Chapter 35 Fire

At about 2:00 p.m. on September 16, in order to finally pass the resolution of the resignation of the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives in the afternoon, hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated in front of the Capitol once again launched a demonstration to strengthen their momentum.

The heavy rain will stop, the sky is abnormally blue, blue and blue dripping, and hundreds of thousands of people are constantly issuing exit numbers. Everyone's faces are full of pride. In the eyes of many of them, they seem to have achieved a preliminary victory. This is the first one in this country. They are all influenced by public opinion.

And for the first time, the people are also aware of their own power and the power of this group. This is no longer the gift of the emperor, no longer the grace of others, but the first time they really gather together and show their power to people with their own actions. The history of the people can influence the political axe and the left. The fate of this country.

Nanjing is a thousand-year-old old city. After the founding of the empire, a large number of renovations were carried out in Nanjing. Tens of thousands of old-fashioned buildings were knocked down and rebuilt. Now, as the old city of Nanjing in Yanjing, there are a large number of Western-style buildings built in the early days of the empire. The buildings designed by designers from Europe and the United States will only make the beginning. People in the inner city of Nanjing were stunned and surprised that they were in the European world, and the most preserved Chinese characteristics, that is, the gate of Nanjing. When it comes to the old Nanjing people in Nanjing, they would think of "the inner thirteen, the outer eighteen", which was Zhu Yuanzhang's masterpiece in those years. In 1365, Zhu Yuanzhang captured Jiankang under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and changed his name to Ying Tianfu. The following year, he intended to build a capital here and began a large-scale capital construction, which took 20 years and was completed in 1386. At that time, the "Ying Tianfu City" was known to have a circumference of 96 miles. In recent years, it has been determined by relevant departments to be 33.68 kilometers, which is longer than the world-famous city of Paris (nearly 30 kilometers), which can be called "the best in the world".

At that time, there were 13 gates, that is, 13 inner gates. In order to consolidate the defense of the city and prevent the high points outside the city from being used by the enemy, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the construction of the outer city in 23 years of Hongwu. Its circumference is 120 miles, which is built according to the situation by using the mound hills outside the capital. Only the gate and part of the city walls are made of bricks, and both ends stop at the river. There are a total of 18 gates, that is, the outer eighteen, which forms the name and location of "inner thirteen, outer eighteen".

Over the past 500 years, these gates, mainly the inner gates, have undergone great changes. However, it did not get rid of the theory of the inner thirteen. After the founding of the empire, with the expansion of the urban area and the needs of transportation development, 11 gates were opened one after another. In this way, with the original inner thirteen, it became the inner twenty-four. The Yuhua Gate is a city gate opened by the empire in seven years.

When hundreds of thousands of people marched through the Yuhua Gate, I don't know who proposed that everyone should go to the Imperial Technology Introduction Committee to directly to argue and protest. After this proposal came to the public, it immediately received a response and support from the people. The demonstrators turned through the northwest, walked towards the Guangfu Gate, and then turned to Guangfu Avenue. After walking a few kilometers towards Xiaguan, they saw a Chinese-style building in front of them, with brick and wooden structures and long eaves. The whole building looked exquisite and dignified without losing its solemnity.

There are two solid plaques hanging on the side of the gate, and the black characters on the white door plaque can be seen clearly from afar.

"Chinese Imperial Technology Introduction Committee"

"Central Bidding Bureau of the Chinese Empire!"

Unlike the Western style of the inner city, most of the buildings in Shimonoseki have a strong Chinese architectural style. As the first landmark building in Shimonoseki, the Imperial Technology Introduction Committee uses the Chinese architectural style. Unlike the Chinese style of the current Chinese style and the Western-style skeleton, this building uses a lot of the old style. Even so, the construction process is still regarded as the opening work of modern Chinese architecture.

At this time, in front of this three-story building, dozens of police officers in black police uniforms stood in front of the gate with rifles. They were sent here to maintain order. When they saw that the parade was getting closer and closer, they still stood calmly in front of the gate, maintaining order as usual. In the past few days, he We have been protecting this institution here.

In fact, without their protection, this place may be impacted at the first time of the incident. After all, no one can predict what the angry people will do, not to mention that even if a large number of public officials working in the two organs are arrested or assisted in the investigation, the work here cannot be After all, it controls the import trade of machinery and technology of the whole country, so the police come here more to maintain normal work.

When the parade was close to the technical committee, someone in the parade pointed to the three-story building and shouted.

"The hole of the betraying giant!"

When people stopped and glared at the building and roared, they heard someone shouting again.

"Why don't you rush in and find those giants to plead guilty?"

This reminder didn't matter, and the crowd spread out with a roar. The door of the technical committee was immediately surrounded by water. The police who maintained the order immediately tried to stop them, while a police officer shouted in front of the police force in front of the gate and explained to the people.

"Gentlemen, everyone, all the public officials suspected of this case have been taken away by the Bureau of Investigation..."

At this time, it was obvious that no one listened to the police officer's explanation. At this time, the people full of anger in their chests only knew that the building in front of them was full of dirt and a nest for betrayal giants.

As the people in the parade approached, the police officer wearing the rank of second lieutenant looked at the colleagues beside him, and then at the angry people, for fear that something would happen.

"Repone the bayonet!"

The rifles equipped by the police were "decorative surnames" and "threatening surnames" most of the time. The officer's words were immediately obeyed by the 28 heavily armed police officers present. They took off the bayonet of the gun and automatically withdrew the bullets, because the Nanjing Police Department had ordered that the demonstration of the people should be "treated in a civilized manner". In the eyes of the people, their actions turned into support for them, and the shouts were even louder for a while.

Shao Lingyuan, who was originally taking away the files on the second floor, saw that the police obviously could not stop the people. He was afraid of any trouble. While instructing his subordinates to move the sealed files to the car as soon as possible, he took a subordinate downstairs.

"Who is the on-site commanding officer!"

When he got off the building, Shao Lingyuan shouted loudly.

"I'm Second Lieutenant Li Dingke, and I'm ordered to protect the Technology Introduction Committee..."

Before Li Dingke's words fell, a group of demonstrations in front of him had begun to collide with the police who had formed the sincere benevolence wall. The people clenched their fists angrily, and the police pushed back the people with rifles.

"Are your batons a decoration? Why don't you fight with your hands!"

In Shao Lingyuan's view, now these people have violated the law by trying to attack the imperial public authorities.

"If you can't retreat with a baton, shoot a warning!"

"S sir, we have not been ordered by the officer."

Li Dingke's contradict did not anger Shao Lingyuan. He knew that these policemen had no orders and they could not do anything, so he took out his ID and said.

"I'm a senior investigator of the Imperial Bureau of Investigation. Can I order you now?"

"No! We must not do anything without the direct order of the police chief!"

"Then I'll call your director..."

Don't wait for Shao Lingyuan to say that he went to call the director of the police department, but the angry crowd had hit the wall of 28 policemen and rushed into the technical committee building.

"Guys, this is the state official organ, you..."

Before Li Dingke could explain, he was hit to one side by the people, and Shao Lingyuan and his subordinates had just taken out their guns and were besieged by more than a dozen young students. They rushed upstairs to the young students and shouted for the person in charge to speak. In their opinion, everyone in this building was a corrupt official. , they are all worms that betray the interests of the country and search for the people's fat, and several agents of the investigation bureau who were collecting the archival materials used as evidence were stopped by hundreds of young people when they were about to explain. They shouted, "Fout this traitor!" People who asked why they were so greedy and occupied by anger to reason heard their explanations, and few people saw the flag on their sleeves. They caught them like those staff who continued to work.

It is obviously extremely angry that they failed to catch the people whose names mentioned their names in the newspapers. Especially when they rushed to the magnificent chairman's office on the third floor, looking at the luxurious office, I don't know who shouted that these were all the people's fat.

"Fmash!"

I don't know who shouted, and then someone pulled down the scroll, picked up the chair or something, smashed the glass of the doors and windows, smashed the tables, chairs, coffee tables, flower pots and utensils, pushed and kicked the ground, and smashed the ground. At this time, people still seemed to be relieved. When everyone saw the corrupt officials running away, their anger was on the building in front of them and the staff in the building. When the staff were beaten, people kept pushing and scolding.

"You corrupt officials, corrupt the crossbow and collude with foreign countries?"

"Only know the individual, don't know the country, let you contact foreign enterprises, it's just..."

In the face of the anger of the people, the public officials who are still working here or waiting for investigation keep bowing and saying:

"Gentlemen, this is just the personal behavior of some people, which has nothing to do with most of the committee..."

Their explanation was immediately interrupted.

"You don't have to shit! How many rebates did you get?

Everyone shouted and scolded, and the staff who were pushed together hesitated. At this time, they could explain it clearly. They did not explain or hesitated. In the eyes of the people who rushed in, it was obvious that they had confirmed their guilt. Everyone's emotions were out of control here, calling "Fat!" Fight! They went up one after another to punch and kick, or hit the staff with chairs. For a moment, they jumped and scolded endlessly.

In the face of this situation, even the investigators in charge of investigating the case in the committee can only beg for mercy on their backs.

"Burn the hole of this betraying giant!"

Accompanied by people's shouts, the shouts of "burn it, burn it" suddenly converged into one place, and in the shouts, someone went to the yard to pry open the fuel tank of the car, pull out the gasoline and pour it upstairs, or push the car downstairs, soak it in gasoline with clothes, and stuff it into the fuel tank. After a moment later, the whole imperial technology introduction committee Then the flames rose up, and the flames finally converged into a ball, and thick smoke spewed out along the window and roof.

Under the flames, there were shouts, and the red flames reflected the fanatical faces on the street, while in the distance, a group of blue-nosed policemen looked at the scene in front of them with a complicated look.

(to be continued)