62 Pirates: I'll tell you who's the boss
It was already evening when Huang Demei cried to Zhao Kuo's subordinates. The crowds outside the Governor's Office had already dispersed, but the pedestrians still stepped on the dirt road with firecrackers covered with firecrackers and were happily discussing these new Fujian bandits. Sha Baozai and several subordinates were walking on the road outside the Governor's Office. The guide to them was a dazzling young man, a young leader Luo Qianjie, who was not only wearing a Taiping military uniform but also wearing a black eye mask, and built a new "Crusader".
The two met because when the rescue fleet went to Xiamen, Luo Qianjie was sitting on Sha Baozai's ship.
Zhao Kuo sent hundreds of soldiers to follow the fleet and acted on camera. Luo Qianjie was not accustomed to the sea, and Sha Baozai was more flattering and caring for this little "scholar" who was called "Mr." by his subordinates, so he became friends.
Luo Qianjie pointed to the avenue that passed through the front of the Governor's Mansion and said, "Brother Sha, this road is said to be rebuilt in a while and will be built into a foreign road that runs through Guangzhou."
"Is the stone road? The kind in the Forbidden City?" Sha Baozai looked at the dirt road that could be seen everywhere in the Qing Dynasty and looked confused.
"I don't know, I don't understand what the French word means. It means it should be re-edited anyway." Luo Qianjie smiled.
"Your Majesty is really interesting," Sha Baozai touched his nose, pointed to the area opposite the Governor's Office where Zhao Kuo "forced demolition" was said, and said with a smile: "They ascended the throne and built a large-scale construction in the palace, and he built a large-scale construction outside."
"'It's useful, your Majesty's original words." Luo Qianjie smiled and then introduced: "The French consulate is built directly opposite, and the two are British and American Chamber of Commerce next to it. In fact, they are all planning to dispatch diplomatic personnel, but they temporarily use the name of the Chamber of Commerce for the Qing Dynasty. His Majesty said that British and Americans are too treacherous, haha."
"The world has changed, foreigners and God have entered Guangzhou City." Sha Baozai shook his head and sighed.
Then he seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked Luo Qianjie with a "sneer smile" on his face: "Little Luo, it's time to have a meal, have you ever played outside the city?"
"No." Luo Qianjie answered honestly.
"Anyway, you have returned from meritorious service, and the Sudi military camp is outside the city. It's okay today. Come with your brother to see the dark land of Guangzhou." Sha Baozai grabbed Luo Qianjie's arm and walked forward with big strides.
After it got dark, outside the city near the port was indeed a barbaric place, but it was also a bustling place, just like a sewage pool bubbling.
In these low, dirty alleys with stench, there were Indian San, a deserter from the glorious British Empire, sitting on the ground selling his rifle, shouting in broken English: "Granted by Her Majesty the Queen!" Prostitutes with heavy makeup shouted pedestrians to pick up tourists in dirty alleys or bows. On the streets, naked foreigners were lying directly on the ground. They were unlucky sailors who had drunk too much and were looted by robbers, and even their clothes were stripped; several inferior opium halls destroyed by bandits or the Taiping Army were fired, and beggars regarded this as their new home; occasionally, the sound of muskets fired in the distance of the night sky.
Leading the stunned Luo Qianjie, Sha Baozai laughed: "This is the other side of Guangdong, which was the case before the Battle of Chuanwuyang (the First Opium War)."
As he said that, he kicked the big white butt of the foreigner in the middle of the road and smiled: "Although foreigners had special bars to enjoy these sailors at that time, these bitches also liked to rush to these places to enjoy the lowest prostitutes and inferior white wine. If they were snatched and stripped away once, they were not considered old customers, hahaha."
"The land that God has not taken care of." Luo Qianjie closed his one-eye and drew a cross on his chest.
When he opened his eyes, he found that Sha Baozai was also closing his hands together and murmured: "God bless Tathagata and Mazu bless him."
"Brother Sha, do you believe in Christianity?" Luo Qianjie shouted in surprise.
"All he is a god." Sha Baozai smiled: "Bless all the gods, let's have a good time to have a meal at sea."
Then he held Luo Qianjie's shoulder and pointed to the sampans carrying passenger goods in the river and whispered: "Did you see that, all those who came out to attract customers at this time are part-time robbers. Whether natives, foreigners or military personnel, you can rob them. Don't get on their boats alone without a knife or musket. At that time, it would be light to rob you of money."
"What exactly is this?" Luo Qianjie, who had been in the city or military camp, was stunned.
"Guangzhou, oh, no, it's called Haijing now. But no matter whether the time passes or the owner changes, some things cannot be changed." Sha Baozai smiled and pulled Luo Qianjie forward, saying, "Take me to my favorite bar, Pirate's bar."
The bar was right by a dirty river, passing by behind a drunkard peeding against the river bank. Sha Baozai, Luo Qianjie and three bodyguards entered the two bars guarded by thugs with their eyes wide open. The atmosphere inside changed. Several large torches illuminated the spacious bar as bright as day, and it was full of people. On the big platform in front, a few foreign women were dancing. Amid waves of whistles, drunk foreigners and Chinese sailors betting dice below. The bet was that Chinese silver ingots were facing the Mexican eagle, and there were several dollars and pounds. Someone had a cigar in his mouth, and a prostitute sat on each of his legs. On the left was a small-footed Chinese girl, and on the right was a big smoke couch with a corner of the smoke. Several legs were hidden in the smoke of the smoke.
"Isn't this Brother Sha? I haven't seen you for a long time." Behind the Western-style bar, a woman with extremely strong body supported her arms thicker than ordinary men on the counter, looked at Sha Baozai with light blue eyes of Chinese and Western blood and smiled: "What are you busy with recently? Pirates? Qing dynasty? Smugglers?"
Then she saw Luo Qianjie in Taiping Army uniform, picked up his eyelids and said, "f**k! Could it be that he was stumbling under the new emperor?"
"Fat Sister, pirates are always pirates," Sha Baozai smiled and sat in front of the bar. Then he pushed away the person next to him, pulled Luo Qianjie over, and introduced: "This is my new friend of the Song Dynasty, Xiao Luo, this is fat sister. Fat Sister, give us some glasses of high-end foreign wine."
"Hello." Luo Qianjie nodded.
The fat sister looked at the young Luo Qianjie, curled her lips and murmured: "I also believed in God. My father is a Christian. He died of drinking too much. It might be better to die." While putting a few glasses of wine in front of several people, she said to Sha Baozai: "Brother Sha, how can you really be able to mess around. When will you get involved with the new emperor?"
"Haha, I am the Marquis of the Great Song Dynasty now. Marquis of Haiyi! Fat sister, I said that I don't want to be an official at all. If I want, no matter how old the official is, it's no problem..."
Before Sha Baozai finished speaking, Fat Sister interrupted him: "damnit! Have you gone to save Fujian Zai? Then you are rich. A ship is sold at Dasong. The price is very high. I remember you have two ships with cannons, and the new emperor will give you a lot of money."
"Don't never see the world like this," he didn't expect the news to be so well-informed. Sha Baozai laughed dryly and said, "Compared with being a pirate, I don't take this little money seriously. I'm loyal to the world. Damn, there's no way."
"Don't blow anymore." Fat sister smiled coldly: "During the war, British warships are everywhere in Guangdong and Hong Kong. How can pirates be so easy to do? Have you made up for my wine money?"
"When did I owe you money? Last time I came to you to give you three boxes of opium, and I gave you 50% off. I didn't say anything..." Sha Baozai and the boss's wife Fat Sister were still over, and an uninvited guest had already come to him.
A tall man with a braid brought several people to Sha Baozai and the others. Before Sha Baozai could turn his head and see who it was, the tall man had already pulled Luo Qianjie's shoulder.
"Snakeskin Li, what the hell is going on?" Luo Qianjie looked shocked and said nothing, while Sha Baozai and his group immediately stood up and asked fiercely. Fighting is a common occurrence in this tavern.
"Chaozhou Sha Baozai, I recognize you, but it's not your business!" The man Li of Snake Skin stared at Sha Baozai and shouted, then he turned his head to look at Luo Qianjie and shouted, "Are you Taiping Army?"
Luo Qianjie stared at the man's face full of flesh with one eye, put down his cup, and nodded.
"Fuck you Taiping Army! Why did you burn my opium restaurant?" The man Li of Snakeskin cried with gritted teeth.
"So that's how it is." Luo Qianjie was stunned for a moment, then smiled.
Opium, indeed, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but feel the people on the surface, but if he secretly broke any city, he would send people to directly destroy the original opium restaurant, kill the owner, and sweep the opium and treasures in the store - this is the bloody unspoken rule of the Sea Emperor, who used violence to directly reshuffle the cards.
"You little bastard dare you laugh?" Snakeskin Li was furious. Any opium museum represents wealth and status. If you can do this, it means that you have a lot of money and also represents the power of your backstage. If you don't have a backstage, you don't want to make opium. But the crushing of the opium museum means that the phoenix has been plucked, declaring the beginning of a new order, whether it is white or black.
"It is good for your health if you don't smoke opium. You will be disgusted by God." Luo Qianjie said in a whisper. This calm voice was beyond Sha Baozai's expectations, so he had a bottle of wine in his hand and forgot to smash it.
"You little foreign sect, dare you come here? I am the boss here! I don't care if you are a bird Taiping Army or not, I wish I could tear you down. Believe it or not, I'm fucking now..." He was so angry that he was half-expected by this air, Snakeskin Li roared and spitting on Luo Qianjie's face.
The roar was so loud that the whole bar was quiet, and everyone was looking at it, waiting for the beginning of a fight or humiliation. The former was the strong versus the strong, and the latter was the strong versus the weak.
But in an instant, the quiet roar of the entire bar disappeared, replaced by death-like silence. Fat sister seemed to be surprised for a moment, but immediately she sneered, pulled out a dry tobacco rod from under the counter, hugged her chest with her hands and looked at it.
The person sitting behind the Snakeskin Li could only see Snakeskin Li suddenly began to slowly retreat, while the drinkers who were close to Snakeskin Li stood up and dodged backwards. The three friends of Snakeskin Li dispersed in a panic, and pulled out the swords and muskets on their bodies in a daze, pointing at Snakeskin Li. Even Sha Baozai and the four of them watched in a daze, forgot to move.
A piece of gun barrel was stuffed into the mouth of the snakeskin.
Luo Qianjie sneered just now, pulled out a single-action revolver from his boots, pulled out the hammer, and stabbed it hard into the mouth of Snakeskin Li.
Then he stood up, stretched his arms and hooked the trigger, and used the cold iron to resist the soft flesh to step forward ruthlessly. He took a step and Snakeskin Li took a step back.
"Do you know what this is?" Luo Qianjie looked at the blood flowing along the barrel, with no expression on his face, and he didn't care whether it was a bleed from his lips or teeth. He had seen too much blood.
Unable to speak, Snakeskin Li's eyes turned down desperately, then glanced at the terrifyingly cold eyes in front of him, stunned for a moment, and nodded slightly with his muzzle in his mouth.
"That's easy." Ignoring the two knives and a musket beside him, Luo Qianjie smiled and said, "Kneel down!"
What? The snake skin Li's eyes were turning back and forth, looking at his subordinates, but no one dared to act rashly when the gun entered his mouth.
"I told you to kneel down." Luo Qianjie smiled coldly, pressed his tongue against the other party's mouth and exerted force. Snakeskin Li stared at the other party and slowly knelt down.
"Who is the boss now?" Luo Qianjie smiled at the kneeling party, and the gun in his hand stood in the other party's mouth.
Snakeskin Li knelt there, looked around, holding the terrible barrel, his face flowed down like a stream of cold sweat, and he whined and couldn't speak.
Luo Qianjie stared at him coldly, raised his thumb and poked himself in the chest, and said, "I tell you, no matter what you did before, the boss is us now! Do you understand!!! If you don't understand, I will use bullets to make you, the braid demon understand."
"Snakeskin Li, are you crazy? A boss of an opium restaurant dares to be the boss? Who doesn't know that you are a gangster? If you don't rebel, don't challenge the army! My brother has killed more people than you have seen." Sha Baozai smiled and leaned over, letting Snakeskin Li's friend take back the weapon with his eyes, then slowly grabbed Luo Qianjie's gun-holding hand and dragged it out, and said with a smile: "Don't pay attention to this fool."
"Do you understand?" Luo Qianjie roared suddenly.
Snakeskin Li looked at Sha Baozai next to him in horror, then looked at the one-eyed dragon with the trigger high in front of him, and nodded in panic with the barrel in his mouth.
Luo Qianjie smiled, pulled out the barrel full of saliva, then wiped the head of Snakeskin Li twice, and scolded, "I'm the most disgusting braid."
"Get out quickly." Sha Baozai pushed his face hard like a slutty look and wished he could hit the snake skin Li head-on.
As several people were walking out in disgrace, a burst of laughter and whistle burst out from the bar.
"Good gun." The expressionless boss's wife, fat sister, was always calm when she was holding the cigarette pole. She had seen such things too many times: "A very expensive American gun."
Luo Qianjie weighed the barrel in front of the boss's wife, put it in his boots, and smiled and said, "I don't know the price. It is said that when Forbes, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce, gave him 20 pieces when he was selling arms to His Majesty, he gave me one."
"You are a big shot." Fat sister picked her eyelids, spit out the smoke ring, turned to look at Sha Baozai and said, "The soldiers and thieves are one, okay. It's exactly the same as when Lao Ye was there."
"What a thief, I am the marquis of the Song Dynasty! Marquis of Haiyi! The edict is placed on my boat! This brother met when he saved Xiaodaohui, his godson! "Sha Baozai shouted.
Fat sister ignored Sha Baozai, took out another bottle of foreign wine and said, "I treat you to this wine today. Conventionality. Qing soldiers have also come here before, but they don't charge money. Of course, they can't receive it either. The officers and soldiers will always be the boss."
Looking at the bottle of foreign wine, Luo Qianjie smiled, took out two eagle-yang from his arms and took pictures on the counter: "I'm not a Qing Yao. I paid. I just drank a glass, it's enough. Now I'm going to go back to the military camp outside the city."
"No, brother, you were so strong that you made a snakeskin just now. Do you dare to kill someone and not drink? I can see that you are amazing." Sha Baozai grabbed Luo Qianjie.
Luo Qianjie smiled and said, "The Bible says that we are all sinful, so we can pull out our guns to fight, but drinking too much will only make you fall."
"What does this mean?" Sha Baozai was stunned.
"Simply put, I can't drink too much, I can drink some, because I'm on vacation today, but I can't run away if I get drunk with bamboo board fried meat." Luo Qianjie smiled.
Chapter completed!