Walking on the silent street, Alice couldn't help but ask: "Uncle, you can obviously sign a memorandum with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but why do you infer that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not have authorization?" ”

Wen Xian patiently explained: "Our British Empire is a civilized country, and the Qing have formal diplomatic relations, if we sign a treaty with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it will not become interference in the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty, so in legal terms, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom should be regarded as a rebellion within the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom opposed the "Nanjing Treaty" and banned the East India Company from selling opium~~ chips, and it is not in our interests to establish diplomatic relations with it." ”

"Oh~~" Alice answered, and asked again: "Uncle, then will you build a government to cooperate with the Qing State to encircle and suppress the Taitian Kingdom?" ”

Wen Xian shook his head without thinking: "Since the beginning of this year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been victorious on the battlefield, and there are reasonable and ambitious people like Wang Feng, it is estimated that the Qing Kingdom will be difficult to extinguish, but his upper class is erosive and extravagant, and it is plausible with decent Christians, if they conquer all of China, it may not be a good thing for us, therefore, I will ask our government to wait for the situation to develop and wait for the situation to become clear, so as to force the Qing State to make greater concessions, and at this time, it should declare an outsider neutral position on the Chinese civil war and observe it closely." ”

Alice understands that her uncle's meaning is basically the government's meaning, which seems despicable, and it is unfair to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to use the Chinese civil war to gain benefits, but as a politician, from the perspective of a citizen of the British Empire, there is nothing wrong with doing so.

Alice looked back at the ghost messenger, the street behind her was empty, and she felt a little lost inexplicably, and couldn't help gritting her teeth and said: "Uncle, I am sixteen years old this year, and I can do things for our Wenham family, I don't want to go back to India, I want to stay in the Shanghai concession and help you share some of the affairs, is it okay?" ”

Wen Xian hesitated: "The Qing army is besieging the Little Knife Society in Shanghai, although the concession is relatively safe, but I am afraid of accidents." ”

Alice smiled slightly: "How can you be afraid of wind and waves when sailing on the sea?" Uncle, your niece won't be afraid. ”

Wen Xian sighed for a while, then said with a smile: "Alice grows up, your father will definitely wake up with a smile in heaven, then we will go to the Shanghai Concession first, arrange you in the Shanghai Consulate, and then I will go to Beijing when you get used to it." ”

"Thank you, uncle!" Alice pounced on him and kissed Wen Xian!

Although Wang Feng was not clear about Bonham's decision, he understood that the talks did not achieve any constructive results, and that Britain's interference in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom depended on how much sovereignty the Qing court could sell, and during this time, it depended on whether the Taiping military leaders could seize the opportunity to buy weapons and ammunition from the British as much as possible.

At the same time, Wang Feng also had a sense of urgency that time was not waiting, and after galloping back to the camp, he immediately started to make grenades, but found that Hong Xuanjiao was waiting for the old god.

"Sister Xuanjiao, why are you here? There are five days to go, and you don't prepare? Wang Feng asked in amazement.

"I'm only bringing a thousand people, what's the hurry?" Hong Xuanjiao smiled and said, "While it's still early, I'll come over and see if you can get something else." ”

"Hey~~ whatever you want." Wang Feng sighed helplessly and asked, "Why do you have to go to Shanghai with me?" Don't you know it's dangerous there? ”

"Oh?" Hong Xuanjiao said lightly: "Liu Lichuan and even Xiaodao will have no relationship with you for no reason, and the attitude of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with me is difficult to understand, and you are willing to risk your life to rescue them, will you be so kind?" If I'm not mistaken, you ask for an order to go to Shanghai, I'm afraid that the ultimate goal, or there is still the idea of co-opting the knife society, after you successfully co-opt, you will definitely not take them back to Tianjing, but to capture Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Mingli is dominated by the knife society, in fact, it is your own territory, although I don't know how you can subdue the knife society, but I believe you can do it, and then when the time is ripe, break away from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, play your own banner, am I guessing wrong? ”

Wang Feng was moved, to be honest, Hong Xuanjiao was exactly the same as his abacus, he found that he had never really understood this woman, and it took a long time before he said, "How did you guess it?" ”

Hong Xuanjiao said triumphantly: "Originally, I didn't care, but you asked for the army to send troops in the name of thinking about the King of Heaven and the King of the East, I wondered at that time, people like you, I can't wait for them to be recalled to heaven by the god Huohua today, how can you think about them?" There must be something else, and along this line of thought, it is not difficult to guess your mind. ”

Wang Feng praised with his fingers: "Sister Xuanjiao, you are really a roundworm in my stomach!" ”

"you, who's roundworm?" Hong Xuanjiao rolled her eyes, and said angrily: "I really didn't guess wrong, if I just let you go, how can I control you when you become the climate?" Won't you really want to be a princess at that time? So knowing that it is dangerous to go to Shanghai, I must also keep an eye on you, and you must also remember that I am a prisoner, you are my subordinate, and you can only cooperate with me and be my assistant in the matter of adopting the knife club, understand? ”

Wang Feng seemed to be deflated, and muttered weakly: "What's wrong with being my princess?" I don't think you're a widow~~ woman! ”

"What do you say? Say it again? Hong Xuanjiao is like a female cat whose tail has been trampled on, and her willow eyebrows are immediately upside down and she screams!

"Good, good! Sister Xuanjiao, you don't like it better, you have a familiar ~~ female demeanor, you are coquettish and charming, you are good at kung fu in bed, you are the first beauty in my Taiping Army, I am completely fascinated by you, it is my honor to serve you, is this okay? Wang Feng raised his hand to make a surrender form.

"Shut up!" Hong Xuanjiao's face was flushed, and she immediately kicked over!

After more than a month of hard training, although Wang Feng has not yet practiced back to the dark energy, it is no longer what it used to be, and in a very relaxed flash, he took a big step and ran to the depths of the camp.

"Humph!" Hong Xuanjiao snorted angrily, but burst out laughing again, not only with the joy of seeing through Wang Feng's conspiracy, but also with an indescribable throbbing in the depths of her heart, and then she also unfolded her body and followed closely.

Still in the depths of the camp, Wang Feng took some materials and began to work on the synthesis of thunder ~~ mercury acid, in fact, the synthesis of thunder ~~ mercury acid is very simple, you only need to be extremely careful to prevent accidental explosion, and do a good job of anti-poison measures, in addition to nitric acid, mercury, and need some high wine and a small amount of copper filings.

Everyone didn't dare to get too close, and the power of the nitrocellulose before shocked them, and they all scattered in a circle and surrounded them far away.

Wang Feng beckoned: "Lu Dayou, you, and you, yes, a few of you are also here, and you all learn from Lao Tzu." ”

"Huh?" The faces of the nearly ten people who were named showed bitter colors.

Wang Feng said impatiently: "What are you afraid of?" Lao Tzu is not afraid, as long as the steps are strictly followed, it is impossible to explode, five days later, we will go to Shanghai, when the fierce battle will be repeated, get the grenade out, and also have more life-saving certainty, rely on Lao Tzu himself to make a few pieces? Come here, otherwise, don't blame Lao Tzu for serving in military law! ”

"Oh~~ Obey!" Lu Dayou and the others looked at each other and cautiously came to Wang Feng's side.

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