Da Luoluo's third more offered, or frantically begging for a monthly ticket, begging for the first order, asking for a full set, asking for a recommendation ticket, uh, everything that can be asked for, today is the tenth watch, and there is no chance to ask for help without being cheeky. Ladies and gentlemen, support Da Luoluo's explosion and enthusiasm!

Soon two Cantonese ships docked at the same time, both flying the English flag of rice. One of them is a ship of the British-owned Hong Kong Land and Water Company, which specializes in running passenger routes between provinces and Hong Kong, and the other is a ship of the Nanyang Trading Company. Although the Qing Dynasty and Zhu Jishi were already on the same page, the sailors of the Qing Dynasty did not have the courage to touch the ship of the Nanyang Trading Company. Because the people of Guangdong Sailor have already known through various channels that this Nanyang Trading Company has the shares of the Queen of England and the Royal Husband, and is a serious British royal businessman! Whoever wants to touch it is to provoke the side, and if it is not good, it will attract English soldiers......

Zuo Zongtang, the young man, and the merchants on the dock all got on the boat of land and water, because it was a short distance, so the boat did not carry much drinking water and food, and the passenger capacity naturally increased greatly, and there were two or three hundred people full. Zuo Zongtang and the young man found a seat near the port side and sat down and continued to talk.

"Little brother, what's your surname?"

"Free of expensive, surnamed Feng, famous." The surname of the young man is rare, and after tracing back to the Taihao Fuxi clan, it is the old surname of the Chinese nation, but in the Qing Dynasty, there are not many people with the surname Feng, and there are still some here in Guangdong. This young man lives in Guangzhou, and his family has been a businessman for generations, so he has received a Western-style education since he was a child, and he is very interested in Western "strange skills".

"Under the surname left. Ming Jinliang also went to Jeshi University. I want to get a job as a Confucian professor. Zuo Zongtang stroked his beard and introduced himself with a smile.

"Oh, then I'm going to call Mr. Teacher." Feng Chengchong Zuo Zongtang arched his hand very politely.

Zuo Zongtang saw that this young man was shrewd and polite. I also liked it, and was about to continue talking with them, when suddenly someone walked up to the two of them, stuffed two newspapers, and shouted: "The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband." Then he turned around and left to hand out newspapers to other passengers.

"This is ......" Zuo Zongtang picked up the newspaper and saw that it was a "Ta Kung Pao" that had been strictly banned by the Qing court.

"This is the Hong family brother who works for Lord Zhu." It didn't seem to be the first time that Feng Cheng had encountered this kind of thing, and he unfolded the newspaper. While explaining with a smile, "This "Ta Kung Pao" was paid for by Lord Zhu, and someone originally sold it on the streets of Guangzhou City, that is, a few pennies a piece. As a result, it was banned by the government, and this Zhu Jueye simply stopped selling "Ta Kung Pao", changed it to give it away, and hired the Hong brothers to do this. Therefore, "Ta Kung Pao" is already known to everyone in Guangdong, and everyone knows about it, probably only the governor and general in Guangzhou pretend not to know, right? ”

"The official errand doesn't matter?" Zuo Zongtang unfolded the newspaper and took a look. There is also a lot of content published on it, including current political news from Western countries and various places in Nanyang, quotations of various commodities and goods, and information on the recruitment of foreign companies. There are also articles about various foreign goods. However, the most eye-catching article is an article called "Two Hundred Years of China's Demise", the text is quite vulgar. Needless to say, the content. It's a great rebellion. The fall of the Ming Dynasty 200 years ago is called the "fall of China", which is what the Confucian scholars called the death of the world. He also refers to the Manchu rule in China as colonial rule. And comparing China under the Manchu Qing with Greece and Serbia under the Ottoman Empire, India under the British rule, and Poland under the Russian rule, Zuihou came to the conclusion that the Manchu rule was more brutal than that of the Ottomans, the British, and the Russians, and that the status of the billions of Han people was slightly lower than that of the Indians, which was really tragic to the extreme, and it was really unreasonable not to rebel......

"Unless there's a ghost head knife on it, who cares about this?" Feng Cheng looked at the newspaper with relish, and replied casually, "At the beginning, someone took care of it, but the brothers of the Hong family are not vegetarians, and those nosy officials will be stomped into eight pieces when they return home!" Lord Zhu also let out his words, which official can't open his eyes, dare to get along with the Hongmen brothers who issued the "Ta Kung Pao", he will issue a thousand silver dollars to go to the rivers and lakes to kill the order! Who do you say is going to do such a terrible errand? Fortunately, the Hong brothers did not go into the city of Guangzhou to distribute newspapers, so the officials opened their eyes and closed their eyes. In fact, most of the officials who worked in the Guangdong yamen were also brothers of the Hong family, and they all worshipped the five ancestors and were determined to restore their sight. ”

The rule of the Qing Dynasty was strict in the north and lax in the south, and it was impossible for such a thing to exist around Beijing. But in Guangzhou, where fish and dragons are mixed, this official and Hongmen are really close to the official and bandit family! The salaries of officials in the Qing Dynasty were extremely low, almost none, and if they did not want to find a way to take bribes, they would definitely not have enough to eat. And Guangdong Hongmen is powerful, and the peddlers and pawns are all brothers of the Hong family, if this official does not worship the old man to enter Hongmen, it is not easy to ask for bribes. Here in Guangzhou, it is really not a big deal to kill an official.

The most surprising thing is that there are many Hong brothers in Guangdong's green battalion soldiers. Because the salaries of the green battalion are meager, and they are often deducted by the officials, no soldier can rely on these salaries to support their families, so they all have their own livelihoods outside. For those at the bottom of society, if they do not enter Hongmen, they will have to go back to the countryside to farm.

"Lord Zhu is the leader of the Hongmen in the world, and he opened Daming Mountain in Hong Kong, and the Hongmen bigwigs here in Guangdong all call him a voice: Ming Gong. If you follow the rules of the rivers and lakes, most of the soldiers in the Guangdong Green Battalion should call him Daddy. ”

Zuo Zongtang smiled secretly when he heard this: Okay, the green battalion soldiers of the Qing Dynasty want to call the rebels and thieves father...... If Emperor Daoguang knew about this, he probably wouldn't believe the Han people even more, right?

At this time, it was summer, and the boat to Hong Kong was not a tailwind, so the boat traveled slowly, and it took a day and a night to arrive at Hong Kong Island, where the rice flag was flying, and docked at the Central Pier.

Hong Kong's Central, facing the Kowloon Peninsula, is the heart of Hong Kong, and several Western-style roads have been built. One of the most prosperous is the Queen's Road, which was completed in February 1842, and there are already many new Western-style buildings standing on the Queen's Road, such as the Hong Kong Clubhouse, the Hong Kong Courts, the Treasury and the General Post Office, Po Shun & Co., Hong Kong Pharmacy, Oriental Fanhui Bank, etc., but the tallest and most luxurious buildings are none other than the three buildings that did not exist in history. In addition, there is another construction site under construction on the side of the World Bank building, which is where the head office of the "HSBC de France" is located.

Zuo Zongtang and Fengcheng's destination is the Jishi Bank Building, and above the main entrance of the building, in addition to the plaque of "Jishi Foreign Bank", there are two temporary signs, which respectively read "Jishi University and College Recruitment Office" and "Jishi University and College Admissions Office". However, this "recruitment office" and "admissions office" are actually the same thing, there is an office on the second floor of Jishi Bank, and the person in charge is Tang Qiwen, the comprador of Jishi Bank. And it was also very deserted, and no one came to sign up, so Zuo Zongtang and Feng Cheng were naturally received very warmly.

"Young Master Feng, do you want to apply for Jishi University? All right! This is the exam paper, you take it to the desk next to you and do it, as long as you answer half of the questions correctly, you will be considered a pass, and you can enter the school immediately...... Tuition? Oh, we Chinese do not pay tuition fees for school, there is a full scholarship! ”

sent Fengcheng to do the topic, and the comprador of Tang Da came to greet Zuo Zongtang again. This Zuo Zongtang is a little old, and his bearing is extraordinary, and he looks a little learned.

"You're always a showman!"

Hearing Zuo Zongtang claim to be a Xiucai (Zuo Zongtang is really a person) fame, Tang Qiwen's eyes widened! This is a great college scholar! Well, there is also an academician of the Academy of Sciences in Jishi University, and there are a bunch of doctors and masters from the West, but there is no teacher who is proficient in Confucianism.

So this Zuo Zongtang is now the first "showman" to come to take refuge, and Tang Qiwen certainly doesn't dare to slack off. He knew that Zhu Jishi was going to rebel, and the "Xiucai" who came to take refuge now was not as simple as teaching and teaching, this was all from the ministers of the dragon, and in the future, he would either be a governor or a minister. (To be continued......)