Chapter 31 crazy stone

Wu Yigou went, and many people came.His daughter-in-law and children, his coachman brothers, and spectators gathered in front of the police house.Why are you here?Because Wu Yigou completed the last journey of his life here. Is it to send a pennant to commend the patrol house, to thank the police for their righteous rescue, and to save Wu Yigou from the embarrassment of passing away on the main road?The police and the people are really close, even though they are foreign police. Look again, the atmosphere is a bit wrong, everyone is shouting slogans, throwing things into the patrol room with things in their hands, not firecrackers, let alone dead mice, but stones, raindrops of stones hit one after another On walls, on doors, on windows.

It turned out that they were not acknowledging, but condemning. When Wu Yigou was brought to the police station, the story was already spreading. The most popular version is: foreigners refused to pay in the car and beat Wu Yigou; Wu Yigou rose up to resist in order to maintain the dignity of the Chinese.At this time, the Indian patrol came to join the battle.He brandished the baton in his hand and beat the unarmed Wu Yigou recklessly. It was not enough to knock him down to the ground. He stomped and kicked his big leather shoes until Wu Yigou died of anger. Foreigners, coachmen, police officers, concessions, death, the twelfth lunar month.Arbitrarily permuted and combined, you should know the power contained in these words.

Foreigners bullied the Chinese, patrolled and beat the Chinese, and a rickshaw driver and a low-status Chinese just passed away. He passed away miserably in the twelfth lunar month of winter, which was pregnant with good hope.What is even more unbearable is that the Indian patrols, this "red-headed man", a subjugated slave, and a third-class citizen, even flaunted his might to the Chinese on Chinese soil. The anger is ignited, no matter how many versions there are, anyway, when people die, blood debts are paid, it's that simple. The atmosphere is getting sadder and the slogans are getting louder and louder. The family members are crying for the father of the child, come back quickly; Shout out to my countrymen, come back quickly.

The tears at this time are not water, but gasoline, high-concentration gasoline, which makes the fire more and more fierce, and the more it is poured, the bigger it gets. A patrol poked his head out to see what happened, "Murderer", the crowd shouted angrily.The stones flew in the same direction, and the poor policeman was covered in bags in an instant. Why are there so many stones?The levee is being repaired by the river, and piles of stones have become the most direct weapon. Governor Ruicheng didn't want to come out yet, and several coachmen gathered together to shout slogans. This level is not enough to come out by himself. Can the governor let the common people see it so easily?

There were more and more people at the gate of the patrol room, Wu Yigou's body was brought up again, and he insisted on giving an explanation.What can the patrol room say?This is a matter for the Chinese, or it should be left to the Chinese. An emergency call was made, and the deputy head of the Hankou district in charge of social security led more than 100 people from patrolling Yongding to come, accompanied by a forensic doctor.The results of the public autopsy can be imagined. No matter how the autopsy is done, no external force blow wounds can be detected.The deputy district chief said that although Wu Yigou's death had nothing to do with anyone, based on the principle of humanitarianism, a thin coffin was specially rewarded. The thin coffin was not nanmu or mahogany, but it was more than enough to hold a coachman up.

Let's go, the family members carried the coffin and left, and the people who watched the excitement dispersed. It was midnight, so I went home early to wash and sleep, and everything returned to calm. But there is a group of people who don't want to leave, Wu Yigou's brothers.The matter has come to this extent, if there is no result, how can I mess around in the auto market in the future?How dare you pull a cart in the concession?Now he is not only seeking justice for Wu Yigou, but also supporting himself.When everyone gathered together, the trouble became bigger, and the next day the whole city's rickshaw drivers went on strike.

Foreigners, foreign wives, you used to be superior, but now we have to stand up and become the masters. Without us, you are nothing, and you can’t even walk. However, some drivers couldn't understand that the business during the Spring Festival was so good, and the economic loss would be huge in one day.Eloquently persuaded: "Brother, I want to drive more. The car goes up and down together, and a certain distance has passed; the car ups and downs, and a day has passed. We have been up and down with the car all our lives. Now we are real men. The car still makes these people up and down."

It's all said and done, no man wants to be a eunuch; act together tomorrow. January 22, 1911, the twenty-second of the twelfth lunar month, Sunday.Early in the morning, at the residence of rickshaw drivers in Houhu, drums and gongs were beating everywhere. Today there was a strike, and everyone went to the patrol room to ask for an explanation. The patrol room was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside. Drivers and spectators, there were a lot of people watching the excitement today. It was fine on Sunday. Many people went to the concession. The concession was the pedestrian street at that time. The streets were wide and there were many shops. Everything is available.Porters at the wharf also joined the shouting team because there were few goods coming in and out of the wharf during the week, and they had nothing to do.

Everyone holds weapons in their hands, small rocks, small in size but not small in power.When they saw a foreigner, they threw stones and shouted impassionedly: "Foreign devils, get out of China." When they hit a foreign devil, there was applause and cheers all around. Suddenly, the crowd of onlookers backed away in horror. At some point, two cannons were set up on the balcony on the second floor of the patrol room. They were not model cannons, but genuine steel cannons, pointing directly at the crowd. Facing the muzzle, what should we do? "Break the enemy's fire, go, go!" For most people, this is just a legend.Where there is artillery fire, there is danger, and where there is danger, there are no people.The crowd began to back away slowly, and slowly dispersed.Of course, this cannon is just for show, to frighten people.But everyone was worried that if any patrol was in a hurry, there would be a loud noise, and all the play would be over.

The climax broke up before it started, and the breath was not enough.The coachmen took stones and looked for foreigners to throw stones everywhere; the foreigners all hid.A young man in a suit came over. He was the son of a government official named Xie Jingtang. He had just returned from studying abroad. He was a returnee.I usually wear suits, trousers, top hats, and look like a gentleman. Today, I was walking on the road when the stones came. He shouted: "I am a fake foreigner, but a real Chinese; although I wear a foreign dress, my heart is still Chinese." It is useless to say anything now, just withdraw, or you will die if you don't withdraw.

Xie Jingtang ran into Hong Zhangyang's warehouse to hide.After finally catching a man wearing a foreign dress, everyone would not let him go, and rushed in.The boss blocked it, everyone saw that it was a foreign product number, smashed it, smashed it hard!Incidentally, the number of the foreign goods next door was also smashed.Xie Jingtang had sharp eyes and quick hands, slipped away from the back door, and ran all the way to Huajie (Chinese residential area), his injured heart was beating wildly, it is better to be Chinese.Motherland, I'm back again; suit, I'll be bye bye with you forever. But there is already an addiction to smashing, and they smash it when they see "foreign". Foreigners, fake foreigners, and shops with foreign characters all suffer.The Indian patrols have long since disappeared, and the Chinese police are still on the way.The British Consul in Hankou decided to get serious, and urgently transferred the British Marine Corps on the warship moored on the Hankou River.As soon as I landed, I was stopped by the crowd, who threw stones at them and said, "You are not welcome in China, and you are not welcome in Hankou."The soldiers fired a row of guns into the sky, and the crowd dispersed, but after a few steps, they came back and threw stones.The British soldiers did not hesitate this time, and fired at the crowd. The tragedy happened like this, and 21 people fell down in response, seven of them died. Here, the head and deputy head of the Hankou district came late with a group of people, and they were meeting the retreating crowd.Everyone held stones that could not be thrown in the future, and angry stones, crazy stones smashed towards them madly. The district chief suffered a disaster, and his left eye was injured; The district chief and deputy district chief ran to Ruicheng covered in blood, crying and expressing their grievances.We dare not wipe the blood, which proves that we are always on the front line, and we will never go out of the line of fire when we bleed. The coachmen and porters had already fallen out in Hankou.There is only one standard (equivalent to a regiment) army stationed in Hankou to defend the Beijing-Hankou Railway; in addition, there are defense battalions stationed in various places to guard important places such as prisons and warehouses; crowd. It seems that the army must be mobilized, and Zhang Biao, the highest military officer in Hubei, the commander of the Ninth Town (division commander), is on the scene.Zhang Biao led the 29th Biao and 41st Biao troops to assemble and set off. Before leaving, Rui Li issued a password: "Peaceful suppression. Courtesy first, soldiers later. Good words come first. If you really don't listen, then I'm sorry, and you will be killed." " The eight fast ships were full of soldiers, as well as Zhang Biao's thoughts. I'm afraid the fast wheel is too small to carry Zhang Biao's many worries. Zhang Biao faced a thorny problem. He was unwilling to help foreigners and deal with his compatriots, and neither were the soldiers.Foreigners can leave immediately, Ruicheng can continue to be promoted, but I will continue to hang around here in the future, no matter in terms of future or conscience, I can't go too far. Just come out with "fox fake tiger prestige". Who is the fox?Zhang Biao. Who is Tiger?A fast gun imported from Germany. Frighten the people with a gun, and be a cunning and weak old fox. Everyone will accept it when they see it. The streets are covered with notices: My compatriots, everything is a misunderstanding; everyone should leave, go home, wash and sleep. The coachmen didn't agree, the person died, the blood flowed, and told me to wash and sleep, do you think I was taking a bath?The soldiers had just boarded the pier, and the pier was full of onlookers, and the two soldiers walking in front were immediately attacked.This time it was not a stone, but a shoulder pole. Some poles came from nowhere and were thrown on their heads without thinking. The shoulder pole is long, the pole is short, the pole is not as long as the gun, and the pole is placed on the soldier's head. The common people laughed when they saw it.There was a burst of applause and cheers from the crowd. When the two beaten soldiers got angry, Bian was also beaten. You should not applaud, let alone applaud. In public, how can you come out to mess around in the future?They yelled at the crowd: "If you have the guts, stand up and fight one-on-one. You throw away the pole and I throw away the gun, and resolve our personal grievances one-on-one." There was another commotion from the crowd, but no one came out.It is said that it is a one-on-one fight, and if you are in a hurry, no matter how powerful the pole is, it can't beat the quick gun. Suddenly a man pushed forward, and the soldiers rushed to catch him.The man cried out: "I just stopped by to watch the excitement while making soy sauce." "Then why did you run to the front?" "They pushed me to the front." There was another burst of laughter in the crowd, and the order was chaotic. Zhang Biao was even more worried. It seemed that the situation of being immobile and serious could not be controlled. Zhang Biao started to act, of course he didn't shoot.First of all, troops were sent to garrison at the junction of the Chinese border and the concession with live ammunition, only allowed to go out, not allowed to enter.At the same time, six mobile squads were dispatched, with guns in hand and knives in their waists, to patrol along the street, beating gongs while patrolling, and shouting at the same time: "Those who watch the excitement go home quickly; those who want to cause trouble let their horses come over." Hand out leaflets, free of charge, you have the right not to read them, but you have no right not to accept them.There are a few easy-to-understand words on it: "No rumors are allowed to confuse the public, and officials will take care of them; if it is after eight o'clock, we will be strictly expelled; if you dare to resist and do not comply, you will be allowed to kill." At eight o'clock in the evening Before that, you must leave the concession. This trick really worked, and he couldn't leave if he didn't leave, and a large number of people watching the excitement gradually dispersed.All the shops and theaters in the Hankou Concession were closed that night, and there was only one place that was very lively, the restaurant, which was full of soldiers.The business is quite booming, and the profits are quite huge. It doesn't matter if the light is scattered, and the substantive problems must be solved. The first is the problem of walking. Zhang Biao summoned the bosses of the car dealers to convey instructions: reward the cart pullers, and pull the cart to the pier once, with a hundred copper coins, which is dozens of times the previous price.In the face of legal huge profits, everyone was moved and started to act, and the shouts of rickshaw drivers began to sound again. It is not enough to just solve the substantive problems, but also to solve the root problems.Where is the root?It was still on Wu Yigou.Whether Wu Yigou was kicked to death or not must be explained.Zhang Biao, together with the district chief, deputy district chief, and bureau chief, will conduct another autopsy. But here comes the problem again, what if the masses are dissatisfied with the result and snatch the corpse again?It was finally decided to go to a place where they couldn't go, and drive a warship to the center of the river for an autopsy. I don't believe that this group of people will practice the long-lost unique kung fu in the rivers and lakes: moving the universe and floating on the water. Wu Yigou, Wu Yigou, your icy corpse has turned Hankou upside down. On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the British consul came to the scene in person, and experts from China, Britain, France, and military doctors jointly worked on-site and conducted on-site consultations to give consultations to the dead. Zhang Biao looked solemn: "I am here to convey the spirit of Lord Rui's speech, and I must do everything possible to diagnose Wu Yigou's whole body from top to bottom, inside and out, with a highly serious and responsible attitude. Give the people a satisfactory explanation and answer.” After a day of careful and conscientious consultation by Chinese and foreign experts, carefully analyzing the pathology report and various data, they carefully concluded that no matter from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, there was no trace of external force hitting, kicking, biting, gnawing, or tearing. Wait for traces.Finally, several experts solemnly signed the report. Things should come to an end. Yes, the coachmen have already started on the road; the spectators have dispersed long ago, and the beaten soldiers are eating and drinking in the tavern; the shops in Hankou have opened again;The family members of the coachman who went to another world with Wu Yigou rushed to get the pension, because the above said: Humane pension, bonus is limited; first come, first served, expired invalid. That's it, bear with it first, then wash and sleep. The first mass incident in Wuhan in the year of 1911 ended like this. Ruicheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, the new year is in the first month, so let's go to a play and feel bad luck.He invited the theater troupe to the yamen to sing the play for three days, but before he finished watching the play, the newspapers began to scold him: Ruicheng, who is inhumane, you are cheering while others are mourning.Of course, only the newspapers in the concession have the courage. Ruicheng is depressed, I really don't want much, it's just a little private space, can you give it to me? The terrible thing is that there is no place to complain about this suffering.Complain to the little emperor?This frowning look will scare the child; complain to the regent Zaifeng?He was already suffering enough, wouldn't it be worse if he complained again? ! He sighed deeply. In fact, being an official is not only depressed but also weak.