late Qing Dynasty arrest

Li Guolou's expectations were correct, since the twelve of them came to the gate of the yamen of the household department, the concierge was about to show them off, and after waiting for a long time, a manchurian long follower, surnamed "Tong", let them in. government.

Tong Hami, with a very friendly face, first said: "Brothers, the officers are in a meeting, and I'm sorry to keep you waiting for a long time. I'm sorry, I will lead the way." Then he said with a smile: "Brothers, the rules here are that you are not allowed to lead the way." Blade, please take off your waist knives and handcuffs."

The police officers all looked at Li Guolou, waiting for the officer to speak.

Li Guolou raised his voice and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Tong, we're on an imperial mission, how can we search for suspects without someone to eat."

Li Guolou said it very politely, but there was no room for maneuver, and he directly refused to accept the rules of the Ministry of Accounts.

Tong Hami glanced at Lu Haikong next to him, this officer had benefited from his officer, he didn't fart no matter what, he stood beside him without any expression.Look at Li Guolou's attire, it's the same level as Lu Haikong, what's going on?This young man has a backer, and he doesn't give the household department any face. It seems that he came to find fault today and wants to turn his face.

People like Tong Hami know how to act according to the eyes of others. Since he was being tough, his face immediately became frowning, and he turned to Li Guolou with a bitter face and said, "Captain Li, it doesn't suit us if you do this." According to the rules of the Ministry, villains can't do their jobs."

Tong Hami didn't come hard, he stood still when he came, and left the twelve arresters in the courtyard.This method of playing rogue is a trick of long-term followers and followers, a tactic of brown sugar, and even high-ranking officials are willing to bow down.

The personal servants of high-ranking officials, such as long followers and attendants, also established their own family rules in the Qing Empire, and the rules were passed down from generation to generation and became ancestral styles.

If people don't turn against you, and lament the bitter experience, Li Guolou's first move is restricted.

How could Li Guolou admit defeat, and said bluntly: "Mr. Tong, we are running an imperial mission, and the higher-ups are pressing hard, so we can't handle it all. It seems unreasonable for you to not cooperate with our mission, and to tell us such rules. This is not the Ministry of War, the ancestral rules, there is no such thing."

Tong Hami immediately understood the meaning of Li Guolou's words. "One pot" means that the household department needs to change shifts.Some officials have just spent money to sit on the throne, and then become poor officials in Beijing.The law does not blame the public, but it also makes everyone's plan to make a fortune come to naught.

Tong Hami hit his head, smiled, and said: "Look at my memory, you are not allowed to carry weapons on those who come to do business. You are imperial envoys, and those who come to investigate cases are not included. Captain Li please , I will lead the way."

Tong Hami raised Li Guolou's official title by one level, which made people feel comfortable. This is an introductory skill that a long follower must master.He can't beat Huangchai, this kind of tiring work, let the master do it by himself.Besides, these old and rough arresters are about to turn their faces and be ruthless, and reward him with a few mouthfuls, there is no place to redress his grievances.Tong Hami, like being in the midst of the emperor's grace, lamented that the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Punishment are as close as one family. Who said that the current right servant of the Ministry of Accountancy, Yu Shuzhen, was transferred from the Ministry of Punishment.

On the way, Li Guolou deliberately asked: "Mr. Tong, what do you think of Mr. Yu's exposure of this scandal?"

Tong Hami knowingly asked: "Captain Li, what scandal are you talking about?"

"Oh!" Li Guolou replied, "It's not a scandal for your household department to lose money from the treasury."

Tong Hami sighed in his heart, he is not the opponent of this policeman surnamed Li, he understands the reason why silence is golden, and he will never talk about the friendship of the same family again.

The person who received Li Guolou and his party was Ma Zhijun, a high-ranking Manchu official. He was in his early forties, dressed in an old official uniform, tall, with a mustache. Judging by his appearance and grooming, he must have been a soldier and acted dignified. tall and straight.

Li Guolou didn't even take off the simple knife around his waist, he stood with his hands clasped, and said: "The sentencing troops are at Li Guolou. Due to their official duties, they can't pay homage. I hope the commander will forgive me."

He didn't look like an official, Li Guolou's face was arrogant and arrogant, and he didn't take Yuanwailang Ma Zhijun seriously.

Sitting behind the case, Ma Zhijun felt uncomfortable when he saw Li Guolou talking to him in a big way.Watching the long follower Tong Hami wink at him, he immediately understood that these police officers took medicine today and did not give face to the household department.

Ma Zhijun smiled sinisterly and said, "Oh! It's Xiao Lizi. Last time I saw you in Hefei, you were still a baby and would only hide behind your elder brother. Your three uncles and I are old Friends, they are doing well now."

Li Guolou suddenly felt that he was inferior. Ma Zhijun was talking about Li Hongzhang's three sons, and they were of course older than him.Ma Zhijun directly suppressed him with his seniority. In the age of orderly seniority, etiquette cannot be sloppy at all.This Ma Zhijun is also very powerful. He already knows that there is someone like him in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and even his background is known.Li Guolou felt that a mountain was over his body, and he already had the feeling of bowing his head and admitting defeat.

Li Guolou could only bow his head and flick his sleeves, knelt down on one leg, and said, "Lord Domengma's note, my three uncles are all well."

Behind him, the other eleven police officers also knelt on one knee and saluted like Li Guolou.

Ma Zhijun glanced at the [-] arresters without any hesitation, and said slowly, "Get up, sit and talk, and watch tea!"

Li Guolou immediately changed his strategy, and said with a smile: "Master Ma, can I drink this tea?"

"Yeah!" Ma Zhijun said ambiguously, holding up his teacup to drink, and glanced at Li Guolou and the group in front of him. Those who came were not friendly. It seems that these arrests are going to be easy to investigate today. They don't know how to ask questions. Just walk away.

After drinking a cup of tea, Li Guolou immediately cupped his fists and said, "Master Ma, I have urgent business, and I hope you will take us to the treasury to see the scene."

Commander Ma Zhijun sighed and said, "Captain Li, it's not that I don't want to take you to see the treasury, but we can't open the gate of the treasury without Mr. In the heavy ground, you can only scan the periphery a few times, and you can't even get close to the ground, otherwise those Qiuba will shoot."

Li Guolou knew that they came here for nothing today. Since the treasury is surrounded by restricted areas, even those treasury soldiers will not be able to see it.Is Yu Shuzhen, the servant on the right, in the yamen?He couldn't ask why, and no disciple would help him report it, and Yu Shuzhen couldn't hear him no matter how loudly he yelled through the high wall of the courtyard.

But Xiao Lizi's tricks came up one after another, Li Guolou laughed dryly and said: "Master Ma can't, I ate at Lord Yu's house last night, and he asked me to come here at this time today, you don't know how to do it." Wrong. Do you want to send someone to look at it again?"

Ma Zhijun was dumbfounded by Li Guolou, he really thought that Li Guolou had great powers, and when he had dinner at Yu Shuzhen's house last night, it turned out that this kid had come prepared, which made him a little embarrassed.

Ma Zhijun glanced at Hami Tong and said, "Is Master Yu back? Why don't I know, Mr. Tong, go and check the situation. If Master Yu is in the back hall, I'll go right away."

Tong Hami understood, and said, "No one told me, I'll go over and have a look, everyone, sit down for a while."

Li Guolou continued to drink tea, and the matter became clear after investigation. Of course, it was a misunderstanding, and Yu Shuzhen really worked in the back hall.Ma Zhijun left quickly to get down to business.

Tong Hami chatted with Li Guolou, and continued to tell about the friendship between the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Households.Pushing a paper bag to Li Guolou is of course a rule, and Li Guolou has to accept the expenses of the errand.

Li Guolou looked at the bag of silver on the case table, and did not ask his subordinates to take it. He smiled and said: "Mr. Tong, a gentleman takes it in a proper way. Before the case is clear, I dare not accept it. I also understand the rules. Since Mr. Yu After uncovering one layer, we subordinates have to give Mr. Yu an explanation, don’t you think?”

Li Guolou directly pushed the powerful relationship to Yu Shuzhen, the right servant of the household department, and told Tong Hami that he was not here to disrupt the situation. As a subordinate, he had to obey in the fight between the chiefs.

Tong Hami understood, and sighed: "Captain Li said the same thing. We subordinates are like mice in a bellows being angry at both ends. We can't stand it."

Li Guolou was furious when Tong Hami said that he was called a mouse, but he could only suppress the anger in his heart, laugh a few times, and walked over with a haha.Xiucai doesn't use dirty words when swearing, he will also do this trick, and he will return all of them to Tong Hami when he has a chance in the future. Li Guolou secretly made up his mind to solve the case of losing money from the treasury.Let the moths in these countries all become impoverished candidates for Beijing officials.

Tong Hami's tactic of buying with money failed, and he immediately changed his tactic. He wanted to get Li Guolou's teacher, as long as he had a teacher relationship, Li Guolou had no choice but to bow his head and admit defeat.Unexpectedly, all the rhetoric was useless, Li Guolou turned out to be a fake foreign devil, and he had no teacher in the Qing Empire.Both of Tong Hami's tricks were dispelled by Li Guolou, which made Tong Hami swear not to be reconciled. He kept scanning while drinking tea, trying to find out Li Guolou's weakness.

Tong Hami knew in his heart that when Li Hongzhang's name was involved, Li Guolou would not buy it, and instead let Li Guolou take advantage of it.Now it's the Ministry of Households fighting in their own nest, making other yamen in the capital laugh at it.A mere 15 taels of silver, how can I not make it up?Yu Shuzhen was able to come to this point because she wanted to have a big cleansing in the Ministry of Households, a dispute between Manchu and Han. For a person like him who has both Manchu and Han ancestry, as long as he stands in the right place, he can live comfortably in the future.Therefore, Tong Hami will not offend any of the officers. He obeys orders and pushes things that cannot be done directly to the officers. He is a thousand-year-old tumbler in the household department.

Arriving at the heavily guarded state treasury, Li Guolou and other arresters lost their arrogance. The guards were not ordinary government servants, but all soldiers, with flintlock guns in their hands and knives around their waists.The flintlock was stuck straight on the ground, and everyone kept their eyes on each other, not even looking at the group of police officers who entered the door.

Li Guolou looked at those soldiers and knew in his heart that in just one round, these arresters would be wiped out by these soldiers.In front of the first sentry post, Li Guolou obediently took off his waist knife and short-barreled flintlock gun. It is really forbidden to enter here with weapons.

Stepping on the thick bluestone road, opening a series of heavy doors, and entering the visceral area, Li Guolou saw the treasury for the first time in his life. It was a building made of huge stone blocks without a single window. The appearance is unpretentious and looks inconspicuous.

This is the blood of the Qing Empire, and the country relies on the silver here to maintain its operations.When the most silver was stored here, there were more than 5000 million taels, but now it is impossible to take out 500 million taels of silver.The Qing Empire has reached the point where it can't afford to lose. The country can't afford to support these moths. It should let these moths fall to the ground and be reborn as a phoenix Nirvana.