In February 1854, in a brothel on a street in Hong Kong, there were crowds of people. Old men wearing silk and satin were crowded in a small hall, facing a small wooden platform. Some were staring at each other in a blushing face, some were whispering, and some were blushing and thick-necked as others were shouting.

On the wooden platform, the turtle with oily head, pink face and eloquent face were fairly introducing the wonders of the three newly bought girls behind her.

Looking at the three timid and cowardly girls with tears and listening to the lewd words of Turtle, the men's necks turned red, and they seemed to smell the fragrance of virginity in this dirty air room.

This is a common commercial activity for auctioning "Fallen Red", and the madam strives to squeeze the most money from the newly bought girls.

"This girl is back at night! Add another 100 taels, 500 taels!" A triangular eye sitting in the front row pointed at the third girl who pulled it out loud. The man looked in his forties, thin and tanned skin, but under the corner of his silk robe, he was exposed with a pair of barefoot wearing slippers.

"Yu Linglong, Boss Zhou offered 600 taels!" Before Mr. Gui could speak, a fat man suddenly raised his hand and raised the price. Mr. Gui immediately moved his eyes away from the Triangular Eye with surprise, pointed at the fat man in the back row and shouted.

"Damn it!" Triangle eyes turned their heads to see who it was, and then furious. He stood up suddenly, turned around and glared at the fat man. The blue veins on his temples jumped and pointed at the fat man and shouted: "Aren't you Lao Zhou from the dock? Are you fighting with me today?"

Looking at Hei Pi who was glaring at him and the three bodyguards with muskets on his waist, the fat man Old Zhou was sweating on his forehead, but his mouth was very hard: "Hei Pi, I know you, but this is not your territory, this is Hong Kong."

"Hey, 'Black Skin', don't be angry. The pearl has its own value and you will get it right away. They are all friends in the world, and they are not good for harmony if they are hurt." The turtle man immediately made up the scene, and several burly men standing against the wall in the brothel also looked at this place.

After looking at the situation around him, Hei Pi sat down angrily, raised his hand to bid again, and finally overwhelmed the fat man who was a little guilty and timid and did not dare to let go of the bid. He bought Yu Linglong's first night for 800 taels.

In the backyard at night, the black-skinned man, the hypocritical groom, had not drunk the fake groom's wine, so he rushed into the VIP room on the second floor of the backyard, preparing to do a big fight to get the ticket price back.

His three bodyguards were bored and guarded the stairs on the first floor. This was the only place to go upstairs. The master was happy on it. The three of them squatted on the grass to feed mosquitoes. There was a moon above them, and in front of them was the brightly lit brothel. The sound of waves kept coming. This scene made the three bodyguards unable to get excited.

The big man with a scar on his face was the head of the three. He held the handrail of the stairs and yawned, and said to a subordinate: "Sanzai, go to the teahouse in front to call a large pot of strong tea, 800 taels. With the boss's stinginess, he would definitely not be able to come down for two hours. If the boss comes down and finds that we are not energetic, he might slap again."

"Okay." The mistress was listless. Now she had the opportunity to go ahead and see that the girl was more comfortable than waiting for her master to finish her sex. She immediately ran over like a fly.

After a while, Scarface said to the other person: "Xiao Si, go to the carriage at the door, bring my cigarette gun, take a few puffs, and smoke the mosquitoes."

Seeing that his subordinates were all exposed, Scar's eyes immediately shone, and there was no intention of yawning Lian Tianyan's head just now. He looked at the silence around him, poked his lips and learned to scream a few birds.

Soon, there was a movement from the wall, and one person flipped down, followed by another person flipped over from the brothel.

The four men covered their faces, fucked the knife and the axe, and surrounded the Scarface.

After looking at them, Scar nodded his mouth upstairs, and then said in a low voice: "Remember the agreed price."

"You are indispensable." The masked man led a small man, speaking with a childish voice.

After saying that, he waved his hand and took three of his subordinates with knives and axes to touch the second floor.

Scarface sat on the stairs and looked at the moon. A short and sharp sound of help suddenly came from the upstairs, followed by a thud of footsteps, "Oh, money." Scarface sighed.

The first time the bodyguard Xiao Si came back, he stood on the grass in the backyard with a cigarette gun, looking at the empty courtyard with some confusion, wanting to shout scarface, but he is afraid of disturbing the boss. This boss is perverted and timid. If you scream loudly, maybe he will jump out of the window from the girl. After turning a few times, he smelled the faint smell of blood in the wind.

He slowly went upstairs in surprise, and saw a bloody hand standing across the ground outside the door of the room.

Slowly pushing open the door, Xiao Si's gun fell to the ground: the entire luxurious VIP room was covered with blood, and the "black skin" in the pool of blood was almost cut into seventeen or eighteen sections.

The guest was killed! The brothel immediately called the police.

Detectives from the British police station began to investigate the dismemberment of Chen Ergou, a Chinese shipping businessman from Hong Kong, but the murderer was not only cruel but also quick to move and clean hands and feet. The only survivor at the scene, "Yu Linglong", had long been abused and fainted by Hei Pi at that time, and he didn't know anything at all. Except for the missing bodyguard, Scarface, who was suspected of being aware of life and death, there were no other clues.

In June 1854, the Portuguese colony Macau, evening.

In a mansion, a tall foreigner stood beside the four-wheeled carriage outside the door, looking at the sunset all over the sky, and said anxiously: "Honey, hurry up, you'll be late soon."

A graceful Chinese woman walked out of the house in Western women's clothing. Looking at her foreign husband who was stomping her feet at the door, she smiled and said, "Why are you so anxious today? I remember that you used to be careless and careless when attending banquets."

My husband held the woman's arm, pulled her and walked towards the carriage, saying, "Has I told you that I have told you? I'm going to develop recently! I met a friend who works in the British consulate. He introduced me to Mr. William of Jardine & Co., Ltd. and was very optimistic about me and wanted to invite me to be the captain of Jardine & Co., Ltd.. Listen, Ah Jiu, today you have to give me some energy. This time, Mr. William will be a big shot at the dinner party."

Ajiujiao smiled: "My old John, why are you doing so hard? You can completely stop working, I can support you."

"Don't say so much, go up." John pushed his wife into the carriage and took her into it. The carriage immediately galloped towards the location of the Macau branch of Jardine Mathematics.

In this summer evening in the south, although the sun that can make people oily has already set, the air is still hot. Although the carriage windows are wide open and the carriage is galloping in, it still makes John, who is dressed in formal clothes and straight bow tie sweat. He goes to get the handkerchief, but finds that he has forgotten to bring it, and turns his head and asks his wife, "Handkerchief."

"You are always so careless." Ajiu snorted and pulled out the handkerchief in his bag.

At this moment, a horse was crying in front of him. Amid the screams of the coachman and bodyguards in front, the galloping carriage stopped. The couple was thrown forward by inertia. Through the front window of the carriage carriage, you can see a carriage crossing on the road. It was the carriage that rushed into the narrow path that almost hit Ajiu and his wife's carriage head-on.

But Ajiu in the carriage had no time to stand firm, and a package with a row of black smoke suddenly came in from the car window.

There was a loud noise immediately.

In the black smoke, two horses were killed. The coachman and one bodyguard were killed immediately. The other bodyguard was thrown out of the front seat when the emergency stop was stopped, and could still lie down and moan on the road alive. The carriage was blown up like flowers blooming.

Four people walked over from both sides of the carriage with expensive revolvers, shot the dying British bodyguards on the roadside with one shot, and then pulled the trigger to hit the two people in the carriage who were blown to death, and shot all the remaining bullets into their bodies.

This tragedy of massacre in the street shocked the Portuguese authorities in Macau.

But it has never been able to detect it.

The Portuguese Inspector once found some clues, but soon after, the task force responsible for the shocking bloody case was directly disbanded, and the case of insufficient police force also became a unsolved case.

In September 1854, a middle-aged Chinese man dressed in a simple and honest manner, took four servants to board the British merchant ship "The Tulip" from Hong Kong to Shanghai.

This is a smaller merchant ship that originally carried designated goods, and the cargo owner gave a price of three times higher than the same regulations. The conditions are very simple: the ship must be all British crew members, and must be foreigners of white races, and cannot be Chinese people with British nationality.

This condition seems a bit strange at sea in China, because it will be more expensive than hiring Chinese sailors, at least it is difficult to find a British nationality staff. But the US dollar is true. No one cares about the strange sense of trust of Chinese goods owners in foreigners.

Such customers should be treated well, and no merchant ship will carry sudden passengers in this situation.

But these people were suddenly told by the cargo owner to take them. When they got on the boat, they took a stack of extra dollars from the middle-aged man. Captain Desmond ignored their identities and was just surprised that he was really not as handsome as a wealthy businessman but did not look as generous as a rich businessman.

After going out to sea, driven by gratitude and curiosity for so much tips, the captain visited the mysterious extra guest several times, but was blocked by the cargo owner and his men.

"This brother is not in good condition for water transportation and is in poor health. Please go back."

After being blocked for the fourth time, the captain shook his head and came out of the cabin and walked to the deck to enjoy the scenery.

The first mate came over with a cup of coffee and smiled, "Mr. Desmond, our guests are so strange. The weather is so good, but they are huddled under the deck every day."

Desmond shook his head and said, "I'm worried if they're transporting vampires."

"Wow, Mr. Captain, the Chinese don't know about vampires." The first mate laughed.

"Okay, how is the sea surface?" Desmond asked.

"It's great, except for the wind is small. A large armed ship of the Song Dynasty robbery team just passed by us, indicating that there will be no pirates in the waters here, and they are very dedicated." The first mate looked at the sea and sky line in the distance, and leisurely savored the coffee.

But at this moment, the sailor in charge of looking down, put down the monocular lens, pointed at the back and shouted: "Look behind, there is a strange paddle boat chasing us quickly."

"What national flag?" The captain and the chief mate shouted in unison.

"No flags are hung! They have weapons!" The sailor's voice was filled with tremolo.

"Find all weapons you can find to guard against pirates." The captain yelled, and the first mate threw the coffee cup in his hand into the sea and picked up the fire axe hanging on the aisle.

"Dongdongdongdong" Captain quickly slipped out of the cabin and shouted to the Chinese merchants: "There may be pirates. Do you have weapons? Hurry up and fight with us on the deck!"

"Pirates?" Several Chinese people looked at each other.

A few minutes later, the pirate ship, which was so obvious that it was no longer obvious, had already caught up with them. The covered pirates ran back and forth on their deck, looking ready to catch the ship.

At this time, the Chinese cargo owner who entrusted Captain Desmond led seven or eight people to the deck with muskets. Looking at the ship that was suddenly leaning towards him, the Chinese cargo owner jumped up as light as a swallow. He stepped on the side of the ship, stood with one foot on the wind, and shouted at the pirates with muskets: "The three colors of sea and sky, gold is buried in the water, Guangzhou female Bodhisattva, three or three feet can reach the sky! (I am also a brother on the Tao, and the widow Sun works under his command. Which Taoist do you belong to?)"

"Are you a pirate too?" The captain could understand Chinese. Although he didn't know what the cargo owner meant, he could guess eight or nine points without fear.

But after a terrifying and muffled sound, the captain suddenly jumped away from the cargo owner, hugged his head and shouted: "God, you are not!"

Just now, the pirate ship was fired with guns all over the place. Although the cargo owner, who was standing on the side of the ship, looked majestic, but he also became a living target. A lead tiles made a big hole in his nose. The hero raised his head and fell on the deck. Even the foreigners around him were splashed with blood on his pants.

"Kill!" Dozens of masked pirates jumped into the British ship with knives, axes and guns.

"Head, found." Several masked pirates covered in blood raised the medium-sized and light man who was told by the cargo owner to the deck full of corpses, kicked him to kneel on the ground, and put the blood knife on his neck.

The middle-aged man looked at the masked man, but was frightened but angry. He gritted his teeth and said, "Who are you? Do you know, I am the son of Widow Sun!"

The short masked man in front of him pulled out a piece of paper from his arms and looked at it carefully. The sun was shining directly, and the traces on the thin paper were clearly visible to the middle-aged man kneeling below, but when he saw it, he was scattered. This was actually a portrait!

He stared at the little man in front of him, sweating all over his face, and suddenly shouted: "I know who you are! The ship is full of British people! I am also a British nationality! I request a trial back to Hong Kong! Use British law to judge! I am not guilty at all! You can't do anything to me!"

But in response to him was a cold glance, the little man folded the portrait and put it back in his arms, and said coldly: "Take a clear body! Justify the Dharma on the spot!"

"I am a British citizen..." The middle-aged man yelled heart-wrenchingly, and the roar stopped because an iron spear stabbed in from behind him, and the spear that pierced his chest was covered with blood and nailed to the deck.

"Sink this ship!" The masked man gave the order.

Watching the Tulip Flower gradually sink, the pirates sailed away from the sea area, untied their covers, hung up a French flag, and immediately transformed into a merchant ship with all kinds of procedures. Not far ahead, a warship of the pirates with the Haisong flag appeared slowly, but did not attack the pirates. Instead, they picked up the pirates' leaders.

In the captain's room, the one-eyed Luo Qianjie closed the cabin door, pulled out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet, pinched two glasses with three fingers, and paused heavily on the table in front of the pirate leader who was sitting high.

Luo Qianjie poured the wine, but looked at the man and smiled and said, "Little Monkey, your missionary department has made contributions again. We have this contribution."

In September 1854, the British merchant ship "Tullips" disappeared on the Chinese sea, 13 British crew members and 4 Chinese national cargo owners disappeared, suspected of being pirates.

At the same time, Zhao Kuo was flipping through the summary report sent by the Missionary Department. This was the highest secret: the rows on it were densely packed with time, name, identity, crime, and place of action.

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On February 12, 1854, Lin Shuishun, the second leader of the Pirate Yushan Gang, was defeated by the robbery team, and the pseudonym Chen Ergou hid in Hong Kong. The Missionary Department bribed his bodyguard leader and obtained his whereabouts. He was "sincerely punished" in a brothel to rectify the law;

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On June 3, 1854, Ajiu, also known as Jiujie, was a pirate and the leader of stolen goods. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs assisted the Propaganda Department to find Mr. William of Jardine Carrier to help him. After luring out the den, he was killed by "Tianzhu" in Macau with a gunpowder bag on the streets of Macau;

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On September 5, 1854, Liu Tiangen, the only son of the giant widow Sun, intended to flee to Shanghai, was jointly with the Navy by the Missionary Department and sent "Tian Zhu" to disguise pirates on the ocean to rectify the Dharma.

"The Mission Department did a beautiful job!" Zhao Kuo threw down the report and praised loudly.

Hu Qian in front of him bowed slightly and said, "Your Majesty, we have 27 people in Hong Kong and Macau. Now the British Police Office in Hong Kong and Portuguese Police Office in Macau have noticed us. Several subordinates have been arrested. I hope the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can rescue them through diplomatic means."
To be continued...