Chapter 7 The Door is Like a City
Sun Wei looked at Lingling's appearance of wanting to be close but afraid of herself, and couldn't help but be stabbed hard in the depths of her heart, it seems that her predecessor not only snubbed the delicate beautiful lady because Wang Qian did not give birth to a son, but also vented her resentment on this child who had just remembered.
"Baby, come to Daddy's place, let Daddy see if our little princess is beautiful again. Oops...... Sun Wei smiled and pinched Lingling's pink cheeks, and wanted to carry her to the bed with both hands, but he pulled the wound on his chest and couldn't help but exhale in pain.
"Daddy, Lingling is very well-behaved, Lingling doesn't make Daddy angry." The young Lingling still couldn't figure out the difference between the two expressions of pain and disgust, thinking that she had angered Daddy again, and her words brought out crying.
"How can Daddy be angry, it's too late to see my little princess Daddy happy!" Sun Wei comforted his frightened daughter, and then said to Wang Qian, who was looking at him dumbfounded: "Ah Qian, I have to trouble you to carry our daughter to the bed, I can't use the strength in my hands." ”
"Oh...... Okay......" Wang Qian replied a little distractedly, obviously not very comfortable with Sun Wei's attitude.
"It's good if I'll come, Lingling come, let grandma hug me." Mrs. Wang, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, was also a little overjoyed when she saw Sun Wei's attitude, and without waiting for her daughter to come over, she took Lingling to the bed by herself, and then continued: "That's right, whether it's a daughter or a son, it's not all your own children, you and Qianqian are not very old, and there will be time to have a son in the future." ”
"Mother is right, I made a mistake before, this catastrophe made me feel a lot, and I also feel that I owe a lot to Ah Qian and Lingling before, and I will slowly make up for it in the future." Sun Wei giggled his daughter as he explained his abnormality.
"Well, that's good, Ah Wei, if you think like this, it means that you have a clear conscience." Wang Huairen, who had not spoken, suddenly praised him, but this kind of praise made Sun Wei uncomfortable to listen to.
"Old man, how do you speak, what does it mean to have a clear conscience, Ah Wei was just confused for a while before, but now he understands it." Mrs. Wang was dissatisfied with her husband's evaluation of her son-in-law, and spoke out to educate her.
The three- or four-year-old girl was obviously the fastest age in the past, and under Sun Wei's hard teasing, she soon forgot her previous fear of Sun Wei and began to become intimate with Sun Wei, which also made the Wang couple and Wang Qian's master and servant look very relieved.
That night, Sun Wei very forcefully drove Wang Qian, who had never had a good rest, home to rest, leaving only the maid Xiaolan to accompany her at night, and slept on another bed in Sun Wei's ward.
Things turned out as Sun Wei expected, Xie Xiaoshu immediately released the news of Sun Wei's awakening after seeing Sun Wei, and when it was dawn the next day, a lot of people gathered outside the hospital bed to visit Sun Wei, but most of these people were small characters, and they were not worthy of Sun Wei's personal reception, so Xiaolan was very skillful in accepting gifts and greetings, and sent people away.
Those who were waiting outside the ward naturally did not have the luxury of seeing the main master, and the reason why they stayed at the door of the ward so early was to report to show their filial piety, and to see that the host family accepted their prayers and gifts and left happily.
In fact, Sun Wei now doesn't know who can see it, who doesn't need to see it, and when he saw that Xiaolan handled it very skillfully, he let him do it, but when Sun Wei was teasing his daughter and eating the breakfast brought by Wang Qian, the two young men were let in by Xiaolan from among the many visitors.
"Master, master!" After the two came in, they immediately took off their hats and bent down to salute Sun Wei and Wang Qian.
"It's Yecheng and Ali who are here, you talk, I'll take Lingling to help Xiaolan take care of the outside." Wang Qian smiled and nodded to the two young men, then put away the dishes and chopsticks and led Lingling out of the ward.
"Master......"
"Don't stand, sit down."
One of the slender young men in the long robe wanted to say something, but before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Sun Wei.
"Master Xie!" After thanking the two, they each found a chair and sat on Sun Wei's side of the bed.
"Did anyone get it?" Sun Wei imitated the speeches of later leaders, slowed down his speech, and coupled with his serious expression, it was really a bit majestic.
"Back to the master, the people were caught, all captured alive, a total of six people and three short guns, the gun is a Browning M1900 7.65mm pistol made in Belgium, which was sold to them by Huang Jinrong in the French Concession." It was still the somewhat thin man who replied.
"Have there been any casualties among our people?" Sun Wei asked.
"The people I brought are all good at making guns, and there are no mistakes, and the people I bring are ordinary doormen, and they are not used to using guns, and two brothers were bruised by bullets, but they are not too serious." The thin man continued to reply, but from the words, it could be heard that he was Gu Yecheng, and the other dark and stocky young man was naturally Sun Li.
"Has the person who caught it been interrogated, do you know who instigated it?" Sun Wei nodded and continued to ask
"After the trial, these people didn't live in the concession before, they fled to the concession after committing an accident in Pudong, and somehow they hit the idea of the consul's lady, and they have stepped on the point for many days, and they are almost about to succeed, but they were bumped into by the master." Gu Yecheng replied.
"It's good that no one instructs you, just turn around and hand over the person directly to the patrol room, you have done a good job in this matter, and I will be rewarded for my meritorious deeds after I am discharged from the hospital." Sun Wei praised the two.
"Whatever the master says, the apprentices should do." Gu Yecheng said respectfully.
"Ye Cheng is right, this is the apprentice's business." Sun Li, who had not spoken, also echoed.
"Master, I have always paid attention to the reward must be done, and the punishment must be believed, this is what you deserve." Sun Wei waved his hand to the two, and then said, "In the past two days since my accident, nothing has gone wrong below, right?" ”
"In the past two days since the master's accident, although people's hearts have fluctuated a little, there have been a few small thieves who want to take advantage of the fire to rob, and they have all been sent away by me and Ali, so there has not been much of a fork." Gu Yecheng replied.
"Ah Wei, the British Consul Sir Wilson, the General Office of the Ministry of Works, Sir Lus, and the Chief Inspector of the Patrol House, Mr. Boislagon, are here." At this moment, Wang Qian pushed the door in and said to Sun Wei.
"Please come in, and you can see if there are any good tea leaves among the gifts brought by those people." The three people Wang Qian said were all bigwigs in the public concession, so they naturally couldn't be neglected.
"Master, Ali and I still have something to do, so I won't bother you." Gu Yecheng stood up and said.
"Well, in the past few days that I've been hospitalized, the following things will trouble you two to pay attention." The three people who came this time were all figures in the official face of the public concession, and it was really not good for Gu Yecheng and Sun Li, the two gang members, to meet them in their own wards, so they nodded and said.
"It's the master, this is what the apprentices should do." As they spoke, they put on their hats and left the room.
The British Consul Sir Wilson, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry Sir Lus, and the Inspector General of the Patrol House Boislagon only routinely visited the senior officials of the Arrest House, and the British Consul Wilson also brought his daughter to Sun Wei's gratitude for sacrificing her life to save him.
Sun Wei's visit did not end with the departure of the British Consul Sir Wilson, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry Sir Luth, and the Inspector General of the Patrol House Boislagon.
Lihe & Co. is the most famous German-funded enterprise in the Far East, which has been operating in Guangzhou since the 40s of the last century, and its founder is Richard von Karlowitz, so it is also called Karlovitz Company. The company entered Hong Kong in 1866 and Shanghai in 1877, and after entering Shanghai, it made Shanghai the location of the company's headquarters, and later set up branches in Qingdao, Jinan, Tianjin, Hankou and other places.
Lihe & Co. is an agent of the Hamburg Steamship Company, the German Krupp Steel Mill, the Zeiss Optical Equipment Factory and the American Guterli Automobile Tires, etc., and is famous for importing German heavy machinery, precision instruments, railway and mining equipment and munitions, and the cooperation between Lihe & Co. and Sun Wei is in this arms.
Johann von Karlowitz is the grandson of the elder Karlowitz, since the death of the elder Karlowitz, he was assigned by his father to take charge of the Far East, and then he relied on the various agency rights obtained by his father in the German headquarters, and opened several branches throughout the country.
Although the country is now in a situation of great unification, the decadent Manchu Qing only cared about looting the people's fat and ointment, causing the whole country to complain and bandits to rise everywhere, and the Manchu rule could only ensure the security of the cities, and the local autonomy adopted for the rural areas naturally became a hotbed for bandits, so in order to protect themselves, the landlords and gentry in various places had to buy arms and build fortresses on their own.
The landlords and gentry were naturally more inclined to follow the government's choice of arms, and they would think that the quality of arms was good in the hands of the government when it chose the arms of the country.
In the early days of the Qing government's arms purchase, Britain and France were in an advantageous position, while Germany at this time had just completed national reunification and did not have the energy and strength to participate in the competition.
In fact, just after the end of the First Opium War, German businessmen had already begun to pay attention to the huge arms market in China, and in the document of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce on trade with China in the 22nd year of Daoguang, they emphasized the importance of the Chinese market, and Germany could compete in many aspects, arms was one of them.