"The sacred mountain that fell out of thin air, and the immortals who stepped into the air? grew from a seed to a giant tree in a few seconds, and produced endless wine and meat, because of this matter, tens of thousands of people have gathered in the area of Yeyuanji, and it is still increasing? haha......"

"Interesting, are these yellow-skinned monkeys going to stir up trouble in the name of heretics?"

......

In Qingzhou Mansion, Shandong, inside a Western-style church, a Western-Western man dressed in church dress faced the report of another braided Qing man not far away, and his face changed on the spot, and then he let out a flamboyant laugh.

After smiling, the middle-aged man looked at the Qing man again, "What is the attitude of the prefect's yamen and the general's office towards this?

"It doesn't seem to be. After thinking about it for a while, the Qing man affirmed, "The prefect's yamen and the general's office are still in various controversies......

"It's stupid, Linqu will arrive in the city in a day or two, and there will be tens of thousands of chaotic people in the local area...... The middle-aged priest frowned, and then scolded in a low voice without care, and only after scolding did he look at a German priest standing a few meters away to his left, "Fabian, let that heretical god see the power of our muskets, we will never be able to tolerate such a large-scale civil unrest until the wishes of the bishop and His Majesty the Kaiser are about to be realized." ”

"As you wish!" said the German priest Fabian who was standing nodded with a smile before striding out of the church.

Miracles happened, tens of thousands of people gathered, the Linqu County government had not thought about suppressing it, and even the Qingzhou prefect's yamen and Qingzhou general's office had not yet come out of any news, but a group of German missionaries took the lead, which seemed a little ridiculous at first glance, but in fact it was a very normal decision.

At the end of the 19th century, missionaries were not just missionaries, especially Western missionaries in the declining empire of the Qing Dynasty, which was originally a Franciscan diocese protected by France, and in 1879 the Society of the Divine Word was founded in Germany. Before arriving in Shandong, An Zhitai had visited the German consul general in Shanghai, and was willing to become a lackey accomplice of the German invasion of China.

Even in 1894, that is, last year, with the help of the German consul general, An Zhitai also obtained the second-rank crown of the Qing government, and as a missionary, he was on the same level as the governor and governor of a province of the Qing Dynasty. Unstoppable.

During this period, the eight characters of "a piece of paper went to the countryside, and the industry was dumped" is the truest portrayal of the power of the church, and their power in various parts of Shandong often surpassed that of the local government, and they were more cruel and tyrannical than the local official uniforms, occupying the fields, plundering wealth, oppressing the people, setting up private torture halls, and collecting taxes without authorization. Almost all the churches that can do it have done it.

However, coercing the government to act as a prestige and oppress the people was only an additional benefit for the missionaries in the states and counties, and their ultimate goal was to be vanguard lackeys for the Kaiser's partition of the Qing Dynasty.

Even Wilhelm II said that Bishop Anjitai returned to Berlin. Always be my guest. Also this year, Germany was already preparing to seize a coastal port along the Qing coast as a base for invading China, and Bishop An Zhitai repeatedly suggested that the Kaiser should choose Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong, and the Kaiser had already convened a meeting in November to make a big decision to seize Jiaozhou Bay by force.

This kind of time. Bishop An Zhitai is not in Shandong, and the churches in various prefectures and counties naturally have to make all kinds of preparations for this event.

Although Jiaozhou Bay is in Laizhou Mansion, this place is Qingzhou Mansion. However, Qingzhou and Laizhou are close to each other, and what heretical evil gods have suddenly appeared in Qingzhou to attract tens of thousands of people to obey, and there is a growing trend, 10,000 is not terrible, what about 20,000, 100,000? If these people are because of that heretical evil god, more than 100,000 people are swept up in Qingzhou, Laizhou, and other places, it will be really troublesome.

In today's Qing Kingdom, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has only just passed a few decades, coupled with the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the imperial court's looting of the people has increased many times, and even a large number of gentry can not survive, and it is the most prone to accidents.

This kind of thing is the easiest and most advantageous to nip it in the bud.

Not to mention how close Linqu County is to Qingzhou Prefecture? Forty or fifty miles. Not to mention that for the sake of the great cause of His Majesty the Emperor and Bishop An Zhitai, and for the sake of the safety of their Qingzhou church, it is the most correct choice to disperse and suppress the civil unrest as soon as possible.

For those chaotic people, Fabian and others did not pay attention to it, these years the German Sacred Word Society forces have been preparing for the German invasion, many churches have established church arms, the current Qingzhou church has hundreds of fast guns, and some churches also privately cast artillery. These quick-shot artillery pieces were not the musket artillery of the Qing Kingdom......

In the Second Opium War a few decades ago, more than 10,000 British and French allied troops managed to defeat the Qing army's 200,000 troops, with more than 400 British and French casualties and more than 20,000 Qing casualties. That's still the army against the army, now more than 100 fast guns against yesterday are still not clothed, and they have eaten mud legs that have not been eaten, who cares?

Not to mention that they are not only armed with the church, but also can coerce the government.

After one night, a group of mighty people, led by more than 100 armed churches armed with muskets, mainly German young and strong, supplemented by Qingzhou ruffians, on the left was the Qingzhou Mansion Ya Capture Kuai, and on the right side, hundreds of mixed regiments of soldiers of the Green Battalion of the General Administration with knives and guns drove towards Linqu in the direction of Linqu.

Nowadays, there are various procedures for the deployment of troops in the Qing State, and the generals can't move the green battalion under their command at will, but the gathering place of the Linqu rebels is really too close to the Qingzhou Mansion, dozens of miles away, it is said that they are still gathering more and more, plus the church forces and the prefect joined forces to persuade them, plus they jointly wrote to the governor of Shandong, so after various considerations, the Qingzhou generals still sent a guerrilla attack on the adults.

In just over half a day, the mixed coalition army arrived in Linqu County, but when the mixed coalition army entered the city, they found that the entire county town was empty, and it became an empty city with no trace of people.

"It seems that the chaos has happened, has Li Zhixian been killed?"

"Why didn't these rebels occupy the county seat?"

"Have you already taken a detour to Fucheng?"

............

After all kinds of speculation, several scouts were sent out in the Green Battalion, including the church forces, and after waiting for a while, listening to the news reported by the scouts, the coalition mastermind looked at each other again.

"Ridiculous, this heretical god who popped up out of nowhere, he really has a few hands on the foolish people, but when he sees our musket, I don't believe he can still disguise himself, go, Yeyuan Ji!"

After looking at each other, Fabian, who was riding on a tall horse, scolded angrily and waved his hand to lead the army forward. (To be continued......)