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The year was September 1854, not a month after the end of the Battle of the Zero Beach, and during this month, almost the whole world ...... Well, at least in the Far East, people are watching Guangdong, watching the situation here, paying attention to the Pearl River estuary, paying attention to the judgment here, but all this has not affected trade here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It seems that everyone knows that the final end of this event - the two sides will solve the problem through negotiations, and not war, after all, the United States is not Britain and can never be like Britain.

A Jew from India under the age of 22, Sassoon? David? Sassoon, wearing a British suit, came to Guangzhou, from India to Guangzhou, it usually only takes a month to sail by clipper, but Sassoon? David? Sassoon spent two months, and as the third son of the Sassoon family, he already saw Guangzhou as the final stop for his venture.

His two elder brothers established their own businesses in Shanghai and India respectively, and the reason why he came to Guangzhou was to establish his own business here, and Guangzhou would be the beginning of the Sassoon family's business.

"Mr. Sassoon, are we going to enter the port now, or are we going to anchor here first?"

The captain's words interrupted Sassoon's thoughts, and Sassoon thought for a moment before speaking.

"The boat stops here first, I'll go ashore first!"

"Yes, sir, but my advice is to get the cargo ashore as soon as possible, if you can, after all, at sea, we already have some losses."

The captain's reminder made Sassoon nod, and then he said immediately.

"Of course I do, you know, it's my stepping stone!"

Sassoon? David? Sassoon's tone was extremely confident, unlike his father and brother, he made another choice in order to open up this market, and it was for this reason that he was delayed at sea for a full month.

The dawn is dawning in the East. In a hurry, Sassoon immediately disembarked, and he went ashore on a sampan. At this time, many Chinese had gathered on the shore, these people were coolies on the dock, they were carrying goods, these coolies were lean and strong, most of them had shaved heads, and their lower bodies were one

Blue coarse cloth trousers, some wear a white jacket with a waistband, and some only wear a vest with a cushion on the shoulder. The two paired, used poles to carry dozens of wooden crates piled up on the boat, walked over the rickety and jumping springboard, carried them to the shore, and then divided the crates into two stacks and placed them on both sides of the sheep's horn in a balanced manner. And then. One is dragged in front with a rope. One holds the bar in the back, holds the direction steady, and pushes forward. The wooden wheel with iron sheets was asked, and there was a rattling sound along the way.

After the porters had finished transporting the wooden boxes, Sassoon said goodbye to the first mate who had brought him ashore.

"Aren't you going to meet the Chinese officials?"

The first mate pointed to the wheelbarrow procession that was moving away to load the wooden boxes,

"I inquired with others just now, these goods are all purchased by the government, and they are sent to the government, so you can go with them!"

Sassoon hurriedly thanked the first mate once more and saluted, and left the sampan to hurry after the convoy, and on the way the drivers made great efforts to speed up their pace, and marched forward at a rapid pace, and soon they entered a warehouse near the station, and at the gate of the warehouse, he saw an officer, who seemed to be taking inventory, and he hurried over.

"Hello, sir, I'm Sassoon? David? Sassoon, I would like to be able to meet your superiors, and I will provide you with a grant. ”

Mr. Sassoon said in stiff Chinese that he had been practicing this Chinese for the past two months, and he would not be able to say more.

Subsidize?

When receiving the report from the army, Li Ziyuan looked at the officer in front of him with some puzzlement, and then asked.

"Are you sure he's talking about funding, not doing business with you?"

The businessman found the army, no wonder Lin Yuqing would kick the ball to himself.

"What is he funding?"

Li Ziyuan asked curiously.

"Horses!"

The young officer, who had received the rank of second lieutenant, spat out a word and continued.

"178 Arabian Stallions!"

After receiving a telegram from Guangzhou, two weeks ago, with the efforts of tens of thousands of engineers and prisoners of war, the telegraph line from Guangzhou to Wuchang was finally paved, which also enabled the Governor's Office to grasp the situation in the three provinces.

178 Arabian Breeds!

"This Sassoon gift is quite generous!"

Maybe Hu Linyi didn't know what the Arabian horse was, but he knew the importance of military horses to the rebel army, and now the rebel army is just some bad horses from the south.

"My lord, these horses are between 142 and 153 centimeters tall at the shoulder, otherwise I think they should stay in the Governor's Palace!"

Obviously, Hu Linyi didn't know the importance of these horses, and his words made Zhu Yifeng smile.

"Runzhi, you don't know, this Arabian horse can be said to be the best horse in the world, like the British thoroughbred, the Anglo-Arabian horse has its pedigree, this is 178 good breeds, 80 stallions, 89 mares, 9 foals! There is also an English horse breeder, and he Sassoon did not send horses, but to the governor's office to improve the breed of horses! ”

If it is left in 50 years, Zhu Yifeng naturally does not care about these Arab horses, but now, in China in the 19th century, he can not ignore the reality that China's military horses lag behind the world, Chinese horses are mainly Mongolian horse blood, in later generations boasted of what so-called "Mongolian iron horse" Mongolian horses compared with European horses may have the advantages of resistance to rough feeding, but it can not hide its small size, weak strength, it is difficult to be competent for hard heavy workload work.

Most of the military horses used by the rebels were southern horses, in fact, Mongolian horses, but they had been domesticated in the south for a long time, and those horses that seemed to be docile and used to pulling carts were undisciplined and irritable on the battlefield, so that soldiers had to often risk their lives to appease the emotions of the horses.

Not only that, the horses of the rebel army were far from the prescribed standard value, and it was difficult to shoulder the heavy burden of the battlefield. Napoleon guns of the same tonnage can be easily towed with only six so-called "Western horses" purchased from Shanghai, while eight Chinese horses are very difficult. It is precisely because of this that the Ministry of War feels that improving military horses is one of the most urgent problems to be solved by the army.

It's just that there is no scientific system for how to change, and among the second batch of students sent by the Governorate, there are five students sent by the army to learn horse breeding in Europe. Unexpectedly, now this Sassoon not only sent a good breeder, but also a breeder. Isn't this just telling him that the Doge needs to improve the military horses?

"This Sassoon ......"

Sighing at Sassoon's shrewdness, Zhu Yifeng looked at the telegram in front of him, that Sassoon's request was very simple, he hoped that his foreign firm could obtain the "import opium concession", which was part of the "Prohibition in the Levy" anti-smoking plan implemented by Guangdong Province, Zhu Yifeng did not object to this, after all, this was an opportunity to ease relations with Britain.

However, this "concession" was granted, and according to the principle of granting, American and Jewish merchants were excluded, and only genuine "British merchants" were granted concessions, and there was also a foreshadowing in the granting of concessions -- once a year, and there was no long-term grant, and the reason why this rule was formulated was that when the merchant ships of the Far Eastern Company could sail to Persia and Turkey, the import rights would be withdrawn from the hands of the foreign merchants and imported directly by the Far Eastern Company.

After all, Far Eastern Foreign Company is the "own son" of the governor's house, and the profits must not be taken away by those foreign devils. Now this Sassoon wants to exchange these good breeds for "concessions", shrewd enough, he can see at a glance what the rebels need, but he does not know that he has other plans for opium.

However, it seems that ...... This is an opportunity!

Thinking of his other plan, Zhu Yifeng's heart moved, and he immediately realized that this was an opportunity!

He never had any good feelings about the Sassoon family, the largest opium merchant in modern China, but he knew one thing very well -- the Sassoon family and all the Jews had always had money in their eyes, and morality and justice did not exist in their eyes, and there was no so-called "morality" in their bloodline.

Greed and lack of morality are the most important characteristics of these Jews, but in addition, the Jews have another characteristic, that is, unity, the Sassoons may be in India, but they have ties with the Jews of England, France and other European countries, if they can get their help, they can naturally bring goods to Europe, to be precise to Crimea! The Jews had the proper means to bring their goods to the British and French armies, and that was a huge market of six or seven hundred thousand men!

"Handu ......"

Noticing that Han Du seemed to be a little distracted, Hu Linyi shouted tentatively.

"Huh?"

Zhu Yifeng, who came back from his contemplation, smiled at Hu Linyi, and then said with a smile.

"Runzhi, you immediately send a telegram to Li Ziyuan in the name of Fuzhong, asking him to send this batch of horses to Wuchang, and this Sassoon, and let him come with him."

Then, Zhu Yifeng continued:

"Well, isn't there still more than 30,000 acres of land near the military horse farm outside the city? Take back all those lands and turn them into horse breeding grounds for the rebels, and look at the purchase of a batch of fine mares from the north, at least 5,000 horses, the more the better, and this matter can be handed over to the group of Shanxi merchants, who can be said to be the Jews of China, as long as they can earn silver, they don't care about the ...... of the imperial court or the governor's office."

After explaining them one by one, Zhu Yifeng whispered to himself again.

"I just don't know, what is the quality of these good breeders?"

Thinking like this in his heart, Zhu Yifeng's brows jumped when he thought of another plan, but he was full of expectations for the Sassoon who sent the horse, of course, more about this opportunity! (To be continued.) )