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Or rather, to ask for oneself.

Their young master was arrested by foreigners.

And their old man has already left, Daniel Zhang has no great wisdom, a little clever concubine Cuiyun has no master of the six gods at this time, and is even inferior to Daniel Zhang. So Daniel Zhang could only find Zhu Jinglun, in his opinion, Zhu Jinglun was the only person he knew who could speak in front of foreigners.

Zhu Jinglun asked Daniel Zhang about his master, and Daniel Zhang said that when his master left, he confessed that if Zhu Jinglun wanted to find him, he could do so at any time. Zhang Qianshan's cronies who stayed at home could go to Nanxiong to deliver a letter to him at any time.

Zhu Jinglun didn't care about the young master of the Zhang family at all, because in his opinion, that Zhang Pan was just a prodigal kid, and he was completely wasted. The reason why he was arrested by foreigners this time was not because he attacked foreigners, but because when the accident happened in Yuexianglou, he still stayed in Yuexianglou, and later the men and women in the building were all caught by foreigners and went to the yamen. Now they are all being interrogated as suspects.

Zhu Jinglun dealt with Daniel Zhang indiscriminately, and went to the secret connection place with Lin Zhuang, but Lin Zhuang was not here, and the people who stayed here did not know the situation, only saying that since the foreigners were under martial law, Lin Zhuang had not returned to the city, but said that if Zhu Jinglun needed it, they could go to the city at any time.

Judging from the attitude of these secret agents, Zhu Jinglun feels that he is now very important to Lin Fuxiang Group, these people were not so respectful before, obviously it can't be because of Pa Xia Li's matter, because judging from their tone, they are not even sure that Pa Xia Li was arrested by Lin Fuxiang, obviously such a major matter, Lin Fuxiang did it very secretly.

The reason why Lin Zhuang was not there was probably because the main participant in the kidnapping of Pasha Li that day was Lin Zhuang, and he was the one who infiltrated Moqin's room, mixed up Pasha Li, and then fled in a carriage. He is good, he is also shrewd, and he is Lin Fuxiang's relative, this is the most dangerous and critical thing, Lin Fuxiang asked him to do it.

After explaining to the secret agents and asking them to inform Lin Zhuang as soon as possible that they wanted to meet him, Zhu Jinglun immediately rushed to another location, and he made an appointment with Hou into a restaurant.

This restaurant is located near the Guangfu Xue Palace and the Guandi Temple, not far from the Great South Gate, and outside the Great South Gate is the military camp of Guangzhou Xiezhen, the base camp of the British and French forces.

The first thing I came to see Hou Jin was to hear some news from him, and the most important thing was to ask him about the progress of his plan to rebel against the enemy.

That's right, among the tasks arranged by Zhu Jinglun for Hou Jin, in addition to letting him keep an eye on Yuexiang Building, the most important task is to win over traitors within the British and French forces, and even the second task has become Hou Jin's main task after Lin Fuxiang intervened in Yuexiang Building.

As for how to win over, Hou Jin has an advantage in this point, because Hou Jin himself is a Xu Min, and it just so happens that the British and French forces have hired a large number of Xu Min.

The so-called Xu people are a group of poor people living on the water, the Pearl River outside Guangzhou is densely packed with many people's boats, the vast majority of Xu people live on these boats, this is a fairly large group, the New York Times has reported, their reporters estimate that there are 80,000 people's boats, each boat lives 5 people, that there are 400,000 people in Guangzhou. As for the Chinese government's very weak jurisdiction over Xu Min, there are basically no corresponding statistics.

Of course, just as the French missionary Guillmin in the city estimated that the city had a population of 1 million, the 400,000 people of Xu people may be an exaggeration, but there are still 120,000. In addition, Xu Min is indeed very embarrassed, men are engaged in illegal business, and women are engaged in the flower boat skin and meat business. Long before the first Great Tobacco War, they were the main force of local tobacco smuggling in China, and established a relationship with foreigners very early, and during the war, they helped foreigners to find out the news and make profits, and also did some business to help foreigners transport goods and supplies.

According to what Zhu Jinglun heard from the Indian soldiers, "there was a European legion with a total of 1,080 men, two local legions with a total of 2,000 men, a police force of 500 men, and a French army of 300 men." This European army included those Indian soldiers who had received European military training and were commanded by the British.

What Zhu Jinglun wanted to win over was what the Indian soldiers called the "two local legions", that is, about 2,000 traitor troops, most of whom were Xu people, which made it convenient for Hou Jin to use his identity advantage to contact them.

These people are all going with the British for money, so it's normal to rebel for money. The British also knew in their hearts, so at first they only regarded these people as coolies, with no weapons in their hands and only flat poles, but since the main force of the British and French forces went north, the city of Guangzhou was tightened, and many of these people were incorporated into the police force, with 600 people in the city for a long time, and 700 people patrolling in the suburbs, and the single knives and spears of the Qing army in the hands were issued.

The only thing that needs to be dealt with is the British officers in the ******** coolie regiment, Zhu Jinglun wants to bribe some outlaws to assassinate these officers, so even if these two thousand people can't be won over by themselves, they will become leaderless, and they are thinking of some ways to create some chaos, which can greatly weaken the strength of the British and French forces to defend Guangzhou.

But Hou Jin said that he had contacted several Xu Min leaders, and the other party was willing to turn back, but the offer was very high.

"Two hundred thousand taels of silver is indeed too high, aren't they afraid that they will have a life to take a lifeless flower?"

Hou Jin contacted the four leaders of the Xu people, they have their own small groups in the coolie team, just like the Sikhs have their own organization in the army, and the coolies also have their own small group, but not religion, but a popular gang among the Xu people, those four people are known as the dragon heads, and there are nearly 100 brothers who have kowtowed to Guan Gong under their hands, and they expressed their willingness to help buy spies in the coolie army and assassinate all the foreign officers at the critical moment.

But it costs 200,000 taels to open the mouth, which is indeed a bit ruthless.

Zhu Jinglun replied: "Tell them, 50,000 taels, not one more." They do what they want, and they don't want to wait to be pulled. By the way, tell them that if they don't cooperate, even if they run to the ends of the earth, someone will settle accounts with them, and you can play the banner of the imperial court. ”

Zhu Jinglun believes that Hou Jin is very good at doing this kind of coercion and temptation, Xu Min is not easy to manage, and the government is not very willing to manage it, a big factor is because they live on the water, and they are also relatively united, just like the government of later generations is not very happy to manage the ethnic groups in the northwest.

But it's not that you can't manage it, you don't live on the water and not in the sky, although the boat is more flexible than the house, you really have to spend money, you can always find it.

At this time, Hou Jin hesitated, he really wanted to do this, and then take advantage of it to soar, but he was a little uneasy in conscience, because he didn't want Zhu Jinglun to lose his life because of this matter.

After thinking about it for a long time, he still decided to give up: "Zhu Er, don't worry about this matter, you better run." Lord Lin shouldn't blame you. ”

Hou Jin always thought that Zhu Jinglun was still doing things for Lin Fuxiang, of course, Zhu Jinglun also told him so, and he didn't doubt it at all.

Seeing Hou Jin's expression and tone, Zhu Jinglun couldn't help but wonder:

"What's wrong?"

Only then did Hou Jin tell the truth: "The Mr. Fang you asked me to target was arrested!" ”

Fang Shan was arrested? What does this have to do with Zhu Jinglun?

Of course it matters, because it is possible for foreigners to find some suspicions about Zhu Jinglun from Fang Shan, and at this tense moment, who knows what foreigners will do.

This news made Zhu Jinglun feel dangerous, because he knew very well that the foreigners knew very well that the Guangzhou officials outside the city had planted many secret agents in their Guangzhou city, and even they suspected that there were also some spies outside the city among those Chinese translators, otherwise they would not always be overstretched in the hands of people, because the most important and secret things were always handed over to those foreign translators with a very small number of people to do, otherwise, the foreigners would be able to recruit a large number of undesirable literati from the city of Guangzhou to help them do things.

The foreigner was already suspicious, and even convinced that there were Chinese spies around him, but he didn't know who it was, and if that Fang Shan said nonsense, it was likely to confess Zhu Jinglun. As for the real evidence, of course Fang Shan couldn't get it, but as long as he told the foreigner that before Pa Xia Li was kidnapped, Zhu Jinglun had followed Pa Xia Li to Yuexiang Lou three times, even if the foreigner couldn't be sure, he would definitely suspect Zhu Jinglun. They are now like frightened birds, who knows if they will overkill, and would rather kill a thousand mistakes than let go of one.

Zhu Jinglun is not worried that the foreigner will kill him, but if the foreigner doubts himself at this time, I am afraid that it will be inconvenient for him to do many things later.

However, Hou Jin can say these words to himself, Zhu Jinglun still has some feelings in his heart, although Hou Jin is a scumbag, but the righteousness has never changed.

patted Hou Jin on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I'm fine." You don't stay here either, change places, and then find a way to tell me. ”

After speaking, he explained some information to Hou Jin, and then left the restaurant in a hurry, and it would be dark if he didn't leave.

Hou Jin's feedback made Zhu Jinglun have to revise some plans again, because that Fang Mountain was another mine, another thunder outside the Zhang family that would explode at any time. It just so happened that the two thunders were still bumping into each other at this time, and when he thought of the Zhang family's housekeeper looking for him in the morning, Zhu Jinglun understood that he had to intervene in a troublesome matter, and he had to find a way to save people.