Chapter 242: It’s not good, Luo Yaoguo has entered Shanghai! (Please subscribe, please vote)
Shanghai, Shilipu Wharf.

The night had not yet faded completely, with only a streak of white in the eastern sky, and a thin layer of mist covering the Huangpu River. At this time, many coolies wearing short coats, belts, bare arms, braids wrapped around their necks, holding a foot-long, extremely sharp knife in their hands, had gathered at the Shiliupu Wharf. There were no less than two thousand of them.

In the dim light, every face filled with deep hatred and deep sorrow had an expression of extreme excitement, and every pair of bloodshot eyes was filled with the desire for a counterattack. Everyone was like a volcano about to erupt, and the day of the eruption was today!

Suddenly, a few balls of fire flickered in the fog over the river, and the people anxiously waiting on the dock made a noise that seemed to be deliberately suppressed.

“Niang Xipi, you are finally here!”

Chen Ji, who was coming from the Jardine Matheson dock, cursed softly and stared at the fire slowly approaching on the river with wide eyes. It was coming from a large open wooden boat. Chen Ji vaguely saw that the boat was full of people, all wearing red clothes and red scarves!

“It’s the Taiping Army!”

A Cantonese man next to Chen Ji shouted excitedly.

“The Taiping Army is coming”

Then came the shouts of more Cantonese and Fujianese.

Chen Ji, who was hiding in the crowd, hurriedly followed everyone in shouting, and while shouting he looked around nervously. He found that the people dressed as dock coolies standing next to him were staring at the large ship slowly approaching on the river, and no one noticed his presence, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

The reason why he had such a reaction was that he was different from most of the people gathered at Shilipu Wharf today!
He is not here to rebel, he is here as an undercover agent!

He was sent undercover by the foreigner Mr. Winster White, and above Mr. Winster White was Boss Matheson, and above Boss Matheson was the British Consul Alcock!

In Shanghai, Lord Aliguo is such a powerful figure that anyone who steps on the Bund will tremble three times.

In other words, three levels above him is someone like Lord Aliguo, who is like the emperor of Shanghai. If he has reached such a position, would he still stand with the rebels of the God Worshipping Society, the Heaven and Earth Society, and the Small Knife Society?
Mr. White said that as long as he did a good job undercover this time, the British Empire would support him to become the “leader” of the Shanghai Gang, and the coolies on the docks of Jardine Matheson and Butterfield & Swire would be under his control.

He will be very famous then! He is the most miserable laborer in Shanghai. No, he is the biggest laborer!

When Chen Ji thought about the future of the “biggest coolie”, his eyes widened and he observed intently.

Soon, the big wooden boat broke through the thick fog on the river and appeared near the Shiliupu Wharf, about to dock. At this time, the first ray of morning light in the east had already shone down, sprinkling on the wooden boat that was slowly approaching the shore.

Now Chen Ji finally saw it clearly!

There were dozens of people standing on the boat, and a large flag was erected, fluttering in the morning breeze. But he couldn’t read, so he didn’t know what was embroidered on the flag. Fortunately, the 2,000 people on the dock were not all illiterate, and soon someone shouted it out.

“Holy Angel Wu Wang! It’s the Holy Angel Wu Wang!”

“The man under the red flag is the Holy Angel King Wu!”

“Great! The Five Thousand Year Old King of Wu has come in person!”

Chen Ji also discovered the Holy Angel of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Wu Wang Wu Wu Qian Sui Luo Yaoguo! He was wearing a red robe and a red scarf, with broad shoulders and a round waist, a long face, a wide jaw, a prominent forehead, deep eye sockets, fierce eyes, a straight nose and a big mouth, and a face full of pockmarks. He was a demon in disguise!

No wonder some people in Shanghai spread the rumor that Luo Yaoguo was some kind of demon sent from heaven!

It seems that this rumor is not without truth!

Later, Chen Ji heard the Cantonese people shouting “Su Sanniang” again.

“The one next to His Royal Highness Prince Wu must be Su Sanniang, right?”

“What a tall person.”

“Little red coat, long skirt, two Taiping swords, no doubt, it must be the Queen Mother Wu!”

Chen Ji immediately noticed the woman standing next to the “transformed demon”. The woman wore a tight red coat that outlined her curvy figure, and a red layered long skirt. Her skin was whiter than snow, her eyes were big and bright, her mouth was rosy, and her high nose highlighted her three-dimensional facial features. However, she seemed younger than the famous Su Sanniang, perhaps only seventeen or eighteen years old, at most in her twenties.

Just when Chen Ji discovered that the “Queen Wu’s wife” was a little different from the one described in the advertisement, the big ship had already docked at the pier, and then he heard a silver bell-like voice shouting: “The Holy Angel King Wu’s order: Take the county, destroy the Qing demons, attack the concessions, and drive out the foreigners!” Chen Ji listened carefully to the woman’s accent. Although she spoke Mandarin, she still had an obvious Wu accent, and Su Sanniang was from Guangdong.

However, it is not surprising that a figure like King Wu Luo Yaoguo has a group of queens.

Chen Ji analyzed it and felt that it was not a big problem that the Queen Mother of Wu’s goods were not the same as the ones in the pictures.

At this moment, the “transformed demon” suddenly drew out his sword, pointed it in the direction of Shanghai Xiaodongmen, and shouted, “Kill!”

This shout was like throwing a ball of fire next to a pile of dry firewood, and the Shilipu Wharf was suddenly filled with shouts of killing.

A red flag embroidered with “Peace and Unification” that had been prepared long ago was suddenly raised among the crowd. Then, several flags embroidered with “Grand Commander Li, the Pacification Commander of the Hu”, “Left Marshal Chen”, “Right Marshal Lin” and “Flying Tiger General Pan” were raised high.

Then came the sound of slogans such as “Kill the Qing demons and go to heaven”. The disciples of the Xiaodao Society gathered at the Shiliupu Wharf all took out their knives, shoulder poles, and sticks, and led by the banners of “Governor”, “Marshal”, and “Flying Tiger General”, they rushed to Xiaodongmen like a tide.

However, Chen Ji was not so reckless. He picked up a small knife and went to attack the county town. Although Luo Xueyan’s army was no longer in Shanghai, there were still two thousand Shanghai New Army led by Wu Jianzhang in Shanghai County, two companies of foreign soldiers in the foreign concession, and foreign gunboats on the Huangpu River. These were not something that two or three thousand Small Knife Society rebels could deal with.

So Chen Ji, who aspired to become the “biggest coolie” in Shanghai, found an opportunity and went into a narrow street outside the Shilipu Wharf. He then watched coldly as the disciples of the Small Knife Society passed through the street. He also witnessed the Taiping Army who got off the big ship, surrounding the “Holy Angel King Wu”, and heading towards the Xiaodongmen of Shanghai County.

The equipment of these Taiping troops was much better than that of the disciples of the Small Sword Society. They were all equipped with Brown Bess foreign rifles. The female general following the “King Wu” even had an American-made revolver that could fire continuously!

However, it would be impossible for them to break into Shanghai County with just dozens of foreign guns!
Chen Ji was hiding in the alley, thinking this, when he suddenly heard thunderous cheers coming from the direction of Xiaodong Gate.

He listened carefully and heard shouts in Cantonese and Fujian dialects.

“Let’s get in!”

“Kill the Qing monsters and go to heaven!”

“We’ve entered Shanghai County.”

Got it in?

How could it be so fast?
Chen Ji looked carefully and found that a red flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was flying on the low tower of the Little East Gate!

British Concession, British Consulate.

British Consul Alcock and Vice Consul Wade had already washed up and were sitting in the restaurant, chatting and enjoying their English breakfast. They were halfway through their meal when they heard a “bang” and the door of their restaurant was kicked open.

The two looked up and saw Matheson, the boss of Jardine Matheson, standing there with a red face, pointing at the window, panting and unable to speak. The boss of Jardine Matheson was a famous gentleman in Shanghai. Even if he wanted to fire someone, he would always be calm and smile when announcing to the person. In all these years, they had never seen him so angry.

“What’s going on?” Wade asked. “Could it be that Mr. Bonham’s ship arrived ahead of schedule?”

Aliguo asked calmly, “I guess that Chinese devil has made some unusual moves?”

Matheson nodded in admiration, and it took him a while to catch his breath. He had run all the way here from the Jardine Matheson Building!

Because he had just received a report that something really big had happened this time!
“Mr. Consul, Mr. Vice Consul, it’s bad, Luo Yaoguo has invaded Shanghai!”

“how is this possible?”

“This is impossible!”

Aliguo and Wade both shook their heads, both looking incredulous.

Matheson strode to the closed window and pulled open the glass, and then a loud and noisy sound poured in from outside.

Aliguo and Wade both gasped.

Because what they heard was a symphony of rebellion mixed with gunshots, explosions and cheers.
(End of this chapter)