"A large number of soldiers went to reason with them because the grain was mixed with too much bran and gravel …"
"The soldiers were arrested …"
"There are rumors that the Military Judge Min Qiangao wants to disband the Military Guard Battalion and the Imperial Battalion …"
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Information was continuously sent to the railway company along the railway company's special telegraph line. For Yuan Weiting, Wang Shizhen, and other young people who grew up in the new China and ate state-run food, there was a little bit of sand and gravel in the rice. In addition to asking the cooks to wash the rice carefully, they also had to send telegrams to ask the supply department what was going on. For them, mixing 30% bran in the grain was already an unforgivable crime, and it was not surprising that they would be beheaded.
In Goryeo, it was an eye-opener for them. The landlord mixing 30% bran in the grain was not considered cunning. When this kind of grain was sent to the Goryeo government and passed through the Military Judge Min Qiangao's hands, it became grain mixed with half bran and gravel. This kind of exploitation shocked the young and promising China cadres.
The older Li Hongzhang did not know whether to say that these young cadres were born in a good time, or that they were short-sighted and short-sighted. This kind of practice was indeed a big crime in the Min dynasty, but in the Manchu Qing area twenty years ago, it was at most a serious case of the superior not showing compassion to the subordinates. The subordinates sifted the grain again and ate it all the same.
For Yuan Weiting and other young cadres, this was an absolute reason for the subordinates to reason with the superior. In Li Hongzhang's view, the Military Guard Battalion and the Imperial Battalion argued because they had not been paid for 18 months and accumulated a huge contradiction. This matter was just a guide.
Li Hongzhang now only felt that history was repeating itself. Why did the foreign devils travel thousands of miles to China and beat the Manchu Qing to a pulp? Why did Vézé lead the Liberation Army to sweep the world without a rival? The production capacity and execution ability of both sides made agriculture the norm in China into something that could not be done in China.
Thinking back to the past, Li Hongzhang felt that he had been too ignorant when he was young to have failed to see through Vézé's prowess. If he had known that Vézé represented a new industrial nation, he would have thrown caution to the wind and joined Vézé. If he could really do that, with Li Hongzhang's capabilities, how could he only be a bureau chief in Korea? It wouldn't be surprising if he became the Prime Minister.
However, Li Hongzhang was a talented person after all. He did not immerse himself in the self-pity of the weak. Now that he was letting these young people do the work, it was also for Li Hongzhang's own benefit. If they failed, Li Hongzhang would naturally take responsibility and step down. Li Hongzhang was already 61 years old, and it was time for him to retire. The central government would probably give Li Hongzhang some face. But! But! If these young people could really make a name for themselves and make some achievements. Then Li Hongzhang could use this credit to rise to the next level.
Vézé's retirement system was to eliminate the old guys and give the young enough opportunities. Since Li Hongzhang could not rely on his previous qualifications to continue to be promoted, then he would rely on perfecting the method of giving opportunities to the young to gain merits.
Because Li Hongzhang did not speak his mind, Yuan Weiting and Wang Shizhen did not know what their boss was thinking. They still felt that they had met a good boss who gave them enough opportunities to do things.
Yuan Weiting issued an order according to Wang Shizhen's plan. "All trains are to be stopped. Railway police are to be armed and protect the station. Send more patrol cars to prevent anyone from destroying the railway! "
The Koreans were more receptive to the idea of trains and telegrams because it was not the foreign devils who introduced them, but China, as the superior country. These huge, terrifying, and powerful things had indeed changed the lives of Koreans. At least they did not have to work so hard when they traveled far. Therefore, for the time being, there was no widespread rumor that the railway destroyed Fengshui and disturbed ancestral graves in Korea. This was something to be happy about. If this rumor spread in Korea, it would be much more difficult to protect the railway than it was now.
On April 30th, the rioting soldiers besieged the house of Min Qiangao, the judge of the military. In addition to looting, they also burned the house of Min Qiangao, the judge of the military. Min Qiangao's house stored a lot of brocades, spices, and medicinal herbs. After the fire, the aroma could be heard for miles. At this time, there had been no rain or snow in Korea for four months. That night, it rained heavily. In Korea, people thought that it was God's way of showing that the soldiers were wronged.
The next day, May 1st, the soldiers finally calmed down and realized that they had committed a serious crime. They hurried to the house of Lord Daejin and asked him to intercede. In public, Lord Daejin scolded the soldiers for being bold. But things were far from that simple. The rioting soldiers did not give up because they had nowhere to go. They first returned to the camp to prepare, and then suddenly robbed the armory of the Bie Ji Army under the cover of the night.
On May 2nd, the rioting turned into a mutiny. A large number of craftsmen, small businessmen, urban poor, and other ordinary citizens of Korea joined the uprising, so that the "mutiny" quickly turned into a "people's uprising" that erupted with social contradictions.
As the anti-Min sentiment was fully ignited, the rioting soldiers and citizens first went to the east camp, occupied the armory, seized weapons, and armed themselves. Then they divided into three routes to carry out their actions: One route was to attack the Burglary Office and the Yi Jin Palace, release the imprisoned soldiers such as Jin Chunyong, Liu Bowan, and other prisoners, as well as the famous Confucian scholar Bai Lekuan, who was arrested because he opposed the open policy.
After rescuing their comrades, the rioting soldiers and citizens destroyed the mansions of Min Taigao, Min Yongyi, and other nobles, as well as people who had dealings with the Japanese. They shouted the slogan "Kill all the Min family." One route was to attack the Shimadou Prison, where the Bie Ji Army was located, and execute the Japanese instructor Horimoto Reizo. The other route was to occupy the Gyeonggi Prison.
When the Min family group had lost control of Korea's armed forces, the army and the rioting people attacked the nearby Japanese embassy, claiming that they would slaughter all the Japanese.
The reason why China acquiesced in the hiring of Japanese instructors for the Korean Bie Ji Army was that there were only seven Japanese instructors. They taught the Koreans how to fight with old-fashioned rifles. China had completely eliminated the old-fashioned rifles, which were no longer powerful. More importantly, all the resentment was focused on the Japanese.
Things unfolded as China expected. On May 3, tens of thousands of angry rioting soldiers and citizens rushed into Changdeok Palace, hunting down Min Taigao and the others. Min Taigao finally couldn't hide anymore.
At that time, Emperor Gojong urgently summoned Daedaku to the palace to clean up the mess. Daedaku entered Changdeok Palace with the support of the rioting soldiers and citizens. Min Taigao rushed out of Chongxi Hall, kneeled down and grabbed Daedaku's robe, asking him for help. Daedaku just sneered, and then the soldiers around him "kicked" Min Taigao down the stairs and beat him into meat paste. Before Min Taigao was killed, Kim Fuxuan, the observer of Gyeonggi Province, was also chopped into meat paste in the palace. After Min Taigao's death, Kim Fuxuan and his body were dumped in the ditch.
The Japanese envoy, Hoshiya Yoshiki, also experienced the Bochen War, and calmly faced the fierce attack of the rioting soldiers and citizens. The fierce battle lasted until late at night, when the besieging Korean rioters burned down the houses around the embassy to cut off the Japanese's retreat. Hoshiya Yoshiki was forced to burn down the embassy, and along with the embassy personnel, 28 people opened fire along the way, killing many Korean rioters who besieged them. After that, they rushed out of Seoul and went straight to Incheon. In the breakout, six of the 28 people died in the battle, and the remaining 22 people finally found a Japanese ship in Incheon that was going to trade with China, and they returned to Japan in a sorry state.
On May 8, the Japanese Meiji government formally protested to China, accusing the Chinese government of conniving at Korea's attack on the Japanese embassy. They also declared that they would send troops to punish the rioters who participated in the "Koshin Mutiny."
The Japanese Navy acted immediately. On May 9, a fleet sailed out of the fleet's home port, Wu Port, through the Strait of Tsushima, and went straight to the port of Pusan. The Japanese warship, more than 3,000 tons, did not have time to show off outside the port of Pusan for half a day when a fleet appeared from the north. It was for the flagship of the Sixth Fleet, the Anqing. The 14,000-ton battleship and the 9,000-ton heavy cruiser circled around a 3,000-ton and three less than 3,000-ton warships at a speed of 18 knots, aiming their huge cannons at the Japanese warships.
One shot from the 300-ton cannon could sink the Japanese warships into the sea. The Chinese knew this very well, and so did the Japanese. But the Japanese Navy did not run away because of this. In the first hour of the confrontation, the Japanese warships still wanted to rely on 14 knots to circle around the Chinese warships. An hour later, the boilers of the two Japanese warships broke down one after another after operating at full capacity, and they could only shamelessly lie on the water.
In the face of the Japanese Navy's ugly performance, the Chinese fleet turned the bow to the southwest, and their target was the secondary port of China's Sixth Fleet, Juwen Island.
The Japanese Navy finally drove their ships back to the home port of Wugang with great difficulty. Of course, the protest against China did not stop, but the protest was only verbal. The other European and American countries did not comment at all. What the Koreans hated was the Min Fei Group and the Japanese, and the targets of their attacks were also the two. Since the embassies and businessmen in Europe and America were not damaged, the European and American countries could not find any reason to protest against China.
After eliminating the possibility of foreign forces interfering in Korea, the central government of China calmly began to watch the show. Most of the backbones of the Min Fei Group in the capital were killed, and Min Fei herself barely escaped with the help of the Lady of the Court.
Faced with this sudden situation, the panic-stricken Gojong Li Hee was forced to urgently summon his father, the Lord of the Court, to the palace to serve him. He hid in the side hall and announced that he would return the power to the Lord of the Court to save the situation. The Lord of the Court entered the palace with his wife, the Lady of Lixing Mansion, and his eldest son, Li Zaimian. With the support of the rebel soldiers and citizens, he became the regent for the second time.
The first thing the Lord of the Court did after taking power was to clean up the mess in the palace. At this time, thousands of soldiers and citizens swarmed into the palace to search for Min Fei and kill the officials. In an instant, it became a bloody storm and chaos. The Lord of the Court first ordered the soldiers to retreat from the palace, but unexpectedly, the soldiers said, "As long as the Middle Hall (Princess Fei) is alive, she will kill us all. Death, I'd rather die for something important than retreat!" The Lord of the Court had no choice but to immediately announce that Min Fei had died in the rebellion and set up a national funeral. He also ordered the rebel soldiers and citizens to be pardoned and sent out of the palace. He also ordered the soldiers to be paid back. Only then did the rebel soldiers and citizens put down their weapons and withdrew from Changdeok Palace.
Although her life was saved, after the Lord of the Court took the opportunity to set up a national funeral, Min Fei lost all her power. She even became a 'deceased' in name.
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