Chapter 120 I will take care of the things that the Qing court does not dare to manage
Late Qing Dynasty.
Three months after the anniversary banquet of the emperor's grandson Zhu Xiongying.
Zhu Yuanzhang moved his office to Shanghai.
Another four months later, the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty, which had completed its rest, was assembled at Pudong Port in Shanghai and was ready to go.
Tianjin on the other side.
Muying returned here again with his Tiger Camp.
It has been almost five or six years since I last came here.
He still remembers what happened in Tianjin that year.
The light and expectations in the eyes of those people.
Yu Ziyu, the passionate young man back then, has now become a county magistrate in the south and has become the parent official of the party in charge.
And now he is back in Tianjin again just to fulfill the promise he made.
Let everyone cut off the whips on their heads and even the whips in their hearts.
Two months later.
"Auntie, please tell me again about the appearance of your lost grandson. Don't worry, I will help you find it!" Mu Ying sat on the street corner, pulling an old lady with a face full of vicissitudes of life, and spoke gently.
At this moment, he didn't look like a decisive general, but more like a scholar.
"And us!"
"Our child is also lost, benefactor, you must help us find it again!"
"We have money!"
"As long as your great benefactor can help me find the child, we can do anything you want!" A couple next to them with miserable faces also said with pleading faces.
"rest assured!"
"As long as the child is still in Tianjin, I will help you find it!" Mu Ying looked at the couple and the other three or four families behind the couple and solemnly promised.
"Little brother, do you already have any clues?"
"If so, can you tell us about it? With the strength we have, there is always a way, right?"
"Don't worry, I, Li Guangzu, will never miss a cent of the reward that should be given to you!" A middle-aged wealthy businessman promised in a deep voice.
Obviously, although he is a rich man, there is still nothing he can do if his child is abducted.
"To be honest, I have indeed found some clues about the person behind your children's abduction!"
"But those people are very powerful and not easy to deal with. I'm afraid we can't defeat them just by relying on a few of us. We need more manpower!" Mu Ying pondered for a moment and finally said.
In the past two months, he had done nothing else but helped find three or four abducted children.
Because of this, he is now very famous in Tianjin, and many families with lost children come here to ask him to find their children.
Mu Ying did have some idea of where those children were.
He has basically identified the masterminds behind the kidnappings.
But for this matter to be completely resolved, an opportunity is needed, and now he is here to create this opportunity.
"who is it?"
"I, Li Guangzu, will definitely make him walk around without food!" the middle-aged wealthy businessman said with an angry look on his face.
"Foreigners!" Mu Ying said softly.
Li Guangzu's momentum suddenly froze upon hearing this, and his face even gradually began to turn pale.
In this era, especially in today's Tianjin, foreigners represent the supreme existence that no one dares to mess with.
"What? Are you scared?" Mu Ying looked at him with a smile.
"So what if he's a foreigner?"
"Whoever dares to snatch my daughter, I will fight him to the death!" Li Guangzu took a deep breath, and his face gradually became ferocious.
"Okay, just keep it like this!"
Mu Ying smiled and said: "Then bring more families who have lost their children. Let's unite and ask for children from foreigners."
Half a month later.
At noon.
At the entrance of the French Catholic Church at the mouth of the Sancha River in Tianjin, dozens of people suddenly gathered around.
At first, people in the church didn't pay much attention, thinking that these were believers.
But gradually, they discovered that something was wrong.
Because more and more people are gathering around, and some of them are carrying weapons.
This is a bit bad.
"Who are you?"
"What are you gathering here for?"
"You really don't want to live anymore?" A big man with a sinister face walked over, swinging his arms, trying to intimidate these people.
"Of course we have our reasons for being here. Who are you?" Mu Ying squeezed out of the crowd and said with a half-smile.
"You're just a bird!"
"Do I still need to report to you who I am?"
"Get out of here!" The big man said and was about to push Mu Ying.
Seeing this person's hand pushing toward her, Mu Ying couldn't help but smile.
He seemed not to move, but in fact his body slightly shrank and relaxed.
"Crack!" The palm of the big man's hit split open.
"Ouch...!" The big man let out bursts of howling like ghosts and wolves.
"how?"
"Are you trying to get into trouble?" Mu Ying asked with a smile.
"Come here, why don't you hurry up and bring me someone to destroy this piece of shit!" The big man yelled, his forehead sweating in pain, and he pulled his neck.
"You dare to hit my brother, you are so tired of living!"
In the distance, a group of more than 20 local gangsters gathered here aggressively.
A trace of fear flashed in the eyes of many people behind Mu Ying.
Mu Ying was not afraid of this and just stood there without moving.
"Poof!" A local ruffian hit Mu Ying with a stick. As a result, the stick hit Mu Ying on the shoulder, bounced hard, and landed directly on his head with greater force.
With a bang, this person's head suddenly exploded.
"Bang, bang, bang!" More than 20 people surrounded Mu Ying and beat her hard. Then, what shocked everyone was that Mu Ying was fine. Instead, these 20 people rushed to the street one after another and walked all over the place.
"There's nothing you can do, you guys are too bad, you can't even break through my defense." Mu Ying grinned and shook her head.
Seeing Mu Ying's bravery, many people were immediately shocked.
"Let's go in."
"Let's see if foreigners abducted our children!" someone in the crowd shouted.
Hearing the word "child", the hundreds of people who had gathered at the door of the church immediately became commotion and wanted to rush into the church.
"What are you doing?"
"Is there any law against breaking into a private house?" Bishop Dewey blocked the door with a musket to prevent anyone from entering.
"boom!"
A black punch came from nowhere, knocking Dewey down and snatching the musket from his hand.
"Come on!" Seeing that there was no longer any obstacle, the people were all shocked.
The church was not big, so soon everyone found the nursery and saw more than 60 children there.
"Son!" Suddenly someone in the crowd screamed shrilly.
Then the shouts came one after another.
These children, who were declared by the church to be orphans, were found by their parents one after another, and soon cries of joy could be heard in the nursery.
"Kill these kidnappers!" someone shouted.
The common people have long been fed up with the oppression of foreigners over the years, and now the living evidence is before their eyes. New and old hatreds are added together, and they can no longer control their emotions and begin to rush towards the foreigners in the church.
"Magistrate Liu, how are you? Now that the witnesses and physical evidence are there, what else can you say?"
Mu Ying did not enter the church, but stood with a middle-aged man dressed in Manchu and Qing official attire, watching this scene silently.
"Who are you?" Liu Jie suddenly asked in a deep voice.
"Is it important?"
Mu Ying smiled and said: "County Magistrate Liu should think about how to solve this matter!"
"Hmph, murder must be paid with life, and debt must be paid with money!"
"There are laws in the Qing Dynasty, and no one can escape!" Liu Jie said solemnly.
"Yeah?"
"I really don't know whether I should say that Magistrate Liu is pedantic, ignorant, or pretending to be confused!" Mu Ying sneered disdainfully.
At this moment, a group of French soldiers armed with rifles came menacingly from a distance. The leader was none other than the French Consul Feng Daye.
"I am the magistrate of Tianjin. The priest in this church is suspected of human trafficking. I have the certification evidence. What do you want to do?" Seeing the French soldiers trying to rush into the church, Liu Jie's expression changed and he stepped forward and thought.
To block.
"asshole!"
"You lowly yellow-skinned monkey, die!"
Feng Daye raised his gun and started to fight.
"Pfft!" However, before he could shoot, a dart flew from a distance and stuck directly into his eye.
"Puff, puff, puff!" This seemed to be a signal. More and more darts flew out from all around, killing all the French soldiers before they could react.
Liu Jie was shocked when he saw this scene.
He knew that this matter was a big deal.
"What did you do?" He looked up at Mu Ying with trembling hands.
"When the road is rough, just draw your sword to help!"
"If this were not the case, Master Liu would probably be dead by now, wouldn't he?" Mu Ying smiled faintly.
"Master Liu, you can handle this matter according to your ideas and see if the Qing law in your heart can give you justice!"
"If they can't give you justice, you can come to us!"
"You just need to remember one thing."
"We dare to offend those who the Qing court did not dare to offend."
"What they dare not take care of, we dare to take care of."
"We dare to kill people they dare not kill!"
After Mu Ying finished speaking, she reached out and flicked a piece of paper with his current address written on it into Liu Jie's hand, turned around and left.
After just two steps, Mu Ying turned around and said with a smile, "By the way, I forgot to tell myself my family name. I am Mu Ying, the Dragon and Tiger General of the Ming Dynasty. I specialize in killing Tatars, traitors and... foreigners."
Looking at Mu Ying's back, Liu Jie's face looked a little complicated.
Of course he knew about Daming.
Everything south of the Yangtze River is now the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Now looking at what Mu Ying is doing, it is obvious that she is planning to reach out to Tianjin.
Thinking of this, Liu Jie's first idea was to report it to the court.
But when he accidentally caught a glimpse of the corpses on the ground, he hesitated.
"Perhaps I really should wait!"
Soon, after only three days, he got what he wanted.
Zeng Guofan, now the governor-general of Zhili, came in a hurry.
"absurd!"
"Zhang Guangzao, Liu Jie, do you know your guilt?" Zeng Guofan asked with a serious face.
"What are we guilty of?"
"The French are abducting children, and there are witnesses and physical evidence!"
"French Consul Feng Daye obstructed the government from carrying out errands and wanted to shoot officers and soldiers. Can't we fight back?" Liu Jie asked in a deep voice.
"Yes, of course you can fight back!"
"But in exchange, the foreigners have powerful ships and cannons!"
"I don't need to say more about what's going on outside Dagokou now, right?"
"Are we capable of dealing with the French and Russian fleets?"
"Don't you see the situation clearly? We are currently fighting fiercely with the pseudo-Ming Dynasty in the south, and we need the support of foreigners. How can you start a conflict with them at this time?" Zeng Guofan said with an angry look.
"Then we are going to let foreigners sit on our heads and shit and pee?"
"You turn a blind eye to such serious crimes as child abduction and trafficking?" Zhang Guangzao, the prefect of Tianjin, said solemnly.
"Bear it!"
Zeng Guofan shouted angrily: "Don't you know what a small impatience can lead to a big plan?"
"The biggest threat to the imperial court now is not foreigners, but hypocrisy. Do you understand?"
Seeing that neither of them spoke, Zeng Guofan couldn't help but soften his tone: "Where are those rioters? Have they been arrested?"
"Rogue people?" Zhang Guangzao and Liu Jie looked at each other, with a bad premonition flashing through their hearts.
"It's the rioters who broke into the church privately. Capture the leaders and hand them over to the French!"
"Before I came to you, I had already met the French!"
"They don't want to talk now. They want us to hand over those rioters first!"
"I'll leave this matter to you, can you handle it?" Zeng Guofan said solemnly.
Zhang Guangzao and Liu Jie were silent.
"snort!"
"What, you still want to disobey me?" Zeng Guofan snorted coldly.
The last glimmer of hope in Liu Jie's heart completely disappeared.
He looked at Zeng Guofan, cupped his hands expressionlessly, turned around and left.
"I'll take care of this!" Zhang Guangzao said solemnly.
"snort!"
"Even a mere county magistrate dares to disobey!"
"This time I have no choice but to use his head to appease the French!" Zeng Guofan squinted his eyes slightly, looked at Liu Jie's back, and began to make calculations in his mind.
Compared with Zeng Guofan, who was reluctant to welcome foreigners in the past, and who was unwilling to bow to foreigners in order to maintain his reputation, now faced with the greater falsehood and worse situation in the south than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, he obviously turned to foreigners.
People knelt even more thoroughly.
Soon French representatives landed in Tianjin, along with the Tsarist Russians who had been invited to mediate.
To be honest, this matter had nothing to do with Tsarist Russia at all. The reason why they rushed to get together was just to continue to bite off a piece of flesh from the Qing court.
They had done this kind of thing many times before. The Qing government suffered several defeats in foreign wars. In fact, the biggest beneficiary was not Britain and France, Western European countries thousands of miles apart, but Tsarist Russia.
Over time, Tsarist Russia had cut off millions of square kilometers of land from the Qing government.
"Zeng..., we French citizens sacrificed a total of thirty-eight people in this riot. You must give us a proper explanation for this matter!" French Navy Admiral Gaines saw Zeng Guofan walking towards him, and his face suddenly filled with tears.
He spoke angrily.
"Don't worry, your country will be satisfied!" Zeng Guofan greeted him with a smile on his face, and extended his hand like a gentleman.
"Pah, pah, pah!" The moment Zeng Guofan and Gaines shook hands, someone suddenly applauded fiercely.
Zeng Guofan and Gaines turned their heads at the same time, and both saw a young man wearing armor appearing on the execution ground in the distance.
