Chapter 128: Seeing the Foreigner (I)

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Feng Yunshan thought that Chen Kai would lead the righteous army to leave Guangzhou and go to Hong Kong Island, so that the foreigners would have a headache. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info It's best to let both parties eat dogs. The key is, how can Chen Kai and others go to Hong Kong Island?

Zuo Zongtang came to remind that He Lu, Li Wenmao, Lu Shunde, Zhang Bashan and others had already entered the city.

He Lu and Lu Shunde naturally don't have to be polite, both of them are old subordinates. Although Monk Kuang Neng is a rebel, he is also a monk, but this time he will come to the city, and he will entrust all his brothers to Lu Shunde and Zhang Bashan.

Although Zhang Bashan joined the Taiping Holy Army in Shaozhou Mansion, it was only at this time that he saw the Holy King for the first time. He immediately paid a big salute, Feng Yunshan helped him up with a smile, and said "Brother Zhang is hard", which made Zhang Bashan so excited that he couldn't speak.

Feng Yunshan greeted Li Wenmao again, and laughed loudly: "Brother Li, I haven't seen you for many years, Brother Li's demeanor is still the same!" In Feng Yunshan's memory, this Li Wenmao and the original Feng Yunshan are quite familiar, and they are also old friends.

"The Holy King is even more handsome than he was five years ago! Wen Mao sees the Holy King! Li Wenmao stepped forward to salute.

"Yunshan is very happy to be able to work with Wen Mao to fight against the Qing Dynasty!" Feng Yunshan and Li Wenmao exchanged a few more words. He let Luo Xuan be in charge, and separated the rebel army led by Li Wenmao's brothers, He Lu, and the rebel army led by Lu Shunde and Zhang Bashan, and selected strong people to be arranged into other holy armies.

However, these rebels themselves are congregations from all over the world, begging for a living in the rivers and lakes, and practicing martial arts, and they are basically strong people, so the Taiping Holy Army suddenly has more than 70,000 holy army soldiers. If it weren't for the many casualties during the attack on Guangzhou City, it is estimated that there would have been more than 100,000 under Li and He alone.

Next, Feng Yunshan called Lu Shunde and inquired about Chen Kai. Unexpectedly, this Chen Kai still has a grudge against Bai Gui.

Chen Kai was originally a carpenter, and later put fir rows to support boats to help people transport goods for a living, early last year Zhaoqing Mansion locust plague, the political secretary Yamen mobilized food relief from Guangzhou Prefecture, Chen Kai and others also participated in the transportation of grain through the government brokers, as a result, wages were intercepted by the brokers, heavy losses. Chen Kai led more than 100 people to seek wages from the Yamen of the Political Secretary, but he was killed by dozens of old brothers who ran on the water, and was even wanted by Bai Gui, who was the political envoy at the time, and became a criminal.

Chen Kai was originally a person who valued love and righteousness, and the hatred of his old brothers was not a common thing for him, and this time he raised an army against the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the forced life of his brothers and wanted to make some money, it was also Chen Kai's main purpose to break through the city of Guangzhou and seize Bai Gui, who was promoted to governor.

After listening to Lu Shunde's grievances with Chen Bai, Feng Yunshan was overjoyed: There is! This is a good reason, let Chen Kai lead the righteous army to chase after Bai Gui, plus he pushed it on the side, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Feng Yunshan asked Lu Shunde to continue to use the pseudonym Lu Er, stay in Chen Kai's righteous army, and instigated the righteous army to march to Hong Kong Island.

Lu Shunde also talked about conquering Shunde County and Panyu and other places, according to the rules of Chen Kai's righteous army, the 40,000 righteous army under his command alone snatched hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from the big gentry in various villages and towns, and all of them have been divided among the people.

Feng Yunshan was a little helpless, he knew that this kind of thing was inevitable, in history, not only the righteous army, but even the government regimental training would take silver from the big families of the squires, known as "donations". At that time, it was still a rebel army, and if you didn't join the holy army, you could not follow the rules of the holy army. But when they become a holy army, they need to follow the rules of the holy army, and all the captures must be paid to the holy treasury before they are distributed.

Sending everyone away, just as Feng Yunshan was pondering other ways to force Chen Kaiyi's army to go to Hong Kong Island, he didn't expect that the swordsman came to report, Tan Tiyuan and Guan Youli came to ask for a meeting, and they also brought a few foreigners.

Long before Daozhou sent troops to Guangzhou, Feng Yunshan asked Tan Tiyuan and Guan Youpho to come to Xiguan, Guangzhou to find He Jingwen and his Western teacher, but they didn't expect to wait until Feng Yunshan hit Guangzhou City, and these two people found people.

Tan Tiyuan reported the ins and outs of the matter to Feng Yunshan.

It turned out that Tan Tiyuan and Guan Youpho led a group of fine works to sneak into Guangzhou City, and when they went to Xiguan to find Guan Youpho's old neighbor He Jingwen's family, they found that they had moved. I had no choice but to inquire around, and after wandering, I finally found He Jingwen, but learned that his Western teacher had just gone to Hong Kong Island and would return to Guangzhou in about a month. So he waited in the city for nearly a month, but he didn't come back, but since he had waited for more than a month, he simply continued to wait. It wasn't until a while ago that He Jingwen's Western teacher, Dr. Habaander, returned to Guangzhou.

Tan Tiyuan and Guan Youfu invited Dr. Haba'an and He Jingwen to go to Xiangnan together. Unexpectedly, Dr. Habaander would speak native Cantonese, saying that his mission was not yet complete, and he refused to leave Guangzhou. Tan Tiyuan arranged for careful preparations to forcibly kidnap Dr. Habaan and He Jingwen, but he didn't expect that as soon as he tied the two of them to the inn where they lived, they were discovered by the Qing soldiers who were patrolling. It turned out that He Lu organized the rebel army to start an uprising in Dongguan, and the Qing army searched everywhere in Guangzhou for party spies, and arrested Tan Tiyuan and others by mistake.

Unexpectedly, it was the foreigner Dr. Haba'an who came forward and said that Tan Tiyuan and others were the bodyguards he hired, and he and Guan Youli and others were protected, and the face of the foreign adults was to be given, plus Guan Youfu was familiar with the Qing soldiers who searched the Qing soldiers and stuffed a handful of silver tickets, so the Qing soldiers let Tan Tiyuan and others go.

At this time, the city of Guangzhou began to be under martial law, and it was impossible to leave the city. Tan Tiyuan, Guan Youfu and others did not dare to stay in the inn anymore, so they had to borrow a clinic opened by Dr. Haba'an in Kansai.

This morning, when they learned that the Taiping Holy Army had captured the city of Guangzhou, Tan Tiyuan and Guan Youfu took Dr. Haba'an to meet the Holy King, and when they left, they ran into several foreign friends of Dr. Haba'ande, and ran to the clinic to escape the war, so Tan Tiyuan identified himself and invited everyone to meet Feng Yunshan together.

Habaander, a native of Pennsylvania in the United States, was commissioned by the Presbyterian Church of America to preach in Guangzhou, but the mission has not progressed. In desperation, he opened a clinic and a boarding school for boys, teaching students and helping the people around him to heal and preach at the same time. However, the Manchu government was relatively strict, and the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangxi connived at the local government and the common people to exclude foreign missionaries, so except for a few ordinary people who were willing to follow the religion in order to cure the sick, Haba'an did not have many followers.

“hello,misterandrewpattonhapper! weleyoutochina! Feng Yunshan smiled and greeted the foreigners who came with Tan Tiyuan, the English in his mouth was a little stiff, but he was quite fluent. For this kind of simple conversation, Feng Yunshan, who has passed the sixth level of English-speaking countries in college, can still cope with it, but no matter how complicated the conversation is, he can only understand it, and it is a little difficult to stammer.

“oh,mygod!” Habaander never dreamed that this leader of the long-haired thief army, who was talked about by the people of Guangzhou, was described by Manchu officials as a murderous and barbaric thug, and could speak fluent English!

"Your Excellency, I am Habaander, a pastor of the Presbyterian Church in America! Nice to meet you! Unexpectedly, Habaander could also speak fluent Cantonese vernacular. Looking at Feng Yunshan's surprised appearance, Haba'an smiled a little proudly.

"Mr. Habaander, since you know Chinese, I don't have to talk to you in broken English! The contemptible people are not only the holy kings of the Taiping Holy Army, but also the holy kings of tens of thousands of holy sect members. Feng Yunshan said with a smile.

"Thank the Lord Almighty! Let me meet parishioners who also believe in the Lord in this remote Manchu Dynasty! Habaander exaggerated a cross on his chest, "I wonder what happened when the Holy King sent someone to find Habaander?" ”

"I heard that Mr. Habaander came to Guangzhou to have a missionary mission, and this king has always believed in God and kept in mind the concept of helpfulness, so he naturally wanted to help Mr. Habaander to preach." Feng Yunshan smiled a little unnaturally.

For some reason, Habaander felt like he was being targeted by a hungry wolf when he saw the unnatural smirk of the holy king of his age.