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Negotiations have been long without much substantive progress. Philip said he wanted to return the favor.

So everyone said goodbye.

Hu Xiaoyan and Sheng Xuanhuai were the last to walk out of the hotel.

Accompanied by the Ye father and son and Rong Hong. Everyone else is gone. Sheng Xuanhuai is the last big name.

Sheng Xuanhuai suddenly turned back after walking out: "Have we met anywhere?" ”

Hu Xiaoyan smiled: "The kid is not yet twenty years old this year. How can you meet adults who have lived in England since they were six years old? ”

Sheng Xuanhuai left in silence. Maybe he guessed something, maybe he didn't think there was anything wrong. None of this has anything to do with Hu Xiaoyan. Because his task is basically accomplished. All that's left is to leave Shanghai for Beijing.

Hu Xiaoyan looked at the night and turned around to say goodbye to the Ye family's father and son. I got on the rickshaw and followed.

When Hu Xiaoyan saw Lawrence again, this guy was chatting with Liu Min.

Lawrence fully played the characteristics of being a hooligan ruffian, and stalked Liu Min to the death, but it was a pity. Liu Min has a good father. He should have heard all of Lawrence's inquiries. Just secretly thinking about Lawrence's purpose in his heart.

Lawrence has had a bad time lately, and with his first arms deal with Hu Xiaoyan begins, this feeling is very straightforward.

First, a batch of big cigarettes jointly purchased by the Chaozhou Gang was robbed. The large cigarettes were, of course, the property of the British East India Company. Not only did the Teochew Gang not receive the goods, but the people sent to receive the goods were also killed. Because the cargo was hijacked on a freighter. The Teochew Gang then began to protest against the East India Company. The Teochew Gang claimed that the cargo had not yet been disembarked, so the responsibility was on the side of the East India Company. The East India Company, of course, could not agree. But they didn't dare to annoy the Teochew Gang. After all, this batch of goods from the Chaozhou Gang was bought by several big businessmen in partnership. These were all agents of the East India Company on the mainland.

So the East India Company was furious. As soon as the East India Company became angry, all the spies and patrols in Greater Shanghai were immediately dispatched. And the robbers' methods were really amateurish, and then all the clues came out. The robbers were armed with Mosin Nagant rifles, which were made of Russian military standards. Since I found it here, of course, the back is clear at a glance. So the British embassy began a war of words with the Russian embassy while hurrying to hunt down the murderer. But it's a pity that the robbers have long since run away. Aside from catching a few minions, there was only one clue pointing to Lawrence.

If Lawrence didn't know what was going on by this time, it would be really useless. But here's the problem. At the time of the robbery, Hu Xiaoyan was busy with the rise of a great power in the newspaper office. He had ample alibi.

One might say, did the British Empire need proof?

The problem is but. If it was Hu Xiaoyan a few days ago, then Lawrence would definitely let the patrol room arrest people. But not anymore.

Hu Xiaoyan has stayed in the newspaper office for the past few days to translate books and prepare for the trip, and he has not realized the waves caused by the rise of great powers series. The book wasn't just a sell-out in Shanghai. Over time. The real Luoyang paper is expensive in Shanghai. Whether it was Cixi or Li Hongzhang in Beijing, or Zhang Zhidong in Huguang, or other provinces with telegraphs, almost all the imperial court officials were seeking to buy this epoch-making work. If the Pentex method is an attempt by the Chinese to innovate, Wei Yuan's "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" is the first book to open their eyes to the world. Then the Rise of Great Powers series is a light to open the fog in front of the eyes of the Chinese. In the past, the Chinese's understanding of European and American countries was only like ghosts, far away from my Daqing and strong ships. Then this book really unravels the veil of mystery in Europe and the United States.

At this time, Chinese people learned for the first time that foreigners also have so many years of history, and foreigners are also ordinary people who struggle for fame and fortune. The foreigner's strong ships and cannons are not brought from the mother's belly. Foreigners can actually be defeated.

Because there is no patent protection law at all in this era, Hu Xiaoyan does not plan to make much money on this book. But in just three days, the new edition of the Rise of Great Powers series has begun to be reprinted not 1,000 copies, but 100,000 copies.

Of course, 100,000 copies cannot be a figure bought by the Chinese themselves. The biggest buyers of the book are embassies. The Japanese embassy bought the most, buying 1,000 copies at one time. This is followed by provincial officials. Again, I went to the academies in the provinces.

If it weren't for the fact that the typesetting technology of this era is still very backward and it still takes time, foreigners would not buy it in bulk in China.

The owner of the printing house has been laughing like crazy for the last three days. His factory merged two other printing houses the next day, and at the same time recruited people like crazy, working three shifts in succession for the book Rise of the Great Power.

In such a crazy situation, even the mystery of the Great Smoke Robbery was overwhelmed on the dark side.

It is precisely because Hu Xiaoyan has taken the pseudonym Li Yan that the new version of the Rise of Great Power series has deleted his own annotations, and added some newly recovered memories and news that has recently appeared in the newspapers. The formality of the Rise of Great Powers series is straight to that documentary of later generations. This also surprised foreigners even more.

Because there are few people in this day and age who can make such detailed and pertinent comments. Even the British could not do it.

Lawrence was very interested in arresting Hu Xiaoyan, but he knew the consequences of arresting him. Not only will the officials and intellectuals of the entire city of Shanghai not agree, but I am afraid that the consulates of various countries will not dare to issue such an order.

Because the prestige of Li Yan's pen name has reached the point where there is no one before or after in China. Such a person of prestige naturally has the number of fans that match him. Although most of the fans are currently concentrated in Shanghai's academies and political circles. But as time goes by, Li Yan's fans will spread all over the country, and even travel across the ocean to the distant European and American continents.

Who would dare to move such a person?

At least Lawrence didn't dare to move. He really wanted to find out which character Hu Xiaoyan came out of the crack in the stone. Although the reply to him in China has explained Hu Xiaoyan's origin in detail. But Lawrence, as an elite intelligence officer on the front line, would not believe the kind of intelligence that idiots in the department can see the problem.

If Hu Xiaoyan is really as normal as the main part says, then could a book like the rise of a great power be taught to him by God when he was dreaming?

But believe it or not, the problem has always been there. He tried to track Hu Xiaoyan several times, except for one inexplicable follow-up, the other times were very successful in tracking to the end. Nothing wrong was found either. But that's where the worst thing goes. At the same time, he also sensed a hint of danger.

Lawrence was a professional elite intelligence officer in the British Empire's Naval Intelligence Department. He doesn't trust intuition, he only trusts his own judgment. His judgment now was that danger had come.

Because his goal was to meet and discuss the sale of 10,000 rifles.

This is not normal. From beginning to end, the kid surnamed Hu made it clear that he didn't want anyone to know about the deal, and arranged for another person to connect with him. It's all normal so far.

But now he actually asked himself to meet.

Meet!!!

Lawrence didn't want to go. Because he understands that this should be the time for the unveiling. He thought about escaping, it was easy, and the fleet of the British Empire could pick him up safely at any time.

But he was not reconciled. He used to go in and out of the Russian palace freely, and he also secretly explored the Russian arsenal, and he always came and went freely. But in China, a place where there is no sense of secrecy, he has a hard time. And I don't know how it was planted.

Lawrence finally decided to go to the appointment, maybe the idea of white supremacy prevailed, maybe more than ten years of spy career gave him some confidence. He finally came to the appointment, just to find out who Hu Xiaoyan was! As for your secret identity, fuck the hell.

Hu Xiaoyan walked into the café and found Lawrence and Liu Min.

Their location was around the corner near the back door, and across the corner from Lawrence was the main entrance to the café, and to his right was the entrance to the back room.

Lawrence was talking nonsense about his American battlefield experience with Liu Min, and his eyes peeked at the main entrance of the café from time to time. He saw Hu Xiaoyan wearing a suit and walking in with a relaxed face. A person, without any weapons and without anyone accompanying him, walked over and sat next to Liu Min, and Liu Min let him go inside.

Hu Xiaoyan waved his hand and asked the waiter to avoid it. Looked at Lawrence earnestly.

"I just checked my account, I'm very sorry, I only have 800,000 taels. But I'm going to buy ten thousand rifles, and some Maxine. Of course, it is best to have a small cannon. All of them need to be equipped with Russian military standards. If it's okay, you can prepare, and we will set off together in Tianjin the day after tomorrow to negotiate this deal. ”

Hu Xiaoyan has no choice, he really has no money. Although the big cigarette was sold to the Chaozhou Gang, the amount was only 1.5 million taels. Five men were also lost, all of whom were killed during the attack on the East India Company's freighter. The East India Company's freighters have been in Shanghai for many years, and there have never been problems. This time they thought it wouldn't be a problem. So in the evening, I drove to the designated position. Who knew that the Chaozhou gang who picked up the goods on the shore had already been secretly killed by the three masters. There are also a few good players among these guys, but unfortunately their opponent is a general under Nie Shicheng. And this general actually trained his subordinates like an army. The army has a manpower advantage over the gangsters, and there are Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles in their hands that the guys don't have. This battle was doomed to the tragedy of the Teochew Gang from the very beginning.

Wu Dawei and others are not only that, but they are all frequent visitors in the Yangtze River and strong swimmers. After sneaking close to the freighter, he calculated intentionally or unintentionally. A few rows of guns went down and took control of the freighter.

The Mosin Nagant rifle is not as good as the Mauser. But he has the benefit of being heavy and easy to handle. And the accuracy was also superior among the gun models of the same period. The most important thing is that it inherits the consistent problem of Russian weapons, that is, it is not afraid of collisions and is the best novice weapon. Changing to a Mauser, after being trained by a novice, it would be good to have eight of the ten rifles that could still be used.

This batch of cigarettes sold for 1.5 million taels of silver. 500,000 were brought to the future university by Hu Xiaoyan.

And the rest, each person divided a few thousand taels, and there were still 800,000 taels left, and Wu Dawei was still thinking about taking the money to buy weapons and then going to Nie Shicheng. From this point of view, Nie Shicheng did lead the troops well, and Wu Dawei deserved to be a qualified soldier.

But not everyone still wants to live a life of licking blood with a knife after having a few thousand taels of silver. The bandit team was mostly dispersed. Only seven or eight people personally led by Wu Dawei were still willing to follow him.

Hu Xiaoyan doesn't care about this. He only knew that the second master did have 800,000 taels of silver there. Wu Dawei did ask him to buy weapons. That's what he's looking forward to.

He really wanted to see if when the Gengzi Incident broke out, when the Eight-Nation Alliance encountered Nie Shicheng's Wu Yi army with a Mosin Nagant rifle in Yishui, it would still be able to kill Nie Shicheng as smoothly and quickly as in his previous life.

The Wu Yi Army was the last old-fashioned army under the control of the Manchus, and it was also the last field army capable of fighting.

Their fate should not have faded silently as it has been in history.

Hu Xiaoyan thought. As a traverser, if you don't change history, but go along with history and hide in the northwest where birds don't to farm, then why bother to cross? Since the crossing is going to be a big job!

New lives are earned anyway. A dead bird will not die for thousands of years.

Hu Xiaoyan smiled and looked at Lawrence, waiting for an answer.