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"Our Liu family really made this decision in order to get rid of this giant for the imperial court! I wanted to use the hearts of the Chinese people in Borneo to gather soldiers to destroy Zhu Rei in the heart of the Qing Dynasty, but who knew that Zhu Rei had trained elite soldiers in a short period of time......"

In the yamen of the Guangdong Customs Superintendent, I saw a black and thin man crying and sobbing. Bai Siwen sat on the chair, his brows furrowed, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but he looked a little helpless.

Kneeling in front of him was none other than Liu Aliang. The once little black fat man has lost weight successfully! He talked and cried with a dejected face, and told Bai Siwen in detail how Zhu Jishi rose to rise in West Borneo. Speaking of sadness, he kept crying on the ground, and Bai Siwen sighed again and again.

It was easy to wait for Liu Aliang's crying to end, and Bai Siwen said slowly: "I asked you to design to eradicate Zhu Jishi...... Don't you know that there are assassinations? Why did you use the method of exaggeration to raise troops? If the emperor knows about this matter, it will be difficult to do! ”

Liu Aliang was stunned for a moment, and looked at Bai Siwen with a smile, "Adult, I am from a small family in the rivers and lakes, of course I know that there is such a thing as assassination." Don't hide it from adults, the small family is full of killers. But this killer is easy to find, and the dead are hard to find! If you want to kill people like Zhu Jishi, you must die! We don't have such a person in our Liu family. ”

Bai Siwen's brows furrowed tightly, as if he didn't quite understand.

Liu Aliang, who has already turned into a little black thin man, sighed and explained: "There are many masters in the rivers and lakes who kill people for silver, but how many people really don't spare their lives? I think that although Zhu Yi is a thief, he has a valuable status in Nanyang, and there are many masters around him to escort him, and he is not an idle master who can approach. Even if you are lucky, you can't get out of it! Therefore, to assassinate Zhu Jishi, you not only need to be a master, but also a dead soldier! These are all characters in "The Legend of the Assassins", where can our little Liu family afford such heroes? ”

Historical Records. Bai Siwen has read the Biography of the Assassins, and the people of Zhuzhu, Yu Rang, Nie Zheng, and Jing Ke are all dead soldiers who are raised by the princes and princes, and do not hesitate to reward them. The Liu family is just a local tyrant in Nanyang, half businessman and half bandit, why should they make friends with people who are specialized in Zhu and Jing Ke? If Nanyang really wants such a hero, he has long been a hegemon, and it is the turn of the Liu family to raise him?

The Liu family can't afford to raise such a hero, but what about the Qing court? It doesn't seem to be either! Bai Siwen frowned and thought, this court is the court of the banner people, the flag people have a noble status, although there is no shortage of loyal and brave people, but if they want to exchange their lives for their lives to assassinate a thief, I am afraid that no one is willing to do it. As for the Han Chinese...... The military attachés of the Han people who served the imperial court had a humble status, and many people who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they all slipped away faster than one on the battlefield, where was anyone willing to do such a certain death-defying business? As for the people in the rivers and lakes, most of them oppose the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and if they don't help Zhu Jishi to assassinate, they have already burned high incense!

"How come there are no heroes like Jing Ke in this world?" Bai Siwen muttered to himself.

"My lord, as far as the little ones know, there are such heroes!" Liu Aliang suddenly lowered his voice and said to Bai Siwen, "The small ones have good relations with the Dutch in Nanyang, and the Netherlands has ties with Japan. I once heard a Dutch friend say that although Japan is small, it is a fierce man who is not afraid of death. The Japanese practiced the politics of the feudal clan, from the shogun to the lord of the feudal domain, and all raised samurai to protect themselves...... Or you can buy one or two Japanese dead soldiers with a lot of money! ”

"Dead in Japan? Japan is also locking down the country, right? ”

"Dutch merchants and my merchants from the Qing Dynasty can set foot in Nagasaki, Japan." Liu Aliang gritted his teeth and said, "The little one is willing to make 30,000 taels of property from his family, and then ask the adults to sponsor one or two, and go to Japan to recruit the dead in person, so as to eliminate this catastrophe for the imperial court!" ”

"You can give it a try." Bai Siwen nodded, but did not mention that he paid out of his own pocket to Liu Aliang to hire Japanese assassins, but carefully inquired about Zhu Jishi's training in Western France, and after asking, he sent Liu Aliang away. I took a sedan chair and went to the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang to meet Qiying.

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After listening to Bai Siwen's report, Qi Ying, the governor of Liangguang, frowned, and it took a while for him to spit out a few words to his right-hand man in foreign affairs, Bai Siwen, the superintendent of Guangdong Customs, "Has the news ever been true?" ”

Bai Siwen nodded solemnly and replied, "Sir, it's true!" The news was sent by Liu Aliang, the second son of Liu Qianxing, the former wife of Lanfang Company, Zhu Jishi, with the support of the British, had already seized Lanfang and established the country, claiming to be the Duke of Ming! This matter has been spread all over Nanyang, and Wu Shaorong, the owner of Jardine Matheson, also has the same secret report, and he also personally questioned several foreign businessmen who had just come from Nanyang, and they also confirmed that it was indeed true. ”

"What a hassle......

Hearing Bai Siwen's words, Qiying suddenly felt that his head was bigger, and the green tendons on both temples burst out. seized the country Lanfang, and also set up the name "Ming Gong", making it clear that the carriage and horses were going to be right with the Qing Dynasty! But what can he, the governor of Liangguang, do? Send the Guangdong sailors to go on an expedition to Borneo to defeat the rebels? How far can a broken boat, which is not much bigger than a fishing boat, and most of which are leaky, go that far? Even if you reluctantly go, can you beat the rebels and thieves! And there are English people behind the thieves, which is not reliable.

Seeing Qiying's helpless appearance, Bai Siwen took a step forward and said in a low voice: "Sir, it's not easy to start in the open, let's do it in secret!" ”

Acting in the shadows? Isn't it just an assassination?

"It's not going to be a side provocation, is it?" Qiying asked with some concern.

The border provocation of course refers to the conflict with the British. In the later stage of the Opium War, he presided over military affairs at the front as a minister and a general in Guangzhou, and was also fully responsible for negotiations with Britain, France and the United States. The books written or translated by Zhu Jishi brought by Bai Siwen were also carefully read. Although he is not the first Manchu Qing official to open his eyes to see Shijie, he is definitely the first Qing Dynasty bureaucrat to open his eyes. Knowing that the Qing Dynasty would definitely not be able to defeat the British, the defeat in the First Opium War was no accident.

"You can't use the people of the imperial court, let that Liu Aliang come forward to contact the Japanese dead." Bai Siwen pondered and said, "If you can kill Zhu Yi himself, the Qing Dynasty will be considered to have taken a catastrophe!" Otherwise...... Sir, Guangdong's defense must be strengthened, your superintendent, the military standard of the Guangzhou general, and the garrison of the Eight Banners must be replaced with foreign guns as soon as possible! ”

Hearing Bai Siwen mention the foreign gun, Qiying suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, Enming, how is the errand assigned by the emperor going?" When will 20,000 foreign guns be delivered to Beijing? ”

Bai Siwen smiled bitterly when he heard this, and replied: "Sir, you also know that the emperor is allocating internal money. ”

The internal money is the emperor's private money, and you should go to the internal affairs office to get the silver, which is much darker than the household department! There are still some rules for the ministry fee of the household department, that is, it looks like more than one centimeter, that is, receiving 100,000 taels of silver to give more than 1,000 taels to the officials in charge of the household department. As for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it would be polite to ask you for a kickback of one or two percent.

"Isn't there an errand supervised by the Guangdong Customs?" Qi Ying was a little puzzled.

There is a little silver on the top, and there are layers of deductions below, which is an ugly rule, and even the imperial historian will not impeach him, of course he is not good at saying anything about the governor of Liangguang.