Dong Haichuan has been so busy that he wished he could use a few more hands..com When he heard Ma Weiqi send someone to report that there was no movement in the house in Ping'an Hutong, several other spies sent back words, saying that the few dishonest princes suddenly became peaceful recently. Combined with this information, Dong Haichuan felt that the other party had noticed it.

He immediately reported the situation to Liu Ji. In the Palace of Peaceful Heart in the Forbidden City, Liu Ji had speculated about this for a long time. These princes did not have any deviant behavior. If they arrested them rashly, it would only arouse greater dissatisfaction among the officials. Some officials who held intermediate positions would also turn over. Now the other party suddenly became quiet, and it didn't look like a good sign. Liu Ji thought about it and decided to take a test first, and it would be best to get all the hidden people out.

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Many guards and green camp soldiers suddenly came to Prince Zhuang's mansion. The green camp soldiers were only responsible for the guards on the periphery. The imperial guards led by Cheng Tinghua rushed into the palace. These guards pushed away the butler who was at the door and rushed into the east wing.

Prince Zhuang's scolding suddenly became weak when the guards rushed into the east wing room. It was a secret basement of Prince Zhuang, which contained something that Prince Zhuang didn't want everyone to know. Why did these guards know so clearly that it seemed that a snake was blocked by seven inches, and Prince Zhuang's momentum immediately became silenced.

Soon the guards found the entrance to the basement in the kang in the east wing room, and the guards entered one after another.

Prince Zhuang, who was angry and embarrassed, snatched a knife from the guard guard beside him and rushed over. Unfortunately, a guard tripped him gently to the ground and threw him into the mouth and chewed the mud, but could not stop these people from searching at all.

After the box of opium was found, Prince Zhuang had no choice but to let the guards take him away.

The next day, the emperor's imperial decree was to announce to the world that Prince Zhuang sucked opium, and in the past violated the law of the ancestors and later corrupted the laws of the country. The emperor was sorry for the ancestors and the elders, and the subordinates had no face to see the elders in the capital. He was born as a royal family and was punished twice the punishment. From now on, Prince Zhuang was abolished and demoted to a commoner. All the property of the royal family belonging to the royal family was confiscated. The remaining private property can be kept. In the future, Mianke led his family to Guangzhou and was not allowed to return to Beijing to live.

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A house was recently built in Beijing. This was not a big deal, but in the rows of courtyards around, this small brick and stone villa on the first floor and bottom is particularly eye-catching. This typical Western-style building is surrounded by neatly cut frozen green trees. These guard-like frozen green trees are lawns covered with green grass, and tulips waiting to open in the middle.

This house was built by the British in Beijing.

April 20, 1824 AD was the Grain Rain of the Lunar New Year, and this day was also the day when the British Business Consulate officially began to operate.

These days, after Liu Ji investigated Prince Zhuang's Mian class and exempted the Minister of Works Muke from the utterance, the princes seemed to be honest again. Whether it was Dong Haichuan or the news from the court officials, they all seemed very calm. This made Liu Ji relax the tense string in his mind, and therefore Liu Ji decided to attend the opening ceremony of the British Business Consulate. Liu Ji believed that his participation would allow the court officials to take the initiative to learn about foreign affairs.

Today, the weather was beautiful, and the rain had been raining for a few days and stopped yesterday. Although the road outside the consulate was still a little muddy, it could not stop the people watching the fun around. Because the emperor was about to come, the officers and soldiers of the Tiger Gun Camp arrived here early and isolated the people watching around.

The sedan parked outside the consulate connected left and right to occupy the open space outside the museum, and the horses in front of the horse piles on the other side were crowded into countless groups. The red roofs waiting outside the museum formed a bright red sea of ​​hats, flooding the unique black high hats.

Liu Jie read the British complaint letter on the way. After paying the increased tariffs, their merchants still failed to get rid of the additional benefits asked by the customs officials. Liu Jie could only smile bitterly for the time being. The five trading ports are like this. The customs people have been replaced several times, but the newcomers still have to ask the British merchants for benefits, and they will not do anything if they don't give them. Now Liu Jie is focusing on the central government officials very closely, but local officials are really helpless. A large number of local officials are silly disobeying, and it is impossible to replace all officials. Liu Jie plans to increase the salaries of the officials after the bank is on track at the end of the year, hoping to ease some dissatisfaction caused by long-term rectification of officials.

Another problem that troubles Liu Ji is that since the beginning of this year, situations from all over the country have shown that the inflow of opium is increasing. Liu Ji saw a strange phenomenon in these information. Shandong Governor Qishan seized the most. Didn’t Qishan collude with foreign merchants? Why did he seize the most?

Thinking about his thoughts all the way, Liu Ji's sixteen-person sedan chair soon arrived at Dongjiang Mi Lane. The guards who were opening the road in front shouted loudly to avoid him. Long Yu arrived at the gate of the British Business Consulate while watching the crowd on both sides.

The sedan chair stopped in front of the red carpet under the guard of honor. Liu Ji put on a black cloak and came out of the spacious sedan chair. He quickly glanced at the officials waiting here. However, inadvertent glance, Liu Ji vigilantly discovered the inappropriateness of the three officials in the crowd.

When Liu Jie arrived, not only did not kneel down to greet the emperor, but instead touched him in his arms.

Liu Ji realized something, and he was ready to go, staring at the three of them intently.

Sure enough, the three officials took out two muskets from their arms, held one in one hand and aimed at Liu Ji.

This action was said to be late, it was fast, and it was only about one breath. As soon as Liu Ji got out of the sedan chair, he heard the gunshots of "光,光" in the open space outside the consulate.

Liu Ji quickly rushed forward with a short body, and several guards beside him screamed and fell to the ground.

As soon as Liu Ji rushed to the ground, he heard someone screaming. "Protect the emperor and catch the assassin." Soon, noisy and screams came, followed by loud shouts and scoldings: "Dog Emperor, we officials, treat you as cattle and horses, and drive people away like dogs. If you say you chase them, you won't die well, the dog emperor."

Liu Ji felt someone beside him helping him up. He turned around and saw that it was Jin Chang, the Minister of Guards of the Inner Hongqi. Liu Ji pushed Jin Chang away and stood up. Only then did he feel the cold shoulders on his shoulders. Jin Chang said with concern: "The emperor's shoulders are bleeding."

Liu Ji looked down and saw that the blood stains there were soaking the dragon robe and dyed the black cloak outside. Liu Ji didn't care about checking his injuries, and he strode towards the several assassins pretending to be officials who were still cursing.

Seeing Liu Ji coming over coldly, the guards stuffed the mouths of several angrily scolded assassins. Liu Ji walked up to them, pulled out the rag from the most fierce person he cursed at first, and asked coldly: "So you are an official of the Qing Dynasty?"

The man "snatched" and cursed, "I'm blind, I'll do my best to do your dog emperor."

Seeing him talking nonsense, Liu Ji waved his hand and said, "Pull it down and kill it immediately."

Liu Ji walked towards another person and pulled out his mouth cloth and asked, "Why do you want to assassinate me? I will answer truthfully to avoid you from death."

Liu Ji's words played a great role. After the man opened his mouth, he didn't dare to curse. He hesitated for a moment and lowered his head and replied, "I'm a donor official. You..., Your Majesty, we have disbanded us. I bought all the money I have. Now my wife has remarried, my parents have starved to death, and I am alone. Life is worse than death, so...."

Liu Ji said to the guard behind him again: "Take him down and give him some delicious food and drinks, and let him go home later."

Liu Ji walked to the last person and pulled off his mouth cloth and said, "Answer truthfully, not only will he survive, but he will also be rewarded."

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Chapter completed!