Zhu Jinglun, who is far away in China, has a hard time, and even the New Year that has just passed has not stopped, just because several Americans died. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

An American retail businessman, the same businessman who asked to see Zhu Jinglun last time and asked to visit the Chinese tea area, if he hadn't died suddenly, Zhu Jinglun couldn't even remember his name, his name was Thomas, a businessman less than thirty years old, with the dream of coming to the East to make a fortune, but he left his young life forever in this ancient land.

Thomas himself is looking for death, he also pulled a large group of people, he fooled a lot of American businessmen in Macau with the same dream, they hope to open up a new tea trade channel, now the trade is monopolized by the ocean bank, there is no way for them to live as a retail businessman, can only eat a little leftovers outside the plate of the ocean bank, this is not enough to satisfy the appetite of these young, but full of momentum young adventurers.

So they hit it off, and a total of eight people met to explore the Chinese tea region, hoping to establish a strong trade relationship directly with the tea plantations, but they seemed to choose the county of Heshan, and this place was the place where the Tuke Arms Fight was launched.

Heshan has a long history of tea planting, which is recorded in the Song Dynasty and was the most prosperous in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The starting place of Heshan tea is said to be in a place called Gulaodu. Legend has it that in the Song Dynasty, a man and a woman came from FJ to live in the Lishui Shiyantou Cave in Gulaodu, and they brought tea seeds to grow green tea. Green tea can clear away heat and relieve heat and cure all kinds of diseases. After the death of the FJ man and woman, the Lishui people created a pair of stone statues on the top of the mountain to commemorate, and the descendants called Shi Gong and Shi Po, who are the ancestors of Gulao tea.

From the Song Dynasty to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Gulao belonged to Xinhui County. In the tenth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1732), Heshan County was established, and Gulao was included in Heshan, which was called "Heshan County is not there, and Gulao tea is heard first". Lishui Village in ancient Laodu has the earliest history of tea planting, and the quality is excellent, so Lishui tea is very famous.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Heshan tea spread outside the ancient Laodu, Lishui Village was very enthusiastic about planting tea, and developed tea gardens in Kwai Gen Mountain behind its village, and successively built 10 villages, and Kwai Gen Mountain was renamed Tea Mountain. At that time, the development of tea gardens amounted to 4,000 acres, with an annual output of 1,600 quintals of tea (60 kilograms per quintal), and the "Heshan County Chronicles" during the Qianlong period recorded that "Gulaoli water, cold water, and mountain ports are all planted with tea".

However, the tea planting in Heshan really reached its peak, and after the arrival of the Hakka people, these mountain people who are good at opening mountains have made use of every inch of land that can be planted, and as a result, the tea-producing area of Heshan has been greatly expanded.

In the Daoguang period, the "Heshan County Chronicle" recorded: "From Haikou to the attached city, regardless of the indigenous Hakka people, most of them take tea as their business", and the area of tea gardens has also been greatly expanded, reaching the scale of "80,000 mu of tea gardens, with an annual output of 80,000 quintals of wool tea and 60,000 quintals of exports". There is a grand occasion of "no mountains and no tea, and there are more than 60 tea markets".

According to the export, Heshan is the first county of GD tea, the tea planting area and output are equivalent to one-third of the entire Guangdong, but the export accounts for eighty or ninety percent of the province's exports, this is because Heshan is the closest to the coast of a large tea area. The annual output of Mao tea is more than 80,000 quintals, and 60,000 quintals are used for export, so Americans pay special attention.

Thomas and his entourage, under the guidance of the guide, set off from Macao, went up the Xijiang River, and landed at a wharf in the north of Gulaodu, which is called "Haikou" by the locals and is also a big tea market.

From here to the south to Gulaodu, to Longkou Town, to Hecheng are all mountainous areas, but also tea areas, and at the same time it is also a Hakka settlement area. From the fourth year of Xianfeng, the local Tu Ke armed fight began, and soon spread to the surrounding counties, the Hakka people, mainly mountain people, with a brave spirit, until the eight years of Xianfeng (1858) have taken the advantage, only Enping County, from Hengpi, Niujiang, Langdi, Datian to Naji The indigenous villages were captured, the Hakka people destroyed more than 400 villages of the Turen, tens of thousands of people fled to the county seat, and countless people were killed.

As the place where the fighting began, the Hakka people also occupied many local people's villages and fields, driving the locals to other places, so Thomas and his party were always on the territory of the Hakka people, and it was relatively safe to be accompanied by local Hakka guides.

They also successfully visited a number of tea markets, directly established relations with some local small tea merchants, and visited a lot of tea gardens, and established contact with tea farmers, and even directly purchased hundreds of catties of tea when they left, if it was a trade inspection, then their trip was very successful.

But the gods can't save the damned ghost, if you go back the same way, Thomas and his party will not have anything, but halfway through, Thomas had heard that Xinhui also produces tea, so he asked the guide to take them to Xinhui's tea garden and tea market to investigate, although Xinhui is close to Heshan, but because there are not many Hakka people, but not involved in this Tuke fight, Thomas promised a lot of money, the guide pondered that it was not dangerous, so he promised to take him there.

Who would have thought that because a native family that was driven away in Heshan was taking refuge in a relative's house in Tangxia Town, Xinhui, this family had more than 50 men, and there were so many who died in the fight, it can be said that the eyes of the Hakka people were dripping with blood, I don't know if it was the case, so that Thomas and his party had a conflict with the locals, and the two sides were killed and injured by each other, and only two of Thomas's foreigners escaped.

If they were all dead, it would be fine, but because two people escaped, the American minister made a fuss.

The current U.S. minister has been replaced by Warrenham, who is a friendly person.

Hua Ruohan was just a businessman, but he didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing, and wanted to go to Guangzhou to protest, and the first person he found was Zhu Jinglun, because Zhu Jinglun had previously submitted official letters to ministers of various countries in the name of Bai Gui, the governor of Guangzhou, and clearly told them not to go to Guangzhou before the contract was exchanged, so Hua Ruohan relied on Zhu Jinglun and kept shouting that he wanted to go to Guangzhou.

This is strange, according to the tone of the Americans, they want to go to Guangzhou to complain, but they want to pester Zhu Jinglun, definitely not because they are afraid of Bai Gui, but because they don't want to go to Guangzhou at all.

What can they do in Guangzhou?

If you really see the Governor of Liangguang, this matter will become a diplomatic matter, and it will definitely be pushed around by Chinese officials, and finally even pushed to the capital, obviously Hua Ruohan's purpose is not here.

Soon the Wu family came to Zhu Jinglun to communicate with him, and they vaguely expressed that the Americans wanted to send people to Heshan to investigate the situation, and hoped that Zhu Jinglun could help obtain official permission, and said that if they were allowed to investigate by themselves, they would not turn this matter into a diplomatic incident, otherwise they would not only have to go to Guangzhou, but even to Beijing.

Zhu Jinglun understood the intentions of the Americans, it seems that they shouted loudly, a few Americans died, the American minister must have something to say, but the person is dead, how to use the dead to maximize the benefits, is the minister is most concerned, so he will continue to send people to Heshan to investigate, which is the largest tea area in Guangdong.

Zhu Jinglun didn't bother to rub shoulders with him, every time Hua Ruohan submitted a protest, Zhu Jinglun sent it to Bai Gui as it was, he didn't have a good year this year, and Bai Gui definitely didn't have a good time.

Bai Gui really had a bad time, every time Zhu Jinglun sent a protest to the Americans, Bai Gui replied with a thousand instructions, don't let foreigners come to Guangzhou, let Zhu Jinglun discuss with foreigners, if you die, it's a big deal to lose some money, focus on calming things down, don't make a big deal about it.

Zhu Jinglun replied that he would definitely keep the foreigners in Xin'an and never let the foreigners have any intention of going to Guangzhou, but after saying that, he put it aside and ignored it, and then the Americans would protest again, and Zhu Jinglun would hand over the protest to Bai Gui again, and then Bai Gui would be unable to sleep.

This is not Zhu Jinglun's intention to embarrass Bai Gui, but a political method.

In the past, Xin'an was close to Hong Kong, and everyone thought that it was a powder keg, and no one wanted to come here to be an official, but if this powder keg could receive millions of cents of gold every year, then someone would dare to sit down.

In other words, Zhu Jinglun fattened the pigs, and some people wanted to pick fruits, and they were not alone, but a group of people. Before Hengqi set up a bureau in the South China Sea opposite, in fact, this kind of thinking was also in it.

This political force can't directly fight against Zhu Jinglun, who is protected by Bai Gui, at this time, so they hope to transfer Zhu Jinglun, such as Mingsheng and secretly descending, and install an idle one for Zhu Jinglun. There are already civil officials who have reported the situation in Xin'an in front of Bai Gui, and they say that Zhu Jinglun made a mess of Xin'an and mixed it with foreigners, making Xin'an Xian a fishy and undignified country. They proposed to Bai Gui on this, saying that Zhu Jinglun was good at military strategy and short on political affairs, and that he could not deal with treacherous and arrogant foreigners at all, and that he had no fame, so he was really not suitable for governing in a county, and suggested that Zhu Jinglun should be sent to Guangzhou to be a green camp commander.

These things were told to Zhu Jinglun by Bai Gui himself, and Bai Gui's meaning was obvious, he was protecting Zhu Jinglun and spurring Zhu Jinglun to continue to do things for him, but this was a threat to Zhu Jinglun. Bai Gui is keeping him Zhu Jinglun here, it is Bai Gui's weight to him Zhu Jinglun, but Zhu Jinglun has never believed in this kind of weight, he is not willing to let his situation become, "Bai Gui doesn't want to move him" such a weak state, he is more willing to let the situation develop into a dominant state of "Bai Gui dare not touch him".

Wu Sangui brought the Manchu Qing into the customs, and helped the Qing court to conquer the south and the north to make great contributions, and was rewarded by the Qing court to let him Yongzhen yn At that time, Wu Sangui asked Yu Hong Chengchou how he could be stable in YN, how to be his YN king, Hong Chengchou told him that if you want to really Yongzhen YN, then let YN not be idle for a day, and find something to do if you have nothing to do, so that the Qing court will not dare to remove him.

It is very doubtful whether this incident is true, in fact, Wu Sangui's later performance shows that he did not do it, because he soon threatened Burma, arrested Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and strangled him with a bowstring with his own hands, and cooked the cunning rabbit to death as a lackey, as a result, Kangxi was pro-government, and felt that Wu Sangui and others were useless and wanted to withdraw the domain.

Zhu Jinglun's current trick is not to use Hong Chengchou's strategy to Wu Sangui, so that Xin'an cannot be idle for a day, and it is the foreign matter that Manchu officials are most afraid of getting into trouble now, so that no one really dares to fight his idea, and even Bai Gui does not dare to transfer him away.

Since he kept sending protests to the Americans to Bai Gui, Zhu Jinglun sent people to inquire, and found that there were fewer people who said bad things about Zhu Jinglun in the Guangzhou officialdom, obviously those who coveted Xin'an also retreated a little at this time, seeing that foreigners were so troublesome, they didn't want to fight Xin'an's idea for the time being, after all, no one wanted to do anything that had money to earn and no life to spend.

It's just that this kind of method is inevitably a bit inferior, it has the flavor of ********, what Wu Sangui didn't do back then, Zhu Jinglun did it, but this is modern politics, which is getting dirtier and more sinister.

However, when Zhu Jinglun was playing political tricks with Bai Gui, the Americans would never be idle, their purpose was to expand the tea trade, and they would never give up, if there was no opportunity, they would at most end up in Beijing, and then blackmail the Qing court for a compensation, but if there was a chance, I am afraid that the Americans would not hesitate to send their warships to scare the Qing court behind the British and French forces, so as to obtain greater benefits.

Zhu Jinglun has no doubt that the United States, which can use the black ship incident to scare RB, will not be able to send another black ship fleet.

Of course, the Americans will not fight a real war, and the two superpowers of Britain and France have not done much after fighting for a few years, so they will not wade into this troubled water, all they want is to scare, just blackmail, so sending a few warships to the mouth of the Pearl River to go around, in the end is almost certainly what they will do.

However, Zhu Jinglun was not worried, because that was exactly what he wanted to see, it was the last resort to scare Bai Gui, and then Bai Gui would not only have to rely more on Zhu Jinglun, but Zhu Jinglun would also use this to realize more of his intentions.