Although Qiao Songnian had to help support the army's food and salary, he didn't have to stay outside Shanghai. Before returning to Songjiang, he was worried, so he changed into casual clothes and quietly came to the concession under the escort of Master Xu and his family.

Han Xiufeng didn't expect him to come, for fear that he would be stared at by the association, so he immediately ordered Chen Hu and Ji's second-class Lao Tai Yong Camp brothers to strengthen their vigilance and asked Datou and Cuihua to quickly hold a banquet.

Qiao Songnian came to Jiangsu not long ago, and after taking office, most of them were in Songjiang. He was usually busy. Many gentry in Songjiang Mansion did not recognize him, let alone the sects in Shanghai. So he was not worried about being assassinated at all. He sat down and took the tea from Ren Yuer. While looking at the furnishings in the villa with great interest, he asked with a smile: "Zhixing, you are building a house next to the horse racing hall, and this is the same, right?"

"It was built according to the pictures of foreigners, but the layout and style are not much the same as here."

"Why is it different?"

Han Xiufeng smiled and said, "How long can I live in Shanghai? Even if my child is older, I will only live for a while and have a long experience and open my eyes, so there is no need to build it like this. I don't have a garden, surrounded by a circle of shops, a small yard and a three-story western-style building, with more than twenty rooms up and down, as well as a kitchen."

Qiao Songnian put down his cup and said, "I remember that you built it as a guild hall. Naturally, the more rooms the better. You can rent the outside shops to others for business. The rent you receive can be used as repairs."

"That's what I think."

"I know that you value rural friendship. There is nothing wrong with respect to rural friendship. But you are now a fifth-rank court official and no longer the chief official of the guild."

Han Xiufeng couldn't help but smile and said, "When I bought land and built a house, I was not the acting director of the Songjiang Prefecture Coast Defense and the supervisor of the customs of Jiangxi Province."

"Yes, yes, I almost forgot." Qiao Songnian nodded, then asked curiously: "Zhixing, do you recognize Zhou Xingyuan, who is heading towards the handsome way to act as the Shanghai County Magistrate?"

"Recognize him, what's wrong with him?"

"He seems to be not only here to act as a county magistrate, but also to start a donation."

"This is happening." Han Xiufeng smiled.

Qiao Songnian looked at him with a smile and said, "I don't have to manage the opening of a li donation, nor is it my turn to manage it. But if you want to start a li donation in Shanghai, you can't avoid Yang Nengge. I thought Yang Nengge would not like him, and even wouldn't let him set up a card to collect money in Shanghai, but he didn't expect that he would convince Yang Nengge. Yang Nengge nodded, and Wu Xu and Sun Feng could only help Jiangnan camp raise funds in Shanghai."

Sun Feng is a supervisor in Shanxi. In other words, Sun Feng is his Qiao Songnian, and Wu Xu is the way Xu Naizhao took. In other words, Zhou Xingyuan came to Shanghai to start a donation. He and Li Naizhao were originally opposed to the matter of Zhou Xingyuan, but he did not expect Yang Nengge would actually support him. In this way, no matter whether he, the prefect of Songjiang or Li Naizhao, the acting governor of Jiangsu, was not easy to say. After all, Shanghai is the "Zhili County" of Su Songtaidao, and Yang Nengge didn't say anything, and they were even more difficult to intervene.

Han Xiufeng didn't expect Zhou Xingyuan to do so smoothly, and asked curiously: "Brother Jianhou, do you know how Zhou Xingyuan convinced Yang Nengge?"

"What is Yang Nengge's most lacking?"

"Silver." Han Xiufeng reacted and couldn't help asking: "Brother Jianhou, are you saying that he will be divided into weight with Yang Nengge after receiving Lijin?"

“Yes, not.”

"How do you say this?"

Qiao Songnian smiled bitterly and said, "Zhixing, your friend is really a good person to collect money and ointment from the people. He knew that Yang Nengge was short of money, so he bewitched Yang Nengge asked for an order to set up a township bureau, and specialized in collecting donations from various industries in surrounding towns such as Minhang. Yang Nengge was ill and rushed to apply for a doctor. Not only did he urgently apply for a 400-mile construction, he also planned to set up a township bureau in Minhang, so that your friend would be the general manager, and even a new director of the Minhang inspector and township bureau."

"This Zhou Xingyuan really thinks what Lord Yang wants and is anxious about what Lord Yang is anxious about."

"I think he is a scam with Hu, and I don't know who Yang Nengge is."

"Mr. Jian doesn't know that Lord Yang is not easy to serve. Zhou Xingyuan is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He has been a person who has transported Yunnan Tong and squatted to the Ministry of Justice. What's more, he now has support from Shuai Xiang and Lord Peng. Lord Yang can only use him. It's not that easy to kill a donkey if you want to remove the mill and kill a donkey."

"He has transported Yunnan copper and also stumbled in the prison of the Ministry of Justice?"

"I have been the county magistrate for a few days."

"So that's it. It seems that I underestimated him."

Looking at Qiao Songnian's thoughtful look, Han Xiufeng said lightly: "He is him, I am me. Not to mention that Lord Yang will not treat him as his own. Even if he treats him as a confidant, he will not look down on me, Han Si because of him."

"Then what are your plans next?" Qiao Songnian asked subconsciously.

"I have to ask you for your blessing. I am the current official. I want to quit but can't. I can only take one step and see what else can I plan."

"Zhixing, I'm sorry, I really didn't expect Yang Nengge to be so pedantic before."

"What's the use of saying this now? Let's talk about the things in front of you. When will Lord Xu plan to attack the city?"

"Sun Tzu said: If you want to surround it, you will attack it if you want to 5. According to the investigation, there are more than 10,000 rioters in the city. In addition to the brave bravery recruited by Wu Jianzhang and Sun Feng these days, Lord Xu's subordinates have less than 10,000 available soldiers, and guns, cannons and other weapons are not as good as the party. How can this city attack? He can only surround it first, build siege ladders and other siege equipment while waiting for reinforcements."

Qiao Songnian put down the teacup and added: "Although there was no large-scale attack on the city, the battle has started. Before I came, Lord Xu ordered Xue Huan, Liu Cunhou, Hu Songlin and Qin Ruhu to send additional brave troops to intercept and kill the rebels. Yang Nengge was not idle either. It is said that he had ordered people to capture more than a dozen rebels."

Han Xiufeng did not expect that the incident in Yangzhou would repeat itself in Shanghai. He was thinking about how long the city would take to attack, Qiao Songnian said again: "Mr. Xu asked Wu Jianzhang to donate 200,000 taels to pay. Wu Jianzhang was indeed rich. He sent someone to send the money early this morning. However, this money was of great use. He had to take out 50,000 taels to buy guns, gunpowder and other military funds, and 80,000 taels to pay the soldiers, because they had already owed them more than two months of salary, and the remaining tens of thousands taels were used to recruit Zhuangzhuang."

Han Xiufeng had no idea of ​​making the money, so he nodded slightly, then changed his subject: "Brother Jianhou, Mr. Wu's nephew of Rishengchang will take a boat and go back to Beijing tomorrow. Do you want him to send a letter home?"

"No need, I just asked someone to send a letter to my home a few days ago."

"Where are classmates and friends in Beijing?"

"Realistically speaking, Jingxin should be connected for a long time, but it is a turbulent time, and compared to those who were the smallest officials in the same year, I would not bother them and would not lose this person."

Speaking of this, Han Xiufeng couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Jian, who are your most successful official careers in the same year? What is your current official position? What position do you hold?"

Qiao Songnian sighed: "If you want to say that the most prosperous official career is Ye Mingchen. He became the governor of Guangdong at the age of 38, and last year he was appointed as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He was two or three older than me. He is already a rank of officials!"

"So he is only in his early forties?"

"Yes, so he is the most prosperous in his official career and the most prosperous in holy family."

"How did he become the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi?" Han Xiufeng asked curiously.

"The bandit suppression has made great contributions to quelling the rebellion. Although Changmao and the rebellion in the city are mostly from Guangdong and Guangxi, with him in charge of the suppression, there is no chaos in Guangdong and Guangxi. According to friends in Beijing, the good news in Guangdong and Guangxi are one after another, and the list of bandits and bandits who were awarded the heads was piled up several feet high. It seems that during this period, people are busy in ordering people to check where the ancestral graves of Hong Xiuquan and other bandit leaders were buried, and they plan to dig out the ancestral graves of those with long hair."

Han Xiufeng couldn't help but think of Xu Laogui, who was also cruel and ruthless, and couldn't help but sigh: "Not only killing people, but also planning to dig out people's ancestral graves. He is really good at becoming an official."

Qiao Songnian not only did not think Ye Mingchen was cruel and rude, but even admired him a little, and said lightly: "If you use heavy dictates in troubled times, you and I, as officials of the court, must not be kind to women."

Han Xiufeng murmured: "I am greedy for life and fear of death and don't like killing people, so I can only be a peaceful official, but now it's not peaceful today. I really don't know what to do."

"I don't know how to do it, I have already achieved the fifth grade. If I know how to do it, then what else can I do with me, Qiao Songnian?" Qiao Songnian smiled and said, "But then again, Yang Nengge is really not easy to serve. If you want to get out, you can negotiate with foreigners as long as you can recover the tariffs on commercial goods from England and France. Even if you want to continue doing this, you can't do it."

"In terms of this, if we can impose tariffs on commercial goods between England and France according to the old rules, then the fattest person in the world will be my turn, just how easy it is to negotiate with foreigners."

"No matter how difficult it is, you have to negotiate. This is for both the court and for yourself."

When Han Xiufeng mentioned this, he was angry and raised his arm to point to the two official documents sent by Ding Gui on the desk in the morning: "English, the ministers and consuls of France thought I was a little small, and they knew that I didn't pay attention to me and ignored me at all. As Su Song Taidao, Yang Nengge should have come forward to negotiate with foreigners, but he avoided him. In the morning, he sent someone to send two official documents to the English and French consuls, asking me to hand them over to the British and French consuls, thinking that the foreigners could submit it by relying on official documents."

"How did he tell foreigners in the official document?"

"Cite the scriptures and reason with foreigners. I can't even stand the wording and tone, let alone foreigners."

"Since you know that foreigners will be unhappy after watching it, why don't you find someone to translate it as foreigners can continue to watch it?"

"I don't have the courage, and I don't want to be criticized by thousands of people and leave a reputation for it forever."

"He is pedantic, you can't be pedantic!"

"You are standing and talking without a headache. I, Han Si, are indeed donated and are looked down upon. It's nothing to be looked down upon by people, but as for my child, I have to think about my child."
Chapter completed!