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149 Chapter 148, ransom, ransom
148,

"Qing Biao."

"grown ups?"

"Go back."

"Yes."

Contrary to Dai Pingan's expectation, Yan Xiaoguo, who has always been serious and serious, did not turn his face immediately, even though Dai Pingan's words were extremely sinister and vicious.

Of course, Dai Pingan didn't feel that what he said was wrong at all.

A princess of a country lives a luxurious life in brocade clothes and jade. However, after being fooled by a foreigner's little boy, she feels that the air in a foreign country is more fragrant and sweet, so she drops everything and elopes out of the palace with him.

An imperial court, deep in the palace, heavily guarded, with eunuchs, guards and imperial troops inside and outside the palace, could actually allow a foreign devil and a princess to slip out from under their noses.Sneaked from the Forbidden City of BJ all the way to Dagukou, Tianjin, and sailed to the United States, only to find the letter extorting [-] gold bars in the princess's boudoir.

how absurd,

how ridiculous

so easy,
so effortlessly,
It is exactly the same as the operation of abducting a kiln sister from a brothel, and then extorting money from the old bustard, even simpler.

This is the big secret hidden in the land of New Austin,
The big secret that made the mayor of Barry desperate to find out,

It was also the secret that made Dai Pingan survive several times, but now he learned that he wanted to smack himself.

But this wasn't what made Dai Ping'an feel the most disgusting.

The reason why Colonel Beckett dared to train the private army with such fanfare and block the news was because the elopement princess arrived in New Austin after a long journey, and was detained by the guards at the Chinese labor camp below Fort Clothes.

Who would have thought that the delicate and expensive princess of the Qing Dynasty would be guarded in this stinking labor camp.

Yan Xiaoguo didn't expect it either, but he found it.

After receiving the news that it took a lot of blood and lives to send it out, he immediately reorganized his staff and went out with all his strength, trying to get the princess out.As a result, as soon as the front foot entered New Austin, the rear foot was swept away by Colonel Beckett's search.Immediately after being caught, it was the Hongmen who crashed into New Austin

They were betrayed, but the one who betrayed them could not be a Chinese worker who had spent his entire life building railroads in the United States but could not even speak English well.No matter how powerful the people in the Chinese labor camp are, it is impossible to know such details, even to the extent that the soldiers of the search company can arrest people according to the list.

The group of people in the camp betrayed only some survivors who slipped through the net and innocent passers-by who didn't know anything.

What's even more ridiculous is that whether it's Yan Xiaoguo or shopkeeper Xiao, the reason they survived after being arrested is because the court agreed.

Yes, the court promised to give money.

In order to maintain the majesty of the Qing court and to preserve the honor of the Tianjia royal family, the Qing Dynasty, which would rather be with its allies than slaves, promised to pay the ransom in a secret way, and specially sent Ouchi guards to personally escort [-] gold bars to the United States.

One hundred thousand gold bars,
Even if one is worth a hundred dollars, it is a huge sum of tens of millions of dollars.

The U.S. government bought Alaska from Tsarist Russia with an area of ​​more than 170 million square kilometers, but only spent more than 700 million US dollars.You must know that Alaska is already the largest state in the United States, and the ransom money of tens of millions of dollars is enough to buy another one and a half!

Dai Ping'an even doubted whether the princess of the Qing Dynasty was inlaid with gold rims and diamonds.

With a huge sum of tens of millions of dollars in hand, there is nothing wrong with raising hundreds of people who open their mouths to eat, but even so, only a few hundred people survived the dungeon of Closhangburg.

Dai Pingan learned these things from the mouths of the survivors in the dungeon. At first, he felt a little nonsense, until he used a small knife to gouge out the truth bit by bit from a dozen or so surviving captives. Come out, this has to be accepted.

So many people died, and so much energy wasted, but the cause of everything turned out to be a woman who ran away from home.

"Snapped!"

The dead captives were thrown off the cliff, and then they would be thrown into the eastward flow of the St. Louis River along with the bodies down the mountain.

Hei Erqing left, followed by Li Jiayuan, shopkeeper Xiao nodded, and took Duan Tianlei to escape from a distance. Standing on the edge of the cold and windy cliff, only Yan Xiaoguo and Duan Tianlei were left. Plate, Dai Ping'an who was buried in his meal.

Dai Pingan continued to eat.

The fat beef was like chewing wax in his mouth, but Dai Pingan still gobbled it up, even if this plate of meat and potatoes was discarded by others, he gave it back with his life.

After Dai Ping'an died, Yan Xiaoguo licked his dry and chapped lips. More than a month of captivity had tortured a tall and mighty man into a stick that could be blown down by a gust of wind.

After pondering again and again, Yan Xiaoguo still opened his mouth:

"Can you..."

"cannot!"

Dai Ping'an's answer was so decisive that he didn't even raise his head.And Yan Xiaoguo seems to have anticipated this:
"The ransom of [-] gold bars can be divided into half for you."

"No, I'm afraid I'll die."

"This is related to the court's face."

"Face? Are you still concerned about the court's face at this time?"

The scooping spoon finally stopped, and Dai Pingan didn't look back, but his voice was so cold that it could fall out:
"If you really want to care about the face of the court, you should die honestly in the dungeon of Closhang Fort, instead of revealing the secrets of the court to me, a wanted criminal. I'm right, disobeying the orders, Yan Xiaoguo, Lord Yan, who is self-assertive."

Turning around, Dai Pingan didn't know whether to feel sad or ridiculous when he saw Yan Xiaoguo, who was thin and greasy but still stubborn:
"I've already been betrayed once, isn't that enough? Does the princess who deserved her own fault really need you and me to rescue her?"

Hearing this, Yan Xiaoguo, who turned pale, stayed where he was, and his waist, which had been standing up all the time, also hunched.

Need help?
Of course not.

Now that they have decided to pay for the ransom, how could they organize a rescue at the risk of being torn apart? The matter of saving the princess was Yan Xiaoguo's wishful thinking from beginning to end.

The reason why Lao Huang approached Dai Pingan, a gangster, was that no one was available at that time, and the second was that the court did not allow Yan Xiaoguo to save people.

From the moment he planned to save people, Yan Xiaoguo made a mistake, and it was a big mistake.

It failed, and it threatened the safety of the royal nobles and the princess of the Qing Dynasty.
If it succeeds, it will really hurt the face of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, the empress dowager and the Qing court.

A mere guard from the third grade can save the princess from foreigners. This is to earn face for the country, yes, but this is also the civil and military officials who made the decision to redeem people, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the Empress Dowager Cixi s face.

So from the very beginning, it was impossible for Yan Xiaoguo to succeed, and the court would not let him succeed.

This was what made Dai Ping'an feel the most angry and disgusted.

For the safety of the princess, the imperial court would rather squeeze the fat and riches of the people and pay a sky-high ransom than send someone to take risks.

For the face of the imperial court, those people in the imperial city would rather place their bets on the fact that the kidnapped foreigners will keep their promises than trust their own citizens and officials. For this reason, they did not hesitate to disclose the details and information of Yan Xiaoguo's rescue operation. Notify Colonel Beckett, who is guarding the hostages.

Ning and Youbang, not slaves, this sentence is not just a simple talk.

Money can be spent, and people can't even be redeemed, but for the sake of the face of the Qing court, after the emperor and the queen mother have made the decision to redeem people, a small slave from the third rank must not be allowed to rescue people .

Yan Xiaoguo didn't speak for a long time.

The cold wind howled, and the beef and potatoes on the plate were also frozen into a ball. Dai Pingan didn't care. He scooped it up with a spoon and stuffed it into his mouth.

Was Yan Xiaoguo really wrong?

No,

It is right to save lives.

What was wrong was the court behind him, and what was wrong was that he still had confidence in the court behind him.

Dai Pingan scraped the plate clean, and when he finished his last bite and was about to turn around and leave, Yan Xiaoguo reached out and grabbed him.

"You don't hate me?" Yan Xiaoguo, who could barely hold on just now, suddenly became haggard:
"It was me who left a message to let Lao Huang trick you into coming here and drag you into the water. Don't tell me you don't care at all."

"There's nothing to care about. I'm already living in dire straits."

Dai Ping'an didn't lie, there is really nothing to care about, without the guidance of Yan Xiaoguo and Lao Huang, whether he can live to this day is still a question.

Looking at Yan Xiaoguo, who suddenly lost his energy, Dai Ping'an couldn't bear it:

"Let's take a good rest with me first, and when things are settled here, I'll take you back to Saint-Denis. Don't worry, the princess has money from the imperial court, so nothing will happen, so don't worry about it anymore."

Yan Xiaoguo let go of his hand, Dai Ping'an turned around and wanted to leave, but as soon as he took a step, he heard a "plop" behind him.

The man had gold under his knees, Yan Xiaoguo not only knelt down for him, but also knelt on both knees and knocked his head on the ground.

Dai Pingan didn't go to help him immediately, nor did he agree immediately, he just looked at him quietly, and before he knew it, the iron spoon in his hand was already nestled into a ball.

"Give me a reason."

"She is the princess of the imperial court."

"Just because I'm a princess, I have to risk my life?" Dai Ping'an felt a little unbelievable:

"The court has already paid for it. Isn't one hundred thousand gold bars enough? Why do you need to do anything extra? You have to rescue people."

"Princesses of the imperial court cannot be kidnapped, blackmailed, or sold as a thing..."

"Why! Just because she is a princess?"

"Master Yan, you don't know how the Chinese laborers here came here. Except for those who had nowhere to go, most of them were either tricked or sold as 'pigs', and the imperial court didn't pay to redeem them too. go."

"Return the face of the court, the face of the fart, the face of the court has long been lost abroad, and it will not be worse once or twice!"

Dai Pingan, who became more and more angry, turned around and was about to leave, but Yan Xiaoguo grabbed him, his thin and dry face was already full of tears.

"But she is our princess after all. If you can't even keep the princess of our country, you have to get money to redeem her. I really don't know who I can keep in the future. Help me, Dai Ping'an."

"Boom!"

A thunderbolt flashed across the sky,
The rain finally fell.

(End of this chapter)