Dismissal of the head of the department and surrender of the military number? Chen Aguang's face suddenly turned a little pale, and his mind was also blank, he didn't understand why, he was not the only one who was flustered, everyone was in a mess, why was he dismissed alone? It's not easy for him to get this division name.

Seeing his hair, Yi Zhizhi said with a wooden face: "The role of the military horn is to order the three armies, as a commander, no matter how flustered, you can't leave the commander, especially in emergencies and emergencies, the commander has to order the three armies through the military horn, and you can't find the commander, how do you let the commander command the troops?" As a commander, it is an intolerable mistake to break away from the commander! As he spoke, he said in a deep voice, "Execute the order!" ”

"Yes." Chen Aguang hurriedly stood upright, although he was full of grievances, he was still reluctant to hand over the military number.

All the officers and soldiers were nervous, and immediately realized that this training was different from the queue training on weekdays, and the principal was going to select the good and the bad through the training, especially for officers and special troops, and sure enough, Yi Zhi, who strode back to the front of the queue, raised his voice and said: "The commander of the third company, Gao Shouqi." ”

Gao Shouqi's heart sank, and he hurriedly said loudly: "Yes." ”

"As the commander of a company, he encountered a mutation, panicked, and was the first to leave the queue." Yi Zhizu said loudly: "I will be relieved of the post of commander of the third company and transferred to the guard company, and the commander of the third company will be the deputy company commander." ”

Gao Shouqi's face immediately turned red, he knew very well in his heart that being transferred to the guard company would mean that he was out of the merchant protection group, he was really unwilling, he immediately stood up and saluted, and said in a loud voice: "Report to the principal, the students are willing to be demoted to ordinary soldiers and stay in the merchant protection group." The principal's approval is also requested. ”

This kid still has the strength to not admit defeat. Yi Zhi's contentment groaned slightly. Then he said: "Okay, transfer to the fifth company." ”

"The students obeyed." Gao Shouqi hurriedly saluted.

After returning the salute, Yi Zhizu glanced at all the officers and soldiers, and said in a loud voice: "The recruits went to the battlefield for the first time, and there were many people who were scared to pee their pants by artillery, did any of you be scared to pee your pants?" ”

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers immediately let out a slight laugh, "No one is born from his mother's womb to fight. Yi Zhizu said in a loud voice: "Train a few more times." If you listen to the roar of the artillery, you will get used to it, and the sound of the artillery will be terrifying, but in fact the lethality will not be great. ”

After a slight pause, his tone changed, "Today, your performance disappointed me too much, and the queue training in the past few months has been in vain?" As soon as the cannon went off, it ran around like a headless fly, how could it be a little well-trained? Even if it is to be scattered, it must be scattered and not chaotic. If you want to hide, you must also hide with a purpose. I've just seen a lot of people running backwards, and you can run faster on two legs than a cannonball? ”

As he spoke, he looked at Yan Yangtian and said, "Take the squad as a unit, discuss how to deal with the sudden attack, and after half an hour, continue training." ”

A group of officers and soldiers discussed, Yi Zhizhi and Wu Changqing walked to the beach, Wu Changqing pointed to the coast in front of him and said, "Brother Zhishu plans to build a port here?" There is no danger to defend here, and the cost of building a railway is too high. ”

Needless to say, the Hachisho Port was built by the Japanese to plunder the Ishiroku Iron Mine, and the Japanese must have decided that it was the most economical to build a port and railroad here after a detailed survey, and Yi Zhishu has no doubt about this.

After a slight sigh, he said: "The survey will soon have results, if Shilu's copper and iron ore reserves are large, high quality, easy to mine, we naturally can't let go, the mining industry is the most profitable, which is also one of the focuses of Yuanqi's development in the future." ”

"I still feel a little unreliable." Wu Changqing said: "It's to build a railway, it's to build a port, and it has to be shipped to Guangzhou, and the tofu plate has become the price of meat, so it's better to buy it directly from England, how much is a ton of high-quality iron in England?" ”

"You can't settle accounts like that." Yi Zhizhi said with a smile: "We can buy high-quality iron in England for a few years at most, with the recovery of the English economy, the price of iron will gradually rise, and iron is a bulk commodity, the development of industry is inseparable from iron, the demand is not generally large, we can not always rely on imports from abroad, can not be controlled by others, must develop their own mining industry."

Of course, the investment in building railways and ports is large, and whether it is cost-effective depends on the size of Shilu's reserves, and one million tons may not be cost-effective, but if it is tens of millions of tons or hundreds of millions of tons of reserves, this investment is almost negligible. ”

Wu Changqing didn't understand mining at all, so he immediately changed his head and said, "Brother Yushu plans to wait here for the results of exploration?" When? ”

"Guangzhou is now a land of right and wrong, why should Changqing be anxious."

Wu Changqing accompanied him to the Eighth Institute, and the most important task was to urge Yi Zhizhi to return to Guangzhou, and when he heard this, he said a little anxiously: "Brother Zhizhi doesn't want to stay here for five or six months, right?" ”

"No, it won't." Yi Zhicontent smiled: "As the treasurer of Yuanqi, how can I not believe what I say? Since he said that he would return to Guangzhou in two months, he naturally did what he said. ”

Hearing him say this, Wu Changqing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but Yi Zhizhi sighed lightly: "This place is vast and sparsely populated, and if you want to build railways and ports and mine deposits, you have to move people from two large numbers. ”

Wu Changqing said disapprerovantly: "Whether the reserves are large or not is still unknown, so why think about it so far." ”

Yi Zhizhi smiled, there was no sound, this place in Changhua County was a little unexpected to him, he originally thought that the land belonged to the plain and should be densely populated, but he didn't want to be sparsely populated, and there were no people in this area of Basuo, and the reason was naturally nothing more than natural disasters and man-made disasters.

The news from nearby said that in the eighth year of Daoguang, the plague in Changhua was rampant, the population was sharply reduced, and it had not had time to recover, and in the tenth year of Daoguang, the Li people of Yazhou Zhang Hongfa and Wei Serong rebelled, and the Li people of Chang, Gan, Dan, Ding, and Linzhu counties responded, and the imperial court divided the troops to suppress the rebellion.

In addition to plagues and military plagues, there is also a great scourge - hurricanes! It is reported that the coastal area is often damaged by hurricanes, so the coastal plain area is sparsely populated.

Plagues and military disasters, easy to know and be content can also be prevented, but hurricanes, he can't do anything, it is really troublesome to really move a large number of people over, but. For the iron ore of Shiroku. No matter how hard it is, you have to do it. Rice is abundant in neighboring Annam and Siam, and rice is also abundant in Manila.

Seeing that he was silent, Wu Changqing said: "This place is deserted, and the gentry of Changhua County have formed a group to train, and it seems unreasonable to go to this place where no ghosts are seen to train." Besides, the accents of the officers and soldiers of the merchant group are not right, the Qiongzhou patrol sailor is coming, how can the contentment brother explain? ”

"Do you have to talk about group practice?" Yi Zhisuffi glanced at him and said: "Let's just say that Yuanqi Bank was approved by the Governor of Liangguang and the Governor of Guangdong to undertake the Shilushan Copper Mine in Changhua County, and was going to build a port and a railway here. ”

"Is that okay?"

"What's wrong, I have a handwritten letter written by Governor Yiliang and Admiral Guan Tianpei to the general soldiers of Qiongzhou Town, stamped with a private seal and a big seal. Do they dare to believe it? Even if they don't believe it, they still have to beat the Protector Merchant Group. ”

The seventh day of February. 10 p.m., Guangzhou, Xiguan, Xingshang Office, Hall.

The British merchant delegation and a group of thirteen merchants were holding an emergency meeting, all of them looked grim, and this morning, the British merchant delegation conveyed to the Qin Chalin Zexu that they would no longer smuggle crows. and later no longer with crows. Slice trade takes place relations with the guarantee that it is hoped that the crow will not be paid. Slice.

Lin Zexu refused without hesitation, and reiterated that the existing crows must be surrendered. Otherwise, tomorrow we will interrogate the merchants, and we will first take two to correct the law.

Not only did the merchants feel the seriousness of the situation, but also the British businessmen realized that the smoking ban was completely different from the past, so it was urgent to hold a meeting to negotiate.

"Ladies and gentlemen——。 Wu Shaorong glanced around at the British businessmen, with a gloomy face, and said: "We have a saying in China - kill chickens to monkeys, Lord Qincha interrogated us businessmen, one or two businessmen who are law-correcting, the ultimate goal is to come to you, after killing chickens, it is time to kill you monkeys, whether you want money or life, you weigh it yourself." ”

"We understand what Wu Haoguan means." He then said, "For the sake of the interests of all parties, we can donate a little bit of crow. pieces, but the number can not be large. ”

Listening to this, his tone was loose and he was willing to hand over the crow. Wu Shaorong secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I don't know how much you are willing to donate?" ”

"I'll give out a hundred boxes." He looked at the other British businessmen in a staggered manner.

Seeing the upside down, all the British businessmen had to pinch their noses and report the amount of donations, Wu Shaorong counted a little, not even five hundred boxes, immediately shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "Everyone, just more than four hundred boxes, just want to deal with the past?" ”

"In order to show our respect for Lord Qincha, we will donate the best public class land." He said: "Wu Haoguan, this is already a lot, this is worth 300,000 silver dollars, besides, your country is free of smoking, sometimes tight and sometimes loose, if it weren't for the seriousness of this situation, we would not have been able to donate so many crows. Slice. ”

Wu Shaorong glanced at Pan Zhengwei and Lu Jiguang, and Pan Zhengwei, who saw it, quietly forked out an index finger, and was a little puzzled whether the other party meant a thousand boxes or a crow on the pump. One percent of the number of pieces, and after a little hesitation, he said, "Crow. As long as the piece trade can continue, your losses can be recovered in two or three months, and the most important thing at the moment is to satisfy Lord Qincha, two thousand boxes, no less. ”

He refused: "Impossible, two thousand boxes are too many." ”

After bargaining, the British businessmen finally agreed to donate 1,037 boxes of the finest public land, worth 720,000 silver dollars, which is a record amount.

On the morning of the next day, Wu Shaorong led the merchants to rush to the Qincha Xingyuan, and soon, there were officials leading everyone in, and when they arrived at the hall, they saw Lin Zexu, Deng Tingzhen, Yiliang, Yu Kun, Guan Tianpei, Zhuerhanga and many other dignitaries sitting in the hall, Wu Shaorong couldn't help but be very worried, and hurriedly knelt down to salute, and then reported: "Lord Qincha, a group of British businessmen are afraid of Tianwei, and are willing to hand over one thousand and thirty-seven boxes of land in the high-class public class. ”

Lin Zexu didn't say anything for a long time, the whole hall was quiet, Wu Shaorong knew that something was wrong, and his heart immediately mentioned his throat and eyes, in a short moment, he felt incomparably long, and finally, Lin Zexu said in a deep voice: "Someone!" Wu Shaorong, the chief merchant of the Thirteen Banks, was ineffective, and he was put in prison pending trial. ”

Hearing this, Wu Shaorong felt that all the strength in his body was drawn at all, and his whole body was weak, and the two soldiers quickly came in and took off his top and dragged him down, and the merchants were frightened and kowtowed, but they didn't dare to open their mouths to plead, for fear of getting into trouble.

"The British businessman is in Chatun, and he is a famous crow trader. The traitor of the film is also the first evil of the cigarette dealer arrested by the emperor's decree, and now Chatun has fled, and he is still in the merchant house. Lin Zexu said for a moment and shouted: "Zhuerhang, the prefect of Guangzhou." ”

"The lower official is here." Zhuerhanga hurriedly got up and bowed.

"You led the merchants to the Thirteen Merchants Hall to pass on the edict of Ben Qin, and the minister came here to investigate opium, the law must be enforced, and the people were ordered to hand over the offender as soon as possible and wait for trial."

"Order."

"Guangdong Customs supervises Yu Kun."

"The lower official is here."

"A notice will be issued immediately prohibiting foreign businessmen from Guangzhou from going to Macao."

"Order."

"Admiral Guan Tianpei."

"The end will be."

"Immediately mobilize troops and horses to surround the Yi Pavilion, so that no one can get off the net."

"The last will obey."

Listening to one order after another the smell of gunpowder smoke became stronger and stronger, all the merchants were shocked, a thousand boxes were not enough, did they really have to pay all the crows on the British merchants' pumping ships. Slice? Now it's really a big deal!

After all the people who were waiting to retreat, Deng Tingzhen said with a smile: "It's in the merchant house, it's easy to catch him, Brother Shao Mu is pretending to be a gesture, why did he come?" ”

"Forced."

"The drunkard doesn't mean to drink, but to care about the righteous law of Macau?"

Lin Zexu smiled and said: "Yilu is the backbone of the British merchants, and only by catching them can they be forced to hand over all the crows. Slice. ”

After a slight sigh, Deng Tingzhen said: "Yilu is the general superintendent of commerce in Guangzhou, and he is an official of England. The English businessmen of the film are completely different, and the young brother should be cautious. ”

"It's just house arrest, and it doesn't matter." Lin Zexu sighed lightly and said, "Before leaving, the emperor specially told you not to provoke lightly, not to cut off trade, otherwise, why not be so restrained." ”

Wu Shaorong was imprisoned, the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division surrounded the Thirteen Elements Merchant Hall, the entire Xiguan was shaken, Wu Bingjian of the Wu Family Garden couldn't sit still, he was worried about the tragic fate of Wu Shaorong's fourth son Wu Yuanhua, and hurriedly rushed to the Yuehua Academy to see Lin Zexu, as a result, not only did Wu Shaorong not be fished out, Wu Bingjian himself was also taken off his hat, was put on shackles, and was escorted to the Thirteen Merchant Hall by the soldiers, and went to urge him to enter the city unconditionally to accept the trial.

Sixty-nine years old, rich in the southeast, the prestige of Wu Bingjian wore a flail through the city, the whole city of Guangzhou was a sensation, vying to see it, to Xiguan, but was surrounded by water, escort soldiers had to whip all the way to drive the crowd, to be able to make the trip.

was already afraid to enter the city, but when he saw Wu Bingjian end up like this, he was even more frightened and resolutely refused to enter the city. (To be continued.) )