Two Citimen happily went to the British Concession from Xiaoshiqiao with a bag of silver dollars. Su Jueming, who had been sending them to the bridgehead, said nervously as soon as he came back: "Fourth Master, all the yamen runners and the township heroes guarding the bridgehead ran away!"

"Just run away, what's the big fuss about it?"

"Where are us, what should we do?"

Looking in the direction of Su Jueming's finger, there were more and more people fleeing from Xiaoshiqiao to the British Concession. Han Xiufeng pondered for a moment and turned around and asked, "Is there any movement on the other side of the bridge?"

Su Jueming hurriedly said, "Doctors of foreigners came, all of whom were carrying foreign guns, but they didn't look like foreign soldiers."

Manager Wu stood on tiptoe and looked at it. He couldn't see anything clearly from too far away. He murmured: "Fourth Master, Mr. Su should be talking about the foreign gun team."

"Which country's foreign gun team?" Pan Er asked curiously.

"From several countries," Woodquan looked back at Pan Er and explained: "In the first month of the year, Changmao walked down the river and conquered cities and landed to Jiangning. The court was afraid, but foreigners were just as scared! Later, I heard that Jiangning was occupied by Changmao. Britain, France and the American Council of China convened merchants and expatriates in the concession to discuss and build a foreign gun team full of foreigners and all with foreign guns and cannons. However, they were not called the foreign gun team, so they were named Shanghai Volunteer Team."

"Yi Yong, is it similar to the local hero we trained?" Han Xiufeng asked subconsciously.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's the foreigner's hometown hero!"

"Where is the foreign soldiers?"

"There are not many foreign soldiers, otherwise there would be no need to recruit merchants and expatriates."

Han Xiufeng nodded slightly, and while taking everyone back to the yard, he murmured: "The foreign gun team of foreigners has been dispatched, which shows that there is a lot of noise in the city. The county magistrate is in trouble, and it is probably not good to be happy to sell chickens."

"Fourth brother, what should we do?" Pan Er couldn't help asking.

"I can't leave even if I want to leave. It's so messy. Where can I go to hire a boat? At this critical moment, I'm not as good as a quiet person. I just stay here without doing anything, just watch it change."

"What if the sects come here?" Su Jueming asked worriedly.

Han Xiufeng stopped and looked at him with a smile and said, "Rebellion is not a joke. I bet the society party is busy now. Taking over the county town is just the beginning, and they have to think about how to defend the county town. Besides, they are different from the Guangdong bandits. There are several society parties, several gangs, and several people. I don't believe that their hearts can really think about the same place and work hard to the same place. In short, they don't have the time to come to us."

Thinking that almost no one in the city knew that the person in front of him came to Shanghai, Wood Quanshen said with consent: "What the Fourth Master said is very true. Not to mention that the party members don't care about this place, they won't come even if they can. After all, they don't know you are here, and they don't know what they are here."

Su Jueming was impressed by Changmao's actions in Yangzhou and couldn't help asking: "Shopkeeper Wu, aren't you worried that they will go out of the city to grab a big family?"

"Since they dare to rebel, they will definitely go to grab the big ones, but even if they grab the big ones, they won't come here. After all, they all know that the house is idle and no one lives in it. Besides, the big ones and shops outside the big east gate, the big east gate, and the south gate are enough for them to grab the big ones." Speaking of this, the shopkeeper Wu suddenly remembered something and smiled bitterly: "Fourth Master, those sects don't need to grab the big ones, they have money in the city."

"Where can you go and grab the money from a big company?" Han Xiufeng asked in confusion.

"There is it in the yamen!" Manager Wu said helplessly: "Isn't selling chickens a good time and supervising the Jiang Customs? All the taxes of Jiang Customs are stored in the road warehouse, and there are at least 400,000 taels. There are also a lot of silver in the county government. Before the land silver and miscellaneous taxes collected in the first half of the year have been released from the vassal treasury, they are all cheap. Do you think they will lack silver?"

Han Xiufeng may not believe what others say. Han Xiufeng believes that Woodquan said this. After all, even if the county government office or the road department pays the tax bank, even if he does not look for "Risenchang", "Risenchang" will go to the county magistrate and "selling chickens" because they do this business.

Hundreds of thousands of taels were gone, no wonder they all said that the bandits were richer than the court.

Han Xiufeng felt a pity and pondered: "It's too late to say anything now. Mr. Wu, aren't you going to Songjiang to report the message to Qiao Futai, and by the way, you can stop Manager Wu. If you want to go, just go there while the party is not at ease. You can rest assured that the money and account books of the billboard are not enough. There is also a lot of copper coins in the same coin."

"Thank you, Master Fourth!"

"No need to be polite."

...

After sending Wood Quan away, Han Xiufeng walked into the flower hall and looked at Lu Daming who was brushing the gun and asked, "How is this gun?"

Having a gun in his hand, he was not panicked. Lu Daming held the gun in front of Han Xiufeng and said with a smile: "Second Master, look, this gun is made of iron. Although it is an old gun and has not been used with gunpowder, I dare to conclude that it is better than the foreign guns we used before."

"Then use it first, keep it safe, and never get out of trouble."

"Don't worry, we're careful."

"Go busy, by the way, let's continue to explain. Don't take the gun out of the door unless you have to."

"I know, we don't even have a knife when we go out, let alone a gun."

Lu Daming bowed and walked out of the flower hall with a gun in his arms. Pan Er Gang Han Xiufeng brewed a cup of tea and said with a wry smile: "Fourth brother, why are our luck so unlucky? If you come to sell guns, you can encounter the rebellion of the party."

Han Xiufeng took the teacup and said lightly: "It's good to get used to it."

"It's good if you get used to it. Fourth brother, can you still get used to this kind of thing?" Pan Er was ridiculous.

"I'm not kidding. Think about it, the Guangdong bandits were in trouble, conquering the city and siege all the way from Guangxi to Jiangning, and now they are divided into troops to attack Beijing and Huguang, Jiangxi, Anhui. What is this? This is the chaos in the world. The party gangs in Shanghai and the gangsters in Qingpu, Jiading, are not so much like rioting, but rather taking advantage of the chaos. If the Guangdong bandits did not cause chaos, if all the green camp soldiers around Shanghai and Shanghai were transferred to Jiangning, they wouldn't dare to borrow a few courages."

Seeing Pan Er thinking, Han Xiufeng continued: "The same is true for bandits in northern Anhui and Henan. In short, as long as the military system of the court is still like this now, when encountering problems, you can only draw two hundred soldiers from here, draw three hundred soldiers from there, and piece them together to quell the rebellion. Those little girls who see the empty military force of the court will be ready to move, and will even pull flags and rebel like these gangs in the city."

"Fourth brother, even we know that the soldiers are too few and too dispersed. Why don't the princes and ministers in the capital know? It is impossible for the emperor to know, why don't we recruit more soldiers?"

"The princes and ministers in the capital know that the emperor is also aware of it, but it is not that easy to recruit more soldiers. First, they need money and food to raise soldiers. The court does not have so much money and food, and the court does not dare to raise too many soldiers at all."

"Why don't you dare?"

"I don't even know what you are doing," Han Xiufeng looked up at Pan Er and sighed softly: "This country is a man of Manchus, but how many Manchus can there be in the world and how many Han people are there? Besides, the Eight Banners' children cannot open their bows and shoot arrows. Even if they recruit soldiers, they can only recruit Han people. If you are the emperor, don't you worry?"
Chapter completed!