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Slap, slap... The sound of crisp porcelain breaking keeps ringing!

Xianfeng, who was full of anger, overturned five or six rare porcelain bottles one after another, but he still couldn't calm the anger in his chest!

"Bastards, bastards! Jiang Wenqing died in battle, and Lu Jianying was also defeated and returned to Nanjing! An Man's envoy Zhang Xiyu and Wang Pengfei, the chief soldier of Langshan Town, are two damned minions, afraid of the thieves and fleeing without a fight! Causing Anqing to fall! Xianfeng jumped like thunder, and shouted angrily: "Come on, draft the order, quickly order Qin to send Qishan to arrest these two people and send them to Beijing for trial, I will delay this damned minion." Then the Criminal Department quickly arrested Zhang Xiyu and Wang Pengfei's family members and beheaded them on the spot to set an example! ”

If it weren't for Lu Jianying, he would have been his teacher, otherwise he would have been killed.

"Qi Shan, the minister of the Qin Mission, and Lu Jianying, the governor of the Qin Mission and the Governor of Liangjiang, supervised the troops to strictly defend to the death, and the Governor of Zhili, Naer, came to the rescue with the troops of the Esu Command, and worked together with Xiang Rong and other reinforcements to defeat the thieves."

After giving the order, Xianfeng retreated his anger a little, drove away the eunuchs and palace maids, locked himself in the room, and muttered: "Not long after Wuchang fell, Jiujiang Anqing was lost, and there are two Guangzhous, and now there are thieves everywhere, am I really the king of the dead country?" ”

With a drastic change in his mind, he couldn't help himself, and called in a little eunuch waiting at the door, it was An Dehai.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" An Dehai entered the Xinuan Pavilion and closed the door to block the cold outside.

"Xiao Anzi, quick, take some of the kind of longevity ointment you gave me last time, I want to relieve my worries!"

An Dehai hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, although this longevity ointment can relieve worries, it is a great tonic, and you can't eat too much." The emperor still takes care of the dragon's body. ”

"Huh?!" Xianfeng glared at An Dehai, his sharp eyes made An Dehai's soul flutter, thinking of the master's eccentricity and tyrannical temperament, An Dehai's scalp was numb, and he quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "The emperor is angry!" Minions, go get it, take it! ”

After half a pillar of incense, on the kang of Xinuan Pavilion, Xianfeng was intoxicated with the happiness of longevity and ruyi ointment, and seemed to forget the pain of the fall of Anqing......

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Someone is in pain and needs longevity ointment to bring happiness. But there are still people who bring great pain because of these things!

On Hong Kong Island. Inside the Governor's House.

More than a hundred British soldiers, including twelve officers, all had another seizure, snot and tears streaming uncontrollably down their faces.

The doctor was still at a loss, and in the end, he suggested to Wen Han, who was worried, to try tobacco and give them a snort to see if it could be relieved.

Helplessly, Wen Han asked these sick people to smoke tobacco soil, but he didn't expect that the effect was really good. These uncomfortable appearances, which were supposed to be dead or alive, quickly returned to normal as soon as they were inhaled, and they hummed comfortably.

When the draw was over, everyone was in good spirits, and a few soldiers even said that they felt extremely strong and could kill a cow with one punch.

In this way, for the first few days, I had to smoke once or twice a day, and after a few days, I had to smoke it twice a day.

Even the goods sold by the British themselves were expensive, and the officers were okay, with good salaries and more savings, and they could still cope with it. But the salaries of the more than 100 British soldiers were originally meager, and if this situation continued, it would be difficult to support it in half a month, and some people had already begun to plan in advance and borrow money everywhere.

As more than 100 British soldiers smoked it, telling how wonderful it was to smoke it, other soldiers on Hong Kong Island also began to smoke it.

Originally, British soldiers also ate tobacco, but they were all used to soak in water and drink like tea leaves, just to refresh themselves, and the impact was not great. But now, the other soldiers followed the hundred or so British soldiers and smoked in the same way as they smoked, and then they experienced indescribable pleasure, and became even more infatuated with this pleasure, so that soon, many soldiers became addicted.

Since the United Kingdom has never banned the smoking of tobacco soil, tobacco soil is present in many medicines. Therefore, no one takes smoking soil seriously.

On the other hand, the Hong Kong foot merchants on Hong Kong Island were very happy, most of them were small and medium-sized merchants who sold tobacco, and the big tobacco dealers brought in large ships of tobacco from India, and these small Hong Kong foot merchants went to distribute some of the goods and sold them on Hong Kong Island and Guangdong. For a time, shipments on Hong Kong Island increased significantly.

The Governor of Hong Kong Island, Man Han, did not know this, and after he suffered a stroke, he ordered it to be transported back to China and given to his uncle. The position of commander of the Far Eastern Fleet became vacant, and the fleet's warships were much missing. In desperation, Wen Han used the silver dollars that were originally planned to repair the camp on Hong Kong Island, and mortgaged the tax revenue of Hong Kong Island for three years to the United States Qichang Foreign Company, and borrowed more than 100,000 yuan, making up nearly 200,000 yuan in expenses.

At this time, his assistant Midile came in, holding a note: "Your Excellency, the Holy King of Canton has sent us a letter informing us that he will send a powerful sailor to conquer the rest of the Manchu territories in Guangdong, declare that he has no ill will towards Hong Kong Island, pass through the waters of Hong Kong Island, and ask us to avoid it, so as not to cause strife. ”

“shit！ The bullshit powerful sailors are not the ones who captured the warships that were fearful! Wen Han was helpless, now there are only 3 warships and 1 armed merchant ship left on Hong Kong Island, and it is a new defeat, so he can't declare anything, and he doesn't want to entangle with the rebels more, so he said: "Reply to them, don't approach Hong Kong Island for 3 miles." ”

This is undoubtedly agreeing to the demands of the rebels, 3 miles is just a face, and who will really care?

There's no way around it! Although Wen Han was appointed as a vice admiral of the Hong Kong Island Navy, he did not really command the naval battle, and after thinking about it, he suddenly thought of his other assistant, the Chinese deputy envoy of the British Commercial Supervision Office in China, Wei Tuma, who had been a veteran for more than ten years, although he was an army, but he had participated in the opium war against China, and he was also experienced, and Wen Han immediately appointed Wei Tuma as the temporary commander of the British army on Hong Kong Island. Let him be on the defensive side in the near future and pay close attention not to be attacked by the rebels.

Wen Han remembered the rebel leader's promise to the treaty port, so he called Bao Ling and said, "Mr. Bao Ling, as the British consul in Guangzhou, you still have to return to Guangzhou. Moreover, by selling a lot of British goods to the Holy King, he had robbed the whole of Canton of silver! ”

Bao Ling knew that Mr. Governor was strapped for money!

The compensation to the rebels, the silver dollars to redeem the soldiers, and the dead soldiers also had to be compensated, fortunately most of them were Indian soldiers, which were very cheap. But there is still such a big sum of money, and it has to be earned back!

Thinking of this, Bao Ling replied: "Your Excellency the Governor, Bao Ling obeys!" I plan to organize a group of goods and merchants to go to Guangzhou tomorrow to reopen consulates, and personally go to Wuzhou, Guilin, Nanning, Shaozhou, and other places to open treaty ports. ”

"Great! Mr. Bao Ling, in order to ensure your safety, you should lead fifty soldiers together. In addition, the religious beliefs of the rebels must also be investigated, but the Governor must see if they really believe in God, and how they believe in God. ”

When Bao Ling left the governor's palace, he went to find the merchants he was familiar with.

What goods come quickly? Naturally, it's smoke.

Although Bao Ling knew that the Holy King seemed to be very interested in arms and weapons, there were not many surplus arms on Hong Kong Island.

But tobacco soil is different, not only is it highly profitable, but it is also in high demand. However, it is a pity that after the Opium War, although the Manchu government openly allowed tobacco to be sold in various treaty ports, local officials were afraid of the court's blame and worried about their reputation, so they still tried every means to obstruct the sale of tobacco. As a result, although tobacco clay was sold more than before the war, it did not see a blowout growth.

Especially in Guangzhou, because of the reason of Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangdong, the sales have not gone up much.

Now, the new rebel leader has promised all countries to open a treaty port and has not banned the sale of tobacco, so why should he seize this opportunity to expand the tobacco trade!

However, for the tobacco soil, although the tariff stipulated by the Holy King to extract fifty percent is very heavy, it is still acceptable when you think of the profit of the tobacco soil. What's more, the Governor's Office on Hong Kong Island only asked merchants to donate half of the taxes and fees, and how to earn it back was the business of those businessmen. I don't need that to worry about them.

You must know that the production cost of tobacco in India is only 200 rupees a box, and when sold to Guangzhou, it is 350 taels of silver a box, which is equivalent to 500 silver dollars, which is equivalent to 3,200 rupees a box. This profit is more than ten times, and even if the tariff of 50% is collected, it is still a windfall profit.

In addition, the transportation from India to Hong Kong Island, and then to Guangzhou, the road is not far, and the freight is not much, so Guangzhou, as the largest dumping place for tobacco, is really important.

Thinking of this, Bao Ling was hot!

However, he was worried that the holy king would not openly agree to open treaty ports, like the previous Manchu officials, but in fact secretly obstruct trade with Britain and other countries, especially the tobacco trade.

If you think about it, there are really some intentions in this regard! Bao Ling analyzed in his heart, otherwise why would that holy king deliberately propose to charge fifty percent of the tariff on tobacco?

Bao Ling was going to take the merchant and first go to Mr. Wu, the good friend, to find out the situation. (To be continued.) )