Guangzhou City, Guangdong and Guangxi Governor's Office.

In the signing room, the person sitting on the head was an old man in his sixties. He was wearing a black silk gown and a dark blue Batulu vest with a clear face and wrinkles on his forehead.

The old man picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said to a big round-faced official in his fifties in his head: "Tufutai, didn't you say you would leave in three days? Eight or nine days have passed, why are they still staying on Tanzai Island? Now the rumors have spread to Guangzhou City."

The person who is called "Tufutai" is naturally the governor of Guangdong Tusab; and the old man in the forefront is Sun Shiyi, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

"Sun Jiantai, the official is about to send his men to question him and is about to report to you." Tusab gave a bitter face and scolded Heshen's slave Wang Ping a hundred times in his heart. He had clearly explained it, but who knew that he had done this!

Sun Shiyi said again: "As soon as those people arrived at Jiwangyang, they first fired fire and attacked the British, and a few days ago, they fired the ship of the pirates of the Han family. What are they trying to do? What news is there today in the coastal defense yamen?"

"The Haigongyamen sent people to report in the morning, except for the first two days when Macau sent a ship to deliver cargo. However, according to Beizhi's guess, they might have had a holiday with the English people before, and they started fighting as soon as they met. As for the pirates of the Han family, the officials really don't know."

Sun Shiyi felt helpless. Since he became the governor of Guangdong, he has been working decisively. Whether it is cleaning up local tax arrears, arresting groups of thieves, or investigating former governor Fullerhun in the first few days, he has cut off the mess quickly and was deeply appreciated by Qianlong, so he was promoted to Governor General of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Unexpectedly, after a few days of taking office, he was extremely passive by a large iron ship. If this were a ghost-like Westerner, he would have sent people to severely denied and expelled them, or he would have instructed the Macau Portuguese to handle the matter through the Coast Defense Office. But now he is not facing Westerners, but a group of thieves who have defeated tens of thousands of troops of the court!

Send a navy to fight? Not to mention the lessons of Agui and Fu Kang'an, the British were beaten to a bag in a few days; it was a sailing ship carrying dozens of cannons!

I heard that Zhao Ni's big ship was shot and only lost a piece of paint. Then he used two quick cannons that were as loud as lightning, which made the British run away in a hurry and boarded the ship that night to apologize.

Thinking of the dozens of warships in the Huizhou Coast Defense Camp, Sun Shiyi felt powerless. He was already writing a memorial in private, and he was preparing to give the Qianlong Qing Dynasty a few days to choose a talented and skilled man to train the Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-Guangdong-land Green Camp.

"Then let Chen Guilin take people there and ask about the situation. When the emperor asks, I will give you an explanation." Chen Guilin, who was mentioned by Sun Shiyi, was Chen Xinhuai from the Tongzhiyamen of the Haigong Prefecture.

"It seems that this is the only way." Tusab sighed and bowed to his order.

Since Beihai Town put back a large number of Eight Banners, it has been vaguely circulated between the court and the country. Although Zhao Ni had few people, his firearms were extremely sharp, and they were eroded dozens of miles between lightning and thunder. It is hard to match the existing cannons and clamps of the court. Although some people in Guangzhou were released from the north, the news was only circulated throughout the city, and ordinary people did not know it.

Sun Shiyi was far away in Guangdong, and he also listened to some of the Fengyans, but he was also very curious about what Zhao Ni's men looked like. The so-called "knowing yourself and your enemy" would be mentally prepared if he met in the future. Thinking of this, Sun Shiyi brought a tea cup slightly. Tusab understood that the master of the Taiwan Strait saw him off, so he said goodbye and left.

After Tusab left, Sun Shiyi said to his personal soldier Goshha: "You go and call a few people and change into casual clothes. Tell the following: If someone comes to me these two days, I will say that I feel cold occasionally."

After some arrangements, Sun Shiyi changed his clothes and dressed himself up as a wealthy businessman. He took four subordinates pretending to be family servants and came out of the back door of the Governor's Office, found a silk and bamboo sedan chair, and went outside the city. After that, they hired a watermelon boat outside Youlan Gate and headed straight for Humen Tariff.

Two days later, Chen Xinhuai, who received the order from the Governor's Office, took half of the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion to board the ship at the Nanwan Wharf in Macau and headed straight for the Thunder God.

When the Dakangliu from the Haigongyamen approached the Thunder God, he contacted the sailors on the deck by his subordinates and the sailors on the deck, Chen Xinhuai gritted his teeth and climbed the gangway. But after just a few steps, Chen Xinhuai's legs immediately trembled. No, the gangway was too narrow, so he could only go first. After finally getting on the deck, if his subordinates hadn't snatched the general up a few steps and held it, Chen Xinhuai would almost collapse on the deck.

When he carefully looked at the tall ship tower and the wide deck, the seventy-year-old Chen Xinhuai was already scared to the point of being incoherent and kept muttering: "Toxu, magic..."

When Zhao Xin met Chen Xinhuai at the meeting, in addition to a general standing behind the other party, there was also a follower in official uniform. The 70-year-old man looked calm and held a hookah with a crane leg in his hand, sucking it with a squeak; he disdained the cigarette on the table.

"Mr. Chen, right? I am Zhao Xin."

"Yes." Chen Xinhuai didn't raise his head and continued to light the hookah with paper media, but his trembling right hand still exposed the panic in his heart.

Zhao Xin was too lazy to even arched his hands, so he sat opposite Chen Xinhuai and said, "Is there anything wrong with me today?"

The old bureaucrat was stunned when he heard Zhao Xin's fluent official words. He looked up at Zhao Xin, then lowered his head and sucked his cigarette one by one. After a strange sound came out of his throat, he stopped and said, "You have a marriage with the Red-haired Yi people?"

Zhao Xin was stunned, and then realized that the other party was talking about the British. "Do you want to talk about the holiday? There wasn't before, but this time I came."

"What's that?" Chen Xinhuai is from Fujian and has been an official in Guangdong all year round, so his official speech sounds extremely awkward.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! "Mr. Chen, how long have you been a co-guild of the coastal defense?"

"My adult was transferred to this position last year." The boss behind Chen Xinhuai suddenly spoke.

"Well. So have you paid attention to opium?" Zhao Xin felt that since he had the chance, let's mention the opium matter, do his best and leave it to fate.

"Opium?" Chen Xinhuai looked at Zhao Xin, then turned to look at the general. "What's wrong with opium?"

"Western people can't make money when they come to China, so they transported more and more opium into Guangdong." When Zhao Xin spoke, he noticed that the boss suddenly had a little unnatural face.

"Just. I have everything in the heavenly realm, what's the use of those things? What's more, even if the red-haired Yi people sell opium, what does it have to do with you and others?" Chen Xinhuai threw half of the remaining paper media on the table and took a new one from his followers.

Zhao Xin said seriously: "Because we are all Han people, Lord Chen, you are still Han people after all. Opium will become addicted to eating it! It is a poison!"

Chen Xinhuai shook his head disregardedly, and looked at Zhao Xin with a sarcastic look on his face and said, "You are really worried about a lot. This is my Qing Dynasty. As the emperor's decree of the coastal defense, I have my own qualities, so you don't have to worry about it. Those red-haired people came to my Chinese territory. Although they made unheard money, whoever dared to disobey, the emperor would be able to break their tea, silk and rhubarb, causing them to bloat and die of bloating."

Zhao Xinxin said what was the matter with rhubarb? He didn't know that Europeans had a tradition of eating rhubarb since the opening of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty. Before local edible rhubarb was cultivated, they imported medicinal rhubarb from China for a long time for more than ten centuries, and were even longer than the tea trade. However, compared with the British, Tsarist Russians, who mainly eat meat, had a more urgent need for rhubarb.

Because of the large export volume of rhubarb and tea, the Qing officials had an illusion that the barbarians from Western countries would suffer from constipation and bloating without Chinese rhubarb and tea.

Zhao Xin said with some amusement and crying: "Mr. Chen, I don't understand where you came from these ideas. Westerners can't die if they don't eat rhubarb! They are just getting used to it, just like you smoke a hookah."

Chen Xinhuai disagreed with Zhao Xin's explanation. He thought that since ancient times, the Chinese barbarians would be barbarians. You, a guy who didn't even have hair and beard, would be embarrassed to say that he was a Han?! He didn't plan to discuss the issue of Dahuang with Zhao Xin again, so he asked again: "Are all this ship made of iron?"

Zhao Xin didn't expect that the other party started to go off topic again, so he nodded.

"Absurd! How can iron float on the water? You must have used evil techniques."

"Mr. Chen, this is science. There is not only iron, but also steel on the ship."

Chen Xinhuai pointed to the light on the light and asked, "What is this?"

“Electric light.”

"Absurd! Thunder and lightning are the power of heaven, how can people use it casually?"

"Then what do you think it is? There is a candle hidden inside?" Zhao Xin completely lost his temper when facing such a stubborn old man.

After a lot of chatting about the topic, Chen Xinhuai became more and more sure that the guy opposite was a demon, so he started talking about the topic.

"According to the order of the Lord Fu Tai, I came to ask why you haven't left yet? You have said that you will leave in three days."

"Something happened. We have to wait for seven or eight days before leaving. Is there any problem?"

Chen Xinhuai took a few sips of water before slowly saying: "All the king's land is the king's land, and all the king's ministers are the king's ministers. The power of the emperor is like divine power. The emperor is wise and in a prosperous era, his kindness spreads all over the world. Even if the waters of rivers and lakes in the world are combined, they are not as good as the emperor's kindness. I see that you are a talented person, why should you raise troops and cause trouble?"

Zhao Xin was a little amused. Chen Xinhuai held it in a long time and actually said these nonsense. Is he planning to persuade the surrender? He just heard the other party continue, "I won by chance, but you have to know that my Qing Dynasty is more than one million soldiers. In the eyes of the emperor, you are just a native chicken and a treasure."

Zhao Xin looked at the old bureaucrat curiously, not understanding where the other party came from his confidence.

"Such a big iron ship." Chen Xinhuai spoke again. "What do you rely on to drive it? Are you sailing?"

"Well. It depends on oil, fire, and water." Zhao Xin suddenly felt it was quite interesting, just tease this old man.

"Oh?" Chen Xinhuai thought for a while, feeling that he seemed to have found the answer to Zhao Xin being stranded. "Has the fire on your ship been extinguished? Did the oil leak?"

"Mr. Chen, my boat is a unique treasure in the world. Within a hundred miles, from a boat to a small one, there is no escape. I am not afraid of any headwind or tides. Just like the Humen Fort that you are proud of, I can blow up the five cannons. As for the Guangzhou city wall, two cannons can explode."

Chen Xinhuai's face turned pale, and he handed the hookah to the follower. It seemed that because of his excessive tension, his whole body shivered as if he was electrocuted, and leaned over and asked, "Is it the ones covered with cloth on the side of the ship?"

Zhao Xin smiled and said, "As long as you get caught, nothing can be stopped, and it will all become fragments."

At this time, Chen Xinhuai's follower took the hookah away from his mouth, wiped the pipe rod with his sleeve, and handed it to Old Man Chen's mouth. He held the cigarette pier, and Old Man Chen pretended to be calm again.

He looked at the captain's suit on Zhao Xin's body and suddenly said, "The material of this clothes is good. How much does it cost?"

Ah? Zhao Xin was stunned for a moment, thinking that this old man was too unreliable!

Seeing that Zhao Xin didn't understand, the man said, "My elders are running back and forth for your sake. You should respect my elders for a few pieces of cloth to express your feelings. Do you don't understand this rule?"

Zhao Xinxin said, I understand you, a hammer! He actually asked for bribes. Okay, it’s time to end.

"Mr. Chen, go back and tell the person who asked you to come. I have nothing to do here and I need to wait for another ten days. If anyone doesn't offend me, I won't offend me. If you think you can drive me away by force, you might as well try it. Then you lose face in front of Westerners, don't blame me for not reminding you today! If you make me angry, I will take the Humen Fort first!" Zhao Xin finished speaking, and then picked up the teacup.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You! Unreasonable! Let's go!" Chen Xinhuai's beard was shaking. He put the hookah on the table, shook his sleeves, and stood up with the handful. At the same time, the follower was packing the tobacco pipes, tobacco leaves, and the paper media alone.

On a three-plate boat not far from Thor, Sun Shiyi hid in the tent, holding a thousand-mile mirror and observing the Thor with his mouth open. He didn't expect that the ship was so big that it could reach the length of several black boats.

If this is a large iron ship as rumored, it would not be enough to use any warships from Huizhou Navy! Unexpectedly, Zhao Ni was not only sharp guns and cannons, but also a giant ship.

He turned to the boatman and asked, "Have you seen this ship when it started?"

The boatman shook his head and said, "Master, if you hadn't given you a lot of money, how could we dare to come? I heard that when the ship arrived, it was amazing, and the movements were like thunder. All the ships of the ghosts were scared away. Just sounded scary."

After saying that, the boatman pointed to the thick anchor chain hanging from the bow of the Thor ship in the distance and said to Sun Shiyi: "Master, look at the iron chain, it is thicker than the waist of a villain. These barbarians are really rich and have endless magic power."

"Oh?" Sun Shiyi asked curiously: "The magic power is boundless?"

"No, if there is no mana, how can such a large iron ship float on the water?"

Sun Shiyi nodded thoughtfully and suddenly moved his heart. When Wang Lun rebelled, he served as the governor of Guangxi, and later he also heard about some evil deeds when destroying Wang Lun.

It is said that when the Qingshui Sect Wang Lun revolted in the 39th year of Qianlong's reign, in order to deal with the bombardment of Qing army's cannons, Wang Lun pulled a group of naked women to the front of the formation, which shocked the Qing army, who had never seen such a strange formation, and did not know how to resist. The then Grand Secretary Shuhede saw that the cold weapons were not working, so he pulled up the cannons to prepare for bombardment. Later, someone used a master move, and each of the Eight Banners pulled a hair and fired it with the shells. Wang Lun's rebels were in chaos.

While he was thinking about it, he heard his subordinates say, "Master, the ship from the Haigong Yamen has left."
Chapter completed!