Chapter 140: The clouds are mysterious, and the undercurrents are turbulent
Zhao Sanduo sat behind a long table in the room, and on the table in front of him were the documents sent to him by the various branches of the Boxers.
At this time, he was holding a paper document in his hand and watching, and after reading it quickly, Zhao Sanduo casually picked up the brush placed on the pen stand next to him, and put it aside after giving instructions, waiting for the final return to each branch altar.
"Hmm? Someone else burned and looted in the name of Boxer?"
Suddenly, Zhao Sanduo frowned, looked at the newly picked up document in front of him, and read it carefully.
In the document, it is said that in a small county town called Shunxing, there are unknown forces pretending to be the name of Yihequan, and in the name of sweeping away foreign disasters, they have implemented "clean houses" for people who have foreign goods in the county, robbed all the valuable belongings in the family, and even killed a family of three because they rose up to resist, and the methods were cruel and the conscience was lost.
"Humph!"
Zhao Sanduo slapped the table angrily, and the heavy table top was slapped through a big hole with a click.
I can't help but be angry with Zhao Sanduo, it is really this unknown force that has done such things one after another in the name of Yihequan, not only killing innocents and using cruel methods, but also ruining the reputation of Yihequan.
However, in the past six months, because of the extermination movement, although the Boxer has gathered a lot of people's hearts and swelled its power several times, it has become uneven inside, and it is difficult to tell others whether these people who took the opportunity to make trouble are the boxers of the Boxers.
Although Zhao Sanduo was sensitively aware of these so-called boxers who were said to be shouting slogans and claiming to be possessed by immortals since the first such incident, it was not simple.
Behind these people, I am afraid that there is another force that has recruited a large number of new personnel during the period of the Boxer, so that people can come in and make trouble by using the skin of the Boxer.
But these troublemakers are ghostly, they only appear occasionally, and they are scattered all over the place, so they have not been caught, because there is no substantial evidence in Zhao Sanduo's hands now, and there is no way to deal with it.
The current Boxer is different from the infinite scenery when it first started, but it is facing the encirclement and suppression of the imperial army, and the situation is difficult.
Even Zhao Sanduo, the head of the box, had to withdraw from the Wei County headquarters and run to the remote village where he was at this time to take refuge, but at this time, there were bad signs in the boxer, which made him feel anxious.
Just last year, more than half a year before the world, Zhao Sanduo carried out a bright fist action to demonstrate foreigners.
Later, Zhao Sanduo changed the boxing club to Yihequan, and the Liangquan movement also expanded more and more with the reorganization.
It didn't take long for the foreigners to stand the Boxers' martial arts in the church, hindering their behavior of spreading their faith, and they had a fierce conflict with the Boxers.
So Zhao Sanduo took the opportunity to announce to the world his slogan of helping to eliminate the foreign and launched an uprising of the foreign extermination movement. Since then, the Boxers throughout Shandong have begun to smash churches and expel foreigners.
At that time, the people had been suffering from the scourge of foreigners for a long time, and the Boxer suddenly detonated the resentment of foreigners in the hearts of the people.
For a time, the name of the Boxer Fist spread all over the world, and the followers of the Boxer Movement were like clouds, and countless people joined the Boxer under the slogan of Boxing Destroyer, which made the power of the Boxer Boxer unprecedentedly expanded.
However, the good times did not last long, and I thought that the imperial court should be happy to see it under the slogan of helping the Qing and destroying the foreigners, but I don't know if it was the pressure from the foreign government, or whether the imperial court had any scruples about this kind of uprising, and it didn't take long for a large army to be sent to suppress it.
Although the boxers are powerful in Shandong, the people everywhere and the boxers heard about the righteous deeds of the boxers, and some people also came to join from time to time to support the grand event of exterminating the foreigners. But these ordinary people, even lower-level boxers, actually had no advantage in the face of a well-equipped imperial army.
In order to avoid damage, and also to completely anger the imperial court after killing and injuring the army, Zhao Sanduo chose to break it into pieces and hide his fists among the people.
I thought that this move would ensure that the Yihequan was comprehensive for a while, but in the future, after the imperial court realized the effect of the Yihequan on the foreigners, it would inevitably be accepted.
However, Zhao Sanwan never expected that the officers and soldiers were like bandits, and they would take the opportunity to bully and plunder the people.
So Zhao Sanduo had to organize the boxers to counterattack, and for a while, the imperial army began to tug of war everywhere.
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Just when Zhao Sanduo was having a headache with the suppression of the imperial army and the power of counterfeiting the Boxers, another new governor of Shandong was also having a headache with these two things.
Yu Xian is the third governor of Shandong in the past two years.
It is said that the governor of a province is a feudal official of the imperial court, and he should not be exchanged so frequently, but this place in Shandong is not very peaceful!
Since the murder of two German missionaries in the Caozhou case and the German occupation of territory, Shandong has not been at peace. At that time, in order to appease the anger of foreigners, Li Bingheng, who was the governor of Shandong at the time, was held accountable by the imperial court, dismissed, and never hired.
Then another governor of Shandong, Zhang Rumei, took office, and not long after, the Boxer Rebellion occurred.
For the Boxer Boxer's extermination movement, Zhang Rumei at that time did not think it was a bad thing, but felt that it was a good thing, so she wrote to the court and said:
"The Boxer only kills foreigners and religious people, and does not harm the good people, which seems to be very righteous. And in the past few days, there have been no less than tens of thousands of boxers spontaneously gathered in various places, and there are farmers and industrialists who have them, and if they are all suppressed, they are afraid that they will greatly damage the vitality of the imperial court and damage the national strength. ”
However, the imperial court didn't care, and designated the Yihe Fist as a boxer, and directly sent a large army to suppress it.
The Boxers did not confront the imperial army at that time, but dispersed on their own, until the Boxers rebelled because of the army's loose military discipline and oppression of the good.
At this time, Zhang Rumei reported to the imperial court:
"The boxers have burned down the hall and destroyed the road, and it is the right thing to send the army to train and suppress it. It was the army that was indisciplined and abused the good people, and the boxers and bandits insisted on hating religion and did not disturb the villages, so that the people were afraid of the soldiers and loved the bandits, and the bandits became more and more powerful, and the bandit parties gathered more and more. ”
Although the words refer to the boxers as qualitative of the imperial court, it still shows the actions of the army and the love that the boxers are received.
He even interceded for the Yihequan again, asking the court to include the Yihequan in the establishment, and since then "the boxers have leveled themselves"
The imperial court was furious, and in the name of suppressing bandits, Zhang Rumei was removed from the post of governor of Shandong, and then Yuxian was sent as the governor of Shandong to preside over the suppression of bandits.
It seems that as long as Yuxian concentrates on suppressing bandits, he can sit in the position of governor and even make great achievements.
However, Yuxian knows that the actual situation is much more complicated.
Yuxian was born in Han, but he can be in a high position, so he naturally has his own set of skills. Don't dare to say anything else, figure out the intentions, and perceive the sensitivity of the situation, Yuxian is very good.
Yuxian actually knew that for the Boxers, a force that spontaneously exterminated the foreign country and did not need a penny of food and salary from the imperial court, the imperial court was actually happy to see it.
What's more, the Boxers actually killed many foreigners in the campaign to exterminate the foreigners, but the foreigners did not take the opportunity to further invade the territory of the Qing Dynasty.
This also made the court see that although the foreigners were powerful, but they came from across the ocean, there were not too many troops, and the land now invaded would not be digested by the foreigners for a while and a half, and the fact that they wanted to go further was actually powerless, so that the court's confidence in sweeping away the foreigners had skyrocketed.
However, the slogan of Fuqing put forward by Yihequan at this juncture, which is very intriguing.
Fuqing, which door is it to help?
To put it big, it's the whole world, and to put it small, it's actually the current emperor.
However, now in the court, it is not only the emperor who is in charge, but the more powerful is the Empress Dowager Cixi!
Although the Empress Dowager Cixi has returned to the emperor and is no longer listening to the government, but seeing the emperor's increasing power, the Empress Dowager Cixi is not without fear in her heart.
No one in the court dared to say this, but the shrewd people knew it in their hearts.
Moreover, in recent days, the emperor intends to reuse the Westernists and implement the law change, and the content of the law change has been spread early in order to prepare for all parties in advance.
Yuxian has also read the content drafted in it, a lot, involving the army, the government, and all aspects of people's livelihood, but Yuxian is frightened when he sees a lot of content.
For example, the reform of government institutions, the abolition of redundant officials, the abolition of the eight-stock document in the imperial examination, and the abolition of redundant yamen and useless official positions, all of these have violated the interests of the majority of the people.
Not to mention that at this time, the emperor's governing power was checked and balanced by the queen mother, and most of the army was also in the hands of the queen mother's faction, that is, the emperor took back all the rights and held the power, and it was very dangerous to dare to play like this.
At this time, the Boxer jumped out and shouted the slogan of helping the Qing to destroy the foreign, if the emperor got the support of the Boxer force, then the emperor would have available soldiers in his hands, the room for turning around would be greatly increased, the speed of recovering rights would be faster, and the difficulty of changing the law would be smaller, how could the Queen Mother endure it?
It was the old school ministers headed by the Empress Dowager and the powerful old school ministers in the DPRK and China who directly characterized the Yihequan as bandits, and Zhang Rumei's request to incorporate the Yihequan even ran into the muzzle of the gun, so naturally the governor of Shandong could not be the governor.
But the Queen Mother can't bear to be wiped out directly, because of such free labor, the Queen Mother still wants to keep it to deal with foreigners.
Now in the heart of the Queen Mother, the Boxer can not be extinguished, it can be kept to deal with foreigners, consume the strength of foreigners, and it cannot but be suppressed, in order to prevent the Boxer from becoming bigger, and it has become the emperor's help.
Originally, Yuxian also planned to send the army to slowly tug at the Yihe Fist, quietly dragging out the time, and waiting until the battle between the Queen Mother and the Emperor had a clear result.
But recently, Liyihequan seems to have suddenly increased its strength faster, and there are signs of burning, looting, and unscrupulous real bandits, which makes Yuxian even more headache.
This force, which caused both Zhao Sanduo and Yuxian a headache, was naturally the White Lotus Sect.
As early as when the White Lotus Sect was in the boxing club, it secretly took root in it and secretly developed its power. And after the establishment of the Boxer Rebellion, during the period when its power increased greatly, the White Lotus Sect naturally secretly absorbed many people, and its power swelled.
Until now, I have been brainwashed by the teachings of the White Lotus Sect without knowing it, and I still think that the people who are the Boxers of the Boxers can't bear it anymore, so I have such radical actions.
And the reason why the real high-level leaders of the White Lotus Sect did not suppress this kind of behavior was because they had long been impatient and wanted to seize the power of the Boxers.
In the current Boxer incident, the imperial court, foreigners, Boxers, and White Lotus Sect were mixed with each other and calculated against each other.
Palace battles, civil uprisings, cult rebellions, and colonization by foreigners have become chaotic.
It was such a chaotic situation that let the development of things out of anyone's control and began to slide into the abyss of the unknown.
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