Chapter 17 The Knife Club
"Mr. I want to be an official, but I don't know if he has fame or honor?" Xiang Rong asked carefully. In his opinion, Yang Yi was also a scholar, maybe he was a scholar or something?
"I don't have time to read Kong Laoer's bullshit articles, nor do I have much time to participate in the imperial examination, let alone fame." Yang Yi curled his lips disdainfully when talking about the imperial examination.
Xiang Rong sounded comfortable when he said this. He was a rough man. In order to curry favor with officials in the court, he also learned to say wrinkled words and farts. He was still the rough nature of Manchus at heart. He was not very convinced by those who rely on studying to be officials. Now, after Yang Yi said this, he immediately regarded Yang Yi as his confidant.
"It's not difficult for a sir to become an official. I will definitely recommend it to someone. I just don't know what kind of official he wants to become?"
Yang Yi thought about it and said, "I just mentioned the team training. I just thought about it. The situation is turbulent. Shanghai looks far away from Wuchang on the surface, but maybe one day the thief will come to the front. So I want to find a military position and set up a team training. It can not only ensure the safety of the whole country, but also help the court kill the thief. What do you think?"
Xiang Rong thought for a brief moment: "This Shanghai is a county, and the military position is at most a thousand-ranked general, which is not suitable for Mr. Mr. I think this is the case. Mr. Mr. is a little aggrieved. He is a fifth-rank guard under Xiang Rong. Although he has formed your regiment training, others will ask him, and he said that he was following my order to train troops in Shanghai. I see which bastard dares to cause trouble for me. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr
"It's so great, Yang Yi thanks for your help." Yang Yi bowed to Xiang Rong.
Xiang Rong quickly returned the gift: "I dare not, I dare not, actually, the gentleman has helped Xiang Rong more. This little thing is nothing." He said nothing, but his face was filled with a proud expression.
It was noon the day he spoke, and Yang Yi kept Xiangrong to have dinner. Xiangrong did not refuse. He just asked Yang Yi to send some food to several personal soldiers at the door. The two of them sat down and three beauties brought the hot dishes and wine. Halfway through, Xiaohong suddenly ran in and said, "No, something happened in the factory and injured people."
Yang Yi said to Xiang Rong: "Sir, I have lost my companion, I have to go and have a look."
Xiang Rong slapped the table and said angrily: "Let's go and see. I'm going to see which bastards are making trouble for the husband, which makes us feel uneasy." As he said that, he also called the personal soldiers at the door to follow him.
Yang Yi and Xiang Rong rushed to the factory and found a group of people blocking the factory gate. Even the yamen runners from Shanghai were present. Yang Yi asked, and then he realized that it was some gangsters in Shanghai who came to make trouble and wanted to collect the factory protection fees. The workers could not make the decision, so they called Hoffman. Hoffman could not pay attention to these hooligans. He asked the workers to drive the hooligans out of the way. Unexpectedly, more than 100 people suddenly came out from the side, holding the guys in their hands. Hoffman was too careful, and was beaten with a few sticks, his head was broken, and blood was flowing all over. Other workers were beaten.
He was so frustrated that he was knocked down by more than a dozen people, and rushed into the factory to smash things, clamoring to not pay the protection fee, so he would not want to get involved in Shanghai. This alarmed the other Prussian compatriots of Hoffman in the factory. Dozens of people were holding foreign guns brought from Prussia, and a shooting from Ping Ping also knocked down dozens of people. Seeing that the foreign gun was sharp, the other party set up a wound and turned around to retreat. Hoffman and his men were about to chase him. Who knew that a group of yamen ransomed runners came. The leader not only did not catch the gangsters, but also led people to stop Hoffman and the others and let those guys go.
Yang Yi looked at the leading troupe: "Is the one who came from the Shanghai County Government? Ask for the name of Gao?" The first student of this troupe was burly. He didn't speak when he saw Yang Yi and the others came. He looked at Yang Yi and the others coldly.
"In the summer of Liu Lichuan, the head-in-chief of the Shanghai County Government."
When Liu Lichuan? When Yang Yiyi heard this name, he secretly shouted in his heart, "God, why did I forget them? It almost ruined my big event. In Yang Yi's memory, Liu Lichuan should be the leader of the "Little Knife Club" in Shanghai. He gathered some farmers, handicraftsmen and merchants who were bullied by foreigners and governments. He called the "Xingyi Company" to the public the uprising in Shanghai in August 1853. Isn't it this year? Yang Yi was secretly happy, but fortunately he discovered it in time. Otherwise, with Liu Lichuan and his attitude towards foreigners, his factory and these Prussian technicians would be affected. Although Yang Yi still had sympathy and support for the "Little Knife Club" in history, the existence of these guys objectively affected Yang Yi's development plan. He could not keep them, and he could only attack them.
"Since it's the headmaster, why don't you catch the gangsters who are making trouble, but instead stop us?" Yang Yiqi asked.
"Hehe, I have to believe your words with your one-sided words. Don't think that if there are foreigners to support you, I'm afraid of you." Liu Lichuan seemed to hate foreigners deeply, and even Yang Yi hated them.
As soon as Liu Lichuan said this, the workers in the factory stopped working with the foreigners and clamored to chase the gangsters who were making trouble. Liu Lichuan and his constables blocked the door, just to prevent them from chasing them. It was obvious that they were in the same group.
"Okay, I'm going to see who dares to stop him again. Guys, search the guys, whoever stops him will be polite to whom." Yang Yi yelled:
Liu Lichuan sneered blankly, "I can't take it with foreigners, can't even take it with you guys?" He also shouted, "Brothers, whoever wants to take it out of the factory today will take it for me." The yamen runners agreed in unison, and the guy in their hands also lit up. Both sides were at a strife, so they were about to start fighting.
"Mom, young men, take down all these guys who eat free food in the court and let me go for a military law." Xiang Rong was shouting. When he first arrived, Xiang Rong sent his personal soldiers to the post station to call his guard, which was more than 200 people equipped with the foreign guns that Yang Yi bought. He was just listening to Liu Lichuan's words, and his heart was already angry. However, because his people had not arrived, he didn't say anything. Now that his subordinates are coming, he is still not showing his power, and when will he wait?
Two hundred foreign guns immediately surrounded the dozen or so yamen runners. Liu Lichuan thought something was wrong: Why did so many officers and soldiers run out, and his face also changed: "You actually dare to surround the yamen runners in the court. Do you want to rebel?"
Xiang Rong was furious and scolded: "You bastard, the yamen runners in the court are like you, the world is already in chaos. You kid collude with hooligans to collect protection fees. Do you think I am blind? Don't look at the place. Mr. Yang's territory is my territory. You are just as bad as you dare to cause trouble. Today, I will replace Shanghai County to punish you devils." After saying that, the soldiers under him said: "Let me listen to it, within three voices."
They do not surrender, and they will kill them." In Xiang Rong's opinion, it is not too much to collect some protection fees, so he himself collected a lot of money. He should also look at the target of collecting money. Let's not talk about it. I don't know that Yang Yi is his Xiang Rong's friend, but the foreigners in this factory should not come here to make trouble. Are you the foreigners who are provoked? Isn't this intention to cause trouble for the court? It seems that the Shanghai County Magistrate doesn't want to do it anymore, so he lets these lawless subordinates do it.
Dang, Dang, Xiang Rong gave the order, the soldiers also roared together, and the guys in the hands of the yamen runners fell to the ground one after another and gave up the resistance directly.
Seeing Xiang Rong's subordinates coming, Yang Yi felt relieved and said to Xiang Rong: "Sir, let these people be handed over to you. I have to take care of the matter in the factory." As he said that, Xiang Rong bowed and replied, "Sir, go and have me on the county yard." Xiang Rong took his subordinates to the Shanghai County yard.
Yang Yi hurriedly arranged for the injured person to see a doctor while asking the factory to clean it up. Fortunately, the factory suffered little losses, and only some doors and windows were smashed. After finishing the work in the factory, he returned home and found that Xiang Rong was waiting for him there. It turned out that Xiang Rong was here to say goodbye to Yang Yi.
"Mr. Yang, I dare not stay for too long. I have handled everything in the county government. Just wait for their reply." Yang Yi sent Xiang Rong to the pipeline and said, "My dear journey is good." Then he waved goodbye.
(In August of the third year of Xianfeng (1853), Liu Lichuan and others led the uprising of the Xiaodao Society in Shanghai. The Shanghai Xiaodao Society was founded in the 29th year of Daoguang (1849), and its leaders were Liu Lichuan, Zhou Lichun and others. Liu Lichuan, a native of Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province, was a farmer. He worked as a trauma doctor and joined the Tiandihui Society in the 25th year of Daoguang. In the 29th year of Daoguang, he went to Shanghai and joined the Fujianese Chen Alin, Zhou Lichun and Pan Qiliang, etc., as well as directors of Xing'an Association Li Xianyun, directors of Jiaying Office Li Shaoqing, and Shanghai Businessman Dong Xu Weiren.
Established the Shanghai Xiaodao Association. It is known to the "Yixing Company" to the outside world. The main members are farmers, urban workers, unemployed boatmen and commercial capitalists of the Chinese Guild who were excluded by foreign invaders. On July 13, 2000 farmers in Jiading held an armed uprising under the leadership of Xu Yao, and once occupied the county town. Then, they joined forces with the Shanghai Xiaodao Association Zhou Lichun and others to capture Jiading again on the third day of August. On the fifth day of the lunar month, Liu Lichuan led the Shanghai Xiaodao Association to respond and occupied the Shanghai County Town. Kill the magistrate Yuan Zude and captured Su Songtaidao alive.
Wu Jianzhang and Liu Lichuan established the "Da Ming Kingdom" in Shanghai, and later changed its name to "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", claiming to be "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's General Administration of Political and Educational Recruitment and Recruitment of the Grand Marshal". He also wrote a letter to Hong Xiuquan, expressing his willingness to accept the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Xiaodaohui Uprising Army was strict in discipline and posted notices throughout Shanghai, denying the crimes of the Qing Dynasty and foreign invaders, and clarifying that the purpose of the uprising was to "anti-Qing and restore the Ming Dynasty", so many followers. Soon, they successively occupied Baoshan, Nanhui, Chuansha, and Qingpu, and planned to cooperate with the Suzhou Xiaodaohui Uprising Army to seize Suzhou.
The Daohui occupied Shanghai, causing the main source of Jiangnan Daying, which besieged the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to a halt, and it will inevitably affect the upcoming sea grain transport. Therefore, the Qing court was frightened and urgently dispatched the Jiangnan Daohui army to suppress it. On August 20, the Qing army invaded Jiading, Zhou Lichun was arrested and died in Suzhou. The Xiaodaohui withdrew from Qingpu and other places and concentrated its efforts to defend the Shanghai county. From then on, the Xiaodaohui rebel army moved from offense to defense and continued to fight arduous struggles with the Qing rulers and foreign invaders.)
Chapter completed!