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From the very beginning, the uprising of the Little Knife Society was supported by the broad masses of lower class peasants, craftsmen, dock workers, and soldiers. Within a few days, the ranks of the uprising had grown to tens of thousands. The uprising forces also centered on the county seat of Shanghai, and quickly spread to the surrounding five counties, including Baoshan, Jiading, Nanhui, Chuansha, and Qingpu.

The knife will be restored in the county seat of Shanghai, and Liu Lichuan will call himself "the generalissimo of the Ming State to unify politics and religion". The new regime issued a proclamation telling all walks of life to "do not use the relocation inside and outside the city; Shinong industry and commerce, each safe and long-term. He affirmed that the rebel army "ordered like a mountain, and there was no offense in autumn." "Don't take a thing from the people, don't rape a woman from the people, and the offender will be punished." ”。 At the same time, it also announced the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of foreigners and demanded that foreign forces in Shanghai effectively maintain neutrality.

Liu Lichuan, a native of Xiangshan (now Zhongshan City) in Guangdong, was born as a farmer and once worked as an injury doctor. He has also worked as a foreign businessman in Hong Kong, and he knows a little English. He was a member of the Heaven and Earth Society in his early years. At the beginning of the uprising, Liu Lichuan understood that it was difficult to grow a forest alone, and that it was not enough to rely on his own strength to complete the task of expelling the Tartars. He sent a messenger to Tianjing and wrote to the Heavenly Emperor Hong Xiuquan, expressing his willingness to accept the temperance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

At this time, Xu Naizhao, the governor of Jiangsu in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army led by the envoy Gilhanga arrived in Shanghai and camped in Xinzha and other places, called Beiying. Lan Weiwen, the prefect of Songjiang, Sun Fan, the alternate governor of Zhejiang, and Li Hengsong, the commander of the Zhejiang "Prevention and Suppression Bureau", led the naval division and ships from the Huangpu River to Longhua, called Nanying. In addition, Lu Yong divided Lujiawan and Xiaomaqiao, and there were more than 20,000 Qing troops and townsmen from all walks of life, forming a flanking attack on the county seat of Shanghai.

In order to gain the support of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, when he could not get a reply from Tianjing, Liu Lichuan resolutely changed his name to "the generalissimo of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's political and religious affairs" according to the original plan, and canceled the banner of "Great Ming Kingdom". and twice sent troops and horses to attack the city of Taicang Prefecture, trying to open up contact with the Taiping army. It is a pity that he was ambushed by Cai Yingdou of Zhizhou first, and then attacked by Ding Guoen, the governor of Wu County, and the soldiers and horses sent were forced to withdraw to Shanghai and Jiading. Liu Lichuan was forced to abandon his plan to go west to Zhenjiang. Under the heavy pressure of the Qing army, due to the scattered defense of the rebel army and the lack of rescue, Xiaodao would gradually lose its outlying strongholds and retreat to the county seat of Shanghai. At this time, the Knife Society had less than 10,000 troops. Liu Lichuan had no choice but to set up camps on all sides of the city, set up cannons at each city gate, and row iron thistles and buried pits under the city wall, sitting in the lonely city. What the future looks like, including Liu Lichuan himself, is not clear.

Just when the leaders of the Little Knife Society were at a loss, Liu Lichuan's general headquarters in the Temple of Literature suddenly came to deliver a message. The child claimed that someone outside the door had given him money and asked him to help bring him in. Liu Lichuan opened the tightly sealed letter, only glanced at it, and almost didn't jump out of his mouth with excitement. He hurried to the gate to see the owner of the letter, but he was disappointed. There were a lot of people coming and going at the door, and he couldn't tell which one could be, and the guards at the door didn't pay attention to it. The only thing he could know was a word from the child to him, that it was a woman who told him to send the letter.

Liu Lichuan gathered Li Xianchi, Chen Alin, Lin Afu, Pan Qiliang, Zhou Xiuying and other generals, and excitedly showed everyone the letter he had just received. It was the edict of the Heavenly King from Tianjing and the appointment letter of the Taiping Heavenly Affairs Command. In addition to highly praising Liu Lichuan and others for their great contributions to the great cause of the nation, Liu Lichuan was also appointed as the prime minister of the Shanghai Military Administration of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with full authority to handle the affairs of Shanghai. In the guiding opinions on the next step of Shanghai's development, in addition to requiring them to stick to the city of Shanghai and wait for changes in the overall situation, they are also required to properly handle the relationship with the foreign brothers, and that they are all children of God, and that they must not provoke the foreign brothers' dissatisfaction with the Celestial Empire.

Tianjing's order undoubtedly injected a cardiotonic into Liu Lichuan and others who were in a predicament. The knife will change flags for the third time.

Sang Yu watched the child deliver the letter to the door, and saw that someone inside chased him out and looked around, so he smiled easily, walked out of the corner where he was hiding, and merged into the flow of people.

She is the Guangdong eldest sister that Lin Haifeng first mentioned to Hou Qianfang. Since joining the Worship of God, Sang Yu has always been in the army to investigate and transmit secret letters. Because the Cantonese dialect she spoke was far from Jiangnan and the northern provinces, which was not conducive to going out, she studied the dialects of several provinces hard, and learned many kinds of skills as an artist, plus she was alert and fickle, so she established a lot of meritorious service in the army. This time, she was personally appointed by His Royal Highness King An to come to Shanghai to carry out a special mission. is the name Sang Yu, which was given to her by His Royal Highness King An before she came.

According to the prompt of King An before leaving, Sang Yu first went to find Luo Xiaoquan, an American missionary who was staying in Shanghai. Luo Xiaoquan, a Baptist in the southern United States, was moved by the report of missionary Guo Shili on his travels in China, and came to China in 1837 to begin his missionary career. He first preached in Macau, then went to Guangzhou and organized a church in Shek Kok, South Kanto, called the "Eastern Guangdong Baptist Church". He is an old friend of Hong Xiuquan.

Sang Yu first accepted Luo Xiaoquan's baptism, and then asked Luo Xiaoquan for help, saying that she and her man wanted to open a trading house in the American concession to make a living. Luo Xiaoquan was very supportive, and introduced her to a group of business celebrities such as the American businessman Little Hourd, the senior class of Qiongji Foreign Bank, Robert Pheron, the senior class of Qichang Foreign Company and the vice consul in Shanghai, and a group of business celebrities, such as Jin Nengheng's translator, the Chinese Fang Jingbo.

Sang Yu is chic, generous, loves to talk and laugh, and has the unique softness of oriental women, among these people, she is like a fish in water. In a dozen days, an Angel firm was established. Of course, in the firm, she also specially arranged suitable shares for Fang Jingbo and Luo Xiaoquan's "Eastern Guangdong Baptist Convention".

The establishment of Angel Commercial Bank is undoubtedly great news for Jin Nengheng. He had long been privately doing the same deal with both warring sides in Shanghai, that is, arms. After all, the government of the country is flaunting its neutrality in public, and with Angel Commercial Bank as an intermediary, the money can be held in a lot of money, and the face is still said in the past, why not do it. As a result, a large number of munitions passed into the hands of Guò Sangyu and transferred to the hands of the Little Knife Society. Fang Jingbo naturally became a frequent visitor to Sangyu.

Fang Jingbo moved to the United States with his parents when he was a child, where he and Kim Nengheng's family lived in the same town, and he and Kim Nengheng were educated in the same school, so the two became close friends. Jin Nengheng later came to Shanghai as a vice consul and opened a trading house, so he specially invited him to come to Shanghai to help with business affairs. Fang Jingbo's parents are both Chinese with traditional culture, and under this influence, he has also had countless beautiful fantasies about his motherland. But since he came to Shanghai, he has been deeply disappointed by what he has seen and heard. The poverty of the country, the government, and the ruthless devouring of the greedy powers made him feel ashamed and indignant. Because of this, when Sang Yu occasionally talked to him about the news about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he felt both novel and hopeful. Between the Manchus and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he did prefer the latter. He also showed deep sympathy for the knife club in Shanghai.

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