The ancient city walls were so majestic in the morning light, hazy and shrouded in the morning mist.

Gao Hongsheng, who was standing at the gate of the city, had to look up to see the city gate, the first tower to greet the glow.

The wind chimes in the four corners of the castle tower tinkled gently in the breeze, making a crisp sound.

The ancient gate of the city took heavy steps, flashing a slit in its body little by little, and then opened its chest with the help of eight strong men.

Today's fifth watch did not arrive, but the city gate was opened in advance, and the people waiting to enter the city outside the city gate looked at the city gate that opened early in surprise, but none of them dared to come to the front.

One by one, people with foreign guns and dark blue sè uniforms stood in front of the city gate early, lined up the long convoy of horses around them in two neat rows against the city gate, and waited for the drawbridge to fall and enter the city, without any courtesy at all.

Domineering and arrogant and unreasonable, a few descendants wanted to squeeze through, but they were smashed to the side by a few rifle butts, staring at you viciously one by one, and even pulling the bolt to load the bullets, with the meaning of shooting if they were disobedient, and the people who wanted to enter the city were far away from the city gate and looked at them from afar.

This is Rui Fuxiang's horse convoy, more than 200 carriages, stretching for several miles, next to the city gate is the head, but the tail of the convoy may not even come out of the warehouse area.

Now even the vehicles that came out of the city to deliver dung and water have been put aside, obediently waiting for the long convoy of horses to enter the city.

Wang Zhutou yīn stood at the gate of the city with a heavy face, staring viciously at the obscene coachmen waiting on the side.

The vehicles carrying water outside the city were always the first to leave the city, and no one ever competed with them for the right to pass guò first.

But today, the vicious officials stood at the gate of the city early, and stopped them one after another, despite the stench of the dung trucks, just to let a large convoy outside the city enter the city earlier.

Han Guangding also didn't sleep all night, standing next to Wang Zhutou and saying something carefully, seeing Gao Hongsheng enter the city through the city gate, he hurriedly walked a few steps with Wang Zhutou, and came to Gao Hongsheng, whose eyes were red, and whispered: "Master Gao, I can't hold it down, the sky may be chaotic." ”

Staring at the red eyes, Gao Hongsheng asked in a low voice, "Why can't you delay even a little bit?" There are still hundreds of businesses whose goods have not been shipped out of the city, and they can't afford to lose! ”

"Master Gao, I really can't hold it back, last night the entire Jinan Mansion was full of smoke, you see that the city is now shrouded in a puff of smoke, countless people are secretly burning foreign goods at home, only someone will be in chaos this morning."

"I don't care, you have to think of a way, countless businesses can't afford to hurt! Old and young masters, you are filial to you, it is for you to pull a hand when you are in crisis, and now it is the most dangerous time, you want to pay attention, even if we pull the goods out of the city first. After Gao Hongsheng finished speaking, he stared at the two of them, he knew that they must have an idea.

Wang Zhutou dodged Gao Hongsheng's eyes, raised his eyebrows to look at Han Guangding, gritted his teeth and said to Gao Hongsheng: "I only have one way to delay for two hours, but it requires you to spend a lot of money. Master, this is not for me, it is for a group of people, I promise that I will not stretch out my hand. ”

"Say, how much." Gao Hongsheng said quickly.

"At least three thousand taels, not less at all."

"Come on, tell me your method."

"If you don't beat the drum, all the galleys have been running for a year and a half, you know, not beating the drum is a felony, that is, it is a felony to miss the hour, let alone not beating at all. There are so many husbands who don't knock on it, everyone's rice bowl is equivalent to smashing, Master Gao, you also know how difficult it is to do this now. ”

"I take care of it, there are thousands of large and small businesses in Jinan, and there are no less than 100 foreign goods in the store. You arrange it. ”

"Master, we only have this one method now, and I don't know if it works, so I can only try it now." Han Guangding took them out first.

Gao Hongsheng smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, I thank you for everyone first." After speaking, Gao Hongsheng arched his hand at the two of them.

The two hurriedly dodged away, and said in their mouths: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

The three of them immediately separated and went their separate ways, and Gao Hongsheng was in a hurry to go to the city and transport out all the foreign goods that were not shipped yesterday.

The men of each family had been waiting at the door of the store for a long time, and as soon as they saw the arrival of the cart, they hurriedly loaded the cart with all kinds of foreign goods.

After filling a cart, he hurriedly followed the carriage to run out of the city, and directly loaded it into a warehouse by one person, and he didn't even have time to count it, and he was busy sweating profusely.

The most pitiful thing is the crowd that walked through the east gate today, all of them were driven around half of the city to go to other city gates, but when they got there, the city gate was not even opened.

Standing under the city gate and shouting at the soldiers on the city tower, he was greeted with a stinking scolding, and the fifth watch day had not arrived, so what city gate was opened.

For the first time in so many years, Jinan Mansion was opened, and the five more drums were stunned.

When the time came, there was no movement at all in the five watch drums, and what was even more strange was that all the changers did not knock on the watchmen.

The entire Jinan Mansion was quiet, there was no movement at all, and the newborn sun was quietly ushered in.

Countless people are accustomed to waking up, quietly waiting for the beating of the five watch drums and the revocation of the night patrol before they can go to the streets.

But today, the sun is shining on the roof, and the drum of the fifth watch just doesn't sound.

Gao Hongsheng is really anxious, those merchants with foreign goods are also in a hurry, and now they have rushed away a lot, but there are still a lot of foreign goods in their warehouse, after all, the profits of distributing foreign goods were greater in those years, so everyone has a lot of inventory, but who knew that such a thing could happen, it was simply people sitting at home, and disaster came from heaven.

As the sun rose, so did people's suspicions, and gradually people began to open their doors and poke their heads cautiously into the street.

The soldiers who were on the night patrol did not hear the sound of the drums at this time, but they could not go down the night without hearing the sound of the drums, that is, they could not end the night patrol, and could only viciously reprimand those who wanted to go out.

But the paper couldn't contain the fire after all, and with the order that came out of the government, the soldiers who were patrolling the night began to withdraw in whole groups.

One by one, the people walked out of the house and whispered to each other about today's strange events.

Gao Hongsheng has already made three trips, and the goods in the warehouses of each household have basically been shipped out, and now there are only those left in the store.

But Gao Hongsheng just didn't let the goods in the store pù be transported, and at the same time he also stopped the guys who wanted to remove the foreign goods from the store.

Gao Hongsheng needs time, what crazy people need when burning the goods in the shop.

He needed to transfer all the goods from the warehouse area in the east of the city to a village a little further away from Jinan Mansion.

Arrangements have been made there, and now they are waiting for them to reverse the goods.

Standing at the gate of the city, looking at the gradually lively city gate, as well as the faint smell of fireworks in the city, and even smelling the unique smoke of burning items, Gao Hongsheng sighed and said to Han Guangding: "I saw the little guy who ran out to help, if you can't do it, you can run too, don't close the city gate, otherwise you will die and have no place to be buried, and those people will go crazy." With that, he jumped into the carriage.

Hong Jincai also said to Han Guangding: "Be smart, don't lose your life." After speaking, without waiting for him to reply, he whipped the horse that pulled the cart fiercely, and the horse roared, and pulled the carriage through the city gate and ran out of the city.

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