I can't die

The incidents in Tianjin City came both strangely and suddenly, and Zai Chun couldn't help being careless.

As an emperor, suspicion is unavoidable, not to mention that Tianjin is the gatekeeper city of the capital, and he doesn't know anything about what happened under his nose, how can he not be puzzled?

After Zai Chun sent off Cixi Ci'an who came to visit him, he immediately asked Li Lianying to go to Lama Temple to invite Xia Changping.Xia Changping received Zai Chun's urgent move, straddled his horse and whipped into the palace, and walked quickly into the Hall of Mental Cultivation, only to see Zai Chun with a gloomy face, holding a memorial in his hand.

"Kowtow to the emperor, good night, the emperor." Xia Changping saw Zai Chun's expression, and knew that something must have happened to anger Zai Chun, so he had to be cautious when speaking.

When Zai Chun heard Xia Changping coming, he restrained his expression and sighed: "Old Xia, read it yourself." Xia Changping respectfully read the memorial and quickly read ten lines at a glance. The more he read it, the more he felt that something was wrong.Due to the importance of its geographical location, Tianjin Wei has always been the focus of monitoring at the sticky poles, but there has been no news about the sticky poles so far. Obviously, there is also a problem with the sticky sticks in Tianjin.

"Going back to the emperor, I have to think deeply about this matter."

Apparently Xia Changping and Zai Chun wanted to go together, and Zai Chun nodded solemnly: "Now the Qing Dynasty is cooperating with Britain to open the sea city, but at this time something happened in Tianjin City, and there is nothing about the sticky stick. Mr. Xia , you know what I mean, this matter must be investigated deeply."

Xia Changping also had a serious face, but there was some murderous intent in his heart: "Naturally, this servant will not disappoint the emperor's entrustment. I will go to this matter in person. If anyone disagrees, this servant will not tolerate it."

"Take the blood drop, and stroke the sticky stick along the way. I don't want to see such a thing again."

Blood drops are bound to see blood, Zai Chun is no longer the novice emperor who was easy to soften his heart, he knows many things, and only killing one can serve as a deterrent.Xia Changping took the order immediately, and after thinking about everything in his heart, he retreated to the Lama Temple.

Today's Xia Changping is not too young, and he can't use him for many things, but this matter, the sticky boss who has always been familiar with all kinds of dark sides smelled an unusual conspiracy. , had to go.

After Xia Changping returned to the Lama Temple, he secretly appointed the spies of his Department A, and the other three departments did not leak any information, and then a group of people disguised themselves as merchants and quietly ran out of the Forbidden City at dusk.From the Forbidden City to Tianjin, it would take about half a day to get there quickly, but because they were disguised as merchants, they walked a little slower and collected information along the way.

Since ancient times, there have been post stations on the official roads, and occasionally there are some tea stalls.Most of these tea stalls are set up by local people to entertain those who want to take a break. After all, not all people are eligible to be stationed in the government post.

"Boss, let's make some tea." Xia Changping saw a tea stall near Tianjin City, and walked in with his men.The owners of this tea stand are a father and son, an old man and a young man.When the old tea stall owner saw Xia Changping and his group, he took a look at them and knew that they were probably rich or noble, and they were not ordinary people, so he sent his son away and went up to serve them himself.

"My lord, do you want jasmine or Pu'er?"

Hearing what the old tea stall owner said, Xia Changping nodded politely, took out some scattered silver from his purse and handed it to the stall owner: "Then thank you, old man. We were going to Dagukou to buy for the nobles in Beijing. Send someone. I have heard that things in Tianjin are not good in the past few days, so I want to ask my father-in-law, but what happened.”

The procurement in the palace is the management department in charge of the imperial merchants, and it can be regarded as a small official under the Ministry of Internal Affairs.And Tianjin City is an important port for maritime transport connecting Beijing. Many things purchased by Beijing are imported from Tianjin. Since ancient times, Tianjin also has the idea that Jiujiang converges and leads directly to the sea.

Xia Changping's use of this identity is very appropriate. This official is not big, but has some connections with the royal family, so it is most convenient for him to travel outside.

The old man of the tea stall heard that he was indeed a nobleman in the capital, and smiled humbly at the moment: "Thank you for the reward, sir."

"To say that Tianjin City has not been very good these days, foreigners and those young people who resisted foreigners are in a mess. Many young people led guys to burn down several foreign churches and killed a few foreigners. It's scary. The city guards and county magistrates of Tianjin quickly sent people to step up their guard. The situation has been tense these days."

Xia Changping heard the old man's words, and asked again: "How could this be?"

Hearing the words, the old man looked around, then couldn't help but lower his head, and said quietly: "I heard that it's because of the Wanghailou Church and the Renci Hall. In the past few months, many children were abducted and trafficked in Tianjin. Those who were lost were all the children of rich and noble families, so there was a lot of trouble. Later, several suspects were caught, and they all confessed that they were instigated by the church members of Wanghailou Church. He has a human face and a beast heart, and he often abuses orphans in the Hall of Mercy, and many people are very angry after hearing this, and they have protested there." (This is based on a real event.)

The Mercy Hall is a branch of the Catholic Church. It is an institution specially used by missionaries to adopt orphans in order to show the benevolence of the church.It stands to reason that such things as child abuse are completely inconsistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church, and these priests should have no position to do so?How could it suddenly become like this?Could it be that those missionaries of foreign religions are really a preparation for men to steal women?

Hearing the old man's description, Xia Changping felt that the matter was full of doubts, as if someone was manipulating it behind the scenes. He asked a few more questions, but the old man of the tea stall was just a small tea stall owner. There are not many answers, so I can't answer it.Xia Changping saw so much that he couldn't ask anything, so he had no choice but to thank the old man, and couldn't help thinking about it.Xia Changping planned to make an unannounced visit with his group first, but he didn't expect that the troubles in Tianjin city were already so severe. It sounds like a little carelessness might cause a civil uprising.At that moment, Xia Changping made a decisive decision, took out a secret package and handed it to Jiayi, and asked him to transfer some garrisons from Naseng Gelinqin at Dagukou first, just in case of accidents.

Xia Changping's Jiazi Department is all old people who have followed Xia Changping for more than ten years, so they are doing things properly. Now the group of people is divided into two groups, one goes in to make unannounced visits in Tianjin city, and the other goes to the Dagukou military camp.