Unexpectedly, the Yaro incident, one of the fuses of the Second Opium War, suddenly broke out. While thinking about how to deal with it, Wu Chaoyue, who was heartless, began to worry about the safety of his cheap father Wu Xiaoping, and whether Wu Xiaoping would suffer any harm in the Guangzhou Paiyang incident. After all, Wu Chaoyue's body is given by Wu Xiaoping and his wife.

Also, before Wu Xiaoping passed all his property to him, Wu Chaoyue could not allow his cheap father to have any accidents.

Worrying that it is useless, and the Taiping Army is blocking the road. Wu Chaoyue, let alone rushing back to Guangzhou to save his father, just want to know that his situation is extremely difficult. Fortunately, Wu Chaoyue, who is disobedient and unfilial, doesn't care much about his father and mother at all, but Wu Xiaoping and his wife have always been concerned about Wu Chaoyue, a rebellious son. A few days later, just as Wu Chaoyue was drilling caves around to find out the news in Guangzhou, a family member in her hometown of Xiangshan suddenly came to Hubei Province. Not only did he bring Wu Chaoyue a handwritten letter to Wu Xiaoping for safety, but he also brought Wu Chaoyue first-hand news about the Yaro incident.

After reading the handwritten letter from his father and listening to the introduction of his family, Wu Chaoyue finally had a detailed understanding of the Yaro incident. It turned out that in October last year, the Qing army navy in Guangzhou discovered that a merchant ship Yaro registered in Hong Kong was suspected of smuggling. After boarding the ship and inspecting, several sailors suspected of smuggling were captured. Afterwards, the British Consul in Guangzhou, Baxiali, rushed to the scene and said that the Qing army navy soldiers insulted the British flag flying on the Yaro. In accordance with the Humen Treaty, he asked the Qing army navy to immediately release the arrested sailors and apologize to the British side.

Whether the Qing naval soldiers deliberately insulted the British flag was a question that only the parties involved knew. However, during the dispute, an impulsive Qing sailor slapped Baxiali. Baxiali immediately found Ye Mingchen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and asked Ye Mingchen to apologize and release the people. As a result, Ye Mingchen took the most common delay and perfunctory method in the Qing Dynasty's officialdom, and did not give any reply. Finally, at the beginning of this year, the British fleet had already arrived at Guangzhou City, and Ye Mingchen was forced to order the arrested sailor of the Yaro, but he flatly refused to apologize. The British fleet began to retaliate by force on this grounds, first seized the Humen Fort, and then rushed into Guangzhou City, looting Ye Mingchen's governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Then, the British army took the initiative to withdraw from Guangzhou City. The angry Guangzhou people burned the foreign companies and foreign houses outside the city, and at the same time they ransacked a mail ship ready to travel from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, further expanding the situation. Fortunately, Wu Xiaoping was alert and knew the xenophobic attitude of the people of Guangzhou. As soon as the British army entered Guangzhou City, Wu Xiaoping fled back to his hometown in Xiangshan with his wife and Jin Yin and Siruan, and was not injured in the fire-burning foreign company. However, the Tongshun foreign company, which the old Wu family had been running for many years and the goods of more than 100,000 taels of silver, were first robbed and then burned, completely turned into ashes. Many people who stayed behind in the foreign company were beaten and forced Wu Xiaoping to take out the soup and medicine to comfort these loyal friends.

After listening to the nagging introductions from his hometown, he sighed helplessly. Only then did Wu Chaoyue greet the current situation of Wu Xiaoping and his wife. When he learned that his father, mother and grandmother were in good condition, Wu Chaoyue was completely relieved and arranged for someone to take his hometown to rest. At the same time, he planned to take the opportunity to persuade his parents to move to Hong Kong and not stay in the mainland to drag him back.

The people from his hometown were taken down, but Wu Chaoyue's heart was difficult to calm down for a long time. He kept thinking about how to deal with the upcoming Second Opium War, can he protect the Old Summer Palace? Can he prevent Tsarist Russia from occupying Chinese land? How to take advantage of the opportunity of Emperor Xianfeng to escape from the shackles, further expand and strengthen, and even take the opportunity to raise an army.

After he couldn't help but start to consider the various problems he might encounter when he was in the rebellion, Wu Chaoyue suddenly remembered an important question. When Sushun wrote to him, in addition to asking him to be wary of the new military minister Bai Wei, he also specifically told him not to let Bai Wei seize the handle on foreigners. Now the Sino-British conflict has begun again, and the stupid foreign factions in the Qing court must have made trouble again. If he really let his political enemies seize the handle on this, it will be difficult for Sushun to protect himself.

Thinking of this, Wu Chaoyue did not hesitate anymore and immediately contacted Huang Sheng and asked Huang Sheng to come forward to inform the foreigners in Hankou. He asked the more than 200 foreigners who lived in Hankou to try their best to calm down. Never go to other prefectures in Hubei to preach and tour as often as before, and cause trouble for themselves and to suppress these things in the past, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to suppress them in the future.

After making this arrangement, Wu Chaoyue suddenly remembered the trap he had put on Luo Bingzhang before, and couldn't help but smirk secretly, "Old Luo, it's your idea that caught the limelight, but I'm not a big deal. Now no one can save you. Whether you can escape this trouble or even disaster depends on your own luck."

Perhaps because of the excessive taxation in Hunan, God finally did not stand on the side of Luo Bingzhang, the real leader of the Hunan Army and biological mother. In a few days, Hua Shana, who rarely showed up, suddenly sent someone to invite Wu Chaoyue to the mansion to discuss. Wu Chaoyue, who respected Hua Shana, hurried to the Governor's office. As soon as he met, Hua Shana waved his hand and said, "Weiting Pavilion, don't have so many empty gifts, sit down quickly. There is something important. Hunan urgently reported that two foreigners suddenly appeared in Changsha City a few days ago, and the city was full of storms. I also heard that foreigners were related to Luo Bingzhang and Luo Futai. Do you know this?"

"It should be known."

Wu Chaoyue did not hide it, and directly told Hua Shana about Luo Bingzhang borrowing technicians from him to explore Hunan iron ore. He also said that he was negligent and forgot to tell him not to lend it to Luo Bingzhang for foreign technicians. When he learned about this, Luo Bingzhang's governor's yamen had already taken the foreigners away. Finally, Wu Chaoyue emphasized that he asked Luo Bingzhang to send the foreigners back to Hankou, but Luo Bingzhang did not send it back, so as to separate the relationship.

"This Luo Ruzhai is really troublesome!" Hua Shana slapped and slapped his legs and said with a grudge: "How good is it to bring the foreigners back directly, why do you have to take them to Hunan? If you are troublesome, you will be troublesome. If someone is exposed to the court, he will have to take care of them?"

"Flower platform building, will anyone expose this to the court?" Wu Chaoyue asked kindly.

"It is hard to say that Luo Ruzhai likes to play tricks and offend many people." Hua Shana frowned and said, "It's okay if it's a civil servant under the fourth rank. The memorial can be submitted to the court by Luo Bingzhang. He can be suppressed. It's easy to deal with military generals. I can suppress it for him. If it's a civil servant above the fourth rank and who has the right to submit a secret report, then I and Luo Bingzhang can't stop him."

After hearing the same assassination, Wu Chaoyue asked nervously if he would be implicated? Hua Shana waved his hand and said, "You are fine. The foreigner was picked up by Luo Bingzhang's governor's yamen official boat. Even if you say it, the sky can't involve you. It's me..."

"Don't worry, Master Taichung, if the court really wants to investigate, I will immediately submit a memorial to you, proving that you are not aware of it from beginning to end. This is all caused by negligence from junior and Luo Futai." Wu Chaoyue quickly expressed his loyalty.

Hua Shana smiled and said, "Thank you, Weiting, but I am at most a crime of misunderstanding. Even if I bear it all, it is a great thing that I will be fined one or two years of salary, and it will not be a serious problem."

After smiling, Hua Shana suddenly asked, "Weiting, do you know what happened in Guangzhou?"

"I know, my foreign company was burned, and my father sent me a letter to tell me about the specific situation that happened in Guangzhou."

Wu Chaoyue was very smart and didn't say secret words in front of the Mingren. As a result, Hua Shana nodded with satisfaction again and greeted Wu Xiaoping's safety casually. Then she said again: "Weiting, since you know what happened in Guangzhou, I won't be too long-winded. This time, Luo Bingzhang took foreigners to Hunan to explore mining. It would be fine if the court knew about it. Once the court knew about it, his trouble would be great. Like you, he is my right-hand man. I can't stand it and refuse to save me. We must prepare in advance and try our best to protect Luo Futai."

"Please give me instructions, and I will do my best."

No matter how much I hope Luo Bingzhang gets out of Hunan as soon as possible, Wu Chaoyue's face was still very beautiful. Hua Shana replied: "First, contact Luo Bingzhang as soon as possible and find a way to get those foreigners back with him as soon as possible, so that they will not continue to scatter in Hunan. Second, if the court really knows about this matter and issues an order to investigate, you must not submit a memorial to Luo Bingzhang for pleading with him. On the contrary, you must try to push the blame to Luo Bingzhang! Only in this way can you keep him!"

"Why?" Wu Chaoyue asked in surprise.

Hua Shana hesitated for a moment, looked at the left and right first, and the left and right subordinates understood and all left and left the room. Then Hua Shana whispered to Wu Chaoyue: "The current situation in the court is very complicated. Bai Qi, the mortal enemy of Suzhongtang, entered the Military Affairs Office. I won't say much about you. You and I have offended him in the matter of casting silver circles. With his small-mindedness, he will definitely hold a grudge and wait for an opportunity to take revenge."

"So if you and I submit a memorial to protect Luo Bingzhang, Bai Wei will definitely think that Luo Bingzhang is the same group as us, and will definitely put in the wrong and do our best to rectify Luo Bingzhang."

"Don't underestimate Bai Wei. Although he is not a foreman or a man, he is a bannerman after all, and he is more trusted by the emperor. Peng Yunzhang, the current foreman, is a Han Chinese. He is not sure that he can hold up with Bai Wei. Now he happened to catch up with the Guangzhou incident. The court shouted and killed foreigners everywhere. The emperor hated foreigners even more. Once Bai Wei made up his mind to destroy Luo Bingzhang, it is very likely to do it!"

"So in this matter, if you and I want to protect Luo Bingzhang, the only way is to deliberately isolate Luo Bingzhang, or even deliberately let Luo Bingzhang take the blame, making Bai Xu feel that Luo Bingzhang is not the same group as us, so that we will not deliberately target Luo Bingzhang. Only then can Luo Bingzhang turn big things into small things!"

After hearing Hua Shana's words, Wu Chaoyue was completely impressed and knew what a real old fox in the officialdom was to save people by cheating. Wu Chaoyue really couldn't think of such a masterpiece!

No matter how admiration is, he is different from his own way and does not plan to work together. Wu Chaoyue, who is determined to curb Luo Bingzhang and eliminate hidden dangers, certainly cannot do it according to Hua Shana's requirements. On the contrary, he has to rack his brains to get rid of Luo Bingzhang with Bai Jia's hands. However, after careful calculation, Wu Chaoyue found that this matter was not easy to deal with. First of all, if he deliberately wrote a memorial to protect Luo Bingzhang, it would be too much of a trace, which would not be conducive to his hypocritical face of caring for his colleagues. Secondly, he had no connection with Bai Jia's party, and wanted Bai Jia to know that Hua Shana's wishful thinking was difficult, and he could not find a way to destroy the old fox Hua Shana's tricks in the officialdom for a long time.

God sometimes just doesn't have eyes. Just when Wu Chaoyue was worried about how to kill Luo Bingzhang without traces, after knowing what a real old fox in the officialdom was, he soon understood a new truth. Banners are sometimes quite cute.

It was only three days after the incident. Before the messenger Wu Chaoyue sent to contact Luo Bingzhang to contact Luo Bingzhang, Hua Shana came to Wu Chaoyue's governor's yamen to visit. As soon as he met, he smiled bitterly and said, "Weiting, Luo Futai's incident is in trouble. This time he is afraid that he will really be doomed."

"What happened again in the flower platform?" Wu Chaoyue asked quickly.

"I just received the urgent report from Hunan that the three foreigners were detained by the Hunan Censor Kui Lian in Yuezhou."

Hua Shana said with a giggle: "After those foreigners were scattered in Changsha, Luo Bingzhang was afraid that they would cause more trouble, so he sent them back. As a result, the ship arrived in Yuezhou and was detained by Kuelian stationed there. Luo Bingzhang sent all the escorts by Kuelian as witnesses. "

"Qui Lian is crazy? He dares to forcibly detain the people from the governor's yamen?" Wu Chaoyue asked in surprise with his heart.

"He should have been angry with Luo Ruzhai." Hua Shana replied with a wry smile: "After the court promoted him from the prefect of Yuezhou, he thought that after Luo Ruzhai took the wrong medicine, he took the wrong medicine. He used the excuse that Kui Lian needed to take charge of the army and refused to let Kui Lian move to the provincial capital. Kui Lian requested to return to the provincial capital several times but was rejected by Luo Ruzhai. He must have been holding a lot of anger in his heart. This time he caught such a good opportunity, of course he would not let it go."

After saying that, Hua Shana added another sentence and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, the memorial that Kui Lian impeached Luo Bingzhang must have been sent to the capital. He is a third-rank official and has the right to seal the memorial. I have no right to stop him, let alone know the content of his memorial. Therefore, even I can't stop this matter."

Wu Chaoyue wanted to hold Kui Lian, the Hunan Censor, whom he had never seen before, to suppress his ecstasy. Wu Chaoyue pretended to be anxious again and said, "This matter is a big trouble. Once the foreigners go deep into the mainland, the local government has the right to seize and hand it over to the nearby foreign consulate. Kui Nietai is in line with national laws and no one can stop him. Luo Futai has offended him again. If he bites him, Luo Futai will not be able to get out."

"What's even more troublesome is that I can't mediate this matter yet." Hua Shana looked even more helpless and said, "I have known for Luo Ruzhai's intentional exclusion of Kui Zhen. Kui Zhen had already asked me to sue for this matter, but was rejected by me for the excuse that I was inconvenient to interfere in local affairs. If I come forward to speak for Luo Ruzhai, Kui Zhen would definitely think that I was deliberately trying to slap Kui Zhen. With his donkey temper..., alas, the trouble will definitely be even greater."

Shaking his head and sighed, Hua Shanaqiang cheered up and said, "Talk, I'm in a hurry to find you. I want you to send someone to Yuezhou to visit the three foreigners and protect them. Don't let Kui Zhen's stubborn donkey do anything stupid. Last year, a foreigner priest was killed in Guangxi. The matter has not been resolved yet. We in Huguang cannot make such a mistake."

After saying that, Hua Shana took out a blank official document and asked Wu Chaoyue to arrange for those who could speak foreign language to represent the governor's yamen in Huguang to take care of and protect the three detained foreigners, not asking for help from Kui Zhen, but just to stop Kui Zhen from being stupid. He went into the mainland with a direct knife like the magistrate of Xilin County, Guangxi. Then Hua Shana stood up and said goodbye. Wu Chaoyue, who respected Hua Shana, personally sent him out of the governor's yamen until he parted.

It was after Hua Shana's sedan left, Zhao Liewen came up and said to Wu Chaoyue: "Weiting, when I was chatting with Guo Songtao, I heard him mention Kui Zhen, and it seemed that he had a little friendship with Kui Zhen. Why don't you ask Yunxian to ask if he can convince Kui Zhen to release him first? Otherwise, the bigger the matter is, the more trouble it will be."

Of course, Zhao Liewen didn't know Hua Shana's instructions to Wu Chaoyue in private. Wu Chaoyue, whose eyes lit up, naturally forgot Hua Shana's earnest teachings, and immediately ordered: "Okay, Huifu, you go and invite Mr. Yunxian to talk to the back hall to see if he can do this."
Chapter completed!