"In that case, I would like to thank the Major for his words. By the way, those wouldn't be familiar with the people in Shanghai, so how did they find me in the end?" Zhao Dagui asked absentmindedly.

"Naturally, there are local people who responded, you should have guessed a long time ago, it is Lin Aqin of Yishengxing. Stark knew that this was the critical moment, and he had no intention of hiding it for Lin Aqin.

Stark was actually very anxious at this time, he and Samuel and others together to promote Yishengxing, relying on his influence to help Yishengxing live, and made a lot of money in the opium business, but he couldn't fight Zhao Dagui in the foreign cloth business.

Later, Zhao Dagui intended to withdraw from the foreign cloth business, and they were overjoyed, so they scraped together a huge sum of more than one million yuan, so that Yisheng Bank bought the foreign cloth and Suzhou industry of Dagui Commercial Bank, and became the largest commercial house in Shanghai in one fell swoop, and even monopolized about 70% of Shanghai's foreign trade.

In this case, they are a little fluttering, and they want to kick Bafur out and monopolize all the commerce in Shanghai themselves.

It's just that according to the business model of Yisheng Bank, it is easy to suppress goods, and in the end, they get mountains of goods instead of cash, and they often have cash turnover, which makes these people invest more and more money in Yisheng Bank.

Originally, this was nothing, who would have thought that suddenly a foreign cloth was unsalable, these foreign cloths turned out to be worthless things, not only could they not get the original principal invested in Yishengxing, but they also had to be collected by the creditors who borrowed money at the beginning, it was simply unbearable, and Lin Aqin, who was ineffective, hated it to the bone, and did not have the slightest intention to cover it up.

Stark's trip to the north this time is of course some official business, but more importantly, it is more important to solve the problem of Yishengxing.

If the goods of Yisheng Bank are forcibly seized by the creditors and disposed of at a low price, most of them will have to go bankrupt, and they can't help but be unconcerned;

However, their influence on the Shanghai government was very weak, and Bafur was their original target, and there were still many British among the creditors of the Yisheng Bank, and many methods could not be used at all.

They originally dealt with Zhao Dagui, and naturally played all kinds of dead hands against Bafur, and Bafur's shrewdness had long seen what these people thought, but because they had no backstage, they couldn't fight back, and they would never come forward to help them solve the crisis at this time, and even take the opportunity to fall into the ground, or even if Bafur wanted to help them, he couldn't actually do it with his ability.

In this case, they can only send Stark over to reconcile with Zhao Dagui and let Zhao Dagui solve the problem of Yishengxing.

At this moment, Zhao Dagui has enough funds in his hands to solve the problem of Yishengxing.

"Where are the pirates you invited, and what strength do you have?" Zhao Dagui didn't let go easily, and asked the roots of those Fusang pirates.

"It's an island in Dinghai, and it's also a bunch of bastards, and they can't even do a little thing. Stark gritted his teeth and said, looking at Zhao Dagui's expression, he realized that he had said the wrong thing.

"Well, that's what I'm wrong. Which island are these people on and what strength they have, I can give you this information. Stark took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Zhao Dagui, which contained the location and geography of the island where the pirates were located, personnel information, etc., which were extremely detailed.

"Brother Stark is very well prepared. The corners of Zhao Dagui's mouth twitched, knowing that the other party wanted to sell all these pirates from the beginning.

"That's, I want you to help out, how can I do it without preparation. If you wish, we can send in the navy and help you get rid of these pirates. Stark said curtly.

"Let's talk about it later. Zhao Dagui said.

Stark put on an attitude of explaining everything thoroughly, but Zhao Dagui knew that there must be a lot of untruths in what the other party said.

There are also many factional struggles among the British, and they are still very fierce, which Zhao Dagui knows.

As far as the first governor of Hong Kong, Pu Dingcha, is concerned, he has established many meritorious services in India, went to China during the Opium War, became the commander of the expeditionary force, later presided over the signing of the Jiangning Treaty, and finally became the governor of Hong Kong.

However, the British Foreign Office had a lot of criticism of such a figure, and in the end, after only about a year as governor of Hong Kong, he was recalled to England and then succeeded by De Piet.

After taking office, De Pi Shi implemented various tax collection policies, which caused a lot of complaints, and he was called the most unpopular governor of Hong Kong, but he was able to serve as governor for four or five years, and his treatment was much better than that of Pu Ding Cha.

Why is this, there is nothing else, it's just a factional struggle.

To put it bluntly, Pudingcha represented the interests of a group of Indian soldiers, while Deberge belonged to the British faction, so it was just a political struggle between the Indian faction and the British faction;

By extension, it can also be thought of as a centuries-old struggle between colonial and native factions, without which the United States would not have become independent.

Stark said that these were just a small faction formed by a few officers in Hong Kong to fight against Bafur, but he deliberately made things small, just looking at Bafuer's lack of help for Zhao Dagui from beginning to end, he understood that it was far more than a few officers.

In addition, Stark said as if he had nothing to do with this matter, but Zhao Dagui was eighty percent sure that at least Stark must have done something about the shipyard engineer not letting him go north.

At the beginning, Zhao Dagui had a good relationship with Stark, but after acquiring so many shipyards in Macau and obtaining a large number of science and technology books from Gu Sheng, he found that Stark's face had changed greatly and his attitude was almost completely reversed.

The British elite led by Stark is actually very wise, it is okay to do business with the Chinese, and it is okay to let the Chinese properly develop industries closely related to British trade, but it is not possible to let the Chinese vigorously develop science and technology and become a powerful country on an equal footing with the United Kingdom.

In the past, when Napoleon was alive, someone asked what would happen to Britain in a war with China, and Napoleon said at that time that China was a sleeping lion, and the British would definitely have the upper hand at the beginning when they fought against China, but then they would wake up from their dreams and strive to become Britain's biggest enemy.

This is the famous Napoleon lion awakening theory.

Now, Britain has fought with the Chinese and has the upper hand, and then it will be hot-headed, relax and no longer regard China as an enemy?

On the contrary, people of insight in Britain are particularly worried about China's counterattack, and there are strong voices opposing the export of high-precision machines and scientific and technological books to China.

If you read modern Chinese history, you will know that Britain's attitude towards the progressive forces in China and Japan was diametrically opposed, and all kinds of support and protection were given to the Japanese forces that were willing to develop science and technology, and even helped the reformers defeat the shogunate;

In China, all kinds of suppression and suppression of forces willing to accept Western ideas and science and technology also restricted China's development of science and technology and modern factories.

From this point of view, Zhao Dagui has a fundamental conflict of interest with the British officer group headed by Stark, or all the British elite groups.

In other words, even George Bafour, the Shanghai consul who is now working closely, will become Zhao Dagui's enemy sooner or later.

If a country or a force wants to go up, it will inevitably be resisted by all the surrounding forces, which is true throughout the ages.

It's just that we know that we will have to fight each other in the future, and we may not be able to sit down and do business together until then, and this is the dirty thing about politics and economics.