When Pan Er, Liang Liu and Zhang Guangsheng arrived at the house next to the foreign concession, it was already dark. Han Xiufeng, who had just had dinner, asked the three of them to have dinner quickly and asked Datou to help clean up the bed. After all, he went from here.

The small east gate is not close to Shanghai, and it is so chaotic that it is not safe to walk at night. Pan Erze talks about what he has seen today while eating.

"Fourth brother, I have never seen such a messy place. Those Fujianese and Guangdongese are really lawless. The yamen really can't control them!" Pan Er was worried, thinking that something was going to happen in Shanghai sooner or later.

Han Xiufeng also felt that the undercurrents in Shanghai were surging. Either nothing happened, or something big would happen. He held the teacup and said, "The county government and the bureau are indulging in it, and it's too big to lose it. Now I regret it and want to suppress it, so it's not easy."

Zhang Guangsheng couldn't help but look up and said, "Fourth Master, you can't blame the county government for this, you can only blame the Dao Bureau."

"The county magistrate will be blamed for this kind of trouble!"

"Second Master, you don't know that Shanghai Zhengtang is different from those in Jiading County. The Dao Bureau is in the city, and the county magistrate has to listen to the Taoist platform in everything. The current Shanghai Zhengtang Yuan Zude and I are from the same hometown, and he is also Qiantang.

When my cousin escorted my uncle's coffin by Shanghai, he went to the spiritual world to worship and told my cousin these things."

"What did he say?" Han Xiufeng asked curiously.

Zhang Guangsheng smiled bitterly and said, "He said that his county magistrate is just a decoration, and all the big and small things inside and outside the city are "selling chickens". But no matter whether he was the former Futai Yang Wending or the current Futai, he believed so much," he sold.

Chicken Shuang, what can he, the magistrate, say. And he had long expected that the village heroes who were trained by Li Xianyun and Li Shaoxi were all rogues, party members, and even the officers of the Dao Office and the county government.

It was their eyes and ears, so Chaoyang ordered the abolition of the village hero and took the opportunity to dismiss the country. During this period, Li Xianyun and others were ordered to prevent the Ji Party from being allowed to do so. Last time, they even put all the cannons at the gate of the Fujian Guild Hall."

Han Xiufeng was shocked and stared at him and asked, "Put the cannon stands at the gate of the Fujian Guild Hall?"

"If you fight, they are not allowed to form a party again. They are ordered to dissolve the party." Zhang Guangsheng confirmed.

"Mediocre officials, mediocre officials!"

"Second Master, you...what do you mean?"

Before Han Xiufeng could speak, Pan Er put down his bowl and said, "He is too anxious! He clearly knows that there are not many soldiers in the city, and even the officers from the Dao Office and the county government have colluded with the association party, so he still forced him to

Those two disbanded party members with the surname Li, aren’t they going to force those two surnames Li to rebel?”

"But... But as the magistrate of Shanghai, Mr. Yuan cannot just watch those sects become popular." Zhang Guangsheng said sadly.

"You can't watch those sects become prestigious, but you can't do it recklessly," Han Xiufeng thought that he would go back to his hometown in Sichuan after finishing the gun purchase, and Pan Er had to continue to be an official in Guo Peilin's place. Han Xiufeng was somewhat dissatisfied.

Rest assured, I couldn't help but turn back and ask: "Changsheng, if you are the county magistrate, what will you do if you encounter such a thing?"

Pan Er said without hesitation: "If it were me, I would first stabilize the leaders of the sects. If the Taoist platform is unreliable, go to the Futai. If the Futai is helpless, report to the sanfa, Nieshi and even Futai, and ask the superiors to send reinforcements.

Help suppress the reinforcements, anyway, reinforcements must not act rashly unless they are reinforcements.”

Liang Liu couldn't help asking: "Why don't you recruit locals and train some trustworthy local heroes?"

"Shanghai is so big. Just abolished the troop training and dismissed the village warriors. You started a new job and recruited local young and strong trainers. Wouldn't it be a big shock to the enemy? It's already so messy. I think there is no other way except to bring reinforcements from other places.

”

Looking at Pan Er's confident look, Han Xiufeng felt that Pan Er could almost "get out of the army". Thinking about it, he asked again: "Shanghai is chaotic, but no matter how chaotic it is, can there be chaotic Jiangning and Yangzhou? In order to recover Jiangning, the court has given him the

All the soldiers in Songjiang Town can be transferred. Where do you ask Futai to send troops to help?"

Pan Er was stumped, racked his brains and thought for a while before smiling bitterly: "It's true, where can I move the reinforcements? Where can I move the soldiers?"

"What should I do? What if you are the county magistrate of Shanghai?"

"I...Fourth Brother, I...I have no good idea as you say this." Pan Er turned around and looked at Zhang Guangsheng and Liang Liu, and thought about it and couldn't help asking, "Fourth Brother, if it were you, why would you?

manage?"

"Find an excuse to run away, find an excuse to escape, no matter what you say, you must save your life first!" Han Xiufeng stared at Pan Er's eyes and said seriously and seriously: "I know it is not easy for you to become an official,

But you can't be obsessed with the mind. There is only one life. If you lose your life, you will lose everything. Do you know?"

"But the loss of land will be investigated."

"It's better to be punished than to be dead. Lao Liu, so are you." Han Xiufeng thought about it and said, "When you buy the gun and go back, don't go into battle if you can't go into battle. If you are forced to have no choice, you can only fight the thieves and bandits to death.

, but you have to be careful when you fight. If you can beat it, you can fight. If you can’t beat it, you can run away. When you run, don’t forget Lord Guo. If Lord Guo has a few shortcomings, I will have a way to deal with you even in Sichuan!

”

"Second Master, don't worry, as long as I, Liang Liu, will never be in trouble."

"Not only Lord Guo can't have trouble, you can't have trouble," thinking of the undercurrent in Shanghai, Han Xiufeng continued: "Shanghai can't stay for a long time. I'll go to foreigners to buy guns tomorrow morning. You will go to the inn to get the room tomorrow.

Brothers, please bring them all here, so stay here with peace of mind.”

"But we still have to buy rice and hire a boat!" Pan Er said anxiously.

"Please help buy rice and hire a boat? Manager Wu and Mr. Wu from Rishengchang. By the way, I just thought about hiding the gun, but forgot that gunpowder occupies more space than guns, so I have to buy more rice.

There are more than a dozen ships. In the afternoon, there are more than a dozen passes at Shanghai Pass. Not only are there any Shanghai Pass checkpoints in Wusong, Liuhe, Qiya, Baizi, Xuliujing, Fushan and other places.

There are Lu Si, Xiaohaikou and Shizhuang in the north of the Yangtze River. You don’t have to go to Tongzhou when you go back, just go to Laoba Port in the corner."

"It's okay to go to Laoba Port, which is our own territory!"

"There's another thing." Han Xiufeng picked up the teacup and asked with a smile: "Changsheng, do you still remember the same years as Censor Huang?"

"There are several of the same year, Fourth Brother, who are you talking about?"

"The Criminal Department gives Qiao Bangxian."

"I remember, when we were in the capital, Mr. Qiao often went to the guild hall. I remember that he had a son named Qiao Songnian who was also a Jinshi."

"Qiao Songnian has come to Jiangsu. Now he is the prefect of Songjiang. I will go to the concession to find foreigners to buy guns tomorrow morning. If the buying of guns goes well, we will take the time to visit Songjiang."

How could Pan Er not know that Han Xiufeng was planning to take this opportunity to make him and Qiao Songnian have a friendship. After all, one more friend and one more way, and he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

...

After dinner, everyone couldn't sleep, so they sat around the flower hall and talked about Shanghai and the surrounding areas.

Zhang Guang was born early and was a fellow villager with the county magistrate in Shanghai. He knew a lot and said with a sigh: "Although Songjiang is rich, it has a lot of taxes. Those prefectures and counties can do everything they can to make up for the shortcomings. Last year,

In order to make up for the deficit, Yu Longguang, the magistrate of Qingpu, ordered the pursuit of the money and grain that Daoguang had been exempted by the imperial edict thirty years ago, and even imprisoned the unfavorable grain collection margin, which was longer than the responsibilities of the charity and the arsenal, which caused a rebound."

"Someone in Qingpu is also in trouble?" Han Xiufeng asked in a low voice.

"There is a person named Zhou Lichun in Qingpu County. The land protection of Forty-five Forts and Eighty-nine Tutangwan is actually a rampant villager. Zhou Lichun took the opportunity to make trouble and connect the land protection of neighboring Tu to let the land protection of the land,

The nearby land security gathered villagers to go to the county town to cause trouble. Those who said they were unwilling to go would give the people who went there two hundred cents of food. If they didn't give it, they would set fire to the house." This accumulated more than 60 stagnant of money, and gathered three

More than a hundred people. On May 19 last year, they entered the city to make a big fuss in the county government, and injured Yu Longguang, the then Qingpu main hall."

"What happened later?"

"Later, Yu Longguang was dismissed, Li Chuqi took charge of Qingpu County affairs, issued a notice to the villagers to tie Zhou Lichun up, and ordered the Xinjing inspector to lead the Zaoli bowmen to get it. After Zhou Lichun received the news, he gathered forty or fifty people.

He made a fuss to the inspector's office and blackmailed gentry such as Ren Lin, Wen Mo, Ren Dawen, etc.

He did not extort money, and after a few days he brought fifty or sixty thugs to Ren Lin. Ren Wenmo's house set fire to rob. The Ren family swallowed their anger and did not dare to report to the official. In early September last year, he said that the local gentry Gong Xiu was a county

The ya's eyewitness said that the local gentry Ren Lin planned to help the yamen lock him. Not only did he burn Gong Xiu and Ren Lin's house with a bunch of thugs, but he also burned Gong Xiu's young daughter to death."

"It's okay to be lawless and fight against food, but you can burn people's houses and burn their daughters to death. The villagers in the countryside are not afraid of retribution!" Pan Er asked in surprise.

"So the yamen wants to deal with him," Zhang Guangsheng took a sip of tea and then said: "On the sixth day of September last year, the new Qingpu Zhengtang Li Chuqi led his troops to the lock and take it. Zhou Lichun actually gathered 400 people, holding swords, guns, sticks, and sticks.

Resistance to arrest. Although they had foreign guns, they were a group of mobs. After being beaten, they were killed by officers and soldiers and captured eight. Zhou Lichun took advantage of the chaos and was said to have been hiding in the countryside of Qingpu."

Qingpu is not far from Shanghai County. Han Xiufeng did not expect that the situation in Shanghai was already in such a state of deterioration. He asked solemnly: "Guangsheng, has Zhou Lichun colluded with the associations in Shanghai?"

Zhang Guangsheng put down his teacup and said, "As far as I know, he recognizes Li Shaoxi, director of the Jiayingzhou Office of Guangdong Province. I heard that Li Shaoxi had trafficked big smoke to Suzhou one year. When he passed through Huangdu Town in Qingpu, he was intercepted by local supervisor Jin Renbao. Li Shaoxi had once passed away.

I went to Qingpu to find Zhou Lichun, and Zhou Lichun came forward to help him get the opium back. Many people in the city knew about this.

Because he had a friendship with Li Shaoxi, Li Shaoxi asked him to plead with "selling chickens". "selling chickens" felt that it was better to ease the gentry who were close to Li Shaoxi, so he tacitly agreed to recruit the gentry who were close to Li Shaoxi. Zhou Lichun might know that

I did not believe the words of those gentry and never dared to enter the city. I wanted to arrest him and still posted the notice at the city gate."

Han Xiufeng became more and more shocked when he heard it. He murmured with a teacup: "There are Li Xianyun inside, Li Shaoxi and others who have hundreds of village-gods in the world, and the rebellionists of Chen Mujin, Xu Yao and Zhou Lichun outside.
Chapter completed!