The smoke outside Guangzhou and on the Pearl River has not attracted a single officer and soldier, the first panic is those water bandits and sea bandits on the Pearl River River, and then the shopkeepers of the Huichao merchant gang stationed in Guangzhou City, the opponent is too ruthless, not at all like the style of the imperial court, this is to kill them all!

The bandits wanted to escape, but Qin Ziqi's methods were also vicious, setting up two three-pounder cannons, sending two hundred new troops, finding a place with a narrow river, and directly blocking the outlet channel of the Pearl River, but all the boats of the bandits were sunk.

Although the power of the three-pounder cannon is not very good, it can be used against a wooden boat on an inland river of seven or eight meters, as long as it hits, the wooden boat will sink to the bottom of the river after a stick of incense, and the new army in Yunnan, which is responsible for protecting the artillery, will practice guns with the pirates who have fallen into the water.

After three or four days' effort, the 200 Yunnan New Army, which had locked up the river, sank more than a dozen boats of the bandits, shot and killed 3,400 bandits, and the banks of the river were full of bamboo poles with human heads.

Qin Ziqi scattered a lot of silver dollars, and the people on both sides of the river also gathered to watch the excitement, the two teams on both sides of the river are different from the old soldiers of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners, not only do not disturb the people but also send money to invite people to watch the excitement, and the nearby river workers, bars, merchants, and hawkers have all joined the crowd to see the excitement.

Some of them are bold, and they also take the hook to help these practitioners, pick up the floating corpses from the river, cut off their heads and burn the corpses, many of these onlookers have suffered the losses of the water bandits, and after adapting to it, they completely regard the killing on the river as a big drama to watch with relish.

The layman watched the bustle, the insider watched the doorway, and the foreign merchants and missionaries mixed in the crowd saw the difference between the two teams. Shelling the boats on the river from the other side of the river is not difficult to say. Without formal artillery training, that would not have been possible. More than a dozen sunken wooden ships. Most of them were one-shot hits, and the ship that fired the most guns only fired three shots, and the skills of these gunners were quite good.

And among these people happened to be the East India Company, and they also knew the whole story of this incident, but they didn't expect Pan Shicheng's firm to have such a hole card. Judging by the posture of these people, they have received formal military training. Moreover, most of the weapons equipped are the standard of the country, and the sudden appearance of such an army is not good news.

The news that the Pan firm had an army was soon spread to the East India Company, the commercial representative in Guangzhou, and the intelligence of various channels was summarized, and the result of the Pan firm's possession of thousands of private troops was also placed in front of the commercial representative.

This was not good news for the East India Company, according to intelligence analysis. The combat effectiveness of this private army is no less than that of ordinary European armies. The dispute over monopoly rights has created such a monster, and how to deal with Pan's firm is not something that a business representative can solve.

This information and the beginning and end of the dispute over the monopoly of Canton were transmitted by the commercial representatives of the East India Company to the branch of the East India Company in Hong Kong. After doing this, the East India Company continued to instigate the Hui Chao merchant gang to confront the Pan Merchant Gang and return to the era of the Thirteen Lines, which was impossible.

The Huichao Shang Gang got the news that Lian Yong killed the water bandits, and they also started to act, through countless channels, they didn't hear the origin of this Lian Yong, but one thing is certain, this group of people is Pan Shicheng's head and tail.

For three days, five days, and seven days, Qin Ziqi took nearly a thousand people, and he didn't stop for a day, constantly setting fires and killing, and the whole city of Guangzhou could smell the scorching smell of the burned corpses, and the vicinity of Guangzhou was also shrouded in faint smoke.

The wanton killing became a weapon for the Huichao merchant gang to attack Pan Shicheng, but after countless papers and letters entered the governor's palace, they were all a result, and there was no news of the stone.

In seven or eight days, Qin Ziqi sent more than 2,000 people to Guangzhou City, many of whom were important criminals wanted by the imperial court.

Without the suspicion of killing good and risking merit, these officials took care of the heads of the bandits one by one, and just waited for Pan Shicheng to finish his crackdown on the bandits and ask the court for credit. The Huichao merchant gang has now become an existence that no one cares about, and this confrontation between money and official hats is undoubtedly won by official hats.

The people of the Huichao merchant gang were busy communicating about the suppression of bandits, and even more shocking things happened, more than a dozen Huichao merchants were burned in their residences near Guangzhou, and a large amount of opium was confiscated.

The ban on smoking is a major event in the imperial court, and the combination of banditry and smoking ban happens to be a double happiness, as for those Huichao businessmen who died, the ghost will take care of them! The Qing Dynasty lacked everything, but there was no shortage of people, and the dead women and children were left to the bandits, and this lawsuit was taken care of by the Governor's Mansion.

As for the floating wealth and land that were copied back, it happened that the summer season had arrived, and they would be distributed layer by layer, and the right should be Bing Jing of the officials of the two Guangzhous!

The Governor's Mansion has the same opinion on the matter of banning smoking, and the owners of the Huichao Merchant Gang are frightened, but they didn't expect Pan Shicheng's methods to be so vicious, and if the negotiation fails, he will kill people directly, and he is really not a son of man!

These people completely forgot the antecedents for them to hire bandits to deal with Pan Shicheng, and in order to take revenge, letters after letters kept pouring into the entire Qing Dynasty from major merchants.

For most of the month, Qin Ziqi went to Guangzhou City and sent more than 4,000 heads, and some of the remaining bandits also handed Qin Ziqi a large number of goods, so he left the Pearl River safely.

In half a month, the opium business of the East India Company also came to a standstill, and the reason was that Yang Fuliang, who had killed the Huichao merchants, was blocked in the only way to transport opium.

Those who went to pick up the goods were safe, and those who transported the goods back were spared except for the coolies, and the others were killed without asking for reason, and in ten days, Yang Fuliang killed one hundred and ten large and small tobacco dealers.

In the past ten days, Yang Fuliang robbed thousands of loads of opium, all of which were transported back to Yunnan by the Pearl River. No one wants to die! Smoking from the inside out is a good idea. The cigarette dealers stopped. And the East India Company also lost more than 100,000 taels of silver.

For more than half a month, the bulk trade in Guangzhou City also came to a standstill, Pan's trading house was blocked, Huichao merchants did not dare to act rashly, and there were more and more foreign merchant ships docked at the seaport.

And Qin Ziqi, who was responsible for blockading the Pearl River, also poisoned the Huichao merchant gang, all the merchant ships of the Huichao merchant gang. Whoever carried the goods or what they were carrying were seized by any cargo ship that passed through that section of water.

The merchants are all gone, as for the cargo ships! It was bought with money, and those who were willing to follow the Yang family to mix rice directly transported the foreign goods back to Yunnan, and Qin Ziqi, who was unwilling, did not treat them badly, and the shipwrecks added a year's income to the ship, and the boatmen happily carried the silver and left.

If there is no trading, there is no money to be made, and the business route is not open for most of the month. Coupled with the loss of goods, the Huichao merchants helped to fold a large sum of silver. The name of the Yang family in Yunnan. It also spread along the Pearl River.

Armed confrontation, the Huichao merchant gang has not thought about it, but the Yang family's methods are too cruel, they will kill if they are caught, and the bandits are all frightened.

There is another point that is even more terrifying, now Pan Shicheng has colluded with the Yang family, put the evil act of cracking down on dissidents in the cloak of the court thief, and the regiments in various places have practiced their heads, that is, rebellion, and the Huichao merchant gang will not be able to pass the general of Guangzhou.

Now the bureaucrats of Guangxi and Guangxi have become a monolith, and if they come out to stir up the situation at this time, it will not affect Guangzhou alone, and they will probably be uprooted by the black-hearted Pan and Yang families.

Many small businesses, seeing that things are not good, the seized goods are not wanted, and they are directly transferred to other ports to do business.

Small merchants, there are not many industries in Guangzhou City, and they have taken away the fine and soft, and then there are some properties that are not very valuable, which belong to the category of small boats and good U-turns.

For these small merchants, Yang Meng and Pan Shicheng are not too stingy, buying their property gifts at a price of fifty percent and sending them out, as for those big businessmen, the two also wielded butcher knives.

Sell the industry can, the price is only one-tenth, Huichao merchants account for half of the Guangzhou city industry, nine-tenths of that can be worth millions of taels of silver, this price is not a few merchants can afford to rise, can not stay, can not go, these Huichao merchants are also completely waxed.

As the first in Guangzhou, Pan Shicheng also took out his own prestige, except for the Huichao merchants, the rest of the merchants want to do business, they must pass this time, otherwise the goods will be lost in vain.

And most of these merchants are the next family of Pan's firm or Huichao merchant gang, with Pan's supply, their trading in the city has not been affected much, as for those who go to other provinces, it will drag on for a few days, and the compensation given by Pan's will not suffer.

The goods in stock cannot be sent out, and the goods that enter the city or are transported to other provinces are seized by the Lian Yong of the Pan and Yang families, and the Huichao merchant gang can't bear it, this is just the beginning, in case it is delayed for three or five months, they will not become poor eggs, but they will also be skinned and eaten by the Pan Yang family.

Now these Huichao merchants know how stinky they are to hire bandits, the Pan family is a serious businessman, and the Yang family, who can join forces with the Pan family, is a gangster.

Under the banner of the Pan family's practice of Yong, Lian Yong, who was looking for a place for the Yang family, was the Yang family's subordinates, muskets, artillery, and wanton killing, and now thinking about their idea of blocking the Pearl River waterway, it is no different from looking for death.

The sleekness of the businessman also appeared at the moment of crisis, and several members of the Chaozhou merchant gang entered Guangzhou City and found Pan Shicheng to negotiate.

And Pan Shicheng can be regarded as hating these people in the same province very much, they didn't miss the old relationship in the previous negotiation, and now they are forced to be cornered, but they continue to have the old relationship.

"The Huichao merchant gang has left Guangzhou! Thirty percent of the price to buy your property in Guangzhou City! Join forces with Yang Pan and the two families to jointly win the monopoly rights of the five major ports! Delineate their respective business scopes in the Daqing territory!

If you promise these four promises, you will agree to the end! ”

In the past few days, under the influence of his son-in-law, Pan Shicheng has spoken a little more aggressively, the short-term alliance formed by the two Guangxi bureaucrats and the Pan Yang family, what they say in the two Guangxi realms, if it weren't for the love son-in-law who wants to use the Huichao merchant gang, Pan Shicheng also has the heart to take advantage of the momentum of the bandits to beat these bastards to death.

Although the conditions of Weng and his son-in-law are harsh, they have also drawn a huge pie, if they really win the monopoly of foreign goods, then the profits will not be comparable to the industry of Guangzhou City.

After a short trade-off, several leaders of the Chaozhou Business Gang agreed to Pan Shicheng's conditions.

Seeing that the time had come, Pan Shicheng did not hesitate, and directly threw out a bigger pie, Pan Yang and Huichao merchants, together with the merchants of the five major ports of the Qing Dynasty, re-established the new thirteen lines, seized the monopoly of foreign goods, and controlled the export of goods in the Qing Dynasty.

For more than half a month, the troubles that made the merchants of the great powers and countries a little worried finally passed, and the wharf in Guangzhou returned to its former prosperity.

The commercial representatives of the East India Company, on the other hand, were vaguely aware of the fact that something was wrong, and after several investigations, they found nothing. However, a huge interest group in Guangzhou City is slowly taking shape. (To be continued......)