Chapter 2384: Tea event

On the afternoon of May 26, Griffin Wharf, Green Dragon Tavern.
Adams read Fanir Snow's reply in public, and was interrupted by the roar of the audience countless times.
In the tavern crowded with "Sons of Freedom", the people were very angry and strongly demanded sanctions against Faneuil Snow!
Adams threw away the newspaper, spread his hands together, and declared helplessly in a stage-like exaggeration:
"We have done our best to Mr. Snow. Let the people decide what comes next."
This sentence is like lighting the fuse, the crowd rushed out of the tavern, took up the clubs that had been prepared in advance, and violently pounced on the warehouse of the Snow Firm on the dock. Along the way, many sailors wandering on the streets joined the group of thugs. Among the ranks.
Snow's partner Clark Hatch, seeing the surging crowd, urged his comrades to close the warehouse door and guarded it alone, trying to calm the fanatical crowd.
In response, sticks and fists came like raindrops, knocking him to the ground.
The mob rushed to the warehouse, towards Faneuil Snow's office.
Fanir Snow hurriedly greeted his companions and hid on the second floor of the warehouse.
The crowd broke the glass, broke into the unattended office, yelled, smashed everything that could be destroyed, and then rushed into the warehouse.
A consignee intended to shoot but was stopped by Faneuil.
When the other party said that he just wanted to shoot up to the sky to warn the rioters, and not really want to shoot and wound people, Fanir, who was familiar with the behavior of "Son of Freedom," warned him not to be so naive.
"This is a trap, my friend! As long as we dare to shoot here, someone on the other side must be shot and fall!"
"Even if you only fire one shot, there will be more than ten casualties on the opposite side!"
"In the face of these shameless people, no matter how you argue, it is useless. In the end, all these crimes will be planted on us, and we will never be able to get rid of the charges!"
At the moment when the warehouse door was about to be breached, fortunately, Andrew Snow led the Mounted Police Team to arrive in time to disperse the mob and rescue Faneuil and others.
The tense situation lasted until May 29, when the first "Beaver" cargo ship carrying tea entered the port, which affected the heartstrings of the opposing parties.
In the evening of the same day, the "Sons of Freedom" came to the Green Dragon Tavern to meet again. This time they are going to make a big news!
Adams stood up again, gave an impassioned speech, and finally concluded with this paragraph:
"We have done our best to save the colony. The next step depends on the people's decision. The law cannot judge the people. No matter what happens, the consequences will be borne by tyrants, bureaucrats and their lackeys!"
When Adams finished speaking, frantic shouts and whistles immediately sounded in the tavern, which could be heard three blocks away.
Not long afterwards, someone saw a group of young people rushing out of the tavern, their faces painted with oil paint, feathers on their heads and cloaks, dressed like a group of Asa people hunting in the jungle, holding clubs, knives and guns toward the "Beaver" "The Griffin Wharf where the tea ship is anchored.
The tavern is less than half a mile away from the dock and the tea ship.
Thousands of spectators watched their actions, and the number of pier raiders ranged from 100 to 150.
Some of them stood guard on the shore with guns, while the others swarmed on the deck of the Beaver, and roughly pushed away the customs officials who came to discourage them, warning them to shoot if they didn't get out of the way.
The mobs smashed the hatch, got into the cargo warehouse, skillfully set up a winch, and used a pulley block to pull up the container with tea leaves.
Each box of tea leaves weighs at least 335 pounds, and better tea leaves are packed in small wooden boxes, but even so, those small wooden boxes weigh 70 to 80 pounds each.
To transport all the tea leaves on the ship, to open the cargo boxes and dump the tea into the harbor, it takes a long time and intensive labor.
In the next three hours, the mob dumped all 342 boxes of tea, totaling 90,000 pounds, into the sea.
When the tide is low, the sea water is very shallow, and the tea poured into the bay spreads out like long feathers and drifts to the south.
From the shore came rows of small boats with some people sitting on them. They tried to pick up tea leaves from the sea and take them home, but they were soon "persuaded to leave" by gunfire from the dock.
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On the evening of the "Qingcha Incident", Qiao An had been revising the final version of "Introduction to Ecology, Society and Religion in Niforgem" at home. It was not until the early morning that he reviewed the manuscript with more than 200,000 words. Delivered before the "dead line".
This paper will be published in the summer issue of Austrian Law Exploration within two weeks. If nothing else, the score will exceed the 90 mark.
Qiao An stayed up late to catch up on the paper, and was so tired that his house was located far away from the Griffin Wharf where the disturbance occurred. Although noise was heard from afar, there were several gunshots during the period, but no fierce firefights were heard in the follow-up. , Just as drunk fighting on the dock, didn't think about it.
It wasn't until the next morning that I received a letter from Rebecca that I realized that there was a mess on the dock last night.
After breakfast, Qiao Ann was invited to the White House Manor to participate in the weekend salon held by Rebecca. It is conceivable that the topic of discussion must be the "Tea Tea Event" that is hotly discussed in the city.
Qiao Ann walked into the living room and found that apart from Rebecca and Vassar, Thomas, Edward, and Allen were also present, and the atmosphere in the living room was a bit depressed.
In Qiao An's circle of friends, the two people who are always the most keen to discuss political events and always have tit-for-tat opinions, Rebecca and Allen, seem unusually silent today.
Rebecca's demeanor is very subtle, it seems to be deliberately reserved, and it seems to be suppressing anger.
In fact, she didn’t need to say anything more about this violent incident. Everything she wanted to say had already been predicted in advance. The riots that occurred last night were nothing more than to verify her foresight again. This point does not need to be emphasized by her personally. All of you here are aware of this. Bright.
Allen's emotions were mixed with frustration and embarrassment.
As a supporter of radicals and a supporter of "Son of Freedom", he defended the actions of "Son of Freedom" with all his enthusiasm throughout the anti-tax movement. This young man sincerely believed that he and his comrades. They are based on great and lofty ideals, seeking freedom and equality for the masses, and rising up to fight against the stubborn and decadent "royalists".
Even in the later stages of this political movement, the violent acts of radicals have emerged one after another, even if Allen himself neither participates nor agrees with those violent acts that have repeatedly broken the bottom line, public humiliation and even punishment of people with different political opinions, but he is still sincere. Defend the comrades and insist that the justice of this struggle cannot be denied because of individual violent incidents.
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Historical materials: the real tea-pouring incident ("Jefferson" (U.S.) Joseph J. Ellis)
Jefferson's portrayal of the Boston Tea Party in "A Summary of British American Rights" is also the same.
In Jefferson's pen, a group of loyal Bostonians risked arrest and prosecution to destroy a ship of prohibited goods.
Samuel Adams, one of the protagonists of the Continental Congress and the main organizer of the Boston Tea Party, must have a knowing smile.
Because he knew that these so-called "loyal Bostonians" were in fact a group of gangsters and saboteurs, and in order not to be recognized, they disguised themselves as Indians.
They have the secret support of Boston businessmen, many of whom have made a fortune in smuggling.
Samuel Adams realized that the tea pouring event was a carefully planned revolutionary drama.
Jefferson described it as a patriotic movement spontaneously implemented according to the rules of the "Tea Party" (TeaParty). Perhaps this is out of the need of political propaganda. Jefferson commented that it was carefully planned just like the tea event itself.
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