From receiving the money to withdrawing from Huangpu, a total of five days before and after can be said to have retreated at full speed.

After confirming that the thieves outside Guangzhou had retreated, officials at all levels in Guangzhou held a celebration banquet at the Yamen of the Guangdong Customs.

I chose to be here because of the invitation of Shengzhu, and Shengzhu said that he had made a miraculous achievement.

According to Sheng Zhu's statement, seeing that the thieves attacked Guangzhou and did not have the surname Jiang retreated, Sheng Zhu led more than 100 of his subordinates and family members, and opened the south gate to pursue with courage, and encountered stubborn resistance from the thieves, but he was still killed by Sheng Zhu's master and more than 10 thieves, and he also killed the thief chief Colin!

But Shengzhu's statement was vetoed by Changlin, what kind of joke, the thieves are going to escape, you can catch up and kill their thief chieftains, Changlin doesn't know what kind of cat Shengzhu is playing, but after thinking about it a little, he understands, probably Shengzhu made a deal with Haikou, bought more than a dozen dead corpses, and then planned to take the risk.

As for killing any Yiren chieftain or something, Changlin couldn't believe it, but Sheng Zhu insisted that he was indeed the big leader of the thieves. Changlin asked Cai Shiwen, who was in contact with Yiren, and the other party also confirmed that he was the leader of the thieves, and then Changlin became suspicious.

During Changlin's private questioning, Sheng Zhu told the truth, saying that these corpses were indeed bought by him, but they were indeed the corpses of the leader of the thieves. After examining the body, it was found that the leader of the thieves had been killed by someone who had his throat cut and had a wound on his back. Immediately, Changlin understood what was happening, this was definitely an internal strife among the thieves, and as a result, the leader was fired, no wonder they were willing to withdraw their troops.

Thinking of this, Changlin felt that the 20 million silver dollars had been lost, but if he did it again, he would still give the money, because he couldn't afford to take that risk.

But with these dozen or so corpses, the article is easy to do. Their previous behavior, wanting to completely hide from the court, was always very unreliable, but with the corpses of these thieves, especially the corpses of the leaders of the thieves, this matter became an iron case.

So in Changlin's pen, this incident of besieging the city became like this. First of all, it was still the Haikou Zhou Lang who colluded with the Yi people, but the theory changed from Zhou Lang recruiting the Yi people to Zhou Lang leading the Yi people to disturb Guangzhou. Then the soldiers and civilians of Guangzhou enthusiastically contributed money and efforts, and the officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners fought bravely to kill the enemy, and killed the leader of the fleeing Yi people in front of the battle, Colin, and the Yi people were shocked and left, and the siege of Guangzhou was relieved.

However, due to Sheng Zhu's insistence, this credit still fell to Sheng Zhu, saying that Sheng Zhu took the customs officials and family members to kill the enemy chief in front of the battle.

This matter is over, that is, it is reasonable, reasonable, and there is evidence.

After Zhou Lang retreated, the reinforcements from the periphery of Guangzhou gradually entered the city of Guangzhou, at this time Changlin sent troops to kill the Tan people outside the city, and it is said that they killed thousands of Tan people, and these Tan people were handed over to the imperial court as Haikou pirates.

The only hidden concern is the Yiren envoy Magalni, who has a fake draft document and does not know if he will come back to make trouble.

But these adults in Guangzhou were not worried, they released the East India Company's Taiban Brown, let Cai Shiwen soothe Brown, and privately promised that the East India Company would not be restricted from purchasing raw silk within three years. The Manchu government also had restrictions on the types of trade, according to the economic concept of the traditional Chinese literati, they were more important than money, especially the physical goods related to the food and clothing of the common people were most concerned, so there was a popular view, it was not cost-effective to exchange the silver for food and clothing, so many dynasties adopted a restricted attitude towards the export of clothing and grain, even now, the Manchu government still banned the export of grain, and also limited the maximum 100 quintals per ship of raw silk.

This is a policy that does not conform to the principles of economics, so there are policies and countermeasures, and the merchant Pan Zhencheng is to use his own connections to open up the joints of the government, so that each foreigner's ship can hit 1,000 tons of raw silk and other things without being seized, so that the raw silk sold by the Pan family to foreigners is 5 silver dollars more expensive than other merchants per load, and he will make a lot of profits.

Now that the government has privately promised to open the ban, it is advantageous for the East India Company to purchase more raw silk and at the same time reduce the cost of paying additional silk.

Because of the feeling that Huairou Yiren was gentle, the Guangzhou government thought that everything was back to the past, and in the future, everyone would still do business and make a fortune, and they didn't take Magalny seriously at all.

But Zhou Lang didn't think so, he knew that Magalny was convinced of the grass covenant.

Like Colin, Zhou Lang had been worried that after Magarny found out that Colin was attacking Guangzhou again after he left, he would return to stop it, but the two of them were completely overwhelmed, and Zhou Lang found that the news of the attack on Guangzhou did not catch up with Magarny at all.

Magalny was too aggressive, and after leaving Canton at that time, he rushed to Macau almost non-stop. According to Zhou Lang's estimate, he had to prepare for a few days before going to sea, who knew that Magarni only showed the local government in Macao the draft agreement signed with Guangzhou, told the county of Macao and Tongzhi that the conflict between the two sides was over, and then disbanded the armed British crew, and in the case of insufficient preparation, gathered all the supplies, first let the battleship Lion carry him and the members of the mission out of Macao, and the other ships docked in Macao for a few days before departing.

There is a big doubt about this, why the officials in Macao did not break the draft agreement presented by Magalny, it is impossible for them not to know that the regulations of the Governor's Great Seal of Customs and Defense are wrong, they can only say that these people will really be officials, and when they fake it, it is also false, and they see through it but do not say it, and as a result, everyone knows that Magalny has been deceived, but everyone takes this matter seriously.

The only pity that Magalny left Zhou Lang was the battleship, he really coveted that third-class battleship, the firepower of more than sixty heavy guns was really powerful, and it could be completely suppressed against the Manchu batteries.

But Zhou Lang still has hope, he knows that Magalny will come back, but when he gets approval in India, and then returns to Guangzhou, it will be a matter of summer, and there are still many months, Zhou Lang must continue to strengthen his strength in these months, who knows if Magalny will bring the army next time.

And Colin's affairs may not be kept secret forever, he must have the power not to be held accountable before the British find out the situation and then pursue him.

Now he has temporarily stabilized the Indian native army led by 1,500 British officers, and his own 800 men and horses have also gained combat experience in Guangzhou, and Wang Fuqian has also brought 3,000 recruits to pay allegiance to him, which is enough for him to return to Taiwan and gain a firm foothold.

The sea power has also been greatly enhanced, after Harald was rescued, it seemed that his attitude towards Zhou Lang was more respectful, Zhou Lang took the opportunity to appoint him as the commander of the fleet, in addition to his armed merchant ships, the other five armed merchant ships of the commander between Colin, plus Xie Qinggao's lucky, Zhou Lang had seven armed merchant ships in his hands, equipped with 165 cannons, this force allowed him to go out of the Pearl River from Guangzhou, and no Qing army sailors dared to stop him.

As for the other ships, there were no more, the ships of the Magarni Mission left Macao one after another, and the fishing boats hired by the Tan people were not suitable for going to sea, and Zhou Lang tried to recruit the Tan people, but only a few people were willing to leave with him, after all, the government didn't care about the Tan people, but the Tan people still didn't want to go against the government. And the Tan people living in Guangzhou are different from the Tan people on the seaside, they are backed by this trading city, although the social status is low, but the basic life is still guaranteed, usually fishing, transporting goods, operating flower boats, can make a living, go with Zhou Lang, that is, to be pirates, few people are willing to go.

As for the Tan people along the coast, they have long been recruited by pirates, and even a large number of good citizens have to worry about whether they will be kidnapped by pirates.

Zhou Lang did not have the ability to expand the fleet for the time being, and he was in a hurry to return to Taiwan, so he did not bother about this matter. Due to the lack of recruitment, the sailor warships captured by Magalny in Humen had to be abandoned, and Zhou Lang directly ordered them to be burned, anyway, these ships were not very suitable for navigation, and he didn't want them very much, but he didn't want to leave them to the Qing army.

It was the northeast monsoon at this time, and it was not a good wind to travel from Guangdong to Taiwan, so the fleet traveled for twenty days before returning to Tagu Harbor.

The situation in Dagu Port made Zhou Langzhi frown, when he left, the forts and fortresses were newly repaired, but at this time, they were potholed and quite dilapidated.

Just like the fortifications, the situation in Dagu Port was not optimistic, and Zhao Wen, who stayed here to guard, only had one hundred and eighty soldiers in his hands at this time.

Previously, the artillery and infantry under his command combined were three hundred.

After asking, I learned that before Zhou Lang came back, Dagu Port had been besieged by the Qing army for more than ten days.

The main forces of the Qing Taiwan Naval Division and the Penghu Naval Division attacked fiercely from the sea, and the land route detoured from Donggang, and the army alone had more than 1,000 people. After Zhao Wen put up hard resistance, although the Qing army chose to retreat after the appearance of Zhou Lang's fleet, more than 50 of his men were killed, and dozens of others fled.

In the case of being attacked by the enemy on the back of the abdomen, the troops were still at an absolute disadvantage, and only sixty or seventy people ran away, Zhao Wen's management ability was already quite good, and the reason why he was asked to guard the drum port before was because at that time, he was the only one under Zhou Lang who had the experience of leading troops independently.

Although many people died in the battle and many escaped this time, after all, he held the drumming port, and Zhou Lang certainly wouldn't blame him.

In fact, Zhao Wen did not have any self-blame, and at the same time, he was not arrogant, he just calmly said that the Qing army retreated before Zhou Lang's main force returned, and did not regard this matter as his credit, and calmly said that many people died in the battle and escaped a lot, and he did not regard these as his failures.

This kind of attitude made Zhou Lang have no way to pretend to appease him.

Continuing to understand the situation, I learned that there were more than 2,000 Qing troops and troops in Donggang, who not only besieged Tagu Port, but also went up the river and captured Fengdanxun, which is why Chen Guanghui of the Heaven and Earth Society did not rescue when Dagu Port was besieged.

The Qing army threatened the Heaven and Earth Society Zhou Lang didn't care, but the Qing army used Donggang as a base and infiltrated the Pingtung Plain in the north, which made Zhou Lang very worried, because wherever the Qing army went, many landlord armies cooperated with the Qing army.

Most of the big landlords are still interested in the government, this is a force that cannot be ignored, once it grows up is extremely terrifying, Zeng Guofan can suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, doesn't it rely on such a landlord regiment training, Zhou Lang can't let the Qing army gather the elite of the rural society behind him, and can't let the landlords become bigger.

He had to pull out the nail of Donggang.

But he had just returned from Guangzhou, and on the one hand, the army needed to rest, and on the other hand, he had not yet fully controlled the army, and he had to carry out a reorganization to break up the original organization in order to feel at ease.