The Xiaodaohui rebelled and occupied the county seat of Shanghai, and the Chinese poured into the concession, and the population surged, and it seemed that overnight, there were many more Chinese-style shops with signboards on Zhongwang Road, and the flow of people was also bustling, but it was a little more prosperous.

Ye Zhao and Boss Su sat in the lobby on the first floor of the teahouse drinking tea, and they were also observing the various people pouring into the concession on the street.

In the morning, Ye Zhao took Boss Su to Lawyer Hall's residence for a cup of coffee, Mr. Wells had already left Shanghai, and all the affairs of the firm were handed over to Hall.

Turning his head and seeing the gauze wrapped around Boss Su's face, Ye Zhao sighed helplessly in his heart, and chatted with Boss Su a few words last night, but he said, "Big brother is very famous in Guangxi, and he has been in Shanghai for a long time, so I'm afraid of being recognized, I'll help you think of a trick when you catch up with Ming'er." ”

Who knew that Boss Su slashed a few knives on his face that night, although Su Hongniang didn't know what Ye Zhao wanted his brother to do in Shanghai, but listening to Ye Zhao's words, I thought it would be very helpful to the great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty.

"Big brother, compared to you contemporary heroes, I'm really ashamed!" Ye Zhao was moved, but no, these people are heroes if they say well, and outlaws if they don't say well, but in this era, they are very useful, compared to them, they are really a girl, and they are afraid that they will scream in pain.

Boss Su smiled innocently, touched the gauze on his face, and said, "The medicine of foreigners works." "I just asked a Western doctor to help him get stitches and bandages again.

Ye Zhao nodded and said: "Yes, Western civilization, but it is quite desirable, the eldest brother stays in Shanghai, everything is careful." "I just talked to lawyer Hall, and recommended Mr. Su to Shenghe as a comprador, and when he was familiar with this circle, he set up a freighter firm and rented a steamer to do transportation business. Hall was in favor of it, and at present foreign companies were not allowed to trade northward, and the first steamer of Chinese merchants to go north would certainly make a lot of money.

Boss Su nodded with a smile, glanced at Ye Zhao, and said, "Ye Gongzi, I am a rough person, and I will not beat around the bush if I have something to say." Ye Gongzi is a person with great ambitions, and you can afford it, and I think that my Boss Su is a little useless, and I will definitely help you do it beautifully. ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "What a big ambition, eldest brother thinks too highly of me, but eldest brother, I have a few words to tell you." ”

"You say." Boss Su put down the celadon tea bowl.

Ye Zhao pondered and whispered slowly: "I know that the eldest brother and the Taiping Army and the Little Knife will have the same hatred, but I hope that the eldest brother will forget the new and old hatreds from now on, and concentrate on the experience in Shanghai. ”

Boss Su nodded slowly and said, "I understand." But he suddenly grinned: "Childe, I like to hear you call me eldest brother, it is her blessing that the matchmaker can meet Childe." ”

Ye Zhao was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect that Boss Su would approve of his relationship with Su Hongniang, but he started to be the eldest brother in advance.

Boss Su sighed softly and said: "The matchmaker is a strong child, and her life is also bitter, she blames me, she is so tired that she wanders all over the world when she is a child, and she comes and goes in the wind and rain. When I saw my mother under Jiuquan, she asked me, how did you take care of your sister? I don't even know how to reply. ”

Not wanting this rough-looking man to have such a delicate mind, Ye Zhao patted his hand lightly and said, "Brother Su, don't worry, I will take good care of her in the future, and I will not let her be bullied." ”

Boss Su smiled with relief, raised the tea bowl and said, "If you can't drink wine today, I'll give you a bowl of high foam!" Wanggongzi is not a little sister!

Ye Zhao also raised the teacup to touch him, and when he saw Boss Su drinking tea, a sense of pride rose inexplicably in his chest.

The two were talking, and suddenly there was a sound of silk and bamboo next to them, and they turned their heads to look, and they didn't know when an old man and a young man came to the teahouse, dressed in rags, and the old man was always over seventy years old. The prison basin is all counted, and the group fan is upstream. Avoid the table and fear the news**, and write books for Daoliang. Tian Heng's 500 people are safe, will they return to all the marquis? ”

The vicissitudes of the song make people feel sad.

can sing this song, you can know that the old man is a learned man, but he has no ambition, and he ends up so desolate in his old age; Look at the four or five-year-old child, his face covered with black mud, pitifully reaching out to the table to beg for a reward, but the guests just drove him away in disgust.

Looking at this old and young, Ye Zhao sighed softly in his heart, and silently muttered "Ten thousand grievances are romantic, ten thousand grievances are romantic", and gradually became stupid.

Boss Su threw a few pieces of silver to the young child, but he was also silent.

……

In the afternoon, the British consul Ali Guo came to the Qincha Xingyuan to lodge a solemn protest against the plundering of the Qing army in the concession.

Because there is no city wall in the concession and the Qing army camp outside the concession is separated, from time to time there are Qing soldiers bravely mixed into the concession, it is because of the constant disputes, a few days ago there are soldiers who steal the timber of the wharf and have a conflict with foreign merchants, and the soldiers bravely injured the foreign merchants and left; Last night, there were soldiers and soldiers fighting each other with foreign merchants on the rising beach, and then the foreign gun team arrived, wounding several Qing soldiers and killing one person.

Ye Zhao knew that a few months later, the famous battle of Mud City in history was caused by the deepening contradictions between the two sides, and the fuse was that a foreign merchant and his wife met the Qing army while walking in the horse race hall, and the two sides were in flames, and the foreign merchant was seriously injured. This series of conflicts made the British, French, and American consuls determined to teach the Qing army a lesson, and organized more than 300 sailors and marines of the British and American coalition to attack the Qing army, and asked the Little Knife Society to fight together.

The Battle of Mud City also further exposed the weakness of the Qing Dynasty to the Western countries, which began to focus on protecting the concession by force. After this war, the officials of Liangjiang and one place were more in awe of Western countries, and began to cooperate with Western countries to exterminate the Taiping army of the Xiaodaohui, but the hardliners in Beijing still looked down on the barbarians. Of course, these so-called hardliners do not mean that there is any national integrity, but just an inexplicable arrogance, even if the first Opium War was lost, they think that the foreign Yi is far away from the ocean, and if they sign a treaty, they will send them away as soon as possible, even if it is a few treaties, it is not easy for the Qing Dynasty to pity the foreigners, reward a few ports for trade, and reward Hong Kong Island to Britain and so on.

In the eyes of Emperor Xianfeng and others, the contract signed a few years ago was just an expedient measure to fool the foreigners and ask the foreigners' army to leave the Celestial Empire as soon as possible, and no one wanted to abide by it seriously. At that time, the conditions proposed by the British were originally a lion's big mouth, and when the Chinese bargained, who knew that they were agreed to by the Great Qing State in one breath, and the British were ecstatic at that time, but they never thought that the Great Qing Kingdom did not take this treaty seriously at all.

And now, ten years later, in the temples of the Qing Dynasty, I feel even more unconvinced by the loss of that war, and the old state of arrogance has reappeared.

A few years later, in the second Opium War, the British and French forces actually came to Yanjing to burn the Old Summer Palace, and the hardliners led by Emperor Xianfeng were really hurt, Xianfeng died suddenly, and Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang who ignored the foreigners, was captured and went to India, and died in a foreign land. The attitude of the Qing Dynasty towards the Western countries took a 180-degree turn, and the Westernization Movement arose, and began to cooperate with the West in an all-round way to exterminate the rebels.

Although the Battle of Mud City is rarely mentioned in domestic history books, its impact was actually extremely far-reaching.

Looking at the situation in front of him, the conflict between the foreigners in the concession and the Qing army is inevitable at present, and Ye Zhao only replied that it was not within his own authority and responsibility to respond to Ali Guo's protest, but he understood the indignation of various countries and expressed regret.

That night, Ye Zhao was suddenly interested, and he wanted to take a look at the horse race hall that caused the battle of mud city in history, but in fact, the horse race hall that caused the battle of mud city was the second race course that was about to break ground, and it was not where Ye Zhao went, but Ye Zhao didn't know it very well.