The sailors on the British warships "Linnat" and "Profo", the marines guarding the British Consulate General in Shanghai, and the patrol houses of the Public Concession, the patrol of the patrol houses of the French Concession, the Daotai Mansion of Shanghai County and the Yamen of the Governor County of the Qing Dynasty were dispatched, and they turned over the entire Shanghai Beach, but they were unable to catch and kill six British soldiers at the gate of the public garden. A British detective and an Indian patrol of two murderers.

At dawn, the British sailors and marines, who had tossed all night, had to retreat on the orders of the officers, the sailors returned to the warships, and the marines continued to go back to guard the British Consulate General in Shanghai.

In the middle of the night, the patrols of the French Concession and the arresters of the Shanghai County Government and the Daotai Government had already gone back to sleep after the search was fruitless, and who really listened to the British?

As soon as the day was bright, Xiao Zhenlei and Ma Xiaoshuang came out of the yard, and after locking the yards, the two left quickly, at this time there was no one on the street, and after walking through a section into the French Concession on Baochang Road, the people on the street began to increase.

After sleeping for a while, Xiao Zhenlei felt that there was an inexhaustible strength in his body, according to his previous experience, this was the body growing strength, which made him wonder, according to the age of this body, it was already twenty-three years old, even if he was still growing strength, it shouldn't be so obvious, and now he feels very good spirits, his mind is very clear, and his thinking speed is extremely fast, what is going on? Could it be that this is a benefit that the soul has crossed over?

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while, couldn't think of anything, shook his head and didn't think about it, looked up and saw that there were stalls selling breakfast on the street, so he said to Ma Xiaoshuang beside him: "Xiaoshuang, let's go, let's go eat something first, and then go to work when we are full!" ”

"Great!" Ma Xiaoshuang agreed.

The two walked to the edge of the breakfast stall, and Xiao Zhenlei said to the owner of the breakfast stall: "Boss, come to two bowls of chaos, ask for a big bowl, and ten more cakes!" ”

Ma Xiaoshuang saw that Xiao Zhenlei called for so much food, and hurriedly said: "Brother, there are so many more, I can't finish eating like this!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei sat on the bench: "Sit, sit, finish eating, I don't know you yet, no matter how much you can eat!" ”

Sitting on the bench, when the stall owner was busy in the morning, Xiao Zhenlei looked at the people walking on the street, everyone in this era of men still has long braids, only a few people have cut their braids, such people can only stay in the concession to live, if they go to the Chinese realm, they will definitely be arrested by the people in the government as a revolutionary party, even if they are not a revolutionary party, it is a big crime to cut off their braids without authorization!

After sitting for a while, I heard someone shouting for cigarettes: "Sell cigarettes!" Laodao brand cigarettes, White Crane brand cigarettes, Pegasus brand cigarettes, Double Happiness brand cigarettes, sell cigarettes! ”

Yesterday was fine, but now when he heard the cigarette dealer selling cigarettes, Xiao Zhenlei felt that he was a little addicted to cigarettes, and immediately stretched out his hand and shouted: "Eh, the cigarette seller, come to a box of old knife cards and a box of double happiness cards!" ”

How did you know that the owner of the stall who had been there earlier heard it and turned around and said, "This guest officer, how can you buy an old knife brand?" This is a foreigner's cigarette, if you want to smoke, you can buy white cranes, pegasus, and double happiness! ”

Although the owner of the early stall did not explain, Xiao Zhenlei understood, it turned out that the owner of the early stall wanted Xiao Zhenlei to support domestic cigarettes, Laodao brand cigarettes are cigarettes produced by the British company Whale, which belong to foreign cigarettes, and several other brands belong to domestic cigarettes.

In 1902, British and American tobacco companies set up the "British American Tobacco Company Shanghai Branch" in Pudong, Shanghai, to dump cigarettes in various parts of China. The overseas Chinese brothers Jian Zhaonan and Jian Yujie believed that foreign goods were overflowing, domestic goods were sluggish, and if this continued, the future of the country would be unimaginable, so they decided to engage in industry to save the country.

After some investigation, the brothers rented an old warehouse in Russell Street in Hong Kong as the factory site, and established the "Guangdong Nanyang Tobacco Company" in Hong Kong in 1905 to compete with the "British American Tobacco Company". Nanyang's first product was the "White Crane" brand cigarettes, which were launched in one fell swoop due to the anti-American wave that swept through China due to the abuse of Chinese workers by the U.S. government. Subsequently, Nanyang Company launched "Pegasus" and "Double Happiness" brand cigarettes to seize the market with British and American companies. The Anglo-American Company was horrified and banned Nanyang Company's cigarettes from being sold on the market on the grounds that the packaging of Nanyang's cigarettes imitated the Anglo-American Company, thus constituting counterfeiting and infringement. In the end, due to the large losses in the competition, Nanyang Company was forced to stop production and close down in 1908.

The Jane brothers were not intimidated by the strength of the Anglo-American company, and in 1909, the Jane brothers raised 130,000 yuan to make a comeback and established the "Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company".

In the face of the aggressive momentum of the "British and American", the "Nanyang" fiercely fought back. First of all, "Nanyang" was not afraid of price cuts, and took advantage of the fact that "Britain and the United States" were "deploying heavy defenses" in Shanghai to make small profits and sell "Nanyang" products to the hinterland, which was "empty of garrison," so that "Britain and the United States" could not take care of each other. Secondly, "Nanyang" also launched a popular prize sale.

In order to show the patriotic sincerity of "Nanyang", the Jane brothers also donated money to public welfare undertakings. The patriotic enthusiasm of the Jane brothers touched hundreds of millions of compatriots, and the vast number of consumers refused to absorb the "three forts" of "Britain and the United States" and competed for the "magpies" of "Nanyang". In this way, in the fierce competition, "Nanyang" not only did not be crushed by "Britain and the United States", but grew stronger and stronger.

It is now 1909, and the well-known Three Fort cigarettes and Hademen cigarettes have not yet been released during the Republic of China, Hademen cigarettes will not be produced until 1919, and the Three Fort will not be registered for production until 1921.

Xiao Zhenlei didn't care about the owner of the early stall, he asked for a pack of White Crane brand and a pack of Double Happiness brand cigarettes, and asked for a box of foreign fire, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, the cigarettes of this era have no filter, and the taste is really not good, lit and smoked a few puffs, spit out the crushed tobacco leaves in his mouth, turned his head to look, and saw Ma Xiaoshuang staring at the cigarettes on his mouth with his eyes, Xiao Zhenlei smiled and threw another pack of cigarettes over and said, "Xiaoshuang, you want to smoke too?" You have to think about it, smoking is not a good thing, don't look at the fun and cool way I smoke now, you must know that smoking is addictive! Yes, you can smoke if you want."

Ma Xiaoshuang didn't take the box of cigarettes, took out a pack of cigarettes that Xiao Zhenlei had opened, put it in his mouth and lit it with a foreign fire, took a puff and was choked, coughed incessantly, and coughed up tears, "No, no, brother, I thought this cigarette was so delicious, how do you know that it is bitter and spicy, I still don't smoke!" As he spoke, he threw the cigarette he had taken a puff away, and as soon as it landed on the ground, he was picked up by a passing beggar, who saw that he had picked up such a good cigarette and had a good expression on his face.

After a while, two bowls of chaos and ten flatbreads were delivered, Xiao Zhenlei hurriedly beckoned Ma Xiaoshuang to start, the two drank a mouthful of chaos soup, ate a few bites of flatbread, relished, eating flatbread, Xiao Zhenlei felt that the flatbread of this era was really delicious, definitely not the deliciousness of the food itself, but the lack of nutrition in this body, although his body was already quite strong among his contemporaries, but still lacked nutrition, he believed that as long as he maintained enough nutrition, this body could grow stronger, If a set of training methods is specially formulated, as long as it takes two or three months, the combat power of this body can exceed that of his own in his previous life, after all, the bones of this body are congenitally very thick, and the current height is almost 1.88 meters, which is much taller than the vast majority of foreigners in this era.

I had just eaten half of the breakfast, and I heard a child shouting: "Selling newspapers and selling newspapers, yesterday evening, six British soldiers, a British detective and an Indian patrol were killed at the gate of the public garden, the backs of the two murderers were photographed, and the concession patrol house is in full pursuit", he quickly turned his head to look in the direction of the shout, beckoned and shouted: "Child, come to a newspaper!" ”

Before the kid came, Ma Xiaoshuang stopped gobbling up and said in surprise: "Brother, when will you become literate?" ”

"Huh?" Xiao Zhenlei hurriedly covered up: "I don't know, but I'm learning, I learn ten words a day, I can know most of the words in a year, and I can read the newspaper in two or three months, Xiaoshuang, or you are like your brother, learn to read, learn to read, and you won't be deceived in the future!" ”

When Ma Xiaoshuang heard Xiao Zhenlei like this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and people were eager to learn. Wang, he is also eager to go to school, he used to be unconditional, his family was poor, and he couldn't afford to ask Mr. to teach, but now I heard Xiao Zhenlei say that he can learn with him, of course, this is good, he can read and write in this era, but he is a cultural person, and he is very respected.

"Brother, this, can this work?"

"Okay, why not? In this way, from tomorrow onwards, my brother will teach you to recognize ten words every day, and you will be a cultural person in a year, so it's decided! ”

Ma Xiaoshuang happily agreed: "Eh, I know, brother!" ”

The child who sold the newspaper came over and handed over a newspaper, and Xiao Zhenlei took the newspaper and handed over two pennies. When I opened the newspaper, I saw a black and white blurry picture printed on the front page, the picture was the back of him and Ma Xiaoshuang fleeing with rifles on their backs, but this photo is black and white, and the clarity is not enough, and it was taken in the evening when the light was dim, it is not very clear, it is very difficult to find the murderer from this back, and what value this photo has is that it records the clothes of the two murderers. As can be seen from this picture, the two murderers were wearing very ordinary coarse cloth short coats, like other Chinese, with braids at the back of their heads, which were wrapped around their heads.

Xiao Zhenlei read the report article again, he still knows the traditional Chinese characters, all the reports in the article are speculation, and the only valuable thing is this photo.

Xiao Zhenlei was eating breakfast, while thinking, this photo does not mean anything, he can't see the appearance clearly, and he can't determine the identity of the murderer just by his back, so he is not worried that he will be found out if he goes to work at the dock now, on the contrary, if he doesn't go to the dock and let the acquaintances on the dock see this newspaper, I'm afraid it will be reminiscent, if he goes, others won't believe it's them, who knows if the two murderers will have the courage to continue to work on the dock? What we have to do now is to do as usual, without the slightest change, otherwise it will arouse the suspicion of others.

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