Chapter 302 Ningbo Question

For a long time, no one dared to say this in front of Ye Niangzi, but Shi Jingfen was not afraid, he was demoted, and he was not afraid of offending Ye Niangzi.

It's just that this sentence has the connotation of Ye Niangzi's connivance, so Ye Niangzi is also unambiguous, she took out a short sword from her waist, and saw that the two sides were fighting at the venue, and the senior cadres next to Lu Ping, Xu Fengfei, and Liu Gongrui hurriedly went up and dragged Ye Niangzi: "Ye Niangniang, don't be angry, don't be angry!" ”

"Shi Jingfen!" Ye Niangzi's eyes were full of murderous intent: "Say it again, don't blame me for daring to kill!" ”

Shi Jingfen didn't expect Ye Niangzi's reaction to be so big, looking at the snowy silver sword, he reacted for a while: "This sentence, you should say it to the inspector!" ”

"Good!" Ye Niangzi was not ambiguous: "Order the No. 2 capital ship, as soon as it forms combat effectiveness, it will immediately expedition to Dinghai Hall!" ”

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Dinghai Hall.

Dinghai Hall is the later Zhoushan, here was originally Dinghai County, during the Opium War, it was changed to Dinghai Hall when it was returned to China, and it was no longer under the jurisdiction of Ningbo Prefecture, but became a hall directly under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province.

Endless dangers and opportunities lurk in the islands of all sizes, pirate ships that cannot survive off the coast of Zhejiang, plus the Canton boats that Buxing has, and the green camp sailors who dare not go out to the sea to cruise, will gather here, and for a time formed a scale of hundreds of large and small warships.

However, this fleet was a mixed group, and although it was nominally subordinate to Duan Guangqing, who had fled to Dinghai, it was in fact independent, not to mention the Portuguese fleet.

They soon turned their attention to Ningbo Mansion at their doorstep, and they were pleased to find that although the Rainbow Army occupied Ningbo Mansion, their forces could not be deployed along the entire coastline of Ningbo Province, and soon some pirates and Green Camp sailors began to attack tentatively.

But these attacks without exception, are defeated by mixed defeat, the rainbow army is not those who do not move or even collect money and refuse to send out the green battalion soldiers, as long as the pirates landed on the coast, they were immediately attacked by the main force of the rainbow army, after several temptations, even the coastal self-defense forces dared to attack with the pirates.

In this case, this huge fleet can only retreat to Dinghai Hall, but the future of the entire fleet has become a big question in front of everyone.

Bu Liang Dai is such a confused person, he drank two bowls of boiled water, walked around the deck barefoot, but did not find any accidents, but he was confused when he heard this tide, so he could only go back to the cabin and ask his eldest brother Bu Xingyou: "Big brother, I can't live this day!" ”

"Why can't I get by!" Bu Xingyou is very calm: "It is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, and it is difficult to enter simplicity from luxury, when our brothers traveled thousands of miles across the ocean, didn't this be how they lived, and the situation at that time was much more sinister than now!" ”

Bu Liangdai couldn't help but sigh: "Hey, it's all because of Duan Daotai!" ”

They used to be very happy in Ningbo Mansion, with thousands of subordinates under them, who could get thousands of taels of silver every month, and tens of thousands of taels of their own furniture, not to mention the wind and snow in Ningbo Mansion.

It's just that I didn't expect that the day would suddenly collapse overnight, it turned out to be an ambush for Ye Niangzi's fleet, ready to calculate the Hongjun Navy Division and Baoshun Wheel, who expected that the day was not as good as people, Baoshun Wheel actually defected to Liu Jiehu.

In this way, Bu Xing's fleet lost almost half of the ships, especially the big ships ran slowly, and the loss made Bu Liangdai feel extremely painful, and tried to rebuild the fleet afterwards, but because of lack of money and salary, the infantry of the Hong Army had already killed all the way to Ningbo Mansion, and Bu Xingyou and Bu Liangdai could only flee to Dinghai Hall in a hurry.

Thinking of Bao Shunlun's defection, Bu Liangdai sighed and sighed, and he asked his brother: "We can't go on like this, if we continue like this, the hearts of the people will be scattered, and the team will also be scattered!" ”…,

Bu Xingyou is a rather resolute figure at sea, he said: "What is this setback, we have encountered greater setbacks, and in the end, it is our brothers who have the last laugh!" ”

"Big brother, to put it simply, now some brothers are unwilling to do it and leave! If it goes on like this, I'm afraid the whole team will cross! ”

"I won't cross, as long as I do one vote, our brother will still be the first person in this Southeast Ocean, Ye Niangzi is a fart!" Bu Xingyou also scolded rudely: "Didn't you just run to a little white face and get a steamer?" Our brothers can get it too! ”

"Can you really get it?" Bu Liangdai was already excited: "I also know our family background very well, if we want to get such a steamship, I'm afraid that the family background will be gone!" ”

"We can't do it, we have to get it for us, we have to get it for us, and we have to get it for us in Duan Daotai!" Bu Xingyou thought very clearly: "Do a big ticket, let them get it!" ”

"Where?" Bu Liang's heart was hot: "Let's brothers go into battle together, it's absolutely no problem!" ”

"Ningbo Port!" Bu Xingyou immediately said: "Don't you see, there are at least five or six ships unloading there every day, and there are countless foreign guns, foreign guns, gunpowder guns on the shore, and I heard that there are thirteen in the warehouse alone!" We are familiar with this place, and there is no problem in revisiting the old place! ”

"But that's the territory of the British!" Bu Liangdai immediately objected and said: "Now Ningbo Port is a neutral port, and it is presided over by the British, let's go to rob Ningbo Port, we will offend the British!" ”

"Lao Tzu has been forced to such a desperate road, how can he care about the British or the Americans, rob it!" Bu Xingyou was very single: "If you grab it, at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, gold and silver mountains, good belts, do you want to do it with me?" ”

"Follow the eldest brother, our brothers are originally one heart!" Bryon is not afraid of the British: "It's just that we have offended the British, I'm afraid we won't be able to mix on the sea!" ”

"What do you care about so much!" Bu Xingyou asked again, "Where is Ge Wu now?" ”

"Ge Wu?" Bu Liangdai remembered that there was such a number one person in Dinghai Hall: "What are you doing with him?" The last time he went to the team of the Laye Lady on Yuhuan Island, he was almost caught by the red thief, but fortunately, he has a lot of old age to be able to escape! ”

"I'm useful!" Bu Xingyou said: "Don't underestimate Ge Wu, I still have a lot of use for this person!" Let's plan carefully, how to snatch Ningbo, and how to repay the merit after grabbing it......"

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"One, two, three, four, left, right, left, right,"

The Self-Defense Force in Ningbo Port already had a preliminary framework, and although a few Green Battalion officers were absorbed into the Self-Defense Force led by the British, they had nothing to do with the old Green Battalion.

This is Fumar's Self-Defense Force, and Fumar is very concerned about this Self-Defense Force, so he personally took Feng Wenyi to inspect this force: "Although there are only 200 people now, it will soon be expanded to an infantry battalion, and we have put a lot of effort into the construction of this Changjie Army!" ”

Feng Wenyi glanced at the Self-Defense Force a few times, and he saw many familiar faces inside, these were all soldiers or officers of the Hong Army, and now he saw them again in this Self-Defense Force, but their names and resumes were changed beyond recognition.

It seems that Liu Chang is also quite troubled in the Self-Defense Forces!

Therefore, Feng Wenyi had already decided in his heart that he would also grab a hand for Liu Chang, but he quickly changed the topic: "What does Your Excellency the Consul think of my proposal?" ”

"It's not the best option!" Fumar replied: "It is beyond my authority to ask HSBC to provide financial support for trade in the port of Ningbo. ”

"But that's the best way to make the port prosper quickly!" Feng Wenyi told His Excellency the Consul: "Our money bank can also provide all the convenience for the trade of Ningbo Port, but our banker is not universally recognized by the Western institutions in Shanghai!" The "trade in the port of Ningbo" he refers to is in fact the trade of arms and military supplies, although this trade is very profitable, Liu Chang still buys almost unlimited military supplies and industrial products brought by Western merchants.

But both Feng Wenyi and Fumar realized that such a purchase seems to be unlimited, but after all, there is a maximum limit, and above that limit, a bottleneck will be formed.

Therefore, Feng Wenyi proposed that British commercial institutions, especially the very powerful HSBC, provide comprehensive financial support for such military trade, including loans, mortgages, bills of exchange, settlement, and many other supports, while Feng Wenyi's ticket number provided support from the Chinese side, such as the exchange of bank bills.

But this matter is too much to do, although Fumar is a consul, he does not dare to agree to Feng Wenyi: "You should understand that this is tantamount to breaking the previous statement of the British government, which has stated that the British government has maintained a policy of neutrality in the Chinese civil war and will not provide material or other support to any party in the civil war!" ”

"But if we want Ningbo Port to prosper, we have to make some changes!" Feng Wenyi threw out a sugar-coated cannonball: "Whether it is you or me, you can obtain greater benefits in the prosperity of Ningbo Port." ”

This made Fumar a little moved, and indeed his fate was already tied to the port.

In the letter to Fumar, Fumar could see that they had struck hard one after another, but this was after all the greatest achievement of the British in China's diplomacy and trade after the Opium War, so they made a very strong proposal to the Qing officials that the British government supported the neutralization of Ningbo and would not allow anyone to undermine the neutrality, peace and prosperity of the port.

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