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As soon as Lin Haifeng pushed the door and entered the house, he immediately relaxed his steps.

At the table in the main hall of the room, Liu Xianghe was already napping with his hands on his cheeks. In his sleep, there is still a sweet smile on the corner of his mouth. The red purse had already rolled down her relaxed hand on her lap and fell to the ground.

Lin Haifeng walked up to her, bent down to pick up the purse on the ground, and looked at it again and again. This must be a girl's preparation for her sweetheart, right? He frowned, the little girl was quite scheming, and she didn't seal her mind when she was so busy. Who is that person? He suddenly felt a little sour.

He gently placed his purse on the table, took two steps back, and coughed.

Liu Xianghe was excited and woke up. Seeing His Highness standing in front of her, she quickly stood up, "Your Highness, just came back?" As she spoke, she felt something missing. She looked at her empty right hand, it was broken, what about the purse? She lowered her head and searched from her body to the ground.

"Are you looking for it?" Lin Haifeng pouted at the table next to her.

Oh my God, why are you here! Liu Xianghe hurriedly grabbed the purse on the table and carried it behind him, his heart was pounding, and his face was red. "Your Highness, wait for me, I'll go and see the hot water in the stove." She said in a panic and ran away.

"Farewell" Lin Haifeng looked at Liu Xianghe, who had drifted out of the door earlier, and shook his head helplessly. She's such an excellent assistant. Lin Haifeng felt that he was really reluctant to leave him one day.

Watching the two guards carry the big wooden tube into the house and fill it with water, Liu Xianghe tried it with his hands, turned his face to look at His Highness, and pointed to the chair on the right side of the table, "Your Highness, the clothes you are going to change are all left there, I am waiting outside the door, Your Highness will call me if you need anything." After saying that, she smiled, turned around and walked out the door, and gently closed the door.

Lin Haifeng smiled, this was all the usual practice, he had nothing to say.

Sitting in the tub, where the water felt a little hotter than usual, the fatigue caused by the bumps on horseback for several days seemed to be running away all at once. He let out a long sigh of relief, alas, this girl's heart is so small! He suddenly remembered his sick mother, who took care of him so carefully every time he was at home. How's Mom doing now? Mom has been thinking about seeing her eldest daughter-in-law, but

He thought about it, and then thought of the Chinese teacher at the county middle school. It was an elegant and beautiful girl who had a little Jiangnan charm when she spoke, and she smiled sweetly. Or when I visited my home only time after joining the army, I met her by chance at the home of an old classmate. Since then, although he is too embarrassed to ask about people's conditions, he will always think of her. If it weren't for going abroad for training, maybe but, since the first moment he saw Liu Xianghe, somehow, it seemed that he saw the shadow of that girl on Liu Xianghe's body.

He didn't want to think about it, so he picked up a handful of water with his hand and washed his face vigorously.

"Your Highness, haven't you washed it yet?" Liu Xianghe, who had been guarding the door, estimated that according to his usual habits, His Royal Highness should have washed it a long time ago, but today he didn't see any movement of His Royal Highness King An inside for a long time. She knocked on the door with some concern and asked softly.

"That's it." Lin Haifeng promised, this little housekeeper is really in charge.

Lin Haifeng, who had taken a bath, became full of spirit again. He went to the back room and sat down at the table, wanting to write something. Seeing Liu Xianghe gently following in again, he smiled, "Go to sleep, don't learn from me, girls staying up late can affect their appearance, and if they can't marry in the future, they should blame this king." ”

Liu Xianghe's face flushed, she quickly lowered her head, and after a long time, she finally muttered a sentence, "Your Highness should also rest." ”

"Okay, I'll sleep in a while." Lin Haifeng agreed hesitantly, and began to study the ink.

Liu Xianghe walked over silently, reached out and took the incense ink in King An's hand, and gently grinded it.

"Didn't I tell you to go to sleep?" Lin Haifeng looked up at her, "I'll just come by myself." ”

"No," Liu Xianghe lowered his head and muttered, "Everyone has to wait for His Highness to sleep together." As soon as the words came out, her face felt like she was on fire, her heart was panicked, and the hand holding the ink was trembling slightly.

"Wait for me?" Lin Haifeng shook his head strangely, "What are you waiting for me, didn't you say it, I'll rest in a while." ”

Liu Xianghe stopped her hand, her face almost touched her chest, "Lai Wangniang asked me to call me" She really couldn't open her mouth, and tears were rolling in her eyes.

Lin Haifeng finally realized that this was the case. He was silent for a while, "Liu Shangshu, you also know that this king is the first to oppose disrespect for women. You are a good girl, and you probably have someone in your heart, don't listen to other people's arrangements. Work and live well, and marry someone you really like in the future. If you like someone you don't like yourself, you can also sue the king, and the king will be a matchmaker and a marriage for you, and see who dares to bully the people of our palace. He grinned, but not so comfortably.

"Your Highness, isn't Xianghe very humble?" Liu Xianghe raised his head, his face facing the roof, tears flowing down the corners of his closed eyes.

"How can you say that," Lin Haifeng lowered his head slightly, "Didn't this king say it just now, you are a very good girl." It is because of this that this king cannot delay you. ”

"Your Highness, Xianghe has rested." Liu Xianghe tried his best to hold back the grievances in his heart and glanced at King An, "Your Highness hasn't rested seriously for several days, so let's go to bed early." After saying that, she put down the ink in her hand, first moved her steps slowly, and then ran away with her hands covered.

Lin Haifeng watched her disappear at the door and was stunned for a while. He sighed softly, rubbed his temples vigorously, and silently studied the ink, and his thoughts began to fly to Shanghai.

In June 1840, in order to protect the opium trade, the British invaders relied on the strength of their ships and guns to launch the Opium War of aggression against China. The British army successively captured Zhoushan, Humen, Xiamen, Ningbo, Wusong, Zhenjiang and other places, and occupied Hong Kong Island. On August 4, 1842, the British army entered Jiangning and demanded a ransom of 3 million yuan. The Qing Dynasty, which suffered a military defeat, was represented by Qi Ying, the minister of the Qin Mission, Niu Jian, the governor of Liangjiang, and Yi Libu, the deputy governor of Zhapu, who negotiated with the British. The Qing delegates were powerless to resist under British military pressure. The British side even did not allow the Qing side to make any changes to the conditions it proposed, and repeatedly threatened to attack Nanjing. On 29 August, Qiying and Iribu signed the text of the Sino-English treaty on the British "Khan Huali" warship on the Nanjing River.

The Sino-British Treaty of Jiangning consists of 13 paragraphs, the main contents of which are: 1. The end of the war was declared. The relationship between the two countries has changed from a state of war to a state of peace. Two. Five-port trade. The Qing Dynasty government opened Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shanghai as treaty ports, allowed British consuls to be stationed, and allowed British merchants and their families to live freely. Three. Make indemnity. The Qing government was required to pay 21 million yuan in compensation to Britain, of which 6 million yuan was used to compensate the incinerated opium, 12 million yuan to compensate the British ** fee, and 3 million yuan to repay the debts of the merchants. The payment shall be made in four years, and if the payment is not made on time, an interest of $5 per annum shall be added to the $100 per year. Four. Monetzing. The Qing government ceded Hong Kong to the British. Five. A separate tariff is introduced. The Qing government was to promulgate a new tariff on the principle of fairness, so that British merchants could pay it as usual. Six. The public banking system was abolished and free trade between British and Chinese merchants was allowed.

In 1843, China and Britain signed the so-called "Humen Renewal Treaty", which added the stipulation that "the Chinese magistrates must agree with the British magistrates on the local people's conditions, where to use the houses or bases, and to be leased by the British."

The Americans' eyes were red when they saw that Britain had seized the benefits of Shanghai, China's most important commercial port. However, it is less troublesome and more skillful than the British. The U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary Gu Xing arrived in Macao in February 1844 and met with the Governor of Liangguang, Qi Ying, who only used his tongue to tempt and blackmail, and without a single shot, forced Qi Ying and him to easily conclude the so-called "Sino-US Treaty of Wang-Ha" in a small village called Wang-Ha in Macao. The treaty provided for the Americans' trade and residence in the five ports, and consular privileges, which were comparable to those of the British.

When the British worked hard to get a concession outside the county of Shanghai, from Pidgin in the south to Suzhou Creek in the north, they finally got a concession. An American Episcopal bishop, Grace Man, came to Shanghai and built a church on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, adjacent to the British. In 1848, he submitted a request to Shanghai Daotai to designate the area around the church as an American concession. The poor Daotai was confused and weak, and after some negotiations, he even agreed to "generalize" the Hongkou area on the north bank of Suzhou Creek, which was regarded as the American concession. With a slight movement, Wen Huilian completed the work of occupying the colonial base in Shanghai for the U.S. government, under the bishop's burqa.

There are two, there are three, there is one. Seeing the mediocrity of the Manchu government and envying the vested interests of Britain and the United States in China, in August 1844, the French envoy Lasonis arrived in Macao with only eight warships. Laeni drew a scoop with a gourd and coerced the governor of Liangguang, Qi Ying, to come to Macao for negotiations. Thus came the Sino-French Whampoa Treaty. Shanghai has the French Concession.

The Western powers, in spite of all the vile means, obtained its right to trade in China. However, they did not put an end to the criminal act of trafficking a large amount of opium into China because of the legitimate trade, but instead intensified their efforts and took advantage of the legal status of missionaries and merchants to smuggle and sell opium in the concessions. The shameless aggression of the foreign powers and the increasingly heavy taxes and land rents imposed by the Manchus in the Jiangnan region led to the continuous armed resistance of the anti-missionaries, anti-grain, beatings of officials, and refusal of errands in the Shanghai area. Coupled with the huge influence of Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in the end, the Shanghai Xiaodaohui uprising led by Liu Lichuan broke out.

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