The Canal Management Company is not far from the consul's office. As soon as Xiang Ying walked out of the consul's office, Hyoutaro and six members of the team swarmed up and surrounded him.
"How was it? How was the harvest?" Hyoutaro asked eagerly.
Xiang Ying put on an OK posture and suppressed a smile and said, "We're done. Yuan Yao's apology announcement is finally in hand. It's stamped by the French Consulate and signed by the counselor. This is ironclad evidence..."
"That's great! Come on, let's go back to the battleship. My brother will throw a banquet for you. You have done a great job!"
"Don't worry, we have an unexpected harvest!" After saying this, he dragged the dejected accountant of the canal company over.
"Seven million gold francs! All of it will be withdrawn from the accounts of the canal company, and the remaining part will be issued as an IOU. This is the pension for our injured brothers in this collision!"
"Seven million? Pension! Hahaha... You are just a bandit from the sky, the kind of self-taught person, hahaha!" Hyōtaro laughed wildly.
At this moment, the British and Chinese troops had completely filled the streets of the Consulate House, and began to press the French army back and gradually surrounded the Consulate House.
The third-rate garrison and the counselors who were not allowed to resist made the French army's morale extremely low. Of course, there was also the psychological shadow caused by the overbearing collision of the Zhiyuan during the day. Therefore, during the crisis throughout the night, no French troops dared to resist. The gun went off at all.
Major General Jason was struggling with Counselor Raku. Xiang Ying had a trick. He was afraid that the British would come to share this 'huge sum of money', so he didn't dare to mention it to him at all. A group of people suppressed the accountant in the 6th team. Under the protection, he was quickly transferred to the Canal Company.
The lights in the Canal Company are brightly lit at the moment. This is the lifeblood of France in Egypt. The two-story building is full of French military guards inside and outside. The door is blocked with layers of sandbags. All the windows are also half-blocked with sandbags and the tops are broken. The muzzles of rifles were exposed from the windows.
Hyōtaro's eyes were very sharp, and at a glance he saw Gatlin's unique rotating muzzle in the darkness in the left and right corners of the second floor.
"Good guy! The French didn't guard the consul's palace, but they hid their elites here... What a canal company! It seems there is really a treasure here!"
"Nonsense, the French invested a small amount of 20 million pounds in digging the canal. This will be their important source of wealth for the next hundred years. How can they not hold on to it?"
"These are not those useless garrison troops. I can feel that they are all elite veterans!"
Layers of wire, sandbags, shooting bunkers... Anyone can feel the danger here. The British troops that just swarmed in dared to expel the French troops in other streets, but when they got here, no one dared to rush inside.
Xiang Ying pushed the French accountant Yongying and said, "Don't make matters worse. What we want is money, not control of the canal. If you are playing tricks, then we might as well invite the British in and take a look at what's going on here." The details!”
The accountant reluctantly walked to the door. Under the watchful eyes and gunpoints, he was inspected by the guards. The withdrawal note signed by the counselor was inspected four or five times.
It took a long time for these people to let the Chinese go, but the guard captain began to find trouble. He only allowed ten Chinese soldiers to enter the company, and not one more.
This time Hyoutarou was annoyed, "Fart! How long will it take ten people to carry seven million gold francs? You are deliberately looking for trouble..."
At this time, the accountant found an opportunity to fight back against these Eastern bumpkins. He glanced at them and curled his lips, "Ignorant guy! There are a lot of banknotes and cashier's checks in European countries now. Where were you a hundred years ago? You were carrying them all." Walking on gold coins? Barbarians..."
"What are you talking about? You are scolding me, right? Xiang Ying... Translate for me, was this kid scolding me just now? Are you looking for a slap..." After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and started to take action.
The French guards on the opposite side quickly protected the accountant behind them and fired their rifles at the same time. "What do you want to do? This is a neutral canal company. How dare you make trouble? If you dare to attack the company, you are the enemy of the entire canal company!"
Hyōtaro listened to the adjutant interpreting behind him, and his eyebrows stood up angrily, "Bagaji Road! We are not even afraid of the French Consulate, so will we be afraid of you, a small canal company? Brothers, prepare to fight..."
"Wait a minute..." Xiang Ying suddenly shouted. He grabbed Hyogetsu and whispered, "Don't make mistakes. This is different from the Consul's Palace. You can't use force!"
"Are you scared? Why have you changed so much in such a short period of time? What a weird guy... He is incomparable to your uncle. He is not happy at all. You are scared but I am not!"
When Xiang Ying saw that he couldn't stop him, he suddenly shouted, "Calm down, are you the plenipotentiary envoy or am I? How did Yuan arrange the mission? Do you cooperate with me, or do I cooperate with you?"
"You..." Hyoutaro was made a big red face.
Xiang Ying appeased Hyoutaro and nodded to the French guard opposite, "Okay, I agree to your conditions. I will bring ten soldiers in myself. Is that okay?"
The accountant opposite and the guard captain chatted carefully, then nodded. Soon the sandbags at the gate were moved out of a gap, and Xiang Ying rushed into the canal company with ten soldiers.
Only when you entered the company did you realize how luxurious it was, with beautiful floors made of marble of various colors, black walnut stair railings, and oil paintings hanging on the walls.
The doors of each room were closed tightly, and the gilt brass door handles shone under the light of the gas lamp. As for the decorations in the corners, you don't need to guess that they must all have stories.
After layers of security, Xiang Ying finally entered the vault of the Canal Company. God knows how thick the walls here are. The entire space immediately became quiet after entering the iron gate, and the noise outside could not be heard at all.
There were three accountants staying in the treasury, and two soldiers guarding the door. Xiang Ying glanced and saw something bulging around the soldier's waist. Judging from the appearance, it should be a ring of detonators tied around it.
"It seems that the French are really afraid that we will attack the Canal Company. They have arranged dead soldiers inside. Sure enough, the meta-analysis is correct. This operation can attack the French Consulate, but it must not attack the Canal Company..."
Just when Xiang Ying's eyes were spinning, the accountant had already communicated with his colleagues. The four of them sighed helplessly, took out the keys from their waists, and opened the safe in groups.
When the heavy cast iron drawers were opened one by one, Xiang Ying realized that the scolding that Hyoutaro had just received was not unjust. There were not many gold coins in the entire vault, but boxes after boxes of banknotes.
