"My lord, it's time to get up!"

As the adjutant of Lord Lin, the admiral of the water division, Wang Dongxu can definitely be called conscientious, since he was reminded by Lin Haijiang, Wang Dongxu can be described as a delicate person, and he has been trying his best to play the role of a perfect adjutant next to Lin Haijiang, and even did everything he did when he got up.

Last night's attack by the White Lotus Sect almost made his heart jump out of his throat with fright, and now there are several more teams of patrol posts in the siege of the city, and there are several times more patrol posts and secret posts around.

Seeing that there was a slight noise in the room, Wang Dongxu stopped his voice, and said in his heart that among the previous admirals of the Qing Dynasty, he had worked so hard to serve the people, and in the end, he was probably the most assassinated by Admiral Lin.

The tent in the room moved, Wang Dongxu stretched out his hand to pull it open, and shouted as he pulled: "My lord slept well last night!" ”

The originally routine greeting was suddenly stuck in the middle of speaking, and Wang Dongxu yelled while touching the gun: "Who are you?" ”

What came out of the outer hall of the room was not Lin Haijiang, but a stranger dressed as a soldier? is not tall, fair-skinned, delicate-looking, without the slightest smell of soldiers on his body, a little drama alive.

Swish! A white light flickered in front of Wang Dongxu's eyes, and he didn't know that he was being held by a sharp sword until his neck felt cold.

Wang Dongxu, who realized that it was not good, had an idea, raised his voice and said loudly: "You are new here!" So ignorant of the rules? Don't you even know my adjutant Wang? ”

As soon as the words fell, the six guards at the door broke in with guns, and shouted at the strange soldiers with their guns: "Don't move!" ”

"Xiao Rongzi, stop!" There was a low cry from the inner room, and Jiang Rong'er glared at Wang Dongxu viciously, and very reluctantly removed the sword from Wang Dongxu's neck.

Lin Haijiang can be said to be very satisfied with Wang Dongxu's performance, and Wang Dongxu, who has been cold, stared at Xiao Rongzi dissatisfiedly, and asked with a strange expression: "Lord Lin, who is this little white face?" ”

"Little white face?" Lin Haijiang glanced at Jiang Rong'er, who was puffing up, coughed and said, "This little white face is called Jiang Rong, introduced by my hometown, and she just entered the camp yesterday, you go and apply for a military registration for her!" ”

Jiang Rong'er, alias Jiang Rong, accepted Lin Haijiang's suggestion to become his personal bodyguard for a period of one year, as long as he had a little problem during this period, the White Lotus Sect would suffer.

Before Wang Dongxu left, he glanced at the white little soldier stupidly, thinking that it was the old family of the Admiral, no wonder the spectrum was so big, but after a few days of training by Admiral Lin, I am afraid that he will also become a little black face, because Lin Haijiang is different from other superintendents, his personal soldiers are all strong and agile, and there are more than a dozen ordinary people who are close to the body, Jiang Rong is obviously a special case among the pro-soldiers.

It's just that Admiral Lin's position is to keep this Jiang Rong by his side as a personal guard? Admiral Mo Feilin likes this little white face?

Wang Dongxu had a cold war, this idea was simply too evil, if Admiral Lin knew about it, his life would be in danger.

Lin Haijiang looked at Jiang Rong'er, who was a few meters away from him, and said, "Get closer, this is what you call a personal guard?" Adjutant Wang Dongxu is my trusted subordinate, so I don't need to be so wary of him. ”

"You said that anyone suspicious should be on guard." Jiang Rong'er glanced at this hateful man coldly, and was obviously extremely dissatisfied with the title of "Little Rongzi".

"Just pay attention to proportion, you still have a lot to learn, don't you White Lotus Sect teach something normal and useful? Follow me out on the street. ”

"Yes, Lord Lin!" Jiang Rong'er almost gritted her teeth and followed.

With a few guards and the newly acquired guard "Jiang Rong", Lin Haijiang went to the foreign bank for a walk, and even went to the Qinghua Courtyard privately. When it was almost Lin Haijiang's prompt to recognize the little junior sister who came, Wanxin's eyes widened, and she couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"Little junior sister, you don't have a fever in your brain, right?"

Because of the presence of others, Wan Xin didn't ask this sentence after all, the holy daughter of the White Lotus Sect actually disguised herself as a man and became the guard of the Admiral of the Water Master, the most terrifying thing is not this, with the surname of the little junior sister she knows, it seems that she has changed her surname overnight, you must know that she hated Lin Haijiang very much before this.

Until noon, the group went to the restaurant for dinner.

"I'm so hungry!" Jiang Rong'er sat down with a big grin, and walked down for a long time, thinking that she could discover some secrets of Lin Haijiang, but she didn't expect that she was just hanging out, so she shouted: "Little Er, order food!" Hey, why don't you sit down? ”

Wang Dongxu really saw this guy's presumptuous style, and he reprimanded with a cold face: "If Lord Admiral doesn't sit down, we can't sit, and we are not qualified to sit at the same table with Lord Admiral, and in addition, before Lord Admiral doesn't move his chopsticks, we can't eat first." ”

Jiang Rong'er couldn't imagine that there were so many rules, and said, "Why? ”

Lin Haijiang raised his slap and hung it on her head, and scolded angrily: "Where did you get so much nonsense? Xiao Rongzi, stay on the side, otherwise I won't be able to make your whole family eat. ”

"If you can't eat, you can't eat."

Jiang Rong'er muttered, but still sat down at another table, but Lin Haijiang's slap didn't dare to fall in the end, seeing that Lin Haijiang stopped Wang Dongxu to sit with him, and made a strange expression to himself, Jiang Rong'er was really angry as much as she wanted.

"Little Er, Little Er, where are all the people dead?"

"My lord, this little white face is really a sissy, and her partial-life speech is so vulgar, do you want to give it to the brothers below to practice it well?" Wang Dongxu rubbed his hands dissatisfied.

"Hehe, I don't know who is practicing whom." Lin Haijiang smiled, and was about to call Xiao Er to serve the food, when he heard the sound of people coming from the screen not far away, his face suddenly became extremely weird.

"Admiral, someone is quarrelling, do you want your subordinates to go over and suppress the matter?" Wang Dongxu asked, he and even Lin Haijiang's spleen surname would not rely on official authority to bully people at will.

"No, it's really a new thing, you can meet acquaintances at every meal." Lin Haijiang waved his hand, walked to the wine table near the screen and sat down.

"Mr. Shen, as an officer of the British Imperial Army, I have noble aristocratic blood, and no one in my social circle has ever married an Oriental woman, and I will be the first, and I will also guarantee that once your daughter marries me, she will immediately become an Oriental with British Imperial nationality and enjoy the rights of an Englishman, and those Qing officials you are afraid of will also be respectful to you, isn't that bad?"

Shen Tianfu had a few more black lines on his forehead, in order to avoid the retaliation of Lin Haijiang, who was promoted to admiral, he tried his best to move into the British Concession, but he didn't expect to encounter more troublesome things.

This lieutenant named Fell, it is said that the backstage is very large, not only the Governor of Liangguang, Lord Ye, has to give three points when he sees it, but even a big man like Bao Ling looks at him differently, since he saw his daughter Shen Yilan a few days ago, he was shocked, I really don't know what this foreigner with a high nose, yellow hair, and blue eyes thinks?

Shen Tianfu didn't think that Fell really liked his daughter, maybe because he was marrying an oriental woman and trying to be fresh, and even more just wanted to find a novel plaything to show off in their so-called aristocratic circle. Shen Tianfu has always regarded his daughter as the pearl of his palm, where can he tolerate this kind of thing, so he directly refused.

But Fell, relying on his identity, got entangled and sabotaged the business of his business several times, so that he now wants to move his family to the world.

"Moving in and out, where will I put Shen Tianfu's face?" Shen Tianfu looked up to the sky and sighed, and said to Lieutenant Fell: "Mr. Fair, this matter is not urgent, and the little girl has not considered this issue now. ”

After good words and sending away Fer, who was almost a little angry, on the pretext of discussing business, Shen Tianfu ordered food and met with his business partner.

"Good guy, this Shen Tianfu actually does business with Yue himself, and he still talks so smoothly." After listening to this, Lin Haijiang pondered: "The business of the Thirteenth Head Office was originally much larger than the Lin family's business, and its business scope was extremely wide, and it did almost everything except arms, and it was a bit of strength to be able to move the family into the British Concession. ”

In Asia in the mid-19th century, the Tokugawa shogunate, the last shogunate. The powerful Tokugawa shogunate implemented a "closed country policy" to foreign missionaries, merchants, and civilians from entering the country, and only Dutch and Chinese merchants were allowed to continue their activities in Nagasaki, the only port that was originally open to the outside world. In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate strictly forbade the Christian faith.

At this time, it was very similar to the Great Qing Dynasty, but because of the poor resources, it was not invaded by foreign forces like the Great Qing Kingdom decades ago, until 1853, when the United States Navy Commodore Matthew. Perry led his fleet into Uraga on the shores of Edo Bay (present-day Tokyo Bay) and demanded negotiations with the Tokugawa shogunate, known in history as the "Black Ship Incident", also known as the "Black Ship Founding". The following year, the "Treaty of Amity" was signed, and after the adoption of such unequal treaties, the Meiji Restoration began later.

Lin Haijiang vaguely remembered that it was the Meiji Restoration that made Yuben strong, which was about the end of the 60s of the 19th century, although it was still about ten years away, but it was impossible not to hurry.

If you want to say that the country that has caused the most harm to China, it is not Britain and France, not those European and American powers, but this island country with which China has interacted for thousands of years. Before the reunification of the country, they would only use pirates to constantly harass the coastline, and after a series of changes after the Meiji Restoration to develop the country's prosperity and people's strength, they launched several wars against the Qing State in a row, the most famous is the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, which defeated the last trace of dignity of the Qing Dynasty and the last trace of fear of China.

History will change, Lin Haijiang firmly believes this, his sideways intervention in history has changed too many people and too many things, who will change until the island opposite, even if there is any change, he Lin Haijiang will strangle it in the cradle.

"Make an appointment with Shen Tianfu, and say that the official has something important to talk to him."

"Yes, I'll do it right away." Wang Dongxu took the order.

Late at night, Lin Haijiang met with Shen Tianfu, who came to the sailor camp with fear, and talked secretly for two hours.

After this period of rapid development, the assets of the old port have grown rapidly, but the money is also spent extremely quickly. The number of pirates is increasing or decreasing at a stable level, and as long as the power of Southeast Asian countries does not change significantly, the magnitude will not be too large, so the income from the sale of pirates in the old port is also very stable.

Arms trafficking occupies a large part of the old port's finances, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom needs a large amount of arms, which is one thing. On the other hand, Xianfeng ordered to buy warship guns, but he had to settle the money himself, give himself an empty name, and let himself start from scratch? Will it be you who will live in the key building if it is really built? Will it repeat the mistakes of Longwei and Longsheng? Lin Haijiang couldn't believe Xianfeng a little.

The arms dealers made war money, and it is on these that the old port has grown to this day. It's just that the war can't go on forever, and the old port is a distribution center for fishing out of the way, and most of the financial revenue is these shady money, and Lin Haijiang's hope for the old port is more than that, and arms sales are always just a temporary profiteering, and vertical development is fundamental.

In order to eliminate the so-called South China Sea disputes in the future, the most effective way is to turn Southeast Asia into a training ground for the Chinese Navy.

Lin Haijiang's attention is more and more to the friendly neighbor with a strip of water, saying that it is not a rich country, but it has not reached the point of being poor and white, in terms of the people's hardships and hard work, the people of this island country are not more than other countries, and the so-called conquest in his own country, in Lin Haijiang's view, is at most a battle between a certain battalion and a certain battalion, and it cannot be put on the table.

It is precisely because of this that wealth has not been consumed by the war, and it has hardly been invaded by foreign forces, as long as social changes such as the Meiji Restoration occur, as long as it is just a few decades, their tenacity will turn them into a man-eating beast.

Lin Haijiang will never ignore this vicious dog hiding in the corner at any time, he needs someone who understands the current situation, it was an accident to meet Shen Tianfu, and the two hit it off.

He helped Shen Tianfu solve Shen Yilan's troubles, and ensured that the Thirteenth Head Office would not be harassed by pirates at sea. What Shen Tianfu wants to do is to find out the current situation of Yueben, whether it is economic or political, and if possible, the military strength of Yueben.

Moreover, Lin Haijiang also promised Shen Tianfu that he would give him the right to trade in the future! However, what made Lin Haijiang very strange was that after he took care of Shen Yilan's problem, Shen Tianfu was so happy?

"Adjutant Wang, submit a copy of Shen Tianfu's information, and I want the most detailed." With Lin Haijiang's instructions, in less than half a day, a detailed information about Shen Tianfu was put in front of his case, if Shen Tianfu saw this information, I am afraid that he would be so shocked that he was speechless, because some of the details may not be noticed by him himself.

The thirteen head offices, whose branches are all over the provinces of the Qing Dynasty, and even Southeast Asian countries also have business, this behemoth is supported by countless merchants, and it is appropriate to describe it as a rich and rival country.

With his outstanding business talents, Shen Tianfu brought together countless businessmen, so that everyone could use their hearts and minds in one place, and this ability was also one of the best in the Qing Dynasty.

Since the sudden rise of domestic turmoil in recent years, foreign Maozi threatened to invade, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rebelled, which dealt a heavy blow to the business of the 13th head office, so Shen Tianfu gradually shifted his focus to foreign countries, in addition to the existing Southeast Asian countries, he also began to contact British merchants, and opened up the route to Yuben early, and even invited someone to learn the language in order to do business smoothly.

After seeing this bits and pieces, Lin Haijiang shouted obediently, and said straight that if this Shen Tianfu lived in his era, he would definitely be a character like Bill Gates.

Through these information, he and Shen Tianfu are just pure businessmen, and it is impossible to do such a big business purely on his own, these are only secondary, the point is that he did not find out that Shen Tianfu had sold opium.

In Lin Haijiang's view, some domestic businessmen sold opium to poison their own compatriots, and these people could not be called businessmen, but sinners in China. And Shen Tianfu didn't say that he had done some illegal things, but he had not infringed on his compatriots, such a businessman didn't say it was good, but at least it wasn't a big evil, he was confident that he would cooperate with him and control it well.

Nowadays, there is no shortage of guns and guns in his Lin Haijiang, and he even has several warships, and five ironclad ships are still being built in public.

Relying on warships disguised as pirate ships, he plundered many East India Company cargo ships, and seized mountains of opium from them, plus the opium seized from some pirates, the amount of which is the largest in Asia, but these things are still stored in the old port and I don't know what to do with them, and they also occupy several warehouses of the boss out of thin air, Lawrence sent several messages to sell some opium, but he did not agree.

Although it is only a part of the sale, the amount is also extremely amazing, and the East India Company knows the news, I am afraid that the old port is the one who robbed their cargo ships several times, and now it is extremely unwise to start a war with the British Empire, and the old port, which is still in the initial stage of the rise, is far from being the opponent of the British behemoth, so it is not only to keep the light and conceal his whereabouts, but also to solve the problem of funds, which is Lin Haijiang's biggest problem at present.

At present, only Chinese merchants and Dutch people are allowed to enter and exit, while Lin Haijiang belongs to the former, and at the same time maintains a certain relationship with the Netherlands. It's just that he can't come forward, and neither can the people in the old port, not to mention that Lawrence and Kleina are busy building the old port, so they don't have the leisure to take care of this matter, so when Shen Tianfu appeared in front of Lin Haijiang, he immediately remembered this matter.

Although he had not yet told Shen Tianfu that he would transport opium through him in the future, Lin Haijiang believed that he would agree.

Businessmen are very profitable, Lin Haijiang will naturally give him enough benefits, not to mention that this matter is not harmful to Shen Tianfu and the thirteen head offices under his jurisdiction, and there is no need to worry about being infamous and infamous, any businessman will see the situation clearly.

(To be continued)