I didn't expect the British to store so many weapons, of course this is not for these more than 1,000 British troops, eighty percent of them were left behind when the main force of the British and French forces went north, maybe the British had too many arms in reserve, and there were so many left after the main forces of the coalition took away enough arms, maybe they forgot, who knows. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Anyway, now that Zhu Jinglun has taken such a big advantage, he doesn't care how he got it, it's only right to get these arms away first, Hua Tingjie and those people will come to receive them sooner or later, and they have to hide the things before they do it.

Coolies are coolies, and two thousand people carried these things away in one trip, and on average, one person carried two rifles, and the two of them carried a box of ammunition, and easily moved to the inn where Hou Jin had been packed.

Hua Tingjie and the others found the arsenal in the afternoon, and when they saw the empty arsenal, Hua Tingjie and the British in charge of the transfer were dumbfounded.

Zhu Jinglun didn't have it long, who would have thought that the British officer guarding the arsenal actually knew Zhu Jinglun, Zhu Jinglun was a translator who often went in and out of the British army, but there were too many translators, who would have thought that the other party would remember him.

So the lawsuit fought.

The coolies were all hidden in the inn, smoking a lot of cigarettes, but Zhu Jinglun was not difficult to find, he was in the British barracks, and when he was thinking about whether he could get a few British cannons, Bai Gui sent someone to call him.

Bai Gui asked Zhu Jinglun what he wanted so many rifles for.

Only then did Zhu Jinglun know that the matter had been revealed.

I don't deny it: "Where is what I want, this is obviously what the villain wants for the adult." ”

Bai Gui frowned and said: "I want so many walls of fire to do, do you have a soldier in my officer's hands?" ”

Zhu Jinglun reminded: "My lord, have you forgotten that you obviously let the villain recruit 2,000 British coolies?" ”

Bai Gui was stunned and said, "That's right, there is such a thing." The official asked you to recruit coolies and disturb the rear of Yingyi, which forced Yingyi to take care of both the end and the end, and surrendered as a last resort. ”

Bai Gui is a smart man, and the matter of recruiting coolies must be done under his leadership.

But the rifle matter was not so easy to fool, Bai Gui continued: "The Huaxian order sued you for privately dividing arms and plotting against you, and you have to give this official an explanation. ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "This foreign gun is a good thing, the villain is greedy when he looks at it." When the foreigners came last year, the tens of thousands of eight banners in the city and the township Yong were vulnerable, this time Lord Huang sent troops to attack the city, and actually broke the city wall. ”

Xiang Yong doesn't know where to buy foreign guns in his hand, but this is a real thing, not to mention Guangdong, even in Shanghai, there are more foreigners doing arms business, not to mention that Xiang Yong in Guangdong can buy them, and there are many foreign guns equipped by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Bai Gui nodded, he understood why Zhu Jinglun was grabbing these guns.

But he was still not satisfied: "The old man asked you to surrender two thousand coolies, and it is enough for you to take two thousand guns, how can you take them all, and Hua Tingjie will make noise in the old man's ears." Go back and count it, and give him the more. ”

Zhu Jinglun didn't want to hand over a rifle, although Xiang Yong was also equipped with these rifled rifles, but they couldn't exert their power at all, and there was no formal training rifle that was a burning stick. What's more, Zhu Jinglun profoundly realized that the strength in his own hands is the capital, not much more, and 5,000 rifles are far from satisfying Zhu Jinglun's appetite, and he still wants him to hand it over, but there is no door.

So he said: "My lord, I heard that Huazhi County can send someone to copy the silver treasury of the Yi people, why can he copy the silver treasury, we can't copy the armory." How can there be such a truth in the world. ”

As soon as he heard that Hua Tingjie had copied the silver treasury, Bai Gui was more interested in this matter, in order to save his life a few days ago, he scattered more than 100,000 taels of silver back and forth, and most of the looting over the years was gone, and it was very heartbreaking in retrospect.

He asked, "Is this true?" ”

Zhu Jinglun said: "It's true, the villain heard it from two foreigners, it is said that in order to copy the silver treasury, the people of Huazhi County and the people of Li Zhixian almost fought, and the foreigners talked about this matter is a lot of ridicule." ”

Bai Gui snorted: "Shame on you!" ”

Zhu Jinglun hurriedly added a fire: "Besides, the villain wants these guns just in case, and when the foreigners come back in a few days, we also have a guy by our side." ”

Bai Gui was still thinking about the silver just now, and when he heard the foreigner, he almost sat up: "What did you say, you said that the foreigner would call back?" ”

Bai Gui is afraid of foreigners, and he almost planted himself on foreigners in his life.

Zhu Jinglun said: "That's nature. These days, the Yi people in the city are waiting for the main force of the Yi soldiers in the north to come back to help, the villain sent a rumor that the Yi people are fighting against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Shanghai, and the Ying Yi can't see the hope of rescue, so he agreed to surrender, but this is all a rumor made by the villain, calculate the days, the main force of the Ying Yi should almost arrive in Hong Kong, maybe the reinforcements are on the way now. ”

Bai Gui couldn't sit still at all: "How is this good." ”

He was really panicked, if the foreigners occupied Guangzhou City again, he didn't want to toss it anymore, and after tossing once, he couldn't stand his old life.

Zhu Jinglun said: "So we have to prepare early, when the foreigners come, there are hard guys in their hands, so they can deal with it, even if we are recruiting villagers out of the city, we have guns in our hands, we can catch a team of our own, and we will not be so passive as this time." ”

Bai Gui's mind was already a little messy, thinking back to the days he had spent for most of the past six months, he really wanted to cry, Hua Tingjie They were free when they were training outside the city, and they were sandwiched between foreigners and townspeople, they were really not human inside and outside. If the foreigners call this time, he must choose to escape from the city as soon as possible, and like Hua Tingjie and them, recruit Xiangyong to confront the foreigners, so having these arms in his hand can indeed solve the urgent need.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about this, I'll explain it to Huazhi County."

In fact, Hua Tingjie said that, in fact, the matter of the silver treasury has already caused him trouble.

Because there is no account at all, several officials have already quarreled.

First of all, Huang Zonghan, before he came, he received some accounts from Guangzhou officials, telling him that more than one million taels of silver in the Guangzhou treasury had been stolen by foreigners. But the money is now gone, and the foreigners say that they have never seen the money at all, and the foreigners also say that their silver is clear and there are accounts to prove it, and it is all handed over to the Qing army.

Then there are political envoys and others who can't reconcile the accounts, even according to the details of the foreigners' accounts, there are still 400,000 silver dollars in the foreigners' treasury, but now there is not even half of them in the warehouse, where did the half of the silver dollars go, whether it is Hua Tingjie or Li Futai, it is not clear, but the treasury was confiscated by their people.

Xiang Yong entered the city and copied the silver treasury, if there is no one who fills his own pockets, he is not bad at the style of those Xiang Yong who are busy robbing as soon as they enter the old city, and they can leave a small half.

The lawsuit had to be interrupted after two days, because four foreigner warships appeared on the surface of the Pearl River, belching black smoke and whining whistles, and stopped three miles away from the fort.