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Chapter 109 Take over Tianjin

The next morning, Qin Zheng first ordered all the prisoners from the concession to Tianjin City, and began to clean up the ruins, construction waste, demolish dilapidated houses and other work.

Although large-scale engineering construction is not carried out in Tianjin, the environment in Tianjin is really bad, and it has reached the point where it is necessary to manage. Now it is just cleaning up the ruins and construction waste in Tianjin, and demolishing dilapidated houses. There is no need to occupy any resources. It is mainly manpower. The most important thing that the Travel Group lacks is manpower. In addition, the environment in Tianjin is also for the benefit of time travelers. After all, there are troops and other staff stationed in Tianjin. It is completely necessary to give them a good working environment.

As for whether to build incomplete drainage, sanitation systems, and public facilities in Tianjin, the ruins, construction waste and dilapidated houses in Tianjin were cleaned up before the task of escorting prisoners was still handed over to Luo Yue.

After dealing with this matter, Qin Zheng ordered that while starting to review and register the residents in Gordon Hall, he recruited consulates from various countries to come to Gordon Hall for a meeting.

After the consuls arrived, Qin Zheng personally met them and announced to the consuls that the time travelers wanted to regain the sovereignty of the consuls and their decision to manage the consuls.

After hearing Qin Zheng's announcement, the consuls of other countries focused on the British consul Jin Zhang and French consul Du Shilan. Because both Britain and France are old colonists, and now the main body of the Tianjin concession is the British and French concession, the consuls of various countries naturally follow the leads of Britain and France.

The consuls of Britain and France were very calm at this time and did not show any anger or excitement. Because Britain and France had a lot of experience in colonial colonial affairs, they knew that once there was a turmoil in the colony, they should not act rudely with the other party when they encountered a forceful expulsion of colonial institutions. The unlucky one was himself. Instead, they should obey the other party's mercy. As long as they saved their lives, everything else would be fine. Not to confiscate the consortium and inspect the consulate, everything else could be given up, including money. As long as the consuls learned from China, it was called "A hero will not suffer a loss in front of him." As long as people are alive, they can wait for the domestic dispatch of troops to find the place.

Seeing that the consulates of Britain and France did not react strangely, they naturally did not express any objection. Because they were in a country where there was no concession in Tianjin, this group of overseas Chinese still retained the consulates of various countries, and confiscated only the concessions of various countries. In this way, they did not suffer any losses. If they wanted to inspect the consulates, they would let them check it.

Qin Zheng was disappointed when he saw no one saying a word. If anyone objected, he could express his tough stance, but no one could cooperate with the play and couldn't sing it. So he said: "If all the consuls have no objection, then..."

At this moment, the Russian consulate suddenly stood up, waved his hands, and shouted: "I protest, I protest, the consulate is a diplomatic institution, you have no right to inspect, our Russian consulate will never allow you to inspect."

It turned out that the Russian consul had been frustrated with hearing it for a long time. He thought that the consuls of Britain and France had protested, so he resisted the attack. As a result, the consuls of Britain and France did not give up any of them and just recognized them like this. The Russian consul naturally couldn't help it and immediately jumped out to express his protest.

Qin Zheng glanced at the Russian consul. This guy was tall and big, fat, big belly, yellow-haired face, and looked like a big bear. He said, "Okay, since the Russian consul refused to check the consulate, I announced that he would immediately expel the Russian consulate, take back the consulate, and execute it immediately."

The Russian consul was stunned for a moment, not expecting that the other party would be so tough and did not take Russia seriously at all. He immediately raised his voice and said, "The Tianjin Concession was established by our country and the Qing government, and you have no right to expel it."

Qin Zheng said lightly: "Since it is an agreement reached with the Qing government, then go and protest to the Qing government."

The Russian consul was stunned. Now the empress dowager and emperor of the Qing Dynasty had no idea where they had fled. They went there to protest to the Qing government. Is it useful to protest to the Qing government? Now the one who wants to expel himself is this group of overseas Chinese, not the Qing government.

Qin Zheng didn't allow him to think too much. He was trying to find something to establish his authority in front of these consuls and let them know that they were different from the Qing government. The Russian consul himself jumped out and was waiting for nothing if he didn't attack him. He immediately said: "Plane Leader Luo, drive him out immediately."

The one who was responsible for defending Luo Yue's land war platoon was responsible for defending. Hearing Qin Zheng's greeting, Luo Yue immediately took two soldiers into the conference room, one left and one right, holding the Russian consul, and dragging him outward. The Russian consul was unwilling to give up, kicking his legs and stretching out his hand, struggling desperately. As a result, a soldier raised his butt and smashed his stomach twice. The Russian consul was beaten to scream and could no longer resist. The soldiers dragged him out of the conference room like a dead dog.

Qin Zheng said again: "Platform Commander Luo, immediately send someone to seize the Russian consulate and expel all consulate staff."

Luo Yue immediately said, "Yes." Then he turned around and left.

During the whole process, the consuls of all countries who sat in the country just watched, but no one spoke to the Russian consuls. Many consuls were still secretly laughing at the Russian consuls, who were too ungrateful. What is the situation now, and they still had to fight against this group of overseas Chinese. Isn’t this arguing for their own luck? Because Russia has a bad reputation in Europe and there are not many countries that like Russia. Therefore, when they see Russia taking advantage of the bad things, everyone is a little gloating.

However, British Consul Jin Zhang and French Consul Du Shilan exchanged glances with each other. Both of them heard some tricks from Qin Zheng's words just now. Although this group of overseas Chinese were under the banner of returning to China, they seemed to have no intention of respecting the Qing Dynasty in words. From this point of view, this group of overseas Chinese and the Qing Dynasty may not be the same. Of course, this relationship cannot be used for the time being, but it will be difficult in the future, and there may be times when it is useful.

At this time, Qin Zheng said, "So, consuls, are there anyone else to protest?"

Seeing the result of the Russian consul, who dared to do anything else, so he remained silent. Qin Zheng turned his head and said, "Okay, since there is no objection, then I decided like this. Everyone will go back and prepare. In just one or two days, we will send someone to check. I hope you can cooperate well and not have unpleasant things happen."

At this point, consulates from all countries also said goodbye, left Gordon Hall, and returned to their respective consulates.

After leaving Gordon Hall, German Consul Qin Moman caught up with the British and French consuls and said, "Sir, are we just surrendering like this group of overseas Chinese now?"

Jin Zhang said: "Mr. Qin Moman, there is an old Chinese saying that those who know the current affairs are heroes. At this time, we should not directly confront this group of overseas Chinese. The Russian consul is the best lesson. Therefore, we are just giving in temporarily. As long as our army retakes Tianjin, the concession will still be our world. Now all the lost can be brought back, and more will be obtained."

After hearing this, Qin Moman also turned his head and said, "So that's the case, I understand."

After the consuls of various countries left, the time travelers immediately began to review and register foreigners gathered in Gordon Hall.

In fact, this matter is not complicated. As long as you understand English, it is enough, because most of the foreigners living in the concession are British, and even if they are not British, they can communicate in English. Among time travelers, almost everyone knows a few sentences of English. It is not surprising that they have passed the fourth, sixth, TOEFL and other exams. On the contrary, it makes foreigners feel very surprised. In this era, there are not many Chinese people who know English, and among this group of overseas Chinese, it seems that everyone understands English.

The review content is actually very simple. It is to ask for name, age, nationality, industry, address, family members in the concession, and have been living in the concession for several years, whether they work for others or open a store by themselves, if they are opening a store, what business are they engaged in, which industries are there, etc., and record them one by one. If there is no doubt, just register the photo, and then issue a residence permit with a printout of the avatar, and then you can go back to your residence to live. However, people with industries have to wait for the next step of industry review before they can open. Of course, each person also sends a temporary daily concession management system.

Those who have been reviewed also breathed a sigh of relief. They thought they would suffer a lot of difficulties, but the content of the review was within the acceptable range for everyone. Although some people's industries still have to wait for further review, they have also felt much more at ease. At least the personal stability in the concession can be guaranteed.

Some people abroad were shocked by the photography technology of this group of overseas Chinese. Although cameras have been released in this era, they obviously cannot be compared with modern digital cameras. What's more, cameras in this era can only take black and white photos, while overseas Chinese print color photos. Although it is not the industry that people do not know the principle of photography technology, how many technical thresholds are needed to cross from black and white photos to color photos, they also know that the technology of color photos is obviously much more advanced than black and white photos.

Many foreigners have made up their minds. If they can master this technology, they will bring them much benefits. Therefore, if they have the opportunity, they can talk to this group of overseas Chinese and cooperate to develop.

In one morning, most of the foreigners gathered in Gordon Hall were registered, and they had left Gordon Hall and returned to their residence. The rest of them also gathered at the door of the room where the registration and review were processed, waiting for their turn.

The staff of the Tianjin Concession Bureau of the United Kingdom were very straightforward. They packed up their things in one morning, left Gordon Hall, and moved to the British Consulate to live. However, when they left, they all held their heads and chests up, and they all looked very stinky.
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