Hunan and Jiangxi in the past, and in recent years, Yangzhou, Tianmen, and the daimyo and Guangping of this province, all of which have written and exposed posts, or said that the church abducted Dingkou, or called the church gouging out the eyes and heart, or the church seduced women. Although the cases were discussed and concluded, the truth and fiction of the text were not clearly dissected.

There is no evidence for this detailed investigation, and there is nothing to do with the rumors outside. Cover the killing of children's corpses, collect life and dispense medicine, the wild and vicious people are still unwilling to do it, Britain and France are famous countries, how can they be cruel for this? It will be nothing to decide with reason.

The Catholic system persuades people to be kind, and Emperor Shengzuren has allowed it for a long time, if it harms the people's livelihood, if it is miserable, how can it be tolerated in the world of Kangxi? That is, the establishment of the Church of Mercy, its original intention is also slightly the same as that of the Nursery Nursing Home, which is mainly dedicated to the poor people, and spends a lot of silver every year.

The reason why the people of Jinjin are suspicious and angry is also for a reason, because they see that the foreign church is closed all the year round, and it is too secret to peek into the bottom, and the church and the church of mercy have cellars, which are built by people who recruit workers from other places.

The site of the burned church was carefully investigated, and it was a cellar but only separated from the damp coal and used for other purposes. The people of Tianjin did not see it all, but they heard that the cellar was deep, and the young children were claustrophobic in it, and it was not through the hands of local craftsmen, which caused suspicion.

The Chinese people have the most benevolent hall to heal the sick, but they are often left behind and not allowed to return, that is, like He Weishi, the daughter of Wei Xizhen, the former Zhixian County of Jinxian County, Jiangxi, who brought her into the church for treatment and did not return it for a long time. His father persuaded him to go home, but he refused to return, because he said that he had lost his heart because of the medicine, and he was suspicious.

The House of Mercy takes in the children of the unattached, even the beggars, the poor and the sick and the dead. There is also baptism in the Cult. The baptist himself is dead, and the leader of the church seals his eyes with water on his forehead, saying that he can ascend to heaven.

The people were astonished to see the people they had received and those who were about to die, and to hear the eyes of their relatives washing the new corpses. Hundreds of people were sent to Tianjin by vehicles and boats from other places, but they all saw them in and out, and for some reason, they were suspicious.

There are many courtyards in the church, or chanting scriptures, or reading, or helpers, or healing, and the classification is different, there are sons in the front yard and the mother in the backyard, and the mother is in the mercy hall and the son is in the river building church.

In addition, in April and May of this year, there were abductors who used drugs to charm them, and at the right time, there were too many dead people in the hall, and they were buried at night, or there were two corpses and three corpses in one coffin.

On the sixth day of the first month of May, there was a coffin and two corpses of people sent by dogs in the mound in Hedong. The guerrilla Zuo Guigui and others in the middle camp of Tianjin Town once witnessed that the dead were rotten from the inside, and this was the only one that rotted from the outside, the chest and abdomen were rotten, and the intestines and stomachs were exposed. Since it is a big talk, it has caused five doubts.

On weekdays, I am familiar with the words of the articles and posts everywhere, and the belief is confirmed, and the five doubts are accumulated in the middle, and each has hatred. When the kidnappers were involved in the church, the mound saw the chest and abdomen, and the anger of the people was uncontrollable. went to the prefecture and county to go to the court to interrogate Wang San, and Consul Feng shot at the official, and the anger of the people was especially uncontrollable. It is to make thousands of noises, and at the same time, it suddenly becomes a huge change. Its clamor is abhorrent, and its suspicion is not overnight.

Now that the root cause has been ascertained, the only way to implore the emperor to send an edict to the provinces is to inform the provinces that the saying that the people of the church gouged out their eyes and dissected their hearts and harmed the people in the past is mostly false, and the world is announced, and the salty envoy knows about it, one is to solve the injustice of the people of Xueyang, and the other is to solve the confusion of the people, and please declare one or two reasons for the doubts of the people of Tianjin.

Tianjin's atmosphere is strong, and there are many people who are righteous, and those who only echo it are aroused by righteous indignation, and they should ignore everything. The main perpetrators of the murder and those who take advantage of the opportunity to rob should be arrested and severely punished for the future.

In China, the death of an official should still be deserved according to the name, and in the case of hurting foreign countries, many lives will be provoked, and the style of Diao Feng will not last long. However, at that time, there were no people who advocated the gathering in advance, and the murderer had no main name, and the hearts of the people in Jinjun have not yet been appeased.

3,000 people of Baoding Ming Army were transferred to Jinghai, and this army was named Ding Shouchang. The officer is currently vacant in Tianjin Province. As soon as the people's morale is settled, they will be entrusted with the murder incident, and the provincial governor of the department will handle it with the prefecture and county, and he should be competent.

As for Wu Lanzhen's confession, which had already involved the church, the minister ordered the magistrate to go to the church for inspection, which was really to explain the suspicions. Recently, there have also been rumors of church abduction in Jiangnan, and this has been done.

Later, the death of Feng Daye and others, and the burning of the church and mansion, became a hastiness, which was not forbidden by the people, but the local government caused such a huge case, and the government could not prevent it in peacetime. At present, the three members of the province, the prefecture, and the county have all been removed from their posts, pending investigation, and will be handled by the vassals and vassals.

On the same day, another film was performed, and the names of the people killed were now confirmed, but there were still five female corpses in the Church of Mercy, which had not been found, and the rest were properly examined and handed over to the British consular officer Li Weihai for storage. Three Russians have been identified and buried by the country's consul. I hereby make a list and submit it to you for your respect.

The French minister Luo Shuya has already arrived in Tianjin to discuss and repair the church, and Yichen and others plan to send a manager immediately. Yu had a clue and immediately continued the performance, which mistakenly killed Russian people and accidentally destroyed the lecture halls of Britain and the United States.

All the general situation is ascertained, and the Empress Dowager and the Emperor Shengjian are instructed to do so. Sincerely.