Let Chen Zhiting come forward, starting from the manhole, every squire signed and wrote a blood book. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Where did the blood come from, Zhu Jinglun killed a pig and wrote more than 10,000 words.

The article was written by Chen Zhiting, a leading person, Zhu Jinglun can't write this kind of article, and any alarmist rumors such as cutting five cities today and cutting ten cities tomorrow are all added, and the literary style is about to catch up with Qin's theory, which is full of grief and indignation from the literati.

As for the blood characters of the signature, it is really the name written by every squire who cuts his fingers, the manhole is very smooth, Kowloon is also very smooth, although other places are not smooth, one by one squires have to be persuaded by one, but there is not much difficulty, these squires are afraid of folding this kind of thing to the emperor and tens of thousands of people, which will cause trouble, but the more people who see the sign, the more relieved they are.

All people with meritorious reputation, even if it is just a showman, have to sign, if you don't sign, you will mobilize your classmates, the division commander will persuade you, and use all kinds of righteous banners to put pressure on you, if you don't sign, you are sorry for your ancestors, and if you don't sign, you are not loyal to the Qing Dynasty, the emperor is now deceived by traitors, and the land is cut and the teacher is lost.

There are more than 100 acres of land to sign the landlord, this time but in order to protect our big guy's land, if you don't sign let the foreigner cut your house, you agree no, agree that everyone will discuss with the foreigner at that time, on your family does not want the land, even coaxing with threats, the landlord is actually more willing to sign, because they understand that the truth is true, plus those who lift people have signed, we don't have to be afraid of a flat-headed people, the sky falls and there is a big man on top.

Of course, if it's really a flat-headed people, they want to sign it, but they don't have this qualification.

Chen Zhiting took the county officials, anyway, it was a family visit, he Shajing Chen family, the Chen family who claimed to be the first to sign after the Song Dynasty, and then there was the Zhang family who claimed to be the descendants of Zhang Liang, and the Wen family who claimed to be the descendants of Wen Tianxiang. So the big clans also signed, including the Hakka people, they also had to sign, they were also a clan system, and they couldn't figure it out that they were still a family five hundred years ago.

In this way, the local scholar class, the landlord class and the clan forces have all completed the signing of this blood letter, this is everyone's meaning, this is the people's heart, this is the people's will, what will the emperor feel when he sees it.

This is not over, Xin'an signed, Dongguan signed, Xiangshan signed, Shunde signed, Panyu signed, Nanhai signed, in short, slowly go down in series, when to use it, take it out and give it to the emperor.

But in the end, it was to put pressure on the British, no matter how much pressure the emperor was under, he ran to Chengde with a pick, and the British had to cut the land, and the emperor estimated that he could only "disobey" the people's will.

So Zhu Jinglun also prepared a gift for the British, which is really a gift.

This is a letter to the British King, drafted in English, and sent to Her Majesty the Queen of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain for the Royal Examination. The main content is to pay homage to the King in the name of the entire Gentry of Guangdong:

We have no objection to you British people coming to us to do trade in China, but you British businessmen are doing all kinds of evil and acting recklessly in our place, so we were very dissatisfied with you before, and we didn't want to do business with you, but we didn't expect it to develop to the point where the two families exchanged troops and lost their lives.

We solemnly promise that we will allow your merchants to do business, to live in the treaty ports, and to believe in your sect, and we promise not to harm them. But if you dare to harm my good people, steal, smuggle, and especially wantonly handcuff and kidnap the good people of our country and sell them in the east and west and the two seas and people as slaves, you should be hanged to make an example!

As for foreigners entering the interior to do business, if we see your sincerity and see that your businessmen abide by the law, we will not have to do anything in the future. Although the imperial court has a treaty, our villagers also have folk customs, and you can't rely on the imperial court treaty to oppress the people.

If you insist on going your own way, especially if you want to cut off my land and occupy my fertile land, we and the gentry will make an oath to break the house and the country, and we will fight with your army to the end, and if you are unfortunately defeated, we will never have anything to do with you, and we would rather move to other places and avoid the mountains than be with you. Never let you wait to buy an inch of silk, a leaf of tea from China, and never buy a cigarette or a wisp of cotton.

On the one hand, they threaten foreigners not to cede their land, otherwise they will not be able to buy any goods and sell any goods. On the other hand, if the foreigners do not cede the land, let them promise that the foreigners can freely walk, live and do business in the treaty ports, and promise not to harm them.

Such an agreement can be regarded as a threat to foreigners and a gift to foreigners, but in fact, Zhu Jinglun is trying his best to increase trade, which is a win-win situation. The common people are conservative, which is not a good thing after all, but Zhu Jinglun can't accept it if he doesn't accept it like the British, and there is no problem that cannot be solved, only the wrong way.

As for whether the British received this letter, whether they felt more threatened or felt that it was a gift, Zhu Jinglun didn't care at all, anyway, he felt that if the British government hadn't gone crazy, it would definitely not choose to be the enemy of tens of millions of their business partners.

Letters to the British were written on paper between foreigners in Hong Kong, and Hurd also used this kind of official paper in Chiwan, so it was easy to obtain. It took only one page to write the content, but the signatures at the back were prepared for hundreds of pages, and each squire signed in small letters, and those with seals had to be stamped with their seals.

The content was written in English, and the squires couldn't read it at all, but they even signed the letter to the emperor, and they were not afraid to write a letter to the foreign queen who didn't know where to go.

But they couldn't understand it, Zhu Jinglun also specially translated it, and asked Chen Zhiting to lead people to let everyone know what they were signing on, let them know that they themselves have the obligation to abide by the agreement after signing, if the foreigners did not cut the land, everyone should not kill the foreigners in the future, although it is very majestic to prevent the foreigners from entering the city and maintain the respect of the people of our country, but after all, it is not good to cause the defeat and compensation to cut the land.

The peace-loving squires understood this.

On the other hand, Zhu Jinglun authorized the Wu family to start a lawsuit with Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong, because Jardine Matheson did not send the cannons on time, and the British government seized their cannons last year.

When Zhu Jinglun signed the contract, the payment was 1 million taels, which had a huge profit, because the cost might not be higher than 300,000 taels, and Jardine Matheson under this kind of profit would ignore any laws, so they also recognized the additional terms proposed by Zhu Jinglun, although this kind of clause is somewhat overbearing, such as stipulating that no matter what the circumstances, Jardine Matheson must deliver on time, without any force majeure clause, even if there is a storm at sea, even if all British arsenals explode, Jardine Matheson also had to deliver on schedule. In order to make excess profits, Jardine Matheson agreed, do business, after all, high risk means high profits, otherwise why would the Chinese pay such a high price.

In fact, Jardine Matheson also has their own self-confidence, first even if the ship is sunk in a storm at sea, it is a trip back and forth, it is too late, a year, the British flying clipper ship can go from Britain to China in three months, two round-trips in half a year is enough, as for the supply of cannons, in an emergency, Jardine Matheson can say that the British Navy can disassemble a batch of cannons from their warships to deal with emergencies.

In the eyes of Jardine Matheson, this is a foolproof deal, but I didn't expect their cannons to be seized by the British government, which is going to be clear, Jardine Matheson did not use their political influence, the founder Madison Sr. just retired in the United Kingdom, every day to petition all kinds of parliamentarians, to put pressure on the British government.

Although the Hong Kong government originally wanted to pretend to be negligent and let Jardine Matheson quietly transport cannons to China during the war, but after the first battle of Dagukou, the British and French people were violent, and nothing could withstand deep digging, so the newspapers that could not die dug up this matter, which caused the anger of public opinion, why are the two countries still at war, and you still sell cannons to China, no wonder Chinese just sank four British gunboats with cannons, and the feelings are all sold to China by Jardine Matheson, you Jardine Matheson is a British foreign company in the end, Or a foreign company in China?

The common people were unreasonable, and under the anger of the people, the British government did not dare to ignore it, and immediately investigated the situation, and found that sure enough, Jardine Matheson ordered a batch of artillery in the major military factories in Britain, and immediately seized it, without any room for negotiation, and it was not good to let old Madison run and break his leg.

But Jardine Matheson Matheson really can't afford this loss, although they claim to be the successors of the East India Company, but in fact, their trade volume is not on the same order of magnitude as the original East India Company, although they have a considerable share of the Crow trade, but it is far from being a monopoly, not to mention their scale, not to mention the East India Company, compared to any foreign company in the thirteen lines of Guangzhou at its peak.

They have a million capital, but a lot of them are fixed assets, warehouses, wharves, shipping, clippers, not cash, they have earned a lot of profits, as many as millions of taels, but that is the result of decades of hard work by old Madison, those profits have long been dividends to shareholders, and it is simply difficult to get out of the hands of shareholders, so only with the current capital of Jardine Matheson, even if they sell it, they can't afford to pay this high liquidated damages. Because Zhu Jinglun's outrageous request set the liquidated damages to three times the amount of the goods, that is, 3 million taels, plus 300,000 taels of compensation, Jardine Matheson had to pay 3.3 million taels of silver at one time.

This is a disaster for Jardine Matheson, a Category 10 hurricane blowing at sea will overturn the giant ship Jardine Matheson in an instant.

So they tried their best to deal with it, and negotiated with Wu Chongyao, who was sent by Zhu Jinglun to urge the goods, and Zhu Jinglun gave him extensions one after another, but they were never able to get through to the British government, so there was no way, it had been postponed for three months, and Zhu Jinglun asked Wu Chongyao to give them an ultimatum to pay liquidated damages immediately, otherwise they would sue Jardine.