When Cai Shiwen walked out of the barracks, he still couldn't believe the agreement reached.

Of course he knew Zhou Lang, according to the results of Sheng Zhu's interrogation of Harald, now the Guangzhou government knows that Zhou Lang is a maritime merchant similar to Wang Zhi in the late Ming Dynasty, but Wang Zhi colluded with the Japanese and Zhou Lang colluded with Yingyi.

According to Harald, most of the Yiren troops currently occupying outside Guangzhou are Zhou Lang's subordinates, Zhou Lang is the master, and the Yiren under him are just thugs, and most of the soldiers they see now are Chinese, so they believe that Zhou Lang is the leader behind the scenes, at least Zhou Lang is one of the leaders, and it is worth talking.

Now the leader promised that as long as the Canton government released their men, they could withdraw their troops. Zhou Lang also kindly reminded that half of the people could be released first, and the other half could be released after the withdrawal of the army. And it is guaranteed that the document can be established, but half of the people must be released before the document can be established, and Zhou Lang asked to confirm that their people are alive, so he has to send someone to Guangzhou City to check.

This person is, of course, Wei Lianli.

Cai Shiwen was hard to believe, but he couldn't help but believe it, the other party not only agreed to set up a note, but also sent a confidant, which is simply a hostage, which is clearly a sign of sincerity.

But like last time, Cai Shiwen said that he was just a messenger, although he was also wearing a flower feather and a seven-grade official uniform, but this was a candidate he spent money to buy, usually to establish authority in front of the common people, and now he is dressed up to win the trust of foreigners.

So he can do the risky work of getting in and out of the enemy camp, but he can't make decisions. However, seeing that the conditions are so generous, Cai Shiwen feels that the adults in the city should not refuse, maybe his drudgery is almost over. After this time, probably those who are officials will feel that he Cai Shiwen is more useful, and he will be more comfortable in business in the future.

Cai Shiwen, who had not long walked out of the barracks, had already begun to calculate the benefits he could get, and the more he thought about it, the happier he became, the more he believed in Zhou Lang's sincerity, because he hoped that Zhou Lang would be sincere, and this psychology affected his judgment.

Wei Lianli, who entered the city with Cai Shiwen, walked into Guangzhou City with trepidation, but after entering the city, he found that his situation was not so bad, not only lived in Cai Shiwen's mansion, but also got the other party's stammering and flattery, not only bundles of silver and ocean were sent up, but also several women were invited to serve.

Wei Lianli immediately put on an arrogant and domineering "Haikou" face, he was very familiar with the fox fake tiger power, and he enjoyed the process of the fox fake tiger power very much.

The adults in Guangzhou City were really anxious, Cai Shiwen went to urgently report the results of the negotiations in the first half of the night, and they summoned Wei Lianli in the second half of the night.

Wei Lianli saw Harald, Harald's image was very miserable, he was beaten badly during the interrogation, but the clever jailers only made him suffer from flesh and skin, but did not hurt the internal organs, so Harald only suffered some skin injuries, the process was very painful, in fact, the injuries were not serious, and even now he can walk.

When Harald saw Wei Lianli, it was like seeing his relatives, and he hurriedly asked how the situation was and if he was here to protect them. Wei Lianli praised Zhou Lang a lot, and said that Zhou Lang sent troops this time to save Harald, and ushered in a lot of gratitude.

He patted his chest and assured Harald that in order to save Harald out, the handsome man would do whatever it took to let Harald put his heart in his stomach.

Then Wei Lianli sent a lot of fire to the guards in custody, reprimanding them for not taking good care of them, and forced Cai Shiwen to send these people to a private house overnight to resettle. Of course, the employees of the East India Company were also placed, and Wei Lianli also sold them well to Zhou Lang in front of these people.

Wei Lianli even saw the prefect of Guangzhou, but he didn't see Sheng Zhu, as if it was really like Sheng Zhu said, he didn't care about these things, which made Wei Lianli a little depressed, his duty was to communicate with Sheng Zhu, but now he couldn't see Sheng Zhu, and he couldn't complete the task, but he didn't care, this didn't blame him, it was best for Sheng Zhu to keep things alone, he really didn't want to contact these children of the Eight Banners with a perverse temperament.

The next day, the Guangzhou government decided to release a group of people first, but after their screening, these people were all pawns. Captain Harald and Big Ban Brown didn't let go of any of them.

Wei Lianli was very depressed, he happily took Cai Shiwen's filial piety, and then followed the other party to escort the first batch of prisoners out of the city, but Zhou Lang actually let him enter the city again.

Wei Lianli began to scold his mother in his heart, he was a small character of the Tiandi Society from Qinglou. When Zuoying was still the county seat of Fengshan County, the Qinglou could still be mixed, but later the county moved away, and he became unemployed, and started a human flesh business for big families to touch their concubines.

It is impossible for a person like him to have any loyal thoughts, and this will be the case for heaven and earth, and the same will be true for Zhou Lang. It's just a matter of getting rich, and there's nothing worth his life.

So when Zhou Lang sent him to Guangzhou, what he valued more was not meritorious service, but the funds of 5,000 silver dollars given by Zhou Lang, and Zhou Lang told him that no matter how he spent the money, as long as he did things well, not a penny would be his.

So after Wei Lianli came over, he chose the lowest risk method and sold Harald to the Guangzhou government, because this would be the best way to win the trust of the other party. As for how he will return to Taiwan, he has 5,000 silver dollars in hand, but he won't go, so what?

So after that, Wei Lianli was not in a hurry to go back, but lingered in the land of fireworks, he used to be a waiter, and now it feels good to be served, but the money is also spent like flowing water.

Soon, who would have thought that Zhou Lang would lead his troops to fight and occupy the forts and Whampoa outside the city. Wei Lianli, who was wandering on the flower boat outside Guangzhou, started thinking again, as if he was looking for Zhou Lang at this time, maybe he could have a bigger harvest, so he returned to Zhou Lang's side.

Who would have thought that Zhou Lang gave him another dangerous task to enter the city at this juncture to contact Sheng Zhu.

He ventured into the city, but he didn't see Sheng Zhu, and then gave the prisoner a chance to go out of the city with Cai Shiwen, but Zhou Lang insisted on letting him go, your grandmother, deceive people too much!

So Wei Lianli agreed, how could he dare to object.

Wei Lianli is just a small person, from identity to psychology, Zhou Lang does not guess the interest of this kind of person, he is more concerned about the current development of the situation.

From the information heard by Wei Lianli, Zhou Lang knew that the number of Qing troops in Guangzhou was growing, and it was said that there were tens of thousands. As early as when Magalny occupied Humen, the governor of Guangdong and even the governor of Liangguang began to take action, mobilizing troops to rush to Guangzhou, just because they were worried that the foreigners would attack the city of Guangzhou, and it would not matter whether the city of Guangzhou was lost or lived.

But even if there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, the adults in the city don't want to risk going to war, winning is not a big achievement, defeated, losing the city of Guangzhou will lose their heads, especially the civil officials from the imperial examination, they are not much interested in the merits of the war, but they will be held accountable for the loss of the city, and there is no other way than suicide at that time.

Therefore, the civilian officials were generally more war-weary, and the military generals did not have much interest in fighting after fighting with the Yiren army, because they found that this Yikou was not easy to deal with, and they were extremely fierce when they hit the forts and Whampoa, and even the generals of the Eight Banners did not want to fight with these outlaws.

So the voice of the Lord and the city of Guangzhou began to appear, originally the Lord and the biggest obstacle Sheng Zhu did not care, the Lord and the Lord seemed to become inevitable, the only trouble is that the Yiren are not so easy to speak.

Fortunately, the person in charge of the Yi people seems to be a Chinese, so the adults immediately agreed to release half of the people first, and then asked the other party to withdraw the troops, as for the matter of signing the sentence, they thought about it or not to sign.

After careful consideration, these shrewd adults found that letting the Yi people sign the sentence can indeed restrain them, but leaving their own handwriting is also easy to leave a black background for themselves, in case of future incidents, they will die, and it is easy to become the handle of the Yi people, they even suspect that this is Zhou Lang's conspiracy, so after repeated consideration, they decided not to use the words, anyway, the important prisoners are in their hands, and they are not afraid that the other party will not comply.

Officials in Guangzhou did not want to say a word, but Magalny insisted on signing the agreement.

Magalny finally arrived at Whampoa, and he had set out after hearing that Colin had captured Whampoa, and had finally arrived this morning.

Colin's speed was somewhat beyond Magalny's expectations, he thought that the Qing army could hold on to the fort for a day or two, but he didn't expect it to be over in less than half a day, he knew this, he would have come to Huangpu with him, instead of staying in Humen.

As soon as Magalny came, he listened to Zhou Lang and Colin introduce the current situation to him, and knew the agreement between Zhou Lang and Colin, Magalny did not object to Zhou Lang's way of deceiving the Qing army to release people, and the opponent illegally took hostages first, and he deceived them later, which did not damage integrity.

But Magalny was not satisfied with the content of Zhou's negotiations.

After seeing that half of the hostages were released by the Qing army, Magalny believed that the Qing army had the sincerity to negotiate, so he wanted to take this opportunity to negotiate with them, and put forward some of his own demands.

What Magalny wants, one is to satisfy the loss of his honor, and the most important thing is actually profit. He put forward several pieces of content and negotiated directly with Cai Shiwen.

The demands for the withdrawal of troops were: first, the Guangzhou government came forward to apologize and compensate those detained, totaling 200,000 silver dollars; secondly, the Canton government must immediately resume trade, and open a port in Xiangshan and Dongguan to allow British merchants to trade; Thirdly, to set up a place near Guangzhou, modeled on Macao, for the purpose of berthing, residing, and storing goods for British businessmen, and the local government must not interfere with the lives of overseas Chinese.

Cai Shiwen didn't expect that after releasing half of the people, the other party suddenly returned and put forward new conditions. At this time, he wanted to find Zhou Lang, but found that he couldn't see Zhou Lang, so only Magalny talked to him.

In the end, he could only reluctantly bring the news back to Guangzhou City, fortunately Wei Lianli went into the city with him again, otherwise he was really worried that the adults in the city would think that he Cai Shiwen was ineffective and offended Yiren.