As soon as the steamer whistled from the steamer, the large steamer of the British Ocean Shipping Company began to sail for Shanghai. The ship's large chimney was constantly spitting black smoke out.

"This foreigner's transportation company is good, not only cheap, but also trouble-free. Tens of thousands of stone of military rations can be taken away by a large steamer, and it can reach Tianjin from Shanghai in less than ten days. Ding Baozhen said enviously.

Yang Xiaoshan knows that this is the power of industry, and traditional shipping cannot compete with it. The foreigners have robbed them of all their jobs and money, and those boatmen and other coolies have nothing to eat, you can say that this is a machine substitution, but the people are replaced, and you don't settle them well, which will cause harm to society.

"How many people in the country are pointing to the north-south transportation to eat, and now the British have robbed them of their jobs, I am afraid that they will become a hidden danger to the imperial court, Li Zicheng was not unemployed at the post station back then, and he would not have made such a big rebellion." Yang Xiaoshan sighed, the purpose of people in these years is to eat a full meal, most of the Chinese are passable, and they will definitely not rebel until they have to.

"Brother Chang, are you worried that they will rebel? No, although the steamship robbed them of their jobs, it also attracted a lot of people to work as workers at the docks, so the situation is not so bad. Ding Baozhen has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem.

Yang Xiaoshan glanced at Ding Baozhen, thinking that even such an enlightened courtier did not realize the suffering of the people, no wonder the rebellions in various parts of the Qing court were one after another, the court abandoned the people, and the people naturally abandoned the court, which is a two-way street.

"I hope so." Yang Xiaoshan is reluctant to reorganize, he only hopes that there will be no problems on his trip, the Qing Dynasty is already difficult to return, and only by overthrowing it and building a new government for the sake of the people can the people be saved.

The big steamer was really fast, and after mooring at sea for eight or nine days, Yang Xiaoshan and his entourage finally came to Shanghai.

At this time, Shanghai was far from being as prosperous as in the previous life, but it has been ten years since foreigners established a concession here, and there are many western-style buildings in the concession, and there are blond foreigners everywhere, giving people the feeling of coming to the Western world. When Yang Xiaoshan first arrived, he wondered if this was Chinese land.

When Yang Xiaoshan really stepped into this land, he had to admire the fierce eyes of foreigners. At that time, the Chinese still laughed at the stupidity of foreigners, and the land they wanted to rent was not good land and was not suitable for farming. But in fact, foreigners don't want land to farm at all, people are here to develop commercial civilization, and the concessions are lined up along the Huangpu River, which is too suitable for transportation, and these lands are all prime locations.

got off the boat and left the dock, Ding Baozhen and Hu Xueyan went to Shanghai County to exchange official documents and go through various customs clearance procedures, Yang Xiaoshan did not go together, he changed into civilian clothes, and came to the concession to look for Lao Wu's disciple Afu Agui, ready to inquire about the current situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

On the one hand, he used the trade of large quantities of medicinal materials as a cover to transport the opium confiscated in the Kingdom of Heaven to sell here, and on the other hand, he used the money earned to buy Charles's arms back to Tianjing.

Soon Yang Xiaoshan touched the Ruxiao medicinal herb shop, the name is taken from the name of Lao Wu Wu Ruxiao, which is very recognizable.

"Guest, what do you want?" As soon as Yang Xiaoshan entered the medicinal herb shop, the guy saw that he had an extraordinary bearing and was dressed very decently, thinking that he was a big customer, and immediately greeted him.

Yang Xiaoshan didn't know this guy, so he didn't dare to reveal his identity, "Is your shopkeeper here?" ”

"The big shopkeeper is not here, but the second shopkeeper is here. Do you have something? The guy asked.

"Call him, I've got something to look for him." Yang Xiaoshan sat on a chair in the store.

"Okay, the little one will go and ask you for the second shopkeeper immediately." After the man finished speaking, Deng Deng ascended the stairs.

After a while, the second shopkeeper Ah Gui came downstairs to look, "Who are you?" Yang Xiaoshan changed his appearance, and Agui couldn't recognize him.

"I'm from your host's side." Yang Xiaoshan saw that Agui couldn't recognize him, so he said the code agreed at that time.

Ah Gui was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Who is our owner?" ”

Yang Xiaoshan didn't speak, and pointed to the sky with his finger, which means heaven.

As soon as Ah Gui saw that the code was right, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly invited Yang Xiaoshan upstairs.

"Who are you?" Ah Gui couldn't recognize Yang Xiaoshan when he looked left and right, so he couldn't help but ask.

"Agui, don't even know me anymore?" Yang Xiaoshan speaks the Guangxi dialect.

At this time, Agui finally heard it, was overjoyed, and knelt on the ground all of a sudden: "Shizi, it's you who are here!" I don't even recognize you in this way. ”

"yes, I just made a few changes to my hairstyle and eyebrows." The disguise technique taught to him by Luo Meiying is really easy to use, just do it, and people who are not familiar with it will never be able to see it.

"I really can't see it, now I know it's you, it looks a little like and a little bit different, don't say your name, I can't imagine it's you anyway." Ah Gui compared it very much.

"What about the Afu?" Yang Xiaoshan helped Agui up.

"My brother, Charles, and the French consul have gone to Shanghai." Agui replied.

"What's the matter?" Yang Xiaoshan asked.

"Hey, it's not that the expatriates here have a dispute with people outside, it seems that a French missionary who went out of the concession to preach was beaten up. Charles spoke more Chinese and was invited by the French consul to reason with the Shanghai county officials, and Ah Fu followed. Agui shook his head and sighed.

"What's going on over there in Tianjing, is there anything abnormal? Is there any news from Lao Wu's side? Yang Xiaoshan asked the question he was most concerned about.

"It's fine, it's the same as usual." Agui replied.

Yang Xiaoshan put his mind at ease, it seems that the Tianjing Incident has not happened yet.

Yang Xiaoshan and Ah Gui were talking, chatting about things here in Shanghai and the business situation. Suddenly, there was a cacophony of the streets outside, accompanied by the screams of the people.

"What's going on?" Yang Xiaoshan and Ah Gui went downstairs to see what the situation was.

On the side of the street, a pregnant woman clutched her stomach and cried out in pain: "Help, I'm going to give birth, help me." "The pregnant woman is dressed as a maid, and it seems that she is working as a domestic servant for foreigners.

Everyone was around, and some well-wishers called Wen Po to help give birth to a child.

The stable woman ran over, covered the pregnant woman with a cloth, looked at it carefully, and hurriedly waved her hand: "No, no, there are already bleeding symptoms down here, I'm afraid it's going to collapse the blood, my wife can't save it, I'm afraid it's going to kill two corpses." ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but retreat again and again, everyone was afraid of getting on fire, if this woman died, it would be unclear when the time came to investigate it.

Yang Xiaoshan saw this situation and couldn't ignore it, so he walked to the street and stopped a foreigner's carriage.