If there is a large-scale rebellion in the city, then, according to the training manual for civil servants, the first place officials should go is not the patrol police station, but the Internal Revenue Service; Similarly, if a city is invaded by a foreign enemy and the government cannot evacuate, then according to the civil service training manual, officials should not go to the police station, but to the Internal Revenue Service. In the internal defense system of Greater China, the tax police, or the Internal Revenue Bureau, is an important core of the city's defense, and in the event of an accident, the Internal Revenue Bureau has the power to take over the entire city and has the power to command the city's armed forces.

If the Renaissance Army is a field army, then the tax police force is a city war army, and within the internal command system of the General Staff Department, the tax police force and the Renaissance Army are completely equal. This may seem unimaginable to the average person, but it is true. And although Bei Shoutong and Xu Jingxi, who are Yang Rui's confidants, are very puzzled by Yang Rui's importance to the tax police, they are all silent about this - who can figure out the will of the king?

The Jiangsu Provincial State Taxation Bureau is just north of the Chenghuang Temple, a large compound that was just completed at the beginning of the year. Its main entrance, like the Shanghai Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, is also two majestic blue brick gatehouses sandwiched by a three-zhang long doorway, and on both sides are stretching high courtyard walls. It seems that the design is too severe, and the designer added a roof with slightly softer lines to the doorway, and the front of the gatehouse is also specially planted with flowers and plants that do not affect the shooting boundary - people who do not know how to do it always like to go to the door of the IRS to see those flowers and plants; And those who know how to see the terrain and the towers always carefully count the number of shells, and then go around the wall and go elsewhere.

Lin Shen's action team walked at the front of the procession, because the terrain was unfamiliar, he walked a lot of unjust roads before he saw the two tall gatehouses of the IRS and the gun-wielding sentinels on the gatehouses. His throat was dry, feeling a little hairy in his heart. But when things come to an end, there is no way to avoid them. I had to take steps to the end.

As soon as the line left the front street, the guards at the entrance of the IRS spotted the swarm. Although these people only held flags and shouted slogans and did not bring guns, the sentry posts were still on guard and reported the situation to the bureau.

Although the procession was lost, the advantage of getting lost was that the slogan of "go to the IRS theory" had become "hit the IRS" at this time, but the slogan should be shouted louder and louder when the procession turned around the street corner, but in practice, the slogan became weaker and weaker. Lin Changmin, who was standing in the coffin, was very anxious about this, and he knew that everyone was starting to be a little scared at this time. A bad team is really going to scatter birds and beasts, and I wanted to speak again to boost morale, but the radio ran out.

As a result, only the sound of a gunshot was heard, and the radio in the IRS gatehouse shouted 'Stop, go any further', and everyone was shocked, and the procession not only stopped moving, but also stopped shouting slogans. The hand of the sedan chair under Lin Changmin was even weaker, and the coffin shook several times before it stabilized.

At a critical moment, Lin Sen, who was at the front of the line, was still thirty or forty meters away from the gate of the IRS at this time, and he shouted loudly when he saw the team stop. I want to rush forward with some people around me. But before he could take ten steps, the guns of the soldiers on the castle tower rang out, and the gunfire of 'bang...... and the screams of the crowd. His body was numb and his legs were weak, and he fell to the ground. Behind him, the crowd was still stunned, only screaming and retreating at the sound of gunfire.

The whole street is in chaos! The fear caused by the gunfire caused the 'land tax' and 'land reform' to disappear in an instant. Everyone fled frantically, Lin Changmin, who was standing on the coffin, wanted to stop it, and didn't want the sedan chair man below to play with such a gentry at all, so he threw the coffin as soon as he heard the gunshot, and Lin Changmin, who wanted to shout, was stunned, and finally was held by the coffin and couldn't move. But this also just protects him, and the crowd that retreats in a hurry doesn't care about anything stopping them, as long as they can move forward, stepping on what is what.

The procession circled around the city of Nanjing several times before it reached the IRS with difficulty, but it was like going up a hill against the slope, and once the balls stopped, they would slide at a faster speed. Within two minutes, the entire street was completely dispersed, except for some who had been trampled and injured, or who were so frightened that they wanted to get into the doors of the shops on both sides but were not allowed to enter, and they still stayed in the street full of banners, shivering.

"What a fucking shit!" The master chief on duty on the gatehouse scolded himself, and then said to the people around him: "Bring that injured one in, I want to see if he has eaten a leopard and hit the IRS." ”

"Yes!" The soldier next to him who had just fired his gun into the sky had a smile on his face, but he still replied very strictly. Only the one in the group rushed forward, so he crossed the cordon and was shot by the master sergeant.

When the IRS came out to arrest people, people from the patrol police station also appeared on the sidewalk. They had long heard the shouts of the procession going to the IRS, but the patrol officers, who were worried about the big trouble, set off after several preparations, and this delay missed the most exciting scene of the parade, and now they had to come to save the wounded.

"How's it going?" Liang Qichao, who was hiding in the safest place in Nanjing, hurriedly asked Tang Juedun on the front line about the specific situation through the microphone, gritting his teeth, hoping to hear the news that the procession was brave and fearless, and that the blood was flowing like rivers -- he had already drafted the article on the Nanjing Bloody Case.

"Ren Gong, it's all messed up." Tang Jue, who finally escaped, suddenly fell with a blue nose and swollen face, and pitifully endured the chattering teeth to speak.

"What? It's all messed up! Liang Qichao had a smile on his face, "Is the IRS in chaos?" ”

"Oops! No, it's our people who are messed up. Tang Jue suddenly mourned, and the injuries on his body hurt more and more.

"What the hell is going on?! What about the Zongmeng people? Liang Qichao grasped the microphone tighter and his tone was stronger, and his feeling became worse and worse.

Zong Meng stood on the coffin, but as soon as the tax police fired a pair of shots, the palanquin men threw the coffin, and the team was in chaos. These people are not the material of the officials at all, and when they hear the gunshots, don't say that they are going forward, and they will collapse even if they are not so far away from the IRS. I wasn't killed by a gun, but I stepped on my own people, and I don't know how many ...... I was injured."

As soon as Tang Juedun opened the chatterbox, it was endless, but there was not a single sentence in it that Liang Qichao expected to hear. In the end, his face was blue with anger. Say loudly into the microphone: "Don't say it!" I'll talk about it later. Then he dropped the microphone and remained silent.

Tang Hualong and the others, who didn't know what had happened at all, looked left and right. In the end, he asked: "Ren Gong, this matter ......?"

"Don't mention it!" Liang Qichao waved his hand vigorously. "I didn't do such a simple thing well, and sure enough, Adou couldn't support the wall!"

"This ......" Tang Hualong looked left and right again, and after looking at each other, Xu Fusu said: "This..., is there anyone dead?" ”

Xu Fusu asked, Liang Qichao's face turned sideways to the other side. His response to everyone's hearts also sank: This thing was done, one or two thousand people stormed the IRS, and no one even died, what kind of joke is this? What kind of obscure society in Shanghai. That's how many people, and three or four people died in the police station in Shanghai.

The cadres looked at each other, not knowing that no matter how few people in the Obscure Society were, they also believed in anarchism, and they were all young people, even if they were afraid of the gunshots, but after all, they were more organized and the blood was hotter, and they were never afraid to initiate their own death; But the gentry of the Constitutional Protectorate, no matter how young and enthusiastic they are, will eventually have a family and a job. Once you die in the family, the wives and concubines of the family, gold and silver, but they will be cheaper than others, who is willing to do it? Who can put it down? It's good to be excited and join in the fun. Is it really necessary to tie your head to the waistband of your trousers, is this what a gentleman should do?

"Why don't you make raw rice into a ripe rice in the newspaper?" Tang Hualong thought about it for a long time, and only thought of such a way. In fact, when Liang Qichao ordered to storm the IRS just now. He was reluctant, but Ren Gong was the leader of the party after all. Since he said that he wanted to rush, then rush. Not on your own anyway.

"It can't be done." Liang Qichao spoke at this time, and his face looked better, "No one has died, how can raw rice be cooked and cooked?" I understand that it's okay for these old men to drink flower wine, visit the kiln, and comment on the world's major events, you have to let them rush to the front line, and the bullets are raining, and one of them is faster than the other. That's it! That's it! ”

"Ren Gong, although there are no dead people this time, it is also a great feat for our party to have such a blow." Tanghua Dragon Road. "Ren Gong Zhujun should polish one or two, write an article, and it will be passed on as a beautiful talk in the future."

"Let's find someone to rescue Zong Meng first." Liang Qichao said, and after speaking, he looked at Xu Fosu again, "Send a message to the party branches in various places, and say that if there is a person who quits the party with a weak will, the silver taels paid by the party will not be returned." ”

"Understood, I'll do it right away." Xu Fusu said.

"Those reporters who came from Shanghai with us, as well as members of our own party, Brother Jiwu will go to see and comfort me on my behalf. There is also the governor's yamen to react to this, and also ask Brother Jiwu to inquire about it. Liang Qichao looked at Tang Hualongdao.

Tang Hualong is nominally the No. 2 person in the Constitutional Protection Party, and it is still enough to go out to comfort party members and reporters. But things are just out there, if the governor yamen wantonly slaughters the Constitutional Protectors, then it will be a meat bun beating a dog. Tang Hualong's face was bitter, and it could be seen that everyone was looking at him, so he had to bow his hand to everyone and leave the consulate with a hard head.

When Tang Hualong left the U.S. Consulate, the injured and cowardly at the gate of the IRS were basically sent to the patrol police station.

"Name?" In the interrogation room, the two patrol officers looked at Lin Changmin, who was incomparably wolf, and asked as usual.

"Humph! If you want to kill, you will kill, if you want to kill, what are you doing so much! Lin Changmin, who dropped the chain at the critical moment, was very resentful of what happened just now, but now that he was arrested by the patrol police, it can be regarded as a remedy in his opinion.

"Name?" The presiding officer was expressionless, but asked again in a calm voice.

"Hmph, the surname is Lin Changmin." Thinking that he couldn't be an unsung hero, Lin Changmin still said his name.

"Origin?" The officer asked, the paperwork on one side was recorded, and then the next question was asked.

"Humph! Fujian Minhou. Lin Changmin said again. When he was about to answer the next question, the patrol officer asked another question that shook his heart: "Do you know Wang Dongyan?" ”

"Wang Dongyan? You" Lin Changmin couldn't help but stand up, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Lin Changmin, we suspect that you are related to the assassination of Lord Tao Huanqing of the Ministry of Agriculture, and now you have been arrested." The presiding police officer looked at Lin Changmin, and after showing the arrest warrant, he remained silent, "From now on, you have the right not to speak, if you open your mouth, then every sentence you say will be used as evidence in court; You have the right to a lawyer and may request that a lawyer be present during the interrogation; If you can't afford a lawyer, we'll arrange one for you. ”

"You... You are being framed. I don't know any Wang Dongyan at all! Lin Changmin argued loudly, unaware of the beads of sweat on his forehead. His face also turned pale.

"Lin Changmin, you may not know Wang Dongyan. But Yang Xiaotian, you always know him. The interrogating officer looked at Lin Changmin's face and pressed him again. You can't think of it, even if Yang Xiao Tianchuan speaks well, but he is also from Anhui, if you don't know, I can give you a little more details.

Yang Hu, formerly known as Yang Deshun, the word Xiaotian, was twelve years before Shenwu. That is, Guangxu fifteen people, Anhui Ningguo people, Guangxu 33 years into the Liangjiang Martial Arts School, after graduation into the Nanyang Higher Police School, is the year to join the League, Guangxu 36 years, as a gymnastics teacher in Nanjing Chengde Middle School, the future is too slim, and then to the new army of the ninth town, and then because of the spread of the revolution to abscond. Because I met Chen Qimei. In the first year of Shenwu, he became Sun Wen's secretary, and later because Sun Wen praised him as a tiger general, he changed his name to Yang Hu, and the word Xiaotian. He assassinated Lord Tao Huanqing a few months ago. It was you who made the decision and urged the arrangement......"

"Nothing! I don't know any Yang Deshun at all, and I don't know any Yang Hu. Lin Changmin's heart was knocked down little by little. But after all, he is a man with a fierce temperament, and he will never admit to it.

"Look at these confessions. Yang Hu has already recruited. "The interrogation officer opened the file that had been pressed on the table and pushed it in front of Lin Changmin." I don't know if Liang Qichao was involved. But you, we already have enough proof. By the way, forget to tell you, your residence on Wuma Road in the concession has been searched, and the Shanghai patrol police have found your diary ......, and you know very well what is written in the diary.

Now it's not a question of whether you are guilty or not, but how you get rid of it. If there is someone behind you who instructs you to do this, then according to the law, your guilt is lighter, probably only ten years in prison, if you are not in good health, or if you are active in prison, you may be able to be released on medical parole in advance. The Shanghai side also said, your third lady is virtuous and virtuous, and your son is only two years old, why should they let their orphans and widows never see you again? ”

"You guys! You guys, what did you do with Guilin? Lin Changmin, who was like a dead fish, suddenly heard his wife, and his face changed again, he didn't care about the second lady Xue Yuan and the eldest daughter Hui Yin, but he cared very much about the third lady Guilin and the son who had not yet been named.

The patrol officer who accompanied the interrogation pressed Lin Changmin, who had already handheld his hands, down, and the interrogating officer continued: "Lin Changmin, your wife and children are fine, don't worry." But you have to think about yourself, if you don't have anyone behind you to direct you, then you are the first offender. Instigating and plotting the murder of important government officials must be a capital crime, not only for your own capital crime, but also for your wife and children, if you want to get ahead in the future, I think it will be very difficult.

If there is someone behind you who instructs you, then you are only an accomplice, and with your position in the Constitutional Protectorate, it can be said that you are just an errand runner and just a messenger, and if the judge wants to sentence you, it will also be a light sentence. Choose one of the two paths. Don't think that this case will be as successful as the previous administrative lawsuits, this is a criminal case, and the evidence is conclusive! ”

Hazy, Lin Changmin seemed to have heard all the words that the interrogation officer said, but he didn't seem to hear anything. Lin Changmin knew that as long as the patrol officer got his diary, the matter would be irreparable. And what to do next, he didn't know. This matter really has nothing to do with Liang Qichao, it was Lin Sen from the revolutionary party who strongly demanded the assassination of this person after Tao Chengzhang said those words, and he was extremely angry at the time, so he agreed and asked people to send a carriage.

Yang Hu, who was praised by Lin Sen for his kung fu and walked through Yang in a hundred steps, was actually arrested at the train station where it was easy to escape, and he was terrified for a long time afterwards, but Lin Sen said that Yang Hu was a dead soldier who had been tested by the revolution for a long time, and even if he was arrested, he would not show a word, and he didn't want to be Yang Hu, who didn't show half a word, and he was actually involved.

Lin Changmin was in a daze, the interrogation officer seemed to say something, and then there was a loud '......bang', the door of the interrogation room was closed, and Lin Changmin sat here, deep in a desperate situation.

"Lin Sen of the Revolutionary Party also caught it, didn't he?" After going out, the interrogator turned to the side.

"Yes, Lin Sen was injured by the tax police, but it was a minor injury, and it has been sent over." The patrol reported.

"Hmm. The person is to be held incommunicado. The officer said, and then said to himself, "Now it's only Liang Qichao." ”

As Tang Hualong inquired and understood that the matter had ended, Liang Qichao, who was only arrested by Lin Changmin and Lin Sen, was suddenly very uneasy. The Constitutional Protectorate has always won the case. The reason why Yin'an Hall is calm is that Yang Jingcheng is in control of the Suspicion Institute and the National Taxation Bureau. Once a high land tax was imposed, the landlords had to give in. Because if you don't give in, it will only take five years to get the land back and you will get it back, otherwise the IRS will not collect land and only collect taxes, and no matter how big the family business is, it will be ruined.

With this preparation, Yang Jingcheng can of course watch the Constitutional Protector Party fool around. But why didn't the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu move? If this matter is also a big thing and a small matter, then why are Lin Changmin and Lin Sen detained? Especially Lin Shen, this person is a revolutionary party, and what he has done......

"Have you hired lawyers for Zong Meng and Changren?" Thinking about those things on Lin Sen, Liang Qichao still felt that he should fish people out. Otherwise, this person bites indiscriminately, which is not a big deal.

"I have already gone to lawyer Gao Yi, but lawyer Gao said that it is better to wait for the criminal case to wait for tomorrow in Shanghai to send someone to Ning. The laws of the new dynasty were different from the old ones, and he was not up to the task. Xu Fusu, who arranges party affairs, said.

"Incompetent?" Liang Qichao is becoming more and more vigilant, how can a well-known barrister in Shanghai not be competent? Besides, this is not an immediate trial, so why can't it be said that it is incompetent. "Things seem to be getting worse and wrong." After thinking for a while, Liang Qichao tapped his forehead with a fan and said slowly.

"There's nothing wrong with that." Tang Jue, who had already run twice, suddenly realized that he was very familiar with Nanjing City. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. "This time, the injured person could just apply some bruising ointment, and there was no death at all, and the procession was far away from the IRS, and they broke up after they fired warning shots. Ren Gong. There were a lot of complaints from people in the party, and the people's hearts were also unstable, and many people left the city. I went to the concession in Zhenjiang. ”

"Oh. All went to Zhenjiang? Liang Qichao's fan knocked on his hand, and he said immediately. Then hire a boat,...... Wrong. He stopped again when he said this, Zhenjiang was the British Concession, and with the current British attitude to the present government, the British would immediately sell him if something happened. Now in the US Consulate, although it is small, but the Americans are strong supporters of the Constitutional Party, once something happens, he can still take a diplomatic carriage or a US warship abroad ...... the same as in the Wuxu period, "Let's stay here, and see the news tomorrow and then return to Shanghai." Liang Qichao said.

Liang Qichao stayed at the consulate for two days, and during these two days, the China Times disclosed the chaos of the Constitutional Protector Party march in a certain corner, which mentioned the incident of the procession storming the IRS, but the whole process was only downplayed, and after the tax police fired a warning shot, everyone retreated.

Judging from the length of the report, the central government did not take the Constitutional Protector's march seriously at all, and the front page of the newspaper on the first day was only boasting about the submarine nemesis jointly invented by China and Japan -- a thing called a depth charge, which is said to explode at the depths of the sea, and according to the facts, as long as it can explode within 500 meters of the submarine, the submarine will not be able to withstand its shock wave and will break and disintegrate. The newspaper quoted the British Royal Navy as saying that this weapon would change the status quo in which ocean-going merchant ships were frequently sabotaged and sunk by German submarines, and that the Allies would produce this weapon in large quantities to alleviate the dilemma of the continent's shortage of supplies.

On the second day, the front page was "When one side is in trouble, all sides support, and the care of the Holy One is full of people's hearts", and an official article reporting on the follow-up matters of the two flood relief.

After the Dragon Boat Festival this year, the Dongjiang, Xijiang, and Beijiang river basins in Guangdong poured torrential rain, and the rivers in Guangdong, which had never suffered a major disaster, fell into disrepair for a hundred years, and the flood rushed away, and all the counties in the Pearl River Delta collapsed, nearly 10 million acres of farmland were affected, nearly 4 million people were affected, and the whole city of Guangzhou was flooded for seven days, and one night the city was suddenly hit by a fire, the small half of the city was destroyed, and more than 200,000 residents were killed; Guangdong is miserable, the water of Guangxi's rivers is also soaring, the flood peak of the Wuzhou River section is only seen in 200 years, more than 30 counties in the hard-hit areas, nearly one million victims, and in addition to the two Guangzhou, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places are also flooded.

In the face of this disaster, which had not been seen in 200 years, the navy and air force of the whole country were mobilized, and the army also mobilized several divisions. Beijing also sent another prince, as well as Wu Tongju, the plenipotentiary minister, and Gong Baoquan, the right capital of the Inspectorate, to sit in Yangcheng. Wu Tongju joined Gong Baoquan, and when the water receded about the same, he actually arrested half of the county officials in Liangguang, and all of them were shot on the charge of dereliction of duty that was unfavorable for disaster preparedness.

With disaster relief food in one hand and a ghost-headed knife in the other, the alternation of the two suddenly made the people of Liangguang and Guangxi grateful to the imperial court. In fact, in Liang Qichao's view, this is simply Yang Jingcheng's means, after all, Liangguang is the territory of the Furen Literary Society, after all, the Furen Cultural Society is a local, and it often turns a blind eye to the magistrates. (To be continued......)