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Hangzhou.

Recently, the province has been extremely unstable. There have been pirates invading coastal areas such as Ningbo and Taizhou. The assassination of Qian Zhongen, the prefect of Shaoxing, has happened.

The governor of Zhejiang, Wang Danwang, was in a state of distress, and Hangzhou General Cheng De also repeatedly proposed that Qiying take over the city defense of Hangzhou, which made Wang Danwang even more annoyed and worried.

One is worrying that Chengde signed a contract with the capital reform government behind his back; the other is worrying that Chengde listened to rumors and dispatched garrison flag soldiers to fight against his governor's yamen.

Fortunately, the gentry in Hangzhou still supported Wang Futai, not because Wang Futai was so clean and honest that the gentry supported him, but because Wang Futai had borrowed more than 1240 million taels from the Hangzhou gentry since he took office.

That is to say, the biggest creditor of the rich people in Hangzhou today is Master Futai.

Therefore, if Mr. Futai is ruined, all the thousands of taels of high-interest loans from the Hangzhou gentry will be in vain.

Tens of millions of taels of money, even if the gentry in Hangzhou have a big business, it will hurt their muscles and bones.

Where there is money, there are people. Under the magic power of silver bills, Mr. Futai also firmly controls Zhejiang Luying.

Only in this way can he stand up to General Chengde of Hangzhou.

However, the current situation in Zhejiang Province is extremely bad. The coastal cities of Ningbo and Taizhou have fallen to the pirates one after another, and revolutions are constantly happening in other places, and the targets of the revolution are these Qing court officials. This makes Wang Danwang unable to sit still.

After Qian Zhongen, the prefect of Shaoxing, was assassinated, Wang Danwang finally realized that the revolution must be effectively suppressed in order to ensure the stability of his fundamentals.

Otherwise, there is no need for Cheng De to make a move, and there is no need for Guizi Liu, who led the army to the Kanto Expedition, to make a move, and he, the governor, will have to do it to the end.

To suppress it, one must first understand what a revolution is, and how this evil wind is stirred up.

An urgent secret meeting was therefore held in the governor's office.

In addition to Futai, the main officials of Zhejiang, such as Fantai, Jietai, Xuetai, Daotai, and Futai, were present at the meeting, as well as several leaders of the Zhejiang Green Camp.

The first person to speak was Bai Weixin, the procurator in charge of criminal investigation. He told the participants: "It has been verified by the relevant departments that since September, there have been many banned books in the city that have been recited among the Han people. Such books may be called "Revolutionary Army", or "Menghuihui", or "Warning World Bell", it mostly talks about the brutal extermination of the Han people in the pass by the Qing soldiers entering the pass at the beginning of the country"

The procuratorial envoy Siyamen led by Bai Weixin has obviously done a solid investigation.

According to the results of the investigation, the word "revolution" comes from the book "Revolutionary Army" with the author's signature "Xibei".

"Please take a look at Futai, what Han people should have ethnic hatred, what is the current revolution, revenge for the leader, or Yun Zhang IX's revanchism, for a period of ten years of bloody battle. Such remarks are simply sensational!"

Bai Jietai clearly pointed out that the purpose of these banned books is to call on the people of Zhejiang Province to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and advocated the use of violent means to implement it. If such calls are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it will cause disaster not only in Zhejiang, but also in the whole country.

"I have a few forbidden books here, too,"

Qing Ge, who was born in Zhengbai Banner, Manchuria, the chief envoy, also took out a few books for Master Futai to read. The people in the Bleeding Province have heard such inflammatory words, and if something happens, our bannermen will bear the brunt of it."

In view of the seriousness of the situation, Qingge hoped that Master Futai would immediately order the removal of banned books and arrest the so-called revolutionaries, so as to set the record straight.

"Such words can be found everywhere in the city and even all over Zhejiang. According to the private inquiries of the officials, the students in Zhejiang Province are now bewitched by these evil books, and they want to expel the Tartars, so that they don't even read the books of sages."

It was Sun Yibo, the magistrate of Hangzhou who spoke, and said that since the early days of the Republic of China, there have been thoughts of anti-Qing and restoring Ming, and driving Manchus and restoring Han in Zhejiang. Conscious literati carry out brutal blows.

The appalling incidents of Lu Liuliang's coffin opening and killing of Zeng Jing made in Zhejiang by the Qianlong Dynasty made Zhejiang scholars dislike the Qing court, so there has always been a market for anti-Qing ideas.

Of course, Sun Zhifu spoke in a more subtle way, and some things are difficult to say too plainly.

But for the Qianlong Dynasty, Sun Zhifu obviously did not have much respect.

There is no other reason. Qianlong is actually a great robber of the Han people, which is well known throughout the country.

"Well, what kind of revolution is this? If you want to talk about the early days of the country, the Qing soldiers were wrong, but Manchuria was also very kind to Han gentry like me. Besides, things have passed for a hundred years. If you look at it a hundred years ago What is the meaning of the past."

Wang Danwang frowned deeply, and asked Bai Weixin if he could find out if this group of revolutionaries was organized, if so, who was leading it, where did the funds come from, where was the organization, and who provided the gunpowder weapons.

Qian Zhongen, the prefect of Shaoxing, was not assassinated by the revolutionary at close quarters with a sharp knife, but was killed by a bomb wrapped in silk dropped by the revolutionary during his tour.

The medicine pack was so powerful that not only Qian Zhongen received the boxed lunch on the spot, but also the accompanying officials killed and injured more than ten people.

The assassin fled in the chaos.

Only the remnants of the medicine package were found at the scene afterwards.

Gunpowder is strictly prohibited among the people, so Wang Futai has reason to suspect that there are Qing officials behind these revolutionaries.

Bai Weixin said that according to their investigation, all signs point to an organization called the Restoration Association.

"Reconciliation meeting?"

Wang Futai, Qingfantai, and Sun Futai had never heard of the name of this organization, and they all thought that most of the so-called revolutionaries who assassinated were monsters like the White Lotus Sect.

"This meeting uses the slogan of recovering the Han nationality, returning our country, honoring the country with one's body, and retiring after success. It advocates that in addition to propaganda, assassination and riots should be the main means of revolution."

Bai Weixin concluded that the assassination of Qian Guoen, the prefect of Shaoxing, was likely to be the work of Guangfu Club.

It is also said that the Restoration Association called the removal of Manchuria a maneuver, and there were various opinions in the meeting, some talked about revenge, some talked about fighting for power, and some said that Manchuria could not be the master of China.

"These statements seem to be exaggerated and brutal, without reason, but the advantage is that the propaganda is simple. Even a fool can know, speak, and do it. Such slogans, if applied to society, will surely lead to disasters in the past. .”

Then I talked about the situation of the Restoration Society, saying that most of the people who joined the Restoration Society were students, businessmen, some craftsmen, and soldiers from the green battalion.

Finally asserted: "There is reason to suspect that not only Shaoxing, but the provincial capital also has a restoration organization."

Sun Yibo, the prefect of Hangzhou, was very nervous after hearing this: "According to the investigation of the yamen, why don't you hunt and kill those members of the recovery?"

"This"

Bai Weixin hesitated for a while, then suddenly got up and said to the officials, "Because I am also from the Restoration Council."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the official robe on the adult from Taiwan suddenly torn apart and flew around the house.

Like a storm.

Afterwards, the officials attending the meeting took a breath of air at the same time: Good guy, Bai Jiantai has a ring of bombs strapped to his body!