mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 232 Bombarding Ci Ning
However, Nabeshima Itoko felt that Naoko Yuka seemed to be out of control.

Then he asked with concern: "Youxiang, are you feeling unwell?"

Naoko Yuka's face was a little stiff.

She felt that this aristocratic woman was really evil.

Just asking her a casual question made her feel a little guilty and dare not look directly.

"Uh, no, it's okay. It's just these few days, just in a very uncomfortable period."

Nabeshima Itoko nodded understandingly, her pretty face was full of compassionate care.

She kindly took Naoko Yuka to the water station and asked for a cup of warm water, and also asked for some sugar to put in it.

With fair fingers, she pinched the spoon and stirred it, then handed it to Naoko Yuka intimately: "Drink some, it will be better."

That action makes people feel at ease, peaceful and peaceful.

Naoko Yuka was a little defensive, took the water glass and thanked her incoherently.

"Look at you, since you feel uncomfortable, you should tell Junming Shinoda."

The speed of the speech was neither too fast nor too slow, and the tone was a little bit apologetic, but it made people feel like they were bathed in a ball of holy light, and it was hard to hold back.

Naoko Yuka held the water glass in both hands, just lowered her head to look at the tip of her shoe, and sighed slightly.

I thought, neither Shinoda Harasaku nor Saito Kijiro would dare to look directly at this kind of woman.Even she, a woman, will be defeated.

I don't know, what if Mr. Zhao is here?
It was only because of Nabeshima Itoko's disturbance that Naoko Yuka failed to hear more information.

until the party is over.

Shinoda Harasaku and Saito Kijiro went home together.

Kijiro Saito asked: "Mr. Shinoda, some Koreans are unwilling to cooperate with our actions and are still hostile to us. What do you think should be done?"

Shinoda Harasaku thought about it for a while, and his eyes lit up: "I have a plan to make them join us in fighting against the Qing court, but this requires the help of Supervisor Ito Hirobumi."

"any solution?"

Kijiro Saito asked with interest.

"This, let's discuss it tomorrow. I just want to say that no matter whether it's the backwater army or the Lugang Town Insurance Team that you have been worried about, they are nothing more than ants under the majesty of our Great Japanese Empire."

Naoko Yuka, who pricked up her ears, was disappointed.

This information is really important, but it's a pity that Zhisaku Shinoda didn't say it in the end.

……

Lugang Town.

Liu Baogui received a telegram from Li Guangzong on Hong Kong Island.

He hastily summoned everyone to discuss.

At the meeting, when everyone was assembled, Liu Guigui said anxiously, "This time the salary transfer is going to cause a big mess. Li Guangzong asked Zhongyi to publish a declaration in the newspaper, and let the salary transfer completely break away from our Lugang Town."

"what?"

Everyone was taken aback.

Liu Jiahui frowned slightly: "Why?"

"Li Guangzong didn't go into details, but just told me that the transfer of salary will cause a lot of trouble this time. If we don't make a decision early, it may be too late. At that time, all the Beiyang troops outside the customs may come to suppress Lugang Town We are not afraid of returning, but once the war starts, our Lugang Town cannot bear that kind of loss. And the Japanese are watching, if we and the Beiyang Army lose both, it will only make the Japanese proud and arrogant."

The troublemaker Zhao Chuanxin has done many earth-shattering events.

Zhao Zhongyi really couldn't think of anything more egregious that he could have done.

So I asked: "It's still the same as before, just publish it in any newspaper?"

"No, Li Guangzong said, this time it is a complete separation. Not only will he have to resign, but he will also have to separate his personal property from Lugang Township for liquidation. From now on, what belongs to him belongs to him, and Lugang Township belongs to Lugang Town. The town. These things are going to be published in the newspaper."

Zhao Zhongyi was shocked this time.

Is this for real?
Liu Baogui continued: "Li Guangzong has already rushed back from Hong Kong Island, let us take an inventory of the properties that have been handed down as soon as possible. We will do a full set of dramas, and some of his private and public properties will be announced directly in the newspaper." It is confiscated and owned by Lugang Township. It is best to buy newspapers from all over the country and let them publish this news in advance, the sooner the better."

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly fell silent.

Although Zhao Chuanxin seems to be messing around every day in the past few years, it seems that Lugang Town has him but does not have him.

But Zhao Chuanxin + Li Guangzong + everyone present worked together to build Lugang Town into the prosperous scene it is today.

Hearing that Zhao Chuanxin was completely separated from Lugang Town, everyone's hearts were inevitably clouded.

As Zhao Chuanxin's "elder brother", Zhao Zhongyi defended him from the bottom of his heart: "Isn't Li Guangzong's reaction a little too extreme?"

Liu Guigui shook his head and said solemnly: "Li Guangzong is prudent in his work. If he is so anxious, something big will happen. Let's listen to him. Besides, Li Guangzong also said that even if we separate, it won't take five years at most. , the salary can still be returned. It should be his or his. "

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Zhongyi said bitterly: "That matter should not be delayed, let's do it right now."

On the one hand, his brother Zhao Chuanxin, and on the other hand, Lugang Township and the insurance team, which also had a lot of Zhao Zhongyi's hard work, made him very embarrassed and full of entanglements.

But after much deliberation, as long as Zhao Chuanxin is fine, he can return sooner or later.

Almost the next day, the latest "Lugang Town Journal" published the news that Zhao Chuanxin had left Lugang Town.

"Lugang Town Journal" has a great sales volume in Lugang Town.

There are high-income earners among the peasants, businessmen, and businessmen in Lugang Town, who can afford it.Some people want to read the various decisions of the police station in the journals, some people study the trend vane, and some people are simply used to reading this kind of journals that are much higher in quality than boring newspapers.

"Captain Zhao to leave Lugang Town? Who has the guts to make the decision?"

"He has been working hard for the past two years... Cough cough, even if he is not so diligent, he really can't do without him."

"Who wants to chase Uncle Chuanzhu away? I can't finish with him!"

"Who will give me the New Year's money in the future? Wuwuwu, I won't let the salaryman go."

"Hey, if the salary pass is gone, won't we women go back to the old days when we didn't leave the gate?"

Men, women, young and old, there is no one who does not discuss this matter.

Zhao Chuanxin is the only one in Lugang Town who has no official airs. Even the Huangkou Ruzi in Lugang Town dares to quarrel with him, and he will never get angry.

There is only one copy in the entire Lugang Town, and there is no second person.

Especially the snot-nosed kids, they even cry in class.

Many people in Lugang Town were brought back from Liao by Zhao Chuanxin.

Many people survived thanks to the money Zhao Chuanxin cheated from the Japanese to support their travel expenses.

But no one came to explain, as if Zhao Chuanxin really left this time.

When Miao Cuihua got the news, she was filled with righteous indignation: "How many things has Mr. done for Lugang Town? Others think he is out of shape, but he draws blueprints at home every day for construction, and I see all these. Those in the public security station People really have no conscience, there is no good thing!"

Jiang Mingxin's big eyes were wet: "Mother, if Da Da leaves, what shall we do in the future?"

Miao Cuihua looked at Jiang Mingxin, her daughter still had to go to school.

She sighed: "Hey, let's take a look first. I don't know where the husband is now. If he is stable outside, you can go to school in Lugang Town, and mother will go to him to serve him when the time comes. There is no one around. People who are hot, with Mr.'s temperament, I'm afraid they will starve to death..."

On the third day, the outside world also saw the newly published major newspapers, and was also shocked by this sudden news.

Most people speculate that this has something to do with Zhao Chuanxin's rioting in Tianjin Wei.

They believed that Lugang Town was in a hurry to get rid of the relationship, fearing that Governor Yuan and Aixinjueluo Yikuang and his son would be liquidated afterwards.

After all, one is a feudal official who holds military power, and the other is an important minister who controls the government.

When the two join hands, the government and the public will be shocked by stomping their feet.

I can't help but sigh that people's hearts are changeable, and loyalty is no longer the first in the world.

……

Beijing.

Zhang Rong frowned and asked Zhao Chuanxin: "Mr. Zhao, aren't we going back outside the pass? What are we doing in the capital?"

"At that time, Wang Zhanyuan told me that there was a grievance and a debtor, and he asked me to find Aixinjueluo Yikuang and his son.

Later Yuan Datou got involved, and he told me that the source is not with them now, but the old woman in the Forbidden City.

I'm here to solve the problem from the root. If I don't come to the capital, where will I come? "

Zhang Rong was shocked: "Could it be possible, you think..."

"Look at you, you're so cowardly." Zhao Chuanxin dismissively said, "Where did your courage go when you brought explosives to blow up the five ministers?"

"It's different."

"Heh, how is it different?"

If there was any difference, Zhang Rong couldn't tell.

He longed for the fall of this dynasty.

But when he thought of certain situations, he just felt wrong.

He just wanted to make the country rich and the people strong and expel foreigners, but he didn't want to see the scene of chaos.

After a long silence, he said: "There are countless eunuchs, maids and guards in the palace. I know that Mr. Zhao has the courage to be unworthy, but do you want to rush in by stepping on the corpses of these weak people?"

Zhao Chuanxin was taken aback.

He really didn't think about it that much.

When he was in the United States, Westerners called him "Oriental Executioner" and "Far Eastern Butcher".

But in fact, Zhao Chuanxin is not bloodthirsty.

This is especially true when facing compatriots.

But if you don't kill them, it seems impossible to go in and find the old woman without alarming anyone just by subduing these people.

Zhao Chuanxin scratched his messy hair and said with a laugh: "The last time I went to the United States to make trouble, I actually helped the Americans send a sea arrest document to arrest me. This time, I still sent someone to arrest me. Give her some color, The dog wants to open a dyeing workshop? This doesn't give her a long memory, and she thinks that Zhao is letting her decide."

"..."

Zhang Rong didn't know how to persuade him.

Zhao Chuanxin waved his hand and interrupted what he was about to say: "I have made up my mind, so there is no need to say more. At night, find a place closer to the Forbidden City and wait to watch the fireworks."

night.

Zhang Rong came to an inn, and when he entered the door, he said, "Come to a guest room with a window facing east."

"Okay, Chenghui, Liangjiao Xiaoyang."

Zhang Rong took out his pocket, I, Cao, forgot to take care of Zhao Chuanxin's borrowing money.

With a mournful face, he said, "Can I have credit first? My friend will arrive later."

"That can't be done."

"Look at my clothes, take them off first as a mortgage."

"Your clothes look like prison uniforms and are worthless."

"..."

Zhang Rong, the son of a dignified rich family, is so downcast that he can't afford to live in an ordinary inn in Xiaoyang.

He could only sneak out of the inn in desperation, looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle and sighed that the world was difficult.

Then, he staggered forward in the direction of the Xihua Gate of the Forbidden City, his back was very gloomy.

He also has to evade police officers like soldiers patrolling at night, because he is now a fugitive.

Both legs were numb when walking, and the dark city wall was in the distance.

In the towering Forbidden City, there is no movement in the middle of the night.

Zhang Rong found a wall and squatted down, staring blankly at the Forbidden City.

After waiting for about an hour, finally, he saw flames emanating from the city wall on the west side, and then the roar came.

My Cao, Zhao Chuanxin is like a cannon fired in the Forbidden City!

Earlier, Zhang Rong and his friends attempted to blow up the five ministers at the train station. This was already a major event that caused a national sensation.

But compared to Zhao Chuanxin's bombardment of the Forbidden City today, it is still nothing.

How dare he!

Zhang Rong's eyes widened, staring at the city wall without blinking.

Then, there was a flash of fire.

There was another "boom".

Zhang Rong was sure that he heard the sound of the building being torn apart and exploded by the shelling.

Immediately, the flames flickered again.

boom!
A total of three shots were fired.

The first shot seemed to miss nothing.

The last two shots should all hit the target.

Then, before the fourth cannon was fired, gunshots rang out from the direction of the Forbidden City.

In the Qing Dynasty, except for the moment when the end of the road was reached, counting forward, there were several defense lines inside and outside the palace.

The inner court guards, big internal guards, imperial guards, these imperial guards are all selected from the top three banners.I don't know how smart they are, anyway, they say they are elites.

There are about 600 people in this part, which is the innermost line of defense.

In addition, it is the pro-military camp, with a population of about 1400 people, all of whom are also in the banner.

In the outer periphery, there are a large number of coated guards from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These people not only have to work, but also have the duties of guards. There are vanguard battalions, guard battalions, and Xiaoqi battalions. The number is about 7000.

The rest, including the Firearms Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, and the Infantry Commander Yamen, have even more people.

Of course not all of them were in the palace, but if someone really wanted to assassinate the royal family, it would be very difficult.

Not to mention a few lines of defense, it is not easy to break through the moat and enter the Forbidden City.

But since the Eight-Power Allied Forces came in, Cixi discovered that these people were actually worthless.

So, when Yuan Datou began to train the new army.

Now that the six towns of Beiyang have been formed, the original forbidden army of the old army will be dismissed.

The current task of guarding the Forbidden City is performed by the first town and the sixth town of the new army in turn.

How many people are there in a town?

Up to 12000 people!
Naturally, it is impossible for all of these people to be in the palace.

But when the Forbidden City fired the first cannon, all the guards inside and outside the city were mobilized.

To the north of Xihua Gate, the city wall outside the Compassionate Ning Palace was the target of these guards.

However, due to the haste of the cannon fire, their men had not been able to gather together, so the gunfire was uneven.

On the head of the inner city, a piece of battlement on the top of the wall has been removed, exposing the city wall below.

The city wall was cleaned by Zhao Chuanxin so that field artillery could be placed obliquely.

The reason why the delay was more than an hour was spent cleaning the wall.

He looked at the Compassionate Ning Palace that was bombarded, and nodded in satisfaction.

With the first shot, he misses it.

After all, the cannon is different from the gun, he needs to calibrate the devil crystal glasses.Furthermore, the top of the wall is not as good as the flat ground, and the area is very narrow. After firing the cannon, the recoil almost pushed the cannon off the top of the wall.

Fortunately, before falling, Zhao Chuanxin put the cannon into the space in time.

Except for him, no one else could shoot at the wall.

But both the second and third shots hit.

At this moment, some guards dared to come and fired their guns in this direction.

There was great chaos in the imperial city, eunuchs and court ladies were as numerous as crucian carp crossing the river, they came out from every corner, crying and fleeing in all directions.

Zhao Chuanxin put the cannon away, took out the Madsen machine gun, and swept down and fired.

Tata Tata...

The purpose is not to kill, but to force these guards back.

Sure enough, those guards were beaten like wolves.

Zhao Chuanxin turned his head and saw the flames shining not far away. It was obvious that more Beiyang troops were coming.

He galloped on the city wall, stepped on the battlements, and rattled the tiles on it.

He kept his balance with his arms outstretched, and almost fell down a few times.

The battlements were less than one meter high, and the top was pointed. Zhao Chuanxin's feet had to be staggered on both sides to barely run.

He walked past the Compassionate Ning Palace and glanced over there, but he didn't see any casualties, so he couldn't help wondering.

In fact, he didn't know where Ci Xi lived, but according to the convention, the Empress Dowager should live in the Ci Ning Palace.

But if Cixi lives in the Cining Palace, there should be many talents here?

Why is there no one?

When he arrived at the West Sixth Palace area, he heard the words of the fleeing eunuchs and maids, and then he found out the truth.

"Hurry up, go to Chuxiu Palace, Lafayette must be shocked."

"Could it be that foreigners have called in again?"

"Go to Lafayette, it must be safe there!"

What?
Zhao Chuanxin was taken aback.

Empress Dowager Cixi in Chuxiu Palace?
Then I spent a long time, and the relationship is just three shots in vain?

He saw a group of eunuchs and maids running towards Chuxiu Palace, and with an idea, he floated down the city wall.

He used the Azure Phantom Armor to increase his speed, quickly caught up with a tall eunuch, threw his arms around the eunuch's neck from behind, and covered his mouth.

"Don't make noise, I will kill you if you dare to make noise."

The people in the palace are all smart people, at least a lot smarter than the people outside.

The eunuch didn't have much loyalty at all, so he nodded quickly.

Zhao Chuanxin let go of one hand and held the pistol behind the eunuch's back: "What I have in my hand is a luzi, do you know what a luzi is?"

"I know, I know, it's a pistol!"

"You undress now, quick. Then I tie you up so you can shirk responsibility tomorrow."

Zhao Chuanxin has always been good at convincing people with virtue.

The eunuch's head was very bright, and many possibilities came to mind in an instant.

The most likely of these is that the man behind him wanted his clothes as a cover before escaping from the Forbidden City.

Having figured it out, he quickly suggested: "This strong man, you'd better knock me out. Otherwise, I will still be punished."

Zhao Chuanxin scratched his temples with his gun-holding hand: "Then think about it, I'm not very skilled, last time I wanted to knock someone unconscious, but I didn't control the force well and killed him."

He really can't knock people out. I'm afraid no one except Lian Jiazi can do this kind of super high-tech job!
The eunuch trembled: "Don't knock me out, you tie me up and gag my mouth."

"He who understands current affairs is a hero, and it seems that you are also a hero."

"Yes, I am Junjie."

"..."

(End of this chapter)