Ali Guo and Aitang came to the Qing army station with banknotes, guns, and ammunition. They did not enter the military camp, but waited outside the camp. Moreover, the two of them also brought a thousand coalition soldiers, led by the French
Fleet Commander Rachel. With Rachel's protection, Aitang and Aliguo can rest assured. At the same time, it can also show that the British and French coalition forces are capable of fighting, hoping to intimidate Li Zhen.
Aliguo recruited a guard and ordered the guard to go to the Qing army camp to report.
The guards entered the camp, met with Li Zhen in the tent, and asked Li Zhen to come out of the camp and return the prisoners.
Li Zhen shook his head and refused: "Go and tell Aliguo and Aitang that the exchange location will be in the camp, and that the British and French forces must stay outside the camp. Only Aliguo and Aitang can come in. These are my conditions.
Never change."
The guard smiled bitterly, but retorted: "Your Majesty General, the exchange is an agreement between both parties, how can it be done in the camp?"
"Why not?"
Li Zhen said with a smile: "This is my territory, I make the decision. Come here, get kicked out."
At that moment, Huang Hu directly drove the British soldiers out to see the camp.
After the guards left the camp, they returned to Aliguo and reported Li Zhen's words in detail.
Hearing this, Aliguo's face turned red with anger, and his eyes burst into flames. Aliguo, who had always regarded himself as a gentleman, clenched his fists full of fat and wished he could order his soldiers to attack. Aliguo already had it in his heart.
The thought of revenge was that after Adams returned with the captured soldiers, he must order the Union soldiers to retaliate.
Aitang said: "Old friend, Li Zhen returned the soldiers in the camp because he was afraid of us. Let's go and exchange them in the camp." After a pause, Aitang looked at Russell again and said: "Your Excellency, Commander
, could you please wait outside the camp."
Russell nodded and said seriously, "Mr. Consul, I am ready for war at any time."
Aitang and Aliguo looked at each other and headed towards the Qing army camp.
At the same time, soldiers with ammunition, guns, and money also came forward. After the group entered the camp, the soldiers stationed at the entrance of the camp immediately became alert, carefully guarding the foreigners outside the camp. Li Zhen also led the soldiers
After leaving the big tent, Adams and the captured soldiers were brought out at the same time, and the two sides exchanged information in the camp.
With a dark face, Aliguo pointed to the box in the place and said unhappily: "Your Excellency, General, you can inspect a thousand guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition."
Li Zhen said: "Mr. Consul really keeps his word."
At that moment, Li Zhen ordered Huang Shihai and his soldiers to randomly inspect the guns and ammunition brought by Ali Guo, and then also checked the guns and ammunition brought by Aitang. After confirming that the weapons brought by the two men were not fake, Li Zhen nodded.
, said: "The guns and ammunition are qualified. I wonder how you have prepared the money?"
Aliguo snorted coldly and said: "There is a saying in China that one hand pays the money and the other hand delivers the goods. We have already given guns and ammunition. Shouldn't you show something?"
Li Zhenxiao said: "Huang Shihai, return one hundred prisoners to them each."
Aliguo and Aitang frowned when they saw Li Zhen being cautious. They didn't expect Li Zhen to be so cautious.
Li Zhen continued: "Two gentlemen, I have already shown my sincerity. Now is the time to cash in the money. The British army has 500,000 taels of silver and the French army has 300,000 taels of silver. Not a single copper penny is less."
Aitang's heart was bleeding, but he ordered the soldiers to come holding a box made of nanmu.
Aitang said: "Your Excellency General, here are the bank notes of three hundred thousand taels. Please check them." The French soldier came to Yang Banhou with the wooden box, handed it to Yang Banhou, and then handed it to Li
Vibrate.
Li Zhen took the box and said, "I believe in Mr. Aitang's personality, so there is no need to check it."
When Aliguo saw that Li Zhen did not check, he secretly said that he was too stupid.
If Li Zhen didn't check, even tens of thousands of taels of silver would not be discovered.
However, it was too late to cheat now. Aliguo also asked the guards to take out a box and handed it to Yang Banhou. Inside the box were stacks of banknotes, a neat stack, totaling five hundred thousand taels. Li Zhenlai
He accepted it without hesitation and without checking. In this way, 800,000 taels of silver, 2,000 rifled guns, and 400,000 rounds of ammunition were all obtained.
Li Zhen ordered: "Huang Shihai, let him go."
At that moment, Huang Shihai asked the soldiers to release Adams and some soldiers.
Adams lowered his head, looking depressed.
The soldiers who followed Adams returned to Aliguo and stood quietly. Aliguo looked at it carefully, suddenly frowned, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face, and said angrily: "Li Zhen, the British and French forces paid money
, guns, ammunition, everything has been done as agreed, why are the number of soldiers you returned not enough? This does not match the number of prisoners you said."
Li Zhen nodded and said, "Mr. Aliguo is so attentive, Li Zhen admires him."
"You, you, you are shameless!"
At this moment, Aliguo even had the urge to vomit blood.
Aitang frowned and asked, "General, please give us a reason."
Li Zhen explained: "Mr. Aitang, Mr. Aliguo, it's not that I don't believe you two, but because their actions are so evil, I really can't believe their verbal agreement. Next, I will
I will attack the county town of Shanghai, but I am afraid that the two of them will cause trouble for me, so I temporarily left two hundred coalition prisoners. Among them, one hundred were captured by the British army and one hundred were captured by the French army. They continued to live in the camp and waited for me to capture it.
He was sent to Shanghai County and then released back."
The corner of Aliguo's mouth twitched, and he was extremely afraid of Li Zhen in his heart.
In fact, Aliguo and Aitang had already negotiated, and after all the prisoners were exchanged, they were going to attack the Qing army camp and get back the lost money. Not only that, but they also had to blackmail Li Zhen severely before giving up.
Li Zhen played a little trick and neither of them dared to move.
Aliguo said: "I will let the coalition forces help you attack the city, and you will release the remaining coalition soldiers, okay?"
Li Zhen shook his head firmly and said: "Mr. Aliguo, we can solve our country's affairs by ourselves, and we don't need foreigners to intervene. Wait until I win Shanghai, and then you two can enter Shanghai. I am the new Jiang Customs Supervisor.
I am responsible for the tariffs in Shanghai. We will have in-depth talks when the time comes. But now we must be more cautious and not relax easily."
Aitang nodded and said, "Just do what the general wants and let's go."
Aliguo raised his eyebrows and wanted to refuse.
But when Aliguo saw Aitang's expression, he listened to Aliguo's advice and left together. After leaving the camp, Aliguo asked: "Old friend, we still have soldiers left in the Qing camp, why don't you accept the request?"
What about striving for it?”
Aitang's eyes were deep and he said in a deep voice: "Li Zhen is extremely tough, and there is no point in arguing."
Aliguo said: "We have to fight."
Aitang said: "Li Zhen wanted to attack Shanghai, but with the equipment of the Qing army and the current firepower of the Qing army, it would be even harder to capture Shanghai. We watched from the sidelines, and when the Qing army suffered successive setbacks,
Li Zhen will definitely seek firepower support and will ask us for support. When the time comes, wouldn't it be better if we take back the remaining coalition soldiers and extract money?"
Aliguo smiled and said, "Old friend, you are really scheming."
Aitang chuckled twice, walked to Russell, told the story, and retreated with the coalition forces.
Ps: Sixth update two; Xiaodong continues to explode, but the ranking is not good, it is very miserable, and I am heartbroken, please support me!
