The British Vice-Consul in Shanghi, Wei Tuma, on behalf of the Shanghi Consulate, surrendered to the Holy State!

Wei Tuma smiled all over his face, and first apologized to Lu Shunde, the representative of the Holy Country: "General Lu, on behalf of the consulate, I apologize to you for your crimes!" This is a misunderstanding! We, the British, have always not interfered in the internal affairs of various countries, and it is only when the rebels in Shanghai City riot in the concession will they come forward to maintain law and order in the concession. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Misunderstanding? Maintaining law and order in the concession? Lu Shunde sneered.

"It's all to blame on those Qing people. They hijacked our British merchants and occupied the riverside forts in the concession, and then fired at your warships. This is not the intention of my British Empire. We don't want to see it either. "Moreover, your army trespassed into the Huangpu River without authorization, endangering the safety of the concession......

"Mr. Vice Consul, you have colluded with the Manchus to massacre the people of our holy country, and you have declared war on the holy country." Lu Shunde rudely interrupted Wei Tuma's words, "The rebels of the Shanghi Little Knife Society have all announced that they have joined the Holy Kingdom, and the people in the city are the people of my Holy Kingdom. It is naturally our duty to protect their safety. The rebels have asked us to capture one of the soldiers, are you besieging the city and killing the rebels? ”

"But, but, General Lu, we don't know about these rebels, oh, the rebels, have joined the Holy Kingdom." Wittoma smiled wryly.

"Mr. Vice Consul, what are you doing today? If you want to discuss it with me, then wait for me to conquer the concession and then talk to you slowly. Now, I beg your pardon for not being available. Someone's coming! Lu Shunde pretended to order an attack on the British Concession.

"Oops, oops, don't! Lord Lu, I have come to surrender to your army! Wei Tuoma was in a hurry, for fear that Lu Shunde would really send troops to attack the concession.

Nowadays, there are not only consulates, churches, but also many other foreign firms in the concession. If the rebels were to bomb indiscriminately, the losses would be heavy. The bosses of these foreign banks are all well-known figures, and when they tell the London Parliament, not only will he be the consul, but even the minister in China will have to peel off his skin.

The two sides then discussed the details of the armistice and signed a private armistice agreement.

In this armistice, Britain was forced to promise three warships (one of which had already been captured) under the command of the commander of the British fleet, Stephen, as compensation for the attack on the batteries at the mouth of the concession river, the damage to several sunken ships, and the death of the rebels.

Of course, in exchange, the Holy Kingdom will no longer embarrass the British Concession, nor will it seize the major foreign banks.

For the British side, this is already the best result.

It's a bunch of rebels! If the other rebels in the world were like them, they might have confiscated all the foreign banks and warehouses in the concession. British merchants had been operating in the concession for more than ten years and had amassed a large amount of fixed assets, which could not be covered by three warships if they suffered losses.

In fact, Wei Tuma knew that both Ali Guo and Bao Ling would say that the warship had been captured by the rebels and would not be returned.

In this way, they have little responsibility.

And for the Holy Kingdom, this is also a good result!

The Holy King explained that after occupying Shanghi, it is necessary to stabilize the situation in Shanghi and continue to maintain the original Shanghai commercial port. For the foreign banks in the Shanghi concession, they all avoid affecting them. In other words, they had no intention of touching these foreign banks, but now the British, fearing that it would be unfavorable to them, took the initiative to demand appropriate compensation in exchange for not infringing on foreign banks, which was really a simple benefit.

With the addition of the three warships of the British, the combat power of the Naval Division of the Holy Kingdom has been greatly strengthened, and in terms of quantity alone, the total number of warships of the Naval Division of the Holy Kingdom has exceeded the number of naval warships deployed by any country in the Far East.

Although this armistice agreement was not made public, the British Minister Bao Ling and Shanghi Consul Ali still felt greatly embarrassed. The day after learning that the agreement was signed, Bao Ling wanted to take a merchant ship back to Hong Kong Island from Shanghai, and Ali Guo wanted to return to England. However, the 10th Division of the captive army had already blockaded the entire Huangpu River, and all the freighters and merchant ships docked at the port of Shanghai were told to stay at the port of Shanghai for two days and were allowed to leave in batches after inspection and registration.

Bao Ling and Ali Guo did not want to show up in person to negotiate with the upper echelons of the captive army, but only asked Wei Tuma to protest on behalf of the merchant ships. But how could Lu Shunde pay attention to him?

In desperation, the merchant ships had to wait a few more days.

On the second day after recovering Shanghai City and occupying the concessions, Lu Shunde summoned three foreigner customs officers from the Jiang Customs who were originally in Shanghai and informed them that the customs would be taken over by the Holy State.

The consuls of Britain, the United States, and France each sent one person to serve as the "tax department" and formed the "Customs Administration Commission" to directly manage the customs agency, which was abolished by the Holy State. Shengguo directly established Shanghi Customs, which was under the management of the Finance and Taxation Department of the Shengwang Palace.

At the same time, two of the foreigners from the original customs were hired down, and a staff officer from the captive army was appointed as the temporary deputy director of the customs, and two account offices from the rebels were transferred as customs officers, so as to formally straighten out the customs.

Of course, Lu Shunde had already sent a speedboat to Fuzhou to first transfer Wang Jingxian, the county commander of Minxian County in Fuzhou City, to Shanghi as the director of customs.

In addition, Shanghi Customs should even count all foreign companies in the concession and merchant ships docked in Shanghi Port.

The next day, all the foreign companies and merchant ships temporarily docked in Shanghai Port were cleared.

In the British Concession, there are a large number of warehouses of foreign companies, such as Wah Kee & Co., Po Shun & Co., Li Baili & Co., and warehouses, Yu Kee & Co., Yi Kee & Co., Yan Kee & Co., Yan Kee & Co., Hutchison & Co., Jardine & Co., Jardine & Co., and Qichang & Co., while there are basically not many foreign companies in the American Concession and the French Concession, only consuls, churches, and some small merchants' houses.

And there are many merchant ships in Shanghai Port, even if they are war-torn flagships. Especially near the wharf of the Bund and the mouth of Suzhou Creek, there are 24 merchant ships stationed in the entire Shanghai Port, the smallest of which is more than 100 tonnage, and the largest is nearly 2,000 tonnage. Among them, 16 British merchant ships alone, 5 American merchant ships, 2 French merchant ships, and 1 Dutch merchant ship.

After the inspection of the soldiers of the captive army, it was found that there were opium flakes on the five armed clippers, which belonged to Baoshun Foreign Company, Pacific Foreign Company, Jardine Foreign Company, and Qichang Foreign Company, with a total of more than 2,000 tons of opium. These armed clippers are flying clippers that sail extremely fast at sea, but fortunately on inland rivers, they cannot escape. Originally, it was to take advantage of the war to transport the opium into the inland river to facilitate unloading, but I didn't expect it to be blocked on the Huangpu River by the military and naval divisions.

For the seized opium, Shanghi Customs levied a 50% tax on the opium trade in the Holy Country. As a result, Lu Shunde directly ordered people to remove half of the opium chips from each of the five ships, more than 1,000 tons.

As for where the rest of the opium chips will be sold, there is no need to ask, it must be the Manchu ruling area.

Most of the opium pieces of the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty were basically resold from Shanghi. Now that they have occupied Shanghi, according to the customs tax collection ratio of the Holy Country, opium producers will lose half of them first, and it is estimated that opium will soon usher in a wave of price increases.

The remaining 19 merchant ships are all regular raw silk, tea, porcelain, and dry agricultural products, etc., and they are also registered one by one by Shanghi Customs, and they are strictly implemented in accordance with the tax collection standard of 5% of the Holy Country.

And the warehouse! What was not sold in the first place now has to make up five percent of the tax.

This alone cleared the merchant ships and warehouses in the harbor, and added a thousand tons of opium and 130,000 taels of silver.

Although the foreigners and merchants were full of opinions, they did not dare to complain at all under the black guns of the soldiers of the captive army.

Finally, the foreigners, merchants, and merchant ships that had paid the taxes set off from the Huangpu River in turn, left Wusongkou, left Shanghi, and headed for Hong Kong Island.

Bao Ling and Ali Guo, as well as the commander of the British fleet, Shi Deling, who surrendered his warship and became the commander of the light pole, were finally able to take a merchant ship of Jardine Matheson to Hong Kong Island.

Before that, a flying clipper boat set off from Shanghi in advance and went straight to the waters of Zhoushan Island.