Governor Lin saw everyone's reaction, and shook his head secretly in his heart, Shen Baozhen has grown a lot after experiencing some setbacks, but he doesn't know if this kind of growth is a good thing or a bad thing, and it is not good to lose his original sharpness.

At this moment, Bai Yongqi, a staff member of the Governor's Palace, hurriedly came in, handed Governor Lin a document, and said something in the governor's ear before standing aside.

After reading the paperwork, Governor Lin habitually raised his palm and wanted to slap the table, but when he finally stopped, frowned and thought for a while, he sighed lightly and handed the document to Yu Baochun and the others to read.

"This is a message sent by a businessman in the United States to the imperial court, let's take a look at it, and then discuss it. ”

The officials present took turns reading the documents according to their official positions, and then they were all shocked by the contents of the documents.

It turned out that the American businessman, who was often in contact with the Governor, said in his letter that after his own investigation, the British had suffered a great loss in the battle of the Lung Kwu Waterway between the Kowloon Peninsula and Lantau Island three days earlier.

In this battle, the British dispatched two warships and thirty-seven large ships, and the other side dispatched five thousand-ton ships (there must be some fallacies in this) and three small ships of three or four hundred tons, and the two sides fought day and night from day to night.

The final result was that the British lost the warship Voracil and four merchant ships, and the only remaining warship, the Warren, was also hit by shells in the fierce battle, and it is difficult to say whether it can be repaired.

(The data of American businessmen is also heard, and there are many fallacies and exaggerations.) ）

As for the losses of the opponents of the British, it is uncertain, and the British side does not know how much the other side has lost, some say that the other side has completely annihilated, and some say that the other side has retreated, but the Americans think that the latter is more credible, otherwise the British side should have captured a lot of prisoners and captured booty and so on.

Regarding the origin of this hostile force, the American businessman felt that the British must have gone crazy this time, and even insisted that it was the Chinese sailor, and even said conclusively that it was the Leizhou sailor of the Qing Dynasty, led by Li Xian, a well-known Leizhou merchant.

After reading the paperwork, the scene suddenly became lively, some officials said that the news was unreliable, some said that Li Xian raised his eyebrows for the Qing Dynasty this time, and some said that Li Xian would go out to fight without an order, and said everything.

Governor Lin coughed seven or eight times in a row before these suddenly excited officials calmed down.

In this way, sixty percent of the people who fought with the British were probably Li Xian.

It's just that, who can tell me where this Li Xian is now, and who can tell me how Li Xian has such great ability and caused such a big loss to the British?" Governor Lin asked as he pondered his words.

The officials were speechless all of a sudden, these two issues are the key to ah, worthy of being the governor who has been the emperor's master.

"The top priority now is to find Li Xian, and at the same time find out how powerful Li Xian's subordinates are. Governor Lin said calmly, but the officials present felt a chill.

After the deliberations were over, Governor Lin left Shen Baozhen alone to talk to him.

"It seems that it was Li Xian who did it this time, you guessed it right. Governor Lin asked.

"I was just guessing, but I didn't expect it to be true. Shen Baozhen said with a wry smile.

"Anyway, being able to say it is the right thing. However, what kind of character is this Li Xian, and how can he have the ability to go head-to-head with the British?" Governor Lin asked curiously.

In the past, even if Li Xian was very prosperous in Leizhou and kidnapped his nephew, Li Xian was just a small worm to the well-informed governor, just because he was busy dealing with the British and had no time to pinch him to death.

It's just that now, Li Xian has suddenly grown into a behemoth, even if he is not a lion or tiger, he is also at the level of a jackal, and he has a certain threat to himself.

"Li Xian is actually a rare talent, especially good at military training, and he is also proficient in Western firearms.

He already had thousands of outlaws under his command, and if he bought a large Western ship and loaded it with dozens of cannons, he would be able to fight the British once. ”

"You mean he bought a big Western ship?" Governor Lin suddenly grasped the point.

"On the surface, we only know that he bought a small boat of 800 materials in Macau, but in fact, who knows how many boats he bought, or how big a boat he bought.

I think this foreigner dares to do any business, this Li Xian really wants to buy it with a lot of money, but there are businessmen who dare to sell this kind of militaristic weapon. Shen Baozhen analyzed.

Shen Baozhen was placed under house arrest by Li Xian for several months, and he didn't eat prison food for nothing, Li Xian had a lot of books about Western Ocean, all of which were lent to Shen Baozhen to read, and Li Xian would occasionally talk to him about the geography and customs of Western countries when he had time, but it made Lord Shen brave and diligent in Western studies, far from seeing flowers in the fog before.

To put it simply, Shen Baozhen learned that foreign guns are different from foreign guns after being taught by Li Xianyi, there is a kind of musket called rifled guns or rifles that can hit the bull's eye 400 steps away, and the general guns called smoothbore guns can only be useful within 50 to 100 steps, and only then did he realize how cheap he was taken advantage of when he bought weapons for his uncle in Macao.

Of course, Li Xian's sect didn't follow these kindliness, Shen Baozhen always thought that Li Xian was deliberately humiliating himself by teaching him so much, that is, saying that you are a fool in disguise, and you can't even reach one-tenth of my knowledge.

"So it's possible. Lord Lin pondered: "If only we could also buy a big Western ship." ”

Governor Lin had also considered buying foreigners' big ships to equip the Guangdong Navy Division, but those foreigners were not stupid, and they were unwilling to sell such militaristic weapons to the Qing government.

"It's just that why did Li Xian take the initiative to provoke the British, I remember that he had a good relationship with the British, and he still had business dealings.

Isn't it really to be some kind of water master and show us okay?" said Governor Lin jokingly.

I figured out the things about Li Xian's strength, but I still couldn't guess Li Xian's motive for this battle.

Li Xian is unruly, but he has always advocated a ban on smoking, and he agrees with his uncle's proposition.

Maybe it's really for this sake, maybe?" Shen Baozhen couldn't figure out Li Xian's thoughts, and said guessingly.

Governor Lin thought for a moment and shook his head, this is really not clear.

"Send someone to contact Li Xian and see what he thinks. Governor Lin said.

Li Xian has always been unable to go with the government, and even threatened many times to rebel and attack the counties of Leizhou, but after all, he is just talking, and he is still the head of the security regiment appointed by the Governor's Palace.

After this battle, if it can be operated well, the Governor's Mansion and the officials of Guangdong may also be able to get rid of it, and there is not a small room for operation.

However, the next day, new information was sent, and after reading it, Governor Lin became furious and slapped the table and shouted angrily.

"This Li Xian really deserves to be killed.

Someone came, conveyed the order to Admiral Guan, prepared for battle, and was ready to meet Li Xian at any time.

In addition, it was ordered that all four gates of Guangzhou be blocked, and it was strictly forbidden to enter and exit from inside and outside, and suspicious people were examined in detail. ”

It turned out that Governor Lim had received two urgent messages:

One of them was sent by the Humen guard, saying that there were thousands of men and horses driving hundreds of ships, loaded with goods, in the direction of Guangzhou, and that the sailors sent several small boats to search for them, but they were beaten with artillery and muskets, and they had to retreat.

The other was sent by a secret spy sent to monitor the Sanyuanguan, saying that thousands of people arrived at the Sanyuanguan with hundreds of truckloads of goods a few days ago, and Xuanzheng, the master of the Sanyuanguan, personally greeted them.

The spies desperately leaned over to investigate, and found at least hundreds of artillery pieces and countless iron shells in the hundreds of cartloads, hoping that the Governor would decide (this must be an exaggeration).

If it was an ordinary person, it would definitely be unknown when he saw these two pieces of information, but Governor Lin combined with some of the previous information, and already understood that this was Li Xian with thousands of soldiers and horses from his headquarters and hundreds of artillery pieces to Sanyuanguan.

As for what a semi-bandit martial arts force, who has never been treated well by the imperial court, suddenly brought hundreds of artillery pieces to Sanyuanguan, the largest rebel force in Guangdong, what he wanted to do, it was something that could be figured out with his knees.

If it was before, Governor Lin would not have believed that a single Leizhou force would have hundreds of artillery, but since he knew that Li Xian had the ability to inflict such a big loss on the British, Governor Lin really believed that Li Xian had so many artillery pieces in his hands, otherwise his previous achievements would not be able to explain.

Li Xian did not understand how much trouble his actions would cause the officials in Guangdong, but according to the ancient proverb that the soldiers are fast, he took a boat from the Kowloon Peninsula to Guangzhou as quickly as possible, and then went ashore near Sanyuanli, and with the help of Sanyuanguan, he moved artillery, gunpowder, foreign guns and other contraband into Sanyuanguan.

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