I can't die

Pan Ren is the leader of the Green Gang, and now the Green Gang is the veritable largest gang in Shanghai. On the one hand, this cannot be separated from his own outstanding ability, and on the other hand, Li Hongzhang's private support is also indispensable.Since ancient times, the collusion between government and businessmen, black and white, is the long-term solution.

Hearing Li Hongzhang's summons, Pan Ren rushed over in a hurry. Now that he entered Li's residence, seeing that the biggest officials in Liangjiang were there, his thoughts couldn't help but turn three more times.At that moment, Pan Ren walked into Li's residence, and his free followers retreated from the crowd. The three of them spied in the room for half an hour before Pan Ren retreated back to the Green Gang.

The first thing Pan Ren did when he returned to the Green Gang was to call his subordinates to catch the pigtails of the major British businessmen in China.It has been said that strong dragons do not overwhelm local snakes, and even if foreigners want to live well in Shanghai, they will inevitably have to deal with the Qing Gang. In this way, they must know many shady things.The Youth Gang was originally a triad organization, and they are the best at threatening and extorting, not to mention that they still have a lot of pigtails of these foreign businessmen, so they can't let these foreign businessmen ignore them.

Let's say that after Pacharley woke up after being drunk, he only felt a splitting headache.Although this Chinese wine tastes sweet, its stamina is much stronger than that of wine. Ordinary foreigners have a different system from the Chinese, and few can adapt to it.

When the servants saw that Pachari had woken up, they hurriedly came forward to serve him some hangover soup and waited for him to get up.

"Why is it so noisy outside?" Pacharley took a sip of the hangover soup, and asked with a frown when he heard some noise outside the inn room.

"My lord, it belongs to the chamber of commerce." Businessmen from all over the world have chambers of commerce in Shanghai, and these capitalists united together can be regarded as a considerable economic force in Shanghai.

"Why is it from the chamber of commerce?" Parker was a government official, and he came to Shanghai this time for the political missions of the Qing government and the British, so he would never disclose information to the British businessmen in Shanghai.

"Maybe I heard the wind in private."

Great Britain is a capitalist society, and the capitalists are the backbone of the UK, and almost all of those big capitalists are in collusion with the Parliament, and there must be some people who are able to see the sky and have their own magical eyes and ears.Thinking of it like this, Pacharley also felt that it should be like this.

"Do you want to meet, my lord?"

"Well, I'm going to see you. Go ahead and entertain me. I'll be there right away." These British businessmen are no different from those in the Qing Dynasty. They all have political status. Brand was arrested in Shanghai at the beginning. The United Kingdom businessmen were dismounted only after being sued, which shows how powerful they are.Bacharley heard so much that he was already looking for him, so he couldn't miss him.

At the moment, Bacharley held on to his unrecovered drunkenness to meet with the big British businessmen in Shanghai.The British businessmen saw Pashali, and they wanted to entertain him as much as possible.Now there were banquets and banquets one after another, leaving Bacharley with no time to spare, and it was difficult even to find Li Hongzhang.

Bacharley had been socializing for a few days, so he wanted to make an excuse not to go, but the British businessmen were not willing to go under the coercion and lure of the Green Gang, and asked again and again. All kinds of things, but four of the five days that Bacharley was in a state of drunkenness, how could there be any time to go to the concession to investigate the reality of the concession?

This can be regarded as temporarily entangled Pachari, Li Hongzhang and Ding Ruchang got a respite, and quickly asked the disciples of the Qing Gang to disguise themselves and go to various foreign factories to apply for jobs, trying to create an appearance that the British Concession is thriving. Fool the past.After such busy work, it took another four or five days to finally restore the appearance of the British Concession to some of its original glory.

At this point, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, thinking that it would be better to send Pacharley away earlier.After much deliberation, he decided to let the Green Gang take the lead, and colluded with big businessmen from Huaihe River, Jiangsu Province, and Zhejiang Province to invite Bacharley to Jinling City for a banquet, so as to discuss capitalist cooperation in name.

Pashaley was first confused by the British businessmen, and then Li Hongzhang and Ding Ruchang jointly played a set of combined punches. By the time he realized it, he was already on the boat to Jinling.Besides, this feudal land of gentleness and wealth is the most seductive. Li Hongzhang ordered the rich merchants of the Qing Dynasty to entertain them. I felt weird, but I was so happy that I couldn't find the north. I thought: It should be no problem to occupy Ryukyu with the troops of the Qing Dynasty. This trip to the south of the Yangtze River is not an exaggeration. The market is also meritorious if you think about it, and you don't have to enjoy it if you just push the boat along.

With such thoughts in mind, Bacharley inevitably began to insinuate and insinuate the rich businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty at the banquet, asking if they had any intention of cooperation.Who can participate in the banquet and reception organized by Li Hongzhang, who is not a human being?They are used to traveling all over the world, so they are well-informed. The so-called "cooperation" that these foreigners talk about is basically an overlord's clause.What is the overlord clause?That is, the foreigners will provide the machines, the Chinese will provide the manpower, and the foreigners will then send a few skilled workers to occupy [-] to [-]% of the shares.Then, all the businessmen heard Bacharley say "cooperate" one after another, and they all talked about him, but they made Bacharley quite unhappy.

Li Hongzhang saw that Pachari's face was getting worse and worse, so he hesitated in his heart. After thinking over and over again, he said to Ding Ruchang: "This foreigner has a big appetite. I never wanted him to know the richest businessman in Qing Dynasty. caused all this trouble."

Ding Ruchang watched Bacharley's probing up and down with cold eyes in the past few days, and he knew it in his heart. "Now I'm afraid it's easier to ask God than to send God away."

Isn't it?The most important task for Bacharley to come to China is to open up the Chinese market, seek a trade surplus, and obtain capital for Great Britain.Previously, in order to avoid exposure of the Shanghai Concession, Li Hongzhang only focused on coaxing Bacharley to leave Shanghai, but he did not expect this.

"I'm afraid it won't work in the Qing Dynasty. Even if the emperor agrees, the Manchu nobles in the court will not agree."

As the largest feudal landlord class in the Qing Dynasty, the nobles of the Qing Dynasty in the capital were dissatisfied with Li Hongzhang's many actions of uniting with foreigners to promote businessmen. If Zai Chun hadn't kept suppressing him, Li Hongzhang would have given gifts to Cixi frequently. I'm afraid this matter has already exploded.

"It's not good at home, it's not as good as abroad."

"You mean, overseas?"

Li Hongzhang hesitated slightly.

"Isn't your majesty looking at Japanese pirates disliked, and isn't that the reason for the recent war?"