Chapter 240: Secretly boosting the fire!

It took several days to finally escort the British envoy to Macau. After another two days, Liang Pengfei finally rushed back to Guangzhou to pay the order.

Under the intentional or unintentional propaganda, the officials in Guangzhou looked for excuses to go to Macau every once in a while. Therefore, the British envoys found that if they stayed like this, they would no longer have pocket watches to watch. Even the scholars' glasses turned into souvenirs, and their pockets were quickly deflated. Not to mention gold coins, even small-desolution coins became targets for those Qing officials who liked novel Western things.

This forced Stangdong, the agent of the East India Company, to temporarily borrow money from the British merchants in Macau, and some Western things to deal with the greedy officials.

The four priests, as Liang Pengfei expected, insisted on leaving the envoy's headquarters despite the British's retention, entered the church in Macau and stopped showing up. The four translators who were originally put on hold by the envoy's mission became the mouthpieces of their dealings with Chinese officials. One of them also took over the position of Father Li and patiently taught the Chinese culture and artistic concepts of Xiao Sidangdong. In fact, they tried every means to prevent this little kid who could understand Chinese from disturbing them with ulterior motives and occasionally translated some necessary things.

The more members of the British envoys deal with officials from the Qing Dynasty, the more they look down on the country. The political institutions of this country despise all the foreigners from top to bottom. Their ignorance of foreign power made them over-believing their strength, believing that this envoy was just a sign of allegiance, which made Macartney and others feel extremely absurd and ridiculous indignation.

Moreover, with the help of the general interpreter, Major General Ford was fortunate to sneak to the Qing Dynasty Naval Camp near Macau and saw the Qing Dynasty Naval life, which further improved Major General Ford's understanding of the Qing Dynasty Naval's combat effectiveness.

"The garbage is completely a pile of garbage. Sorry, Your Excellency Ambassador, although I am not so rude, I think only this term is suitable for the soldiers of this empire." Ford's Qing Dynasty costume was still not taken off, but the hat on his head had been taken off, revealing his typical Western face.

However, at this moment, this face was full of contempt and contempt, as well as mockery and resentment. In short, it was like a big man driving a BMW and Mercedes-Benz looking at a tractor that was unlicensed and assembled, and dared to run parallel to him on the highway.

"Didn't they notice you? Although I admit that your outfit makes you look closer to those Qing people, you can tell the difference at a glance." Macartney looked curious. Although the endless tortures of Qing officials these days made him tired of dealing with them, he was still very motivated because the more he contacted, the more he knew about this country full of arrogance and arrogance.

However, he did not expect that the Rear Admiral Ford, a boring idea, had achieved success with the help of a general interpreter, and was a military important place like the naval base.

"Do you know? The guards there didn't have any warning at all. They wandered idlely, either gathered together in groups to drink, smoke, or gamble. Moreover, even if they saw us, they did not come to stop us, and they didn't even look up." Major General Ford explained after taking a cup of black tea and taking a sip.

"The soldiers in the barracks do the same thing as the guards outside. I even saw an officer wearing officer's uniform listening to operas in the barracks, and even hawkers selling things inside. My God, I simply thought I was wandering in the market in Macau. How could such a soldier defend his country?"

"It seems that the gentlemen of the Imperial Congress are so careful. Perhaps we should send a fleet over here, not an envoy." Next to it, a lieutenant colonel shrugged and smiled easily. "As a army like this, even if there is a million, I can give me five thousand, no, three thousand colonies, I will be confident of occupying this country."

"Lt. Col. Rooney, please pay attention to your words and deeds," Macartney glanced at the lieutenant colonel who had just spoken, tidyed the wig on his head, and continued to enjoy the black tea produced on the ancient land, and continued to say: "In the past two hundred years, we have sent at least fifteen missions in Europe to try to establish formal diplomatic relations with this ancient and huge empire, but none of them succeeded. Now, our British Empire has the strength to establish equal trade and diplomatic relations with this empire. And our mission is to make this ancient and old empire understand that the West of this world has a powerful country with almost all territory throughout the world, and they need to face it and treat it equally."

"You know, I am just an ambassador with a mission of peace, and I do not have the right to declare war like Lord Dundas, chairman of the East India Company Supervision Committee," Macartney said this and put down his teacup and walked straight to his room on the second floor.

The Lieutenant Colonel Rooney shrugged helplessly: "The afternoon tea time is over, and it's time for me to see if the soldiers are infected by the laziness of this country."

Major General Ford frowned, and after a while, his eyes lit up. When he raised his head, he saw the same expression of Stondong sitting opposite him, who was also full of a scream and abrupt. The two couldn't help but smile at each other and raised the teacup in their hands.

"This is really an aftertasteful afternoon tea." Major General Ford laughed, and both of them drank the fragrant tea in their cups in one go.

After the family was reunited and had a festive celebration, Liang Pengfei found the servants and asked about the women he had been thinking about day and night. The news he received was frustrating. The coalition forces of the Shi family and the Mo family had just captured Lantau Island, and she needed to stay there to deal with the follow-up affairs.

In addition, Xu Sanyan, who was damaged in strength but led the main warship to escape, had arrived in Annan and threw himself under Zheng Lianchang's command.

At least Maria, since she left Xin'an, she has been following Shi Xianggu. Now she is afraid that she has not received any news of her return to Guangzhou. Pan Bingjie has returned to Guangzhou, but yesterday she accompanied her aunt back to her in-laws' house to visit her relatives.

Before Liang Pengfei could complain and feel sorry for himself, he received the information he had lent to the British envoys and sent back from Macau.

"Sir, I think the purpose of these foreigners is not simple. Look at their list of personnel, so many people came in one breath. Even if the guards and some servants are deducted, there are still many, including their navy, army, doctor, painter, scholar, and map surveyor..." Sun Shijie put the list on Liang Pengfei's desk and said.

"Hmph, of course it's not simple. In addition to on missions, they are also responsible for the task of investigating the geographical landscape, coastline, port, combat effectiveness of our soldiers, and even the composition of the source of troops in the Qing Dynasty." Liang Pengfei smiled coldly.

"Sir, what do you mean is that they actually want to travel thousands of miles to fight with the court?" Sun Shijie was so scared by Liang Pengfei's words that he took a deep breath.

Liang Pengfei's finger gently knocked on the table: "What are they afraid of? Tianzhu, you should know that India is now a great country that could be compared with our country, but now it is a semi-colonial controlled by a British trading company. Now those local kings can only look down when they see the British. I am afraid that it will be listed as their colony by Britain in the future."

"In this way, they are really brave enough. For the sake of profit, they actually..." Sun Shijie couldn't help but shook his head, and had to admire the greedy and adventurous spirit of these Westerners.

"They do not have this kind of adventurous spirit, and the world is still a stagnant pool. I am afraid that our China will not know how many years we will fall behind each other before we realize that we have already become frogs in the well." Liang Pengfei smiled bitterly.

Sun Shijie didn't speak anymore. Although he was also a scholar, he did not have the pedantic spirit of a scholar. Moreover, after following Liang Pengfei wandering around, seeing the weapons and equipment of the Westerners, and understanding their colonial history, he also let go of the last trace of pride.

"But that's good." Liang Pengfei stood up and looked out the window. There was a tender branch stretching out from the gray branch of a dead tree. "How can you see a rainbow without experiencing the wind and rain? I was worried about it. Now, I wish those British people would be more courageous. Let the Chinese open their eyes and look at the world. It has begun to change..."

When the drum is played, it should be a heavy hammer. Perhaps it is a good thing to let the British make the East gate in advance and wake up the Chinese people. If the evil ones, let the British people do it. Only when the right time can the Chinese people's reactions wake up. It will be better to guide them yourself.

"Young Master, Miss Pan is here." At this moment, the cry of a servant came from outside the door. Liang Pengfei's serious and heavy expression disappeared without a trace. He smiled and threw everything to Sun Shijie, heading towards the front yard happily. Sun Shijie, who was full of gratitude for his boss's concern for the country and the people, looked with a black line on his face.
Chapter completed!