Chapter 956 The original trace of the four watches of the Yellow River

When the Setter saw that the levee had been breached, he grinned.

Although that smile made his originally ugly face even more hateful.

But laughed, after all, laughed,

He doesn't care what others think!

He just wanted to express the pride in his heart.

Deciding to succeed, the Regent turned to look at the battleships again, where greater victories awaited him.

A thousand battleships, each with at least a thousand people on it!

Once capsized, the ship was destroyed and people died.

At least 100,000 people died in the belly of the fish!

Look at the big ships are tilting south!

Crooked!

Crooked!

A little more crooked!

Okay!

It's about to topple!

Huh, why did you correct it yourself?

The Regent couldn't believe his eyes!

What he saw, he saw the ship, which had been tilted at an angle of forty degrees, suddenly flickered, and regained its balance.

He rubbed his eyes vigorously and looked again!

Or float on the surface of the water in a balanced manner.

What the hell is going on? Could it be that the ships of the Celestial Army are capable of capsizing in the Caspian Sea?

Or did the ships of the Celestial Army move to the left and right, as if they were moving forward and backward?

Hmmm? Not true!

Is the south chord really the bow of the ship?

Why is there a bow on the south side?

The spirit rubbed his eyes again, quieted down according to his feelings, and then looked calmly.

That's when you see it clearly!

Where is the rollover resistance? Not what can be driven on all sides!

I don't know what, these ships have changed their bows to the south!

No wonder the ships shook a few times before regaining their balance.

They've just been through a few waves!

Hey, no, even if they were changed to the bow facing south, to avoid a rollover, after the Yellow River burst. Aren't they supposed to go downstream?

Why do all the big ships stay anchored in place?

Even if the embankment is so high, even if it doesn't roll over, it's 30 feet high to go down the river, and it's impossible for a big ship to be intact.

All of them, almost without exception, will fall to pieces when they fall to the bottom.

But. Why are the big boats still in the river?

The spirit swept his gaze to the south, and the scenery there was already in his eyes, and he was suddenly dumbfounded!

What's going on?

I don't know when, the south side where the man in black struggled to punch the hole, no more than a zhang away, erected a high wall, the height was only about a foot higher than the original Yellow River embankment.

It's this wall. It was just as a flood that burst the levees, so that the rivers that were just about to rush away obediently crouched.

The original water of the river was not diminished because of the outflow, so the big boats did not leave their places.

Seeing the river obediently tamed, the initiator no longer had the same pride as he had at the beginning, but hung his head. Like a zombie that has lost its soul.

It turned out that Mai Ke saw those men in black digging holes with all their might. is thinking about how to break the game.

If the Regent Statue bursts the embankment, then the key is not to let him break the embankment successfully.

The Shanghai Rebellion, which was dominated by the Little Knife Society, was assisted by Mai Ke from a distance, and the three elements were dispatched together, which immediately worked, and soon controlled the entire city of Shanghai in his own hands.

Among the three major elements, the gas element only exerted its auxiliary function, sending the water element and fire element from Guangxi.

These are all normal.

The only thing that surprised Mai Ke and the others was the speed of the gas element.

It seems that Mai Ke sent it over there. The two elements of water and fire will soon arrive in Shanghai.

Mai Ke knew from the "Trick of Controlling Things" that the gas element has the function of moving quickly.

Mai Ke originally thought that the nature of gas elements and wind was similar, and the fastest was like a gust of wind, which was equivalent to a hurricane, four or five hundred kilometers per hour.

And the actual speed. Although McKe didn't deliberately side it, it was estimated to be far shorter than a second!

Can it keep pace with the speed of light?

Mai Ke felt the need to re-understand the characteristics of aerogens.

However, the priority now is not the gas element, nor the water element, but the fire element!

When the gas element sends water and fire to the house, there is no such thing as it, and the water element rolls up a dozen warships and throws them to the shore, and they also retreat, and the fire element is still wreaking havoc there!

The location is in the heart of the French Concession!

Originally, this French Concession occupied a large area outside the city of Shanghai, and the north and northwest of the city were within the scope of the concession.

For these French colonialists entrenched in the Leased Land, Mai Ke had a strong dislike in his heart!

Because they are so greedy!

He knew that these leases had begun in 1842, when the corrupt Manchus were forced to sign an unequal treaty with the British government that humiliated the country because of their defeat in the war caused by the Great Smoke.

At the beginning, there was nothing to do with France, but they took advantage of the fire to rob and came over, demanding the same treatment as Britain and the United States!

A man named Zezil came to China on a steamer known as Earregon. This guy arrived in Shanghai in mid-July of the same year. As soon as he arrived at his destination, he immediately showed the face of a pirate, and in order to deliver a letter to the local Manchu officials, they actually arrested the local man and forced him to do something for them.

The arrested man was called Wang Shixun, and when he got to this point, he had to send a letter to the Yamen of Cheng Yicai, the governor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was also the first official contact between the first French and the Shanghai government.

After Wang Shixun delivered the letter, of course he would not go back, and later learned that these people were the French army who forcibly leased the land outside the city of Shanghai, so he accused them of evil deeds everywhere.

He is now also in the rebel army, and he also serves as a small leader.

Although Zezil harbored evil intentions, he could hide them very cleverly in the letters he wrote.

He first pretended to be walking around the sea, and then happened to come to Shanghai, although he took a warship with him, but he had no malicious intent.

When he wrote this letter, he told the officials here that he had no contradiction between France and the Celestial Empire, and had nothing to do with it.

And he also took advantage of the tension between the Manchus and the British, saying that they also did not get along with the British.

At the same time, he expressed his intention to visit the local officials, and promised that he would never harass the people of the Celestial Empire.

Zezile further proposed that if the local government wished. A few small boats could be sent to secretly bring a few of their generals and soldiers ashore to meet the local officials.

Cheng Yicai, the governor, was quite open, and felt that the Manchus had no enmity with France, so he sent a general soldier to meet with the French.

Outsiders don't know exactly what was discussed, but the results were revealed three months later.

October 1844. China and France signed the "Thirty-six Paragraphs of the Sino-French Five-Port Trade Charter", also known as the "Huangpu Treaty", Article 22 of which stipulates that France has the same rights as Britain.

This power means that you can lease houses and build your own houses on rented land in the five trade lands, and in the leased areas, you can build schools, churches, hospitals, cemeteries, etc.

It was also stipulated that the magistrates should consult with the French consul about the areas where the French lived.

The first French consul in Shanghai was Mintiny, who arrived in January 1848, on the third day of his arrival in Shanghai. He rented a house outside the British Concession as a consular office, which was the official beginning of the French lease.

In the first six months of his stay in Shanghai, this consul did not have much to do, and at most he was in charge of some lesson plans in Shanghai.

It wasn't until the summer of that year that a French merchant named Remy came to Shanghai that there was a need to rent land.

This Remy used to be a businessman in Guangdong, and as soon as he arrived in Shanghai, he begged the consul to help him rent land.

On August 6, Mintini asked the Shanghai Hoi Road Station to demarcate the area of the French colony. In his note, he had even already selected the area, "on the right bank of the pidgin." From the edge of the city and the countryside to the desired location in the future. ”

Minti Ni chose a very good location for the French Concession, with the Huangpu River to the east, the pidgin to the north, and the moat to the south.

At that time, Shanghai Daotai was Wu Jianzhang, who was born in Guangdong. It's also good to know foreign English, but he doesn't like foreigners, so his requirements for the French are also perfunctory.

Soon Wu Jianzhang was transferred, and before being transferred, Wu also humiliated Min Ti Ni.

How did he humiliate?

He said. A section of the British concession could be set aside for the French, but let them go and get the consent of the British first.

Min Ti Ni was furious, and bluntly said in his reply that Wu Jianzhang's mention was "rude to my big France!"

The new Shang Hai Daotai was Lin Gui, a Manchu bannerman, who was not very different from his predecessor and politely agreed to the request of the French.

Although the officials agreed to the request of the French, the private sector took the opportunity to offer a high price for the demolition.

This made the noses of these French people crooked.

Of course, they didn't do it, so they used various methods to negotiate repeatedly.

And just like that, the bargaining lasted from August to the end of the year.

At the beginning of December, the landlords elected a representative and gave them an explanation: we don't rent!

Min Tiny immediately sent a letter to Lin Gui, in which he angrily rebuked the Chinese side, to the effect that they French had been waiting until now, and could not afford to wait any longer.

He also asked confidently, according to the treaty, can they still rent the land?

The most interesting part of the letter is that he holds the emperor's banner as a tiger skin, saying that he is convinced that Guidaotai has the authority to give this order, because the Chinese emperor has granted permission to lease land to the people of France and other signatory countries.

Since this is the case, the Chinese emperor must naturally have a holy decree to carry out the procedures for settling the concession with his officials.

After that, he changed his words and came to the conclusion, "Therefore, your Daotai must have the right to force the people to borrow land and punish those who do not obey orders." ”

In a word, you officials must settle the lease of land for me, and the conditions must meet my requirements, otherwise you will resist and disobey the order.

It seems that these colonists are really very clever, and these methods are very advanced.

Pidgin is in the north of the county, is the boundary between the British and French concessions, originally the port river leading to Huangpu, has been stored until 1915, when the concession authorities filled the river and demolished the bridge to build roads, and the pidgin disappeared since then.

The trick that Min Tini played for Lin Gui really scared Lin Gui, and he actually took the initiative to appease the French.

(To be continued......)