Chapter 322 I am the Crown Princess
"Once the country has something to do, you as the Minister of Economic Affairs, only know how to increase the land tax. Apart from this, there is no measure! The Liaodong military affairs increased the salary by 3 million yuan. The land tax in the world was discussed. From Guizhou, the government increased the silver by 300,000 yuan acres, and received two million yuan. The Ministry of Works resumed to build tools and discussed the increase tax. So the tax increased by 2 million yuan acres, which was 2 million yuan acres. The tax increased by 3 million yuan acres, and it was a year-on-year quota. The Ministry of Revenue was incompetent, the officials were shameless, and they were harsh in all the tricks to restrain the people!"
Li Ruhua, the Minister of Revenue, was the first important minister below the cabinet, and was also taken over by the Ministry of Personnel, which was an important goal of the reform. Unfortunately, this important official was directly blocked by the reform officers and soldiers.
"If the treasury is not allowed to be issued, and if the land tax is not added, how can the country maintain it?"
As an important official, Li Ruhua was also fearless against the reform officers and soldiers who entered the mansion. When he was a Qingliu, Li Ruhua became famous for impeaching important officials. Now he is an important official, and facing the chaos, his courage is even greater than that of the past.
"Short-eyed!"
Tian Zhong, the combat staff officer of the Fifth Division, angrily rebuked: "A country with a thousand miles of economy is only the word land, and only one farmer's taxes are paid! Such a country is not different from forcing the people to rebel! If the Ministry of Revenue is incompetent, he will give up a capable man. If he is a corpse and a person who is in a position, he will be shameless as an important official!"
Li Ruhua said angrily: "I am incompetent, who can do it!"
"The capable ones will be given a thousand years to King Wei!"
As soon as Tian Zhong finished speaking, he heard the soldiers shouting: "Qiansui, Qiansui, Qiansui!"
Li Ruhua was stunned and then turned her back: "I have nothing to say about you!"
"Your attitude disappoints us. For the future of the empire, please make sacrifices too!"
Tian Zhong fired three guns in a row, one gun hit Li Ruhua's lower abdomen, and one gun hit his heart. Someone asked for another final blow, and Li Ruhua's wife threw herself beside her husband and shouted: "Stop hitting, you can also attack the old man, so why not beat me to death!"
Tian Zhong and others couldn't bear to start, so they raised their hands: "Everything is there, I'll give Li Shangshu a tribute!" After that, they led the team to leave Li Ruhua's mansion.
"Captain, this is Ma Tang's private residence!"
Ma Tang, the eunuch of Sili, Bingbi, was the enemy of Eunuch Wei in his early years. Recently, he regarded the reform as a disaster. All information shows that this person is a tough warring faction in Beijing, so he ranks second on the list of the reform court. The first one is naturally the Zhangyin Sun Xian who is close to the Eastern Palace.
The task of killing Ma Tang was carried out by the Dadian attack troops of the 17th Infantry Regiment. However, the Dadian attack troops were lost, and Ma Tang had already fled to the palace when they arrived half of the incense stick.
"Attack the Imperial City!"
The commander of the Dadian attack force, You Peizhong, immediately ordered the entire team to turn to the imperial city.
Another eunuch, Si Li, the enemy of the Reformed Sect, was not as lucky as Ma Tang. He was blocked in his private house by the Reformed Sect.
"What do you want to do? Our family is Si Libing's pen"
Xiao Yu tried to show off his identity in panic, shocking the rioters, making them afraid to act recklessly. The officer who did not want to lead the army shouted "Heavenly punished the traitors" and commanded his subordinates to fire guns at him.
After dozens of guns, Xiao Yu was covered in blood and fell heavily into the ground like a sieve.
Imperial City.
The reform troops that had already attacked the imperial city did not attack the palace city, but instead encircled and blocked the imperial city and the palace city in a plane and three-dimensional way.
The troops entering the imperial city, in addition to occupying the six cabinet ministries, Taichang Temple and Dali Temple, also occupied the inner courts of the imperial city, cutting off all the external connections between the palace city.
In the direction of Xihuamen, Liang Qinghong, an official from the Governor's Office of the Five Army, led more than 2,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp to cooperate with the reform. The arrival of this unit greatly enhanced the blockade of the imperial city by the reform forces.
At the same time, under the leadership of the military personnel familiar with the local military personnel, the reform officers and soldiers successively arrested important officials such as Huang Jiashan, Minister of War, Liu Yiren, Minister of Rites.
Although Huang, Liu and other important officials were tough in the face of the reform officers and soldiers, fortunately, the reform troops ordered to arrest their reform troops did not make their own decisions to punish them. They only took the important officials of these six ministries out of the mansion and went to the Restoration Command Headquarters to take action.
The censor Zuo Guangdou in his sleep was shocked by the sound of smashing the door from the gate. Then more than 20 reform officers and soldiers holding weapons rushed into his bedroom.
"Zuo Guangdou?"
After receiving a confirmed reply, an officer stepped forward and saluted Zuo Guangdou politely, and then said: "Your Excellency, I am ordered to arrest you because of some of your wrong remarks. I hope you can cooperate!"
After Zuo Guangdou was slightly surprised, he calmly put on his clothes and left the house with the soldiers. He did not ask who the other party was or what the purpose of arresting him was. He did not say anything while seeing Fang Kezhuang and Miao Changqi and Donglin friends along the way.
However, Miao Changqi kept struggling and roaring, saying that he was a court official and a disciple of Fuqing Gong. You rioters did not have the imperial decree and did not have the Ministry of Justice to arrest him privately without the official documents.
The result of such a failure to cooperate naturally was that he was hit hard by the soldiers' butt stock.
"Need not!"
Yang Lian, with a big bearded face, acted very brave when he was taken to the street. When he saw dozens of Donglin Party members arrested with him, he even nodded at them, and then said: "Don't panic, don't do anything insulting for the intimidation of the eunuchs. At worst, it's just a storm."
The arrest of the Lin party members on Jingdong is still continuing, and not all the Donglin party members are as sluggish as Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, and are allowed to be arrested by the reform officers and soldiers.
Many people hid in chaos outside, and it would be a bit troublesome to arrest these people.
General Anguo Temple, the chief of the Fifth Division, and Song Xiance, the director of the base camp's attendant office, entered the capital from Zuo'anmen at the end of Shenshi, directly entered the occupied and controlled imperial city cabinet, and used the center of power of the empire as the headquarters for the reform command.
At this point, except for the palace city, all the key yamen and important target units in the capital were controlled by the restoration officers and soldiers. During the operation, no large-scale bloody conflict occurred.
The Fifth Division asked the inner court to take the seal of the seal Sun Xian to come out of the palace to negotiate, but Sun Xian refused to leave the palace on the grounds of being suffering from wind.
The flag bearer guards guarding the palace city and the Han general were also on high alert. Some troops of the Fifth Division wanted to seize the gate and deal with the personal guards who were stationed, but received orders from the division headquarters and were not allowed to act rashly.
The two convenient confrontation outside the palace city, and the East Palace is also confronting each other.
The two sides of the confrontation were the 18th Infantry Brigade of the Fifth Division and the Jinyiwei Commander Luo Sigong, who brought more than 300 personal troops from Tianjin and a small number of Eastern Palace guards.
The commander of the 18th Infantry Brigade was Wei Xuesi, the nephew of Eunuch Wei, who is also Wei Xuewen's younger brother who is now in charge of Korean affairs in Seoul.
It was not that Wei Xuesi's troops were unable to solve the personal army of the Jinyiwei, but they were worried that forced forceful military solution might lead to unpredictable behavior of His Royal Highness, so they did not dare to act rashly.
According to reliable information, several court officials fled into the East Palace not long ago, and there seemed to be Han Du, the Minister of Rites.
Reinforcements arrived one after another, and the troops surrounding the Eastern Palace had reached nearly 3,000. From the obvious fear on the faces of the personal soldiers of the Jinyiwei, it can be seen that their pressure had reached its limit.
At the hour of Mao, Wei Xuesi and the other officers surrounding the Eastern Palace received a warrant from the command headquarters, requiring them to resolve the problem of the Eastern Palace within one hour.
"Then let's act!"
Although Wei Xuesi was puzzled why the division headquarters did not mention the handling of the prince in the handling order, the soldiers' duty was to obey orders, so he still ordered his troops to prepare for battle.
The personal army guarding the Eastern Palace may have noticed that the chaotic troops outside were no longer waiting to attack, and the people were panic and looked as if they were dead.
"Each force!"
When Wei Xuesi pulled out his command knife and was about to give orders, the gate of the Eastern Palace was suddenly slowly opened. Then, under the gaze of thousands of pairs of eyes, a woman in the palace dress, bravely and fearlessly walked towards the reform officers and soldiers under the companion of an old eunuch.
"I am the Crown Princess, let your general talk to me." Xi Li looked at the dark and chaotic army in front of him calmly.
"Xiao Qizi, why don't you go quickly!"
Chapter completed!