Although Indian soldiers can barely be officers, they can help coolies train soldiers temporarily, but there are few real technical arms, such as artillery Zhu Jinglun.
When fighting with the British artillery, the level of gunners in China, the battery was really worrying, otherwise the British fleet would not dare to get so close to the battery and would not be unscathed.
I talked with a group of British officers and men who had nothing to do all day, drinking crow tincture and playing cards. I got to know that 40% of these people came from Ireland for the purpose of serving as soldiers, not for the pursuit of honor, but for money. From their tone, I found that these Irish people did not have a strong identity with the British government, especially several of them were quite dissatisfied with the British army and thought that they had been discriminated against by English officers in the army
It is good to have dissatisfaction, but this dissatisfaction is not enough to give them the courage to resist the British Empire, otherwise the Irish will not accept British rule, so Zhu Jinglun should give them more courage
To make some addicts have courage, what else makes them addicted? Therefore, Zhu Jinglun hopes to reduce these crows’ response appropriately.
It’s an English crow. It’s not the same as China.
They made them all industrially processed, called crow’s-foot tincture, which is a kind of medicine in small glass bottles. When they surrendered, they easily kept these things from Xiang Yong, who seized their assets, because Xiang Yong, these are all medicines. If you know that these are crows with higher purity, who will give them them?
It’s very suitable for Fangshan to do this, but he has more than 100 "heroes" with three religions and nine streams, and he is also a vagabond. He is familiar with this kind of thing. Let him find someone to steal the crow tincture from the British quietly, so that these British people will not be addicted.
At this time, I am in BJ Xianfeng, watching Baigui pass it to play.
During the occupation of Guangzhou by the British and French allied forces, Bai Gui did not give much advice to Xianfeng, but explained his situation with foreigners. Others impeached and defended themselves, and sometimes reported GD.
However, this letter is not about these, but about his plan to recover Guangzhou to Xianfeng.
Xianfeng has never given up on recovering Guangzhou, even though he has signed a treaty with foreigners. If he has the chance, he will not give up. Because of his roots, he doesn’t trust foreigners. His world outlook is completely Chinese, secular and real. What should he give up?
Of course, it’s not complete disbelief, because foreigners asked him for millions of taels of silver, indicating that he would withdraw from Guangzhou after the silver was returned. Isn’t this the redemption of the city? Tong Guan in the Song Dynasty soon gave the nomads from the Song Dynasty to redeem the city before he got the sixteen states that the Song Dynasty longed for for for hundreds of years.
Is Xianfeng still hesitant? When J talks, he asked Huang Zonghan to suspend military action, but after the talks, he asked Huang Zonghan to act safely.
However, Xianfeng was worried that foreigners had reason to invade the coastal areas again. A clever boy told Huang Zonghan to act in the name of Xiang Yong.
Huang Zonghan was instructed to "suspend Huang Zonghan’s attack on the provincial capital of GD because of the threats of Britain and Buddhism in J. The original fear was that once a soldier was killed, there would be a foreigner seeking revenge in coastal areas, and the current situation of J. Now, although J still talks about imprisoning GD, it doesn’t matter if the officers and men of the gentry and the people are indignant to suspend the attack, and it will make the barbarians know that it is difficult to commit crimes, and the future official transfer will also make them fear and know."
And asked Huang Zonghan to "fuck and win" so that Huang Zonghan would attack Guangzhou on July 21, but in this era, because Zhu Jinglun appeared, they played Guangzhou again and won.
Of course, the news has not yet reached Xianfeng’s ears. Xianfeng saw it or Baigui sent it out before the war.
Bai Gui’s writing is also in line with the emperor Xianfeng’s idea, that is, to appease and suppress foreigners at the same time, to suppress foreigners by the people, and to suppress foreigners by launching an attack by the gentry and the people first, and then intervening by a third party of officials, which will certainly make foreigners grateful in the end.
This strange logic is really beyond the understanding of later generations.
After watching Bai Gui play Shu Emperor and didn’t reply, it was just the same old tune, but soon he received a letter from Huang Zonghan to play Shu Huang Zonghan, which meant that he didn’t want to play Guangzhou again. They had already played once, and Huang Zonghan judged that Guangzhou was not easy to play.
This is a bit interesting. The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Governor of Guangzhou have different attitudes.
Xianfeng also paid attention and charged GD to send it to him for the first time.
After that, they were sent to Huang Zonghan to attack Guangzhou again. Both Huang Zonghan and Bai Gui said that they had successfully attacked Guangzhou, and the foreigners were compressed into the new city. At this time, they had different attitudes. Huang Zonghan argued that the long-term siege and port closure method made foreigners trapped, while Bai Gui advocated that the foreigners should be disarmed by military force.
The governor’s different opinions made the emperor figure out the taste. The local governor and the governor are not at peace. This is nothing to the emperor. If the governor and the governor are in collusion, that is what the emperor should worry about. However, in order to maintain the status of Huang Zonghan governor and an imperial envoy, Xianfeng wrote an edict to reprimand Bai Gui
Before this reprimand was sent out to Xianfeng, he received information from Guangdong and Guangxi. Among them, Bai Gui told the emperor that he planned to go into the city alone to persuade foreigners to be benevolent and influence foreigners at such a time. Huang Zonghan explained that Bai Gui acted on his own and did not force him at such a time.
At this time, the emperor knew that Baigui and Huang Zonghan had become a fire and water, and it didn’t matter if they were at odds with each other in the war. But at this time, the emperor reprimanded Baigui for taking risks and entering the city alone. Isn’t it cold to reprimand the minister, especially Baigui’s hydrophobic performance, which made him quite moved? He felt that when it came to the important time, he was still a flag bearer and reliable. In the end, his minions understood that the emperor shared his worries. Those Chinese ministers were full of virtue and morality, and they were timid when they really did things.
At this time, the emperor’s heart has been biased towards Baigui.
Then the emperor received a follow-up report from Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan, which was called a good one. Because this was Bai Gui’s good news, he told the emperor that he had said that foreigners had surrendered their weapons. Of course, there were still differences. Bai Gui and Huang Zonghan reported their achievements to different people respectively.
Xianfeng wanted to think for a moment, and immediately agreed to all their demands, including Bai Gui’s request for reinstatement, including two people’s likes, but he still reprimanded Bai Gui, not blaming him for not being at peace with Huang Zonghan, but reprimanding him for not taking risks. If there is any damage, it is a big crime.
You can imagine how carefree Bai Gui was when he received this letter. He couldn’t help but want to show off.
The banquet must be invited by Huang Zonghan, Hua Tingjie and all the officials in Guangzhou, including Zhu Jinglun.
However, Zhu Jinglun couldn’t get up because the British seemed determined to occupy Guangzhou.
Section 10 Xin ‘an Fall
The war in Guangzhou in September