The situation of Tianjin treaty is now clear to both sides. Although the official document has not been finalized and the contract has not been exchanged, according to the habits of foreigners, the two sides have entered a state of armistice.
Zhu Jinglun said, "The treaty has been signed. Why don’t you withdraw your troops?"
It is stipulated in the Tianjin Treaty that Britain and France will each withdraw from Guangdong after completing the compensation, mainly from Guangzhou City.
Hurd said, "We have reasons not to withdraw our troops before we get the compensation."
Zhu Jinglun said, "Maybe we have a reason to attack the city before our court recognizes that you don’t withdraw your troops."
Hurd was silent again, and the guns were ringing everywhere, more encrypted and sounded closer.
At this time, the sallow and emaciated soldiers in the west military camp of Guangzhou Xiezhen near Xiaoshi Street had great opinions, and they got together in groups of three and five to complain.
"Tamar spent a night in the city and ate a cold wind for a night, so he gave two smoke cannons enough for him?"
A heavy smoker who just smoked a pipe and yawned with his mouth open obviously didn’t have enough fun rushed to the side and was still smoking, said his partner
"Don’t look at me!"
The guy who is smoking scolds for fear that his companion will rob his bubble.
This is a barracks, but it has been transformed into a smoke house by coolies. Generally, everyone lies on the couch and smokes.
Most of them are listless, but there are a dozen guys in the corner who look in high spirits
A lazy man lying next to the bed was waited on by others, but no one dared to hate him, because he was a leader in the coolie team, and there were more than 20 brothers who didn’t even provoke foreigners at ordinary times.
"Eldest brother Teng Ghost has just come back and called foreigners to the meeting."
A teenager with dark circles under his eyes is very heavy, but his eyes are black. The coolie bowed and whispered in the leading ear.
The faucet smiled, "You’re still a smart card."
After hitting the small box next to him, it seems that there are always endless smoke cannons in his box, which are not only more than foreigners’ smoke bubbles, but also more powerful.
Without blinking an eye, a deep card looked at the faucet and reached out and pulled out a handful of smoke bubbles. Four or five of them couldn’t help swallowing.
See the faucet throw it at him. "Take it!"
Smoke bubbles were scattered all over the floor. Instead of being angry, a smart card showed ecstasy and gratitude. I was busy picking it up on the ground for fear that it would be taken away slowly. I was addicted to cigarettes and I didn’t care about my tears and nose.
Next to a circle of hostile eyes shot over.
The faucet is cold-snorted, revealing his chest, dark muscles and a ferocious tattoo of the faucet.
"This is an old reward for anyone who dares to make an idea and weigh their own weight!"
After a few cold words, everyone shifted their eyes and dared not look at the faucet.
A deep card is busy thanking Dade. "Thank you, big brother, thank you."
The faucet swept a circle coldly before looking at the deep card. "Go back and smoke your cigarettes, and you won’t be wronged by the old work."
A deep card should have run back to his wettest bed in the corner.
Then the faucet shook his shoulder, and immediately a hand clothed him and put him on.
After wearing the faucet, he swept the crowd again. "Do you think about it? I won’t wait for you tonight."
Say that finish strode out and they followed.
British officers are all at the meeting, with a total of 30 people. Their leader, Captain Tempura, has just returned from the meeting at the General’s Office and assigned them a military service to lead troops to fight in the city. They must assign them as soon as possible.
This is a good opportunity. The leading brother has been waiting for the opportunity. He went straight to the warehouse, not the granary, not the armory, but the guards in the smoky warehouse are also coolies, but these coolies have been bought by him. They went straight into the smoky warehouse.
Soon there was a shout in the barracks, and everyone shouted, "Let’s go!"
There are more than 2,000 coolies in 32 teams, and each team is commanded by a British officer. At this time, they will all get together and hear the barrack voice temporarily interrupting the meeting and come out, only to see the smoke coming from the tobacco warehouse. The coolies are not commanded, running around in a mess and screaming.
The officers immediately took action to organize coolies to put out the fire, but when they saw the smoke bubbles in the smoke box, they knew that the fire was premeditated, because all the smoke bubbles were poured out of the smoke box and set on firewood, leaving some residue behind.
It’s not difficult to investigate. A coolie has rebelled, but the man has disappeared.
People have already arrived at an inn next to Wuxianmen, which is not far from the military camp, but everyone knows that the British have no troops to search for the city
At this time, the leader, who was just down a peg or two, bowed like that deep card and looked flattering beside another person.
"Brother Hou, everything is done. What do you think you have here?"
Sitting next to the faucet and drinking tea is exactly what Hou Jin did not see in just a few days. He has already taken on a new look and has a momentum.
"Do a good job with me. You should know that meritorious deeds will be rewarded. Here are 1,200 pieces of silver to share with your brothers."
Hou Jin said, his eyes swept the table, and the outline table of a cloth bag was a silver ingot.
Leading boss didn’t move the silver ingratiating smile, "It’s not greedy for silver to do things with Hou Ge."
Hou Jin didn’t even look at him. "What do you want?"
Leading boss laughed. "I dare not open my mouth with Hou Ge. It’s this addiction that really tickles people’s minds. All the brothers are so boring to work."
Hou Jin sneer at a "worthless! Well, it’s ready for you long ago. "
My eyes glanced at the bottom of the window, where a standard cigarette box was placed. At first glance, it was that the seals of the box that foreigners’ ships specially loaded with smoky soil had not been tested
Leading boss can’t help smiling.
Hou Jin got up. "Great Smoke keeps silver and Hou Ge never orders people around in vain."
Leading boss flatters, "Brother Hou is welcome. Brothers all know that Brother Hou is a fastidious person."
Hou Jin said and walked out of the door. The leader followed suit in small steps, and then he just missed Hou Jin’s half step and dared not cross the line at all.
Hou Jin continued, "This inn’s backyard is always packed, so you will temporarily live with the emperor. Hungry soldiers will go to Heiya’s house to find some powder heads later, and it’s time to make your brothers happy. Just say it’s always called Heiya."
Guangzhou’s flesh and blood trade has the lowest level, so it is called "home" without special name. It is called "room". Only those top-grade brothels have special names, such as what pavilion and what building. The black tooth family is the largest flesh and blood trade near Wuxianmen, and it is cheap to raise dozens of powder heads, even if it is nearby, it often goes to where to carry live.
As soon as the leading boss heard that there were women’s flatteries, he started shooting again and again.
When I walked out of the inn gate, Hou Jin was so cool and rich!
It’s ridiculous that when I first looked for those faucets, I didn’t take myself seriously. This black dog was sensible and the first thing to do was to hug his thigh, so I had a great deal of smoke. Hou Jin knew that they would come to beg for himself.
The coolies in the barracks are dissatisfied with the recent smoky soil, that is, they are given less and have no motivation to work with foreigners. For a while, they will not get the money. Will you soon be enough for a big pipe? Now that the cigarettes are gone, they will get up and clamor for foreigners to pay.
A foreigner officer, the first two big Tempel Poole, took the money to the city to look for a smoke house and swept it again, but they didn’t find much smoke. However, if they sent money, they were afraid that these coolies would escape from both sides at this critical moment.
Zhu Jinglun didn’t get much news at noon when he came out of the general’s office, but he saw more foreign soldiers going south. They were going to give up the old city and surround Nancheng New City with four walls. This was a wise move. They didn’t have the troops to defend the whole city of Guangzhou. You know, the walls of Guangzhou are fifteen miles long, and their soldiers can’t even hold hands on the walls, so they can shrink and defend.
It’s the general’s office, which is the key point, and it’s even going to give up. Obviously, the situation is worse than Zhu Jinglun expected, and the foreigners’ contraction is more determined than Zhu Jinglun thought.
The general’s office and the governor’s office are in the same street, which is the east-west axis of Guangzhou. Hui ‘ai Street, the general’s office has given up, so the governor’s office probably belongs to giving up the place. Hurd asked Zhu Jinglun to pack up and follow the foreigners to evacuate to the new city, and Zhu Jinglun hurried back to the governor’s office under an excuse.
Bai Gui knows more than Zhu Jinglun. Instead, he tells Zhu Jinglun that Xiang Yong has attacked the northern city and foreigners have given up the whole old city except zhenhai tower.
Bai Gui is very anxious. Think twice that he is going to run!
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What Bai Gui wants to run is not to worry about the soldiers outside the city calling in and hurting himself, but because foreigners told him to evacuate to the new city together. Bai Gui doesn’t intend to mix with foreigners anymore, but two foreign soldiers have arrived at the yamen entrance. Bai Gui needs to escape immediately. After Xiang Yong enters the city, he will join Xiang Yong immediately. Even if Huang Zonghan doesn’t like him, it is better to continue to be controlled by foreigners.
Zhu Jinglun decided to run with Baigui, and a few chiefs fooled a few foreign soldiers in front, and both of them jumped out of the back window.
Fu Li and several old servants were waiting on Baigui at the back door. Obviously, they were already ready.
After entering the lane behind the yamen, I made a three-turn turn and two-turn into a small courtyard. There were weeds and messy doors and windows, and there was a layer of dust. Obviously, no one lived in Guangzhou for a long time. At this time, Guangzhou was almost a ghost town, and less than half of the people stayed in Guangzhou as early as before the war. In the past two days, many people fled outside the city, and probably less than one third of the people stayed in the city. These people are the lowest, poorest and most places to go.