In Guangzhou Bay, a pier reserved for foreign businessmen, a large ship is docking, but it is consciously or unintentionally keeping a certain distance from other ships. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The cook, who had gone out to buy all kinds of daily necessities, came back, followed by seven or eight people, pulling many items in ox carts, including seven or eight huge wooden barrels.

"Yo, I bought a lot of things this time, is this wine or oil?" shouted the sailor above when he saw the person coming from above.

"Why do you care so much, today I met a merchant who cleared the warehouse to dispose of the things in the warehouse, and the price was less than half of the market price, so he bought more.

Hurry up and get these things up. The chef said grumpy.

"Why spend money on cheap goods, anyway, there are those aristocratic lords who are willing to reimburse all expenses, and they should pick up good things to buy. The sailors above were not impressed.

"Be quiet, the captain said don't talk too much about those people. The people next to him hurriedly dragged him, so that he would not talk nonsense.

"What are you afraid of, they won't come out during the day. The previous sailor was also only stiff-mouthed, and his voice was immediately lowered to half of the previous one.

After the wooden barrels and all kinds of large things were hoisted up by a pulley mechanism, the cook took the Qing people and climbed onto the boat with some things on their shoulders.

"What are you doing, the captain said don't let strangers pass you on. The sailor looked at the cook disapprehusely, but had no intention of actually stopping it.

"These things are delicate and easy to break, and someone has to carry them, or you have to come down and carry them yourself. The cook also didn't care about the sailors' obstruction, took the Qing people on board, and then directed them to put the things in the designated place.

Fortunately, the cook remembered the captain's rules and did not dare to bring people into the cabin.

Li Xian put the vegetables on his shoulders on the deck of the ship, pretended to be tired and beat his waist, and carefully observed the situation on the ship.

It was an ocean-going merchant ship of more than 1,000 tons, loaded with six commercial guns, several times larger than the average Chinese ship, and now there were several sailors lazily basking in the sun on it, looking leisurely.

"We said okay, you can only look at it from above, you can't go to the cabin. The chef took the time to run to Li Xian's side and whispered.

"Don't worry, I'm the most reputable, and I won't embarrass you. Li Xian nodded, full of promises, to be honest, he himself had no intention of entering the cabin, he himself knew very well what kind of terrible cargo was in the cabin.

"That's good. The chef nodded in satisfaction.

The fat-headed and big-eared cook felt that he was really lucky, and went to the street to buy things, and met Li Xian, who had never been on a foreign merchant ship, and was particularly curious about it, and was willing to sell oil, rice and noodles and other materials at a very low price, and the only condition was to let the cook take him to the ship to have a look.

After buying these things, they have to be billed at the normal price, and the chef can't help but feel happy when he thinks that he can make a lot of money.

However, the porters were not very quick in their work, carrying things on them, but scattering all kinds of things all over the floor, and even the clumsy ones actually knocked over a few barrels that had been brought up.

"Daqing, how many times have I told you, things should be handled gently, what should I do if I fall down and smash the children?" Li Xian shook his head over there and sighed and accused.

The big man named Daqing tried to lift the barrel, but he was so stupid that he knocked over more barrels, and somehow, the lid on it was also loosened, and the whale oil and wine and so on were scattered all over the ground.

Several other porters were not much better than him.

The sailors on board laughed heartlessly, and the cook, startled, tried to straighten things up, and the shrewd ones sniffed something unusual.

"What is this for, making so many things on the deck of a ship that ignite fire, trying to find death?

Come and put the things away, and also, drive these Qing people down, and I said a long time ago not to let any Qing people get on the boat. The third officer on the ship happened to come up and saw this scene and roared.

"Why bother, dissipate your anger and see how good they are!" Li Xian walked over with a grin and put his arm around the shoulders of the third mate.

The third mate wanted to break free, but found that this thin Qing Guoman had more strength than himself, and he couldn't break free at all, and he was shocked for a while.

At this time, the sailors also sensed that something was wrong, and some of them had already begun to feel their weapons.

Li Xian put his finger in his mouth, and with a whistle, the seven or eight porters immediately took action and restrained all the sailors on the ship, and their martial arts were surprisingly high, these sailors who worked hard overseas all the year round were not weak, but they couldn't even survive a move and a half under the opponent's hands.

Fortunately, these people did not kill them all, but after unloading these people's weapons, they drove them down the boat.

"What's going on, didn't you say it's okay just to see?" the chef realized at this point, and was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"You're lucky, you can save your life. Li Xian unloaded the pistol on the third officer, inserted it into his waist, and drove the third officer and the cook down.

The porters, of course, were dressed as warriors, and they knocked over the barrels of oil and wine, and lifted the lids, so that these things flowed all over the floor, and many more flowed to the sides of the powder kegs.

The people in the cabin also sensed that something was wrong from above and tried to come out and take the deck.

"Let's go down too. Li Xian motioned for Qiao Daqing and the others to jump off the boat quickly, and he was the last to go down.

However, before Li Xian went down, he took out a palm-sized lighter, lit a strip of cloth stained with fire oil, and threw it on top of the whale oil flowing all over the deck.

The oil was immediately ignited, causing the entire deck to burn, and after a while, it burned to the side of the powder keg, and there was a series of explosions.

Soon after, the sails were set on fire, and the entire deck was set on fire, and then the whole ship began to burn.

"It's on fire, run!" exclaimed the sailors, who ran out, jumping into the water or following the ladder to the dock.

There should have been only thirty or forty sailors on this ship, but this ship was obviously very special, and after these sailors ran down, there were more than a hundred people rushing out of the sea of fire, front and back, but they all covered their bodies tightly with hats and black cloths, and they couldn't see what they looked like.

These people finally ran to the docks, and just as they were frightened, even greater trouble came.

"Fight!" Li Xian had already run to the dock at this time and was waiting, and at this time, as soon as he gave the order, forty or fifty people immediately rushed out of the buildings near the dock and shot at these people who got off the ship with muskets.