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Jiangsu pressed to make Gilhanga Ke not as careless as Xu Naizhao. Although the Angel firm was quite popular with some officers and soldiers in the battalion, he always felt that this Angel was not so simple. Of course, he couldn't imagine that this trading house would have any connection with the Taiping Army. He just feels that these profit-seeking businessmen are normal for one thing on the surface and one behind the other, and they will definitely take risks in the face of huge profits. Just as the British foreign firms like to smuggle opium, several well-known trading houses in Shanghai will not give up the arms business. In particular, the price of arms has skyrocketed, and there must be something to say about it.

As soon as the ship "Seabird," which was helpless and even more troublesome, the US Vice Consul in Shanghai, Kim Neng-hyung, arrived in Shanghai, Gilhanga received a report from the meticulous work that had been planted in the concession, and that the "Seabird" was full of munitions. Gilhanga's nerves tensed. After a few days of careful observation, the "Seabird" has no intention of being unloaded in Shanghai, and what kind of ghost is Jin Nengheng, a foreign devil, up his sleeve?

Gilhanga is a Manchurian, and Xu Naizhao is a Han, and the two have one thing in common, that is, they are afraid of foreigners. But there is a difference between fear and fear.

Xu Naizhao was afraid, he didn't dare to fight with foreigners, but he was not afraid of small fights. Especially on the question of whether to use the power of foreigners to suppress the rebels in the city, Xu Naizhao saw it very thoroughly, since it was not possible to use foreigners, it was best not to involve them. The foreigners will not be satisfied with the interests of the current concession, they will definitely open their mouths and involve things that are harmful to the national body, and he will not do it if he is killed, which is a sin of infamy! Therefore, when Britain, France, the United States and other powers took advantage of the fire to rob, constantly created incidents, sent troops to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and stirred up the Qing army, he allowed his subordinates to counterattack the friction of the other side. In particular, Yang Yunxiang, who was ordered to lead part of the Guangdong naval division to the north to assist in exterminating the rebels in the city, encountered the British fleet at the mouth of the Yangtze River and fired artillery at the Qing army camp on the shore, and approached the naval army led by Yang Yunxiang. Although Xu Naizhao still wanted to appoint Su Song Taidao Daotai Wu Jianzhang to apologize to the British army, his heart was very beautiful, and he tried his best to protect Yang Yunxiang as the capital of the peace camp of the four products.

Gilhanga is different, he is afraid of foreigners to the core. In order to win the cooperation of foreigners, he and Wu Jianzhang repeatedly built a yì with Xu Naizhao, and exchanged the right to control customs duties in the concession in exchange for the help of foreigners, and broke up with Xu Naizhao unhappily for this. In his heart, the idea of preferring a foreign thief to a domestic slave really coincided with the idea of his master in Beijing. In fact, the root of this kind of thinking lies in the inheritance of their ancestral genes. The land of the Central Plains was something they didn't expect to get, but they got it by chance. Just like Huang Taiji imagined back then, come in and make a big profit, and then retract back to his Shengjing to enjoy a corner of happiness. As the saying goes, the cub doesn't feel sorry for the farmer, and the thief never takes the stolen things as the same thing.

It was precisely because of his fear of foreigners that he was even more afraid that these Western arms would reach the city of Shanghai, or the most terrible thing was that they would reach the hands of Changmao in the west. The foreign guns and foreign cannons were too powerful, and when he heard the terrifying sound of guns, his two strands couldn't help but tremble.

After some secret discussions with Wu Jianzhang, Gilhanga decided to select a small team of men from his own soldiers, cooperate with Wu Jianzhang's subordinates, and Wu Jianzhang was in charge to detect the future trend of this batch of munitions.

"My lord, if what happens in the future is done by foreigners," Wu Jianzhang looked at the envoy inquiringly, unable to make up his mind, "then how should we deal with it?" ”

"These foreign devils are big-eyed thieves, hungry wolves who can't be fed," Gilhanga turned around and cursed through gritted teeth. In fact, behind the foreigners, he is quite bold. He scolded enough, then he stopped, looked at Wu Jianzhang, and sighed long, "Then what else can I do?" If the matter is broken, it is better than hiding it in the armpits, at least let those foreign adults who keep saying that they are neutral really neutral. ”

As he spoke, an idea suddenly occurred to him. If this batch of arms wanted to be transported to Zhenjiang, then fortunately, the foreigners did not break through directly, and there were Xu Naizhao, Yang Yunxiang and the like on their back. If it were me, it would be really difficult to do. Foreigners can't afford to mess with it! Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth again and waved his hand vigorously, "If that Angel Firm is doing it, then it will completely clear them, no matter who is their backing." ”

Wu Jianzhang is the Taoist platform of Susong Taidao, and his main authority is to be responsible for the customs tax payment. However, on the second day of the rebellion of the Shanghai Knife Society, the Qing government's customs office on the Bund was smashed by the people, the officials fled, and he himself became a prisoner of the Little Knife Society. The softness of the Little Knife Society enabled Wu Jianzhang to be secretly rescued by two missionaries sent by the American Consulate, and hid him in the American Consulate, allowing the enraged Shanghai people to attack the concession many times, and never returning him to the rebels.

Moreover, when he cobbled together more than 30 tugboats, seconded and hired more than 30 Guangdong tugboats, and acquired two warships, the "Antelope" and the "Sheep God," to patrol the Huangpu River, in an attempt to rebuild a mobile customs on the warships, it was the American friend who took the lead in expressing his approval, agreeing to abolish the so-called "consular collection system" that had been temporarily put in place due to his absence, and was willing to return the tariffs collected on behalf of him during this period. Although this good wish of his was immediately opposed by the consuls of Britain, France, Portugal, Prussia, the Netherlands and other countries, they did not recognize him as the "water customs". What is more, Britain and France even forced the Chinese warships "Antelope" and "Yangshen" to leave by force on the grounds that the Chinese warships "Antelope" and "Yangshen" had docked on the river of the concession and that they were creating targets for the Xiaodao Society and affecting the safety of the concession. However, it was this kind of friend in distress that he really felt that the Americans were his true relatives!

Now, it was really a headache for him to hand over this kind of task to Wu Jianzhang. Although Gilhanga knew that he was fighting with foreigners, he was familiar with the situation in the concession. But Gil Hanga didn't know that Wu Jianzhang was the owner of the ship of arms and one of the shareholders of Qichang Foreign Bank.

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