It was exactly what Lin Zexu wanted to hide in the Thirteenth Street Store. Wu Bingjian, who cooperated with the hard work of saving his son, naturally got the reward he deserved. Not only did he reward him but his son Wu Shaorong was also released from prison.`

When he returned to Wu's garden, as soon as he got on the pier, Wu Bingjian ordered: "Come, go and call Manager Song."

Manager Song Dacheng was Wu Bingjian's capable help. Song Dacheng handled all the things that could not be placed on the table. Wu Shaorong was naturally aware of this. He heard that Song Dacheng was urgently summoned. He thought that the old man could not swallow his anger. He immediately ordered him to carry the sedan chair over quickly, while supporting the old man, and said slowly: "I think that the envoy Lin does not seem to have any malicious intentions towards our Wu family and the Thirteenth Hand."

"How can you get rid of the thirteen lines in Guangzhou?" Wu Bingjian muttered.

After hearing this, Wu Shaorong said in confusion: "Why is my father called Manager Song?"

"You have to call Yi Zhizu back immediately." Wu Bingjian said. He really didn't expect Lin Zexu to launch a comprehensive smoking ban as soon as he arrived in Guangzhou. He felt a little regretful. He shouldn't let Yi Zhizu leave Guangzhou. The current situation is a bad situation.

He knew very well what Lin Zexu had for such a big fanfare, but he did not dare to inform him. This was the bottom line. If he dared to inform Elliot, it would be possible that the Wu family would be executed. He did not have the courage. Now he could only hope that Yi Zhizu could rush back as soon as possible to save the very serious situation in front of him.

When Wu Shaorong heard that the old man wanted to send someone to call Yi Zhizu back, he felt like he was overturned with a mixed taste. The weight of his own son in the old man's heart was far less than that of that boy. However, it would be better to let Yi Zhizu come back. With him, at least thirteen ties would be better. And he also wanted to see how to deal with it when he met Lin Zexu, a tough guy who was not worthy of money.

When he returned to Yanhui Tower, Wu Bingjian was not in a hurry to wash up, and sat upright and sipped tea without saying a word. Lin Zexu did not have any malice to the Wu family against Shisanhang. However, he wanted to confiscate all the opium on the British pumped ships in the offshore, which was indeed beyond his expectations. More than 20,000 boxes of opium were too big!

Just half a cup of tea, Song Dacheng rushed in quickly, bowed and said, "The young people are incompetent, and can only watch the master suffer humiliation."

"It's just a cooperation in the process of a bitter trick. I can still hold on to my old bones." Wu Bingjian said, and ordered: "Immediately, I will send a boat to the eight places overnight. Please return to Guangzhou immediately. I will say that things are urgent and you must not delay for a moment."

Song Dacheng was shocked. He responded and then tentatively said: "Do you want to bring it back too?"

"What are you thinking?" Wu Bingjian glanced at him and said, "Yi Zhizu will be done when he comes back."

Lin Zexu sent naval troops to block the Thirteen-Shandong Store and ordered the news of the over-land to be handed over to Macau. Elliot, who had been staying in Macau, could no longer sit still. Early on the 10th day of the lunar month, he issued an announcement requiring all British ships parked in the outer port to head to Hong Kong and be prepared to resist any possible aggression at any time.

After the announcement was made, Elliot led two armed merchant ships and a warship to Guangzhou without applying for a "red card" (a visa allowed for foreigners to enter Guangzhou), and the Guangdong navy officers and soldiers had already received orders and avoided them all the way. Let Elliot swagger through Humen and enter Guangzhou.

Arriving in Guangzhou, Elliot ordered warships and armed merchant ships to cruise and support near Huangpu. He took a small boat to enter the Thirteen-Strait Business Hall. As soon as he entered the British Pavilion, he discussed with Diandi and then convened a meeting of British merchants. He announced that he would use two armed merchants and a warship to cover the British merchants to evacuate the merchants. After that, Elliot took Diandi out of the merchants and wanted to escape first.

Elliot fell into the trap, and Lin Zexu would not give them a chance to escape. Elliot was soon blocked back to the mall. Then, the entire Thirteen-row shopping mall was immediately surrounded like an iron barrel. The intersections leading to the mall were quickly blocked, and the fences of each street were closed. A large number of coolies (the officers and soldiers disguised themselves) with lanterns and spears gathered at the entrances of each shopping mall. In the river in front of the mall, three rows of wooden boats blocked the dock tightly, and the boat was full of armed coolies; fully armed officers and soldiers stood on the adjacent ridge and watched condescendingly.

The entire mall was panicked, and what made foreign businessmen even more frightened was that officials immediately entered the mall and ordered all compradors and servants to leave the mall and foreign businesses. At nine o'clock in the evening, all Chinese evacuated the mall, leaving only six or seven hundred foreign businesses living in it, and American businessmen were also among them.

On the dark night, the footsteps and drums and whistles of patrol sentries and officers running around were not overwhelming. This situation made all foreign businessmen feel fearful. American businessmen, hall, and consul Snow comforted the American businessmen with a relaxed expression: "Gentlemen, don't be too nervous. The officers and soldiers outside are targeting those damn British men who smuggled opium, and have nothing to do with us. We American businessmen have completely withdrawn from the opium trade since the second half of last year. Thank God, and even more for the generous and respectful Mr. Yi."

Olifin then stood up and said, "The people outside the mall have told us kindly that as long as we don't leave the mall, we can ensure the safety of our personal and property. Don't worry, America is now the closest friend of the Qing Empire."

On the second floor of the British shopping mall, Elliot stood at the window of his office, looking at the torches and lanterns swimming outside, with a gloomy face and silent. Judging from the reactions of the Qing soldiers, he realized that all this was a trap. The Qing imperial envoy surrounded the mall and ordered the handover to hand over the land, just to lure him to come from Macau and fall into the trap.`

"Ku tuk tuk" sounded a light knock on the door, and then the door was gently pushed open, walked in quickly, bowing slightly, saying, "Sir, all the traffic outside has been cut off, and a piece of paper cannot be sent out."

Elliot had expected this, nodded and asked, "How are their emotions?"

It was natural to understand that they were referring to the British merchants in the shopping malls and various foreign companies. He shrugged and smiled bitterly, "It's awful, terrible."

Qiongzhou Prefecture, Changhua County, eight schools.

In the scorching sun, Yi Zhizu wore a big straw hat and a jacket, patrolling and inspecting back and forth. The officers and soldiers of the merchants waved simple shovels and dug the trenches to the sky.

In the impression of Yishisu, the trench is not popular until the First World War when European troops began to become popular. At present, European troops equipped with smoothbore guns are still popular in line to queuing up. The Minnie guns and trenches are enough to leave a very deep impression on the British army attacking the Humen Fort.

There is sand on the coast, so digging trenches is not difficult. Soon, a trench was dug. Yi Zhizu jumped out of the trench, took a gun and gestured, and said, "It should be deeper. It is required that people load bullets in the trench, and their heads will not appear. This is used to save their lives on the battlefield, so they cannot be ambiguous at all."

As he said that, he turned around and ordered: "This is sand and soil. Trenches are easy to dig. Several types of trenches are designed. Then select the most suitable ones from them, record all data such as shape, width and depth in detail to form a standard."

"Yes." Yan Yangtian responded quickly, hesitating for a moment, and then said: "Principal, it takes a long time to dig trenches. Defense can be useful, but offense cannot be used."

Yi Zhizu said angrily: "Learn how to defend first, then consider attacking."

"Yes, the students understand."

Yi Zhizu glanced at the officers who were following him and said, "Who talks about the benefits of digging trenches?"

Yan Yangtian picked up a gun and lay in the trenches and made a shooting position, saying: "Watching in the trenches, usually only half of his head is exposed, which can effectively reduce the enemy's shooting targets and reduce their own casualties."

"Easy to aim." Lin Dapeng, the company commander of the first company, said: "With a trench as a support, it is much more stable than shooting out of thin air."

Yan Yangtian continued: "It can also effectively reduce the lethality of shells, especially solid shells. With trenches, there is no need to worry about solid shells."

Yi Zhizu nodded and said, "There is another thing that is the most important thing. Enhance the psychological quality of soldiers! When you really go to the battlefield, the sound of gunfires, the cannons are rumbling, the cannons fly around, and the comrades around you are shot and falling from time to time, you will be nervous, especially the recruits. It is not rare to be nervous.

When a person is nervous, he will make mistakes, forget to aim, shoot randomly, reverse or even miss the steps when loading ammunition. All kinds of mistakes will occur, especially when loading ammunition under the enemy's shooting, which is extremely stressful and highly nervous.

But it is different in trenches, because it is clear that you will not be hit by the enemy in the trenches, and you will not be too nervous. This will greatly improve the soldiers' shooting degree and shooting accuracy, and the combat efficiency can be increased by at least three times. Therefore, all officers and soldiers must attach great importance to digging trenches! Do you understand?"

"I understand." The officers responded with a loud bang.

A soldier rushed to the trench and saluted: "Report to the principal, the flag whisper comes from the lookout, and a sea boat comes from the south and is approaching us."

As he heard that the boat was approaching, Yi Zhizu quickly climbed out of the trench and used a telescope to watch the flags coming out of the watchtower. Sure enough, a sea boat was approaching. Although the "Qiongzhou" had already gone out to sea for training, he didn't care. He didn't take a sea boat seriously and waved: "Normal training."

After a while, dull gunfire sounded. When he saw the soldiers' actions when they fired, Yi Shizuo felt a toothache. When pulling the trigger, most soldiers turned their heads. He corrected it several times, but still couldn't correct it.

The principle of ignition of the tunnel gun is that the Martian particles scraped off by flint strike steel sheets splashed into the gunpowder pool below to ignite the gunpowder. The gunpowder gas when the gunpowder burns then ignites the bullets in the barrel through the horizontal fire transmission hole between the inner chamber of the gunpowder pool and the gunpowder pool.

Because the fire transmission hole is not closed when it explodes, when shooting, part of the gunpowder gas sprays out from the fire transmission hole and the original ignition of the gunpowder will cause dazzling and dazzling light. When the soldier shoots his right face against the butt eye and aims at the target in front of him, this light will cause the gun-holder to temporarily blind.

Seeing Yi Zhizu's expression of dissatisfaction, Yan Yangtian said cautiously: "Principal, many soldiers have reported their eyes hurt in the past few days."

This will obviously not work. One is that it will cause great harm to the eyes. The other is that once the soldiers develop the habit of shooting and turning their heads, it will be difficult to correct them in the future. Yi Zhizu pondered for a moment and ordered: "Let them stop shooting live ammunition. During this period, we will first train to reload ammunition and fight against bayonets."

It seems that you have to change the strike device and produce the fire hat by yourself. Yi Quezuo pulled out a cigar and lit it on it. The Hall-style m1819 strike device is actually double. The left side is a tunnel and the right side is a strike, but Yi Quezuo has no fire hat, so you can only use the tunnel method and cannot produce the fire hat by yourself. He dare not use the fire gun. Once someone pinched the fire hat and supplied it, the muskets became fire sticks.

"Report to the principal, the flags came from the lookout, and raised the sea soul flag to the sea ships that approached us."

The Sea Soul Flag is a flag that Yi Qunzu changed from the Sea Soul Shirt - a blue and white striped pennant. This is the flag he designed for the fleet. Since the Sea Soul Flag is raised, it means it is his own people, from the south, not to mention from Guangzhou, and there is no one else except the Wu family.

He then rushed to the military camp and woke Wu Changqing who was sleeping in the tent, saying, "Get up, the boat is coming to Guangzhou."

When he heard a boat coming in Guangzhou, Wu Changqing quickly rolled over and got out of bed and said, "Really? Didn't you deceive me into being happy?" This place is deserted and he was not interested in those trainings. He was so bored that he was almost sick during this period.

"You'll know if you go out and have a look." Yi Zhizu said and went to bed, "I'll take a break first."

An hour later, Wu Changqing, with a happy face, led a strange man in his early thirties into the tent. After waiting for Yi Shizuo, he sat up. The man bowed and said, "I have met the shopkeeper Yi Dahai in the Xiahu Dahai."

Wu Changqing introduced with a smile: "This young master Hu who often travels to Manila and Guangzhou."

"Young Master Wu put a gild on my face." Hu Dahai said cheerfully: "I am just a rough man who makes a living at sea. Just call me Hu Dahai."

"It turns out it's Brother Hu." Yi Zhizu smiled and bowed and bowed, then reached out and said, "The place is simple, Brother Hu is casual."

Wu Changqing smiled and said, "Brother Hu came to deliver the letter. Grandpa said that the situation in Guangzhou was critical. The imperial envoy blocked the Thirteen-Strait Business Hall. Even the merchants of Citigroup were besieged in the business hall, so we set off and returned to Guangzhou immediately."

Hu Dahai nodded quickly and said, "It's true."

When he returned to Guangzhou, Yi Zhizu was very surprised. He did not expect that Wu Bingjian would send someone to urge him to return to Guangzhou. It seems that Wu Bingjian was frightened by Lin Zexu's decisive anti-smoking operation. Will he return to Guangzhou? Wu Changqing is here and dragged him back, which seems difficult to explain. When he went back, Wu Bingjian obviously wanted him to rush back to mediate between Lin Zexu and Elliot. After thinking for a moment, he said: "Stay one night off and leave for Guangzhou early tomorrow morning." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!