As the day gradually brightened, the Shanghainese were surprised to find that the guards in the city had changed, and the northerners who originally spoke Jianghuai accents had changed to the dialect of the Yunnan-Guizhou region of Guangxi.

Last night's battle was not without movement, at least the ambush in the Huai army barracks was still very large, and some people became suspicious and began to carefully observe this strange army.

Soon, everyone found that this army was quite numerous, and it was not honest in the camp like the previous Huai army, but in units of 100 people, the factories in the eastern district of Shanghai were seized with loaded guns.

Eighteen chambers of commerce came to visit again, but at this time, they were angry one by one. In order to support the Huai army, they gave the Huai army 5,000 troops, but now the Qing army has seized their factory, which makes them simply angry.

Hearing that the presidents of the eighteen chambers of commerce were coming, Hong Tiangui had a smile on his face.

"I'm worried that I can't find anyone! I didn't expect them to come on their own! Let them in! Hong Tiangui sat in the lobby of the governor's yamen for a long time.

When the presidents of the eighteen chambers of commerce came in, they saw Hong Tiangui sitting calmly, and their faces showed surprise.

"Who are you? Could you please come out and see your family? The head of the Chamber of Commerce's surname is Chen, a wealthy businessman in his forties, whose slightly smaller eyes are full of essence, and he is obviously an extremely shrewd person. As merchants, they were well-informed, and Hong Tiangui did not shave his hair and did not look like a Manchu nobleman. But the people who can be in this governor's yamen must not be ordinary people, so President Chen tried to squeeze out a kind smile on his face.

"Hehe, this king is the master here, I don't know what you are doing together?" Hong Tiangui spoke calmly.

As soon as the eighteen people heard that Hong Tiangui called himself the king, their faces instantly turned earthy, and they hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

"Get up! Tell me what you're going to do? Hong Tiangui was noncommittal, apparently his title made them mistake themselves for the Manchu vassal king. It was also true that the Wehrmacht was acting too long, and the scale of the battle was not large, and the movement caused by it in the night was very small, and the large army that was performing tasks outside was all changed into the uniforms of the Huai Army, so it naturally escaped most people.

"Lord Wang, I came here to ask why Lord Wang seized our factory?" Those who can open factories in Shanghai are not ordinary people, and they all have foreign backgrounds behind them.

"A seizure is a seizure, what else is why?"

Everyone's faces changed, but they didn't expect Hong Tiangui, who was not very old, to be so black-handed, and he directly robbed it openly, and he didn't even bother to make up the reason. But Hong Tiangui's reckless behavior only made the eighteen people more jealous, and they would not doubt his identity.

"Lord Wang, the factories we are waiting for have shares of the British behind them, and the prince is not afraid that the British will be blamed for doing this?" Chairman Chen said in a deep voice. Now in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Second ** War has just ended, and the deterrent power of the British is extremely great. Even the Manchu vassal kings probably didn't dare to offend easily.

Everyone was already waiting for Hong Tiangui to give in, but the difference in identity doomed them to be disappointed.

"So what, just a barbarian in the west, this king doesn't care about it yet!" Hong Tiangui said proudly.

Eighteen people completely changed their faces. Which prince of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is this? How can you be so bold? But they still couldn't remember that the Manchu prince was so young and so bold.

"Lord Wang, please think twice, we are all Shunmin of the Qing Dynasty, some time ago Changmao besieged the city, and we also funded Lord Li with five thousand elite firearms." President Chen said.

"Oh? You were able to give Li Hongzhang 5,000 fully armed and strong? This king is not something that Li Hongzhang can compare, how much are you going to give this king to get the support of this king? Hong Tiangui's eyes lit up, and his expression was full of greed.

The faces of the eighteen people changed again, was Hong Tiangui asking for bribes? But now that the long hair has faded, there is no need for them to support the Qing army anymore.

"Lord Wang, we don't have the strength in our hands anymore, and we all support Li Hongzhang and Master Li!" Chairman Chen said in a panic.

"Yes, we are merchants, not a country, and five thousand people is already our limit." Others also spoke, hoping that Hong Tiangui would raise his noble hand.

"Humph! Is this king so easy to dismiss? You gave Li Hongzhang 5,000, and this king doesn't ask for much, 10,000 is not too much! The king will give you an hour, and if there is one less, the king will draw one of you to make up for it. Hong Tiangui said with a sneer.

"Lord Wang, you can't do this, the British won't let you go." President Chan shouted.

"Hmph, come here, drag them down, take someone to escort them back to prepare, and those who resist will be killed!" Hong Tiangui ordered with a cold face. Soon the eighteen presidents were pressed back, and a flash of joy flashed on Hong Tiangui's face.

Being able to raise 5,000 elites when King Zhong was besieging Shanghai City, the strength of these chambers of commerce should not be underestimated, not to mention that Shanghai has a population of more than 500,000, most of them are rich businessmen and landlords around Shanghai, and there is a lot of wealth.

But the surprise is not only wealth, but also a large amount of weapons and equipment. Out of the dock in Shanghai, I found that there were 10,000 rifles in the British military warehouse, all of which were new-style Enfield rifles, and the British themselves were still in the process of changing their clothes. These 15,000 troops were transported some time ago to redress the British troops in the Far East, and the fundamental reason why they were transported to Shanghai was precisely because British soldiers from all over the Far East would soon assemble in Shanghai to assist the Manchus in suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It's just that I didn't expect that all these 10,000 new rifles would fall into Hong Tiangui's hands.

Hong Tiangui was overjoyed and immediately equipped the four divisions of the First Army with these 10,000 rifles. In addition to the rifles, the 20 200 mm caliber Armstrong cannons made Hong Tiangui ecstatic. There were originally 24 guns, but four of them were taken away by the British in advance to be used in the battle to suppress Chungwang, and the four huge cannons caused huge losses to Chungwang. And now the rest of them have become Hong Tiangui's trophies, and this British arsenal completely makes Hong Tiangui excited.

At the same time, the French arsenal was also confiscated, and there were only 3,000 MLE1842 rifles, all of which looked like second-hand weapons used in the French army. Sun Libin, who was in charge of raiding the French ** arsenal, was a little dissatisfied, these rifles were only enough to prepare one division. Although the rifle was not enough, the artillery surprised Sun Libin. There are 100 Napoleonic guns, the largest caliber is about 100 mm, and the smallest is 70 mm, which is much better than the chaotic models cast by the Taiping army themselves. It's a pity that he didn't cover these artillery, and he was pulled away by Hong Tiangui's artillery division. With British artillery and French artillery, Hong Tiangui's artillery was expanded to a reinforced division, and there were as many as six artillery regiments alone, one of which was a heavy artillery regiment, and the firepower became unprecedentedly powerful.