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Fu Li first wrote to Bai Gui, expressing Zhu Jinglun's attitude, and sent the letter of guarantee written by Zhu Jinglun when he was leaving to Guangzhou, asking Bai Gui to forward it to Xinhui and Heshan counties, and then took the initiative to notify the foreigners and let them go to Xiangshan County to pick up people, and at the same time did not forget to inform Zhu Jinglun to leave.

In January 1860, Zhu Jinglun took a small boat to the former cottage of Xiangshan County, which was Zhuhai in later generations, and the foreigners' ships were already waiting here.

This is a two-hundred-ton steamship, except for some foreigners, there is also Hou Jin with fifty Xin'an Keyong, who will follow all the way as bodyguards.

There were seven members of the foreign investigation team, and the leader was named JohnstrongNewberry, which translates to John. His real identity is that of an American botanist to investigate a criminal case, but a botanist is sent for self-evident purpose. Among the other people, there are employees of Qichang Foreign Company and Qiongji Foreign Company, tea tasters, financial and others. Of course, there are also legal experts, there are detectives, there are geologists and so on. In short, this is a composite investigative mission.

Of course, their public identities are all members of the American investigation team.

It is very convenient to take a boat, enter the Hengmen waterway from Lingdingyang, or go south from the sea into other waterways can go straight to Heshan, and after the arsenal is built, Zhu Jinglun will definitely imitate the steamship.

The Americans were so excited that they stood on the deck all the way, but instead of chatting, they were working. They were holding all kinds of equipment, equipment that the average Chinese did not know, there were cameras, observation equipment, and people constantly recording all kinds of data, obviously they did not regard this trip as a criminal investigation, it is estimated that it is more advantageous to explore more places, if it were not for the fact that the Americans did not have the opportunity to use force against China, Zhu Jinglun would definitely suspect that they were doing a military investigation.

"John, what are you doing here?"

Zhu Jinglun asked knowingly.

"They, they're coming to China for the first time, they're a little curious, so take some pictures, take pictures, take pictures, you know?"

John, the head of the investigation team, was clearly perfunctory to Zhu Jinglun.

Zhu Jinglun suddenly realized: "Oh, I've heard, aren't they all according to people, they can also shine on water and mountains!" ”

John smiled but did not answer, the disdain in his eyes flashed, sure enough, it was a group of barbarians, no different from the Mayans in the jungle of the Americas, and the blacks in Africa, this is the so-called ancient civilization.

Zhu Jinglun was also laughing secretly, let's test, let's test, let's measure accurately, Zhu Jinglun doesn't have the energy to retest. Zhu Jinglun didn't know whether the Americans would cry or laugh if all the measured data were finally seized by themselves.

The Americans smiled bitterly and no one knew, Fang Shan, the fortune teller, didn't know, he only knew that he wanted to laugh now.

He sat on a teahouse in Xinhui County, watching the people coming and going on the street, Xinhui is a relatively rich county, where there is more arable land, fertile land, dense river network, abundant products, is a famous land of fish and rice. Rich local education level is high, Xinhui is the whole Guangdong is quite famous Wenhua place, from the Ming Dynasty onwards, here Jinshi, lifting people continue to emerge, so there is the name of Xinhui pen, and the Dongguan people who like to practice boxing are called "Dongguan boxing, Xinhui pen".

There are bouncing children on the streets, and the children are chanting a nursery rhyme that has just become popular recently.

"The land wants the land, the guest wants the land, the Yi people come and want the land, seek to seize the land, negotiate the land, and the Tuke and the guest have no land!"

Chinese are an emotional people, they are suspicious and superstitious, especially for those proverbs and nursery rhymes for no reason, the moon is mysterious, the more bizarre, the more they feel that it is impossible to have no reason, and they can't find a reason at all, that is, God is warning the world.

In all dynasties and dynasties, the heroes who started the rebellion would first make up some mysterious proverbs to build momentum for them.

But the government will never be gullible, and most of the officials know that most of them are rumors spread by people with ulterior motives.

So when the nursery rhymes in the streets and alleys suddenly dispersed, the government caught it very much, but no one could be found at all. Of course, the child can't be caught, looking for it, and touching the melon, but the last clues are broken, some say that it is said by the passing merchants, some say that it is said by the beggar on the street, and some say that it is heard when washing clothes by the river, and no one is seen.

The government's intervention has caused the spread of rumors on a larger scale, and now everyone is talking about it, which has invisibly contributed to the influence of rumors.

So Fang Shan wanted to laugh very much, without the help of the government, it would be really difficult for him to let such a level of rumors break out in Xinhui and Heshan counties in just a few days.

The content of this fairy tale is very simple, and anyone can understand it, which is also the characteristic of rumors in the past dynasties, the purpose is to make the peddlers and pawns understand, "the sky is dead and the yellow sky should stand", "Da Chu Xing Chen Shengwang", that is, the battle is neat, catchy, and simple and easy to understand.

"The land wants the land, the guest wants the land, the Yi people come and want the land, seek to seize the land, negotiate the land, and the Tuke and the guest have no land!"

The children shouted and walked away.

The natives of Guangfu want land, the Hakka people on the mountain want land, how long did the two families fight for this, the Yi people came to ask for land, the content is very clear, that is, the Yi people want to come to Xinhui and Heshan to seize the land, of course, the song does not clearly say the two counties, then it will continue to be passed on, to Gaoming, to Gaoyao, to Xinning, and finally to Guangdong.

Xinhui and Heshan people are closed again, and many people may not know that the foreigners fought a battle with Monk Greenqin in Dagukou, but the vast majority of people know about the fact that the imperial court ceded Hong Kong Island 20 years ago.

The song is implying that the Yiren are coming to fight for land with the Tuke family, and the place where the Tuke live is not Heshan and other places.

Now everyone is just passing it on, and when Zhu Jinglun accompanies the foreigners to these two counties, some people will have pondered the taste, and then there will naturally be people with many tongues.

The rumors in the Heshan area have just begun, and Xin'an, which has been brewing for a while, especially the Jiulong Division, which is the first to bear the brunt, is already full of rumors.

Last year, Fang Shan told the squires and clans here that the foreigners were going to cut off the entire Kowloon, and they were all frightened at that time, but they never got it confirmed, and slowly the people's hearts were quieter, but a recent situation directly exploded everyone's feelings, and the foreigners really came to the door and asked to lease the Kowloon Division.

In the original history, the British government of Hong Kong and the British government have successively raised the issue of ceding the Kowloon Division. The first to act was the British government of Hong Kong, which was proposed by Pa Xiali to the Governor of Liangguang at that time, and asked the Guangdong government to either send an army to maintain law and order or cede the Kowloon Division to the foreigners, using the issue of law and order in the Kowloon Division as an excuse. At that time, Lao Chongguang was the governor of Liangguang, and the city of Guangzhou was also under the control of the British and French forces. Two months later, in March 1860, the British Foreign Secretary made a request to the British side in Hong Kong, hoping that they would get their hands on the Kowloon Division if the French did not interfere. Of course, if they had received London's request a long time ago, they would not have asked the Guangdong government to send troops or lease it, but directly asked for a cede.

Now the situation is completely different, no one knows where Pashali is for a long time, Pruss negotiated with Gui Liang and others in Shanghi, and asked Pashali many times, but the Qing government repeatedly shirked and said that it was in Guangdong, let them come to Guangdong to ask, and Guangdong said that it was in the capital, and then Pruss went north, and also planned to ask, and even coerced the Qing government to hand over Pashali, even if it was a dead person, but also a corpse, but I didn't expect the battle of Dagukou to break out, and the matter ran aground again. Therefore, Pashali is not a minister to China.

Similarly, Lao Chongguang is not the governor of Liangguang, and now Lao Chongguang is still in GX to suppress the local Dacheng uprising, and Shi Dakai has also run to GX, which is even more head-catching.

On the contrary, Bai Gui, who had already died in anxiety, now sat firmly in the position of the governor of Liangguang, although there was still trouble, but no one dared to say that he was removed, even the imperial court did not dare, because his work was obvious to all, recovered Guangzhou, and has successfully blocked the foreigners' request to enter Guangzhou.

The envoy to China and the governor of Liangguang have changed, but the British government of Hong Kong still put forward the request to lease the Kowloon Division, not because of the public security problems brought about by the formation of various hometowns on the Kowloon Peninsula, nor is it a political problem that really intends to occupy land colonization, but a very real economic problem, that is, the land on Hong Kong Island is really insufficient.

When Hong Kong Island was first ceded, there were more than 5,000 Chinese on the island, and there were so many people on a small Hong Kong Island, because the land in Guangdong was too saturated, and the population of Guangdong had reached its limit since the Raven War, about 25 million, but after 50 years, it was only 29 million, and there was really little room for growth.

Because Hong Kong Island is densely populated, the land available for the British to develop is really limited, even the mountains are not much to develop, and Lantau Island is still the land of Xin'an in later generations. The port of Hong Kong didn't even have a backup land to build a warehouse, and the Kowloon Division across the strait became a natural direction for their expansion.

Historically, as soon as Kowloon was obtained, the Hong Kong government immediately auctioned off the land in Kowloon, and the major foreign companies bought land to build warehouses. Compared with history, it is very clear that those foreign companies must have put pressure on Bao Ling a long time ago, and Bao Ling wanted to lease land, and at the same time, the energy of foreign banks was very large, and these traders could completely influence the British government, so later the British government also wanted to cede the land.

Now, after consultation, the Hong Kong government has put forward the hope of leasing Kowloon to Xin'an, whether it is to lease Kowloon, or to occupy it, because they have not yet received an order from London.

However, now Xin'an was ordered by Chen Zhiting, who was a big local clan and was extremely sensitive to the land, so he immediately sternly rejected the unreasonable demands of the British.

The Chen family is a big family, deeply rooted in the local area, and at the same time, the news quickly spread through the Chen family throughout the major families in Xin'an, and in an instant, the entire Xin'an exploded.

A year ago, the rumor that the foreigners were going to cede the Kowloon Division was verified, and this explosion point was immediately detonated.