Chapter 172 Arrived at Xiangjiang

Turning Qi Fugui into his subordinate, he really didn't want to, from the fact that he was caught and dared to secretly develop forces to rebel, he knew that this kind of person was the kind of person who would rather be the king of grass than a subordinate minister.

This is a time bomb, and he doesn't want to send people to watch it every day.

But this kind of person also has the use of this kind of person, that is, no matter where he is placed, he will always get ahead and pull up a force.

Now this guy has no family and no job, and you are really hard to deal with, but once he has money and family business, it is much easier to deal with.

What people are most afraid of is not to care, and the best thing is to have nothing to worry about.

There is nothing, the poor and the white, the courage is big, there is nothing to dare to do, the worst can be so bad, there is no money, there is a life, there is no scruples, maybe you will break out of a way.

But after you have wealth, you can't jump up like a grasshopper with a rope.

Gao Hongsheng, who had made up his mind, muttered to Feng Laosi and Hong Jincai, and then arranged the fate of poor Qi Fugui, and when he docked in Xiangjiang, he and his subordinates were thrown in Xiangjiang.

As for Qi Fugui's feelings, have you ever seen an elephant care about the protests of the ants under their feet?

Xiangjiang is a good place, and before entering Victoria Harbour, there are warships and merchant ships flying the flags of various countries from time to time.

Whenever there was a passing ship, Captain Aiken always greeted them with a whistle, and these whistles were the way they talked to each other, Gao Hongsheng asked Feng Laosi curiously, what did these sounds mean.

Feng Laosi said to him angrily: "The combination of long and short tones in the steamship whistle represents different meanings. You just have to memorize a few life-savers. Three short and one long, the ship needs assistance. Six short sounds, the ship is in distress and calls for help, seven short sounds and one long sound, abandoning ship. By the way, there is another one is the three long sounds, someone fell into the water and needs to be rescued. Okay, that's all, just remember. ”

"Oh, what kind of ship is that?" Gao Hongsheng asked, pointing to a ship with two masts but a large chimney in the middle.

"Let me see, it seems to be a British battleship, it's too far away to see clearly, but it's about to be eliminated, the Chinese fleet of the British Empire is all old guys, and it can't even compare to our ships in the Beiyang, but unfortunately our ships are gone." Feng Laosi said a little lonely.

"Is that ship you're talking about a battleship? It's ugly, why erect two masts, don't you all use steam engines? Just like this ship, why put up a mast to come out? What's the use of that thing? Gao Hongsheng hurriedly changed the topic.

"This one! There's a bucket on the mast there, and there's a lookout in it, and you know. ”

Gao Hongsheng is a naval blind, and his concept of ships as an inland person has always been those modern ships that have been stored in movies and television.

If you want to be a little more impressed by the ships of this era, it is probably the broken ships of the fixed number and the devils in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, and the most familiar among the other ships is the Titanic cruise ship that sank more than ten years later, of course, this is also due to the charm of the movie.

The best way to understand the facts is to ask more, the two of them talked about every boat on the deck that passed by, and most of them were Gao Hongsheng like a curious baby, asking such and such questions.

Feng Laosi didn't seem dissatisfied with Gao Hongsheng's curious baby, but was satisfied that he could explain some knowledge of ships to others, this was the only thing he could show in front of Gao Hongsheng, he really knew too many things, and other aspects were far beyond his cognition.

The Crescent Moon docked at the pier in Victoria Harbour at 10 p.m., and as soon as the ship was stabilized, Gao Hongsheng and the other terrestrial animals hurriedly rushed down the gangway, and with the help of the carriage, they rushed into the Xiangjiang River.

Gao Hongsheng and the others did not live in an area where Chinese gathered, but ran into a quiet hotel in an area where foreigners gathered.

Speaking of which, this is also thanks to Gao Hongsheng's late dressing, if it was earlier in the first half of the year, the Chinese in Hong Kong would not even have the right to go to the streets at night.

After Xiangjiang was designated as a British colony at that time, the British implemented a series of policies to restrict and oppress the Chinese residents in Xiangjiang.

The first is to strictly demarcate the boundaries between China and the ocean, and Chinese can only operate within strict limits.

At that time, Hong Kong Island along the middle part of Victoria Bay and the mid-levels were all foreigners' residential areas, and Chinese were not allowed to build houses and live there, and the same was true for business, which was all the world of foreign businessmen.

The scope of Chinese activities is limited to the east and west ends of Victoria City, and it is not allowed to cross the chasm by a single step, and it also restricts the freedom of movement of Chinese; the British authorities in Hong Kong stipulate that Chinese are not allowed to walk on the streets after 10 o'clock in the evening, and violators will be punished according to the law, and the big-headed green clothes (police) have the right to arrest them on the spot. Walk before 10 o'clock with a lantern and a pass so that the military police can identify it.

Chinese families and shops hang a lantern with the name of the shop or their name written on it in front of their house after dark to facilitate police patrols.

After 9 p.m., except for those with special permits, Chinese are not allowed to sail and other detailed discriminatory regulations.

In the sixties of the nineteenth century, the economy of Xiangjiang developed initially, and the economic power of the Chinese continued to increase, as a result, many foreign business enterprises and houses that had failed due to poor management were acquired by Chinese businessmen, forming a situation in which the residential areas and commercial areas of Huajiang were infiltrated by each other, and the blockade was opened up little by little.

In the eighties of the 19th century, as the economic power of Chinese businessmen continued to rise, gradually surpassing foreign businessmen in some fields, and their political status gradually won certain rights and status, the British authorities in Hong Kong had to make some concessions to the Chinese, who accounted for the majority of the population and occupied an important position in the economy, in order to ease the resistance and struggle of the people of Xiangjiang.

In June of 17, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong abolished the curfew imposed in 1842 restricting the freedom of movement of the Chinese, and the Chinese residents of Hong Kong finally had the freedom to move at night.

In this way, Gao Hongsheng has the opportunity to go out at night, and even has the opportunity to live in a small hotel converted from a garden house in the mid-levels of Victoria Harbour.

This garden house is a foreigner property acquired by a Chinese businessman, and after getting off the ship, Gao Hongsheng and they were deceived into this bungalow by a flamboyant solicitor before they left the port.

Fortunately, the bungalow is big enough and there are enough rooms, but the decoration is a bit old, and it seems that his owner didn't take this house too seriously after taking it over, just simply cleaned it up and rented it out as a high-end hotel.

The hotel managed by the Chinese is like that, there are so many maids, servants, and small houses, but they are all replaced by Gao Hongsheng's people, in fact, the three Ji girls who went to Beijing brought over a little more people, and even the cooks also let Gao Hongsheng catch them on the boat, so that they even solved the problem of finding a cook, otherwise they would have a headache just in terms of eating.

After a meal of chickens and dogs, Gao Hongsheng and they settled down in Xiangjiang, and they are expected to stay for two days, mainly because the Crescent Moon is to be replenished, and the rest of the journey is even if it is abroad, and Gao Hongsheng is also ready to break up with them here, he wants to go back to modern times to do something, and at the same time, he is also unbearable to sail on the sea for more than a month to reach Europe.