Chapter 193: 4 Rebellions
The three princes of Mongolia, Prince Seng Greenqin, Prince Zheng Duanhua, and Prince Zhong Sushun revolted in the three eastern provinces, playing the banner of the Qing monarch's side, and counted the ten major crimes of Guo Songtao and Prince Gong: 1. Collusion with barbarians and chaos in the Qing Dynasty; Second, the reform of the edict and the deception of the king; 3. Abolish the Chi ritual method, and forget the ancestors; Fourth, deviating from Confucius and Mencius, valuing business and forgetting righteousness; 5. Tampering with the imperial examination and disrupting the imperial program; Sixth, worship the foreign and flatter, and sell the owner for glory; 7. Corruption and bribery; 8. **Harem; 9. Conniving at treachery; 10. Control the government.
The rebellion was reversed, but unfortunately their ability was limited, there was no national media at all, and because of the loss of Chinese telegraph services, even the people everywhere did not know for a long time about the rebellion of the three kings in the three eastern provinces. Only the generals with heavy troops in various places they sent their cronies to contact knew about the situation, such as Li Xiucheng and Shi Dakai.
Shi Dakai may be the only person among the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who is talented and has no ambition to be the emperor, or he is still a martial champion, he is very grateful for the grace of the legendary court that was usurped by foreigners, tied up the people sent by Su Shun and escorted them to the court, and even called Li Xiucheng not to listen to the slander of the three thieves. And Li Xiucheng had seen with his own eyes the terrifying strategic bombing capability of airships participating in the war, and he did not believe that the three princes could do anything at all. After a period of testing, these two generals have stabilized their feelings.
However, at this time, the ethnic minorities in Gansu and Shaanxi took the opportunity to cause chaos. Local officials still regarded themselves as the officials of the Qing Dynasty, and they levied the people with excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which led to this change. Under the wise leadership of the "Xianfeng Emperor", the imperial court had reduced many taxes, but many policies benefiting the people were not transmitted to the remote areas.
Dai Chaochun, the leader of Taiwan's Heaven and Earth Society, also seized the opportunity to raise troops. Dai Chaochun, originally a landlord in the Sizhangli area of Changhua County, Taiwan, once held positions such as the manuscript of the North Road Association, but was dismissed from his position because he was unsuccessfully blackmailed by the governor, and inherited the status of his brother's parent, as well as the land guild and gossip society he established, and at the same time expanded it to become a branch of the Tiandihui, and at the same time assisted the government to arrest bandits and obtained official recognition, making it a private force owned by the Dai family. Later, because the local government did not want to see the Dai family's power develop too quickly and suppressed, Taiwan Taoist Taikong Zhaoci executed the prime minister surnamed Hong of the association, causing the Dai family to decide to rebel.
The twisted bandits in Huaibei were also unexpectedly powerful, and the Hunan army, which was not advanced in firearms, was actually very difficult, especially in the imperial court, which strictly ordered that even if they did not make an inch, they should not use harsh means to reciprocate the chaotic people, because these chaotic people were all improper guidance in the previous imperial court's governance. Only the army of tigers and wolves who kill people like hemp and commit adultery and plunder has combat effectiveness, which is the common lesson of the Hunan army in the past, but now the imperial court wants to be benevolent and buy people's hearts, and the rebellious people are mainly pacified, and the military is mainly encircled, so the Hunan army has become a role that is difficult to encircle and attack.
After learning about the development of the rebellion in Taiwan, Tang Ningjian asked Dai Chaochun and Kong Zhaoci to send their cronies to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals of the Qing Dynasty in Shanghai for on-the-spot debate. The First Circuit Court of Appeals is in Beijing and the Third in Guangzhou.
Kong Zhaoci had already been killed by Dai Chaochun, and the Dai family did not trust the newly established institution. The court even made a compromise to allow the two sides to argue in court in Hong Kong, the territory of the British.
At the same time, 500 members of the Daqing Railway Bureau Police Force, which was training in Shanghai, were assigned to Taichung on warships of the East India Company Navy, the second military force with FN-1855 in addition to the Shenji Battalion. After Li Hongzhang learned about the weapons and equipment of the police in the train station, he felt that the Hunan army, a private armed force founded by Zeng Guofan, had been abandoned by the imperial court, and it was likely that it would be disbanded in the future, and the encirclement of the Twist Army might be the last performance of the Hunan army on the battlefield.
FN-1855 is now the world's most famous weapon, in addition to its own powerful power, rate of fire, accuracy attributes, its owner basically has an excellent relationship with the Windsor consortium, and in the case of abundant financial resources to receive good, rigorous training, so it is rumored in military circles that as long as it is an army that fights with FN-1855, its opponent should be careful, this is not only an army with advanced weapons, but also means that it is excellent in all aspects, supply, logistics will not be a short board.
Dai Chaochun is known as more than 100,000 people, and the train bureau sent these 500 people, is it arrogant or dead?
After sending 500 stability maintenance troops, the imperial court also unashamedly said that the armed police should take the protection of the people as their duty, treat the Taiwanese people who do not know the truth and rebel against the imperial court, and regard them as heroes who may be rebelling against the ****, and do not deal with the people with the mentality of killing and rebelling. Dai Chaochun read the Daqing News transmitted from Xiamen, and he really couldn't laugh or cry.
The imperial court deliberately revealed the figure of 500 people, which served as a deterrent to the opposition forces across the country, and if the 500-strong police could "stabilize" the army of 100,000, how many people in the country would dare to defy the law?
If you don't give Lord Dai a little color, I'm afraid he doesn't even want to send people to Hong Kong, he has established his own political institution in Changhua, Taichung, and proclaimed himself the king of the east, just like the Taiping army, what the king of the south, the king of the west, and the king of the north have sealed a lot, and there are generals, who look full of confidence.
The police force landed in Lukang, where there were a large number of Quanzhou people led by the local gate lords, who had conflicts with the Changhua people and became the backbone of the support of the imperial court to suppress the rebellion. What the people of Lukang saw was a team all cut into slabs, wearing black police uniforms made of canvas, and the police uniforms were embroidered with the style of "locomotive", which was the symbol of the Daqing Railway Bureau.
The imperial court did not allow local forces to take advantage of the counterinsurgency, so it sent a third-party armed force thousands of miles away, showing the court's current desire to restore its authority. Lukang Quanzhou gentry Huang Jizhong, Cai Mahu, Lin Qingyuan and others received senior superintendents from the Shanghai Police District in Huangfu, the supreme commander of the operation, named Tang Sara, only 22 years old, graduated from the Singapore International Academy, a high-achieving student surnamed Windsor, but after coming to the Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid suspicion, these people have changed their surnames to Wen or Tang.
When he was in Singapore, he proudly took on his name: Sarah Windsor. People with the surname Windsor now have a sense of honor beyond the country, and when people hear that the surname is Windsor, they are immediately in awe, giving people the impression that they are young, rich, and genius, and the legal guardian before they are minors is Downing Windsor, a name that can stop children from crying at night.
Even if these geniuses have not received military training since childhood, they all have incomparable self-confidence when they come to the battlefield, which is called the confidence blessing of the Windsor family.
What can give them self-confidence is, of course, the Windsor family's unparalleled ability to innovate, always using weapons that the other side does not think of at all in war. This time, the battleship used to transport troops was an offshore cruiser one level lower than the King class, and the troop transport capacity happened to be 500 to 800, and they chose 500, which means that they can carry more ammunition, food and other supplies.
The cruiser of this class is the "white class", which is derived from the name of the first ship taken from the famous general of the Warring States period, in fact, the first four ships of this class are all taken from the famous generals of the Warring States period, and the other three are Wang Jian, Li Mu, and Lian Po. Tang Ning's personal favorite is Wang Jian, this guy understands both military affairs and politics, and also understands people's hearts, so in the end he was able to lead the 500,000 army of Qin to destroy Zhao. However, the heavy cruiser was already a king-class, and it was impossible for another king-class, so he had to use the name of another famous general of the Qin State: Bai Qi, the murderous king.
This guy who killed 400,000 soldiers of Zhao State had the ability to destroy Zhao in one fell swoop, but he didn't understand King Qin's mind that his military exploits were too victorious to lose, so he died with hatred. But it's nice to be intimidated by his name. This buddy is the name that really stops children from crying at night.
The high-tech of the white-class cruiser is almost the same as that of the king-class, but the tonnage is smaller, 3,000 tons, compared with the 10 12-inch main guns of the king-class, it only has six main guns in the front four and two in the rear, which is a 6-inch caliber and has an effective range of 18 kilometers, although it is not as good as the terror of the king-class of 22 kilometers, but it is enough to despise the heroes. It could even hit the cannonballs directly into Changhua City on the shore, if the imperial court ordered an attack on the lair of the "East King".
And the 500 police units, more equipped than the Royal Army, also possess a secret infantry portable weapon of mass destruction: mortars. Due to the advanced manufacturing technology, this small infantry cannon that can be operated by only two people can reach a long distance of 2500 meters, which is about the same as the strongest Whitworth breech-loading rifled gun in the Civil War, and its minimum firing distance is 70 meters, which can also cause great damage to the enemy hiding in the trench, when encountering in the field, this 2. Small cannon of 4-inch caliber with 2. It is not yet known who will die of the 75-inch Whitworth, as it is much more portable than its opponents. This was an excellent weapon to be used against the peasant rebels.
The police expedition with 50 mortars, hidden in five military trucks along with ammunition, was used to crush the 100,000 troops of His Royal Highness the King of the East head-on, and the gentry of Lukang were worried that the contingent was really only 500 men.
The 500-strong army pulled up 50 guns, an unprecedented proportion, and when the French helped Sardinia fight Austria a few years ago, Sardinia's 70,000-strong army was equipped with 90 guns.
There is a picture of FN-1855 in the Daqing newspaper, which is not a fuel-efficient lamp at first glance, and the imperial court intended to deter Dai Chaochun's rebellious army, but it only achieved the purpose of being valued by the enemy, but did not intimidate the enemy.
The spies continued to reconnoiter Lugang, and the armies under the kings of the southeast, northwest, and northwest gathered in Changhua, intending to fight to the death with the eagle dogs of the imperial court. These people were all covered by the cannons of the white-class cruisers, and their subordinates used the 6-inch cannons to blast the enemy to pieces, but Tang Sara said in frustration: "The court ordered that the less the poor people died in the process of counterinsurgency, the greater the credit, so ...... You can only use small cannons to scare them, and tomorrow we will put 50 mortars together and see if we can scare them. ”
Superintendent Tang thought too beautifully, Dongwang personally went out of the mountain, really gathered nearly 100,000 troops, divided into southeast, northwest, and middle armies, and charged the expeditionary team that wanted to perform in the formation of the cold weapon era. The sporadic shelling not only did not frighten the other side, but also gave the other side confidence, and the peasant army was even more ferocious.
The peasant army also understood the truth of the whole blow, and at once they swarmed in, and 500 warriors almost capsized in the gutter, and even the artillerymen took out their melee weapons, the desert foxes, to shoot the enemy who rushed to the front of the formation. In the battle, the expedition team was hacked to death by the enemy who rushed up, and two of them were bleeding to death, and the accompanying military doctor was very busy, and the self-confident Superintendent Tang was hit hard, and he was shameless to face his subordinates and hid in the barracks in a daze.
Of course, the army of the Eastern King was hit even harder, and almost all the troops were dispatched to fail to effectively kill the imperial eagle dogs, but on the contrary, thousands of lives were lost on his side, and this battle was really impossible to fight.
Superintendent Tang was depressed by the casualties of more than 30 of his subordinates, and he didn't even go to the celebration banquet held by the Lukang gentry, and was teased as a glass-hearted general. Later, Superintendent Tang really thought that he was not suitable for leading troops, and wanted to return to his hometown after fighting this battle.
On the fifth day after the first battle, the enemy seemed to show no signs of surrendering, and Superintendent Tang barely bothered his spirits and informed the Bai-class cruisers to prepare full fire support and plan to blast open the city gates and occupy Changhua.
Seeing that the imperial eagle dog had been killed again, Dai Chaochun felt that the general situation had gone, and ordered the generals at all levels to prepare to surrender. In the distance, the white flag at the head of Changhua City was hoisted high, and Superintendent Tang hurriedly ordered his subordinates to send a telegram to the cruiser not to act rashly, and at the same time breathed a long sigh of relief, and it was finally over.
The king of the east personally went out of the city and surrendered, smiled lightly, thought that he would die, and asked the court to take his brothers lightly, and won the respect of the expedition, and the hatred was slightly reduced.
It was worthy of the police who came, but I saw that they took out small and refined handcuffs one after another, and handcuffed the king, the general, and the like, while the rest of the people handed over the cannons, firearms, and large blades, and then went home to stay and await trial.
Since the war was defeated, it was directly sent to the Shanghai Second Circuit Court of Appeals for trial.
This was the first trial since the establishment of the Circuit Court of Appeal, and what made the people of the Qing Dynasty feel the deepest was that this trial presided over by a Western-style judge treated the murderous thief as a human being, and the court appointed a good lawyer for the defendant to defend him in a very fair manner.
The people of the Qing Dynasty began to come into contact with the concepts of prosecutors, defense lawyers, open trials, and non-joint sitting, and the accusation and defense process centered on evidence, witnesses, and exhibits. (http://)。 Since the five judges here have nothing to do with Taiwan, the whole process is quite fair, and the Daqing News has made great contributions to the popularization of law in the Qing Dynasty after the whole process has been reported. As a result of this trial, Taiwan and Fujian later became one of the most legal regions in the country.
Lin Fei had nothing to do, but actually observed the whole trial process, and then was very interested in the law, thinking that this is the most important thing to change the motherland. One of her ideas would surprise Downing.
In the end, Dai Chaochun was sentenced to life, and his family was not guilty, the kings and generals, the most is 15 years in prison, and there is no need to serve hard labor after paying the money, those more than 100,000 shrimp soldiers and crabs will not only not be punished, but also receive grace to exempt Changhua County from the three talent taxes. What's even more incredible is that the families of more than a thousand anti-thieves who died in the war still have a little pension, which is not much, but they can bury the dead. The injured thieves were also treated free of charge by the doctors brought by the police. Those thieves who were living in desperation even had the opportunity to join the pioneer group funded by the Household Bank and go to the Malay Peninsula to reclaim the land. This is really a tearful good court.