After finding out the level of China gunners, they can formulate corresponding tactics according to these data, and then it is the real thing.
Zhu Jinglun saw Chu Yingjun’s intention at a glance, but he couldn’t discover the truth. Let the little hand beat back the British warship. It is better to strengthen confidence than to despair after knowing the reality. Even if this confidence is blind, it is better than to flee without fighting.
Of course, Zhu Jinglun went to Baigui and suggested that he should negotiate with foreigners this time. Baigui said that he had little knowledge. Would the foreigner come in a threatening manner and promise peace talks? Even if he wanted peace talks, he would have to cede territory to pay compensation. It was the emperor’s decision. He was the governor of Guangdong who left office, but he couldn’t make the decision.
At this time, Baigui remembered that he had left his post.
Bai Gui detained British prisoners of war, and Zhu Jinglun, a military camp in Guangzhou Xiezhen, lived in the yamen not far from the sea.
When he got back to his residence, Zhu Jinglun took out a pen and paper to write a diplomatic plan. Since the mechanical body went to sleep, Zhu Jinglun has now run out of brains. In the past, a plan was drawn up once in his mind, and he will never forget or make omissions, but now he can’t. If he doesn’t remember it, there will always be problems.
Whether to fight or not is clear to everyone, although no one dares to say that since they can’t say it, they can cope with this battle passively. I’m afraid they will have to fight a dozen times before they take the initiative, just like a donkey who doesn’t whip them, they won’t move.
Of course, they are much better than donkey cong. If they don’t fight, they will negotiate without permission. In those days, Qi Shan was an example. He didn’t want to fight with the British and Yi, but he signed a draft agreement without permission. As a result, the emperor "dismissed him from his post and locked up his property." You know, Qi Shan is a hereditary first-class official, and Manchukuo has been treated like this, not to mention these people. No one dares to talk about peace talks without permission, but after a punishment, he can prove to the emperor that we don’t want to report your kindness, but we
The absurd story of the rule of the unified emperor will be repeated again and again
Therefore, Zhu Jinglun knows that those civil servants are unreliable, not that they are incompetent, but that sometimes they save themselves by knowing the wrong situation or pretending to be wrong.
But let them fight a defeat, it is better to recover Guangzhou without fighting. Not only will it not be lost again, it will probably have a greater impact on national pride.
Zhu Jinglun felt a dilemma of trying to do things but not doing them.
Section 72 Guangdong is a good place
"Still not!"
Zhu Jinglun can’t help sighing. If he has it in his hand, he can choose to deal with it according to his own ideas. Of course, I’m afraid the result will not be too good after dealing with it. Just like when Li Hongzhang negotiated and signed the treaty, Empress Dowager Cixi took him out to do things, and then he was angered by the people.
In fact, most diplomats are quite sure that diplomats like Li Hongzhang signed the treaty on their own, but they should not be blamed for being behind it. This is like a company boss asking employees to do a project, and the project lost money. Everyone unanimously scolded the employee, but no one dared to scold Cixi, but it was not enough to scold after signing a humiliating treaty. It was politically correct to scold Li Hongzhang.
If he can keep Guangzhou City, Zhu Jinglun would rather be scolded and take responsibility, but unfortunately, he simply doesn’t have enough strength to let him exert himself to keep Guangzhou City.
He used to borrow Baigui’s identity through Baigui, but now Baigui doesn’t support it, which makes him feel completely capable of doing it.
I started to write, but I didn’t know how to fall into my heart. I really wanted to scream and throw my pen out of the hospital.
It is already the middle of the month, and the weather is still so sultry.
The appearance of those four running boats today means that it is very likely that the main force of the British and French Coalition forces has reached Hong Kong south.
It’s too late to do the math.
On June 1, the Tianjin Treaty was signed. If the British and French allied forces immediately returned to Tianjin in July.
However, the first time they stayed in the sea was to have a rest, and the second time was that the Qing court asked them to negotiate the articles of trade in the sea, that is, the details of the trade. Erjin and others believed that the troops stationed in the sea and then negotiated with China officials would help the progress of the negotiations. Isn’t the Tianjin Treaty because of their strong strength that Emperor China was afraid?
The British and French allied forces in Tianjin are a huge war machine, with the number of troops reaching more than 4ooo, and the number of warships dozens. There are 11 gunboats alone, and it is not so easy to mobilize logistics medical ships to transport supplies. They retreated from Tianjin on the 6th. Of course, the British and French allied forces are not in a hurry, because the China people should not take the initiative to attack Guangzhou after their treaty was initialled, so it is not so dangerous to rush back.
All July, the British-French allied forces have been going to Hanjun from Tianjin and resting at the port where supplies are more convenient to get. It was not until the beginning of the month that they received the message from Hong Kong for help, asking them to immediately support the south and tell Erjin and others that Guangzhou is surrounded by the Qing army and may storm at any time.
Erkin protested to Gui Liang, who was negotiating with him, saying that the Qing army had violated the provisions of the Tianjin Treaty and attacked without authorization. The Qing court was responsible for all the consequences, while mobilizing some troops to support the South. Only after arriving in Hong Kong did it know that Guangzhou had been occupied by the Qing army.
The commander of the British Fox and the commander of the Sixth Army, Simami Geli, who are responsible for bringing troops back, will discuss the situation as soon as they know the situation. They have a surprisingly unanimous opinion. They must aspire to China’s treachery and leave a deep impression on China.
Well, they’re soldiers. What soldiers don’t like fighting?
The four gunboats were sent to test the China people’s artillery building at the first time. They decided to send two third-class battleships to cooperate with four gunboats and 5oo6 troops to seize the fort and control it. After that, they could send six troops to attack Guangzhou City. During the whole battle plan, the total force was invested in 2ooo people, and the French main force remained in the sea for five days.
Zhu Jinglun can’t understand the current situation of the British and French allied forces at all, which is also an important reason why he feels that he should take care of the situation. The doctor should take care of the pulse, and he should focus on it by formulating policies
Is anxious in the rich and round face appeared at the door and walked into the sea yamen court.
"Congratulations, Brother Zhu!"
Fu Li walked over and bowed his hand.
"Hi?"
Zhu Jinglun wondered that he knew that Baigui had given himself something to like, but Huang Zonghan refused it, but Baigui immediately told the emperor directly whether the emperor would mistreat the hero. These are also rich gifts to tell Zhu Jinglun that Baigui Zhu Jinglun did something, so it is natural for Zhu Jinglun to know.
Zhu Jinglun was a little surprised that his name would go straight to the ears of the Manchu emperor. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a small person like him to come into contact with Liexin. If he were an ordinary reader, he would be ecstatic, but Zhu Jinglun was not so happy because the Manchu emperor was not very powerful in his heart. He denied that the emperor could represent the Emperor of Heaven, and there was no sacredness in his eyes. Honestly, when China became strong, Zhu Jinglun’s diplomats had no less dealings with foreign royal families. Those kings and queens were very polite to China diplomats.
Even Zhu Jinglun is vaguely worried that if Bai Gui praises himself too much, in case Xianfeng thinks that he has, for example, the emperor recognized his diplomatic ability, he will be transferred to Beijing to be a foreign minister. After two years of translation, the Prime Minister’s Office will be set up to directly fill the post, which is not what Zhu Jinglun is willing to accept.
His moxibustion in Guangdong is not only to let China people recapture Guangzhou by their own strength, but also to lay a solid foundation for themselves. He intends to take root in Guangdong, which is a hot land for himself to move around.
Guangdong is a natural window to the outside world and has never stopped communicating with the west. There are talents who know the west best and merchant families who have been dealing with foreigners for decades or hundreds of years. In fact, these businessmen have long been integrated into the world business network. The Wu family has invested in the United States and wants to introduce western science and technology. Guangdong is the most suitable place.
Moreover, the Qing government has obviously rotted to the roots. The reality of embroidering a big country is doomed that their greatest interest is to prevent the Han people from becoming bigger rather than resisting foreign humiliation. Therefore, it is doomed that this government will be difficult to adapt to the upcoming fierce international competition. The history also proves this point. The Chinese ministers of the Foreign Movement and the Reform Movement of 1898 tried hard but failed.
Zhu Jinglun doesn’t intend to try again, and if he hangs out with Manchu, he may not even have a chance to try, because he doesn’t have the ability to play according to normal procedures. For example, he can climb to the governor’s position if he is an official in the imperial examination for 20 years, even if he is abnormal. Although there is a system of donating officials in Manchu, it is really difficult for him to achieve a high position. The most famous one is Li Wei, who has been the governor of Zhejiang for ten years. In addition, donating officials rarely can achieve the governor’s level.
Another shortcut is that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom makes many Han Chinese officials stand out. Li Hongzhang, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and others don’t say anything else. For example, Liu Ming, the governor of Taiwan Province, also relied on the military to be stupid.
Most of these Han officials who rose by military exploits became followers of Li Hongzhang, Zhang Dongyang, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Dong. At least some foreign enterprises were established, but they were still too constrained. Zhu Jinglun didn’t want to end up in the same field as them.
There is only one last way to go, that is, to change the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Jinglun has two choices. The first is to set up a stove by armed rebellion like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The other is that Zhu Jinglun prefers the former when the time is right for the reform of the Qing Dynasty system, but no matter which kind of Guangdong is the most suitable place, it is more important that the sky is high and the emperor is far away from Beijing. Distance is the best guarantee.
When Sofuli said congratulations, Zhu Jinglun’s first reaction was that there was news from the emperor, but it was impossible to go from Guangdong to Beijing soon. After all, it is fast to say that two months is now in a hurry.
What good news can there be?
Fu Li didn’t sell it. "Those coolies in your hands are now incorporated into a musket camp in Nanhai County. You are a temporary deputy."
This is good news.
Zhu Jinglun has surrendered the 2,000 coolies. Now many inns smoke opium and gamble money. As soon as Bai Gui wants to make these people form a camp, it is also his strength. But Huang Zonghan does not agree to recognize that these people have taken refuge in foreigners’ rebels and thieves. It is already the emperor’s grace. How can you recruit these people?
The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi had this ability. When Lin Fuxiang set up Pinghai Camp, his teacher gave the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Qi Gong as his staff. Huang Peifang recommended Qi Gong to order Lin Fuxiang to recruit people to train rural courage.
Huang Zonghan doesn’t agree that Bai Gui has left his job and even the big pupa is no longer around. There is really no way to arrange Zhu Jinglun to have those coolies, but if you give up the existing strength at hand, Bai Gui is not willing to give up these people since Zhu Jinglun told him that foreigners will definitely call again.
Instead of Huang Zonghan, he said that Hua Tingjie, the county magistrate of Nanhai, asked Zhu Jinglun to bring these people into the county magistrate of Yongzhong, Nanhai County. The local magistrate was also a powerful temporary mobilization of the township courage. Hua Tingjie set up the township courage to suppress the small knife uprising when he was a county magistrate in Dongguan. He was also the first to go out of the city to compile and practice the township courage.
It is impossible for Hua Tingjie not to know that Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan Huang Zonghan did not agree to incorporate these coolies, but Hua Tingjie recruited these coolies into his own people. Isn’t it offended Huang Zonghan?
There is an explanation. Either Bai Gui successfully wooed Hua Tingjie or Hua Tingjie was Bai Guiren from beginning to end.
Section seventy-three Find some instructors
Zhu Jinglun still wrote Bai Gui. Although Hua Tingjie and others are not looking forward to Bai Gui Ma, these people do tend to support Bai Gui now in Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan.
In addition to operating in Guangdong for 30 years, Bai Gui has a good popularity in Guangdong, and Huang Zonghan was transferred because he offended too many people when he became a supervisor of providing foodstuff in Guangdong. There is another reason, that is, Hua Tingjie and others actually asked Bai Gui for instructions when they went out of town to edit and practice rural courage.
Throughout the late Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom captured so many cities. Except for the surrender of few local officials, few local officials abandoned the cities and fled. At the end of the period, local officials abandoned their posts and fled everywhere. Is it more spineless for civil servants to face the government than for civil servants in the Qing Dynasty? Of course, it wasn’t that the civil servants didn’t have any integrity in the Qing Dynasty. The reason is very direct, that is, in the Qing Dynasty, it was almost a dead word to abandon the city and flee. After the city was broken, it was killed by the Taiping Army, and there were very few suicides and escapes.
Of course, it’s not over, it’s relatively less.
When foreigners captured Guangzhou, Hua Tingjie and Li Futai, two county magistrates, stayed in the city for some days because they were worried about the crime of abandoning the city and fleeing. Therefore, before they left the city, they secretly called on Bai Gui, hoping that Bai Gui would go out with them. If he left the city, the crime of abandoning the city would of course be borne by the biggest governor, but Bai Gui did not go out but supported Hua Tingjie and them to go out.
At that time, Bai Gui agreed to let them go out of the city to practice rural courage, and explained to the emperor that Hua Tingjie, they had no worries about leaving the city and running away, so they were grateful to Bai Gui.
At the same time, although Huang Zonghan came to Guangdong this time to supervise and integrate the Guangdong township brave, the most important thing is to help the emperor stabilize the Guangdong local office’s mission in Huang Zonghan as much as possible, and let him sit by and watch the township brave grow bigger. This has caused some conflicts of opinion with Hua Tingjie’s efforts to train the township brave to recover the local officials in Guangzhou.
It can be said that the biggest reason for Huang Zonghan’s slow defeat in the struggle to win over Guangdong local officials is that Baigui has the same interests as these people, but Huang Zonghan has limited these people’s interests and intentions. The ability of Jiabai’s nobles to do things is not lost to Huang Zonghan’s, and Baigui will gradually take the peak.
Zhu Jinglun can’t figure out these things completely. He knows that Baigui has won slowly. At least in Guangdong, Baigui has stabilized his heel. This is enough. This shows that Zhu Jinglun’s investment in Baigui is not white. This is good news.
Zhu Jinglun nodded. "Hehe, that’s a good feeling. I don’t know if I’m going to China now to be at your disposal?"
