The one who walked in with Zhao Kuo side by side was not the Chinese, but a short and ugly blonde foreigner. He stood in the middle of the front, proudly glanced at the strange-shaped people present with a pair of fish pistachioed eyes, his lips provocatively raised, revealing two gold teeth, and then whispered a very rough sentence from the gap between his teeth in English: "Malegebi, pirates' supper!"

Zhao Kuo could hear this clearly, but he just smiled slightly, and then loudly introduced the foreigner to his guests: "Everyone, this is also a hero at sea, Captain William Davidson, the warrior of the British Empire."

"Big Gold Tooth Davidson!" When he heard this name, more than a dozen waves of pirates at the banquet immediately knew who this was, and their faces changed drastically.

William Davidson is not a pirate, but rather a bounty hunter.

Like a bloodthirsty shark, swimming over the Chinese Sea, using the pirate's head to exchange for the bounty of the British Empire.

Because of the corruption of the Qing Dynasty and its contempt for the ocean, in the mid-19th century, they handed over a trading port at this time to Zhao Kuo, to see whether he, as a local ruler, could maintain the commercial interests of the great powers in this region.

To put it bluntly, it is necessary to test the abilities of the "imperialist lackey" warlord Zhao Kuo.

Now that the answer is posted, Zhao Kuo has not had time to answer the questions properly!

The Nanjing Treaty stipulates that five ports will be traded, and Fujian will occupy the two ports of Fuzhou and Xiamen. If Zhao Kuo is allowed to take over Fujian, it means that all the ways of exporting raw materials and importing finished opium were blocked by rebels from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Zhao Kuo has to do a good job, but what if he is a 2b?

Moreover, even if Zhao Kuo was reborn as Queen Elizabeth and Guangdong and Fujian fell into the hands of the rebels at the same time, it would be equivalent to cutting off the land trade line from the mainland to the coast. The Qing Dynasty's tea, silk and other products could not be transported from the mainland to the rebellious areas. This is not equivalent to pushing the Far East, a major trader, into the quagmire.

Therefore, the British consul made it clear that he did not want the land trade routes to be affected by war again, and hoped that Zhao Kuo could exert his influence on various rebel forces, quickly resolve the matter peacefully and resume trade.

It sounds nice, but the meaning is cold, just like the famous saying of Fa Ge in "The City is full of Golden Armor": If I don't give it to you, you can't take it.

Not only can you not take it, but you also have to quickly solve the problem of business obstacles in Fujian, if you have the influence you brag about.

The French master even clearly "please" Zhao Kuo not solve the problem of Xiaodaohui by force, and immediately strive to restore normal coastal trade in Fujian.

The shameless Americans threatened Zhao Kuo in the newspapers not to attack Fujian. Of course, several American reporters were stuffed with Zhao Kuo's black gold in their pockets, and they had a lot of fun fighting with the former in the newspapers. Some people said that you can tell the signs of the American Civil War by looking at Hai Song's newspaper back then.

Considering that he wanted to hold them, Fujian, a mountainous area, was not a strategic goal that Zhao Kuo was eager to obtain - what he lacked the most was the grain-producing province, Zhao Kuo gave up the strategic goal of winning half of the Qing Dynasty's trade ports in one fell swoop under the excuse of Xiaodaohui. If this was achieved, it would be afraid that foreigners would help him fight the Qing Dynasty directly. Of course, he also had the risk of being subverted by Western anti-Song forces to support new puppets or even directly colonizing China.

Xiaodao has little combat power but a great political influence. It is a thing that can be used to show off oneself and stick to something you are not easy to put on.

Zhao Kuo has been protecting the industry of the "weeds" (people who go to Southeast Asia to make a living), and Xiaodao takes these people as the backbone. Saving Xiaodao will be a major encouragement and call for all overseas Chinese in the Southeast Asia region. This is a huge wealth. Because he wanted to directly take Fujian, he expressed his determination to save his brothers at all costs countless times. If he gives up now, he will be slapping his own face in front of the army and the great powers.

And if you let Fujian go unrest, not only will the knife not become a climate, but the great powers will give him a look of his face, which is very dangerous.

After thinking about it, Zhao Kuo gritted his teeth and shouted: "I won't use force, I'll have a 'Dunkirk' retreat? Now Xiaodao will be blocked on Xiamen Lu Island. I will not occupy Xiamen, nor will I fight against the Qing Dynasty. I will take the rebels directly from the sea. Without the rebels in Xiamen, will the trade be restored? Moreover, I am the great powers and fool the people, Xiaodao will please me from all sides!"

Because I lacked naval troops and personnel who could carry out maritime operations, the Taiping Army marched, but the water war was not even the opponent of the Hunan Army later, and the forces of the Tiandihui Society were only transported inland rivers, and the sea was not their place at all;

Zhao Kuo reported this idea to his masters - basically to withdraw from Xiamen to his territory and restore the order of the Qing Dynasty in Fujian - this idea was immediately nodded and praised by the great powers. Then, facing the difficulty of Zhao Kuo's lack of warships in his hands to break through the water blockade of the Qing Dynasty's naval army, the great powers, who were "neutral and never interfere", smiled and asked the president of the Chamber of Commerce to contact a group of marine bounty hunters in his private name, and handed it to Zhao Kuo as an armed defense ship for the transport fleet. These ships were all small mice compared to the warships of dozens of guns of the great powers, but compared to the wooden small gunboats of the Manqing Navy (if they had them east of Xiamen), they were elephants again.

However, there were 50 warships in the Qing Dynasty around Liuwudian, northeast of Xiamen, and Zhao Kuo had too few armed foreign ships. If he stayed near Xiamen for a long time, these Qing soldiers surrounded him with chicken blood. It is still unknown who will be killed.

Faced with this somewhat risky military transportation mission, the master who is familiar with navigation and dares to fight the Manqing Navy can only search among the pirates and other desperate people on the sea.

Therefore, the force output of the transport fleet can only be achieved by hiring foreign bounty hunters and semi-armed pirate ships and sailors.

Zhao Kuo knew that in history, Xiaodaohui had been guarding Xiamen for a full half year, but gave him plenty of time to contact the heroes at sea. Moreover, although the combatants of the armed ship seemed pitiful compared to the 30,000 soldiers on the waterway of Manqing, if the word "Manchu Qing" was added to the number of military terms in this year, it would be a waste. Even if Zhao Kuo helped Xiaodaohui in history, a small group of people rushed through the water blockade of the Qing Dynasty and escaped. It can be seen that the Qing Dynasty blockade could not be compared with the blockade of Western powers. It might be just a plate of noodles.

As long as the 10,000 soldiers of the Qing Dynasty fully landed and besieged Xiamen, the transport fleet arrived in Xiamen to "steal people and rob people" there would be no problem!

The question is who pays the money.

Although the foreigner boss helped him contact a group of foreigner ships, the money he would not be less than hiring these bounty hunters, all of them were paid out of his own pocket, and he was also responsible for finding, organizing, and contacting the transport fleet.

Finally, Zhao Kuo cried and gritted his teeth and spent 30,000 taels of silver to build a large sea rescue fleet. The goal was to sail directly from Guangzhou to Xiamen Island, break through the sea blockade of the Manqing Water Division, and take the members of the eight thousand little knife clubs from Guangdong. Of course, they could pick up as much as they could (die the rest quickly - Zhao Kuo's private words).

Although there was a lot of silver flow in this operation, after calculating that it was not short of money, what was added was the naked revival and the love for Song.
Chapter completed!