Chapter 1: The Wind and Clouds Rising One Hundred and Twenty-Six Rules of the Jungle

Qiao Island is located on the west side of the Pearl River Estuary, and is the first gate to the Pearl River Estuary. The island is full of mangroves and beautiful scenery and many birds. The villagers of Qiao Island make a living by fishing. On September 7, 1833, Huang Yaxiu and his son drove their own sloop fishing boat to sea to sell fish. It was still early at that time, and only a slight light could be seen on the horizontal plane.

The three of them arrived at the Venus Gate and saw a multi-masted sailboat moored on the nearby sea. Huang Yaxiu was about to take a detour when two speedboats were placed on the large ship, and each ship was about to row over five or six people.

Huang Yaxiu and his son were eager to row back, but not long after they were driven up by the speedboat. These people overturned Huang Yaxiu's fishing boat, and they were fierce and wanted to bring the father and son to the big boat. Huang Yaxiu's eldest son Huang Jichou took advantage of the foreign devils being plunged into the river by a fierce man.

Huang Jichou escaped by luck and invited a group of people to Jinxing Gate in the village.

At this time, Huang Yaxiu and his son had been drowned and their bodies were floating on the shore.

When his father and brother died, Huang Jichou was in great grief. He was searching around in a small boat, but the foreigners' big ships were very similar, where could they tell the ship of the murderer that day.

Foreigners are expanding wildly on the earth by their adventure nature. Every time they travel 6 to a certain place, they will always carefully try to spy on the local people. First, they deliberately conflict with the local life, and then decide whether to continue conflict or make up temporarily. If the local people are very powerful and get the friendship of the local people, they will expand their power in the local area until they feel that they are strong enough to remove the local people, and they will erase them without hesitation. Just like the American Indians and the Australian natives. Both disappear in the long river of history, leaving behind the sighs of future generations.

The first spy on China's huge country was the Portuguese.

In 1518, the Portuguese Simao Andrade led three ships to Tuen Mun. He built houses and fences in Tuen Mun without authorization. He thought he could be as domineering as in Africa, and they treated the local Chinese with the attitude of treating African black people. These forgetful Portuguese drove away Chinese merchant ships. They plundered Chinese crew members and seized the goods of Chinese merchant ships. They condone their subordinates to rob local people. They ravaged local women. They even colluded with mainland traitors and plundered the population.

It was during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, and this incident aroused the resentment of the court. In 1521, Wang Hong, then deputy envoy of Guangdong's submission of sea routes, entered Nantou Town, Dongguan, just one sea from Tuen Mun. Soon, Wang Hong formed a semicircular encirclement of Tuen Mun with 50 warships and attacked the Portuguese army. In this battle, Wang Hong commanded decisively and flexibly. Although the Portuguese army had an expedition team to join the battle, he still suffered heavy casualties. Ximang Andrad abandoned some of the ships and fled in panic on three large ships in the dark.

The following year, Portugal sent another fleet to the South China Sea area of ​​China and met the Chinese Navy in the Xicao Bay area of ​​Xinhui. China refused the Portuguese request to return to Tuen Mun. The two sides then fought fiercely and the Chinese Navy won again. After that, the Portuguese established residence areas in Shuangyu Port on the Zhoushan Islands in Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and carried out large-scale smuggling activities. In 1548, Zhejiang Governor Zhu Wan ordered an attack on Shuangyu Port, burned all the buildings there and ships in the port, and filled the port with wood and stone.

This first spy left a deep memory for the Westerners, and the Portuguese finally used bribery and other means to gain a foothold in Macau.

The second spy was when the Dutch occupied Taiwan, and this time it was uprooted by Zheng Chenggong.

The third time was when the Russians started in the northeast, after the Battle of Jaquessa. The Russians luckily obtained land east of Daze (Lake Baikal) under China's tolerance.

Lulaobei was ordered to go to China to collect intelligence. When he arrived in Guangzhou, he secretly instructed opium dealer Ma Ki to provoke the Chinese government, with the purpose of spying on China's reaction, which also led to the tragedy of villager Huang Yaxiu.

For his own considerations, Maji arrogantly thought that he could take Qiao Island as his own and used it as an opium base to smuggle and sell it to mainland China.

At noon on January 13, 1833, Maki sent another person to the ashore to disturb the public.

At that time, Su Shangpin, a villager from Qiao, and four others were fishing at the harbor at the foot of Jinxing Mountain. They heard Guo Yaxiang, the same villager shouting "The barbarians steal cows." They went ashore and saw foreigners pulling the cows away, and captured the cows. Huang Jichou was at home at the time. Hearing foreigners stealing cows and rushing out. When they got close, they saw a red foreigner. Huang Jichou hoeed without saying a word, and the foreigner lost half of his head without having enough screams. Red and white flowed all over the ground.

Ma Ji was furious when he received the news. When he was calling the card that day, he sent more than 50 foreigners to the village to cause an accident, and the villagers came out to drive them away. Ma Ji's people saw that there were many villagers, so they fled in a hurry. One of them fell behind and used a sword and a bird gun to deal with the chase. This man was also the one who was destined to meet Huang Jichou, who was angry in his chest. Huang Jichou took advantage of the gap between the bird gun and rushed forward, stabbed the man with a knife, and the man fell to the ground and died immediately.

While escaping, the other British sailors saw the villager Guo Mingqiu and the worker Huang Yayang working in the field, so they kidnapped Guo Mingqiu onto the boat. Huang Yayang shouted, and was shot and injured by them. Later, he died of severe treatment ineffective.

At this point, the matter finally attracted the attention of the court. The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi sent a bidder to the island to garrison. On January 15 (the third day of September), Ma Ji personally led many foreigners to take more than ten sampans, drove to Qi'ao Village, and fired guns into the village. This time they were even more lucky.

Now a team of green camps have been stationed on the island. Ni Yinglong, the general general of the defense, led his subordinates to shoot back, and the people on both sides are fighting lively. Three Fuzi and more than ten fast battleships of the Nanyang Navy appeared on the water. These ships appeared from the downstream of the water, blocking the retreat of Maji and his group.

After Maji and his gang were blown to sink several sampan boats, they surrendered quickly.

After capturing Ma Ji and his gang, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Tongzhi of Macau, and the Xiangshan County Magistrate each issued an order to the British ranks, demanding that they release Huang Yayang and compensate the villagers of Qiao Island for the losses, and not allow foreign sampans to go to the domestic and foreign countries to cause trouble.

In order to redeem Maki and others, the British compensated 50,000 pounds. In addition to compensating the villagers of the damaged areas on Qiao Island, the money also built a fortress on the island.
Chapter completed!