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In the British Consulate, Consul James and Duan Yelin could be said to be tit for tat, and the presidents of various chambers of commerce sitting on both sides looked at each other.

There are only three piers in Hezhou City. Foreigners who want to do business here rely on these three chambers of commerce. It’s just that they have avoided many inspections by relying on their foreign nationality for many years, so they do some dirty business out of desperation.

Now that Duan Yelin is here, once he finds troubles, he will never tolerate it.

James was very angry: "Mr. Duan, our British ships have never been inspected and found no problems. We cannot accept your request!"

Duan Yelin crossed his legs: "I'm not here today to ask for your consent, but to tell you. In the next three piers, ships of all sizes have to be checked when they come in, and it doesn't matter whose flag they fly. I didn't check before. It's from the past. If I find out about it in the future, I won't be so easy to talk about."

Gu Yueshan, the president of the Pengyun Chamber of Commerce, put down his teacup, squinted his eyes, and smoothed things over: "If you want me to say, the commander is just trying to set a new rule, and we have to listen. Mr. James feels that your country is being neglected. , This is also understandable. Why don't you all take a step back and conduct spot checks on all British consul's ships on a regular basis, so that Commander Duan can hand over his duties, and secondly, Mr. James can be regarded as an explanation to our government, what do you think?"

After listening to the translation, James looked much better. He lowered his head and pondered: "This is not unacceptable..."

"I don't accept it." The corner of Duan Yelin's mouth curled up, and the old fritters of the chamber of commerce felt chills on their backs, "I said, there are no exceptions, as long as it arrives at the wharf in Hezhou, even a paper boat will turn over Check it out!"

"You...I want to call your chief of staff and report to your great president! This is discrimination against our British Empire! We have been authorized to enter and exit this pier for four years, so it is naturally our pier!"

With a slap, Duan Yelin's thick heels hit the ground. He suppressed the smile on his face and touched the brim of his military cap: "After four years of use, do you dare to say it's yours? Heh..." He stood Get up and look down at James, "I have stepped on the Hezhou City under my feet for 35 years, and I dare not say it is my own. What are you?"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked out, leaving a sentence while walking: "This will be done tomorrow! Whoever refuses to comply will be punished as a crime of endangering safety, and will be punished by shooting!"

In the conference room of the consulate, James was already so angry that his beard grew tall, and the presidents of the chamber of commerce whispered and discussed the way forward.

Only Gu Yueshan stroked his chin, thoughtfully toward the direction Duan Yelin was walking, and even smiled admiringly, then waved, and the assistant at the side leaned over, and he whispered in his ear a few words.

After a while, an invitation was delivered to Xiaotongguan's copybook.

The invitation was well-intentioned, saying that a troupe from the Hundred Flowers Gang came to the South Theater of Hezhou City, and sang a Yue opera, inviting the commander to listen to "The Story of the West Chamber" tomorrow.

But the person who listened to the play together was very interesting, it was Gu Fangfei, the daughter of the Pengyun Chamber of Commerce.

This is not inviting people to listen to The Story of the West Chamber, it is clearly hoped that they will perform The Story of the West Chamber.

"President Gu really knows how to cling. It looks like he wants some mandarin ducks." Qiao Song glanced at him and asked, "Commander, are you going to say no?"

Duan Yelin touched the dark lines on the invitation card, and suddenly remembered that cold little thing at home. The more he thought about it, the more interesting he became, and then he threw the invitation card into Qiao Song's arms: "Tell them, I'll go."

"what?"

"You make another copy of the same invitation and send it to Jin Yantang, just say that I let him go."

Qiao Song squeezed the invitation card, struggled a bit, and asked, "What if Young Master Xu says...won't go?"

Duan Yelin was silent for a while, and Qiao Song lowered his head. He smiled and said, "Then tell him, if you ask him to go out, he won't. If you ask me to let him out in the future, you won't be able to."

To be honest, if Qiao Song were to be the messenger between the two, he would rather lead his troops up the mountain to suppress the bandits.

After driving to Jinyan Hall, Xu Hang had just come back. When Qiao Song walked into the front hall, Xu Hang was eating. There were only two dishes and one soup in front of him, fried vegetables, Qingming fruit and tofu soup.

Qiao Song put down the invitation and couldn't help but slipped his lips and said, "Huh? Didn't the commander say that you don't eat Qingming fruit..."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he regretted it too late.

Because Xu Hang raised his head and fixed his eyes on him, he immediately understood - this young master Xu didn't eat the Qingming fruit, he clearly didn't eat the Qingming fruit sent by his commander!

Xu Hang said very lightly: "Adjutant Qiao, are you going to file a complaint?" It was clear that he had no fear on his face.

When Qiao Song saw his expression, he would think of the first time he saw Xu Hang. At that time, Jin Hongchang sent him to Duan Yelin like a gift, and Qiao Song drove him.

He always had this expression along the way, without the joy of being able to climb high branches in the world, nor the forced resentment and humiliation.

When he saw the formidable gate of Xiaotongguan, he raised his eyes slightly, sighed and said unwillingly: "So it's here?"

For example, now, when Qiao Song went back to say something more, probably Xu Hang would not be comfortable these few days, but he was still calm and relaxed.

Qiao Song shook his head, and then said: "I'm just here to deliver the invitation, I didn't see anything else. Master Xu, please rest, I'll go back and report to the commander!"

Xu Hang looked at Qiao Song's back as he left, and at the stack of green Qingming fruits and the bright red invitations on the table, and held his forehead.

Duan Yelin, Duan Yelin, this person has been doing the same thing for four years.Unfortunately, Xu Hang just couldn't do anything to him.