Lin Zhuang generously went out of the city gate on the second day, although Lin Fuxiang's people could take away an Indian soldier, but the British and French forces did not take good measures, not that they did not want to do it, but they could not do it, if they could issue a certificate of good citizenship to everyone like the later Japanese, Lin Zhuang was afraid that it would not be so easy to enter and exit freely, but unfortunately they did not have a talent reserve for the precise management of hundreds of thousands of Guangzhou people, to put it mildly, there were more than a thousand troops, even if all of them were clerks, they might not be able to manage it. What's more, the illiteracy rate in the Anglo-French army at this time is at least half, how to care?

After Lin Zhuang left the city, he rushed to Shijing in the morning and met with Lin Fuxiang. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

reported to Lin Fuxiang about the situation last night, but he didn't know more about the situation himself, just inquired a little in the morning, he knew that he was living in a Qianzong house last night, and this situation couldn't help but make Lin Fuxiang think more, because he found that there was a Qing army Qian Zong standing behind Zhu Jinglun, and he immediately decided to listen to the background of this Qian Zong.

But there is no more information now, and Lin Fuxiang can only let Lin Zhuang continue to keep an eye on Zhu Jinglun, and at the same time start to act according to the plan and deploy the matter of taking a few foreigners out of Guangzhou City.

Zhu Jinglun continued to go to the yamen, but he did not act immediately, he walked patiently step by step.

In the evening, there was another situation on the Zhang family's side, and the Zhang family did not agree with Zhu Jinglun to directly bring someone to the house to pick up people, and still insisted that they would decide the time and place. Zhu Jinglun did not refuse, turned around and returned to the room to inform Lin Zhuang and asked him to bring someone to pick up people under the Yungui Bridge.

sub-hours.

Under the Yungui Stone Bridge, there have been several people lurking, they have been waiting for half the night, and they are already restless.

And there was no shadow of the people waiting, and there was not even a figure on the path on both sides of the stone bridge.

Zhu Jinglun is not here, and Lin Zhuang is not here.

Zhu Jinglun was reluctant to do it himself, and Lin Zhuang thought that it was more important for him to follow Zhu Jinglun, so at this moment, both sides were strangers who had never met at all.

So the Lin family's cronies who picked up people were still quite nervous, who knew what would happen, none of them all brought short blades, ready to fight at any time.

But they never saw anyone, and even began to discuss whether to give up, when they heard the sound of rushing water not far away, and it turned out that the other party did not take the land route, but the water route. The group had already touched the handle of the knife hidden in the clothes, and soon saw a canopy boat, slowly floating along the flowing water.

But there was no sailor on the boat, and suddenly a leader gave an order in the dark, and a strong man jumped into the river, swam to the side of the boat in twos and threes, and turned over on the boat, already holding a knife in his hand.

Soon there was a sound on the ship.

"It's here!"

There was no one on board, only four sacks, sturdy.

Seeing this, the leader immediately took everyone on the boat, and planned to go along the waterway, they came this time but planned three roads, no matter which road there are people to answer, foolproof, at this time there is a boat, simply take the waterway, and save Zhouzhang.

Seeing the boat leave, there was also a sound in a remote alley not far from the small bridge.

Someone reported: "The goods have been delivered." ”

The two sides didn't even meet each other this time, and it was really secretive.

No one knew what had happened in the city of Canton last night, that there were four missing foreigners in the city, and that four soldiers had been ticked off the records of the Anglo-French army.

But early the next morning, the Guangzhou General's Mansion knew one thing, Lin Fuxiang's people had entered the city last night, but this time they did not kidnap people, but sent a letter, a letter of extortion. Lin Fuxiang opened his mouth and said that the British and French troops wanted 50,000 taels of silver and 10,000 quintals of rice, and then released the Indian soldier, otherwise they would tear up the ticket.

This extortion letter immediately divided the occupation committee, which had been moved to the Yamen in Guangzhou, because the letter was publicly affixed to the gate of the Yamen, and it was also stamped with the large seal of Lin Fuxiang's water camp pipe, and the most hateful thing was that this ****** was actually written in Chinese, English and French, which made it impossible for the British to cover it up even if they wanted to.

First of all, it is difficult for them to calm down the Indian soldiers in the army, who are not ordinary Indians, but a special group of Indians, the Sikhs.

This ethnic group is very distinctive, they are mainly concentrated in Punjab, and the reason is that they are not really a nation, because their racial genes and blood are no different from ordinary Indians. The main difference is in their religion, they believe in Sikhism, which is a branch of Hinduism and became independent in the 16th century, so the Sikhs were basically formed at that time, and it can be said that they are a people who have been formed for a very short time.

Their national character can be seen in their attire, and they are accustomed to wearing turbans. On the contrary, the nomads from the north who occupied India had their own custom of wrapping headscarves, and in order to show their superiority, the rulers did not allow ordinary Indians to wear turbans, while the Sikhs preferred to wrap turbans, using turbans as a symbol of resistance. These are exactly two completely different paths from the shaving and easy clothes that the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China entered.

As can be seen from the turban, the Sikhs are a more rebellious people. In fact, it is true that after the British occupied India, they found that ordinary Indians were too soft to be soldiers, and only the Sikhs were more strong-tempered, so the recruitment of soldiers was mainly a sign of Sikhs.

Now there are more than 1,000 British and French troops in Guangzhou, the French army has only 500 people, and the British army has 1,000 people, but more than 700 of them are Sikhs. At the same time, the Sikhs have formed a nation because of their religious relationship, which is very united, similar to the Hui people in China. Even in the army, while they were under the administration of the British, they also had their own chiefs, religious chiefs.

Unity is strength, and let the Sikhs have a certain right to speak. As soon as they learned of the contents of the notice, they began to make a request to the current leader of the British army, Pashali, to take immediate action to rescue their brothers.

This annoyed the Pasha, but now they could not do without the Indians, who said they would refuse to carry out their obligations if the coalition did not take steps to protect and rescue their brothers. Once these Indians do not cooperate, it will be even more difficult to control the city of Guangzhou once the forces in Guangzhou are present.

But if he really took out 50,000 taels of silver and 50,000 quintals of rice and handed them to Lin Fuxiang, this shame would be thrown to his grandmother's house, and Pa Xiali couldn't afford to lose this person. It is clear from the attitude of the French, who insisted that this banditry must be suppressed, and they stressed that the Chinese should be given cannons and rifles, not silver and rice.

Zhu Jinglun has been working as an errand in the governor's yamen, even if the occupation committee moved to the Guangzhou General's Mansion, he is still here, and he is usually responsible for translating some official documents to Baigui, but as Baigui resigned from the emperor and no longer traveled his duties, the official documents sent to Baigui became less and less.

But Bai Gui is still indispensable, at least in the eyes of the British, otherwise they would not have imprisoned Bai Gui in the yamen all the time, and sure enough, in the afternoon, the anxious Pa Xia Li ran to the governor's yamen with a gloomy face and met with Bai Gui again.

The ending of the meeting between the two was obviously not smooth, Pashali's face was even darker when he left, and if there was no accident, the two probably quarreled again. Obviously, Bai Gui had made up his mind not to be caught between the rebels outside the city and the foreigners in the city as his grandson, and he had made up his mind to leave himself alone.

Zhu Jinglun didn't have much official business, and he had a heart, so he waited by the door, and when he saw Pa Xiali coming out, he walked out himself.

Pa Xia Li walked directly past Zhu Jinglun without looking at him, this is a pure British aristocratic ****, that is, he will not look at a servant who is more first-class than himself. Zhu Jinglun didn't look for Pashali, but stopped Hurd, who was following behind Pashali.

Pashali, this guy, he understands Chinese, but he has to bring a translator, and the translator he brings has naturally to be a British translator like Hurd, and will not find a Chinese translator from Hong Kong or Macau, which is very common, how many foreign dignitaries in later generations can actually speak fluent English, but they will also bring an interpreter, this is a matter of identity, related to international etiquette and decency.

Hurd saw Zhu Jinglun calling out to himself, and stopped and walked over.

"Zhu, long time no see."

Zhu Jinglun also said hello.

Then pretended to inquire casually: "I heard that the village warrior outside the city was last night..."

Zhu Jinglun didn't deliberately pretend that he didn't know, to be honest, even if someone says that all this was planned by Zhu Jinglun, it is estimated that Hurd will not believe it, there is no need to be so deliberate, too deliberate, but too fake.

"Alas, now the Indians want us to save people, but you know, if we really give the Chinese silver and rice, our government will not agree. The French will also laugh at us. ”

Zhu Jinglun pretended to ponder for a moment, and then said: "Mr. Hurd, please forgive me for saying that you probably don't know much about the Chinese's style of doing things and negotiating style. We have a saying that the price is overpriced, and the money and rice are not negotiable. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, at least the villagers outside the city are sending us a message that they are willing to negotiate, instead of being incompatible as before! ”

"Good news?"

Hurd also pondered, he really thought.

Yes, in the past, whether it was Lin Fuxiang's Xiangyong, or other officials and squires who were trained by Xiangyong, they did not accept negotiations with the British and French forces, but now they sent a letter, isn't it implying that they can negotiate.

Hurd didn't say anything, smiled casually, and went straight to chase after Pashali, who was already walking away.

Who is Hurd?

It was an ambitious man, a young man who had been holding back his career intentions, and since he had realized this, it would be strange if he did not try to convince Pashali.

As long as Hurd could persuade Pashali to send someone outside the city to negotiate with Lin Fuxiang, Zhu Jinglun's plan would be half successful, because he was very sure that if Pashali was going to send someone, if he didn't plan to come forward in person, then Hurd would be an indispensable person, and once Hurd was involved, then he would definitely find Zhu Jinglun.

Because Zhu Jinglun is very confident in himself, he believes that his work during this period of time is very satisfactory to both the British and Hurd, and he believes that Hurd will think that he will get a better result by bringing him to negotiate.

Zhu Jinglun did not guess wrong, and sure enough, early the next morning, the general Yamen of Guangzhou sent someone to invite him, saying that Lord Hurd had something to discuss with him.