The sixth master robbed the camp and failed, but fortunately he was rescued by the spirit and his black-clothed subordinates, and he successfully escaped and returned to Huaibei City.

He had worked hard for half the night, he was already very tired, and he did not have the ability of Mai Ke to stay awake for days and nights, so he had to lie down and rest.

However, I was already sleepy and tired, and I wanted to sleep very much, but I couldn't sleep.

He tossed and turned, his thoughts were full of thoughts, and the failure of the camp robbery and the previous failures floated in front of him like a marquee.

Unable to sleep, he simply got up and walked outside.

Coincidentally, as soon as the sixth master came out, the door opposite also "creaked" open, and a person walked out of it.

Then the faint starlight, the sixth master saw that it was the fourth brother, if it wasn't for his martial arts students, his eyesight was super good, he really couldn't see who it was.

He took a few steps forward and said hello: "Fourth brother, it's so late, why haven't you rested yet?"

Xianfeng replied: "The sixth brother is not the same! You fought in the middle of the night, it was very hard, so you should rest early." ”

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 as soon as Mai Ke is delivered, the two elements of water and fire will immediately 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 gas elements, nor water elements. It's the pyrogen!

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 the leases had begun in 1842. As a result of the defeat of the Manchus in the war caused by the Great Smoke, they were forced to sign an unequal treaty with the British government that humiliated the country.

At first, there was nothing to do with France, but they took advantage of the fire and looted and came over. Ask for the same treatment as Anglo-American!

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 the letter to the yamen of Cheng Yicai, the governor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It was also the first official contact between the 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 Shanghai. and went about accusing them of their wickedness.

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.

He wrote this letter. It is to sue the official here, he has no contradiction between France and the Celestial Empire. It doesn't matter.

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 local officials. And promise never to harass the people of the Celestial Empire.

Zezile further proposed that if the local government wished, it could send a few small boats to secretly bring several 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.

In October 1844, China and France signed the "Thirty-six Articles of the Sino-French Five-Port Trade Charter", also known as the "Huangpu Treaty", the twenty-second paragraph of which stipulated that France enjoyed 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, and 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 6 August, Mintini asked for the demarcation of the French colony in the Hoi Michidai, and in his note he had even selected the area "on the right bank of the pidgin, from the city and the countryside to the desired place 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, Shang Hai Daotai was Wu Jianzhang, he was born in Guangdong, and he knew foreign affairs English very well, but he didn't like foreigners, so his requirements for the French were also perfunctory.

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

How did he humiliate?

He said that a section of the British concession could be set aside for the French, but that they should first ask for the consent of the British.

Min Tini was furious, and bluntly said in his reply that Wu Jianzhang's mention was "rude to my country!"

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 on Lin Gui really scared Lin Gui, and he actually took the initiative to appease the French.

At the same time, official forces were really dispatched to coerce the landlords to reduce the price and give the land to the French.

After more than half a year of consultations, on April 6, 849, Lingui of Shanghai Daotai issued a notice locking the boundaries of the legal person's residence area as follows: east to Guangdong Chaozhou Hall along the river to the east corner of Pidgin, south to Chenghe, west to Chujiaqiao of Guandi Temple, and north to Pidgin.

This is also the original area of the French Concession, with an area of 986 acres.

This proclamation was very generous to France, and it also announced that after the corporation had leased the land, it could be extended at any time, saying that "if there is not enough space, we will discuss other places at a later date."

This laid the groundwork for the expansion of the French Concession in the future.

This Mintini forced the Chinese side to make humiliating concessions, and he had to sell cheaply.

On the one hand, he gave Lin Gui a thumbs up, saying that he dared to act boldly and had great strength, and on the other hand, he wrote to the French Foreign Ministry that these Manchu officials were appointed for a term of three years, and the officials were all bought with money, so they tried their best to gather methods in order to turn the book over.

He also revealed that they were only afraid of one thing, that is, they were afraid of causing chaos, embarrassing the government, and eventually causing dismissal.

That being the case, as long as they insist on making things bigger, they will often be willing to submit to others.

This bottomless approach of the French colonialists even aroused opposition from the United States, saying that these places could not be given to only one country and let them enjoy them alone.

To say that this is actually depriving other countries of the benefits they deserve.

Of course, the United States is not thinking about China, but for their own interests, and if this cheapness gives them the first place, they will definitely not put forward the idea of "equalization of interests."

Sadly, France would not spit out the benefits of eating again, and the cowardly Manchus were incapable of amending the humiliating treaty, so the United States soon followed in France's footsteps and demanded and received their own exclusive leased land.

(To be continued) R655