The western-style building is towering, the iron windows are open on all sides, the green lacquered iron fence is surrounded by a piece of green clouds and fine grass, and the small flowers of various colors are dotted among them, which is elegant and elegant.

Sitting on a Western wooden chair under the umbrella, Wu Jianzhang felt awkward, and when he met with Lord Qincha, he was neatly dressed, wearing official boots in court clothes, and burning incense to show his grandeur before coming.

However, for the elder brother of the prince's family, the nobles of the clan, Wu Jianzhang admired the five-body surrender, and he never thought that Lord Qincha would be able to set up Xingyuan in the concession. You must know that not long ago, he was kicked out of the concession under the name of "neutrality".

He then set up two boats in Lujiazui as a temporary office to collect taxes, and was driven to the Suzhou Creek, and since the French first announced that French merchants could enter and leave duty-free, Britain and the United States immediately followed suit and abolished the consular collection system, and British and American merchants also entered and exited the Shanghai wharf by themselves, and there were no more taxes to collect.

Wu Jianzhang didn't say anything about the anxiety in his heart, he had more dealings with foreigners, but he knew that foreigners were arrogant and not easy to provoke, and he received an urgent report from Beijing a few days earlier, and Jingxiang, a disciple of the Qin Dynasty, was ordered to handle Shanghai tariff affairs. He didn't know much about this young nobleman, only that he was the only son of Prince Zheng, and he had just been awarded the title of first-class Fengguo general.

Originally, I was still playing the drum in my heart, and the court sent such a prince and brother who had nothing to do to deal with foreigners, so it wasn't a mess, and he turned around and did a bad job, he was a hereditary replacement of the iron hat, and the sin was all planted on me, is this wrong?

In the past two days, Wu Jianzhang felt that he had no energy, so he pondered how to get rid of his involvement, but he didn't want Lord Qincha to take the lead in taking the lead, so he broke the ban on foreigners when he arrived in Shanghai, and set up his line in the concession with great fanfare.

Wu Jianzhang admired this, and said in his heart that it seems that foreigners are also picking soft persimmons and pinching them, why don't you see them driving out the prince and brother to the rental world?

I met with Lord Qincha, and talked about the important things after the small knife society made a rebellion and conquered Shanghai, and also described the attitude of the consuls of the three countries towards our country. For example, the Citi people are the most reasonable, the customs are gone, but he took the lead in implementing consular collection, and took the initiative to help our dynasty collect taxes from the country's merchants, followed by the British, only the French are the most brutal, and the French merchants took the lead in resisting taxes, so that the British Citigroup took the lead.

Ye Zhao listened quietly, took a sip of tea from time to time, but had to sigh in his heart, often dealing with foreigners, naturally he opened his eyes to see the world, this Wu Jianzhang is also a little talented, but unfortunately, now he has a lot of dealings with foreigners, but it is extremely dangerous for his career, isn't this Taoist Lord just a few years later in the Sino-British and French war, he was named a "Tongyi Yangyi" crime and was dismissed and asked.

However, he was born as a businessman, worked as a comprador, and sold tobacco and soil, not to mention that although for various reasons, it can be said that he betrayed the interests of the customs, and it is not unjust to be dismissed from his post and questioned.

"Daotai-sama, your words are not true, are they?" Ye Zhao gently put down the teacup.

Wu Jianzhang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Little grandfather, how did you say this?" The lower officials didn't dare to deceive the little grandfather. "How to call this Lord Wu Jianzhang also took a lot of thought. is already lower than the other people's grades, and they are royal relatives and nobles, so they can't shout like Han officials, shouting "general" and "adult" don't seem to be respectful enough, "Shizi" and "little prince" are not high in the title of Lord Qincha, so the title is flattering and even more suspicious of Lord Qincha. After thinking about it, he simply shouted "little grandfather", that is, through respectful and respectful wishes to Lord Qincha to enter the knighthood as soon as possible, since he is the only son of the prince, the duke does mean that it is okay, and adding a small word will not look too flattering.

But suddenly hearing the little grandfather use the word "deception", Wu Jianzhang's head seemed to sound like a thunderbolt, deceiving the Qincha, making trouble bad, that is equivalent to bullying the king.

Ye Zhao smiled slightly and said, "Lord Daotai was captured by thieves, why didn't he tell me?" ”

Wu Jianzhang was stunned again, no one knew about this, but when he ran away, he met a thief soldier, and he was secretly sneaked away by himself in less than half an hour after being locked up, because no one in the little gang of thieves knew him.

"This, this ......" Wu Jianzhang stammered and couldn't speak, and suddenly knelt down tremblingly, kowtowing vigorously: "Little grandfather, little grandfather Mingjian, lowly and lowly were trapped for a while, but no one in the thieves recognized the lowly position, the lowly position was escaped by himself, and it was definitely not in collusion with the thief, in order to survive, he gave the official seal to the thief!" Little grandfather, you, you are a good person! ”

Ye Zhao was stunned, he didn't expect that a casual sentence would provoke such a big reaction from Wu Jianzhang, originally he couldn't see the statement that Wu Jianzhang had been captured from the Di Bao, so Ye Zhao asked casually, after all, in his previous life, Wu Jianzhang was captured by the Little Knife Society, and he was locked up for seven or eight days, and his life was almost lost, and he was rescued by foreign businessmen.

After getting out of trouble, he advocated even more vigorously to kill the knife congregation, and the reason was that he was worried that the experience of being captured would affect his career.

Could it be that he has been captured in this world and has been hiding it? But if you don't see anyone for seven or eight days, how can you justify yourself? Ye Zhao looked at Wu Jianzhang who was trembling on the ground, and frowned: "You are also bold!" ”

Wu Jianzhang kowtowed again and again, his face was full of snot and tears: "Little grandfather, it is only tea time for the humble position to fall into the hands of the thief, and no one among the thieves knows the humble position. ”

Tea time? Ye Zhao's heart moved slightly, seeing that Wu Jianzhang's demeanor didn't seem to be lying, not to mention that if he was really captured by the knife for seven or eight days, he couldn't hide it, and he didn't dare to hide it.

Why? My activities in the capital can't affect Shanghai, right? However, Ye Zhao gradually understood that in this life, he doesn't know how many choices can affect fate, just like Wu Jianzhang, when he ran away from the office, he encountered an alley, maybe turning left is one fate, and turning right is another fate.

Ye Zhao was silently thinking about his thoughts, but he was bitter to Wu Jianzhang, I really don't know what the little grandfather is thinking, how much abacus is there? Kneeling on the ground, he didn't dare to move.

"Get up." Ye Zhao suddenly laughed, he was stunned to find that he had inadvertently held a handle that could firmly control this Daotai Lord, but he really had no intention of planting willows.

"Don't dare to be lowly, don't dare to be lowly." Wu Jianzhang didn't dare to move.

"Rise up and get up! Tell me about foreign merchants! Ye Zhao smiled gently and gently put down the teacup.

Wu Jianzhang, who slowly raised his head, was up and down in his heart, and he really didn't know what this little ancestor wanted.