Li Chong was released the next day, but was ordered not to stay in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. So Clifford took him to the British and American public concessions and also stayed at the Licha Hotel. The chapters were updated the fastest

Li Chong once met his foreign brother-in-law in Guangzhou. Later, Clifford took Li Xuanji back to the UK. He hated the foreigner who kidnapped his younger sister very much. But later, under Ronglu's reassurance, he gradually understood what a person he was a cheap brother-in-law was. Although he still felt a little resentful in his heart, he also felt that only a person with the status of Clifford could be worthy of his sister.

Then Li Chong learned the news through Ronglu's business in Guangzhou that his sister held a wedding in London and Clifford, England. She was once again embarrassed and angry. She didn't know how big the younger sister got married, and she didn't invite her to attend. She was really an extrovert! Li Chong was an old-fashioned scholar, and her mind was full of three pillars and five constants. She felt that her elder brother was like a father. Li Xuanji obviously didn't take him seriously when he did this, so he also held a grudge against his elder brother.

But this year he was unfavorable. After being defeated and captured, he was escorted to Tianjing to offer prisoners and suffered humiliation. He once thought about committing suicide, but when things were about to come, he was always reluctant to die. He still had a hope of the Heavenly Kingdom surrendering him. That time in Guangzhou, the merchant ship that could not even Clifford easily was finally discovered by Ronglu. It turned out that the big man on the ship was the Western King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Ronglu regretted it afterwards. He had already led his troops up and rushed up all the time, and he could solve this great enemy in his life. After Li Chong learned about it, he was secretly scolding his younger sister for being shameless and seducing a foreigner, but he went to provoke the pseudo-Western King. The pseudo-Western King actually chased him thousands of miles away regardless of his identity, which really lost all the face of the Li family. Therefore, he also knew that the pseudo-Western King was the younger sister's friend.

Therefore, after he was captured and humiliated, he always felt that there was still a glimmer of hope that he could not die, so he hoped that the King of the West would not kill him for the sake of his younger sister. It seemed that things were also moving in the direction he expected. Half a month later, he was sent to the Shanghai prisoner-of-war camp to be detained, and then he met his younger sister.

In order to survive, Li Chong would naturally try his best to do everything he could. When he found out that his younger sister seemed to have no intention of rescuing him, he would say all the vicious words. After leaving the younger sister in anger, he also knew that his life was broken.

But there was no way out, and in the afternoon, a prison guard said that someone was helping him with the procedures for release from prison. He would leave tomorrow. This surprised and happy Li Chong. Finally, he left the prison and realized that it was his brother-in-law Clifford who saved him.

Sitting in Clifford's luxurious carriage, Li Chong naturally thanked Clifford very much and was extremely slave. This is the scholars taught by the Confucianism of the Qing Dynasty. Most of them were castrated thoughts who had lost their spirit of resistance and had no backbone.

A Liguo was also sitting in the carriage and saw Li Chong shouting intimately, saying to Clifford in English: "This guy is really worth 100,000 silver dollars?"

Clifford also disliked Li Chong very much, and just smiled and said, "I don't know. Perhaps the thinking of Eastern people is different from that of ordinary people, and you will never guess what they are thinking."

A Liguo smiled and asked, "Including your wife?"

Speaking of Li Xuanji, Clifford twitched slightly. Although the West was open-minded, there were countless incidents of men and women looking for lovers after marriage. The wife of French emperor Napoleon once cuckolded the Corsican, and Emperor Napoleon also had lovers. Although the two divorced in the end, everyone thought this was normal in the Western world. Before Ali and Clifford came to the Licha Hotel, they learned from Smith that a Chinese had visited his wife, and later the wife seemed to have cried. From the description of appearance, Clifford confirmed that this person was the former rival of the Western King Xiao Chaogui, so it was a bit ridiculous to Ali.

Clifford had a gloomy face. He remembered that on the wedding night with his wife, he found that his wife was not intact, which was not a big deal in the West. However, Clifford guessed that his wife must have given her rival for the first time. What he couldn't accept the most was that whenever he fell asleep late at night, his wife would sit on the balcony and stare blankly at the East. He knew that there was always the shadow of that man in her heart.

Clifford loved art, and artists had more or less obsessive-compulsive disorder in their pursuit of perfection, so this concept also came to his marriage life, and he began to gradually become jealous and dissatisfied. He had proposed to terminate his cooperation with the Taiping Kingdom and terminate his investment in the Far East at a family meeting, but in the face of actual interests, he was unable to make a comeback. Under the rule of the Taiping Kingdom in the Far East, he began to introduce a large amount of foreign capital to mine ore, build railways, build various factories, bridges, and telegraph lines, and the Rothschild family realized that this was another excellent opportunity to make a fortune, so Clifford's motion did not get a chance to vote at all. Everyone thought Clifford must be crazy.

This time, Clifford and his wife returned to the Far East because of the needs of their family business. The investment rights of the railway construction in Fujian were obtained by Jardine Mahjong, the family agent. However, after the project began, the two sides began to have differences. Fujian is a mountainous province, and the construction difficulty is greater than that of the railway construction in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. After the construction project began, many difficulties encountered. The British engineer finally asked to increase the budget, that is, increase the return on investment returns in the future. However, the Chinese side disagreed. The two sides agreed before the bid was opened. Wouldn't the British go back on their word?

After several talks, the family asked Clifford and his wife to come to the Far East because they had a close relationship with the senior officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and hoped that these means could solve the stagnation of Fujian Railway Construction.

After Clifford arrived in Shanghai, with the help of Aliguo, he found Wang Kaiyun to state the reason why the British side needed to add investment budgets. At this time, China also sent geological personnel from the Academy of Sciences chaired by Li Shanlan to Fujian to verify the situation. It also found that the facts were consistent with what the British said. In fact, it was only because the technology at this time was not sophisticated enough and the geological conditions under the underground were insufficient, which caused several bridges and culverts that Fujian needed to build when building railways. After understanding the situation, China also understood that it was impossible to let the British continue to do it at a loss. Finally, Clifford came. After repeated negotiations, the two sides finally determined an additional investment budget plan that both sides could accept, and then the matter was solved, which also gave Clifford a face.

Clifford did the job and obtained 50% of the mineral mining rights along the Fujian Railway for the Rothschild family. At the same time, they have 50% of the profit rights for the future operation of the Fujian Railway. This means that after the construction of the Fujian Railway is completed, it will become a necessary channel for Fujian tea exports. In addition, Fujian's minerals are rich, the Rothschild family makes another big profit.

What the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has obtained is infrastructure construction and mineral development, as well as factories and affiliated industries built after mining farm development, which can solve the livelihood problems of a large number of people, and they also have the other half of the mineral mining rights and railway income rights, which generally achieves a win-win situation.

After the matter was completed, Aliguo introduced a person to Clifford, who was his secretary Gong Cheng, and Gong Cheng brought even more exciting news from a big man in the north. This big man will hold a major coup next year. As long as the British and French coalition forces can send troops to help at the right time, I believe that there is a greater chance of success. After the success, the railway construction rights of northern provinces, especially the flat Central Plains region and the mineral mining rights along the railway will be handed over to the Rothschild family for investment and development.

Such large-scale conditions made the British very moved, so that northern China would become the second India and the British plundering base for cheap raw materials, and then turn into products in the UK and sell them all over the world. The British could even build various factories in northern China to produce products on site. The big man generously demarcated several places such as Tianjin, Qingdao and other places as open ports, and promised that foreigners could rent places, promised that warships could be docked at concession ports, stationed troops, etc.

Sir Erkin and Clifford were both very interested. Erkin found that joining China in the north could provide so many favorable conditions. Without major changes in the south, it seemed that China's status quo was the most beneficial to the UK. Clifford was for commercial interests. If the UK had a foothold in the north, it might even open routes to Japan, Canada, and the United States on the east coast.

So the British began to pay attention to the proposal of this great man and repeatedly studied the current political structure and military deployment of the Qing court. Then they found that if the British and French forces joined, the chances of winning of this coup or mutiny would reach more than 70%. Compared with the profit and profit of hundreds of%, the British's spirit of adventure broke out again, and this adventure was definitely worth it!

So the coalition fleet at Dagukou retreated, one was to paralyze the Qing court's negotiating minister Prince Gong, the second was to avoid the freezing period in the Bohai Sea, and the third was to prepare to join the coalition expeditionary forces in Hong Kong. War was inevitable, but the Qing Dynasty Prince Gong was still complacent about the goodwill and sincerity of negotiations expressed by Britain and France to withdraw the fleet, but he didn't know that a conspiracy was brewing.

Li Chong didn't know that rescuing himself was just an episode of these planning steps. The 100,000 silver dollars was not produced by Clifford, but by the big man from the north. He needed a reliable person and this person had a certain relationship with the British and at the same time, a person who knew military affairs would serve as a liaison officer for coordination with the British and French coalition forces in the future. Li Chong was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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