In midsummer in July, the hottest season of the year. Under the scorching sun, a team of ragged civilians carried a hundred grain ships and drove into Seoul along the Han River.

"grown ups……"

Min Qianho was lying on the mat at home to enjoy the cool air. When he heard someone calling him, he looked up.

The person who came was his loyal servant Min Jie. Min Qianhao waved his hand and said lazily: "What's the matter?"

"Report to the master, the grain transported from Jeolla Dao has arrived, you see..."

Min Qianhao didn't even open his eyes and said casually: "It's time to arrive. Go and arrange for a month to pay military salaries to Wuwei Camp and Zhuang Imperial Camp first."

Min Jie hurriedly said, "Yes, I'll do it right away."

July 19.

"What's going on!"

Jin Yongchun, who had just received the rice, suddenly threw the grain from the cloth bag to the ground. The things in the bag fell all over the ground, and the sand mixed with the chaff mixed with the grain was clearly visible!

"The court owed us 13 months' salary. Now we are only given one month's salary. We are using this kind of bran to fool us. It's really too bullying! Let's ask them to reason!"

Several soldiers beside him responded immediately, "Yes! Let's make sense to them!"

Then, several soldiers rushed out of the military camp in anger despite the commander's obstruction. Along the way, more and more soldiers joined in.

When he arrived at the Dupuansou, Jin Yongchun threw the bag of chaff in his hand on the other soldiers guarding the gate, and then whispered loudly: "Let Ku straight out!" Behind him, hundreds of soldiers also shouted: "Let Ku straight out..."

The soldiers guarding the gate hurried in. Not long after, Min Jie brought more than a dozen guards to the gate.

"What do you want to do? Do you want to rebel?"

Jin Yongchun walked up angrily and said angrily: "We should have received 13 months' salary, but now you have only sent us a month's salary, and half of the rice I gave us is bran and sand. How can we eat such rice!"

As the saying goes, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. If there is a greedy master, there will be a corrupt slave. Min Qianhao asked Min Jie to pay the soldiers a month's salary, and Min Jie bought half of it privately for money, and mixed the bran and sand to send it to the soldiers.

Faced with the soldiers who were fighting for justice, Min Jie not only refused to admit corruption, but instead slandered the soldiers for making unreasonable trouble.

"I don't know what rice is like. I will send it to you what grain is like when transporting it. Besides, who knows if you have mixed rice into the bran and sand in private, and want to blackmail the court. Tell you, before I get angry, hurry up and get back, otherwise you will be arrested and imprisoned in prison!"

Seeing Min Jie being unreasonable, Jin Yongchun laughed furiously, "Okay, you don't admit it and don't want to pay us rice, so we'll go in and get it ourselves!"

After saying that, he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Brothers, Kuzhi embezzled our salary. Can we agree?"

"cannot!"

"Okay, I'm going in now to get back my own salary. Anyone who wants to be with me will follow me!"

With a shout, a large number of angry and hungry soldiers rushed into Dubang's place, smashed the warehouse, seized the food, and beat the Kuzhi up.

"Reverse!"

Looking at the bruised and swollen servant in front of him, Min Qianho not only did not pursue his corruption, but instead took his anger on the soldiers. "Tell me my order and immediately arrest the soldiers who led the trouble!"

Min Qian received the order from his master and immediately led the soldiers of the Bianji Army to the Wuweiying Army. At this time, the soldiers who broke into the Dufeng Office had long dispersed. But the officers of the Wuweiying Army knew that the leader was Jin Chunyong. Soon, four soldiers including Jin Chunyong, Liu Buwan, Zheng Yiji, and Jiang Mingjun were caught by the Bianji Army and were then handed over to the Seoul Capture and Thieves Hall for punishment.

On the 21st, news began to spread among the people of Seoul that the four people were about to be beheaded. Soon, the news spread to the soldiers' settlement area in the eastern suburbs of Seoul, which aroused great indignation among the soldiers.

That night, after discussing, Jin Chun-yong's father, Jin Changsun, and Liu Buwan's younger brother, Liu Chun-wan, began to secretly contact the comrades of the four arrested soldiers. The next night, more than a dozen soldiers led by the leader gathered at Jin Chun-yong's family and decided to gather to mutiny to save the comrades who were about to be killed.

That night, Jin Changsun drafted a general article and asked everyone to gather at Dongbie Camp the next day to rescue four soldiers.

On July 23, tens of thousands of soldiers, led by Jin Changsun and Liu Chunwan, and their relatives gathered in Dongbiying Camp outside Seoul.

At first, their purpose was very simple, to rescue the four arrested soldiers, and the way was to demonstrate and petition. The soldiers first found their chief, Li Jingxia, the general of Wuwei, and asked him to come forward to resolve the matter. Although Li Jingxia had sympathy for the soldiers, she had no real power and did not dare to offend the Min family, so she only wrote a love letter asking them to go directly to Min Qianhao.

When the soldiers took the Denise Letter to Min Qianho's house in the brick cave to ask for an explanation, they happened to meet Min Jin-Jie, a servant of Min-Jie, who was the DuPong Suoku. At this time, Min-Jie did not think about the seriousness of the matter at all, and still looked like an old man. He also refused to accept the Denise of the soldiers, refused to release the arrested soldiers, and threatened to arrest Kim Chang-sun and others.

Min Jie's face further aroused the emotions of the soldiers. They broke into the Min family angrily and wanted to meet Min Qianhao. But at this time, Min Qianhao was not in the mansion. The soldiers looking for him saw that the gold, silver and treasures were piled up in the Min Mansion. The mutiny soldiers burst into resentment for a while, and the crowd was angry. They completely threw the matter of Chen Qing appeal out of the sky, and then beat the treasury to death and rushed into the Min Mansion to destroy it.

The Renwu mutiny broke out.

Capital.

In the imperial study room, Zaitian was lying on the desk and carefully reviewing the memorial.

A few days ago, Wang Shishou and others finally successfully made smokeless gunpowder after several tests in the Shenji Camp Machinery Bureau. Then the little emperor assigned him another job and sent him to Germany. In the past few days, he devoted himself to paying attention to the situation in Vietnam.

Recently, due to the changes in the situation in Vietnam, Zeng Guoquan was appointed as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and advanced to the ground and stationed in Vietnam. In terms of water, Guangdong Navy Admiral Wu Guangmei led advanced troops to patrol the oceans of Vietnam; on land, Guangxi Register Huang Guilan led Guangxi Yongying to Beining, and another Taoist Zhao Wo unified the defense army stationed in Taiyuan to support it.

Although Zaitian knew that these preparations might not play any role in the actual outbreak of the conflict, China and France have not yet broken up. The Qing Dynasty could only make military deployments in the name of pursuing and suppressing rebels, and there were not many things that could be done.

The most important thing is that France is still a powerful country known as the "second in the world". With the weakness of the Qing Dynasty, the chances of victory against France are really weak. Therefore, the court still has the majority of peace factions. If it is possible to negotiate and resolve the problem, it is best not to cause border quarrels.

I was thinking about how to negotiate so as not to lose too much interests and to temporarily suspend French military operations. At this time, a small eunuch hurried in and said, "Report to the emperor, Prince Gong has urgent military information to ask for a visit."

Um?

Zai Tian was shocked. Could it be that France took action? He hurriedly said, "Come in quickly."

Immediately, Yi came in to see: "Emperor Qi reported that a rebellion broke out in North Korea, several ministers were killed by rebels, the princess of North Korea disappeared, and Daewon-jun Lee Shiying proclaimed himself the king of North Korea."

When Zaitian heard that it was a mutiny in Korea, he breathed a sigh of relief for no reason. Compared to France's aggressive attitude in Vietnam, the mutiny in Korea is nothing.

"North Korea is in chaos, so our Qing Dynasty should not intervene too early. We will send personnel to North Korea to communicate when the country is pacified."

After hearing what Zaitian said, Yi did not immediately receive the order, "Return to the emperor, there is another thing. The Korean soldiers killed several Japanese people during the rebellion, and also burned the Japanese embassy by fire."

Hum? When Zaitian heard that it was involved in the Japanese, he immediately frowned.

Diplomacy is nothing small, and with the current national strength of the Qing Dynasty, you must be careful when encountering diplomatic conflicts with any country. Even if Japan had invaded the vassal state Ryukyu before, the Qing Dynasty would have done nothing.

"Summon several military ministers, King Chun, acting ministers of Beiyang, Prince Li, come and discuss quickly."

"Yes". Yi led the order to go out and call people, but soon all the adults came.

Listening to Yi introduced the situation, Guangxu said: "What do you think of me?"

At this time, Zhang Shusheng, the acting minister of Beiyang, was a pro-war faction. He immediately said: "In the eyes of my ministers, the Japanese are extremely greedy and covet North Korea for a long time. When this mutiny occurs, there will inevitably be trouble. With the strength of North Korea, it is impossible to resist. If our country sits on the side, there will be another Ryukyu incident. At this time, while the Japanese have no response, they should immediately send warships to North Korea to quell the rebellion and station in the local area. If the Japanese do not come, it will be aborted. If the Japanese really have inappropriate requests, they will support North Korea in the fight on the spot."

After hearing Zhang Shusheng's words, Prince Li immediately refuted: "It's inappropriate. Now there are French people in the south who want to annex Vietnam. All the governors and ministers of the border think that this matter is the top priority. If they are confronting the Japanese at this time, it will be unwise for our country to be attacked from north to south. In the opinion of the old minister, we should wait for the Japanese to propose conditions and negotiate. If we can negotiate and resolve the issue, the best strategy will be."

Zhang Shusheng wanted to say something more, Zaitian had already spoken on it: "Prince Li said, he was a good plan for the country. Now North Korea is killing people first. If our country sends troops immediately, it may be detrimental to us in international public opinion. It would be better to delay a step and see what the Japanese do. We should take action later, and it is not too late. However, we cannot be unprepared and order the Beiyang Navy to select operators, rectify the warships, and stand by at any time!"

Among all the ministers, Zuo Zongtang supports Zhang Shusheng, and the others are basically cautious. Now that the emperor has set the tone again, Zhang Shusheng knows that he can't fight, so he doesn't say anything.

At this time in North Korea, the mutiny soldiers had already received secret support from the retreating Daewon Jun Lee Shiying.

On that day, after calming down, the soldiers knew that they had caused a great disaster - robbing the mansion of the powerful Min Qianho of the dynasty, was unforgivable; and they started the crime as a soldier, but they had no backing.

The soldiers who calmed down knew that they would be eliminated by the court afterwards like slaughtering cattle and sheep. At this time, someone shouted: "Why don't we go to Xingxuan Dayuanjun to uphold justice?"

At this time, the soldiers had no direction at all. As long as one person made an opinion, they would implement it even if it was wrong. What's more, Daewon-jun's reputation among the Korean people is much better than that of Queen Min.

So the mutiny soldiers went to and surrounded Yunxian Palace and asked the Xingxuan Dayuan, who lived there, to help.

Lee Shiying had retired for eight or nine years at this time, but he was still trying to interfere in political affairs. The actions of the soldiers provided him with an opportunity to regain power from Queen Min.

The cunning Dayuanjun was confident in how to "guid" the mutiny and gain power. When tens of thousands of soldiers and military members asked him for help, he publicly refused that he was old and shouted out that he was old. He secretly summoned Jin Changsun, Liu Chunwan and others, the initiator of the mutiny, and gave him a "secret plan".

On the 24th, Li Shiying sent his retainer Xu Yu to disguise himself as a soldier and sneaked into the mutiny team to command the operation with Jin Changsun and others. In fact, the mutiny soldiers have now been completely controlled by Li Shiying.

In the afternoon of the same day, the mutiny soldiers who had been led to the "anti-Min, Palvador" occupied the arsenal of the Dongbei camp. They first seized weapons and armed themselves, and then divided into three groups to launch riots: attacked the thief archery office and the Yoshinobu Mansion, released the detained soldiers and other prisoners of Kim Chun-yong, Liu Buwan, and the famous Wei Zheng denounced the evil Confucian scholar Bai Lekuan, who was arrested by the Min group for submitting a memorial to oppose the open policy; attacked the Shimoto-chan, the location of the military camp of the Bianji Army, and executed the Japanese instructor Reizao Horimoto, so that the only force in the hands of the North Korean government that could suppress the uprising soldiers was eliminated; occupied the Gyeonggi camp and sternized the vitality of the North Korean government.

While the soldiers were marching, a large number of ordinary Seoul citizens such as handicraftsmen, small merchants, urban poor joined in, causing the "mutineering" to quickly transform into "civilian rebellion".

Then, the uprising soldiers who rescued their comrades shouted the slogan of "Kill all Min's clan" and marched towards the Seoul Royal Palace, preparing to overthrow the rule of Queen Min's group in one fell swoop. On the way, the soldiers and citizens destroyed the mansions of Min Taiho, Min Yongyi and other foreign relatives and powerful people who had dated the Japanese; they killed the former leader, Xingyinjun Lee Seo-kun and the verdict of Min Chang-sik.

The uprising soldiers and citizens were in a high spirit and unstoppable momentum. They attacked the palace from Dunhua Gate, Changdeokgung, and killed a large number of officials from the Min group, including Kim Fu-hyun, Min Qian-ho, who were hiding in the palace. Among them, Min Qian-ho was even beaten out, which shows how deep the public resentment was.

Then the rebel soldiers and citizens also attacked the harem and chased Queen Min everywhere. Queen Min hurriedly disguised herself as a palace maid in the chaos, fled from the palace under the protection of Xi under the protection of Wuyi Hong, and hid at the home of Min Yongwei, a relative in his hometown of Liju County.

Then, the mutiny soldiers and rioters began to attack the nearby Japanese embassy, ​​claiming that they would "slaughter all the Japanese."

Before the mutiny soldiers and citizens arrived at the Japanese Embassy, ​​Huafang Yizhi had received a letter from Yin Xionglie, an officer from other military officer. Huafang Yizhi originally wanted to seek the North Korean government's troops to send troops to protect him, but at this time, Queen Min couldn't take care of herself and could not care about them.

At around 5 pm, thousands of North Korean soldiers and civilians began to siege the Japanese Embassy. At this time, there was only one squadron of Japanese military police who were responsible for guarding the embassy, ​​but the Japanese army was not comparable to those of the mobs of the Korean rebels in terms of equipment or training.

The uprising soldiers and citizens fought fiercely with the Japanese until late at night, but still failed to grasp the flower house. On the 26th, the flower house was fled to Incheon for refuge after many twists and turns, and was treated by the Incheon Mansion envoy Zheng Zhirong. However, at this time, the mutiny had already affected Incheon. The local residents immediately siege the Japanese minister in charge of the mansion.

As a last resort, Zheng Zhirong had to arrange for the flower house to escape overnight by boat.
Chapter completed!