Shanghai Beach, Shiliupu Pier.
The night has not yet completely faded, with only a line of fish belly white showing in the eastern sky, and a layer of mist covering the Huangpu River, making it a vast expanse. At this time, there were already many people wearing short coats, belts, shirtless, and pigtails gathered on the Shiliupu Pier. There were no less than two thousand coolies wrapped around their necks, holding in their hands a foot-long, extremely sharp knife.
Under the dim light, all the bitter and angry faces were filled with extremely excited expressions, and their bloodshot eyes were full of desire for counterattack. Everyone seemed to be like a tower about to erupt. volcano, and the day it erupts is today!
In the mist on the river, a few firelights suddenly flashed out, and the people waiting anxiously on the pier made a noise that seemed to be deliberately suppressed.
"Mother Xipi, we are finally here!"
Chen Ji, who was coming from Yihe Mathematics Wharf, cursed in a low voice and stared at the slowly approaching firelight on the river with wide eyes. It was coming from a large open wooden boat. Chen Ji vaguely saw that the boat was full of people. It’s the man in red clothes and scarf!
"It's the Taiping Army!"
A Cantonese man next to Chen Ji shouted excitedly, "The Taiping Army is coming..."
Then came the shouts of more Cantonese and Fujian people.
Chen Ji, who was hiding in the crowd, hurriedly shouted along with everyone. While shouting, he looked around nervously and found that the people dressed as coolies standing beside him at the dock were all staring at the slowly approaching large ship on the river. No one noticed his presence, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The reason why he had such a reaction was because he was different from most of the people gathered at Shop 16 today!
He's not here to rebel, he's here to be an undercover agent!
He was sent as an undercover agent by Mr. Winster White, a foreign man. Above Mr. Winster White, there was also Mr. Matheson, and above Mr. Ma was the British consul Aliguo!
In Shanghai Bund, Mr. Aliguo is such a tall figure that he would tremble even if he stepped on the Bund.
In other words, if he goes up three levels, he will be a figure like the Supreme Emperor of Shanghai, such as Mr. Aliguo. If he has reached this level, will he still stand with the rebels of the God Worship Society, the Heaven and Earth Society, and the Little Sword Society? White Sir, he has said that as long as he does a good job as an undercover agent this time, the British Empire will support him to become the "gang leader" of the Shanghai Tang Cao Gang, and all the coolies on the docks of Jardine Matheson and Baoshun Matheson will be under his control.
Then he will be famous! He is the hardest worker in Shanghai, no, the biggest coolie!
When he thought about the future of "the biggest coolie", Chen Ji's eyes widened and he observed hard.
Soon, the big wooden boat broke through the thick fog on the river and appeared near Shiliupu Pier. It was about to dock. At this time, the first ray of morning light from the east had already shot down, shining on the boat. A wooden boat slowly docking.
Now Chen Ji finally saw clearly!
There were dozens of people standing on the boat, and a large flag was erected, fluttering in the early morning river breeze. But he was illiterate and didn't know what was embroidered on the flag? Fortunately, not all of the two thousand people on the dock were Illiterate, someone soon shouted out.
"Holy Angel Wu King! It's Holy Angel Wu King!"
"The man under the red flag is the Holy Angel King Wu!" "Great, King Wu is here in person at the age of 5,000!"
At this time, Chen Ji also discovered that the holy angel of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, King Wu, was five thousand years old, Luo Yaoguo! He saw that man in red robes and red scarves, with big shoulders and a round waist, a shoehorn face, a wide lower jaw, protruding forehead bones, sunken eye sockets, and exposed eyes. A fierce light, a straight nose, a big mouth, and a pockmarked face...at first glance, he looks like a demon in disguise!
No wonder someone on the beach spreads the rumor that Luo Yaoguo is some kind of demon descended from heaven! It seems that this rumor is not unreasonable!
Later, Chen Ji heard the Cantonese people shouting "Su Sanniang" again. "The person next to His Highness King Wu must be Su Sanniang, right?"
"What a tall guy..."
"Little red coat, long skirt, two peace knives...yes, it must be Queen Wu!"
Chen Ji immediately noticed the woman standing next to the "devil in disguise". This woman wore a tight-fitting red jacket on her upper body, which outlined her figure. She wore a long red layered skirt on her lower body. Her skin was as good as snow, and her eyes were Big and bright, with a rosy mouth and a high nose that highlights the three-dimensional sense of the facial features. However, she seems to be younger than Su Sanniang, who has long been famous in the world. She may only be seventeen or eighteen years old, but at most she is twenty years old.
Just when Chen Ji discovered that "Wu Wangniang" had some wrong goods, the big ship had already docked at the dock, and then he heard a voice like a silver bell shouting: "The Holy Angel King Wu has issued an edict: Take the county seat and destroy the demon." , attack the concession, and chase the barbarians!"
Chen Ji listened carefully to the woman's accent. Although she spoke Mandarin, she still had a distinct Wu accent, and Su Sanniang was from Cantonese.
However, it is not surprising that a figure like Wu Wang Luo Yaoguo has a group of queens.
Chen Ji analyzed it and felt that it was not a problem that Queen Wu was wrong.
At this time, the "transformed demon" suddenly pulled out his sword, pointed in the direction of Shanghai's Xiaodongmen, and shouted: "Kill!"
This cry of killing was like throwing a ball of fire next to a pile of dry firewood, and the Shiliupu Pier was suddenly filled with shouts of killing.
A long-prepared red flag embroidered with "Taiping Unification" was suddenly raised among the crowd, and then several more were embroidered with "Pinghu Governor Li", "Left Marshal Chen", "Right Marshal Lin", The flag of "Flying Tiger General Pan" was raised high.
Immediately afterwards came bursts of slogans of "Kill the demons and go to heaven." The disciples of the Little Knife Society who gathered on the Shiliupu Pier all took out their knives, poles, and sticks. , led by the banner of "Flying Tiger General", they rushed towards Xiaodongmen like a tide.
However, Chen Ji was not so reckless, and went to attack the county town with a knife... Although Luo Xueyan's army was no longer in Shanghai, there were still two thousand Shanghai New Army troops led by Wu Jianzhang in the Shanghai county town, and there were still two companies in the foreign concession. There are foreign soldiers and foreign gunboats on the Huangpu River, which cannot be dealt with by traitors with two or three thousand swords.
So Chen Ji, who aspired to become the "biggest coolie" in Shanghai, found an opportunity to sneak into a narrow street outside Shiliupu Pier, and then watched coldly as the disciples of the Little Sword Society passed by on the street, and then witnessed The Taiping troops who got off the big ship surrounded the "Holy Angel King Wu" and also headed for the Xiaodongmen of Shanghai County.
The equipment of these Taiping troops is much better than that of the disciples of the Little Sword Society. They all have brown bass guns. The female general who is following "Wu Wang" also has an American-made revolver that can fire continuously!
But with just a few dozen foreign guns, there is no way they can break into Shanghai County.
Chen Ji was hiding in the alley, thinking this, when he suddenly heard cheers like a mountain roaring and a tsunami coming from the direction of Xiaodongmen.
of!
He quickly listened and heard shouts in Cantonese and Hokkien.
"Hit it in!"
"Kill the demon and go to heaven!"
"We have entered Shanghai County..."
Called in?
How could it be so fast? Chen Ji took a closer look and found that a red flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was flying on the low small east gate tower!
British Concession, British Consulate.
The British Consul Aliguo and Vice-Consul Waitoma had already finished washing up and were sitting in the restaurant, chatting and enjoying their English breakfast. They were only halfway through eating when they heard a "bang" sound. The door was knocked open immediately.
The two of them raised their heads and saw Mathisen, the chief executive of Jardine Matheson, standing there with his face flushed, pointing at the window, gasping for breath. This chief executive of Jardine Matheson was from Shanghai Beach. A well-known gentleman, even if he wants to fire someone, he will calmly announce to the person with a smile that he has never seen him so angry in so many years.
"What's going on?" Witoma asked, "Could it be that Mr. Bonham's ship arrived early?"
Aliguo asked calmly: "I guess the Chinese devil did something strange?"
Matheson nodded in admiration and took a long time to catch his breath. He had come all the way from the Jardine Matheson Building!
Because he just got the report, something big happened this time!
"Mr. Consul, Mr. Vice-Consul, what's wrong, Luo Yaoguo has invaded Shanghai!" "How is that possible?"
"This is impossible!"
Aliguo and Weitoma both shook their heads, both looking in disbelief.
Matheson strode to the closed window, then suddenly opened the glass window, and then a loud and noisy sound poured in from the outside.
Aliguo and Weitoma both took a deep breath.
Chapter completed!