Send Master Xu away, and invite Wu Xu and Sun Feng.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xu didn't come long ago, so he chatted with Zhang Guangsheng hotly. Thinking that they were all from Qiantang, maybe they had already known each other, so Han Xiufeng didn't say anything.

Compared with Wu Xu, who is not only familiar with himself, but also has a good speech and demeanor, Sun Feng, the acting magistrate of Shanghai, seems to be a little restrained, speaking respectfully and respectfully, and even presents his resume according to the practice of meeting Shangguan for the first time. But when it came to the rebellious parties in the city, he seemed far more anxious than Wu Xu, and after the meeting, he went to gather the gentry and merchants to raise food and salaries and recruit strong men to quell the chaos.

But it's normal to think about it, he doesn't know how many years he has been waiting, and finally acting for the last vacancy, if he doesn't recover the county seat of Shanghai quickly, his county master will not live up to his name, let alone earn back the money donated to fill the vacancy.

Han Xiufeng weighed them and simply introduced them to Wu Jianzhang, who had just returned from collecting taxes on the river, and asked Wu Xu to negotiate with the foreigners with Wu Jianzhang, and asked Sun Feng and Wu Jianzhang to gather the gentry and merchants, raise food and wages, recruit strong warriors, and help the anti-rebellion army that was about to arrive to attack the city and suppress the bandits.

Although Wu Jianzhang said that he was deprived of his post, but the top and flower feathers donated before are still there, and there is no will for him to be investigated or not, not to mention that he not only knows the situation in Shanghai best, but also has a good relationship with foreigners, Wu Xu and Sun Feng, who have just arrived, have no objection to Han Xiufeng's arrangement, so they led their friends and family to get busy with Wu Jianzhang, and Han Xiufeng, who arranged everything, not only started to be the shopkeeper, but also asked the big head and others to pack their luggage and go back to the original house.

Zhang Guangsheng packed his luggage, put his bags on his back and couldn't help asking: "Fourth master, stay here well, why do you want to go back, what will happen here after you go back?" ”

"Yes, fourth brother, why do you always move?" Big Head is just as curious.

Han Xiufeng looked back to see if anything had been left behind, and then turned around and said, "Wu Jianzhang can find out the news that Liu Lichuan asked the English consul to help send a letter to Jiang Ning, and Liu Lichuan and other party leaders can also find out about us." The concession is mixed, so let's be cautious. ”

"Fourth brother, are you saying that those turtle sons will come to kidnap us?" The big head asked.

"I may also send someone to assassinate me, it's easy to dodge open guns and difficult to defend against hidden arrows, I don't want to die here in a daze, let alone be tied up in the city by them."

Lin Qingyuan, the second devil who had already made up his mind to mess with Han Xiufeng, thought so, and subconsciously said: "Liu Lichuan and Chen Alin must know that the fourth master is here, and even the fourth master has been living here for the past few days, and the reason why he has not done it for a long time is because he is afraid of offending the Consul of Citi." But now the consul of Citi not only promised Lord Wu to levy tariffs on Citi's commercial goods according to the old practice, but also returned the foreign guns and cannons on the 'Antelope' to Lord Wu, openly and secretly helping Lord Wu deal with them, and they will definitely not give face to the Citi people again. ”

"So it's not good to stay here."

"Fourth Master, let's go, what should Master Wu and Master Sun do?" Zhang Guangsheng thought about it and asked.

"You don't see it, they both want to make a contribution, even if they let them go with us, they will not be idle, they will show their heads. We don't stand in the way of people's wealth, let alone the future of others, they want to make meritorious contributions, let them do it. Han Xiufeng confirmed that nothing had been left behind, and motioned for the big head to change into civilian clothes and set off.

Finally met a fellow villager, Zhang Guangsheng was both worried and a little reluctant, looking at his desire to speak and stop, Han Xiufeng simply smiled and said: "Guangsheng, if you are worried about Wu Xu, stay behind, I will have nothing to do after I go back anyway." ”

"Fourth master, I ......"

"That's it, you are not my family in the first place, but you were entrusted by your cousin to stay in Shanghai to help me for a few days, and you have already helped me a lot."

Zhang Guangsheng weighed it and arched his hand: "Fourth master, then I will stay, if there is any news here, I will report to you in time." ”

"Okay, but you have to be careful."

"Fourth master, don't worry, I'll be fine."

……

Everyone walked from the back door to a small river not far away, and took the boat they had hired in advance to return to the house next to the British Concession. Master Xu did not come back, but returned directly to Songjiang from the Citi Concession. In the house, there were only Mr. Woods and a few buddies left in the "Rishengchang" Shanghai Branch, as well as the two family members left by Master Xu.

Chen Hu, who had never thought that he had just settled down, and as soon as he came back, he would wait for the same disguise as before to go to the nearby guard, so he rushed back and shouted: "Fourth master, fourth master, the official army is coming, and the army to quell the chaos is coming!" ”

"It's coming, where is it!"

"It's all out there, I don't believe you can go out and have a look."

Han Xiufeng didn't care about drinking any more tea, put down the teacup and went out, everyone walked to the door and looked south, only to see a group of green battalion soldiers and brave soldiers waving colorful flags, surging from the southwest.

"Fourth master, that's the Eight Banners Horse Team, there are so many people, so many horses!"

"There are so many people, at least five or six thousand."

Chen Hu and other old Taiyong's brothers were happily discussing, when they suddenly found that the people in the vicinity began to drag their families and flee to the concession again, just as they did when the Hui Party committed rebellion, and the small stone bridge leading to the concession was crowded with people, and those officers and soldiers chased after them like ducks.

Those Eight Banner soldiers had horses, ran fast, shouted and brandished machetes to take shortcuts from the fields to chase, the people were chased crying and screaming, and some even jumped into the river in a panic.

Wood didn't expect to look forward to the stars and the moon, but he looked forward to this group of Qiu Ba, who was worse than the party, and said reluctantly, "It's really a big army crossing the border, and there is no grass!" ”

Han Xiufeng didn't expect that the officers and soldiers brought by Xu Naizhao from the Jiangnan camp were so virtuous, and his face immediately changed: "Chen Hu listened to the order, changed into a gown for me, took a gun and went to the bridgehead to cover the people, and show his identity, if anyone dares to burn and loot, dare to kill the good and take the risk, don't worry about killing!" ”

"Yes!"

With Han Xiufeng's order, Chen Hu and the others quickly ran back to change their clothes and get guns. Thinking of the thousands of officers and soldiers who were coming here, Wu Quan hurriedly reminded: "Fourth Master, they don't know who you are, let's avoid it quickly!" ”

"Tell them who I am if they don't know! Big head, move a chair out, and put out my old flag! ”

The big head reacted and hurriedly said, "Oh, I'll go get it." ”

As he was talking, Chen Hu and the other fifteen villagers had already rushed out of the mansion while hurriedly wearing their gowns, and when they saw Han Xiufeng pointing at the bridge with a gloomy face, they didn't dare to stop for a moment and rushed over.

Lin Qingyuan had never seen this formation, and his legs trembled with fright.

At this time, the big head ran out with the big flag and said anxiously: "Fourth brother, the big flag has been found, there is a flag but no flagpole!" ”

"Isn't there a penny on the ship, go get the penny."

"Oh, I'll get it."

As soon as Datou's words fell, a gunshot rang out from the bridge.

Han Xiufeng stood on tiptoe and looked, it turned out that Chen Hu was worried that the Eight Banners Horse Team, which was getting closer and closer, would not be able to restrain their horses and would bump into those people who were crying and shouting, so he immediately fired a shot into the sky.

The six villagers with guns lined up in a row and waited for the battle, and the nine villagers without guns guarded their sides.

Thinking that on the other side of the river was the foreigners' foreign gun team, and those foreigners not only had sharp firebird guns but also dozens of cannons, Han Xiufeng hurriedly said: "Qingyuan, hurry up and negotiate with the foreign gun team, and tell them that the officials and soldiers who came are not chaotic parties, and they will not go to the concession, please don't be nervous." ”

"Obey, the little one will go!"

At the same time, the Eight Banners horse team, which had almost rushed to the bridge, was startled by the gunfire and reined in their horses and circled in the fields. The green battalion soldiers and Zhuang Yong at the back thought that they had encountered a chaotic party, and they immediately became a pot of porridge, until a military attache rushed up on horseback, brandished the oxtail knife and scolded a few words, and then spread out to both sides and outflanked him.

"Fourth brother, I've found the penny, I've found the penny."

"If you find it, don't hurry up and help me put up the flag!" Han Xiufeng slowly sat down on the Taishi chair that Xiao Wuzi had just moved out, holding on tightly and staring coldly at the officers and soldiers who were getting closer and closer.

Just now, the military attache grabbed the reins and slowly rode his horse to the bridge, and saw Chen Hu and others rushing forward to protect the people who were crying and shouting across the bridge, and asked coldly: "Who are you, you dare to block the way of the army!" ”

Surrounded by hundreds of officers and soldiers all of a sudden, Chen Hu was extremely nervous, clenched his gun and plucked up his courage and said: "My lord, the little one is ordered by my lord to cover the people to cross the river, my lord said, if anyone dares to burn and loot, if anyone dares to kill and risk merit, it will not matter if he kills!" ”

"Who burned, killed and looted, and who killed the good and risked the merits?"

Thinking that the second devil surnamed Lin was negotiating with foreigners on the east bank, although there were only six guns on his side, but there were not only hundreds of guns on the other side but also dozens of cannons, Chen Hu's courage suddenly became bigger, and the military attache who was aiming at the horse said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "In the end, whether there is burning, killing and looting, master, you think clearly!" ”

"Bold, you actually framed this official, don't you want to live anymore!"

"Lao Jiu, don't talk nonsense with him, it's great to have foreign guns, they have foreign guns, we have people!" A Qian general squeezed out of the crowd, pointed at Chen Hu with the tip of a knife and roared.

At the same time, the original team of Eight Banners on horseback saw that there were too many people at the bridgehead, and the people guarding the bridgehead had foreign guns in their hands, so they simply turned their horses and rushed to the door of the house, thinking that robbing such a big mansion should be able to get some oil and water.

I never thought that there was a big flag erected at the door, and a man with five big and three thick feet hugged the flagpole, and on the left side of the man sat a young man in his twenties, wearing a green cloth robe. Behind the young man stood an old Confucian in his forties who looked like a master and a young family member.

The leading Eight Banners soldiers were obviously illiterate, and while spinning around in front of Han Xiufeng, they asked, "Second brother, look at what is written on the flag!" ”

The Qiu Ba, who was called the second child, turned his horse's head and ran back a few steps, turned around again and looked up, and was immediately taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Big brother, the flag says that Qin Ci rewarded Dai Hualing from the top of the five products and specially awarded the deputy envoy of the two Huai Salt Transportation Divisions. ”

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