Chapter Forty-Eight: Striking the Foreigners
Chancheng Pier wide area......
Lei Hu led his men and the sailors led by the captain of the French sea ship to confront each other nervously.
The two leading brothers were quite restrained, and they were afraid of the pistol pointed at their head in each other's hands, for fear that the other party would accidentally pull the trigger because of nervous fingers, and the fun would be great.
Although Lei Hu had already died once, he didn't want to die again at all, and he died under the fire control of foreigners.
Obviously, the captain of the French sea ship was also in this mind, looking at his ever-changing face, which was cold and fearful, it was obvious that his mood was definitely not as calm as it appeared to be.
The atmosphere was tense and a group fight was about to erupt, and this time it was different from the previous dry fight with the sailors, and if the captain of the French sea ship was injured, it was likely to cause a very serious diplomatic dispute.
With the urine nature of my Qing court, I will definitely have to call Lei Hu and Zhongyitang to take the blame at that time, and maybe even calm the anger of the French with the destruction of the entire Zhongyitang.
However, can Lei Hu back down at this time?
He knew the French captain in front of him, who had a medium-sized sea vessel on hand that traveled between Annam and Lingnan, and would dock at Chancheng Pier every one or two months.
Although he has not personally dealt with this guy, but the performance of this guy before was not so crazy, it was simply a provocation of the naked fall, and in the future, would his sea ship still want to dock at the Chancheng wharf?
I have some impressions of this Thunder Tiger, as if there is no strong relationship, and among the many familiar foreign captains, it can only be regarded as a medium-to-high existence.
But this guy actually played such a game today, and he caught Lei Hu and the little brother of Zhongyi Hall on the dock off guard, don't expect to get the slightest supply at the Chancheng dock in the future.
Not a joke, after half a year of hard work, Zhongyitang insisted on implementing the rules and regulations formulated by Lei Hu, and now has formed a tacit understanding at the dock and has considerable control over the dock.
As long as the Zhongyitang, which is responsible for maintaining order, greets the people, the merchants and people who eat on the pier will basically not disobey the greeting.
If a foreign captain is on the blacklist of Zhongyitang, even if his ship can be docked at the dock berth, whether it is the sale of royal goods, the hiring of dock lifu, or the purchase of sufficient quantities of daily necessities, he will be treated with 'cold violence'.
It's just that until now, although I have encountered many foreign captains with irritable personalities and arrogant attitudes, and I have also encountered unruly sailors making trouble, there has never been such an organized and premeditated disturbance as now.
Lei Hu is not a fool, how can he not see the problem in the current accident?
Although the foreign captains have an arrogant attitude and have always looked down on the natives of the Qing Dynasty, they will not offend a local snake like Zhongyitang to death, which will not do them any good.
In addition to being able to satisfy the arrogant posture of the people of the following powerful countries, it is impossible to get any substantial benefits!
Not to mention, the Zhongyi Hall on the Chancheng Wharf is a monopoly, once the Zhongyi Hall is offended to death, the Chancheng Wharf and the Chancheng Market can be said to close the door to the tossing foreign captain.
The foreign captains came to the eastern seas from far and wide, risking their lives to gallop across the ocean, for the sake of the silver of the white flowers, as long as the brain is not broken, they will not be able to get along with the silver of the white flowers!
Therefore, the performance of the French captain, who was familiar with him, was completely not in his own interests, and there must be something strange in this.
In a flash of light, Lei Hu thought a lot, the arm holding the gun was quite stable, and the fingers on the trigger were not abnormal in the slightest, as long as the guy on the opposite side moved, he didn't mind shooting him directly.
Even if there is a big storm afterwards?
It's a big deal, it's not mixed in Chancheng, and the living can't let the urine suffocate to death, isn't it!
The tense atmosphere quickly spread across the wharf, and some timid businessmen and ordinary people, seeing the two groups of people facing each other violently, did not dare to continue to watch, and hurriedly touched the soles of their feet and left, they did not want to get involved in the trouble they could not afford to provoke.
Of course, there are also many bold people among the businessmen and people, they are far away one by one, and they are full of excitement to watch the confrontation between the two groups, and they are not at all afraid of anything and shout so much, wishing that Lei Hu and the foreign captain would fight.
The atmosphere became more and more tense, the foreign sailors on the opposite side shouted fiercely, and the French captain in the lead had a fierce glint in his eyes, and he had the posture of pulling the trigger and shooting directly.
Lei Hu was not to be outdone, and with a wave of his empty hand, the little brother who still had combat power under his command immediately shouted and cursed, his face full of fierceness without the slightest intention of retreating.
Bang bang bang......
Just when the situation was about to get out of control, a burst of neat footsteps suddenly sounded, growing bigger and bigger from far and near, and hundreds of people and horses of the militia who were full of sturdy bodies were rushing over in a hurry.
"It's the militia!"
The onlookers who were far away were taken aback when they saw the visitors, and couldn't help but reveal the identity of the team, and suddenly became elated and excited.
The hundreds of militia brothers who came were holding sticks in their hands, and they were not at all frightened by the identity of the target, and before the hundreds of militia members had not yet entered the boundary of the dock, they began to unfold their formation, making a dumpling-making posture, and their eyes were fierce and excited.
Seeing the Qing reinforcements coming, the foreign sailors who were nervously confronting Lei Hu and his gang were in a commotion, and the French captain who led the way showed unwillingness in his eyes, gritted his teeth and waved his hand to quickly retreat to the sea ship at the berth, and the sailors immediately followed and scattered.
A bloody conflict that could erupt was over, and the tension in the air was relaxed.
"Is Master Tiger okay?"
When all the foreigners retreated, the militia group rushed to Lei Hu, and the leader of the militia asked urgently; "Do you want me to rush over with my brother and arrest someone?"
His face was full of eagerness, and he didn't have the slightest worry or fear because the other party was a foreigner.
Hey, it is worthy of the retreat of the Black Flag Army, and this spirit of not being cowardly in the face of foreigners alone is stronger than most of my Qing officials and people.
"Chase a fart!"
Lei Hu rolled his eyes angrily, waved his hand and scolded with a smile: "People have firearms in their hands, who knows what other powerful things they have on board, if you rush forward regardless of it, it won't end well, stay honest with me!" ”
In front of him, hundreds of militia members who came for emergency support did not dare to be presumptuous, and honestly obeyed the order and scattered around the dock to guard, ignoring the foreigner ships on the berth, and not paying the slightest interest to the foreigners pointing at the foreigners' ships.
The originally chaotic wharf, under the strong restraint of the militia group and the Zhongyitang gang, quickly restored order, and the group of businessmen and people who suffered a lot of losses were organized, and quickly cleaned up the ruined stalls and goods......